skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My quick google says it's 2.5% of carbon emissions (for both passengers and cargo).

If we add a carbon tax, do you consider the prime benefit to be the reduction in demand (if it means 20% less air travel, that's .5% total global carbon emissions reduction)

Or do you feel like the prime benefit is to spur/incentivize more carbon neutral strategies (like electric aircraft?)?

Or, do you feel like the primary benefit would be the "offsets" (like protecting trees, carbon capture technology, etc)

I see a lot of talk about reducing carbon emissions, but it seems like there are a lot of things a "carbon tax" could change, and I feel like deciding on what one of those is the primary benefit is a harder problem than leveraging the tax in the first place.
Can you elaborate on this “genuine systemic racism” and on who you feel is perpetrating it?
Oldest Search is a custom google search that specifically targets the oldest entries available. I'm always curious about the first entries for certain data on the internet, it's a valuable perspective builder.

I personally like news articles that have been digitized that were written in the pre-internet era. Unfortunately some results don't always work well because pages have been dated incorrectly. For example, searching "Covid" shows recent results.

I launch new projects like this daily: small tools to increase human agency. I'm also very open to suggestions to improve!
I asked below but which property of linearizability is missing here? Is it the way it handles concurrent writes?
iCloud messaging?
Right, hasn't the ACLU always been a libertarian organization?
Dither [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither
I don't doubt that. But which Linux distributions would support it? Red Hat I am sure. Perhaps OpenSuse. But any others?
Frankenlog – Bullet Journaling
If you have a VR headset, VTOL VR is amazing. All the controls you interact with by reaching out and flipping toggles. The graphics are good enough. You get three aircraft with the base game and there's a DLC available that adds an AH64 analogue.

The complexity of the game hits a sweet spot for me. To get into the air you have to go through some startup steps (maybe 8, most of which involve hitting "power" buttons). There is some light air traffic control simulation that you can interact with (or just take off yolo style). Mission design is diverse and there are a decent number of fan made missions.

The initial tutorial missions do a good job getting you up in the air, after that you benefit from watching some youtube tutorials because each weapon system and aircraft have their own unique features.
That looks pretty cool, but as most/all DBMSs come with a TUI utility*, what is the advantage?

*(psql, sqlplus, isql, etc....)
It's not the first time, though, look at McCarthyism. We mostly bounced back from that, we'll probably do the same this time.
2006 or 2007 (I forget which exact year) Mac-mini-server guy checking in. Sorry, just felt like bragging about an old computer. It had spinning disks, replaced with 2 SSDs.

Gifted to my dad 5+ years ago, he refuses to replace.

Anecdote: He thought it would be a great idea to clean up certain ports when I gave the mini to him, sprayed WD40 liberally. Then it was all wet and I suggested he put it under (2 ft away) a 60W bulb overnight. He's, well, my dad... So he placed a 100W bulb right next to it and forgot about it for an evening. The backpanel was black plastic and it melted into the mainboard. This thing refused to die, and will probably outlive all of us. Anything Apple post 2012 is yet another story at least for me.

Edit: still running, windows 10, 2 monitors
Microservices are not to scale organization even if some organizations used them in this way. There is a big problem with this way of scaling. The sense ownership becomes the sense of defend your castle (team's microservice code) from invasion (external developer that are trying to add features or fix bugs).

Microservices were also presented as a solution for encapsulation. But if you cannot write good encapsulated code in a monolith, what makes you think microservices are the answer? http://www.codingthearchitecture.com/2014/07/06/distributed_...

Microservices (or just services) are the solution of having more bandwidth for a set of features without having to more of everything else and preventing some part of the code to influence negatively some others.
This might be true, but only if you stay on the "beaten path". If you do anything they don't intend you to do with these devices it ends up being a massive pain and you often just end up getting hit with the ol' "you're holding it wrong".
Ya'll are talking past each other. Since I made the comment, I will define my terms more precisely. In 2-3 years someone who consistently invests a fixed portion of their earnings/assets into a weighted vehicle/basket will be enjoying an appreciating net worth. I'm not claiming to be able to call the bottom, but I'm also not measuring "recovering" as peak-to-peak. Peak to peak would be past-tense "recovered".
lies. not specifying -e displays an error message:

% bzip3 -e -j 6 -b 50 corpus/calgary.tar
% bzip3 -j 6 -b 50 corpus/calgary.tar
bzip3 - A better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2.
Copyright (C) by Kamila Szewczyk, 2022. Licensed under the terms of GPLv3.
Usage: bzip3 [-e/-d/-t/-c] [-b block_size] input output
Operations:
-e: encode
-d: decode
-t: test
Extra flags:
-c: force reading/writing from standard streams
-b N: set block size in MiB
-j N: set the amount of parallel threads

you can use bzip3 as a filter:

% cat corpus/calgary.tar | bzip3 -b 10 -e -c | wc -c
807959

and using "-j6" is simply being unable to read the help page.
Raycast. Alfred but a million times more.

https://www.raycast.com
That would make the iPod more of an "iPad micro".
I used to feel far more optimistic about the internet. Today I see the social aspects of it as a net negative; Social media in general is a cesspool, user privacy means nothing to the big internet players, ads and tracking are absolutely pervasive, and the quality of online discourse has been on a steep downward trajectory for the better part of a decade.
https://www.oclugo.com/our-products/chlorate-candles/

This provides accurate info on specifications and the details about these candles/devices from a different manufacturer. Including % of particulates.
It was hardly a surprise, though. They must have known about the bells before they bought the property.
Thank you for taking time to explain the problem.
ACLU has also been campaigning against San Francisco Prop H (ballot measure to recall DA). Seems way out of their wheelhouse.

https://www.aclunc.org/norecall
> "I like it. iTunes, for those that haven't used a Mac, is REALLY slick. It is a great UI and makes things really easy and intuitive."

This comment would read as sarcasm today.
The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now
It's an unforgettable 40 minutes. So lucky to have seen it on the big screen the first time I saw the film.
I have 2 rPIs. Run pi-hole, controller sw for my access points, some torrent stuff, a "NAS" aka shared USB drives and homebridge.

Not sure how I would do those in the cloud cheaper and as simply as this.
The 5 Minute Crafts channel and some other associated channels are infamous for this. A lot of them start out OK and once they have some numbers just shift to pumping out algorithm fodder.

Some are associated with large content factories that operate similar to Troll Farms.
Modern models can do few shot learning, and MuZero proved the ability to learn a game quickly using self-play.

They aren't human level yet in all tasks but we are getting demonstrably closer. I would spend more time studying what exists today and less time critiquing
> The mainstream media did a great job of outraging liberals because whenever trump said anything even remotely controversial, it was covered nonstop until he said the next thing.

To be fair, I bet you could measure the average interval of those events in hours.
This and the surrounding ecosystem was recently featured on an episode of The Changelog podcast. https://changelog.com/podcast/481
XML is too flexible for its own good. It's not hard to come up with a simple XML schema for basic data that's functionally equivalent to json, but there are probably a dozen different ways that you could structure the schema to achieve the same result. And of course with XML being XML, most people trying to make that "basic type" schema would probably end up throwing in extra metadata, events, or things of that nature.
A trademark changes the situation in every aspect. If your code is getting big, famous, and needs its name and likeness (e.g. Firefox), you get a trademark, and your derivatives shall not use the name. It's simple and clear.

When I quickly looked, bzip2 didn't have a trademark, and I assumed the developer don't care.

It's same for me. If I care, I'd trademark it, and prevent people from using it. If I'm giving the name away, I'd not trademark it. It's plain and simple.
three.js[1], a webgl rendering library. there is also a react wrapper called react-three-fiber[2] which is making a splash.

1. https://threejs.org/

2. https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber
No, the phrase "controlled opposition" implies that they're for these ideals, and take up losing cases against them as a means of advancing them.

It's not very plausible, but it's a theory :)

For example, if I—a dyed-in-the-wool free speech advocate—bring a weak case against someone who wrote something unpopular, I can control the opposition within the case and ensure that I lose (and therefore my ideals are upheld).

Again, not very plausible with respect to the ACLU's drift, but that's what parent seems to be suggesting as one of the possibilities.
It sounds like we have different experiences due to the local/regional availability of physicians.

Certain areas of the US, particularly many big cities have a plethora of physicians and active competition between them.
> The average fast food franchise, convenient store averages about $70K a year.

Where can I find industry stats to explore this assertion?
All the comments lamenting the "end of the iPod" are premature IMO.

Give it a maximum of 5 years, and there'll be some social trend to offer an "minimally online" device to help you disconnect better from your overwhelming digital firehose in the interest of "wellbeing", and some new iPod device will come back.

The 2020's equivalent of the iPod shuffle - deliberately feature limited for a very specific market.
You are getting downvoted but I wonder why. It seems quite plausible what you are suggesting.
I think it's more than just the political class. It seems like the entirety of american culture revolves around the idea that everyone should want to get rich by any means necessary.
Debate is dead, replaced by the echo chamber. Sadly, the ACLU has adapted to this.
Agree with this - that fundraise treadmill is brutal abyss to live in.
"millions in revenue and a team of over 20" are not "Middle class"...
I can speak about Hasura; I work there :)

Hasura connects to databases and all your other APIs to give a unified GraphQL API (and REST API, if you configure it).

This takes care of your CRUD APIs portion of building your app. With declarative Access Control Rules, you get powerful Authorization. IMO, these two should take care of 70% of your application code that you typically end up writing. The remaining will be custom business logic that you can write in any language or framework of choice and connect it to Hasura.

There’s of course more with the cloud offering to give you caching, rate limiting and monitoring in production. Hasura doesn’t host your database, it just needs the db connection string to get started.
Omega-3 gets me a little 'wired' sometimes. It's a powerful nootropic. My brain fires on all cylinders because it's now in an optimal state and primed for solving problems. This is generally good, but also sort of annoying since sometimes I just want to chill out and not do anything productive for a day. Otherwise: take it, but avoid taking it, if problem solving is not on the plate.
Two obvious reasons - 1) the market cap of all cryptocurrencies (prior to the ongoing crash) was only around $2-3T. And 2) there’s relatively little leverage in cryptocurrency at this point (compared to Wall St prior to GFC).

Tiny market cap + comparatively low leverage = no systemic risk in the same league as the banking system leading up to the GFC.

This is not so difficult to see or understand that you need some authority to claim it to believe it. $RANDOM_INTERNET_COMMENTER is sufficient. Easily verifiable.

There’s also actual empirical evidence - Bitcoin has lost 50%+ of its value five times now (counting the most recent crash), a massive loss. But it doesn’t collapse the entire global economy and require trillions in govt and Fed bailouts to prevent the end of civilization. Even in this current crash with stablecoins like UST failing, it won’t collapse the entire economy or require bailouts.

Whatever systemic risk there is in cryptocurrency right now is not remotely in the same league as in the banking system.
> This will require them to monitor and scan the communications of citizens en masse – even if they are still securely encrypted end-to-end so far.

how does this work though? Or do they want to force communication services to have backdoor into their encryption technology?
I laughed. but it made me think, I am not sure about that, have you seen the surprising amount of dust that can stick to a computer fan's blades.
Ah the classic "But think of the children" appeal...

Anybody know how this will impact proton?
The investment terms would be terrible; monopoly math is what makes early stage risk worth it. Alternatively, VC underwriting would need to get 100x better. (Which such a disruption IMO is entirely feasible by a new younger/smarter cohort of investors)
It's a small but crucial part of a wider class war, which is beyond belief in its scale and sheer evil.

"Vote blue no matter who" isn't gonna get us out of this one, and neither is donating to the ACLU and NPR.
I once pitched a fairly well-known Bay Area VC in 2015. We were looking to raise a $2.5M Seed round. The VC looked at me through his steepled fingers and said: "This is great. I'm just trying to figure out if you're a $100M business or a $1B business..."

And while it was flattering to be considered either, there was only one business they were going to invest in.

I understand the mechanics involved in some of these funds and the myriad of considerations that go into their investment theses, but it was also sad and frustrating that a lowly "$100M business" (with 4.5M registered users, mind you) couldn't get funded.

Don't hear me bemoaning the fact that we didn't get funded or that we somehow didn't receive our due. I'm just adding my experience with the gap that Neil is citing. And just like in broader societal terms, I think a healthy startup "Middle Class" would make for a healthier overall economy.
Is there any way to attach 4-6 SATA drives over Thunderbolt? One of my main uses for a home server is as a file share, for both device backups but also for photos etc. I’m still running a Gen 8 HP MicroServer because nothing since has really come close in terms of cost and form factor.
This makes sense to me. They've basically bought into the idea of the Paradox of Tolerance.

That still doesn't explain why they are involved with the Heard/Depp case. Or why they were supporting Stacey Abrams' campaign or campaigning against Brett Kavanaugh.
Pretty sure Cell Phones in the US are still able to call 911 even without a sim card or an active plan.

So a sim-less phone would still allow for an emergency call in that sense.
All modern map apps are completely terrible. Most of the time Apple maps doesn't draw any labels. The actual map is almost purely decorative.
It's it possible to have sunscreen that is sweat-resistant and non-greasy?
The F-19 was what people speculated the rumored "stealth fighter" would be named. There had been rumors for years, but the public didn't see it for the first time until 1988.

In Tom Clancy's book Red Storm Rising, about a hypothetical Third World War in Europe, he conceives of it as something like the F-35 ended up becoming -- a stealthy multirole aircraft (fighter-bomber). They called it the "F-19 Frisbee". The 19 comes from the fact that the previous fighter designation was for the F-18 Hornet.
I agree.

But in a hypothetical where, all things held equal, it's you verses someone else up for promotion, and they're friendlier with the decision-maker, they'll be the one receiving it.
Is that why they were called flash drives?
How do you frame the episode where they sell defamation services in exchange for donations, a sort of extortion scheme?
There's always crypto...

However the SEC recently increased its "Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit" staff from 30 to 50. Hopefully they'll bring the hammer down on token offerings with enough force to scare the big VCs away, at least.
That’s my point though, if you want to use SQLite in production / with Litestream, you’re comparing two databases that need servers to function just implemented quite differently.

In the same vein as your article, it seems very fair to say that if the Litestream server went down in production you’d have a broken app for most use cases within a few minutes. So in practical effect, the server of Litestream is about as essential.
This is correct. A person in a hermetically sealed suit will die of CO2 poisoning a long time before Oxygen deprivation. However in most mines, they will engineer gas permeability so that CO2 and other poisonous gasses can seep to areas with lower concentrations and out of the mine. Coal mines seem to be particularly bad with regards to permeability.

In this case, an Oxygen candle _MAY_ be enough to keep people alive. However, why O2 tanks would need scrubbers and candles wouldn't doesn't make any sense.

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ace/2018/3976505/

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/mining/works/coversheet1621.html
Digital Identity Reloaded
No, the software's a problem in this case too.
Seconded. Matt Levine's column is informed, informative, witty, and entertaining.
thin.dev
Realtime Bandwidth - $2 per GB

yes please, sign me up !!! /s
I don't understand who wants this. does any of their actual constituency want it? Or is it literally just the actual elected officials getting power hungry?

Stuff like abortion, etc where I don't really understand the other side. I've at least met real people who are pro life.

I've never met the people who want these clownish surveillance things but they keep coming up anyways.
EIDAS 2.0: How Europe Can Define the Digital Identity Blueprint for the World
Someone once asked the Duke of Westminster for career advice: “Make sure they have an ancestor who was a very close friend of William the Conqueror.” At least he was honest.
A fairly short piece that makes the same points that have been made a million times about the ACLU’s apparent changes, using the typical examples of the group defending the freedom of assembly rights of neo-nazis during the 1970s (other articles often mention they were well known for simultaneously defending the same rights for communists). The 2021 NYT article linked within is a more interesting read.

What I’d be curious to see on this topic is a review of what the ACLU was up to during the 90s and 00s, when anti war and environmental activism were the biggest targets for suppression, and privacy and LGBT rights became major issues. Would people today see the ACLU’s activity in those periods as still too focused on “partisan” causes, or is this really a post-Trump phenomenon?
Simple proposal then… we the academic paper consuming community need to start considering Elsevier journals as not prestigious. If you’re involved in any academic hiring then you are absolutely ducking responsible for perpetuating their power if you don’t push back however you can on the assumption that these journals are somehow more prestigious based entirely on their past history.

It won’t happen overnight but unless we change the assumption that these journals are special then we will never truly take back the power from Elsevier.
CoCITe-Coordinating Changes in Text
If you ramp up the compression level on zstd, does it get smaller than bzip3 before it gets to the point of taking more time?
Because freedom of speech has never been quite what it says. It is basically only immunity from consequences for the rich and powerful. Only they're allowed to have substantive influential speech without consequences, and only they are allowed to reclassify bribery as "speech".

Anybody not in that set saying something the rich and powerful don't agree with gets sued into oblivion and/or gets their soap box taken away.

All that is happening is that people want everyone to live by the same rules. Either nobody has consequences or everybody can have the soapbox taken away if the general public doesn't agree with them.

Billionaires have been too blatant with media manipulation for everyone else to be OK with the rules as they are.

BTW I'd also note that "free speech" American style is almost like a religion, you can't argue against it. I'd just note that no other country Europe (or the world) subscribes to this absolutist version of free speech. So it is reasonable that questions ensue questioning how great this "free speech" really is. Is lying by corporations really speech?
> No version control of course.

This is an automatic fail for an employer. In interviews I ask, if it comes up I interrupt the discussion, verify, and if they truly develop without valid source control/revision control - I end the interview and inform the recruiter NFW and why.
Analogy is in programming itself - divide up a program into modules that each have a very clearly defined interface. Then people can work in parallel on it. I know everybody agrees with this, and it is stupidly obvious. But time after time, I see source file after source file importing (or #include'ing) every other module in the project. A pull request to fix a problem affects 10 files instead of one.

It seems to me that people are simply terrible at modularizing code. (Including me.) I've seen this problem far more often than not, in every organization I've worked with, for my entire career.

Just the other day I worked on a function that did some Windows API calls for file I/O, allocated a bunch of memory, and processed the file contents. I split it up so the code that needed the Windows API did just that - it didn't allocate any memory, and the processing was done with a callback.

That meant the Windows API accessing code didn't need to import anything from the rest of the program, and the rest didn't need to import the Windows API.

(There are some success stories. The popularization of generic algorithms and ranges (or iterators) has been a big improvement. And the use of global variables has become frowned upon.)
You could program the clients to look for blacklisted URLs or picture hashes or whatever and still have end to end encryption I guess. Would defeat the point though and the eavesdropping could just aswell be on the server with no end to end encryption.
Then I'll have to say that most get OOP very wrong, for example any time an application crashes for any reason.
There is no law that prevents 51% of the node operators from forking the Bitcoin code. Even if there was, scarcity isn't the same thing as value. My kids art work is incredibly scarce compared to Bitcoin. I can copyright it so that no one can copy the only original that I own. But that doesn't mean it is going to go up in value.
Spread is just what the market demands to get paid for taking the risk. Higher volatility can also mean way higher volume.