skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

This is the Nullschool Earth Weather Visualiser showing fire activity and PM2.5 particulates (smoke) about 24 hours ago, showing the plume approaching NYC from the north.

<https://earth.nullschool.net/#2023/06/06/1700Z/particulates/...>
I don't think there are any serious groups which are not acting like the pandemic is over by all practical standards.

Variants descended from the Spanish flu still infect and kill people but that pandemic is not ongoing. The point at which it made sense to accept even very mild disruptions to daily life due to COVID has passed and nearly everyone understands that.
I am big dumb when it comes to online forums so i'd have to research how to even get access to usenet.

Besides that, I think discord server has been floated as well
I bought a fairly expensive air quality monitor. Accuracy wasn’t what caused me to go with a more expensive model. I wanted CO2 readings, which most models under $200 don’t provide.
It's definitely davinci level, maybe even gpt-3.5 turbo level. It's nowhere near GPT-4, though. Comparison with GPT-2 doesn't track at all
Agreed.

I just think some of your recommendations, such as Novos Baianos, Gilberto Gil, and Maria Bethânia, aren't exactly bossa nova singers.

I’d recommend João Gilberto (who was married with Astrud) and Miúcha. Elis Regina has an astonished album recorded with Tom Jobim in 1974, “Elis & Tom”.
The majority of sex workers online are not.
I'm extremely skeptical, but open minded too. until I see actual evidence, I won't believe it, but ftl isn't needed per se, warp drives supposedly could create worm holes or little folds in space they could jump through to essentially go as far as ftl with fractional speeds. if a worm hole opens between two distant spaces, does time dilation still work the same way? Maybe there's some shortcut through a parallel universe that takes people through space faster, ... I'm obviously not a physicist, but there's plenty of exotic science we don't yet know about, so this is definitely suspect and Occam's razer and all, but that's still like 1 percent or so that it is possible. I would've said 0.0001 percent 4 years ago.
Myself, and a ton of engineering-types that I know quit our full time jobs and quit trying to "get ahead", and now just live on ~$20k a year doing what we want with our time.

No need to aspire to buy a new car or house or pay huge taxes.

Also, plenty of homesteading all the way up into Yukon (I lived there for four years). It's not hard to grow the majority of the food you need and hunt the rest.
I’ve got the same problem on my new laptop it’s super annoying
The better question is why do they still believe yet another indirect claim by an alleged single “reputable” human source when every single time it turns out to be a big nothing. History is littered with examples.

If they can’t grasp the obvious pattern here and determine that it requires far, far more than some random guy claiming some agency is lying to the rest of the entire US gov then there’s probably not much to dig into with OP. The rationale is always paper thin deep borderline conspiracy stuff aka “I’m just asking questions” and any further you find a poor (or unwilling) grasp of science and a naive perspective on how the world/governments work.

Surely this time is different. All the movie stereotypes about hidden black alien programs always-US run were really true!
Coinbase is american based by ex WallStreet people, I'm pretty sure this is all coordinated to help Coinbase lead the digital USD revolution, fishy buisiness as usual..

https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency...

Another case of Alstom or even BlackBerry..
Different jurisdictions generally have their own lawmakers (mostly democratically elected in 'sane' places), and they can decide what they want or don't want to ban.

I'm not really in favour of bans here, because just as no one forces you to enter a casino, no one forces you to trade on a cryptocurrency exchange (or hold any cryptocurrencies at all). Matt Levine's Money Stuff reported a lot on people losing money in crypto over the last two years, and was always amazed that the media couldn't really find those sob stories where orphans and widows lost their life savings. It was always some guys who admitted that they gambled and lost.

However, if eg American elected officials, or their appointed proxies at the SEC, want to ban certain things, who am I to judge?

Here in Singapore the authorities are a lot more crypto friendly, which works for me.

(I don't hold any cryptocurrencies. My investments are all in the most boring index fund available.

My position on weird financial assets is the same as for drugs: I don't think cryptocurrencies are a good investment for most people (on the grounds of insufficient diversification, if nothing else), but I don't see any reason to ban consenting adults from them. By default, let people make their own choices.)
Every couple of years? My MacBooks typically last a lot longer than that. I know some people do chase the latest releases but in my experience MacBooks remain plenty usable for years after purchase.

I won’t buy an industry standardized PC that can be upgraded because I need a laptop. PC laptops aren’t a whole lot more upgradable than Apple ones, it just comes with the territory.

> And you still bag on PCs

The defensiveness here is unwarranted. At no point did I “bag on” PCs. I simply stated that I am not in the market to buy a standalone PC just for playing games.
The thing is clouds sometimes have unusual formations, appear at surprising altitudes and move very quickly (or appear to, if one misjudges the altitude).

As I'm sure they've been told already. I'm not denying their perceptions; and of course I wasn't there. It's just that my threshold of proof for extraterrestrial vehicles is ... quite high.

And sometimes unexplained observations are just that -- unexplained.
Ok sure, but that’s not really answering the question of whether or not acute exposure to campfires is worse than acute exposure to wildfire smoke.
<a href="http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/10/eff-declares-premature-victo..." rel="noopener" target="_blank">Jwz: Google's pseudonym support "obvious bullshit"</a>
Is that worth it tough? It seems to me the effort of cleaning up sheet music generated from MIDI would be higher than transcribing the whole piece by hand.
The problem with that is you can't get overnight rich by buying a coin and holding it in an offline wallet anymore.

You either need to be day trading off the wild fluctuations in different coins prices, which requires working through an exchange, or you need to be "investing" in various scams and hoping to get your money back out before the rugpull.
Bitcoin is a crypto nerd’s impractical fantasy of currency that became the ultimate speculative asset ever although it failed dramatically at being an actual currency. It’s traded almost exclusively on gray market exchanges right now, but this and the SEC Coinbase case are the government shifting it to regulated KYC exchanges. They will probably inevitably win, at least in dollar denominated trade
Heres a small example. In one position the compressor gets scanned and rolls up to the operator.The label needs to be smoothed around the rounded compressor (it has been left standing out at previous stations because the scanners have a hard time catching them otherwise). The scan reads the style of compressor and this lights up parts bins so the operator knows which parts are required. There are two different types of screws and also a ground screw so the robot would need to be fitted with the ability to pick scews and screw them in. They would also need to apply plugs clips inserts, caps, connect wire ends, apply two different kinds of stickers and put a clip on cover that requires finesse to get clipped in all the way without cracking the plastic. Also the the final piece needs to be checked for paint flaws or visual weld defects. All these actions are done by a good operator in under a half a minute. And this is just one station in one part of the assembly line. Sure its possible, but practical or cost effective, not really.
I live in New Orleans, Live music is a serious business. Like … a major revenue stream for the City.

Theirs is a myriad of source. Most sucks. The best is : « wwoz music calendar ».
A local radio station. Barebone website but it’s exhaustif or almost.

Then some ad-driven free newspapers and website combo ( « gambit », but it can’t follow the every day schedule of wwoz )

Then a long list of crappy website that will have a sub section of the above.

Recently I’ve seen a user content powered website advertise…

And it looks great : black&white not image, php website.

-/-
My point : Google will bring wwoz on third places. And then a boatload of « event » websites that sucks.

Second points : the best source are incredibly low tech and free of ads.
The point being the option to call emergency services still makes phone software the killer app for smartphones.
No, ethanol has a lower energy density, but not that much lower as to make a huge difference.

Wikipedia has a handy table with the energy density of various fuels used in tranportation [1]. The net energy density per liter of regular gasoline is 32.2 MJ (megajoules). For gasoline with alcohol (which they call gasohol) it is 31.3 MJ. So gasohol has an energy density about 2.7% lower than regular gasoline, not 25% lower.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Comparison_with_other...
> lowers the mean mpg… energy density

And that's why we don't quantify energy efficiency using just MPG. You adjust for the density to get some sort of mile per gallon-energy-equivalent.

> Making that energy less efficient

I have no idea at all how this could happen, except to say that your very rough numbers do suggest a reduction in energy efficiency. EtOH is supposed to have 34% less energy per volume, so for E10 the reduction should be around 3.4% (IGNORING VOLUME CHANGES WHEN MIXING). This matches well with the "up to 2.8%" claim of Wikipedia citing[1], but certainly not what your engine is doing.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20070609142818/http://www.raa.ne...

> the fact that we're literally burning food

We are all minions of corn. The hope has for a long time been on grass and other stalks full of waste cellulose digestible only by microbes in ruminants and fermentation plants, but these just keep on not delivering.

Isobutanol was supposed to be a more gasoline-like biofuel too. Nobody figured out how to make it cheaply enough to burn either.
We all make choices. I agree that the author probably has no power over the newspaper cookies. But they do choose to work for a newspaper with poor decisions.

And they choose to write an article complaining about usability when they know that their newspaper isn’t very usable.
>Apparently, all you need is a trip to Costco and about $2,000 will buy you a year's supply...

The real issue is doing this while everyone else in the city is trying to do this at the same time.

Our supply chains are very very fragile, as COVID era panics have proved.
That's like wearing a baseball glove on your dominate hand and taking it off to throw the ball. It's easier but at some point you need to relearn how to play to make it to the next level
At the end of the post the author talks a little bit about intuition vs understanding and seems to (mis-?)attribute it to professionalization. Maybe that’s the case. Could that be related to some of his earlier points of how much more stuff there is, though? The amount of time people have hasn’t grown, but seemingly the amount of stuff they have to deal with has. You have to pick your battles, as it were.
If you have one personally, yes
If they refuse business to let's say gays the government would come after them. How is refusing to serve legal sex workers different?
Not even the last time they did something that. Just in the past six months, I noticed I was no longer able to link against certain C++ libraries being installed via Homebrew, because some change in the ObjC runtime meant that whatever I was running was unable link libraries built with newer compiler versions (various ObjC symbols would be missing) - presumably the binaries installed by Homebrew had been built on a newer system - and the current Xcode tools wouldn't install on Monterey, you had to upgrade to Ventura. Meh.
I saw a Twitter thread about this that I didn’t want to engage in there, but figure I might get more intelligent discussion here. Basically there’s a motif like “we should allow people to work where they’re most comfortable and productive!”, but what about the folks that are most comfortable and productive in an office surrounded by other folks also working on the same product as them?

On one hand I don’t think people who don’t want to work should be forced in, but on the other it seems like a lot of companies are taking this as an opportunity to get rid of offices all together. Just look at recent “who’s hiring’s”: the majority are exclusively remote, leaving folks like me who would prefer to work with others and don’t mind moving no options.
Avoid anything that requires its own app, Internet access, or mentions "cloud" in any way. AFAIK plain old "dumb" IP cameras with widely compatible HTTP/RTSP streams are still available.

Ironically, you used to be able to just Google for publicly accessible IP cameras, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5116676 , and those don't need anything more than a browser to view, so that might guide your buying decision.
At the end of the day, figuring out whether new crypto companies are trustworthy might be as much of a burden as figuring out how to handle the keys yourself.

If you really don't want to self-custody, probably the next safest option is to skip all the new crypto companies and instead use one of the traditional finance companies that's starting to branch into crypto (like Fidelity)
It's a bit dated really. His era is when VC was king and everything was about how this or that tech was truly disruptive or had a deeper moat than you think.

I've never been able to get anything from the whole west coast "startup intelligence" blogosphere, and now it seems increasingly irrelevant and archaic.
They’re a shady company with no official headquarters
mTLS is not a VPN.
Licht made the statement about their strategy.
Ah, so completely unusable. Got it.
All good until:

* A sewer pipe breaks. In a house built on foundation. Where contractors need to destroy your new floors to find and replace said pipes.

* You discover mold deeply embedded into your house framing.

* Your roof needs to be repaired. Or replaced.

* You discover all of the framing/wood/doors leading to your patio are hollowed out from termites. Also, you have termites.

* You move a cardboard box you haven't used in a while in your garage and cockroaches scatter. Everywhere.

* The central AC system in your old, barely accessible attic dies.

* One night you hear little footsteps in the walls around you. Because somehow some mice, or rats, found their way in. You trace every exterior wall of the house and see zero entrypoints.

* Your washing machine malfunctions during a load and dumps water throughout your entire house. Floorboards start warping. And popping up.

* Your garage door opener dies and needs to be replaced.

Shall I go on.
It isn't the case where every other person you know is a 'ghost', but yeah it does happen (similar to 引きこもり: hikikomori, a person who lock themselves away from society).

The main thing is that Eastern cultures is all about community (especially so in such a homogenous culture like Japan or Korea where everything is uniform). It can be quite distressful when you feel like an outsider for a group that initially felt like 'home'.
I wonder how many billions of dollars are gone because of lost keys or how much was stolen because your wallet was compromised.
While I admire the efforts of the SC-AQMD, and generally agree with the article, using R2 from a higher-end, but not quite perfect instrument, can be quite misleading, and is not a great indicator of actual sensor performance. Also, there are a lot of potential improvements in sensor tech, but instead almost everyone is relying on the same cheap sensor modules instead of innovating, which have have pretty bad deficiencies, especially in detecting particulates in the ultra-fine range, and don’t age very well. But, they are the cheapest.
If this is what the level of education has become in the US, well, I guess it kind of explains a lot
It works well for sending money across the world. Seems like a nice thing to be able to do.
Another HN thread on Toledo:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28337064
Do they actually explain why anywhere?
At IBM cloud a terraform service (schematics) is offered as a freebie, I can’t imagine that someone would pay significant cash for it
I think it's fair to say that it (where "it" is defined as "DeepMind's contribution to the protein folding problem") hasn't yet given us massive improvements to the human condition.

It might, and in fact I think it probably will. But it hasn't yet.
I also was surprised about the pricing. But it's getting a bit better if you check the FAQ. They basically dont charge for "basic" actions and 0.25 per db action. So if you just do some read and write to the db, its basically 0.25 per request.

Dont know why they hide it that crazy (usually its the other way around)...
On just one point, you probably don’t need a wall connector. An electrical outlet will do. Unless that’s what you meant with the scary wording?

Obviously 220/240 is faster than 110/120, but whatever you have, adding a fancy wall connector won’t make it faster.

A mobile connector cable 25 feet long and with some high tech circuit protection in it runs $200, and is all you need. No installation. It comes with common plug adapters or if you have a really strange wall outlet you can buy other adapters as a set or on an individual basis.

Only outlet in reach already occupied by something you absolutely can’t unplug? Well then gosh you do have something to figure out. Maybe you do need an electrician in that case. If your 220 is already used by a dryer, don’t overlook nearby 110s.

In short it’s worth mentioning that not everyone is going to need a wall connector installation.
Calibrating PM2.5 sensors looks difficult. Relative humidity, temperature, different mixes of inorganic and organic aerosols, probably air pressure, integration times -- lots of dimensions.

PALMA[1] has a lot of work.

1. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/19/9014
Jimmy Dore has done a good job chronicling all that.
The SEC was meeting with SBF and failed to protect US citizens who sent money to FTX. So far Binance hasn't pulled a ponzi scam (they existed before Alameda/FTX and have never stolen anyone's money).

So basically the SEC failed to protect people from that ponzi scammer boy SBF was, but they're going after the like of Binance and Coinbase, who, so far, never stole a cent from anyone?
You should probably wait until you see how much damage the Feds can actually do to Binance and crypto prices. If they could actually damage Binance enough that it fails that would substantially damage crypto prices. Remains to be seen if they're going to do something toothless again or if they're actually not fucking around this time.
Wow. I had no idea they were so far behind. I guess it should have been obvious from their miles between disengagement stats.
Yeah I had to look around a bit but yep… https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/94

It looks like a lot of things have been killed… which with my cynical hat on I think might have something to do with overlapping capabilities with Azure services.
Agreed, but it might cause your fan to burn out much quicker, or be less productive if you're using a box fan, since the static pressure differential will be approximately 16x between the two.
I'm pretty sure your comment just blew a lot of readers' minds.
I had one too, but threw it out in the last house move.
I bought 8 years ago. My mortgage is a couple hundred less than a crappy one bedroom apartment now. Would probably be better off getting a job at Walmart or something than move.
I would restore from an off-site backup.
fascinating. what about the paperwork makes it take so long? is it the coordination between all the relevant agencies and landowners?
Zombo.com in 1999
There’s more to know now but it’s also much easier to get up to speed on that stuff. Over time I’ve switched from having everything memorized to having enough of an understanding to allow me to get running when I need to do so. It allows me to spread myself over the larger surface area
If it is insurance call it insurance and regulate it as such.

But today we are the point where we’re trading each others insurances betting on whether they will be triggered or not. That is bonkers.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10937404.2023.2...
How did they earn the public's trust?

Was it by being trustworthy, or just their scams not yet being publicized?
What I'm seeing looking for remote work at tech companies right now:

- startups: MANY (most?) are committed to "remote-first" and talk about this prominently on their careers page

- larger companies (~1000+ employees): do seem to be making more noise about being in the office 2 days a week.

- really big companies: still ignore my English Major ass so idk
My guess is they are doing this whole thing in the first place to get rid of association between their country and a large gobbling bird.
Show HN: My first statically generated website
I asked HN previously which static generator to use (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35019343) and based on the responses there, I went with Pelican.

Here's a write-up on how I built my website from scratch - right from buying a domain to setting up CD via Github Actions.

I'm a total newbie to web development (my experience is in embedded systems) so any and all suggestions for improvement are welcome! Looking forward to your feedback :)
whenever it rains really, the jet stream will migrate air eastbound.
Cool let's shutdown all the filters for spam, adblockers etc
I still don't care about cookies & Cookie AutoDelete is a powerful combo
Of course we would always filter out noise completely if it was that easy to model. My point was that some components of that noise (for example the moving parts of the engines) can be modeled very accurately.
GPT on Stack Exchange: Data, actions, and outcomes
> There's nothing in the bitcoin whitepaper about getting rich quick.

Sure there is. The capped supply is intended to cause deflation and enrich early adopters if/when Bitcoin goes mainstream. To argue otherwise is to claim that the author of the whitepaper was ignorant of how a currency with limited supply would behave. And if that's true, it's more damning of Bitcoin than the "get rich quick" stuff.
Will you be able to install subsequent beta versions after the first one (upgrades)?
I hate headlines that can't just give you the obvious information: which sweetener?

Its suraclose, known as Splenda.
The Levoit, and basically all 'consumer' purifiers, are extremely under-powered and generally have very low air clearance rates & CFM. Usually relatively/overly expensive filters, too.

To get a remotely apples-to-apples comparison, look at commercial air purification systems -- think devices intended for areas that allows indoor smoking, such as bars/casinos/smoking rooms/etc.

My experience was that a relatively modest 20x20 (x12' high) room requires a massive amount of air movement, and products actually designed for spaces of that size generally run $3-6k or more.

A Corsi-Rosenthal box can delivery very good PM2.5/PM10 numbers, even with challenging environments & when "stretched" to provide purification for an entire home.

PurpleAir or a similar quality AQ monitor provides some very objective data to guide you; I trashed my Levoit purifiers rapidly after realizing just how ineffective (and expensive) they were versus a CR box.