skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great, and looks like there is not many companies which do this so it fills a need. I have some questions :-

1. Can you provide an audit trail describe how you arrived at a given carbon footprint? For example, could you give me a report on which factors of a given product contribute the most to the carbon footprint?

2. Why is carbon footprint THE number to track for environment sustainability? Is a lower carbon footprint ALWAYS the better thing to do? What if a slightly higher carbon footprint allows me to be more sustainable.

3. Is your data license fee for every single query or per product? Does this mean you are data-mining/tracking clients use cases? What is your data privacy policy?

4. If my supermarket is selling Avocados, and I pay $0.99 to get the impact of it, why would I want to re-query this next year. Is the carbon footprint of a given Avocado going to change year over year?

5. Do you have a third-party consultants audit your data? In other words, how do I trust you are not paid for by Oatly milk company to push their products?
Such is the cost of "free". I de-gmailed over to fastmail, which isn't free, and isn't building wormholes into their perfectly adequate spam filter.
> The editors are not being puritanical. They're trying to illustrate to him that his writing (when read by an American) is adding context that he may not be trying to add.

And why is that? Because Americans are puritanical.

> but the modern interpretation of an adult smoking and drinking in front of their child in the middle of the day is going to be interpreted as them being bad parents.

For you (American?) it's the Modern interpretation while for others it might just be the American interpretation.

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I think it's just hard for people when being a product of a certain culture/society to see how said culture/society looks from the outside.
That's a clever system, thanks for sharing it. What I appreciate most about it, though, is the explicit goal of "being easier to count by hand", which I think many advocates of voting-reform overlook.

You even say "by sorting ballots into each of thirteen piles corresponding to the thirteen possible rankings of three candidates", which shows you've actually thought through what the process would look like for the people doing the counting.

When people are proposing voting systems, they really need to consider that their process is being carried out in an adversarial environment, where different groups have incentives to cheat, or accuse the voting system of producing the "wrong" result (e.g. due to the unintuitive outcome, or the complex tactical thinking needed to optimally fill in the ballot), or claim that voting machines were running backdoored firmware (which is a destabilizing claim whether it is in fact true or false).

That last point is perhaps the most important. I think that as time goes on, the pressure to automate the counting process and give instant election results (or worse, do the elections online) is only going to grow, and any voting reform which (if done manually) slows down the counting process, or for any other reason in practice requires people to trust machines that are selected and maintained by officials from one political party, is going to do even more harm to democracy than FPTP does.
One friend's mom, who was a "natural medicine healer", noticed we were all into computers (early 1990's), and thought we had "Electric Fungus". I always thought that would make a good band name.

Or maybe the X-rays from CRT monitors fried our brains.

I suspect doing random amounts of acid or mushrooms as a teen = some increased % of developing anxiety disorders.
Looks awesome. Great job!
Elon: I'm going to try being vegetarian

Internet: Elon is manipulating the beef markets!
Presumably they did get a lawyer, but I don't see why they should get off the Internet.

If Meta is going to use the legal system to bully tiny startups that tangentially compete with them, they might as well take a bit of a PR hit for doing it.
Power outages can happen for various reasons (storm, accident,...). I would expect the equipment has batteries, no?
Prudishness and Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll are just two sides of the same coin. They both need the other side to exist to stay relevant.
Very, very little of the library requires a GC.

You can ensure your D code doesn't use the GC by adding the `@nogc` attribute.

But really, all this concern about the GC is misplaced. It's just another tool available. You can use it in D, or use RAII, or your own allocation system. It's your choice as a D programmer.
> That's why the whole system works -- because of the threat of violence.

And that's what bothers me with the fetishization of "violence is not the answer".

Violence is DEFINITELY an answer. It's what state entities do on a regular basis. Now, it's not wise to rely on violence regularly, when more peaceful methods exist and are more effective.
> can and do often cause false memories and do real damage.

False memories are almost always viewed as negative and certainly not desirable but what if you could use this effect for what you want to achieve?

False memories as way to engineer your past and improve your own life?
But you must do that in your brain!
Yes, IIRC all but 76 were, and that's only because they wanted 76, as MMO, to be neutral. All the others were.
A long, sometimes tedious, but subtle and interesting piece on the
relationship between the real world, of messy, complex adult humans,
and the plastic world we try to construct as we wish it to be.

In this case it's a novel writer and a prudish editor. I can relate to
this when editors tone down my attacks on unethical tech companies who
might be advertisers - generally though I get a free hand because most
editors seem sympathetic to the same concerns.

But it could equally be a magazine Photoshopping a model's blemishes,
or a company PR department putting a gloss on research work. Anyone who
has worked where an intermediary interprets ones work to an audience
has experienced this doctoring at some point.

The role of the sanitiser, filter, censor and arbiter of taste is ever
present. We seem to live in age of form over substance, appearance
above reality, and wishing into existence a world that won't offend
imaginary others.
OneDrive does that on Windows and Mac.
My unconscious judgement is that the smoker is someone who does this all the time (which might not be true) and the fireplace-user is just lighting a fireplace as a special occasion (also not necessarily true). So if I see a scene of a parent smoking, I will judge them as a bad parent, but not really the fireplace user.

To answer your actual question, yes, doing something that is worse than smoking near your kids is bad parenting (unless it's a rare enough event to cause negligible harm).
Maybe something from the Sam's "Teach Yourself X in 21 Days" series?
D is a general purpose programming language, it does not aim at a niche.
Not the OP. Just want to add that it takes years of work to become an Eagle Scout. Usually at least two, but often three to five. Don't want to assume too much without clarification but feels a little uncharitable to imply that that level of effort is without value and/or not worthy of recognition.
The Future of the Web is Peddling Endless Amounts of Cloud Frameworks

The number of web sites that need global edge computing is vanishingly small. More realistically you need a 20+ year old technology called a CDN to run your mostly static site.

Edge computing doesn't even solve any of your real problems here. I18n, l10n, international taxation/currency/payments, data-at-rest/GDPR/privacy laws. And then it introduces new problems, such as data partitioning. Are you going to partition at the edge and deal with tricky sync issues (CAP, anyone??) or are you just going to call back to your centralized DB server a thousand miles away from that edge? You know what's even faster than running that code on an edge device? Running that code on the user's phone or laptop. And you can get there. With a CDN.
It looks like so far there are two Linux usable Risc-V cores: those from Alibaba's c910[0], and those from sifive (like this one). There is also OpenXiangShan[1] which is an academic project which has seen real tape out but so far no product that I'm aware of. I believe XiangShan is somewhat based on Berkley's BOOM[2], someone who knows can correct me on this.

My hope is that in the long run it makes sense for cloud companies to fund open source CPU development. They already fund closed source development by paying Intel, AMD, and now ARM (some of which is in house like Graviton). It shouldn't be so expensive throw a few million at this. Google and Amazon already have some in house talent. I don't think these cloud companies really want to be in the business of (closed source) hardware development. At the very least, they can put pressure on the existing CPU companies: what are they going to do - lose out on their largest market? The cloud companies are in control here.

[0]https://github.com/T-head-Semi/openc910
[1]https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan
[2]https://github.com/riscv-boom
I'm confused. That's... not how fireplaces work. The exhaust goes up the chimney, not into the room. The heat in the room is radiant heat from the bricks in the chimney.

Also, how is one other (potentially bad or not) activity germain to the one being discussed? What about clowns? What about how Swedish fish candies are made?
Good looking out, RangeVoting.org was the site I was thinking of but that HN post drove the discussion.
Stories that drive a lot of comments quickly get downranked. Unless you post the specific dang comment I seriously doubt that there's an Elon specific filter.
I had one professor I thought was unfairly difficult. I remember him lecturing a girl about how she was failing his class because she spends too much time talking on the telephone. Note - I never once saw her use her phone during class. The tests didn't seem to be related to what was covered, or what was in the exercises, or even the test questions at the back of the chapter.

I think he left a few semesters after my class. If he was fired, it would say it was justly so.
From the earlier Reason article[0]:

"In one of his organic chemistry classes in the spring 2022 there were, among other troubling indicators, a very high rate of student withdrawals, a student petition signed by 82 students, course evaluations scores that were by far the worst not only among members of the Chemistry Department but among all the University's undergraduate science courses, and multiple student complaints about his dismissiveness, unresponsiveness, condescension, and opacity about grading."

[0] https://reason.com/2022/10/03/maitland-jones-jr-organic-chem...
His sketchbooks are awesome, and often have a large poster/print in them. I think for sure they will have prints in the future, just not signed of-course any more as much as KJG would love to from up there.
Ask HN: WiFi smoke detector that doesn't require Internet access
I'm looking for a smoke detector and CO2 sensor that I can connect to a private isolated Wi-Fi network. I want to be able to get the alerts and send to myself, but I really dislike connecting things to the Internet.

I find it hard to discover things like this because connected almost always means connected to a cloud server somewhere, with an app that polls that server.

Apologies if this question has been answered before, I've tried searching on here and on the greater internet but the ad copy is not very clear.

Thanks in advance!
They didn't cancel it . iPhone 13 mini is still available.

I would not be surprised if iPhone SE 2024 would be an iPhone Mini form factor.
> The student petition protested that Jones’s class was too hard and that students lacked resources and help. It did not say the professor should be fired.

> “We urge you to realize that a class with such a high percentage of withdrawals and low grades has failed to make students’ learning and wellbeing a priority and reflects poorly on the chemistry department as well as the institution as a whole,” the petition read.

That doesn’t sound immature to me.
"Do a good job" is different from intent to compete. Horizon Workrooms, keyboard passthrough, and multi-app support screams non-entertainment functionality. And that's just what's been released pre-Quest Pro...
Well, it's not the worst parenting, for sure. But as you said, "not good" puts it into the "bad" end of the spectrum.
I have one of his early sketchbooks and was taken back on his imagery, ideas and layouts.
There is also zero reason to assume he was vaccinated while traveling through multiple foreign countries.

The vaccination status questions appear, because the theories about this being caused by covid vaccination flew over internet in anti vaccine circles. Just like every time famous person dies. The the whole political goal of these questions is to imply he was killed by vaccination while not needing to prove anything.

And it IS manipulative political question. We don't know his vaccination status nor when he was vaccinated. That happens to be private health information.
How long till we start seeing the comments comparing Elon to Hitler? If we're doing Trump comparisons it can't be far behind.
Turn it down to 16 bit color in those situations.
I don't know. Mushrooms make me want to stay as still as possible in whatever position I'm in, even if it's standing. Unless the person suffers from claustrophobia, I don't think it would be an unbearable experience.

It is possible to sort of sleep on psychs. I guess it's not quite sleep; it's more like a relaxed state of altered consciousness within the "normal" state of altered consciousness. I sometimes become alert again and realize I dozed off for a few minutes without losing track of time.
hope its not the covid vaccine side effect!
It's really funny from the perspective of the code review:

Reviewer: This block of code is a bit confusing. Could you replace with a simpler and shorter version like this? (Suggest edit)

Reveiewee: I agree with you. But nah I will keep it. Oops shipped!
Often I've gotten the initial consultation/advice for free on how to do it yourself. The point of lawyer is protecting you when you are in danger, and in my experience they're happy to tell you that you don't need a lawyer here, and give some general tips on the process.
My opinion was simply to state loosening the course to enable everyone to pass & get a minimum B+ for e.g, negates the purposes of grading. A lot of schools have different courses covering the same topics because the target audience is different. Organic Chemistry for grad school Chemistry needs a lot of rote. But thats not needed for med school. If the same course is used by both the audience, we can't blame the professor for keeping a higher bar. That's NYU course planners' responsibility TBH. And this is the example I was elucidating in (2)

> This is horrifically untrue [...]

Again, you're misunderstanding me. I am against people inducing work stress. But STEM does have higher rigors to clear than literature or fine arts. Grad school was a fast paced, and challenging experience. I enjoyed it. But I wouldn't say they were relaxing and feel good. Its not fair to pick that one sentence and quote me out of context. I am not talking of undergrad education which should be holistic & enable exposing students to a wide array of topics without risks of adverse outcomes by low grades. Grad school specialization is more geared to push you to the bleeding edge - and going there needs out of the ordinary efforts. If NYUs current course is not suited for med school but suitable for e.g chemical engineering or chemistry majors, NYU should be revisiting the course planning carefully
Good. Death to censors.
Yes, but they don't. It's cheaper and more convenient for a criminal to get real guns which are better anyway.
If the goal is to teach reasoning then I think most 101/102 level calculus fails at that. For most students (including mine when I took it), their experience is just getting through generalized homework problems or an exam than actually applying that calculus to test a scientific hypothesis. Reasoning is taught better in those sciences, such as physics, biology, chemistry, or statistics, where you are explicitly developing and testing a null hypothesis. Maybe replacing calculus with statistics in high school curricula would be a lot more useful, if the goal is to teach reasoning and critical thinking.
May well be the case. The susceptibility to hypnotic suggestions depends on the receiver and the giver of the suggestions, and who the relation between the two is. Maybe in some cases there was, for some reason, more trust in the person showing the fotos, and in other cases less.

Would be very interesting to know.
Can you support that? I'm sure it depends on the doses, and this makes me wonder how the risks compare as well
Lots of late 30's/early 40-something Brits in this sub thread I think :D

BBC Micro was the first computer I ever used, in 1986 upon entering primary school. I remember learning DART and programing the turtle to move around using LOGO (we actually had a physical version too from what I remember).

My elderly year 1 primary school teacher disliked the computer, however, and told us we needed to spend the time learning to write in pen because "we wouldn't be able to carry a computer on our back for the rest of our lives"!

My parents soon bought an Acorn A3000 (32bit home computing in 1988!) and I would type out BASIC programs from books from the library and then later edit them to discover I could do my own programming. I don't think there was any free/open source (what we used to call 'shareware') WIMP tools so being about 10 years old my programming was strictly relegated to BASIC as that's all we had.

I'm a bit depressed to think that Margaret Thatcher had a direct impact on my career in tech, however :/
> Part of one chapter talks about how the professions organized to create credentialing systems that kept anyone who couldn’t afford the expensive and time consuming education out. Organic Chemistry is specifically mentioned for its role in weeding out potential medical students who might very well turn out to be good doctors, while simultaneously being irrelevant to the day-to-day practice of medicine.

Medical schools already have an easy way to affect the supply of doctors that's under their own direct control: their own admissions policies. Is the author hypothesizing that they are somehow controlling undergraduate chemistry classes in private and public institutions across the country, which seems very implausible?
Writing a manifesto doesn't do anything. Adopting a Code of Conduct and implementing a compliance board to review violation complaints and take disciplinary action does help prevent harassment.
Absolutely. Naive exaggeration is a fantastic way to make your vote count more than others in score voting. It also encourages more negative campaign tactics, since convincing a voter to rank your opponent 0 rather than 4 is literally 4 times as powerful as convincing them to rank you a 5 rather than a 4.
>Do customers actually like bigger phones with bigger screens?

Sales Data and Survey suggest yes. They are simply using it like a mini tablet.
Their research was published in Cancer Cell.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/engeneic-announces-...

https://engeneic.com/
Ash Maurya – The Simple Shapes of Customer Stories
Because of covid some places stopped requiring kids to pass a driver's test to get a license. Some only had to have a parent sign off that their child was a good enough driver. I wouldn't be surprised if that had an impact on the number of accidents.
If I'm not mistaken this link is exactly what I am describing. It simulates how close the winning candidate is to voters based on how people would vote. But it explicitly doesnt simulate how candidates would shift due to changing incentives.

In other words - it treats elections as a one side game where voters pick strategy (voting methods/preferences) and the candidates are stable. But it is a two-sided game where politicians change opinions/policies based on system as well.
I think it would be interesting to convert to a polygon mesh periodically in-the-loop. It could end up with more precise models.
All depends on perceived risk. Many people don't even know about those risks, or think it's scare tactics. Even people who do know them might still take it because the risks are relatively rare. Even very common medications, like Tylenol and hormonal birth control, have serious rare side effects and/or strict usage guidelines. Many people taking these don't know about the risks.
Another day, another AI media generation project, and yet another comment by egypturnash lamenting the "death of the creative industry."
I wouldn't think cloud desktops would be good at all, so if they're not as good as I'd think... they must be pretty darn bad.
IBM operated the same way back in the day (late 90's). I had a very modest ISV that sold a $5K custom device driver to IBM and it took me nearly a year to get paid. Everything was outsourced - even the accounts payable department.

20 years later in another life I did business with IBM as an enterprise customer. Same complete shitshow. Never again ...
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/

At the end of the day, any power you think you may have is an illusion. It all comes down to who has the monopoly on violence.
If reports of $300 billion valuations are true, this is an undervalued company considering it's still growing at 54%.
"And elevated troponin is not definitive of permanent heart damage."

What else causes heart damage and troponin to release?

We're going on suspicions now rather than thoroughly reviewed science and data?
Murdering random people is a fairly terrible side effect of not taking psychiatric treatment.
I like to think that some conversations are about the transfer of information while others are about the transfer of feeling.
> Examples of his failure include not successfully squaring the circle

Seems kind of mean to attack a guy for failing to finish something later proven to be impossible.
I'm glad. There really are problem teachers. I'm not informed enough to know if he/she was one of them, but the whole system needs to be more flexible and responsive to real feedback.
SpinLaunch just catapulted a NASA payload into the sky for the first time
The practice of national medicine necessarily becomes a cross of the disciplines Sociology and Medicine. I don't doubt medicines complexity or its ability but its not acting alone here. You are not prescribing well tested vaccines in a vacuum, you are best guessing and ramrodding via the sociological practice of "nudge".
Guacamole is excellent for managing servers, but hardly a reference implementation of remote access. The display protocol is getting shoehorned through a websocket and rendered into a browser canvas, whereas if you use Remmina or another native RDP client things have much less overhead.
When you have a school that charges astronomical prices, it is beholden to its customers: parents and students. Typically, the parents that pay these prices expect their children that want to do pre-med and become doctors to not be "weeded out" by the courses. So NYU, as a a profit-making business, listens to economic logic above all else. It's a shame. Merit must take precedence above all else. In fact, merit should be the only criterion.
> The exhaust goes up the chimney, not into the room.

Most of it, yes, but there's still a very large increase in particles in the air, far more than when smoking.

> how is one other (potentially bad or not) activity germain to the one being discussed?

My parent was saying "given the health effects, you should not smoke in front of your children". I was asking how they squared this with an activity with much larger health effects that I suspect they think is fine to do with your kids.
> Exactly when the FTC should go find something better to do, like health claims in supplements.

That's FDA.
One of the main selling points of gun buyback programs is no-questions-asked amnesty.