skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does the draw function work? I can't seem to draw food or rocks when I try. Latest MS Edge on Windows 10.
Oh ok. I assume they entomb dirt and rust in the coating to keep costs down? Or do it when it is not needed?

I just wanted to defend the awesome concept of "painting" the belly of cars.
I hope no one misses the implied /s regarding CSM.

The Christian Science Monitor is a model of great reporting in a time when few models exist.

I am saddened when someone downplays a CSM report as biased because the listener assumes some form of Christian fundamentalism.
Bitcoin literally fixes this. Bitcoin is the first public infrastructure for sending money online without intermediaries and trusted third parties. This is the problem it solves, yet any mention of this on HN gets downvoted.

You can use something like https://btcpayserver.org/ and be your own payment processor with very little work.

Kind of frustrating that HN hates bitcoin so much, that even under link/article about small merchant getting harassed by shopify/stripe, they would rather downvote any mention of real solution..
If you know that, then presumably Musk knows it too, and knew it when he made the offer, no? If it's true, then Musk knew it. He signed a contract to buy Twitter anyhow, so.
Population is not really a problem. The challenge is pollution per capita.
We're in an economic era that mostly selects for safety. What's more safe than a plain sans-serif font? Business owners and C-level execs will believe they won't have to worry that a logo may be turning off a demographic because they think that plain letters will turn away no one or appeal to most.

The day there's a serious economic downturn forcing the losers to close their doors, I would bet the newcomers will have more interesting logos.

As an aside, there's a certain attitude among designer-types on imposing agreed upon "standards" designed to be ultra-inclusive and inoffensive. This is not only a cause for why so many logos have become minimalist, but why so many business websites are using nearly identical illustrations of abstract looking humanoids with atypical skin colors (look up "Alegria" design). It's global-homogenization driven by the politics in vogue.

Related reading:

"Here’s why Alegria is taking over tech world interfaces."

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/dont-worry-these-gangley-armed-...

"CalArts Style And What You Need to Know About It"

https://blog.displate.com/calarts-style/
None of the foods you mentioned causes that. Nor does eating outside. Not to a healthy person.
This has been a known fact for quite a while ago. Unfortunately, big corporates are like the few stubborn kids with candies they got at the beginning of the party and now not agreeing to part with even when their friends have come to the party. Almost all solution we have so far has been to coax these kids that they will get better and more candies at the end of the party if they do spend them.

Almost every company taking Climate Actions aims to be on the right side of history but with much quantifiable profit. Unfortunately, the current and future costs of correcting their past mistakes run into multi-trillion dollar propositions, and the ROI is unsure.

Yes, there is customer and stakeholder pressure for companies to act, but that is too minuscule for now. If they spend a dollar on climate, a company will pay twice that to go and tell the world they did, to uplift their brand image.

So, it will be tough to sustain and stay cool unless that is what makes more money.
I'm a desk jockey in my late 50's, and have fallen in with other 40- and 50-somethings who will do multi-day 8-12 mile hikes on the Appalachian Trail. I am, by far, the slowest of the group and depend heavily on their experience and support.

I'd say working your way up, a little at a time, is essential. Have a look at this recent article by another walker of cities, Chris Arnade:

https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/how-to-walk-12-miles-...
It was pointed out multiple times that frog guy took footage from random frog videos off youtube. While acts like that are dangerous, this whole thing is blown out of proportion, and guardian is a few weeks too late.
People tend to VASTLY overstate what sort of protections you get under the GPDR, to the point that I tend to assume nobody has actually read the regulations built off it.

In this case, there is no protection for data from your car, beyond the fact that carmakers don't want to share it. Writing regulations to cover it is being done now, and the tug of war is between giving any company who wants it access and giving companies the car manufacturers themselves select and get paid by access to it.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/your-c...
Or how about "Self serving elitist and hypocrit"?

Elon owes much of his wealth to literally swimming in big government subsidy.
Well selected material and great quality of teaching. It's for complete beginners and it's very accessible without being dumbed down in any way.
40+, a bad knee (I think I will need a cleaning of my meniscus soon) and enjoying hiking. Tomorrow we are leaving for a nearly 100km hike between 900 and 2900m with the complete family, our sons are 9, 13 and 15, done over a week, sleeping in Hütten/refuges.

It means that you too can do it, but start slowly. Simply start walking[0] and ensure that you reduce your overweight if you have some. Combine it with regular strength workout, maybe 30 minutes 2 or 3 times a week.

The most important part is that you must find your fun in walking. Find something interesting you (mapping, birds, architecture or simply thinking about stuff) while you walk.

Reinhold Messner used to quote one of his good friends: "Hiking is the art of suffering". So yes, you suffer a bit on the way and some people cannot stand it, some enjoy it.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31250001
Most people were thinking closer to home: Don't kill me. My family saw a woefully inadequate behavioral response in the community (crowded bars, restaurants, shops), and practically our only source of uncontrolled exposure to the covid denial crowd was at school. If Dad dies or becomes long term disabled, we'll all be homeless.
It varies from community to community.

Reddit tends to be really critical - almost deliberately mean - even when the original author is part of the discussion. The culture there rewards dunking on other people.

On the other hand, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn users have been more supportive when I share my work. Posting here actually feels good.

I try to be a nicer commenter. Some time ago I read my post History and realised that I acted like an asshole online. Now I express my approval and gratitude more often, and I moderate my criticism. If I have nothing nice to say, I say nothing. I try to keep the same tone I would in meatspace. It's easy to forget that there are humans on the other end, especially when I'm in a bad mood myself.
> Nobody, and especially not politicians, want to do what's required to keep it below 1.5C.

This is essentially the crux of the issue, no matter what anyone says. If we all wanted to, we could easily stop the pollution, at a possibly great expense to our privileged standard of living, yet that's just not happening.

Even if society wasn't all on the same page in regards to this decision, there are still plenty of actions that could result in such an outcome - think along the lines of protests at an unprecedented scale, both inside of the industries and outside of them, civil disobedience etc.

Yet that clearly won't happen until the living conditions get really tough and people are pushed over the edge in one way or another (consider the protests around 2008 in many countries, or something like Euromaidan in a different context). Until then, it's easier for companies and politicians to ensure that they won't be held responsible through lobbying and misinformation (as an example, consider what the tobacco industry did in the last century) and for most people it's easier to share whatever pro-environmental posts they like on social media to feel good, without actually doing anything.

The problem is that the legal things that you can do to oppose this trajectory are relatively limited (voting isn't entirely working) and many like myself would prefer not to do the illegal things (protests, depending on jurisdiction might be illegal) to not throw away their careers or not risk their livelihoods.

On a more positive note, there are initiatives out there where you can at the very least donate some money towards improving the climate situation: https://www.wren.co/ (can't comment on their integrity in detail, though)

Of course, this probably doesn't matter much when large corporations can just pollute more than private individuals will ever be able to make up for in any meaningful way. It's kind of sad to see this, here's hoping that better people are voted into the office, but sadly I'm too cynical to genuinely believe that.
ShredOS – Secure disk erasure/wipe
Why Do We Obey Rules?
Calm, reasonable opinions are downvoted and flagged to oblivion

In a nutshell the state of debate on the internet
People with hearing problems know they have hearing problems. I bet their spouses tell them all the time. Its a vanity/pride thing.

When bluetooth ear pieces were the thing some years back it looked less odd. I know someone that had a noise cancelling one and it just looked like someone that wore it to take an occasional call or whatever. If someone is walking around with air pods or the like in their ears you’d assume they are listening to music/podcast and it would be odd socially for someone to wear them out to a dinner party.
Archived: https://archive.ph/ar3vP
Space bubbles: Emergency space-based geoenginering to deflect solar radiation
Shameless plug: this is exactly why I built SimpleStore. An easy way to manage a small store without worrying about the platform changing the rules on you. https://chrisdiana.github.io/simplestore/
They don't own the Canadian Globe and Mail which repeats some of the comments about the media in Japan and highlights some questions about the Abe/(Moonie aka Unification Church aka Family Federation) relationship.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-tetsuya-yamaga...
Doctors in the History of Anesthesia
I'm 58 and my wife is two years younger. We do a few short hike each month, maybe up to 6km about 3 hours (often with our dog). We also do longer ones 3 or 4 times a year, maybe 10 to 15km, 300m ascent in about 6 hours. We just enjoy the scenery and identify plants, enjoy rock formations and the occasional run into fauna. Just take your time and maybe a friend to keep you motivated.

The physical side of things does improve as you learn about muscles you didn't know you had. Before we started doing it more regularly, I complained a bit about my knees and ankles - not so much now. Also get appropriate footwear - we've been pretty happy with what Merrell and Keen have on offer (and also Teva Sandles for summer walks)
If you look at the "lecture notes", yes it seems ad hoc. After looking through some of the readings, I think this is a fantastic, very comprehensive survey class.
Beat reporting and investigative journalism are very different "genres" of journalism.

> They only stop talking to you through official channels. There will always be leakers, disgruntled employees and others willing to talk to you anonymously or unofficially.

You cannot sustain beat reporting by relying on leakers and disgruntled employees. Furthermore, anonymous sources are not credible (ie, the news-consuming public largely does not trust them).

Most of the time, simple facts need to be reported and the only way to do that is by talking to credible sources that have been developed over time. Not all journalism is investigative - what happens when you want to report on a new housing development but you've burned all your sources because you only talk to leakers and disgruntled employees? Or you're reporting on a crime and need to talk to some cops?

> Not to mention that you can talk to people and ask questions without announcing that you're a reporter.

City officials are pretty well trained to know when the person on the other end of the line is a reporter. Not to mention how incredibly unethical this is (won't even start on the legal issues here).
> And what software will that burner or otherwise locked down phone run?

It’s irrelevant what it runs, the point is it doesn’t have the individual’s personal data and most importantly access to company data.
JWM (Joe's Window Manager)
And to add before someone will say that we should not expect free stuff, it will not be legal to mirror most of the mods because the modders don't allow it (Even with disclaimer, even if they abandoned it, even if Nexus is down or evil)
Neat idea but doesn’t work if your passwords must be changed.
Where would Russia import from? It's not as though an equivalent amount of equally productive soil receiving favorable rainfall would materialize immediately.
I have used a tool like this in the past. Vulnerable to bugs in input and output handling and this one looks like it is missing features to make it suitable for a daily driver to make it conform to restrictive password requirements unless I missed it scanning the readme.

Definitely useful for managing key pairs tho
Energy efficiency.
Can folks recommend any articles/books that shed a light on time-restricted feeding done safely while incorporating vigorous exercise? I'm someone who historically gets "hangry" (according to my wife) and starting 2 weeks, I accidentally skipped breakfast two days in a row and

1. felt amazing
2. surprised my hangry stopped kicking in

I'm someone who previously could not tolerate skipping meals and totally caught off guard that my "hangriness" stopped flaring up. Would love an explanation for this (starting to take ice cold showers first thing in the morning coincides from the accidental fasting so not sure if cold showers confound my perceived benefits of fasting)
Those are valid concerns, the "hodl only" mentality, the volatility.. but you do you see discussion about this on HN? No, just downvotes. I kind of doubnt that what you say is the motivation for the downvotes. I think if you are being honest, for some reason the HN users just hate bitcoin.
> Also various appliances like washing machines or dish washers can be timed

In theory. Then the fire department comes and says "do not run washing machines and dish washers while you're asleep or away". And with that you're back to running them during peak hours.

We just had that discussion in the media here, due to the introduction of peak power as a part of the electricity bill.
It doesn't look like the links you provided show enough evidence to support the claim that CO2 emissions per capita are the result of poorer countries increasing their standard of living (it could be the result of industries that trade with wealthy countries to increase their std of living), but I would really like to see that idea explored and properly proven
The claim is 1.4 million eggs that have hatched into tadpoles. For some species of frog, the average number of eggs laid exceeds 10,000.

If we’re talking of such a species and all of them were to hatch, that would take less than 140 female frogs.
> implying that they are bad people

I don't know how you got the idea that I was implying people are "bad" for their lifestyle choices. I was talking about how far away we are from widespread acceptance and realistic acknowledgement of the problem.

When I see people acting like nothing is wrong, doing things that contribute to the problem, I do think that indicates a lack of acceptance and realization. Now I may be wrong. It could be possible that people are fully aware of the problem and are YOLO'ing their way through it. Or they share your opinion that nothing they do can materially affect the situation anyway, so they just go full throttle on carbon emission. But I suspect that for most people, that's not the case. I think that most people are unaware of the severity of the situation, and that if they were aware, they probably wouldn't be doing those things. Again, I could be completely wrong about what people know and how they would choose to behave. But at no point was I implying that there are good people and bad people and that personal carbon footprint is a decent way to measure that.
Close, except for an important nuance: CSIS is primarily for domestic intelligence and security and doesn’t do much foreign work. From what I understand, the CIA isn’t supposed to work domestically; for CSIS, working domestically is in their charter.

From what I recall, CSIS was established after the FLQ Crisis in the 1970s, when the government realized that having a single organization responsible for clandestine domestic intelligence and law enforcement was an idea that was rife with abuse.
Digital experience ('DEX') issues reported by employees, from the original report:

- 37% : Security/regulatory policies

- 37% : IT overwhelmed by number of issues that need resolving

- 35% : Lack of training for IT personnel

- 34% : Handling the shift to hybrid/remote work

- 32% : Increasing number of endpoints to manage

- 31% : Technology in place is not appropriate for supporting DEX

- 27% : Lack of knowledge around DEX

- 25% : Lack of budget to support DEX efforts

- 19% : Lack of buy-in from leadership around importance of DEX

- 2% : No challenges being faced

(with some snark: statistics on signup/login requirements before viewing published reports, and presenting statistics in images instead of tabular data formats were not reported)
His series should rather be called "Breaking Down This Song", because that's mostly what he does. He very rarely actually explains or gets into what actually makes the song (in his opinion) great. Most of the time it's just a slightly more advanced "reaction video", and those are much easier to make, I'm sure.
Saying we won’t have a habitable planet by century's end specifically because of climate change is definitely a falsehood (except for the technical point that 100% and 0% are not real probabilities). Saying some regions won’t be habitable is correct, but it always has been even before the industrial revolution.

I certainly expect things to get worse before they get better, but “by century’s end” is too far away for even better/worse to be predictable to high certainty: there are 78 years from now to 2100, and it was only about 73 years between the president of the Royal Society, Lord Kelvin, saying “I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of”[0] and Apollo 11 landing on the moon. What’s going to happen between now and then? A crop of GM phytoplankton with super-photosynthesis that stabilises atmospheric CO2 at 200 ppm? Von Neumann machines disassembling the moon and turning it into a ten billion O’Neill cylinders? A bioweapon that turns all humans stupid? Plain old global thermonuclear war? All of the above? No way to tell.

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Thomson
Maybe the disease will fade away, however world population now is four times that in 1890, and mobility is, I dunno, ten times higher? New variants are likely to arise and spread way faster - in the absence of control measures.
Ukraine, ha. I guess that is a reason they're invading.
The anti-BEV folks seem to be stuck on old arguments that either weren't true in the first place or were true a few years ago but not anymore due to rapid change. The batteries are a small part of the CO2 footprint of a car as a whole, even a large battery. And they take much less energy to produce today than 10 years ago, this is reflected in the plummeting cost of battery production.

Your argument is like criticizing the increase in compute power 20 years ago, asking why do people need such fast, power heavy CPUs to do email and spreadsheets, but that led to far more efficient computers today that also enable us to do really cool things. With everyone having huge batteries, you can do things like virtual power plants where the power direction is reversed and consumers can send power back to the grid when necessary instead of a power plant having to dispatch its on-demand carbon heavy production. I think this is already being tested out on a small scale.
When a person completes week 4, they'll have learned boolean logic, if/for loops, bytes & variables, and had an overview of hardware from the previous weeks.

If the person is ambitious, that is the minimum required to begin, and it might be worth seeing just how far they can get in Nand2Tetris[0] where a person simulates building elementary logic gates and circuits leading to an also very basic Arithmetic logic unit and simple ram from nand gates.

I wouldn't expect the person with just a few weeks of CS101 to do week 4 of Nand2Tetris where they try out machine language on their machine that leads to building an assembler, and then a compiler, as this eventually requires knowing Java or a similar language, but more power to them if they preview the course and see how much they can understand.

[0] https://www.nand2tetris.org/
Yes. There is no actual support for this. It’s this one guys effort to get his name in the news for something controversial/polarizing and we’re doing a great job of helping him.
According to the replies, this doesn't appear to actually work.
> On options losses are capped to the money invested.

On long options -- a purchased call, purchased short, or a combination -- then losses are capped to the money invested. On short options, losses are potentially unlimited.

Understanding the difference is obviously extremely important.

> Nevertheless, you should consider that a host of professional traders with much better equipment and connections are betting against you.

I'd rather suggest that professional and sophisticated traders are arbitraging against you. Options market makers are not usually in the business of taking a directional stance -- they don't care one way or the other about whether Musk will buy Twitter. Instead, they seek to sell you the option but buy back the risk more cheaply, beginning with dynamic hedging that is impractical for a single retail investor with limited capital.
I remember finding out that a Biology major taking an "Introduction to Computing" course had still not touched the keyboard after six weeks. If a course like this helps people without a programming background get started then that seems good to me.
So in other words, 95% of employees have unrealistic expectations with regard to IT? Anything less than PFM (pure friggin magic) will likely come up short in their view.
That's not really relevant. The causes are the same (they don't like what you say) and the effects are the same (you don't get to say it.) However you get from A to be, you get from A to B.
Treating a sucking chest wound with a band-aid is not going to save the patient.

Poverty isn't caused by short term money issues, the kind that $2k can solve, anyway.
The NYC mayor tried 10 years ago and was stopped by opposition politicians: https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/bloombergs-20b-plan-protec...

> The mayor proposed a series of strategic flood walls, surge barriers, dunes, tidal barriers, and bulkheads built around the coasts strategically, to insulate the coastal areas, as well as building codes to protect homes and businesses against flooding and infrastructure improvements to prevent power, fuel, and telecommunication outages.
They aren't nearly as influential as you might think, especially in modern times. Maybe they were during the cold war or when they protested in support of Nixon. Their media reach is pretty limited, The Washington Times has a small number of readers.

Edit: to the comment about $2B: that's almost mostly belonging to the founder who takes his money from followers. $2B is 130k a person when we're talking about 15,000 followers.