skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EasyMocap: Toolbox for markerless human motion capture from RGB videos
>>A proper carbon tax would only increase flight costs by about 8%

>no its purpose is to fix an externality. it should be exactly equal to the cost of carbon offset for the amount emitted.

So it would only cost 8% of the cost of a flight to completely remove all the carbon emitted from that flight? That seems pretty reasonable. How is this done?
> Just like the left/right brain.

To clarify, popularized over-simplified descriptions of the left hemisphere being "analytical" and the right hemisphere being "creative" are inaccurate, but left/right hemisphere differences do exist and appear to exhibit consistently different approaches to things. The book 'The Master and His Emissary' covers the more recent research in that area, and is at least as interesting of a read as 'The Bicameral Mind' was.
SingleShapeGen: Learning to Generate 3D Shapes from a Single Example
Symmetry-driven 3D Reconstruction from Concept Sketches
What I don't get is why would you ever do regular 8-hour work for normal pay if you think it's an option to lounge around with a good book in your living room for 150 % the pay?
are you really going to take CPP numbers as fact? and even right now they still locking cities down in authoritarian ways that is killing people.... their approach has not worked... they are still living in lock downs who knows what the real numbers will be
Probably the same reason why there will always be a debate about the net lives saved/taken with the atomic bombings. The Japanese were indoctrinated to keep fighting regardless of the odds. Plenty of them wanted to fight on even after the bombs were dropped. The fact that it was a hopeless cause was beside the point.

Or, maybe they just had a broken radio and didn't know what was going on. Shame the article doesn't say more about the enemy's motivations.
This is a commonly held belief, that simply isn’t true.

This is a way to always be sharecropping for access to your own market and customers.
So the 9.1% inflation we just experienced did more for the environment than an 8% carbon tax? Am I understanding this correctly? Did the emission of carbon actually go down because of inflation?
> Weed wackers need to be cordless, though

They don't really. I've had corded electric weed wackers. You've gotta be more careful, of course, and within an extension cord of an outlet, but that's fine for acheivable lot sizes in most of suburbia.
i prefer upgradeability and maintainability.

i literally cannot choose that. you're the one who gets what you want.

which is a market failure.

and is literally bad for the planet.
> If the great grandkid isn't torturing anyone, why should they be held responsible for that?

They shouldn't.

But at the same time, they should take the words of their grandparents about how great Soviet Union was with a grain of salt.

This is not about shaming the grandchildren, this is about having a more realistic picture of the past.

This is especially important because the past is used as a justification for doing things in the present: Putin doesn't think he is conquering a real country, he's just restoring a precious situation. And many Russians would think "well, we did live in Soviet Union together, why not join again" without knowing how much violence was needed to keep Soviet Union together.
Docker images can be stored as a file. And maybe are indeed stored on the file system as individual files as well. But building against a specific cr implementation for this seems too brittle.
Congrats on completing your game Paul! It was fun reading about your adventure building it, especially how you involved your son. I missed something though: how did it go when you first showed Ben the game? What was his reaction? I think it’d be nice to hear more about that. :)
> FYI a little script that only a minority of the devs understand does not count.

Most devs don't understand or care about the build process as long as it works and they know how to poke a stick at it in my experience
Always love doctorows uber rants.
So, that's a great way of turning off enthusiasts! Right now Best Buy sells a Lenovo Chromebook with better specs for $79 and a fully featured one for $499. So, $219 is barely cheap, considering it was shipped from Hong Kong with DHL and the shipping was around $40! So, no, it's not cheap and I don't buy "we make no profit". If there are a bunch of enthusiasts making decent salaries but the corporation has minuscule profit, that's still profit in my book!
yet another Derek Thompson article, how odd. The last one on why your house was so expensive (that never once mentioned speculation or foreign buyers) was chrisjfins second submission ever. His first was in 2017.

Now bejelentkezni makes this his 4th post. Completely unrelated to his previous posts.
Cisco pinout took over, and almost everything went that way.
(everything below assumes US and NEC / local electrical codes)

I don't think code prohibits it, but in my (not very educated) opinion, you might get into some gray territory if you try install them everywhere.

There are some safety related provisions which are mandatory for regular 120V (GFCI and/or AFCI), but I don't think they are required for 240V circuits. Building inspectors might have questions if you install these outlets everywhere. Although, again, I don't remember any limitation of where you can have them.

Another issue is the type of the receptacle. Apparently, Leviton makes receptacle that might be allowed in US and is combination of regular 120V plus European style 240V. However, it is only limited to 2.5A, which is very little (I think, this receptacle is primarily designed for hotels / shared spaces where you only want to charge your devices). Also, I don't think it has ground for 240V.

Probably, the best would be to use US 15A/20A receptacles (NEMA 6-15 / NEMA 6-20), which look very similar to the regular 120V ones (the difference is blades are horizontal).

However, I've never seen any actual plug using them (even though I did install these 240V in my garage, expecting some 240V equipment). But you can rewire plugs on your "imported" equipment / appliances.

There are also some interesting differences of the supply: in US it is typically split phase 120V+120V=240V, but sometimes (according to the internet) it could be 3 phase 120V with 208V between phases; in some parts of the world, it would be 3 phase 230V with 400V between the phases. This probably would cause some differences in how grounding works, might affect safety.

But yeah, generally, 240V should not be a problem. Power-hungry equipment (water heater, range, electrical dryer, EV chargers) -- they all typically use 240V already.
... now I want landlock redo
Ask HN: Proposal for an ActivityPub RSS Based News Aggregation Community
Over the past few years several open source decentralized platforms have emerged. Most modeled after existing sites and social networks, others being new concepts entirely. In this writing, I have taken concepts from rank oriented forums like Reddit and Hacker News, but incorporated them with RSS to make something free of biased algorithms. I believe this could give users not just a personal reader for themselves, but one that allows users to connect through comments and relational feeds. Ones that display feeds by what all users of an instance follow and feeds among multiple instances of this platform design.

How the main feed ranking works

Every user has their own personal subscription list of RSS feeds. Obviously by default they can view their own feeds like any old traditional reader. What makes this unique is there would be a local feed page. This would contain a list of most popularly subscribed feeds among users within that rss instance. There would also be another page for a global list of feeds across all instances which depends on the optional relationship between other instances. This being either uni/bi direction or no relationship at all. If instance A follows instance B, then A’s global list contains a rank of feeds by users of both A and B. Global isn’t strictly all instances because we want them to be federated and give the option to control any necessary resource overhead.

How users interact

A big problem with RSS’s lack of success is that the modern internet is far too complex for any single user to collect feeds on their own. We want users to click on other’s profiles to see what they follow, along with the option to follow whatever is on any type of list. On a local or global feed page, every item in that list has a comment section. This would be similar to HN and Reddit, but with downvoting and overall karma being optional per instance. Of course there could also be other feed ranked pages that make use of this karma similar to Reddit and HN.

Any feedback is appreciated.
8% carbon tax is 8% higher power bill. Natural gas is still king in power generation.
> GDP has something to do with income, certainly.

So do a million other measurements. I'm pretty certain you could find some level of correlation with virtually any measurement and income levels. Thus, this is an irrelevant statement.
> Now from a code perspective, I would say that a statement that large probably isn't ideal (depending on the size of your case blocks).

This is what I had meant, yes. Optimizing such large blocks is quite difficult. A case label in C and C-like languages does not even need a block, making it harder.

> The fact that it's primary use case is reasonably niche is fairly irrelevant given there's bugger all compiler overhead required for support.

Even static C compilers still struggle with optimizing the switch-in-for-loop pattern, let alone a JIT compiler. Clang does the best job nowadays, but it still lags behind other methods like computed goto or continuation-passing. The Python VM will switch to computed goto if it's available on the C compiler.

Best primer on the subject I have found, even if old:
https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/threaded-code.html

My own benchmarks from last year (note that these toy VMs may not be applicable to larger ones):
https://github.com/shadowofneptune/threaded-code-benchmark

It does take work to make a faster VM, it feels unreasonable to expect a compiler to do a good job at optimizing it without effort on the writer's side.
If I did something outside of the norm, I can understand, but I did nothing and just followed their suggestions - their distro of choice and the distro's suggested upgrades - that's all! That's something there supposed to catch before shipping!
Yeah, it’s easy until someone calls setenv ;)
Derek, write an article about sock puppet accounts.
I believe you are right: read this as a great sci-fi (in the literal, not Asimovian sense) book, and then you'll get some ideas. YMMV, but you won't mind the time spent reading it.
Aww I’m glad you like the design! Feel free to use mine as a jumping off point, it’s all open source and I just want people to benefit however. Onshape is free and I’ve got like six different headphone designs in the Onshape design files linked in the thread.

But yeah I use the wired mode a lot. On one of the headphones I got a TRRS splitter and added a microphone and I can plug the TRRS cable into my Xbox controller and use it as a gaming headset. It’s a very flexible system!
I thought COVID would show the huge cracks in the US healthcare system and safety net, but nothing changed, except a temporary stimulus check, which was nice. This stimulus didn't cover the missing income from the lockdowns for many people. The greatest burden was put on people who rent properties and mortgage holders (banks) with the eviction moratorium. This was deemed unconstitutional, was given a month to rectify by passing a law, and yet congress did nothing.

Everything you said was absolutely true, but nothing was done about it, even with a 2+ year plague that killed over a million people in the US. The only person with a plan was not elected; he didn't even win the primary. I'm not overly optimistic about change.
A custom build bricking is sounds even worse - both sides screwed up! I am a tinkerer, but this is not a welcoming experience!
No argument about how the Brits botched Jutland. But since the German Navy was a non-factor after that anyway, how would a victory have shortened the war by 2 years?
No. With a debit card, I can just track my checking account balance, which I can do easily with a home screen widget. With a credit card, I'd have to track the account balance and the amount I spent on the credit card.
You established wrong! I am an enthusiast, just not enthusiastic about dealing with poor choices and faulty procedures on day 1!
Right.

>Fundamental understanding gives exponential results yet most courses try and get the axioms and basics out of the way as fast as possible, working through basic proofs or derivations is cute sideshow, if anything.

This is so true. I was exactly like the author. I could not understand any math beyond algebra. Trigonometry was way beyond my ability.

But one day, I found an old trig book lying around when I went to visit my parents - it was one of my sibling's books when she took it.

I picked it up and had a thought - all those people who DID understand trig and higher math were not that much smarter than me. I mean, yeah, the super smart ones were, but I'm just talking about the regular students. So I got a bug to show myself that if they could do it, then I could do it.

My approach that I would do is to read the first section of the first chapter until I understood it completely and not move on until I did. I would not even move on from a sentence, or indeed a word or term, until I understood exactly what was happening. I would look all over the internet, watch youtube videos on that one single concept, or that one single word, until I understood, and I was absolutely adament about not moving on until I understood.

Word by word, sentence by sentence, section by section, I rolled on. I wanted to completely completely completely understand the very very basics of trig. It was slow going, as you might imagine. Super slow.

Well........all of a sudden, about 4 or 5 chapters into the trig text, my mind exploded. It was blown apart by a blinding light. In one single instant, I swear, one instant, I knew all of trigonometry. I got it. All of trig. One single instant. It was probably one of the most singular moments in my life.

So I then started paging through the entire rest of the trig book, and I knew it all. I swear. I would just glance over the pages and know what everything was about.

Now, I was NOT an expert, by any stretch of the imagination, I'm not claiming I became a savant. No. I'm just saying I "got" it.

As you said, I has the exponential results. So exponential, it was instantaneous.

>If the fundamentals are well understood, the applications feel trivial, intuitive, beautiful, clever - when the fundamentals are taken for granted, one word describes the relationship to the rest of the material: arbitrary.

This is it exactly. You describe it perfectly.

I did not continue on, because I actually had other things in my life that I had to move on to. But it was great because I knew then that math was easy. No doubt I could do the exact same with any math class, no doubt in my mind whatsoever.

For whomever wants to do great in almost any area of study, study HARD on those first 3-5 chapters. They set the tone for the rest of the course. If you study hard on them, they remainder of the course is trivial, with some things here and there that you need help with, but for the most part it is simple.
Well if you're going to go to the extreme, how about treason?

Let's say you sell military secrets to an enemy that results in nuclear destruction of your country and deaths of millions of people. The act of exchanging that secret for money was nothing more than moving some bits around on the internet, certainly non violent itself. Would you retain this strange protection from responsibility for consequences of your action in this case as well?
It is not too old, but it is also certainly wrong - interest a very efficient way to lend capital. Banning interest is banning investment.

Debt in general has very ugly side-effects and incentives, specially when it is levered, but banning interest altogether would basically destroy modern capitalism.
Yes it does. The ongoing inflation is sectoral.
Teeny-tiny Dune Sandworms, obviously.
Exactly - I’m not claiming a specific timeframe for AI to be helpful in this area - just pointing out that the claim that it is, ‘just fancy pattern matching’ isn’t limiting to its utility and that in theory it should be able to contribute here.
Thank you.

To simplify, are you basically saying that with more unstable wing configurations, at slower speeds the plane simply wants to fall out of the sky rather than glide? Is that sensible to imagine for this topic?
This makes no sense. Online shopping has been a thing for more than 20 years.
Can science make a better music theory? (2013)
It wouldn't have to come up every time if lots of people wouldn't deny it.
Cool! Reminds me of Robotron 64: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NJtTB5DyAog
You will consume latest comic book superhero media citizen.
This may be an incentive for those who see school shootings as the ultimate way to commit suicide
Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them
Sure. But CC-BY-SA 3.0 is a very standard license to apply to art, and has similar expectations for sharing your game with CC-BY-SA.
In summary:

No loosely equal (==)

2 == "2" // FALSE. Like C, et. al.

And he blames it on listening to this notorious user feedback:

“I’d like to compare a number to a string that contains that numeral. And I don’t want to have to change my code to convert the string to a number, or the number to a string.”
> Note that allowbox and denybox are not acceptable substitutes here

Hmm...opaquebox and transparentbox? clearbox?
I got utterly stuck in Discworld Noir - Got as far as the docks, but couldn't get on the ship :( I guess I could look up a playthrough these days and have another go, but it's way down on my to-do list.

Great game though.
I’m not the prior poster but it’s a median benchmark based on real-world surveys of game developers who are willing to share their data.

(Source: I’ve participated in one such survey.)
For me, it's not even the "crazy fast" aspect that makes me love Emacs. It's the utter intuitiveness about the environment. Need info about a function and what it does? Short keybind away. Want to add a command/function without restarting the whole thing? Select it, and short keybind away, to load it.

It just makes sense. And once you get used to it, it feels so much more smooth to operate on textual data than with something more "point-and-click, modern-user-friendly" like VS Code. Especially after you learn enough to know how you want to start customizing it to bend to your whim.
I think there's a reasonable expectation that if you're buying a product, it actually works, enthusiast or not.

It seems Pinebook are using that as an excuse to ship low quality untested bricks.

Complaining about your dead pixels? You're obviously not a real enthusiast!

A real enthusiast would relish the fact that the unit is bricked after updating!
I like the idea of an animal probing the floor for scent/sound/EM fields for prey, but you'd think we would have a seen a lot more of it if that were the case.

The article didn't mention excavating the holes to see what was underneath... My guess is maybe it's a creature that lays eggs in sand.
Yes, I watched some drone light-show/fireworks displays recently, and thought, 'wait till the drones are the size of flies, these shows will be happening in restaurants, bars, in your living room'. Imagine walking into a room full of fireflies that move around you as you walk, etc.
> In a lot of newer tech companies it's more of a lateral move at the senior level

Not really. FAANGs - and few more - have been doing for a time longer than I know of.
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> Companies that stack management on top of IC are basically forcing their best engineers to either go into management or leave for a company that doesn't do this.
Again, not really! Amazon does stack rank and they can't afford to force out their best engineers. I'm aware their culture is demanding and that's purpose built, but that does not imply what you are saying. Check their levels here - https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-en...
That would be Beetlejuice sandworms.
That's a good way of putting it. I've talked Emacs up to several friends. They all say "wow that's so sick" but then they never want to put the effort in to learn it. VS Code works good enough that they don't care.
They're usually poor and the junk food is subsidized. The us has underground cheese bunkers to keep the dairy industry running, you won't be seeing a nutritionally complete tempeh salad on the dollar menu.
Completely misses the actual issue that most people who repeat trials don't have the money to pay.
Natural gas has half the carbon in it for the same energy as coal. Hence, a carbon tax would favor the use of n.g. over coal. Which is as it should be.

The various chemical versions of hydrocarbons all have different amounts of energy per carbon content.
The ugly reality (if I can riff on your language) is that exploitation and expropriation has been normalised, since we invented feudalism and before. All that changed over time, is how much we understand about the value being made, as it happens.

Most economics is about the practical: if we adjust interest rates this way, what will people do with their money (value) and how does it alter the current balance? They don't much go to the moral side: should we do this. Some do, and typically its in public utility function because in times past, we funded this as tax and spend to common good, eg the build out of power, water but in times recent we've sold this capital investment off, to get short term money, in a belief somehow it will be "better" because "competition" which (again, in my opinion)_is just bogus.

There is a heap of economics in health. Pretty much all the worlds developed economies see that it's better done as a public good, except the USA, and now we have specialist health economists in the USA who work to maximise profit for medical investment. Everyone else can get to "tax is better" but thats not an acceptable truth in the USA.

Nothing to do with labour theory of value. If you think an iPhone is worth $1300 because Jony Ive said so, through Apple, then the cost of inputs come as a bit of a surprise. Why is the use function of a device like this so far removed from its actual input costs, labour included? "rational" economics goes to "it's not worth $1300" very fast because a $25 phone does most of "it" fine. Of course, thats a kindergarden level lie because even ignoring irrational desire, iPhones are a value beyond the cost of inputs, its a classic n-Squared proposition of being able to do iPhone-y things with your fellow iPhone holders. Yet apple stock is worth astronomically more than otherwise productive endevours in mining, engineering, housing. For what? How does apple increase or decrease US GDP in a meaningful way? How does Apple or Google add or subtract from the overall US economy, from CPI, from wages, and cost of housing. Great questions (if you ask me)

If you don't believe in the labour theory of value, then a good thought experiment is to send all the undocumented mexican labour home and see what happens to the US economy. I've read of 10% minimum drop in production across the board, and a massive rise in CPI to deal with food shortages. Thats a pretty high value on labour right there.
I didn't and just double-downed by ordering it plus extra stuff.
I was curious, searched a bit and found this: https://vginsights.com/insights/article/how-to-estimate-stea...

Looks like 50x is on the high side, 30x would be a more reasonable guess now.
.use is a nice quality of life feature!