skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The arguments I read:

1. Air travel constitutes only 1.9% of greenhouse gas emissions

2. Air travel won't cease to exist so we might as well not try (or do more of it?)

3. Author had serious reasons for air travel and "smug bloke" rubbed him the wrong way.

I don't agree with the substance of point 2. It can logically be applied to all sorts of things that we can all agree that we should try to limit.

On point 1, some commenters have noted that this figure may not be entirely accurate. But more importantly, a relatively small aggregate notwithstanding, skipping a flight is possibly the easiest way for an end-consumer to directly shrink their carbon contributions (source: Joro Carbon offset app [1])

[1] https://www.joro.app/
The more I read about these issues the more it seems the only path forward is a market pricing mechanic. We'll never convince people with emotion or logic, but we can convince them with their wallet. Right now we don't realize the costs of the negative externalities of our choices. We need not just a carbon market though, but an environmental market. How much is a flock of wild geese worth? What's their habitat worth? How much should someone pay to destroy a wetlands to build new housing?

I guess one downside to this is then people can just actually pay to destroy these things and so we might wind up with just ultra expensive and rare "natural environments".
This is not my observation though. I have been thoroughly researching this topic and collecting data. I did setup a bot that collects data from hundreds of profiles that stream every day and they all seem to be doing very well. Avg earnings is $150k.
Interesting - I may have hyperphantasia? Most of my thoughts are accompanied by images, and I can rotate and unfold things. It's so vivid I seem to have two types of synesthesia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-rare-humans-who-see-time-and-have-amazing-memories
I remember that post; Byuu conceded that FPGAs will always have an edge latency-wise, but was really annoyed that people acted like FPGA magically made things "more accurate" than something like bsnes, saying FPGAs can still be subject to the same bugs or mistakes as emulators, and are harder to develop. I got the impression that Byuu did not like the Analogue people very much.
Pop_OS 21.10 has landed
I am very specific about the news I read. So, I aggregate news (particularly opinion features) from an easy to scrape news portal. Than I latex-format that to a pdf document using Pandoc and read it offline.

I thought about making a news YouTube channel that described essential news stories under 30 or 60 seconds with only the essential highlights. But the incentive was simply not there. I run a VA firm where we aggregate industry news for social media posts. So, my business proposition is that like minded people could pool money to hire a VA and setup strict policies about the scope, news sources (also pay for those news sources) then aggregate and summarize essential news articles catered just for them. I feel like community based services should be a thing and people should pay and own the services they want.
Kroger grocer nixes some Covid-19 benefits for unvaccinated employees
2021 Space Launch Report – Launch Vehicle by Success Rate
Relatedly, I'd be curious to know what the split has been of the $10B "program cost" in terms of development vs manufacturing.

I assume that like with most things, the vast majority of the cost has been in the design and documentation over its 30 years of development. At the same time, there's obviously a ton of extremely high precision bespoke components in there, so "building another one" would definitely not be trivial.
I think Christmas should be regarded as two separate holidays that happen to have the same name and occur on the same date. There is the secular/pagan celebration, which gives everyone an excuse to put up lights, bring green things into our homes, visit friends and family and generally brighten up a dark time of year. Then there's the religious holiday, which has its own customs and traditions. If anything, the commercialization of Christmas is ruining the secular holiday, by changing its focus to consumerism, when it should be about merry-making. The religious traditions, which take place in churches and in homes, are well-insulated from the other Christmas taking place outside.
I believe they're referencing a fixed clock speed, so I'd assume that they have a SKU for standard clock speeds, which can be set as needed.
Show HN: Statetrace – Annotated Audit Trail for Postgres and MySQL
Email Marketing Not Working? Do This Before You Hit Send
> Right now, it's clear that they won't end until populations start revolting.

That's not at all clear. My very cautious Northern California county dropped the mask mandates when cases started dropping this summer and only re-implimented them when cases and hospitalizations started to rise again.

I don't see any reason for them not to drop the mandates again when infection/hospitalization rates drop down to acceptable levels.
PG did NOT tell people to build businesses that don't scale. He told people to OPERATE businesses in ways that don't scale. That is of course true for this business - the overall model scales extremely well, but obviously what they're doing at the moment isn't scaleable. It is however an excellent proof of concept of the business model.
Please explain in g/km that doesn't involve chemtrails, contrails, or insignificant lifecycle costs.
Damn the economy, I just want the media to stop terrorizing my friends and family.
Ask HN: What does “metaverse” mean to you?
Hey everyone,

Like we all probably noticed there is an increasing amount of hype on the concept of metaverse recently. The term is often used rather loosely. Some explanations aim to be focused on decentralisation, some not. Some imply a need for a 3d experience, some the need for VR googles.

I wonder - what the metaverse term actually means to you? What makes metaverse a metaverse? What in your opinion would be the most basic qualifying features and characteristics that put a virtual experience into the metaverse category?
She was very explicit about working on it part-time. If she doesn't know how much of his time it will take, how would the company? Isn't it her job to ask for the appropriate amount of money, and reject an offer which isn't enough?
I would love to see that the community join forces and combine all the different projects: https://github.com/flosse/text-editors-written-in-rust
Serverless web scraping with NiFi and OpenFaaS
Much like with online dating, while what I want may exist somewhere on that platform, there is only a certain amount of quality of life decrease I am willing to tolerate in an attempt to find it.
Then you have multiplied your launch risk by the number of launches it would take to get it up there, plus there is the difficulty of assembling it in orbit. The only other project built like that was the ISS, and it took decades and a launch vehicle that no longer flies.

The biggest problem would be that it would be in the ISS orbit, which would require a lot of delta-V to get it to its final orbit.
> Just curious (if you read this far): How hard (for you) is a question like this? https://www.123test.com/content/question5.jpeg

Interesting. This question is not hard to solve for me, but I can't solve it by visualizing the cube rotating despite having no trouble visualizing the cube in its initial position. More specifically, when I try to rotate the cube in my mind's eye, to get it "started" rotating, I have to anchor my focus on one particular side of the cube, which I can then rotate correctly. However, this causes me to lose focus on the other sides of the cube, and I can no longer simply look back at them to see how their numbers are oriented after the rotation completes.

When you do it, do you keep all sides "in view" at all times? Can you "focus on" one specific side during the rotation then look back at the others and see that they are still correct?
Usually, however it would be more among the lines of "I heard a leftist[1] was smug about vaccines on twitter, so ..."

[1]: the leftist was actually fiscally conservative centrist, which would have been in the right wing of any european conservative party, but who cares about the meaning of words anymore, right?
Most of the time the investors are adamant on building in a particular area, so it largely results in higher-elevation construction (think elevated freeways & roads), abandoning underground levels (parking, storage, dwelling), and heavily reinforced foundations.
improvisation ( like, improv classes ) or role playing ( kinda improvisation with a fantasy background ).

It's quite useful on the daily interactions with other people... ( specially when you have to lie through your teeth ).
I think Analogue was more than reasonable here?

They offered an entirely reasonable amount of money for anyone who didn't live in the valley (most people), then we're flexible enough to double it when it wasn't enough.

They asked the person to sign a reasonable NDA that sounds much less restrictive than anything I've ever had to sign, and they were out? 6 months of non-competition on a direct competitor in a tech job is nothing.
I think this assumes a successful launch and some kind of issue with the deployment.

The other concern is, of course, what happens if it blows up on the launchpad.
"PyTorch and TensorFlow are far and away the two most popular Deep Learning frameworks today. The debate over whether PyTorch or TensorFlow is superior is a longstanding point of contentious debate, with each camp having its share of fervent supporters.

Both PyTorch and TensorFlow..."

Can an article really be any good if it starts off with such obvious SEO spam?
> It just doesn't seem like a big deal to wear a mask, and it would cut down on the need for more restrictive measures like lockdowns.

My wife has a medical exemption from wearing a mask. She cannot live a normal life when the standard response to her being out in public is disgust, constant questioning, or outright rejecting her due to "in-store policies."

My father has been wearing a mask, but constantly deals with hyperventilation issues. He's working with his family doctor to determine next steps.

Some things are a big deal for some people. I support anyone wearing a mask if they so choose. I oppose mask mandates as a one-size fits all solution.
This is a communication problem, not a technology problem. Either could work or fail. Trade offs will have to be made.

Complexity doesn't go away, it's moved to another layer :)
I think a big issue from what people are saying is that somehow it has become an infosec's employee's fault that the system is not secure. This is about managing boundaries and happens in many disciplines. My wife struggles as a Solicitor with unending demands on her time and the guilt-trips of "This agreement needs to be done on Friday" and for some reason, people get upset if the response is, "you should have given me 4 weeks notice".

The landscape is desperate with hundreds of apps, servers, networks, employees etc. in most companies. The tooling is either difficult or expensive or both - how many people allow outgoing firewall traffic by default because it is too complicated to whitelist everything that needs to go out? Even with the best will in the world, basic things like Windows updates, SSL cert updates (no we can't all use Lets Encrypt), Linux updates can be a full-time role.

But to be fair, our industry is still quite immature. We do not have the regulatory backup across the globe to assure all products are developed securely etc. We use open-source libraries with barely any checks (and what would we check anyway?) and IT is mostly intangible so how do we even know what we are doing anyway?

This sounds doom and gloom but I think every industry has a Wild West stage that teaches people what is and isn't important and allows industries and products to mature eventually to something that is sustainable.
My understanding is the company wasn't paying for her time, it was paying for a job to be done by an ostensibly part-time contractor. I'm not sure how the deadline changing increases the amount of work that was to be done.
That is the last thing business wants. The credit card brands developed PCI to avoid regulation. But in most circumstances, there is no 800 pound gorilla to enforce security standards.

If you do an in-depth read of the PCI security standards, you’ll see that the standards are about protecting the card brands, not you.
They write specs, High level design with lots of flowcharts etc.

Many of them can not really code anymore, just like those system architects.

I do respect those who can both talk and walk: design the system, write key sample code for major components, and let the team to enrich and expand.

If they only know how to write design documents(talk the talk), I can hardly trust them that much.
It feels wrong to me to group "consume" and "travel" together. Travel is legitimately a positive force for exposing people to new cultures, ideas, and wealth sharing, which in turn strengthens the global community. Of course, to your point, some people just want to go to a private resort with other tourists and sit on a beach.

> if you didn't leave your home town to go work for a mega corp on the other side of the country/world to gain more money to consume more

I don't think it's fair to blame people for moving for better economic opportunities, especially when a lot of that movement is to escape local political inability/poverty/etc.

I agree largely with your point, particularly about "consumption" and that we get used to convenience and leisure, but I think travel is a totally different beast and should be treated with more nuance.
How to Become a Linux Pro
I think OP means "what if the rocket fails".

The answer is that building another telescope specimen would be quite expensive, even without any changes to the design. The supply chains aren't set up for volume and integration and testing is very involved. I can't put a number on "the second telescope would be x% cheaper", but it would be very disappointing.
Chinese government deploying online influencers amid Beijing Olympics boycotts
Ideally I think it's useful to be familiar with Python and some NLP. Parts of the course can get reasonably in-depth, but we have tried to simplify every as much as possible and I think much of it can be followed without too much prerequisite knowledge.

That being said, as a writer it sounds like you'd be most interested in generative models that generate new text, we do cover that a little in the Question Answering chapter, but otherwise, not so much. Although I don't know your ideas or plans so I can't say for sure what is good/bad for you to focus on.

I do think you should read into transformer models like BERT and GPT, there is a very good free course from HuggingFace who are the 'de-facto framework' for NLP at the moment, that could be useful for you too:
https://huggingface.co/course/chapter1/1
(chapter one will introduce everything too, definitely go through that)

With HuggingFace, you can put together a simple T5 or GPT-2 text generation script with a few lines of code
Show HN: Smart Glasses Software Framework and Tools
They tried to stall the development of an open source GBA emulator. What's constructive about that? Where's the corporation's empathy?
If you’re pro-French, why emigrate at all? Theoretically you have value to offer, which is why China wants you in the first place. Thus you’re helping them instead of your homeland, and China is playing for keeps.
Speaking as a principal software architect for a large (30bn) company:
- convincing others to one's ideas of good architecture - and contributing to enterprise architecture,
- lots of time spent to evaluate designs, ideas, products, acquisition targets,
- every fourth blue moon - some actual low level design work and programming pet projects/pocs/prototyping. Rarely :-(

I like this type of work, gives good exposure to new tech and the ability to choose what tech is being used. For my next job I want something more focused on actual programming though.
Americans are full-on insane with their opposition to mask mandates.
I do not understand this argument of using less of something so beneficial to society instead of focusing on improving the technology to reduce the carbon footprint.

Which relies on investment and users to fund its growth.

It’s not just flying but also meat, cars, plastic, etc. I get that useless consumption is bad, but abstinence is hardly a solution for most problems.
This is pretty good news imo. A mild version of Covid is in a way like a vaccine. Maybe this is how COVID fizzles out.

* all disclaimers apply: I am not a doctor, you should still take care of yourself if you're immunocompromised / old / diabetic / overweight / unhealthy etc.
Hear, hear - I like to pop into Rijkstudio to download images to use for QAing uploads in webapps - but it always seems to take an hour or two to find the right aspect ratio, for some reason...
Your comment doesn't add up. I need to ask more questions to triage what your positions are. Let's start with the fairly basic premise that virtually all of us agree on:

1. Current human impact on the planet is unsustainable

Now add these premises:

2. As developing world changes, our impact gets worse
3. As our own standards of living increase, our impact gets worse

Your vision of the Earth doesn't have space migration as part of our path to sustainability. Because of this, you're fighting increasing demands while at the same time needing to reduce total impact dramatically. Say that the equation is:

Impact = (number of people) x (quality of life) x (efficiency)

You can reject either (2) or (3) or both at the cost of some human harm. Most pro-tech people tend to not reject either of these, but you might be an exception. Because of that, you have 2 increasing factors, because you don't have control over the number of people are we're locked into growth for 50 years or something demographically, even with birth rates quickly falling below replacement (which they haven't yet).

There's only 1 factor left in your toolbox - efficiency. We live better but at a lower impact to the planet. Agreed, that's great, but because of (1) and (2) we already have high expectations of this factor. On top of that, we need truly dramatic total reductions in total impact. So if we need 2x improvement (which is probably underestimating) to stay level, then we need maybe 8x or 16x to get where we need to be so that the Earth is moderately healthy. That would be great, but this is magical unicorn-ish thinking. Is this what you're counting on? I want to know.

We can control Earth's climate today by Sulfur geoengineering, which I'm worried that we will not start until it's too late, and even more worried that it may not be globally coordinated which would be disastrous. This is just a band aid, we still need to virtually eliminate Carbon emissions on a time scale we're not prepared for. As long as we are here, then climate intervention will be done for us (our own selfish needs), not for the health of the biosphere.
We colo’d our own servers as a two person team. We didn’t have multiple availability zones, but we’d have the ability to fail over to leased machines if we needed to via automated builds and frequent offsite backups, and that was good enough for our needs. But we never needed to over the few years we ran this setup. This was after running on leased dedicated machines (which is a good first step so you can figure out what you actually need without putting out the money for hardware).

A private network is ridiculously easy to set up. In our case, we had two switches, one public, one private. Every machine had 4 NICs. Just bind some to public addresses, some to private, plug in to appropriate switch.

Unless your traffic is extremely bursty, auto scaling is probably more trouble than it’s worth. We were serving millions of users with three dual-socket machines. And if you really need it, you can try to handle base load with dedicated servers, and bursts with AWS infra. But at <$10k/mo on AWS, you’re not getting anywhere near the horsepower I’m talking about.
I can't answer for anyone else, but I my book that was a riot. An incoherent mob damaging and stealing stuff does not make for an insurrection, even if they are stealing stuff like the speakers podium.
The whole point of the ISS is that it provides a stable zero-G environment for experiments. Spinning it would be counter-productive.
I bet either they're a shill for the airlines, Boeing, or big oil or feel so cocksure about how entitled they feel to their consumptive lifestyle that they had to share.
The clash between conservative and progressive is becoming very apparent on HN. Any of the crypto or web3 discussions are just 2 opposite sides shouting at each other.

I recently was discussing web3 on indiehackers. Way more constructive discussions.

Maybe the next article reaching the top is how the old HN was better ;).

edit: And looking at those articles, the conservative side is definitely in the majority. Like I say: just shouting at each other.
Uh, this story uses GPT-3 to "improve" content based on a huge training set. Do you think that this will increase diversity and bring more character to the web?
Policy needs to be consistent to work. You cannot on one hand legislate to cut pennies worth of emissions from individuals making them poorer and more miserable and then on the other hand allow for an orders of magnitude more waste for a handful of selected ones, specially when their mission is to scale up the waste for recreation.
> Would it be user-submitted links & tag based?

Partially and not really.

---

I absolutely want to get users to submit links and help out with organization. I'd never manage to find every source, even for the most important stories, without that sort of help. That said, I expect I'll be doing a lot of the research and submission myself (with helper programs) for the core stories - for one thing I don't think there's any other way to bootstrap a community.

For niche and more "local news" stories I want to rely on a more wiki-like model, where anyone can directly edit them (and full history is preserved). I wish I could do that for everything, but I think bad actors would present a pretty insurmountable problem. Even for local news "anti-evil" will be difficult, and I'll need to clearly mark that this is community-controlled content, I don't want to be hosting/recommending spam after all.

---

I don't really think of the organization system as tags, though I suppose in some sense it's equivalent. I think of it as more of a top down hierarchy, saga -> event -> link, and if the same link ends up in multiple sagas/events, that's ok and not really an important fact - i.e. the fact that the link is tagged as something isn't the important bit.

I'm sure I'll want to solve nested sagas better eventually, but for now I'm ignoring the problem. This is a bet that for most sagas a single layer of time based interior organization (grouping links into events) is sufficient. There will also be other forms of intra-saga organization, like link type (article/legal document/study/video/tweet/press release/...).

For now a covid-19 saga would link to a delta saga much like it would link to an external site, and result in a certain amount of duplication of content. I think covid is unusual in how long of a saga it is.
Right.

I remember the Declaration, for us growing up at the time, it was an era all filled up with bringing to life what Neuromancer and Snow Crash talked about.

Maybe we'll get another chance with the metaverse thing.