skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kudos to you, and glad you took the time to speak about your thoughts here. It's good for people to have exposure to later career challenges... and especially options they might not consider.
20+ year old DNA samples, even stored deeply frozen, could accumulate damage that would be amplified during library prep prior to sequencing. To make the case, they would really need appropriate control samples from the same time periods stored under the same conditions.
If you want to get pedantic about hyperbole, let's get even more pedantic! Afghanistan isn't in the Middle East, although some consider it to be in the "Greater Middle East" (a recently coined term).
Renewables is not just solar... Renewables produced over 50% of the energy consumed Germany, Jan to March this year...

For those doubting/disputing this - it was over 50% in q1 2022 https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/renewables-cover-50-ger...
Exactly, talking about this with apple fans on other places, they all talk about how iMessage is better... Nobody is talking about that.. were talking about how SMS/MMS is terrible and needs replacing.

And yes it is intentional.. the reason came out in the Apple vs Epic lawsuit. Apple won't adopt RCS because they are afraid of user churn and also that apple owning parents will buy cheaper androids for their kids.

Which when you know that, you compare that with the Tim Cook "~~let them eat cake~~ buy your mum an iphone" comment yesterday..
I generally do the same but go a little further. I use an anonaddy email address and a virtual card from privacy.com with limit. This way Patreon and their customers do not know who is funding these creators. A breach is also a negligible risk. Unfortunately, I am probably in the 1% of people who take these measures.
No shame! I was lucky in all sorts of ways. One is that years of consulting work left me with habits of always having enough of an emergency fund that I could afford the time off. Another is living in a moment where my weird brain quirks made me a highly paid professional rather than that annoying car mechanic who might solve a hard diagnostic problem quickly but takes forever to get around to your oil change. And perhaps most importantly, early on I had a couple of dubious jobs that made me really think about my ethical standards for work.

I'm glad to hear you learned your lesson!
As always, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Continual economic forces must be applied to force an energy transition at a rate that is not punitive at scale, while also rapid enough that we don’t backslide away from escape velocity.

I want to stress that a carbon tax with a rebate model would solve a lot of this, it’s just politically untenable in the US. People should suffer as little as possible during this transition.
The only cancer routinely screened for in people under 50 is cervical cancer. Even then, the test detects precancerous lesions mainly. As such, ascertainment bias is not a major methodological concern.
Basically. Or if the business is too important for the nation then nationalize it.
You don't have to hand wave a CEO as just magic dust. At least on paper the CEO is there for their ability to network at the highest of levels whether that is to recruit other executives, raise capital, predict global strategy, whatever.

Its all still horse shit, but if you want to tear down the American CEO institution you have to understand their first and primary argument is that they can still do things others can't, because they're (reportedly) in those smoke filled room where "big deals get done".
Something like Alpine JS or similar would make sense for a project like that.

https://alpinejs.dev/
Taxing at the refinery (or even well head) seems reasonable, but it might be difficult to set up the tariffs properly.

Instead, they could tax gasoline at $1/gallon (and do similar things for other greenhouse gas sources, such as coal, meat and concrete), and use the resulting funds for carbon capture.

If you want a progressive tax, tax new cars at $2 * 200,000 miles / EPA combined miles per gallon. This will instantly make all new cars carbon neutral or negative at the tailpipe. Similarly, you could also tax embodied carbon on all new goods.

The $1/gallon of gas computation works like this:

Burning a gallon of gas produces 20lbs of CO2. (The O2 in the CO2 comes from the atmosphere, explaining why the CO2 weighs more than the gasoline.)

A ton is 2000 lbs, so 100 gallons of gas emits a ton of CO2.

Atmospheric carbon capture looks like it will cost roughly $100 / ton at scale, or $1/gallon of gasoline.
In my experience, just having the ability to "modularize" the common elements on pages of a site (navbar and footer, for example) is the biggest task for most simple websites. There are lots of frameworks out there that do this, at the expense of making everything else on the website "html with extra steps". React comes close to solving this, but there's not a "react lite" that does it more elegantly that I know of.
Every aviation accident post mortem I've read assigns finds a finite list of causes and contributing factors. Each system/person has strong ownership that is responsible for making the recommended changes. These post mortem reports also explicitly do not find civil or criminal liability - that is a zero-sum process.
We built all that infrastructure decades back after Kuwait. Our entire force structure pivoted and remained that way because it was obvious the only thing that stopped Saddam from rolling into the northern Saudi fields was himself. If he'd been smart, he would have kept going and would still be there.

Afghanistan and Iraq II and III are just knock-on effects of all that and we're not doing because like MBS for his personality.
This article is a great example of Good Old Days fallacy (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Good_old_days). It is very unlikely that it is true that "When I was a young engineer, older, experienced engineers and engineering managers understood basic principles and the big pictures of the things they were working on.", rather it is very likely that some did and some did not, and most engineers back then didn't have any more insight than engineers today.

The engineers that a young engineer was likely to seek mentorship from and who would be put in a position to mentor young engineers might be among the best, and so I have no doubt that the author did mostly interact with people that fit his description, but now that he is the experienced engineer / manager he is interacting with the worse engineers, the ones who need attention. As the squeaky wheel gets the grease, the bad engineers will require the most time and management effort to accomplish what good engineers can do without a lot of management / senior engineer time, so from the perspective of a senior engineer most of their time is spent with the worst engineers in their organization.

What I am very confident of, however, is that engineers aren't on average worse than they were back in the good old days.
Does anybody know whether any of these new versions has fixed the bug whereby gapless playback didn't use to work for AAC (m4a)-files?

I know it's been fixed in one of the WACUP builds, but last time I tried I would have had to manually migrate my Winamp settings, which seemed to much of a bother given that I mostly use Winamp just for playing back one-off music files, so the partial lack of gapless playback is only slightly annoying.
Google does this yet lies about their searches to maintain an illusion of competence.

For example, you can type in something like "purpose of life" and it will say it has 2 billion results, yet if you try to go to result 500, you can't, it will stop at 400, then change the number to 400 results only on the last page.

This happens for every query. Google lies about the astronomical number of search results, then only shows a few hundred at most.
> How much less oil would be pumped with warring countries and unstable regimes?

Less oil being pumped globally would be beneficial to American oil companies.

> Also, oil companies largely don't pay for the environmental damage they do. If burning oil left a stinky purple gas instead of an invisible gas, they would be paying far, far more to stop it or get rid of it.

Then tax the people burning the oil, not the ones the ones that are producing it. It's not like Middle Eastern oil burns any cleaner than domestic oil. The sad truth is that nobody in America actually gives a damn about the environment. They'll virtue signal about wanting change, but back off at any proposal that requires personal sacrifice.
those who don't learn from history...
This is always a vicious cycle that starts with good intent but spirals into an oppressive regime.

1) It's starts after the product launch post-mortem
2) Team creates a process to improve avoiding future mistakes
3) Process innocently includes ability to hard block any product changes without someone or some group's approval
4) Politics emerges behind the scenes from those with social capital to get around the hard blocks
5) New process to make things "more fair" by adding more hard blocking rules, usually resulting in lots of pointless meetings and paperwork to justify new process and show upper management that things are working as intended
6) More politics as teams start hiring for people who are able to get around the heavy process by being "good at the game"
7) New team is formed around the process because it's now a full time job
8) People good at politics join this new team and everyone else is pulled into pointless meetings and handed paperwork
9) Rinse and repeat

The problem I've always observed is that these systems are put in place with the best intent to offer guidance so that company, employees and consumers can all benefit by building the right best thing. However, the systems are given blocking abilities that after time do more damage than good.

You'd think, if something were not blocking no one would listen, and maybe you're right. I definitely have no idea how teams can avoid this spiral trap, however, I don't think it's a bad thing to sunset process like this after a while. Just like Google is willing to throw away products on a whim, we should be willing to throw away process teams on a whim.
Of course!

There are toxic emissions laws that "prevent" companies from polluting too much. Or rather they limit the amount each company can emit. To get around that limit they just subcontracted to tons of smaller companies, each one gets it's quota of emissions.
Or perhaps tweet-density per unit of time with density score weighted to reflect non-tech-engagement periods not to include periods of sleep.
Maybe because mobile games are played in very short bursts of time, like sometimes 5 minutes max? People just want something fairly mindless to distract between errands or what have you.
Another viewpoint: the AMA recognizes how disparate health outcomes are across races. The best doctors are those able to meet their patients where they are. By and large, effective doctoring is more about communication and getting the patient to comply with medical advice, not “elite genius super surgeons”.

Med schools should be selecting for people who will be better set up to communicate with under served populations.
Uncalled for? I was explaining in a metaphor how I interpreted OP's reason for not liking React/JavaScript.

I don't like PHP/Laravel ecosystem because I recommended we use vanilla PHP and my co-worker recommended we use Laravel and my manager decided to use Laravel.

I don't like Python/Django ecosystem because I recommended we use vanilla Python and my co-worker recommended we use Django and my manager decided to use Django.

Swap it with literally any framework in any language vs using vanilla-<lang here>. It all sounds just as ridiculous.
California’s great held during a literally historic heat wave. That’s a vote of confidence for me that they can handle this transition. Sure they tried to reduce load, but that’s a sensible thing to do in a historically high demand for electricity!
For what it's worth, El Reg is still a daily visit for me (I think I've probably done so, for 20 years), and I've been known to fly in and sprinkle drops of Holy Pee (in the comments section -I don't do any authoring of content), from time to time.

I like that it (still, despite the insinuation) is a RedTop in spirit, and I am generally quite impressed by the technical level of its staff.

I do like that you have given Dabbsy and Simon a good home. Thanks for that.

Just one drop in the ocean of data, but I'm glad you guys are around.
This has it backwards. Amortization arises from the decline in value of capital goods through their usage. Say you buy a delivery truck for 100k and after a year of deliveries net a cash profit of 80k. You didn't actually make 80k because your 100k truck is worth less after 1 year of wear. So the question is how much? You'd like to say it's worth 80k less so your net profit is 0 and you don't pay taxes. The tax man wants it to be 0 or at least accurate so you pay the taxes you owe.

To forestall this sort of back and forth the government has set standardized amortization schedules. It says that first year trucks decline 35% in value, second year an additional 25% and so on until it's 0.

So that's why we have standard amortization schedules. The policy implications come into play when you set those schedules. If you want businesses to buy more trucks you allow them to amortize them faster so that they are cheaper when accounting for tax implications. If you don't want them to buy more trucks you slow it down so that businesses pay more taxes sooner which makes them more expensive.

If oil companies are getting a faster than warranted amortization schedule then it is a tax subsidy.
Dear Sophie: Can I start a company or a side hustle on a TN?
This is exactly what happens when everything is turned into money. More so when the fiat money can be borrowed from the future, you are essentially kicking the can down the road.

What next? Carbon emission futures? A thriving market where the futures are traded? All the while the emissions continue abated and even increase.
Definitely true. As a tax lawyer I've met plenty of Californians moving back to CA from TX because the promised land of tax salvation was actually more expensive, and plenty of Texans who moved to California excepting tax shock and were pleasantly surprised when their total tax bills were several thousands lower in CA.

In addition to paying more in taxes in TX, they got less in government services for the taxes they did pay, insanely invasive government, and had to pay more for generally everything except beef (which is great if you love steak).
You introduced inflation as a straw man only so that you could attack it. Now you have doubled down twice on your fallacious reasoning, as well as adding to it a few ad hominem attacks. Your reasoning is now dually fallacious, and your dually fallacious argument remains unconvincing.
That's not the pitch that is made for the stuff.

And I'm not sure that I've ever heard of rim failure due to filling air moisture being a widespread issue.
Corporations don't have brains, but they do have cultures. Those cultures include ethics, just ones that often differ from what outside individuals would want. Or put more simply, "fuck the rich" and "fuck the poor" are both moral codes.
I'm curious, how long has ventilation ducting been part of housing codes, in other words how old are houses that have that problem?
I am no expert, but the only one the sticks out to me is the depletion allowance. If you sell a million barrels of oil you then get to say you land is worth a million barrels of oil less. What exactly is that supposed to be incentivizing? You have already taken the oil out of the ground and sold it. It is a pure gift to be able to write-off some of your land value after that.
> It seems to me it would be trivial to enumerate these combinations, and assign code points to them. For example, the Germanic umlaut is only used with vowels, so that's at most 5 code points.

Well, 10 code points because vowels can be capitalized and 12 because ÿ is used in other languages.

That's one of the easiest cases. Now you need to go through _every_ other language which has _ever_ been used in human history and repeat that process for every combining character. Note also that in some languages it's valid to keep stacking a fair number of combining modifiers so you'd need to cover every permutation allowed in each of them, and spend a lot of time working with linguists and classicists to make sure you weren't removing obscure combinations which are actually needed.

At the end of years of work, you'd have an encoding which is easier for C programmers to think about but means all of your documents require substantially more storage than they used to.
Be honest about how said voters' houses are going to be worthless when Phoenix runs out of water, California burns down, and Miami/NYC/New Orleans are under water.

Also, be honest about how we're rapidly barreling toward the end of economic growth because the weather keeps destroying industrial and agricultural production.
I wouldn't conflate the offloading of policing functions on to private corporations with the assignment of moral responsibility.
It probably depends on what time in the 80s as well; TFA is from 1983.

A while back I chatted with someone who worked on both C and Pascal compilers around that time period and got the impression that the majority of their customers were people running on 68k based Unix workstations. May have just been their niche I suppose.

I didn't start programming until closer to 1990, and started with Mix software's C compiler on a 286, because that's what I could afford.
carbon (i.e., CO₂) isn't the problem anyway, so let them waste their money on virtue signaling. pollution is the problem. let's focus on coal plants first, where getting rid of the top 100 polluters would already palpably improve air (and water) quality that would in turn measurably reduce death and disease.
But they actually care about

> [getting] the Facebook dating team’s ... to avoid including a filter that would let users target or exclude potential love interests of a particular race

you see, you have to just ignore those people in the feed, you can't filter them, its better and not racist that way. and who knows, you might become not racist if you see a pretty girl/boy you like, but actually that's probably just racist fetishizing

responsible innovation is doing the same dei doublespeak
I'm still learning modern web development but here's a simple demo app that I wrote using only plan vanilla HTML/CSS/JS: https://tgflynn.github.io/AlgoVis/ (github link: https://github.com/tgflynn/AlgoVis).

The fact that this works, didn't take long to write (though I'm very much still learning this stuff) and is very fast leads me to question your statement that "The imperative DOM api just sucks".
This links to a (much better) better press release which in turn links to the original study.

https://www.newswise.com/articles/researchers-find-spaceflig...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03777-z.pdf

OP - and HN readers in general - please consider not submitting the first article you find on an interesting topic. Follow the links back and submit the best version you can find. You do not owe the clickbait outlet any sort of reward just because they promoted a bit of interesting news onto your radar. If there weren't so much clickbait, quality news would stand out much more easily.

Science writers, maybe you want to inform the public by making information simple and accessible to a general audience. That's good. But if you just give them factoids and don't include any scientific reasoning (like a comparison to the baseline, or noting the absence of one) then you're just selling sugary snacks that are not really very nutritious.
I’ve been unable to convince Dall-e to render anything “in the style of artist Robert Tinney”. I love his work - and have several prints of his byte covers.
Google is no longer place where do you go to find useful information and good websites. First page of Google Search results is always a mix of popular websites like WSJ, NYT, BBC, Guardian, Reuters, Forbes, Bloomberg or any other famous and popular site like for example Reddit and other part of the mix are some low quality, spammy, copy-paste content random sites that are of no real use. Google prefers popular information instead of useful information and on top of that nobody really knows how exactly Google's ranking algorithms work not even Google's engineers but general rule is like I said popular content must be on the first page.

One thing I like about Google tho is their Knowledge Graph[0] because I can type keywords like time, temperature or convert in the search box and Google will do this small task for me. I see it as a set of little web apps on top of Google which help us users to automate our tasks.

[0] https://support.google.com/knowledgepanel/answer/9787176?hl=...
Can you throw in a Lordship of an EU country or name a star after me?
When software becomes popular enough, it begins to have its own gravity, and rather than only being shaped by its users' needs, it starts to shape its users' needs.

Let's say there is some common business task that needs to be done. Maybe it's a legal filing with the local government, or tracking how many people at the company are using a particular piece of software for licensing purposes, or records-keeping for equal opportunity employment questionnaire responses. There are many ways to accomplish each of these goals, but most people will be familiar with the SAP way. The laws on the books will be written by people who have used SAP before, and public comments on the law will be made by people who have used SAP before. Ancillary tools to do niche features that SAP doesn't cover will work best if you've adopted the SAP way.

And so, SAP becomes enshrined into the law and society in a way that's impossible to duplicate. Even if you mimicked SAP's features 1:1, there would still be obscure quirks and bugs that you didn't capture but are nonetheless somehow beneficial to users' workflow, because those quirks and bugs have been imprinted onto the standard business practices in our world.
Facebook used to be organized at a high level into different groups named after different company goals. Like Engagement, Growth, Utility. Facebook should be engaging, Facebook should grow, Facebook should be useful to people. Eventually they got rid of the "Utility" group while keeping "Engagement" and "Growth", leaving a bunch of us feeling like... I guess Facebook gave up on being useful?
>Record profits won't matter when a company looks at a project and sees it will result in a loss

What long-term projects are you imagining oil and gas to start investing in now? To hit 2030 / 2050 emission goals, we can't afford to invest in new long term oil and gas projects.

>I'm skeptical the layman's perspective on this is actually accurate. The reasoning presented screams "arguments made in bad faith by activists" to me. Stuff that seems super reasonable but breaks apart once you understand in depth.

Here are a couple of resources on how much these subsidies work out to be:

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/06/fossil-f...

[1]: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/09/23/Sti...
That's fine, I remember when the 90s internet was basically associated with porn, gambling, and Nigerian email scams. Weirdly made it grow even more.