skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they're saying it is not hyperbole and people are actively down playing the harm that is to come to protect profits
I watched a documentary a little while ago which described the sound as a constant drum-roll during these barrages.

I don't have sound at the moment but think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hscEoupkqv4 is something similar. The scale of these attacks is mind boggling.

> A barrage like this is referred to as "drumfire" by veterans to describe artillery that is so constant, unceasing and uninterrupted, that it sounds like drums. Others say that it sounded almost like a sea. It is agreed that it was impossible to hear individual shells, due to the sheer amount being fired.

>

> A video to describe the sheer scale of WW1 artillery barrages and how they may have sounded. It may also help to convey the experience of shell shock (PTSD) a WW1 soldier may have developed. Although this video pretends to be the experience of an artillery barrage, a true artillery barrage especially on this scale cannot ever be felt in the same way through a demonstration as the world would shatter, pressure and concussive forces would be felt throughout the entire body with each blast, and the noise would be so extremely violent and loud that anyone would have their ear drums ruptured.
I routinely find spam, vandalism and heavy POV-pushing in English WP. In general, I check the sources, and if they are absent or fail to support the article text, I correct them[0], or challenge them on the talk page.

Do you? When you say you see such things going on without anybody noticing, presumably you noticed?

[0] I don't generally edit articles on politically-sensitive topics. They are wargrounds, patrolled by tough gatekeepers. I take any information in WP about current affairs with a bushel of salt. But it's still better than, for example, mainstream media.
Was thinking the same thing today, super hot, I couldn't really think, had a ridiculous headache, started to calm down as the sun went down and temps cooled off.

Not to mention the extra heat.
I'm just not sure what more research the poster is implying other than "let's wait and see if people die"
Ran into the same thing - shame it's hidden away under a tooltip on the pricing page.
Pray tell what are these well known solutions? My personal solution is a Glock 9, a body cam, and praying that I can away run fast enough to never have to use either.
Climate change affects the conditions for growing crops: food crops that people live on, and cash crops that the economy rides on.
Climate change also affects which regions get flooded more often and how intense these are. All of which are reasons to migrate. Those aspects do also feed political instability: e.g, the "Arab Spring" had started with protests against rising food prices.
How do you feel about the need to customize or filter content to personal interests? I like the way reuters.com has done it with "MyView".
Gitup, naive macOS git GUI. Use it for almost everything. Use terminal if I need to undo commits.

Bear, macOS/iOS markdown note taking app.

Trello, still nothing in the market that beats Trello’s UX for small project management.

1Password, used together with Apple Keychain, mainly for things that require 2fa.

Bamboo. Very old iPad only sketching app by Wacom. Lacks the infinite canvas of modern sketching apps, but the sketching UX is unmatched.

Concept, for when Bamboo is not enough.
In this talk, the agenda will be as follows. - Why do we choose real-time data pipeline - Brief introduction of Apache Beam - Implementing a simple real-time data pipeline to ingest Tweets from Twitter
I wept for Jodorowsky's Dune version. At least, there's a great documentary about it https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/
each 1°F increase in school year temperature reduces the amount learned that year by one percent

That's a suspiciously tidy and headline-friendly ratio.
Might be. I don't know the exact mechanism, but it might simply be like as you said: heat -> intolerance -> umcomfortable -> reduced performance.
Ok, so I'll go to software center and click a button to install Thunderbird. It won't be the absolute latest version but I don't really care since computers aren't that interesting to me.
didn't DFW kill himself because he was suffering from mental illness?
It's just what Putin wants it to be... There is no reason Ukraine can't push Russians back except the willingness of the West to supply Ukraine with heavy artillery, SAM systems, tanks and fighter jets — it's the only limiting factor.

Ukraine has way bigger army than Russian's (up to 1 mln mobilized, vs. 200k) but severely lacks in firepower. And the latter is what could be easily fixed, if only allies allowed it to happen.

Truth is, many Western politicians are secretly scared of the perspective of Ukraine winning over Russia. They don't want Ukraine to actually win (as in to take its territory back), all they want is to just stop Russia from expanding further. That's why the supply of the critical weapons (long-range rocket systems, IFVs, tanks, fighter jets) is abysmally small — just enough to stop Russia from making progress, but not enough for Ukrainians to make any real progress towards ending the war on their own terms.

This is tragic.
> I have never quantified this. So this is pure anecdotal evidence. But I am pretty sure, that more heat correlates with less overall performance and thus leads to a reduction of the GDP.

Lee Kuan Yew considered air conditioning to be one of the most important inventions in history (and the most important invention for Singapore) for this reason.

Stable temperatures make it much, much easier for people to work consistently. The gains from being able to work from the morning into the mid-late afternoon are under-appreciated and accumulate relatively quickly.
i dunno about vim or emacs, but they surely don't compare to intellij IDEA for java support.
"We will have full self driving next year"

- Elon Musk (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
Probably https://billwadge.com/lucid-language/ is the closest you'll get.
Certainly works like that for me. 21-22 degrees celcius seems to be the optimum working (and sleeping) temperature for me.

Below 18 degrees my hands start to get too cold to type, above 22 and I cannot think any more (thoughts slow down until my brain is muddy).
Even a biased account of history is a record of history, in some ways even more interesting when you have other biased accounts to compare with.

Goofy as his methods are, Herodotus is a very compelling read specifically because it's not one coherent narrative, but a collection of points-of-view (none of which may be entirely correct, but reflect what people claimed at least).
Honestly, I started working this out because I thought it would be negligible. But I think you're right to doubt. Leaving aside the question of how much a human produces, since two people have suggested human output is neutral and I don't know enough to question it:

It takes an average of 0.10kcal to walk up/down a step, averaged.[1]

2.2kg of CO2 are emitted per 2000kcal of consumption (I just averaged table 3 for want of a better idea)[2]

37 steps in a staircase (TFA, 46 total - 9 flat)

3.7kcal burned, 3.7kcal * 1.1g/kcal ~= 4g CO2 per person per trip

Obviously very rough, but unless I've made an order-of-magnitude error it's in the same ballpark.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9309638/

[2] https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12937...
Yes, plenty of research that analyzes the impact of your environment (not just temperature) on productivity. I read an earlier editiion of -https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279190533_Creating_... it was fascinating.
I had a similar problem with unusual status codes in Safari which caused lots of confusion. If you give it a 204 (example: http://httpbin.org/status/204), weird things happen - it doesn't even change the currently displayed page to a blank one, the URL bar behavior is undefined (the URL bar doesn't change unless the developer tools are open) and the request doesn't appear in the developer tools either.
It would certainly be possible to recover some of this energy. Just like it is possible to recover some of the heat lost by people: https://www.greenchipstocks.com/articles/body-heat-from-pass...
I think FAE is a pseudo-scientific construct; yes, keep blaming yourself but not anyone else. It smells like a conspiracy--to make you even more of a sheep.
I guess so, but maybe the body and brain adapts too, depending on where you live. Average annual temperature where I live is 26 degrees C, could be lower indoors.
>> It may be several orders of magnitude better, even - but how many exactly?

It's not an easy question to answer. I suspect it would be fun to try. Perhaps more for you than for me. But, aside from the pleasure of working this problem, there remains the other problem. And an answer to your question is almost entirely immaterial to that one.

I think the difference between our approaches is that you are focused on relative amounts - how exactly to account? My concern is with absolutes: a metric fuck-tonne is coming from (effectively) nowhere and going into the atmosphere in almost zero time.

It'll surely be more efficient to account for the future emission at the point of fossil extraction, with special consideration for reliable CCS.
I wouldn't say that what happened at Scots Wikipedia is a "natural process". It's one single person lacking language knowledge being given a truly inordinate amount of influence.
Nah, it’s almost certainly just a weak linear regression fit. As a high level description for the range of temps they saw it’s probably fine.
> Rarely is anything done about this

There were reasons things were rarely done. Most importantly, under 18 or non-married calls didn't count as red flags. Congress just passed a bill fixing those two issues going forward that Biden is extremely likely to sign into law.
Many people seem to think using a commercial proprietary IDE means you somehow forget how to use the CLI or other editors to get the job done. Like they're junk food that makes you dumb.

This is as ridiculous as saying an electrician will forget how to correctly wire because their wire cutters are too good.

I used to be a build-my-own IDE person via VIM. After using PyCharm and realising an IDE is more than an editor, I realise the productivity gains every day.

If I need VIM or something else, it's just another tool in the box and the partisan fist shaking has no place in a mature profession and trade.
While I agree that this sort of workflow keeps development environments reproducible, I disagree with freezing editing tools like this. Nothing about your project should require specific IDEs or similar software. Like you said, less complexity is easier to make more reliable, so stick to purely the tools necessary to build and run the software, rather than including the tools to edit it.

If I need a VM for things, I typically start a small rsync or ftp server on the host so the VM only has to mirror the files, build and run.
I also imagine California is very dry?

Edit: Never mind, seems to be very humid North, and fairly average South.
So essentially not worth the pain if you can get the same salary in a more modern language & environment?
That's incredibly dismissive, and if you think that about any of JetBrain's software, I'm unsure about your qualifications to judge anyone's productivity.
Has the AG committed a crime here?
James Gosling, which knows a thing or two about Emacs, thinks otherwise.
Your 40C doesn't equal my 40C when one country has high humidity, and the other has close to zero. That's precisely what the "wet bulb temperature" for humans is all about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
That’s actually not that bad. The All-products pack goes is only getting 24€ (pre-tax) more expensive per year for me.
> If you pick a subject that no one cares too much about, you can easily deface it with non true information.

I dunno, I tried a while back to see how it all works and made some edits on a few articles that I figured were pretty backwater. I wasn't defacing, I was trying to correct with valid info and attempting to follow the editing guidelines. It all just got quickly reverted by what I assume were bots, calling it 'vandalism'. I moved on.
The particular "changes" introduced by the teenager editing Scots wikipedia are very much unnatural, artificial change, and one that is done in a systematic way, "erasing" (by ignoring, simply due to the author not knowing the language) the actual Scots words and replacing them with calques from English.

If other people speaking Scots would start using them because they simply prefer to do so, I could consider that as part of natural change of language; however, if people who want to learn Scots are mislead and instead get taught examples from effectively another unrelated language ("NotScots"? "StupidScots"?) that are falsely labeled as being Scots, then that has nothing to do with natural language change and is pure damage.
Humans made AI go sentient
1. Wouldn't requiring ferrets (aside from the limited number needed for breeding) to be spayed or neutered greatly reduce this risk?

2. Don't feral cats and dogs also pose a threat to ecosystems? Why should the threat to endangered species necessarily outweigh the significant psychological benefits of pet ownership?

3. Couldn't feral ferrets from one of the many states where they are already legal easily make their way into California anyway?

4. Since many people violate the ferret ban anyway, wouldn't legalizing and regulating the keeping of ferrets result in more responsible ferret ownership?
>ACs are everywhere so it makes it livable

Except for outside. Also what do you hope to achieve with playing misery poker over this.
>Assuming your theoretical evil maid is a US government employee, it raises an interesting question: are NSA/US government employees allowed to forge/duplicate US currency in the pursuit of protecting national security?

Why would they need to counterfeit the notes? Is there something stopping the NSA from calling up the treasury and asking for uncut sheets with specific serial numbers?

Would they even be breaking the law if they decided to go it along and reverse engineer the printing process? While the Treasury is granted the right to print physical money[0] it does not exclude anyone else from physically printing money as well. Further counterfeiting/forging currency[1] needs to have the intent to defraud.

I get your point though. I guess it would operate similarly to the operations of undercover police who have to break laws as part of their work. I suspect a lot of oversight would be needed from the upper levels of the organisation so as not to fall foul of the Justice Department.

[0] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5114

[1] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/471
I will save this link for the next time someone asks for an IT / engineering exit path.
I’m a big user of both Vim and Emacs and agree that they offer huge productivity boosts as editors. The speed that modal editing (Vim) gives you or the extensibility of Emacs is unparalleled.

But at the same time I believe it’s naive to underestimate the productivity offered by IDEs such as IntelliJ or Pycharm. While news tools such as LSP are wonderful additions to Vil/Emacs, the experience doesn’t come close to what dedicated IDEs offer.

My personal flow is to use Vim for true editing, which gives me the power of modal editing, and switch to a full IDE when I need to do extensive refactoring or need code insights or need powerful debugging offered by an IDE.
WTF Is Account Abstraction
haha yes i read something similar between the lines : ) the author presented a very charitable version of this.
The black footed ferret is native to the US, wild, and endangered. The domestic ferret is thought to be from the European polecat
Show HN: WebReducer: build self-contained HTTP endpoints with state in seconds
Hey everyone,

WebReducer is a project I've been working on since last December. You can read about my process here: https://offbyone.us/tags/micro-business/

Send some data to WebReducer. Then, write a reducer function to retain some state. You can change the reducer function as much as you want and recreate that state.

Still working on how to explain it. It's a tiny FaaS platform. It's a tiny database. It's "redux" on the server as a service. It's a backend for tiny personal projects. It's a place to send your webhooks.

I'm looking for feedback on the following:

- Do you get what it is?

- What would you use it for?

- What would I need to iron out for you to seriously consider trying this?
You may not see it because its not an issue today.

The entire point is that it will be.

I believe it's been demonstrated and accepted by the science community that there is "concrete evidence of temperatures" (short of waiting for it to happen) that this level of change can happen and is now likely unavoidable.

This world is full of hyperbole but this looming change is not an obvious exaggeration. We've seen it in action already and we know where its going.
Well said mate.
Wouldn‘t clothes made from aluminum foil or another mirror like substance even be better than white clothes in the summer?

I see a road to the Ig-Noble price here. ;-)
> They have 17 billion dollars in cash on hand, and paid off a lot of their pre existing debt.

Tesla total liabilities for the quarter ending March 31, 2022 were $31.091B, a 6.81% increase year-over-year.

So they may have paid off a lot of their pre existing debt and then went and borrowed even more money on different terms.
I've been a long time Thunderbird user (except for the last few years). The global search feature was a good addition when it was launched, but it doesn't work very well and it doesn't seem like more effort was put into fixing/improving it. What I've observed is that using it to find specific emails may or may not work. I'm not talking about search performance but about the quality of results and the ability to narrow down. My mailbox was already a several GBs in size at that time.
I agree. Having to replace your calendar is a feature, not a bug
The laser needs to be aimed at each point of interest. The system can track multiple laser points simultaneously with one pair of cameras, but there's a tradeoff with quality (because essentially the camera's field of view is being divided into slices, one for each laser point). So you've got a small number of virtual contact microphones you can point at a surface, not a video where you can see the vibration at each point.
ClearBuds: Wireless Binaural Earbuds
I wish there was a modern terminal-first IDE that has the same amount of backing as VSCode or Jetbrains IDEs. While I enjoy vim's speed and modal editing, the number of barely working plugins that break if you so much as look at it wrong is what keeps driving me back to VSCode + Vim emulator.
A “Fireside” Chat with Linus Torvalds and Dirk Hohndel
This isn't how the system works. It basically can give you a small number of contact microphones (you need to aim a laser at each point you want to record).
USDC/USDT is centralized as in a central entity is trading it in a way to keep the peg at $1.

It is not centralized as in a central entity needs to approve your transaction.
For every unit of food, there is a unit of oil to produce food. I'm not sure what the ratio would be, but it surely must be there.
If using Python, then I think Peewee strikes a perfect balance. In my pov it rather helps writing and reason about queries, which in turn you can get as query+params to use in other places such as pandas. It is neither in the way nor magic bloat.
Google Calendar (integrated with ToDoist), Git, VSCode, MySQL Workbench and Excel are some tools I am using these days on daily basis.
There are those, sadly, who argue that one person's "harmless, innocent thing" is a "crime most heinous". The measure societally is how much of the population considers it taboo.

To illustrate, take the artform known as 'loli'. Drawn pictures of fictional neotenous girls doing recognizably adult things most people would say crosses the line into being child pornography, even though the act of drawing it hurts no one real. The argument goes, by facilitating the fulfillment of the demand you create a follow-on market for the real thing, which is definitely illegal.

The problem isn't a harm inflicted against someone directly, but a perceived harm in potentia to the social/moral fabric and eventually the incentive structure to underpin physical harm to real victims by normalizing some form of deviance. A less controversial example (today) would be sex toys, (50 years ago) "free love", etc... In the past, many of these things were considered obscene, or at least things "not spoken of in polite company". This is exactly how you get businesses discussing whether these odd niche things are allowable on the basis of straddling the obscenity/deviance line, which necessarily entangles itself to some degree with the concept of legality.

Scale makes every question relevant. While I agree with your assertion we don't have to have a view on everything, I assure you, with a hierarchical power structure consolidating the power to make policy in fewer individuals, this necessarily means that statistically speaking, you're going to have a much smaller slice of the world that happens to
A) be a payment processor/business facilitator, and
B) think your niche is harmless.

So in short, while normatively we don't have to have a view on everything, practically speaking, it is guaranteed we will. Striking the right balance is a really tough nut to crack, and virtually guarantees somebody is leaving disappointed.

This post brought to you by a really interesting Philosophy of Art class covering the interface between obscenity and cultural systems. I find the nature and mechanisms of determining exactly the periphery of the obscenity line in the highest resolution possible fascinating.
It is no secret that the body politics tries to end anonymity, not only in the US. It is also true that unsupervised children can access age inappropriate content. This will always be the case in such a network for kids not under appropriate supervision. And the latter is the only thing that can protect kids efficiently. That said, former generations with unrestricted access also did survive unrestrained internet access although it was perhaps less accessible because of technical restriction and fewer smartphones.

The internet is not a playground for kids and parents and inadequate law makers better learn that. Best day to start would be yesterday.
What the hell is up with prices?

Everything I pay in dollars became 20% more expensive.

My cereal became 20% more expensive.

Jetbrains becomes 20% more expensive.

This is the first time in my life (34 yo) that price changes have been so large that they’re apparent to me.

And even with a dev salary the combined amount is high enough that it has an impact on my behavior.
Going Troppo | Mango Madness - aka the effects of saturation humidity and tempretures ranging from 32C - 40C during Australia's northen monsoon seasons.

It's a studied thing, and people write papers anticipating how far it can go before it shuts down any daytime activiy.

eg:
About the weather in the Kimberley (readable overview)
https://kimberley-australia.com/about-the-kimberley/weather-...

Heat, health, and humidity in Australia's monsoon tropics: a critical review of the problematization of ‘heat’ in a changing climate
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcc.4...
Had to look this up… here’s a starting point: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5575449/