skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hiring economists into tech has also been going on for many years at this point. I roomed with a PhD candidate years ago who described fairly established hiring pipelines from Economics PhD programs into industry.
What's the business model for allaboutberlin.com, if you don't mind me asking?
> Once we let go of outcomes, we can look inward and focus on the things that truly matter: To become a good person with values, who has character, and is good at what they do. That’s the biggest reward in life. And it’s 100% in your own hands.

As if this wasn't some programmed delusion. There never was a time when people acted normally and then were corrupted by some new thing. Pretending civilization is normal instead of hunting and gathering. pretending being rich and famous is bad is cope. sure tell yourself all those rich people are "poor in spirit" whatever that means.

> We’re no longer driven by values, morals, loyalty, or family, we’re driven by what the media emphasizes.

"we're not driven by [good words], but instead by [emergent collective attention]"

well duh. it was never as you said it was. media is just civilization-level gossip. and people love gossip because its so informative. media isn't an actor, its a mirror.
When I bought my TV it was a curved smart TV. I wanted neither curved nor smart, but it was forced upon me by the requirements OLED and 4K.

It also has support for 3D. Don't care about that either.
We do. In Germany emissions from burning fuel for transportation and heating is taxed with €30/kg CO2, rising to €55/kg CO2 by 2026.

There's also a cap-and-trade scheme at EU level that covers various industries [1]. It was very tame for a long time, with prices hovering around €5/kg CO2, but since 2018 prices have gone up a lot and it now sits around €80/kg CO2.

Still, German public transit is in need of some reforms, and seeing that an experiment produced greenhouse gas reductions is a positive signal.

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

[2] https://icapcarbonaction.com/en/ets-prices (click on systems to filter)
While I won't suggest this is society's distinction between the two, in my mind it's about what happens if you exert independent thought that conflicts with the institution's beliefs and what happens if you attempt to leave the group. Many ex-Mormons claim their former church is a cult and that life in Mormon dominated areas become very difficult for those who have left the faith. Same for Jehovah's Witness but the impact is smaller because not many areas are dominated by them and you don't have to move far to get away from it. On the other hand, the worst cults will hunt you down across the country (and possibly the Earth) if your existence is offensive enough to them, which isn't something typically seen when leaving a mainstream Christian religion. A Mormon in Alabama leaving the church isn't likely to face much social ostracism while a Southern Baptist might, especially if they reject Christianity entirely, but their life isn't likely to be in danger.
This has cost the German government 2.5 billion Euros [1].

That’s $1388 per metric ton of CO2. Current direct air capture technology is estimated to cost between $132 and $342 per metric ton [2]. If the goal was to reduce carbon emissions, this was a giant waste of money, even compared to the most expensive forms of carbon reduction.

[1] https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.9-euro-ticket-kost...

[2] https://www.iea.org/commentaries/is-carbon-capture-too-expen...

edit: corrected price per ton
Hey! So this is something that we are really interested in, and want to support. I've had about a dozen conversations about this, especially where someone has created packages for a larger piece of software which necessitates a deep knowledge of the core project.

I want to allow it, but I need to work out a way to do so whilst making sure that we don't end up with a free for all - that means manual review perhaps, but I agree that it would be very helpful if we can make it work.

Re GitHub - we've built on GitHub initially but would love to extend to other platforms in time!
You can add Seattle to your comparison. Fare enforcement is almost non-existing at the moment, and more and more groups are traveling for free. However transit quality is not nearly on the same level as in New York or Berlin.
> Are people actually going to freeze?

If I had to guess, I'd say much more than usual, but not a calamitous amount like millions or anything. Every winter, elderly who can't take good care of themselves succumb to cold or illness. For one winter, I'd say that most average people will be able to survive, albeit uncomfortably doing things like burning through their remaining savings or getting deeper into debt, huddling in bed together or wearing thick layers indoors, and finding trees to chop down for wood if desperate.

This prediction is just for 1 winter. If this situation lasts until the next winter, people/governments will be even more screwed financially by then and the outcome will likely be calamitous then.

> My understanding so far is that industry will freeze (as needed) so that all the reserves can be used for people.

Real economies aren't video games that have a pause button. We learned during Covid that shutdowns that are labeled as temporary are not so. Supply chains get ruined: machines and spare parts and needed chemicals get harder and harder to find. Businesses can't afford to pay rent and wages for months with no income and have to shut down. Truly skilled employees with real domain knowledge use the shutdown to retire early or change careers and their knowledge of processes is lost. Etc.

And this isn't a normal time where the governments of the world can really go further and extend themselves to really help and minimize the impact: they blew themselves out financially overreacting to Covid and are insisting on blowing out whatever remaining financial resources they might have to endlessly signal their virtue against Putin.
Could we feed the authors reading list into an AI and guess his OS, his Amazon history, or his likely topics of conversations at a dinner party? Really curious if you could mirror his decision making and tastes by what was in his reading list for some period of time.
There are quite a few motivations for this, but the primary advantage is that it causes markup elements to become first-class entities within your code, allowing your view composition to be checked by the compiler as well as allowing you to design your own reusable markup elements that fold up application level concerns. It's also nice when your views have lexical access to your application state variables so you don't have to pre-render a big string template and interlace it with an explicit map of serialized parameters - it's very nice when the compiler lets you know a view simply cannot display the type of data you're trying to shove into it rather than rendering a broken looking page.
The way forward isn’t monitors and tvs at all, but 4k ultra short throw laser projectors like Samsung Premiere and Optoma P2. They’re like something out of Star Wars, don’t even need the curtains closed to use them. They’re starting to come down in price as well to around the £1500-£2000 mark, won’t be long before they break the £1000 mark. Can’t wait to get one of these for my home office in a few months.
> Wouldn't both a Buddhist and a believer in Shintoism tend to answer no to "belief in God"?

Shintoism == believe in many "gods" or spirits, but not one singular "God".

+1 on the "superstition" points here.

Source: my wife is Japanese. Also, I've seen "Spirited Away" more times than I care to say.
Without knowing your background or the app is not that useful of an insight.
and it could fuel a biomass generator while you make the charcoal
Currently there is no CPU limit for any function running on local. Because MerLoc runs functions in embedded mode. But we are working on a solution to be able to run functions on your local Docker. Then you will be able to limit CPU and memory usages per function on your local and total limit will bound to your host machine CPU and memory limits.
>There's no equivalent to a "direct line to andrewrk" because Rust does not have this one man setup.

Nothing in my comment is about a "one man" setup. Core Rust devs hang out in the Discord server. They don't hang out in the IRC channel.

>Culturally, there's more of a "pitch in to help" and less "ask before touching". So people are mostly looking for hand-holding, "How do I?" and "Is this correct?" rather than decisions and permission.

I'm not sure why you're assuming that the Zig channel is about "decisions and permission", but it's not. It's about language discussion just like the Rust IRC channel and Rust Discord are.
Can't speak for the newest ones, but the older ones still hold up with varying success. I love my X220, ran Fedora flawlessly and never had any issues with it. Eventually was forced to switch to something with a bigger screen (I used it exclusively as my personal machine for maybe 2 months), and went with a P50. Really nice machine, but sadly it comes with a (now very outdated) nvidia graphics card, so compatbility can be a bit shaky.

I also tried a T520, which was a solid laptop in principal (basically just a big x220), but in practice I had issues. The only way to get it with an i7 is to get a gpu with it, so I got the i5 and then upgraded to an i7 manually (nice to have a normal socketed cpu), but as it turns out the out-the-box i7 model comes with extra cooling to deal with the heat, which my own upgrade struggled with. After that, my 520 didn't see much more use. Maybe soon I'll downgrade it again so its more usable.

Edit: Think I got a bit distracted there with my own issues. Also tried the X240 and X250, and both are solid laptops as well. I dont use my X240 everyday, maybe once a week, but its been running strong for years now.
That 9 Euro ticket was awesome when I visited! Totally recommend! Applaud the initiative. Really neat.
I resisted ebook readers since the day they came out, out of an irrational sense of betraying "real" books which I love. I recently got one (Kobo Libra 2) and mannn these eink displays are SO nice to look at compared to my LED display. Literally night and day.
All manner of errors?

You use a hex literal syntax that doesn't exist--16#FF00 is Erlang and how on earth did you get "O" instead of "0".

Once I fix the brokenness:

10> <<1:5, 2:4, 16#FF00:15, "foo">>.

<<9,127,0,102,111,111>>

Looks ... unsurprising? Maybe it would be nice to get a truncation warning on that 16#FF00:15, but otherwise ... fine?

This looks like an advertisement that Elixir kind of sucks and you should use straight Erlang instead?

Note from downthread: this is broken even in Elixir, so I really don't know what your point was.
You know I've never considered this, but that's probably one of the only pain points with monitors now. If they can find some way to not make it feel like I'm been staring at light bulb during the night time I would really be interested in paying premium prices. Screens definitely mess with my circadian rhythm. Otherwise at this point all I'm interested in is a basic monitor
> Where is it written that private internets are perfectly normal when a corporation does it, but evil when a country does too?

Well for one thing, when you come back from work at your corporation, you can go on the regular internet. Country-wide blocks don't allow that by design.
I'm sure the reason is "too complicated and not worth it" but I've always been surprised that Reddit doesn't have per-sub karma.
> If the goal was to reduce carbon emission

It wasn't, but it's a neat side effect.
I was going to say the opposite -- in my reading, the tone of the mainstream media narrative around central bank actions is always technocratic. Interest rate changes, we are told, are intended to heat or cool the economy just so, to reach an ideal balance of employment and inflation. Central bankers agonize over data and projections to reach a decision. Whether these interventions are in fact scientific, their past track record, who benefits from them, alternative viewpoints... none of that is discussed.

I have no particular viewpoint on what central banks should or shouldn't do, and I am no more impressed with Austrian or goldbug or crypto community ideologies about the topic. I just find the discussion unsatisfying. I don't believe that central bankers are brilliant economic engineers with deep insights into the ideal economy that can only be explained to us non-experts through crude temperature/thermostat metaphors. It all seems a bit cargo culty to me.
Carbon Based Taxes
I seriously doubt diesels were ever bought to "lower their CO2 emissions". At no point in time there was ever doubt that diesels were the more polluting option.

People bought diesels due to their lower consumption per 100km and lower diesel prices in comparison to 95.
>Where is it written that private internets are perfectly normal when a corporation does it, but evil when a country does too?

Because everyone goes home from work but only very fortunate people go home from China.
Weird that some knows how to link to Amazon where the persons lives. This one always forces me to the USA site.
First of all, that Interval type is insane. The Max of the interval [7, ∞) is 7!? What!? And (-∞, 7] and [7, ∞) are both OK but (-∞, ∞) isn't? As software engineers, it's our job to spot that whatever requirement is driving this type is absolute nonsense and we need to refuse to implement such a stupid data type and work back up the chain until whatever stupidity led to this situation is resolved. I would literally refuse to write this code, and so should you. This is the difference between a "programmer" and a "software engineer". A programmer says "yup, sure, interval, got it", and a software engineer says "hell no, that's insane, something is very wrong."

Secondly, you're mutating an interval!? Holy moly mother of god that gives me nightmares. There are a few data structures where mutation makes sense, where they're used privately as part of an algorithm and then thrown away or frozen. Other than that, there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever to make data types mutable. There are no reasonable arguments to made for making an interval like this mutable; any argument you give me could be extended to making an int mutable, which is absolute crazy nonsense.

Seriously, this code is absolutely terrifying. "Data Invariants" as described here sounds like someone talking about techniques for setting up guardrails along the road because they constantly drive off of it. It sounds like maybe you need to go back to driving school instead of worrying about how to build better guardrails.
Sketchy Websites Save the Day
I'm not trolling, and your rephrasing means effectively what I claim you are saying.

I see your initial comment got flagged and you also acted very defensively when replying to others, so I'll leave you to it.
I was led to believe that the passports themselves could be altered.

Again I was never able to verify this like the other stories. I saw the pictures from the klan rallies and the Nation of Islam church. I’ve heard numerous people tell me how folks used to scatter whenever my father was walking toward them on the street or sidewalk.

But all I have is his word in regards to the Moonies and passports.
Stable? Classes vs functions & hooks is two completely unrelated APIs for the same thing, and that sort of churn is all over.
I have noticed, anecdotally, that the non-religious tend to be more superstitious, but no that's not really what I mean.

Japan just has a lot of rituals that people do daily and ~seasonally, and they tend to be well attended. The few people I've talked to about it didn't seem to have some superstitious or religious reason to do them, it's just a thing to do.
Note: The blue-shirt Best Buy experience is certainly cultish. The software developer side of Best Buy is not (unless you count wokeness and scrum-agile cultish).
> A low faction of Japanese people claim to "believe in God" but Japanese participate in religious rituals at a high rate

This is similar to what we have in Vietnam.

A very large portion of the country, last estimated about 80%, consider themselves atheists. They don't believe God exists, and they are superstitious only in a joking way.

However, most of us also go to the temple for "religious activities". It's not because people truly believe in God, but because many traditional activities like Tet holidays (Lunar New Year), funerals, or anniversaries have usually associated with them. Also, people don't mind going to the temples even when they don't believe in God because the temples are much more relax (chill/zen). When I was young, I visit the temple myself just to chill and enjoy the scenery despite having no association with Buddhism.
Semi-agree, but I think there are 2 fundamental differences between established religions and cults:

1. Complete shunning of non-cult members, and even harsher shunning of ex-members. This one may be a gray area, as certainly many religions identify all members of other religions as "going to hell", and I know Mormons who have been excommunicated for being gay. Still, the level of ostracism in mainstream religions is nothing compared to, for example, what happens if you try to leave Scientology. Scientologists declare you a "subversive person", stalk you, and essentially try to ruin you. I know many folks who have left the Catholic church, but in all honestly the Catholic church still tries to welcome them back with open arms.

2. Be secretive about the details of the cult before you are "bought in". Say what you will about organized religion, but it's pretty trivial to get the full text of the Bible, Koran, and other religious writings. Meanwhile, Scientology requires you to pay thousands and thousands of dollars to slowly get access to their screeds, and they have gone after ex-members who have attempted to publish this information.
Congrats. You have product, now it's time for marketing. Go everywhere founders are and tell them about your product. On Hackernews the place is https://news.ycombinator.com/show
1. There are no longer any reserve requirements in the US, UK, Canada, and other places. EU reserve requirements are 1%. Banks are instead constrained by capital requirements nowadays.

2. What value or service does this middleman provide? Why can't businesses and families and individuals get money by crediting themselves the money and creating a matching liability? This is what banks do.
Randomutils released (and it's written in Zig)
Indeed, most religious-origin festivals are celebrated by atheists as well.

As an atheist, I enjoy the culture and tradition associated with such events. Asian festivals have lots of lights and colors and rituals have dancing, singing, and art forms alongside. All of these come with tasty and nutritious food.

In some ways, I feel we’ve lost this beautiful richness in our modern non-religious lifestyles.
cob was always intriguing for me, can imagine this as a great alternativeb to concrete, especially in the countryside
I have long wished there was a keyboard rental service. Trouble is that an ortho layout can take months to get used to. I am still 20% slower on an ortho board than I was on a laptop keyboard, but the comfort is worth it, especially for shoulder pain.
I'd say heat the person, not the space. Following on from the Electric Blanket mention, I'd recommend a heated vest. I have one made by Arris [1], and it has a 7.4V battery. Following a tip in an Amazon review, I
contacted their customer services and got a voucher for a second battery at half price.

Last winter, I used it a lot when WFH to avoid the temptation of using the boost on the central heating. With two batteries, one can be charging while the other is in use. According to my meter plug it was economical to charge.

I found it worked best with a thin base layer underneath the heated vest, and a good fleece over it. There are several heating areas on the front and back, and I found that the battery lasted best by starting at the highest heat setting and then stepping down through the levels as I warmed up. Very useful when sitting still long periods at your computer. And of course the advantage over a blanket or electric fan is that you can walk around with it on.

[1] https://www.arrislife.com/products/arris-heated-vest-size-ad...
https://www.sunvisiondisplay.com/reflective-lcd-monitor
you should really step out of your bubble every so often, sounds like you're projecting your experience onto everyone else without really thinking about or considering what life is like in other places
This is a cultural difference I think. Asking if you believe in God in the west is generally inclusive of such superstition.
I'd day the future of locomotion is to connect the bikes together with rigid links and put them in line. But there is still the problem of potholes. But that can be avoided by replacing roads which have to be redone every year by something like tracks, then you don't even have to worry about direction and self-driving becomes easy.
Sounds familiar to you ?
You could probably do the client-side stuff with Tampermonkey and a little bit of JavaScript and `setTimeout`.
Biochar [1] is a potential approach to long term carbon sequestration using waste biomass that has the positive side effect of enriching agriculture soils and producing biofuels, and it does not require special caverns like CCS.

There are potential unknown negative side effects of reducing environmental plant residues from current levels, however, so the choice of feedstock biomass shouldn't be taken lightly. Perhaps it should be made from human waste streams or fast growing grasses from areas that have high regeneration potential.

Then again, agriculture itself has fundamentally modified ecosystems for centuries, so there's not much that is timeless or sacred about the current state of industrial agricultural land. If it's a question of whether the leftover crop matter rots and CO2 is released, or is captured long term in biochar, then its compelling to consider it.

https://www.patch.io/blog/biochar
Yes I agree, I think this is basically the point I was trying to make distilled.
I just put up the first simplest MVP version of crop.express. I have clients who need to crop images but are not technical.
I think they're still struggling with durability. I think it's likely we'll see rollable phone screens of sorts within a few years though. A rollable screen could just be an extension screen that could be pulled out when needing more screenspace
Anybody here used Fresh for a non-toy project yet? Have anecdotal experiences to share?
Sure, but then you change the equation and reasoning behind the need. By increasing the base amount it becomes no longer about the employee earning a minimum wage (who likely already is and many times over the minimum wage via their tips), but about intentionally punishing the employer.