skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think it's nonsense? There are at least two competing narratives about climate change:

1. It's huge, an emergency and we're all basically fucked, in fact there's nothing we can do the problem is so vast.

2. It's actually not that big of a deal, most of the warming is natural cycles, a bit is human made but we're not sure how much, a mix of changing power sources and adaptation is entirely possible and if anything the path we're already on. There are likely bigger environment problems to focus on.

The second is the position you'd expect people to take having seen environmental problems be fixed without much fuss in the past. And obviously not every academic "crisis" is fixed via regulation. Think about Limits to Growth and all the claims that the world would run out of food that were popular in the 70s and 80s, or really for much longer than that. Governments didn't do much there and yet there was no crisis in the end, in fact we ended up with a crisis of obesity.
Haskell probably has a much better concurrency model too with STM being quite awesome
‘Generation sensible’ risk missing out on life experiences, therapists warn
How long before Burning Man moves in?
study in question:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.12964
A lot of concurrency can be implemented without atomics. Maybe in fact all? I'm not super deep in the theory.

But I don't think you can go far without controlling instruction reordering done by the compiler (as well as the CPU), which is what GP was talking about.
Ask HN: Advice after a decade trying to get into YC
My first YC interview was a decade ago. I'd love some advice.

Background for those interested:

Act 1. A kid with no product.

My first YC interview was 10 years ago. I had a laughable excuse of a product. I only got the interview because I had an unusually fast career growth (CMO of a $180m company by age 23).

This remains my only visit to the US.
They rightly sent me packing.

Act 2: build skills then build something

In the interim I did consulting for a few years. Then I founded my own small company. I taught myself to code properly. And bootstrapped a small SaaS to $20k MRR and applied again. At interview they said the total market isn't enough. (They were right.)

Act 3: Build something people want.

I wrote a list of criteria for my next product and evaluated literally 1000 ideas.

The resulting idea is excellent but it's technically hard. I've put all the resources of my company and myself into getting it made.

Hard to quantify with it being bootstrapped but I've put the resources of my small company into this. Probably 500k of monetary value.

Talking to customers it's very clear there's demand. My small team is excellent.

Any advice for this 3rd time around? There's clear demand but it's hard to simply launch as the product is complex and I want it to work consistently first. I know YC dislikes solo founders, not sure if having a team already in place helps.

I am the solo founder but at this point I've background in multiple areas; sold half a mill personally, CMO of a big company, built a team, spent the past few years as an engineer.

How best to frame this to YC at this stage? Should I put my team in the video? Should I create a new account to hide that I first interviewed a decade ago?

Any advice appreciated. I didn't link to my company as I didn't want to come across as promoting but will if asked.
When I was in college more than 50% of the courses existed for historical reasons only; not that I never used anything, ever, from it but some continue to exist today, decades later. Higher level mathematics in computer science is an exception in the life after college, so teaching it to everyone just because 1 in a million may ever used it is a waste of time, money and brain cells.

Note: back then in Eastern Europe some college-level math was done in the last 2 years of high school, so what is considered "higher level mathematics" is a subjective term, please take that into consideration when reading the paragraph above.
(1997). Discussed here in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15163979 and previously in 2016 (different link): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11207183
It does it even when nothing else is plugged in, and I've had occasional crashes since I got it 5+ years ago (so, across multiple MacOS versions).

TBH, the crashing when plugging/unplugging, HiDPI issues and general ugliness and clunkyness are far more annoying tho!
Russian sources of energy gave 22% of European consumption in 2021 and renewables, another 22%. So 45% goal by 2030 seems to be yes, "bring market back to equilibrium with 2021-level prices, but without Russian energy, by 2030".

Of course, we will not be using any Russian energy long before 2030. About half of it is gone already (all coal, about 40% of oil and 60% of gas), and at least 80% will be gone by February next year. It's just that we will see elevated prices on most energy for a few years after 2024 or so when Russian supplies will zero out for all countries apart from Hungary.
You planned to but never did?
It should. NetBSD is relatively conservative.
Main cost driver is the price of green hydrogen. It is already cheaper than the natural gas prices we are paying now (equivalent of about $1700 per 1000cm of natural gas equivalent vs about $2500 we pay), by 2030 it should be down to $500 per 1000cm natural gas equivalent and that's about 2019 price.
This is mostly a popular tinkerer's cookbook. If you like a more structural, engineering approach, then the suggestion of Lipiansky's book in another comment is much better.
I wish we had rail, including HSR, everywhere but the real world comes with financial constraints. While a Central Coast trunk alignment would be nice, any reasonable analysis indicates it really should be lower priority than the Central Valley trunk. It's something that would only be built in addition to and after the core system is running through the CV; to add additional capacity, redundancy, and to serve the Central Coast communities.

The Central Valley has millions more people and is projected to add millions more in the decades to come, which matters for ridership and the viability of the system. On speed, the Central Coast is only faster as the crow flies. It may not seem like it, but CV is actually is faster and more direct than the Central Coast on the ground. There's a reason people drive I-5 rather US-101 or CA-1/PCH when doing the NorCal-SoCal trip, unless they're intentionally taking the slower scenic coastal route [0]. There are formidable Coastal Ranges on Central Coast (and much California and Pacific coast of North America) [1][2]. This results in an alignment that is slower and more expensive due to more curves, elevated viaducts, and tunneling. It's also much more vulnerable to erosion, landslides, and flooding. [3][4] CalTrans and local DoTs struggle to keep roads open after winter storms.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/San+Francisco,+California/Lo...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Coast_Ranges

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coast_Ranges

[3] https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-sea-level-rise-califo...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/06/california-h...
Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter: https://youtu.be/G0R09YzyuCI

Joseph Tainter on The Dynamics of the Collapse of Human Civilization: https://youtu.be/JsT9V3WQiNA
> Fresh new hires, who’ve never known a reason to care about the Mac, trying to rewrite key portions of the OS

Apple Support engineers do not understand the basics sometimes. I noticed my 15" 2880x1800 screen showed a resolution of 1440x900 after 12.5 upgrade. I raised a ticket and my request was patched to Apple US who ran a bunch of tests remotely & were confused what & why. I never bothered looking at resolution before, so this half resolution thing bothered me.

I dug out an exact replica config from office running 12.0.1 & voila it was running 1440x900 too. Then it dawned on me: The retina screen allocates 4 hardware pixels for each 'screen' pixel - so effectively canvas size was 1440x900 although screen resolution remains 2880x1800 at 220ppi

Apple engineer in the bug report still struggling to understand this. I have no words except teling him this is a feature not a bug. I genuinely think the software devs are very fragmented within Apple & they don't really understand the customer facing issues entirely.
The unimproved value of the land (I.e. the basis of taxation in a Georgist scheme) is definitionally exclusive of things that happen on the land. There are improvements that, especially over time, become inseparable from the land (e.g. irrigation, grading, etc.), at which point of full integration are just considered an intrinsic part of the land. This too sounds a little weird until you realize that again, this already happens today! Improvements to land that are not identifiable, e.g. the grading that the owner 200 years ago did, is already baked into what we perceive, today, to be the unimproved land (again, as already designated on your appraisal).

I am very curious to hear your examples of improvements/activities on land that become part of the unimproved value of land at a fast enough rate to matter?

Of course some portion of the taxes go to Disney. Who do you think pays for the air travel system that brings people to Orlando or LA? Who pays for the freeway system that brings in the food?

Re your last argument, the word “mostly” is doing an obscene amount of legwork. Obviously the unimproved land has a market price $X and then the land + structures on it have a different price $Y. So no, obviously the separation is not a fiction, but any particular dollar value is certainly a bit subjective and fuzzy, just like all appraisals are. For what it’s worth, appraising unimproved land is much less subjective than appraising the land + improvements, which we use as a tax basis today.
In case Bitcoin needed to upgrade e.g. secp256k1, then a logical/easy way to avoid this problem is with a simple commitment scheme.
They all insisted that the world was cooling because that's what official data at the time showed. Only some insisted it was or could be a problem, but of course those were the ones that got media and political attention.

The same is true today. Almost all scientists believe the world is warming. Only some extrapolate that into a crisis, but those are the ones who get media and political attention.

There are lots of claims being made in this thread that aren't true, e.g.

- only two papers talking about global cooling (wrong)

- journalists were inverting what scientists believed (wrong)

- there was no consensus on cooling (wrong; see how none of the papers discussing the cooling trend note any disagreement on its existence)

and so on. For examples of media reports and scientific papers talking about global cooling see my other posts.
Which is not a stock macOS app. Which is what the point was. Stock macOS sucks with window and monitor management. I run three screens and it's aggravating sometimes.
They could be using hardware compression which can be orders of magnitude faster than doing it on the CPU.

Hardware compression is sadly not widely available, I think the only consumer product I know with it is the PlayStation 5.

The mainframes from IBM have had hardware zlib since Z14 iirc and in my small tests it is very fast compared to the CPU implementation
I'm curious if someone here is a bigger history nerd than me and might be able to help me out:

The claim that San Marino is the world's oldest Republic links to a Wikipedia list which cites 301 as its transition date to Republic, however digging deeper that seems to be the founding date of the settlement of San Marino, with the earliest date relating to a Republic I could find being 1243 (the establishment of the Captains Reagent as the heads of state).

Does anyone know more about the transition to republic? 1243 would still make it several centuries older than any other extant Republic, but significantly shorter lived than my personal favourite the Republic of Venice (697-1797, 1100 years of uninterrupted Republic).
> Being in the tail end of my PhD

That doesn't really qualify you to make these anti-predictions any more than tens of thousands of other people working in this field. There's also this phenomenon where experts close to a problem are worse at predicting the future because they are so intimately familiar with the problems that they can't see the forest for the trees.

To me there is one major signal that AGI is much closer than 50 years away and that is the breakthrough with Transformers. Now we have a general purpose architecture for predicting the future that works really well, which is a key component in the brain (cortical columns). Clearly we're still at the early stages, but 50 years is a loooong time. 50 years ago we didn't even have the Altair 8800.
Thanks for the reply! Were you aware NASA was using ScriptEase? And was(is?) ScriptEase open source?
> If you say, "my life is not worth living", maybe that's your call to make. But I think it would be very, very, wrong of me to answer, "Yes, your life is not worth living". Especially if I was your doctor.

That's is _not_ what is being asked of the doctors. They are being asked to determine whether the patient truly believes their life isn't worth living. They are trying to determine if the patient is clear of mind in his or her decision-making. It would be unprofessional and _wrong_ of a doctor to somehow make this decision about them.

Frankly I think you have it entirely backwards. The patients are trying to remove the state's prerogative to block their suicide. They aren't asking you to validate their decision; they are trying to remove you from the equation entirely. They want to be allowed to make decisions about their bodies and their lives _themselves_.

I honestly find your position exceedingly selfish and callous. Your personal feelings of suicide simply do not matter when it comes to others' choices about how they'd like their lives you end.
BitTorrent is the first ever program that implements the BitTorrent protocol, written by Bram Cohen, who designed the protocol.
Teamviewer has packages for Linux. Is there any reason to run it in Wine instead?

https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/linux/
If you don't realize that the very concept of 'FUD' boils down to the suppression of questions about cult-like behaviors, you really shouldn't be lecturing anyone on scientific validity.
LiveView is kind of magical when it works. Where I struggle with it is the constant need to decide between implementing UX logic directly in LiveView or implementing it purely on the client side via the JS helpers. Sometimes you really want the logic on the client side for latency reasons, but then you lose the ability to test it properly (unless you resort to Cypress or something like that).
you got to want to believe in the Hyaenodon theory
Fyi the material records are made from is called vinyl.
"Vintage Digital Cameras" is a phrase that makes me feel old.
Looks like ways to import data to SQL Server from REST endpoints
have you ever experienced positive feelings after visiting a landscape ? this artist is able to synthesize these feelings. And it's not trivial, it requires large scale logistics
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1560729196166529025
> "I am continuing as a consultant with Meta on VR matters, devoting about 20% of my time there."
I understand your concerns, because I also had them. When I got my genome sequenced, I assumed that my data could one day be hacked and distributed like any other kind of data, so I tried to provide as little information as possible. In my case, I need it, so it's a no-brainer, but yeah, the concerns are legitimate. If you suffer from some condition, you might be able to ask your doctor to sequence you.
Does that make it any less wasteful and boring?
Meanwhile, plenty of gems have gone abandoned.
The beauty and diversity of Europe is unbelievable. I wish I could travel more.
> You should use /c/... paths on Windows rather than C:/...

This is the start of the realization that building C/C++ on Windows is only the beginning of the pain. Once you are past that, there is a multitude of semantic differences like paths, CRLF, the fact that file move is not atomic, the fact that an opened file cannot be removed (e.g. because Windows Defender or some other BLODA is scanning it), etc, etc. It's a death by a thousand papercuts. My suggestion is to avoid supporting Windows at any cost.
Legislators Gear Up to Take on Cloud Outages
I love having access to the has() selector as a user for custom CSS on shitty websites. Ad blocker cleaning rules can get a lot better with this selector.

However, for actual CSS, I don't think this is a good idea. You shouldn't need the has() selector if you write your own CSS and HTML.
Neurodiverse isn't a real medical term
These are good points, thanks.

I use a native email client so I haven't tried this in a while, but the last time I used a `mailto:` link with Firefox and Chrome both offered to open it in GMail. I wonder if they've removed that since, or whether it requires some additional system permissions that not everyone configures.

Ultimately, I don't think either flow works well in a situation where you have multiple browsers or multiple individuals using the same OS account. That being said, you should be able to configure your browser to offer multiple `mailto:` options, including multiple GMail sessions.
Sooo... we go back to my initial point of a "badly configured system"?
The 9 Euro ticket has been fantastic. Sadly, it is over at the end of this month :/ Wish it stuck around longer.
Why not just do two tests: check if every element is present exactly once or some variation of it depending on what is considered unique; do the `for i in (0..array.size-2) { assert array[i] <= array[i+1] }` as was suggested. That way you don't need to test against a known good sorting algorithm.
See my comment below for example links to scientific papers talking about the cooling trend.

I don't really see why lack of familiarity with the historical facts in some parts of the world should reflect badly on the people who do know them. At any rate, it's not a big surprise. English is the de-facto language of science, the English speaking world has a stronger tradition of free speech and simply has more people who can research obscure topics vs most languages.

Also, look at where the global temperature datasets are produced - it's all US and UK universities and agencies. Historical temperature data for much of the 19th and 20th centuries comes primarily from US sources, because for much of the 20th century the rest of the world wasn't running organized weather station networks at all - rest of the world was either dirt poor, being ravaged by world wars or undergoing communist revolutions. The USA has a large scale weather station network dating back to the Victorian era. It also launched lots of weather satellites in the 70s.
Bit of a misleading headline, a guy who doesn't ditch his phone but uses it less than he used to (for the moment).
That may be true, but not to a degree where it affects the overall landscape of which framework is going to help you get your product/iteration up and running faster
This guy gets it.

"Unconscious bias" is so embedded in corporate-speak today that nobody has stopped to actually challenge its existence or the proposed solutions. Plus the "evidence" for such bias is so shaky ("Bill said I'm raising my voice, but he only said that because I'm a woman") it can be "found" or "dismissed" very easily, depending on what political goals you have.

I find it odd that we attempt to somehow reshape the innate human psyche (which is constantly taking in information and making assumptions based on them), rather than just enforce workplace rules around how you treat people. Seems like a bit more direct, objective and actionable than diving into some deep conversation about "unconscious bias".

But regardless, the real answer why this is being discussed is: 1) HR is told it needs to be done [usually because some other company is doing it], 2) it provides cover again lawsuits if employees sue over workplace harassment and 3) it's a moneymaking business for the consultants that teach these class [a lot of money].
That would be pretty epic if he started 50 years ago and his life's work was a skatepark!

Not sure when they started making skateparks but that would have been extremely forward thinking.

Plus, personally I just love skateparks... hahaha
This really is the train to nowhere
Sure, and one might also quibble and say that Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling as a piece of pro-Christian propaganda. And yet there is some difference between those gorgeous frescos and a banana duct-taped to a plain wall that goes much deeper than the time and effort they took to create.

Whatever his reasons, Michelangelo created something which awes and inspires millions of people every year, regardless of religious affiliation or belief. Cattelan, on the other hand, has succeeded only in reminding the public how utterly irrelevant modern art has become: a lame joke for people with too much money and too little taste.
Little technical nitpick: the code blocks on the linked site are unreadable without JS enabled. They have a white background & light grey text as default.