skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major plus in my book. Anyone who wants to talk politics with me first gets redirected to https://studiahumana.com/pliki/wydania/In%20Praise%20of%20Pa... -

"Political actors, including voters, activists, and leaders, are often ignorant of basic facts relevant to policy choices. Even experts have little understanding of the working of society and little ability to predict future outcomes. Only the most simple and uncontroversial political claims can be counted on. This is partly because political knowledge is very difficult to attain, and partly because individuals are not sufficiently motivated to attain it. As a result, the best advice for political actors is very often to simply stop trying to solve social problems, since interventions not based on precise understanding are likely to do more harm than good."
Far more of the silicon (from sand) goes into concrete and glass, though. And it's not like we're short on hydrocarbons. From what I can gather, the total yearly worldwide production of concrete is tens of billions of metric tons, fossil fuels are billions of tons, and silicon is millions of tons -- barely a blip on the radar.
Well, it’s definitely not ideal. But if history is anything to go by, then either they themselves take it and maybe by killing each other; or someone from outside will come and do the killing for them and then take it all and also sell some freedoms while they’d be at it.
All my smarthome stuff is zigbee based, controlled by home assistant locally. It's nice. Agree on avoiding cloud garbage.
I actually bought a cheapo chinese drone, works well, works a little too well. I get curious... It is supposed to work on 802.11 (according to the FCC filing) but it has exceptional range which wasn't matching up to my expectations. I do scans, nothing, it isn't operating on wifi.

Break out the spectrum analyzer and it is actually operating on wifi just on channel 14 but the mystery goes deeper from there because as it turns out they are using a RTL chipset with a heavily modified firmware that I suspect modifies the wireless stack to hide it, violate rf power limits and I am not quite sure what else. I dumped the flash and I have the modified kernel module they are using I just haven't gotten around to poking at it.

Edit to add: Also I've only worked on the controller so far, I am very fascinated to see what I find on drone side.
Dealers get a commission for converting you, keep an eye on the paperwork.
It's not that more money would make you inherently smarter, but rather that more intelligent parents might (statistically) both make more money and also have more intelligent children.

Those children might go on to score better on the SAT, leaving a correlation between parental income and SAT scores that would be unsurprising at each step.

Your point about inherited wealth is not demonstrated on the chart you showed, which was parental incomes (not wealth) and in ranges unlikely to be perturbed by vast inheritances.

> Also, if you want to measure IQ, why not use an IQ test and not some arbitrary proxy?

I don't want to; I suspect colleges and D. E. Shaw felt like SAT scores were an acceptable/practical proxy for whatever purpose it was that they had. I thought it was weird and slightly off-putting to be asked, but it seems to work for them.
Rare is not what you think it is in that context. Wikipedia article would be instructive as to why
Reserves are only defined when you also state a price. It's not a free number.

Those people are probably using different prices, and not communicating them.
Slight tangent, but same issue with the ongoing heat pump hype.

"New heat pumps work in the cold now!" where cold is defined as down to 10 degrees F.

That's probably sufficient for most "cold" places, but in Minneapolis every winter we have multi-day stretches where the high temperature is below 10. Large swathes of the northern states are in a similar boat.

Hopefully we can solve these issues, because I don't want to be left behind technologically and environmentally!
> why does Drew DeVault care that I would have a private repository with "explicit sexual content"?

For the same reason GitHub does? GitHub's AUP at https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-polici... says:

"We do not allow content or activity on GitHub that: ... is sexually obscene or relates to sexual exploitation or abuse, including of minors".

Atlassian's AUP at https://www.atlassian.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy says "Inappropriate content" includes "Posting, uploading, sharing, submitting, or otherwise providing content that ... Is deceptive, fraudulent, illegal, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, harmful to minors, pornographic (including child pornography, which we will remove and report to law enforcement, including the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children), indecent, harassing, hateful"?

GitLab's AUP at https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/legal/acceptable-use-po... says "unacceptable use of our services [which] applies to all users of all GitLab services including those on the Free, Premium, and Ultimate GitLab tiers" mean "you must not: Create, upload, submit, execute, transmit, or host anything that ... is vulgar, obscene, or pornographic, or gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence."

Now, there are differences between "explicit sexual content", "sexually obscene" and "pornographic", but if you are worried about possible further expansion, you shouldn't use any of these code hosting services.
> This energy was "free" in an ICE,

Does that mean it comes from burning gasoline and it can be filled quickly anyway. Or that heating cabin is byproduct of running engine while driving?
100 years ago is harder for me to comment on, but in truth, furniture quality has continually declined. We moved from solid wood to veneered wood dust because it’s easier to manufacture - abstracted trees are perfectly homogeneous vs the real ones. That comes at the cost of being un-repairable. A scratch in solid wood is character (according to Nakashima) while a scratch through veneer breaks the illusion. A water stained veneer (as from a coffee cup) wrecks the entire piece by swelling and popping up the veneer. Even if a piece can be repaired, it’s typically more cost effective to replace.

More or less all non-designer (herman miller/knoll) non-craft furniture has been outsourced to IKEA and China which both trade price for quality. The entire American industry was killed, and with it, we lost high quality mid-range furniture.

Another way to look at this is that the sq ft per person has increased 50% in the US over the last 50 years. We choose to live in large, shit quality houses and in turn, fill them with loads of shit quality furniture.
legislation?

Radio Equipment Directive which now has a huge cybersec impact. So if you want to sell hardware in EU it must be certified

here is a lot of what will be in there.
https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/303600_303699/303645/02...

the final standard is not the above but based on the ideas in ETSI.

While the above applies mostly to the "thing" the cloud and edge that enable services for IoT will be covered by the hotly debated CRA:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38818734

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38787005
Right, Thailand hasn't just opened 14Mt reserves, rather resources. A reserve is a resource that you're prepared to exploit. But see also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39059076
> @legitster most likely knew this

You knew what state the other people on the call were in? Were their names even revealed? Even if they were, why would you assume others are as invested in this story that they’d seek out that info?
I found it harder than expected to locate a link to the git repos. A project that advertises as open source should have the git repos prominently displayed.
Sounds like a trade to me. Predatory tho if the country is very poor and easily exploited. But as someone from a country that loves to invade others for resources I’d take predatory trading over military force any day.
On Leaving Well
My phone goes ping every time any money goes out of my account. Yes, at the beginning of the month I get a slew of pings for mortgage, power, water, etc, but it's worth it. A while back my phone went ping twice and I was phoning the bank within minutes of a couple of fraudulent payments being made - ironically just before the bank sent me a text asking me if I was making the third one.

Having it go ping every time like that is definitely a way to have good knowledge of what recurring payments you are making.
oh very cool. I remember hearing about graphene in inorganic chemistry 101 and thinking it that was the neatest thing in the world. That and carbon nanotubes.

De Heer says that it will take time to develop this technology. “I compare this work to the Wright brothers’ first 100-meter flight. It will mainly depend on how much work is done to develop it.”

Something to look forward to!
Grounded in reinforcement learning. General idea is hippocampal replay is valuable, and a rational agent should arbitrate between work and replay in order to maximize future reward
>the non-normal culture wasn't proving itself.

Remember the big fuss about no managers?

>not many amazing new products were happening.

And, one of the things I've always found is that you've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards for the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to try to sell it. And I made this mistake probably more than anybody else in this room. - Steve Jobs

To me Google is simply a technology company, and are constantly innovating with Technology and looking for uses cases with the new tech they have. Apple, or at least Steve Jobs' Apple because the current Apple is looking more and more like Google. Are a consumer company that identify a problem and work backwards to look for a technology solution.

Unfortunately, it turns out Technology, Business, and Consumer understanding is an extremely rare set of combination.
Yea, that hasn't changed. Even the Kindle app on iOS is really coy about where to get more books.

But it's not like Google costs money, people can find out by themselves.
I think it's literally just notoriety. There's collaborative and visionary leadership styles but nobody bats an eye because there's no conflict. People just work and its another Tuesday. Product gets delivered. Everyone moves on.
Agreeing means the providing team understanding and meeting the needs of the consuming team. Teams that can work together to accomplish this wouldn't be called "silos."

However, when two teams work together to create an API, or a process or some other self-service mechanism, sometimes the API so good that the teams no longer need to talk to each other. The practices and relationships that enabled communication fade away. Walls go up, silos form, but nobody notices anything wrong, because it seems like efficiency is getting better and better. Over time, though, people start to notice that projects that encounter a need to change the API always fail. The API has become legacy, baggage, a problem.

There may still be somebody on the providing team who remembers that they used to get together in the same room with developers from the consuming team to come up with solutions together, and they'll naively suggest that as a solution, but there are now too many assumptions baked in at the management level for that to be allowed to happen. A change in the working relationship between teams means the managers will fight over what this means for different managers' prestige. Somebody's cheese is going to get moved. Managers gear up to go to war over things like that, so upper management dictates a solution that minimizes inter-manager violence, a solution that carefully circumscribes the kinds and amounts of contact that members of the two teams are allowed to have. Voila: silos with windows, and engineers sitting in their respective windows forlornly waving at each other like lovers separated by their parents.
> people would be better off if they bought a smaller/cheaper/more fuel efficient car and using those savings to rent a truck for the occasional need.

I don't know, it is hard to square the depreciation on cars. I bought both a car and a truck around a decade ago. The car is now worthless. The truck is still worth about what I paid for it. The deprecation cost alone on that car has exceeded the cost of operating the truck over its lifetime thus far. Trucks are the most popular type of vehicle around these parts because they are, frankly, cheaper to operate in most cases.

Certainly you can buy junkers that have already had their depreciation fully realized, but that is not a free lunch, it's just a different trade. Depreciation isn't some magical force. You're trading something for the lower initial cost, such as your time. If you have the money, money is no doubt what you will be most willing to part with. The other things you could trade are quite likely more valuable.
That's a whole lot better than the deal from the US, frankly.
I remember the forums (and slashdot comments) just hammering valve for thinking of creating steam and introducing DRM to their games, and that they would never, ever use it because of that.

But Valve has had an awesome record of using it responsibly, and its kind of amazing I can log in, click and 60 seconds later be playing a game I bought in 2003.
Humanity is currently showing very little potential for averting extinction level events. They might end up surviving and rebounding from the Jackpot, but that's not the way to bet.
Honestly, it's a pretty great outcome. Maybe not if you aspire to be a billionaire, but that thinking is just a trap for most people.

In his case, he's now CEO of a stable small business. The whole company is WFH permanently and he probably only honestly works for 20-ish hours a week and doesn't have to answer to anyone other than the customers that use his product who are generally pretty happy. Of course there is the occasional fire to put out, but WAAAY less stress and work than a big corp for similar pay. Plus a ton more freedom and control. Not to mention, cashing out (eventually) via acquisition is still entirely possible.
Germany's parliament approves easing dual citizenship
Thanks! I haven't heard of these, but I'll take a look.

And maybe that's the trick, alcohol during the day would curb my enthusiasm for pouring my drinks all over my desk.
Are you sure you're not just rich? I think lots of us would happily "be unemployed for a while" without concern for the alleged "social consequences". But a lot of people can't afford to do that.
My MY definitely builds up ice in the wheel wells a lot worse than any other car I've had in snow climates (VW R32, F150, 4Runner, Subarau Crosstrek). If we don't remember to clear them every day, they can build up and freeze into glaciers that limit the car from turning.

I'm impressed 120V works for you! The first year we owned it, we had to get a charger once the winter hit. At 120V, it was estimating up to 24 hours of pre-conditioning before it would start charging. And our winters are pretty mild in comparison (Tahoe, CA).
I'm currently relying on passwords synced with my Firefox Account, but I'm thinking of moving off of it after Firefox not allowing me to change my password (it errors out telling me I entered the wrong password even after having successfully logged in; apparently this is a well known issue with no other solution than to wipe out your Firefox account data).

I'm looking at KeePassXC, which I like, but I'm not thrilled about having to run the desktop app in the background to use the Firefox extension.

Passit looks interesting but I've never heard of it. Anyone have any long-term experience with it?
The issues are mostly systemic, not random. The numbers from one survey aren't particularly meaningful, differences between surveys are meaningful.
here's a gift link that should be good for 14 days: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/bill-ackma...

I believe there are also other ways to bypass the paywall
Yea for me that is just dance music or electronic music;
and EDM is more a marketing term from the US shrug
Yes but once the car is warm, it doesn't consume that much to keep température unless you open the doors, at least on my 2019 Tesla 3.

I found that pavement conditions, how much snow and ice is stuck to the car etc. have a bigger influence on range than temperature once the car is warmed up.
The trips I did during or just after a snowstorn always required some careful management of charge and keeping a good buffer.
Hearkening to electron?

Via Wikipedia:

...the Greek word for amber, ἤλεκτρον (ēlektron).
Don't forget medicine shortages
Is Turkey even an ESA member? I don't think it's clear they'd be welcomed. This seems like a sensible way for them to dip their toes into having a space program.
> I gave you a whole free book which you dismissed summarily.

Yeah, because giving someone in a casual online conversation a whole book without even telling them what point they’re supposed to take from it is fucking stupid.
That's the thing about having lots of money: all your bad ideas can get a workforce behind them. Admittedly, the good ones as well.
Oil is the standard example. I forgot what the exact peak oil production years were supposed to be, but they went something like this:

In 1880 peak oil was expected to be 1910. In 1910 it was 1940. In 1940 it became 1970. Etc.

Basically we kept finding more and more as technology and practical prospecting experience advanced.
Note that my comment was written when they were still trying to regain contact with the lander.
> I think that true global reserves are much higher than what we know now.

That was certainly true of oil. As reserves got depleted, progressively more advanced techniques allowed people to extract from more difficult locations.
That's a very appealing website design. Haven't tried the tool, probably don't have any use for it, but for some reason that website really appeals to me.
You just reminded me of this little cinematic gem:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_8_tt_6...
I think it's 89M t resources (under the ground?) and the other number is what they already mined
While this is true, the comparison is meaningless without taking population into account.

Only 1700 people live in Longyearbyen. The majority of Norway's population lives in the southern part of the mainland, especially Oslo, with much warmer winters.

By contrast, the majority of Minnesota's population lives in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, which is considerably colder than Oslo or Bergen or Stavanger.
I don't agree with your assessment of AI and programming at all. In fact, I think you're being insidious when framing your skepticism against this using words such as "likewise", making it sound like it has been unanimously agreed upon. It's like me saying "after seeing that the earth is flat, why wouldn't other planets be flat?".

AI is definitely capable of solving novel programming problems and I'm constantly surprised how well Copilot understands the esoteric context of my code.
I mean, by that standard, I know how to perform a heart transplant, because I can use a scalpel.
I just followed this guide. It’s pretty straightforward! https://hackaday.io/project/16288/instructions
I do like the aesthetics of their cases. They look really cool.
We bought a house at the end of 2020, and then went couch shopping. In stores as well as thrift shops.

> Buck at Rochester Institute of Technology says consumers could be better off spending a few thousand dollars to reupholster a thrift-store find or hand-me-down. “Most often the construction of vintage sofas will be superior to what’s made now,” Buck says.

This was my conclusion as well, but we still bought a cheap one. We just bought it from some guy who was selling his whole living room for a grand, so I don't mind too much if they fall apart in a few years. Build quality is not there for the wooden parts (I did my handyman thing there), but the leather at least is claimed to be top grain.
It happens to all generations, I had a professor which used to tell the story of how he broke the record of compilations per days on computer department, by being able to deliver new cards at every compilation shift throughout the day.

The "interactive" compile-debug-fix of his day.

Something that I never experienced myself.
I think the main issue is that the roads are covered with snow and that is significantly increasing the rolling resistance. Clearing the snow between the tires and the wheel well is also super annoying when it is -30 C outside.

Those also apply to ICE cars. EVs are getting hit in three vulnerable vectors at once: Cold decreasing battery capability, increase in friction, increase in aerodynamic drag.

Does your 2019 Model 3 have a heat pump? From watching Bjørn Nyland on YouTube, it seems like having a heat pump makes a HUGE difference in a cold climate.
Apple Shareholder Proposal: Congruency Report on Privacy and Human Rights
+1 Scratch! My son started with it, then expanded into Roblox/Lua.

Children can download other people's games and experiment there. Scratch also has pre-made art, sounds, music.

https://scratch.mit.edu/
We are counting orders of economic effects, not orders of physical effects.

Burning fossil fuels releases CO2 and other chemicals into the air. Many of the other chemicals directly harm your health when you breath them in, so thatthis air pollution, which is a first order physical effect, is also a first order economic effect.

On the other hand, excess CO2 in the atmosphere, another first order physical effect, has no economic impacts. Breathing in an extra 50ppm of CO2 has little impact on us, perhaps a bit to plants. So the first order physical effect of excess CO2 is not an economic effect. But second order physical effect of excess CO2 is increased atmospheric temperature, which again on its has very little economic impact. Its really the third order physical effects of CO2 (higher variability in rains and seasons, storms, melting glaciers) where we really see the economic impacts (failed crops, destruction of property and human life etc). All of these things cause large direct economic damage, so that is your first order negative economic effect of fossil fuels.
-55% year to date, ouch!
For software engineering, I recommend A Philosophy of Software Design. It has principles that I think translate well to other engineering fields.

For engineering in general:
To Engineer is Human - Henry Petroski
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering - Richard Hamming
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down - J.E. Gordon
They do actually acknowledge internal state,

> Status limbo is a state of ambiguity and future uncertainty about your status, both in your estimation and as perceived by others.

But overall I agree that the article doesn't have a good foundation in defining status (or even caring about it). The article conflates social status and direction in life and career goals, which are actually all separate concepts (although usually interconnected).

Then again, this article is apparently written for entrepreneurs of high social status, so maybe I don't have the right to comment on it, as a non-entrepreneurial person of indistinct-to-low social status.
You didn't dive deep enough into the literal eco/social catastrophe that the silkroad is.

It isn't military because neither of those two countries have any sort of way to defend themselves against China, but it might as well be military, because China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
But this is equivalent to saying “a monolith can never work because it’s highly coupled”. In both cases you need to follow best practices to make things work. API design and alignment with consumers of the API is table stakes.