skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, the OP's mindset is that of many Westerners.

Currently, the average Indian citizen emits half the greenhouse gas of the global per capita average. To argue that they deserve less than their share is blatent discrimination.

Meanwhile, China has invested more than double what the US invested into renewable energy sources over the past decade, and more than all of Europe combined. And this is all while the average Chinese citizen emits 10 metric tons less of greenhouse gasses than the average American.

But all you hear in the west is how the bad coal plants in India and China are causing global warming when China already has 1 million more GWh
of renewable energy than the US.

The fact is western lifestyles are not sustainable, especially American lifestyles.

Sources:
https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/29752/...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenho...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewab...
I agree, the process of building a new product and a successful business is really hard. Especially if you're dislodging existing processes in some way. Extensions and other little bits of process automation can be a nice way to help offer clear advantages over those spreadsheets. None of that is foolproof though, and it's still not easy. That said, it can still be a good signal that there's something in the business which could be turned into a useful product or service.
I was wondering the other night when shopping for some US made wrenches and when finding all these SK wrenches sold out on Amazon, and going to the manufacturer website directly and seeing a banner about being out of stock due to global supply chain issues I then went to their reseller listings. One of them was https://www.maxwarehouse.com/pages/about-us

And I started to wonder if we’ll see more curated shopping experiences and a resurgence of recognizing the value such a service offers.
Maybe Java people like it because it feels very Java-like, but that's a huge downside to me for any other language. I can't stand using Pycharm. So heavy weight, slow, bloated, ugly. Reminds me of using Eclipse.
Finding smart contract vulnerabilities with ConCert
"We provide three detailed case studies of vulnerabilities in smart contracts, and show how property
based testing would have found them: 1. the Dexter1 token exchange; 2. the iToken; 3. the ICO of
Brave’s BAT token. The last example is, in fact, new, and was missed in the auditing process.
"...We have implemented this testing in ConCert, a general executable model/specification of smart
contract execution in the Coq proof assistant. ConCert contracts can be used to generate verified smart contracts in Tezos’ LIGO and Concordium’s rust language. We thus show the effectiveness of combining formal verification and property-based testing of smart contracts..."

[PDF]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.00758.pdf
Otherwise blank account from a dummy email with a stolen credit card gives you very little traceability.
We don’t necessarily see more light as the universe ages, nor do we see farther away. The universe is expanding, and the farther something is, the faster it is moving away from us. It can even be moving faster than the speed of light relative to us, because the space between us is growing, and more empty space between us, the more this extra stacks up. When this happens, something is beyond the visible universe - that light can never reach us.

So there are two ways we cannot see something - if the universe is not old enough for light to reach us yet, or if there is too much new universe being created in between us and the light for the light to catch up to us.

In a far enough future, there will be no other galaxies in the sky as all the matter will be too far away for light to reach us.
They can get away with it because conventional retailers are also pretty arrogant, particularly in that they decide what their customers want to buy.

For instance Best Buy wants to sell you a SATA SSD but they won't sell you the mounting bracket to mount it in a desktop computer or to adapt the molex power connector to the drive. They sell low end mirrorless cameras but don't have a significant collection of lenses.

I have a serious crafting programme but can find exactly one item at Michael's that I want because they are similarly opinionated.

Amazon stocks the products I want to buy but the consistency of their service is awful.
> The solution for electric trucking has been obvious for 50 years - overhead cables on all major highways.

Not necessarily disagreeing, but if the solution has been obvious for 50 years, why hasn't it happened?
As a seasoned storage administrator and ZFS veteran, reading over these comments is mildly infuriating. The amount of misconceptions and flagrant untruths is appalling. Using a beta version of FUSE ZoL one weekend 10 years ago does not make you an expert on storage and filesytems. People have no appreciation for what a wonderful gift ZFS is to the storage community, how well architected it is and how hard behlendorf and the rest of the team have worked.
I am in my late 50s, and don’t take things quite as seriously as I once did. But seriously, I would like to release some games!
US EIA Predicts U.S. Increase in Fossil Use Through 2050 [pdf]
Not just religion, but stateism.

In the US, the conspiracy memes are literally on our money, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Providence.

We nurture and spread the memes of the all seeing eye and the slow grinding gears of justice, not because they're literally true in all cases, but because if you get a critical mass of people to behave as if they are true and voluntarily act in compliance with the rules of this entity, then the much more limited power of the entity can focus itself on the tiny minority of detractors. That's also why detractors often spend time trying to get as many other people out of compliance as possible. It's easier to hide in a crowd when the entity you're hiding from can't arrest everybody.

This is also why it really doesn't take a terribly large minority to collapse this power dynamic, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35.... The actual kinetic power is necessarily supported by its memetic power.
Are these academic types great engineers? Do you find that the academics have a major edge in domain knowledge over self taught programmer?
> I really respect people who self-host their own data platforms, etc. but I don’t have time for that.

Exactly how I feel when I see the myriad amounts of threads/comments from people here who are self-hosting things in the name of privacy, control, "stick it to the man", etc.
"How to Edit Technical Documents" by Donald W. Bush and Charles P. Campbell is a pretty easy read that explains how to approach writing and structuring technical documents.

Edit: Some places have it priced pretty highly, but Amazon has it here for about $3:

https://www.amazon.com/Edit-Technical-Documents-Donald-Bush/...
Thanks for the kind words!

The logos highlight companies where our customers (the engineers) work. Since we're early stage, so far it's more common for engineers to discover CodeCrafters, sign up by themselves, and expense it to their company. That might explain why you can't find information about subscription on the intranet.

We also do have cases where we work with companies to land team subscriptions, so if you'd be interested for us to engage with your company, feel free to drop me a note — sarup@codecrafters.io, and I'd love to help. It might be that the person you couldn't locate has moved on from the company, but I don't have a good explanation for why you couldn't find them on LinkedIn :-D If you emailed me, I could ask them and find out for you (for references, etc) — for most listed on the website, I've been in contact with them :)
It wasn’t for $160, they pretended to send $160k by mistake and asked for a wire transfer of $159,840 to get the difference back.
Chrome on a Macbook
Thank you! Happy to hear it's been helpful :)
Increases the incentive to look for brands that don't waste money on advertising.
What makes an undercover science sleuth tick? Fake-paper detective speaks out
There is a category called Software and Game Development on Twitch now. It’s more focused than when everything was in Science and Technology. I watch PirateSoftware stream about their game heartbound on there it’s pretty cool.
Bore hole open cycle loops probably wont be viable in areas that fracking is happening. Super hot steam mixed with methane doesn't sound like a good idea.
of course. i am only addressing the argument that pollution through outsourcing should be the problem of the country doing the outsourcing, and not the country doing the outsourced work. sure, the outsourcing country is to blame, but the effort to reduce the pollution still needs to be done in the country where the outsourced work is done and the pollution happens.
I made a game on a 43 year old console
All platitudes aside, comparison really is the thief of joy.

Lots of people have very different situations from what they project (witting or unwittingly), they might be running up debt to pay for their lifestyle or maybe they have profitable small side businesses, and bartend for the bills and social aspect.

Focus on your journey, and where you are on the path, don't get distracted with people "passing" you on shorter, longer, or completely different paths.
I have a question.

Do they prosecute you even if you're simply gay (and not doing any sexual activity whatsoever)?
I dunno. Even when I was making minimum wage, groceries never seemed like a significant part of my budget. I never understood people trying to save 10c to get, like, the cheapest mustard possible. Compared to the big expenses (rent) food was really a small percentage of a budget, especially if you avoid stocking up on meat or alcohol.

I remember being much more frustrated by friends trying to drag me out to eat at restaurants or throwing away food. Like, one sit down meal was worth three days of groceries!
Your brain is a prediction machine that is always active
For me it was an Ask HN post asking how much one is making on their side project. The responses inspired me to start my own project which then over a period of time with handwork and perseverance turned into a full time entrepreneurial pursuit. So thanks for showing the way HN!
Let's set up some expectations first.

Games almost never "get out of the door quickly", with very few exceptions.

That goes multiple for multiplayer games.

What you might be able to produce quickly is prototypes. "A moving rectangle which shoots circles" - kind of thing. That is a super power, don't underestimate it.

LÖVE is a nice game engine, I used it a lot in the past, mostly for personal stuff. And released some open source libraries in the process.
Show HN: Highlight – Debug customer-facing issues with replay
Hey HN, I’m Jay, a co-founder at Highlight and a YC alum; excited to share our replay-based debugging tool!

TLDR; if you're using a tool like Fullstory for debugging, or you have trouble understanding the actual impact of your errors (e.g. in sentry), you should give us a try!

We built Highlight because we constantly found ourselves flooded with errors and support tickets with very little context on why these issues occurred. To make matters worse, there was never an easy (and less annoying way) of reproducing these errors, other than by asking users to send screenshots, videos, etc. Frankly, this wasn’t a good use of anyone’s time!

At the same time, the more product-oriented folks on our team wished that they could better understand UX flows and user frustrations without having to do unnecessary user interviews.

Highlight addresses both of these pain points by giving teams reproducibility out of the box! Our platform is installable with a single Javascript snippet and makes it easy and quick to search for relevant user sessions. For product folks, it’s easy to filter down to sessions where users performed specific actions, such as using a newly released feature. For developers, when an error or support ticket shows up in their inbox, they know exactly where to start debugging

Today, we’re focusing on session replay and monitoring, but our goal is to expand to an entire suite of debugging tooling focused on helping teams find and fix issues faster. Some features on our roadmap include live session viewing, backend error monitoring, and much more!
There are far too many that try to use this argument without really knowing what they're talking about.

*Don't mistake skepticism for knowledge*

This is a major problem on this site and elsewhere.
somehow my little book got HN love and that got me started on my indiehacking career! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23700486 made 200k so far. would recommend.
I agree, but I disagree about one aspect. For the most part, humans don't use reason all that much or all that deeply. We usually use intuitive thinking, and there is research showing that immediate intuitive responses are often better than the result of long thinking. More negatively, is QAnon belief, or even Trump election claim belief, about reason? Or is it about associations between words and concepts, especially when those concepts are believed in by the people the believer tends to trust and associate with?

In other words, the takeaway here may not be that GPT-3 spews bullshit. It may be that most of the time, human "thinking" is a less-nuanced, biological version of GPT-3.
I think not everybody is at struggle with their own insignificance. If nothing else, being aware of it frees you to do good things for yourself and those you care about, instead of pursuing imaginary higher-level goals. If one doesn't feel guilty for trespassing fantasy rules, they can work out what makes them and their loved ones happy in this very life - and I don't think that being an ass or criminal would be many people's choice anyway.
The scam was for $160,000. It's a common scam; here's how it works:

1. Victim is called and informed they owe a small amount.

2. Scammer offers to help victim make payment and has them install remote control software on their computer. (You may think, "who would ever do that?" Answer: seniors with trusting attitudes and little computer savvy.)

3. Scammer walks victim through fake bank transfer and "accidentally" adds several zeroes to transfer amount.

4. Scammer pretends to freak out, talks about losing his job, family, etc.

5. Victim empathizes with scammer. Scammer asks victim to "transfer it back".

6. Victim loses life savings.
I've been making games (mostly solo) as a hobby for a little over ten years. It's been fun! I'm currently working on a blog post to document every single project I've started
You are asking why a thing isn't done, instead of actually arguing in favor of it.
Why do so many bikes end up underwater? The reasons can be weird and varied
Perhaps a product idea is to make a front-end to Amazon that is able to better filter the results, to bring forward slightly higher priced items that are higher quality, and do a better job of filtering out spam than Amazon (something that filters out those six-letter all-capital-letter Chinese company names).

Income would be generated by making all of the links to the actual products Amazon affiliate links, but just make the frontend look exactly like Amazon's search with better results.
Germany is currently testing this on some selected sections.
Suspicion. "I have figured out this group. We can discount all other narratives. They are evil."

Comfort. "There is an (evil) organisation in charge of things, don't worry, we know what's going on. there's no chaos or ineptitude."
I think the whole "movement" has been created from the fact that, scientifically speaking, earth is not round. At least not perfectly round like you see photos, because that's obviously water being pulled by gravity making it look like a soap bubble perfectly rounded.

First time I saw real photo of Earth I was somewhat shocked.

https://c.tenor.com/f7Pz19uaXFwAAAAC/earth-rotating.gif
I run several software teams that all have ML engineers on them, and two ML-specific teams of all ML engineers. Perhaps 14 ML engineers in total across my teams. We pay FAMGAN market rate. Their experience ranges from senior ML (6-8 years exp) to three who I hired right out of undergrad/masters, and two of those were interns who got job offers after internships.

Only one out of all of those have a PhD, and it’s only pseudo related. You absolutely do not need to have a PhD for 80% of positions in the modern world of ML in my experience, and I’d go as far as saying unless you want something significantly more prestigious than “market rate ML job doing interesting work” then a PhD is probably a net negative in life as an ML person given the opportunity cost. I have definitely turned down prestigious academia PhD types who wanted to move to industry in strong favor of strong SWEs with practical ML experience, and have a strong preference for same.

This definitely isn’t the answer academia or most people who have sunk cost of their time into PhDs would agree with, or necessarily like, but from a practical perspective it’s my experience across much of industry.
As a consumer, I am well aware of this problem. I use Fakespot Fake Amazon Review browser extension to help weed out junk reviews and find quality products. (It seems almost all of them are 4.5 stars these days)

Another strategy to counter bad-quality products is to buy items directly from the brand's website. i.e. buy socks from hanes.com instead of amazon.

Another problem I see with the shopping experience is that I would sometimes spend 10 or 20 minutes looking for just the right product (which is absurd when you think about just how powerful modern filtering and search algorithms can be.) And then it dawned on me. Amazon is making money off of those 10 or 20 minutes of "engagement" because it gives them time to show a bunch of paid ads as I search.

To counter that problem, I always filter my results with "Prime Only" and Filter: Show lowest price to highest. I use Prime Only as a proxy-variable to filter out unpopular items (they are probably unpopular for a reason) It's amazing how much money you can save doing this. Usually you can avoid paying double what the default results are.
I mean, we still haven't even electrified all the railways, and the proposal for IceLink, a cable to import cheap renewable power from IceLand to UK, was sitting on the shelf for 60 years.

Also we had trolleybusses in many cities and got rid of them
I reached essentially the same conclusion after playing with GTP-3 for a while. It spins out mountains of convincing and impressive bullshit, but you can’t actually trust anything it says because it is disconnected from right, wrong, correct and incorrect. Reading too much of what it outputs is dangerous because it basically is feeding white noise into your perception and experience of the world.
They mention that while loops are limited because C doesn't have tail recursion. However, in my experience gcc and clang are pretty decent at tail recursion. It happens via the -foptimize-sibling-calls setting, which is enabled by default on -O2 or higher.

The caveat is that the standard doesn't guarantee these optimizations. But there are some non-standard __attribute__ declarations that can help with that.
The late Simon Leys mentioned this in one of the essays in The Hall of Uselessness (NYRB books).
This has nothing to do with a "walled-garden" approach. Removing the walled garden essentially allows what you're so smugly against.

Of course, this can be abused. But the problem isn't having a walled garden. The problem is monopoly and duopoly. There aren't any real options.

We keep beating around the bush of the reality - anti-trust is what's needed. Not squabbling over details and feeling good about arguing with kids about apple. I mean, go ahead, pat yourself on the back, but we're still in the same place. The EU can add a selector for a browser or tell apple to change their input jack but that still doesn't solve the problem - the market is anti-competitive because there is no competition. Walled garden or not doesn't matter if there are only 2 competitors.
This is neat. Although I’m not a huge fan of subscription payments where you lose access once you stop paying.

I’d happily pay a few hundred dollars and have access to it years later.

Like the way we bought books and software CDs a while back. You buy, you own it.

Not everything needs to be a subscription unless it is a truly recurring service where every month there is value add.
The Mirror Stage
This should have been a comment in a of the weekly threads where HNers complain about Amazon.
thanks for the tl;dr. I hate clickbait
Variety of ways.

Yes.
Seems like more often than not I see them folded up, not in use. Even with the price of diesel. I wonder how much they save?
> (i jest)

Infinite Jest? 70 pages longer (if you don't include the footnotes)
LOL yes, ZFS is better than btrfs by far in that regard, but there have been issues specifically with zfs send/recv of encrypted datasets. I believe all known issues are resolved now.
My understanding is they propose to excite the material with electromagnetic waves until it undergoes a phase shift, solid to liquid to gas.

So then they have superheated gaseous rock in the bottom of the bore hole, how do they get it out? Conservation of mass: it must go somewhere.

Ventilation isn't so simple. The gaseous rock will condense, then harden on the walls of the ventilation tube. Or, maybe it reacts with the materials of your down-hole equipment.
The Minto Pyramid Principle is what you're looking for - https://www.amazon.com/NEW-Pyramid-Principle-Writing-Thinkin.... A timeless book on how to structure writing. Once you understand it, you'll start to notice applications of the book out in the wild. You'll also start to loathe writing that isn't structured as such because it's needlessly tedious and more difficult to understand.

The Minto Pyramid Principle is heavily used and recommended within Amazon, a company famous for their culture of written narratives.
> In some American neighborhoods, if you don't regularly cut your grass, people will call the police.

If you can afford to live in one of these neighborhoods, you are already middle class.
Of course there did exist 100% safe system languages. Even concurrency safe. Plenty of them.
Your link doesn't support your claims (that it has been "obvious for 50 years" or that it's the cheapest and most efficient solution). I don't doubt that it's cheaper and more efficient than large BEVs, but like the other commenters, I would like to know where this has been conclusively studied and why this hasn't been deployed at scale anywhere.

> they dont occupy petrol stations

In the US they usually have their own stations.

EDIT: Downvoters, care to explain?
Managing remote work (let alone contractors) is far more difficult than in-person and geographic / time zone / cultural / legal differences only amplify this, but yes, I think far too many people who fight for remote work don't realize that they are fighting for their own commoditization, and that it will kill their career if they actually get what they think they want.
Visa, Mastercard suspend payments for ad purchases on PornHub, MindGeek
As I wrote the Tell post, I was pondering this. I think curated shopping could be a solution, but as evidenced by some of the current popular "curated" sites, they tend also to race to a less-than-optimal level as well.

There are old companies like Consumer Reports which were sort of doing this, but I suspect they have some intentional or unintentional biases.

In the tech world we have sites which maybe started out trying to bring light to the best products, but it seems every site gets gamed or just sells out. Then you can't trust it.

True word of mouth is reliable, but when none of the mouths can get their hands on the actual good product, there's nobody to recommend it. Or maybe it no longer even exists because the manufacturer couldn't compete with the garbage on Amazon.