skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some outdated assumptions about the carbon intensity of electricity being made here. They seem to be assuming coal-fired power emitting 0.9kg CO2/kWh.

In reality, the actual average carbon intensity of the UK grid in 2021 was only 187g CO2/kWh: nearly 5 times less! So escalators, in the UK at least, aren't nearly as bad for the climate as this article suggests.
> it never gets easier, you just get faster. As someone who arguably has accumulated expertise, I still feel like I'm winging it a lot.

Yes, I believe the gp has missed the point of the article.

The lesson from "your to-do list isn't difficult, it's impossible" is not nihilism. The point is not that no one is good at anything so why bother; the point is that the feeling of overwhelm, dread, and depression from an impossible- seeming to-do list is rooted in false assumptions. Your to-do list doesn't seem impossibly long, it IS impossibly long! You are born with a to-do list and you will die with a to-do list - but that's OK. We're all in the same boat.

Another helpful way to think about this is a math analogy. Your knowledge is a circle or sphere that has your literal area of expertise. The more your learn, the larger it gets - but you also gain more contact with the unknown.

That is the lesson. Imposter syndrome demystified. Only a fool feels in complete control. One simply does what one can.
Same goes for what has been happening in the U.K. with regards to the off-payroll legislation or “IR35”. It has now become near to impossible to work as an independent consultant via a personal service company. Vast majority of companies now just want bum-on-seat contractor on fixed term contract and company payroll.
Off topic

Is there any characterization of genetic adaptions to temperature ? I live in Spain, but I have a pretty bad heat intolerance and an equally good cold tolerance. Same for 2 of the 6 brothers and 1 of my 2 sons.
> but "the Internet" happened at CERN, a civilian project

The web happened at CERN, not the internet.
You can try version 5 on your iphone in realtime.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/idetection/id1452689527
> uncomfortable and not due heat itself

well if someone is cutting your leg while you are typing, you are less productive due to being uncomfortable, not due to missing a leg as you dont need a leg to type.

since evntually the heat kills you, it stands to reason that the condition is not only 'dead' and 'alive', but also includes 'barely surviving', and that condition is not productive.
Tesla Autopilot workers confirm mass layoff in San Mateo office
I wish tmux-resurrect would be rock-solid.
Good to know and unfortunate although not terribly surprising. I guess this is the recommended user experience that the commenter up the thread is suggesting be integrated into thunderbird?
Elgato Releases Stream Deck OBS Studio Plugin 2.0
You should compare it to the fate of Protestants in post-Thirty Years War Bohemia and Hungary, indeed.
>Then one weekend we tripled our userbase and horizontally scaling required massive changes in database architecture, sharding solutions, etc.

You took the short easy route out of the gate instead of building for what you were planning to handle. This is the opposite of what I espouse. If you were going about it my way, you build that in from the ground up. Harder and a bit bumpier to roll out from the get go, but has worked well for me in the past.
Cancelling Student Debt Is Unforgivable
The only US-allied nations with runways long enough to land a space shuttle are Spain, Canada, France, and India. For a polar mission the Canadian runway is no more useful than the American runways, and the Spanish and French runways are too far from the Pacific Ocean, where the orbiter needs to come down. Perhaps the shuttle could make two orbits and then land in India, using those big heavy wings for crossrange.

However, I am looking at the Wikipedia list of runways in service today. I'm not about to embark on looking at historical data.
And how do you clean these optics?

Do they still provide 110% optical efficiency while dirty? Or damaged/scratched from frequent removal/reinstall for cleaning?
> Personally, I notice the first symptoms at around 25 degrees.

I was like this for probably 20 years. I had resigned myself to the notion that this was an immutable fact. During COVID, I stayed for 6 months somewhere with a gym and sauna. I began doing cardio for 1 - 1.5 hours per day and 45 minutes in the sauna. I am shocked at how this year, with already intense heat, how little the temperatures affect me.

100% anecdata, and I don’t know if it is the cardio or the sauna, but it has totally changed my enjoyment of this season.
“For this study, the researchers recruited 24 participants between the ages of 18 and 34.”

Only 24 people. Do we also know the geographic breakdown of the participants? I would be interested in seeing how African, Indian, and other groups who live in high heat regions adapt.
> On the underground you’re meant to stand on the right of escalators to leave room for those walking up on the left.

Don’t they drive on the left in the UK? The “slow” lane should be on that end.
I remember for some MBs there were BIOS updates that added 4.0 support, then later BIOS updates removed it.
I was taught the knuckle mnemonic, which I really like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckle_mnemonic
Some of us have to write SW that can run on a potato.
Cats seem to catch mice for fun, only eating one after playing with it, and if they're feeling peckish.
The study shows this was better at peak times, especially for the goal of making sure there are no queues at the bottom of the escalators which can slow the tube down, but presumably in normal times (when there is space for standing and walking) this is worse for individuals who have a preference on walking or standing.

I get the tube to and from Holborn every day and there are always people (me included) walking and I rarely arrive at peak times.
If you find this amusing maybe you should spend some time at the British Museum. Like it or not they have the law on their side.
Tangent.

One of my first Fiverr gig was making notes and summarizing conference talks, lectures and even post-comment threads. I got bunch of gigs and I kinda enjoyed doing them. Those documents were not exactly blog posts, but people wanted to clean up their bookmarks and have a summary of those things.
Besides the extremes where the body simply can't take it any more, it also depends on what you're used to.

I'm typing this with the a/c set to 26 degrees. But I'm in my home office and definitely not wearing a suit and tie. I feel just fine(tm).

Your mileage is obviously different.

Edit: there's also the cultural thing of setting the a/c in offices to 18 C because that's where a man in a 3 piece suit would feel comfortable. Just drop the 3 piece suit if you're still wearing it :)
I work fine in warm weather. Since I live in Thailand I often work in temperatures of around 30 degrees. In my home office I only use a fan.

Same as someone else in this thread: I get very unproductive when it's too cold. If my fingers feel cold, it just becomes much less pleasant to use they keyboard. It's one of the reasons why I emigrated from a Northern European country to Thailand.
Us in the tropical region, we are usually fine around the low-30s and even higher as long as there's fans. Most of the public schools in our country have ceiling fans and large open windows so that air could circulate better. I blame Westerners' addiction to air-conditioning for their low tolerance in temperature (which is by the way, further fueling the climate crisis).
> in the south of france

So... north of almost the entire continental United States?
I started my post-PhD career as a one-man-band "full-stack" shop on the back of meteor. I remember developing prototypes overnight between client meetings and blow minds with a fully functioning product deployed and functional before they even finished describing it to me.

I reluctantly moved on to a larger project where Meteor just didn't make sense and it just seemed to fall apart in the rear-view mirror.

I have such fond memories of using the CLI to scaffold a new project that came with built in auth, UI components, and a simple, sane project structure, then deploy it with a single command...bliss.
My understanding is that Lua has "tables", not arrays, which have no inherent order and that it is the standard library that uses one-based indexing for historical reasons.
Even more fascinating is that the OP and several commenters don't seem to have read the article...
"...scrapnel everywhere...".

The correct term is 'shrapnel', but your 'scrapnel' means so much more.

/'Scrap', being the root of the word.
So every time I sign up somewhere I need to dig out all devices (including possible off-site backups if I was really thorough?) and sign them all up, too? If yes, then that doesn't sound particularly enticing…
> Kids cant play outside because the outside is filled with 2 tons killer machines i.e cars r/fuckcars r/bancars

Kids can't play outside because parents don't allow them to. Single childs were traditionally more protected once they are naturally considered more "precious" and they are slowly becoming the norm. Large family's kids still play outside specially the ones from poor families.
> This just seems too close to racist theories about why the north hemisphere is richer than the south.

Not sure if this is satire, but I'll bite.

Rascist is saying "these people are worse because of their intrinsic properties". Saying "these people are worse because of the circumstances they happen to be born into" is the opposite of racist, surely?
Notepad++, vim, git and everything from voidtools

Np++ and vim both for editing files, specifically np++ for doing some quick and dirty edits along with comparing files and vim for when I do more complex stuff.

git for keeping a history of notes, along with normal git usage.

And everything to find any file that I need.

While not 10/10, I use ghidra quite a bit.
And could that have meant their brain was wired differently to start with? Not everyone suffers from dementia - do the changes in the brain affect behavior all our lives?
(In mice)
He also has written beautiful e-books on UI and Transit Maps design:

https://bureau.rocks/projects/book-ui-en/

https://bureau.rocks/projects/metro-en/
In Moscow metro they sometimes ask (but do not enforce) via speakers to stand on both sides of the escalator. I heard this practice was brought by McKinsey from London. In my experience this sometimes works on very short escalators, and on the longer ones people seem to ignore the suggestions. I wonder about the psychological reasons of this behavior.
Wouldn’t be too hard methinks.

The hard part would be all the cloud based backend stuff so people wouldn’t have to remember to slide the frame at the end of the month and remember how many days are in each month. And vendor lock-in so people don’t attempt to use non-Julian calendars or any equally distasteful things. Calendar as a Service it would be called.
I am much further south in Italy, living and working without air conditioning through most of the summer. Yes, it's not super comfortable. But we (humans in general) can adapt, and by the time the fall comes 35C feels cool. I wonder how many of the volunteers of the study live in temperature controlled environments. I'm sure this is documented in the paper. My roundabout point is that it's a stretch to extrapolate from a population living with modern comforts to one that is exposed to the climate directly.
Online Age Verification in a Post-COPPA, Post-TikTok World
"Your love is one in a million
You couldn't buy it at any price
But of the nine-point-nine-nine-nine-hundred-thousand other possible loves
Statistically, some of them would be equally nice"

-- Tim Minchin, If I Didn't Have You (Someone else would do)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn6gV2sdl38&t=80s
Well when 80% of all US Dollars were "printed" / created in the last 2-3 years massive inflation will follow

What we are seeing is the predictable result of the classic monetary models, and a rejection of Modern Monetary Theory which linked limits of government spending to the availability of real resources, like workers. Which is why you see people like The Treasury Sec saying the Economy is good because of employment numbers

Classic Model of economics predicted this, MMT ignores the realities of economics
Sony trumps Samsung, launches first 1-inch camera sensor for phones
Why so much flak?

Whenever I have considered suicide (I will never do it, just considering the options) one of my first concerns was to not create additional pain to the ones I love or witnesses.

Leaving your blue headed corpse hanging for your wife to see sounds like an asshole move to me.
If they want and good at working on things I hate (tedious, repetitive work, testing) I don't mind it. . Without them my performance will go down too.

I just take it as the company pay them well than they pay me bad. However if I feel that my pay is below market rate, then it's another matter.
Okay, tunnel all your Tor traffic through a VPN and also seed Linux ISOs, then, both through the VPN and publicly?
SQLYog for databases on Windows. I couldn't find any other DB tool on any other platform that's as good as this one.
Can you give some concrete examples of Western politicians that are secretly scared of the perspective of Ukraine winning over Russia? And explain how you came to that conclusion?

I think it may be useful to know the reasoning and arguments adressed in an open public discussion about those anxieties and what is the best course of action, taking all arguments into consideration.
At one company I worked at, after I quit, they had to hire 19 engineers to rebuild the piece of software I built on my own. What took me 9 months took them a year. I quit because they wouldn't give me a raise. Even the CTO recognized to me that I was the most skilled programmer there. I don't think talent is that hard to spot and while I agree measuring programming productivity in a concrete manner is difficult, knowing who's above average isn't hard.

Seems more to me that managers just don't want to fork over higher salaries and engineering is looked at as a cost center to be minimized.
> The fictional population of NYC in Soylent Green (released 1973, set in 2022) was 40 million, whereas the actual population today is 8.8 million, but even 40 million would give it about the population density of Manila today and wouldn’t look like it was portrayed in the film.

Another example is Isaac Asimov's Trantor, a world-wide city enclosed with globes which requires the resources of multiple agricultural worlds to sustain it. It has a population of 45 billion, and a surface area of approx. 40% that of Earth.

Do the calculations, and the population density is, as Wikipedia says: "similar to the current population density of Germany or Connecticut. " I can't speak for Connecticut, but Germany certainly doesn't feel crowded. Even in central Berlin we have a huge amount of green space.

Even Coruscant in Star Wars, with a population of 1 trillion people (1 000 000 000 000) has a population density less than New York City.
There's actually a long fan Novel about this! It's called Saruman of Many Devices, and I really enjoyed it until the alt battle of Pelennor fields.
I've always thought that this poem is useless as a mnemonic because a lot of the months have the same number of syllables and rhyme with each other. So remembering the poem is no easier than remembering the months directly.
Morning, I am on version 1.85.1 and still receive the error.
> one single racoon released in a small Spanish Island by idiots almost wiped the entire colony of an endangered marine bird in two years

That's crazy. Do you have a link to that?
Curious, in Spanish there's something similar. There are several variants, but the one I learned when I was a kid was

"Treinta días trae noviembre, con abril, junio y septiembre. Veintiocho, sólo uno, y los demás treintayuno".

It has the limitation that it doesn't tell you explicitly about February, but that one is easy to remember. Some people mock that mnemonic because they say that it seems harder to remember that the months themselves, but in my case, it has served me well.

Obviously there are similarities beyond chance, so I wonder which came first: the English version, the Spanish one, or maybe another from which both were inspired?
I've used Emacs for development before, and like it. I also like the more purposed IDEs. I consider Emacs a general purpose IDE because with all the packages I add it has IDE functionality (source jumping, refactoring, syntax highlighting, debugger interface, compiler interface, code completion, etc.). It takes a bit to get it set up just right for a given language though.
Cutting out sugar as much as possible.
Timeline of Online Age Verification
I'm much more concerned about nature: we can, at least in western countries for middle-class and above, afford aircon and heating systems, but nature can't. We have started experimenting in artificial environments like "vertical farms" etc but overall results are not good on scale.

Long story short: we can't survive anyway if nature can't with us.
i think this shows only that social species' behaviours are fine tuned to the environment they have evolved in and drastically changing said environment requires the species to adapt in order to survive.

i feel like there should be a pen size above which such an experiment might run indefinetly. but my gut tells me: no matter the size, it will always eventually crash and burn because mice can't "talk it out"

i think the only possible lesson here is: if you send a generation ship to alpha centauri, you better make sure they all have at least one common language.
I don't know about the grandparent but I hate the browser based Jupyter notebooks, luckily I found that you can run Jupyter notebooks inside of Visual Studio. It's a more fluent experience overall.
> What's wrong with stephen wolfram?

The ego.
Also, let's not forget, let's not forget, Dude, that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city, that aint legal either.
Where are you taking this info from?

Wikipedia makes no mention of that reasoning: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Roll_program

The roll is part of the gravity turn, every craft does that kind of stuff to 'aim'.
> And that is exactly the point that led into this thread. You choose your tool. Some choose Photoshop. Some choose SolidWorks. Open source is rarely the best choice for most professionals using software to do their work. It's ok for certain software developers, which is a tiny part of all professional workers using software.

No, open-source is often the best choice for professional workers using software. Open source has several advantages:

1) My experience is that open-source is as often better as worse than proprietary. It's random. SolidWorks is a fine example where proprietary is ahead. On the other hand, e.g. my astronomer friends use open-source tools because they're better.

2) It's eternal and archival. Things I worked on 15 years ago still work. My proprietary cloud-based project management stuff went poof as soon as the company went out-of-business. Businesses can accumulate value much more easily.

3) I work in a regulated industry. Open-source doesn't contain hostile code which calls home with telemetry, activation, etc. and might leak whatever information to some random vendor. It's automatically auditable. It doesn't require contract negotiations. Etc.

4) I have access to all of it. There are professionals who spend 40 hours per week doing the same thing, where an investment in Photoshop pays off. There are professionals who spend 40 hours per week doing a variety of things. I've always been in jobs which were more like the latter. A while ago, I was in a business which designed a piece of electronics hardware. They needed to use a tool to 3d print something (a front panel) exactly once in the lifetime of the business.

One downside is lack of marketing dollars. My experience is that open source is underutilized outside of software engineering, mostly due to ignorance.
School from 9am to 3pm at a young age when childcare is most required is ridiculously long hours. This suggests to me that schools already take on much of the daycare role. That to me also seems very wrong.

School should first and foremost concern itself with effective education. If children can only study effectively for 2-3 hours a day, that is how long schoolday should last. Parents that need childcare should seek it elsewhere - that should be outside of the scope of schools' responsibilities.
'Stand on the right' is relative to which way you are facing. You would still be correctly following the instruction if you are facing opposite to the direction of travel and standing in the way of 'walkers' (on your right). I find Londoners generally receive this sort of humour very poorly ;)
The total rejection rate did decrease from 1% to 0.8%. I was referring to the reasons that ballots were rejected. On the page referenced, ctrl+f for "Top reasons for rejecting absentee ballots."
> Their productivity is more a function of their understanding of economics writ large, than their recall of algorithms or specific toolsets

I agree with your post except for that bit. IME it is very much down to a more creative and questioning approach to coding that separates the better from the less good.

I don't think, again IME, that asking the question "but should we?" has ever got me that far (though it is a good question) because bad managers take no notice and good managers have already asked it.
The report you just linked to only has 40 pages.

Was this what you meant?

https://www.ohrc.on.ca/sites/default/files/Use%20of%20force%...
I wouldn't be so sure. If you create a Matrix account and join an IRC channel, your username[m] will never leave the channel, even if you never use Matrix again. I made a few test accounts and it was rather difficult to figure out how leave IRC channels properly if you decide not to use Matrix anymore.
So it wasn't an utopia. The mice had enough water and food, but they ran out of living space. It's so obvious I can't understand nobody pointed it out yet.
India state on alert after Prophet Muhammad row beheading
Law that, like being looted, Colombia never agreed to.
It's almost exactly the same thing. It doesn't hurt to rephrase the same ideas, though.
majority of world leaders don't represent the majority of countries responsible for polluting this planet, it's completely irelevant what Europe does if India, China and Indonesia won't care
I have to admit I'm guilty of this, so much so that I'm tending towards discussing programming language features is moot without discussing the available tooling. In fact, I'm starting to think tooling is (slightly) more important.
to me the whole point of a calendar is to scribble notes inside days for events we are planning.

Why do people use something like this?
Unpopular view here ... if it took 19 engineers to rebuild your software - that seems like a failure on your part (not theirs).