skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are some ideas here that are low risk and low cost. I only know a little about the topic, but it seems doable and much better than the alternative of doing nothing and just taking our medicine.

A very interesting discussion on freezing the poles using aerosols (e.g. sulfur compounds): https://youtu.be/DQbwSI_MI7I

That is far cheaper than dealing with just the effects of rising sea levels, nevermind everything else. It's relatively low risk because the effects don't last long, and they stay trapped by the polar vortex, and nobody lives there. If it doesn't work, or has sufficient undesirable effects, you cancel the experiment.
There are many natural areas around Western WA with poor-to-non-existing cell coverage. It's pretty bad around the Lodge specifically, true - I live in North Bend (which is also near the Snoqualmie Falls and the Lodge), and coverage on the outskirts of the city is bad enough that when we moved here a few years ago, we had to get phones that could do GAN / WiFi Calling to have reliable service.

But the article specifically talks of the Olympic National Park, which is also mostly uncovered. And even if they were hiking somewhere in the eastern parts of it, there's no trailhead anywhere on the Olympic peninsula that's 45 minutes away from the Salish Lodge. OTOH 45 minutes is exactly how long it takes to get from the Lodge to Seattle in normal traffic, so it would make sense if the car was already towed there by then. But then the article specifically talks about "45-minute drive back to the trailhead".

I suspect it's just a case of a non-local journalist misunderstanding some of the pieces from the interviews and cobbling the story together the best they could.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing so much detail. Btw one thing I noticed, the link to "Determinate Systems" was broken. I think this is the correct link: https://determinate.systems/posts/qemu-fix
Another option in the UK is the "knowledge transfer partnership"system.

Sometimes you have an academic level problem that needs a year or two of work to solve. KTP partners you with a university, which recruits a graduate to work on your problem under the supervision of some lecturers.

I highlight this because sometimes interns are used for grunt work, but other times they are used for 'moonshot' projects or a way of bringing in new skills and thinking. This seems like a better way of doing that. I think there is some government money for it also.
Neuropsychology is what you may need to look into to fill in the gaps.

edit: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262680530/parallel-distributed-...
1.9% fee per order booked.
> You might try and read the article

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
Apple Notes. Not only does it support images, but it can OCR images too.
>>the economic environment also has very specific material and societal conditions attached to it, most of which favor the employer.

None of those restrict any one's negotiating rights. You're employing a common argument for restricting negotiation rights: argue that due to systemic conditions, a free market cannot exist, and thus there is no harm in imposing restrictions on contract liberty.

It's a superficially plausible argument but completely baseless when you consider any real world example.

>>A capital owner can lobby, make use of the legal system, concentrate power and strategy, create oligopolies, hire enforcers, all at a scale unimaginable to the individual worker.

A capital owner lobbying, and successfully instituting a law restricting negotiating rights, would indeed violate rights, and if it were to happen, we would be right to oppose such a law and work to have it repealed.

Oligopolies meanwhile are extremely rare, and if they do emerge, there are tools available to the state to fight them.

None of the possibilities you cite justify instituting a blanket restriction on the negotiating rights of employers.

>>Do you sincerely believe that jobs would not have been delocalized to far cheaper countries in either case?

Yes in many cases I think the industries would have expanded domestically, because the US had a growing advantage in supply chain proximity, natural resource availability, infrastructure and the skill level of its labor force.

>>Why do you think they fund think tanks and parts of the media, respond so forcefully to unionization efforts, and constantly try to focus the attention of workers against other workers?

In New York City alone, public sector unions receive $38 billion a year in compensation. As a political bloc, unions are arguably the most powerful.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/05/26/why...
>Very true!

Not yet added! :(
Do you really think the people who rented the cars knew that this service relied on cell coverage?
I think that is actually the motivation to avoid very. It's completely true, and important to note that "very clean" =/= "sparkling". "Very" simply intensifies the word "clean". "Sparkling" doesn't simply mean intensely clean. Instead it means (in context) that it is so clean that light reflects off the surface. It has a richer meaning.

On the other hand the way the tool presents is not the most helpful. A list would be much better. Perhaps I am trying to say that I have cleaned my carpet well. I would perhaps want "spotless" or "immaculate" rather than "very clean". But I certainly wouldn't want "sparkling." That suggestion is worthless for me, and I wouldn't want to have to keep clicking to find a relevant one. (Also, what if I meant "clean" as in "clean language". I don't think any of these suggestions would be relevant).

So not my favorite tool (a thesaurus is much better), but a novel way of presenting the idea.
(?!)

The US supports HK pro democracy groups. This post is a good counterexample
Devastated.
The Ministry of the Future also addressed the same type of heat reduction technology, albeit as a much smaller part of the book.

I'd highly recommend it, though the opening is very hard to read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
>>Yes, that's exactly why unions are needed, there is no way to live in capitalism without selling your work-force, or living out of rent on other people's work-force, by owning the means of production

No one compels any one to do anything under the capitalist ruleset, which is simply a ruleset that restricts interactions to those that are mutually voluntary.

And hiring someone and making a profit by employing them to operate your capital (what you Marxists call "means of production) is not "economic rent". The enterprise/capital that enables the labor to produce more value than is expended to hire it is provided by the business owner, and contributes value to the economy.

I strongly recommend you don't base your understanding of Economics on Marxism. Marxism gives no credit to investors for their role in providing capital. Marxism just takes it for granted that capital will emerge, when in reality you need to compensate those who create capital, through the process of saving and investment, in order to incentivize its emergence.

Marxism's non-recognition of this fact is not only a massive oversight that makes the theoretical framework utterly pseudoscientific, it is a consequence of the fact that Marxist theories are totally motivated by an anti-rich ideology, as opposed to the pursuit of scientific truth.

>>If an owner wants to decrease wages of their workers, they may only receive resistance if the workers are unionized

This is totally baseless. Wages for unskilled labor doubled between 1870 and 1900, a period during which unions were extremely weak, and there was a massive influx of poor immigrants to the US pushing up labor supply which would counter-act the economic forces that push up wage rates.

There are other forces that push wages up besides the violations of contract freedom that can locally push up wages for unions. Unlike laws that give unions local monopolies on workforces, economic forces like investment don't depress wages economy-wide. They are positive sum, leading to generalized wage growth.
I wish that was the case, but my experience is that there are fewer PHP jobs.

Switching a stack won't help cos places want years of experience.
Obsidian stores all the notes and attachments as normal files in a folder, you can sync it however you like.
Perhaps 50 years from now Harvard would make the same apology for asians
In 20 years. I told a boss I didn’t have enough to do, exactly once.

Never again. I didn’t have a spare moment for 3 years.

Now I ask for priorities.
More or less than fossil fuels?
PM at early stage startups (mostly <50 people when I join, current company is ~25) - this is 100% correct not only for engineering, but also every other department in my experience. I can think of a handful of weeks in my career when things were very light (and a couple of these were when I was doing marketing in my first job and were the weeks after our big conferences ended, so everybody just kind of took a break after working 100+ hour weeks leading up to them).

I think it was great for my career/professional development early on, and I highly recommend early stage startups for people early in their careers for that reason. It's not just that you're doing a bunch of stuff, but you're doing stuff that really matters. There's just way too much important work to give the new person pointless work. You're going to get handed real tasks that affect the business immediately, and if you show you can handle them, you're just going to get increasingly important work.

It's also one of the reasons I got recruited from marketing in my first job to PM in my second - they knew I didn't have PM expertise, but I had done meaningful, visible work, been promoted every year, and had built up domain expertise that was valuable for my second job.

It's not just junior people, either - at my current job, which I started <2 months ago, I was doing doing meaningful work in week two. It's definitely hard work, but it's also really nice that your coworkers appreciate you, because you're immediately picking up stuff that either they were having to do or that just wasn't getting done.
:( That page makes me wonder if LineageOS is even worse than my out-of-date Android system.
The Science and Emotions of Lincoln Center’s New Sound
You need to write code and you need to get people around you to write better code.

That’s basically what a staff engineer does in addition to making large design decisions.
Happened to my daughter and friend at a trailhead in Shenandoah national park. They defo need a better (bluetooth at least) system.
I bought it as you were typing! Boy that's funny.
i mean achievement is at the intersection of luck, talent, and hard work. Knew several people with the raw iq to be great but these people would much rather spend their time doing mental puzzles.
very + creepy = creepy

lol
Networking can use allocators other than malloc. You mostly need arbitrary allocation for stuff like packet payload which can be arbitrary size (within limits). Many other structures, like IP headers, etc, can use much simpler, faster, safer allocators.
Plex offline has never worked for me. It always freezes and never downloads anything. It's astonishing how janky the Plex app is, even after so long.
Can anyone with experience having social interactions in VR speak to the value-add of the concept?

Having played VR games, I find the experience novel at first in a way that's pretty impossible to adequately describe to others, but gradually lost interest in it over time.

Curious if there's anything about social VR that you kinda have to experience first-hand to really "get". In concept, for something special and rare like a conference, I could see VR being an improvement over zoom but nowhere near a replacement for the in-person experience.

For stuff like daily meetings, I feel like the fatigue would set in very quickly similar to how it did with VR gaming for me.
From the random picker: very + complex = your mom
[Grin]

Also:
very + happy = jubilant
very + jubilant = not yet added
The Holland Tunnel has a toll when entering New Jersey.
FWIW, I think this is already the case with standard Tesla (non FSD). I have a buddy with a 2 hour commute that does Duolingo while letting the car drive for the vast majority of his commute (which is mostly freeways).
You are overlooking something here: I never said anything about proof. I explicitly wrote 'convincing evidence' because proof is too demanding!

It's rather amusing how you have flipped from saying "you can't prove a negative" to an argument for the certainty of observable effects and the probability of consequences! (you wrote might cause problems, but everyone can see that's an unrealistic understatement of the implications of the argument you are using.)

The NASA managers prior to the Challenger crash thought that what they really wanted was something showing them an actual problem existed. Erring on the side of caution is generally prudent, even in relatively small matters.
Just take care. Port forwarding is perfectly valid, and sometimes the only practical way to do things. But:

- only open/forward the ports you need.

- only expose ports that use appropriate security - try to avoid plain-text, NEVER use easy to guess passwords; prefer encrypted sessions and properly secured logins (eg. ssh keys).

- be very aware of what is listening on the open ports. Some Windows ports expose dangerous services, and/or do so without authentication!

( Really, we shouldn't need firewalls because there should be NO dangerous services exposed on any machine. But older boxes were so full of problems that firewalls became the default way to manage the situation ... "we don't know what services to enable/disable, and they'll get re-enabled on the next OS update!@!, so we'll default to blocking everything using a firewall. )

- update, update, update. It seems like almost all code is broken. It's just a question of how badly, so it's very important to keep any exposed services up-to-date to limit the time you're exposed to know-bad software.

- you WILL be attacked - not personally but by the millions of bots randomly trying addresses/ports and guessing ids/passwords. Something like fail2ban is useful to discourage such attacks, but you WILL be attacked and MUST be prepared for it.

- monitor the machine - the scourge of the interwebs is boxes sitting out there sending spam and/or performing DOS attacks because the owner doesn't keep an eye on them !%@$!#@$!!
Thanks for following up.

When people point these out I feel obliged to mention they are hardly unique to any language.

I guess I asked because your comment was directly under a fairly ridiculous comment being fairly insulting to the Rust community, so I wondered if you want to point out deficiencies that are supposedly only present in Rust?

If not, my apologies for mentioning it.
HackerNews tries to discourage the sort of pop culture references that are so prevalent across the Internet in the hopes of fostering real substantial communication and dialog. I don't speak on their behalf but as a member of their audience and this has been the culture of this site for a long while, which is why I downvoted your post, the post you replied to, and the other posts that reference this same Simpsons quote which I hope will illustrate that references like this are not very creative either.
[random internet idea]

If sale of the company is your best upside, then it might make sense to apply to the potential buying company.

I mean if the company sells, you’ll probably be interviewed before the new owners hire, if the new owners are interested in keeping you on.

And they might not be since delaying a purchase only increases the likelihood people like you will jump ship…and because aquihires usually focus on the principals first and valued employees third.

Good luck.
Irrelevant, the point is that they don't increase albedo so deploying absurd amounts of them won't cool the atmosphere.
Move to the Yukon
I just landed a dream gig and start in about 3 weeks. Horrified of layoffs etc but super excited for the move. Article made me feel a little bit better but only mildly.
Oh god the chemtrail people are gonna go nuts.
1. We are currently in an ice age (defined as both poles covered in ice)

2. A few degrees the wrong direction and the whole globe turns to ice.

3. A warmer earth with more carbon increases crop yields and actually has positive effects. The downside might be people need to move inland.

4. Much more concerning is the chemicals we are releasing into the atmosphere — I’d be seriously concerned here.
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What on earth does hegel mean? (not in any dictionary I can find as anything other than a proper noun).

But other more obvious "Tech-brand" hijacks would surely include most browser names (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Brave, Opera...), and of course Zoom, Teams, Twitter, Tinder & Telegram then the "indistinguishable in speech" ones like Tumblr, Flickr, Grindr, arguably even TikTok (*) etc. Arguably in most cases it's obvious when written due to the capitalisation anyway.

* interesting that Chrome's spell checker doesn't like TikTok regardless of how you capitalise it, unlike all other examples
Don’t lose the «very» in your daily speak. Language should first and foremost be accessible to others, not exquisite. Unless you’re writing a novel, and unless the accuracy of the more elegant substitute word you’d use really matters.
Would you not use surprised if you received results that differed from what you were expecting? I'm surprised something 2.5 time heavier than iron would be in the upper atmosphere at all. Wouldn't that be something that fell back to the surface? Then again, I'm not a planetary scientist type, so I'd probably be surprised much more frequently.

It's not like they are shocked or disappointed. To me, it just reads they received info they will now be looking at further than they were expecting to need. Maybe intrigued would be appropriate instead if you consider "surprised" to be as lazy as "very".
TIOBE's methodology is a joke. I'm surprised it gets a mention on a forum like HN which tends to attract the sharpest minds in the industry.
It’s easier to fight fraud when you own the entire stack from the hardware, the OS, the App Store, and the SDKs.
As a manager I could hook it up to my corporate performance system and use ability to comprehend boring meeting content as a performance metric. It’ll be awesome, you’ll see.
Joseph Goebbels read passages from Carlyle's book to comfort Hitler during their last days in the bunker. Carlyle believed in Herocracy (Government of Heroes) and was very racist
mmWave geothermal is exciting because it can in theory allow for geothermal baseload power anywhere, not just places that have near surface volcanic heat like Iceland.

Big questions remain about it's technical and economic viability though.

So far I think they have only demonstrated melting a hole through a couple meters of rock, and as with all such things, the levelized cost is what matters in the end.
https://dandelionenergy.com/ is one company trying to scale this.

In general, Americans don't want to pay a huge cost upfront for some efficiency gains. Especially since traditionally fossil energy was cheap.

Also look at heat pump clothes dryers. They're a win in that you don't need a vent (and associated vent cleaning), but they cost more upfront.

Hopefully these are areas where the government can provide low interest rate loans upfront, since they are investments that pay for themselves over time.
small crypto startups compete directly with faang because they can give their own liquid tokens alongside their base salary

given how big the VC funds for crypto startups are now I dont really see any talent acquisition situation improving for other tech startups, I see it getting more impossible

who wants below market salary and illiquid lottery tickets that you have to also put up your own money to redeem after 1 to 4 years of your life with a higher chance of getting zeroed after VCs get their cut first assuming the company doesnt fold? Given a choice
part of this is they are probably wired for it, and part of it is they are immersed in it from a young age. Probably don't need to worry though, a lot of geniuses come from left field where they grow their creativity in isolation.
More or less than nuclear?
I've used LineageOS to revive a Samsung Galaxy S4 and a Note 3, they work pretty well. The installation is easy. That said, you might encounter bugs on your particular device which may or may not be a big deal for you.

I have had some issues with GPS accuracy and Bluetooth connections from the S4 to a certain device occasionally dropping out, but I haven't done careful before/after tests so these may be hardware problems. I would recommend giving the LineageOS a try, at least before replacing the phone, if that's the path you want to take.
People have proposed approaches to increasing the earth's albedo (and thus reflecting more sunlight) without launching material into the atmosphere.

Best known is probably the idea of painting roads and rooftops white.

Another interesting approach: setting up very light-weight (thin plastic?) mirrors in large quantities in farmer's fields. Farmers have incentive to do this in areas that are getting hotter and where crops may already grow better with some partial shade than in full sun. Spacing mirrors on posts in fields can provide this.

This is being proposed by Ye Tao, an MIT Chemistry PhD who has pivoted to this project. Discussed on Dave Robert's Volts podcast [0].

[0] https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-dr-ye-tao-on-a-grand#d...
Well, they're perfectly sane from the point of view of supply and demand. Boomers have pulled up the housing ladder behind them by blocking anything from being built.
Not really? You shouldn't be checking in secrets, period.
How many applications did you send, compared to number of phone screens?
I have trouble with both genres being dismissed as not serious or intellectually engaging etc. being two of the ones with predominantly female readership.
^ This.

When dogfooding, you have to be very careful that you don't end up in a bubble and only see your own needs as the priority.

There's a propensity for developers to start using their own products then changing it to suit themselves thinking that the regular users use the same product the same way. You end up with this mismatch of expectations and it can even get so bad that the developers don't believe the users who tell them that things need to change.
On github.com you don't need VPN to access your org's repos. You're referring to github enterprise (the self hosted version).
Apple’s satellite connection is still very experimental (you need to initiate it, you have to find the range and do the ritual, and it’s on one of the worst connected provider with limited coverage), and feels more like a checkbox for marketing than an actual mass ready feature.

I’d put it in the same bin as lidar: it’s cool they got something working at all in such a constrained package. Hopefully it will become better/more generally useful within a decade.

(nowadays satellite phones or portable modems are actually pretty small, capable, and not that expensive. Consumer level access is already a thing in that regard)
Why would they need to have

> customer identification numbers and emails

to provide service? Seriously?
but I would expect that people who measure low on IQ tests but are raised immersed in an technical or artistic environment have as much potential to become masters as people with higher IQ, or very nearly so.

I would strongly expect the opposite. But I agree it would be beneficial to figure out which of us is right.
Something tells me it may not be welcomed by other countries and playing with climate can have lots of unintended and disastrous consequences.

On the other hand we may reach a point where we would not have much choice.