skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that’s probably why he got paid in a Swiss account. This was before the Patriot act.

Obviously I assume he was following the advice of his financial professionals and reporting that income, but it could be the arrangement was hinky.

The outfit was one of the many Philips adjacent spinoff/startups that are so common in the Low Countries, so it’s possible it was either legal or they had enough political capital to not worry about enforcement on the Dutch side of things?
Not only in Wales but is the capital. (source: am Welsh)
I think this is a case of some misguided product managers (and since German car companies are known to be huge bureacracies - no wonder). It seems like there is a great important safety aspect to it - that first you can hear that the vehicle is moving (there is an audio cue), and second is the affordance that you pressing on the accelerator has an effect (that the accelerator/electronics is not broken) - idem for braking.

Interestingly enough, railway engines had this problem solved a number of decades ago when they started using mechanical speedometers based on a clock. When the vehicle would start moving, the speedometer would start ticking. The faster you go the faster the ticking. Seems like electric cars need something similar (it does seem like a very useful safety feature to be honest).
Ah yeah, that behavior is annoying. At least if you hit it twice, you get the normal in-browser thing
> home cooking dinner

What if the call comes right then? Now dinner is fucked. They'd better pay a lot to go messing with my outside life.
This voice is better than any I've tried. Thanks!
GitHub used to have some support for notes, they should bring that back: https://github.blog/2010-08-25-git-notes-display/
> The platform splits pre-publish peer review from post-publish refereeing. Pre-publish review then becomes completely about helping authors polish their work and decide if their articles are ready to publish. Refereeing happens post-publish, and in a way which is easily understandable to the lay reader, helping the general public sort solid studies from shakey ones.

The author doesn't seem to understand the "referee" role of (associate) editors and reviewers. The core idea is about gatekeeping of a journal title's self-set publication limit in favour of articles that represent a substantive advancement of a field or concept.

However this itself is a problem for many fields of research, since it's a core factor underlying the failure to engage in replication studies and to check if results are valid. Moreover this would tend to encourage researchers with small but useful results to shelve them and NOT publish, since it will create a negative feedback mechanism for such contributions:

> Up votes increase the paper’s score and grant the authors reputation in the tagged fields. Down votes decrease the paper’s score and the author’s reputation in the tagged fields.

Part of this problem is because, like any site which uses an upvote or downvote function, the button will be used to express things other than the intended meaning. "Does not contribute" quickly becomes "I don't like X" (even if it is methodologically valid).
I mean if we want to go down that road, then why not just publish the first four moments of the distribution?
I've been taking a similar route for the past decade or so. It's pretty nice. I still fall into the internet hole when I'm slouched on the couch with the tablet, I need to ponder some ways to fix that.

...ooh, Apple's "Screen Time" controls on the iPad will let me limit my time on a website, and supposedly sync to my Mac, too. Sharply limiting Twitter should break the habit of getting lost in replies and scrolling when someone links to a good tweet. Nice. Thanks for giving me a reason to examine my own habits around the Internet, Mr. Bouliane!
Interesting. I suppose I also just use very mainstream software as well. I find that basically everything I need is either made for dpkg or exists within Ubuntu repositories (they've got literally everything there, haven't they!).
I agree in your overall assessment though, I can concede to the fact that I might be underselling the value of Arch within the broader Linux community. I've often seen Arch as the detrimental opposite however, which is quite ironic. Personally I just find Debian distros superior to most others (except Linux Mint.I hate Mint, more than anything). I do quite fancy Ubuntu as dekstop, but you truly are right that it is at the very least, not a very good server distro. It might be the worst, imo, Debian server distro.
My go-to choice for a Debian alternative is Fedora, however, so our different experiences might also be a testament to a fundamentally different view on Linux and how you do your computing.
If you want to say that on average a degree will give you stronger fundamentals, well, you are saying something obvious and clear as water.

But I don't think that having a degree implies that much either, that really depends on how one studies (to understand vs passing an exam). I've seen way too many software engineers who were absolutely clueless about software and engineering and even more computer science. In fact all of the worse devs I know have a degree, I came to the conclusion they signed up for whatever would give them the easiest good paying job.

Conversely the world has a lot of brilliant computer scientists and brilliant engineers who never entered university. Some are famous like Carmack, most you never heard about.
Carbon offsetting becomes effective when it causes less carbon to be emitted. It has to be so expensive that it makes the consumer of the carbon to think twice. This can only happen if the offsetting is mandatory. The further up the chain it is the more effective it is as well.

We might be able to death by a thousand cuts the CO2 problem. The more sectors we inconvenience with "green washing" type extra costs, the more attractive greener alternatives become, and the more funding potential solutions get.

The article suggests investing in a strategic fund instead, but it's really the same thing and has the same problem as the CO2 offsetting which is that the calculation of the amount of offset CO2 is not realistically calculated. The charities might have unrealistic long term CO2 offset estimates, but making the amount dependent on how much your budget allows for doesn't really make things better.

If you fly economy from LAX->AMS and back, you emit ~2500kg of CO2. Easiest way to capture that CO2 is by planting trees. Say you want to capture it within 5 years. That's about 50kg per tree, and about a third dies so you'll need to plant 150 trees to cover your flight, which is $150 on teamtrees.org. Provided of course they actually plant it within the next year (do they?).

That's already $50 more than that GCC site suggested you spend if you've got plenty money. Trees grow somewhat superlinearly so if you give your tree 10 years you need maybe $50 worth of trees.

Anyway, it still won't save the planet, that only happens when all of this is mandatory and not just for flights but for everything.
To be fair, toddlers do the same with their incessant overconfidence, and yet in the end it is that overconfidence that helps them gain skills and achieve great things. Sometime blind optimism is optimal.
Sort of, but whether it’s beneficial or pathologic is more complicated than whether it’s short or long duration.

Chronic or sustained inflammation is a sign of dysregulation, but acute inflammation can also be pathologic.

Moreover, the inflammation in physical exercise, in physiologic conditions, is actually beneficial (it’s physiologically angiogenic and anabolic). In other words, the benefits of exercise don’t just outweigh the harms of inflammation: rather, exercise can create well-regulated, physiological and beneficial inflammation.

Inflammation is as complex a topic as cancer (in fact the two are pretty much inseparable): it’s a fascinating beast!
You're technically correct--the distribution carries a lot more information than the average or median alone.

The problem is that many of these decisions are being made democratically, or by democratically elected representatives. They need to be able to explain the impact of their decisions to the average voter.

Having a single number that goes up or down makes communication and coordination a lot easier, and I think it's worth discussing what the best single number might be.
You can get OEM bluetooth in-ear buds straight from China quite easily these days. They are cheap and punch well above their weight. My wired ear buds are subjectively better sounding to me. My wired ear buds connected to a BT receiver also sound better. But the OEMs cost on the order of 50AUD/35USD...
I"m not sure I'm really the person to answer this but I would guess inverter and/or buck/boost converters are in the 90%-95% range. So, chaining DC -> AC -> DC gives about anywhere from 15% to 30% losses.

I think the better argument is one for reduced 'hardware complexity'. Instead of having an inverter that then goes through a rectifier, all you need is a buck converter.
Playing engine noise is one of the most ridiculous thing I've ever known. I love BMW noise. I owned old BMW and I loved its sound. But I loved it because it was produced by engine that I loved, not because it was produced by some stupid subwoofer. I have no idea how would anyone buy that tech and I lost my faith in humanity that BMW did not go bankrupt with this move. I know that the only BMW car I would ever buy is E34, it was last BMW worth those letters.
I love JSON5! My only gripe with it is that I have no idea what the "5" means, and I don't think it's documented / alluded to anywhere...
It so happens that the most useful number is usually the dominant (also known as mode or most common value), which is not visible on the histogram, especially for flat heavy tailed distributions such as income these days.
Or they're buying them and putting up with the headphone situation.
Hospitals do not pay more than normal work hours for on-call, though they do usually pay some amount.

https://physiciansthrive.com/physician-compensation/on-call-...
I read through most of those comments and while a lot of them are critical or negative I would still say most of them are "good" as in that they are constructive and give feedback on the idea or it's execution.

When you say "While there were some really good comments, the vast majority were very negative and critical" it sounds like you think that negative or critical comments cannot be good.
I mean, don't we already know the cheap, half-assed solution? (And therefore the one we'll take?) Eventually someone will start solar radiation management, and we'll plod along like we always do.
There is a profile for a person named Giuseppe Macario on IMDB. The profile claims he was a writer for a commercial involving Julia Roberts. It's a lie.

He created the profile prior to running for office in Italy under the political party "Free Flights to Italy" in 2018. A reporter for Rolling Stone (Italy) dug into the claim. She discovered it was fake along with many of his other claims.

The guy has a long, long history of making questionable claims about himself online.

Here is the profile:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6868326/
Thanks!

This will be a core part of what we'll be talking about. I continue to be amazed by people who can explain complex topics simply and Charles is near the top of my list of people who can do this well. Feynmann and Dave Cutler (if you can, find a copy of his NT kernel spec doc) are on that list too.
It's a small price to pay for the high quality credit rating service.
Are those the only crimes that involve jail time you can think of?

We spent half a century sending people to jail for years or decades for possessing a bit of marijuana. You can be sent to jail for non-payment of speeding fines, or fishing at the wrong time of year. Or peacefully protesting government policies.
But no one is going to keep those commitments, few if any countries are even close, and many are not even on any real path.

Not to mention, we're taking about 2.5 degrees of warning by 2100. But the world didn't end there. If we don't go to 0 emissions (and there is currently no realistic path to that that any country even remotely accepts - massive degrowth of the economy), we will eventually reach 5 or more degrees of warming, it will just be a little later than 2100.
Carbon offsets are just donations to environmental groups. There's nothing bad about either taking flights or making donations, but it's wrong in the "factually incorrect" sense to think that if you pick the right amounts to donate to the right groups you can make your flight environmentally friendly. It's like buying a "local business" offset every time you shop at Walmart - you can just do it if you want to or don't do it if you don't.
> Don't even look at GDP, look at happiness of people instead.

Bread and circuses for everyone!
My other choice is to lie, to willfully mislead whoever I'm talking to (probably a friend). Again, people might not like being called rich or privileged or out of touch, but we would never dream of saying this means you shouldn't call them that.
In many cases (and more by the day as companies lobby for it) it’s actually illegal for homeowners to be disconnected from the grid.

I mention it here because it’s important to watch out for these types of laws and vote as neccessary
> When the vehicle would start moving, the speedometer would start ticking. The faster you go the faster the ticking. Seems like electric cars need something similar

This would effectively prevent many people from listening to music in the car. It would not be tolerated.

Which brings up the point that people very frequently choose to drown out the engine noise. That obviously limits how useful the engine noise can be, though of course it isn't very useful anyway. You cannot fail to sense that the car is moving if your eyes are open. You cannot fail to sense whether the brakes are working even if your eyes are closed.
I absolutely have an inner voice. I’m ‘hearing’ it right now as I plan out what i’m saying to you.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/aug/21/science...
I would not cook a risotto while on call, but most dinners are not "fucked" immediately if you have to walk away with a few minutes notice (esp if you have a partner/roommate, but even if not)

This is like the equivalent of saying dinner (or your day) is ruined if someone knocks on your front door unexpectedly. No it's not.

And yes, you're getting paid 2/3 of your (large) salary for the possibility of this inconvenience.
The 5 is a reference to ES5
"s-expressions" is vaporware. Everyone who says it has a slightly different format in mind. It's easy to be all things to all people when you don't have to actually implement anything.
In no particular order:

The Royal Institution (https://youtube.com/c/TheRoyalInstitution)

Team Coco (https://youtube.com/c/TeamCoco)

World Science Festival (https://youtube.com/c/WorldScienceFestival)

Sabine Hossenfelder (https://youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder)

3Blue1Brown (https://youtube.com/c/3blue1brown)

PBS Space Time (https://youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime)

Tuesdays with Stories! (https://youtube.com/c/TuesdayswithStories)

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (https://youtube.com/user/PIOutreach)

Science & Cocktails (https://youtube.com/c/ScienceCocktails)
I see, thanks. Is there any information about Dion that isn't a video?
If I pay for my friend to have a weekend away with his girlfriend, thereby strengthening their relationship, then he shouldn't be mad when I sleep with her too and weaken it right?
The Pocket app has TTS that is pretty good. I believe they use Amazon Polly under the hood.
> A good operating system: Mac OS. Windows has become so user-hostile that I refuse to get near it.

Like...? Windows annoys me at times too, but the most annoying thing to me is the forced updates. Other than that, I can't recall any time in recent memory that the OS has gotten in my way of doing something. I'm genuinely curious which specific pain points cause you to refuse to get near it.
It seems appropriate to point out that the article is 4 months old, which makes me wonder why it was posted now.

I would be curious to read the article again in 2025.
I'd like to see this upstream. It's okay if the functionality only works on some platforms... it would force fixing of makefiles, and all platforms would benefit from that result.
That's a very good way to get unelected.
Because it's not worth the hours when it inevitably breaks, which corpo server setups always do. At least in my view, that is.
If it's running GNU/Linux or, God forbid, Windows, honestly as the head of a larger company I can just make a guy or another company fix it asap, whereas with BSD you'll be reliant on a handful of people at the very most, and no one is going to help you. They'll help you to help yourself, but 2 hours spent on something where I could've just called up another big company and have them do it, is a waste of money.
Also whilst Linux can update without reboot (I believe you even do kernel updates now?), as far as I know BSD is a lot more fond of rebooting.
BSD as a whole is more turbulent and uncoordinated than GNU/Linux, honestly. It's the individual distros up against each other that makes BSD the more stable party, i.e BSD vs Debian. But sometimes, being coordinated and calm just means "not innovative". BSD is probably the furthest you can get from progress and innovation imo.
> In the US, the per-person carbon footprint is lower than it used to be. They're related. Communicating a per-person carbon footprint increases people demanding corporations reduce emissions.

How much of that is simply a result of moving dirty manufacturing industries into other countries?
I don't use autocorrect, I find it does more harm than good. I do use a spellcheck to highlight "errors", but it's then up to me what action to take (and often the answer is that it was't an error at all).
If I wanted to dump raw JS data structures as text the most straightforward way I can think of is `JSON.stringify` and `JSON.parse`. No need to roll your own S-expression parser.
Could use some Doppler sounds to gauge the distance to enemies nearing by, like space invaders that used increased frequencies when danger level increases?
Please, highlight who said we need to lower our quality of life? Maybe avoiding waste is a great place to start.
As someone who has been recently optimising fpnge, Adler32 computation is pretty much negligible regarding overall runtime.
The Huffman coding and filter search take up most of the time. (IIRC fpng doesn't do any filter search, but Huffman encoding isn't vectorized, so I'd expect that to dominate fpng's runtime)
GameHut, where Jon Burton, a developer from Traveller’s Tales; goes into extreme technical depth as to how they managed to pull of some seriously ludicrous achievements on the SEGA Genesis/MegaDrive such as the FPS section in ‘Toy Story’, or the supposedly-impossible transparent polygons in Sonic R for the SEGA Saturn.

If you’ve got the mind for it, Burton’s channel is one of the most fascinating I’ve been blessed to see. It’s an amazing achievement of sharing highly obscure technical detail for no reason but passion.

https://youtube.com/channel/UCfVFSjHQ57zyxajhhRc7i0g
That's a big if. Bots don't typically spend money.
"I made my calendar louder to check my phone less. It vibrates like an alarm until I get to it. "

macOS and iOS user here - how do you configure that?

I find that Calendar reminders are not loud enough (they give a single notification which is easy for me to dismiss by accident). When I need to really be reminded, I set an Alarm "Hey siri, set an alarm for 4pm titled 'check your calendar'"

What's your secret?
No, these goals aren't mutually exclusive and I am not sure where "shoot myself in the foot" fits here. It's a serialization format and has many practical use cases. At least back your claims with concrete examples.

There's only a single JSON ISO standard (21778:2017). Why do you feel compelled to comment on topics you don't have knowledge about?
the second term is more clearly written as: P(convicted|caught)
Taxing carbon is the only way the government can be reasonably confident of effecting any change while minimizing economic disruption.

Markets work, use them.
Wrong!
>>MicroStrategy’s cost basis was roughly $30,700 per bitcoin[0]

Bitcoin is currently around 23k.
They are about a billion dollars underwater, since they have around 129,000 BTC

[0]https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/12/microstrategy-shares-fall-as...
"The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.[13]"

No, it doesn't.
Carbon credits were invented to allow billionaires to fly private jets and use mega yachts without criticism from the public
> Growing up I do not remember political associations to be so strong in folks.

Depends on when you grew up, but assuming the 1985 is your birth year, then political polarization has been asymmetrically increasing since well before you were born. Take a look at the DW-NOMINATE data for the US House: https://xkcd.com/1127/large/

This asymmetric polarization mirrors doctrinal polarization among white US evangelicals, who have, for example, gone from having a plurality of views on abortion to treating it as an absolute doctrinal litmus test: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/02/18/the-bib...

I can believe that for you personally 9/11 felt unifying, but that wasn't the case for a lot of people. Not just including the Sikhs and Muslims lynched, of course, or all the people who saw that and got nervous. But also the notable percentage of Americans opposed to the Iraq war, which Bush began beating the drums for just months after 9/11.

I also believe that you perceived American culture as more unified then. But based on what? Twitter didn't launch until 2006, and didn't really take off until 2010. If a bunch of people were upset about something, how would you have known? Especially if they were in some group that didn't get a lot of mass media attention, you wouldn't have. It's not that edgy comedians were any less awful then. It's that the people they were being shitty about generally didn't get the chance to express their feelings on it. I think the problem you're seeing is not differing views, but people with those different views finally getting their say.

> political climate has been so stifling since at least McCarthyism

Oh? Why don't you break that down for me with some examples. Go through the major harms of the Red Scare era and then some examples of people similarly harmed today. I think that's wrong, but I'm happy to learn something.

> was fucking Wikipedia is a crass, petulant move, and wholly inappropriate for something as counterfactual

I don't think you quite understand what counterfactual means, but I think take your point. Your notion seems to be that this is a fact-free zone, and that it's shockingly rude to ask if their claims have any basis in fact. I obviously think that's ridiculous. If you want to go entirely unchallenged, maybe get a talk radio show or something. But as long as I've been here, asking for evidence has been a popular activity.
Spectre co-author here. Neat to see this! The backstory of Spectre is that we wrote a straight-up Battlezone clone just as a hobby project, then decided that it was worth commercializing and so we fiddled around just enough to make it not be a copyright violation. It's influences all the way down. :-)

By complete coincidence, a friend of my co-author texted this photo from the Vintage Computer Festival today: https://photos.app.goo.gl/XTEUkjwtJb7nhQn7A
> They take bio waste products [...], turn it into oil

I was about to call bullshit because of the first law of thermodynamics, but their FAQ states:

> Unlike crude oil, bio-oil cannot sustain a flame, bio-oil has much lower energy density

Good!

> are heated up to about 500°C in a few seconds without burning

I wonder where that heat comes from.
As an avid BZFlag player I of course like it. It seems to me it could grow into something interesting. Multiplayer maybe?