skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideally you'd print it in PETG, and this can be done on a $100 Ender 2 clone with a $20 spool of filament, but if all you want is a few small parts and maybe a few batches for other people, you could find a local 3d printing service on FB market.

I'm selling a pair of brake cable guides for $10 including shipping to the lower 48. I'll make more money if I find a cheaper way to ship, but I'm not really doing it to make money.
The lack of references combined with the “I was arrested for pointless virtue signaling protest” lead in doesn't make for the effective argument the author thinks it does.
Poor man's VPN via SSH socks proxy
Discussed previously today:

Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 70s & 80s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34358759 (111 comments)
Check out the Asus Rog zephyrus g14 [1]. I have the 2021 version (which is only FHD) and it's quite light and runs cool.

1. https://rog.asus.com/laptops/rog-zephyrus/rog-zephyrus-g14-2...
That was the goal under Mozilla. Now that they aren't paying for the work anymore, I would expect other employers (and volunteers) to want more out of it than a tech incubator for another project.
It's the release of a much-awaited study in Science today: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063

The authors have been doing work in this direction for several years. Since McKibben's substack is written for "insiders", I guess he assumed people would know where to look.
This is true only because there is a huge wall between users & devs. Indeed: that's a safe bet for the foreseeable.

But over time, for some...

I strongly want to believe that malleable software will find a niche and grow it. Expert users are a sight to behold, even with the limited offerings we have about, be it IFTTT, Excel, apple/windows automation tools, or what-have you. If a system can actively work to onboard, to layer it's complexity, to make it's flows observable & hackable, there's a good chance we could start emerging new kinds of power users, could start onboarding more people into software & systems literacy, in a non-overwhelming & fun way.

The web has a hackability like this, that is joyous: writing a small userscript to tweak or rework a site to your own pleasure can be phenomally easy & fun, is a great way to get folls started with & enjoying computing.

Again, the advice here is good. Most people are not trying to strike at the roots of human-computing interaction.

But some folks should be, knowingly, with intent to make open, transparent, hackable software. Soft software. And in these cases, the stack matters enormously, is the truthful reality behind the obfuscating veil of interface. Efforts like Naked Objects are about more honest systems, and when we invite the user in, invite them to our level, bestow real power upon them, these invisible opinions implicit in our stack become much more the shape of the thing.
Can't believe they don't have any sources. Here's the recent paper the article is referring to:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063
Heard of horse races?
The "famous", at least in some circles, paper on climate change created in 1977. It has predicted our current actual temperature increases along with carbon emissions with startling accuracy:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

It's worth a read.
Having dealt with tesla with a car I would not expect good service from them for something like this.

I do not blame the employees, but I think if you have a tesla car you should have a "backup car" for when you have problems - even a flat tire.

I would not trust them for a solar project like this, unless I didn't live in the house and I had patience for project delays.
It might work for you as a user if you set your monitor up right but you absolutely cannot put up a web page and expect the 1:1 pixel mapping to be preserved for everyone who visits your site.

Between my phone, tablet, and two laptops, I don't even have a standard DPI display device anymore, and I hardly run bleeding-edge hardware. Everything is going to be scaled.
Ok sure apparently I'm a week out of date, but several other projects are in the works and many of these have already been built. There isn't a problem with the technology.
Synchronous is fantastic when applied appropriately.

The common failing I see isn't with synchronous meetings. It's with arbitrarily scheduled synchronous meetings.

Scheduling a recurring meeting for a team is a fantastic way to communicate to everyone that they should wait for that recurring meeting to communicate with the team.

The least productive points in my career have been characterized by recurring meetings. Once a company gets to the point where recurring meetings drive everything, the meetings themselves become the output for a large number of people. Getting work done is secondary, so long as you have something to talk about in the meetings.

Synchronous communication applied judiciously on an as-needed basis is very effective, though. It just shouldn't be the first tool that everyone reaches for for simple problems, nor should it be forced into recurring schedules for the sake of filling up calendars.
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(We've unbreathtaken the title now)
> Try to assume the best in people and their actions and your life will likely be better for it.

This is solid advice. After 20 years of (trying to) implementing it, it's made for much better professional and personal relationships.
Liquid Democracy was tried in practice in the Pirate Party of Germany.

Some people amassed a small bunch of delegations while the system was new and interesting, then usage dropped off. Since the delegations didn't expire, individual votes didn't matter - these "super delegates" had so much voting power that they'd generally outvote the remaining active users of the system. Combine this with the high cost of participating yourself (you need to repeatedly inform yourself and engage with the system) compared to delegation (just pick a person that seems reasonable once and forget it).

The lack of having any meaningful voice further discouraged people from participating, both in the system and the party as a whole. It sounds good in theory, but I'm not sure this practical hurdle can be overcome. There will usually be a majority of mostly passive users, and the corrective power of Liquid Democracy ignores this and assumes users change their vote if their delegate votes against their interest.

The Swiss system (a sufficiently large group of people can initiate a referendum or popular initiative, then the matter is put to a one-person-one-vote vote) seems like a very practical solution to the problem where you want the "boring" decisions handled by someone else, while keeping them in check and allowing controversial decisions to be overturned.
Our scientists are engineers and our artists are logicians.

The telescopes are always amazing
How a Fire Engine Works
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34357689
I am skeptical that renewables are cheaper than nuclear when one factors in the impossible amounts of energy storage required to make them meet the same reliability guarantees that nuclear (and fossil) can meet - indeed, as far as I know, there exists no proven, cheap, scalable technology to store power at grid scale at all.
Don't see an email, maybe if you (re)add it to the about section of your profile.

Please throw them on a google drive or a website or something, I'd love to see an outline/highlights of the state of things by a person who is really interested in the subject.
Removing creation from the process is much different than making new versions of existing tools as photoshop did.
they should just mine bitcoin with it
Discussed at the time:

Servo’s new home - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25125325 - Nov 2020 (309 comments)
Pretty much every language today has a modularity story. The issue isn't the language, it's deciding what are the modules and how they depend on / integrate with each other. You can have really good modularity support in the language and still end up with a big ball of mud.

IMO, you always need what I call an "application meta-model"; a set of decisions/constraints you enforce to make developing a large monolith sane. Examples: integration between two features should be implemented in a separate module that depend on both features, such that neither feature depend on the other; exposing well-defined interfaces from modules for functionality that is expected by cross-cutting concerns, e.g. security/logging/caching/etc.
How much more Netflix can the world absorb?
Passive/lazy participants are more than enough to manipulate the system, you don't even need to fake anything. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34363267
https://archive.ph/wKemZ
> Is gangs shooting each other, (usually family) homicides and school shootings not big enough problems?

They are symptoms. People don't join gangs or shoot up schools for the hell of it. They do those things because either their material conditions drove them to that point or they failed to receive the mental help they needed before it was too late (respectively).

> Because we have plenty of countries with similar social problems, yet they have much much lower deaths per capita

The ones with lower deaths per capita also typically have lower degrees/magnitudes of said social problems. The correlation is with socioeconomic stability and equality, not with any particular tool.

That is:

> it is safe to conclude that guns are a problem

No, that ain't a safe conclusion, and does not logically follow. If that was a safe conclusion, then countries like South Africa - with far stricter gun laws and far fewer guns per person - would have lower homicide rates, and that is rather evidently not the case.
I think the fact that with SARS2 unlike the original SARS and MERS which were circulating in animal populations only spilled over once in a single location counts as proof. You see when a wild virus that has been circulating within an intermediate host species, you get multiple independent outbreaks over a large geographic area with different mutations, additionally each of these outbreaks leave a trail of mutations as the virus adapts to humans. These mutations have been used to track down and find the intermediate host within months for both SARS -> civets and MERS -> Camels. They also had multiple outbreaks across many regions that were genetically distinct(but related).

BUT! With SARS2 we seem to be missing the following:

- Rapid mutations in the starting months of the outbreak(SARS2 displayed very little if any major mutations in the starting months as it was already pre-adapted towards humans).

- Multiple spillovers over time each with a different variant of the animal virus, something that happened with SARS, MERS, Nipah virus, Ebola which had multiple spillovers all independent from each other.

- Identification of intermediate host species. For SARS they found the virus that infected patient zero within months, MERS found the virus in camels. For SARS2 nothing! And this is after 3+ years of looking. And while it's true China won't allow scientists to look in China, the habitat of the Horseshoe bat overlaps with Laos and other South East asian countries and if it was present in civets you'd think they would find a civet with an ancestor of the early strains of the virus in Laos.

So even throwing out circumstantial evidence like deleting databases in September of 2019, the way SARS2 outbreak occurred does not fit evolutionary theory.
Weren't all these studies leaked decades ago by some of the same scientists who drafted them?
The easy use case is to fetch data from a WordPress backend, and render your site using some JS library (React, Vue, Next.js).

But it can do much more than that (indeed, I like to think of GraphQL as the single tool to deal with any content-related task). These are some interesting use cases:

- Use a WordPress backend as an upstream server to manage all your data, and feed it to downstream servers/applications/websites

- Use GraphQL to extract information from 1 or more sources (such as users from the WordPress sites and the newsletter contact data from Mailchimp) and combine the data (and analyze it all together as a single dataset)

- Execute operations using GraphQL to adapt the content on your site, either as a one-off when installing a new site, or regularly. Eg: replace all "https://myoldsite.com" to "https://mynewsite.com" in the content after changing the domain or doing a migration, and execute queries to replace any "http://" to "https://" when a writer publishes a new blog post

- ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) of anything that involves content, whether stored in WordPress or external sources

- Interact with 3rd party services. Eg: Use GraphQL to connect to the Google Translate API and translate all the blog posts to a different language, or send a tweet after a blog post is published

- Send notifications (by email, Slack, etc) after something happened (a new post, comment, etc)

It can also be used with pipelines, and it can complement WP-CLI whenever it falls short of being able to do something. An example of this:

I myself use GraphQL via my plugin to connect to the GitHub API and fetch data from my releases, which can then be downloaded automatically and installed on my testing sites before running integration tests. I tried using WP-CLI directly for this and it fails, because the GraphQL API gives the .zip download file URL via a header, and this data needs to be extracted first. So I extract the header via GraphQL, and then inject it into WP-CLI, and the whole process is automated.

Many of these tasks, you can do them with dedicated plugins (such as for content migration). The beauty of GraphQL is that it's like a Swiss-army knife: you can write your own GraphQL query to execute many of these tasks, customizing it for your own needs, and avoiding to buy other plugins.
OK sure, that particular project may have been halted but it's not because of technical problems. And plenty of HVDC transmission lines have already been built. The key thing about HVDC is that it follows a dropping price curve similar to semiconductor manufacturing so prices will continue to come down.
I don't think I've ever, out of all my physics classes up to grad seminars, been given the impression we have everything figured out. In fact, it was hammered into us that all we have are "effective" theories, at least when it comes to high energy physics, and that's not even talking about grand unification (electroweak + strong force unification), let alone Theory of Everything (electroweak + strong + gravity).
I mean the cost to the non-expert voter to identify which expert to trust on a given issue. For example, we are all pretty technical here, but who would you pick as the most expert for each of the top 10 programming languages? IDing all 10 would be quite a bit of work.
You should read the short story The Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang who also wrote Stories of Your Life, the inspiration for the movie Arrival.
I always wondered if we could somehow get a James webb telescope revolving around all planets of our solar system in the next 1000 years. That should give us pretty awesome visuals.
I would go even further tbh. Solar panels on the roof isn’t something that people want to hide. Nobody wants to admit it but my guess is the majority of people that get solar panels want to show them off, not hide them.

Edit: and that’s not a judgement by me either. If I had solar panels I’d want to show them off as well. They’d be a good conversation piece for neighbors.
At Earth scale it's not human generated heat that's the problem.

The problem (simplified) is that vast amounts of energy from the Sun fall daily across the globe.

An amount of that energy generates a great deal of heat at the land surface and ocean layer.

Much more heat by magnitudes than humans create.

Some of that heat warms the land, water and lower atmosphere, a great deal of that heat radiates outwards toward space ..

A balance was struck that's been more or less "just right" on average for some 200K years.

We have altered that balance by increasing the insulating properties of the lower atmosphere via increased CO2 (with worse flow on effects from increasing methane and water vapor).

This additional trapped energy is causing more powerful atmospheric events and increased mean tempretures.

But the cause is insulating in very large amounts of energy, not generating small amounts of energy (at the appropriate relative scales).
Wouldn't HN also have to stop hosting comments?
This probably breaks HN etiquette but...

wow
It's not really about the language itself but the people and politics surrounding it.
The Great American Jobs Scam, which was written almost two decades ago, covers how these handouts never work out in favor of the state/taxpayers.

https://goodjobsfirst.org/gajs/

The biggest receiver of welfare in the US, aside from possibly defense contractors, is Walmart. They pay their employees so little that most of them are dependent upon social programs, and Walmart had dedicated staff for helping employees apply for those programs.
So, now we know, Exxon has the best crack team of climate scientists. My question is, what are they predicting for the 2020s-2100s period (my lifetime)? If they're really so accurate then we could assume their future predictions are reasonably accurate as well.
Check my response above to Kwpolska
Wouldn't the Swiss system also encourage controversial decisions to be rapidly validated by a majority? Part of the supposed appeal of representative government is to prevent the rabble for voting for free bread and no taxes, right?
I haven't worked on a Ts project, but feels like i already get most of the stuff you mentioned, through ts-check in a regular js project.
Every administration says nonsense like that because there is no way to measure such fluff.
I got started in middle/high school too! Feel free to send me any questions/code (email in profile). I recommend also hanging out in the Discord of an open source project that interests you (and of course start contributing with their help!).
My high school chemistry is kind of rusty, so I'd like to be educated on how this works. I thought that O would bind more strongly to Fe than N. If so, then how would they get the N in the ammonium nitrate to displace the O?
NASA overspent $15M on Oracle software bc it was afraid an audit could cost more
Last place I worked used ES alone to power a complex search system. No Kibana. We were running about 100 instances with about a petabyte of data.

We're going the same route in my new place. If you want full text search with scalabilty and durability (and automated lifecycle management, these days) ES is still really the only game in town (not counting OpenSearch, as it's the same thing).
This. 1902 vs 1932. 1932 vs 1962. 1962 vs 1992.

It's like they're different worlds. Ever since humanity broke out of the "just being a subsistence farmer or serf like my parents" loop a hell of a lot happens in 30yr.
Ah yes, former energy secretary Jane Fonda. How could we forget.
Perhaps this is just my ignorance showing, but wasn't the data that Exxon based its own modelling on more or less publicly available? It can't have been a secret how many barrels were being pulled out of the ground each year? What am I missing?

Far from wanting to defend Exxon, but regardless whether or not they knew; if the narrative is that the "world outside Exxon" didn't know, doesn't that in itself amount to wilful ignorance or negligence at best?

What data did they have that the rest of the academic/political world couldn't add up on its own without corporate cooperation?
Which CD are you using @xmodem?
I seem to have come of age in that magical moment when it was possible to know everything about the computer is working on - transistors to digital logic to CPUs to all of the software that ran on it. It kinda feels like a superpower.
Silevo's hybrid solar cell manufacturing facility was in Hangzhou, which is in Zhejiang province, on the east coast of China, nowhere near the supposed 'slave labor camps' in the far northwestern Xinjiang province. Solar City acquired Silevo on the premise they'd be able to import from Hangzhou and assemble in Buffalo, basically:

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/solarcity-moves-into-manufac...

However, the US government - which certainly doesn't worry about labor abuse in places like Saudi Arabia wrt oil production, or really anywhere wrt oil production, slapped tariffs on this, under both the administration of Obama (a coal-state Senator backed by coal and nuclear interests originally) as well as Trump (Republicans also being in the power of the investor-owned electricity sector). The tariffs are a joke - a blatantly transparent effort to slow the growth of the solar industry in the USA, to protect the profits of the investor-owned utility crowd and their invested partners in the fossil energy sector:

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2016/06/20/solarcitysilevo-must-...

> "Last Friday, the International Trade Association gave its final ruling on whether or not Silevo’s “Triex” heterojunction PV cells are subject to anti-dumping and anti-subsidy import duties on cells and modules imported from China. The result was the same as the preliminary ruling in April, and verified that SolarCity must pay duties on Triex cells made in China."

So that's what the whole issue is about - but there's a more blatantly obvious issue, which is that no company or research center in the USA has mastered high-volume monocrystalline silicon ingot production, while Chinese companies have. Why? The US doesn't provide R&D funding for this kind of technological development, hence China is well ahead. In contrast in China this has been under steady development for at least a decade:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/29/new-manufacturing-pro...
"In mice" is a joke about how misleading it is to omit "in mice" from a study result based on mice. It doesn't make sense to apply it to a headline that does say "in mice", because then it seems to insinuate that mouse research is useless, when in fact countless foundational discoveries have started in mice.
Why is this site referencing google assets? sigh.
Exactly what i was looking for. Thanks!
We all get a later start on establishing ourselves due to the 4 yr degree. Switching to a 3 yr degree system gives everyone one more year of post-college fertility, as would pushing less people into college.

For my female peers, another hold up is a lack of suitable male partners. Men who aren’t financially supported by parents and who want kids.
New silicon manufacturing process for high-quality mono cast ingots
Sad news. I had the honor of participating in a workshop he organized on Inconsistency Robustness in 2011, that was an interesting gathering.

https://www.amazon.com/Inconsistency-Robustness-Studies-Logi...
Are we sure they did not? Let's examine their past Congressional testimony and see if it was honest or perjurious.