skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before I ever visited Phoenix, I'd hear people say something that I did not understand: "yeah but it's a dry heat". So what if it's dry, it's still an oven, right?

But I went there for work a few times. In the summer. And the fact that it was so dry made it bearable.

When the air is moist, sweating doesn't work well. Nothing is evaporating off of you, so you don't get cooled at all. But in pretty-much-nothing humidity, your sweat vanishes immediately and you are cooled. Just make sure you're drinking enough water (more than you think you need).

You also get neat tricks like swamp coolers that blow a mist of water above you. You don't get wet- the water evaporates, cooling the air, which falls on you.

Now do I want to live in 45C for weeks on end? Hell no. But I'd take that over 35C and 99% humidity.
The people with the resources and thus power to effect real dramatic change don’t feel the pain that most depicted in this story are experiencing. I’ve spent some time in Phoenix and they (say, Scottsdale residents) can afford to have a well-watered, green yards and golf courses even during this and live with the A/C blasting 24 hours a day.

Until those people feel real pain from this, nothing will change. Not that that’s a sufficient condition though because most of the residents I mention can easily move or spent summers elsewhere. But the people in power have to be more than mildly inconvenienced before there’s a chance of anything happening. So maybe ten years before this is truly horrid in places like Arizona and Florida.
It's not uncommon.

Growing universities with colleges that want endowments, faculty whose families are deeply entrenched in related institutions or culture, and generally prestigious and well-connected people are all necessary and make for perfectly valid candidates.

Academics isn't all academics. You need people who can grow and sustain development, attract desirable talent, work at the state and local level, and pull in students. People have to manage the internal administrative duties and external involvement of each school. Plus, some people make excellent teachers and leaders but awful researchers, and vice versa. Others are mediocre but consistent, don't have higher prospects, and take on administrative burdens. There's no real "ideal professor" any more than there's any ideal human.
> Being told you’re too fat in childhood is associated with a higher likelihood of an obese BMI later in life.

Sentences like this make me think they are overlooking an obvious explanation.

On the other hand, since we don’t really know what is causing our epidemic of obesity, fat shaming is just cruel.
"With the average new EV costing US$64,000, that’s about US$6-billion in stock collecting dust ... The average cost of a gas-powered car is about US$30,000, less than half the price of the average EV."

Mystery solved.

Does anyone know how far you have to drive an EV before you save $34,000 on fuel and maintenance?
Doesn't AC basically solve itself, if you put solar panels on your roof? It's lack of water which seems like a much larger problem.
hmmmm indeed.

but is this thread actually more than bullshitting on the internet?
I think these fall into the Linux kernel territory since they're never complete, even if they're very impressive.
OpenMW 0.48.0 Released
1995 classic about this: http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf

https://entropymine.com/imageworsener/bicubic/
But, at some point, what do you do to absolutely 100% guarantee your bonafides to a complete stranger located across the country? The answer is you probably can't so you put a system in place that protects against all but the most serious and determined attacker who is willing to spend significant effort and money to impersonate you.

It's true that you can physically go to the institution in question and prove your bonafides to them so no intermediate is involved but you start to add a lot of friction to all but the most serious transactions.
Common thing is Phoenix. It's just harder for planes to take off when the ground is at such high temperatures.
Looks great so far! Really looking forward to content/ad blocking.

Any chance you're planning on adding tab groups?
Why It’s So Tough to Determine an Electric Vehicle’s Range [video]
0.3-0.4 is a decent correlation, though obviously there are other bigger factors.
I found the comment valuable. I might be unmotivated to contribute to an OS project purely for the sake of doing so. But throwing some money in, I might go like "Alright I'll tackle this".

Certainly I'm at least glad a tool like that exists.
An interesting thing about Belarus is they largely kept a command and control style economy (while Russia and Ukraine were hollowed out by vultures and lost a good bit of industrial knowledge and capability, in comparison). I’m not supporting their system by any means, but Belarus is known for producing high quality products (tractors, food, etc).
> Las Vegas, Phoenix, even Southern California do not really have any business existing in their present forms.

The Odd Lots podcast recently had an episode "An Arizona Farmer on How to Grow Alfalfa in the Middle of the Desert":

> Due to a combination of drought, climate change and booming growth, Arizona is facing looming water scarcity. But for all the sprawl and population increase, the overwhelming amount of water used in the state is not consumed by residences, but rather farmers. So naturally, many argue that we should be doing less agriculture in the desert and move the production of cotton, alfalfa and various vegetables towards places with more rain. On this episode, we speak with Trevor Bales, the proprietor of Bales Hay Farm & Ranch in Arizona about his family’s history in the state and why he thinks this dry desert is a great place to grow alfalfa.

* https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/an-arizona-farmer-on-how-to-g...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owieQnPYfT8

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36741112

One observation: some of the earliest civilizations in history have been in arid areas, e.g., Mesopotamia, Egypt. They just happen to be settled near rivers—just like the Native American did with what is now know as Phoenix:

> The Hohokam people occupied the Phoenix area for 2,000 years.[23][24] They created roughly 135 miles (217 kilometers) of irrigation canals, making the desert land arable, and paths of these canals were used for the Arizona Canal, Central Arizona Project Canal, and the Hayden-Rhodes Aqueduct.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona#History

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Phoenix,_Arizona
Is it possible for third-party browser apps to integrate with content blockers for Safari, or would you have to integrate your own content blocker into your app?
I think there's a distinct possibility that orcas are more intelligent than us. They have culture and could have very sophisticated philosophies. But without thumbs and the ability to use fire underwater, they have no chance at developing technology.
There's a worker's rights movement sweeping large parts of the workforce right now. Businesses are being defensive, trying to lower expectations. It's a bit of a game of chicken; they're not actually "making due", but if they show their weakness, it gives labor an advantage. So they're feigning strength.
Is there something in OpenBSD, which I cannot do in other bsds/*nixes ? Or, I can do something significantly better than other oses ?
I think the comments here are missing the point.

Each of the items on the list are things you or someone else in an organisation does in good faith.

That is why these work.

When you do them in bad faith, you can stretch the timelines for things significantly while the responsibility for such a delay ends up so diffused among the bureaucracy that no one takes the blame.

“It’s just harder to get things done in a big organisation” as they say.

If you keep a lookout for these, particularly when they may be not in good faith you can head them off.
GP is referring to the average worker’s retirement plan buying some form of target date fund regularly on payday. This forces the market up as a whole, since the money must go somewhere.
Can you give some specifics if you have a sec?

(Not trying to be smart or anything, genuinely trying to get feedback as feedback from random users on HN is actually a really good and different audience than maybe we usually hear from so just trying to get a couple of bullet points maybe if you have a few minutes).

Disclaimer: I work at Netdata on ML.
> Businesses are being defensive, trying to lower expectations. It's a bit of a game of chicken;

They’re going to win. They have a much bigger war chest than me.
About to download this for the easy access to "Close Tab" alone, thanks for sharing!
This is a good point.
Over 50% of companies offer a 401k. BLS says as high as 67% of employees have access to some sort of retirement plan. A good percent of those 401k / retirement plans include some sort of employer match. Lets say 50% of those with a retirement plan contribute.

That's a massive amount of new money that has to go somewhere every month. Majority of these plans offer some sort of index fund variety instead of individual stocks the exception being that most of the smart publicly traded ones also offer the option to purchase employer stock as well. With all this money needing to find a home every month, index funds are as close to a guarantee of equities going up over time as you can get.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2021/67-percent-of-private-indu...
The fact that bears are known to hibernate sounds like a better reason behind the term. So I looked it up because your comment just sounds like some ridiculous folklore etymology someone made up (no offense, and apparently my guess is not right either).

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-origins-of...

> The bear came first. Etymologists point to a proverb warning that it is not wise "to sell the bear's skin before one has caught the bear." By the eighteenth century, the term bearskin was being used in the phrase "to sell (or buy) the bearskin" and in the name "bearskin jobber," referring to one selling the "bearskin." Bearskin was quickly shortened to bear, which was applied to stock that was being sold by a speculator and the speculator selling stock.

...

> At about the same time, another animal symbol made its appearance in the marketplace. The term bull originally meant a speculative purchase in the expectation that stock prices would rise; the term was later applied to the person making such purchases. The animal seems to have been chosen as a fitting alter ego to the bear. Thus poet Alexander Pope wrote in 1720:

> > Come fill the South Sea goblet full;

> > The gods shall of our stock take care:

> > Europa pleased accepts the Bull,

> > And Jove with joy puts off the Bear.

> This eighteenth-century animal imagery caught on, and bears and bulls have been in the stock market ever since.

I'm not really satisfied with the bull explanation either, as it sounds a bit tauotological, but whatever.
Regardless of what you serve, forcing children to "clean their plate" even when they aren't in control of the portion size is very common and leads to strangely adversarial relationships with food as well as skewed ideas of fair portion sizes themselves.

Much better to allow them to serve themselves and permit to go back for more, while still maintaining a "eat what you take" rule, than force them to choke down an amount of food they didn't choose until they're feeling physically unwell.

If they don't eat enough, they will reach a steady state eventually. If they over-choose, they will regret that and correct in future. Some level of veto is necessary to prevent gaming of the system, but there's a difference between "you can't choose a single spoon of rice for your main course and fill up on ice cream later" and "eat this half-kilo of pasta because I said so and you'll sit here until you can miserably force it down".
Just installed it on my phone and played around with the configuration options for a few seconds.
I really that there are so may themes and presets already installed. While I think that the ability to configure software is great software that doesn't need configuration is obviously still better.
Carefully designed presets can be a good middle ground between personal and niece preferences and shipping a product that's actually finished.
he did go to jail and wrote his famous Mein Kampf...
>Seems a weird choice.

Sure, but at least it has some (loose, outdated) connection to the text of the article and they were kind enough to specify in the caption that it was taken on another continent some 4 years ago.

Compare with the image in this very similar Axios article:

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/10/unsold-electric-cars-are-pi...

Seemingly, for whatever reasons to publish an article on any news outlet some images are needed and they are often picked at random.
Even in list view, it goes very fast to so overwhelmed that it is unusable.
There are then usually 2 cases:
- teams have strategy like closing every issues that can't be worked on immediately. So clean board but rotten software with lots of issues buried and regularly rediscovered.
- team just letting issues list grow unmanageably and will only look at the most recent things or what arrived in the parking.

In the few different companies of different sizes that I worked, I never saw a Jira that did not become a hot mess until people start new projects or new boards when they can't bear anymore.

I find it also extremely difficult to find anything. Like you know that an issue exist but search will not help you find it easily.
Very often I have to go to Gmail to search in notifications to find back the link to an issue.
The evolution of altruistic behaviours is unclear. There is no single universally accepted reason. The most common argument is probably that it was selected for in the same way your genes would have a survival advantage even if you die while helping your cousin or sibling or just fellow human survive. Because they're almost genetically identical to you, their survival is almost the same as your survival, from the gene's perspective.
"Water is their big problem but with cheap renewable energy that problem is solvable either with pipelines or desalination."

So, they kill their big advantage by using it to kill the biggest disadvantage? Where is the gain in this?

And it's not OR situation, but AND. They would need both desalination plants and lots of pipelines to just alleviate, not SOLVE the water problem.
This is what doesn’t make sense. If Ukraine joined NATO, they would never attack Russia, as it would escalate into a MAD scenario. Ukraine had no reason to attack Russia other than to regain Crimea, and Russia had no reason for Crimea other than their naval base, and of course the Russian speaking population in Crimea.
Or your definition of "ape" includes macaques, which a twelfth century definition very possibly would.
I don't see what baffles you.

1. Predicting that humanity will be able to geoengineer Mars in the future says nothing about our current abilities

2. A single person/company/government deciding to geoengineer Earth is obviously incredibly controversial, as siblings already pointed out

3. Mars habitat wouldn't be free and Phoenix doesn't have the budget to cover the entire city in some kind of domes

4. People who settle Mars choose what they are getting into. I doubt that all Phoenicians would want to live indoor even if someone rebuilt their city into a space colony for free
The UK and Ireland are uniquely countries in Europe that don’t have any form of national ID card. The UK was going to get (continental) EU style ID cards in 2008-2010 but this proved to be rather controversial at the time due to perceptions of government overreach and dragnet biometrics. Instead of just doing a simple ID card with just facial biometrics (like a passport), the whole project was scrapped. I don’t know why Ireland doesn’t have them but they have derogations from all the EU laws about it, though their passport card is essentially an EU ID card complete with chip.
> As Sole-Smith writes: “It’s not their bodies causing these kids to have higher rates of anxiety, depression and disordered eating behaviours. The real danger to a child in a larger body is how we treat them for having that body.”

I had a friend in school. We were 17. He was quite tall but also very overweight. He had to get an exemption to use the elevators, normally reserved for staff only, as he had serious issues with his knees due to his weight.

At 17 his knees were already giving up because of his excessive weight.

Sure, we shouldn't fat shame kids. But we also shouldn't pretend it's good for kids to be obese.
If the recession is short lived compared to long term goals, would it make sense to invest more every month during that period? Or even shift capital into the market, expecting greater returns when the recession eventually ends?
Every so often I set my LinkedIn profile to open to work to see what rolls in. In June, I was getting maybe 1/4th of the interest that I was in 2022. I am still confident I could find another position if needed, probably at reduced pay.

The people I see struggling on LinkedIn that I know are all people I wouldn’t hire. Maybe its just the toxic people that are vocal enough for me to notice? Just my anecdote and doubt it reflects the wider market.

On the hiring side, it seems to be harder than ever to get qualified candidates. We’ve given up even trying to tech screen and hire based on “attitude”. I feel stuck in a lose lose situation where I either OK a subpar candidate and hand hold them or continue to do all of the work. I suspect this has to do with the boring unsexy nature of the company, but it was never this bad in the past.
Were the army or Marines truly blind meritocracies at every level, even within the officer corps? Because that would be impressive, and a sad thing to lose for vanity metrics.
That's an interesting take I haven't heard ever before. I'd love to ask some questions if you happen to know the answer:

- Since people are constantly retiring, and selling the stocks they are holding at that point: Wouldn't that balance out the limitless demand problem? Boomers/Gen X/Millenials/Gen Z all have around the same segment of the population according to (https://www.statista.com/statistics/296974/us-population-sha...) wouldn't things earlier generations sell get distributed among the next generation, preferentially going to Gen X who will be at their peak earning potential at that point. (Which in turn will sell to Millennials and so on)
- How would you actively force money into an economy?
The more I see things like this, the more I wonder why there is no good video upscaler yet. Something that can really upscale old DVD or even VHS-quality video.

Topaz Video Enhance AI has barely advanced in the past few years, old versions sometimes even produce better results than new versions. And even then, some of the enhancements can be achieved with some carefully chosen non-AI filters.
> Seeing how you’re first action in each of your new jobs is done in bad faith

This behavior is not bad faith, unless it is done with the intent to deceive the employer. It's on the employer to make sure documentation is done correctly. In my company, we catch these kinds of things when we are setting up payroll. Most of the time the employee genuinely forgot to sign, or read some creative advice on the internet. Most of the time, the employee signs, and life is good. When they don't sign, we often find that that person has accepted an offer elsewhere and is milking us for a check.
I think this misses the spirit of the question.

One could argue the space station is far more impressive than a grand cathedral. Our engineering disciplines are far, far more advanced. Many cathedrals are sublime nonetheless. In fact, maybe even because they were built at a time so much more primitive than the present.

So, what's the best digital monument we could build, given the present knowledge and practices of our best practitioners?
Nordhaus published a study how the economy is barely affected by rising temperatures because all high value activity happens indoors.

This ignores that in Africa there is a significant subsistence population that lives off their own food production which is exclusively conducted outdoors and very little of the produce is sold commercially which in turn means their monetary income is close to zero aka they are a low value industry. The fact that these people move away does in no way contradict the predicted impact on the economy, in fact, you would think that it expects them to move somewhere else with lots of indoor economic activity.
> Want to explain?

[1] and [2] are introductions to the mycorrhizal networks and how they work on a chemical and biological basis, [3] and [4] are really nicely presented talks about it, by renominated researchers.

It's so ridiculous that they even found evidence that the connections between seedlings and their mother trees are stronger and more reliant than to others; which seems to suggest that they recognize their own offspring once it grows up.

There's also a huge organization that focusses on research of mapping those vast networks, called SPUN (society for protecting underground networks) [5]

On a darwinistic level I'd argue that once there probably was a stage in evolution when plants could not survive on their own in harsh weather conditions, the ones that survived were able to communicate and exchange "goods" for their own benefits; like exchanging sugar against nitrogen in case you had too much of it that you wouldn't need anyways.

(I'm no biologist so don't take my advice on anything on the topic, I am only building algae-fungi based bio reactors to try to find a way to bind carbon dioxide and put it into proteins as a food source as a hobby project)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizal_network

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kHZ0a_6TxY

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un2yBgIAxYs

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpCERNXtvMA

[5] https://www.spun.earth/
It’s too bad certain games don’t use this idea of random load locations to avoid injections. Seems like most game hacks basically work by reading/manipulating certain memory offsets which contain useful data. Unless I misunderstand them.
Perfectly sums up my experience dealing with the mess that is the IT of major German company in the automotive industry that I work for. Tons of mini-fiefdoms, each with its own strong-minded lord who has held that position for literal decades and who wants to expand their influence on other fiefdoms, an infrastructure where every single one of its components is incompatible and was never designed to work with anything else and that is held together with figurative duct tape and tons of depressed and overworked colleagues who would jump to another opportunity in a heartbeat but the money is actually good so we all just have to deal with it.
With crypto the old rich are the new poor!
Honestly, it probably needs to be roped into something like the certificate authority system. Like, if you have a deceptive licensing agreement, the certificate is revoked. And similarly, being asked to sign something that isn't tied to a certificate would be a huge red flag.
Scrum as a concept doesn't matter. Agile as a thing doesn't matter. Team structure doesn't matter.

All that matters is who has authority and the business both enforcing that authority and also making sure that authority is being used to accomplish business efficiently and not causing greater risk in the process. The rest just falls in to place. Or doesn't, and the business dies.
My comment is in response to this in the parent comment:

> I do prefer the "do one thing and do it well" approach.
"Silicon is a chemical element, one of the 97 natural building blocks from
which our minerals are formed"

I thought there were 94 naturally occurring elements, and anything past 94/Plutonium was man-made. What am I missing?

Initially I thought it was 92, but Wikipedia says that Neptunium and Plutonium occur naturally in trace amounts.