skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sequestration is an even bigger moonshot than storage. Most of the "carbon offsets" are in the form of payment in exchange for other countries to agree not to cut down forests. It isn't actually removing carbon from the atmosphere.

Actually removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is the stuff of scientists and PR moves. Nobody has a serious plan to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at relevant scales. The only example I can find would capture only 900 tons of CO2 per year.

We'd need to build 4 nuclear plants for each one that exists in the US to have a 100% nuclear electrical grid. It's something that we've done before, we would reach this goal early if we built plants at the same place we did in the 1960s and 1970s. This doesn't rely on a moonshot succeeding.

Renewables rely on a storage breakthrough or a sequestration breakthrough (but if we have the latter we could just keep using fossil fuels anyway). Relying on any kind of breakthrough yielding a 1,000x improvement is very reckless. You can insist until your lips turn blue that we just need to some type of electrolysis invention of another breakthrough of thermal storage and it's surely right around the corner. But until storage or sequestration is on the market, there's no real plan just hope that some breakthrough will happen.

1. https://www.climatecentral.org/news/first-commercial-co2-cap...
I used to work for a company in the UK and live in the west coast. It’s mildly challenging but my experience was if you were competent to plan out your day’s work you’d be fine.

If you ran into a show-stopper, capture it and being it up in your morning standup. They were all still in the office for at least a couple of hours when we got in.
Thanks for sharing that, and I totally agree that the joy felt can be immense!
There's no stealing if all parties consent. If you don't consent, convince others and vote better. Why blame finance when house representatives dont even understand they shouldnt insider trade, something even I, a "stealing automation engineer" would never even think of ?
Youth is wasted on the young, as they say.
How does tax laws work in this case? When I was working from Mexico, I had to come back every six months to avoid local income tax.
Add to this the fact that SF has deteriorated a great deal as a city since the start of the pandemic. The loss of downtown office worker revenue has decimated local shops and restaurants. It will take time for things to adjust to the new reality that workers just aren’t going back to how things were.
In battle, all weapons compare. Now, who picked the gun and who picked the knife?
But the users may be robots?
Ok sure, but that's far from the primary concern here. I'm thinking of things like this:

https://tamararubin.com/2021/09/yellow-vintage-fiesta-plate-...

..which is mad of approximately 50% lead, and certainly no accident of nature.

And even if it were to occur naturally, that wouldn't make it any less hazardous.
> The problem with feeds is that they render in the browser like a bunch of code

This wasn't always the case.
Why are we allowing emergency data requests in ANY case? If something is truly life or death, surely a judge won't mind being woken up at 3am if there's a kidnapping or imminent threat.

If your security model is "the underfunded police department in rural Brazil must secure their emails", you are absolutely screwing your users and don't give a damn about their privacy.

Valid court order or no data. This is the only way.
Yes, monetary damages for breach of contract, which likely doesn’t cover disassembly and any vehicle damage no matter how small that may result. Plus Compensatory damages for having to pay a Tesla shop to certify it was put back together correctly. As well punitive damages for fraud by the renter
Any time I imagine that some past decade must have been simpler times, I think about it a little bit more and realize that it was the height of the cold war, or people were suffering from some disease that now has proper treatment, or it took months to travel to the other side of a continent.
> I feel like this basic intuition is behind every "links to cognitive abilities" study I've ever seen

I’ve had this impression as well
That's because even remote jobs are US/Canada only.
The short answer is no, they haven't. Payroll for something like this is a huge pain in the ass if you're not at this kind of scale. You end up just hiring people as contractors, which has its own set of problems (namely the fact that you can't just do that because it's easier, they have to actually be contractors and not employees).
I know it sounds obvious. But if you want to talk to users, just build a little feedback mechanism to talk with users.

Write 10-30 random prompts: “what do you hate about this page”, “what do you love about this app”, “what do you wish you could do”, etc. show them the prompt and log a free form response. Simple as. We’re talking a few hours of work.

Also, find your most engaged users via your analytics and email them to do a video interview to understand how they use the product. Try to find overlaps between them that you can use to target new customers.
Bigass thread from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31135972
The usual method is to have strategically placed "weak" references.
Sometimes I am a contractor.

Sometimes I am a W2.

I am a contractor right now.

Because the company is new.

But I will probably be W2 one day very soon

Possibly tomorrow. Or by the next cheesey moon.

As to how?

I build "stuff." Then I show "stuff" to them.

Them being people, them who run companies small and really big.

It takes me to new jobs. Or brings in a gig.

I message everyone on LinkedIn. And at hackathons too.

And meetups, and greetups, and gatherings old and new.

Anywhere I can think of, reach out to people in the Bay,

and those NFT'd out weirdos down in L.A.

Sometimes directly in Frisco, and that one guy at Cisco.

And then them say "can you come here and work for us to build 'stuff?'"

And we talk about fun things as I walk through the code.

And sometimes I find out, in the course of the day,

they are really building "it" which I've already before built,

and I say "no, not interested" and we go on our way.

Other times it turns out they want to build "it+that"

but they don't know how to build "it"

but do know a world about that "that"

And somewhiles it is the other way round

They've got the shape of the problem

But not the geometrical bound

Sometimes the glue that bonds "it" and "that" doesn't work

and I come up with some new formula for the glue that will stick

And somewhiles it don't pay well, but it's the problem I pick,

My career might seem strange to them that build "it"

But I'm happy for me, because don't I give a shit

I've talked with entrepreneurs, they'll say

"We're planning on send a Musk to the Moon"

But he asks always impatiently 'will it be soon?'"

Turns out they're just building yet another crap app

I'm always happiest when stacking "that" on to "it"

Sometimes I'll add one, five or eleven to see what will fit

There's an upper, upper limit of the stacked up "that"

Sometimes it's nine, more likely sometimes its four,

But if we just keep stacking, eventually I'll look for the door

I once had a project where they'd divided "it" by zero

And I got to fix "it", and look like the hero

I'll go to my grave, working each day

And my last words will be "I had fucking fun, I say!"
It'll take a long time (likely never, for small companies) for more companies to be international-friendly, for communications reasons for non-English-native-languages nearby countries, for HR/tax/legal compliance overhead reasons even for Canada, and for those plus time zone headaches for others.

If you really want to do it with less paperwork as a US company, you can get around the tax headaches even today, hiring through some outsourcing staffing firms. Lots of those in Latin America now. Quite a bit cheaper. Still a bit of a communication hassle. But that hard barrier of not being employed directly keeps things at arms length in terms of affecting the overall salary market.
Yeah, the perseverance “muscle” must be trained
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It's been a long time since I've seen a product page for a hardware product that had approximately zero tech specs listed anywhere.

What's the battery life? What's the image quality? etc.
I read a car and driver study / survey / analysis thing a few (maybe 10) years ago and it determined overall the most enjoyable car to drive was an 89-92 Nissan Maxima.

It was sold under the special title "4DSC" Four Door Sports Car, basically a sedan version of the original 300ZX, same motor and internals.

It of course lacked some speed but this wasn't about racing but normal street driving, plenty fast for that, great suspension, built in hands free cellular, heads up display. Really was a marvel and it was compared against all cars up until the time of the article.

I think a Porsche or Acura TSX was #2.
This looks really similar to Zero-K (https://zero-k.info/), would you mind giving a quick list of key differentiators?
Been contributing each month for the last year or so. Every release confirms to me that this is money well spent. currently learning rust so that I can contribute myself. eventually. thankyou for all the hard work!
It depends on scale. I moved during my last job, post-COVID, and the HR department has to make sure the state I was moving to was approved. If not, I was going to have to switch to contracting (fewer hours, fewer employer/employee type rules, more rigidly defined tasks, etc.) because the cost of setting up payroll and taxation in another state was too onerous for just one person, even at the higher levels of the development staff.
There's a version of this that does not break Rule 1 and could be briefly summarized as "read the code"
Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads
Nice. I would love to have a "ratios" tab just for the kicks, NP ratio, gp, stock turnover, working capital turnover, income tax paid ratio, earnings, pbt ratio, pat ratio, depreciation to sales.

That said, as someone who makes financial statements for a living, there is a lot of room for "adjustment" if you are determined and even to an extent that while preparing fs, we can just decide if we want to pay less income tax so we can increase expenses by reducing cash and leave the entries to be made by management later just to secure our records
Are you missing the fundamental fact that animals are sentient creatures with feelings, etc? Do you only refrain from harming other humans because of the potential social and legal consequences attendant thereto? Otherwise, I'm not sure what the "logical" reason for not harming them are either.

TBH, your post comes across as rather a bit...robotic, to put it generously.

In any event, I have a paper being forthcoming in the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law in a couple weeks on animal rights under Jewish and Islamic Law as compared to American law. Too bad it's not published yet, or I could plug myself here lol
It's actually pretty economical to have a second home in Latin America, with copies of all your creature comforts there. Kids get multicultural friends, new language, and much wider perspective on the world.
And then another company will pop up and pay more.

The thing is, we're used to the high pay now. Cut that and you're gonna cut efficiency. It's going to be hard to justify it.

Create bad will with your money makers good luck getting anywhere realistically.
And will now pay even more to the local counties and state coffers and will still end up maintaining the roads and property to their standards.
There actually was a Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine, but it ceased publication in 2017.
You Should Compile Your Python and Here’s Why
Rust has stopped using jemalloc by default, because often it wasn't noticeably faster, but users did mind additional size it added to executables.
Being incumbent might be more advantageous than being attractive. You would have to test non incumbent more attractive vs non incumbent less attractive.
I can't imagine anyone kind saying "I think I am kind, but not nice."
It's just generally easier to do more things well/professionally when you're well off and have the time to work on it or hire someone to do it.

It's similar to the issues with standardized testing in schools. If your parents are wealthy and able to get you better test prep or tutoring, you'll do better on the test, and likely be actually more academically successful aside from it. It doesn't mean that one should totally ignore that signal, but it does confound it if you're trying to be fair about things in a more holistic sense.

I think of it in tech as being acutely similar to folks who complain about recruiters who care a lot about your side projects or OSS contributions. If you're rich and successful, you have more time for those sorts of things than someone who's less well off and taking care of their family or such outside of work. That doesn't mean that someone who maintains a major OSS project isn't likely a good engineer, but that you should understand that not everyone who is a good engineer can casually do a second job on the side.
Or you literally just use a PEO and let them handle it for you. It's not that hard.
I've noticed a similar thing with popular reporting of "medical mysteries". Authors tend to wait until the end of the article for the big reveal of the diagnosis. As opposed to the actual medical case reports they're usually basing the story on which will be titled "An unusual case of X syndrome" or something similar. So you know right off the bat if it's even a case you're interested in reading about.
The year tags can and do go on anything, they're more for the readers than as some sort of commentary on the timeliness or lack thereof of the content. I think lots of people just find them handy to easily distinguish recent from not-so-recent stuff, as a very basic use case.
Your company could've solved this with using a solution from ADP, gusto, rippling, and the shit ton of other companies to do this.
Heartbreaking to be discriminated against as a result of largely immutable characteristics but there are other groups abused with impunity as well. For example, unintelligent people who are not obviously disabled. Or people with speech defects that are not readily considered disabilities. Even people with acne, rosacea, or eczema -- which is a medical issue and protected to some extent.
You pay the taxes from where you work.
The Twin Cities are tech bro approved?
Maybe you’re a beginner on Etsy or maybe you’re a seasoned veteran who’s been in the game for years
> international business was down a fair bit, both in profits and sales, This is something to watch as US sales are probably not a growth area anymore and bulls were watching this areas specifically for growth. Not only fail to grow here but to show a loss is concerning.

Unsurprising as Amazon in the US is basically Alibaba with a better returns policy.

If you don't gain a benefit from the returns policy, you might as well go directly to Alibaba.
I would print any emails and mention it to a superior. Especially if this is an MSP.
It's funny you start with "well intentioned drivel", and then proceed to assume the worst intentions in every statement, and critique them as such.
Pilot smoking cigarette caused 2016 EgyptAir crash: Report
Working remotely and working asynchronously are two very different things. COVID didn't necessitate asynchronous work by any stretch, so I think it will take some time for even the tech industry to move toward that. If for no other reason because it required much better communication skills than probably 80% of people have. A lot of developers, regardless of skill level, would not do very well in a truly asynchronous environment.
I wonder how this will change for the calculations of Ligma and the DN ratio.
If it’s true then they made some great music as a team
> I thought that Airbus makes the only airliners with no feedback when there are dual inputs applied

This factoid will not die on HN. Conflicting inputs on an Airbus are handled by averaging and an audible "DUAL INPUT" cockpit warning.[1]

In the case of AF447, the co-pilot used his "Priority Takeover" button which meant only his control inputs were in effect.

If you wanted to say there is no physical feedback, then you would be correct.

[1] https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/app/themes/mh_newsdesk/docume...
It's not your phrasing at all. Your phrasing was fine.

It was that you didn't assume good faith when reading. That doesn't add value with exception for scammers, charlatans, and thieves.
Erm, yeah. Pretty much anywhere with 100k+ people is at this point.
As an engineer I do hope that the global compensation level for good talent rises with all of this remote working. It seems to be already happening. Even in humble Vancouver, I hear of mobile developers being offered $320K. That was absolutely unheard of in 2019.
Your logic doesn't really track. People move from HCOL to LCOL, so LCOL becomes more expensive. Yet the HCOL areas continue to go up too?

Also why does public transit matter in a WFH/remote world? Seems to obviate it to a large degree, e.g. subway in NYC, which while used for many things, was majority used for commuting. It was losing large amounts of money even before the pandemic hit
Edit: I wrote out the comment below criticizing the efficiency of this device, when compared to reverse osmosis RO desalination (100x less efficient).

However, they’re not trying to be more efficient than RO devices, they’re trying to be more compact, portable, and avoid the need for filters.

They’re solving for a different problem than I was measuring them against.

In my race to criticize, I overlooked those key details.

I still think my comment is worth reading to learn about the efficiency differences but I guess that measurement is not important for the viability of this technology.

Original criticism below:
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I’m skeptical about how practical this actually is.

While it’s refreshing to see a drinking water solution that isn’t based on inefficient dehumidifier technology, this still seems impractical.

From the demonstration video, their portable ~50 watt solar panel took 30 minutes to get a few ounces of drinking water.

It looked like a cold winter day, so let’s be generous and assume the panel only produced 15 watts of power during those 30 minutes.

Let’s also be generous and say they got 5 ounces of water.

That means they produce 1 ounce of water for every 3 watts.

That’d be 333 ounces per kWh.

To put that into perspective, a desalination plant produces more than 100x that much.

Yes, there is lots of additional infrastructure to consider with a traditional desalination plant but It’s not like this solution wouldn’t require the same complexity to scale up.

I don’t remember the cost of dehumidifier drinking water “solutions” but I think this is slightly more efficient than those horrifically inefficient solutions.
It happened before, in living memory, it's hardly impossible. It gets easy to justify by employers when enough people lost their job that every job opening is flooded with candidates.

There are basically two schools of thought: the "software is eating the world" one says that requirements will continue to be more and more specialized, for every advance in tooling there will be advances in complexity we can tackle, and the size of the overall dev market will continue to grow in a way that makes it less likely to be as affected by another single thing like the dot-com bubble.

The other is that today's salaries are driven in large part by "fake money" (e.g. VC investment or internal speculative spending more than by revenue from paying customers) and that there will be a nasty correction when that stream dries up.

I don't know which is right.
Maybe they actually have more need to prove themselves since short peoples leadership gets challenged much more often? Why else would they feel greater need to prove themselves? It isn't like short peoples brains are wired differently.
Do you have an opinion about Project Loom?
I think tracing GC was added to CPython after about 15 years, so I guess RC was a general enough solution for it for quite a while. Even today CPython refuses to collect cycles with finalizers. Smalltalk also only used RC from 01971 to the early 01980s. I think Perl still only does RC. Swift apparently also only does RC. People programming in those languages just design their programs to not create cycles, or include a weak reference in the cycle somewhere, like for Observer kinds of things.

I'm not a fan of RC, myself. It's space-hungry, it creates unnecessary write traffic, it's unreliable (when you can have cycles), and it's slow. But there are lots of "not sound" and "not general" but "pragmatic" language implementations out there using it, without tracing. In practice, even.
Airnbnb is not in the downhill. Why the hate?
They had a very tough 2020, but after that it is all been looking better and better for them.
We are currently building a core dump based scheme to monitor crashes on our deployed devices. Devices use a different architecture than our development environments, and the deployed devices are often accessible only with limited bandwidth, so a live shell session can be more painful than waiting for the core dump to come back.
I don't see a counterargument here. "Microsoft did that". Yes, and they still lead the global market share for desktops and laptops. I would like to wager that most breaking API changes don't actually need to happen. If you look at the Win32 API they have some of the best forward thinking APIs that I've seen. That means you have a lot of weird stuff like having to pass the size of a the struct you're using to use a function, but it means that they can safely upgrade those functions without making a breaking change.

In an ideal world, you would think developers had learned how to make a stable API for an OS over the past 25 years. If that were true then we could nail down a stable API and have a well defined input and output, and then simply change the internals to make a non breaking change. I think backwards compatibility should be something developers prioritize, because it forces you to think about how to structure a program in a forward thinking manner and focus on clear requirements (easier said than done).

Anyways, I highly doubt windows would be the preferred gaming platform today if they didn't value this backwards compatibility. God knows that the OS sucks in so many areas. Most people would love to switch to something better, but the fact that windows makes it so easy to develop something and have it just work for 25 years clearly has a large impact on how many developers it attracts.

Put another way, who wants to develop for somebody that says "anything you make on my platform will be obsolete in 2-3 years?". And I can guarantee you, that mentality does not appeal to a lot of people.
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Well, competent legal representation wouldn't have been much help if you hadn't had some favorable law to call upon, so I suspect you may be wrong that "being in a protected category has never really helped me avoid discrimination".

As for the first part of your comment, I'd just like to ask: what is up with disadvantaged groups fighting one another about who's more disadvantaged?

I do agree about poverty; that's a big disadvantage and is often itself the foundation of another prejudice. That's another group that the law fails to protect.
> what’s the justification for paying less in e.g. London than USA

You mention it in the next sentence - the local labor market. UK developers earn a fraction of what US developers do. We can debate the root causes but it seems irrelevant why it's true, only whether or not it is true.

I'm not sure why cost of living should factor into comp at all. I can have a much higher COL than you, but if you bring more value to the company, and you can get better offers than I can, you should make more than me.