skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as Amazon has their fulfillment and delivery network, I don't think they'll ever be replaced by AliExpress (in the US, at least). I've never seen anyone delivering packages in an AliExpress van :)
Also the article is garbled and gibberish.
Modern Technology: Please stop trying to be helpful
If you've ever merely been in a room with him, regardless of size of the crowd, this is hard to understate. I like to think of myself as a rational scientific kind of person, but I swear, he does something to huge rooms of people that feels like magic. I 100% felt the entire room get happier before I even knew that the reason for it was Bill was making his way through.
I wouldn't really consider "Ruimte voor de rivier" to be engineering nature in the way that's discussed in the article. Most of the projects were about removing human-made constraints on the rivers and giving it more land to flow freely.
I'm not saying pave over the mojave desert with PV, exactly, rather that a dry salt pan or ecosystem that has an absolute minimum of flora and fauna would be preferable.

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

creating massive hydroelectric dam reservoirs also has ecological costs

in terms of toxic waste it would surely be preferable to the percentage of electricity right now that is generated using gas, heavy fuel oil and coal.
That is actually true. 1053 is pretty empathetic. I’d frame that one too.
Note that Terry Pratchett is referred to as "Sir Pterry" in some circles.

I watched “The Colour of Magic” the other day - unfortunately the book is not well represented by the movie.
Why not restrict arbitage too in the terms, so users can do nothing after they accept the terms? I can write anything in my terms, doesn't mean it's valid.
Maybe it's a particularly dense nebula. Like a cloud in the sky blocking the sun. Except in this case it's a trillion suns.
Can Going in and Out of Air Conditioning Cause Colds? (2013)
Jeremy, hi.

I have one question, and one only. Please answer:

Second part, when?
Even B&H was susceptible to knock-off batteries. Somewhere in the supply chain, fake batteries were introduced, but not found until sold to customers. B&H actually handled this in the only sane way vs the Amazon shrug of the shoulders.

Supply chain attacks are real and even reputable vendors are susceptible. The difference is how the vendors react with their customers that separates the good vendor from the bad vendor.
I wonder if the telltale signs are much the same as in spam emails: a tool to filter out customers who are more discerning and thus liable to cause problems with Amazon if they get ripped off (demanding refunds, reporting seller misconduct, etc).
Halfway through Tropic of Cancer, and halfway through The Bright Ages.
There's lots of Americans especially those in poor/minority neighborhoods that don't have access to fresh produce. Look up "food deserts"
Their white paper covers it, linked from their site.

> CO2 concentration is performed using a closed lime/calcite calcination cycle, operating at ambient temperature and pressure.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2022/02/03/terraform-indu...
There's a difference between happy to have that pay and being happy at work.

It's also not just the programming itself. I would turn down 7 digit compensation if it was going to mean intense burn out, depression and/or anxiety due to toxic management and impossible demands. The toll that shit takes on my personal life, my families lives and the way it removes my ability to even enjoy having that money for years afterwards isn't worth it.
>After a while, I pulled out the super fake looking 'bad bar goes down, good bar goes up' slide and his eyes lit up.

This, right here, might be the most important lesson. Figure out the 1 or 2 things your boss's boss cares about. Show a single slide where the bad things go down and the good things go up. Have a couple of technical nerds that are trusted and agree with you. Bam. 10 minute promotion right there.

Oh. I'll add something. I'm the boss right now. I spend a lot of time trying to make it clear to my team what I care about so they can give me that 1 slide presentation.

I also spend plenty of time learning from my team why they care about stuff that I don't because they often care about important stuff (and I should, too)
We had a big house with a big family, but still not enough real bedrooms for every kid to have their own. I wanted my own room so I took the only available room. I didn't think it was a problem at the time.
Matter of interpretation. Is humanity at all good for the environment? Some would say no. Solar is clean and deserts are mostly, well, deserts. And climate change seems much worse than having a tiny bit of our deserts being used for PV farms.
Oof! It is irrigated agriculture. :(

Thanks for the link, didn't think of that.
Oh cool, I do not use the site and that was what I was wondering. I was curious if a host could click on a user and see all of their reviews.
This is so typical of contemporary academics, at least in biomedicine, I don't know where to start. For me, this is exemplary of a lot of what I see in the field, that happens every day, to larger or smaller degrees. It's not the exception.

There's so many elements to this story that echo things I've encountered, and read about in studies of trends. For every case of outright fraud like this might be, there's dozens of "soft fraud" (read: "questionable research practices") that get the benefit of the doubt or are never brought to light. No one has discussed this here yet, but part of the story is that the program officer on one of the accused' recent grants was a coauthor with him on this very research -- consistent with trends discussed in the literature (of the largest predictor of grant receipt being coauthoring papers with grant review panel members or officers). So there's this fraud, potentially involving someone who then goes on to help decide who gets research dollars.

Your reaction is something I've wrestled with a lot. Many times there are no consequences really. People talk about lost reputation or something, but in cases of soft fraud nothing really happens. It just all kind of evaporates into a fog of scientific dispute between parties. In cases of blatant, legal fraud, someone can be fired or lose a position, but that requires significant evidence.

For what? Yes, ego, citations, money, titles, accolades as a "rising star" or a "genius" or whatever it is.

The saddest thing to me really, aside from all those harmed by bogus treatments, or forgoing real treatments, is all the researchers with legitimate ideas, who go against trend, who are pushed out because doing the hard work isn't glitzy and has lots of dead ends. You end up in this system where the buzz is what matters, and riding waves of self-perpetuating hype is what gets you to the top. Appropriate skepticism and careful thought, meanwhile, costs you because that takes time and risk.
It’s Declination not “decline”. This article makes very little sense - computer generated?
Science, as a discipline, is all about not trusting yourself because you can fool yourself easily if you're not careful.
But ads that do will be more effective.
A "this website doesn't exist" situation maybe. It makes sense. Who needs reality when dreams will suffice?
I use GitHub Copilot to be more productive
Not for the recent variants.

But, it is still claimed that they greatly reduce severe infection.
Amazon is the last place I go if I need to purchase something. Sometimes I'll use it like a search engine and then go off-site and make the purchase elsewhere.
Power generation doesn't generally waste water, it just extracts the potential energy from discharges that would've happened anyway.
This is why you have an issue with Amazon retail? Really? Sure, you can dislike a parent company, but the issues being discussed in TFA and this HN thread is about the shopping experience. Your desire to have a chat about your right wing beliefs have no place here.
Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis. Since last week. Good read I recommend it even if you are not into gardening understanding life in the soi is important.
By "not a big problem" I mean it would be worse to still have pandemic of original polio and maybe with additional mutations.

I am a layman in this field so I could be wrong.
Don't worry, they don't listen to speaking out against bigG or others for being bad
Additional benefit: isolating accidents to only reckless drivers hitting trees rather than t-boning someone else
It's like we're repeating an old era of the early United States when every guy on a street corner would be copying reputable wares and selling them without regulation, patent protections, brand / trademark protections, and people were hawking quack snake oil under any name.

I'm all for reducing useless regulation, but sometimes you understand where it originally came from as a legitimate need.
That's not been my experience and I live north of 46 degrees latitude, with an average December temperatures much lower than, for example, Abilene, TX, with a total electric bill in the neighborhood of ~$250/month in December/January. The Coefficient of Performance for electrical resistance heat, and natural gas are both 1.0, (so you need the same number of joules to heat the air to the same temperature from either energy source). Maybe electric rates are really high in Texas in the winter? Or the gas rates are really low, and the house is huge?
Just like people that repeat that they will give you your money back - while obviously not doing it.

Then you get political parties or movements that claim that they are "true and real" or "genuine".

Just like "The People's Front of Judea" :)
I came here to say that SSRIs absolutely work.
Your path to a better world is less healthcare, less help, and more soul-crushing labour?

> "In the USA we want "good" jobs that come with personal fulfillment, agency, mental stimulation... great"

That doesn't so much depend on the type of job, it depends on the management environment and coworkers. People can be happy with a sense of fulfillment and agency, or unhappy without those things in both skilled or menial, high or low paid jobs.

> "i.e. manufactured products, which can only be made by soul-crushing labor and toil."

In Henry Ford's autobiography, he wonders at the factory worker who is happy dipping metal components in liquid, with only the gentlest wave of the hands as their labour, over and over all day, and cannot be tempted by money to do anything more interesting or complex.[1]

Are the people making James Webb, or ASML's EUV-lithography machines or X-Ray machines doing soul-crushing labour? Are the people making hand-made wooden furniture doing soul-crushing labour with no agency and no mental stimulation? And, more importantly, do they need to be? Is that the only way we can imagine work and jobs? Does labour necessitate micromanagement, time tracking, awful bosses, skeleton staff, high stress, squeezing for maximum value extraction? Couldn't we change that instead, and keep the healthcare and welfare?

[1] in as many words; I forget the exact anecdote.
Thanks. To dogpile on what a bad measure that was, I'd add another example:

A Tesla Plaid S is 1020HP.

Is it less efficient because the engine is oversized? Seemingly the opposite. It's 33kWh/mi compared to the nearby Performance S (with similar 21 inch wheelsizes). If we assessed miles*capacity/hp though, things would look incredibly dire & dark for the Plaid; the worst EV in production perhaps?

In general, engine output capacity doesnt really tell us much.
I fell asleep sitting on the floor leaned against a wall during a heavy metal show. I was completely sober. Sometimes when you're tired, you're tired.
Unfortunately the inhabitants of the Mojave turned down a major solar power project last year because of ecological disruption", aka "this wouldn't be pretty on our nature hikes."

Perhaps we can use the Salton Sea? It is at least acknowledged as a truly destroyed ecosystem.
Yes that sounds like a good incentive to move to the next level doing much of the same thing.
I read the article, I disagree with the concept of using PV to generate artificial hydrocarbon fuels in general, as not a great business plan. It's not the best use of the technology when we should be bypassing that entirely.

Go use excess PV to pump water uphill back into a reservoir or something if you need energy storage, not drive a complicated process to make artificial hydrocarbons to store in a tank and burn in an engine.
this might help a little:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/791848/penrose-tili...
which is just a watered down explanation of the excellent https://tilings.math.uni-bielefeld.de/substitution/fibonacci...
What's a more efficient way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen: using electricity from a solar panel or using photosynthesis in a plant?
Just finished the Foundation, I just couldn't put down the kindle. I don't know how I missed this gem.

It is really social-science fiction if that makes sense - the premise is a mathematical model that can predict the future of an intergalactic civilization, with social and technological decline, dark ages and recovery.

The plots are various political intrigues the characters participate in to move civilization forward.
> Short of having food flown in from the EU, there is no way to avoid it, it is in your entire food chain, from top end restaurants to fast food. Even the Apple cafeteria with its hilarious ever novel meal names!

Preface: I live in the EU (again) and worked in farm to table agrotourisms and even spent time in Michelin kitchens in both Europe and US and worked as a horticulture Farm manager on Biodynamc and Organic farms for the majority of my culinary career.

There is no need to fly anything in from the EU, other fine things like charcuterie, cheese or wine, because their is enough organic and biodynamic produce to feed a great deal of the US population; the issue is that very few Americans value good food and are prepared to pay the higher costs for cleaner more nutrient dense food--so produce managers are less inclined to buy more than 'just enough.'

Also, most in the US place greater value in quantity over quality and that is a quality that I really think holds things back the most.

It's a dilemma that I understand as a millennial, wherein you are constantly asked to take more and more of your paycheck to offset ever-growing costs of living and food ends up becoming the last part of your discretionary budget due to high rents with a majority of wages that cannot keep up with inflation. Gen Z is woefully stuck in this space by default.

Where I take issue is when those same people are buying new phones every year and leasing cars with high interest rate and ordering doordash after dropping $100+ at the bar and a uber ride home.

It's a problem without an easy solution because you can see it from both sides and it's not clear how to go about it, personally I always spent most of my money on food, be it at the grocery store or restaurants, but that is because I come from a culture that values the things cuisine avails about most things in Life, so it's not a hard sale.

Prior to COVID I really thought we were on the road to get food culture closer to European and Asian standards int he US, but sadly... most of that has been lost.

What should be noted is that their is a reason a hegemonic Megacorp like Amazon has not only purchased Whole Foods, but also moved into the medical field with it's acquisition of One Medical and they understand having a presence in all tiers of the spectrum and have tons of data from millions of people's food purchases via prime.

> All of America's problems I could have worked around, one way or another, but not the food.

>> Everyday, and I do mean everyday, back in the 'poor' western European country I now live, I celebrate and feel thankful for the decent clean tasty healthy food abundant everywhere.

Agreed, (to an extent), but I live in Eastern Europe and I have to settle for un-certified Bio farm products at the farmers markets and Bio stuff from Germany/Austria/Italy/Spain sold at the (mainly German) Super Markets. It's not inexpensive to eat this way, but it's worth it to me.
Hey, that's the combination on my luggage!
> You own a house and I don’t, so screw you.

Renting AirBnB is way more expansive than owning the home so you are the rich guy screwing with the neighbourhood not the other way around.
The US Government is developing a solar geoengineering research plan
To me this is one of the most damning things about this: all the people citing these papers and probably burying negative results. Yes, fraud is unacceptable, but what about all the people using it to further their careers?

These types of cases tend to focus on the fraud, but then everyone eventually walks away and then there's no larger discussion of how this was enabled by the field to have such a hold.

I don't buy the idea that it's all so quixotic and involves so many variables to get right that who knows what's causing a lack of replication. I've heard whispers like this about other big effects in other fields. People know what's going on, and often it's right there in published results but ignored.
We have the power already! In California we currently enjoy the phenomenon of “curtailment” where we can’t use solar power when and where it is produced, so we just disconnect solar panels from the grid. This usually happens in the spring when sun is plentiful and demand is low. If crystalline PV production was collocated with seasonally-curtailed solar power plants, you have a runaway virtuous cycle of zero-carbon energy production.

Of course, you’d have to subsidize it because basic economics won’t make it work.
> The technology now exists to theoretically cover many hundreds of square km of Libya in photovoltaics and take the electricty to Europe through a sub-sea cable

Climate benefits aside, how in the heck is this an improvement over the current situation?

Long-term I really don't think it is prudent for Europe to rely on potentially unfriendly nations to provide them with energy.
Azurite is good for azure storage service emulation and they respond to issues with lightning speed. Aside from storage I’m not aware of anything

Quick edit: there is a cosmosdb emulator out there for windows. Last I looked (6 months ago?) there was not a Linux version (so no docker). If you’re in windows with wsl though not bad. Azure function core tools is also excellent for local dev.
> Here is a sampling of brand names... Voova

This amused me because, as a native English speaker, I once considered buying Voova.com as a [then] freely available brandable five digit dotcom!

tbh names like Lacdo or MOSISO actually seem better than rubbish names like Google or Nvidia
I'm in agreement with you and am arguing against buscoquadnary's analysis (which you make a good argument against). I don't see that diversity can be blamed for the US murder rate.
The combined Texan gun death value you cite is readily found, but I have had trouble finding the number of gun homicides per year, which is puzzling but must have a reason.
Yes but... In Factorio, the only cost is the original manufacturing costs. The same goes for storage. Once manufactured and placed, they will produce power forever as long as it is daylight. The capacitors will also last forever. There are no weather patterns to mess up production.

In other words, once you make one, you have a permanent power increase. Your power can grow exponentially if you just focus on building and placing panels. That makes them the absolute best power source in the game. Not the most compact, though. But that doesn't matter since the map is infinite and there are no transmission losses.

Reality is not as forgiving. We'll need more panels. Way more :) Even more if we start doing things like fuel synthesis. But we should.

I has always bugged me that we use dirty power during summer to... power ACs! We have all this extra energy literally falling from the sky. Which is the whole reason why we want to get rid of it. Air conditioning doesn't actually require that much power to run with proper insulation. People have been able to power large RV air conditioning with solar alone.
> if there was enough willpower and budget to cover, for instance, a huge chunk of the desert near Edwards AFB in CA with hundreds of megawatts of photovoltaics.

One such project being built currently: https://www.mortenson.com/projects/edwards-sanborn-solar-plu...

More notable than the 950MW generation is the 2400MWh of batteries
Wow. Sorry for doubting, that is insane.
Not sure why this is the first time I've heard of that happening...
And a great movie too. The actor who plays the role of Moist does a great job.
The quiet at night is the most wonderful thing.

I think really it's isolation and 'quiet all the time' that gets people.
Are you able to fall asleep easily and deeply at home? I’m a light sleeper, and I’ve often felt like a cat when I sleep. The sound of a mouse would wake me into a running sprint. My mother is the same way, but my father is not, so we joke that I inherited it from my mom, which makes a lot of sense given that I take after her. I’m just wondering if these things contribute to our overall state of awareness and normal waking consciousness. More topical, I enjoy silence, likely as a result of being a light sleeper. So I think I would be mostly immune to prairie madness. It’s also possible that it’s spectrum related in terms of noise sensitivity. One of my first memories was freaking out at a Warriors game as a child because of the noise levels. Interestingly, the spectrum issues come from my father, so there’s a strange mix of genes at work.
> "Our process works by using solar power to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, concentrating CO2 from the atmosphere, then combining CO2 and hydrogen to form natural gas."

That's a pretty artificial form of natural gas.
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I've got good impulse control and planning. Still, I needed some TNC connectors for a surveying project and didn't want to wait the month for Aliexpress/eBayDirect to show up, so I ordered them off Amazon which had the best compromise of price vs shipping time. Of course I did a visual quality check when they showed up, as required for all direct Chineseum.

It's not surprising this niche has developed. What's surprising is that Amazon seems dead set on undermining their business to support it. It's also surprising that people write these amazed posts like they've just discovered this problem, when it has been going on for a decade.

I read a HN comment a while back that framed the topic of declining quality plus free returns as companies outsourcing their QC to the customers and that really stuck with me. This is really the natural progression of wanton consumerism - so much stuff is sold and never actually used that it's profitable to only worry about the case where the buyer actually uses it and finds it lacking.
The reason it takes 20 minutes to walk to a store is because of the automobile. I live in SF, and very few areas of the city are more than a 5 minute walk away from a grocery store. The problem of the automobile is a problem of development and saturation.

The automobile is ideal when few have them. This is exactly why the proliferated widely, now that we have 1.8 automobiles/household, the problems of automobile culture are inescapable unless we revert areas of our cities to pre-automobile urban design.
Going to church/bible study will give u an immediate group of friends to do stuff with
Can anyone provide a summary of this blog post? I am finding it strangely tricky to follow.