skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it would be significantly more cost effective (thus societally beneficial) than to overhaul the entire energy production infrastructure.

Citation needed on that cost effectiveness estimate, but regardless, all infrastructure is incrementally rebuilt and replaced over the years. So instead of eventually building replacement coal [1] plants with fancy (and leaky) CC, we could as well build different plants that don't emit any CO2.

[1] or natural gas, which is what's been happening over the past 10-15 years in the US, primarily because natural gas became cheaper. Those natural gas plants produced less CO2 than coal, which has primarily driven any reduction in the US's CO2 output. But natural gas still produces huge amounts of CO2 and will never be carbon neutral.
>Or... go switch to a competitor, then we'll court you back with freebies.

Obviously going to a competitor comes with its costs, and hence people do not do it just for the $x discount. Just like with employment.

If there were no switching costs, then you would not see these types of "misaligned" incentives.
I mean I also wouldn't say I hate people though. Just because something requires energy from me doesn't mean I hate it.
Yeah this is a pyramid scheme, not a bullshit job

It's as legit as someone who participates in an mlm . Its not bullshit
Hard means it is easy to measure as they have rigid shape and form. Soft means it is hard to measure as soft items doesn't have shape or other properties similar to hard items.

So a hard skill could be "this person knows how to code basic programs that works". A soft skill could be "this person knows how to write code that others find easy to understand and modify". The first is much easier to test and measure, the second is really hard to test but is still valuable.

Note that hard/soft has nothing to do with how difficult they are to acquire.

Thus the hardest of skills are when the job requires licensing or similar. If you want to hire a doctor then you need someone who is licensed for it. This requirement is 100% rigid and it is very easy to test if they have a licence, the candidate absolutely needs it so there is no compromise to be done.
What skillet is needed for these jobs that in so much demand? I've been working with infrastructure/VMware for 10 years and just a year in Azure. Looking for a quick way to catch up and ride this gravy train.
I wouldn't call it donating if they're grinding for it.

Imagine you could go to a prison and get paid to break rocks all day for money whenever you want. OK, sure, the people doing it are doing it because they need it. But would you call the person running such an establishment charitable?

It's just dirty, when you take out all the in between and just look at the ends of the process, it's basically paying poor people to waste their time because they need food because you get off on it.
I think they could just be pretty, ornate keepsakes, or maybe a sort of teaching tool in the direction of geometry. My qualifications: none at all, but I enjoy pretty, ornate things, and I would keep one of these on my desk. They're also clearly interesting geometrically.
dune by far.
Everyone cares about them if they are enforced appropriately
Supposedly carbon emissions is a top issue.

One issue with carbon capture in the wild is that carbon is actually a not a major portion of the atmosphere (ie, think 0.0004)

So doing capture near CO2 sources makes some sense.

Secondarily, the private market is throwing money at this as well, current costs per ton captured are on the range of $1,000! That is mind boggling pricy, we don't know if these demos were this bad - they might even have been better.

So, if you have a potential society ending issue, spending $1B to try out some things might not be terrible.

That said, if you look at things like SLS, you can understand how these things are prone to being total boondoggles as well.
A fun fact: IBM OS/370 never made sounds, but it was the terminals that did! You would expect to hear a horrible screeching sound every time you press Return or a function key - that's how you would know that you got a response from the system and the screen was updated (which could take a few seconds).
The BSI is great though, they know what they are doing. Also the German government supports Open Source projects financially [1] and one of the states is planning to go full open source in its administration, so you'd think they are interested in keeping these projects alive

[1] https://prototypefund.de/en/
Technically true, but... if you say it means "old group" or "original gaggle" or "oldest goat," you should probably expect to be corrected, because it sounds like an implication that that's what OG actually stands for.
> was sworn to the bar without actually going to any sort of law school.

It can still be done today in most US states.

Also, note that even the self-represented can take on a government and win. See Jim Pattison's (Canadian billionaire) tax hearings vs. the Crown (Canada), which he won after a decade of litigation. Multiple prosecutors and judges retired during that time period.

Besides developing further tax filing methods for his empire, you can bet he wasn't sued again by the government - they hate taking a loss. (The US SEC infamously tries to undermine defendants today by going after their ability to pay lawyers before trials.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Pattison
> they are between a rock and a stone: accept to work for these platforms and get paid shit, while they nmake billion, or don't and get paid shit, but at least own your work. Guess which way many are starting to take...

Again, I'm not saying that the current situation is great but if you were really concerned about artists being fairly compensated you would not take the action which results in them not getting paid. You could buy directly from the artist or you can go without, but taking advantage of their work without the agreed upon compensation calls your motives into question.
Opinion: Play-to-earn feels like a disaster waiting to happen
That does not have trailers for me.
MicroPython: How to Blink an LED
This is a recurring theme of posts that authoritatively attempt to describe the “hopeless” working conditions of highly compensated employees at big tech company <X>.

I’ve been at one of the FAANGs for about 7 years. I’ve been on some amazing teams but also my share of office bs and difficult people.

From reading HN’s characterization of my work environment, I’m depressed, completely stressed out, and everyone I work with is a horrible human being.

I mean, if I wasn’t depressed before, I’m more likely to be depressed after reading some of these posts.

As much as folks on even this site rally against FB, the constant stream of negativity or opinions - on why we should all hate X or why Y is evil - is easily found even here on HN.
My favorite article from this site is The Missing Missing Reasons:

http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-miss...
Also see Sanotize https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/sanotize-nasal-spra...
Ordering that one right away; it's taken me decades* to figure out how my loving (AFAICT) parents set me up for problems in personal relationships.

* I may be slow in this regard.
This is just another refusal to understand that Starlink satellites have onboard collision-avoidance systems that work perfectly. There is no way to run such a large network of satellites without automation, and everyone knows this. In this case, there is the added dimension of increasing tensions between the US and China, which incentivizes them to go for soft PR stunts like this.

Previously:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-there-was-no-near-collisio...
What you aren't taking into account is that the larger you are, the more difficult it is to grow. You can even see this in Apple's growth since 2005 slowly declining.

The last couple of years have been absolutely bonkers. 4x-ing from here would be 17x their valuation in 2017. Controlling for inflation, the probability of that happening given their current valuation seems ridiculously low.
1. The F-Droid flavor of the app [1] does not require or use Firebase. And: If you self-host the server and use the Google Play flavor [2] of the app, it won't use Firebase either.

2. I've just started work [3] on making ntfy a UnifiedPush (https://unifiedpush.org) distributor, meaning that other apps/services will be able to use ntfy.sh (or a self-hosted server) as a means to deliver notifications or messages. I'm super excited about this, and I don't think it'll take very long.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.heckel.ntfy/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.heckel.ntfy

[3] https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues/9
“Liberation” implies freeing someone(s) from a pre existing entity. So no matter what you think of the CCP today, the opium wars had nothing to do with liberation, it was just outright conquest. The CCP didn’t event exist until 1921, almost 75 years later.

If anything, a direct line can be drawn from the carving up of China by European, and later Japanese powers, to the fall of the Qing, the Chinese civil war, and the rise of the CCP.

What’s “strange” is interpreting dynastic greed and colonization as a good thing in 2021.
> It blew my mind at how candid he was about the fact that his business exists due to regulatory mandates.

This is extraordinarily well understood in the insurance industry. They don't think of it as odd or a dirty secret, at all.

It's more surprising that he was so open about the naked corruption/nepotism in the origin story. Apparently there's a sector of society for whom that is also normal and acceptable.

> I feel like I’m self insuring when it comes to car and healthcare at least.

This is not at all the case for car insurance! You may be self-insuring the cost of your car, but are you also self-insuring against a lawsuit for damage to the other guy's car?

It's definitely more true than not for healthcare, though. Health insurance is a pretty terrible product.
"Deregulation" is the nicest, simplest, most persuasive way of saying "British companies won't have to get a CE mark for their products".
Adding to the chorus. I used LastPass until 2018. I received a similar email from LastPass (and had forgotten that I never got around to actually deleting the account after I migrated).

My master password was a long multi word phrase with numbers and special characters, and was not used for anything except LastPass. I find their claims of credential stuffing suspect.

Edit -- Also had MFA enabled and received the email in November.
> "Other times, they’d see something they like and run towards it.”

Can tardigrades really "see" in the traditional sense? Can they make out shapes, etc.? Do they have photo receptors plugged into the brain?
(include your proposal for improvement to get more positive feedback)
Exactly, and this is where the concept of "Pod" really shines. Sharing networking and filesystems between containers is, from time to time, exactly the right strategy, as long as it can be encapsulated.
I’m sure this is true in many, or even most cases, but there are also cases where the grandparents do have the grandchild’s best interest at heart. Obviously those grandparents would not be on some forum where they get to expound on their sense of entitlement. Here in the UK, in the last month alone we’ve had the horrific cases of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, 6 or Star Hobson, 1.5, both viciously murdered by their parent’s partner with the parent’s full complicity. In both cases the grandparents alerted social workers but were brushed off, with tragic results.
I think this approach is very similar to how Android is handling the different apps where each gets installed into its own dedicated path directory. (I may be wrong though, cant remember since the last time I‘ve looked into the AOSP)
Login attempts from unusual locations
What would someone who has worked through SICP learn from it (based on the first third that you've read)?
Even "extroverts"?
When does it stop being Trump country and revert back to just conservative?
Now you've made me wonder: those hours I spent mesmerised by watching the colourful display of Windows 95 defragging the disc, would I have paid a monthly subscription for it? What if they'd added achievements, or leveling up? "Congratulations! Your wizard can now restructure directory chains!"
If the GP poster had said that that Apple had previously solved the "external hires treated better than internal candidates" it would be perhaps the most impressive thing I'd ever heard about Apple culture.
It's not the 32 bit code though, it's all the old libraries (carbon) which happen to also be 32 bit.
Ask HN: Resources on how to improve abstract thinking skills?
Last time I asked this the replies were valuable :)
The only people that have ever had problem with me (no degree) training them were PhDs. Most have had a superiority complex of their education over mine. I’m like “sorry they feel that way, but I built most of the software you’re gonna use”. Some PhDs have been super humble and they tend to be the smarter people I’ve met.
A reminder that the Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis at one point in his pre parliamentary career did extensive work on the economics of MMOs for valve, eve online.
NFT philanthropy could deepen inequality
> We assumed that, because everyone knows everyone else in small scale communities, direct interventions would be less common, as people could rely on more indirect ways such as reputation to ensure compliance with rules. But we actually found the opposite to be true.

Sigh. This is the kind of bad assumption I would expect from a 1st year college student.

In rural communities, the risk of someone making mistakes is more impactful (and therefor more serious). Rural life is a lot simpler in some ways, as well. In an urban center, there are countless ways to solve problems and discoveries to be made with the materials at hand. Urban mistakes or inefficiencies are well tolerated, as they may simply be a previously unknown solution/technique with their own cost/benefit profile.
Is that actually a good example of what you mean? There is no contradiction? The first statement does not say that Joe drove drunk?
That’s a very romantic view of the goals of game design. For a live service game the metrics to hit are mainly retention and monetization. Whether something is subjectively fun doesn’t really come into the picture
‘Seasonal surveillance’: ACLU expert says Elf on a Shelf not healthy for kids
I still totally fail to understand this concept. Is there anything here beyond impotent whining? What are they proposing to do? They subjectively call it bullshit but other people choose to play totally free from compulsion.

What should we do? Physically restrain them from playing?
I’m sure this is not an original theory, but when I saw the device i immediately thought that it may be a tool to sort / check the size of coins. Each size lines up to a known gold or silver piece. The largest hole allows all to be removed easily.
I guess the problem with XKEYSCORE was the data that it was browsing should have been private -- isn't everything we're seeing here pretty normal as far as police data goes? (Arrest records, etc?)
To give a different anecdote: at my school which is ranked closer to 100, we got 40 applicants, of which about 15 meet basic qualifications we're looking for (have a PhD, in the right field, have any kind of publication record, have ever taught a class). And I think we are doing pretty well compared to some places, since we're in a major coastal city and have a relatively light teaching load for a non-R1 place (2/2). A lot of places have been outright failing their CS faculty searches in the past few years, and I think more than usual will fail this year.
> > > The existence of a concept is not the same thing as the existence of the thing the concept refers to.

> Yes it is

No, it's not.

> for most of the average Joe believers the concept of god is the god, since they never faced any other kind of god in their life.

This...requires the assumption that God does not exist (in re, if we must, since you seem to insist on the archaic, Anselm-like insistence that existence in intellectu is a real thing and that material existence is a predicate), but, even ignoring that giant problem with one premise, that's not true. I may have a concept of a robber who robbed my house when no such robbery actually occurred in the material universe, but the existence of they concept doesn't mean that a robber who robbed my house exists even if I have had no experience of a material robber only the concept, it means the concept refers to a thing that does not exist.

Ditto with concepts of God to the extent that God does not exist.
This have been so far my experience. The L5 on my team, was L5(L4 at Google scale) at Amazon, couldn't get the promo, then interviewed with us , and got L5 with TC at the top of the bracket. I know is just one data point, but I have heard of similar stories.
Thanks, I am sorry for taking your time.
So many of these conversations can be broken down to the things you find valuable might not be the thing others find valuable and there is no right or wrong. You either get it or you don't. I have zero desire to collect model trains, but I understand some people do and there is probably value there in that community.
Eventually, it should be in a managed account. But it may take a while post IPO to set it up. It depends how much experience the finance department has, but the brokerages know how to do it.
A 2% to 14% improvement in performance across the board is indeed good news - https://openbenchmarking.org/result/2112248-TJ-1080PRYZE71 ... Wish more developers would support and focus on opensource projects like AMD-GPU - https://gpuopen.com/ - instead of wasting their time trying to reverse-engineer a closed black box like the Apple M1.
Just happened to me a few hours ago. Completely random password only written down in a notebook locked in my safe.

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Login attempt blocked
Hello,

Someone just used your master password to try to log in to your account from a device or location we didn't recognize. LastPass blocked this attempt, but you should take a closer look.

Was this you?

Account <my email>
Time Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 7:33 AM EST
Location UNITED STATES
IP address 163.198.130.161
Claw it back and refund the taxpayers. Bipolar red and blue government wastes everyone's time and money with policy oscillation. Instead of pulling the cart back and forth let's find a peaceful, democratic legal separation of the ideological incompatible.
China's Reform Generation Adapts to Life in the Middle Class
You think it's bad being from Minneapolis-St. Paul, try telling them you're originally from Detroit!

It's getting better but the amount of ignorance about Detroit is amazing! I tried once talking an evangelist into adding Detroit to the road show around twenty years ago. There had just been an article in Time magazine and it said something like the city had the lowest number of college graduates per capita of any major city and there were less than 670,000 people. The guy immediately hit me with that fact. He said we couldn't possibly go to a place that small and if we did there wouldn't be that many developers.

I said that may be true for the city of Detroit but the Detroit metro has over four million people and I assure you there are a lot of developers. So they decided to add Detroit as a tour stop and he later told me that it was one of the largest and most enthusiastic audiences on the entire tour.

Even today Detroit gets left off most tech tours and when one does add them they're pleasantly surprised by the turn out. That's despite the fact that Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Twitter have offices there.
Archived: https://archive.ph/RQtSi
>humanly generated passwords tend to be predictable, repetitive and not very long.

Not necessarily. See https://xkcd.com/936/
Meanwhile there are legit decentralized, fun, self hosted games whose hosts barely make any money to sustain their servers. But because they are truly decentralized, VCs won't touch them because they can't control them. I swear this web3 thing will die from lack of market fit
As other commenter said, the magic happens not just between photons, but between photons and non-linear optical materials, in which these photons travel.

While not directly related to computing, I was fascinated to learn that lasers routinely use crystals to cut wavelength of the light by half ([1], [2]).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-harmonic_generation

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_dideuterium_phosphat...
Also haven't used the account in years so that's even more odd.
> 1: Here's an example with details changed: "Joe drank too much last night and we got in a car crash." Reality, Joe was in the passenger seat, and the driver hit a deer that jumped out in front of them. On confrontation: "I never said Joe drove drunk!"

Continued:

"It was Joe's birthday he got a bit tipsy. He was feeling a bit full of himself and hit on my girlfriend all night. Afterwards I still decide to drive him home so he didn't die. I mean, what kind of friend would let his friend drive himself home after drinking on his birthday? And even then he continued to be a complete ass. I was so enraged that I didn't even see the deer jump out in front of my car"

Hence: "Joe drank too much last night and we got in a car crash" could very well be a valid interpretation of the evening if you consider all possible context. Especially if you are trying not to throw Joe under the bus as a sleazy friend to your therapist.

But also, it could definitely be the drivers fault in this hypothetical scenario. Hard to say.

The problem here is that humans have a tendency to believe they have all the information they need to pass correct judgment (source: life experience, and if I'm wrong about this, that means I'm probably right, right?). Usually, they don't. In my experience, everyone embroiders details to make themselves look innocent, and often without even noticing. It's very difficult to parse truth from people's tendency to simplify and exaggerate based on personal bias.

If there is a conflict there usually is a good reason - but sometimes that "good reason" is based on a misinterpretation that others won't understand.

I can't place fault on Joe or the driver in this situation because: I wasn't there and I don't know all of the context.
Right, and I'm rather concerned that this be taken as representative of the OSM UK community.

Also, it seems pretty easy to add something in the Organic Maps app (né maps.me), for instance, not that I use that for mapping.
> Cost of living. Its the cheapest place in the US to live.

When I lived in a "low COL town" that wasn't in the midwest (about 2 hours from a major city of any kind and about an hour in various directions from a couple small cities) people would say this all the time... "Sure I'm only making 60% of what I could be but my CoL is so low!!"[0]

But my rent was still over $600/mo + utilities for a 2-room apartment (each). There were some really bad options for sub-$300, but you were living in a sub-$300 apartment. You can make this choice anywhere.

Gas costed the same it costs everywhere else

Walmart prices were walmart prices.

Restaurants were typically cheap but that's because they weren't amazing - the population couldn't afford to sustain an high-end restaurant. There are cheap restaurants everywhere.

I felt like it was cheap compared to outliers like seattle and the bay area, but not cheap on its own. I'm interested in how this might be different from the midwest. What kinds of products or services stand out to you as significantly contributing towards a low CoL?

[0] With remote the bit about 60% is no longer as accurate, but it's what a lot of people said at the time, and some of them still make comparatively little and say they're fine because of the low CoL.