skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if this is the case here, but lots of weather APIs cost money, so if they tried to integrate the full process themselves they would no longer be providing a free service, and instead losing money. So by outsourcing the download portion to you, each IP may get a few free downloads and then you just provide the data yourself saving the creator money and allowing the tool to be free...
George Orwell's 1984? Aldous Huxley's Brave New World? Nah, we're headed toward Terry Gilliam's Brazil:

"Mistake? Haha. We don't make mistakes."

https://youtu.be/wzFmPFLIH5s

(Or maybe Mike Judge's Idiocracy, but I'd wager Brazil.)
I find this one hard to get on board with…

I took out students loans and struggled financially with very little help from my parents. I graduated with about $25k in debt.

Ten years later, I’m finally about to pay it off completely. I’ve been very fortunate to get jobs with salaries that allowed me to do this.

I realize not everyone is fortunate in this way. But, at least in America, college is a financial decision. The argument about whether or not it should be is meaningless here. People knew going in what the cost would be, and how much in loans they’d need to take out.

Someone taking out $100k for an art degree made a decision that likely wasn’t very wise. Why should someone that made more responsible decisions and made sure they’d be able to pay their debts now foot the bill for those that didn’t? This isn’t like other welfare — food stamps, for example. This is someone taking out a loan for something and not being able to pay it back.

It might not directly benefit me because I worked to make sure my student loan could be settled. It’s a really tough sell to anyone that has done that. Had I felt confident we would be forgiving student debt, I would have simply reconfigured my pay off so that it was over the longest possible term with the lowest possible monthly payment and just wait.

If our government decides to forgive student loan debt, I’d fully expect a check in the mail for what I paid. That only seems fair.
> I also didn’t like that it parsed and transformed your JavaScript behind the scenes for various reasons. [1]

If your data's smaller e.g. you do most of the filtering on the backend but want to transform it to display multiple ways on the frontend, I really enjoy using Tidy.js https://pbeshai.github.io/tidy/. Great API and makes massaging data pleasant.
but those 'financially irresponsible' people include those who work in professions that don't pay well but the rest of us rely on, like those that care for kids or people with disabilities.

They also include people who have any other unexpected event in their life that affects their employability or income.
These large tech companies have a long and varied history of stupid short-term decision making for profit and bad products due to local individual failures. Until there is a clear and detailed explanation of how the spam sites are avoiding google's wrath, the explanation of stupidity or short-term thinking on Google's part seems just as plausible.
You're taking flak for being too harsh, but I'm glad you posted, because without your second sentence I don't think I could have figured it out. It's too counterintuitive to select a file, download it, and then upload it. My mind would have rejected it before even considering it if I hadn't read your comment before I clicked.

It's a neat and interesting visualization, though, once you get past that. I could see it being useful.
In some cases it’s a flag that there’s a mainframe underneath that people are afraid to touch with the number of digits fixed to save memory. So many other legacy systems assume the field is fixed that you can’t add digits. Companies then look and say, “We can spend tens of millions of dollars to fix this, or we can spend the money on advertising and compensation, and just deal with the issues that come with reusing numbers”
Wow, thank you for pointing this out. I have eczema and would've never though it would increase my risk against *Monkeypox*. Wild, but glad I'm better informed.
Conventional AC and dehumidifiers remove water from air by cooling both until the cooled water drops out of solution. This is supposedly using chemical means to remove hot water from the air so that you don't have to cool it.
Perhaps you’ve heard of smog? Clouds of which used to linger over Las Angeles and at some points even became concentrated enough to kill some sensitive folks?
In the UK, tuition was free for all UK students from 1962 - 1998. That period also saw steady economic growth. I'd cite that as evidence the relationship between tuition fees and the broader economy is complex.
The myth of free stuff. Love it.
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If we go one step back, bars, clubs, pubs, discos, and churches/worship places were where a majority of people spent their socializing time in prior to social media platforms.

Those places would routinely throw people out and all had bouncers and sometimes gatekeepers for entry and all that.

There are certain specific patterns that we did regulate, like the tradition where certain gender or race weren't allowed in them. But generally, someone causing a ruckus gets thrown out.
How many years will this stay online? What is the long term plan?
Use the original URL like the guidelines ask. You can post convenience links in thread, like many people do.
> "...There’s just nobody acting like this is a fucking emergency"
- Peter Staley

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/22/peter-stale...

So, I think it's crazy that:

> In early June, top officials assured Staley that the US had in place a stockpile of 1.2m doses of the vaccine

> The problem was most of those doses weren’t ready. Just 68,000 of the doses were already located in the US; the rest were in freezers in Denmark awaiting shipment. Worse, two-thirds of the doses in Denmark had been manufactured on a new factory line that the FDA hadn’t inspected – which meant the vaccines produced on it couldn’t be used, despite approvals from the FDA’s EU counterpart, the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

So the US is buying a stockpile of vaccines that it considers unacceptable for use? Who does that help? Was this the result of lobbying from a US-based donor with heavy investments in specific EU producers? Is this emergency-preparedness theater?

The FDA reported that it _started_ inspections of that plant on July 7. To be clear, these were bought under a Trump-administration order, so they could easily have inspected that plant a long time ago. Why wait until you actually have an outbreak?

And of the vaccines that _were_ already FDA-approved, it really seems like the administration has really slow-walked moving them.

Meanwhile, in my city which has perhaps the worst outbreak in the US in per-capita terms, vaccines are scarce enough that people can wait for hours in line and then not receive it. People who are in the group who are advised to get the vaccine can call one of several phone numbers to try to get an appointment, but no one will answer.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/san-francisco-monkeyp...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/21/san-franciscos...

So while others in this thread are arguing that the WHO shouldn't be declaring this an emergency, I'm frustrated that the people calling it an emergency aren't empowered to do much.
That too. Yes. To a first approximation Amtrak makes a fair bit of money on the Northeast Corridor which is then loses it pretty much everywhere else in the country. (There may be a few city pairs that are profitable but not many.)
A contagious disease that makes a lot of people sick, has a considerable death rate, and often causes scars is definitely cause for declaring a public health emergency. Under what possible definition of the term would you think otherwise?
THE SPECTRE OF TIME IS LOOMING... YOUR RECITATIONS AND REVISIONS... ARE QUITE... VERBAL (KINT)
I'm painfully aware of this problem. I'm writing a metaverse viewer in Rust, to connect to the Second Life / Open Simulator servers and get better performance and look from that 20-year old technology. A metaverse viewer has the problems of both an MMO game client and a web browser. It works much like an MMO client, but it's more general. All the game logic and content come from the server. It faces most of the overload problems a web browser faces. Plus some of the hostile content problems.

I can use many library-type components from game ecosystems. But I can't use the big game engines, Unity and Unreal, because they assume a workflow that uses their own editors, their own networking, and their own formats. So I'm forced to glue libraries together. Some of which I have to write.[1] Most of it is little stuff. Too much little stuff.

That section about struggling to get open source library maintainers to fix things is spot on. I have Github issues open for six libraries. If I open the hood on one of those libraries, I could spend months getting deep enough to contribute. I can only do so much.

[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/serde-llsd
The Hinkley C is a real project which is under construction in the west right now. It's prpjected to take 19 years since approval and 10 years since construction began and cost 26 billion pounds for a nameplate 3200MW capacity. Taking the ratio between nameplate and net for its predecessor of about 62%, we can expect around 11.8 pounds per watt. This does not include operating costs or the decommissioning when the taxpayer gets left holding the ball, or any of the other hidden costs such as the externalised costs of security and publicly funded administration overhead. Nuclear has a zero or even negative economic learning rate so there is no reason to believe any additional plants will be cheaper.

You personally can go buy a 1kW net system for less money per watt right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxUgX3MLWYI

It will pay itself off before any nuclear project started now even opens. By that time batteries will be a third of the price and solar panels will have halved.

Wind is anti-correlated with sun and you can purchase a 10kW wind turbine right now for around 6000 pounds. Put 5kW of nameplate wind capacity into a copy of the same storage system and you have another 2kW average with lower price and even less downtime.

A hydrogen electrolyzer you can purchase right now costs $1000/kW, a 1kW fuel cell is around $4000 and low pressure hydrogen tanks are on the order of $20/kWh. These make weeks or even months of storage possible.

Nuclear is so expensive that even the fudged numbers of a gigawatt scale project with outcomes over a decade away do not compare favourably to end user retail prices of a system you can install in a month.

Any argument about the fission plant running longer are invalid, because the system outlined only has to make 9p/kWh (the same 9p that Hinkley C is being guaranteed via taxpayer funds even when electricity predictably falls below 4p/kwh wholesale) to pay itself back with enough left over for replacement in the two decades before it opens.

So to answer my question for you: money spent on a nuclear project will have a net increase in CO2 before 2040 because it will require concrete and steel and produce no power.

The same money spent on renewables and storage will produce net-zero carbon energy for at least 10 years of that timeframe.

It is only when we have enough renewables that the gas backup stays off even when there is 10% of the average solar or wind that we should consider diverting funds to nuclear.
AFAIK this only temporarily to try to alleviate inflation, so shrug.
I thought the flagged sibling comment was harsh but wow, 9 angry comments in just the last hour. That's not healthy
Please not apple, netflix - cant trust bay area tech with important things anymore
Well come up with an explanation of how these entirely mechanically generated SO clone sites, with no obfuscation, are allowed to exist by Google, when identifying them and removing them should be fairly trivial?

At the very least they're being deliberately neglectful because they don't feel the bad experience harms their revenue because there's no other substantial competitor so they can abuse their monopoly status.

I guess they may just not care enough about software developers and figure we're mostly using ad blockers so its wasted effort and we'll develop blocklists ourselves. With no monetary value that they can assign to the ill will that it engenders they figure it must not matter so they don't bother. Pissing off a large chunk of the entire IT community via obvious neglect seems like a poor move to me, but then I've never felt that I'm cut out for management.
Does the smog in LA consist of N2O from farms?
> It's interesting to see people rediscover this idea of "develop locally, push static site to web,"

Yes! Dreamweaver was good 19 years ago and remains good today. Being able to see what you're doing, without running like treacle in the browser whilst editing (I'm looking at you, Divi and other WP visual theme builders), is an awesome experience. Like professionals in many other fields expect from their software.
> Also plenty of sentient beings tolerate servitude and slavery

But they don't do it with a smile or indifference. And you have to use whips and stuff. :O

> We certainly tolerate servitude in exchange for economic livelihood.

I think it's more complicated than that. Because that begs the question of why we tolerate a broken economic system. We tolerate trans-generational exploitation because of 'culture'. In its widest sense, it is culture that via mediated osmosis makes us resigned, if not supportive, of how the world works. We are born into a world.

~

related: I was walking and passed a cat and made the usual human attempts at starting an interaction without physically reaching out to touch. And fairly typically this cat entirely ignored me, with little if any sign of registering me at all. And that got me thinking about how some of us project psychological things like pride, aloofness, etc. to cats. But what if the simpler, more obvious answer, was true: that cats are actually fairly stupid and have a limited repertoire of interaction protocols and their hard to get act is not an act. Nothing happenin' as far as kitty is concerned. A dog, in contrast, has interaction smarts. And I thought this is just like AI and projecting sentience. A lack of something is misunderstood as a surplus of something else: smarts. Cats playing hard to get, psychological savvy, training their human servants, etc. Whereas in reality, the cat simply didn't recognize something else was attempting initiating an interaction. Kitty has no clue, that's all. It's just so easy to project psychological state on objects. We do it with our cars, for god's sake. It may be that we're simply projecting some optimization algorithm in our own minds that attempts modeling dynamic objects out there unto that thing. But there is really nothing behind the mirror ..
Physical mobility is one of the most limiting factors for economic mobility.

So if some homeless people on trains can reduce the total number of homeless it seems like a policy win.
No, it's not the correct read. My point here - this has already been made clear to you - is that at least one of the following appears to be true:

1) You misunderstand what people mean by "dysfunctional theory of mind" and in particular, may be misinterpreting "theory of mind" as some sort of deliberate analysis people do with regards to people, as opposed to being able to casually and effortlessly understand other people. What you wrote isn't clear enough to establish this but this is one possible way to read what you wrote[1].

2) You aren't wrong about what people mean by "dysfunctional theory of mind" and when you say you have "a pretty good theory mind" you're indeed talking about your own ability to effortlessly read people and situations. However, you're mistaken in your assessment of your own ability in this regard.

3) You're misdiagnosed.

Also, in case it's not obvious, the implication here is more that 1) or 2) seems to be true. And if that's the case, the point here is that your focus on "monotropism" as being more fundamental to autism may be because you understand what it means, whereas you're more skeptical about the "theory of mind" explanations because you either don't understand what that means or have trouble perceiving your own deficiencies in that regard.

[1] For example when you say "I have complex models for all the individuals I interact with and have no particular problems developing them for new people." - it's unclear what you mean. Most people generally do not perceive themselves having any sort of complex models for others, but under the hood, our intuitive ability to understand people and situations is powered by what effectively amounts to complex mental models for others. I don't know if that's what you're saying with regards to yourself or that this is explicitly how you perceive and function, which does support the diagnosis of autism, but amounts to a misunderstanding of the term "theory of mind" - needing to do this explicitly and saying that you have "a pretty good theory of mind" is similar to saying you're completely fluent in a foreign language when all you can do is describe various aspects of the language in English (in a sophisticated way that most native speakers of the language won't be able to) and translate sentences in that language to English and vice-versa with a ton of effort and time.
The argument here is not secularism vs Christianity but religion in general. Human history does show religion as a consistent force.
Conferences and journals don’t allow TeXmacs submissions. You could of course export to LaTeX but that may require some tweaks.
This is the typical stephen wolfram thing where he read feynman's proposal for quantum computing and thought about it by himself since then, and then, I would guess, figured that the experimentalists haven't had much to contribute.
Yep those are the ones, I recognise the covers, thanks for tracking them.
The side that promotes racial identity and classification, wants to teach it to elementary school students, and supports treating people differently based on skin color is the “racist” party. Supporting race-neutral policies regarding law enforcement or immigration, by contrast, is not “racist.”

Democrats are engaged in a sweeping effort to redefine “racism” to serve the purposes of white liberals: https://contexts.org/blog/who-gets-to-define-whats-racist/ (“White elites —who play an outsized role in defining racism in academia, the media, and the broader culture — instead seem to define ‘racism’ in ways that are congenial to their own preferences and priorities…. Charges of “racism,” for instance, are primarily deployed against the political opponents of upwardly-mobile, highly-educated progressive white people.”)
"which is often more fair to women who skipped years of work and career building and stayed with kids."

Or unfair to those who simply choose not to save (without staying home with kids).

"Earned before/during marriage doesn't matter in this case."

That sounds like a terrible and unfair place. Where is that?
"I don’t spend much time in GIS tools"

Me neither, but are there any GIS tools, that get it right?

My (limited and possibly outdated) experience with them is kind of horrible. Buttons and information overload and the workflow of experienced users is strictly memorized. I know some people (used to) make their living, just by knowing where to click around in ArcGIS and helping others who do not know the interface structure so well.
This attitude is a great starting point, but take caution to curate a future for yourself that you find interesting.

Whatever work you do, you will forever be the person who has done that work. Next time something needs to change in that domain or language, you might find yourself talked about as a specialist!

The moral is to choose and pick your projects carefully. Vocalizing your experiences with your manager goes a long way for shaping your future: like “I liked working in X and I want to do that more” and “I am glad I got to try Y, but I really didn’t enjoy it.”
MIT scientists found a way to boil water more quickly and efficiently
In a Thunderbird vs. Mutt comparison I think personal preference and primary use case factors in pretty heavily.

There are people who find working primarily in a terminal (usually, multiple) better for them. Perhaps by no coincidence, I've noticed that these people tend to work in circles where HTML email is not common, so there is little gain in "going GUI" for email.

Terminal programs, by definition and necessity, have a focus on efficient and comprehensive keyboard navigation. It is a rare GUI program that maintains a similar focus on keyboard navigation. (Thunderbird might be one, I don't know)

You can ssh into a box somewhere and use terminal programs and they feel native. Remote access to GUI programs is usually a larger compromise.

I tend to feel much more "in control" of my email workflow when I can set up complex filters, which usually leads me away from IMAP and toward email on the local disk. I've found that "old school" mail programs handle this use case better than GUI ones (which are usually focused on IMAP).

So, personally, I'm either reading mail from local storage with an old-school mail reader (for very high volume, tech related, work related, stuff), or going full cloud and using webmail (for lower volume personal mail). That way I can always get to my mail from anywhere, seamlessly (be it ssh or a browser).
Why Swiss Trains Are the Best in Europe [video]
A tool being very useful doesn’t mean that it is a very good tool.

There are better tools for the functionality the C preprocessor attempts to provide. Other languages have module inclusion systems and very powerful macros that don’t have the enormous footguns of the C preprocessor.

Édit: to be clear, I think #embed is a fine idea; I’d use it and it would make my sourcebase cleaner in some places.
I imagine because, as i've heard not experienced, Amazon purposefully tries to churn employees. Sounds awful to work for.
I agree forgiving student loan debt then just continuing on with the current system wouldn’t be great. There could be an argument that it would still represent an economic boost that would benefit many. But especially at this particular moment, I don’t find that argument outweighs the negatives.
Ideally, add more mass to your home. We're most sensitive not to absolute temperatures but to the characteristics of radiant heating and cooling in our environments. In-floor heating or cooling would do a lot more to stabilize your comfort than blowing around conditioned air.
It's definitely possible that some distros improved WM based setups. Last time I as down the WM rabbit hole was over 4 years ago. I spent quite a bit of time to get something usable (and it was fun!).
I'd imagine most people who are in favour of student debt forgiveness are also in favour of free tuition going forwards as well. It would be odd indeed to suggest your debt should be forgiven, but not that of someone who graduates next year.

One complex bit of debt forgiveness is what happens with those who have sacrificed much to already pay off much of their debt. Should they get some kind of repayment?
> I didn't know x86 emulation was possible on the Espressif platform.

It's probably possible on any platform given enough ram to fit the code. Years ago someone emulated Arm on a propeller chip and booted ubuntu (web log or private page so might be lost to time). Took something like 15 or 30 minutes to get to a prompt as the emulation was slow.
> If monkeypox becomes a pandemic that spreads as widely as COVID, will people look back and say the same things about people who engaged in promiscuous sexual behavior?

Judging from the when there was attention on AIDS and particularly the dialog around not following the guidance regarding safe sex on that, yes.
Wow, the author got falsely accused of posting revenge porn, a criminal act by the way, and your answer is take it? Why are you so intent on attacking the author’s character for simply defending himself?