skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm resisting the urge to buy AC because I feel like AC makes the problem worse

What many call AC or air-conditioning, a lot of the world calls "heat pumps", and modern heat pumps are not only incredibly efficient, but they work both ways, and are also one of the most efficient ways to heat homes in the winter. So there's a good chance that by replacing or augmenting your home's heating system with a two-way heat pump (aka AC), you can actually increase your home's energy efficiency.

And some quick research and back of the napkin math makes me think that residential air conditioning accounts for less than 2% of carbon emissions. [0.37 (residential share of total electricity consumption) * 0.17 (air conditioning's share of residential electricity use) * 0.25 (electricity's share of total emissions) = 1.57%]. You are one out of 8 billion people. Your individual contribution to carbon emissions is a drop in the bucket of that 2%, and remember, a heat pump may actually increase your home's energy efficiency. At scale, heat pumps are definitely a potential net-win.

All that to say, don't beat yourself up or suffer too much over this. Individual choices are not the driving factor of climate change. Climate change is driven by industry, specifically oil and gas, and the responsibility needs to fall on those industries to account for negative externalities. You can offset your own carbon emissions for probably under a hundred Euro a year. But what really needs to happen to reduce carbon emissions is that large companies and industries need to be held accountable with carbon taxes.

TL;DR, just get AC to protect yourself and your family, and spend your suffering and energy pushing for industries to be held responsible instead of beating yourself up about it.
Get yourself a modern little mini-split and just don't have kids if you feel strongly about affecting where our habitat is headed.
It's so weird that Google still hasn't created the ability to block spam domains.

I don't think it's a technical difficulty but rather a management decision to allow spam as long as they have their adsense ads and it baffles me they just don't care about their end users at all.

I think being a monopoly with most competitors lagging a lap behind can make you this way, but with chatgpt catching up quick, Google better start thinking about their users now as it's a growing sentiment that their quality is totally bad nowadays and their uncaring attitude towards spam domains like Pinterest and spam search results where sites are creating hundreds of pages with same content and different heading is just not gonna cut it anymore.
Before the Great Reddit Strike, adding "reddit" or "inurl:reddit.com" helped in that regard pretty well.
Again, you're talking about a ton of mostly theoretical problems that haven't caused much in the way of widespread problems, which to me don't come close to the following fact:

No serious cloud, perhaps tech generally, company, is like "We're switching to Windows/MacOS to run the backbone tech of what we do."

That's Linux, and Linux will get the downstream security benefits of that. Given actual, real life history, I trust this far more than those other two, especially Windows, which just shat the bed ALL THE TIME. Your real life track record is far more reliable that a parade of imaginary horribles, even when they may be little things that only are on the Desktop.
El Nino/La Nina refer to Pacific Ocean current patterns, and thus matter especially to people on the Pacific coasts. You hear about it because this includes people in California and Washington US states (among others), which are overrepresented on this board, as well as all of China, Japan, South East Asia etc. However, they can produce global effects, as the pacific ocean is really big.

In the UK, you probably hear about the Gulf Stream a lot.
Companies that pioneered the stateful reconstruction of APIs from raw network events -

- Netsil [0] (acquired by Nutanix) - Academic spin-out from UPenn

- Pixie Labs [1] (acquired by New Relic)

[0]: https://thenewstack.io/netsil-visualizes-performance-microse...

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/10/new-relic-acquires-kuberne...
There's a legal vs moral distinction there. Legally, you can generally relicense (or add licenses, at least) on permissively-licensed code, or you can force the issue by requiring a CLA that just makes you the owner of everything. However, a person could reasonably argue that you still are morally in the wrong for taking something given to you for free and charging for it.
W&B makes a lot of sense for model training/tuning analytics and tracking, but seems like major overkill for a lot of other logging. Have you tried alternatives or were you using W&B already so you went with it? What is the major logging you're doing (types of info being logged) if you aren't training a model?
Elites all around the world send their kids to schools to study in the U.S., or places like Oxford. Presumably more countries besides the U.S. or the U.K. have systems of elite universities. Even if Germany had such schools, you think your elites would be content with them? The problem isn't with educational egalitarianism, it's with global hegemony and your country's elites trying to sidle up with the facilities of the hegemon. Don't get rid of your egalitarianism to cater to the fickle whims of your elites.
The only thing it prevents me for using Firefox is it's XML viewer, clicking on text collapses nodes, it makes copying text very hard. I haven't found a workaround for this.
Oh, hey again. :)

And yes I work mostly with Elixir for years and Erlang's model is just irreplaceable so far. You're quite right that everything is synchronous but all the Erlang "processes" (green threads, fibers or w/e people want to call them) are preemptively and forcibly switched. And that has basically eliminated 95% of all parallel programming problems.

I would kill for Erlang's concurrency / parallel primitives in Rust, especially if they come with their own DSL (likely via Rust proc macros?) and are much shorter and comprehensible than they are right now. :|

> It essentially gets you all of the complexity of interrupt driven code for very little gain

Yep, sadly. I've written some fairly impressive commercial Rust code but it added gray hairs and left me wondering whether that was the best way to do it.
> The web is first and foremost a document platform.

I'm here from the future to tell you there's never been much difference between an app UI and a document.

> Adding scripting to it could cause security problem

Everyone eventually gets their shit together after witnessing the catasrophically bad security issues caused by idiots desperately avoiding javascript with even worse ideas and implementations.
> If it's the case that affirmative action was being used to mask other unfair practices that will be utterly ghastly.

That has actually been the case and stance many leftists took on AA. I think it was, at one point, recognized as a bandaid on a deep, bleeding wound. Neither a correct nor sufficient solution but it was the only one that could get through the door.
LGPL then
Now wish they are allowed to have their own webview and Android don't allow to block it
It's a record that's unlikely to last another 100,000 years.
Sure, but the ability to open up my TV app, and chose to pay $10 per season to watch Westworld at the very moment I watch is there, which it was not in a world before streaming.

Obviously, content owners will probably mess around restricting access to stuff, but the situation is much better than before.
I upvoted you because I agree with the essence of what you write. The problem is admittedly the enormous geographic variability of the measures that were adopted. None of us is quite sure if the debate is focusing on measures of Elbonia or rather those of Santa Banana.
Job titles are at some level made up.
‘Welcome to EV dongle town’
>Oh really? Facebook's users numbers in the literal billions.

Sorry, I meant to be clearer about this. By "the single most successful social network in the world", I was talking about Facebook, not Twitter.

Facebook has done aggressive log-in gates since its inception, and it is self evident how successful that was in getting active users. Claiming that Twitter following suit is "locking itself out of the full size userbase" while using Facebook as an example is ironic, to say the least.
This is absolutely a feature in Google Calendar. Every calendar has an iCal feed you can pull in. You can enable it from your calendar settings.
Sorry for the marketing blog post. This is all I could find, and it’s mixed into some rebranding.

Got an email to try out “communities” with a single button which brought me to a sign up form, with zero information about what it was. Any attempt to find out more just brought me to annoying “install our app” modals.

I loathe Glassdoor.

It appears to be a forum for each business on Glassdoor, which they’re pitching as a replacement for private surveys.
With that, the US is widely recognized to have the best universities in the world. A lot of countries claim to take education seriously, but the result is often very mediocre.

Very few people will pick IIT or Beijing University if they are offered spot at Harvard.
Also, I find that there just isn't a one best font, even for one person. There are just too many variables that effect how a font looks, not limited to the screen itself, the graphics controller, the software where I want to use the font.
Enabling gRPC and HTTP/2 support at the edge with Kuma and Envoy
What do you think about Cascadia? It was commissioned directly as the "sequel" to Consolas and is interesting because it is open source (unlike Consolas). (Therefore cheaply cross-platform and web-safe, versus paying for Consolas licenses for non-Windows machines or websites.)

You may have overlooked it before because one of the more advertised "sequel" features is ligatures, but Cascadia is one of the fonts that uses the Mono/Code naming scheme to turn on/off ligatures. ("Cascadia Mono" doesn't include the coding ligatures that "Cascadia Code" does.)
It differs for open source and managed cloud:

1. For the managed Cloud product, it'a typical freemium model, where we have a pretty generous free tier, and you can upgrade if you need more features or higher limits than the free tier.

2. For the open source version, almost all the features (especially the ones that are needed by individual developers and small teams) are completely free with the exceptions of some managerial/compliance features (e.g., audit logs, potentially certain types of 2FA). These managerial features require a license. Some of these paid features are still under development. Plus, for the open source version, we also sell support packages to help with redeployments/maintenance/emergency situations.
> The [rapidly diminishing] inverse correlation between veganism and obesity would seem to reject this, but I think that can be easily and entirely explained

It's easily and entirely explained by fiber. Fiber, through gastric distension, is, along with protein, the primary driver of satiation. There are other factors too, like the fact that they eat more whole, unprocessed foods, which are harder for the body to digest (i.e., require more energy.)
yea i feel justified typing o11y but the idea of accessibility advocates using a11y is very ironic haha
lol. /r/woosh on me. In calling out the meme, I became another meme.

"I am become pedant, destroyer of discourse."
The root cause of all this madness:

Ads.

As long as there is even a marginal financial incentive to get human eyeballs on websites (as opposed to the viewers actually playing for services or, you know, just hosting websites for free because they are cool), this will keep getting worse.

A genuine desire to help incoming traffic doesn't really matter either. Anything helpful will be infinitely cloned, as long as there is incentive to clone it.

I dont really know a good solution either. Targeted ads are incredibly useful to small businesses, and that genie is out of the bottle.
>I'm also kind of shocked at the idea that language cause greater barriers to reading a paper than to writing one in a non-native language.

When writing people needs just a small subset of the language. Lets say that with the 10% of the language you can express most ideas in a simple way, and be understood. When you read you face a different subset, maybe a much more wide vocabulary, a lot of phrasal verbs, not familiar constructions, local jargon or ambiguous cultural context... plus the research theme, that can be difficult to grasp by itself.

A funny and not uncommon fact when you are in an international congress is to find that everybody understands the other, until the English native researcher starts to speak.

Journals often look for this symptoms as a seal of quality, but it is not. The sad fact is that speaking English well doesn't made you an expert on science, or a genius, you are just an English-native.
Yikes. You summarized it much better than I could, kudos.
> any of those languages (and plenty of others) will work fine

Well, C won't.

Any large C code needs a decade or two of bug-fixing before it is safe, and that only happens if the developers are competent and wiling to fix it.
Maybe the individual legacy preferences don’t influence it but the knowledge they exist does. For instance, there is no statistical likelihood of winning the jackpot from buying a lottery ticket and people keep buying tickets when they don’t win - but if the jackpot just got removed, do you think that would affect people’s choice to buy a ticket?
Argentina is experiencing a hotter-than-normal winter and we just came through with the biggest drought in 60 years. Don't be pedantic.
My point is just to tell my point of view and my experience on the topic at hand.

If they are sharing their experience, why shouldn’t I share mine?
I'm now looking at this one: https://www.usebruno.com/

The advantage of Bruno (and the VS code plugin) that storing data in "just a file" is friendly to keeping a local copy, and also to sharing, reviewing and versioning with existing tools (git).

How does insomnia handle that?
>The only thing that can save the planet is a fair carbon tax, because the situation feels more and more desperate every day, we need to slow this thing up.

Really? Please explain how that will fix anything. Governments can't do anything about climate change. Only a private sector innovation to sequester excess carbon would actually work.

I'm not convinced your using AC contributed to global warming.
This will be another example of the power of distribution. It doesn't have to be better than Chat GPT. It just has to be good enough.

This is similar to Slack vs Microsoft Teams. Slack had a several year head start on product, but Microsoft had a massive lead on distribution (their Office 365 install base). Teams is good enough.
> But as much as I’d like to switch to daily/weekly billing, it feels like I would never allow myself to leave the desk to run errands, play with the kids etc - because I promised to work the (whole?) day/week.

Bill by the project and this problem is solved.

That said, I'm one of the weird ones who prefers to bill hourly whenever possible.
Email vs. Capitalism, Or, Why We Can't Have Nice Things – Dylan Beattie
This is inspiring!

I am 37(male) going though one and its certainly has its up and downs. Maybe a few here can let me know what field I should break into.

I am Sr developer in the industry for a decade. Regular dev shop and manage 3-4 direct reports and play the senior tech role for a couple of projects at any given time. I enjoy working with code but much less so then years ago.

I have a LOT of personality (meeting new people, selling myself, etc.) that I sadly don't get to us at all in my current position. I went to a work conference in DC back in February and talked to strangers non-stop for three days. I loved every minute of it. I am getting bored being at a desk all day and would rather use my personality in my work. I have my past in the technical and want to use my personality to make money now. I know there has to be a place where that's an advantageous combo. I am not afraid to take a pay-cut in transition. My company will hopefully be acquired soon so I should be able to do some hunting.

Any advice on what I should pursue? Welcome to suggestions and any private message etc with suggestions. Thanks!
Maybe this shows the value of packaging? What Arduino offered wasn't just a bunch of commodity chips, but a guided educational experience. The same way that Lego Mindstorms is more approachable than a tub of plastic powder and some copper wire, having someone do the design, sourcing, integration, testing, documentation, etc. is worth a lot.

I wouldn't even know where to start with a pile of undifferentiated chips. Arduino lets you spend a bit of money (relatively cheap when it comes to hobbies) to learn the ropes from vetted and curated parts that are made to work together, including the software.

At some point, yes, maybe you know enough to be able to evaluate the Chinese knockoffs on your own and avoid pitfalls and counterfeits, and find the correct vendors who offer an awesome product at a good price. But it takes a while to get there. I can hardly find reliable power stations and USB PD chargers these days. I wouldn't even know how to start to evaluate an entire dev kit.

If anything it seems like this is the fate of intellectual property in the age of global capitalism. Whatever we design, whether it's software or chips or fighter jets or solar panels or cars will be copied and produced much more cheaply there because their costs of everything is much lower. And actually, relative to most of the world population, it's probably the USA that is overpriced. We have our insane quality of life to keep up with.

But that's hardly the fault of any one company. As we move more and more into services, domestic manufacturing just can't keep pace. All those reshoring efforts don't really seem to be making an impact. Most things I see are still Chinese, especially at the price points I can afford.

I don't know that "killing the openness" is the inevitable result. Closed designs get stolen and copied too. Getting bought out and eaten alive by Chinese companies the same way Hollywood and video gaming have been going seems the more likely route?
Jailbroke Google Nest Mini run your own LLMs, agents and voice models
A single entity generally doesn't get to manage the meaning of a word. The real meaning is in our collective heads, and Linux is a Unix for most people in the field. Even the ones (like myself) who are fully aware of OpenGroup and the UNIX trademark.

In fact I consider Linux a Unix specifically to annoy the sorts of people who think OpenGroup has the last word on what constitutes a Unix. ACAB.
I don't think this differs for LLMs vs any other ML model in production. Folks working in "MLOps" have been thinking about this for quite a while (and most people don't use langchain in production, so that's at least one thing to put aside, fine for protoyping of course).
> Good luck watching Westworld on HBO max whenever you want.

Woah - it’s gone

https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/23513277/westworld-hbo-...
In some cases it is actually sort of the other way around with effectively discounts for "discontinuity of service" because some services offer discounts to people who have cancelled to try to get them back.

For example I've had offers from Disney+ for a month of Premium for $3 and for Basic at half price for up to 6 months. (To be clear the latter was still billed monthly and could be cancelled at any time. You didn't have to keep it for 6 months. It was just that after 6 months the monthly rate would revert to the regular price).
FYI, on July 7th:
"Coloplast has signed an agreement to acquire Kerecis, an innovative, fast-growing company in the biologics wound care segment, for up to USD 1.3 billion (around DKK 8.9 billion), of which USD 1.2 billion (around DKK 8.2 billion) is an upfront cash payment."

https://www.kerecis.com/coloplast-announces-agreement-to-acq...
Florida also massively doctored their stats so I’m not sure how you can trust them.
It's definitely interesting, but a screen full of it kind of looks like noise to me.
I've only ever heard it called "Gemini", not "Gemini web".

"Gemini web" is a bad name because Gemini's not being part of the web was the main motive in Gemini's creation.

"Geminisphere" or "Geminiverse" would be fine with me as a name for the totality of Gemini servers considered collectively.
If you're forgoing AC, isn't that totally the opposite of being comfortable?
Personally that's why if I'm going to contribute to open source I'm probably going to contribute to GPL/AGPL projects. I don't begrudge people who want to license their OSS code under something like the MIT or BSD licenses though.

I think that software developers are probably the kind of people who can know what deal their actually getting if anyone can.
It fetches data from the public APIs of openlibrary.org and inventaire.io. From my point of view, inventaire is really great as it synchronizes with wikidata and is far better at not duplicating works or authors.
> I find it arrogant to talk about saving "the planet." It's usually about saving the comfortable status-quo lifestyle of the developed world.

When in reality it's one of those unusual instances where the developed world is actually seeing a planet full of people, instead of just their little bubble.

The problem is it's a bit late for that.
I wonder if it's even worth trying to define a person's personality? I've been following this research for a while now. Almost all the studies I've seen have substantial flaws in their scientific methodology, such as small sample sizes and selection bias, among other issues. Don't even get me started on the replication crisis in this field.

Regarding theories like Jung's introversion and extraversion or the subsequent personality models like the MBTI and the Big Five, while they have been widely used and studied, there's ongoing debate about their reliability and validity. There's substantial evidence for the general reliability of the Big Five, but it, too, has faced criticism.
Maybe an AI-generated fake TV episode during a writers’ strike is a bad idea
As far as I can see, radical environmentalists are almost all anti-nuclear, sometimes anti-wind and anti-solar, and overall prefer to live in sprawl vs. cities. I think they might well be the problem.
Yes, everything in your world is beautifully obvious, starkly black and white.

Choice is either fully in our hands, or fully an illusion.

We either have full agency, or no agency.

I understand full well about the importance of a growth vs entity mindset, but that's not going to stop the very powerful dopamine-seeking urge of the brain. At best it can keep you moving forward toward something that will (eg, rehab, ADHD medications, parental controls that prevent you using gambling apps on your own phone). But unless you've experienced one of these genuine mental disorders, preaching at people who do or have had them about how easy it is to get out of it, you just have to believe you can do it, is nothing but condescending bullshit. However many "vices" you have.
What's new here?
wait, you need to pay to be able to use a yubi key for two factor?
Hackers used to say "win" to mean succeeding at some technical task, particularly if you gain some desired advantage, and "lose" to mean failure or being put at a disadvantage. Windows 11 is a losing operating system. Tree-sitter is a huge win for code editors. Etc.

"Lossage" means "the consequences of a lose" even if no data loss occurs. Some people consider systemd with its complexity and tightly coupled components to be a lose.
It’s already not a donation if it is tied to a benefit to a specific person in your family.