skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beef isn't bad for the climate any more than the cattle that were present before humankind showed up to invent livestock. Cattle eats plants that largely obtain their carbon from the atmosphere. They emit CO2 and methane, the latter of which degrades after ~12 years forming CO2, meaning cattle has and always been a part of the atmospheric carbon cycle. The only aspect of livestock that can be bad for the climate is the fossil fuels used in the transportation of live animals and slaughtered animal meat.

Yeah, no shit is using fossil fuels, which unleashes carbon from earth's crust, is worse for the environment than beef.

Of course that's not really something the author of this article from The Register is even considering. Even the paper seems to treat all CO2 emissions as identically damaging to the climate, which is counterscientific.
Yeah this take is paternalistic and dumb. Let them do as they please. They’re playing video games.
Xilinx keeps advertising the bejeesus out of their AI p&r, but I haven't touched these tools in years -- how much do the claims translate to reality?
They're just saving lumberjacks money by not having to own their own trucks. They can just load their chainsaws in an Uber XL. Boom! Another industry disruption! /s
Go Micro has gRPC plugins for its client/server packages. You basically import these and it's immediately using gRPC under the covers. Go Micro has it's own code generation that looks similar to gRPC and based on protobuf.
>My biggest issue with Twitter is the lack of moderation, theres SO much propaganda on there.

Yes and no. There's too little moderation in some areas and way too much in other areas.

If you follow conservative politics, someone can say something like "men are women are biologically different" and they'll have their account banned for a catch-all "hate speech" violation. Meanwhile, someone can say "Trump should be assassinated", and get thousands of retweets and no administrative action.

Case in point, Trump is still banned from Twitter for tweeting "go home in peace and love", yet Putin, the leader of a country we're currently in a proxy war against, still has a verified account.

Bottom line, Twitter is an irredeemable toxic cesspool full of both propaganda and massive censorship.
I don't agree. The past few years have seen steady growth in terms of power delivery. Devices have gone from 5V 0.2A which equates 1W, to 240W. That's a huge leap. Most older chargers are simply insufficient for more modern devices, but can still be used to power more conservative things like small desk fans, led lights, night lights, and the likes. You can repurpose an old wall wart by putting it somewhere else physically where you need it, but with an in-wall power outlet you'd need to replace the whole module every 1-3 years. The jumps in power delivery were drastic at times.

However, now it's a good idea to go with these because it's unlikely power delivery for a lot of things will increase for a long while - see my other comment.
Ignoring Commodore/BASIC, which I really just used to load things more than programming, I think my first actual programming was QBASIC in elementary school. My nerdy friend knew some, I watched over his shoulder and tried my own.

By 11 or so, I became fascinated with AOL 'proggies' and picked up Visual Basic. Made a few of those. Ended up writing a keylogger on commission that I believe partly led to a man's murder. Story for another day.

After that I lost interest in programming with typical teen stuff, didn't really even use a computer much until later...I guess 21 or 22. Hired to do menial data entry tasks, and decided to automate my way out of it. Next job, same thing. Decided to read a few Python books instead of just Googling as I go as I did as a kid.

Over the years since, it's mainly just been picking up things as I need them or they interest me. Learned enough C to work on an open source library. Learned Go because Python deployments were annoying(among other things), and so on.
I can't imagine them doing that when they already had an Apple logo symbol built into the font in ROM. They were trying really hard to emphasize the graphical capabilities of the Mac, and using a text abbreviation like that would have felt like a waste of those capabilities.
100%. For the record, the metrics I care about, and the first I seek out, is blockram cycle time and total device memory capacity. Unfortunately, unlike say Xilix/AMD, Intel doesn't publish that number directly, but Xilix/AMD's fastest for is > 800 MHz for the lovely Artix US+ and it has loads of memory.

The LUT count is a murky beast beast as you realistically cannot use them all lest P&R times shall be counted in weeks.
The evidence is all around you. We are talking about 100s of millions of years. You seem to be way too fixated on flying cars for some reason. Look at the progress in just the last 100 years, it's astounding. I am more than comfortable to extrapolate from there. Also, it's not like we haven't done space travel, unlike flying cars, we are able to go to Mars too. Entering and living in space outside the earth's atmosphere is something we do on a continuous basis. I understand the problem is hard, but given the timescales involved I am more than happy to be optimistic about the human race. If anything I find your take incredibly shortsighted. It's ok we can differ in our outlooks.
Well, there's one large German Tech company - SAP.

But no French or British ones.
You... Really don't.

I will say that you should try some only if you're desperate, but I wasted over a decade of my life suffering and thinking illegal stimulants like meth and amphetamine will make me a retarded addict... But they didn't.

I quit drinking and fixed anxiety and depression with GHB and pregabalin. I can quit them in several days. Zero problems Afterwards (except bring back to my old self).

I fixed my attention/energy problems with aPVP, methamphetamine and amphetamine. Now using the latter because it's super cheap and available and the former two have too many side effects. But they're all useful in a pinch.

Heroin? GHB feels better! I also hate cannabis which most people love.

All I'm saying is the effects are actually different by person and dosage. But falling into a binge is easy and I know many people can't get out of it.
Wouldn't that depend on how much the plumbing business engages in actual plumbing business to drive success vs. how much it engages in marketing to drive "success"?

I've certainly seen both kinds of businesses before.
As the owner of the machine, I should have total access to everything. There should be no protected memory I can't read, no execution I can't trace. The number one user of such security features are "rights holders" that consider me hostile and want to protect their software from me, the owner of the machine it is running on. The result is a computer that is factory pwned. It's not really my computer, they're just "generously" allowing me to run software on it as long as it doesn't harm their bottom line.

Virtualization based security, the technology enabling this, also enables DRM. It is currently required by Netflix for 4k resolution streaming.
And thats exactly what newer programs do, look at AppSumo and its practically all of them. The older gen simply used a giant dictionary, then picked a random option from the list of acceptable choices.
It would be nice to have a more trustworthy stack at every ring, I think.
Plus the fact that social networks today are intentionally designed around a dopamine reaction feedback loop.

They’re hacking your emotions as you describe, but they’re also hacking you chemically to get you addicted, which is why I no longer support giving young people access to those social media sites.
I’m doing this as well. Works great.
I do not oppose.

But personally, I have a ton of fun just mapping for the sake of it. Seeing my contributions rendered is a satisfaction.
Real-time Postgres events with pg_eventserv
Can Smartphones Help Predict Suicide?
The market that they access is essentially the USA. They got allowed in for political reasons and the USA can tolerate that.
The announcement is surprisingly lacking in architectural updates; it looks like the same Agilex on a new process. Has Intel killed innovation?

ADD: last time I witnessed something actually new and interesting: https://www.efinixinc.com/technology.html
Highly dense neighborhoods will invariably have cars, and especially delivery vehicles, double parking all over because density always implies shortage of space; bike lanes are in now way special in this context, unless you're suburban transplant with a newfound IMACYCLISTNOW identity.
>I can’t find the pressure level at the time of the explosion.

Very high and then suddenly very low, I'd assume.
The FTX Future Fund needs to slow its charitable spending way down
I learned by playing with Apple Basic when I was a kid, reading the user manual that came with the Apple ][. I was drawn to it because it was fun... but I then put it away for my teenage years because other things were more fun. I actually got productive with code when I started work after college. I had an IT job, and learned from the top-down, writing scripts to help the work, writing low-code apps, and going deeper and more complex with each new project. It was a couple years later when my job officially changed to being a full-time developer.

I've now been doing it for a couple more decades... and I'm still learning. Learning to code is not something to learn and then do. It is something you learn continually for your entire career.
Facebook Freeloads Off Newspapers. This Plan Might Stop It
I have never seen ads on Firefox?
California is a government too, separate from the federal government of the United States, and it hasn't been shy about regulating tech companies. I don't think this jump to foreign governments is substantiated.
"Free" in the sense of free extraction. Obviously you still need to pay for distribution, but the shale fields to this day are flaring off natural gas that they otherwise have no way to sell. That 50% drop in the 2010s is the shale boom.

Now that shale has calmed down and global demand has spiked, there's now a cost for the actual natural gas itself. A doubling of prices may seem like a lot, but historically the price is still well below average. Much like we've gotten used to free money over the last ten years, we've also gotten used to free gas.

That's not to say it isn't a problem, but we aren't in danger of running out of gas or any runaway price spikes.
Yes I recall that: 'Find Your Hacker News Doppelgänger':

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27568709
Cyclists can't be too aggressive to drivers. Many drivers already seem to have a deep hatred for cyclists as a group, and frankly it's all to easy for a driver to injure or even kill a cyclist through negligence. Open hostility towards drivers in the short term would quickly become catastrophic in the long term.
for me a ruler is something that tells me how many centimeters there is in whatever it is I want to measure - but maybe it's for linguistic reasons? e.g. in french I'd say "y'a combien de centimètres là?" when measuring something long with a tape meter and someone's help, which translates to "how many centimeters are there right now?" more or less
Ah I see where you were coming from. Yes on the server-side that applies. The compute costs scale elastically with user count.

They do have a client-side console/controller, and to be fair I had to look up why they did their own (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Stadia#Hardware).

> While Stadia can use any HID-class USB controller, Google developed its own controller which connects via Wi-Fi directly to the Google data center in which the game is running, to reduce input latency.[8] Google is also exploring further ways to reduce latency, using an idea called "negative latency" which involves prediction of user input through various means so that any apparent network lag between controller and game response is minimized.[12] During its GDC 2019 keynote reveal, Google confirmed that the controller would also feature Google Assistant, which will automatically search YouTube for relevant, helpful videos related to the game they are currently playing at the touch of a key.[13]

I don't think any of Google's manufacturing capex is recoupable here; it's specific to making that thing, and if you don't want to make any more of that thing it's trash. (I'm not a hardware guru though, so that's not a statement made with high certainty. There might be bits that are reusable.)
This completely falls apart when you look at Android.
They just burn it off if they cannot sell it, I guess
I don’t know, should I really reimplement that graph lib in a buggier, slower way, over choosing a battle-tested one that may also contain some additional features I don’t need?

According to Brook’s famous paper, code reuse is the only way to significantly improve programmer productivity. No new language will suddenly make you 10x faster, and even that would be meaningless against all the quality code bases out there.
It is anti-driver-freedom.

Most users don't want driver-freedom. They want user-freedom, that is easily achieved by keeping the kernel open source and replaceable.

If you want to break some in-kernel protection, you can just patch the kernel and remove it.
Great reply. Thanks. Will ponder and (at least aim to) put this on my reading list.
Without even addressing what it was this guy actually did with his six thousand hours, after investing only six hundred hours of your time in any productive pursuit you'll definitely be showing real results, let alone six thousand. 600 hours invested in learning a language, or improving your physical fitness, or learning an instrument is a serious positive investment in yourself. It's common to hear people wishing they could play piano, or speak French, or many other things. An hour a day is all it takes to do something awesome with your life.
There is a very important difference between a subset of the public and the public. The prisoner's dilemma is the basic template for most of that difference. Autonomous subsets of society act in their own interest to the detriment of society, and by extension, their own detriment.

The individual fiduciary responsibilities of each corporation create a wasteland in aggregate. No one wants to fucking live in this apocalyptic hellscape of advertising, manipulation, deception, and corruption that we have created for ourselves, but no one is willing to give it up either because they have no power to force everyone else to. In order to solve the prisoners dilemma, you do, in fact, need a monopoly on force. You need the entire public, and the will and capability to punish defectors.
From what I understand lots of mining operations are in places with cheap wind or hydro power anyway. But obviously that isn’t some iron law.
Guns are fun and holding one in your hands isn't particularly frightening. Watch a child get shot in the face and tell me they aren't evil though.
What if a person really doesn't want to spend so much time doing an activity but cannot stop due to being addicted to the dopamine it generates?
But what if food goes up by 2% and cars/lumber go up by 50%? In that case will you still exclude the cars and lumber?
Yup, I never touched Stadia for this exact reason. I'd have been curious otherwise especially since I travelled quite a bit for work before covid (so no access to my gaming pc) but assuming I'd lose any money spent when Google inevitably cancels the service prevented me from even trying it.
Google has been promoting other Google products on the home page for over 20 years [1].

I think the only difference this time around is that people didn't realize Fitbit was acquired by Google.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt2iPpJmySU
There's a modern trend to be relentlessly supportive and approving of everything, so long as the person can claim it makes them happy. (They don't actually have to make this claim, or even actually be happy. Society will be more than happy to make it for them, and infer happiness.)

Society will say, if you want to have a family of seven kids, awesome! If you want to pull a David Hogg and not have kids, awesome! Affirmation for everyone!

I've got a pretty wide tolerance for "you do you", but objectively speaking, no. Not all lifestyles are equally valid and/or good.

Six thousand hours in a video game is not good.
Fair, and I know that's a different ballgame if you're going to compare with Destiny 2 or WoW or League or something. But nonetheless, I think there's value in at least having some measure of calibration for what is reasonable and healthy.
I don't know anyone who watches 5.5 hours of football 7 days a week for 2 years.
On windows ctrl+esc is the same as the super key.
I really didn't know whether this was going to be an article about structuring sequential information or about a more efficient way to produce wood. Hacker news!

I clicked, found out, and was dissapointed that this wasn't about wood.

Maybe I should start that woodworking career change already.
Do multimillion-dollar dinosaur auctions erode trust in science?
Keep in mind they've built the series off minor iterations on the first Modern Warfare game (CoD 4) over the course of, like, 15 years. I think in the piano analogy, this would be like slightly different brands of keyboards. I wouldn't be that surprised to find I'd played around that much CoD over the course of, like, 2007-2016 and I definitely was not worth watching.
If I remember correctly, at first Pokemon Go used Google Maps to display the actual map, but it still used OSM data for the spawning algorithm. Later on they made the switch to only use OSM.
That's not true, a lot of the connectors just-so-happen to be rated for mains levels. This is because often USB chargers aren't ground referenced, so they hover at a little above 1/2 mains voltage. This is why if you touch some chargers or devices that are charging you get this weird electrical "sensation" sometimes.
> The world's largest military is prepared to neutralize all nuclear threats as soon as the first bomb goes off.

So in other words, you are rooting for WWIII to start.

Does anyone seriously think that NATO would be able to completely neutralize Russia's nuclear capability before they get a single ICBM launched?

Warmongers in the Pentagon have been trying to start a "winnable" nuclear war since the 1960s.
Perhaps we can minimize casualties to only a few tens of millions on our side, if we are lucky.

London, New York and Paris have multiple ballistic missiles aimed at them from different sites (that we even know about). Are you so confident that every single missile could be intercepted? Is Ukraine worth the risk?

Russia has been preparing for this for a very long time. Even if we shoot down every one of their bombers and nuke every one of their silos, they have a fleet of nuclear submarines waiting to destroy our population centers. Only a complete psychopath would continue to escalate things at this point.
I'm sorry the pricing here is offputting to say the least, you think that pinch controls is worth an additional $400. and push notifications another $200
and your fastlane deployment $1000

I think you are drastically over estimating your value add.
Ask HN: Microsoft SmartScreen is destroying our business
About a month ago, Microsoft SmartScreen suddenly started flagging the login page of our SaaS dashboard as 'unsafe', scaring away our customers.

We understand false flags can happen. So we took to the official SmartScreen feedback site to report the false flag (as the website owner). Received an email that stated it would take up to 24hrs to analyse: 'If the status of your site has not changed after 24 hours, please contact us with a reply to this message'.

Sep 8 - first ticket sent.
Sep 9 (24h later) - nothing. So we replied to the message as instructed.
Sep 12 - still nothing. One more reply sent. Asked some of our customers to report our site as safe.
Sep 15 - crickets. Tried calling phone support, impossible to get through; they just hang up on us. Reached out to MS support on Twitter, said they would look into the case.
Sep 22 - no changes - MS twitter support has been unable to find the correct person internally. We replied to the SmartScreen ticket once more. Opened two new tickets. Asked more customers to report the site as safe.
Sep 30 (Today) - now the warning has started to spread from our login page to our entire dashboard. Still no word from Microsoft.

We are totally baffed that MS allows a false flag to stay up this long, totally ignoring us for almost a full month, meanwhile destroying a business that did nothing wrong...

We suspect one of our competitors is responsible for falsely reported us. Is 'weaponized SmartScreen' a thing?

Does anyone have a similar experience? Any advince on resolving this matter is greatly appreciated!
You can password protect without encrypting
I've made a couple small apps for myself, but aside from those, I'm struggling to think of any meaningful software I've written. The software I write tends to facilitate making someone (but not me) rich, but I'm not sure if that really counts as "meaningful."
Engineering a more robust Raft group reconfiguration
Are you suggesting that because cyclists are annoying, parking ordinances and laws should be ignored?
In my experience, Google showers companies with incentives and discounts to get them on the platform based on spend commits/forecasts that never materialize
Enhanced Images of Jovian Moon Europa
Is there any evidence of anyone actually attempting such an attack outside a carefully controlled research scenario? The number of stars that have to align for this theoretical attack to work in practice is so high that I don't think any normal desktop end-user has reason to worry about it. (Shared servers, co-hosted VMs, etc are a different story.)
Why do you think Vagrant->Docker was a mistake?
Ukraine confirms it signed NATO membership bid
I find this proposal problematic. There is a world of difference between reporting on a violation in your community because you're a concerned citizen, and directly incentivizing citizens to report on each other.

I'm sure you can find some small counter examples, but by and large the US has never had a history of augmenting law enforcement by way of private citizens. We are not a country of snitches.
Can you elaborate on why vagrant to docker is a mistake? I find the docker workflow infinitely better and faster to iterate for making dev environments.
SQL is at least 30 years older than Git. Git has yet to prove its longevity in the same way.
I always thought I had difficulty in approaching mathematical thinking and approaches, labeled as "math deficient". I re-approached mathematics through functional linguistics and have been rather successful in reframing and understanding both logic and functional mathematics and concepts. This may be an approach that doesn't work for everyone as I have always had a higher aptitude for language especially as a bilingual individual. I found much of my deficiencies related to math were related to traditional teaching approaches and my own "mistranslation" of mathematical terms and concepts from my native German, relative to functional conjugation. For example 42 in German directly translates to English as four and twenty out of context. In a sense I retrained or rather reframed my approach through linguistics and have found it has bolstered my math ability as well as my approach to learning other languages etc.
> The immense pressure to transform/re-frame everything as a service, aka: "You'll own nothing and be happy" leads to these situations. Now it's "just a video game", but this is starting to happen to most walks of life.

Indeed. It is everything-as-a-service subscription, rent-seeking, griftopia created by our tech overloads which "you will own nothing and you'll be an extremely happy user" and all your digital games and save games gone if the service shuts down, bans you or terminates your access.
Layoffs at Meta starts next week, leaked on Blind