skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not a trivial exercise.

I think it’s important to look at the future pollution and compare without going into the sunk cost fallacy. The pollution from your existing car cannot be taken back and I think there is no point to make this pollution "worth it".

Producing a new vehicle, that will generate a lot of pollution too, may be better over time. It will depend on your electricity grid and how much you drive.

You old vehicle may also go on the used market and replace a much more polluting vehicle. It’s difficult to take into account all parameters.
That is a strong recommendation for me! I really hope three-button mice (no scrollwheel) will make a comeback.
With the tech and politics of the late 1960s it would have been far easier to actually land on the moon than fake it with the vast reams of evidence we have.
> As a Washington State resident, my biggest primary holdback with going all electric is the range reduction that occurs in winter months due to cold.

From what I can tell, a substantial mitigating factor is if you can garage your vehicle.
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ICE cars don't need to fill up near home, because it is so quick. EVs ideally fill up where they're going to be unattended, because it takes longer.

It makes sense that you'd find more EV charging in residential areas and more gas stations near where people travel and work.
I'm being picky, but taking a look at the first screenshot on the screenshots page: http://trojita.flaska.net/screenshots.html

All the buttons on the left are icon-only and unlabeled. Maybe there's an option to show labels, and there are probably tooltips. But I'm bored and I want to make a point, so this is my attempt to determine what the icons mean as if I were a user looking at this for the first time:

(from top to bottom)

1. (Pencil) Compose a new email. Straightforward.

2. (Envelope with green dotted arrow pointed left) Is this... retrieve mail from server? And the one below it is send mail that's in the outbox? Oh, nevermind, this is probably "Reply", because I bet the dropdown arrow is to pick "Reply all".

3. (Envelope with purple solid arrow pointing right) This is probably forward, since the one above is "Reply all". And this one doesn't have a dropdown arrow, which would make sense. I'm not sure why the arrow colors are different, or why one is solid and the other dotted.

4. (Trash bin) Okay, this is delete. Straightforward.

5. (Tray with a letter sticking out). Not sure about this one, I have no idea what this represents -- but it seems to have a selected state in the screenshot, so maybe this is a "Mark read/unread" button?

6. (Cancel symbol) This one is tricky. We already have a pretty clear "delete" button with the trash bin. Maybe this is to mark as junk?

7. (Flag) Okay, this is flag/unflag. Pretty clear.

8. (Envelope with a cancel symbol). Ehh. Not sure what this is. We already had another "cancel" button. The button below this one is an envelope with a green checkmark, so this is probably the opposite action of that one. Maybe this is "mark as junk" and the checkmark is "un-mark as junk"? But then what's button #6?

9. (Envelope with green checkmark). See above.

10. (Connection symbol (?)). Guessing this is related to going online/offline, or manually checking for mail?

11. (Hamburger). It's a hamburger, so who knows. I guess it's where you access settings and other configuration details.

To be clear, this might be a very well-crafted piece of software, and I have a ton of respect for any open-source desktop software. Icons can be hard to get right, especially if you're an engineer and don't have UX experience. But even as someone who's pretty tech-savvy and familiar with how email works, it took a lot of deduction to figure out what those icons mean — and I'm still not sure on a few of them.

Buttons should be labeled. At least by default.
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One thing to watch out for is confusing IT work for dev work. I see this a lot with business folks.

An example of IT work is installing MS Office on a laptop by hand.

An example of dev work is integrating VBA into excel so that office users can automate excel using VBA.
Discoverability seems far better on twitch than YouTube from the user perspective. I just think youtube has the big numbers
Sure, that is a problem, but has nothing to do with the technical abilities to criticize them and reach a global audience. Assassinating people in other countries is a military/defense issue and has nothing to do with a specific company not wanting to pay for content criticizing them.
it doesn’t not support it, it doesn’t set this unexpected behaviour as default
I have an ex who worked for a bank. No, they do not. In fact, a lot of customers get pretty angry they can’t “just have their money” on a whim because bank offices are now extremely strict about knowing when, why, and for how long a given bank will have beyond a certain threshold of funds, and they generally work hard to keep it below that threshold.
I don't know how I knew, but as soon as I saw the links, I knew I was going to hear the words "He say you blade runner."

Although I'm a fan of the voiceover version, so I also expected, "Sushi. Cold fish. That's what my wife used to call me."

So partial credit for me.
Are you thinking of the short story "The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov.

(A technician discovers how to do simple arithmetical calculations in a world where no remembers arithmetic since its all automated away.)

More information regarding the short story on its Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power

The short story itself can be found online.
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Here's the tl;dr: "Kids these days."
You're overthinking it - the optimization is absolutely possible as you've described. The reason databases haven't done is not some question of design philosophy, it's simply that nobody bothered to implement it.

> I know that I would be deeply surprised if I found a database doing it, and not in a good way.

SQL engines do way more surprising optimizations than this. SQL is a "4th gen" language after all, meaning it's absolutely within the spirit that the database engine does whatever it wants to get the result.
> I can’t imagine that the poor are using that more than the rich. With Libby you can do it so easily.

I am not sure what you mean by this. The poor use libraries all the time, and the wealthy can just buy a digital copy if the wait-list is too long.
Let's take some time, to find out what's inside, away from all this wind and rain.

The six arrive, the fire lights their eyes, invited here to learn to play...

...a game.
That's not how the country's laws work, though. They fixed that "loophole".
Why? I’d rather care about ML.

My point is that your question is some esoteric gotcha party question that may as well be out of Trivial Pursuit. But you’re treating it like anyone who doesn’t care is just being a bad engineer. There are countless ways engineers spend their time, and choosing what to work on is the most important choice of their careers. It’s on you to justify the claim that knowing the difference between a JS form submit vs browser submit matters at all, let alone that it’s a distinction that comes up in day to day life.
Apple should be pulling away from China as fast as possible; maybe invest in India or in Southeast Asia.

China’s handling of COVID showed how vulnerable global supply chains were, and their censorship regime shows that they are not aligned with anyone with typical western values of freedom of expression.

It seems to me that Tim Cook is chasing sunk costs.
Leaving the code alone, even one that works reasonably well, is not an option.

Lehman's laws of software evolution say so.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman%27s_laws_of_software_...
My credit union did this several years ago - marketing them as "Cyber Branches". They're basically ATMs with video conferencing added.

There are advantages, like increased employee & customer safety and lower costs. But I like to use uncirculated bills as gifts and now there is no one there to get them for me.
> And yet most of my 19-year-old university classmates want to stay away from "scary" embedded or kernel work in favor of web or game development.

It seems that with more abstraction, more people throw up their hands and say "I'll never understand it", "The designers of this system did things in the stupidest way possible", "It's magic" or (in the case of the financial system) "It's a rigged game" "You're working for the man"

What all of these points of view have in common is that the people who hold them have given up trying to understand the world around them. Instead they take the intellectually lazy way out and compose their own pet theories of why things are the way they are, this is where tinfoil hat stuff comes from. This is dangerous, and is sort of the point of the original article.

I keep telling people that "the world is still knowable, still understandable". You have to put in the time and learn about it. It's easy to do, you just have to do it. There are plenty of "average" people playing in these "difficult" to understand fields.

What we desperately need to cultivate is a culture that encourages and rewards curiosity. When people are curious, they take the time to learn about the world around them, and why things are what they are.

If you don't master the world around you, it masters you.
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They might be wrong with how high the rates are set, though, as large tech companies truly do seem to be getting out of this space, no longer considering it worth it.
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You're welcome. Don't worry it's not confidential stuff, it was basically our marketing pitch back then. (I've already given much more technical details in meetup talks with the founders in the room)

Anyway I'm very frustrated that after 8 years the concept has not been adopted by the industry despite the very positive results we had.

Our main challenge back then was more related to the business model of a third party technology provider because each customer required integration with their entire video pipeline, but the fact that big players still haven't rolled their own p2p distribution tech after all that time is something I really don't understand.
This is great! Thanks for the link.
> Most of the news that appears via AP, Reuters, NYT, WaPo, etc. is largely factually accurate. Especially when you're looking at their core competencies of covering domestic US politics, basic foreign affairs, and domestic economics/business. E.g. they've been doing accurate jobs on factual reporting about the recent battles for house majority leader, events unfolding in Israel, and events unfolding in Ukraine. Sometimes you might be bothered with their "present both sides and don't take stance" but it's still largely factual, accurate reporting about what is happening and what public figures are saying.

Regardless of how “factually accurate”, selective reporting is no different than selective omission. The very nature of a finite space to print (or display on the front page in the digital age) means that there is always an angle.

Google News is an interesting one because they add a level of indirection. They pick the sources they’re willing to aggregate. It’ll never be all news everywhere. It can’t be anyway. There’s always going to be some editorialization, even in the selection of “factually accurate” information.
Happy to hear that; thanks for correcting me. I was going off of what other people said, which I should have mentioned. It’s nice to know that it’s still possible to run a mail server.
Oh my, you're right! Thanks for telling me.
Only global revolution can begin the process of changing the hideous path we are all currently on. My current thinking is that Marx's ideas needed a fully internet covered planet before they could have a prayer of being realized. One might say that not only does capitalism contain the seeds of its own destruction (via unlimited growth), but also of its own replacement (via a computer networked planet).

Interesting times, indeed!
The difference is that on average devs already underestimate, even when they try not to.
if you have to drive 15 minutes there and 15 minutes back, that's not faster than a fast-charge top-up at the fast charge point down the street, though. There's a critical density below which if you have a charge point nearby the nuisance of "going out for gas" and not being able to do anything else during that time isn't worth it compared to plugging in your car, and then just walking away for an hour. Especially if it's just down the road and you can just walk home, then walk back an hour later to pick up your car.

Because that's what's really in competition: you have to be with your car the entire drive to and from the gas station, plus the few minutes it takes to fill up and pay, whereas you don't have to be with your car when you're plugging it in to charge: that time is now yours.
I suspect that what the poster is getting at is that Norway's population is small and very wealthy, and it is concentrated around Oslo/Bergen/Trondheim so that it's risky to generalise based on what's happening there because, on global scale, it's a bit like a large-ish wealthy city (there are 1 million more people in Hongkong than in Norway).

I don't think he meant that it wasn't an actual country. It obviously is.

On top of that, Norway has a lot of hydro power, I believe. So not only there are wealthy with a small population, but they get effectively free electricity...
Story telling is increasing. You just can't tell. Acting is becoming superior as well. It doesn't make logical sense for everything about the movie industry to improve except for story telling. Think about this statistically. Most likely what's going on is warped perception.

I'm about 40 years old. For all 40 years of my life it's been the same problem. Why are all modern movies shit? In the 80s. Why are all modern movies shit? In the 90s... Same question... In the 2010s... Same chanted cliche mantra.. and now in the 2020s you're saying the same stuff they said was crap in the 80s is now good?

No it's a mirage. It's because all movie makers are in a constant race with audience expectations. New original plot patterns are novel at first, but eventually bore audiences and movie makers have to now improve. They copy a good pattern for a bit for some profit but audiences wise up and start saying what they say every decade. "Modern movies are samey and crap." But really it's getting better.

Take a story like inception. There's nothing like it if you rewind time 30 years back. Inception is a movie of the times a indicator of growing audience sophistication and movie making sophistication.

Even avengers end game is a sign of the times. If that movie and the whole franchise came out in the 60s at the same quality it is now it would have floored everyone and won academy awards across the board for story and effects. However because it came out recently there's a large cohort of people who call marvel stuff cliche and stupid. Why? Because it's not too divergent from the tons of movies that came out at the same time.

Take, everything everywhere all at once. That's another movie about directors forced to push the boundaries of story telling because of huge audience sophistication. Multiverse stuff is the latest trend but eventually that will get bland and you'll hear the same shit from hipsters about how crappy everything is.

Modern movies aren't all crap. It's because the pace of improvement is too slow so and because directors re-use popular story telling devices and plot patterns for about a decade that makes things seem shitty.
It's more likely been killed by social media addiction and SV companies disrupting book culture.

Seratonin addled brains have a hard time paying attention long enough to get through books.
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It's common to see this effect manifest during the Mt Everest simulation[0], which is sort of a touchstone in business school organizational behavior classes.

[0] https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/8867-HTM-ENG
That type of content has been widespread for many years now, it helps people feel superior and better about their views.
Can you show me evidence that Qualcomm refuses to support chipsets even in the case where they would get paid to extend support?
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Because you'll figure out how to crunch enough tickets for a minivan!

https://devhumor.com/media/dilbert-s-team-writes-a-minivan
In terms of impact, think of it this way - As long as you sell your ICE car to someone else, it's still being driven and maybe it's displacing the purchase of a new ICE car, which is what we really want to prevent. Ideally we would just stop producing new ICE vehicles completely and repair/maintain/sell the existing fleet until it's no longer needed. Hopefully new EVs will also be driven for a very long time, and their on-going environmental impact will lessen as power production decarbonizes going forward. People focus a lot on 'personal' impact, but as long as the car is still being driven, it doesn't really matter who is doing the driving.
I got the impression they are a firm believer in the spherical cow model
Does this essay actually say anything non-obvious? Like everyone knows there are relative costs. That isn't the hard problem. The hard problem is evaluating those costs correctly.
Better advertisements, yes, but also things like adjusting search placement based on adopting Google’s ad network (AMP) or using their content to promote unrelated applications. AMP, Google+, Facebook pages & especially the infamous pivot to video were all exercises in pushing the media industry to promote things which were important to the ad companies but not their users.

The other common trend here was offering competitive pricing until they had enough market share to force less generous terms. We joke about even prestige journalism writing like Buzzfeed but that was responding to the incentives set by ad-tech companies.

Again, I’m not saying Google or Facebook should get nothing - only that we should recognize that paying journalists is expensive and they were successful for several decades at getting a great deal of profit from that work without compensation. If you don’t want to live in a world awash with quasi-spam, clickbait, and propaganda we need to figure out a better balance where people can make a decent income doing quality journalism.
> The highest Gigafactory output is Shanghai, by far. To me, this demonstrates China's EV manufacturing prowess, if we didn't know already.

Its the first costume built factory. And has been expanded. Its hard for the others to catch up.
Fairphone made some claims about this when they launched the Fairphone 5. That's the sole reason it's not using a normal consumer-facing Snapdragon chip, and instead using some kind of industrial Qualcomm chip. Fairphone pointing this out wasn't exactly news to anyone who has been paying attention to this stuff.

I also wouldn't be too surprised if Qualcomm starts to change their tune under pressure from other manufacturers who want to stay competitive with Google.
It annoys me so much. I’ve tried to disable but none of the methods I’ve seen have worked for me. I use middle click to autoscroll, and to open things in new tabs or to close tabs.

Then I try to middle click autoscroll in discord or something (which works in windows!) and I’ll paste in information that I don’t intend to.

This is the first I’m hearing about Wayland fixing this. Maybe I’ll give Wayland yet another try soon.
Google is not a hardware company. Their hardware can never be trusted.
You can set up eg. a 3-finger touchpad tap gesture for the middle button in KDE Plasma, I'm assuming the same should be possible under GNOME. No need for fancy touchpads.
I thought the only unfair puzzle was the microscope one. It's the only one I used the library for.
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My dream is to play Phantasmagoria in VR. That would be terrifying.
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I cannot stand any Operating System that does not utilize left-click highlight and middle click paste. This is great secondary buffer to the clipboard Ctrl+C && Ctrl+V. I HATE the middle click scrolling feature that Windows uses, it is not user-friendly and not needed in the age of the scroll-wheel. Another reason you have to pay me to use Windows.
My mom is very poor and uses Libby for lending all the time align with paperback. Our local county libraries will even deliver books to your local city hall.
Right - as the biggest consumer of petroleum, gasoline subsidizes a lot of other uses that would be much less attractive otherwise.
Right, but I'm sure there were plenty of moments when Jon said things that weren't very nice about friends of his previous masters as well. People should be surprised and alarmed when American companies impose censorship because they do business in China.
No, that was their cover story.
MPL2 is great for something like this. It's not Apache 2 or MIT, but is compatible with them (if that's how you wished to license your stuff, for example, or if you wished to use libraries that are)—as well as being compatible with GPLv2 by default.

In practice, the fact that MPL2 is not as permissive as Apache 2 or MIT and has copyleft-like reciprocal terms is not a problem, because it's a file-based license, and few (if any) developers tend to be interested in changing the source files for the upstream project, and those who are are usually people doing so because they're in the process of trying to submit a fix upstream, anyway. For the fraction of a fraction of a minority of folks for whom it still would be a problem, it's as simple as the upstream project either declaring Apache 2 as a compatible Secondary License or just saying that they won't enforce MPL2's reciprocal clauses against downstream folks who are using the project in a way that is permitted by Apache 2.

MPL2 is an extremely underused and underappreciated license.
Once they started a news aggregator, yes. Their brand is saying that the sites they include are informative and if they don’t want to take on that very modest expense compared to the massive amount of profit they should close Google News and stay out of the business.
> Employee burnout, technical debt, risks taken due to rushing, people not doing the right tradeoffs, etc.

I've never seen a set of business people in a software company that cares about any of these things.

Some PMs will say they care about tech debt which excites me but of course in 6 months you'll see they actually cannot give a shit but just use it as a tool to lower the estimates. If X takes 5 days but they want 3 they'll tell you "let's just add some tech debt" to convince you to promise 3, but they don't actually ever intend to work on that tech debt.

When it comes to burnout, I've literally never seen any person who doesn't consider this the fault of the employee.

I've seen VP level people who did things that are so absolutely insane that it resulted the project to be late with 100% probably from 6 months before, then when the day of launch comes it is indeed late, fire alarms are pulled, tons of people give on-call attention to our project, we hack something. Then VP says "whoopies sorry about the fire alarm, will never happen again". Lmao next thing that happens is that this person is promoted to SVP and does it again and again. "Rushing" is a good thing, if anything. Business is all about creating an artificial sense of urgency that could be trivially averted, but it was chosen not to.

People not doing right trade offs. Well again, it's on you if you do the wrong trade off. People will point at you and say this decision was wrong. That I had so little information and time to make that decision is very brought up.