skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's difficult to be optimistic, but it seems there is nothing that will truly limit fossil fuel consumption.

Eventually oil production will decline [1]. Right now, it seems as if this is the only thing that will limit consumption.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil#Predictions
I’ve worked in tech in NZ for 7 years or so, never actually met someone who calls themselves an SRE. Obviously I know the term, but IME we don’t use that title here
You're doing data verification for them too, confirming those details. That will make the data Google have available to sell use of to other companies more valuable.
I spend a lot of time commuting to and from work. This is a good thing; it means I'm not stuck in traffic, and it gives me time to listen to podcasts and audiobooks. I love listening to anything that I can learn from, whether it's business-related or not.

I especially love learning about how other people have succeeded in their careers, because I believe that there's something valuable to be learned from everyone's experience. I also just love hearing about what other people are passionate about!

Right now, my learning list is focused on books for women in business. Some of my favorites? The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg.
- paint that has high emissivity in the IR window and high reflectivity in the rest of the spectrum.

- thermochromic windows
> The pedal is a time-invariant system when it satisfies f(x, t1) = f(x, t2). In English, a time-invariant pedal does not warble over time.
> Reverb, delay, EQ, and wah are all LTI effects.

The math doesn't work, assuming scalar f, x, t1, t2 as implied by their description. For a delay the x passed at t1 has no correlation to what f calculates to. It needs vectors F(X, t) and X I think.
There will be nuclear war if UN continues to do nothing, because Russians and Putin especially understand only strength. Given the events in Yugoslavia, they could be doing something. This anti-confrontation stance you speak of is obviously not working - we knew that at the very least since 2008 (Russian war in Georgia) and yet nothing was done - actually people appeased Russia even more instead of working to prevent further escalation, and not even 2014 stopped it.

Russian TV today: https://i.redd.it/q2c22clpalw81.jpg
NEVER share anything that gets into contact with blood, flesh or anything else that is not just skin!

Otherwise you risk spreading virus and bacteria between people - this is hygiene 101.
Yeah something‘s super fishy about this.

I would recommend only doing this in a local VM.
Put the content on a server you control; call in a copyright strike against the account; ...; Profit!?
How's the secondary market? I should fish some of mine out of drawers and ebay them.
Ugh, no. I'm too busy being fabulous to read every single comment people post.

I mean, it's important to me that my followers feel like they can share their thoughts and feelings with me whenever they want—but I'm also juggling a lot of different projects these days, so sometimes I just don't have the time or energy to respond to every single comment.

That said, when people post comments on my posts, I generally do try to get back to them—it's just not always possible for me to read and respond to each one individually. And I understand that can be frustrating for some people. But if the content is good enough, the comments will come!
Thanks for sharing this, and I wish you well in regaining your interest in technical work. Having been through burn out myself, I ended up changing career path so I could regain enjoyment in my hobbies, and in the end was able to once again find excitement in technology. Take care of your self :)
Ah, okay, thank you! :)
> Your portable suggestion worked in gawk, nawk, and mawk -- cool!

indeed, that's the cool thing about it!
I'm surprised people have managed to port Clojure to so many platforms. Seems like a ton of work! :)

From what I understand the vanilla JVM implementation isn't built around a small core. So it's not like porting a Scheme. All the data structures and what-not are written with Java (not a criticism, it's great for performance and interop)

But wouldn't it make more sense to first rewrite Clojure itself in some small/minimal scheme-y subset of Clojure - and then port that subset to Rust/Dart whatever? (With some performance penalty)

I'm not super on top or Clojure's implementation, and people are prolly not doing this for a good reason - so I'm likely off base here somewhere
Also: try multiple shapes and brands of earplug. People have different ear canals and the level of comfort and effectiveness changes a lot.
Weren't some old (1xxx and 2xxx series) cards also reduced and promptly 'hacked' a few days later?
Yes. Even though I have literally a hundred notes on my wall for next projects to build. What if I finish the current one, and then finish all of those? Nothing left to do!
There is nothing worse than spending a heatwave in one of those valleys of concrete and glass we call "office towers".
Oh he was brilliantly playful with his musical cryptograms.

Also see:

* BACH Motif: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BACH_motif

The letters of his name, B, A, C, H encoding a melody.
Listening a lot is definitely what you should do. Doing nothing else for all of 3 months is rarely the solution though. When you really listen, you should identify some things that you can immediately help with. Share similar stories in your past and let the talker get a breakthrough and suggest a possible solution based on their knowledge - it won'tbe the exact same one but you can add value and perspective of fresh eyes. Other times the talker has intimate knowledge of the problem and possible solutions and all they've been waiting was for someone empowered to just let them try it.

As a leader your job is to enable those people. Then as time goes by you'll get your own knowledge of the problem space and can start taking some initiatives yourself too. But there's no need to literally do nothing for so long.

People often misunderstand "empower people " with "I'm a dunce and can't help anything for months on end" as if magically on month 3 you're now enlightened. Perhaps the interviewer was checking if you understood the nuances of these situations.
> - paint that has high emissivity in the IR window and high reflectivity in the rest of the spectrum.

paint is not free and needs replacement every few years. hardly a solution.
> I don't see how both can't be true.

Laurent Mottron believes that the original narrow view of autism had some genuine scientific value, but DSM-5 ASD has broadened the concept to the point that it has become scientifically meaningless. He presents the idea of a “spectrum” as essentially taking a wrong turn, and he argues the only way to get autism research back on track is to move away from the idea of a “spectrum” and return to a focus on “prototypical” autism

Lynn Waterhouse goes further - she believes that even the original narrower concept of “autism” is a failed scientific hypothesis, and the best way forward is to drop the concept of “autism” entirely (and related concepts such as ASD, Asperger’s and PDD-NOS), and look for alternative constructs to replace it with (her tentative proposal is “phenotypes of neurodevelopmental social impairment”)

Allen Frances has said that (in hindsight) he made a big mistake by agreeing to put Asperger’s in the DSM-IV. He says it was sold to him as a very rare disorder and he was shocked to see how frequently it came to be diagnosed. And he’s said that DSM-5 ASD is “even worse” than DSM-IV Asperger’s. (Like Mottron, unlike Waterhouse, he has no objection to DSM-III/IV autistic disorder; Mottron is less negative on DSM-IV Asperger’s than Frances, but I suspect there is actually less distance between them in practice on that issue than a cursory reading of their public statements might suggest.)

While they don’t agree with each other in all the details, what they all have in common, is a critical attitude towards contemporary mainstream diagnostic practices - maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but your response sounded to me like an attempt to harmonise those criticisms away

> I'd generally say that having more awareness of how people deviate from neurotpicallity is a good thing.

I think “neurotypicality” is a myth. Nobody is “neurotypical”. As the English child psychiatrist Sami Timimi says, “we are all, all humanity, neurodiverse”.
If you look back 150 years or so the "complex human civilization" which existed back then don't exist anymore. Maybe only in a museum or some buildings here or there.

We can now label that replacement by being "evolved" or "transformed" - but the way people thought back then, were dressed, behaved in a social environment, worked or lived is now totally different.

Some of those aspects are better now, some aspects got worse.

What I want to say is that we can already say good bye to the current way of life because it won't exist in 150 years anymore. Maybe we have found a way that people are not triggered anymore by advertisement to consume things because they are bored with their life.

And yes - a lot of things will hit us hard. Maybe we are going to solve it, maybe we will being forced to adapt. A lot of people will die, a lot of people will be born. If we can reach space, then the possibility of 10+ billion people is rather good. But even if we shrink to 500 million it won't be the end of complex human civilization.

And to be honest - are you proud of the current form of "complex human civilization" and would it be such a bad thing if it would being replace with something else?
> Most popular songs are composed by using mostly the same repeating chord patterns

https://youtu.be/oOlDewpCfZQ

Way too many to list.
Hello, creator of HyperUI here. Thanks for your feedback, however this is not something I have added or can replicate. Could it be an extension you're using that's causing it?
I suspect China was left out because it already had an important role in his previous novel "Red Moon".
They don't need it, as in, there are alternative approaches. But this approach is valid if they don't want to depend on a third party to authenticate government services.
I genuinely don't get your angle here.

The nuclear winter models and papers were explicitly designed to create that perception for political reasons. Starting with the outcome of your model, then designing your model to produce that outcome is not exactly fine science, and I don't understand why you're trying to act like that didn't happen or whatever it is you're trying here.
Yes, indicating that our consciousness is simply reacting to our choices and rationalizing them rather than making them in the first place.
Things like this always tend to give off a Streisand effect - I had never heard of House of Zana before this, and this article prompted me to look into it.
> saturated animal fat doesnt cause heart disease

Can you please tell me more? I would love for this to be true, is there evidence for this?
Profit without product leads straight to jail. Or if you can pivot fast towards a political carrer or a religious cult leader.

The goal should be marketshare. That's the true measure of future profitability because it means that you have a huge moat.

Tesla is a 20 year old company and in this timeframe it managed to gather 1.3% share of all the cars sold in 2021.

There is a reason why Porsches and Ferraris are just as common as Teslas on the road. Porsche and Ferraris might be slightly more expensive but they have been doing it for longer so it balances itself out

Tesla was founded in 2002. That's 20 years ago. During the same timeframe Microsoft managed 95% share of Computer OS, Google 90% share of search, Standard Oil 85% of oil production.

Hell, even Escobar managed to get 80% of the global cocaine market.
Yes, and i dont see anyway to change it. It will just get worse and we will do nothing.

I can see several million or even billion people die in the next 20 to 30 years.
This way of thinking is the future.. and it should IMO also be the future of transactional business logic ("backend dev") programming.

If there was a DB that got popular that focused on the following usecase and covered it really well I think half of the worlds backend programmers would soon be without a job due to the increased efficiency in the sector:

- Focus on persisting insert-only events and defining aggregates / materialized views (event sourcing); with all the power of SQL for queries.

- Allow DB transactions where the current state of DB is queried (to check if the operation is allowed) and if it is, insert the event.

Our team programs in this style already with a traditional SQL, it is doable but one does notice one is working against the grain a bit ("if the DB engine only had this thing implemented..."). Problem is all popular DBs started out in the opposite end: That you have mutable "objects" or "documents" or "records". That is IMO a worse way to program for nearly everything.

Programming language trends have shifted from mutable and object oriented to functional and immutable. This DB is an example of the same shift for async work. But we need the same shift for transactional and consistent ACID usecases too.

I recommend the paper "Out of the tar pit" for similar ideas (though without much focus on events as such).

(PS: Yes I know about GDPR and need to delete data. The above is not an exhaustive list of features, but a description about the primary workflow of the intended audience of the DB.)
There are much fewer homeless people than productive ones. Even if it costs the production of a whole person to support a homeless one to have a chance in life, isn't it worth it?
Voicee Smart AI glasses for deaf people
It's the new normal now.

People already think that the avarage temperature in the last 3 years was always like that
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Smart. The VPN is in-browser, so all data that microsoft gets through the windows store and apps can bypass the “VPN”
80-bit floating point have more special kinds of numbers: pseudo-subnormal, pseudo-NaNs, pseudo-infinities, and unnormals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_precision#Extended_pr...
One impediment is that Go cannot prevent the construction of invalid values, because every type has an implicit zero value:

type NonZeroInt struct {
v int
}

func (n NonZeroInt) Get() int {
return n.v
}

var n NonZeroInt // invalid!

You could of course validate on read:

func (n NonZeroInt) Get() (int, bool) {
if n.v == 0 {
return 0, false
}
return n.v
}

…but that's hardly good design.

You can improve on this marginally with an interface, because an interface's zero value is at least nil, which is, at least, explicit about whether there is a value or not. But it's not very elegant:

type NonZeroInt interface {
Get() int
}

type nonZeroInt struct {
v int
}

func (n nonZeroInt) Get() { return n.v }

func ToNonZeroInt(v int) (NonZeroInt, bool) {
if v == 0 {
return nil, false
}
return nonZeroInt{v}, true
}

The biggest problem with this approach is that it adds overhead. It can also force values to be heap-allocated, though I believe Go will still optimize single-word interface values to avoid this.

Note that since Go interfaces use structural typing, naming the method Get() can cause issues:

type AnyInt struct {
v int
}

func (n AnyInt) Get() int {
return n.v
}

Now AnyInt fulfills the NonZeroInt interface, which is of course not something we want. So for types like these, it's a good idea to name the method explicitly:

type NonZeroInt interface {
GetNonZero() int
}
Kernel test automation with LTP (2014)
> Population reduction is the most effective tool we actually have

Are you a visitor from 1900? That's exactly what people were saying 122 years ago. Prophecies of Doom are easy to make but appear to be hardly take in account a key factor: technological progress.
The surface finish of walls may also make a difference. Rough vs smooth and something like that doesn't fade as quick as paint itself.
I think a lot of people are missing the point.

Go look at the sourcecode. Look at how simple it is - anyone who has created a thread with java knows what's happening. With only minor tweaks, this means your pre-existing code can take advantage of this with, basically, no effort. And it retains all the debuggability of traditional java thread (I.e: a stack trace that makes sense!)

If you've spent any time at all dealing with the horrors of c# async/await (Why am I here? Oh, no idea) and it's doubling of your APIs to support function colouring - or, you've fought with the complexities of reactive solutions in the Java space -- often, frankly, in the name of "scalability" that will never be practically required -- this is a big deal.

You no longer have to worry about any of that.
20kbps should be sufficient for things like chat apps if you have the CPU power to actually process chat messages like that. Modern apps also require attachments and those will require more bandwidth, but for the core messaging infrastructure without backfilling a message history I think 20kbps should be sufficient. Chat apps are bursty, after all, leaving you with more than just the average connection speed in practice.
Sounds like you know much more about Nokia than Kia.
More precisely, this is not a feature of the terminals but of readline.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readline.3.html

All engineers working with the command line (even after 35 years) really, really should open and read

man bash

and

man readline
Reducing emissions may not have the effect you might think.

First, once the CO2 is in the atmosphere, it stays there for a very long time (centuries to millennia). So stopping emissions would not stop the heat.

Second, emissions also contain sulfer dioxide, which has a cooling effect through the formation of sulfate aerosols. These do not stay in the atmosphere for very long (only weeks). So in a scenario where these emissions stop, the immediate result would be a loss of that cooling effect and thus even more heat.
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_buckets = 1966050
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max = 7864200

or avoid conntrack entirely
20 watthours per liter of drinking water is not bad and it's way more efficient than the dehumidifiers. Looks like a great solution even at that slow production rate.
And i hope one day, we stop living in cities and only go there for culture, cinema, parties etc.

I think this would help with keeping rent down! /s
> people still don't like using public transport

Because most public transport sucks, is unreliable, only works at certain hours, is dirty, unsafe, and covers only a small ridiculous amount of space limited to key cities. No wonder.

The pandemic will only make public transport less desirable as well.
Also I think this needs to be deployed an large scale. It uses passive radiative cooling http://skycoolsystems.com/
Any actively maintained codebase always devolves into crap. Scopes change, technology shifts, bugs patched; code quality monotonically declines as you trend away from the assumptions the program was written with.

No amount of rigor and discipline can stop this trend. If you truly care about high code quality, design your programs to be small and modular, and redesign them when assumptions change instead of repeatedly patching them.

Rewriting is often unsuccessful as well, though. So practically speaking: best get used to the smell.
A thing I find interesting is that autopsies are finding that folks with tattoos end up with stained lymph nodes as the tattoo ink gets spread through the lymphatic system.

As tattoos have become hugely popular in the last couple decades I wonder if we’ll start seeing more health problems associated with the chemicals used in inks.
>who got a free instructional package from the IRS on how to fill out taxes

The IRS used to mail this to every household who sent them a paper form last year.
At 50 I have realised that life is about balance. Read, walk, cook, go out with family/friends, work. I imagine too much reading or working are the biggest crimes from this list.
Hah was about to comment this very thing. Probably won't be as destructive as the one in the book yet this time, but give it a few years and it's geoengineering time.
How do you mean? Why do you say the fractional reserve bit is irrelevant?
The climate effect would extend far beyond India's borders, isn't it a given that more developed countries wouldn't "let" India do it? Of course, I don't expect they will apply the same objections to themselves when it becomes domestically advantageous to geoengineer the climate.
Where I live in semi-rural Maine, probably 90+% of the houses are on private roads on private land. If they weren't listed as routes in map services nobody would be able to find us.
The brain's lymphatic system was confirmed to exist only recently, in 2017.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/10/scientist...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190724133649.h...
Europeans are not the good guys in this. Yes we care about the environment but only IN OUR OWN BACKYARD. All the evil and polluting industries have been given a bag of cash to move.
I don't understand what point you're trying to make, so... not really transparent.
I get these at my center of vision when I focus close (less than half a meter) for a few minutes. They're annoying because I can't do work that requires me to look very close for too long, but seem to have no other symptom, and no doctor has figured out what they are.
> - paint that has high emissivity in the IR window and high reflectivity in the rest of the spectrum.

Does such thing exist?

And, doesn't high emissivity in the IR mean high IR absorption as well ?
Russian and hopefully German, but to be honest I've been saying that to myself for the last ~10 years at least.
I've heard people complaining on this site about streaming sites having or not having particular indie and obscure artists. They usually complain about YouTube making videos in playlists disappear as well.
This is something that I have never thought of. Intriguing.
Yeah it gets monotonous after a while, but the first third of the book or so is very good.
After waiting for async in Django for the last 5 years (yes, I know about the 4.1 announcement, no, it’s not there yet) and a general dislike of DRF over a built in REST solution, I’ve started looking at Elixir and Phoenix on the backend.
Somehow this has been lost over the years. I can especially see this in Zürich Switzerland where new office buildings being built are awful and there seems little thinking about temperature. Everything is managed by complex air systems to move air from one area to the other.

On the other hand you go into a 200+ year old building and you notice it's cool in summer although there is no air conditioning. The building is positioned in such a way that it stays cool for the most of the day, the walls and windows are placed to optimized for this. It's not 100% but if you added a cooling system you would have a perfect setup.

We rely to much on technology to build these ugly boxes instead of also considering the building shape and position itself.
Can Amazon Survive ONDC in India?
Taming the environment is proving to be bad, isn't it?
When holding the last click of the sequence multiple words/paragraphs can be selected. In some editors quad-click selects all.

In code-editors tripple selects a line (hold to select multiple). When moving/deleting lines this is much more semantically clean (and faster) than manually dragging from the previous line's line end to the next lines last character before the line end.
Can you recommend other communities more aligned with the original HN guidelines?
> this should be a point of crossover for the (populist) left and the right

There are people who are trying to bridge that divide. I recommend Breaking Points and the whole ecosystem they're trying to build around themselves.
Hacker News removes the URL query from submissions. Here's the "friend link" to bypass the paywall: https://sebastiancarlos.medium.com/austria-buys-javascript-f...