skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's one thing that i don't get about the climate change movement. It would seem that the biggest contributors to climate change and pollution are developing nations that use carbon based energy (ie coal plants in China, Russia, India, etc).

With that said it seems that the only real solution would be to convince these countries to adopt greener energy (which is unlikely to happen for a variety of reasons) which leads me to ask: is anything else really making a difference?

We can talk about adopting plant based diets, talk about banning private jets and mandating electric cars, there's lot of things that we can do, but the question is any of that even going to matter when the vast majority of global warming is contributed to by other nations that we have no control over.

Furthermore I think we have to weigh our sacrifices against the impact. If were going to ban something like private jets, there better be a real impact. What I see now though is, if we ban private jets for example, we will bear the cost of that ban without any of the associated green benefits because again, the developing nations with their coal plants are pumping out exponentially more greenhouse gasses than any private jet would.

My conclusion is rather cynical but I don't see why we should be making sacrifices, when none of those sacrifices lead to quantifiable results. And what I particularly don't like now is that we seem to be making policy not on what will make a quantifiable difference in climate, but rather what will make us feel like we're making an impact. It's really a more broad issue than that, we as a society seem to have ceased trying to actually solve problems, rather we "solve" them by doing something that makes us feel good, regardless of whether than thing actually has any real impact.
> mammal, has a blood system, eats leaves, reacts certain

DALL-E likely can map all those concepts to a giraffe also.
Hockey Graphs – Visualizing and analyzing hockey and statistics
Regexp, xslt
OpenSCAD Graph Editor:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

I'm really fond of visual programming tools such as node editors and Blockly, so this really appeals to me.

This was just announced on Reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/openscad/comments/wf33tf/i_have_cre...

w/ releases for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor/releases/ta...

It's already been updated once since announcement, and the manual seems really good:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor/blob/master...

It seems a really promising tool, and the discussion on the Discord was quite enlightening. https://discord.com/invite/AsxWyczCJF

It supports all of OpenSCAD, and is extensible and able to use existing text/coded modules (BOSL-2 is cited as an example), and seems really promising --- I'm going to try porting: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview to it, just so I can re-factor the code and hopefully get a better understanding of it visually.
Hey I've been developing a game by myself for the past 7 months. Would love to be a part of your community to share ideas and contribute. Thanks!
Good prices ahead for custom PC builders!!
Do y'all not have corded electric mowers in America?

Here in the UK, an entry-level petrol mower is £150+ while an entry-level corded electric mower is only £50. They're also much lighter, which is great for ladies and kids. And they start really reliably, even if they've sat in a shed all winter.
thus I say "might". idk why either of those companies deserve your time giving them the benefit of the doubt.
The song Convoy references this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss - on the US interstates trucks will kind of "naturally" form convoys and the lead truck will swap off now and then; the rest will "draft" behind it.

It saves a small but noticeable amount of fuel.
Yes, yet in a thread specifically about what keyboards can do which mouses can't, "you can use the keyboard for that" is the point.

There's a menu item for Undo in most GUI applictions. But who has time? If you can undo from TUI vim without a keystroke, I don't happen to know how.
My Own Dimes Square Fascist Humiliation Ritual
But the trend also largely applies to Europe, which has a more walkable infrastructure.
So I don't think its the only reason.
The unfortunate truth of modern journalism is that people don't want to pay for it. So being a journalist today means getting paid by the number of words or paid by the number of stories produced per day.

I know for instance in a typical reputable German online news site a journalist on the news desk has to produce 4 to 8 news items per day. Per day! If you are on the investigation teams that is obviously lower but nobody can spend a week on researching a topic anymore.
I think the gitlab export format is actually not too bad: Just a tar file with the git repo in bundle format and all the gitlab specific components in ndjson format (and data in those ndjson files looks fairly straightforward as well on first glance). The problem is though that there are no real interoperable formats for things like tickets, project boards, CI setup, etc. (that I am aware of anyway).
So everyone invents their own export format (if they even bother to implement that functionality in the first place) and importing into a different platform will always require writing some extra code and mangling of the data to account for different features.
What is your criticism of this technology? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z75A_JMBx4
This is really fun! Seems like I’ll enjoy this more than a regular crossword puzzle because it has less of a focus on cultural references.
My curiosity in using things like heat pumps is that what happens when you move too much of that heat energy away. The heat might be doing nothing but, it has been there for a long time. At what point is too much heat displaced to the surface and what is the outcome of that?
Show HN: Flying Carpet iOS, file transfer to Windows and Linux, no internet reqd
If you've ever wanted to transfer files directly between iOS and Windows/Linux without using the internet or setting up a SMB share on a WiFi network, try it out! Desktop versions at https://github.com/spieglt/flyingcarpet.
You don't need a PhD for DS/ML Engineer. Even at FAANG, even in their research labs.

Usually a PhD is only in the requirements for Research Scientist (RS).

That said, I did a PhD (and am now a RS). It's a fantastic opportunity to learn fully focused during a few years.

But if your sole objective is the career (which is ok!), don't do a PhD. There are much easier ways to break into ML industry.
Not a full-time developer, but I have been struggling with developing my first game a lot as a side project next to a regular day-job. It's already in a kind-of beta state (https://yare.io), but still far from finished and would love to be part of such group!
I might be interested, but this group sounds too "serious" for me. Ie i'm serious, but i have a full time job, and i'm obsessive so i'm yakshaving the foundations of my projects. I'm less concerned with the final game, and more concerned with building a platform that helps me efficiently create.

While the game is my goal, i focus on the platform because i feel solo devs have a ton of overhead. I figure if i can optimize my the creative aspects of my work i will have better long term success. Point being, i am interested in this space but not in pushing X game out the door asap. I expect my first/second/third/etc games to be failures, stepping stones. I'm here for the journey. With an eye on burnout.

So i suspect my approach may not be focused enough for your group. As right not i'm working on archival and automation of creative pipelines moreso than games.
Fraud in banks and the post office is a thing that happens, though. If you are concerned about your employees being compromised then contracting with a third party whose employees you don't control and don't answer to you probably isn't the solution.
Reminds me of a guy who implemented a pre-screen on his phone calls to stop spammers. He said he wanted to use something simple at first and that he planned to tweak it depending upon how many spammers go through. So his phase one it asks "Dial 1 to continue". But that was enough to stop all the spam calls so he never had to improve it.
GitHub is getting SSH commit signing Verified badges, in support of Git 2.34
If it's done on my spare time, I don't have time to create proper test suite, proper CI... This is done for me by CodeCrafters. It helps save a lot of time.
Sounds like a lot of work compared to just being fat. ;)
Images of objects arent objects and measure only their 2D geometrical properties projected onto the image plane. These properties are correlated across images, inexplicably, since the machine has no access to the physical properties of those objects, nor the laws of physics.
> They cut right through safety chaps, no problem

Ouch! I assume that's a combination between the higher torque of an electric motor and shoddy low cost Chinese engineering?
This all makes sense. On the flip side I'd imagine that there are some abortion clinic operators who are already strategizing with legal foundations to deliberately bring an ideal test case as soon as possible in order to establish a favorable precedent.
and this right here is why I avoid larger subreddits. the truth is always buried underneath hundreds of poorly thought out knee jerk responses
I tend to believe what he says because I don't get the "narcissist cult leader" vibe from him.

I do get that vibe from the vast majority of popular content creators in the "hustle" niche, though.
tangential : Two weeks ago (and for a while) our country's twitter-sphere (Chile) was completely and obviously dominated by bots, they were starting and inflating trending topics with absurd lies, spreading fear and chaos in favor of "Rechazo" (the option against our new constitution in the next ballot) or echo chambers for republican and extreme right associated politicians.. What happened? a self organized group[1] started to do data analysis of the trending topics and delivering the results to the people showing who was behind the campaigns and synthetic likes, after this, prominent and public figures from that sector started to cut funding for bot networks (because of the public shaming and media attention they were receiving) and is so pathetic now ,they can't even get more than 100 likes and often the most popular response is a refutation or the very same analysis showing the bot network working with substantially more organic likes. I think is a very interesting phenomenon to watch.
Note that this lies/fear/chaos campaign is transversal, from rural AM radio to tiktok, but is not working at all. People is very aware of these campaigns and knows how to defend against. Truth is stronger than money.

- [1] https://twitter.com/BotCheckerCL
Why would it impact braking distance? Aside from "everything affects everything" of course. I can't see this majorly affecting the overall vehicle's momentum or braking ability at any given speed, and speed limits wouldn't change.
I am a professional technical writer. When I started out, I desperately looked for tips and tricks. Internet was (and is) full of tips but I could not find a tech-writing bibliography.

I will soon publish a bibliography of books and guides regarding technical writing. I promise to paste a link here when I am finished, which I believe I will be in a day or two.
i feel like this boils down to a client-side misunderstanding of where graphic designers actually spend the majority of their time. i'd actually argue that working from spec or even a crude doodle on the back of a napkin is a lot easier than dealing with a client who is married to a poor design that DALL-E puked out for them. one of the most important things about the sketch phase is to be able to iterate without too many assumptions while also being able to recognize and play upon the strengths of individual drawings. this is not a time consuming process but it also isn't something you want to rush anymore so than you'd want to rush the plastic surgeon performing your nose job. depersonalizing the design process in favor of volume does not particularly serve anyone and, moreover, it responds to a need that i don't really think exists.
this is not to say that i don't think these kinds of image generators are without uses, but right now we are still in the phase where people are being impressed by graphical fidelity[which was already incredibly cheap] rather than usefulness. imo this stage of ai will primarily work well for tasks that benefit from randomness while also being relatively low stake in the overall production pipeline. training a network to generate typefaces or to randomize npc portraits for an open world game is precisely the sort of area where 'gluing things together' can potentially provide more benefits than headaches.
I feel like saying "Free for existing users with a current subscription" would be a lot more clear. I'm a customer who owns an older perpetual license and a lapsed subscription but it's not free for me since I'd need to restart my subscription to use it.
> While commercial flights are set to be subject to a new tax system that discourages the use fossil fuels, private jets -- which are five to 14 times more polluting per passenger -- and cargo flights will be exempt from the requirement, according to a draft of the proposals seen by Bloomberg.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-09/private-j...
It's discussed a little bit in this video (starting at 8:37). It sounds like it creates a glassy coating on the drill hole wall

https://youtu.be/g8sjdOjNxIE?t=519
Seems to be how the market runs though.

The market doesn't care about common sense. If a strange event happens that then gives a massive upturn in a companies sales/profits then after a few years things return back to normal so therefore the companies sales/profits drop, all the finance bro's panic and think the company is in some kinda massive decline and must do something to continue endless growth.
Cultures? Species.

Birds, small mammals, and octopuses all groom the area around their nest — getting humans to stop seems unlikely.
I liked the approach of Pinker's book "A Sense of Style": https://stevenpinker.com/publications/sense-style-thinking-p...

He gives writing tips based in how the mind works. Instead of a bunch of rigid rules, you can understand it based in cognitive theory.
To reiterate the problem: Legitimate callers don't all use VoIP. I don't have every legitimate caller's phone number in my contact list.

Blocking all numbers not in one's contacts list is therefore not a solution to blocking spam calls while allowing legitimate callers.
Specifically for search, might as well use hn.algolia.com than figure out how to use HN's hidden(ish) API.
People and entities conspire constantly to benefit themselves, having theories about that is healthy and shows a healthy level of distrust. The general rule of thumb should be proving the benefit of the people conspiring together and if there is no tangible/provable benefit then there is little to no reason to believe in the theory.

Why are people pushing a globe model? Who does this benefit?

At the end of the day though, a conspiracy theory is a way to rationalize a situation that you perceive as bad without having to really dig into it and see the other side that is benefiting from it. It's easier to believe that there are a group of people controlling the strings in any situation than it is that there are a ton of people who are all acting in self interest and collectively tugging the strings.
I had a similar idea regarding scraping but directed at forums where people are asking "is there a way to do this" or "how would I make this?". Then I would make it. I'm not sure though how to gauge if it's worth pursuing maybe frequency of mention/recurrence.
How do you think Apple can "do advertising" right? Advertising by its very nature is abusive to users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_theft.

Maybe they should make all advertising (not just targeted) opt-in like they did with the advertising ID! I'm sure plenty of users will click allow.
Making page 2 of HN with a Spammer's article from 2009 goes to show that good spam is evergreen. Like that SPAM in a can.
I think you're right, but I would qualify that the AI is bullshitting in the same way that a child's drawing of a stick figure, house, and smiling sun is bullshit designed to get approval. The AI is giving symbols--very visually stunning ones, to be sure, but symbols nonetheless--of what it is prompted to create, just like a child learns that "circle with lines coming out of it" is a symbol that can be read as "sun" and praised by adults.
Everyone is just looking for meaning, but with social media our shared sense of reality is at risk - https://www.climaticthoughts.com/peak-reality-is-terrifying/
When are expired drugs truly expired?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220804115408/https://www.wired...
Iceland has so much access to power that they're likely to be the first country to export net negative carbon in some fashion: aluminum I'd guess, we always need that.

This won't involve burning less jet fuel and resembles a Papal indulgence, but maintaining an industrial civilization while decarbonizing industry is impossible without this kind of accounting.
Sure. The only thing that's hard is to get a full posterior distribution and to add priors. But the rest can be done in frequentist stats as well.

[edit] you can get posteriors with bootstrapping etc. - it's not precisely the same but better than nothing.
Something like this might have saved my game that I burned out on while trying to solo dev during the pandemic. Love the idea!
I showed this to my coworkers who are mechanical engineers (I am a software engineer) and it made them angry...

EDIT: It was this+OpenSCAD in general that enraged them!
james@threecolts.com
The Schedule for KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Is Live
very exciting!
Have you ever run a business that relied on advertising to drive revenue or are you just relying on what you've read online?

Anyone running a small business in a niche space knows that targeted advertising works.

The other aspect of it is that targeted advertising allows you to make money from niche advertisers even if you operate a general-interest website.
Sounds exactly like the panopticon surveillance feature of Teams that Microsoft got rightfully roasted for a few months ago, only laser-targeted at developers (or their keepers) instead.

> What this is not: A monitoring tool that will tell you (or your manager) who in your team has been lazy.

At least, not until the enterprise money shows up.
Maybe they should make one course free to use like create your own git and access to other would be payed.
Ask HN: Can eSport reach live viewership as popular as the soccer World Cup?
Nice! I like things that keep spammers and scammers busy.

My own low-effort method is to accept mail for any domain on my name servers. Spammers think they are relaying their scams but it just goes to a flat text file. It isn't like I try to hide it. The banner even says its a honeypot and not to use it.

139K /var/spool/mail/vhosts/crap
24K /var/spool/mail/vhosts/crap
177K /var/spool/mail/vhosts/crap
196K /var/spool/mail/vhosts/crap

That's 4 days of spam/scams.
The concept seems cool and the price seems reasonable if the quality is high. But how does this translate to value for subscribers? It seems like the company is treating curation as the core value prop but I see it as more of a means to some end.
Taxes have the additional upside of leading to fewer stupid consequences.

A lot of the EU bans means if you're designing some kind of e.g. medical life-saving device of which there will be a few dozen units produced total, you can't do a whole bunch of things designed to make consumer devices better. The laws are on the surface reasonable, but they fail in corner cases.

Corner cases sometimes go to be important. Housing in the US is a big one. Building codes don't allow experimentation.

Charge me a grand for using lead, the wrong connector, or whatever, but please don't ban me.
Admittedly, there is the occasional false positive. For such cases, we display an email address right underneath the error message. Scammers rarely dare to complain, and when they do, they are usually not very convincing.
Let me tell you a little secret... You don't need to be a developer to be an entrepreneur, you are not in advantage to other non-dev entrepreneurs, and you are most probably worse entrepreneur than others.

The better entrepreneurs are the ones with sales, marketing and growth hacking skills, the ones who "fake it till they make it", etc. If you are all that, you are probably a not-so-good dev anyway.

If you wanna be an entrepreneur, learn how to be one, not how to be a better dev. Once you are a good entrepreneur, you'll get funds and hire good devs, that's the only valid way. If you can't get funding, you never had a chance anyway. (unless you are 0.01%)
Clinical Psychologist's Twitter thread on benefits of screen time for children
Feels more like their standard move, lock out competitors so they can control it for their own profit.

Not that I mind them fucking with advertisers, but let's not pretend Apple is benevolent here.
Package managers will produce an SBOM for you, the tough part is keeping track of licenses and CVEs. TideLift and BlackDuck (now called something else) work just fine as third party solutions you can run on your self-hosted stuff though.
Sure, if you want to use an inflammatory and incorrect metaphor.
It's a little bit more nuanced than that. Could OPEC+ release oil to the market? Sure. Will they, amid the Ukraine situation? Often, perhaps not, but maybe. Could we domestically ramp up domestic production? Yes, though the question becomes, "how quickly?", and the answer is...not very. And then amid this influx of oil, can we quickly ramp up refinery capacity to meet demand? The answer there is generally no, this sort of thing takes time, and skilled labor, which is in short supply, particularly after the lockdowns sent people into other jobs.

But yes, the core of what you were saying is correct; there is no shortage of oil presently. That said, it's important to consider different sources of oil, and the cost of harvesting them. Shale is a LOT more expensive to harvest than conventional wells, and things like Tar Sands step things up even further. We shouldn't worry about running OUT of oil in the next couple decades by any means, but the ramp up in cost should have us at least considering other options for avoiding ever-increasing energy costs, such as nuclear. Underestimating the importance of an energy supply is worth avoiding -- much of the Roman decline can be attributed to the marked reduction in available lumber. Much of what allowed the global powers of today to get that way was moving from wood to coal to oil/gas, and then a bit into nuclear -- being hesitant to continue this transition shouldn't be done without the understanding that failure to expand energy resources will necessarily cause an inability to expand, and eventually a need to contract as a civilization.

As oil is also used for most modern fertilizer, food production is the other side of this coin, and unfortunately, unlike the options in energy production, there don't seem to be any immediately available remedies that assist with large scale food production that allowed us to get a global population of over 7 billion. Again, this isn't an immediate emergency, but it's on the horizon, and does represent an existential threat to modern civilization; as such it shouldn't be ignored.
Blocking the entire aws/gcp/azure/digital ocean/linode IP ranges will stop 99.999% of malicious bot traffic full stop.
This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7523953

Patrick's rant about all the things he would change in Tarsnap continues to be responsible for the largest spike in new accounts in Tarsnap history.