skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I am sincerely curious, do you earnestly believe that, ignoring the other methods of estimating these values we have, that if we had satellite measurements going back 100s of years they would reveal that this level of heating is in fact quite common?

No. Where would you get that idea? I don’t doubt the sea is warming, there is data for that. I don’t doubt the sea has been warming rapidly since 1880 (or their abouts). We have data for that. I don't doubt that 2000 years ago the earth was a lot warmer than it is today. We have data for that, and not just all the “Viking village emerges from melting ice” stories.

What I lament is journalists inability to give the proper context.
Most live coding languages relying on SuperCollider can take advantage of the client-server architecture of SC and support collaboration easily. So it's very interesting that the concept of collaboration is highlighted on Overtone website. Is it embedded in the language aspect?

When I develop Glicol[1], I want to build a WYSIWYG style: for example commenting out a line will mute the track. But it brought some challenges to collaboration so I have to build some "consensus" mechanism on top of the Google doc style text co-editing (powered by yjs[2]).

[1] https://glicol.org/

[2] https://github.com/yjs/yjs
> By comparison, the base fare for a yellow cab from Manhattan to JFK Airport is $70, according to NYC’s Taxi and Limousine Commission.

This makes $52 (which includes the driver tip) seem pretty reasonable. Am I missing something?
Someone needs to make a rideshare aggregator app that will compare local taxis, uber and lyft. I haven't used a taxi in maybe 15 years because the last experience I had in one was so bad. So I'm not familiar with how different the pricing is between them.

Two mile ride in Miami and we get to the destination and the guy tells me his card reader doesn't work. Not the first time I've had one pull that scam.

edit: I'm getting some responses that I should've just hopped out. I did. Copy pasting the story I just posted in another comment -

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> I had him drop me off at the mall so that I could grab a belt for a wedding that was happening an hour or two later. He told me his reader wasn't working and I didn't have cash. I was literally wearing swimming trunks and looked like I'd just come out of a pool, because I had.
I said sorry mate you need to warn someone when they get in and not after the ride. I hopped out to go in the mall and grab a belt and he followed me screaming at me the entire time. This probably wasn't even a 2 mile ride. Hotel to Miami mall.

For some reason I can't remember the outcome. Maybe I got so sick of him I went to an atm. I hope I didn't. I don't know what other outcome would've happened. This was when I was young and hot headed and absolutely not afraid of this guy screaming at me.
> I would love to have a setting that just turns off all of Unicode permanently.

That'd be way too extreme but it would have been totally possible to have a filesystem configurable so that it'd enforce ASCII only filenames and ASCII only domain names.

FWIW I enforce ASCII only domain names on my system (I prevent resolving any domain name that has Unicode chars) and live is fine and well. And I'd have zero issue with ASCII-only filenames.

And localization/internationalization (l10n/i18n) can go where it should: inside resource files etc.
There's a straightforward physical theory: colossal magnetic fields + slightly diamagnetic materials (including a human body with small superconducting particles) = magnetic levitation.

But human bodies might contain paramagnetic and ferromagnetic particles too, and more importantly building magnets that are strong enough to levitate a corpse is an expensive and difficult engineering challenge.
Depublification?

Libraries are a great public service. Really, these moves to enshittify otherwise free or modest cost to use public works, can be seen as an encroaching of capitalist ways and means into what are traditionally public ways and means.

And it really is not that either is bad or good.

Markets, sales, money, competition, ADS and all that clearly have a place and value in society.

So do public works, like libraries, parks, and the like.

The branding should better reflect these realities.

It is really nice to have places where there is not an expectation of spending money.

Cory sees denying society of these places as "shitty"

While I agree, that is toxic when it does not need to be.
... dinosaur eats man.

Woman inherits the earth.

(Best line delivery in the movie)
Out of interest, which bit of the flow they described is different in NYC?

It was similar to that in London 10 years ago - the most 'fun' thing used to be booking a cab for an airport drop - would they turn up at 3am as planned? If not, what will you do - as their office may now be closed... I ended up nearly stuck at the airport one night after my booked cab (pre paid!) didn't turn up, so had to get a black cab at twice the cost, and only after I convinced him I had the cash at home, as I didn't have any on my and my card had been cancelled while I was on holiday (for using the card abroad). Fun
LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall short
may i ask what you consider moderate scale in terms of daily/concurrent users? i’ve had no issue with small projects, but i’m curious to know where it starts falling over
I've noticed they've started amending the quoted price (after the ride) in London as well. Albeit not to this level.

Completely anecdotally, Uber was great when the drivers didn't know where they were taking you. You booked, someone turned up, you got in and they drove you there. Now if it's 2am and you're going to a part of town that's in the slightest bit out of the way, good luck (and watch the price surge as you struggle to get someone to take you).

And don't get me started on the jobs that get accepted when the driver is "2 minutes away," but are clearly doing a job on another rideshare app and don't turn up for 15 minutes...
You’ll miss lots of nooks and crannies because you can’t convince the air currents to blow in every conceivable way to move paint around. You air movement apparatus will take on much of the paint, probably causing it to function in much less than an ideal manner. There are challenges with keeping the paint wet while moving it with air pressure.

You could probably get VC funding to solve these problems and then you’d be onto something.
It'll vary from place to place, but dealing with cash can be quite an expensive exercise. There are costs to depositing it for example. Plus there's a whole layer of security that happens when you have cash on the premises.

If you have employees, cash also makes it much (much) easier for theft, fraud, tax evasion, and so on. It's pretty easy for employees to skim cash if it's coming and going.

If the "cash" part of the business is small compared to the rest then it makes (business) sense to simply eliminate that.

I agree with you though that it has an unequal effect on different groups of people. And yes, the un-banked (and that typically means the poorer segment of society) tend to be the most affected.
I've already grown tired of this word, can we please move on and stop using it
It is just clickbait. Everyone knows that the time the driver has to spend has to be incorporated in the cost, so omitting the time it took for the trip is an overt attempt at making something out of nothing. There are also tolls.

And the fact that no one forced them to pay $52, they could have used a taxi in midtown Manhattan.

I am guessing traffic was particularly bad or something, or the supply of drivers was more constrained for whatever reason.
Great reply José, obrigado.

Since you're here, can I ask why Elixir doesn't have an explicit `return` statement? I do miss it sometimes.
It won't. It also doesn't provide any form of permanent fix.

It's purely a stop gap that can be used to hold down global temperatures while we figure out how to get CO2 out of the air.
The alarmist tone of this article inspires zero confidence in the reporting. For example:

> Climatologist and weather historian Maximiliano Herrera went so far as to call it [35 C+ temperatures in winter] one of the most "extreme weather events the world has ever seen".

Assuming the quote is not taken out of context and Herrera did say it, I'm not sure the facts are on Herrera's side. The world likely saw more extreme "weather events," such as the one that happened at the end of the Pleistocene. That's when the half-mile-thick layer of ice sitting over the northeastern part of North America melted to expose the land beneath.
So what do locals think is the reason for this? The past few summers have been exceptionally dry and hot here (north of your place), but is this the only reason? If so, let's hope natures uses this cooler and rather wet year to recover a bit.

Btw, Inidentially my teenage son just came back from "Boofen" there :)
I've started to build this exact kind of setup for everything I do into Emacs. It has dramatically improved my productivity and made development a joy. Rather than just having the completion style AI of Github copilot I freely move around my work, highlight functions and ask for completions. Or I provide an entire package/directory as context and ask for new files. I can iterate with followups. I can ask for inplace responses or commentary in a sidebar. I've setup predesignated prompts/questions and tied them to keybindings. I've discovered that I can provide stacktraces to GPT4 with my code context and it can pretty quickly debug my code. It feels like pair programming with a very fast junior engineer.

I do this with code, design documents, and task planning.
> I don't see how this relates to pandemic or being remote?

There was more friction to asking quick questions, compared to being in office. This may not be the case any longer at all companies, as it's possible that some of them solved this with new communication practices.
I agree, but from what I understand it's partially about things typically behave. At super cool temperatures, ice acts like stone, and a bunch of other stuff will appear to be as strong as metals. There's also a ton of tradition dating back to the renaissance time period.
Opposite for me, wfh means healthier lunches, more time and flexibility to be active
. The short walk to transit (of not driving) doesn’t come close
GNUStep now has badges
It does appear in this story: "By comparison, the base fare for a yellow cab from Manhattan to JFK Airport is $70, according to NYC’s Taxi and Limousine Commission" (vs. Uber's $113)
Just for tonga folks. I remember reading this yesterday and they calculated that the effect of tonga only make at best 0.1 degree C increase in temperature. However what human did is 1.x degree C. That is order of magnitude difference => tonga is almost irrelevant.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/summer-2023-extreme-heat-causes

edit: previous claimed 2.x is in degree F, here we global citizens use international standard unit degree C which convert to 1.x.
Christo on the financial operation financing his Art [video]
Citations. The early papers will be cited more often. And citations are kind of a currency in science.
I like to do virtual desk with Slack, where I will have a channel where I'm always in a huddle and they can drop by when they have questions, just like they would in-office.

I have to say as a counter point though that I've had a lot more trouble with coworkers coming to my physical desk for questions that they could have Googled than with Junior getting stuck for extended period of time remotely. It's all a matter of culture and relationships.
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37001387 it's not just mass but elevation. The eruption was significant in the upper atmosphere.
My personal opinion/reaction likely isn't going to affect anyone's grant status. I'm just a random asshole. But there are less random assholes whose opinion might count. If someone sounding authoritative, but is just a random asshole like me, shits on this work on social media it might affect a group's grant status if it taints the opinion of someone holding the purse strings.

So I don't think asking about credentials or asking about references is gatekeeping. It's putting a statement into context. If I as a random asshole say "this isn't a superconductor" you as a reader should want to know where I'm getting that opinion from rather than just taking my statement at face value.
Yeah, where I grew up it was even worse. The main nearby company constantly had multiple cabs parked and people idling for huge amounts of time, but they demanded at least 24 hour notice and a 3 hour pickup window regardless of the time. For trips taking ~10 minutes.

I'm honestly surprised they still exist. I have no idea whose money is keeping them in business.
This happened in NYC which is the only American city where you can get around using public transport pretty much anywhere 24/7. So working class people don't need to pay these extortionate rates.
Yesterday, the gov in Nigeria suspended similar operation [1] for privacy concerns, would be interesting to see if Argentina follows suit.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66383325
A perfect epigram -- do you know who coined it?
An interesting case study about this is the Bavarian Forest National Park.
In the 80s, several major storms caused a huge amount of trees to die, and there was a decision made to not intervene in the forest ecosystem and leave the dead trees instead of removing them.

Then in the 90s because of this and other reasons that created a favorable environment for the bark beetles, there was a massive spread of them and large parts of the forest died.
The national park management continued the policy of not intervening in the forest ecosystem, which was met by pretty heavy criticism from parts of the population.

However it seems to have worked out in the end, as the forest is now starting to regenerate.

There is a decent summary on the German Wikipedia page here:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalpark_Bayerischer_Wald#...
Amongst the set of opinions (I like Lisp-2s), this is a common misconception:

> Nitpick: Multiple return values are unnecessary if you have tuples

Alright, it doesn't say they are the same (because they are not, despite what you can read on the internetz). If you use tuples and you use unpacking on the caller site, every time you add an element to the returned tuple, you are doom to refactoring all the caller sites. Not the case with Lisp's multiple return values[0]. If you don't use unpacking/destructuring, you must access the returned values with a list index, which is errr not the best. But, if you write your first iteration without returning a tuple, and later you do, you are doomed to refactoring the callers everywhere. Not so with multiple return values.

> Hooks, hooks everywhere…

ah, really? I didn't see hooks in Common Lisp the language, and very few in CL applications (unlike in Emacs). There are meta-object protocols, but you can trace them, see their hierarchy, etc.

> Legacy stuff … no threads … no unicode … no networking

It speaks of the standard. Every CL implementation has those ;)

> Clojure

a comparison (not at all biased to CL, no no no): https://gist.github.com/vindarel/3484a4bcc944a5be143e74bfae1...

> It takes 7 seconds to start up a repl on a core i5 laptop with an SSD. WTF is it DOING, anyway? SBCL takes half a second. Stupid JVM.

I should try Clojure more, but this… O_o

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For new readers, an overview of 2022 :) https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/these-years-in-common-li...

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[0]: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/functions.html#mu...
Interesting, the video pauses when you navigate away from the tab. Never experiences that behavior on a website before.

Thoughtful UX? or ensuring ad views?
Many apps already do this, including google maps.
Unless I've read the article wrong, the $52 journey was "to travel a short distance through downtown Manhattan to Uber’s corporate offices to interview him back in May."

The airport stuff was a different trip/person.
How Would Room-Temperature Superconductors Change Quantum Computing?
It’s true that climate messaging can be counterproductive. Summer headlines saying “hot day proves climate change” set people up to believe winter headlines saying “cold day disproves climate change”.
The subway and bus remain $2.75.
I can't speak for your customer base but, personally, I despise being called.

95% of calls from businesses are announcements rather than conversations. There is zero need to interrupt me in real-time to tell me my car is ready; it is not going to make me come any quicker.

SMS is far less invasive.
It's so great seeing my hometown make progress here. Internet options have always been an absolute joke here.

I think a lot of people are going to be surprised in the near future (once the network rolls out to residents) just how cheap fast internet can be. And many people don't realize just how awful Comcast's uplink speeds are (1 Gb down won't save your Zoom calls if you only have <=20 Mbps up). Bountiful is in for a big quality-of-life improvement for internet users (which is basically everyone).
This is such an odd comment. You can't just "turn off" Unicode (because you can't turn off a standard).

You could refuse to render any file encoded in UTF8, UTF16 etc. but that would be silly because by now, most files you're going to encounter (especially as a developer) use one of these encodings.

Or you could refuse to render anything outside of the ASCII range but then you're just assuming that the English-speaking world is all there is and that people of other language communities don't also have needs (such as having their name displayed properly). That's a pretty myopic view of the world IMHO.
that was for a different ride. The comparison was with 113$.

>>> ”I got in the Uber to go to JFK. I was on my phone so I wasn’t paying attention. When I got to JFK, I looked to see what the price was to see what I’d tip. I saw $113. I was shocked. I was annoyed,” she told The Post Wednesday.

Also, PSA: Not sure it is still uptodate but years ago, official taxicab had set prices (~60$) to all NYC airports (JFK,LAG).
As a Frenchmen, I think we can't say we are against government oversight. But I don't think I would agree that:

> people consider it unnecessary

In fact, I've discussed a cashless society with friends, and the majority is against, precisely because of this.

Now it may be my bubble, and not apply to the average French citizen.
It was injected into the stratosphere. Apparently adding as much as 5%. It makes a big difference at what altitude the vapor resides in relation to warming or cooling effects.
The juniors will have to read documentation and spend long hours writing and reading code and understanding what has already been built. Just like all of us who did that and had to do it in order to move up. The idea of spending time "mentoring juniors" has always ended up being an euphemism. It's just a way for non-technical people, at the end of the day, to consume as much time as possible from other people so they can pretend to be doing work.

It's clear which juniors are motivated and will make the most of the mentorship and which ones are not. Some are just there for the check and you cannot compromise your senior and higher talent on people who don't want to learn and grow and just want the prestige and check of a high-tech job. It's the same situation with someone who is drowning not listening to orders and taking down their rescuer with them too.

If a junior needs someone to sit next to them because they toil for way longer than needed on clear simple requirements and goals, this may not be the field for them. I never needed anyone right next to me that couldn't have been a direct message or a brief remote call to clarify something specific, clear, and to the point. You're describing a reality where the people who don't do are just trying to take as much time for themselves as possible to hide the fact that they don't want to think.
https://twitter.com/iris_IGB/status/1685731177523449856
Have you met any Europeans?

Italians are convinced that Italy is the center of the world, with the best food, home of Rome, etc.

French are convinced that France is the center of the world, with the best food, home of Democracy, etc.

The British are convinced that Britain is the center of the world...although maybe not so convinced of the food :-P.

Germans, same thing.

Portugese same thing, but it's the "secret" version of Spain with better wine, better food, better beaches, etc.

Everybody has national pride. That's a good thing. You should be proud of the place where you live because it means you'll take care of it and wont' trash it.
Secret Santa Question #78, I feel the answer should be 50/50. If the game ends up being void, shouldn't we assign probability 0 to that scenario?
EPA approved fuel ingredient with sky-high lifetime cancer risk document reveals
>Chevron component approved even though it could cause cancer in virtually every person exposed over a lifetime
Worldcoin isn't a DAO, it is a centralized VC funded operation with full control over things. Hence the general hate of it by crypto-friendly people.
Anyone who is not a denier like yourself knows dam well he meant "recorded history".
Email is the victim of its own success. Because it had/has such dominance in the business world everyone had to live in their inbox, marketers appreciated that and lots of people grew to hate that. There have always been bad practices surrounding emails but I think it reached a point a long time ago where email itself was considered bad. Thus "email free Fridays" and internal comms plans which say email should be a last resort. People felt empowered to refuse to read many emails, especially if they were over 3-4 paragraphs.

I too have colleagues who reflexively ask for a meeting in response to any email longer than a few lines, even though the issue is clearly communicated and obviously requires someone to read it and build a proper response. The ease with which we can all "jump on a call" has contributed to this. Yes, of course we've all seen email chains which go back and forth without progress but that's not a reason to assume every message will end up there.
TikTok to be fined for breaching children’s privacy in EU
Surely you mean lead oxide paints are interdite >.<
ESP32-EGA16-TGA Shitty Camera
What Europe has since a few year though is a right to a bank account.

Banks must offer basic accounts to anybody (at nondiscriminatory pricing) and unless it's used for fraud or if the fee cannot be paid isn't allowed to close it.

That certainly helps.
Great article, thank you for suggesting the newest entry on my substack subscription list!
I thought for a second you were referring to the original post with the edit
This is why I get so annoyed with Doctorow's bitching about DRM and blaming "Big Tech." Until I see you can get DRM free things from libraries, I'm going to continue to think it is largely the copyright holders demanding these capabilities more so than I think it is a "big tech" company that almost certainly is bound by the same rules in working with the copyright owners.

And honestly, I can see some of the reason for the DRM with good faith arguments on how it could completely erode a few markets. I don't necessarily agree with them, but I can't dismiss them out of hand, either.

Anyway, reminds me that I need to support my libraries more.
A good idea is a good idea, even when uttered by terrible people.

If Hitler said german should eat more fruits and vegetables, that doesn't make it false.
Same. I our old house we were on Verizon (which became Frontier which became zipplyfiber) fiber optic network for 17 years. It was relatively cheap, reliable, and fast. When we moved a few years ago, I refused to consider any house that wasn’t on ZipplyFiber.
At least photographs of the Eiffel tower before 1985 can't fall foul of their slightly obsessive copyright restrictions.
You could run a cable from sahara to the America to send solar power in the night