skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may be mistaken but Center for Humane Technology which compiled the
"Ledger of harms" is an umbrella for critical thought on digital tech
whose members include folk like Roger McNamee, Cal Newport, Jonathan
Haidt, Max Stossel, Tristan Harris and others. Actually it would be
fairer to call it Harris' site (since he is the "president" of it)
Is it bad? No. Is it worse than never going, in terms of global warming impact? Yes. Is it still reasonable to do it every few years? Yes.
Don't Nvidia make open-source Linux drivers now?
I honestly have not had graphical driver issues since... Well since a good while before SteamOS and such. I don't doubt you guys at all, but I only have "older" laptops that might have GPU issues in terms of overall Linux compatibility.
If no source comes I'll just think it was a rumor spread by protestants to show people they should be protestants.
Ibm cloud has a text to speech I thought it was pretty good
Or those "elected represenatives" could help educate the people - to e.g. understand distributions.

But instead they educate them in BS, both in schools, and through their government communication. It's more convenient to emphasize BS in curriculums than proper life/political skills...
> the most useful number is usually the dominant (also known as mode or most common value), which is not visible on the histogram

Are you kidding? It's the highest point on the histogram; a histogram places very heavy visual emphasis on the mode while obscuring the mean and median.
Cattle emission is severely downplayed, starting from the fact that cattle produces methane which is 200 times worse than carbon dioxide, it's also severely downplayed how much it impacts resources like land, water and the many disaster byproducts such as ocean dead zones.[1]

Cattle is also the biggest reason for deforestation (Amazon being the most famous example), people want to greedily eat damn steaks everyday, put their head under the sand and pretend electric vehicles will change our fate. Consuming less will.

Moving less is good for the environment but eating less meat has much more impact.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)
Sometimes I still want to see the LED. In this situation, I use blue painters tape, and keep adding layers until the LED is at a reasonable level. You really need to check this in a completely dark room to get it right.
Choosing a single number necessarily removes information about the distribution, though, and which information is being discarded is inherently a political decision. The Rawlsian veil of ignorance (at least a naive version) would have us choose p0 as the meaningful number; a utilitarian with certain beliefs about the marginal utility of money would prefer the distribution mean. Even the choice to use a normalize GDP per capita is taking a strong stance on the repugnant conclusion.
I disagree. DevOps Engineer, as much as I hate that title, is really a sysadmin who can do orchestration code (like ansible or terraform). They're not supposed to be responsible for any application code. In a lot of ways they're more like systems integrators these days, but most of them carry some pretty fine OS and distributed system chops.

SRE-SE and SRE-SWE's are responsible for application code and often embed on application teams to bolster either code or system performance or both.

Please do not take companies bastardizing these practices as truth to what they are. There are companies who do this right and we should champion them above the garbage.
Who’s adopting it? I don’t even see a Wikipedia article.
A proper carbon tax would only increase flight costs by about 8%, since there's lots of other costs than fuel.

People don't seem to believe that though. Because a carbon tax high enough to make your flight cast 8% more, would totally destroy the fossil fuel industry, as everyone would suddenly have a financial incentive to burn less of it, and there's alternatives for almost all uses. And so, a measure that would kill the fossil fuel industry, and not really bother any other industry, is portrayed as an impossible dream because the fossil fuel industry has a lot of money and power.
I think I got something like $5 from a T-Mobile class action suit.

But I did get ~$400 out of one of a Facebook class action, so sometimes it's worth joining.
Mexico: A Development Puzzle
I believe they can still learn if they are senior enough and compassionate enough. And if they have management competent enough to let that work. But what percentage of teams would you guess fit that? I suspect that leaves a lot of on-call staff suffering from bad software.
If you go back far enough, no they didn't.

Kidneys evolved, mutative replication remains the source of life.
> Are you implying that GCJ was any more certified than Harmony?

No I am not. I am, however implying GCJ was as uncertified as Harmony, meaning they were seen as somewhat equals, despite Harmony's superiority (IMO). The situation would have been very different if Harmony had been officially blessed as Java, but I understand Sun's reluctance in cutting off its own revenue stream

> As in none.

GCJ and Harmony were the most well known Free/open source Java (the language) compilers, and were the choices available to distros that do not promote proprietary software. These, as you stated, were not Sun-certified Java™ due to the TCK situation - but they could compile java projects well enough.
The oceans - half the world's surface - create more than half the world's oxygen.
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ocean-oxygen.html

Rainforests cover 2 percent of the Earth's surface. A forest is considered to be a carbon sink if it absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases. Carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. It then becomes deposited in forest biomass (that is, trunks, branches, roots and leaves), in dead organic matter (litter and dead wood) and in soils. This process of carbon absorption and deposition is known as carbon sequestration.
https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/climate-change-adapting-impacts-and-...

carbon dioxide is needed for plants to grow.

After 30 years of measurements, the ocean carbon community is realizing that tracking human-induced (carbon) changes in the ocean is not as easy as they thought it would be. It wasn’t a mere matter of measuring changes in carbon concentrations in the ocean over time because the natural carbon cycle in the ocean turned out to be a lot more variable than they imagined.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/OceanCarbon
I'm bad at math, but this is because d/dx ln(x) = x^-1, while d/dx x^k = kx^(-1+k), so as long as k > 0 the derivative of the latter is larger, right?
Sometimes true, but it is the only value that can be estimated without error in some cases.
Neither median nor average is useful for a central tendency in a weird distribution - and income tends to be one.

Histograms typically bucket data potentially hiding the true value of mode or adding error to it.
It really should be given directly, with a count of occurences.

Mode is not the same as modal class - which is what you would get from a histogram.
People love underdogs. Plus smaller orgs are typically more responsive to your needs. They are less likely to kill your account with impunity.
Who is 'they' specifically? I'm sure you're buying products containing this stuff all the time.
Typically the defendant must know the statement is false.
It's possible to consent by proxy.

For example, if your employer uses ADP for payroll processing, you consent to ADP selling your wage and income history simply by working for that company.

I can't imagine a job interview that would include, "Oh, by the way, if you take this job, we're going to let a multi-national megacorp know every penny you make, every two weeks, and sell that information for tracking, profiling, and advertising. Also, there's free coffee next to the men's room."
I use the build-in macOS right-click > Speech option. I often use it to proofread things I'm writing and of course to read articles. I've made sure I have the enhanced quality voices in the Accessibility settings.
When I was doing low-level optimisation for games (lots of SIMD), I was using mine quite frequently.

Now that I'm doing more application development it's sitting on my bookshelf looking neglected.
The "passive voice" is a term with a technical meaning in grammar. "Evolved" used intransitively doesn't qualify. This is the kind of thing an ordinary person mostly shouldn't need to care about, but if you're going to reach for the cutesy editor joke...
Except they claim it's the exact opposite way of course.
Maybe today's football players are simply performing better than players from the 80s?
I agree with your conclusion. Google News has correctly decided I'm interested in Ponzi schemes, so it shows me articles at least weekly about newly discovered large ones. A very common element is people retired or on their way who have lost everything. I'd much rather get a punch in the snoot than to spend years slowly dying of stress, poor nutrition, and patchy medical care.
"crazy shit happens" and we should just let both sides get away with it? That's really deplorable.
Sometimes referred to as citogenesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting#Circular_re...

There is a list of known incidents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...
Directly regulating the amount of pollution emitted is effective too, look at how California's auto emissions laws have become a de-facto standard. The US is the #1 source of demand in the world, entire economies (e.g China's) have been built around suppressing domestic demand in favor of making more money exporting to the US. If we change our regulations, the rest of the world will follow.
> a measure that would kill the fossil fuel industry

Increasing the cost of flights by 8%, and by doing so, killing the source of fuel for those flights sounds like economic Armageddon.
Wendover Productions recently made a very informative video about carbon offsets that goes into much more detail. Certain types of carbon offsets do work, but even those tend to underdeliver.

https://youtu.be/AW3gaelBypY
Before which war? Because while it took the genocide in Ukraine for the world to realise Russians become literal nazis, it's been Russian modus operandi for quite a while now.

Also, see how you just called it a "Russian rocket" despite the fact that things like guidance were Ukrainian? It wasn't Russian - it was Soviet, from back when USSR consisted of a number of republics, including Russia and Ukraine.
I've been doing on-call for more than a decade and I feel I need to offer my perspective here. I worked in teams in which I would never get paged and also teams in which I'd get 100 alerts per week.

> But why? Why do you think oncall should be paid the same as full work? Perhaps you have a different definition of oncall than me, where you expect to be paged once or twice a week, and spend maybe an hour or so fixing it each time?

When I'm oncall, I need to cancel all my social engagements for that week and delegate all my errands and such to my partner. Also not drink or take any mind altering substances. I must be 'ready' at any time of day or night. I (as well as others) sleep in the same bed with my partner. If my phone rings due to an alert, my partner is also woken up. So I need to sleep in the living room for a week. From the start, this affects my personal life to the extent that it would be unfair NOT to compensate me extra. It also affects my family way more than a regular desk job should.

You're mentioning the expectation to be paged once or twice a week. If those pages come at odd hours and you need to fix them on the spot, no exceptions, failure is not an option, etc.. it's still very disturbing to your personal life. Additionally, that's a parameter which is well outside of your control. I've seen oncall shifts which turned from '1-2 pages a week' to '5-10 pages a day' after the product finally got in the hands of regular users or after the team grows in size and code contributions grow suddenly. Or even better, when you're doing such a great job that your boss promotes you in the oncall tier and now you also get to do triage for alerts coming for the whole organization.

The volume of the alerts don't and shouldn't matter. If you're oncall, you're oncall, you have a responsibility to be available at all times, rain or snow, night or day. This deserves compensation. It's the same as with regular work. Do you get paid extra when you merge more PRs? Nope. You're paid relative to the value you add to the company. Even if you have weeks in which you barely do anything. You're paid for your 'availability' first, then your work.

Some companies (some I've been lucky to work at) implement some sort of follow-the-sun oncall shift and you at least get to have your sleep and generally minimal impact on your personal life. That is great and does not deserve extra compensation, because your work hours aren't altered at all.

I'm sad that labor in the US don't consider paying extra for oncall a norm. But it's not surprising, considering we did have dedicated engineers at one time who were paid to watch and maintain the health of the livesite 24/7. But then we figured we'd make regular engineers fuck their sleep cycles by adding oncall to the list of responsibilities, because it would be cheaper this way. And everybody agreed, because 'full-service ownership' and we're already paid way more than in other fields. When the latter changes (and it will), we'll still not get paid oncall and I'd love to see the discussion when that happens.
Fully agree.

Most people use life expectancy at birth to believe that everyone died in their 30s in ancient times, even though these numbers are skewed because of huge infant mortality.

Introducing something like life-expectancy at birth, 5, 10, 20, 40 years would paint a much better picture, but it takes hard work and a belief that your audience is not stupid.
No-- most people understand how pronouns work now (and the rest are rapidly coming up to speed). It's only people who are deliberately insistent on misunderstanding that are mislead.

Just like the people mislead by 'decimate'.
Interested in hearing what others think about this
If you were going to sleep with her anyway that seems like a net good.
Oh, yeah, I totally agree that there should be financial penalties larger than the ill-gotten gains. I'm just saying that isn't enough.
Credit-card debt is soaring
Miles driven per capita would be a better comparison. Americans drive more than any other country.

https://www.thecarcrashdetective.com/americans-drive-more-dy...
The methane problem is easily solved by feeding them a diet which includes seaweed, why this isn’t mandated is beyond me.
Oof. Now is probably your last chance to get a decent naturally asprirated I6 BMW without all that nonsense.
Throwback to some truly sicko code I wrote a while ago (this is pure Haskell)
I think despite the glitches the analysis is overall quite sound; personally I've come to the exact same conclusion (TypeScript + Rust, except that for me it's CoffeeScript + Rust). The browser is a powerful argument for JS runtimes, and now that WebAssembly has become a thing, programmers have an ever wider choice of languages to use locally and in the browser, or locally with the browser if a graphical interface is needed. JS could be so much better if TC39 decided to add a `use sane` pragma, but even so there's no going back to Python, switching to the JVM or any other one-language-only VM for me.
No problem and I'm glad you enjoy the book. If you are into programming plz also check out Fabien Sanglard's game engine books.
I recently set up Windows on a bunch of new computers, and was reminded of how atrocious the process is. All sorts of widgets, telemetry, and bloatware coming along for the ride. There's a laundry list of config changes and uninstalls necessary before it quiets down and gets out of the way. Once you have it set up the way you like it, it's easy to forget all that.

If you go through that ritual a lot, or never do the deep clean, or only use Windows occasionally and only see the default setting, it's a perfectly understandable impression.
Nice! (I've been meaning to write up this Apple M1 ~60GB/s version, which I think is similar: https://gist.github.com/dougallj/66151f1c509484a42fe0abd0d84... )
> One thing that has been frustrating me is how many lights, and bright ones, are on everything I buy these days.

While I am sympathetic to this, I'm lucky enough that it doesn't much bother me and so I hadn't even noticed it; but I really miss the old Powerbook G4 heartbeat.
The first book was incredible. I’ve been a programmer for a long time - and early in my career is hit me: I have no idea how this really works!

How does what I type and program make a computer do a thing? It was an incredible read and I can’t wait for this one.
Anyone who is being realistic understands that we have to stop eat food out of season, keeping all buildings at 68 degrees during the summer, getting rid of multi hour commutes in cars, taking vacations in cruise ships, buying new phones every year, shipping everything in multiple layers of plastic over 1000s of miles etc etc. We are so fucking far past "reduce reuse recycle." No one is changing anything about their lives and that should be more than obvious to anyone paying attention.
The Continuing Story of Vim (2000) [pdf]
It's hard to take this seriously when the author mixes up the basic meaning of GDP.

> For example, when economists think about how “the economy” is doing, they have traditionally focused on total income (GDP) or per-capita income (mean GDP) as the most important measure.

No, they don't. GDP isn't income at all, they're completely different metrics.

And in fact the article never mentions "median GDP" like the posted title suggests, it switches to "median income" because median GDP isn't even a thing that you can calculate since it's not a metric that exists for each individual person (therefore no median).

How did this get to the front page?
The “bicameral mind” 30 years on (2007)
Stateful allocators require a word be dedicated to the allocator in the header. In my use cases, I always have access to the allocator, but I need to create a lot of containers — most staying empty, to boot! Paying the extra overhead is morally objectionable.
mimic3 [1] might be worth a try

[1]: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3
SharinGAN: Generating Naruto Sharingans with GANs
What outcome did you have in mind?
Pokemon Wilds – A Gen 2 Game/Engine Using LibGDX
> It seems that she was just 0.4 seconds too late, otherwise she could have survived like Klemish.

Well, the plane was. When either co-pilot or pilot ejects, the other is ejected as well shortly after (on pretty much all planes). The delay is likely there to make sure it goes smoothly.
Windows defends me against the threat of privacy.

Quite literally, a certain GPG binary triggers Microsoft Defender.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclo...
This comment seems to be an example of the exact toxic mentality the author was complaining about.

Like Hashicorp products or not, the remark seems a bit petty.
I've strictly worked on a rule: Even if it's a lunch break or otherwise not company time, I don't even look at emails from Github on my phone. All my projects are outside hours, and never accessed from a company machine.

One of the key reasons I run my array of projects is specifically to experience running projects under my rules, with my own goals. I've had people try to lay down laws about why my projects need to "look more professional", which is usually some variation of "it should use MSSQL backend". I don't even use my real name in my Github account specifically so that these sort of claims don't have a leg to stand on.
there are quite a few bird species that are so similar that the only reliable way to tell them apart is their vocalizations. a good example is red eyed vireos and black whiskered vireos.

I am terrible with calls, this article will be very helpful for the fall migration, thanks OP.
https://medianism.org/medianism/about_the_medianist/

Who Is This Medianist?

Jonathan Andreas is an Associate Professor at Bluffton University who received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Ok, cool, not some armchair tech bro that spent 5 minutes writing up some blog.
I’ve not read the comics (in fact, despite loving his books, I was wholly unaware he wrote comics until recently).

We watched 1-5 last night and will likely watch 6-10 tonight.

5 was AMAZING. What tension, what dread. All of them are shot brilliantly, with fantastic acting and excellent dialogue.
> They need to be able to explain the impact of their decisions to the average voter.

No, not the “average” voter - messaging should be aimed at the marginal voter.
This is like saying we’ve had the Internet a lot longer than we’ve had social media addiction.

Obesity rates started rising with the introduction of drive-in food, which wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for car culture.
Why 50th percentile? Why not 49th, or 25th?

I've actually had this running theory that all civil servants should be paid a fixed percentile of income. This would give them all an interest in ensuring that income/GDP goes up and that it goes up for those below them. (in percentile)
Most events in Miami Tech are posted on Eventbrite, theGoogleSheet, and Twitter. There are quite a few Whatsapp and Telegram groups that are self-organized. And then there are Slack and Discord groups. I made a lot of new friends during the last Miami Hack Week (January) and the Miami Tech Week (April).

And there is the Tech happy hour in Wynwood every other Wednesday. I pop in early and leave once it starts getting too crowded. Everyone imagines they are immune but COVID and now Monkeypox are things I'm cautious about, unlike most of Miami.
> This is where I closed the window

Just telling us that you simply didn't read the article is probably a significantly less valuable contribution to HN than offering your own (presumably contradictory) experience, expertise, or opinion.
At a quick glance the hardware for this is compatible with Lithium Ion chemistry so go for it. Just need to make some minor mods to put a battery holder on.

More specifically, just about any headphone with a LiPo (flat square) battery could be modified to accept an 18650. The charging voltages are the same, so you would just have to snip the old battery out and wire in an 18650.