skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird/random antidote - back in my late 20's I was going through fairly extreme dieting/working out (no carbs, calorie cutting, hours in gym, 6-pack abs yada yada) and everyday I would do a 45min incline walk (I did this for over a year straight) - the key to my success here was watching youtube videos of the people who binge eat all sorts of foods and try to have insane calorie days eating delicious take-out etc.

I always looked forward to the 45min treadmil/food-video combo & it felt liked it helped combat any diet depression (regardless of how masochistit may've seemed).
Plenty, http://progtools.org/article_new.php?name=safe_systems&secti...

Or you can start with Burroughs, VAX/VMS, Mesa/Cedar, Lisp Machines, Smalltalk, IBM i, z/OS.
Are there game studios out there still using C? From what I've heard the majority is using C++, so switching Rust just makes your life easier without changing too much (C++ devs already uses templates, smart pointers, RAII, etc. which Rust has too, but with a better design (a stronger type system, and also hindsight from 30 years of C++)).

From what I've seen on HN, Zig seams to appeal people who like the “simplicity” of C and find Rust too complex, but I don't think anyone coming from C++ could find Rust “too complex” (a bit different, with a learning curve indeed, but not “too complex”).
Amounts should be $20-39, $40-69, $70-99 to avoid overlap.
We can, perhaps, hypothesize that lacking the interconnected maritime world of the 1700s, more independent industrial revolutions may have occurred. But it's a tricky hypothesis to support because those revolutions also breed transportation revolutions (especially if the condition of "isolated, unable to trade for enough survival resources" that the British Isles had is a significant incentivizer; isolated places that can put these engines to transportation have great reason to do so). So it would have needed to be some very close-in-time revolutions to happen in multiple places instead of one happening in one place and <70 years later has been transported everywhere by the engines of motion the revolution creates.

Earth itself is only so big.
I tracked thieves stealing my car in San Francisco
There may be plenty of uranium. However there isn't plenty available for easy extraction.

"Is nuclear energy green" Sabine Hossenfelder
Eventually, if you have pin-compatible chips from several manufacturers, they could replace chips from lets say Taiwan with ones from Europe perhaps?
You may find this podcast about high inflation in Brazil relevant.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/01/130267274/the-...
I was with you until here.

The waste was never the main problem and contemporary nuclear power plant designs don't share many of the other downsides either.
Feels like shiny concept art for games is facing a similar moment as portrait painting in late 19th century. Why pay someone to paint in this generic commercial style when you can get a meaningful automatic result at the push of a button?

Most other styles of illustration seem safer for the moment because they rely more on the illustrator's personality. (I'm not talking about the kind of stuff you buy on Fiverr, but professional designers who mainly get work through their networks.)
Usually, yes.
Internal combustion engines put plenty of actual pollutants into the air, not just CO2, and moreover, they do that directly where everyone lives, not off in some remote manufacturing site. While I'm not sure how to quantify the health impact of the resulting air quality issues, it isn't nothing. This has been most of the past impetus for why California has such stringent emissions standards compared to other regulating bodies. The effect is especially pronounced in Los Angeles and Orange Counties because of the unique geography being totally surrounded by mountains and ocean. I mentioned it yesterday when this same bill passing was posted about then, but we used to have fairly regular "smog days" when I was a kid in the 80s. Outdoor activity just totally shut down. Kids weren't even allowed to play outside. It's not nearly that bad any more because of decades of strong emissions standards, but it's still bad for an American city.

Of course, a lot of the problem isn't even from family passenger vehicles. It's all the trucking taking place because of the ports. If mitigation measures don't include switching all of those onto non-combustion engines as well, it won't be nearly as effective.
> Water power was the workhorse

Wasn't the workhorse the workhorse before water power, allowing larger scale farming - which itself is another large step in human history towards increased efficiency and mass production that predates both the industrial revolution and the Roman empire.

I believe horses and even people were also used to drive non-agricultural machinery before water and steam.

The underlying theme to all these things feels more like "automation" than any specific energy source which are seemingly arbitrary (whatever is at hand, quite literally sometimes).
I live in KZ, I'm not sure if I'm qualified as a contractor as I mostly work for the same company, but technically I'm contractor. My current rate is around $15. I'm making like 3x of everyone around me, so not really poor.
When I started out as a freelancer n10 years ago, I was aiming for € 70 per hour. My first gig was € 55, the next € 60, then € 67.5. And then suddenly it jumped to € 75, € 82, € 85, and I'm currently making € 95 per hour.

I just keep slowly increasing the rate until they stop hiring me.

Note, this is mostly for long in-house projects, where I'm part of a team working on a single project. I'm working roughly 32 hours a week.
They are using standard 5G midband spectrum from T-mobile
Thanks for actually taking me seriously but I think you missed my point.

I understand what's the point of a study. I'm just saying there's probably no real need for a "study" to know which departement or service is racist. It's more a will to act and how that's lacking, not one more study. It's also because acting is not easy : when money is low you get 'not the best people' and they still have to do a hard job against criminals, so there's is also sort of a need to protect them when they make mistakes or when you know they won't change who they are, to still have SOME job done in the meantime.

life and people management isn't easy and, i don't think, solved by 'studies'
Except food also has inelastic demand (without it you starve and die), and has a pretty close to perfect market, and prices are not driven to infinity.

Healthcare in America is about as far away from "capitolism"(sic) as one could possibly get.

Due to Federal mandates and tax incentives, health insurance is predominately provided by employers rather than the individual market (unlike Switzerland, Germany, or the Netherlands). What we're seeing in healthcare costs is analogous to what you might see happen to airline ticket costs if we all got our air tickets through our employers: the vast majority of us would fly business class, while the unemployed would be simply unable to pay for business class fares out of pocket. Employers (especially medium-to-large businesses) have a much higher purchasing power (and hence, willingness to pay) than individuals.

If you take this behavior and combine it with the fact that health insurers' profit margins are capped by law, insurers pay more absolute dollars for treatments (which doctors happily accept), charge more to employers (who are generally less price conscious vs individuals), thus bring in more absolute revenue, and therefore more profit because a capped profit percentage of a higher revenue is higher than a capped percentage of lower revenue. It's somewhat counter-intuitive, but the policy combination of an employer mandate and insurance profit cap results in prices rising to infinity. The furthest thing possible from a "perfect capitol(sic) market".
Not everyone uses the mail service provided by TheBigG, and not everyone has a "mark as spam" button.

My email is sufficiently esoteric as to ensure that a sizeable percentage (when last measured between 20% and 25%) of legitimate email gets put in the spam bin, rendering commercial spam filtering effectively useless.
> during the summer, clothes dry indoors in ~4h,
> drying clothes indoors has no ill effects

Maybe the first is why you think the second is always true? Where I live if I just leave laundry on a drying rack it won't dry for days, and once it is dryish it already smells stale and mouldy.

I'm glad that it works for you, but maybe the advice differs based on location, climate, maybe even architectural choices.
> Nobody bothered to look at the details.

This is a solid contender for humanity's epitaph.
Thanks Joe, I really appreciate the kind words :)
Yes, constantly biting your lip (I’m talking about injuring the tissue, not just nibbling) will increase your risk of oral cancer too.

It’s not something most people do super often, so I’m not sure if we’d even have a risk measurement for that. In almost all cases of accidental biting risk is basically nil / negligible… But theoretically nonzero.

A reference (somewhat taken at random) for more explanations of the general concept: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803035/

It’s a well-established principle, and is one of the main reasons why smoking anything in general will cause lung cancer, why hepatitis frequently leads to liver cancer, why IBD frequently leads to bowel cancer, why alcohol consumption causes oral cancer, etc.
I regularly heat things in and near my house to 350º, 450º or even 600º F. It's called cooking. I'm pretty sure if I look at my water heater or clothes dryer the point heat source raising the temperature there is well over 200º F as well.
I left my PhD in computational geometry for similar reasons. I was told flat out by my advisor that the chances of me getting a paper accepted in even a middling journal were low. Not normally low (as in tough review), but so low because the entire field is dominated by a handful of very high profile researchers and mathematicians that essentially gate keep knowledge on it.

It was also necessary to publish some papers to even get my PhD.

Academia is dead. My biggest most important realization about learning in the last decade is that my concept of the academic was backwards. They aren't free thinking at all. It's drama all the way down.

I now havent touched really anything in CS research because this experience completely killed my love for the field, and advanced learning in general.
If the web implementation of git could be as federated/decentralized/open as git is so that GitHub didn't exist, that would be my ideal "GitHub-Next". Please eliminate yourselves.
HN is a US-based service.

By the way, how is China coping with the vast flood of immigrants trying to move there? Oh, that's right -- there aren't any.
I didn't intend to mean they are the monopoly within their market segment but what's stopping Amazon from creating a game and locking others within their segment out

1) that's only available on Luna sold via Amazon

2) DLC only downloadable with Twitch participation/Prime membership

3) Amazon force EA to use AWS

Instead of making their product compete with their 'competitors', they buy the customers (EA) and force them to use their product. At that point, taking AWS for example, GCP/Azure are no longer 'competitors' and if the end-consumer (me and you), want to play a title, we pay extra because there's no competition in the chain...
Yeah, and that struck me as really wrong.
I'm a black man who grew up in the projects in a single parent household. Through willpower and dedication, I made a way. I made a way because skin color doesn't matter when you have your CCNA at 14, or when you maintain a Gentoo install at 16, and have a OpenBSD router in your home built from old computer parts found in thrift stores. Mind you, these aren't even impressive achievements, but they were above average for my age group at the time.

> STEM is far from an objective field

I had every excuse to believe that, but I didn't. I'm definitely biased because I trusted the system and it worked. Most industries can be exclusive, but STEM is not one of them. Raw talent seems to be rare, so any talent is accepted.

> and has culturally excluded a lot of talent

You use 'culture' as a point of argument, which is extremely vague, yet you accuse me of presenting a poor argument due to unfalsifiable statements? I respect your point of view, but you have to be fair.
How does one model a program that does anything to began pairing it to the desired execution?
So when humidity rises, the chair goes flat again?
The Espanso Hub is great if you need some inspiration :) https://hub.espanso.org/
Ask HN: How will trust evolve, in a world with high quality deepfakes?
You can read between the lines

> GitHub Copilot is trained on billions of lines of public code.

> In one instance, GitHub Copilot suggested starting an empty file with something it had even seen more than a whopping 700,000 different times during training–that was the GNU General Public License.

https://github.blog/2021-06-30-github-copilot-research-recit...

This indicates that they are training it on github's public repositories and at the very least including 700,000 GPL licensed projects or code files. Since the GPL is one of the most "restrictive" open source licenses one can assume they are not caring about the licenses much.
Suspect 6 minutes being increment has more to do with being 1/10 of an hour (easy to calculate rate) & and as fine-grained as you can get without being so obnoxious you can't track.
Some ISPs are opensource. Pinephone Pro's is, so this is not a problem for Pine64.
Please read the whole thread. That's been debunked multiple times.
Uh, yeah, 20 years ago.
It's really key for people to understand this, because that economic imbalance doesn't require slaves, though slaves are a sufficient condition.

It can also be done (on paper at least) with automation. The key point is "capital consolidation (which can scale) divorced from individual labor output (which does not scale)," and however you get there (slaves or robots), you can create a massive societal wealth imbalance that results in an economic arrangement utterly unlike the arrangement that spawned it.

... that reminds me, my phone pinged five minutes ago. I should go pick up that Amazon package off my porch.
That's lovely, but if this is not even effective communication.

Very frustrating that the article entirely fails to provide key information about its main topic - batteries. They even fail to provide even rough order-of magnitude values.

How much energy can it store, i.e., the energy density (watt-hours per kilogram or equivalent measure)?

How much power can it put out per unit mass (watts per kilogram or equivalent measure)?

What level of cost (e.g., dollars per kilogram) are we talking about?

Sure, they talk about some new feature, but without at least a rough order of magnitude on these key parameters, we cannot even guess at what will be the valid applications. For example, a battery with a very modest energy & power density but really cheap will be worthless for transport or airborne applications but may be great for fixed storage, and many other combinations.

But with only highlighting some new feature in isolation, the only possible audience is ignorant enthusiasts, who we hope are not making policy.

I used to be really enthusiastic about most new battery tech articles, but at this point, if they fail to even mention one of those three parameters, it looks to me just like clickbait or spam.
The problem here I think is that you miss the original point of the top-level parent. They weren't claiming that EVs emit more CO2 from driving, but from _manufacturing_.

Whether or not this claim is true I can't say for sure, because nobody on either side of this discussion in this thread has provided links/proof to back up/refute these claims, so it's just a bunch of people throwing numbers at each other with no context.
Seems like this particular branch is talking about the suitability of using woodworking for the analogy.
Reducing methane is the fastest strategy available to reduce warming
Which brings us back to the original question:

> What on earth are people spending electricity on?

It's exactly that. An AC, probably one additional appliance among others, adds another 10% to the total and somehow we manage to frame this as efficient and thus the right thing to do.
Those things were ultimately ruled as fair use though which is what Microsoft is claiming here as well.
I doubt you understand it.

The peasant-aristocrat economic and social systems of Europe are in full swing in the US.

Whether its a political family or rich ones, they stand on a peerage, exalted as demi-gods of the Americas. No different than a European title of nobility.
How does this work for "specialty" savings accounts like 401Ks and HSAs (which are typically set up for an individual by their employer)? Does each one of you list the other as the sole beneficiary of each account, or have you been able to make those joint accounts as well?
again, the protocol should be dumb, its a way to move bytes. If there is js encoded in those bytes the rotocol will not and should not know or care. It's up to a client do decide what it wants to do with the bytes it receives.
China's energy policy is indeed one of the few rational ones. But besides vast improvements in renewables, transmission and storage, China has also invested in new better nuclear designs.
Yeah, why not. It's already like/comment/subscribe model via publishing online. This would add a dislike button and you could have it so it costs karma etc. Would be preferable imo.
One interesting factiod¹ is that a root cause for the transatlantic slave trade was that Africans were the only plantation workers that didn't die of malaria after a few years. Both local natives, and imported Europeans kept dying off.

¹ As in, I've seen it stated as fact, but am not sure how true it is
Basically this, but perhaps a slightly more accurate explanation is that tissue damage causes inflammation, which is angiogenic, proliferative (which you hint at) and generally increases the risk of cancer.
Access to high purity quartz is the real bottle neck. You can have your own fabs and designs.. but if America and Russia refuse to sell you some Quartz.. you are out of luck!

https://www.persistencemarketresearch.com/market-research/hi....
Different things for different people. You could want a FOSS phone. Or better privacy. Or a Linux experience with an ssh shell. Or all three.

Sailfish gives a Linux experience. It is mostly, but not completely, FOSS. It is more privacy oriented than both main platforms from Google and Apple. For me it is a good compromise for now. For you, that might be different.
> presumably the privacy.com credit card number you give to the merchant can be traced back to privacy.com.

Unknown. Do you have some evidence of that?
Right, veneration for being insanely rich is much more American and makes so much more sense.
Had a friend, gifted in mathematics, spend his first few years post university at a corporation where he was tasked to work on their trading algorithms. He described it as both challenging and soul crushing - and generally one of the most toxic environments he has ever worked in. It is a shame that so many of the most gifted youth are recruited into that field rather than solving problems that would benefit mankind to a greater degree - as opposed to banking execs.
All an internet user needs is a private key and wiseness not to compromise it.
Bingo. When trees are abundant charcoal is the superior fuel. It’s much cleaner to burn than coal, weighs less and doesn’t require you to mine it out of the ground which is difficult and dangerous.

I’d argue the difficulty of mining and burning coal are what kicked off the industrial revolution. Mines necessitated the invention of coal powered pumps and other equipment. To burn coal efficiently you need iron stoves which drove demand for foundries and metallurgical development. Once you’ve got lots of coal and lots of iron and people who know how to work with it you start getting bright ideas about other things you can do with all that coal and iron.
The argument here is that coal was specifically necessary to iterate the steam engine to the point that it was viable even on dearer fuel.

In the context of railroads, at least in the US, railroads were primarily reliant on wood fuel for steam power during the First Industrial Revolution. But until steam engines became efficient enough to the point that Stephenson could build his Rocket, a steam locomotive powered even by coal wouldn't make for a viable railroad. So without coal, you get no railroads, and without railroads, I doubt you get to the Second Industrial Revolution because inland bulk transport is still too limited.
The link from UCS supplied below by @ZeroGravitas seems superior to the one from Volvo that you give, and your summary of the link you give is not evenhanded.

In particular: The EV/ICE comparison in both documents relies heavily on the energy mix that goes into grid electricity, ad this is somewhat a free parameter. California will have a lot of wind and solar, and this will tend to tip the balance toward EVs. Your summary has emphasized a more fossil-intense scenario in the Volvo report.

I also feel like your argument of “don’t do this, do this other thing first” is not sane regarding climate change. We need to be pursuing all effective strategies, and setting EV roadmap expectations is one area where California can show leadership. This has been necessary before, e.g. with mileage and emissions.
That tweet links to https://old.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/wucxs4/is_it_allow... which says:

> Using our products for any application related to mining, even remotely related, is not permitted. This includes Ethereum. It includes proof of stake and proof of work and related applications. It includes trading. It is true for all of our products, except colocation. Even if you just run one node, we consider it a violation of our ToS.

That context just shows the title is incorrect, because it's not specifically about Ethereum, and not specifically about PoS. It includes those, but also includes any other cryptocurrencies, and any other proof-of-X methods.
Who cares about India or China or whatever. They're all gonna die if they don't change their ways.

The climate plight will be our downfall, but not because of silly squabbles like you describe, but because the mindset you have is inherently extinctionist.

Uncontrollable growth is a characteristic of cancer, not something to aspire to.
Are you saying you've never encountered an engineer with a large, fragile ego? Because lucky you.

I guess I'd also say there is another, more mature side that takes Rust much more seriously, even on Twitter, such as John Carmack. I didn't know this needed to be said but not all game devs have fragile egos, but, wow, some certainly do.
> Generality leads to bloat in software systems and increases complexity unnecessarily.

This is missing some qualifiers methinks. An interface is generic in that you don't have a concrete implementation, surely that can be used to decrease complexity rather than bloat it?
The reason for the physical visit is because a lot of trades work is the computer equivalent of "hey, I just want to get Okta retrofitted to this web app", where that the web app is 25,000 lines of php and perl written at various different times by developers of varying skill levels.
No industrial revolution? What?

The Roman industry was war and empire building.