skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm experiencing this heat right now, albeit very very mild but still bad, in southern part of India.

Coming to climate modifying aerosols I haven't heard/read this being discussed. A comparable exercise, cloud seeding, was done couple of years ago. But it was very geographically limited. What we are experiencing right now is unprecedented. So I guess we just have to wait it out.

For comparison; Bangalore used to see high summer temperature of 32-34 about a decade ago. It's gotten progressively worse. To an extent that Bangalore reached ~35-36 as soon as summer months began, mid/late March.

By far the harshest heat I've experienced is back in 2015, early May in Delhi, India. I don't know what the temperature was but the blast of heat wave as soon as I exited from office building is vivid in my memory. Couple of days later I read in news that a few cars spontaneously caught fire around the office building I visited.

Also, fire broke out last week in Delhi last week[1]. So yeah, it's quite bad.

Edit: more content.

[1] https://www.india.com/news/delhi/video-delhi-bhalswa-landfil...
You re not just biased, you re angry. Realize that you 're not the first angry religious person. Europe fought religious wars centuries ago and it was devastating. It fought nationalist wars in the past century and was almost leveled to the ground. It's way beyond the point where it s going to be accepting of theocracies and religious fundamentalism and even nationalism. Individual rights and enlightenement values is what people believe in. LGBT rights are used as a shit test for those values, and they are important despite the fact that LGBT are a small minority. If you can live with your religious beliefs but still tolerate them , then congratulations you have become an individual of the modern world. It's not that hard, all it takes is some control of emotions.

Maybe also read up some history of the ottoman empire and the countries that sprung out from it. Some have managed to escape becoming part of the middle east problems, some are regressing like turkey, some never made it to statehood. The world is more complex than simplistic religious stories. People don't hate you ; they have their own convictions shaped by their own history and their own anxieties.
I think they are referring to people who are actively unpleasant to interact with but blame 'introversion' for it, as opposed to recognizing poor social skills or refusal to abide by normal politeness as the real problem.
Lawyers do what lawyers do...

The only way to win this fight as a small business is to make enough PR trouble that the marketing department of the big business tells the legal department to find a way to get the story out of the news.
I'd assume the opposite.

Run it at night, at economically efficient speeds, in convoys, on motorways and you get 80% benefits with 20% of the effort. No cyclists, roundabouts, driveways, parking, children, back roads, routing you've got less other traffic, could modify the road itself, run more smaller trucks, EV versus diesel, no tired human living away from home to worry about. Use Bus Rapid Transit corridors at off-peak times.

Feels like something thats going to go from stupid to standard very quickly once some tipping point gets hit (probably based on battery availability).
zsh doesn't use readline
Yeah. But I guess the distinction is quite relevant with things more complex than a hammer.

For example, you are not legally entitled to return a camera because you thought it could shoot in 3D and it couldn't, unless the advertising falsely claimed that. The seller might accept a return, but they're not obliged to.

The EULA thing is sort of on the edge of that. Many (most?) devices come with EULAs these days. So you could make an argument that the buyer can't reasonably expect there to not be additional terms that they must accept before using it. I don't really find that argument very compelling, though, if the terms are not available to the buyer at the point of sale.
It must be difficult to fault the Prague tube system, it's one of the best in the world. Certainly much better than the London one.
Like most law it’s vague and subject to whims, there’s no flow chart to give you a definite answer.

If you go to meet team members in your NY office, interview some new staff, and look for a new building to move the office to, that’s all fine.

If you happen to do some unrelated sysadmin work on your servers in london while you’re there, that’s probably fine too, as your primary reason to visit is quite clearly fine.

If you went for a holiday for 2 weeks(on a B2 or esta) and happened to answer a phone call from work that’s fine.

If you went on holiday for 2 weeks and spent 10 days working remotely that’s probably not fine. If you went on a family holiday for 4 weeks but did a few days work remotely that’s might be ok. If you did it several times a year though it probably wouldn’t be.

There’s no hard and fast rule in law, and doubly so in immigration where the power to allow you in sits with the guy at the airport.

https://legalservicesincorporated.com/immigration/what-activ... has a good overview.
What happened to those that wanted to storm Area 51? The Internet Historian remembers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ7F6ELO-hQ
> "7g of added sugar in a cup of Oatly"

Oatly (and most other oat milks) do NOT "add" any sugar! The sugar in oat milk comes from the starch naturally present in the oats, which is broken down into sugars by amylase enzymes during the production process.

(AFAIK the "added sugars" wording on US Oatly labels is due to a technicality of US labelling laws. It's doesn't say that on European labels.)
That's not the fault of people doing the work, that's what the industry is doing to us.

I get increasingly irritated with the myth that 'DevOps' are any different than the sysadmins of 10 years ago.

"But DevOps can code", yes, so could sysadmins, in fact, terraform, ansible, vagrant, saltstack, chef, puppet etc;etc;etc are all made by people who held the title of sysadmin when they were written.

In fact even the term "DevOps" was originally from a conference, where the idea was that "we can do systems administration in an agile way" -- NOTHING to do with coding, everything to do with getting developers and sysadmins working closely together in an iterative fashion.

I would personally be very happy being called a sysadmin, but doing so is career suicide, because we as an industry have decided that sysadmins are somehow braindead, and that you really need "SREs" or "DevOps" -- despite the fact that these are the same people.

What gets my goat even more is that people hate on sysadmins because of corporate culture, echos of centralised IT organisations that said no to everything.

But we're doing exactly the same thing with these new titles now. It's a joke.

(This text, from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31194067 )

——-

I would be very happy to be called a sysadmin again, we can take some principles from the SRE book and that’s fine.

This is increasingly annoying because oh can’t be called a “engineer” in Canada, it’s a protected title.

I even wrote a ranty blog post about this a couple years ago, I will post it here later.

http://blog.dijit.sh/devops-confusion-and-frustration
Poor rabbi Yirmeya was kicked out for being ahead of his time. As an IT security guy, he would have been spot on; these weird edge scenarios are where 0-days thrive. And some hacker from China will always find a way how to glue the chick with one leg here and the other one there.

Of course, King Solomon would just order the chick to be cloven in half. But that doesn't address the vulnerability in a systemic way.
If I'm very interested for specific topic I try to read as much as possible. But rarely it is 100%.
Forgetting about the Problem of Memory
Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data?
There is a force in the opposite direction, because all the tree carbon and soil carbon currently stored in those areas will likely burn or decay, increasing total atmospheric carbon. Also permafrost melting will release huge amounts of methane. Lots of positive feedback loops that will be going independent of burning fossil fuels.
Fast forward... Polynesian Bowl football helmets.

https://usatodayhss.com/2017/check-out-the-cool-helmet-desig...
I’m impressed. This is denying the existence of something that must exist by construction, like denying there can be three things when you know the concept of 100, 0 and counting.
See? Major corporations always listen to their customers. It's been merely ten years since we asked and they are showing support!
"The Food of the Gods",Arthur C. Clarke.
I have struggled explaining what the auras looks like, but for me they look like confetti, in particular the shiny stuff used to celebrate sports championships. Sorry for piggybacking on your fascinating account, but unless you experience it yourself, it is hard for non-affected people to imagine what it looks like.
Zaplib post-mortem
I flat out dislike most of current "black" culture, especially the american one, and think it's detrimental to black people and anyone that follows it. Racist or not?
The author claims ML is overused and many problems that could be solved more effectively with optimizations are solved using ML.

If wonder what classes of problems fit this? For sure, I can't imagine how can you tackle sentiment analysis or text classifiers using optimization.
This is pretty fantastic!

I'm very excited about the possibilities of Loom. Would love to have a more realistic sample with Spring Boot that would demonstrate the real world scale. I saw a few but nothing remotely as ambitious as that.
How I test Scrawl-canvas, my JavaScript library for the HTML canvas element
Reminds of https://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-webs... Would love to see this extended to more Languages/Frameworks.
.pc files are indeed a pain. Because BSD is and always has been bMake not gMake the whole gnu planet of "I tested deps and link library paths for you" thing is just different.

Imagine walking into x11 pre xorg config files, or cakefiles but only half-baked.

Disks are odd. You would think by now we would have unified on gpt and uefi but it's a long road.
I would expect it to be at least as related to culture and governance as numbers, and therefore to be an issue in some other countries as well.
I read your comment and then skimmed the article. This is how it reads: “ALERT! YOU HAVE PROBLEMS! STEPS 123455789 ARE NEEDED!” And so on. Talk about piling it on. Thanks for your perspective.
> there are street vendors in major cities selling special fruit that supposedly helps protect people from the potentially damaging effects of above-normal temperatures. [...] "Instead of the regular synthetic fruits, you know, the ready-made fruit juice which is harm[ful] to the health, these are good for your health as well and these are the only way that you can manage the heat."

What's this mysterious special fruit the article strangely forgets to name?
Thanks. This is a good reminder for some of us.
I find once I remove addiction (YouTube, twitter) I will naturally get things done
It's your repo and your choice. You can reject the PR.

Your repo is public so you can't prevent people and bots from looking into it and having opinions on it (even public ones).
Fantastic recommendation! Hamming's writing is so clear and inspiring.

Not a book but his speech "You and your research" is quite good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw
Was this comment inspired by Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future, or is this a case of life-imitates-art-imitates-life?
It’s fine as long as somebody else is holding the bag
Not everyone wants to optimise energy to the same outcome. Some bad actors are optimising for pure profit and screw the environment, not public utility function outcomes.
NN failed to model sine function: https://towardsdatascience.com/can-machine-learn-the-concept...
Tangential to this, there is the Morocco solar project - where the plan is to export via HVDC link to the UK - will this result in UK energy prices influencing those of Morocco? "Ideally" the production site should have access to cheaper energy since it's "their resource".
Same. It was extremely frustrating because I had written a long response with several references to support my argument and I was just unable to post it, getting a generic "Something went wrong" error message. I thought it was a temporary error and saved the comment but after trying several hours later getting the same thing I realized they had actually blocked me.
Most likely Ice Apple [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borassus_flabellifer
I'm a European. I think we have to accept that not the whole world has to care about a war in eastern Europe. For us, it's the world, but it's hypocritical to demand that everyone pays attention to our crisis.
But what do they do when they are at friends homes, or at school all crowded around a iphone in the bathroom.

I don't have kids, but there's a part of me that would want them to see the bowels of the internet, and hopefully Never want to see that crap again. I know there are pictures I wish I never saw. I'm so glad I didn't see the toddler whom was raped by a Russian soldier. Putin arrested that soldier I head.

If I had children, I don't think I would let them use the internet either.

I wonder if their are any good studies on letting children have free access to restricted. Maybe the study couldn't even be legally carried out?
> So you can blame me for the worst parts of both SQLWindows and Visual Basic!

Something to be proud of :-)

Actually, I didn't dislike SQLWindows _that_ much, because I knew how to write C & C++ code for Windows, so I could program round its little foibles. But it was tough to teach!
Yeah for things where you need to, let's say, schedule an appointment, or where there are a lot of yes/no questions back and fourth I agree

But most of the time I see people wanting to "jump on a call" for something that's one or two simple questions

Sure, it is also on both parts to make this work efficiently, like, if you're not synchronous, don't answer things with just yes/no, but give more detal
Closely related -

In theory, there's no difference between the theory and the practice.

In practice, there is.
Ask HN: What have you built that is so stable that you almost forgot about it?
One can always compare the per capita and blame the rich world for many issues. This is nice for a debate.

But at the end, poor + middle class of India suffer due to this. Sure the rich world ruined environment, but that cannot be reason to say India can do similar. The first to get affected will be the poor world (yes, incl. India) and then only the poor people in the west.

I understand this is a sensitive issue, as my wife is from India, and people do not like complaining about India (especially they do not like foreign news organisations like BBC/CNN/NYtimes posting negative news).

Please start thinking as global citizens (heck your people are running Twitter, Google, MS).
... and Prolog offers traceable brainf*ck:

https://github.com/danieldk/brainfuck-pl
At work we modelled our role-based access control logic in prolog. Once you realise that your authorization is logic programming, you gain access to better tools, more formal ways to think about it, and a treasure trove of literature. :)
I think the post about Google's biggest conference only managing to get to the 4th page is pretty telling in itself...
I feel the exact same way!! Throw RL at the wall for any problem, and it will magically solve it. In the back of my mind, I know that it's not true, but I always want to throw RL at any problem. Right now, I am considering throwing it to make TCP/other-networking-stuff more efficient...
Some common Indian "cool-drinks":
- Sugarcane juice
- Chhaanch (Butter milk)
- Coconut water
Appreciate the book recommendation, I have read “Through the language glass: why the world looks different in other languages” by the same author and similarly found it fascinating.
DFS Tools [0] is a Prolog implementation of the Distributional Formal Semantics framework [1].

[0] https://github.com/hbrouwer/dfs-tools
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089054012...
Fantastic to see that you haven't read nor understood what this headline is about, and constructed a whole paragraph based on your misconception of one (1) headline on Hacker News.
Do better.
It's probably not that simple. If you have food shortages and displaced populations as a result in climate change, then you might get an increase in poverty. More poverty means less education, and less access to things like birth control. So you could see somewhat of an acceleration in population growth and energy demand as a result.
For me it’s twitter and… porn
The recommended way to deal with that (by financial advisors I talked to / read) is that you start with the "risk/aggressive" slider all the way to the right and then move it back as you get closer to the retirement age. In practice that means that on the extreme end I'm 80-90% in shares, but 5 years to retirement I may be 50% in cash / bonds / something else stable.

(I don't know if you can do the same in the US, but I would expect something similar exists)
Ask HN: Safe to Install Government Root Certificate?
To access Spanish government services, I need to install a root certificate.

What are the security implications if any?

"To use your DNIe in your browser you need:

- Install the PKCS#11 Security Module

- Install the Root Certificate of the DNIe Certification Authority"

More info: https://www.dnielectronico.es/PortalDNIe/
How would the multiple copies find the global memory segment? In theory each copy could create such a segment and check that all handles received by APIs live in it, but I can’t see how you could convince multiple versions to get a handle to the same shared segment (well, without a file handle).
My guess is the shm to detect multiple copies linked in would probably be a lot of complexity for the sole purpose of trying to compensate for a really bad practice.
Wow, thanks so much for your work! I had it on my desk for a long time because it was so useful. You are right every language should have a book like this!

It’s a good way to learn from because in practice you have these messy problems you’ll sometimes have to tackle from various sides before you push for a solution. Also software development is not about knowing all algorithms by heart but knowing when to reach for established work that is bullet proof and will save you and your organization a lot of headache in the future.
I've seen architecture roles in startups that focus on legacy industries, like public sector or banking.
Consider adjacent roles like engineering manager or technical program manager if you have delivery experience.
Another opportunity is a senior position in a startup's professional services arm, similar to forward deployed engineer but may have titles like implementation engineer, customer success engineer eer, or solution architect.
From someone who hasn't read it, can you say why?

That's the second time I've seen it referenced here. Cheers.
How do you preserve old URLs when porting between different website generators (Wordpress, Jekyll, other static sites) with different URL schemes for the same page?
With a maximum of 64k TCP connections per single server IP, you need 77 different IP on the server side.
This is a fact.
It's theory, not law, and is in large part cultural and contextual. Basically, the motifs that we are familiar with have a certain notion of consonance and dissonance...consonance being notes that sound 'nice' together (due in part to overlapping harmonics reinforcing the sound), and dissonance being notes that sound a little 'off' or 'tense' (harmonics that don't overlap, so you get a 'beating' effect as the harmonics go in and out of phase).

Note 'resolution' is basically going from dissonance to consonance, providing a pleasing sense of stability.

What is considered consonant and dissonant can change with time and culture, so it's not a completely solid relationship, but overall a general pattern (like the notion of 'Major' being happy and 'minor' being sad is not a universal association).
To be antisocial is simply to have a preference against social behaviour. Whether that manifests in hostile behaviour or not isn’t relevant to the definition of the word. To succeed in organised society almost always requires pro social participation in social settings. My point is that articles like this simply appeal to people who are looking for an excuse for their anti-social behaviour, whether that behaviour is openly hostile (as some commenters in this thread are self-reporting), or simple as an aversion to participate.
Ah. But I don't enjoy finishing certain tasks, I enjoy doing them. So the most potential enjoyment is gained by never finishing. I don't feel any sense of accomplishment when finishing those tasks.
Not everyone can or should embrace this mindset, not because it’s a bad one per se…. But some people are driven by ambition—ambition to make money, make art, explore, create, etc. We have a lot to be thankful for in todays world and it’s partly due to people who challenged themselves to do more than simply sit back and chill. I look at it this way… some people want to star in the show, not just watch it.
iCloud?
teach him to tinker existing sites in browser with javascript. Once he is able to see the changes he is making in realtime it will get him hooked, then you just need to point him to the right references here and there and he will become proficient on his own. I have taught or rather i shoud say given a demo to number of kids and i am yet to find a kid who didn't get hooked. It's kind of empowering just to change the background color of any website to your liking :)
On this general topic, I recently learned that the words undulate and water have the same origin in Proto-Indo-European:

wódr̥ (PIE) → udōr (Proto-Italic) → unda (Latin) → undulātus (Late Latin) → undulate (English)

wódr̥ (PIE) → watōr (Proto-Germanic) → *watar (Proto-West Germanic) → wæter (Old English) → water (Middle English) → water (English)

In fact, I'm now noticing that the t in the Proto-Germanic line corresponds to the d in the Proto-Italic line, just as you said.
Michael Lewis on why Americans don’t trust experts
I generally agree - but considering this conflict could (unlikely but possibly) become a world war then, yes, other countries should pay attention.
+1 for blocking focus time in your calendar. Added bonus: you look busy to those who think you are only working hard when you have a booked calendar ;)

Btw I consider myself a bit of an extrovert and I feel slightly offended by this article. I love you introverts and I apologize for any harm “we” caused.
I believe this is the case in many countries; you can do some work like signing contracts and indeed answering emails and the phone for work purposes, but you cannot just take out the ol' laptop and write code for 90 days. Many people do because you cannot really check but it's not allowed, at least not in places I have been. Especially if you keep travelling (so 2-3 months here, 2-3 months there) then there is very little point in doing all this trouble unless you cannot stand technically doing something illegal although no-one will find out.

Anecdotal example; when I was young and naive (well, more naive than now), I went to Canada (Vancouver) to help some guys out with some software. I read up on it a bit, but not enough (naive!) so at the border I told that I was going to do a bit of sight seeing and a bit of 'work'. Wrong word; was immediately taken apart and spent 1 hour explaining that no, no not work, just a bit of light consultancy; no programming, no actual managing people etc and no money changing hands (this was all true, I just shouldn't have used the word 'work'). They let me enter and there were no further issues, but I guess most people would just say 'vacation!' even though this was allowed; it can/does add stress and you might be unlucky and be sent back.