skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's apps and websites that show you all the charging locations

and what if the conference center/tourist attraction you're going to doesn't have a charging station? What if they do, but they're broken/occupied? I agree it's not an insurmountable task, it's just something I don't want to have to worry about while I'm dealing with the other "much more complicated stuff".
I don’t believe Google or and social media company or streaming company is lobbying for the outlawing of their competitors. Or do you have other information that the rest of us don’t have?

They are not that shortsighted.
> then obviously bigger businesses like MSG can still do even manual barring 'at scale' (e.g. hire more security guards and distribute lists of barred individuals across them)

Are you sure about that? Image recognition isn't a horizontally scalable task if you're talking about guys with clipboards. And the larger that clipboard, the lower the accuracy gets. Think of it as you have to match each incoming patron against a database. If each security guard has the entire database, they're doing a costly time-intensive, & inaccurate search through the book (security guards are not only paid too little to care about this, but humans in general are going to perform poorly at a task of "does a picture of this person exist in these other 200 images of banned people taken in alternate lighting conditions, clothing, facial hair, etc". And remember, as a business your goal is to let in all the people who came in a timely fashion. Otherwise your business dies / people complain / laws get changed. So to do this, you'd basically have to have a close to 1:1 relationship between person entering and security guard screening. That doesn't scale, even for larger businesses.

Now you could invert the problem. You have the security guard take an image and distribute it to other guards who have their portion of their database that they're combing through and match against a subset of that. Still, that's a heck of a lot of extra man power that scales with the amount of bans you hand out and there's a natural backpressure for your business.

With automation though, you can scale this for pennies. So you don't have to be very discriminant about who you're banning which is a meaningful distinction. This isn't a bad PR approach. You probably can't muster enough political will to amend the laws to force venue owners to only ban people from public venues who themselves are being a public nuisance of some kind (which I think solves the problems a heck of a lot better than protected classes). But you can make it financially infeasible for them to do this by banning the new tech that lets them go after you.
Tridactyl's key feature is "native messaging".

A further alternative is https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys. Its key feature is a javascript configuration - allowing you to bind arbitrary javascript to a key.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/01/...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/antitrust-enforcers-to-ba...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/opinion/linakhan-ftc-nonc...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1611025895388577792.html
IIRC current estimations of a carbon price accurate to the social costs of a ton of CO2 are near US$185 [1]. It is probably unrealistic to assume that such a price is politically achievable within the next 10 years (even if all the income from such a tax is redistributed). Making gas more expensive is really not popular.

Another option is emissions trading, where a fixed amount of CO2 certificates are issued over some timespan (with the amount calculated to fit some emissions goal). The price is then determined by the market.

Of course this should also lead to high CO2 prices, which will be unpopular, but with proper protections against future changes to the system in place, politicians might be able to absolve themselves of responsibility and more or less put the blame on the market. I think that might make this more politically achievable (especially since possibly the effects on consumer prices might only appear a while after the relevant political decisions are already made).

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05224-9
Thanks for the excellent write up with big picture thoughts and concrete examples. I only regret that you didn’t hit the “waiting for Godot” punchline harder.
Interesting - you're describing my experience with Unity, and I ultimately switched to Godot because of my frustration with Unity.
Start using “dont recommend channel” option massively.
The Bay Area is watching something that demonstrates that right now. The land under a theme park near San Jose got bought by a warehouse (think fulfillment center) company. Entertainment venues like this aren't always economically viable if they have to compete on the open market with other property uses, but there's still community value to them.
I like to pretend there is a counter somewhere that is noting down every time I explicitly hide Shorts from my feed, and when it gets to a certain number they will realize I don't want them.
> Just presume we did that, to start.

While I'm fully on board with the thrust of your post, I think skipping this obvious first question is kind of missing the point. Terraforming Mars would be such an enormous, slow, expensive, intensive process that any other problems with "logistics" would be long solved before we ever got past that initial challenge.

> If we can make Mars habitable, we can make Earth habitable for far less cost.

Ultimately this summarises it best: I don't really think logistics would be a problem if we solved making Mars habitable - I just don't think doing that is worthwhile to begin with.
Youtube music offers me a "free trial" several times a day.

I "skip trial".

There's no option to permanently not be bothered by being offered a "free trial".

It infuriates me.
Why? If you haven’t showed interested in years, why waste limited pixels when it is highly unlikely to resonate?
Seems nice! I would prefer a twist of this more towards finding other's with an expertise you don't have yourself and having the option to center the conversation around a particular topic, and some expectation of sharing advice and expertise (not just chatting).

There could be a paid model, or you could imagine a credit system where you also offer your own expertise and time to others in equal measure. That could still lead to finding things to work together on, but could also lead to learning, consulting gigs or just networking - with the added benefit of being immediately useful at work. But that maybe already exists somewhere?
What happens when businesses create their own shared oisd image recognition list for un-welcome individuals and people start getting blacklisted from everywhere?
Stunning performance, especially for a (heavily iterated on) 10nm node. Alas I doubt we'll see many mini-pc/1L PCs configured with such a top tier node but what an epic mini-server that would make! So many cores (8p+16e)!
> I wonder what happened ?

They call it the Ribbon. A collections of icons (or as someone said, hyeroglyphs) arranged in who knows what order, which you need to guess what they do. Some have text, some not.
Ask HN: Any point to keeping my grandfathered AT&T unlimited data plan?
I've held on to a US AT&T unlimited data plan for years. It dates back to the dawn of unlimited data, when the company was failing to disclose its practice of throttling. I've kept the plan on the basis that one day, AT&T might be compelled to provide the account with unlimited, unthrottled data, as was represented when the account was established. Now it's 2023, and I haven't followed the case as closely as I should have over the years. Is it time to give up and switch to a modern plan, or is there ongoing litigation?
If you are into self-hosting, check out the platform I'm building (UXWizz), you can toggle specific tracking features on or off, and you can also store custom events/data if you need, it uses a LAMP stack, so it's also easy to connect to the MySQL database and query for specific data if needed.
I read your tirade and I'm now interested - what do you think the ideal high school math curriculum looks like?
I don't know if I'm even comfortable, in the consolidated corporate world we live in today, with the idea of large corporations issuing bans as retaliation for pursuing legal rights. Or for really anything besides bad behavior in there.

Under the narrow "right to refuse service to anyone for every reason (except based on a protected class)" reading, there's nothing to stop, say, Live Nation, to refuse entry to any concert for life if they decided they didn't like you, for instance if they found out you bought or resold a ticket through other than their own scalping service. Or if you sent a mean tweet about Ticketmaster fees. LiveNation controls a giant proportion of venues so they would have the power to do that and if you don't like it, they don't need your money.

It's not even about feeling bad for those who end up banned. It's about knowing that when this power, and the available data for them, becomes 10x easier and better in a few years and people realize it, it will have "a chilling effect" as they say, on how comfortable people are about participating in any speech or activity that corporations may not like. Like "Well, I support Starbucks employees to unionize, but I'm not going to admit it openly because I don't want to be banned from Starbucks for life."

Starbucks is a silly example, but there are so many real near-monopolies or duopolies that I'm very nervous about giving them carte blanche to use what will no doubt be dramatically improving tech to be able to literally query a DB, select all, "Ban" - or what about "Warn" - next time you enter a venue you're pulled aside and handed a brochure stating that "while you've been admitted this time, your access privileges to our venues will be revoked the next time you engage in any further behavior that damages our reputation or interferes with our ability to conduct business."
I've built/retrofitted and a prototype of mechanically operated louvres with push/pull fans for air exchange in an old school building, tied to the thermostat, ac, and a CO2 detector.

The idea of doing the same in my home has been taunting me for years now. Ideally you'd have two such louvres, one with a push fan in the upper floor and the other with a pull fan in the lower floor to simultaneously eject unwanted heat, bring in fresh air, and boost whole-house circulation. They'd be set up to interface with the thermostat/hvac and would operate when the outdoor temperature at intake is lower than the temperature at exhaust and both are above the set point on the ac.

The biggest problem is really one of convenience. You'd need a filter on the intake and a rather large and powerful fan to overcome that static pressure - ergo, a noisy one. And you'd probably have to fully dismantle the system in the winter to prevent the cold from getting in (the Midwest is cursed with both hot and humid summers and cold and dry winters). It just end up being the kind of thing where the devil really is in the details and you either do it right and it's a huge undertaking or you do it fast and sloppy and its drawbacks won't be worth it.

But I agree, nothing is more infuriating than seeing the AC on and the outdoor air temperature being lower than that of the home. And opening windows just doesn't make a difference since in most 20th century homes there's just poor airflow and no circulation.
Shorts is led by a former VP for Alexa Experiences. If Alexa's incessant "By the way ..." notifications are any guide, the pushing will probably continue indefinitely.
I am a lifelong audio nut, and I suffer from Headphone Acquisition Disorder.

The sound I get from my Airpods Max paired to my iPhone is easily as good as I get from the Sennheisers I have to plug into a headphone amp to use. So no, the idea that all Bluetooth is "unreliable and low quality" is not a true statement.

I don't use an Aux jack anywhere anymore. My car has Carplay. I don't use wired headphones anymore, because I haven't been able to hear a justifiable difference.

My guess is that most people who whine about things like "hifi codecs over Bluetooth" wouldn't be able to reliably choose the audio stack they think of as superior in a blind test.
FWIW I had a new Lennox heat pump installed a couple years ago, and I can (but don't) configure it to "cool to dehumidify", and it tells me the humidity on the thermostat. I don't know if this is common in new units, or if I'm just special.
Who is we ?
The part of YouTube I hate most is Mr Beast. I can’t get rid of the guy. He creates new channels just as quickly as I can block them from my recommendations. I’m sure that is a strategy to force himself in front of people. I wish there was a way to say that I don’t want any Mr Beast channels, I don’t want any Mr Beast collaborations, and I don’t want any Mr Beast reactions.
This is still early days but I plan to make it specifically for software engineers with standards so that it can be used by everyone in your team and the team notes are automatically created in the repository for everyone to use.
These notes should include everything
1. Diagrams
2. HTTP or RPC request
3. Meeting notes
4. TODOs
5. Debugging notes - json text, links, script, command line history etc.

The overall idea is to capture the as much context as possible of any programming task by providing all the standards tools in the notes app.
They've got a companion piece on money in general if you liked this one:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Hey HN, made a simple QR Code Generator website since I saw there was a pretty cool open source library, segno, as well as the domain available to register.
I’ve read most responses to this, here’s my take:

1) The overall concept would be a lot clearer if it were called Earth2 instead of “Planet B”. I agree it’s unlikely we’ll find something suitable “nearby” without terraforming.

2) We know there’s no Earth2 in our solar system.

3) There is no foreseeable path to interstellar travel other than generation ships, presumably after advance scouting. This is not worth considering with present technology. Time horizon for suitable technology is unknown.

4) Saving Earth and colonizing space are NOT mutually exclusive.

5) Abundant, clean energy resources are the only sane path to preserving Earth in more or less its present state. A rising standard of living is associated with lower (or no) population growth, and a cleaner environment.

6) Given sufficient energy, and expertise in interplanetary travel, the Moon and Mars can both become very nice habitats for humans. Almost all day-to-day existence will take place underground. Centrifuges may be needed for physiological reasons (shame on NASA for not studying this sufficiently).

7) Strictly space-based habitats may be better (one G centrifugal force is easy), the downside being that all materials must be transported from elsewhere unless asteroids are converted to habitats. Space habitats will require radiation shielding equivalent to a few feet of concrete.

8) The key thing for all of this, and also for improving standards of living for Earth-dwellers, is abundant energy. The only way to clean up our act on Earth is with massive energy abundance.

9) Solar can help everywhere, and wind can be part of Earth-based solutions, but advanced energy sources like fission and fusion MUST be used as part of the solution.

10) Nuclear powered space travel should be (and is in fact becoming) a priority. An intense focus on advanced space travel may eventually make interstellar travel possible.

11) It’s likely possible that given robust interplanetary travel, the Solar System alone could support a sustainable human population in the tens to hundreds of billions, as well as Earth being a near-pristine “life preserve” with a population of just a few billion.

12) More people should be getting STEM educations. ;-)
Surely someone is building a product for this? Basically Day One but with AI coaching you along.

Seems also like if you married GPT-3 with twilio and a scheduler, you could get a text everyday from the AI asking you something, and then you reply like a normal conversation, but it’s building your journal up over time.

Also, different but related: seems like GPT-3 could be used to jumpstart a new forum where you don’t have a lot of users. Build up a big spreadsheet of topics, then let the AI flesh them out to seed some discussion content.
> Another group have their OS chosen for them by their employer. They don't care about the OS, or software in general - they just want to get through the day.

People like Linus Torvalds didn't get their OS chosen for them, but still chose kept Fedora's GNOME default.
I wouldn’t call the display limitation intentional crippling just yet. It seems like it’s a legacy of the history of the base M1 / M2 chips. Although if they don’t resolve it in the next couple of generations I’ll agree.
> The only real solution is an ad blocker. I worked at an ad tech company. We all ran ad blockers. The hypocrisy is through the roof.

I used to run a website that made money off of ads, and specifically ran an adblocker to avoid being banned by Google for mistakenly clicking on my own ads. Worked so well that I just left it on everywhere else.
We have been to the moon and collected samples. Regardless of the why, we know it has a similar composition to the Earth. At least at the surface; seismic data suggests, for instance, that its iron core is comparativly smaller than Earth's.

All of this is inputs that led to the impact model of moon formation.
I wonder if the second hand price of EVs makes a difference. Until recently you could pretty much drive a Tesla for free for the first two years, as the second hand value hardly deprecated.
Apps always ask for the premium class ultra performance QoS, because every developer strongly believes your computer exists solely to run their app
Ban all of those channels with “dont recommend channel”. I had this when I clicked on some video ranting about horrible mobile game ads, and youtube decided that I am interested in playing shitty mobile games.
If this has a Qualcomm chipset and run Android, does this mean that it has a functional GPS radio as well? I've always wanted the equivalent of an android PDA/MP3 player--with all the functionality and ability to run 'apps' but without the cellular radio.

I realize I could use an old phone in airplane mode, but I don't want that :)
"The deal is worth $7.2 million..."

I'd love to know more on the business-front for deals like this. Is that a yearly cost? What's the typical expectation for support for something like this?

This definitely isn't my realm of experience at all, so I don't even know if this is a big deal or not. The fact they noted the "bragging rights" makes this feel like a low cost.
I have the same experience but I will also say that designing algo’s and UX to find the right balance between exploring new things and exploiting a topic you’re interested in is no small feat. And doing it effectively for a very diverse user base where your intent in the moment cannot be inferred, compounds the complexity.
It really seems like the intent of that is to make it so that people who have been harmed by M.S.G. won't be able to find an attorney next time. Which is a very scumbag gangster type of behavior, so I'm completely happy to have it be smacked down violently by the law.
I'm having the same exact issue. I don't understand the argument that many here seem to implicitly be making, that "businesses should be allowed to ban as many people as they can without using automated technology". First of all, the question is 'why?' Why should a business be allowed to ban a person so long as they're not using technology to do so? The next question is, this would still allow a big business like MSG to ban significantly more people than a smaller business, just by virtue of being able to hire more security staff.
commentary is rendered useless by equally, but opposite, extreme sentiment; no spectrum of ideas and actions presented, no evidence even simple cases, no outside sources..

screed noise
YouTube changes my country/language to whatever place I'm at the moment and starts giving me "recommended" local stuff.

At least twice a week for the past 5 or so years, I have gone to settings -> change country/language, save. That's HUNDREDS of times I've told YT that I want English, US-based content. And it just doesn't get it ...
> SWEs make enough money they can retire in half the time as the average worker if they so desire

In the US only.
Long Covid: Most symptoms resolve within a year after mild infection, study
Can we stop making fascinating things before I can, that would be great.
In the instance this change doesn't go through it is important to be aware that non-competes don't survive hardship tests. There is an extreme burden on the employer to prove that there are appropriate jobs available to the former employee that wouldn't violate the non-compete or (and this is much more common for "serious" non-competes in the modern world) provide partial compensation to the employee for the term of the non-compete. Additionally, for the survivability requirements above non-competes need to be extremely specific you can't ask a software dev not to use a computer or even ask an aerospace engineer to find a job outside of a defense contractor (since that's an overwhelming proportion of the available jobs - a more appropriate restriction might be prohibiting them from working on a list of specific projects that are direct competitors with the project they were working on for you).

I wouldn't be sad to see the later form survive to be honest - there are a few situations where non-competes may be justified from a business perspective... but I think it's fair for companies to be on the hook for continued compensation at some proportion of the employee's former wage to actually exercise the privilege to deny the employee work in a specific field. But hey - better non-competes die than we allow the current chilling-effect bullshit of overly vague and broad non-competes that are never intended to see the inside of a courtroom.
I find that bizarre and frustrating too. Why even bother to recommend things if they presume the trending content is good enough for us?
MTN Plans to Dispute $773M Ghana Tax Bill If Talks Fail
> The headline here is deceptive. Nothing in the article mentions any plans by "America's trustbusters to curtail the use of non-compete clauses".

Can't even read the whole article because of the paywall, but the part before the “pay for the full article” does mention the FTC has them in their sights.

This is an opinion article about the news, not a news article, though, so it focuses on the why its good, not the details of the FTC action. See, for the latter, from the source: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/01/...
In my EE class that discussed adders, we learned this wasn't exactly true. A lot of adders compute the carry bit separately because it takes time to propagate if you actually capture it as output.
This is a great idea, the use was different here, more therapeutic, but I think this has inspired me to implement a small app for idea journaling where GPT acts as something to help you flesh the idea out.