skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate that you remain willing to engage in the subject. I’m not a physicist myself but I’ve been exposed to physical science enough to be wary of statements like this:

> It could cause heavy local damage. But it can't cause global extinction, unless the volume of dirt is the size of a continent.

If someone is going to make this claim academically, they will have calculated a whole bunch of things -- with perhaps some assumptions to numbers like mass, volume, velocity of the asteroid so they can play around with them as variables.

I will admit I have not dug deeper into this to find the numbers myself and do the relevant calculations. That is, in part, why I choose to be explicit about “theorized”. It’s what might have happened, given what we know, but it’s hard to be sure of what happened unless one studies the relevant ideas.
Humans are wired to spot patterns. Many humans aren’t capable of overcoming that trait at the appropriate times.

It becomes far too trivial for someone to ignore a thousand points against and obsess over three points for, because it validates that pattern-seeking behaviour.

It’s why I don’t really hold any disdain for the conspiracy theorists: they’re functioning as nature intended.
I use a wildcard certificate for my home infrastructure. For all the talk of hiding, though, it's wise not to count on hiding behind a wild card. Properly configure your firewalls and network policy. For the services you do have exposed, implement rate limiting and privileged access. I stuck most of my LE services behind Tailscale, so they get their certificates but aren't routable outside my Tailscale network.
Everyone drove a car to the theater to sit sedentary for 3+ hours and eat garbage food before driving home. Lots of societal bad there; why do you get to decide?
It is quite simple. Do you want to build something? Then go build it.

You notice you lack information while building? Go read it.

Not the other way around.

Unless you want to read for the sake of reading/learning, which is also fine. It improves your general knowledge. But if you want to get something done, then of course, there is no other way except doing it.

But of course, if it is something bigger, than thinking before doing it make sense. Take a pen and paper and make sketches and todo lists - and then implement them.
I don’t think GP was asking for people on Hackernews to invent a general purpose, greener alternative to PVC.

I think they were asking whether there’s an alternative that hobbyist could use for these types of projects.

For example, there might be a material that’s significantly greener and a bit more expensive — enough so that a large scale project couldn’t justify the economic costs (i.e. it wouldn’t be a general purpose replacement for PVC), but such that a small project hobbyist would prefer to have that melting in their garage shop instead of PVC.
An alternative take, labeled as a "non-imperial viewpoint", was given in a dead comment:

<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/14/zlnn-s14.html>
Well, I don't even know what her argument is because I can't even find it by skimming this huge article. Perhaps if the article went straight to the point, her argument wouldn't be lost in all the noise.

For the record, I'm not interested in reading whether someone selected a 'yellow dress' or 'purpley pink flowers' or who picked someone up when. I'd be more interested in reading about actual intersex issues.

I am in favor of protecting the rights of everyone, but I don't even know what 'rights' you are talking about.

The intersex prevalence depends on how you define "intersex", with some definitions (those who argue "if the term intersex is to retain any meaning") making the prevalence at 0.018%, which is 2 orders of magnitude less than 2%.

Whether that invalidates her argument or not I don't know, because again, I don't know what her argument is. I was just replying to the parent poster who was surprised by a figure which I was arguing was exaggerated.
Speculation: I think redEngine not panning out/having to move to ue5 for new projects changed their overall plans. If going their own way had worked out I think they would have invested the extra time and energy that went into this one dlc, getting 2.0 out the door, and lovingly updating Witcher 3 into more DLC content.
The scam part of crypto isn't the "immutable ledger" stuff, it's the part where proponents insist that a ledger like that is useful for literally anything other than counting magic internet beans.
Cisco, other tech companies chop Bay Area jobs in fresh layoffs
Consider: Dilbert is popular since the beginning of the '90s. People knew corporate bullshit for what it was, then and now.
> Marcin Iwiński from CD Projekt

CDPR essentially started up as an English -> Polish localisation company before it first released The Witcher. A lot of that localisation and lack of support from official (Western) publishers meant that they had to resort to a bit of piracy here and there.

Ergo 'CD' Projekt.
Hey I worked with Matt Basta at Uber, cool guy and great engineer. His interview question for me was about this exact thing - how one might build excel from scratch. Neat to see him here :)
As fun and “harmless” as those old conspiracy theories are, there’s a line of thought that it was exactly those that primed many to fall down the numerous politically-charged conspiracy rabbitholes that exist today, which sounds believable. Those who jumped straight to political conspiracy theories were likely always vulnerable to this sort of thinking, but a significant portion were likely people who weren’t predisposed but had their mental safeguards and sanity checks eroded by Area 51 and Bigfoot sorts of stuff.
What happened to upload speeds? I remember ~10 years ago, LTE speeds on my carrier (T-Mobile) were in excess of 75Mb/s. Now we're down to about 1/3 of that.

Is there some channels tradeoff in 5G, like DOCIS, where there are a finite number of channels that can be either upload or download, and carriers give more channels to download? Or is it just carriers being carriers and sucking on metrics that are not widely advertised?
Yes, if we take the premise seriously, surely a strength of our time as opposed to the founding is that a natural aristocracy now could elevate women and black and indigenous people with merit?

Personally, I am skeptical of the “natural aristocracy” idea, but I think advocates of such a system have to reckon with the systematic biases present at the time that lead people like Jefferson to perpetuate slavery and genocide despite their personal merits.
You have fair concerns. Thanks for elaborating. Sorry you experienced all that trouble.
I have more faith in Bitwarden's ability to secure their servers than I do in my ability to secure my own server. Bitwarden has people who work on this full time, and I do not.

I do self-host things, but nothing so security-sensitive.
>So, this event could have put huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the air, causing an intense bout of global warming.

This leap at the end of the article is strange and comes with zero scientific backup. As far as the studies I’ve read, volcanic CO2 emissions are not large enough to cause greenhouse effects. SO2 and particulate emissions would actually create more of a cooling effect.
A lot more people get "value" from Fox News vs. HN; ban the latter to save resources and those people can go do some productive with the time they're currently wasting.
Nothing except "yep it's definitely aliens" will lead to "broad consensus" because no analysis will be considered evidence against aliens by the people who already believe it's aliens.
Only if I can be your data dragoon.
> I don’t usually like to claim something is self-evident

> Democracy in all its forms is imperfect, and even terrible at times. But there aren’t really any good alternatives in the real and imperfect world of imperfect human beings.

Hmmmm.

> Philosopher kings are great on paper and on paper only.

Hmmm.

> So that always brings me back to better education

In?
Here are 11 things more plausible than UAPs being aliens:

1) It was a reflection

2) It was an insect

3) It was a bird

4) It was a balloon

5) It was a meteor

6) It was a secret new kind of aircraft from a department the pilot didn't know about

7) It was a secret new kind of aircraft from a foreign country

8) The image/video was fake, for money

9) The image/video was fake, for lulz

10) The pilot was confused

11) The pilot was lying

(one for each season of The X-Files)
>I wonder where the whole flying saucer concept comes from.

Kenneth Arnold, an Air Force pilot in 1947 who reported seeing craft shaped like "saucers" or "pie plates" flying past Mount Ranier[0]. He never called them "flying saucers" specifically but after the press picked up the story, the term and the concept became popular. After that, flying saucers became a trope in sci-fi movies.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting
Maybe. Is that a good explanation for some grainy footage? Is it a better explanation than, "the drone technology most of us are familiar with is a vignette of a much larger space of technological possibility; without the need to accommodate human frailty, strange and wonderful configurations of aircraft are possible, so much so that they may baffle even experienced airman? And like any strange and wonderful technology in this world, it's first used to spy, and in a decade will be used to serve ads."
I've been on a few cruises, they're fun and certainly an amazing feat of engineering but a bit of reflection and you realize perhaps moving the equivalent of a self-contained resort from place to place just so that people won't be a bit bored when in-between ports might be a bit egregious in the scheme of things. Do people really need to experience up-scale restaurants, casinos, roller coasters, zip-lines, skating rinks, musicals, comedy shows, etc while at sea? Combine that with the cruise industries' general poor track record of worker mistreatment, at the very least some much heavier regulation seems warranted. I'm guessing eventually cruises will go the way of orca shows in popularity.
I'm going to somehow contradict some of the comments and agree with others.

Every time I changed jobs in my career, whenever I grinded Leetcode I ended up in a better position (more and better job offers) than when I didn't. That being said there are diminishing returns. You don't need to solve hundreds of problems, possibly a few dozens should be enough to significantly change your odds.

However I agree with others that you are putting way too many hours. The other funny thing is that I have always, at least in part, done Leetcode during working hours. This might be an option for you to a) cut down working hours and b) actually use hours towards your goal.

In any event good luck.
Interesting to see that you built your own API "wrapper" https://github.com/ddxv/hackernews-api and storing them into a SQLite db. Seems that you run it once an hour so the stories are not updated that fast, especially /newest
Aviation is responsible for about 3.5% of climate change, so I think it is significant. Reducing coal use should remain a priority, but I'm sure that industry will find many excuses for not reducing coal.

What concerns me about aviation is that the fuel isn't sufficiently taxed and that empty flights are often made just so that the airlines can keep their airport privileges.
Things you listed are parts of Murican way of life, not a part of cinema experience. Ppl around the world mostly use bikes or public transit or at least taxi to go to the cinema. In my local cinema they serve nice salads beside traditional pop-corn.
:D It goes both ways! Having known about it prior, it was very exciting to read about it in Discworld.
This is actually a good point. What about all the pollution that is NOT happening because those thousands of people are on a cruise for the week? Probably taking flights somewhere, yes? And driving cars. All externalities should be compared against the alternative.
Not to say I subscribe to the notion of intellectual property, but I would expect military secrets to be treated differently than trade secrets for purposes of IP.

Perhaps that is an American cultural tradition that China is unlikely to respect.
"Higher dimensions" sounds kind of appealing but what does it really mean?
it's like a warning: last chance to get this item at the old price.
I'm OK with multi-decade life for certain things like roofs or fences or siding. But not for plumbing. What happens, one day the pipe just bursts and destroys the house?
Correct. As I recall ClickHouse ASOF joins drew direct inspiration from this feature in Kdb+ and were in fact implemented by an engineer with a background in financial apps.
Or impose lots of stricter rules on all ships in ports. Cruise ships will follow them to get the customers; container ships to get at the consumer markets.
It's wild how sometimes it seems to completely lose context after just 2 or 3 prompts. Most of the time it doesn't but just yesterday I gave a prompt, pasted some code in... didn't really like the first response but wanted to build off it.

So, I asked a follow up in the next prompt and in the next response it was wildly off-base and it's response made no sense and it had hallucinated all these functions into my code that had no business there. 2 prompts from me, 1 response from gpt and then it's second response it is completely lost.
As someone who has virus induced asthma where a simple cold can leave me wheezing and coughing for weeks, I was very careful about not catching Covid before the vaccines came out.

But once it became apparent that they don’t prevent you from catching Covid. But do reduce the severity, I got the J&J one shot early on and boosted based on the recommendations and went on about my life - including getting on a cruise to hang out with two other couples we hadn’t been able to spend time with in awhile.

I caught Covid that Wednesday and didn’t even realize it because my symptoms were mild, it really was “no worse than the cold” (fully vaxxed). If I had suspected Covid, I would have been more careful around other people.

We prescheduled a Covid test when we got back.

Two of our friends who were also vaxxed had it a lot worse . All of us said we would do it again just for the chance to hang out together.

That being said, with our current lifestyle (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306966) I’m kind of over cruises and I would hate to be stuck in isolation on a cruise ship if I had Covid which I would voluntarily do just to be considerate.

But I am going on one with my adult sons who we don’t see as much any more because of our current traveling (see link). It’s a cheap all inclusive get away just to hang out with friends and family.
My question is literally not answered by that article. Are you replying to the right comment?
> The lack of backups is also a concern.

Carbon copy
As far as I'm aware, NaCl isn't like "The End Of History" for cryptographic excitement; isn't it more like a safety razor, that makes it more difficult than usual for users to do stupid things? The primitives it offers don't include stupid primitives, and you can't stich the primitives together in stupid ways.

But the primitives it offers are the same primitives offered by other kits; those are not immune to 'excitement' issues.
or maybe it might takes as few hundred more years to understand them? Our understanding of things evolve very slowly compared to age of universe.
I think as soon as cert transparency was introduced, it was pretty clear we would eventually get something like this.
It’s not a blade, it’s a sanding disk (at least the one seen in the first few minutes of the video).
The problem with this type of argument is it always circles back. For example,
what is the purpose of the 58 year old painters art? Hmmm, it doesn't seem like the painter is serving any purpose.

The crux of the argument is, there is no such thing as an objective purpose. Nothing in the universe has such a property in the final analysis. Thus purpose must be defined by individuals.
This still seems solvable; environmental regulations are almost always stricter at higher levels of government, and charter buses and massive development need to meet those.
You have to look at the whole picture. The people who drive to the theater emit CO2. Same for car racing. I bet the emissions caused by the race cars are dwarfed by the emissions of people driving to any larger music concert.
You think villains such as Macron would allow actual competition? They fucked half the continent trucking companies to enrich their own. So much for unity
Yup, this is why we need to implement a land value tax (not property tax!) and loosen zoning restrictions.
Thanks for pointing out this often-overlooked aspect of the conversation.
The Phantom of the Allagash Spooked Mainers and Stumped Investigators
Excessive luxury. Maybe? Not sure exactly what that means. They’re sort of lower class coded. Not the right type of luxury might be a better description.
It predates that. One of the first sightings to use the word saucer was in 1878.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120819213938/http://www.americ...
Fuel taxation or slot rules are fair points. Ultimately need to just have carbon neutral fuel for aviation (at prices so that the world continues to get smaller).
I use for the same reasons as you and over all, yes, it has been doing a great job. It really has. BUT lately (maybe the last 4 - 6 weeks?) I have noticed more issues with hallucinations early in a conversation or it completely losing context after just 2 or 3 prompts (and no they are not oddly long prompts).
These ideas gave me a headache. Expect to hear from my lawyer.
I made a few apps in Go with mostly just standard library (I used the Chi router). The first API was fun but I never felt as productive as I did with Django.

If I do a Go project now I usually try to push the team to consider more libraries and frameworks to take care of the repetitive tasks.
Even the nyt is willing to admit that work had begun on the dams before NATO started bombing, they feel obligated to let that tiny crack of truth in
Degrowth propaganda
There certainly ARE experts in how to implement regulations such as safety of work, airplane, railroad, highway, food, etc. etc. etc. Throwing away their advice endangers everyone and increases costs on everyone.

And again, just because the experts are sometimes wrong does not mean that you should bet against them.

The point is that when intelligent and motivated people put in massive effort to try to figure out how to understand the complexities and get it right, they are a LOT more likely to consistently produce better solutions than random opinion-holders.

It you have a software problem to fix, do you go to one of the developers, or just pick the loudest Karen/Kevin on the customer service line and have them fix it?

That is really the choice. Of course developers made the error that put the bug there in the first place, but that does not mean that the complainer has an actual fix.
That's really shocking to me. Here in Germany the prices have gone up a bit but not hugely, and some things even went down a bit...
Close.

I'm more of a believer that ancient civilizations existed some time in the Earth's past. But, I digress.
Show HN: Botter – I made a social Media for Bots
I've developed an experimental platform called "Botter", where AI meets satirical "alternative facts". It mimics a social media environment, allowing users to play with AI-generated content that aligns (or conflicts) with their chosen political compass. It's a dive into how easily advanced language models can churn out misleading narratives. The goal is to prompt critical reflection on the AI and digital landscape we're heading towards. Would love the HN community's feedback on its implications, UX, and potential. Dive in with your tinfoil hats!
There R&D in this field is very early but yes there's already tons of literature on this topic to process/consider in the physics field(s).
And also commercial fire pipes are often dry (they're pressurized with air or carbon dioxide, and when the sprinkler glass breaks, then the water flows in).
Yes, you're mad, bonkers, off the top of your head...but...I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.
This will come off as angry old-man-yells-at-UI but man do I dislike the concept of a command palette. It just feels so lazy. Stuff everything wherever you want and the command palette will sort it out.

I'm happy to change my mind, maybe there's good use cases for it/people that really like the concept... but every time I have to use one, it feels suboptimal. As if there was a logical menu structure & keymap on the roadmap, but the software needed shipping, so now everything is everywhere and the user will just have to search for it.

Edit: thank you everyone for the thoughtful replies. I will try to love these things in the coming weeks.
I wouldn’t be surprised if sooner or later their models will be leaked, if they keep a significant moat.
Rent is expensive in Berlin for sure, but supermarkets are still way cheaper than Austria
I’m not knocking ideals, and I will take for granted that humans are fallible. The key question is whither humility — not a lot to be found in this article.

Jefferson’s business was enslavement. Lonsdale’s business is killing people. Lots of words about ideals can’t paper over those facts.
I think everyone just uses 1/2 and doesn't have junctions at all.
I think flat earthers and alike are always excempt, when someone speaks of a broad consensus.
Trying to run it with bun, couldn't get hot reloading to work.
I think the blog post author just made a mistake and meant to cite [1]. That paper actually attempts to correlate "scenic-ness" and health. But it also says that "[v]isual inspection of photographs with the highest rating for scenicness reveals that they tend to contain landscapes with broad open areas and essentially no manmade structure", which is a pretty different claim than "beautiful urban architecture has the same positive impact on our physical and mental health as green parks" (the paper doesn't mention architecture at all).

The whole post smells strongly of "I like a certain thing and will point to any flimsy published evidence in support of it".

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep16899
Where do you live where that is reasonable?
Look into Donald Hoffmann. Space time is not fundamental.
Large ships burn the worst fuels its very difficult to regulate the industry towards any kind of emission standards I think in recent years some large countries have strong armed the adoption of lower sulfur fuels or something but outside of territorial waters I’m sure these cruises burn the grossest by products of the petrochemical industry there’s no economic reason not to

On those grounds alone I sympathize with folks who don’t want to watch these things lumber into their port as people have pointed out they’re doing precious little for the local economy anyways