skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the western hemisphere's largest integrated industrial complex (Freeport, TX integrated with the eastern edge of Houston as well). Note that Freeport, TX has ZERO state or federal EPA VOC analyzers which can actually detect which chemical is leaking. They can only detect "this amount of something with either sulfur or N-O bonds -- no clue what though!". Completely fucking useless for an area which manufactures something like 15-20% of all USA domestic chemicals.

The entire east side of Houston metropolitan area has only 3 air quality monitors which test for these kinds of chemicals. During huge major events like the ITC fire, they often show no increased pollution at all. I lived next to leaks every day and because I worked in the plants I knew the smells - one day acrylates, next day thiols, next day hydrocarbons, etc. But the 3 monitoring sites over 10 miles from me showed nothing at all.

Here is the one "correct" monitoring station near the chemical plants of Houston: https://tceq.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id... but several of its analyzers are often offline/broken/pending maintenance. Here's a map of all the other ones: https://tceq.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id... Generally single/dual color dots mark "not-useful" monitoring sites which might measure only PM2.5 or Ozone, for example. The 4+ color dots are generally useful.

The data used by ProPublica is far worse than the data here -- because what ProPublica used was "self-reported" data from the chemical plants. But living next to them and working in them, I know that many leaks are never reported and many leaks are never even known internally! Our government's data collection is a travesty. ProPublica couldn't use the real air quality measurements because having 2-3 points across 1000 mi^2 is completely useless for the wind models they wanted to apply to the problem.

We don't actually have any data. The government is failing us. They need to spend about $1 million per air monitoring station and build them along the perimeters of each plant so that leaks can be assigned to the offending companies, and they need to be built near housing so that we know how families are being affected.

ITC fire which blanketed houston's sky in smoke: https://abc13.com/deer-park-fire-2019-itc-houston-air-qualit...
I have a quite different perception of 9gag.
Yes, some ask for confirmation but it depends very much on the topic.

Wrong topic and facts get downvoted and the fake news prevail.

And not all links to newspaper are considered valid, especially if it's about "woke culture".
Then you have to search the reasonable needle in the haystack of transphobia, homophobia and misogyny.
A Fresh Look at HLS Value
I wonder what people would say if it was Microsoft or Amazon on the exact same position.
Awesome!. Would love to see mobile apps soon available to start using it.
> ...the only failure it had was a HDD died like 4-5 years in. And that drive was a used datacenter drive...

Wow, i have heard that datacenter drives (more than any other datacenter equipment) gets trashed the most...so that's awesome that it lasted even that long! Nice!
I work as a developer, and recruiters emails me in a daily basis. We all should try to minimize the recruiting efforts, but the amount of secrets that recruiters won't tell is just annoying... Sometimes even the company name they're recruiting for is a secret until you pass 1 or 2 interviews.

I know, there must be reasons for that, but from my point of view, it makes me lost a lot of time, and just for context, I spend 3 months looking for a job (with several interviews each week), this is just the proper market research everyone should do. And the end I was able to double my salary, work less, and get a lot bunch of great
benefits.

And of course, the most annoying thing from this, was all the wasted time because recruiters 1) didn't wanted to handle me the proper information (like salary ranges or benefits) and 2) recruiters didn't make their own job, there was like 3-4 companies I applied for where, at the end of the process they wanted to hire me, but we're not able to do it since they have a contract with my previous company. Recruiters (or somebody else) should check that info before starting the process.
unless google recently bought out ifixit, not seeing the relevance to the statement
That's the heart of 'eternal September' right there.
> Digital to-do lists are where tasks go to die.

I also am becoming convinced of this.

The issue is that you can keep adding to them. And if you’re the digital hoarder type - hello, my friend Alex! - you can never delete the old crap. So now you have this utterly unachievable list of things that seemed like a good idea at the time. And which have lost context due to time, so now you barely even remember what you meant.

I introduced Alex to Things.app’s feature whereby you can mark a task as ‘Cancelled’. So it takes it off the list, but you’re not pretending that you did it. I hope that helps him.

Me, I use slips of paper and a pencil. On my desk the slips closest to me are those that I’m doing, or should do, now. When there’s too much paper, it’s obvious. Throwing away (by sticking it on the spike) a piece of paper feels good. It’s just a piece of paper.
Yes, not having a reference image for people to compare what you are directly talking about in today's multimedia world is just really being lazy. Like, supadupaüberlazy. There's really not an excuse for it.
It doesn't-and doesn't need to-make money.
I disagree somewhat with the anti-license manifesto mentioned in the tangents. The one here: https://www.boringcactus.com/2021/09/29/anti-license-manifes...

Problem is, if you do not license your software, then under existing 9th Circuit precedent it is illegal to use your software - for any purpose. You are creating a trap to be sprung on people who don't understand the law.

Is the US legal system anti-justice, at least in the sense that the adversarial model of courts breaks down when applied to power disparities[0]? Absolutely.

Is worrying about copyright at best a detour, in the sense that copyright has nothing to do with justice except to protect a certain few from a specific kind of exploitation? Yes.

But we still need to at least pay lip service to it, if only to protect your users from being sued by you. "You", in this case, is maximally extended to not only every "you" that might exist in the future, but even people who may wind up inheriting your estate in the far future - which isn't far enough to cover the expiration of the copyright. You - as in, not you, but You - can stomp in at any time and sue individual users for large sums of money they can't pay, even if they merely ran the program.

This isn't a hypothetical. The way that people share (freely-licensed and otherwise) software puts a target on them, and the system occasionally takes the shot[1]. For as long as copyright applies to the air we breathe, we have to worry about it.

[0] Copyright trolling is a good example of why adversarial court systems don't work when parties are not on a level playing field

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/comcast-subscriber-receives-dmca-no...

https://torrentfreak.com/paramount-wipes-infringing-ubuntu-t...
To be fair, they do have "a parliamentary democracy with elected MPs". It's just that those elected MPs have some fairly strict limits on what they are allowed to govern (anything that does not involve the military, which in Pakistan is not a lot).

Of course it doesn't help that the elected MPs have almost exclusively belonged to the same class of robber barons, Imran Khan being one notable exception.

Pakistan actually has a pretty vibrant and critical media, in contrast to (other) military dictatorships. They have a lot of great political satire (that, again, stops short of criticizing the military).
Google Cloud will shutter its IoT Core service next year
Having good fitness really is amazing. If a pill or supplement gave one the benefits of exercise I wouldn't believe it: it would come across as a "too good to be true" scam. It really does improve cardiac health, mood, energy, the immune system, etc.

But "being fit" does not mean being skinny (unless we're using the british slang definition of "fit"). There are people heavier than me that are more athletic, and there are skinny people who are wasting away.
I couldn't even get past the legal work to read the article.
It's the right time to get into the digital forensics business.
I'm surprised the reactor needs a moderator, I would assume that a liquid fuel reactor could be controlled far better by controlling flow into and out of the critical mass. It's all at normal pressures, just hot (temperature and radiation wise), so just bog standard plumbing practices for handling fluid levels should work.

Being able to scramble the reactor by just dumping the contents through a set of diverters into separate flat bottom chambers to cool and eventually freeze is an awesome safety feature.
> I go on adventures for a good portion of the year and still manage to keep it intact, so i scratch my head when people say they break easily or that they always shatter their screen, it really seems to go beyond accidental damage and stray into carelessness.

How often/ how much alcohol do you drink?
Fast spectrum MSRs bring a whole litany of other problems. Chlorine has more oxidation states and the chemistry with fission products is much more complex.

Starting with graphite makes sense imho for a university.
This dude is a riot! Wish I could write like that! The overall concept is hysterical, article has great momentum, and many zingers throughout.
> You're making a claim that patents are blocking progress

I am not. You are replying to the wrong comment.
Humanity has been doing a lot of things for most part of these 8000 years, from casual genocide at wars to not washing hands before a meal. Much of it has changed in recent couple of centuries, with pretty obvious positive effects.

Maybe humanity is not that hopeless.
Nope.
Undefined behavior on obviously incorrect input isn't a bug in my world. ( might be in other circumstances )
I think that's a very good point. Maybe not that we don't have multiple societies, we definitely do[1], but that no one is willing to take the wheel of the so called "globalized" part of the world.

[1] See e.g. China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, large swaths of people without internet. The list goes on and on.
> my prediction is that, as a result, people will start assuming pics online are fake until proven otherwise.

"That worked well for quotations."
— Abraham Lincoln
And Egypt. And a bunch of countries in Asia.
It would be "fuck Bosch" if they were charging 125€ for the otherwise 25€ fix.
All of these things take away the very limited classroom time that should be spent on skills rather than non math topics. She would regularly bemoan lost days, because at the end of the year the kids had to take a math test, not a history of math test.

All of this stuff has nothing to do with math, and doesn't actually help them learn math skills. Students of color aren't struggling with math because they don't have role models in the field. It's a universal language. They struggled with math due to lack of literal time spent studying, practicing, and drilling these concepts. They struggle because someone white tells them that they need role models in the field instead of simply letting them be capable and giving them the tools to learn.

And as someone of color, when you constantly push it in my face that I'm underrepresented, that math is primarily for white people, which you ultimately are doing by trying to bring race into everything, it then gives me an excuse for failure. It simply feeds into the victim mentality and kids will give up before they begin. Success is born from work, not hero worship. When you are inspired by someone, if you find inspiration from the color of their skin, and not the actual blood, sweat, and years they put into success, you are setting yourself up for failure.

Looking at the opportunities available to you from the lens of race is like shooting yourself in the foot. If I had done that- I would have assumed that my most likely path to success was going to be with a ball in my hands. And if I don't see a black man in a specific field...then how could I ever be successful in that field myself?
not a criticism or a confirmation, just a remark:

> [...] the front of the craft would be white-hot [...]

To the extent heating is inevitably experienced, a conventional way is to get rid of it by radiative cooling. Complaints about the visual appearance of a radiative cooling subsystem visibly doing its job is a bit weird.
That's a LineageOS customization, as far as I know.
Misinformation is an opinion, and hate is a human emotion. Sounds like good places to be.

Remember how many times misinformation was yesterday's conspiracy and it turned into today's accepted truth?
Khan wasn’t president and never had a TV show.
Yeah, but that stock! /s
How so? Do schools underfund these programs yet heavily promote them?
It's my fucking job. I've spent my whole fucking life getting good at drawing. I can probably manage to keep finding work but I am really not happy about what this is going to do to that place where a young artist is right at the threshold of being good enough to make it their job. Because once you're spending most of your days doing a thing, you start getting better at it a lot faster. And every place this shit gets used is a lost opportunity for an artist to get paid to do something.

I wanna fucking punch everyone involved in this thing.
Mongolians would flee to the US if the US gave them free access to visas.

Mostly another self imposed problem.
That the US started out as a federation of independent states is a given. My point is that "states' rights" as a political-moral philosophy doesn't make much sense, and almost nobody has pushed for states's rights consistently or when it goes against what they otherwise want. One might argue that decisions should be made at the smallest (most local) level that makes sense, but the idea that "state" means "local decision-making" is pretty dubious. Furthermore, "states' rights" as a political rallying cry in the US came after the Civil War and was used to justify segregation.
Can someone elaborate on what it means to refresh a browser in this context?

Update it? Clear cache?
> For some reason this has been some kind of meme going around in the last 2 to 4 weeks, that Netflix shows all look the same because of a limited camera list. And somehow it's turned into a full article now.

Agree with you. The actual list of approved cameras [0] has dozens of cameras from six different manufacturers and there are get outs - especially for non-fiction content - should you have to use a non-approved camera.

[0] https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360...
I don't see the link between making money and being spam free, can you please expand on this?
Sure you can rename things easily, but NAMING something CORRECTLY is hard, in an ontological sense where you may not know what the thing's name is until you truly know what it is.
I use beorg on iOS, and orgzly on android
Did we say the same in the 80s when audio sampling became a thing? We accepted it (after obligatory legal battles) and moved on, giving rise to the Creative Commons.
Labour protections/willingness to strike, I suspect they mean. But I don't buy it. I've seen far too many people who "should" be worried about this technology instead be absolutely in love with it.

Case in point, the comic artist Jens K (who, f.d, I support on Patreon):
https://twitter.com/jenskstyve/status/1560360657148682242
> But, we got to the 2 week mark with 0 revenue and we still didn’t have a completed product. That’s not really an excuse that flies in YC

What are they going to do, take their money back because you didn't meet their ludicrous immediate-term expectations?
Clip Studio Paint announces subscription plan, angering the artist community
How can you be more honest with yourself?
I'm asking because I have trouble with my blind spots, I tent to over-inflate my abilities (I'm too confident) and in the process become blind & less honest with myself. we’re all human right (let’s hope).
You must be a C programmer.
Are you spending your time building houses? Are you willing to quit your job and work for Habitat for Humanity?
Yes, I agree. In real life I emphasize the bit I said about "randomly moving pieces", and explain that it is a feature built into the protocol. Of course there is a lot of mathematic handwavery, but people seem to get it after the fact. I've also learned that most people don't actually realize there are more optimal ways to solve rubiks cubes anyways.
Ask HN: Best Paid VPN to get around "due to ... regulations in Europe"
The last time a similar question was asked was nine years ago [1]. I moved to Europe and many websites will not let me choose the region they serve. For example, I purchased something from a website - but their Europe page states "We regret that due to technical challenges caused by new regulations in Europe, we can for the time being no longer accept orders from the European Union." I cannot check my order status without a US based IP Address.

Are there any recommended VPNs to get a US IP address?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6345520
As it stands, the data collected in the study remains sealed at Yale University and cannot be opened until 2065. Neubauer arranged for the records to be locked at Yale in 1990, claiming he did this to protect the twins.

I'm not sure why the wishes of this abusive hack should carry any weight whatsoever. The practices described here seem criminal and yet there's a tacit pan-institutional agreement to keep the evidence inaccessible to shield anyone involved from any potential liability.
'mainstream media' being crapped on is mostly from the extremist right. They see everything as having a left wing bias whereas all it means is that when you're at the North Pole everything else will be South of where you are.
In my experience Snowflake is very receptive to enhancement requests. If you feel Snowflake should be doing something better for surfacing optimizations, I'd ask them.

That said, I'm not sure your comment is fully accurate:
1) "lack of query level attribution of costs"
Snowflake doesn't charge per query so there can't be default query level attribution of cost. Snowflake charges by second of warehouse use. But you CAN easily see which queries ran on which warehouse and allocate costs back to that using your own criteria (by query second, usually better than by number of queries).
2) "no in-built features for monitoring"
Snowflake has built in cost monitoring dashboards:
https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/cost-overview.html
And resource monitors:
https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/resource-monitors.h...

That said, I'm sure improvements could be made. Ask for them. There must be a market for this because Capital One and Acceldata and others offer similar solutions for optimization recommendations.
Sometimes it drops to 40hr, other times to 100hr. Haven't been able to figure out what the pattern is.
You can buy that phone. I don't want to, I'll keep buying the one they sell.
Write now it's a great writing-assist tool. Eventually all the rest.
You can buy one here:

https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/P2-Pentalobe-Screwdriver-...
I think that bypassing DRM would violate DMCA even if it is for fair use.
Yep, this will be done definitely in the short to medium-term.
Ahh, this technology moves so fast I'm not even able to even keep up with reading about it. Not to mention trying it myself.
As they should, propping up commercial real estate (and by extension housing) isn't in anyone's interests besides the investment class who pushed out the small businesses during COVID closures for failure to make payments. They saw massive spikes in value on their holdings and overall portfolio but now that the interest rate hikes have cooled the housing and real estate market a bit they want to justify these inflated costs by forcing people back into the office instead of seeing sensible price corrections.

Personally speaking, and with Adam Neumann's new move and VC funded warchest, I'm convinced the real estate market will sooner self-cannibalize itself instead of correcting to a pre-2008 bubble mania and they are throwing anything they can to prop it back up by forcing back in office and making them re-inflate all the surrounding housing options. The truth is that after the layoffs they cannot spare losing more talent, so calling their bluff is really more a calculated risk and the worst case scenario is taking a few more offers via Linkden more serious this time around.

If they and the entire tech Industry stand their ground then we might have a chance at making it a norm because right now it's still incredibly shaky, and the truth is that it's foolish to even explore given how much unnecessary GHG is produced from commuting.
Who knows is exactly the problem. Hand waving this away for future generations to deal with is exactly the problem. If we can’t imagine how we’ll solve it, we should probably strive not to create the mess.
I dont have the karma to downvote this, but I would if I could.
I used to work at Google Cloud, I left about 2 years ago so my advice might be slightly outdated so hopefully it helps someone.

I highly recommend anyone running production workloads to get in touch with sales and meet your account manager, and customer engineer.

You also need to swap to invoice billing and sign the offline payment terms. Credit card payments leave you in a MUCH higher risk category at higher risk of suspension.

You can ask them to put a flag on your accounts so that you won't get suspended in the event of billing issues. Iirc it gives you something like 180 days and blocks any of the automated systems.

The downside is you could get a crazy huge bill if you have an account compromised or some rogue IaC code. But you can manage that with quotas mostly. And with some good negotiation you can get a rogue bill written off. YMMV.
"Undefined behavior consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be compiler engineers whom the language standard protects but does not bind, alongside developers whom the language standard binds but does not protect." (source: https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/1558181259314167808 )
> Electrically, there's not much reason to look down on Twisted Pair.

Yeah, but mechanically, the RJ45 plug with its finicky easily breakable plastic tab can be an annoyance. And it's easy to see that the pin ordering is not ideal, with the pair in the middle splitting another pair. AFAIK, there exists a more robust connector (the M12 connector), but it doesn't seem to be that common.
Enough for Trump to call them on it 3 years ago?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FfJv9QYrlwg
> which suffered a lot during socialist times

The other way around, they were doing great (Robotron, Wismut, Pentacon) until the reunification. Socialism somehow kept them alive.
1. This "unsoundness" was the subject of extensive (endless) discussions on the Infer team (as you can imagine). This spurred some theory and there are some precise theorems associated with how parts of Infer work. E.g., racerd has some theorems and over a period of a year saw no observed false negatives, so I'm not sure it's accurate to say that it's "just an ordinary unsound static analysis" (see https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290370 and references).

2. Apart from that, to me, if logic inspires (part of) the design of an analyzer, that's perhaps more valuable than using logic to judge it after the fact, as analysis design is hard; and this is true even if analyzer ends up following part of the spirit if not the letter of the logic.

I believe I get where you care coming from, though, and appreciate your perspective. :)