skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I'm never giving money to an internet stranger for research, no offense.

BUT if you want to have a meaningful impact, maybe you can verify if us internet folks can buy carbon credits (to stimulate innovation and offset our own footprint)?

I'm deeply concerned about how thorough the auditing and accounting and accuracy of carbon-credits is and would encourage passionate people like yourself to answer these questions.
Eh, you can't really reschedule them under a different name.
I too bought an Osborne 1 as my first computer. I bought a copy of MuLisp, I think the product eventually became Microsoft Lisp.
It makes no financial sense to waste time supporting older versions of iOS. Any phone introduces since 2013 can run the latest version of iOS - except for the 5C.
Here's a JS speculative read example straight from the original meltdown paper turned into a PoC checker: https://terjanq.github.io/meltdown-checker/app.js I accept PayPal ;-)

(Of course this depend on your definition of a "real world exploit", but this does show that you can cross boundaries of a type system.)
> The survailance apparatus judges you if you are being a "good" citizen with harsh consequences for doing anything that the party doesn't approve of.

Sounds just like the USA. Just look at Snowden or Assange.
Especially now that it means supporting both 32 bit and 64 bit versions for the very small percentage of people who have pre-2013 devices.
The Intel hate is really misdirected. The entire industry had an incorrect mental model of what process isolation required. All that an x86 CPU promises is that you will get a page fault if you try to access privileged memory. That’s it, and it’s not sufficient for process isolation in the face of malicious code. JavaScript/WASM VMs assumed more or less the same thing. So long as you can catch any out-of-bound array reads or the like, you have a safe “sandbox.” Again, that assumption was insufficient. It wasn’t just Intel and JavaScript developers either. Entire bodies of research were dedicated to techniques that likely would be vulnerable to these sorts of attacks. For example, the idea that you could do away with CPU memory protection if you ran everything in a managed language that makes it impossible to access arbitrary memory.

What you’re seeing as a paradigm shift in what kinds of process isolation are required for modern computing.
Overlocking is not an option on 99% of laptops.
shouldn't unifying those two be the goal, instead of creating more distance.

I don't see how having a constant internal conflict between two selfs is a good idea.
More CO2 = more warming. The polar regions are so far seeing the most extreme temperature increases: see e.g. https://static.skepticalscience.com/pics/ArcticTC1880-2010NC...

Higher arctic temperatures = permafrost melts, releasing trapped methane. e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01313-4
Here's the first post:

http://notes.eatonphil.com/emulator-basics-a-stack-and-regis...
There are two extremes: lock everybody up or let everybody be on the street.

Both are wrong, and today the latter is being implemented. We need a balanced solution, but what we have today is not working (as a short walk around San Francisco - for example - will demonstrate).

What I want is not “hopes” or “more funding”. What I want is a plan. Saying that all we need is “community care” is too generic and broad which means things will never change.

I want 1-2-3 steps on how we are going to be dealing with these issues.
> I don't think any of the popular 8-bit machines did.

The Commodores had timers in their 6522/6526 chips, where an RTC was set up. In Basic, it could be accessed via the TI or TI$ variables (integer and string respectively). Not having timers or VBlank interrupts were unusual. The Apple ][ was an early and hacked-together design by Woz, not at all made for a mass market. Just look at the graphic formats :-/
"How China buys the silence of the world’s human rights critics": https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/21...

Even in the 90s, when this was a prominent issue in American minds, when the State Department would offer the occasional "stiff rebuke", politicians told us that trade would inevitably move China toward an open democratic society.
Garmin Forerunner 45 vs. 235 vs. 245 Compared
Baffled to read this, as I thought it was widely established as grossly inaccurate.

Suggest you read

Steinfeld, Henning; Gerber, Pierre; Wassenaar, Tom; Castel, Vincent; Rosales, Mauricio; de Haan, Cees (2006), Livestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options

Or alternatively anything about food culture and supply in India.

I don't believe your current position is substantiated by any evidence; but I'm happy to look through any relevant numbers if you can find them.
Corrupt, or simply humanity? Our worst as a society becomes more apparent the more things resemble a free and unregulated market, as the security scene largely is now.

With the exception of the Feds saying "that's too much" here and there to folks they have a bone to pick with.
Link to the PDF of the 3rd scan of this issue. It should be higher quality, and allow offline viewing.

https://ia801009.us.archive.org/0/items/BYTE_Vol_04-08_1979-...
Needs my favorite, "age = wisdom & knowledge".

"Bob's been here for fifteen years and if he says java applets are still the way to go then they must be."
Someone made a "Never AMD" promise in purchasing, so this has pushed up lifecycles on, without exaggeration, all of our hardware by at least two years. The mobile and servers are most affected.

Worst is we support several thousand Macs, most mobile, and after I saw syscall performance choke after High Sierra, especially on apfs, I suggested we ask Apple to buy back or credit us for the loss in expected performance and lifetime.

Instead we froze purchasing on all but high end models and pushed out the replacement timeline waiting for Intel's 9-series, which was supposed to have hardware mitigation.

Now we know that even the 9-series are susceptible.

The SMT patch was pushed out last week, and we're going to have some really interesting conversations in the coming weeks.
Its simply because Cryto itself isnt transparent and regulated.
Debunking the Lighthouse Urban Legend
The "nirvana fallacy" is definitely one I commonly see on Hacker News. The ease with which people jump from "thing x is imperfect" to "thing x is worthless" is mind-boggling. This is usually coupled with familiarity bias, where the flaws of any existing technology are discounted vs. those of a new technology.
It does support custom columns - seems possible to add columns indefinitely and rename them.

I agree with you, it would be great if it was truly cross-platform (ie. also available for Android, Linux, etc).

Not clear if developer(s) are still working on it.
Or it means that VEP processes desperately need updating, like much of technology used in government.
> How far can the media protect or undermin edemocratic institutions in unconsolidated democracies, and how persuasive can they be in ensuring public support for dictator’s policies? We study this question in the context of Germany between 1929 and 1939. Using geographical and temporal variation in radio availability, we show that radio had a significant
negative effect on the Nazi electoral support between 1929 and 1932, when political news
were slanted against Nazi party. This effect was reversed in just 5 weeks following Hitler’s appointment as chancellor and the transfer of control of the radio to the Nazis. Pro-Nazi radio propaganda caused higher vote for the Nazis in March 1933 election. After full consolidation of power, radio propaganda helped the Nazis to enroll new party members and encouraged denunciations of Jews and other open expressions of anti-Semitism.

-- Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany, Adena et al.
It's obviously statistical malpractice to draw conclusions from one or two datapoints.

But anyway: the UK and France have arguably more restrictive free speech laws than Germany, yet they have far longer democratic histories than the US.

It's also somewhat misleading to present the US as some sort of haven of free speech. Just look at the widespread "de-platforming" of anyone even remotely left-wing during the "red scare"/McCarty era. Or the FBI and other agencies' efforts to undermine both the Civil Rights movement as well as anti-war effort in the 1970s.
I'm 100% right there with you. But the inner pessimist in me isn't holding my breath. Said new company would perhaps start with an excellent and wholesome mission statement, make some great products and then take on funding, need to experience exponential growth, maybe have an IPO, and eventually betray it's users in the quest for "maximizing shareholder value" and providing a "better user experience". If it can happen to Google it can happen to anyone...

Also, can I even buy a sound bar for my TV that doesn't listen to me and need an internet connection these days... It's unreal the unneeded complexity and bullshit they put in some electronics.

The real heroes the world needs are just independent founders that use slow growth over several generations and never sell the business, thus minimizing incentives other than having a lifestyle business and making great stuff. But the money is just too tempting eventually, or the business just isn't feasible at that scale.
The same billionaires and billion-dollar corporations that control the media control the politicians.
I’ll pass on the phytoestrogens, though. This doesn’t really address the fact that there are ways to still eat meat but minimize the greenhouse effects. For example, chicken and pork is dramatically less directly impactful than beef. There is still the feed efficiency problem, but America’s love of red meat is a better place to start than no meat at all.

https://timeforchange.org/are-cows-cause-of-global-warming-m...
Ah, one of my favorite Simpsons moments.

Homer: Not a bear in sight. The bear patrol must be working like a charm.

Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.

Homer: Thank you, honey.

Lisa: No, I mean by that logic, I could say that this rock keeps tigers away.

Homer: How does it work?

Lisa: It doesn't! It's just a stupid rock!

Homer: ahuh...

Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around here, do you?

Homer: ... Lisa, I would like to buy your rock.
Fun things also happen if that frequency isn’t what you think it is. EU clocks derived from the 50Hz signal, for example, ran up to 6 minutes slow in March 2018 (https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/8/17095440/europe-clocks-run...)

And of course, it also is “fun” when you accidentally do not only pick up the frequency of mains power, but also its voltage in your electronics.
So CO2 --> methane is an indirect link at best, and methane levels have been increasing linearly for the last thirty years.

https://climatenexus.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ch4_tren...

There is no magical CO2 level of 400 that suddenly causes methane to be released from permafrost.
I don't know in which bear country you grew up, but good luck killing a grizzly attacking you by surprise with most guns. Not that this is fundamentally impossible (her husband did it, after all) but not with a handgun. These guys are nothing like the black bears you may see in other parts of America...
Digital Nature Group
Yup. But imake is here now and we can all rest easy.

OK, maybe not. But this here autotools cleanly handles all those crazy portability edge cases and gives you a nice structure to boot. It's the Right Thing.

Sorry about that. But check out scons. That's clearly the way things should have been done in the first place.

Late breaking news: supporters of "Ant" in the Java world were just deposed by something called "Gradle"! We'll have experts on shortly to explain why either of these were needed in the first place given that javac handled dependencies automatically in its very first version.

But yeah, maybe python wasn't as clean as we hoped. Check out cmake! Here's the new hotness for sure. Pay no attention to the really awful programming language it embeds, it does windows!

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I mean, yeah, recursive make, specifically, isn't a great idea. And for large projects, make implementations have performance issues.

But make is a tool that does two things and does them simple and well: it tracks dependencies between files, and it lets you write simple command sequences in an obvious language to fulfill those dependencies.

And until the authors of all these other tools get their heads out of the clouds and stop trying to fix the OTHER problems with make while refusing to preserve these attributes, make isn't going anywhere.
offhand, graph traversal is a lot more common now than twenty years ago
The difference is that I can call Donald Trump a fascist Nazi (or Obama an illegal immigrant and a communist) with absolutely no fear of repercussions from the govt, credit agencies, etc. Hell, I could even plaster it on billboards, make YouTube videos, and tv commercials. Big difference there.
In the US “community care” sounds like a great way of collecting more tax money while ultimately not implementing any program that works.

I want politicians to establish the rule of law and create a livable community by implementing a program (or community care checklist) with the tax money we are already providing.

Instead we have unaccountability, poverty, illness, misery and high taxes. All at the same time.

We need to abolish Proposition 47.
That's ridiculous whataboutism.

Sure, such things sadly happen even in the Western world, but you can't seriously equate that with the scale of things happening in China.
Excellent comment.

We lead the arms race, in all categories.

Whenever an adversarial Nation buys new kit, missiles or heavy metal, it's to keep up, or keep out, the US.

China's rise in offensive technological process was undoubtedly in response to its knowledge (retrieved through hacking) of the extensive measures on US side.

We can set the pace. And that pace needs to slow down.
There are many active boards, and a lot of activity between them on FTN style networks such as fsxNet and ArakNet.
Did you just claim that more than one million people being forced into reeducation camps isn't a problem? What constitutes a problem to you?
According to terrapass.com the average citizen can offset their annual footprint for < $200 a year. They say their audited, but I'd love to know if they're legit?
Just like people don't use the http module but requests, it's been years since the community moved away from manual manipulation of datetime/pytz for time zones.

Nowadays people use higher level libs such as pendulum:

>>> print(pendulum.datetime(2019, 5, 21, 12, 30, tz='America/New_York'))
2019-05-21T12:30:00-04:00

It avoids many gotchas, gives you more features and has a nicer API.

Like skilpat said, dateutil is a better fit that pytz, and hence pendulum uses it, as well as pytzdata, to stay up to date.
Very counter intuitive that all of the fuel and oxidizer goes through the preburner yet so elegant.
> Are you saying Turing, the world famous mathematician, didn't use any mathematical ideas?

Of course he did, but his ideas also came to him through psychology and he expressed them in English. That doesn't make psychology or English more fundamental than computation. Because humans create theories and humans are very complex, almost everything human is involved in the construction of theories, but when we talk about something being more fundamental than another we're not talking about the human process of the theory's construction but about the subject matter of the theory. The theory of computation is not only concerned with matters at a "lower-level" than mathematics, but also lower than logic.

In fact, that computation can be described using mathematics (or English) is precisely because of Turing's discovery of universal computation, which means that any system of symbols that's "rich enough" can describe any other.

> You do realize that his 1936 was filled with mathematical proofs?

Ah, but you should take a closer look at them. His proof of what we today know as the halting theorem goes to great lengths to avoid using any logical axioms. There's a great paper about that by the Turing scholar, Juliet Floyd (https://mdetlefsen.nd.edu/assets/201037/jf.turing.pdf esp. §4.5). He did that because he was trying to get to an idea that's even more fundamental than logic.

> Just because it isn't full of numbers doesn't mean it's not mathematics.

As I said, some people do consider formal logic, and even computation as branches of mathematics (though others don't), but if so you can think of computation as more fundamental than any other branch. Let me put this more precisely instead of speaking in the abstract: computation is more fundamental than the natural numbers (the axiom of infinity, often considered the most basic mathematical axiom) and even the most basic axioms of logic, such as the principle of explosion, in the sense that neither can be given a precise sense without computation, but computation is described without them.
This is kind of a trick question because only some will believe it’s a cover story while others believe it’s true.

President Trump is actually a good example that everyone could agree on: considering the amount of dirt thrown at him it a clear sign of system failure because either:
- he’s still not impeached
or
- his aides go down by presumably made up cover stories
What percentage of the Uigur population is it?
I've updated the post to clarify that one should not use `pytz` at all and should instead use `dateutil`. The latter has much more reasonable behavior and is more actively maintained. I also included a link to commentary about pytz by dateutil's current maintainer.

Why hasn't the bug been fixed? I'm not sure! But looking at the code it seems like this problem has existed for the past 9 years. My guess is that the developers and maintainers never saw it as an actual problem, despite its ubiquity.
From a modern physics perspective, pron is correct in some sense. To a physicist, the theory of computation and complexity, are built on top of the laws of the universe that you live in. You change the laws of the universe and the difficulty of computation changes. In fact, more generally, what information processing tasks (such as cryptography) are possible or their difficulty are determined by the laws of physics. For example, its possible to copy unknown information in the Newtonian universe, but generally impossible in the quantum universe. Or for example, quantum computers are said to have different complexity than classical computers.

In fact, significant progress in physics in recent times has come about because people ask what sort of information processing tasks should be possible/easy in our universe and which ones not. This allows us to reject physical theories that don't respect our intuitions about information processing. What I am getting at is that the theory of information processing (computation included) is not divorced from reality but can be divorced from mathematics. Even if we completely changed our mathematical systems (start from different axioms than ZFC for example), the type of computations possible in our universe would not change. In other words, if we wanted to use the new mathematics to model computers/information processing systems in our universe, that mathematics would have to respect the information processing results we already know about our universe.
> Then you wouldn't want to wear a device that made you feel even colder, would you?

Yes I would, because five degrees colder than that is still comfortable, but being wet is not comfortable.

> And making you feel cooler would not change that your body is not actually being cooled--if you're at saturation, your body can't cool itself. So to avoid your body overheating, you would need to go someplace that is actually cooler. Just making you feel cooler wouldn't help. (You might get some increase in the time you could stay outside if your body sweated less and therefore dehydrated less.)

I'm not asking the device to magically prevent overheating. I'm saying that the lower amount of sweat wouldn't be a downside, because there would still be enough.

Also I don't actually overheat because I slow down and avoid pushing myself to that point.

This is a tangent anyway, it's the slightly-over-room-temperature situation that I really care about.
I enjoyed BBSing in my youth and appreciate that BBSes are still around. But two factors that are missing today are 1. BBSes were local to me (reflecting the people in my city) and 2. It was “hard” to find then and connect to them.
Also 5 person house with 60K queries in the last 24 hours with 39K blocked - that's 60+% blocked. All pretty much thanks to all the logging that Roku does that PiHole blocks.
What are your thoughts on the project as someone familiar with the area? Good, bad, mixed?

As an outsider, it seems that Scotland is leading the world in offshore wind, which is someone Scottish Engineers could export to many other places. I see it as exciting.
This article seems a bit misguided in its dismissal of the significance of historical fact. The last paragraph seems to me to get unnecessarily snotty about somebody making a very precise best-guess reconstruction of a historical value/location. "Out-of-thin-air" values aren't something I had heard of but apparently that category has to do with circular reasoning—so it doesn't apply literally in this case. It's just a self-satisfied way of smearing someone else's good faith work.
> ...it lets you write simple command sequences...

People experienced with make might not notice, but Makefiles often become write-only code, especially to novices.
Isn't this correct in English? The equivalent on my first language (Portuguese) is very clearly wrong, but I've seen the English version in more than one book.
As a resident of the UK, I can state that community care is exactly the same ideologically-driven agenda with exactly the same real-world failings that are being ascribed to the US model. The only difference is that there are still remnants of a benefit system that provide some protection for the least fortunate, although the government is in the process of dismantling those as well.
> "...what’s the catch?"

I'm still looking for a catch. I will say it's not clear if the developer(s) are still focused on this, unfortunately. I hope they continue to develop it and attract more users. Also, I'm not sure if the .kanbanier file type is convenient if you want to export data.

> "Do you know of any other apps that use this App Store + native iOS and macOS client model by the way? I’ve never seen this done properly before (i.e. no electron, cross platform UI)"

I like this model too. The native BOOKS application for Mac OS X and iPad equivalent seems similar. It syncs well with icloud in my experience.
Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
No, I don't miss the 90's. I was a kid back then, and didn't have the freedoms I have now as an adult. That freedom can bring in a lot of complexity, but I'd take freedom over simplicity.
Improving My Ubuntu Workflow
History shows again and again that regulating speech just doesn't work, and has many negative consequences.

The best thing is to leave people be to talk and interact.

People are not machines that can be controlled so easily. If they cannot talk in an open way, they'll conspire in a hidden way, and possibly even resort to violence as a remedy to the oppression. They'll use the oppression to justify violence, and to gain sympathy with their cause.
So does everything else. Find me a big project with a build automation system that isn't a jury-rigged, inscrutable mess. The problem isn't the tools.
I was referring to the state's monopoly on the ability to punish.
“rapidly escalating”
Do you know how to do wizadry on a computer? Because if you do, the answer is right here in this thread. Fetch those git repos, help distribute them. Work together with the Chinese who already are doing something. Then branch out…
It would be interesting to see an interactive map with 'live earthquakes' and a timeline to go back in time.