skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
right, CO₂ has become a (inter-)national psychosomatic obsession of the privileged class, but no one should be worrying about CO₂ at all, unless you work in some very specific industries. you'd need a ppm of 50,000-100,000 to feel any real effect from CO₂, or to see noticeable greenhouse effects from it. it's today's equivalent of fearing power lines or MMR vaccines. it's fretting on something that feels tangible and controllable, without delving deeper and examining the (social and mass) media-driven presumptions underlying those fears.

pollution, on the other hand, is a real concern. that's stuff like radon, VOCs, methane, dioxins, and SOₓ emissions. as such, one thing we should be doing with vigor and relentless focus is phasing out coal plants (if we were actually putting our priorities in the right place) rather than worrying about the sideshow that is carbon emissions.
I block JS across the web by default. For some sites I'll learn the miminum set of domains to allow for temporary whitelisting. But most aren't worth the effort.
Kudzu looks similar (but bigger).

Kudzu has its own issues, but it isn't a blistering agent.

https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-s...
Your smoke detectors are what should alert you of fire, not smoke getting so thick and dense that it chokes you awake... at that point you have seconds to react and live.
Because we do that with mosquito nets.

EA seems like a way to achieve nothing while looking like you're doing everything. No one expects you to fly to Mars tomorrow. And that's true every single day. It's true today. It'll be true tomorrow. It was true yesterday. It was true 10 years ago. It will be true 10 years from now.

So if no one really expects you to fully achieve your goal, all you have to do is kinda look like you're trying and that will be good enough for most people.

EA takes a good, hard look at all these good intentions and says, "Fuck, this would make a baller ass road".

However, if we solve malaria. That's another thing not killing us. Another problem checked off. Like polio. Or smallpox. Colonize Mars? Fucking how? We can't even get the environment on Earth under control. How the living fuck are we going to create an environment on another fucking planet. Much less even get there.

So how about we figure out a way to get the garbage out the ocean. On how to scrub the air of CO2. How to manufacture and produce without so many polluting side effects. We keep doing all these smaller things. Put in the work, and one day, we will save all those trillions of potential lives. But it requires putting in the work.

Edit: Not saying you believe it. But presenting the counter-argument to EA.
I am not sure why you want a 10x refund, but it seems like your request is easily met by current warrantees. A 1TB WD SN850X advertises 1200TBW endurance, rather more than you require.
Here's my pitch for encouraging the adoption of metric units in holdout places like the US: acknowledge that the foot is a convenient goldilocks unit for describing "human-scale" objects i.e. those that you are likely to find yourself using your hands to work with, and advocate for the widespread use of an SI-based unit that is neither the centimeter (itself being too small for this purpose) nor the meter (being too large).

The decimeter (i.e. 10cm; ⅒ of a meter) has been hiding in plain sight and fits the bill adequately. It is, however, awkward to communicate. It's about the same width as the width across an average adult's hand, so let's rebrand the decimeter as the "metric hand", or just "hand" in informal contexts.

Conveniently, there are approximately 3 metric hands in 1 foot. The error, 1.6mm per hand, is negligible, and in instances where accuracy and/or precision is at a premium you can rest safe knowing that it really does accumulate at 1.6mm per hand exactly, and not some intractable quantity like the one that comes up with approximating 1 kg as 2.2 lbs.

Previously: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28455838>
None of those things would make Earth less hospitable than Mars. A desert colony would still be better off than trying to survive on Mars, particularly once Earth's resources are cutoff. Mars is far more hostile than anything likely to happen to Earth over the next hundred million years.
Could you explain what a smart contract is? (and is that a dumb question? lol)
I’d like to push back on this a bit. I’m a programmer, but I don’t cobble things together. I talk to customers and collaborators, make plans, find solutions and write code.

It’s not engineering but it’s engaging, good work.

I get what you’re trying to say. But it feels wrong to me personally to describe this work as you did.
Lifetime warranties used to be commonplace, I wish we could return to those times, or at least to a time of repairability.
So a blog post about how bad Wordpress is, a lot of hand-wavy examples with no data, no info on alternatives and really just a hidden ad for their product.
Same would be true for searching for the results or trying to find a human who is familiar. In a space where less true information is available, the results would be quite poor for literally everything.
It was a joke.

It is everywhere. I once did a photo essay of a local abandoned insane asylum. Some of the buildings are covered with poison ivy, like English ivy (often, both).

Looks pretty in the fall, though.

ProTip: Don't burn it.
This doesn’t answer your question precisely, but:

Pretty much every job I’ve ever had came from knowing someone, whether a friend or former co-worker. I think technical people tend to overestimate the degree to which raw “skills” factor into who gets the job. Companies, especially small companies, are far more comfortable hiring a friend with level 6/10 skills than a complete stranger with level 9/10 skills. It’s just how people work.

So, my advice is to attend a bunch of meetups in various technologies (Python, mobile, security, etc.) and see who you get along with the best. In my experience, certain personality types gravitate to different fields. Because the relationships you build will ultimately be the ones that get you employed.
>Do you seriously think he wasn't thinking about Rust when he wrote this?

If he was, then why didn't he mention it? You seem to know what Stroustrup's inner thoughts are, so tell me, why didn't he mention it?

Maybe he wants to avoid the ten million reply guy Rust evangelists out there (ahem), maybe he doesn't think it's relevant to the discussion for other reasons. Please enlighten me.

Obviously, anyone can blog about anything they want to but likewise I can ask questions too. You seem very upset that I asked such a simple question.

You might have heard of this phenomenon called "click bait" where people inject themselves into only very tangential discussions to get clicks. Or, in this case, I suspect to preach to the choir.

Now, let me ask you: do you have an opinion about what Stroustrup wrote or are you just making sure no one says anything bad about [your_favorite_lang].
Once a day? Multiple times a day!

Especially “Stoßlüften” (opening a window for a short period) or “Querlüften” (opening windows in opposite rooms to create a draft).

First thing in the morning we lüft, after cooking, we lüft, before going to bed…

It’s especially important in newer or well renovated houses/apartments, to get rid of excess humidity in order to prevent mold. Really new apartments are so well insulated that they have literal holes in the wall (Zwangsbelüftung) in order have some airflow.

Edit: I was so enthusiastic to write a comment about lüften, that I didn’t read your link which actually covers what I said.
Following from my linux desktop. I lost a system SSD that was a 980 2 TB and recently reinstalled everything, thinking it was a fluke. Now worried it will happen again rapidly.
Ars had a piece covering this as well, and I do wonder if there is something going on somewhere else in the Samsung stack, not just the NVMe 900 series line. Pure anecdote, but two years ago I did a NAS for a client using 24x 2TB Samsung 870 Evo drives (they'd gotten some incentive deal for it). While it was all one type vs mixed, there was the "luxury" of time because at that point getting the system they wanted together had a significant lead time. So I did ensure that the drives were purchased over the course of around 7 months, from multiple different reputable sellers (B&H, CDW, Provantage etc) in separate batches. System was solid, an Epyc 2 based SuperMicro server, running TrueNAS.

And then last year with around 5500-7500 quite light hours of runtime (primarily reads, ~0.08 DWPD, well under official rating of 0.3 DWPD) drives started failing. These were definitely real failures, first indication came from regular automated ZFS scrubs and reporting increasing checksum errors and ATA errors. It was for so many drives and I'd always considered Samsung SSDs relatively reliable (even for consumer ones) that at first I thought it was a SATA controller failure, and our rep agreed and warranties back the server. They were great, gold plated support contracts pay off once in a while, and motherboard replacement and thorough testing later back in service. More drive problems. SMART short tests said everything was healthy, first longs did too. But then drives exceeded error limits and started getting faulted, and at last SMART long tests started failing. Digging in showed worrisome stats. So began swapping out and warrantying drives (cheers to the stress test to TrueNAS, in the end zero downtime or need to restore from backups). In the end, THIRTEEN (13) out of 24 failed. Brutal >50% dead drive rate. I talked to some others around and they'd seen <1 year rates also at 30-60%. Big :\. Rep also indicated they were hearing more about Samsung failures.

Anyway, gave me a talking point going forward to really, really press management on "it's worth paying for drives from 3-4x brands and maybe splurging for higher rated vs consumer too", but also does made me wonder if there is something going on, or was (pandemic related?), at Samsung's storage division. It's definitely pure anecdote but still, I spread those drive purchases out reasonably hard, and they had radically different serial numbers. Same with other folks I know at other businesses using various Samsung drives, everyone has been going to real effort following decent practices to prevent buying drives all from a single lot. Even 10% failure rate for consumer drives I could have seen, but 54%? And not a bathtub curve all frontloaded in the first month or two but after 7-11 months? That feels high? Samsung did replace them all no questions asked, they paid for shipping too. I don't have any global insight into how this all looks and it could be just plain bad luck for all of us in the region, but still.
Blah blah blah.

This is all nonsense and has nothing to do with the original comment.
Perhaps also because Australia is an island, so it has no borders with countries that can easily interfere

Well, there are no good options for a proxy government for white / western powers in southeast asia to Australia.

Argentina? There a half dozen different political states being played off against one another in South America, all with varying historical ties to European powers. The article shows it: Argentina and Brazil were fighting a war.
Kagi to the rescue:

https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://linear.app/change
You should see who they hire to write firmware. I wouldn’t trust them with my cable box.
You are aware that this isn't a secure method for MFA, right? Issues of people's willingness to provide phone numbers aside, I would encourage you to look at other options if security is your goal.
> As a person who prizes the idea that what we say and do are more important than who we are

I am not sure I follow - what we say and do is who we are, how could it be otherwise?
Was he "solidly mid level" in terms of years-of-experience or ability? I find myself conflating the 2 frequently, and have to remind myself not to. I like to periodically remind myself that Zuckerbeg as a 22-year old was a successful founder-CEO for a business over a hundred employees and a $1B acquisition offer.

Sure, he is not the norm. But I'm sure there are plenty of people equally as talented as him who didn't take the entrepreneurship route and are now languishing in the corporate ladder. Any company can achieve wild success if they are able to identify such talents and place them immediately in high-impact roles.
I'm sort of intentionally trying to not build a Google clone, but something else. Emulating the big G feels like a bit of a dead end. Rarely does a copy exceed what it is copying.
"enjoying comforts like ... the airport lounges."

Hah! The credit card rewards ruined these. Now they're all crowded and it's just as hard to find a seat as it is outside the lounge. Plus the food in them isn't that great anymore. The best benefit is usually a better view out the window. Real frequent fliers just get PreCheck+Clear and arrive at the airport closer to departure time.

I did this same train journey myself back in 2012. Great memories! I just wish 2 things:

1) Amtrak wouldn't recycle the air on train carriages, it gets really stuffy. The downstairs washroom smells get mixed in too.

2) Single riders should be given both seats on these journeys. I was like 19 when I did this journey and an unusual middle aged lady was placed next to me. She kept asking me for medicines and fell asleep on my shoulder.

Riding through the desert outside of Albuquerque during sunset was the highlight. Walk all the way to the back of the train, look at the back window, get a rare listen of the jointed (not welded) tracks. Here's my video of it -https://vimeo.com/57261056
I have the Qingping Lite[1] which is a well-made device (and can run on batteries if you want to take it somewhere to check things out). After updating the firmware and calibrating it outside it seems pretty consistent - though I was mostly interested in it for CO2, I have a Flow 2 which doesn't agree on PM2.5 or PM10 with the Qingping, I suspect that the particulate sensor in the QP is not the best, it always seems to read low.

1: https://breathesafeair.com/qingping-air-monitor-lite-review/
> Some people will tell you that change is impossible. That it should be resisted. That it goes against human nature.

Nobody has ever told me that, personally.
A perfect example why RAID ain’t backup
> If developer time is worth just $50/hr, that's just 20 hours to pay for itself.

Note that I'm not claiming that a threadripper provides zero value to you. I'm saying that if it's providing value to you, you can easily justify the price, which puts an upper bound at how much productivity can be lost. After all, if you're losing $5000 worth of productivity over not buying a $1000 part, you'd be irrational not to buy it. Therefore, any productivity lost is basically capped at the cost of the part, which admittedly isn't trivial, but isn't some huge loss either.
First chapter of Catch 22 - comically low quality

URL: https://thefreeonlinenovel.com/con/catch-22_chapter-1---the-...

Summary

Yossarian is in the hospital with a pain in his liver that falls just short of being jaundice. He is comfortable in the hospital and censors letters to pass the time. One day, the chaplain arrives and Yossarian is surprised to find that they have a mutual friend. The chaplain is shy and apologetic, but Yossarian is friendly and warm. He warns the chaplain of the craziness of the other wards, and the chaplain promises to be careful. In the ward, there is a soldier in white with two useless legs and two useless arms, and a colonel with a vortex of specialists trying to determine what is wrong with him. The woman with curly ash-blond hair visits him every day. Eventually, the patients start to leave the hospital, and Yossarian tells the doctors that his pain has gone away.
The Creative Sweet Spot of Dreaming
It's good to recognize the vines that run up tree trunks as well. Easiest when they have leaves, but they don't always have leaves especially in shady areas. The bigger vines tend to have a hairy or bushy look, lots of little root-hair like bits, that seem to help it cling to the tree bark, and these seem to have a reddish hue about them.
How can this company get away with this for decades and still win government / military contracts that are on the same level of this mediocrity btw

This is insane
If an organization believes spending a marginal dollar of money on their programs is the best way to improve the world, then spending $10 to get $11 in donations allows them to spend an extra dollar on it. It's rational and even morally required. (The only potential negative being the extent that winning a contribution crowds out funding from other causes.)

More generally, people overly emphasize low administrative expenses as a sign of quality. You need overhead to effectively administrate and evaluate programs.
I wonder how many people Maxis employed when they made Sim City 2000? Because it had a native UI for every platform it was ported to that had a windowing and widget toolkit.

I just can't help but think that either programmers today have abstracted themselves into a lot more work than need to do, or they're just significantly less capable over all than the programmers of old.
From that article you linked:

"In a study at Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand, the snake plant can absorb CO2 at 0.49 ppm/m3 in the closed system."

That would require an enormous number of snake plants to do anything. A tiny apartment is 50m^2 * 3m = 150 cubic meters, so it requires 300 snake plants just to bring down by 1ppm (though not sure over what timescale or other assumptions in the work cited)
Playrail, Upgraded
I've never met anyone who didn't deceive themselves in significant ways.
Satoshi could be a government persona.
Indeed! Fortunately the RAID was also backed-up offsite. But, the entire process was shocking in several ways.

At least Samsung was fairly speedy with the RMAs and it was basically no-questions-asked... because I imagine they're getting tons of these mailed back to them.
Most perverse incentives aren't real, they're just cynicism.

As an example every new safety technology like seat belts comes with complaints that it'll just encourage people to drive worse (fancy term "risk compensation") but in fact there's no evidence this happens.
Tiny Smart HRV (Heat Recovery Ventilator) for Passivhaus Apartments (2018)
By trying to run it usually. It is sometimes wrong, and I amend things. But I’ve had more occasions where I thought I was right and it was wrong and after a long debugging I realized I had failed to grok some edge in the language and it was indeed correct and I learned something new.

But I would suggest not using a LLM to make nuclear reactor control system code, just like Java.
Dude, it's a blog platform not someone's civil rights. It's being held up by user choice, not at gunpoint.
You can CDN your own bundles which include your libraries without much issue. You don't even have to really CDN them as much as make them cache friendly (name them with hash) and set the TTL to 30d. Download once then the browser will keep a copy for future page visits
From what I have seen and observed, I wouldn't be surprised if things aren't that different in Europe from the US, just somewhat worse on the whole. That is, antisemitism is found on all sides of the political spectrum including in the center. Also, that antisemitism is most common, and often most overt, on the right / far right. Share any studies you have supporting or refuting that though.

This covers many countries, and does have multiple years in many of them, but it doesn't distinguish by political views. Just gender, age, and religious affiliation by country.

https://global100.adl.org/map
They also happily murdered unaffiliated tribes just because.

There are tons of trade offs.
A single line of code brought down a half-billion euro rocket launch
Surprised they didn't mention Dan Price. He should be the poster boy in all this. Some people smelled his $70k/yr bullshit a mile away, most people refused to believe it because it was a great story. Wonder where his supporters are now that there's a felony case against him with multiple accusers.
They've gone downhill enough I've started returning a fair bit of things and it's almost always effortless.

Only time it was a hassle was when a price dropped the day after my order, and they don't have price matching, so customer service suggest re-buying and returning and promised me free return shipping.

That promise turned out to be worthless, and I had a helluva time trying to get them to pay for return shipping across the country for a squat rack.

Thankfully, I did succeed in the end (phone support person was much better, chat people ran me around in circles). I didn't get the at-home pickup I was originally promised, but fortunately I owned a spare old pickup truck.
Or take 10 minutes and look at the job ads. After all the supply/demand for different jobs changes over time and by location.
I suppose the argument could be that the charities who aren't savvy enough to play ball are the ones who could use the attention. Small, hyperlocal charities might not have the resources for a dedicated marketer in the first place, and even if they're less "effective" from a global optimization perspective, most people probably get greater utility from donating to local causes.
> Cancel culture only really pings on right wing culture issues. There’s plenty of exciting and quirky things people can do that aren’t that

Yeah, like playing computer games, for example. And then you suddenly get Gamergate.

Or the knitting controversy.

A hobby can be harmless, and then suddenly it is not.
Sounds pretty tactical use to me
The standard of proof required to ban someone from a once-a-month pub meetup is far lower than the standard required to, say, give someone the death penalty.
This guy is the "King of Kong" from the doc.
You Otter Know
I doubt anyone who knows anything at all about Porsche has a favorable view of him. Most people simply don't know as the brand named after him isn't nearly as big as Ford.
No, it's bullshit. Notice that the answer is not internally consistent. It first says that it does not have current data on that, which implies that it might have old data and that it would in principle be possible to generate that data. It then states that it is not possible to answer this question. Those two parts of the answer are not consistent with each other.
You can do that today, set CARGO_TARGET_DIR to an absolute path.
I went to Eton 2002-2007, very much enjoyed it, and I think it made be a better person. I was very lucky to attend.

There was (surprisingly?) little bullying when I was there. I wasn't in the "cool" group, but still had friends and felt broadly accepted; more so than in my prior boarding school.

Any remaining hierarchy between the older and younger boys was in its final days. One anecdote I remember: where I arrived, younger boys would fill up the older boys' water jugs at lunch on request, but when I left that would have seemed very out-of-place.

Re the murders: the murder surge was happening as the British class system became less relevant, offered fewer privileges for those without competency, and its status outside the UK was disintegrating. I'd be interested to see whether going to Eton increases your chance of being a murderer relative to just being at that place in the British class system. Do Harrow & Radley have a similarly high rate of murders?
did you know that one time an integer overflow caused 184 billion bitcoins to be minted
Stop PM’ing me about transferring funds. I’m not interested in the prince’s inheritance.
Existential thoughts on creative writing and AI