skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see your sentiment, but the logic is a bit flawed. When we drill for hydrocarbons, we have good understanding of the geology of the reservoir; we know what geologic era during which the deposits formed. Finding a bunch of new evidence for Precambrian photosynthesis is great, but it doesn't in any way imply that the bulk of the oil we produce is any older than we already know it to be. Very few precambrian deposits have ever been discovered or produced, though they most certainly are around. My understanding is a lot of the hydrocarbons from that time are thought to have been converted to bitumen and the like.

Not that any of this has any particular relevance. IMO humans have no business trying to plan for things on geologic timescales at this point in our development. Our governments struggle to forecast and act upon 10-20 year time horizons as it is.
I was not prepared for this part:

> The [worm] name is taken from the John and Lorena Bobbitt case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt
It is exciting. Before this, we could only posit wild guesses as to the physical mechanism behind long COVID (if there was one at all). In the first year or two, scientists even doubted whether it was real at all. When you know the physical mechanism, it allows you to figure out a way to treat it.
People are looking for objectivity in vain. Beyond basic structure, there is no objectivity in art, music, architecture, fashion, etc. That is, you can make the argument that a discordant piano piece is objectively worse than one that follows well-worn progressions, and that would be pretty believable, but saying that a piece with more tremolos than one with no tremolos is objectively better just doesn't work.

Ornamentation is taste, and taste is very cyclical. If you grew up in an over-the-top ornamented place, it's very understandable that you'd view the simple clean lines of modernist architecture as a revelation. OTOH, if you grew up in bland generic International Style places, it's perfectly understandable why you'd yearn for something beyond basic shapes. You can't separate taste from the environment you grew up in, your predisposition for novelty-seeking etc.

FWIW, I think we're near the end of the modernist cycle. A lot of us grew up in very bland environments and now we want something more. But 100 years ago, the same thing we're now decrying was a breath of fresh, calming air in a suffocating environment.
As the article says, the best approach to addressing climate change is not to replace cars with EVs 1:1, but to rethink invest in public infrastructure in high-population areas so that people don't feel like they have to buy a car.

This is a more thoughtful approach to addressing the problem than simply levying a tax on people who can't afford what still appears to be a rich man's toy.
Love the idea, and the blog post writing. The author really comes off humble, honest and a constructive project leader. Good luck!
What AI? ChatGPT? Is the final remnant of humanity going to be a blinking prompt on a screen in the blackened ruins of a dead civilization? Or is Skynet out there already and we just don't know about it?
Maestro has a lot of very old school hardware drivers: VGA, PS/2, IDE/ATA.

Newer hardware tends to look like just a couple of ringbuffers, and the drivers should need a lot less of these hacks. Here's an NVMe driver in Rust that intends to avoid unsafe fully: https://rust-for-linux.com/nvme-driver
Not so much an advantage, but a counterpoint to the misinformation that says EVs take 45+ minutes to charge on a Level 3 charger. And also to counter the false belief (present only in EV debates, strangely enough) that the average stop on a road trip is ~2 minutes.
I think it's because the biz types would sell the copper wiring from the office if you let them.
Hell yeah we gotta get that bitch workin for us! The hell did nature ever do for america?
Sea shepherd does!
C-x o is a horrible default keybinding, given how often one needs it. From my first days of using Emacs, I remapped it to F-6, which was the keybinding in the DOS days, and still works in most Windows applications.

> For this reason, I remapped my arrow keys to move around them.

I don't have access right now, but on my work laptop I use a package that lets you use Shift + Arrow Key to jump between windows. Of course, if your minor mode uses those keybindings for something else (e.g. org mode), then it won't work.

> I also have `Command + Left/Right` for cycling between buffers

This is a good idea. I use C-M-[ and C-M-].

At some point I learned how to use the Hydra package and often use that for major modes I'm not too familiar with. No longer need to memorize (or make my own custom) keybindings.
For those not into Emacs: Khard is a nice address book for the Unix console https://github.com/lucc/khard
The nature of the pen makes writing not hurt your hand. More precisely, it reawakens a painless way to write that was put off-limits by ballpoint pens. That is, write in mostly cursive, direct the tip across the paper and never press down.

Gel pens also support this, if you have a heavy pen body.
Sales were actually up, the title is just wrong and is editorialized by the submitter. The article has a different tile.
This could be great for power isolation. Think of a micro-HSM application, where you want electrical isolation to protect against over/under voltage attacks.
Ah yes I see that. Will be curious if it stays as just a dead zone service. Interesting the wireless providers would sign on for this which could ultimately challenge them in the future.
Why? If anyone frequented this or many other forums they'd know employers can terminate employee any time without any reason whatsoever. Leave the job with as little notice as possible because employers absolutely do not care for you. And when last year it did happen people here are feeling hurt as if forever job promise is broken.
A new Babylonjs GUI way: write spatial panels in HTML and CSS
Yev from Backblaze here -> We love creating these and it's a team effort internally which a bunch of departments like to help with. Also appreciate the kudos and we share it with the org as well. You keep reading it and we'll keep making it! :)
I've been preaching this myself for quite a while: the way the aesthetics of minimalistically clean surfaces work is by emphasizing new-ness while they are in fact new. That does look awesome, I'm guilty of enjoying that look myself, but when that new-ness disappears, the same design emphasizes its absence. Ornaments are the the key to graceful aging in architecture.

When you have a clean white wall, with three square windows decisively set in one part, yeah, it looks bold and fresh. But after a few years you get a wall with those rainwater "tear paths" that just look sad because there's nothing else to catch the eye. If instead there were some sills, ledges or maybe just some brick surface patterns, those same water traces would be patina that's perceived as part of the ornament.
But would you trust that you would actually get all the app's configs? Ie window position and all that.

And would you trust that you would only affect that one application and not any others?

And wouldn't you just unusual and reinstall the application anyway?
Peer reviewers are unpaid, curation seems like a problem the internet can solve well, and trust... deriving one's trust from Elsevier or Springer is not great model. Granted, funding is needed to ensure distribution, but multiple billions of dollars in revenue (and even profit) seems excessive for what they provide.
Depends your goal. Write finely and precisely? Don't hurt your hand?
That's fantastic to hear, because no amount of fiber seems to combat the gastrointestinal distress caused by ingesting over 100g of whey protein a day.

I really don't get how anyone actually keeps up with such a regimen for any serious length of time. Perhaps they just play T-Rex at a chicken farm every morning.
Yes, NIH funds many projects. Everything from individual investigators who discover new things to massive projects involving hundreds of sites. In fact, they funded so many projects that they found money to fund virus research in china (why????).

But my real points are: "allocation" is not actual spend. And if they do spend that much, they will grow the industry so fast it runs the risk of collapsing or at least not being sustainable, with the inevitable crashes following.
Haha, I call it Gadget Tsundoku but I am sure there is separate word for it in Japanese.
>but it is the world we live in now

It has always been like this. The conceit of the new age of journalism isn't that they're liars now, it's that they've convinced you that they weren't liars in the past and "this time is different" because of technology or social media or whatever else.
It is all about cost. Who can afford the cost of a new EV? Not the average household around me.
Next I can guarantee the moment widespread adoption has taken place the new road taxes will be added into the equation wiping out the savings EV drivers currently experience.
Yeah, I suppose thats true for the 'givers of advice'.... It just sucks not knowing what one may be doing wrong, which is why I mentioned that an GPT will eventually be a good trainer bot.
in the face of 'two groups wanting to genocide themselves'.

FTFY
This helped me understand but not well enough to explain it yet: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2022/in-context-learning-an...
> Reduction in sulphur emissions is suspected to be one of the main culprits of this years sudden rise in Earth sea-surface/land temperature this year.

Was there an outright study of the "main culprits" part of this? As I recall there was some evidence but then the main discourse was based on a lot of extrapolation by a viral tweet.
Also see Meow[1], [2], which adopts some ideas from god-mode.

[1]: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

[2]: https://esrh.me/posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html
I share your jadedness, but humans at least have the potential to do so, a mosquito is several orders of magnitude away from that. I still have hope that humans can change, mosquitos will never change their behavior.
> If you are asked about your record, your answer cannot be used against you.

Let's be real: This is basically impossible to enforce. This is exactly the same a gender and national heritiage (ethnicity) discrimination. It happens all the time -- there are so many mentions of it on this board. And very, very rarely is anything done about it. There are so many "weak sauce" excuses that companies can give to explain why they will not hire a candidate.

That said: I like your advice: Lie, then report when you are unfairly rejected. This is the way.
They could have made a new one and launched that instead. The Hubble cost, up through launch, was $6.6B in today's dollars. [1] Making a second one would have been expensive, but less than that since you can reuse the design, software, and much of the experience.

The shuttle program cost $269B in today's dollars [2] so you need a lot of other benefits, not just fixing the Hubble.

[1] "the Hubble cost-to-launch was $4.7 billion in FY 2010 dollars" https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/499224main_j...

[2] "The US Congress and NASA spent more than US$192 billion (in 2010 dollars) on the shuttle from 1971 to 2010" https://www.nature.com/articles/472038d
It seems like desalination is discussed on HN frequently but I have yet to see tech that makes any financial sense, even with somewhat cheaper power.
This is also why small shops never get robbed, only big banks.
I suspect we have different definitions of “legal system” in mind. You are correct that such things cannot be admitted as evidence into a court case, but law enforcement agencies still use the machines and do their best to lie to unknowing victims that it will be admitted to court.
Well the first problem with that scenario is it doesn't work for most of the internet. It requires CAs and domain owners to use DNSSEC, and most do not. It requires strict validation of DNSSEC, and most dns resolvers do not. It requires the use of CAA records, which most domain owners do not. And it requires CAs to properly implement CAA (it was found in 2017 that many did not, and Let's Encrypt messed up 3 million certs due to CAA in 2020). So, a single person with their own domain could do all these things, but the rest of the internet won't be doing it, so most of the internet will be insecure. That's not tenable, because that means the rest of the internet can be used in attacks that appear legitimate. Even most of the top 100,000 websites on the internet don't use DNSSEC and CAA, and if you asked them to, they'd ignore you.

But the second problem is it doesn't really solve the problem. Eventually you have to renew the cert, and when that happens, an attacker can spoof the IP of the validating source and have a valid cert issued. CA validation itself is flawed by design.
Had a stumble reading the title thinking it was about turn-based games. Maybe a different verb would be better?
First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of Our Galaxy (2022)
I'd definitely put it on Kaggle
What do people like to use for other-window?

I bound other-window and `(lambda nil (interactive) (other-window -1))` to C-n and C-p ages ago, because I'm never on a machine without arrow keys so the default behavior of those is worthless to me and (in contrast) I'm navigating between windows continuously; having that behind `C-x o` always seemed too far away.
...for a worm.
> If you've used old style satellite internet

AST's satellite wasn't "old style satellite internet". It was at an altitude of 513km. That's roughly the same altitude as SpaceX's satellites (~550km).

AST's satellite was absolutely "new technology", last September.

SpaceX was beat for the "first phone service satellites", even for low orbit 5G satellites with unmodified phones.

https://ast-science.com/2023/09/19/ast-spacemobile-achieves-...
Funny you ask this question, since yesterday there was a HN post about Herbert Simon.

Here is Allen Newell, Alan Perlis, and Herbert Simon's response (1967) to your question about whether computer science is even science. For context, the three of them are Turing Award winners and early pioneers of computer science.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~choset/whatiscs.html

Professors of computer science are often asked: "Is there such a thing as computer science, and if there is, what is it?" The questions have a simple answer:

Wherever there are phenomena, there can be a science to describe and explain those phenomena. Thus, the simplest (and correct) answer to "What is botany?" is, "Botany is the study of plants." And zoology is the study of animals, astronomy the study of stars, and so on. Phenomena breed sciences.

There are computers. Ergo, computer science is the study of computers. The phenomena surrounding computers are varied, complex, rich. It remains only to answer the objections posed by many skeptics.

...
I'm in FAANG making close to that, and I have been testing the market for a few months. I found less than a handful of companies that could beat my current comp.

The vast majority of companies I've talked to seem to top around 250k even for Staff+ roles.

The author says that EU ain't no Silicon Valley, but 2024 sure ain't no 2022.
Not to mention the absurd arbitrariness of it if not even willing to propose a mechanism for it.
With the rebate a Model 3 is within a couple grand of Camry similarly equipped.
lots of ways to deflect hash matching.
The biggest hurdle for many is the price of a new car + premium for electric.

--

Imagine a fairly priced "off the shelf kit" to convert existing cars:

1) Wide spread adoption of renewable energy, reducing fears of range anxiety, more demand for charging/fuel stations.

2) Dealers can option existing inventory as renewable, possibly increasing sales/profits

3) Would increase jobs/expertise in the mechanic and after market industries.

4) Keeps existing cars out of the scrap yards/land fills. Cut on manufacturing pollution of new cars.

5) Hobbyists and collector car owners could convert their cars as well.

Negatives that kill the idea:

1) Would cut into automaker profits, so I doubt lobbyist support/government incentives

2) Would hurt adoption of new safety features. Insurance companies go womp womp.
And power the network gear at the end of the fibre run at the same time
Honest question: what makes it a hobby and not just a collection?

I think of pens as tools for a hobby but not as a hobby itself, collecting pens I can consider a collection hobby though.

I get confused because I've seen this stated a few times and it does not make sense to me, there's no "power drill hobby" but one can have a hobby of collecting power drills.
>Nobody's going to be ad-hoc adding or removing batteries in the floor

But, some do swap batteries?
5G is "old style satellite internet" how?
Low volumes mainly, also EPD displays are hard to tame.
Email: InVision design collaboration services shutdown
RIP InVision...

InVision Community,

Today I am writing to share that after careful consideration we have made the difficult decision to discontinue InVision's design collaboration services (including prototypes, DSM, etc) at the end of 2024. For important information, details, and guidance on next steps read our FAQs.

As you may know, our Freehand visual collaboration product was acquired by Miro earlier this fall. Miro has exciting plans for Freehand and will be communicating with Freehand customers directly moving forward.

We recognize the decision to end-of-life our design collaboration services will impact your creative process and workflows. We wanted to share our plans with ample notice so that you can plan accordingly.

In the coming months, the services you know and love will not be changing. For our Enterprise customers, our Sales team will be working with you directly to answer any questions you may have about this transition and direct you to alternative solutions, should they be required.

For our self-serve (non-Enterprise) customers, you will be able to continue using InVision until the end of 2024. However, we have discontinued our annual subscription offerings. Instead, you will be able to use the services on one of our monthly subscription options.

We understand that this announcement may be met with a spectrum of emotions, and we want to assure you that our primary focus is on making this transition as smooth as possible.

On behalf of all InVisioners, I want to convey our appreciation for the trust and support you've shown us. Your commitment to InVision has been our heartbeat for the last 12 years and we are genuinely thankful for the privilege of being part of your creative process.

We're so grateful to all of you who invested time and energy into making InVision the incredible company that it's grown to be. Together we reimagined how designers collaborate, raised the importance of design thinking, and, in the process, helped revolutionize the design industry.

And so we close this chapter with heartfelt gratitude and with the comfort that the state of the design industry is stronger than ever, leaving the InVision community in good hands.

Thank you once again,

Michael Shenkman
CEO, InVision App, Inc
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Is goverment going to hire me, so I work for them? Where do I apply? Also I want gold medal for being a hero (minimum 130grams, 20carats), where is dispensery? I have several millions of heroes!!!!
I agree, having owned (among others) a Psion 5mx and a Nokia N900 in the past. You could write full docs, compile C programs or write papers in LaTeX on a pocket device, in theory. In practice of course, I never did when the novelty wore off after a few tries.
if commercial fishing continues like this it's a "when" not an "if," the fish population of the ocean is estimated to be half of what it was in 1970... some species are down more than 80%
> It presumes people are too dumb to learn how to read things, but they’re not.

Have you talked to average people, out of the HN bubble? They are often too dumb to read at all, period.
These categories are nowhere as cut and dry as HN seems to often think. Netflix is an even better example than Amazon. Infrastructure and delivery is certainly somewhat of a competitive advantage, but their product is not software at all. They're a media company, a production studio, a distributor. People like Shonda Rhimes are the true superstars and they get $500 million contracts that reflect that. It doesn't mean you can't have an extremely rewarding, well-compensated career as an engineer there, but you're still not Chris Hemsworth. You're not what their users really care about. Without content, there is nothing to sell, no matter how strong the software is.

Then you have something like a Raytheon. They're a far purer "technology" company than any FAANG other than Apple. Hardware and software is literally all they sell. No ads, no media, no communities. But very few of the products made there are owned by the company. They're made on behalf of third-party buyers, usually the US military, which puts you in category 3 according to this kind of breakdown, but that is extremely misleading. You're not a cost center. The pay tends to be lower compared to silicon valley standards because of government acquisition laws and the huge number of hiring constraints that have nothing to do with technical excellence, but you're still the primary value creator and the military program you're working for will treat you that way. This one is arguably even weirder because the actual "product" of the military is war and the superstars are the soldiers, pilots, line officers. Technology developers are always in a support role, but that isn't any different from working for Apple or Microsoft. Whoever is actually using those products isn't deriving value simply from using a computer. They're doing real world work with it and that work is what they really care about. Technology is always an enabler. Nonetheless, technology developers for the military make a lot more money and have far easier jobs than even a four-star general, so which role do you really want?
Where We'll End Up Living When the Planet Burns
Looks like it starts at 28.5. Low-end IC cars (with more range and convenience) start at ~15-16k new in the US. (Kia, Nissan, etc).

That's a huge difference when that's the price range you're shopping, with added benefits of higher issue rates and less convenience when it comes to charging.
Sugar's big issue is that it's empty calories that doesn't go toward building muscle, and consumed prior to a work out, is going to make the workout itself harder without any real benefit.

Arguably sugar is more of an issue for those trying to lose weight than for those trying to gain muscle, as it will induce a glycemic roller coaster effect that will ramp up food cravings, which, when fed with processed carbs, becomes self-perpetuating. And that's not even touching on how it interacts with Candida.

Throw all that on top of the calories you NEED from other nutrients and you're running a serious surplus.
It's always the "vacation that I take once a year" that people use as an excuse, meanwhile families are filling two vehicles twice a week.

Get real and get new material.
I don't know what strategy would work to guarantee any organization like this isn't founded by such bad actors, as they'd likely be legitimate for many cases, at least while gaining public credibility-legitimacy - but then if they are toeing a certain line they may then act as protector for the bad actors they are aligned with and/or employed by.

Really takes courage to whistleblow.