skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 9€ ticket "success story" looks like a large hoax mainly created by green-friendly media.

1) The CO2 savings are nothing more than a wild guess rather than a scientifically sound estimation. The real numbers might be as low as 600000 tonns. And even these numbers are unsure because they include all those car drivers who have used this ticket only once during the 3-month test period, out of curiosity, and therefore can't be used for reliable prediction of what would happen if this kind of tickets will be introduced permanently.

2) At the same time, we don't know the real costs of this experiment yet. Some sources call it to be 10 billions instead of 2,5 billions.

3) Overall, only 10% of ticket users chose public transport instead of their car. Most of the trips has been generated by people who wouldn't travel at all if the ticket was not so cheap. And on the other hand, there are many news that people who usually commute using public transportation had to fall back to the cars, because the trains were so overcrowded and were frequently cancelled.

More scientific studies are needed to research the REAL effects of this experiment. We shouldn't make any political decisions based on the wishful thinking only.
A police officer can’t legally commit B&E without a warrant.

That’s why he just made sure the photos got into the hands of other members of the Nation. He effectively allowed the problem to solve itself.

Edit: I just realized that you may not be from the US or be familiar with how the law works here. You need a warrant to do what my father did to the Nation of Islam. None of the photos his took or any of the other evidence would have been admissible in court. He broke the law when he broke into the church.
Solid release! It fixes most of the rough edges I encountered.

Was Twind chosen to stay true to the "no build step" idea?
> But how do you assess progress when you remove all desire to monetize?

If you ignore the profit motive, presumably you are doing it for other reasons. You assess "progress" based on those motives. Or perhaps you don't assess "progress" at all, beyond "I like what I'm doing here and where this is going".

I've run numerous internet services over the years without the goal of them generating an income at all. I've run MUDs, websites, discussion groups, etc. I didn't objectively measure anything about any of them, because my goals were not ones that could be objectively measured. And honestly, even if there were some metric that could be used, I would have avoided using it because then it becomes about maximizing the metric rather than the purpose I started the activity in the first place. If I was happy with how they were going, that counted as "success" to me.

> So, even without a profit motive, what do you do?

I honestly don't understand this question. Without a profit motive, you do it for other motives. If you have no other motives, then why are you doing it at all?
The difference is that Christianity has a huge amount of buy in among the American people. The unification church can’t really say the same about the Japanese people, and in some ways in antithetical to the LDPs nationalistic politics since the church is run by Koreans.
>Poor you to have to read a rational argument in a comment using history and logic

Your comment above didn't actually contain any such thing. It contained a vestigial semblance of them too trivialised by vitriol to land a persuasive point.

>Sacarstic people are mean and don't understand how to have quality discussions.

Not always for sure, but yes that's often the case.
If you combine an accurate ambient light sensor with a regular old LCD you can do that pretty well, because you don't need to vary the brightness across the screen to simulate diffuse reflections from an uneven light source to get the effect you want. Also check out those programs that redshift your monitor. Finally, try turning down your monitor's brightness.
Wonderous, an open-source showcase app for Flutter
I'm still hoping for a turn-key open source solution that includes speaker identification.
It's not a cure-all, but third-party tools like f.lux can change the colors of the monitor at early morning/late night to drastically reduce the problem.

I used to have incredibly sore eyes from late-night sessions, and now that problem is completely gone. Been using it for years and will never go back.

It does take a little while to get used to at first, but it quickly becomes natural.

Windows also has a built-in tool to do the same thing, but it's not as robust/customizable iirc.
I’ve always been a bit puzzled by the reluctance to release 1.0 I can understand if you’re flailing around about what the API should be or if you don’t think your code actually works, but otherwise, why not start at 1.0? The first public release of finl_unicode was 1.0 (there ended up being 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 to fix some issues with docs.rs requirements that could not be anticipated), but the API was predetermined and I have good tests so I know my code is accurate so why not release as 1.0?
Likewise if the weather is less than perfect, which occurs frequently in mountainous areas.
A couple decades back, Jobs was the hero and Gates was the monster. There is no hyperbole in that statement.

Younger folks don’t remember that world. I wonder who of their heroes today will be the monsters of tomorrow.
I wouldn't call C functions first class either, it's a fuzzy term though. Function pointers, yes, and that's another place where it's pretty cool that there are two distinct parameter lists. I just found Blech this morning so I don't know how it deals with function pointers. Competently, I'm guessing.
You're right, I projected my own fears around subjugation and damage to our natural world onto Google's struggles and it's not a great look. I wish I could delete half the stuff I've posted on the internet.

To be clear, are you saying that the Singularity isn't a threat to humanity, and that environmentalism is anti-capitalist?
To the point, Christianity has very little market penetration in Japan. People there don't feel the need.
1. Roe v Wade?

2. There are many evangelical churches in the US that send money to dictatorships, for example, [1], [2] , I can collect you a longer list.

3. This point is clearly very specific to Japan, I can't find a bijection within a few minutes.

But, we aren't that different , really.

1. https://nnoc.org/pastors-for-peace-continue-support-to-cuba/

2. https://juicyecumenism.com/2019/11/13/churches-supporting-ve...

Edit: Spacing
See that is a good creeypasta concept.
Everything is possible.

Feasible is a different issue.

It is hugely expensive (give CO2 escape velocity) and wasteful (CO2 is a valuable substance, containing 2 important elements).
The pagan origin of Christmas is a myth.

Something that specifically deals with alleged Northern European origins: http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2018/12/concerning-yule.ht...
What value or service are they providing, and which "producers" and "consumers" are they connecting? In fact, they do have a monopoly wrt. their customers: they can credit themselves assets by creating a matching liability – inside the confines of regulatory limits – while ordinary people and businesses can't, and thus they have to pay the bank a fee to do that for them and give them the money.
The same how the US tries to stabilize the Taiwan/China conflict? :)))
Yeah but funny enough some countries that don't do what the US wants like Cuba, Venezuela Iran, North Korea are not invaded and some of those have oil. During the oil crisis the US didn't invade countries that didn't sell oil.

At the same time the US invaded Vietnam, Iraq, Lybia, Syria and helped fight wars in places like Yemen. Some that don't have oil.

Are you seriously suggesting if France and Saudi Arabia traded in $ the US would invade either country?

At the same time the US is heavily involved with Israel/Palestine neither have oil.

So the idea that its all about oil is incredibly reductionist and a totally false understanding of US policy making.

In fact if you go threw most of the supposed 'its all about oil' foreign policy issues in more details and you look at the decision makes, oil usually isn't actually the driving force.
Every kid is different but I'd say a 5th grader would be fine
It just means saying "yes" to the right things, and nothing more, is crucial.

Which is a just very roundabout way of saying success comes from consistently making good choices...
Today, in the US.
But that really wasn’t the intent. The intent was to lighten the burden of the parts of the society that did not profit from the gas subsidy. What you see here is basically the knock on effect of what essentially-free public transport changes in travel behavior without the time to actually affect vehicle inventory (ie it’s a lower bound)

There is also the point of scale, I wouldn’t bet on the capacity for carbon removal on that scale exists today (not that I would be against investing that amount of additional funding for carbon capture technology)
Thanks for sharing. Do you have one of those that you shared? If you do what is your experience like?
Fed Chair Powell vows to raise rates to fight inflation ‘until the job is done’
I was just about to make this analogy but it would be more akin to the mosques having ties to Iran, a state with nuclear ambitions and leadership that is hostile to the US, as opposed to Saudi Arabia where they don't have nuclear ambitions(that I know of) and the leadership is at least friendly with our leaders even if significant parts of the population may not be.

Edit to add the same disclaimer the parent has:
Note: I do not in any way support anti-Islam sentiment.
Focusing on any single thing is not the most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis. We need to focus on everything we can do in any sector.

Not subsidizing the bad and subsidizing the good would be a very low hanging fruit to start with.
Node v18.9.0
The Tor network.
> What will be illegal, exactly?

"During a close to 8-hour long trilogue (three-way talks between Parliament, Council and Commission), EU lawmakers agreed that the largest messaging services (such as Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger or iMessage) will have to open up and interoperate with smaller messaging platforms, if they so request. Users of small or big platforms would then be able to exchange messages, send files or make video calls across messaging apps, thus giving them more choice."

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/nl/press-room/20220315IP...
Actually, rate is 1.25% after this raise
> But you cannot deprive opensource of a business model, because that model is not profit oriented.

Lots of open source does, in fact, come out of a profit oriented business model. Open source is harder, but not impossible, to kill by killing the business model of whoever runs the current project because open source provides rights to other people to pick it up even if the original sponsor’s interest becomes to end it, so as long as there is someone or some group with the resources and interest, it can continue.
When Weird Al Yankovic Met Daniel Radcliffe, Things Got Well, You Know
Cherry MX browns are the second product for r/mechanicalkeyboards, but I can't say all the talk about them is positive. Most people meme on how bad they are. So in this case popularity in discussion doesn't really correlate to a product you should buy.
As much as maybe fare evasion is a secondary concern, I think the main reason they're cracking down on the subways in NYC is because people weren't feeling safe on the trains anymore.

As much as I love a free and open and fair society, you can see why people not my size might be uncomfortable next to people growling, sleeping with trash bags filled with their belongings, drinking out of brown paper bags, rolling and smoking blunts and cigarettes. (I mostly bike these days but I saw all of that in recent subway trips during the early summer).

And then there was the rash of incidents on the subway with people getting shot at stations, the guy who tried to set off a smoke bomb and pulled out a gun on the car and started shooting, the guy who smeared shit on someone's face, the people who've been pushed onto tracks.

These incidents are _incredibly_ rare, but the way humans work doesn't let a lot of us shake off that perception of the subways being less safe than they used to be.

I'm not one of those people, I base my fears on statistics, but you can't expect every human being, especially smaller people, the elderly, and women to be as carefree.
> Measuring community engagement makes sense when your primary mission / core goal is to build a strong community.

But measuring community engagement doesn't tell you anything about the nature of the community. Only that it "engages" people. If your goal is to build a strong community, isn't it more important that the community be a good one?
Haha thanks, a very interesting connection.
Because the screen is flat while the celestial sphere is round, you are only looking at an accurate image if you bend it. :-) From the perspective of your eye or a pinhole camera, the sides of your screen look shorter than the center because they are farther away, which does not happen if it is bent.
Replace “twitter.com” with “nitter.net” in the URL and you can see a mirror.
The show 'Silicon Valley' really hit the nail on the head in the episode where a character was horrified to have been outed as being Christian. Maybe only Donald Trump unites more of the tech community in their hatred.
Short answer is no.
CO2 is sitting at about 400ppm( parts per million(. So take a million things, say golf balls, and paint 400 of them red. The rest white. Put them in a container, then search for the red balls. The goal is to get at least ~150 to 200 before you have to look at the next batch. There's not really a quick way to do that.

Green house gas is such a hard problem because it's a dispersed problem. This is where we need to stop removing plant life from the earth, and start seriously considering a little bit of CRISPR to tweak plants to grow fast and absorb as much co2 as possible.
It'd also be great if we started iron seeding the southern ocean to kick that ecosystem into gear as we really need evertying to start sequestering carbon.
Christmas as "celebrated" by atheists is not a religious ritual. We gather (sometimes), eat, drink, and give presents to kids. Just like in birthdays (also not religious).

Any party or celebration is in some sense a ritual, just not necessarily a religious ritual.
It was part of a relieve packet to help people through high fuel prices: make it easier to travel by public transit, along with a reduction in gasoline tax (that cost us 3.15 billion euros).

Seeing that one of those two even reduced emissions is a nice bonus. It didn't have to do that at all to be a success.

[1] https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2022/kw20-de-e...
Have you seen these in action? I am skeptical of all "don't need curtains" claims for projectors unless they are based on actual experience, every shitty $100 pocket projector says you "don't need curtains" which is barely even technically true in most cases.
Clearly we are looking at a Keter-class infohazard.
I'm saying they have vast mountains of data on people. They make enough money from it to be one of the most profitable companies on the planet. This is not happening by accident.

I'm quite certain that if I showed up to FB with a $50 million dollar ad campaign to run they would have quite the opposite story about their data knowledge. Marching dozens of people into the room promising they can slice and dice every bit of info down to the atom for my needs.

Yet in court they want to claim they live by the seat of their pants. Its a deception tactic. Even though I'm sure its as you describe partly true in technical concept.

I do believe that FB is the least privacy invasive of all the big tech giants for what its worth. Nothing against them. I actually think this case is an intentional aggravation to the courts to have regulation created on data collection. That way FAANGM can cement themselves as the offical national data brokers with costly startup regulation for any compeditors.
I had a situation with Booking a couple years ago where I booked a room that was double booked. It’s kind of the hosts fault, but Booking’s support was completely unhelpful in resolving the situation.
> roll my eyes hard every time some SV engineer has a moral outrage/stages a walkout because they discover their company has a DoD

You have 0 input with how weapons of war will be used in the future. I can't say I disagree.
Social mobility across generations may be substantially overstated, study shows
where did you buy it? what os you running on it?
> We're running sentiment analysis to identify the emotional tone behind the mentions. Handling multiple mentions in a single sentence and filtering out things like questions that shouldn't count as an opinion requires some effort. In addition, a minimum sample size is required to get statistically relevant results.

That's great that you are taking that into account, but I'm not totally sure how to interpret the value bars. So I presume a high value means lots of positive engagement. But how does a lot of negative engagement show up? I think it's valuable to know when there is a lot of chatter about something and it's mostly negative. Or when it's controversial.

Maybe something like a statistical distribution graph or weighted color gradient, so you could tell at a glance the density/quality/depth of discussion, and also the distribution of sentiment.
Is sentiment analysis able to detect sarcasm?
You might be surprised to discover that even for paid products, engagement is often still the #1 metric.

Simply because people who are engaged with a product/app/whatever are by far the most likely to be repeat customers -- to renew their subscription, to buy the new version, to adopt the next product.

Once engagement drops, future revenue dries up. A drop in engagement is the canary in the coal mine -- it shows where your business is going wrong months/years before it shows up in sales stats or renewal rates.

So actually, the metric doesn't change at all. E.g. Netflix is obsessed with engagement even though it's subscription-based rather than ad-based. Because guess who winds up cancelling their subscriptions?
Wonder how long AMD's hand crafted upscalers can keep up with Nvidia's neural networks. Probably not long, and AMD is adding a tensor core equivalent in their next gen:

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-adds-wmma-wave-matrix-multip...
Having spent some time on these subs, especially /r/edc and /r/coffee, I could have guessed 8 or 9 out of the top 10 in each.

The more interesting things are the obvious ones that don't get discussed, but form some sort of an "accepted canon"

For example, the v60, despite being out of the top 10 on /r/coffee, it's assumed if you do pourovers, you have at least some form of this classic coffee maker.
you've been lied to. climate change has not killed millions of people[0]. pollution has.

the core problem with the climate change mediopolitical narrative is the focus on CO₂, which as i've noted before, is among the least important and most nebulous environmental issues, and therefore among the most attractive for political distraction and do-nothing gridlock. you see the effectiveness of this narrative all over hn, via the casuistry with which climate change is discussed.

in contrast with pollutants, which have squarely been introduced relatively recently by human industry, CO₂ is a gas on which life depends and has been abundant in our atmosphere for hundreds of millions of years. rising CO₂ levels is a long term issue, to deal with over centuries and millenia, not a short term one. pollution has been killing people for centuries now.

edit: to answer your question, there are many policy decisions that differentiate the two. what to tax, what to incentivize, what to regulate, what to evangelize, etc. we should be characterizing the externalities caused by each pollutant and then applying a tax or market-based solution (or whatever else) to address them.

[0]: to be precise, "more people", since our ecology inadvertently kills people all the time, throughout history.
Trees are enduring. Certain trees take forever to decay.

It's "slow sequestration" but it lasts a long time. Hardwood is very valuable, and growing more valuable, and trees are pretty.

Everything else might sequester the carbon faster, but a tree is "forever."

And you wouldn't just plant trees on that piece of land. You could interplant other sequestration for probably 15 years before it was no longer viable, or raise livestock, whatever.
Its not the science Europe should be worrying about, its the local pubs and cafes that will inevitably be forced to close bc their utility costs will 10x.

That is the cost of sanctions on Russian energy.

I am an American and I love Europe, I just eloped in Italy this year. I hate what EU leaders are doing to their people.
I like it, but only for twitter.
God damn someone has a god complex.
France and Germany's natural gas use for electricity production is about the same, 9% vs 12%.

France has nuclear and hydro, while Germany as is much discussed, has coal and renewables.

Coal is of course bad (they even imported some from Russia), but renewables seem to have been the smart choice and what everyone, France included, will be moving to.

(Germany probably uses more gas for manufacturing things too)
That makes sense. Satphones are probably using that same super low symbol rate used by M2M.
I mean, I hear Christmas music if I go outside, but I don't actively do it. And I can't remember the last time we've had a Christmas tree.

To me, Christmas is mostly about giving gifts, eating (especially chocolates) and watching TV.
There is a convenience to personal vehicles (whether it's a bike or a car) that can't be completely replaced by public transportation.
But how much money flows into their coffers from increased tourism/isn't spent to bail out businesses with less customers?

I think this leaves out that people who can more readily access more of Germany spend more money when they get off the transit systems.
In the US we have many people who are 'christian' but they do not all go to the same church. What's happening in Japan is like saying that a majority of U.S. lawmakers went specifically to Joel Olsteen's church.
I find 6 thumb keys is all I need for all day typing. I use home row mods, so Ctrl, Alt, GUI and Shift are all accessed via holding down a home row key.

Some folks make do with 4 thumb keys.
If you’re on mac, have a look at DevonThink, they offer a server version so you can access your stuff from anywhere but you wouldn’t even necessarily need it if you’re just using all your own devices. With the normal version all your databases are just stored with whatever cloud provider you want to use or I think you can do WebDAV if you want to use your own. I absolutely love it.

https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink
No, $ref(10) will return a reactive object. And 10 will be the initial value of that object.

You use the object the same way you use a js variable.

let st = $ref(10)

st = st + 1 // update it and use it like if it was just "10"

But now, st is reactive.
No X1 Carbon on the laptops page? That's surprising... or just interesting (if it's wrong)

(I see the Yoga there, but it's a pretty different product)
I had a good time trying out Svelte a while back. However, at least at the time, TypeScript support for it was nearly non-existent which makes it a non-starter for me.
Especially since the textbook theories are often misleading or wrong x)