skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe something like a kindle? But a custom firmware on it and … maybe it works. No clue.
Alarmist nonsense. The idea that we just happen to live in the ideal climate for everything and any deviation would be catastrophic is ridiculous. Life has survived on this planet for 4 billion years through much more drastic changes. With the advantage of technology we are way ahead of any foreseeable climate change issue. Humans live in areas of the world we would have no ability to live in if we didn't have technology on our side. The whole reaction to climate change is a melodramatic overreaction driven by partisan politics and group think.
Indeed, so the sane choice is then not to do it in the first place. Respect for your users and all that...
Isn't the first step Reduce?

Any reduction in petroleum usage is good, removal of urban emissions is better.

Diesel trucks operate mostly on the motorway and they can get a good speed there, creating more efficiency. (unlike American big rigs, Euro-trucks are smaller and more efficient, from what I recall.)

Cars meanwhile drive locally, pollute where you breathe, and with stat/stop traffic are not efficient consumers of fuel.
That is true of "manufactured homes", a.k.a. "trailers", but not of "prefab" or "modular" homes, which are built using the same components as conventional homes.
You missed the important part. Hoping that this won't be misused is very naive and dangerous.

The part about lying is simply pointing out that most pages will be not even particularly interesting (e.g. see Xing profiles). Not sure what you understood it to mean.
If this doesn't get better in the next couple years, we are going to see some major challenges (and maybe wars/civil wars). Iraq is expected to have 50C+ temperatures for the next weeks and it doesn't seem to be getting better. Expect massive people/refugee movements as life becomes unbearable in some parts of the world.
For 2500 bucks I can build you a 32" ink display. Just tell me which newspaper you would like and which date it should show.
Why do larger e-ink screens cost more to produce?

Something like this for (e.g. Kanban card-based) project management would be cool, though the contrast at a distance.

The PineNote is a 9" eInk development device; 3287cm/3 for $400. https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineNote

But it's not going to look as nice as a 32" e-ink display on the wall.

Is there a yellow backlight, or a blueish backlight?

Is there a low-cost way to make a solar roof that varies in solar reflectivity? FWIU e-ink only requires voltage to cause the e-ink particles to flip over? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink
how is it exposing a membrane? it looks like solid piece of plastic.
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https://allan.reyes.sh/

I usually have more plans to write things than actual time, but I do keep some articles/lists "evergreen" and they come up in conversations quite a bit:

- https://allan.reyes.sh/reading/ - Books I'm reading, plan to read, or have read (and lightly reviewed)
- https://allan.reyes.sh/courses/ - 50+ online courses I took (and also lightly reviewed)
- https://allan.reyes.sh/insights/ - Same theme, but for papers and articles
The Lawlessness of Large Numbers
Where does he live? I'd like to move there. I've never met a planning department that gave two shits about the people their recalcitrant approval processes would impact.
Google announced this after Windows Subsystem for Android was announced, so I do think they feel they need to compete with it.
Break out the DDT! https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/january-2022/wides...
Of course not. The point is we don’t have to care what you (or I) think.
> Why not make public schools better?

Because you can’t feasibly make public schools better. There are too many entrenched players and layers of bureaucracy.

> If you want to 'choose' to indoctrinate your kids into your particular religion of 'choice', that can be done at home. But everyone should learn the old Reading/Writing/Arithmetic.

Afaik charter schools are already obligated to teach the minimal set required for standardized testing.
did you even read the article ? we're not talking about firefighters here
I recently got £520 for Virgin Austin-Heathrow being late. That's the post Brexit version of 600 euro. Plus food and accom. Virgin were quite good about it and paid up straight away. Computer problem on the plane - they tried restarting the computers but the thing wouldn't work.
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Writing about open source, ethical product/company building and communication software.
TLDR: "Vitamin D supplementation might reduce the incidence of major cardiovascular events, although the absolute risk difference was small and the confidence interval was consistent with a null finding."

What I think would be interesting is looking at something like "time spent outside" to see whether Vitamin-D might be more significant on persons with too little sunlight exposure (physical activity would be an obvious confounder you have to control for).

Ultimately the study wasn't especially meaningful and weak effects aren't too surprising as a result.
Oh how nice, we Europeans get the non-beta version without those pesky privacy bugs :)
I'd say that's mid stage AGI. Your latency requirements for driving require the hardware with you. If the early gen AGI is still power hungry then you'll see it plugged into a wall at first.
A framework that I have found helpful for situations like this:

When you feel this way, that you "want to" do something but it keeps not happening, then there's evidently something inconsistent in your mental state: you seem to think you want to do one thing, but (it would be fair to say) since you're not doing it, maybe you don't 'actually want' to do it. The idea being that 'true wanting' compels actions. So when you fantasize about doing one thing, which you think you want, you're actually in the process of fulfilling a different want about something else (such as: "to feel like you are making progress on demonstrating value").

To disentangle this you have to figure out what you "actually want", resolving the inconsistency, usually by asking yourself: "what do my actual behaviors reveal of my actual desires?" Recognizing the revealed desire seems, empirically, to help move past it, while not recognizing it leaves you/me/whoever in this seemingly infinite loop of feeling incapable of action.

Sometimes just revealing the loop you're in unkinks it immediately and leaves you free to do something new. Sometimes, strangely, it makes you instantly uninterested in the whole topic, and then, in the space left by the now-uninteresting topic, new interests float in --- real interests, which come packaged with 'real' wanting that you can actually act on.
Is feeling sorry for the billion or so people unconstructively worried about this a stage of grief? All the big trends that will solve this particular subset of ecological disaster are trending in the right direction (population growth is about to reverse in the coming decades, electric cars, better insulation, renewable energy, governments have even begun thawing to the ultimate solution of nuclear energy) so sit back, live your life and stop wasting energy on worrying when you could be a lot more productive on smaller problems that have no clear positive trend (read beat first things for some ideas).

Note: this is not to say don't worry at all about climate change, just that the big picture trends are moving in the right direction for a reversal so the appropriate level of worry isn't at the point where you should be stopping basic things like family formation, like many of you have.
It's beyond creepy and in the EU a violation of privacy according to the GDPR: data collection without consent.
They are literally selling tinfoil hats to prevent mind control. http://www.lonestarconsultinginc.com/shielding-emf.htm#HEADS...
ok so if they're over weight, they're no good to you ?
I have less issues with Candy Crush and tabloid news than I do with Microsoft's use of Taboola for ad revenue. It means you can go from stock Windows to malware in one click from the Edge homepage.
Wrong again, it was name calling.
I'd lay heavy odds that this place, like most, have a a lot of "other code...that isn't functional but no one knows about it"

The write-ups can only come when discoveries are made - but the discovery has to be made first
When a company contracts another company, the latter will eventually go away after it's dealt with, but when a company is acquired, it will stay forever.

So I guess diseases are similar? :-)
There's a long list of construction startups who thought the industry was low-tech simply because everyone in it was dumb, and that they would be the smartest guys in the room who'd revolutionize everything. Those startups are pretty much all roadkill.

This is the same problem that plagues electric car startups. Most of these folks don't know what they don't know. Tesla has had great engineering from day one, but almost went under because it couldn't figure out large scale manufacturing and logistics. Problems that old school companies have been solving for a century.
Heavy trucks is probably where green hydrogen makes sense unless you want 10 ton behemoths destroying roads annually (considering impact of construction costs etc.)
https://osolmaz.github.io/blog

Nerding out on a wide range of topics :)
Thanks @gaazoh for your feedback! I understand the lack of information on the website, I'll answer in points here:

The use cases is forums, similar to GitHub Discussions or Discourse.org

The conversation tree consists of Discussions and comments in each discussion. You can reply to a comment and start a thread (but no nested replies)

Muny can not be hosted on your own servers at the moment, we handle accounts ourselves. You need an account to comment or post a reply. But we do support importing existing data from Github Discussions or Discourse.org (The Plausible demo for example is imported from Github Discussions)

The UI cannot be customised at the moment.

Thanks again for the feedback, the idea is still evolving and these are some really good questions for me for product direction.
Demystifying Kafka Lag: A Step-by-Step Guide to Monitoring and Resolving Lag
You can set your domain as your username on Bluesky / ATP. Probably you didn't have that context?

Lot of feedback originally was common people won't bother to buy domain and integrate with BlueSky, so this is great that they are doing this.
Interesting, it seems as if this has been flagged from the homepage, I'll be sure to contact the moderators to check if this was done by RH employees.
I switched to Vonage (nexmo) for my business after 3 years with Twilio.
Got better prices and excellent customer service. Cannot fault them after 6 months so far.
If you have to change, setup an abstraction layer so you can easily change again if needed. Lots of new rules coming into force last few weeks in US and Europe with vendors blocking sender id's.
I ran a program with WINE on WSL to run a 16-bit program on modern Windows. Works great
What we know from decades of UFO government investigations
Hello future university dedicated to myself. Here's my message to you:

poo.
Enjoyable in the chemical sense. It triggers your brain's reward pathways via dopamine just like anything else you enjoy.
It’s still the fastest and most common way to get aws cli working on a local dev machine.
Zelensky let them out after many years in prison when faced with full scale war, I do like how you are silent on Russia recruiting violent offenders in prisons to go to Ukraine though. And no, it was not just Wagner doing so, and even Wagner was doing it with explicit approval from Russian government.

The audacity to compare Ukraine, which has incredible level of transparency during this invasion in every aspect, welcoming auditors and investigators from all over the world to Russia is very telling of your biases.

I am Russian, I am well aware of nuances, but to even begin to compare the two is insanity in 2023.
Adam Mosseri said in an interview that he "was worried that our window would close, because timing is important" re: launching before they were EU compliant, so I'm certain their launch date was rushed
> Choosing to enjoy life today instead of waiting for tomorrow for that enjoyment isn't a failure, it's a choice.

This conveniently papers over a critical mechanism of how biological brains operate: we do not choose 99% of our actions. It would be extremely inefficient and energy-consuming.

99% of our life we are on autopilot, driven by our habits engaged as response to sensory and internal stimuli.

Habits explain neatly concepts like addiction, while the choice story applied to concepts like addiction or self-destructive acts is reductive at best, and catastrophic on a societal level. Yet the majority of people, those that have been lucky not to have yet felt the grip of addiction, tend to have this opinion that addicts are just weak-willed idiots. This is not referred to you in particular, I am generalising based on common and frustrating opinions about addiction and recovery by well-meaning, but ignorant people.

Functionally and neurologically, there is no difference between a heroin addict and someone that has been going on a run every day for a decade. It's just that their autopilots have been trained to prefer a different action in response to similar stimuli, and brains respond and adapt much more readily to super-stimuli found in drugs and other destructive habits, than with natural and healthy "highs".

I recommend the book "The Biology of Desire" by Marc Lewis, an ex cocaine addict turned neuroscientist.
https://archive.ph/ZldZh
A "general" intelligence is one that can do tasks it wasn't explicitly trained to do. The first self driving cars (that already exist) are powered by an AI that can only drive cars, so it's not general.

Also if self driving cars are everywhere then we won't have AGI, because real AGI largely does away with the need for cars.
Building Artificial Intelligence for the Physical World
Which is why this exists
I've a .com domain with my name since 2001, and another .com with my family name too. My first daughter also has her name with a .com. I used to write a lot everywhere, very publicly, and every other thing in between. Now, I write lot less, obfuscate a lot of information, that goes public.

No, I don't think, everyone should have a domain. The Internet has become a minefield of entities and people who cannot stand to have good things, lot more than people who are good by default.

Domains comes with a lot of responsibility to maintain it the right way. It is like maintaining a pet -- you need to tend to it to have it the way you want. Forget domains, most of the population do no have a clue how their emails are supposed to be and in fact, quite a lot of people think "gmail" is what email is.
> just 10% below its 2015 peak

"just" 10%?!? Would be nice to replicate that in other countries.

> diesel still accounted for 43% of the distance covered

I wonder if this is an artifact of the early push to build EVs with tiny batteries (e.g. <= 100mi of range).
Haven't read the article yet but this reminded me of a chart arguably showing Norway's oil use has actually gone up: https://twitter.com/NJHagens/status/1669072120939159553
Not really I think. I think people eat more than they need because 1) it's a form of self soothing 2) habits and choice of food.

I for one gain weight pretty easily when I start eating carbs such as pasta and bread without restraint - even on holidays when I am pretty physical.
I've bought books from book shops recently which were of pretty abysmal quality. With paperbacks publishers seem to do a decent run and then any reprints are closer to photocopy quality. Often the front cover is missing some of the edges (as in the design has been enlarged and then cropped to fit the standard size).

Basically I love books but publishers are stuck in a race to the bottom with quality.
If crypto became mainstream in 2017, how did Mt Gox even have 850k BTC to lose in 2014?

Binance may be a new company, but US-based entities like Coinbase are not. They started in 2012, and they have to comply with US regs same as Binance.
Hah, depending on municipalities, utility companies themselves will outright refuse without having the permits from the municipality being presented. In my area for example, not only do you need municipal permits, you must also show a inspection certificate by licensed electrician for new installs.
The paperwork must be filed with the utility before they will even assign an utility engineer to do the review on their end for a new connection (they need to check the local area can sustain every new connection, even if its superfluous) and only then assign a linemen to make connections.

No police or sheriff required. Utilities want absolutely no financial liability because some moron DIYed his electrical and it burned down the neighborhood.

They don't fuck around because utilities do get sued for any actual fault on their part since they are a even bigger, fatter money target than a developer.
This.

Brian Potter has some articles:
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-there-so-few-...

Does construction ever get cheaper?
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/does-construction-eve...
This will surely be a nuanced and thoughtful forum discussion.

Counterpoint: I was there last week for Databricks Summit and everything was open? Seemed to be teeming with cops, private security, janitorial, and "ambassadors" which were something between docents and spies.

So it is possible to provide a safe and prosperous environment, it just requires 20,000 strangers descending on your downtown at the same time.

I have no idea what either of these prove.
Statistics isn't my strong suit but as I understand adjustment for covariates then it's a linear remapping of the sample data. If that's right then strongly nonlinear confounding factors (as, for instance, I'd expect wealth to be) would still affect the outcomes even after being "adjusted for".

Happy to be set straight on this if I've misunderstood!
Even laundry detergent usage differs and that's something with no expiry date (I think). Amazon tried to counter that with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Dash , a button you press triggering an order.

"On March 1, 2019, Amazon discontinued the series, claiming that it was made unnecessary due to automatic reordering and product subscriptions."
I don't have a novel solution to your problem, but here's my experience. I had a mac laptop for a previous job and I went down the route of using separate a iCloud account. I used spotify so it was no issue in terms of music. The company was also heavily into the Microsoft office suite of products, but I opted to not use OneNote but instead used a password protected sync-able third party note app. I did this so I could have my notes if and when I left. I personally value a clear separation of my work and personal accounts so I found this worked pretty well for me.

Perhaps you could remote into your personal mac for iMessage/Music? It would be clunky but would protect your privacy.
I'm more surprised that there have been no malaria cases in the US in 20 years. It isn't exactly a disease like Ebola or Polio that's on the brink of extinction. Hundreds of millions suffer from it worldwide every year.
Sorry for the late reply: I bought LIFX lights because I wanted to have (almost) every bulb in the home remote controlled.
I spent more than I had to because high lumens RGB lights are more expensive then white-hot lights. LIFX lights are 1100 lumens, and I had to put 2 for every 1 non-LED bulb I had to produce the same amount of light.
What I’m saying is that the product landscape is already quite mature. The product adds nothing new or spectacular to the landscape. They will struggle with internal motivation to maintain an also-ran product.
Fostering Trust in AI
This article explores how we can foster trust in AI and ML, particularly in the context of chatbots, by overcoming the prevailing challenges and focusing on their immense potential.
I assumed they were being sarcastic, especially as the farmer in the example is 10 years younger.
> As long as you know that going in you can decide if it’s worth it for you.

But it looks like there's no way to know that going in? I have checked the product page and found no information that the CMS is paid.

Based on the current description ("Comes with personal online portal to set up and change the content of your screen." [1]) I wouldn't expect an additional subscription.

[1]: https://projecteink.com/products/e-ink-newspaper-art-display...
Ask HN: How can I escape the Silicon Valley loneliness trap?
I recently burned out over frustration with my career in Silicon Valley and its impact on my social and romantic life. My personality, technical background, and personal history limit my ability to work elsewhere; however, I am convinced that I will remain completely unattached and largely friendless if I stay.

I have worked over 10 years in the embedded domain on projects with complex requirements and low bug tolerance. I have obsessive compulsive personality traits that lent themselves naturally to this. However, as a U.S. resident, it is difficult to find interesting work of this kind outside "big tech" in Silicon Valley. The main alternative is the defense sector, where my employment would be difficult as I cannot obtain a security clearance. I attempted to switch domains recently but failed due to discomfort with the more loosely defined nature of the work and general lack of interest.

At the same time, I have a dim view of my social and romantic prospects here. I have found this area unamenable to connection among single people generally, and for heterosexual men specifically. The following comment is apt (particularly points 1 and 4):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32998786

According to data.census.gov, there are 126 unmarried men aged 18-44 for every 100 unmarried women aged 18-44 in Santa Clara County. In my somewhat earnest opinion, a man motivated to check that statistic is likely in the bottom quartile in terms of attractiveness.

Has anyone here successfully resolved a similar issue? If so, how?
I would give you different advice than "just start building projects": The language and framework that the first iteration of something is built in does not matter. You already know enough tools to build anything you want. If you want to build stuff, stop learning new tools. Maybe you'll replace the time you've been spending learning new tools with video games or TV shows, but maybe you'll replace it with building stuff, instead.

This is a classic trap that young programmers fall into, to fetishize tools and condition doing useful work on learning a bunch of tools. Just say no!

(This isn't anti-intellectualism - you'll eventually learn a bunch more tools as you go.)
I wonder if their promise of ActivityPub federation is their version of 1997 Microsoft keeping Apple alive
I have had my own web site since late 1990's. There is one publicly visible page that says something like "My web site is not even under construction yet. I put a page up when I have something I want to tell the world, not before!". There are a few non-public pages for my personal use. No blogs of any kind. That is the way I like it.