skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call me a dreamer, but I believe in actually providing people the support they need to live if they are failing to make a go at it on their own. If that's some basic housing, so be it. If it's job training, great - we can use a more skilled workforce. If it's household management training, cool. If they need someone to make their budget and check in that they're following it, why can't a county office or university extension office help? If they need outpatient medical care - and mental health is health - then they should have access. If they need a support group or a sponsor to remind them to do things, or to take their meds, that's great for them to have. Maybe a lot of this the IT field could help scale, but it would take some number of people and some amount of funds.

By criminalizing homelessness and blaming homelessness on mental illness, we're quite literally criminalizing being ill. We're falling for the Evangelical argument that bad things happen mostly to evil people. We're also spending more money making people full wards of the state who with a little bit of help here and there often can work and pay some taxes instead of sleeping in a heavily secured jail.

People are like anything else that needs maintenance. You can invest up front and then invest a bit along the way, or you can let everything go wrong and spend a lot more to address the deficiencies you've clearly allowed. Some of that damage, just as with an ICE engine out of oil, may be permanent or even unrecoverable in cases where that didn't need to be the case.
Here's what is likely to happen. You'll work nights and weekends to get this ugly baby over the line, if you are successful you'll have no meaningful change in compensation but the same is true if you don't deliver it on time.

The rewards have been nearly fully allocated into upper management caste over the past generation or so, but with no carrot they can't use the stick as much as they used to.
Their implementation of the Proof of Stake slashing is designed explicitly to prevent the type of censorship that is required to prevent transactions that breach sanctions.
Its not about the watts - it is about the composition of those watts.

You could use 2000Wh of electricity in Texas, but that would still only be 29% zero carbon.

You could use 5000Wh of electricity in Norway, but 99% of that would be zero carbon. This is superior to the 2000Wh approach.
Panaracer Pacenti's have been my goto everything tires for a few years now. Excellent hybrid tire.
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Where are the supposed alternative people with scientific methods?
I did this long ago as part of my "Mr. Make" series. It's here: https://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/rebuilding-when-files-c...

And (self promotion) it is in my book: https://nostarch.com/gnumake (pg 82)
I used [0] for the carbon calculations of a roundtrip flight. Assume 200 passengers. Flying between Stockholm and Malaga gives us 460 kg of CO2 in total.
An average 150 sq meters villa uses about 12500 kWh during October-March, if I take the current CO2-intensity from [1] this gives us about 375 kg of CO2 during these months. This is excluding any calculations to cool the summer house in southern Spain. This calculation would be completely different for Germany right now, which has 10x as much CO2-intensity as the electricity region that Stockholm is a part of. That would be 3,75 tonnes of CO2 during these months. In other words, it's very country dependent. This is also ignoring any different heating modes (heat pump/gas/wood/...) between houses.

[0] https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/Carbonoffset/P...
[1] https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
Congratulations! Really good to hear, and definitely a nudge to me to let people know when their blog was useful.
Yep. When the book _Traditional Archery from Six Continents_ hit four digits, I found it less expensive to license the copyright and do a run of 100 books.
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I was JUST thinking of building a small web app for viewing local structured JSON logs with a subset of the features in the Datadog logs explorer. It'd be a nice little bonus to build the UI with the same components!
My steel gravel bike was built with bikepacking in mind, so it's carbon fork was revised after the first year to have those mounts for exactly that reason (Niner RLT Steel).
People like to collect antiquities.
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Oligopoly Everywhere
There are still a lot of omitted factors in the above accounting. The car's petrol use was mentioned but not added, then you have all the embodied energy in the food and other consumed items that were never included. Finally all the energy in the construction and maintenance of infrastructure used, such as roads and internet.
MS would still fit ads into the OS even if the kernel was Linux tbh. Look at Android, really lowered the bar of what you could do with Linux.
The thing which kills me is that Adobe won't do an on-line text editor which supports styles which will then seamlessly import into InDesign.

Surely they're not making that much from InCopy licenses that this wouldn't pay off in the long-term.
I have always had a bad guy feeling about tiktok. It never seemed right to me how it grew so quickly. It screams of privacy concerns even beyond what Facebook was doing and came after years of public scrutiny and general contempt for those kinds of privacy nightmares.....

everything about it says to me it was supported by military/government programs from early on and it was obvious to me that anything that powerful came with strings....

I saw Facebook turn into a monster....and it still doesn't have the data access that tiktok gets.....
Alarm would go off everytime anypne exit from tills?
Cool, well done. Hope the idea gets picked up by a few more developers here.

If you don't mind I'm just just pasting the URL into a comment to make it a link:

https://syslog.ravelin.com/2fa-is-missing-a-key-feature-c781...
I cut my stem long and run my bars high due to a back injury.

It does mean that I essentially had to learn how to build my entire bike from scratch since noone builds a bike that way, but I'm happy I did.
Hey me too, a little sunshine this morning :).
>Most of us don't have the funding, skills, time, priority to rewrite all of our old web forms apps even if we wanted to. Who is going to pay to rewrite the app that only earns us $10K a year?

He's not suggesting rewriting anything. He explicitly said "it's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++" (emphasis mine)

C/C++ isn't going away, old C/C++ things can remain as old C/C++ things.
If the domain wasn't literally called "httptoolkit" it would be hard to know that this article relates to the "web development world" at all. Though I do imagine most people on HN are part of that world.
> I can't see any way to go much lower than that without freezing in the winter. 2 kWh/day seems crazy low to me.

Apart from insulation energy required for heating changes massively with local climate and scales directly with living space. So directly comparing those numbers without additional information is quite meaningless.

Here in Germany, which seems to have a roughly similar climate, ~120kwh/m2 and year is the average for a detached home. Modern buildings are usually a lot less though, 30-50 kWh/m2year seems standard. With specialised construction ('passive house') and heatpumps 10 kWh/m2year is well feasible.
> not necessary for the use-case of running CPUs fast.

Unless your CPU is esoteric enough for mob mechanics or otherwise to be useful :).
Even assuming that this cliché holds, I wouldn't have expected it to hold at the highest level of police (the ones that should have given the orders to build the "fort").
Why tech companies keep paying millions to settle lawsuits in Illinois
By reading the article, it seems a reasonable approach. Similar to what several other open-source projects are already doing.
I'd be more concerned for what equipment would be used to store/read that data in 50 years let alone 500 to make this even a viable thing to do.
I just realized I forgot to add the coupon in my original post, so here it is: HACKERNEWS (read the conditions above).
Please don't go on the Internet and tell other people what they meant. My comment says APARTMENT DWELLERS for a reason, to contrast with e.g. house owners, whose needs are vastly different. I edited and added/clarified with "personal immediate consumption" because either you were nitpicking or I wasn't clear enough with "apartment dwellers".
If they stop providing a signed binary outside the Mac Store (IDK if they did), then this is the only safe way to get it other than a self compile. Add in auto updates and supporting the foundation and it seems reasonable.
I adore pg’s essay. But this time something is tripping my spider sense, so I had to take a closer look (at my spider sense, and a bit on the essay too).

This is the first time an essay feels like a sale pitch. Specifically, a sale pitch for YC. I’ve read pg’s essay about YC for about 15 years, and this is the first one I have that feeling.

This one is a bit too abstract. I’m getting the idea that YC can help founders tremendously, that their knowledge is specialized and hard to get elsewhere. But I’m eagerly waiting for one concrete example, and none are to be found. Normally I’d expect a real set of examples from startups, instead of the analogy in horror movies. I still remember the essay where pg described how he came up with Jessica the idea of YC, while walking somewhere, explaining very concretely what he thought at the time.

For any other writer or organization, I’d just guess they are trying to “keep their secret recipe”. That is neither pg or YC’s MO.

So yeah, this feels strange.
used to be bothered by the same thing but have since adopted one of those "quickly position window" utilities -- so e.g. you can quickly move the whole window to a reasonable column-width in the middle of the screen

i use "rectangle" for the mac, but there are lots of alternatives on lots of platforms. very nice QOL improvement.
> Why are the outcomes relevant if you agreed to them knowing them beforehand and without coercion?

See my statement of my values vs yours. You're just on the other side. There's nothing left to understand.

I'll skip the coercion point because that requires mind-reading, plus it requires me to believe that literally anyone reads a contract ever, and people will choose poverty if they can't find an employment agreement they like and understand. If you want to define coercion to the point that it's useless, that's fine, but let's pick a new word and move on if it makes you happy. "Pressure"?

> Is there anything more slavery like than prison???

You seem to think lack of opportunities equates to coercion.

Also, the bit about being generally in favor of worker's rights makes your post a concern troll. I wasn't born yesterday, I know what right to work, at-will employment, and reason.com are.
Yikes, now I feel dumb. I actually never knew you could sell private access to GPL code, but that makes freedom-respecting sense. Thank you!

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMon...
> In either case, guard your physical and mental health. In this regard, trust no one but yourself.

If people close to you tell you they get a stressed or exhausted read on you, absolutely trust them. Sometimes we are slow to realize these signs ourselves.
Yes! That’s such a nice feeling.

One of my GitHub projects was used in a demo at Google Cloud next a while ago. the presenter was considerate enough to attribute the project to me by name during the demo and even sent me an issue just letting me know about it. That was so nice! Absolutely people should do this.
Can I work with you?

Joking aside, documenting as a habit alongside coding is like a superpower. I find that writing can act as validation against my understanding of a problem; if I struggle to write about it, then it's likely that I don't understand the problem as well as I thought.
Funny, we're literally launching a new project today that allows for distributed focus groups. We haven't changed over the DNS -- here's the Heroku link (https://opinion-graphs-website.herokuapp.com)

How we got here: for a while we had been struggling with breaking through on another project that user voice input to measure sentiment for office space.

Last week, we took a step back and thought that having a tool that could allow start-ups to ask opened ended questions where people could just "talk" and what they said is analyzed for sentiment would be valuable. So that's what we're building with OpinionGraphs. IMHO this is directly in the vein of PG's points about learning from users.

With whatever you're building, if you're interested in trying a new way to connect to users or targeted customers along the lines of PG's advice, please dm me or just leave a comment here and I'll reach out.
It will also be expected the next time a project falls behind and the calls of "but you managed to get it done last time" will then start. At that point it's time to move on.
> ...because there's a plausible and uncontested rationale, unlike skin color? Men generally have more testosterone, which leads to aggression and worse impulse control.

Why isn't it plausible that different groups are different in some ways? For instance, when it comes to testosterone, this seems to be the science.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK20759/

> In fact, African American men have higher exposure to testosterone, the main biologically potent circulating androgen, than their Caucasian and Asian counterparts, beginning in the in utero period. African American women have testosterone levels that exceed those of Caucasian women by 50% or more in early pregnancy, an exposure that has been hypothesized to permanently alter the “gonadostat,” the hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis, in African American male offspring relative to Caucasians. African American men during young adulthood also have substantially higher circulating testosterone levels than their Caucasian counterparts (approximately 13 to 15% difference at age 20 years). Although this difference appears to dissipate with age, African American men still have slightly higher testosterone levels than Caucasians (≈3% higher) at age 40 years.
Time to write a program that compiles and seems to do what it does: Takes ages longer in Rust, unless you're experienced.

Time to be reasonably sure your multi-threaded code won't crash randomly: Takes ages longer in C++, even if you're experienced.
These are all good reasons to contribute to free software but I think you've missed the biggest one of all, the fundamental engine that makes the entire concept work: making the software you already use, more useful. If you need a feature or a bugfix, you can write it yourself, upstream it, and never worry about it again. That's a big part of why companies employ people to work on free software, and it applies just as much to individuals.
I don’t disagree. I think my point centers more around the idea that most of these “agreements” can safely be ignored. Again, not a lawyer.
a more recent example of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsen_versus_Nepomniachtchi,...
Show HN: VoiceLine – Work with STT voice messages in your Chrome Browser
Hey all, I’m super happy to share the official launch of the VoiceLine Chrome Extension that my colleagues and I have been building over the last year.

It allows you to record, share, and play voice notes within any browser-based application. We’re using an STT model to transcribe your notes into what we call a VoiceLine, a hybrid audio-text snippet, to address the problems of conventional voice messaging.

Our vision is to introduce a new category of professional voice communication by building our service as a layer, not yet another instant messenger like Slack or MS teams. It works within any tool like Jira, GitHub, G Suite, Notion, … you name it.

Would love to get some feedback and support, we’re also on producthunt today:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/voiceline
If I try and sell you the proverbial bridge, maybe I can con you out of a few thousand dollars. But the bridge is going to be less impressive than what I pitch to you. Because I don't actually own a bridge.

That is basically what is happening in your scenario - although maybe there was some wealth, it was never as impressive as the parties buying it believed.

> wealth is just what the markets say it is at the moment that they say it

If you reflect on this carefully you may change your mind. The market makes mistakes too - we just can't tell very easily because in any given case it is much more likely that the market is right than the person disagreeing with it.

But in this case, the market is admitting that it was wrong.
Revolut hacked, 50.000 accounts compromised
It's worse, because intelligence agencies surveil politicians, and can manipulate both them directly and the elections that get them their jobs. It's inevitable that the government will be controlled by the person at the highest levels of surveillance (the unsurveilled one) in a world of complete surveillance. Surveillance gets you power, and more power gives you better ability to exploit and increase surveillance.

SF idea: The secrecy around your intelligence budget rises along with the size of your intelligence budget. Eventually the intelligence budget completely disappears, and people forget that there ever were intelligence agencies. But that's only because everything is now actually part of the intelligence budget, and the publicly-released budget numbers are determined by an team for the purpose of creating popular support for current initiatives, creating popular rage at troublesome trends, and designing election outcomes.
Tried similar tools and ad-hoc processes during the pandemic. None worked as effectively as turning your camera's on and walking the board for 15 minutes. In fact, the chance of miscommunication increased when we introduced tooling like this.

Though agile has been bastardized and gotten a bad rep, it's core values of "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" and principles like "The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation" I still believe are quite valuable.

The time where these tools did add value when there was a time difference and asynchronous communication was unavoidable. I had a project a few years back where I was leading 15 teams in Ukraine. It helped there.
Yes, those are other ways to try and solve this problem.
> Why is it such a long shot to believe they don't interfere locally?

Because this goes strongly against the culture of the organization?

People are funny. They may be willing to bend any law and/or see themselves as above the law in some aspects (see i.e. the Iran/contra affair), yet will honor-bind themselves to other ways.

Because at the end of the day they want to be the heros, the good guys.

And the C.I.A. is an organization, so people within it are bound to a culture which is part of the organization. They might be perfectly willing to betray the American people (as you or I might see it), but they will not betray the C.I.A.

Part of C.I.A. is that it operates outside of US territory.
Just for context if you've ever logged into a hosted multiplayer server it's almost guaranteed to not be the vanilla Minecraft server. The stock server falls down pretty quickly in multiplayer. Patched servers with various optimizations (like Paper, Spigot etc) are the standard and most people still consider that to be playing vanilla Minecraft, even if some mechanics are slightly tweaked (e.g. entity collapsing).
I got one of these cheap RX580s in 2019, and, after not really using it for much, proceeded to use it to mine ETH throughout 2021. I was shocked that such an affordable GPU could mine (somewhat) profitably; I did the math, and it seemed like the card would pay for itself if I mined for a few months.

...and then I discovered US crypto taxes, which triggered on every single incremental payout from the mining pool I used (NiceHash). Taxes completely wiped out my mining profits. And now after the merge it won't be profitable to mine ETH again anyway. :/

I'm now trying to get the card to run Stable Diffusion, and I'm having a terrible time with that too, since it's just old enough to not support the latest Linux ROCm driver.
Paul, if you're reading, this the color on your footnotes is very light on my screen and they're very easy to miss.
If I knowingly create a pallet of fake gold bars and sell them to an unsuspecting idiot for far more than they're worth, then was that "real" wealth?

I'm not sure what the distinction between real or fake wealth is here. If someone overvalues an asset, whether through lies or ignorance, does that make a difference? Or it's all real as long as someone else is fooled to purchase the asset?

Either way, it's silly for people to talk about accumulated wealth of a nation in a way where trillions can be erased from one day to the next, typically when someone finally realizes that debt valued at X is not actually going to be repaid in full and is therefore only worth Y (less than X). I don't see how that's core to capitalism, and I don't believe the system we've been in has much to do with capitalism other than the relatively free exchange of goods.

There should be another name for whatever this system is, which mixes elements of capitalism and socialism, but more finely controlled by spreadsheets handled by large banks. I believe it's been called "financialism" in the recent past. In this system, wealth is some cell in a bank's spreadsheet, and one day they realize they fucked up and it's all "gone. Meanwhile, there was a small minority of other people participating in the market who knew about the fuck-up ahead of time and were able to profit off of it by properly valuating the asset/liability.
One quote from the article that I disagree with:

"This is "Markdown-like" but specifically not Markdown because novel typesetting has requirements that can't easily be retrofit in Markdown."

Any HTML can be included with Markdown. Why not use HTML for specific typesetting use cases?
another option that IMO is worth mentioning in this list is writing code using parallelism features in standard languages (e.g. C++20 algorithms with std::execution::par) and having a compiler compile it to run on whichever target.
https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/revolut-hack...
Like everything else in the world, knowing your audience, intended use, etc plays a key role. If you're protecting data against state actors, then yes, MD5 is not good enough. If you're just trying to decide if a transfer of a file went across a network without munging the data, then MD5 is good enough. If you're trying to post that file onto something that is publicly facing and want to provide the person downloading the file that it has not been modified, MD5 is probably not the best method.
Is this what agile/scrum is now? I feel burned out just reading it.

IMHO the 'standup' (keep them on their toes!) was always suspect if it was just a PM 'what have you done lately' meeting.

Progress can be reported asynchronously.

IMHO the point of having the team together daily is to raise exceptions/problems/blockers/whatever to the rest of the team, and perhaps co-ordinate the rest of the day.
How will this affect things if I have an instance of the built in SQLite? Will it be accessible by multiple GILs at once?
With the caveat that I'm no data archiving guru...

As a source of inspiration a good place to start might be B-LTA in the ETSI standards. I believe this takes into account the fact that the algorithm used for its creation might deprecated.

IIRC the way it works is (basically) that signatures are given a finite validity period and you undertake periodic re-signing. Therefore you build up a audit trail history of signatures with current algos as you go along.