skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s only 10% if we want something that can lower CO2 to preindustrial levels in under a decade. It’s under 0.7% if we just want to stop the increase.
Does your kid you really need that $5 throwaway toy that breaks within 20 minutes of playtime? Do you really need 20 low-quality shirts a year that rip with the third usage because the fabric is so flimsy?

We've put too much emphasis on consumption of low-quality goods. We are drowning in shitty stuff.

Getting rid of shitty stuff isn't "lower living standard" or "poverty".
!!Liero!!
Wow haven't played that in a good 15 years, i used to dream of gauss gun trajectories.
Evan Phoenix is saying it for even longer, and created rubinius as a means to prove it :) (it has since been abandoned, but Chris's truffleruby ported rubinius core and stdlib implementations, so it's great that they've all been feeding each other for quite a while)
Ask HN: Should I take a pay cut for a different job in same startup?
First, for context on me: 17 years of experience in insurance industry, working in external-facing, analytical roles. My job prior to my current start-up was equal parts talking, coding, data-munging, product-managing, etc. in order to manage a portfolio of commercial insurance policies for a major insurance policies.

I joined my current start-up (cyber insurance/cyber-security focus) in a pre-sales role, blending much of the functional experience I just mentioned with my insurance knowledge - as my remit was to sell to insurance organizations.

Current Comp Structure:
Salary: 220k
Bonus: 100k (allocation of overall revenue pot)
Equity: 0.2% (25k shares)

In FY23 (just ended) we, unfortunately, sold almost nothing new and thus the bonus # above is as good as non-existent. My boss was fired, and I was asked to reevaluate my choice of role in the company.

I proposed a sales role as way of challenging and learning something new. I don't have pure SaaS software sales experience other than this company.

As part of that change, the CEO is asking me to restructure my pay - to take a salary pay cut, to get upside potential as a piece of every sales deal (e.g. 10%), and more equity - at least doubling what I have, though I suppose I can ask for more.

Rough Proposal:
Salary: $140k
Bonus: 10% of every deal
Equity: 2x/4x what I have (above)
CEO's point to me on this: if you do well, pay difference is totally irrelevant

Have other folks come across this situation? Advice? Warning signs? Methods for evaluating?
I think along the same lines. On the point of megafauna, isn’t it rather dependent on having enough large predators? E.g. in temperate forests, wolves have been shown to be very effective at repairing forest health by keeping deer at bay, leading to positive changes throughout the ecosystem.
Oh I was just going to comment that those looked like some sort of brushes and thus that would negate other advantages, but after reading your comment and carefully reading the notice yeah that is definitely great! Induction coils instead of brushes for the rotor current def seems like a key advantage/development.
> I even briefly used a tiling window manager before very quickly returning to the floating ones; the appeal of such utterly inflexible window management I will simply never understand.

The author mentions this design in passing but I think it is contextually important to understand why people might like this at all so I'll share what I appreciate about tiling window managers:

The appeal, for me, is the inflexibility. Tiling window managers and their often bundled 'tags' approach to window management offer a simplicity that is comforting in its constancy to me, the user. To sum it up, they make me feel 'at home' using my computer. Comfy goes beyond familiarity though.

I never have a mess of windows to deal with across my monitors, where I'm constantly needing to look at a taskbar, minimizing and un-minimizing programs (or looking through a stack of 'shaded' windows in the author's case). Each of my frequently used programs has its own tag, or shares a tag (visually as a tile) with other programs. While the programs I have open at any one time change, their locations don't. Everything in its right place, I always know what is where. I switch between all programs directly with ease, with no intermediate interruptions to occupy my attention, my hands never leaving my keyboard. No 'looking' for stuff. Switches happen instantly because there are no transitions or any other forms of detectable latency (and for that matter, no compositor either). Combine all this with extensive use of scratchpads for ad-hoc and exploratory tasks and all the bases have been covered. Comfy.
I love the idea that all the plants we think-of as totally-normal-weeds could be (indeed, are) quite different across the world! Would love to be able to get a global sense of where the ones that I know well are distributed right now, and what other people are seeing when they walk-around (and it's rained a bit) instead! Anyone know of a good resource for anything like that?

Over in Adelaide, South Oz, an extremely common weed is 'Oxalis' (TIL: a type of 'Wood Sorrel'[1]) It's also called 'Sourgrass' or 'Sour-Sobs', colloquially around here. It seems to pop up nearly-anywhere-that-it-can and very quickly too once it's rained a bit at the start of winter. Also dies-off completely for a good chunk of the year and I think it has a bulb-like way (as well as its tiny seeds) of staying-there.

We also have bigger-than-garden-level problems (in the state) with stuff like Gorse, Broom, Blackberry (which seems especially invasive), Patterson's Curse, loads more! Heck even Nasturtium gets a pretty-good-go around here, though it's apparently not considered invasive yet [2].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropaeolum_majus
To be fair, Windows 11 Pro is $215. Win 10 or Win 11 are "cheaper", but still significantly more than $20
Self-Learning Machines Based on Hamiltonian Echo Backpropagation
Instead of burying carbon, why not just not dig it up in the first place?

Prohibiting fossil fuels seems like a much simper way than trying to somehow let the market regulate that.
> Britain and Russia went to war over Crimea.

They didn’t. Britain and France went to war with Russia to stop it from dismembering the Ottoman empire.

The war over Bessarabia, Crimean just happened to be nearby and it was very strategically important in the region.

> when everything can be blamed on Germany since, at least, Bismarck, by all means go for it.

I’m not “blaming” Germany, just saying that its unification disrupted the balance of power in Europe. Many of the things which led to WW1 were mainly a reaction to that.

> So, the Brits are at fault,

Why do you think I’m try to blame on anyone for anything?

> What ifs are completely pointless,

They might be fun. I don’t believe we can just assume that history is 100% deterministic.

> understanding why things happened the way they is very important so.

Yes?
Food is provided by the government, it's just done on the basis of subsidies. The USA in particular has - or at least had - some serious problems with overproduction of certain grains due to misaligned government incentives.

Anyway - if you think you can explain the purpose of government in a single sentence then nothing I can say is going to change your mind.
>relied on the browser's hitory

Hey now .. Its a perfectly cromulant way of going about tracking ones interests and information needs .. especially if you put the history directory in a git repo and practice good repo hygiene ..

Another good technique is to print-to-PDF, which is like boomarks on acid.

Of course, I'm implying intelligence where there is no evidence of any, in this case, just sayin' .. ;)
You can buy a digital photo frame (essentially a screen with a bit of firmware) thats nice for 100 dollars.

You can load all the pictures you want there and see them as often as you like, you can share them with others and actually keep them around for your entire life.

The fact that not taking as many as you want is a feature to you, I don't know what to say about that other than if you were responsible for taking photos of any trip we were on together, I would make you scan and share them.
to echo some other points in this thread -- i used to be very much in favour of linux ports / recreations, actively supporting them with my wallet.

but even without switching away from x86, the linux userland churn (64bit, and lately and even largely, wayland) is too much.

windows games still work.

(wayland driver for wine is actively being merged into the upstream at the moment)
I guess it depends on the ecosystem. For Steam Linux is more used than Mac OS X (still Windows is the most popular). https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/linux-surpasses-the-...
I came across the elderly father of an old childhood friend a few months ago. He has been blind his whole life. While talking with him he asked what I was doing with myself and I told him that I was a programmer. He mentioned that the internet has been a wonderful thing for him and that he used it regularly (the last time I saw him it wasn't really available to the public). I took the opportunity to ask if he could give me an example of website that he finds easily accessible. He told me the Radio New Zealand site. Kudos!
I think I stopped using bookmarks (other than 4 or 5 quick access buttons) some ten years ago, so I can relate.
That's the normal/traditional advantage of "brushed" motors vs synchronous motors, but the brushed motors have the massive disadvantage of having a mechanical contact (the brushes) that wear off, need to be sealed, etc. The advantage here is that it behaves like a brushed motor, but without the brushes!
Not the parent, but have been using on of these Hario cold brew coffee makers for years. Fill up the basket with ground coffee, add water, and let it sit in the fridge overnight. I agree with the parent, there is no need to use expensive beans for cold brew (although I do always grind my own beans). Black cold brew has a bit of a funny taste to me, but with a splash of milk it’s delicious.

https://www.amazon.com/Hario-Mizudashi-Coffee-1000ml-Brown/d...
The point is, sometimes you need a manager to keep the authoritarians and the servile classes, suitably lubricated. This guy pissed off someone who should know better, and eventually - thanks to middle management - did.

There are class lessons in the narrative. Still relevant.
500000 km^2 is a little less than the entire area of France, for anyone wondering.
You’re not only not kidding there can be wild disparities in opinion.

I have a type of bentgrass in my lawn (South Carolina, Transition Zone) lawn considered to be either a weedy grass or a desirable grass used on some golf courses. Of course, when I looked to buy seed for it this year to see about filling in some patches left by Po Annua I found it to cost several multiples of typical “proper” species (Bluegrass, Fescue)

So you have the gamut of worthless to worth-weight-in-gold depending on who bought them the house.
Will always be one of my favorite games. Perfectly combined my love of computer strategy games with CCGs and was just weird enough to keep me coming back.
> WW1 happens regardless of where germany exists or no

Maybe. It would’ve been a very different war between different nations for probably very different reasons, though.

> WW1 was a result of interests outside of germany.

I don’t see how can that be even remotely true.
If that was unavoidable, you'd see thousands of people on the streets of the five boroughs walking around with grease all over their arms and pants. Hilarious image.
I'd suggest that in future discussions you refrain from metaphors which use insulting connotations as it makes it difficult for the person to follow up without getting defensive. Perhaps try: 'you may not notice a difference, and I don't notice the difference between really good wine or mediocre wine, but there are people who can'.

I know this discussion is about a game, but lets not turn HN into a toxic gamer forum where we try to belittle each other and drop tech terms to gain cred.
The HiP '97 mentioned in that link is actually where I first learned it and stole it from lol.
Thunderf00t has a great video about how maddening distracting (read: stupid) these carbon capture project are:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mCnr0HwW28w

Not everyone likes his delivery, but he’s right more often than not.
> The much more common cases I see are the regexes that can be specified at run time

That's essentially what I acknowledged: when the regex is the interface.

From my point of view, my previous comment anticipated this critque already. The only real difference I can see is a disagreement about how common it is. We won't resolve that one.

I've been using regexes for decades. The number of times I've used look-around or even back-references can be counted on one hand. I can't even remember the last time I used it at all.
I've heard people mentioning biochar and similar processes of capturing carbon in the soil, do you know how viable it is? How much bang for the buck we could get from it? Is it a possible strategy when done in a decentralized manner all over the planet?
GABA Labs
> What if courts were lenient where the root cause is outside the defendant's control?

It wouldn't really matter for sleep-deprived truck drivers falling asleep at the wheel and crashing.
> definition is so vague as to be totally useless from a programming perspective. Avoid invoking UB, or all hell breaks loose.

How useful it is from a programming perspective is moot because this is the only possible definition if you want

a) A language that is powerful enough it can violate the invariants the compiler establishes and upholds in the runtime environment and then (necessarily) assumes are being upheld, and

b) any meaningful optimizations at all.

What's not reasonable in C is the extent to which stuff lazily gets shoved under the UB umbrella, but the concept itself is not avoidable if you give the programmer enough leeway to conjure up arbitrary pointers out of thin air (but even much less would necessitate UB).

What's vague to the extent of being totally useless from a specification perspective is the idea that you can "reason about" something that is undefined (and undefinable).

Sure, historically, the original authors had some vague concept of a "portable assembler" in mind. That was a mistake that got rectified since people most definitely wanted b). We have a distinction between "implementation-defined" and "undefined."
Nice story. I feel, there are times for taking initiative, being a go-getter. Then there are times when work is work, and if anything l, you train your fine motor skills and be content with that.
One datapoint: In 2022, I had an offer as engineer #2 at a venture backed startup in San Francisco for 1%. Not sure if this is typical, but I did some research at the time and it seemed about right.
I think that might be moot. A can conducts so well that I imagine it pretty much shares the temperature of the beverage at all times. So how much is the heat capacity of the can vs. the liquid? I’m betting the liquid is like 99% of it.
They have these laws in a movie called Chappie, which was indirectly an AGI.
Nice, that being said if the concern is complex config, there's always Caddy[1].

1 - https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy
> Emotions are basically very fast predictions by the brain

This predicts that basically ChatGPT has emotions.
Any reason to change the title so much?
>fine motor skills

I've got muscle-memory for DB9 and DB25, I can twist pairs for RJ45 in my dawn hours, I have scars with many more tales behind them, but I'm so happy to have put it all behind me now ... ;)

(Now I'm the grumpy guy who doesn't wanna change web frameworks every gronk season..)
I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race
Insightful, thanks! I was wondering about the pros and cons of Zig vs Rust, and your comment shines light on various angles. It confirms how I unconsciously felt about Zig, that it's a well-designed language which succeeds in reducing the complexity of concepts to learn, and achieves a good balance of simplicity, fun, power, and cleverness.
SQL Window Functions – Made Simple and Intuitive
SQL window functions is one of the advanced concepts, understanding which will give you the ability to do complex data wrangling and transformations in SQL.
The a chill pill, chillbill.
Hacking on “smu”, a Minimal Markdown Parser (2020)
Reads like it's not real straightforward or well documented for rust:

https://github.com/nginx/unit/issues/738
The distance of cask means I install everything with it.

Which is handy if I ever feel like wiping my Mac fresh and running a single command to install everything.
I was expecting this to be the conclusion at first, this ability to empathize and stay calm regardless of the other person's demeanor is a superpower.
That doesn’t make sense, at the same bitrate encoding frames with no dependency on previous frames can’t possibly look better or be the best the codec can offer, or there would be no reason for other frame types to exist
In the 8 minute video they link, you're looking for the commercial at t=179: https://youtu.be/Lv2l1JKuxxY?t=179

"tanned" here is "skin-tanned", as in "tanning salon". "host" there is like "hostess club hostess", but male. You can read what "host" means on the wikipedia page about those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_and_hostess_clubs#Host_cl...

Host club's hosts are often tanned, it's part of the stereotype. The beginning of the commercial shows him as a "host" (as can be seen by him being a host inside a host club, entertaining a woman), and the end shows him as a "tanned host".
They’re market makers. They can’t be entirely delta neutral. There are things called betting exchanges where you can buy and sell bets with other people, and those can be neutral if the operator doesn’t act as a market maker but then there are many situations where people won’t be able to place bets.
Transformers can and do forget.
Solve real challenges on SQL window functions, try to solve it hands on and check with the provided solutions.
I stumbled upon the StarCraft CD key thing myself after my sister broke my original CD and case. I had a ripped copy and tried a pattern until it worked. I was maybe 12 and didn't know what an ICQ was.
Alright, why do you think it’s not rude to leisure ride in the middle of a 55 mph road blocking dozens of cars?
The borrow checker is really at its happiest when your ownership and borrow structure is tree-like, so uni-directional references and ownership, because it's much easier to analyse.

If the ownership structure that gives the best performance for your problem is not tree-like, you will run into issues with the borrow checker. There are ways to tackle it: you could keep the non-tree-like structure and use reference counting and RefCells to move the borrow checking to runtime, or its possible you could use a less performant but tree-like structure that the borrow checker accepts, but both of these examples would come at a performance cost.

It's kinda hard to be more specific because it's heavily dependent on the exact problem.
Over 4B Affected by Internet Shutdowns Globally in First Half of 2023
I think that is extremely and increasingly common, and even if it wasn't it's not like history was just added for fun, it has uses too.
I don't have time for this. You clearly don't understand how science is done. Scientists propose hypotheses, the hypotheses are tested and rejected if falsified (there's your Popper).

Just because something isn't testable today doesn't mean it isn't tomorrow. Back in the 1970s black holes were little more than theories the concept that we could actually test for them physically would have been beyond belief. It would simply not have been comprehensible. Well, today we do.

I don't buy the multi-verse, I find it as stupid as you do as a proposition because by definition it can't be tested (AFAIK). The evolution of flight, watching an animal attempting to use its wings for other purposes such as wing assisted incline running (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing-assisted_incline_running), that's doable and to my knowledge has and is being done.

Like I said, I don't have time for this. You ain't going to learn anything from me, nor I from you given the woolyness of your posts and your unwillingness to propose something different/better. I'll stop here.

I read your posts on the future influence in the past. AFAIK this is being proposed at the quantum level, I'm not aware of anything 'higher up'.
> Because of all this effort, a motor without rare earth metals would only have to be nearly as good as the competition to still be a huge deal.

Even if it were not as good, getting rid of the dependency on rare-earth materials and their dirty supply chain is worth it.
Why should anyone stop China and India from making lives better for their people? Seems like the classic American mindset where they get to pour as much concrete as they’d like but when other countries try to do it, they start talking of the environment.
Technically, women can tolerate pain more than men due to higher estrogen levels.

> However, when estrogen levels are constantly elevated as in pregnancy, pain sensitivity is known to decrease (Ginzler 1980). The absence of estrogen has often been shown to result in an increase in pain sensitivity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2885587/#:~:tex....
I agree, I think print is very cool.
Think about it from a child's perspective.
One thing to have something generate on a screen.
An entirely new experience to get your book sent to your mailbox.
Ruby is a fantastic language and Rails gives lots of opportunities to go fast when adding new functionality to your product. The community is great and while there are different opinions about how to evolve Rails there is other frameworks like Hanami and libraries that don't need Rails.

In the end what matters is that you can produce the functions that make your product valuable to your customers. You need to Do it on a daily basis and always on time. Ruby on Rails helps you with that.

General advice: Do not choose the tech stack for generating your income by following fashion. It is a marathon and not a sprint after all.

I'm currently working in a Typescript environment that somebody choose for "reasons" (types, hiring,...) and I regret it every day. I'd go with Rails anytime.
Basically never vandalised (and always maintained, filled and working) even in the most isolated and rural places in Japan. I actually wonder about the economics of keeping a vending machine filled in some of the places I've been. How is it possible to have people driving miles to refill them and still make money.
By Serde's classification, `success: {}` is a textbook externally tagged representation.
I really didn't like this line of the article. "This stuff isn’t easy, and before we get to a world with zero traffic deaths, we’ll—briefly, I hope—have to increase the number of traffic deaths just a little. We feel really bad about that."

Reason being, while satire the rest could hold true. Mistakes will happen from cars, but mistakes happen from people anyway. Now this line quoted above is just incorrect. The average automated driver is going to cause many less deaths and the average human driver. That is the thing that is so frustrating about this type of talk putting down automated driving. Automated driving (from my understanding) is already safer than human driving, we just don't accept deaths from automated driving but we do from human driving.

The line seems more correct if it was written: "This stuff isn’t easy, and before we get to a world with zero traffic deaths, we’ll—briefly, decrease the number of traffic deaths, but not to zero and mistakes will be made. We feel really bad about that."

That is certainly a more true statement than the one in the article.
That distinction is meaningless. The compiler controls the instructions it generates for the hardware.
I’ve heard a lot about the potential of the Salton Sea regarding producing the “world’s greenest lithium”. I wonder how this compares.