skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've come to think asking individuals to change their behavior to fix the problem is actually counter productive.

Don't worry, there are people saying this all over every climate discussion on HN. And then a huge distracting discussion about whether that's a good idea or not.
While I have zero interest in Libra/Calibra/whatever, Libra specifically _isnt_ controlled by Facebook. It's, at least legally, controlled by a non-profit consortium that Facebook is a part of, but I do not think is a controlling owner of.
A bit more background here:
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/demolition...

So bizarre.
Me too. You’re right that it’s 90+ a few weeks cumulatively. Although the data is a little old.

Last year there were at least 2 weeks of 100+ degrees at my house. It’s a personal preference, over 80 I need ac. I’m sure some people like heat more. There are ~80 days a year it’s over 80 degrees.

Source: https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/California/Places/san...
What are you talking about? Nurses, teachers and public sector workers all critical for the functioning of cities are claiming welfare. Some nurses in the NHS are eating patients' left-over food. The logic of the market is to drive wages to the bottom and replace workers when they break. It leads to the destruction of service quality, social cohesion and increased deaths in our hospitals. Please stay off the Ayn Rand methamphetamine.
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> Visa and Mastercard are taking a 3-4% cut

have you tried buying anything with bitcoin? currently the transaction fee is almost $2 to have your transaction confirmed within 10 minutes.

Not a lot on big purchases, but that's 20% if you're say trying to buy a $10 lunch with bitcoin.
> If you live in a country that has extremely tight currency and economic controls but with a corrupt government, and are experiencing hyperinflation (Zimbabwe, Venezuela, others https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate), access to alternative currencies can literally be the difference between life and death for individuals, where the money you make on your salary will be worthless by the time you get your check.

Those same "tight currency and economic controls" apply just as much to cryptocurrencies as they do to Visa gift cards. There's nothing better about "Venezuelans should've used cryptocurrency" versus "Venezuelans should've used dollars".

But beyond that, people have the right to determine their country's monetary policy independent of, say, Bitcoin devs, Facebook executives, or a foreign government (ex: Venezuelans using USD), and it's hard for me to ignore the vague scent of opportunism here. The solution to corrupt governments is not "get rid of all governments", it's "get rid of corrupt governments".
The lottery of having already lived there? Only in the same sense as if I have a doll, you're screwed out of having that doll.
Are you aware of any studies that support this hypothesis? It's an interesting one.
Except that when the signers are corporations beholden to governments, the freedom to transact with whoever you choose is lost.

This limits its value as a currency. It's like the “7 degrees of seperation” thing. You might not be doing anything with librecoin that the governments of the world don't like, in the network of where the currency could flow would like to but can't it has a cascading effect which severely hampers the size the network can grow to.

For example, if you trade with John who trades with Alice who then tries to trade with Eve, but Eve doesn't want to use your currency becausesshe's doing something Facebook or the U.S. government doesn't like, then Alice won't want to use it because she can't trade with Eve, and then John will be turned off to it for the same reason all the way back to you.
If it's centralized the bank/consortium can do whatever they want. Your transaction might just disappear if the consortium decides that today is a good day to do so.
Yeah, most of them were tied to undefined behavior. Example with detection method:

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/stack:sosp13.pdf

One of the main ones that can do it without undefined behavior, or at least what I was told was undefined behavior, is optimizations getting rid of "dead" code. It doesn't have to be using memset: just an assignment. That assignment would sometimes get removed because the compiler thought nothing would be done with the assigned data. I never read if that was in C specification since it seemed to be a common problem in optimizations. Here's a recent solution just in case you find it interesting:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

"These issues should be fixed at the language level so that first, a programmer can express his intentions more easily and second, that it is hard to write code which doesn't align with the programmers intention."

Being a fan of Ada, SPARK, and Rust, I can't agree with you more. The problem is legacy code, esp useful FOSS, that isn't getting ported any time soon. The OS's, web browsers, and media players come to mind. We need ways to analyze, test, and compile them that mitigate risks. Hence, all these projects targeting things like C.
My earliest recollection of climate change/global warming was about 30 years ago, and it was understood this was a society and political issue then, and the need for a systematic approach by corporations and government was needed.

Conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, called the most docile claims about global warming/climate change as radical, lies, socialism, communism, anti-business, pro-big government, and so on. The more aggressive claims were impugned as forms of eco-terrorism. It's the same today. The climate change deniers go so far as to insist that all of this is just delusional panic over nothing.

Michael Crichton, science fiction author, was a notable climate change denier who pushed exactly that: this climate change business is nonsense and people who claim otherwise are crazy. He wrote a book on the subject "State of Fear" about how global warming was a fraud, perpetrated by a few to exploit others.

A still sitting U.S. senator, James Inhofe from Oklahoma, says global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. And he cited "Dr. Crichton" and his book as the kind of real facts we need to pay attention to, and invited him to testify before Congress as a climate expert and scientist.

It's like humans are designed to make everything a dispute.
The Narrows was my favorite stretch as well! Art Loeb was the very first backpacking trip I did -- was just 14 at the time. I've been meaning to do it again so I can fully enjoy it this time around.
U.S. lawmaker calls for Facebook to pause cryptocurrency project
It's Tesla started this design, iphonized car industry.

Screen navigation should be banned in the car no matter what type of screen it is.

When driving or piloting, what's the last time you heard the display has several levels of menu/screen to move around. Just display everything, let the eyes choose where to look.
Global Warming Could Cause Dangerous Increases in Humidity
It's quiet out there: scientists fail to hear signals of alien life
It shouldn't but it does. See Wadler's Law:

https://wiki.haskell.org/Wadler's_Law
I'm still firmly in the camp of people that want to start serious Geoengineering to fix this. WW2 or higher level efforts can get humanity very far if we commit ourselves. My biggest question is though, what are the goals? How many Watts do we have to remove from the planet per day to effectively cool it. How much CO² would actually need to be removed?

If the DoD would get the Job of fighting climate change, i'd wonder what they'd come up with.
I had a couple of posts go first page on HN in the last months. I run my blog on Ghost (the hosted SaaS version) and it's crazy fast. I have no idea how they do it, alas.
Freezing rents to fight increasing costs makes as much sense as limiting the maximum reading on thermometers to fight increasing temperatures.

Prices aren't just arbitrary numbers attributed to goods. They convey information. Information that cannot be captured by any one group alone. That's the point of prices.

Freezing rents will create a lot of unintended consequences, as price controls normally do. I imagine that apartments would be poorly maintained as landlords won't need to attract new tenants. Many people will illegally sublet their homes and capture market rents. Landlords will be suspicious and begin treating their tenants with contempt. Investment in building real estate will reduce considerably. The city would be less vibrant and it will be harder to attract young talent or new businesses.
Well, to be fair, the Mozilla rewrite was a combination of runaway ambition/scope, too many cooks and too few of them Michelin class cooks. I wouldn't exactly say that the rewrite itself was the biggest problem they had.

When you look up "second system effect" there's a picture of the Mozilla logo. :)
No one is obligated to rent a property from someone else.

That's a pretty weird statement to make.

Do you really believe that everyone (or even a majority) of people who currently rent are in a position to buy a place to live if they wanted to?
I don't mean this in a snarky way at all; if you are interested it is easy enough to educate yourself on the basics. "Read first, question later" is a good approach to this sort of thing, really, as it isn't asking for other peoples effort on the easy stuff.
Will "Objectional Groups" be preventing from using Libra? Who will define what is an "Objectional Group"?
Agree that the Narrows is the best. Most people just stop at Shining Rock so they never get to the real gem. If that's what it takes to keep the trail empty, fine by me!
> Very much so. It's a big factor in enabling "we don't have to own a car at all, because we can get anything we need shipped to us". 2-day shipping is the slow case these days, and if it's in a local warehouse you can expect same-day or next-day. (And in some cities you can get 2-hour delivery of fresh items.)

Maybe, but my own experience is a counterexample. I'm a bike commuter who doesn't own a car, and I cancelled Prime because I found Prime's shipping to be unreliable at best. (Late deliveries, mostly.) If I need to order something I'll wait until I meet the minimum for free shipping or pay extra for shipping. Online shopping is the game changer, not Prime, as far as I'm concerned.
No clue how that would be advertised. My parents own rather than rent, and they specifically checked for that before purchasing.

There are standards for sound-proofing, but they are construction standards, they require a particular amount of sound isolation, and resilient channel passes the current standards (since it gives "okay" levels of soundproofing at construction time, even though later modifications are almost certain to nullify that).
This strategy can lower costs for the manufacturer because there are fewer variants of the product to make. I support this in the hope that cost savings are passed on to consumers.
it was brief. we got bought, laid off, good severance!
Thank you! The team will love these comments :) Y Combinator was one of the most defining periods for Sqreen. We joined at a pretty unusual stage, with about 20 people in our team, and something like 50 paying customers). So we were one of the most advanced teams of our batch when we joined. YC was an amazing opportunity for us to learn and progress like crazy. The value that YC brings is incredible, no matter what your stage is.
Another way to do it would be to turn new entrants away, unless people who were already there chose to leave. To the people living in Berlin, it's arguably not at all a problem that too many people want to live in Berlin until the rents rise as a result.
If you own a telephone you are stuffed, google will get you. Your friends have you in their contacts - that's it. You are done for.
> and voting exclusively on how credible a politician is on tackling global warming.

Up until very recently I thought this was the most important thing to do. The more I watch XR videos though the more I am convinced that that's not the case. Voting doesn't matter. None of the important social changes in the last century or so were initiated by the parliament. Think about women suffrage, civil rights movement, anti war movement, gay rights. We need to get out and get our hands dirty with direct action. Or at least support people who do.
I think that AML[1] laws were just an example. The point is that the validators have the power to block transactions. This could be due a government request, or because you posted something that Facebook (or one of the other affiliated companies) doesn't like. The actual reason is immaterial; the important thing is that currency is worthless without the ability to spend it.

[1] anti-money-laundering
Darknet Diaries has a great episode on this. It's called alarm lamp scooter.
On that view there has never been a 2a system. No one would honor a private bank note that was not backed by some asset or government fiat. Such a note would, quite literally, be worth no more than the paper it was printed on.
Expansion and contraction of the monetary supply by central banks is critical to preventing financial disasters. Cryto subverts this.

Not to mention making transactions harder and not easier.
Is there any autoscaling or pay-for-what-you-use pricing? It's not 100% clear, but it looks you essentially choose the instance type you want when using Timescale Cloud.

I understand why you might not want to call that out specifically in these promotional materials, but it's an important consideration when choosing which managed DB to use and when evaluating cost.

What specifically does this mean in practice - "Grow, shrink and migrate your workloads between configurations and plans with ease."
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Still China outputs more than 2x the U.S. volume:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
51% attack applies to mining. Libra will not be mined. They have 33% attack on voting... but if 1/3 of the founding companies disagree about some transfer, they've got bigger issues than just that attack.
Doesn't happen to me, at least didn't happen in a while.
Well, that’s just a matter of time. But I was referring to the parent comment’s system.
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Interestingly, I think we saw (seeing?) a version of the same playbook being used at AWS - see the debacle around the AWS managed Elasticsearch service.
Thanks! Being as transparent and open as we can is a big slice of who we are. Tbh, both dev and security folks are tired of having to talk to 3 sales people to understand if a product is a good fit or not (btw, average NPS of security industry is below 25). We have a free and open signup and our documentation is open.
Housing in Montreal is cheap compared to the rest of Canada. Rent control "worked" because there was little upward pressure on rents there.
There isn't much the individual can do to fix climate change.

Even if you went completely off the grid to live in the woods outside of the industrial civilization eating plants etc this wouldn't fix anything.

Yes, you would certainly reduce your emissions but this is not nearly enough.

Even if a miracle happened and we reached global zero emissions today there are already 415ppm in the atmosphere which will remain there for thousands of years.

Because of climate lag we are now only seeing the effects from the emissions from the 70s and early 80s. Even in 30-40 years when we can see the effects from our current emissions it will not stop there. There are many self sustaining climatic systems that will have been triggered and will continue to change the climate.

Humanity needs to invest all possible resources into clean energy and carbon sequestration. If we don't go all in during the next decade we are done.
Good catch! We will fix that
>Pretty much every western nation has systemically failed to recognize or support the insanely high demand for high density living in the 21st century.

While I agree that we have an unsolved problem here, isn't a city's government mainly responsible to do good by the people who inhabit that city and make up its electorate? That's how western democracies work, so no surprises there.

I know of many people all over the world who would like to move to the US and still the 'insanely high demand' has not been supported.
> If I ran a city, I would want more of those highly skilled workers in my city.

Why, exactly? Does the person who runs the city with the highest per capita tax receipts get some sort of award? I assume his/her rent would get driven up with the rest.
Because the land sucks. It just sucks.

Tundra when thawed isn't some magical land. It's all swamp basically.

GOOD LUCK with 100' deep bogs all over the place!
I don't think I've ever been in an Indian restaurant that has pork or beef on the menu, but that's in my corner of the US. Pretty much universally, they have chicken, lamb, goat, seafood, and vegetarian versions.
.Net is planned for early next year.
Sol does have three habitable planets. Plus some moons, at a push.

Habitability isn't a Boolean. It's hugely dependent on history, context, and resources.

The more Boolean distinction doesn't have a name - but if it did, it would be something like Stable Evolutionary Potential.

Mars and Venus both fail on that. The moons fail on it now, but may pass when the Sun turns into a red giant.

The Earth has offered it for long time, with some uncertainty about the near future.

There's no reliable way to distinguish SEP at a distance. But noting that a star has planets in its habitable zone and making some estimate of how many planets in stable systems are likely to offer SEP is a decent start.
Mirror for people in the EU: http://archive.is/p073a
Unless this whole project is one big conspiracy, I don't see how this is true.
Libra will be governed by at least a couple of dozen big corporations, some of which are in direct conflict with FB's agenda. FB will have to convince 67% of the nodes to make any non standard action and keep it a secret. That's a huge business risk.
And from my reading of the white paper I don't see how you can actually block an address from submitting or receiving transactions. Am I missing something?
I am working on my first book and today just cut it into two books because ... because it demanded it.

But doing 100k words? wow? And getting early feedback and marketing and ... lots to do :-)
It just seems to be FB is trying to pull a fast one and it already knows everyone saw it coming before it even moved.
Ensuring the proof is actually one

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-computers-we-trust-2013022...
Rent controls are just a fancy way to say "price caps".

If you artificially depress the price of a commodity, you induce a scarcity. Apartments are slightly less liquid than say apples, but the principle still stands. It should express itself in demand outstripping supply. If supply and demand were in equilibrium, there would be no point in rent control.
We don't cover code analysis (SAST). We sit in production applications and the microagents inspect the execution flow of requests inside apps.

If we detect that a vulnerability is being triggered we will virtually patch it and send remediation details to developers.
We wrote a blog post [1] that explains how we detect these vulnerabilities.

[1] - https://blog.sqreen.com/block-sql-injections-not-customers/
I mean, they dressed up a pig, put lipstick on it
Some banks do allow you to create separate credentials that are restricted to read-only views of your account.
> Since most of the star's energy is emitted in the infrared ... does this limit the potential of photosynthetic organisms ... ?

I'm not any sort of biologist or chemist, so somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but...

If you specifically meant photosynthesis by terran chlorophyll, then yes, I suppose it would be less effective. However, I could imagine photosynthetic life to evolve under those conditions that uses some other compound to capture and convert the energy.

Also to consider is the amount of radiation (light, etc.) available on the surface, which can be figured as a formula of the radiation emitted by the sun, distance from the sun to the planet, and attenuation of radiation by the atmosphere. Much of the light (and other energy) emitted by a sun does not reach the surface of a planet with an atmosphere. The particulars are, of course, dependent on the atmospheric composition, but generally I would expect infrared light, with longer wavelengths than visible light, to better penetrate the atmosphere and be more available to life on the surface.
Well as someone with a Mini Cooper with low-profile run-flat tires, I can tell you that SF potholes will destroy road cars. I’ve had two (expensive) tires ruined, and it started rattling like hell from all the shocks soon after we got it. Maybe full off-road with a lift kit is overkill, but sometimes I wonder.
That is super awesome, thank you! It isn't clear to me reading section 17005.5 [1] how exactly you trigger this law. For example section (b) which says you have to have at least 200 homes in a single community to be considered. That seems like a pretty big loophole to drive through. Now I have to motivate myself to walk over to the reference section of the library to see if there is any case law associated with this stuff that will add insight.

[1] http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection....
Thank you. I’m definitely biased, but this solution does work :)
After Pearl Harbor, Pan Am flight 18602 was forced to do the impossible
I think nielv's point is that the doctors who proscribe and the scientist who design these drugs have many years of professional education and generally at least a decade of experience in their fields. They have all of that domain knowledge about the vaccine, AND they care about their kids, AND they decide to vaccinate their children. They care just as much as the anti-vaxxer parents, but they also have the medical understanding to make a reasonable decision, while the anti-vaxxer's generally don't have medical or bio-engineering degrees and experience with the vaccines.
There's a very big difference between:

"I live in and probably even vote in a country that believes I am sovereign, which thus derives its right to wield authority."

and:

"I signed up for Libra so I could more easily use Facebook, which I only joined to keep up with my kids, and thus I accept Mark Zuckerberg's authority over monetary policy, even considering I have no input on it whatsoever"
This is a bit silly. First the fact that one of their “breakthroughs” was discovering it’s easier to rack the same dish types before washing them shows not a single on of them have ever worked a dish line.

Second, custom dishware with proprietary magnets baked in is ... unlikely to catch on
Apple under Jobs, Google, Facebook, MS under Gates, lots of smaller companies. Probably the ones where a founder is still CEO.
> We have the technology to live on Mars (not to terraform it, just to survive on it).

I'm not convinced this is true intergenerationally without a maternity ward in a centrifuge; the low gravity mouse embryo experiments don't look promising. Maybe 1/3rd earth gravity is enough, but I'm doubtful. If we're granting centrifugal habitats as something doable with current technology, an Orion/Daedalus style nuke-propelled spacecraft seems in the same ballpark. It's been sketched out and tested with models, it's clearly possible, but nobody has really made one yet and it's a hell of an engineering problem still.
This is when I take a slow walk around the building or outside for a few minutes.
The content of their books is often OK, however low-res images,pixelated tables and some random font and its size makes those books look funny..
Is that what they call "self documenting"?