skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious what the generational divide is for this. I’m 57, love tech and enjoy the positive side of the internet in limited doses. But I find most social media boring.

There is incredible and AMAZING art, accidental moments, serious discussion and fascinating analysis of the world to be found online. But without grounding myself in genuine experience in the stinky, cruel real world of human interaction, nature, and emotions it’s hollow. It only has meaning with this grounding reality.

Infinite scroll has never captured my attention beyond a few seconds. I can’t determine if I’m an anomaly? Normal for my age group?

I’m distressed about how much time my 24 year-old daughter spends on instagram. She lives at home, works as a dance instructor, and spends most of her time staring at her phone screen.

As a child I loved television. The six million dollar man was a highlight of the week (unless a spaghetti western was on). But it quickly became stultifying garbage when I spent more than a couple hours on the screen.

Am I just not normal? I love the grittiness and dangerous unpredictability of the real world. Yet love movies. I’m not sure what to think
Nice thanks !
You can turn those off for UberEats FYI. In the privacy settings.
Do they need connection to outside the country to organize? They can still organize on the local network.
Not true. Is your regular account in 30,000-1,000,000 servers?
I'm building a somewhat ambitious web client utility in Rust, and am struggling with this now. I'm using Hyper... and its deps you need it to work with (tokio, futures, hyper-tls).

And its begging the question "Is this what I want, or should ditch these, and build a new one using threads". I am not sold on the async paradigm. Some of the Rust OSS community uses it on embedded too, but to me, code using interrupt handlers (or RTIC) is more intuitive.

Immediately on viewing the Hyper guide and hello world, the program structure is messier than a normal Rust program. Colors propagate through the program. I am giving this a shot, but am not optimistic this will be cleaner than threading.
The idea of theft of something that could be as ubiquitous as a simple bike is a tragedy. How is bike theft still a problem?
Death threats kept impoverished Soviet citizens subdued for 70 years. Sadly, fear can be a very effective tool for tyranny.
For the most part I agree. Gas subsidy cuts / carbon tax needed to start years ago to gradually align incentives. As per usual those without wealth will be the most impacted by these price increases, because they're the least capable of adapting in short order
Ask HN: Would Working for the NSA Help?
Perhaps some HN readers work for the NSA or another intelligence agency.

If so, do you feel that you are able to actually help improve humanity or reduce threats to humanity and the planet we depend on?

And if so, would you encourage anyone else to apply?
Sanctions seem to have worked quite well against North Korea and Iran, although not for the initial purpose.

North Korea can't afford anything new for its military. Sure they have a sizable army of weapons your grandfather fought against, but they also operate bitcoin scams to fund their country, despite sitting on tremendous mineral wealth.

Iran has to make ever more economic sacrifices to fund its nuclear program and again also struggles with procuring weapons due to the cost.

We didn't get the regime change desired, but the enemy was substantially defanged as a result and they fall further behind as time goes on.

I would argue sanctions against Russia succeed if the next time they invade somewhere, they send their troops with rusting weapons and no body armor and cannot really afford to replace their equipment losses in Ukraine.
I think he can sleep easy that it wasn't entirely his fault. We already had infinite scroll before social media, it was probably just a matter of time before it made it's way over there.
Ukrainians defend their country, why Russians can't? Why Ukrainians dying while Russians afraid of spending night at police?
He probably just doesn’t want the world to be destroyed. How selfish.
I wanted to know if there's some... well more primitive version of ground source heat pumps... like circulating cold water through radiators and back into a well. Somewhere between pouring buckets on your head and star trek technology.

Heating scales up for complexity from a potbelly stove up to complex systems, wish cooling did as well.
I urge you guys to start buying bitcoin and looking to replace all your services with platforms that accept bitcoin. You can get a VPS provider with bitcoin payments.

The whole situation sucks, but developers are resourceful and for all the bitcoin hate, here is literally the golden opportunity to use the damn thing. Use it. Binance didn’t even block Russian purchases just for this very reason.
People need heating systems either way, so you want to compare additional costs vs savings not total system costs.

At a minimum subtract $3,300 – $6,900 for the high efficiency gas furnace you no longer need and to install. Further the savings should generally increase with inflation.

PS: Also when comparing the savings from this or other home improvements vs other investments, remember your savings are after taxes.
Great time to be a cyclist. As always.
Couldn't you reimplement cross-site cookies with that?
The This Old House video in a sibling comment to mine says that is one of the strategies the company is using (with the customer just getting a monthly bill lower than what they are paying to begin with).
Well, I'm at a bar right now in "flyover" country, and the bar is packed but quiet, everyone is having conversations about what they did last week and what they're up to next week, along with news and sports and general bullshit. I asked the man next to me your question after hearing him talk about how he finally had to get a new set of tires after 5 years of pulling stumps and hauling equipment. I actually asked him, "Do you really need a truck?" He told me, direct quote, "Every day I haul saws, chains, oil, gas, drills, a generator. You don't want that shit in your back seat or trunk."

I then asked him what he does for a living and why he needed to haul all that.

He works for Amazon, just like many of you. He also does self sustaining farming, just like many of you claim to support and praise. He also clears trees from roads after storms, free of charge. He also helps when his friends and family need to move. He also carries de-icing salt to distribute to his family when it snows. He just asked me if I'm talking to "one of those California know-nothings". He didn't use any slurs.
A progressive tax treats everyone equally. It taxes Jeff Bezos the same rate for the first $25k as it does me. Just like it would charge me the same rate for the last billion I earned. Everyone lives by the same set of rules. Anyway, progressive vs flat tax is orthogonal to simplifying the tax code because a graduated tax rate is not complex and is the very least of our current worries when it comes to tax code complexity.

As for Paul Ryan, he proves my point. His proposal included a huge break in corporate rates in exchange for a modest break in middle income taxes.
The US is a net exporter of oil I think, in the post fracking era.

As a commodity, for the most part there is one global price, modulo delivery location. What happened last week is that the normal buyers don't want to transact with Russia, so they're in the unique position of having to sell a global commodity at a discount. What we may be seeing is a thinning out of suppliers on the exchange. I dont think Pussia can transact on WTI given current sanctions (did they in the past?) and intermediaries may not want the ambiguous risk of being stuck with sanctioned oil in the future.
Oh you're quite right, I mixed up my gauges, I hadn't realised broadgauge was 7 foot !
You removed all of it from your life with no negative impact.

On the other side there's all the people who live with it with no negative impact either.

The existence of these two groups seem to me a reasonable enough argument to keep it as it is and find alternative solutions for the people who can't remove it from their lives yet are harmed by that. At least, removing it for everyone doesn't seem to be the right call.
Exactly 1% of 4-digit pins are palindromes so that is very acceptable.
The common denominator is of course dopamine, and drugs, social media, video games, etc, all offer an easy and reliable hit.
oh, really? What did you do when Russia occupied Crimea / Eastern Ukraine? What you did when Russia was bombing schools and hospitals in Syria?
You forgot the part where Chavez and Maduro took a relatively well functioning state and turned it into a failed one.
I tried downloading Flash Player standalone and run it but all I get is a grey screen. There's a lot of great flash games out there, not sure if there's a good solution (opensource or otherwise) to run them
How does this matter at all, since everyone is already connected to the internet?
Oftentimes it is so that you have to interact with the website which subsequently allows the webpage to autoplay media with audio or track engagement with a particular piece of content.
I checked my [2] link. The gas prices are from 2019. I think Canada also has room to improve. The Toronto commute radius is wide
it's easy to think of sanctions as an abstract thing meant to apply pressure, but in this case that's not all they are. Russian oil is at least partially state-owned, and a major source of revenue for the russian government.

yes, the sanctions probably aren't impacting Putin's day-to-day quality of life, nor that of any of the other oligarch's. but that's kind of beside the point. they are cutting off a source of funding for the russian military that is currently invading ukraine. that is really not "for nothing".
What's the deal with the Woodrow Wilson Center? It seems to have good credentials, albeit connected to the US government. Are there other examples of it producing obvious propaganda?
It is most likely just a relic from slower internet connections. Anyone who was browsing in the early 2000s didn't want an unknown number of images downloading all at once, especially on a mobile device. It does have little value these days but keep in mind some people are still on slow connections, and some categories of search results can be quite large.

You might as well ask why Google results paginate but you probably answered it (ads).
Maybe it is me but scrolling brings less revelant items. Each scroll being worse. If scroll more than a few I give up.
This is speculation, but it may be because oil production doesn't outstrip demand by much. The world uses a certain amount of fuel in a day. Oil batteries, refineries, pipelines, etc. are designed to supply that, but not much more. Similar to chip supply chains, there isn't a lot of excess production and storage capacity built into the system because that doesn't generate income.

If this is the case, then removing a major producer, such as Russia, will create shortages. Demand exceeds supply and prices go up. Even just the fear of bans could drive prices up.
Bikes are expensive high-tech status symbols. I read an article about one where the frame had a lock built in.
It was a joke about BMW drivers -- and I have owned a few over the years myself so I think I can get away with it.

If you don't have functional turning signals you can signal with arm gestures out the window instead and in that circumstance should not get a ticket -- or even be stopped -- for nonfunctional electronic signals, at least anywhere in the USA.
> (From the OP) ...in stark contrast to the fact that net zero CO2 emissions are required by around 2050 to meet a 50% chance of keeping the average surface temperature increase to below 1.5 °C

These forecasts used to be 4.5C or more. Now the forecasts are 1.5C and yet the IPCC is still pushing hard.

It happens that the average tropospheric temperature increase over the last 40 years of satellite measurements is 0.13C per decade, or 1.3C per century if that rate continues.[0] We have still not peaked during this interglacial epoch, but the tropospheric warming appears normal and less than the IPCC target.

[0] https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/03/uah-global-temperature-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_energy_consumption....

We are a long, long way to reducing fossil fuel demand. We've barely even seen a leveling of coal demand and with increasing prices for gas and oil, coal may still be yet to see its peak. Certainly in China, fossil fuel demand will continue to skyrocket for decades. They're perfectly happy to buy from Russia, or Iran, or Saudi, or Syria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Coal_Consumption.sv...

For all the predictions of the demise of coal the fossil fuel industry driven propaganda about the green movement and the triumph of renewables, global coal consumption almost doubled over the past 20 years.

The number one way to put the squeeze on petroleum regimes is to increase production in "friendly" countries. Number two would be massive expansion of nuclear power, which is long overdue for a Manhattan Project (joke intended) to seriously address climate change anyway.
Nuclear power plants don't produce crude oil though.
Typically $100 USD a barrel
I love GSHP. You can see this in previous comments on HN. I've had it done many times, and am friendly with a lot of drillers.

I've even had this kind of rig drill for me before.
It will not change anything.

On the the mess: The majority of the mess is geology. Water/Sediment control (you hit 100 gallons/minute of water and need to control it) or cuttings.
It's possible to be cleaner about cuttings in the ideal case, but it would be a lot more expensive. If you dig a 500 ft hole with a 6 inch bore, that's 100 cubic feet of messy stuff to put somewhere. You are often drilling 3 or 4 of these holes.
Using vacuums and other rig would dramatically increase costs (if you are driving a dump truck into the yard, you are going to destroy the yard as much as it would to just bulldoze the cuttings into your soil :P)

Sediment control is similar.

On the economics - these rigs change nothing about the economics. Most drill rigs are already drilling about as fast as it can reasonably be done. They churn through granite quite quickly. The real issue i that they can only do a house a day for a random single family home because they have to go, set up, etc.

The kind of rig you are seeing here doesn't change that.

The economics only get good when they do entire developments that are under construction, because they can just drill, move, drill, move, drill, move much easier. They also often can locate the bores in a single area and extend the piping to the entire development.
Which doesn’t need oil, no… maybe not in your neck of the woods. That’s lucky for you.
Biden's Multi-Billion Afghan Theft Gets Scant Mention on TV News
For those who don't want to completely give up on this kind of content but want to limit their intake, I can highly recommend the Intention add-on for FF/Chrome: https://www.getintention.com/

For me, it worked really well for a while, until I started instinctively hitting the "one more minute" button. But they recently added the option for a 30 second timeout after each "unlock" period, which curbs that very effectively. It gives the non-lizard part of your brain the perfect opportunity to take the reigns again :)
A lot of bike thieves steal bikes to use themselves or to sell as bikes. Nothing will prevent every potential theft, but I can see how it would help.
Forgive this, for it is only the beginnings of an idea:

Can the trend of fluid gender identity and increasingly fractured sexual identity be a somewhat 'equal and opposite' force to that of nationalism?

Nationalism, as defined in Orwell's notes, is a grouping of people under a single banner, whether positive or negative. The new classifications and terms that have sprung from the Gender and Sexual identity movement (ironically, that's a classification in itself) are brought about by the lack of existing nomenclature adequately describing the group of people considered to be under that banner; "Don't categorise me".

That is individualism, that is anti-nationalism.

Is that what 'the West' should be supporting and embracing if it truly values individual freedoms?

Is the difficulty of acceptance of this gender and sexual individualism by society at large a result of the fact that it's challenging to humanity's baser instincts of "us and them" that we tend to revert to in times of instability and stress? (described in detail by Orwell).

(admittedly, I find it hard to process the gender and sexual identity 'stuff' because I happily sit in existing boxes and have only recently put enough thought into the implications of myself being "mis-classified")
It's actually pretty relevant. I got fed up of my bike being stolen in London so I bought a fancy anti-theft bike and a serious lock. The result was that instead of my bike being stolen in one piece all of the components were stripped off it, which wasn't really any better.
In my opinion one of the weaknesses of OOP is just how hard it is to actually model those real world relationships in any concrete form. It's choosing to professionally have a fight with "the map is not the terrain."

Some people are really good it but it's a skill for sure and learning it is rough. It is some really abstract thinking shit, and difficult even to evaluate how well it has been done until much time has passed with it.

I think when people joke about naming in programming this is what they mean. Needing to clearly define relations that are not necessarily clear yet. OOP does demand a lot of that so is hard and exhausting in a particular way.

That said nothing against OOP I use it every day and Sandi Metz is the code book writer I learned the most useful stuff from. Just it's hard in a different way from most of the rest of coding.
Ryven came up a couple months ago in the comments about a similar tool, PyFlow

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955623
I see, so they offer Github hosted on Azure as well now, thanks for sharing it, I actually didn't know.

Though the parent point still stands valid, as Visual Studio Team Services indeed became Azure DevOps. Github hosted on Azure is just self-hosted Github and has nothing to do with VSTS/Azure DevOps.
How many people chill out after an atm robbery? It seems a bit of over engineering when I would assume 99.9% of atm robbers are gone 30 seconds after an atm pin is typed.
This is how you know that they know that what they’re doing is unjustifiable.
In the past decade, I've been pretty interested in traveling with the distinct purpose of finding 2-3 backup countries/cities I'd feel comfortable migrating to. Instead of traveling to the over touristed cities doing touristy things that everyone else goes to, for me it's more fun to visit 2-3 serious countries that I could conceivable migrate to if the stuff hit the fan in the current country. Like what's the restaurant scene like, how are the schools, would my kids feel at home, what would emigration look like, what are the country's policies, etc.
Lol realism, some Christian cardinal is on Russian state television and talking about how the Ukrainians are forced to endure homosexuality parades or get executed

What’s your plan now that you’re getting firewalled in mate? Or do you have.. special privileges
Not any more. The biden administration halted oil exploration on federal land, so now we are a net importer. We are running the existing wells dry and not drilling any more.

With the price of oil so high, though, I wonder if more dramatic changes to the market are coming, including massive numbers of oil wells on private land and fracking nearer to cities.
Honestly - not that is cost efficient.
Not if you go through the seatpost. Seatposts are pretty easy to replace.
I’m going to suggest something a little wild. Russia has way too much border to protect. What happens if you take a car, and head to another country.

I don’t know what the fuck to say, the west have to change policy:

10,218 people from Russia have fled in 2020 and applied for asylum in other countries. This corresponds to approximately 0.007% of all residents. The most destination countries hereof have been the United States, France and Germany. Overall, 83 percent of the asylum applications have been rejected. The most successful have been the refugees in Portugal and in Mexico.

If the Russian people are under a police state, why aren’t we granting these people political asylum, no questions asked?
Pricing for public transport is not dynamic typically.
Russia-Ukraine War: What Happened March 6
You’re taking the proverb too literally. Might be more that the US has recently participated in undermining and overthrowing the Venezuelan regime. You can’t just fck over a country one day and try to do business the next
This seems to be pretty handwavy, they definitely did something and the situations are different. Sure, I'd like to know what they did and how the situations are different. Are you saying sanctions in Iran actually did work contrary to "common wisdom"? And that they may not work in Russia because the situations are different, or what?

> Remember, at one point recently Iran turned the lights off on an entire city and gunned down hundreds of protestors[0]

This wasn't supposed to be an example of how the ruling class was hurt by the sanctions, surely. Not sure what the relevance is.
They haven't perfected extracting value and the lockin potential is lower as smaller companies don't have the moat.
I think (3b) isn’t true, since the sanctions are effecting every part of Russia’s economy. And while the petroleum industry is like 40% of their exports by revenue, the other 60% is obviously significant. Also from a Russian point of view, the difficulty importing and lack of access to the international banking system may be more painful.

In fact if the west could target everything except oil, they probably would (since that’s the most critical export that Europe needs).

Your overall point still stands though. Your argument is strong. It’s not practical for Russia to simply redirect their flow to maintain “business as usual”.
That is an astonishing bit of recent history.
A lot of things can be conceptualized as an operation that takes some stuff, and gives back some new stuff, and does absolutely nothing else.

It's like a lot of other strong constraints on complex endeavors. If you run with it you can get surprisingly far, but only by twisting your understanding of how to do things. Whether that's good or not seems highly personal though.
Oil Surges 10% in Asia
> Purchasing within the country is more secure unless you assume all devices sold within the country are compromised and monitored in real-time which seems unfeasible.

One preinstalled mitm cert, or sketch CA, is within the realm of feasibility.
The key to curb bad habits is to create friction, and doing so well in advance. When you're exhausted and you're out of will, you're not gonna take much action to avoid quick pleasures. As it pertains to websites and app, here are a bunch of techniques for creating friction:

- iOS and Android both have screen time features to show you a banner when you've used an app for longer than a set time. This is a good soft block to start with.

- Auto logout after a set time. Having to login is one extra step that may deter you from accessing a website. This can be done with browser extensions.

- Auto delete apps after a set time (this is possible with MDMs). Again, having to install an app would be a big hurdle next time you want to sit back and scroll through clips.

- Throttle speed of a website - this one's a little brittle as you can quickly switch to a faster network, usually your mobile connection.
The difference is that many of those Russians have seen the world outside and now know it can be different. It’s not 1950’s anymore.