skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been posted a dozen times. One thread with 158 comments was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24642134 .
Yep, this is a good example. And maybe it helps illustrating my point

On N and Q we can come up with any number we want. Even though there are infinite numbers, we can come up with any number

On R we can do that as well. But at the same time we can come with "vapid" statements like "for each x in R exists x' < x" which are completely correct but don't really mean anything.

True, the R's are a good foundation, and in a way they do exist physically (after all, Pi exists in nature).
Sorry but I have difficulties in reading your intention in

> We can mentally interpolate log₁₀ 24 as 1.30 + .4 · (.48 - .30) = 1.38

Easily one could go log₁₀ 24 = log₁₀ (6*4) = .78+.60 = 1.38, for example,

but you went something along the lines of "log₁₀20 + .4 · log₁₀(3/2)", making "24" read as something like "20x(3/2)^(4/10)"... What was the intended process?
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Your Bitcoin lives on the ledger. You can recover your wallet with your private keys under most circumstances (unless the Bitcoin network itself dies). Hardware failure is not relevant.

As far as the addresses goes, it’s the same thing as sending a wire transfer to the wrong account in a different country. You won’t get it back.
The Netherlands wants to push towards electrification - probably to reduce dependency on Russian gas - but the power grid cannot handle it, and it'll take years and billions to increase its capacity.

I mean electric boilers, heating panels, ranges and car chargers will easily increase peak loads by 15-25 kilowatts per house, that's 2-4x as much as they currently pull. Do that times hundreds of thousands of houses and you see the issue.
I'm a front end architect, leader, and also still codes at ~50 years old. So 27 seems a little premature to worry.

Front end doesn't always get a lot of respect, but it's really valuable to understand what the best ways to expose complex technologies to the end user, and I've never seen projects successful where the UI is designed off in the corner by UX and product without working with good and experienced front end/UI engineers.

Ageism is a thing, but I seem to be doing well and in good demand in my network. Trying and keep in shape and be friendly has helped.
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Turns out this exists! The company I worked at last summer, GHGSAT [1], focuses exactly on this.

They have a fleet of satellites and aircraft taking high-resolution (1-25m ground resolution) pictures of critical infrastructure on demand that allow oil and gas companies and landfills, notably, to identify those leaks and either patch them to recover the methane or torch the methane, greatly reducing the impact of the leak.

The figures mentioned in the original article are very much what we observed as well. It wasn't all that uncommon to see leaks releasing 12 tons of methane per hour be left unpatched for *weeks*.

Thanks to pressure from investors and to the additional revenue gained from identifying and patching those leaks, a lot of governments and the biggest oil companies have started paying for this service.

[1]: https://www.ghgsat.com/en/
I had a buddy do exactly that. His manager told him he was already paid above market. Inside a month he showed her that she was wrong and we had a gaping hole to fill in the team.
Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

Their book, "The C Programming Language" was a must read bible decades ago.
It´s a known effect. The older you get, the more difficult your true persona to disguise.
Because they do their worst pollution in countries that don't actually crack down on them.
The legal system still exists though, and people can still be forced to do things. That leaves the non-automatable work to humans and takes away the automatable things rather than forcing everything through humans to manage edge cases where you need them.

For my will I literally enter into a form what I want to happen, but then when I die it'll be down to another human to go through it and manually carry out my instructions.

Chargebacks can be opt-in and escrow is a tutorial for smart contracts. I don't need chargebacks on a cup of coffee, and I've been unable to make a payment due to high chargeback risk - despite me being entirely willing to take on the risk of non-fulfillment.
I was thinking about the index a few days ago, I'd like to see what it looks like using the price of aspirin instead of a burger.
The reason why there aren’t 6 stores on Android is that Google hasn’t been forced by law to roll out the red carpet for alternative stores.
I'd prefer if web designers used relative max width of maybe 80 or 90%, and left it to users to resize their browser windows accordingly. But I realize that is a pipe dream, people are too lazy for that, so I just use custom CSS browser extensions to adjust this on sites I visit regularly.

I also actually prefer wider lines, as I don't find following them difficult, and prefer wider lines and having to do less scrolling. It's also fun seeing how a lot of random blog articles which seem long in a narrow layout are in fact very short. :)
He’d accepted an offer from another team so he had to eventually
No, but it sure is easier to deal with day-to-day expenses if you don't have an empty account.

You can co-operate with an investigation whilst also not handing over complete control of ~all of your assets for the interim.
Normal people trust people in suits more than an anonymous group talking in terms they don't understand. That's not going to change.
My view is cryptos are/will be the 'new cash', as in cash is now used for mostly illegal purposes anyway. Nobody withdraws 100 dollars to buy groceries.
You need those key→value promptly available when you are actually performing the "back of the envelope" computations.
> but they'd rather deal with that extra hassle instead of letting the government erode their purchasing power or confiscate their savings.

Crypto doesn't protect you from either of those things
Not go developer, just curious about the language and ecosystem and really like it. For me would be nice to have more functional features. For example - explicitly say that a variable is mutable / immutable, preferably have immutability by default. Also native support for map/filter/reduce/etc. Those are good abstraction and it is easier to read than `for loops`, since you don't need to look over shoulders all the time. Guess latest would be easier to add since there is support for generics already.
Life and dead happens and whatever we try to fix about it will be a pursue of decades/centuries to achive. We're simply more aware about our humanity this days and we're more awaken about how simple is to suffer a terminal illness just "existing" not only smoking, eating fat or living an unhealthy life.
I hope everyone learns about how life and dead works for the human being and not just trying to forget it submerging in an unreal dystopy of pills and pilates classes.
But it was not designed to be dismantled.
There are some websites for this Flippa, MicroAcquire, FEI International, etc.
GHGSAT: High-resolution (1-25m) satellite monitoring of methane emissions
If so I think that is not an easy way to listen to music on YouTube if you have every time to download the song
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Adjusting table height between standing and sitting positions is a matter of 15-20 seconds and a single button press. It's just an absolute non-issue. So this looks like a solution in search of a problem to be honest. Or perhaps there is a problem, but it's just a very niche one.
It's a concept originally popularized in Snowcrash, that Facebook is attempting to latch on to as a marketing campaign to make their products seem future looking, but in reality havent changed one bit. To further this marketing effort, they created a VR chat that is a trash product that no one will ever use.
Interesting, but the title should show (2016).
Some people dislike anything that vaguely reminds them of Comic Sans fonts I guess.

Personally I think it resembles VAG Round a lot, which is a font fairly common in Germany (possibly because it was designed for Volkswagen)
> "For years, every time we had data [on methane emissions] — we were flying over an area, we were driving around — we always found more emissions than we were supposed to see," he [the LSCE researcher] says.

That means that the data used by the company you mentioned will likely underestimate it.

So it's not commercially available yet. I don't know if EDF has plans to open or sell their data in the future.
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The vast majority into crypto today do not care about the fundamentals. It's barely used as a currency and mostly traded as a commodity. Nobody cares about crypto being decentralized. They care if their crypto 'lottery ticket' wins.

If all crypto does is give people more options, there are a lot more efficient ways to do that.
Nope, that would be a conflict of interest; they cannot be trusted to do all of these on time and adequately. They would need so much oversight that it'd be just as expensive to have an independent company run these things.

I mean pay for it by all means, but that's where they stop. And even that's dubious, because it's never as simple as them handing over money; there will be terms and conditions.

And of course, corruption would be widespread; the people working for this company monitoring methane emissions would get money or other benefits offered to them. And when you think about it, relatively speaking, people don't cost much.

I'm confident I'd be up for hiding some data or other dodgy shit if the money was right. Think getting a bigger house kind of money.
The thing about the big mac is that it's that the ingredients are locally sourced -- local beef, bread, vegetables, and workforce. Not so much with Aspirin, or many other "universal" products
I am surprised no one mentioned social recovery, Vitalik even wrote about it https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html
Blender could be a good thing to get someone started in terms of programming. You can do things with it that you can't do easily with most other free or easily available software.
According to the article most “leaks” are intentional venting.
A truly ugly and yet beautiful typeface is the original Art Nouveau Paris Metro font Metropolitaines from 1901:

http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-43924.html
That’s the point. The PPP index is also flawed in many ways. This shows the limitations of any such index more clearly.
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Oof, less than two years being a manager, no wonder.
Are you saying this number is significantly different now for engineers? As in average tenure has increased?

The original point was tenure is short, and no manager can guarantee that their “core” team will remain together, for any number of reasons. So letting go a “too good” engineer to keep this team together makes little sense not that PIP isn’t happening.
Unfortunately social differences cannot be controled for differences in socialization. People instead reach for essentialism as an explanatory model. Essentialism is a rationalization not an explanation that better falls under the umbrella of reifications than as real and true knowledge.
I often see this sort of argument and disagree. The complexity is still there but instead of being someone's problem, it's owned by no one.
Yeah, I don’t buy it. I especially don’t buy that link. Blaming American’s concerns about an invasion of Ukraine on a lack of intellectualism is embarrassingly weak tea.
What you are right about is that both consumer and production endpoints transitions must be synchronized. But they should still happen very fast.

The right conclusion is that now they need to buff up the power grid extremely quickly TOO (it needs not take such a long time, some choices like solar or wind are quite quick to install).

Both the consumer endpoints and production endpoints have to change, of course.

As for the billions required for the transition, since when absolute figures make for good decisions? What is required is a comparison with alternatives. And one sure thing is that the cost of a failed transition, of a climate catastrophe, or indirect consequences like wars, are tremendously more expensive.
I would advise you to look at the Lightning protocol which allows you to do transactions off chain via credit lines for as long as you like. You only pay a fee to record to the blockchain ledger for eventual settlement.
Incorrect. Local media reports that no permit request was made so therefore there could never have been issued a permit that allowed dismantling the bridge.

In fact, the opposite has happened, there is a shitstorm brewing here that is likely going to have a particularly unpleasant billionaire and his toy on one side of that bridge and the rest of the municipality on the other.

https://www.schuttevaer.nl/nieuws/actueel/2022/02/03/aboutal...

If you read somewhere they have a permit then it would be nice to see the source.

You can build any ship you want, you may not be able to move it around past a certain size. You also do not need a permit to build a ship.
Wrong? of course, it's hard get things right when hit by a new virus, with lot of unknowns. We still don't fully understand how it transmits, why it's so harmful compared to common cold, etc. Dishonest? I'm not so sure.

You say "they still act as what they say is sacrosanct and anyone that questions their edicts is committing some terrible sacrilege". I'm sorry I don't get what you're trying to say here. You can say this about any law. You're saying they act as if laws were important and needed to be unforced.

Finally, of course laws are "dumb", they are binary, you can ridicule any law by pushing it to its limit. Driving on this road at 100 km/h is legal, but suddenly at 100.001 it's illegal?? so yeah, when you're exactly in between a place where you must wear a mask and a place where you don't, it's as ridiculous as... any law really.
Duh, it solves the; other people are making money and not me part. But not for you of course, for the crypto scammers.
It’s interesting to note that the banks that didn’t need bailouts and didn’t fail were more likely to both take deposits and act as investment banks. It’s also noteworthy that the contagion started in investment banks.

This may not refute the hypothesis completely, but it’s evidence pointing in the opposite direction.
> programmable money

Where there's code, there are bugs. I don't want that in my money, thanks.

> no middle-men for transactions

At what cost? Most people don't care about censorship resistance, they want free/cheap/fast payments and transfers.

> lower barrier to entry for innovation in financial services

There's plenty of innovation in finance given the proper legal framework. See the number of fintech startups popping up every year. The only innovation we see in the cryptocurrency space is the recycling of old scams that are impossible in modern finance.
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The people that don’t grind leetcode like that don’t feel the need to make posts either.
> So, in a way, a decentralised system is being built on top of a centralised system.

Is this not still fundamentally a centralized system?
Alternatively, "How Apple Closed the Privacy Hole that Facebook Was Exploiting to the Tune of $10bn"
I think that it was a PHP env_var that caused many SEV's.

It was way before my time, but I found it hilarious so I did some digging.
it's a marketing hack, LinkedIn's algorithm boosts posts with lots of comments and engagement. So people post those artificial questions at the end which are basically preaching to the choir

the fact people actually fall for it is depressing
Sure, real rants are about building a much better Zoom as a weekend MVP.
I thought you could not short stocks in an Ira, only sell covered calls? Is there some way around this rule?

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/10311...
My route to programming was through snap circuits. After I ran out of things to do with that I got an "Electronics Learning Lab" (highly recommend!). Then when I randomly met an Electronics engineering professor I was asking him for help building an adder iirc, and he told me about microcontrollers. I learned programming for them but got more hooked on the programming then the microcontrollers...
Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
I think we should build client side AI that filters out content from various providers according to your personalized needs. And passes your interests back to providers as simulated interaction so the providers know what to serve you more of.

Sort of AI content browser built as a client, running locally. Adjusted to you. With as much or as little manual tweaking as you wish.
Heat pumps suck in really cold climates. I highly recommend a natural gas water heater if you have a gas line. I have never run out of hot water.
Oh I didn't even connect it to comic sans. It's very nice, but nothing overwhelmingly different from another grotesque font with rounded ends. CS is a script font and not a grotesque so thats annoying if that is really the reason to call it ugly.
I was with you up to here:

> And Zuck is very smart. The moment I saw the rebrand to Meta I knew that he saw this day coming perhaps years ago. He knows the next frontier is the meta verse

Zuckerberg has been a surprisingly good steward of the one successful idea he came across, the social network graph. His acquisitions (Instagram, etc) worked very well to supplement the social network graph and keep it going longer than it otherwise might have gone. But now that no one gives a shit about what anyone else is doing and just wants to see some jokes, that graph is getting less and less complete.

The "metaverse" is an idiotic, last-ditch attempt to lock people back into the grid by turning them into cartoon versions of themselves in a private-sector universe. It's ridiculous. Facebook is flailing.
No.

You can't have a democracy with 100 IQ idiot majority, because their decisions are governed by whatever gets poured into their poorly working brains that week, so you end up with corporatocracy or fascism, pretending to be a democracy.
That could be a tracking protection feature in Safari?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26051370

The part where the author files a bug to get caching "fixed" in Firefox is also interesting.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1618257

Edit... Sorry. Actually, I forgot how the abuse worked, it relies on persistent caching. So Firefox doesn't cache, preventing bookmark tracking. Safari aggressively caches, so would. Any amount of caching would be a problem.

Hm... unless Safari never checks for updates to the Favicon at all. That would defeat the exploit as well. So very aggressive caching with no check for updates, also good? Ok. I stand by my original guess :)
But remember to reduce your personal carbon footprint! /s

We're expected to shave off a few kilos of CO2 here and there, usually at significant personal expense, while nothing is being done about these releases that a) could be avoided relatively easily b) have a much bigger impact.

The abstract mentions ~8 million metric tons of methane per year. Using a GWP of 28 (which seems to be the value from the IPPC's AR5) that's equivalent to around 224 million tons of CO2.

That's 224 billion kg CO2e, or around 28 kg CO2e for every human on the world, just from the large leaks (not from the ongoing smaller leaks which are >10x as big according to the article). So yeah, go ahead and tell me (and everyone else) to go vegan for a month [1] or make similarly impactful changes just so companies can continue venting methane.

To avoid being only negative: The obvious solution would be to require companies to buy emission certificates for those emissions, with a penalty factor that accounts for the probability of detection if they didn't accurately self-report and had to get caught. This would create an immediate incentive to reduce those easily avoidable emissions, and should be relatively easy to implement if we can get accurate enough data from satellites or aircraft. It would also ensure these emissions are accounted for in the emissions trading framework, so we don't emit the allocated amount elsewhere and are then surprised by the unaccounted-for emissions.

[1] Assuming I replace 250 kcal from pork per day with Tofu (around 100g of pork which seems to be considered "one serving"), this would be savings of ~1 kg CO2e per day: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-kcal-poore
I am 40 this year and next year will be 20 since my first paid job. I am more than confident that I'll be all right in 10 years time. I did desktop apps with Delphi, all kinds of websites with php/mysql/jquery, worked on a media streaming system for video calls, developed ci pipelines, tools to compile code on a server and run it on thin clients, recently reactjs apps, django backend, code generators, you name it. It's al the same blipping thing. It's just code that gets executed when other code says so.

You should poke every known piece of tech you can, be it react, vue, jquery, or django, ror, .net. You should mess with aws, gpg, azure, cloudformation and terraform. Mess with arduino or another microcontroller. At some point you will start seeing patterns and understand that conceptually, a reactjs front end is not that much different than a backend service written in c++.

This is a career long thing, but it gets easier the more you do it. The moment you decide you learned enough, you should start preparing to be discarded.

As an aside, the more you search for patterns, the easier it gets to internalize new tech and understand the benefits. And painfully obvious that some of the new tech is... just new, sometimes even worse.
I am sure, yes.
> Obviously they will sell at a premium, but they will make it affordable for average people in developed countries, just like with the iPhone.

There's a huge difference between selling a phone which is a status symbol and a VR set that has to have actual utility (entertainment, etc).

People pay more for iPhones even in Africa because it's a status symbol - only the rich can afford them.
Yeah I guess the only one I can think of is the vscode channel that does some of those ... they're actually kinda 50/50 annoying / helpful. It's a weird thing to do a short on.