skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
climate change will result in famine and war, maybe nuclear war. Madagaskar has a drought xaused famine right now. Uf that hapens in Pakistan thats a powderkeg situation.

Which 'solution' is as bad?
There are definitely stable systems where the operational budget is so small that the cost of a human trained on it is higher than the ops budget. This can result in one of two terrible consequences: Either nobody touches it and it gets stale, or it's viewed as being "Underdeveloped" and poorly-considered features are added.

Trying to "optimize" these systems to use more of their error budget and save operational cost results in fiascos - There was a multi-day outage (not full outage, but several full days below SLA) on a minor system while I was at Google where it boiled down to "Bad Engineer tries to justify their job and management lets them implement a poor design over the objections of everyone".
Wow, this is a great point that I've never even considering, despite pondering on the topic of the whole instagram culture for a long time.
Like I said, I don't understand the logic. Rich corporations/people aren't doing everything I think they should do, so therefore I shouldn't track my carbon footprint? People like Leo/Taylor fly on their private jets, therefore Johnny shouldn't bike to work? Banning straws is useless (?) so therefore, companies aren't doing anything worthwhile at all in cutting emissions? Man... if we wait for everything else to be perfect before we put in any effort, that's a pretty great recipe for failure.

All those clauses you listed, the proper therefore is "therefore they should not do that". That's it. And if they stop doing it, or do it less, the per-person carbon footprint goes down. It doesn't have anything to do with shifting blame.
>Did you notice the list of things you need to "obtain authorization" for doesn't include salary?

Did you notice that in the "Employment Verification" section, it literally says "Salary amount, if allowed"? It's pretty obvious what's happening here is that "verifying the employment" refers to validating every piece of information mentioned above, including salary. Moreover, your alternative interpretation (ie. they require authorization to tell a company that you worked for Acme corp but don't require authorization to tell people that you made $80k last year) doesn't really make sense. Finally, if you're going to allege something shady is going on, you should really find better sources than trying to read between the lines of a blog post. Something explicit from experian or a trusted source would be preferred.
The only number to really keep track of is the rate of fossil fuel extraction. It slumped during the peak of COVID, but is on a steady upward trajectory. Even though we're creating massive amounts of new solar energy, this number keeps going up. It's the only number that ultimately matters -- and it's hard to BS.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fossil-fuel-production
No, it works without that.
This is funny because blind optimism and having a fatalistic attitude are the same behavior. In essence I'm overconfident about a dismal future. You have to be generally unhappy with the way things are going to feel this way, and many people are not, because they got theirs, in their own lives, and have no reason to care.

And this is the trap we find ourselves in. People have no reason to achieve great things outside of getting theirs.
I am also a long time hacker news reader and even a longevity and biology enthusiast, and I can confirm that I also have no idea what any of this means or why it is on the front page
Happiness isn’t a great metric because people can be happy dying from tetanus after stepping on a nail because they don’t know it possible to not die from that.
Again though, if that were the case (that it's simply a choice and opportunity has nothing to do with it), we should see the same rate of people choosing crime among affluent people.

It's simply not true that people in lower income have the same opportunities. They don't have access to the same quality of education, people who care about their career prospects or the ability to afford higher education.
Some low-tech email things I do to reduce notifications and interruptions from personal email, while still being quickly responsive to friends, knowing when packages are delivered, etc.

* I'm experimenting with smartphone almost always in Airplane Mode and DND. I don't use it for much more than 2FA lately, and carrying for emergencies.

* Email hoster's first pass spam filtering goes to IMAP "Junk" folder.

* Incoming email list messages from email lists that I don't need to see urgently automatically get sent to the IMAP "Archive" folder, without notification, for later handling. (I've misusing this folder for short-term low-priority inbox because random handheld clients are more likely to be set up to use it.)

* Incoming emails from most addresses not in my addressbook (except for from a few select domains) also automatically go to IMAP "Junk" folder. In practice, this gets virtually every spam that sneaks through the hoster's filters.

* Incoming emails that didn't get sent to "Junk" or "Archive" remain in my IMAP Inbox and display unobtrusive notifications briefly, and without beeping. Sometimes I notice them; sometimes the email waits until I'm on the virtual desktop with the email client, and glance at it. (And because presence in the IMAP Inbox after filters is what determines whether notification at all, that also works with random dumb handheld clients.)

* I normally check the IMAP "Archive" and "Junk" folders roughly once a day.

Work email is a different matter, and varies with the company. (Based on which media collegues use, their expectations for each, how external-interfacing I am right then with email, which SaaSes are pounding the inbox and how well they can be filtered with the mandated email setup, what's being used for urgent operations alerts, etc.).
First, to answer your question: email works well for most people, its ubiquitous, and its been used long before other services were available.

Second, you may want to rethink your choice.

I've no tolerance for take home tests nowadays and I would politely thank you for the time in interviewing me, explain that I do not have time to do that, but that I would be more than willing to whiteboard a problem that you have today.

If I could not successfully redirect them, then I would simply opt-out of the process at that point. I don't know how many people here would do take home tests but it can't be all that many. Maybe you are trying to hire folks that are not regulars here. Its something to consider.
Surprised Quanta and Sean Carroll aren't on this list.
If rich people had it like poor then the situation would have improved overnight.
Thanks, I think I basically agree. I guess my complaint is that these later composers generally involve more "bespoke" analysis because of the additional complexity, which is not treated adequately in the textbooks. (Whereas, for example, for a lot of Mozart piano sonatas you can just write down all the roman numerals and call it day -- I'm joking but only slightly.)

Also, I think you'd call your Mozart example a common tone diminished chord, notated CT7. I think this is pretty standard nomenclature now; see this book excerpt for example: https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/chapter/common-t.... Especially the example under the section "recognizing CT7 while analyzing."
For pressure washers, the biggest issue is that the US generally uses 120 volts*15 amps. There are 240 volt models that have competitive specs with gas-powered models, but since consumers generally don't have 240 volt outlets other than for specific appliances, they're geared for the commercial/industrial market, and are accordingly expensive. I've toyed with the idea of importing a 240 volt pressure washer from India (specifically: https://www.starq.in/collections/high-pressure-washer-1/prod...) since they use 240 volts there, and their consumer-grade pressure washers are thus more powerful.

Weed wackers need to be cordless, though, so that's a different issue.
Effective hiring managers are always paying attention in the hopes of noticing the people doing this excellent stuff and asking whether “now” or “soon” is the right time to offer such people high paying jobs.

I doubt my current garage band could afford the OP just this moment, but I sure wish we could!
Woods chips and hand weeding is an alternative. Concrete is carbon intense to produce; let’s stop using it for driveways and sidewalks. Alternatives!

Manual labor used to be applied to these things. One could argue the fossil fuel industry got us hooked to petrol solutions in search of a problem.

Look at us too addicted to our inventiveness to get our hands dirty, a little sweaty outside the air conditioned gym, or give up a grass lawn.
I'm all for mandating tracking of externalities in companies' finances. Do it through taxing carbon emissions or however it can be done. It just doesn't mean that carbon offsets are "greenwashing".
Ignoring all that - if I were in his shoes I’d do the same - guilty or innocent.

I mean, even if I wasn’t in his billionaire shoes I’d do the same - if facing a long imprisonment in a foreign country I’d take chance at escaping any day.
If you can live on prepaid debit cards, by definition, you can live off of a regular credit card and just pay it off every month.
Reliability is a "component", just as "Database Access" is a component. You can't think of it as a single feature, but you should have specialists in it.
Not Experian, but here's a sample report from Equifax's similar "The Work Number" service. Full salary info.

https://assets.equifax.com/wfs/theworknumber/assets/twn_Veri...
"In order to qualify for this loan, you must consent to a body cavity search which we outsource to Experian."
My experience with the NYC school system is that it’s a highly competitive process. Public schools start off zoned, and the best school zones command a premium for rent and home ownership. Private schools are harder in that you have a competitive application process and then a costly tuition. Starting off in a good school bodes well for landing in a top middle school and eventually a top high school.

For public schools:

https://schoolzones.us/nyc/
https://www.schooldigger.com/

NYS tests all their schools. A school which is in the top 10% of the NYS testing would be considered elite. Top 20% is good. The majority of NYC schools are bottom 50%.
Lol. Go check out the Hoovervilles at your nearest city and report back

I guess the caravans of hundreds to thousands of destitute boomers are just in it because they like the van life?
> What is the benefit?

Reduce spam and abuse
So when will US reduce total tonnage to match Vatican City? Is US and iceland going to have same carbon budget?
> that can be as simple as "carry your laptop and stay within reliable coverage"

And be sober, and somewhere quiet enough you'll reliably hear/feel the notification, and be somewhere you can get that laptop out and type away at it for a while.

I get _much_ less enjoyment from many social activities when I'm on call. I enjoy gigs way less. I enjoy parties way less. I pretty much wont go to movies. I hate being "on call" while out at dinner with friends. I will not go on a date while on call (at least not with somebody I don't know well enough for them to understand the on call obligations).

> most of our lives are spent in that regime already

But not all hours in my life are of equal "value" to me. A lot of the "most valuable and enjoyable times" get disproportionally affected by being on call. I care way less about potentially being paged at 2:30am on a Tuesday morning than I do about having to curtail social events on a Friday evening or a weekend. You _will_ need to pay me handsomely to do that, and guarantee it only rarely becomes my responsibility. Been there, done that, am perfectly happy to turn down job offers that don't understand that (or to walk away from companies who try and spring that on me later I've accepted).
I think I see a pattern here:

1) find the earliest proof of written communication

2) posit that since there is no evidence of communication before this time, there is an implication no communication took place

3) in the light of more finds, revise the date of 2) to posit a date before which there is arguably no communcation, because none has been found.

I tend to a view that any artifact is evidence of mind, and that the further back we see intentionality expressed in inanimate objects remains, be it as simple as the pressing of weaving into clay, or regular interval cutmarks on bone, the more we can argue mind and communication existed. And I do see a linkage from one to the other. Being able to cut bone implies being able to teach people to form tools to cut bone with. There is no need for the missing IKEA instruction cartoons and a hex key, the marks themselves "speak" to the necessity for communication.
Couldn't have said it better myself. It's especially eye-rolling when he tries to inject comments or questions about how "it's all about love" straight out of nowhere. For someone with a scientific background, he sure produces a lot of fluffy nonsense, to the point where Carmack had to stop him there once or twice.

Reminded me of Jordan Peterson getting shut down by Richard Dawkins once he started going down yet another Deepak Chopra-style mystification rabbit hole.
Essential Craftsman

This is the video that turned me on to him

https://youtu.be/qP1AmDRhoas
His more recent "it's all love" trend is the cringiest of the bunch, couldn't agree more. I truly wish you could have a Lex-free version of his podcast with just the guests talking.
The comment would have been no less enlightening if just linked. Additionally, this whole thing is just made of pure noise - someone's taking some sort of bizarre victory lap over some slight they feel HN inflicted upon them... 10 years ago.
I don't even understand why one should be in the picture to begin with.
This is a well-studied subject and the answer is - not as much as you’d expect, and actively declining since 2005.

https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
Ironically, Wikipedia is an unreliable source. I’ve given up making fixes
Given the 2 options, I want the people working on the green technology to have blind optimism.
And the Westworld TV series adopted it to some degree. I don't know either the theory or remember its use in the TV series well enough to seriously comment but it was brought in at one point.
> It’s one reason that we won the battle of Midway

Interesting story here that Nimitz had to make an extraordinary gamble the intercepted Japanese communications were talking about Midway island and not somewhere in the Aleutians (the other possible candidate). The gamble paid off and the Japanese navy was always on the defensive after that point.
> getting rid of multi hour commutes in cars

Thats an improvement in quality if lude, held back by efficient free market
I love side projects that achieve a level of great pride. Congrats
Mice are physiologically small humans with tails and fur. Findings in mice are very relevant to humans.
iOS settings app -> Notifications-> Calendar -> Sounds

Here you can choose a longer and more annoying sound. Same with vibrations (and you can create a custom one). There is no repeating unfortunately (or fortunately).

Make sure the notification Banner Style on and set to persistent so it doesn’t auto-hide.
Not that they haven’t tried! Equifax snuck an arbitration agreement in the free credit monitoring they offered in the wake of their hack. They removed it after (understandable) uproar.
The economic cost of driving energy prices through the roof will be most harmful to the poor.

This is well established, and likely unavoidable. As an overall portion of their expenses, the poor pay much more for energy than the wealthy.

Driving up the cost will decrease their standard of living substantially, but much less so to the wealthy.

Let's see how Europe fares with higher energy prices this winter, then determine if we should force that on the entire world.
I'm guessing it's because of his massive reach towards a specific type of audience that may be somehow beneficial to them. It's most certainly not because of the profundity of the intellectual exchange they have on these podcasts.
Imagine a crew member who becomes passive aggressive, or openly hostile. If the captain doesn't address or punish the crew member, his/her bad behavior could affect the rest of the crew.

Imagine a captain who becomes unhinged. What could the crew do?

I imagine this could be a metaphor for mental illness – although lacking in nuance.
> In this flow, what was the length of the /data resource? Since we don’t have a Content-Length, we are not sure the entire response came back. If the connection was closed, does it mean it succeeded or failed? We aren’t sure.

I don’t get that argument. GRPC uses length prefixed protobuf messages. It is obvious for the peer if a complete message (inside a stream or single response) is received - with and without trailers.

The only thing that trailer support adds is the ability to send an additional late response code. That could have been added also without trailers. Just put another length prefixed block inside the body stream, and add a flag before that differentiates trailers from a message. Essentially protobuf (application messages) in protobuf (definition of the response body stream).

I assume someone thought trailers would be a neat thing that is already part of the spec and can do the job. But the bet didn’t work out since browsers and most other HTTP libraries didn’t found them worthwhile enough to fully support.
We also need to plant trees for trees that have burned or died. So there is an ongoing cost. Maybe should be also a $1/month (?) subscription service forever, based on that one flight.
A lot of educators have voiced concerns that kids in the last few years have displayed extreme regression in social skills. I don't think these two things aren't related.
So you're simply unusually sane. Can't even hallucinate in two-dimensional projections like most people--they usually have like a marker for "imaginary" that all imaginations are dyed with. It looks like a ghost in a movie. And they're not actually that careful with the marker, everyone's telling them to believe in their dreams ie let the dye bleed out, but then shrinks are like "delusions of grandeur" or what's the other one, one old word for this was in fact "fantasia" (from the Latin with an "f" because Romans themselves adopted it from the Greek with a "ph" because it's a great word. I forget the word but including that word, as in movie by Disney Fantasia) meaning thinking things that aren't true. But like seeing them, in gray, like ghosts.

Ghosts as portrayed in movies are actually a highly realistic view of the common man's imagination from the first person. That's what it looks like to them, so you know. They're usually people because that's what matters most is people spesh the face that's like who they are in a 2D projection, they're imagined because the real person is not there anymore, they're not colored in first because that's work for their limited imagination, plus it interferes with the "imaginary" marker, plus they generally don't realize they're not seeing things colored in, that's something the movie producer only realizes because he's trying to sell tickets. Also because in white societies the last image the living have of the dead are their paleness--in white societies primarily, so Europe and Asia which dominate cultural exports--so they are imagined as they were last seen. That will always be the latest version of their face.

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Then there's what I call "macro-phantasia" which is like, like a video game with perfect graphics at this point. It is a gift and a curse. As though there were a difference between gifts and curses. Overboard.

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Because in fact aphantasia prevents you from certain forms of harm, like imagining yourself in terrible places as people are wont to threaten you with. Threats of like "place worse than you can imagine" that's so you turn your imagination on to the max, and harm yourself in your own imagination to coerce yourself to their bidding with no proof it ever happened. If you can't imagine that, guess what, police interrogation is a waste of time even for the policeman on time-and-a-half, you didn't cooperate and that's it, or the gang-land interrogation equivalent, what side you're on is in this case irrelevant. It helps against coercion.

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Aphantasia. Curse and a gift.
I learned to skip forward by 30 seconds every time he speaks in the hopes of jumping straight into the guest's response. Highly recommended.
The ‘flake-utils’ readme is a pretty good jumping off point: https://github.com/numtide/flake-utils

I have this or that nitpick with FL and FLP but overall it’s very solid stuff. FLP is a little more “magical”, and that’s not always the best starting out, but you really can’t go wrong with either.
Bring it in to general government income and reduce other taxes by the amount it took in.

Can set it up so the average person is unaffected. The eco conscious consumer ends up richer. And the over consumers end up poorer.
There will be green-washers, that buy hydrogen grey and sell it labeled green. That will last until green gets cheaper than grey.

Enforcement will be needed. Fortunately you can tell isotopically, and probably by trace amounts of methane and carbon monoxide, green from grey. Unfortunately there is no administrative infrastructure in place for enforcement.
I had to scroll way to far to find this comment.

We need to drastically reduce the number of parking lots and revert the car dependency built into our cities.
Your comment really is important. Most of these diacussions seem to assume that as long as we transition from ICE to EVs and Coal to Solar then everything will be fine. We need to learn to cope with less.

My wife and I were discussing this the other day actually. I was born in 86 so I'm not terribly old, but even I remember growing up as a kid in Idaho that one didn't just go to the grocery store to buy salmon--it wasn't really available. If you wanted salmon, you had to plan for it. Nowadays I can find salmon at every grocery store at any inpulse. Is it nice? Yes. Necessary? No.
Google “Dasein”
How's that any different than "In order to qualify for this loan, you must consent to a body cavity search which will be conducted by the guy we hired in the next room"? I suppose you can make the argument that Experian is doing a bad here by being a part of a system that helps employers get private information about you, but that seems somewhat different than the OP which implied something like "experian is gossiping about you behind your back!". It's the difference between providing cavity search as a service (with consent) compared to selling your nudes on the darkweb.
I don't think that's necessarily true. There could be an in-between.

My guess is `The Bicameral Mind` is a nice hypothesis that's likely pushed too far but still quite useful. It assumes "the gods speaking through you" and personal self-talk/self-awareness are something fundamentally distinct but it seems plausible to me that this "talk of the gods" could shade into personal self-awareness.
You gotta compare it to the counterfactual, don't you? Maybe it's not going up as steeply as it would've otherwise. Maybe it's not curving up as sharply. Maybe the models that project the degrees warming are more sophisticated than just whether the line is pointing up or down. In order to make a line start to go down, you gotta bend the curve first, and we have been doing that. There's a long way to go, but we haven't done nothing.
He hangs around /r/thesopranos for 15 minutes and it's "fuckin this" and "fuckin that"!
There are companies that offer zero compensation for oncall, expect a full week's work during oncall rotation, and expect the oncall developer to maintain normal work hours.

Obviously bad places to work, but there are many of them.