skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn’t, but quite many people actually fly to and from the the cruise’s start harbor and destination. Medium haul passenger flights tend to by around 180-200 g CO2 per passenger km, so (surprising to many) less then a single occupant car. If your cruise passenger would instead fly to every single of the cruise’s stop, they can actually expect to emit less.

However this kind of detailed analysis is out of scope for me personally. I don’t have the means to do excessive research factoring in various alternatives (and if I did I—as a non-expert—I would risk overfitting). For example a tourist arriving on an airplane is likely to stay in a hotel connected to the electricity grid, which is more likely to be fare more efficient and less carbon intensive than a cruise ship generating the onboard power with heavy fuel oil.

I can, on the other hand, do a rudimentary ‘sniff test’ and locate easy to find data for what is going to be the biggest—perhaps even the overwhelming—factor, the emissions of the transport it self. And as such the claim that: “[we should consider] all the pollution that NOT happening because those thousands of people are on a cruise for the week” miserably fails. Looking into the emissions of an average cruise ship tells us the story that—to the contrary—we need NOT consider this.
Climate change or anthropogenic climate change is a starting point for this issue.

We have had climate change since day one of earth. We can see it in the charts, data, etc. the issue is how much impact do the humans contribute?

If people were serious about carbon footprint, nuclear power plants would be built. But we are not serious, instead we have grifting policies that lead to wasted solutions: Solyndra, wind farms, solar farms, etc.

Then on top of all of this, the people in charge find ways to encourage coal, look at how Germany and the rest of the first worlds tried to bankrupt Pakistan by driving up the price of natural gas. Pakistan, China, and every country who saw that are going with coal.

The people who say climate denialism should not be tolerated are not serious about what they propose, because their solutions are not based in reality.
Would it provide useful/interesting results if the similarity search was global? E.g. find me neighborhoods in London most similar to this one in Chicago?
Realistically, I don’t see how anyone could EVER pass a law saying humans can’t drive where other cars can. Americans (I’m one!) seem far too independently minded, in the sense of wanting to be in control themselves.

Even if you could get 90% on board, the other 10% will fight to the death over it.

Which means the benefits of a 100% automated system (which I disagree with BTW), can’t be reached except possibly after a VERY long time when enough anti-robos have changed their minds/died out.
The contract should have been fixed price, not given a portion of the fees to them indefinitely.
Looks cool, but until YoLink has local network support, I'm going through the cloud no matter what, might as well just use the cloud.
That is technically an example, but I think it also proves OP's point. Faced with a clear, public, and well-understood conspiracy, the theorists can't accept the demonstrated facts. For the surface truth to be the actual truth is intensely unsatisfying and disempowering. There must be something more and deeper to it, always.
They finally found a way to make a US gun violence map that didn't show the most gun violence in the places with the strictest laws
Almost everyone who uses python would say they're programming (or 'scripting') - but very few people who do very similar things in Excel would say the same.

Excel is like Factorio or Minecraft, you end up "automating" things you were doing by hand and it doesn't "feel" programatic, and you can very easily "peek and poke" the memory of the "program" as you go along.

Hypercard (and maybe Flash, I never used either) might be somewhere in-between, but closer to Excel.

Powerpoint is almost programmable, but nobody uses it that way.

(There's a similar disjuncture amongst the Linux/Mac users where they will write bash/zsh scripts but not count it as programming.)
The toy example for those curious:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int i;
int a[2000] ;
for(i = 0; i < 2000; i++){
a[i] = i ;
}
printf("%d\n", a[5]);
}

This program initializes an array `a` of size 2000, populates it with integers from 0 to 1999, and then prints the value at index 5, which is 5.

Just as with the Python program, we can optimize this program significantly. Given that we're only interested in the sixth element (index 5) of the array, we don't need to construct and populate the entire array.

Here's an optimized version of the code:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
printf("%d\n", 5);
}
What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand
I thought so as well but then in the article it says that only like 91% of the code even compiles.
You work from home... why not move out of the overcrowded urban hell? You'll probably save some money as a bonus.
So let’s talk about this Wayland thing
I'm in rural Australia and have several firearms, they're tools for feral animal control, my neighbour shoots ULR targets at 5,000 yards (not a typo), and 12 year olds can join a gun club.

(ie. recheck any odd notions you might have about gun bans in Australia)

Stricter gun laws, more complicated laws aren't the answer - simple clear uniform gun laws, equally reinforced will do the job.

Unfortuneately the very nature of the (un)United States seems predestined to never enact uniform laws wrt firearms let alone maintain an up to date central register of information etc.
But when I tried to get it to remove the dependency on studio.h, it said that’s too hard. Might have gone further with a more reasonable request I guess. Also not necessary as gcc does that anyway.
Japan and Australia have vastly better healthcare (esp the public healthcare), safety, political stability, housing markets and climate.

Australia also has better purchasing power, Japan about the same as Sweden. (=poor)

Both fare worse in higher education, gender equality, generous parental leave systems.

I'd imagine Canada is similar to Australia, beating Sweden overall. But it depends on what you value.
It was this way, my yearly comp is whatever they offered me. What my recruiter makes is not my business, and I just assumed that they took a cut.

I misspoke when I said "Maybe I did understand", I meant, "Maybe I did MISunderstand" :) Thanks for your response.
Agreed. Better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.
> NIMBYs get in the way of building the lanes that already have demand and funding.

We have decades of experience showing building more lanes just induces more demand and the problem gets worse.

But we keep doing it. Because it sounds like it should work.
you're looking at this from a very narrow perspective in terms of use case... one of my favorite climbing areas near me(shelf road) became a reservation through rec.gov only campground. I used to show up on Saturday morning, pay $7 for one night to camp, and leave Sunday afternoon after my 2nd day of climbing.

as of 2 years ago rec.gov took over and kept the same $7/night rate but added an $8 service fee.

it's complete bullshit for those of us who regularly use government recreational services.
From the article BA is locked in till 2027 and fees are now over 120%.

How are such long term and open contracts given to private companies a great example of capitalism?
You would need to change your entire society to fix that. I don't have those issues where I live because people for some reason don't do those things.
That they are building their design using discrete parts which is not a modern way thing to synthesize logic to.
That just tells me the price is wrong.
I did a bit of googling to see if I could find a decent civilian introduction to "how to write a SAT solver" but everything I found were papers assume quite a bit of previous knowledge. Is there a good source where one could learn a bit about how to write a basic SAT solver and how to improve on it?
Doesn’t load for me
I believe that my firm only does Chicago, but there are similar firms that contacted me that were for NY based companies.
Scraping the NSA's Job Listings
It was 1991's Turbo C++ 3.0 (they merged Turbo C and Turbo C++ with that product) that had syntax highlighting and code folding, so it wasn't the 80s :-). Hard to believe, but Turbo C came out in 1987 and was pretty primitive. I seem to remember the early version of Turbo C would just hard stop on the first syntax error. Fun times.
Wow, I was initially very enthusiastic about lout, and I still think it had some good ideas. I just remember the templates not being as easily hacked/tweaked as (La)TeX, and the advice was generally "accept how it already works" when people asked how to adjust things. Not a good sign. Also I remember--at least I think I do--that the source files had arbitrary f01.c f02.c f03.c names, so it was hard to guess where anything was. That was strange.
Doesn’t load.

God damn it Elon. Twitter is so fucking annoying to deal with now.
Terrible! But I would still feel the same about this:

> Vote with your engine choice, not death threat.

Wouldn't you?
Thanks I was unaware of that, but I use AdGuard and Quad9.
> Most developers making these decisions now will be close to a 100yo in 2199.

We're giving people too much responsibility too young.
Previous discussions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33835815 (237 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33789501 (25 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35475280 (17 comments)
Balwani was convicted of defrauding patients though.
I perhaps misunderstood that they get a small life time cut of my salary. You may be right that they get a bigger percentage of yearly, but as a lump sum, just of the first year.
We said you can’t have horse drawn buggies on highways, I don’t see why you couldn’t have a similar rule for automated vehicles 50 years from now.
FYI for the author:

> Chrome was built from scratch by Google, while Safari was originally derived from the KDE project's Konqueror browser engine, KHTML.

This isn’t correct. Chrome’s engine, Blink, was forked in 2013 from WebKit, the engine used by Safari which was itself forked from KHTML.
That's just silly. Creation and submission of fake CVs was never an obstacle before. It was always super easy, and AI changes nothing significant. The reason most job applicants are fairly honest is that any major lies are likely to be discovered during the interview and background check process.
How much garden you would need to survive on
The same part as the part of "pet" that's eluding you, apparently.
Of course. If automated driving was the only way you could get around it would make no sense to get your own vehicle.
From the title alone I certainly understand the issue, but this looks like news on said subject I understand, which I would like to read.
Southern California? Time to buy some solar panels!
> I find it hard to believe we will ever [...] care what femtosecond an event happened at

GNSS satellites require precise clocks to accurately calculate ranges. Signals travel at the speed of light so small imprecisions result in large errors: timing differences of one millisecond produce about 300 kilometers of error in distance measurements. It seems GPS satellites have clocks accurate to within 40 nanoseconds. One nanosecond gives around 30 cm of error, 40 nanoseconds would give about 12 meters.

Picosecond resolution would bring those errors down to the millimeter and micrometer ranges. Femtosecond resolution would bring the errors down to nanometers.
Good headphones and LoFi? Starlink + VanLife? Move to the desert where they don't need to run lawnmowers and leaf blowers.
Is that really relevant? CloudFormation is just another primitive at this point.

It's not much different from high-level code compiling down to machine code. The benefit of writing high level code isn't that machine code is entirely gone. The benefit is instead that as a user you can mostly forget that machine code exists.
There are solutions to those problems other than robotaxis.

Perhaps we should solve those issues directly instead of finding a way to ignore them by paying investors money.
I dislike they’ve confounded suicide and assault, yet again. The point of collecting and presenting data like this is to understand the problem and those two sources of “gun violence” (a political weasel word) have very different reasons for existing. Because of this the solutions must look different but without seeing the categorical error only one broad solution will be presented. Chances are it will do little or nothing because it is not actually a solution to the individual issues.
They are presently being ordered at gunpoint to redesign their hardware, but I can see how some people might consider that a win, given the right combination of drugs and talk therapy.

Turning Lightning over to the USB Forum could have prevented this. Lightning is good enough to supplant the mediocre USB C connector, but it's not good enough on its own to sell phones.
I recall a movie/video, I believe Sir John Gielguud was the pope, and in it he said he had a duty as a 'preserver of history', basically saying it's more important that the church doesn't get destroyed by the nazis than saving the jews.

-------------------------------

AH was born a catholic, raised a catholic, died a catholic and has never been excommunicated, btw.

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Here's a joke about the Holocaust:

A jew dies and goes to heaven. He gets to meet and talk to God.

"Is there anything you want to ask?" says God.

"I don't know. Maybe, did you hear the joke about the Holocaust?"

"No, what is it?"

"You wouldn't get it. You had to be there."
I continue to find joy in seeing that others are passionate about the old Mac era. It's a lot of fun to see people cataloging Apple history on their own and restoring old machines.
I guess awarding the original water rights might now be seen as a subsidy, in the same way as giving away land for homesteading, but that happened a long time ago. That’s not an ongoing subsidy.
My home office is nearly silent save for when my cat is hungry. Double-paned windows make a huge difference. So does having an office that doesn't face out onto the street.

I'd love to know the opposite - how do people manage to get focused at the office? Offices seem to be full of unavoidable visual and aural distractions.
Lifetime cut? Hell, I'd be a recruiter if they got a lifetime cut, imagine working for a few years then retiring as other people pay for you indefinitely. No, they get a commission off of the first year's salary.
The idea that execs did not see this coming is well - ok may be I am too old think this was not planned.
I made this site mainly to link to stuff I like

http://squidleafs.xyz
Ask HN: Old Folks with Unix Skills
A minor annoyance for some of us older folk is seeing so many "digital help" courses for seniors. All too often the spiel implies something like this: "You grew old before digital devices became ubiquitous. Learn how to operate a smartphone or tablet, go online, send emails, share photos, shop online, join social media..."

Actually, some of us grew old while digital devices became ubiquitous. We've been using digital devices for decades. The teenager who was programming in BASIC on a microcomputer is now in her 60s. That grey-haired 70-something might have been using UNIX at work every day in the 1980s.

What grates about the "digital-help-for-seniors" programs is that they offer only a tiny subset of the learning we did and are still doing. For some of us, the nicest feature of general-purpose computing in the 2020s is the survival and ready availability of the command line, so we can do end-runs around complicated GUIs to get work done digitally.

If you're one of the seniors to whom that last comment makes sense, do you think an online organisation of like-minded people sounds interesting? It doesn't exist yet, but I suggest calling it OFUS - Old (Folks/Farts) with Unix Skills. For starters, email me at unix@datafix.com.au.

FYI, I'm 77 and still work every day in a BASH shell (as a data auditor).
Arguably, RV32I is "only the instructions that are relevant for CS students taking a computer architecture class", judging by the history in its earliest published spec [0].

[0] https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2011/EECS-2011-...
There is, for sure, a small learning curve, but for professionals that do lots of calculations day to day, it can save
time for them, specially with variables and reusing a previous result. This can then act like a simple spreadsheet, where you can play with numbers and see the results updating on the entire page.
Another advantage of Hissab over traditional calculators or even google search is the ability to see all your expressions at the same time as compared to alternatives where you can only do one line of calculations at a time and results disappear when performing another calculations.

Hissab is launched recently. Soon, I will be introducing the ability to calculate complex number, solve equations, calculus, probabilities, compound units etc on the Math side. also lot more calculations for computer science like IP address calculations, various hash algorithms calculators and many other features.

This will eventually become the all in one calculator to calculate anything.
Again, small learning curve, but beyond that it can save a lot of time for professionals and students.

Generative AI is quite bad a doing math and I would not believe the results it "guesses".

Mathematica and wolfram are in a different pricing tier, so hissab is like a poor man's mathematica.
In my experience north american apartments have terrible noise insulation
I live in a major metro city and wfh. I found an apartment with thick walls in a quiet yet walkable neighborhood. Maybe I was lucky.
I deal with this, have sound sensitivity & ADHD (I cannot tune out sounds). I wear noise protection ear muffs, the kind you use at the range, over some noise cancelling ear buds. Can barely hear anything but the focus music I play.
It already has, if by low end professional you mean low end dslrs in general. The low end of dslrs was largely a way to get good quality images for your typical non professional person. Tourist, enthusiast, etc. Nowadays, why bother? Good phone cameras have been plenty good for many years, and much more portable.

I don't think they'll likely ever replace professional gear, since any tech in phones can easily be applied to cameras on a larger scale... it just eats into the market more and more until professional is the only market left.
Yes I always try reading articles before coming to the comments for the archive link. This is paywalled. https://ibb.co/x8T9xSh

Thank you for the brief rundown, but that actually does interest me.
They blew it right from the start. I loved my Apple ][ and was excited when Apple introduced the Mac. But I looked at it, and it was impossible to write software for it unless you had access to a Lisa. (A few companies had products like "Hippo C" but you couldn't write a GUI app in it!) I thought that a computer you couldn't write your own software for was obscene.

So I switched to the IBM-PC and never looked at Macs again.
Thank you.I used the share link button so it is odd that it got buried
True actual driving aspect can be optimized if all cars were self driving (traffic lights could be handled via negotiation between each car at an intersection, traffic on ring roads could get into a more train-like arrangements, etc…). It’s unlikely to happen in the states anytime soon, but it is something that could happen in cities with really messed up traffic but lots of money; eg some Chinese cities, where normal cars have little care about ambulances already.
The How and Why of ST2 (InScript 2022) [video]
How about people who remember RSTS/E or VM/CMS? (Guess we all switched to POSIX or Windows since those are the only games in town)
Not the author, but I am trying to replicate it[1] without looking at the code (so sort of blackboxing it)

If you just want the javascript file (195 lines of code), let me know too

I'm currently working on Simulation 15

[1]: https://github.com/ldd/economy-test/tree/master
I live in an apartment in so cal in a pretty expensive suburb. apartments are just miserable places, i dont think there is a way around. Im just looking for a good opportunity to move. idk what else you can do. density sucks, people suck.

I really dont understand what compels people to listen to music constantly on full volume. from their cars and apartments. 7am full volume and bass spanish music? why...
40 hour work weeks didn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a number than unions fought for. That number can change.
They do..login.gov is probably the best current example and is ever expanding usage throughout federal sites. But GSA has also been under the microscope in the past couple years. Login.gov has received a lot of flak. They’re unlikely to take on another big “build it and they will come” project like a reusable reservation system. They make money off other agencies and those agreements need to be signed before the work starts..

Now all that said..contractors work on login.gov too and are prob the majority of the staff now!
Presumably GitHub/GitLab support is coming, but this is quite a limited product at the moment. It doesn’t even support their own Cloud Source Repositories.

You can version the Terraform configuration, either in a public Git repository or in a Cloud Storage bucket. Use Object Versioning to version configurations in a storage bucket.

https://cloud.google.com/infrastructure-manager/docs/overvie...
You’re talking about buildings that hide subway ventilation shafts and power substations[1]. People would rather live next to creepy than ugly.

[1] https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/new-york-fake-facades/
"But the pope’s involvement with the Resistance went much further than acting as a conduit. Via Müller and a network of German Jesuits, Pius was directly involved in no less than three plots to kill Hitler."

https://historyforatheists.com/2019/05/the-great-myths-7-hit...
Road pricing ideally works by dynamically having different prices for different roads and time of day, depending on load, in order to make traffic flow at all times.

Gas tax and registration fees are intended to pay for road maintenance, which is also useful, but are way too primitive and unfocused for this purpose.
What about when ai agents start impersonating people, and start asking for handouts that they can spend on their own compute ?
Long term, communalist view: activism to reduce noise pollution for everyone. Leaf blowers, unmuffled engines, car and airplane traffic in general; I am bothered by these things, too, and I'm guessing all this noise we generate bothers other animals as well.

Reducing or even just slowing ship traffic would help cetaceans hunt, communicate, and, presumably, get enough sleep.

Short term, selfish view: double-pane windows, air conditioning since your windows will be closed, wall hangings for soundproofing- make your office a recording studio and that might help.
Linux did.
ChatGPT has arrived, and it's changing the landscape of education whether we like it or not.

While educators, developers, and entrepreneurs are leading most of the conversation around AI in education, one voice seems to be underrepresented—that of the students.
Similar how? Geographically? Climate? Population?
300 motorcycles is not a small collection, should go for 8 figures. Wish I could attend the auction even though I’m not really into collecting that era bikes.
The paid lottery in particular is problematic given you don't get refunded if you lose.