skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sorry, my exhalations are not "pollution"

Try breathing in a bag.

Air is 21% oxygen. On average, a resting adult breathes in about 250ml of oxygen per minute.

Air is about about 0.04%. The average adult expels approximately 200ml to 250ml of carbon dioxide per minute. Roughly the same as the o then they intake.

So the relative percentage of C02 increases extremely rapidly in any small volume of air, compared to relative reduction in oxygen.

Up to 0.5% (5,000 parts per million): Considered safe for prolonged exposure, this level is typically used as an occupational exposure limit.

1% to 2%: Can cause drowsiness and poor air quality perception.

3%: May lead to impaired hearing, headache, and increased blood pressure and pulse rate.

5% and above: Can lead to shortness of breath, dizziness, confusion, and even loss of consciousness. Exposure at this concentration for several hours can be dangerous to human health.

Above 8%: Can be fatal.

More? Once someone expires, the percentages reach an unwanted steady state!

Even in a tightly closed building, CO2 buildup can impact cognition.

And build up in the atmosphere impacts the heat balance of the planet.

Your exhalations are only pollution when they destabilize healthy levels. So that’s a bit of a straw man concern.

Breathing (outside of plastic bags, and unventilated buildings): fits within normal planetary balance of C02. Not a concern as a pollutant.

Continuously burning billions of tons C02 generating chemicals for decades, another matter.
I've never heard of the story this one is apparently based on, and I thought it was kinda neat to read.
So having worked there, this was absolutely true, and the parent complaint about hot-potato is also absolutely true.

The problem as I see it is that Google came to be dominated by an egalitarizing culture which at first wasn't necessarily a problem. This was an explicit choice by Larry and Sergey, that your manager should not be able to unilaterally fire you just because of a personal disagreement, nor stiff you out of financial rewards, none of that. So, your manager lacks any formal authority over your day-to-day work: they have to use politics and soft power. Instead, performance is reviewed by a committee of your manager’s peers, who can “calibrate” that manager’s opinion of you against others and against empirical data.

The result of being judged by a faceless committee is that implicitly, some things generate the empirical data that they look at, and other things don't. It's helpful to oversimplify this to a common currency of “perfcoin” Ⓟ even though that was never explicit at Google. Some activities generate Ⓟ, some don't. Google has built dozens of new chat apps because whenever you can have a good excuse for how this aligns with your business priorities, they generate lots of Ⓟ. The design documents are rich in Ⓟ, the tracking issues for each feature are rich in Ⓟ, getting the thing privacy-analyzed and internationalized can get you some Ⓟ, the inevitable work to merge it into another chat app is also worth Ⓟ. But please understand that the existence of Ⓟ is a result of semi-hierarchy. The manager exists (hierarchy) but has to point to an objective measure (Ⓟ) to say that you're not doing what you're supposed to (semi-), it is almost a mathematical deduction that this has to exist given that structure.

Now networking with people outside of your team, will never get you any Ⓟ. And this is not for lack of trying! When I was there it was a job responsibility to do some things that were not your job responsibility (“community contributions”) to try and associate Ⓟ with some form of networking! And everyone hated it, and it didn't work anyways. Manager-committees immediately decided that Ⓟ would not be awarded for excessive networking, just that you had to prove a little bit of networking or else Ⓟ would be deducted. Furthermore the most reliable community contributions were noncommunal—conducting hiring interviews being the easiest: probably this person will not be hired, but even if they are, you will never interact with this person ever again. But, you conducted N interviews in the quarter and that is just barely enough to not get docked some Ⓟ for being a shut-in.

I am giving somewhat of a negative portrait and it is not all negative, see Laszlo Bock’s Work Rules for the better parts. I'm just saying that the culture of not-my-department has been created by, and is sustained by, incentivization.
I stopped reading Ars years ago because the comments section is an echo chamber.
They do, it's called Global Accelerator
https://archive.is/ei7on
Whisker growth rates from 0.03 to 9 mm/yr have been reported.

There are some elimination methods such as conformal coatings (very hazardous) and plating finishes (nickel/gold/palladium) that have been tested. I got certified by the IPC-J-STD-001H also soldering 201 surface mount components 0.6x0.3x0.25mm 0.05W handling.
There are important differences between

(1) These stories feel incredibly important to me now!

-and-

(2) Complete strangers, all over the internet, and with no official duties or obligations regarding the subjects of these stories, should be required to pay attention to them!

The first one is fine. The second one suggests a somewhat immature worldview, or limited social skills.
Sure. Thanksgiving dinner.
Not all pets are equal; raising a kitten is not as labor-intensive as raising a puppy, and raising a goldfish will teach you very few skills tranferrable to raising children or other pets.
Good for Debian!

Related links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/30/linux_5_6_2038/
https://opensource.com/article/19/1/year2038-problem-linux-k...
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Avoidin...
https://ariadne.space/2021/12/29/glibc-is-still-not-y2038-co...

Are manufacturers of IOT devices using Linux whose devices have a lifespan of 15 years thinking about this yet? I doubt it.

Where is the startup for a consumer-visible certification body that ensures my device will fully function during Y2038?
Sleeping on your back is a cause of apnea and snoring. It's basic gravity.
Why don’t you make the system transparent? This will save you a lot of effort answering questions.
> Electricity in the US is expensive

It seems very cheap compared to most of Europe though?
A recall that can be fixed with an OTA update is still a recall. The issue isn't that you have to bring in your car, it's that the government has determined the vehicle has a safety issue that it's forcing Tesla to fix. An OTA fix is convenient for the driver, but it doesn't change the fact the car had a safety problem that warranted government intervention.
Agreed, or trees. Where I work we have to pick code names for the components we develop and the nerds around here always pick sci-fi or fantasy themes. I've been lobbying for using trees or flowers, to no avail.
Glad to see that the Silverball Museum in Asbury Park, NJ has more machines than anywhere else to the state. Love that place.
Preventing the site from being taken over by incessant meta debates is one of the moderation goals of the site.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(In many places there, obviously a lot of that is about Meta the company).

Periodic threads like this one are, I think, allowed as a sort of escape valve for pent up meta energy. Emph. on "periodic".

If you want a site that makes the opposite call here, Lobsters has a public mod log. You might like that system better!
Parent who's had pets here: it's fine to suggest it as a weed-out approach - if you can't handle a puppy, you're going to have a hard time with a child.

But I understand and share the frustration when "dog moms" and "cat dads" try to equate owning a pet with having a child.
I'd settle for a Markdown import. You could do your editing and writing of raw text in whatever you feel happy with, and then have gdocs transform it to its supposedly native format on upload.

Gdocs would then really only need to support the same semantics with underscores, asterisks, octothorpe heading levels and title sizes.
If you are actually seriously considering one of these devices I think you can research that yourself. Asking me "how confident" I am smells like trolling.
Fun read, but it felt like the same message as the original, told a bit less tightly. Not that stories have to have a message — the prose by itself was great — but for me this one feels like it was driving at something else but didn’t arrive anywhere.

If others took something else away I’d love to hear.
> I full well know will offend the sensibilities of some who will use it

How could you possibly know this, where do you draw the line?

For something people, "Hacker News" is surely offensive because "hacker" is generally thought of as a negative term (Yes, I know our meaning, others generally don't).

GitHub could also be offensive to some, "git" after all is as much of a swear-word as "fck".
I should probably complain loudly too, then, considering "Audi vehicles recalled" was an article title when mine had a recall for "passenger side camera may get foggy in cold weather".

Or when Lincoln sent me two pieces of paper "to be inserted into your owner's manual" as another safety recall.
Not a criticism, not even a nit-pick, but a reflection

"(binaries are kind of the definition of platform-specific, so this is all platform-specific) (this is true!)

When "Actually Portable Executable" took the (geek) proved that the same binary could run on a bunch of platforms, that was a surreal moment I still haven't mentally recovered from.

Here we spent decades trying to solve the cross-platform problem, in so many fractals of ways (Java, cross-platform libraries, etc etc) and the solution was right under our noses all this time.
Who's going to make this into a training data set for dang-bot?
If you look around, basically every company Elon took over or started relies heavily on government handouts (or at least did during the primary r&d phase)

Those handouts were intentional incentives to invent tech the government saw a need for.

Regrettably for the government (and society), the guy who ended up taking advantage of those incentives the most ended up being a complete nitwit. So, we're kind of stuck with him until the government actually grows a pair and gives the SEC actual teeth, but too many nitwits are influential and would also be hurt by an SEC that does more than slap them on the wrist, so it's never going to happen

/Rant /personal opionions
Supposedly, Linus named Git after himself, just like with Linux. According to the legends at least.
Can Starship be used as ICBM?
You should read the comments. The top comment I am replying to specifically opens the door on this stuff. They challenged that people have "misconceptions", I am showing how those concepts that are held about the church are actually very real and substantiated.

> Please explain the asymmetric treatment if it is not because people on HN in general don't like the Church, while they do like public schools.

When you find a post on HN that talks about public schools maybe this topic will open up there too, and you can have your day there.

> people on HN in general don't like the Church

I don't like psychopaths either, and for good reason. I don't like the Church because of what it has enabled, the lies, the hypocrisy, and so on. You are trying to frame it as HN folks have a hard on for going after the church for no good reason. Well, lots of reasons have been listed once the OP basically said "there is no good reason to object to the church, it's all misconceptions. Lol.

> My issue is nobody seems to care about the much larger abuse problem in schools.

This isn't true. You just happened to come to a comment section that is talking specifically about the church and you are mad because it's not talking about what you want to talk about. Why not go post a tech story about schools, and then find someone challenging misconceptions about schools.

These comments aren't trying to nefariously undermine the problem in schools, that's just you being frustrated, or whatever is motivating you to get mad.
I would like some kind of tool that watches for new publications, maybe some objective ranking on popularity and subjective ranking on quality, and an associated graveyard that switches to archival links.

It also needs a slider, to see the historical version of a leaderboard on any given day. You can plug the redef and techmeme leaderboards into archive.org but it is all a little kludgy, with missing data.

https://redef.com/charts/sources/total

https://www.techmeme.com/lb

https://mediagazer.com/lb

https://www.memeorandum.com/lb

There is also

https://longform.org/archive/publications

https://www.aldaily.com/media/

There used to be https://www.newswhip.com/ which had a free section, Im not sure if it is gone or just burried. At one point Counterparties https://www.niemanlab.org/2011/09/felix-salmons-brain-drudge... which used https://percolate.com/ (now seismic) as a backend.

And then you have the world of blogger, medium, substack, ghost. Bloglovin was the site in that realm back in the day.
> Often it's not even curiosity, it's wanting to solve a problem instead of "doing work" at your "assigned role".

If someone is writing me a check to work an "assigned role" then by God that's what I'm doing.

> I'm pretty sure what the GP is calling "discipline" is an euphemism for "passive obedience".

Realizing that to get further in your career that you need to buckle down and be very good a specific thing is "passive obedience"?
The GP talked about nose tape (I guess nasal strips), not mouth tape.

I personally use:

- better breath strips from aliexpress

- a 3D print similar to https://noson.eu/
The vehicles affected were not drive by wire. It sounds like you are referring to a system in the Cybertrunk, but this article is discussing Model 3 and Model Y which do not have a physical steering column.
man strings
I do all my scientific writing in Markdown (SublimeText + JabRef for bibliography). In ST I have a macro that runs Pandoc to convert .md files to .odt/.odp, including images and formatted references. Wonderful program to work with.
If you put something like

if mySecretPassword == "Qwerty123" {
...

then "Qwerty123" will be easily seen by strings utility. Which is pretty obvious but I'm guessing some junior folks will be surprised.
my toaster doesn't have a blu-ray drive either
I believe the latest version of the VPC wizard defaults to gateway endpoints for both S3 and DynamoDB.

If you’re in a 6-only VPC/subnet, an egress only gateway will allow you to grab packages from IPv6 enabled public data sources.
> But what about object-based surround sound? I'm using that somewhat lengthy term to try to avoid singling out one commercial product, but, well, there's basically one commercial product: Dolby Atmos.

In theory, the recent(ish)ly standardized SMPTE 2098-2 bitstream protocol will allow for 3rd party encoders/decoders of object-based "immersive audio." In practice, 2098-2 is the bastard child of Atmos and DTS:X and I kind of doubt we'll ever see a FOSS decoder.

But anything's possible.
IPv6 has been such a wild ride. About 7 years ago there was a big IPv4 depletion scare when ARIN made it harder to obtain IPv4. I did a bunch of dual stack deployments for customers around this time. In subsequent years quite a few of them ended up paying us to come back in and un-deploy IPv6 as their network engineers or often 'the IT guy' neglected to maintain firewall rules and access-lists leading to major security issues. I can't really think of any other vital technology like this that has rotted on the vine and had so many false starts.
I found a DOS version of IDA Freeware from 1997 recently; it uses a Turbo Vision(-based? -like?) UI. A little bit cramped for my taste :)
Note that all of them have been flagged as honeypots by Shodan (see the "Tags" section below the IP in the top left).
This is about thousands of lives harmed due to corporate greed... And you want to debate semantics?
Yeah true, but a player piano requires inventing the piano ;)

It’s definitely possible to make a recording without electricity, it just requires steady source of rotation for engraving, so maybe a spring or motor was a necessary precursor to make it useful.
I think the only vehicle with steer-by-wire is the Cybertruck. This is plain old bad engineering.
Google's Bard chatbot gets the Gemini Pro update globally
"As one of the richest, most powerful men in the world, William could only wait for the inevitable horrible death which took 5 weeks to happen from the date of injury to when he died."

True, but it is also true that the richest, most powerful people of today still die after weeks of agony because of conditions we cannot treat. At best, we can sedate them a bit to make their passing easier.

People from the 23rd century will likely pity us just as much as we pity medieval people.
why isn't github accessible through ipv6 without a reverse tunnel?
You can sideload Apollo. It's a bit sketchy, but it's been nice having it back.
Sounds like the general definition of "finish" doesn't match with your own. One could "complete" or "finish" a project if the goal was to learn something specific (or general), although others wouldn't considered it finished unless it was deployed and others use it.

I think lots of us would be better off if we redefined "finish" to basically mean "done", which you can define however you want :)
Those tests exist already, but no ethical tests can determine the full truth.

Also, tests where minute traces of anything, like coffee, are purified to extreme amounts and injected into animals to cause cancer only add confusion, especially when California considers adding cancer warnings to coffee.
From the top of my head, the one that annoys me regularly is the difference between setting a title/x or range on plot, and on a subplot. So plot.title(), and ax.set_title().

By the way, who came up with the idea that an axis object is a great handle to handle subplot settings..?
Sure, all space vehicles can. It would just an awful lot waste compared to a regular ICBM.
That'd be pointless. There are way better solutions for ICBMs.
It absolutely does not meet this ideal...ever since the capped the number of Representatives to 435 in 1918...a travesty against the Constitution, in my opinion. I don't care if it looks silly to have a stadium of reps.
Look a this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_ap...

Our House should go back to something like 1 per 75,000.
https://austinvernon.site/blog/starshipsuperweapon.html
Classic Prince Phillip.
Zuckerberg calls Apple's DMA rules 'so onerous' doubts developers will opt in
> When it is 1% of the traffic, who will really be desperate to drop that to zero?

The service providers who have to maintain IPv4 and IPv6 configurations in their networks.
"Recall is the correct choice of word here, but Ars' coverage of Tesla issues is incredibly disappointing because one of their writers really makes it clear in his articles that he loathes Tesla, at the expense of even pretending to be remotely neutral."

Isn't this better?
The money laundering business is bigger than I imagined!
> the guy who ended up taking advantage of those incentives the most ended up being a complete nitwit

Wow, what terrible luck for that to keep happening!
> There are other metrics too that produce different support cultures

Could you elaborate?
This is what I was thinking about with the prefix issue. I've encountered this issue like twice and rebooting my router ended up with a different prefix, so it seems more like my router just didn't get the new prefix and thus kept handing out the old prefix to everyone with SLAAC and thus wouldn't get routed right.
Whenever this kind of thing comes up, I hear bitcoin enthusiasts use strange logic to claim that it's good because most of this power is coming from renewables, or that if it's not then it's incentivizing the switch to renewables by increasing demand, and so on.

Bollocks!

Unlike other technologies that are incentivized to become more efficient over time, because of how competition over mining rewards works, this technology has the characteristic of consuming more and more energy the more it succeeds.

It's designed to waste energy. Even if that was "green" energy, it's still just making heat out of electricity for pretend internet money. Energy that other things could be using.
Of course, any rocket can be an ICBM if you fill it with explosives. It’s not very useful as an ICBM though, it’s much more useful as a way to transport things over distances faster and more precisely than airplanes.
I don't care if its a right-wing talking point and I don't care if a company has given themselves permission to censor themselves.

My interest is broadly about the attitudes towards speech as they continue to be shaped by corporations who continue to privatize the public square. See Taibbi's 'Twitter Files' for ample examples.
It will always be a Wilson’s Warbler to me
Boooooring. I think Eno is better at self-promotion with intellectual pretense than music itself.

The less pretentious material (eg U2) is - for me - way better. Bowie? The ‘experimental’ tracks are a weak rehash of the krautrock of the time. Tangerine Dream run rings around them.
I actually have a success story. A woman I started dating was the CTO of an early stage startup. I gradually started helping her with some coding on the side and it grew to the point where I left my day job and went on full time at her company. I've been working at the company for more than a decade at this point. It's gone from just the 3 of us, including her cofounder, to a 70+ person company. We're married now with 2 kids.

There was a good amount of conflict between us during the early stages of the company, so it's important that your relationship is sturdy if you are going to put yourself in that sort of situation. Now things are running pretty smoothly, so we actually don't talk as much about the company in off hours.

We've interviewed and hired a number of friends as well, mostly with good outcomes. We had to fire one friend, unfortunately, and another relationship soured as a result of how the interview process went. But several others are still with the company, and a couple have come and gone onto other things.

One thing to note, though, is that for the friends we've hired, they often morph into more professional relationships. Now that the company is settling down a bit, we're trying to rekindle some of the friendship piece.
Good thing I'm not in the US then.
I make mine such that the first load includes the data needed in the first load of the page. If you're going to populate a grid on the first load, just have the backend include that in the page itself inside a dynamically inserted javascript block. For something like paged search results, you can preload the first page, and preload the second page a short while after that.
They should be giving you a /56 or a /48 though, since you're not supposed to subnet a /64.