skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We did do that experiment once before. We grounded the entire US air fleet following 9/11.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2934513/empty-skies-after-911-set...

https://www.wired.com/2002/05/hot-on-the-contrails-of-weathe...

https://edition.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/08/07/contrails.cl...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dimming_...

> NARRATOR: For 15 years Travis had been researching an apparently obscure topic, whether the vapour trails left by aircraft were having a significant effect on the climate. In the aftermath of 9/11 the entire US fleet was grounded, and Travis finally had a chance to find out.

> ...

> DR DAVID TRAVIS: We found that the change in temperature range during those three days was just over one degrees C. And you have to realise that from a layman's perspective that doesn't sound like much, but from a climate perspective that is huge.

> NARRATOR: One degree in just three days no one had ever seen such a big climatic change happen so fast. This was a new kind of climate change. Scientists call it Global Dimming. Two years ago most of them had never even heard of it, yet now they believe it may mean all their predictions about the future of our climate could be wrong. The trail that would lead to the discovery of Global Dimming began 40 years ago, in Israel with the work of a young English immigrant called Gerry Stanhill. A trained biologist, Gerry got a job helping to design irrigation schemes. His task was to measure how strongly the sun shone over Israel.

The thing with contrails (and we can turn it up by running rich) is that we have seen that we can turn this on (and off) relatively fast (days).

--

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
For the Tacoma, you made a good decision. The auto in that thing is the single worst programmed automatic transmission I have ever encountered. But that doesn't just automatically apply to all OEM's. There are plenty of autos that are great & responsive. Fords 10 speeds are quite good.

And you only got rid of 1 of the dozens of computerized components in your drive train. Your engine, transfer case, rear differential, and hubs are all computerized
I read it, thanks. Do you know what proportion of young TikTok users are smearing crap on walls? Of course you don't. But you're quick to advocate for banning the entire app because of an outrageous story.

This sort of ban-happy moral panic has happened with comic books, rock and roll, video games, etc. It's a tale as old as the hills.
And even that might not last all that long either. I've heard they've financially taken a beating the last few years. Plus that is a giant lot of land, of a size that's becoming impossible to find in the bay area.
seven different types, twelve methods of cooking...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempeh

I've never had Tempeh, but I love tofu, edamame, natto and other soy products. This is definitely on my list to try and explore the many varieties.
Take formal action or don't, but public intimidation is a bizarre action for a government to take. We can't get them to regulate when there are rules, but when there aren't, and US diplomacy has decided to punish a country for some episode of disobedience, a media blitz of press releases.
I wish I had a clearer memory or record of this, but I think I’ve also ~100ms for browser cache retrieval on an SSD. Has anyone else observed this and have an explanation? A sibling comment points out that SSD read latency should be ~10ms at most so the limitation must be in the software?

OP mentioned specifically that “there have been bugs in Chromium with request prioritisation, where cached resources were delayed while the browser fetched higher priority requests over the network” and that “Chrome actively throttles requests, including those to cached resources, to reduce I/O contention”. I wonder if there are also other limitations with how browsers retrieve from cache.
25% of UK adults had internet access in 1999. Low compared to today (~95%), but still pretty high.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/275999/household-interne...
GCBD didn't nationalize Apple in PRC, it's data soverignty requirement same way TikTok was coerced/pressured to moved US data to Oracle US servers. Legal minutiae matterse less and less when outcomes consistently comparable. In terms of differing market environment, TikTok/Bytedance was one Trump EO away from being force sold to US companies (actual nationalization), which is more aggregious than PRC joint venture scheme that's at least upfront about requirements foreign companies operating in PRC. Apple didn't have to take GCBD deal, they wanted cloud business in PRC to keep selling iproducts. Meanwhile TikTok is bending backwards to follow US laws and still subject to various shenanigans according to changing admin whims. Functionally, it's not substantively different, US have alleged "better" laws, but also better lawfare to circumvent said laws.

IMO this is just reality of mediating "strategic" foreign companies operating domestically, especially from "adversarial" countries. Set legal compliance onerously high and hope they leave. Western platforms left PRC because they couldn't stomach the filtering requriements that every PRC company has to shoulder. And when they finally adopted improve moderation due to requirements/pressure in their host country, they tried to get back into the PRC market. Meanwhile TikTok is sticking around US because Douyin survived burdens of PRC regulatory environment so what's another difficult market. Both markets are difficult, TikTok just better at playing ball in such enviroments. FB/Google can't even control their own employees from sabotaging their return to PRC.
As I get it Carr haven't presented any hard evidence, instead linking to the open publications with various levels of research.

Privacy breaking apps must be thrown out. However, this mustn't be decided on the basis of hearsay.
Yeah, my understanding is a lot of Chinese laws are vague on purpose so that they can be interpreted to benefit companies the state likes, while punishing those the state does not like
This is really cool! Great work and thank you for sharing.

This seems to be the hot thing right now at museums.

They usually slap a headset on you, and have a simple "scene" tell a story and walk you through a few rooms and ideas. Just like your Picaso demo [1] except you can't control where you go.

Might make sense to focus a demo strictly around that sort of virtual tour timeline and reach out to a few folks in that space.

[1] https://www.virtualmaker.net/play?p=b31785d7-cdec-4acd-8d87-...
This seems like an overengineered, cost-ineffective solution compared to just building big white rafts in the ocean to raise Earth's albedo. Same end result with much less engineering challenge.
Don't understand this view. For a start clearing up the area to make it buildable cost somewhere in the region of £1bn. If you are harking back to a time when it was an undesirable wasteland I can't agree that that constitutes a better world.

Much of London complaining about gentrification is complaining that the postwar desolation of London was a good thing; because that's what they are "benefitting" from.
This does nothing for ocean acidification, nor the fundamental restrictions that decreasing O2 percentages have respiration tracheal respiration systems.
Instagram has been on an impressive decline for the past few years. It's a great example of how PMs and A/B testing can completely trash a product in pursuit of "increased metrics".
Huh, I tried it out. It seems like a neat proof of concept/prototype, but not much of a game of course. I'm sure someone is working on pairing it with more of a proper game system.
Since apparently no one is willing to read this excellent article, which even comes with fun sliders and charts...

> It turns out that Chrome actively throttles requests, including those to cached resources, to reduce I/O contention. This generally improves performance, but will mean that pages with a large number of cached resources will see a slower retrieval time for each resource.
> This seems like a poor reason to ban an application/website/whatever. Reminds me of elementary school drama. Find a legitimate and/or legal reason (e.g. the mass harvesting of biometric data, unbeknownst to the users, being fed into some opaque government-ran database) or it should not be banned.

Um, no. Reciprocity is a pretty key concept in international relations, and a legitimate reason to take retaliatory measures. Also "we would rather not grant our adversary this advantage" is another legitimate reason to take action.
Maybe the missing messages are saved on the same thumb drive as Zensursula's SMS she sent during the German parliamentary investigations in the Defense Ministry's dealings with outside consultancies, when she happened to be the Defense Minister.
Python beat Perl in the 90s-2010 era thanks to its readability which was always advertised as a supreme advantage. Of-course Python 3.x is more complex, but even as an occasional Python user who doesn't like Python that much, I can still dive into an OSS python project and understand what its doing with little prep or Googling needed.

Can't really say that for most programming languages with the exception of Go.
Strange that they differentiate between ebikes and scooters.
Hmmm, I disagree. I also don't think that all managers are morons, but even if they were, the fact is that companies often succeed in spite of managerial issues. Sure, there's lots of people are optimizing for the wrong thing, but that doesn't mean it is affecting the final outcome. As long as managers and reports aren't being paid an exorbitant sum, the only loss is in the sanity of individual contributors.

In a large enough company, managers have to do a lot to compromise the success of a company. I'm not saying managers are completely unimportant, but they're not as important as you think.
I think components exist today that can replace meteor:

- EdgeDB

- tRPC / Blitz

- React
Because as Milton Friedman pointed out, don't do to yourself what you do to an enemy in war. China banning American services is to the detriment of Chinese users and competition in China, there's no reason to emulate censorship.

If data harvesting was a genuine concern you might as well ban Facebook and every other social media app while you're at it. It's just hysteria and nationalism.
Just for the sake of contradicting you, we (all the Humans) could move outside of the biosphere, e.g. on the Moon or Mars. That would completely remove our influence on the biosphere, the atmosphere, the oceans...

However that would request so much Earth resources to launch everybody and everything (and thus would definitively destroy the biosphere in the process), that it is just not feasible.
Of course, and that is the point. How can we pay in proportion to the value a developer is creating if we can't even agree on what is valuable?
> Von der Leyen, who was Germany’s defence minister before moving to Brussels, was engulfed in a similar scandal shortly after leaving Berlin for Brussels in 2019. She denied having anything to hide after it emerged that one of her two mobile phones being sought by a German parliamentary committee had been wiped.

> The committee had been investigating whether lucrative defence contracts were awarded to outside consultants without oversight and whether personal connections were behind those deals.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/28/european-commi...
Trump proven right yet again.

Another example: Trump and Stoltenberg argue on camera (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpwkdmwui3k>). Who turned out to be right about NATO and Russia? Who turned out to completely, totally, 100% wrong?
How do you measure the productivity of someone that can wade into a horribly buggy 10 year old piece of code that has terrible edge conditions and is integrated with other 10 year old pieces of code that you can't break, and you need to work out how to fix it and test it?

I often feel like I'm pretty slow in terms of my output, but I generally wade into really tough problems after other devs/teams have flailed at them for weeks and I manage to solve the problem. Does that make me a "10x programmer"? I don't tend to greenfield anywhere near as fast as that so I can't claim to have written some 40,000 line program from scratch in a month. I can write some 100 line patch in 2 weeks that nobody else could come up with though and keep some 10 year old 40,000 line production critical codebase still running.
Not sure about what's being said here but given what other comments are claiming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-traumatic_stress_disorder...

> Early in 1978, the diagnosis term "post-traumatic stress disorder" was first recommended in a working group finding presented to the Committee of Reactive Disorder

> The addition of the term to the DSM-III was greatly influenced by the experiences and conditions of U.S. military veterans of the Vietnam War.

Ham-fisted a film as it was, First Blood w/ Sylvester Stallone really launched the term into the American consciousness and completely changed the perception and sympathy towards Vietnam veterans. The DVD commentary is arguably more interesting than the movie.
This is what happens when real estate developers and commercial landlord equity firms capture the interest and begin directing the activity of your local politicians.

The almost inevitable result is bougie commercialization of something into a bland market palatable shopping district. Look at the parts of NYC that are being gentrified for similar examples.
I didn't think Obergefell mentioned the right to privacy either?
I'm pleased the coming Part II purports to point to `reflog`. For a tool that _looks_ like it's fairly advanced, this is one of my favorites to show juniors, because it works so well as a "get me back to where I was" hack.
This looks like an open source implementation of "Cheating at poker James Bond Style - Defcon 24 (2016)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRgCvCTG_XQ

Very neat. In the video, the illicit cheating device was hidden in a phone.
It is theorized that these magic trick could be used in private poker houses to cheat players.
> It's up to the people we've chosen to lead us to actually choose an option and follow through

So far this strategy has consistently lead to complete and resounding inaction. The stronger the leadership the more likely we are in actually going in the opposite direction (see e.g. Businaro in Brazil or Trump in the USA).

More options have also shown to be a major distraction at best and actively damaging at worst. Take carbon offsets as an example of an option which actively hinders climate action.

What climate justice activists have consistently been calling for since at least COP 15 in Copenhagen 2009 is International agreements, carbon tax, and green infrastructure. There has always been fierce resistance from polluters in any of these three items, and so far the political class has consistently cited with the polluters. Then they use distraction policies with questionable results (like cap-and-trade, carbon offsets or magic bubbles) as an excuse not to enact proven policies.
Understanding This ’60s Sci-Fi Novel Is Key to Understanding Elon Musk
It’s much quicker to ban activities that inevitably lead to undesirable behaviour (such as converting your flat into a cheap hostel and the entire building into a hotel lobby), rather than playing whack-a-mole with all sorts of antisocial behaviour one has to put up with if the apartment upstairs becomes a cheap hostel.
Quite ironic! You can email HN at the contact email below. Or just try it again tomorrow

Edit: I haven't read it. I'm just interested to see what this community has to say, even though I guess it will tend quite hostile
That seems quite arbitrary
China works the same way. The concentric circles of power approach allows the powerful to exercise tight control at each tier and minimize upsets.
Barcodes are an underapprecated technology for amateur projects in general. The technology is error-resistant, mature and reliable in a hardware sense, cheap at the entry level and cheap to deploy at scale, etc. I got a surplus commercial Zebra/Symbol 2D/3D barcode scanner gun with dock (or it also talks bluetooth, USB, or naturally RS232) for $35 and a new OEM battery was $15, and tbh you could just have used a smartphone with an app instead if I didn't want the speed and reliability of the scanner gun. Barcodes are the cost of a sheet of printer paper and some tape (or sticker paper if you want to be fancy!) and are an extremely accessible and tactile way to operate all kinds of systems (a barcode doesn't have to be a "thing", it can represent an "action" too) via a control server, same as via an app. Pressing a button in an app is way slower and more cumbersome than scanning a barcode on the wall that says "advance belt to next item", a scanner gun is an enormously fast and tactile UX, and RS-232 and other low-level interfaces make it easy to tie into other stuff. It's a fantastic project tool that is really underexploited compared to "everything is ESP32 on the network".

The bar-code and shipping container are probably some of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, and unlike a shipping container it's completely appropriate and accessible to individuals for messing around with projects.

(no, your shipping container home is not actually a good idea)
Calling these exercises "Games" is a stretch.

Also: Extra points if your good at memorizing a list of arbitrary words that must be included, and you're a good touch typist. In these "games" Hunt-and-peck is a penalty, regardless if how facile you are at editing.
> I had to adopt her and her baby after seeing that. They were never exceptional as pet mice but I still feel good about saving those two.

Weird sentiment. It's like when South American paramilitaries would exterminate entire villages, but adopt one of the children. Does that make it easier to go back to killing them, or harder?

edit: I could see it both ways; harder obviously, because you enjoy your pet and you see the other mice the same way you see your pet. But maybe easier, because that mouse earned life by acting in a way you registered as humanlike compassion, and the others failed to, so deserve their fate.
so you lost the blocksize war, that doesn't mean "they" have control over the whole project
From what I've seen, many corporate fuckwits could use a dose of brevity. They tend to cloak their message in verbose jargon instead of just making their point boldly and clearly.
You may not be giving kids enough credit. Sure they may not be able to do these things at two but a four year old is a lot more cunning. I could give examples, but everyone's got 'em.
But in most EU countries the current government can actually be removed a vote of non-confidence by the respective parliaments. More often than not with a simple majority vote. US style impeachment has much higher hurdles to pass.
You either operating on an open market, or in the government-controlled market.
Some still exist: ResetEra, NeoGAF, and anonymous ones like DC Urban Moms. I think a lot of car forums are still in the old format you describe. Also, sportsball message board culture is still big.
It was based on a right to marry and equal protection, but did make a reference to a right to privacy as well:

> "The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach," the Court declared, "a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity." Citing Griswold v. Connecticut, the Court affirmed that the fundamental rights found in the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause "extend to certain personal choices central to individual dignity and autonomy, including intimate choices that define personal identity and beliefs,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges?wprov=sft...
I don't know if you're being deliberately obtuse or argumentative.

It's not about transitioning between skillsets now, it's about future proofing.

I went from doing corporate enterprise applications on Windows NT to embedded systems when the PocketPC came out. Mobile computers didn't exist when I interviewed but because I was a generalist they had confidence that I could pick up the manuals and figure it out.

Note - I didn't work for FAANG because F and N didn't exist and A was a bookstore and G was a search engine :)
> Has anyone else observed this and have an explanation?

Yes that is the subject of this post.

https://simonhearne.com/2020/network-faster-than-cache/#the-...
The market may be brimming with js developers, but the bulk of them cant tell the difference between == and ===, cant get grasp the this/bind scope or lack basic understanding of inheritance, polymorphism and composition (the npm registry is full of copy pasted modules with small changes and a new name).

Getting js right is hard. Thus, competition for _skilled_ devs is rather low.

Same goes for php. Writing code full of sql injections, no design patterns, and no scalability is easy. Most php devs are limited to Laravel or Sympfony and have no clue about the language’s inner workings. Doing it right is hard and if you do you will get nice returns.

But i do agree about niche languages. The number of jobs available means nothing. Whats relevant is the (applicants/ number of jobs) formula.
> I mean, we have deliberately initiated containment failures for military purposes, so we know what they can look like.

This is an empirical argument.

Is the upper bound of damage higher for nuclear reactors or fossil fuels?
Woah woah woah, you can't just say that! this is HN, we have rules about pointing out when people obviously didn't read the article, it makes them feel bad!
Eagerly waiting for crypto to be as successful as WAP was
This works pretty well: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/.
What's the storage capacity of internet cables ?
Avoiding Toxicity About Programming Languages
For non UK readers, Battersea Power Station is the building on the cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals
> but we feel that our vote matters more now.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but: I am in the UK, and I absolutely 100% do not feel that any vote of mine matters more now that we have left the EU. (And, also, there are votes I no longer get to cast -- e.g., those for members of the European Parliament.)
Is location actually considered biometric? I'd have thought that's PII, but not biometric.
> I am of the opinion that a developer should always act like a professional, with the best interests of their employer in mind

Sorry but bets are also off once an employer gives them the middle finger, like in this case.

If someone is admittedly trying to pay you only the minimal amount possible, it is completely reasonable that you also work the minimal amount not to be fired or sued.

It goes both ways.
The genetic power of ancient trees
> A lot of P&T tricks are boring once the secret is revealed.

This is the mindset I don't understand. Unless the secret is something the spectator might reasonably consider "cheating" (like, if it turns out that a video production that's ostensibly of a live performance actually used post-production visual effects), I don't see in what sense knowing the secret ruins the trick. Perhaps for some people it might, but as long as the "secret revelation" content is separate from the "trick performance" content, I trust people to identify for themselves which content they want to watch.
Given 8 bits of input, how many bits does it take to reconstruct the original 8, on average?

8 / 2.58 = 3.1
Tons of laws changed, particularly in response to the construction of urban highways and “slum clearance” both of which involved the demolition of entire neighborhoods
> you may attempt to archive it, but should you wish to avoid sadness down the line, you should accept now in your heart that all archives will eventually succumb to the sands of time.

Enjoyed this.