skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many residential houses, especially in Europe do not have HVACs systems installed and rely on opening windows to get fresh air into the house.

As the article mentions this poses risks of getting outdoor pollutants into the homes, especially if you live in areas of high air pollution or next to a busy road.

One solution is to install a fan with a HEPA filter that takes air from the outside and pushes this into the house. This will keep CO2 levels low and also due to the higher pressure inside the house (with the clean air) it prevents the dirty air from entering. Here in Asia some people retrofit their houses with this system which is also called Positive Pressure System [1].

What the article does not touch on is that often it is also recommended to use carbon filters in combination with the HEPA filter to ensure that also hamrful gases like NOx are trapped. The disadvantage of carbon filters is that they do not last very long and are expensive.

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/blog/positive-p...
"Oy, it's a sure thing, mate."

if experience in similar US market has taught anything.
Ariane Space carried the James Webb to where it is now, and Ariane 6 is currently being developed, slowly but surely. If not, there is still SpaceX among others.

Germany kick startes solar early on only to have our lunch eaten bybthe Chinese manufacturers. Non the less, solar already was in 2018 cheaper then Hinckley, cheaper than coal and cheaper than gas per kWh in auctions for utility scale projects, same for wind. No idea why people still try ti ridicule solar and wind in 2022 if all numbers show something different.
It's still a valid perspective, just harmful.

Having a large platform/following does not automatically make someone trustworthy. Low key, why do we live in a country where the opinion of an MMA judge/podcaster influences people so much, it's impossible to endlessly validate any claim.

We may need to transition to a more authoritarian model of speech in which content produced by an individual should be truthful, or we just endlessly play wac-a-mole on the latest rando who gains a following
Will Micro SaaS become mainstream in the future?
A nursing degree is a medical degree.
Thanks, though that wasn't quite my question - do you still stack elements within a top layer using z-index?
Read what they are actually doing, its not just running from ram.
An ancillary point Stewart made was "the Daily Show is on Comedy Central" (per memory, this was before peak Daily Show popularity, so it was well-known but not famous) as opposed to "Crossfire is on CNN."

Presumably people watch CNN for different reasons and with different expectations than they watch Comedy Central.

Tucker Carlson's rebuttal was that Jon Stewart could book political guests that wouldn't come on Crossfire, so he had a journalistic duty to ask hard questions.

Which... felt kind of weak to me. For profit media is for profit, and both Crossfire and Daily Show were beholden to the bottom line, and had to calibrate their behavior against that. Edward Roscoe Murrow, they were not.

PS: My favorite Stewart line from that interview remains (paraphrasing) "Crossfire isn't theater? Tucker, you're 35 year old man wearing a bowtie. This is theater."
His Windows 95 song was pretty accurate.
Pound pavement. Take people out to lunch. Go to conferences. Lots and lots of networking. Leverage any existing connections you have. If you're a senior, you should have some that are no longer relevant to your company, like old coworkers and whatnot.

In my experience, there will be about a 3-6 month delay between looking for work and securing a contract.

A couple things:

I undersold myself at first to get a couple of very pleased customers that then gave me much more work. However, it's very tricky... the customers that scoff at your price are not the ones you want. They are also going to be a PITA in every other way, and they'll grumble and make you feel like shit even when you deliver what you promised, on time, for the price you agreed to, with excellent value compared to the market. You don't want them.

....But it is a balance. Consider some way to mitigate risk on behalf of your customer in your first couple of contracts: hourly with a Not to Exceed number, or bid the job. Etc. Anything to get your foot in the door and get word-of-mouth recommendations.

Also... when pounding pavement, don't chase after individual customers! If you do, make sure they are whales. Do your best to find someone that will feed you lots of customers... Maybe partner with someone that does a complement to your work, like frontend or something of the sort?

Also... in partnerships, don't be greedy. There's ENORMOUS value that can be had when all the people you work with or around know that YOU want THEM to make money.

And finally... in my experience, having a "side gig" is really hard or impossible to pull off. It's always been a pretty binary situation between: "I have no work, nor prospects" and "Holy shit, I have way too much work and more is coming in." Work doesn't trickle in organically. You're either in or your out of the network of people that need work done, and if you're in, people paying top dollar want work done now. Trust me, those are the people you want anyway. The ones looking for a bargain will screw you.

Don't be afraid to say no to people that give you red flags, but I will warn you that every time you say "no" you are killing a connection on your network graph that could have led to a lot more work.
And that still wouldn’t fill the niche that SLS fills. Nobody is saying SLS isn’t wasteful, but heavy lift and interplanetary travel is still the scope of nation-states, not private companies.

Sure spaceX claims to be working on some of this, but they could cease to exist tomorrow, and governments (ie MILITARIES) need control of their platforms and more than one option.

Space travel is only peaceful until it isn’t.

Your logic is akin to ‘why are we building aircraft carriers when we could could build 20 Destroyers for the same cost’

Because we project our power with aircraft carriers, not destroyers
It is perfectly valid to believe that OP is probably overpaid in their day job, and also to believe that they are entitled to seek a side gig if they prefer.
I think I’d chalk this up to more ignorance than malice, at least at the current moment. They could be out of fuel and taking the shortest route home or something stupid like that.

If low intensity aggressions continue, then yes, it needs to be dealt with. I think for now it’s desperation, not a chess move.
If you are looking to build an open-source / open-hardware air quality monitor that uses the same sensor modules like commercial monoitors check out the AirGradient DIY monitor project that we maintain. [1]

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/instructions/di...
> Yikes, I think this is how teams end up with "we should just rewrite this whole thing because the guy who wrote it liked doing things his own nonstandard way and nobody else can understand it once he left".

I’d be willing to bet there’s more to the story in nearly every case. The non-standard way is often a deliberate choice to attempt to optimize for output, given unpredictable and unrealistic deadlines.

Then it proves futile when, for instance, the goalposts are moved again, and the last 25% of the implementation has to get rushed through. That’s when it turns into a pile of shit, and that’s when the person decides to leave. But not because of the deadline, but because of the incessant complaining, doubting, and negativity toward this developer, who got praise elsewhere for actually innovating. That’s why you hired him after all.

Nobody else apparently stepped up to help deal with the situation before it became a problem, hence the victimization. Companies like that are going to have a culture of finger-pointing and blame-throwing. Never taking responsibility for a situation they created. Problem-solvers need not apply.

This is how industries, not teams, fail. Good programmers know when to quit the rat race. Or they know how to choose companies that follow the golden rule. Take care of your people and they will take care of you.

But if someone is actually doing it to “flex”, they’re clearly not that experienced, in which case it’s also the company’s fault for giving them that much technical authority.
This may be unpopular here, but be really clear what you want out of your job.

If you're just talking side gigs be really clear this doesn't interfere with your own job performance. The first target you hit because of your "side gig" will be your downward spiral.

Now .. running your own business is another option. For me I encourage my staff to have "side gig" of their own business, but will not sign off on them contracting on the side.

One is a valuable option where you learn new skills - the other is...
Sweden, which didn't lock down, also in the green.
For Zen 4 a good part of the power reduction is that the i/o die went from the Global Foundries 12nm process to TSMC's 6nm process. That probably accounts at least partly for the large drop in power for the same performance, making it unlikely that Apple will see the same drop.
I am pretty confident that the appropriate place to distribute revolutionary new scientific models based in factual evidence isn't the joe rogan experience.
I'm not well verse in the US medical system. But in Germany, I get my injections from my doctor for which I can look up their license online.

If I were to take supplements, which I don't, since I consider it to be pseudo-science[1][2], I would get them from my local drug store which has the german equivalent of a FDA license and regular audits.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29v6rNFjlLI

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/07/the-vitam...
The (current) results sadden me:

1.26 mio. votes; Option 1 (41%), Option 2 (21%), Option 3 (34%), Option 4 (4%).
The lack of filter is why CNN can only dream to have Rogan's viewership numbers.

Maybe we don't need to water down every piece of information and discussion that exists.
Nobody would be interested in it really, since everyone (would have) (edit) their own thing they want others to check out. It's like fan fiction collections online, or the 80% of deviantart that you really don't want to spend time with - only now everything looks hollywood polished.
This has exited forever for all parts of the VBB https://www.vbb.de/fahrinfo/ You can turn on individual forms (S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Bus, Ferries etc) of tranport on the right hand side menu.
Can you give us some examples of VPNs that are not honeypots, and are secure to use?
It's definitely worth watching again.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
Plus, Mullvad is jurisdictionally in Sweden, and to my knowledge Swedish authorities have no legal right to force developers to write any software.
I mean, actors excel at "image", that's kind of their job?

I saw someone make an argument that the rise of celebrity politicians is about television. See also JFK, kind of one of the first "celebrity" politicians in the age of TV -- not that he was an actor first, but still.
> Bitcoin the only thing that matters is the computing power of miners

> That is precisely the problem that Satoshi Nakamoto intended to solve, preventing Sybil attacks

"The problem" Satoshi wanted to solve is building a trustless ledger that can store real value, even if the only value is the ability to publish data uncensored and universally. Sybil attacks are an aspect of that and proof of work had already existed before Bitcoin to solve, you guessed it, Sybil attacks.

You're view of Satoshi's intentions are therefore myopic.

This is demonstrated when you conflate your quoted passage about chain reorganization with power over the network as a whole. Satoshi was sensitive to block size, so were and are all Bitcoiners. There is a reason the block size was not massive out of the gate, and in the main forks remains small: Satoshi understood that node participation was important and should not be gatekept.

In a way, that's all irrelevant. We do not need the authority of the founder to draw our own conclusions about Bitcoin or blockchain - in fact one intention of Satoshi which is plainly obvious is this fact.

Volunteer nodes absolutely contribute to decentralization of resources and power. Mining nodes have an interest in maximizing profits, while volunteer nodes have an interest in keeping the network tied to its ideology, which means not significantly changing, which is valuable for a store of value. It certainly is not a scalable model (neither is Ethereum, it just makes other trade offs), but the nodes do in fact keep check on each other.
someone call the burn ward!
Why adtech is more sociopathic than algorithmic trading? Honest question, especially because both are so similar (algorithmic usage of information in fast marketplaces).
I would prefer to see the maps by postal code or at least somehow shaded by relative population density. Showing a given country - again for me - feels deceiving. That is, it's a social virus and more or less localized. For example, poor urban areas fared worse than rich suburb ones.

I'm glad to see someone getting into the details. Finally. But I still think the inequities of the pandemic - at least in the USA - are lost when using a national average. We need to drill down further still. We need to ask, what if the poor fared as well as the middle and up? But also, flip it so we understand a true worst case scenario.
My comment (which I could have made more clear) was intended to be responding to the idea of quoting the title and then claiming it's misleading.

I agree fully with what you're saying.
> And keep and share all the information with authorities.

Hilarious that you call it bullshit whilst spouting your own.
https://signal.org/bigbrother/

Unless of course you have some documentation to back up what you're saying.
What would a “good” WebMD look like?
I agree, but lawyers are crazy expensive, basically to the point where going to court against a large corporation is actually financially untenable.

Our material conditions are simply such that the only recourse a lot of groups have to corporate malfeasance is posting on hacker news (because it's the behavior we see)
uhh you better believe there is a staff nurse at JRE handing out NAD.
> Bit fields in C are notoriously non-portable (exact physical layout depends on the compiler).

The word "non-portable" is being thrown here too cheaply. By the definition used here, technically every C program that puts two integers consecutively on a struct is non portable, either. Not just due to alignment but due to endianess, etc.
It's interesting, I do have trouble using excess deaths and attributing it to covid though. I was in Honduras in the ultra poor mountain region in intibuca and the people there said the entire town got covid, but there was only one death. It's was a small town, but the area had well over 200 people. What did happen was that the government literally cut off access to the nearest city where people could get food, supplies, and medicine.and there are many life-threatening illnesses that can be addressed with cheap medication. In the major cities, they made it so one person could leave a household during a week to get supplies, but I have to think that lockdown and decreased access to healthcare and necessities had severe impacts, especially when populations are more active.
France always makes a point of maibtaining strategic independence. They maintain a non-Nato nuclear triad, build nuclear subs and carriers, build their oen 4.5th gen fighters. Soaintaining a domestic micro launch capability makes sense, not everything governments do is about cost saving and financial efficiency.

>> just put collectors into southern Europe and put a DC long distance power transport line.

That is technically non trivial, and NIMBY across central Europe, looking at you Germany, is making close to impossible. We already fail getting wind from Holstein to Bavaria because people refuse to have power lines above ground close by. Or wind turbines, although that is changing.
That your message is transferred from your computer to the recipient, HN's servers, encrypted. At no point should anyone in the middle be able to read your message. After arrival, HN then publishes it on a public forum for everyone to see.
that's what Brave staff keep repeating but in the meantime all other extensions that need v2 are a pain to install, for example this one https://libredirect.github.io/ requires you to enable dev mode, load the extension and then apply any updates manually.

They announced a Brave Extensions Store years ago and there are no news as of today.

I'm actually thinking to go back to Firefox because of this.
Interesting analysis, though he mentions early on a huge issue with the analysis:

> It does come with one major caveat: Because it counts ALL deaths, it cannot on its own disentangle deaths caused by Covid itself, impacts from the lockdowns themselves, impacts from vaccines, or unrelated death trends.

Especially as time goes on, and we see the effects of missed cancer screenings, economic destruction, increased obesity, etc, excess mortality will be almost entirely a measure of side effects of the pandemic response.
And if you knew the reason you would understand why, though possible, they are not common on Bitcoin Core.
I deleted a section of the last reply (I seem to keep doing that) because it was a bit of a "toke of the bong" sort of take. Yes, you can imagine a situation where it's just "AI all the way down," that is, you recreate a community of artists which are only AI and no human draws anymore. The thing is I feel like that situation, the AI looks a lot less like the NNs which are just matrices today and it looks a lot more like actual AI which is closer to what someone could imagine are people. That is what I can imagine in the future, which is a community of artists still, just not of humans.

Regarding an "all knowing" NN sort of black box that literally models the whole social process itself, I don't think is possible due to chaos, that is, sensitivity to initial conditions, like the weather. Large social systems are probably as sensitivity to initial conditions too and cannot be a priori modelled completely. That's kind of what I'll still stake as impossible in my opinion.
> Court orders of fabricated terrorism cases as regular means to abuse the system

Yes literally all the time in the United States.

The horseman of the privacy apocalypse is roughly - Terrorism, Drugs, and CP.
Do you want quality of life or quantity of life? But you're right; we can't go back. We'd have to get rid of at least 90% of the population to be able to feed people without agriculture.

The best step forward is to automate all the hard work and make sure we divide the benefits equally.
> Because an issue tracker is for tracking issues... not... oh nevermind.

That's exactly the point we are trying make. Issue trackers are good at tracking issues, but now people use issue trackers to track everything, from product development to task tracking, which they're often sub-optimal for.

> Yeah, because there is a lot of complex and different kinds of work out there, and building one system to do everything is a bad idea. A carpenter has multiple kinds of hammers. That's not a bug, that's a feature.

That's the bit I think we disagree on. My co-founder and I have both managed very large teams at large organizations. If you start splitting up everything into different tools, suddenly product is entirely disconnected from development and vice versa. We've seen it over and over where a tool becomes a "PM's domain" and is totally disconnected from the reality of the developers' work.

Now obviously you can make it work with discipline, but you can make anything work with discipline. We think Kitemaker makes it easier for product/development/design by creating one place for them all to meet. I agree that there are different types of hammers, we do not try to replace git/figma/slack but rather integrate with them.

I think we mostly agree at a high level, we just disagree where the split should be between different tools and you don't like the click-baity style of the article (that's fair and we'll try to work on it next time)
> Intel 8008 from 1972 is the first microprocessor

First microprocessor made by Intel.

https://www.wired.com/story/secret-history-of-the-first-micr...
http://spingalhistory.blogspot.com/2018/04/microprocessor-hi...
Other things such as?
In a previous job I worked on the case management software used by the Norwegian police. It was first put into production in ‘96, based on an earlier system from I think ‘94 (thus the Smalltalk). All criminal complaints in Norway pass through this system.

As a developer, I found the system really nice to work on, despite an antiquated Smalltalk implementation at the base (end of lifed in ‘99). Since the IDE is integrated into the running application, the development process was extremely smooth for a desktop application like that. But the process was an acquired taste, not all the developers got into the groove.
Hi everyone, author here. Didn't expect to be on the front page of HN!

I've long been fascinated by the early days of the microprocessor. A lot has been written about the 4004 but it's always seemed to me that Bob Noyce doesn't get enough credit. He's always there in the background making things happen.

I'm planning to write a series of short posts on related topics - some more technical in nature - others less so. The 4005, 8008 and competing architectures of the time will be first up.

Any ideas and feedback very welcome.

PS It's on Substack as it the only tool that has managed to cure my procrastination.
Like I said, they already do it themselves for TV airing, is it criminal then? And sure Pulp Fiction would be a mess. That’s quite an edge case though.
Honeybee venom 'kills some breast cancer cells'
I was there at the time and I was very aware of the story. At no point was it difficult to learn more. References to the story were posted everywhere. Anyone who wanted to be aware of it was aware and could easily read it.

Again, if you are somehow equating this hunter biden story with the censorship of, say, tiannamen square by the ccp, I encourage you to visit china and research the subject. Compare the efforts you mentioned were used to suppress the hunter biden story with what is outlined here, for example: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/a-look-at-the-many-ways-ch... and you will see how awfully bad the us gov is at censorship.

If the government was so concerned about trump as you say, then why did the same fbi re open an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server just weeks before the 2016 election?

Actually, tell you what, if you believe that the efforts to censor the hunter biden laptop story and tiannamen square are equivalent, I will make a bet. I will pay to print up two shirts: one with “hunter biden is a criminal” and a QR code to the New York post article. The other will say “remember June 5, 1989” with a QR code to the Wikipedia article titled “tank man”.

Wear both shirts in public outside the US capitol and take selfies. Then wear both shirts out in Beijing. Hell just try to get through customs wearing the June 5 shirt and let me know how that goes. I’ll pay for the shirts.
Thanks, that sounds like a good strategy. I’ll have a look at the Accelerate book.

> how can you be expected to do better than practices espoused by industry leading research and companies?
True, but not everyone has reasonable expectations :-) In those cases perhaps all that remains is to either have a frank discussion or to part ways.
In Boston and NYC I am seeing $150-200k at well-funded startups for "experienced IC" roles. If you have several years of experience, and you're actually a good engineer, and aren't at least above 150k in a market like this, you need to start interviewing, because your current employer is taking advantage of you.
What a sad thing for my username to line up with...
I'm not at all convinced excess deaths is a good measure of Covid-19 deaths.