skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure. The establishment was slow to grasp the true power the Internet provides them, but it's quite sure that the Internet is a tool and it's just as useful to the authoritarians and establishment as it is to grass roots organizations.

Point in fact: troll farms, fake news (both fake articles as well as the proclamation by politicians that anything against them is "fake news"), Facebook/Cambridge Analytica leak by design.

Especially without any way to validate trustworthiness of actors, the Internet is simply another medium that is polluted by monied interests.
>> Cancer is a fairly modern disease.

Depends on what we consider "modern". Last I checked, they found cancers on dinosaur fossils. see e.g. https://www.cancerquest.org/cancer-biology/cancer-wild-anima...

As for humans, it is documented back in the ancient Egypt, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cancer
Thankfully (/s), due to the light pollution given off by the city I live near, I can't see them anyway.
An olivine-process concrete would be the holy grail: net-carbon negative concrete.
I’m playing with the idea of a trees4travel nonprofit. Eco-conscious individuals or business that requires employees to travel can quickly using some basic information make a donation to plant trees/take other climate change action in order to offset the impact of that flight - in an effort to become carbon neutral/negative.

LMK if this is interesting at all, anyone is free to partner or run with it - whatever to help the climate
In Colombia I found it (very!) strange that meat was not displayed in a refrigerator.

I've never seen eggs being sold from refrigerators though.
Why have subroutines then?
Utilizing a TOS to exploit small businesses in a domain they have little expertise in.

"GrubHub has done nothing wrong", indeed.
I think it's close but missing one really key point. Imagine if this was being done by some non profit international consortium funded by many nations.
Uniquely identifying wifi MAC addresses and Bluetooth IDs can usually be passively picked up from phones. Correlate those with the other fuzzy identifiers you mentioned for even better and more versatile tracking.

I'm curious, are any MAC-like IDs broadcast plain-text as part of normal cell phone connections that could be passively sniffed? I must have the wrong keywords, but don't seem to be able to find anything on this.
Those dense internet satellite constellations will be in low earth orbit, which have relatively fast decay times. So even in the worst case it would only set us back by a few decades while either cleanup solutions are developed or we wait for them to decay naturally.

You can still launch through the debris field into higher orbits because the collision probability will be quite low at any given moment, it just adds up over time for things that want to stay there.
How do you ensure native rainforest and the like aren’t clearcut to grow hemp or bamboo?
Most of the niche sites I've seen aren't great because they're exclusive but because they're built around a specific interest. Anybody can join, but if they don't share that interest, they'll get bored and leave.
If a TOS says that they get your firstborn son, but they settle instead for his arm, they aren't some kind of hero.
There's actually a browser that basically does this, called Beaker [0]. It uses a protocol called Dat which is very similar to Bittorent, but allows you to update your files after you originally publish them (in the form of an append-only log, so you can always see old versions of a particular site if you want to).

[0]: https://beakerbrowser.com/
It s a ruse. The US will win the landgrab for controlling the communication networks of up and coming regions like Africa before the Chinese do
> Criminalizing possession and handling of such recordings is an attempt at reducing demand. It's not a complete solution, but no real world is really solved by a single thing.

My personal opinion is that this does not reduce abuse. It almost certainly reduces demand for abuse videos, and possibly reduces demand for the creation of new abuse videos - but I don't care about those, I care about the kids being hurt. I'd rather have 10 kids a year get abused and the videos end up on YouTube than have 100 kids a year abused with no videos anywhere, if that makes any sense - and if abuse videos are a substitute for actual abuse one might expect that making the videos harder to acquire would make the latter more common.
People often say this sort of thing about the constraints imposed by various systems. It's a bit of a rhetorical party trick, though, designed to avoid engaging with the design rationale of the constraints by appealing to the operator's vanity.
Only just finished reading trough the full talk.

This slide[0] really resonated with me.

The new thing won’t be better, you just aren’t aware of all of the ways it will be terrible yet.

[0] http://boringtechnology.club/#85
Are there any international agreements covering this stuff?

What if China decide they want to launch another 3000 and Russia want to launch another 3000 and India and Japan and whoever else?
I think that, even in an appropriately regulated and taxed environment, coal has a place. In particular, fly ash can replace a respectable fraction of the cement used in concrete. If a coal-fired power plant can scrub its emissions to remove particulates and CO2, it may be cost effective as a source of fly ash compared to the (taxed) cost of cement production.

I'm skeptical that "clean coal" will ever be cost-effective when considered purely as a source of power in most locations.
If you are black, you already live in that world.
You don't need JS to get a website that behaves properly on mobile. Just add one meta tag to set the viewport scaling and text will scale properly:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
Personally, I'm wary of policemen and politicians trying to grasp probability. The general public's perception of the subject is not mature enough, and all these high tech sci-fi stuff is being introduced to a society were phishing is lucractive. I fear facial recognition as proof becoming validating in the public discourse, paving the way to the whole biomechanics crew, like gait analysis.

The criminal justice system always had lots of false positives that go silent and unnoticed, simply because of exposure bias (you never hear about the guy they sent to prison for life again).
This is true. For a good example, look at the process if you want to purchase something in a foreign currency on Paypal without Paypal taking an extra ~3.5% cut: https://www.gamedealscanada.com/2018/06/27/changing-paypals-...
For those interested to explore this subject in more depth, I recommend 'Rethinking Madness' by Paris Williams [1]. The author makes the same point and discusses the evidence for it along with possible explanations.

I found the book fascinating.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Madness-Understanding-Trea...
I know what you mean, the idea is that if you pause the the task it will remind you every 5 mins to resume the task. Basicly you have to compleat the task or remove it. if this becomes a problem write me to h@effortless.co and we will find a way to improve it
I'm trying to get back into writing. I wrote a lot as an intern cuz that's what you do when you're an intern in SF, but recently I'm realizing that a lot of stuff I have a lot of first-hand experience is stuff that other engineers even within my own company don't have a ton of knowledge about (for context, I do a lot of frontend performance work).
Given the small surface area of the roofs, the efficiency of existing solar panels, and how much car companies exaggerate when it comes to miles (do they mean 27.7mi with all the seats removed, etc.) I would expect it to be a practical no-go for anything except sunshine.

I'm from michigan, so in the winter assuming you park your car in the open for your job, you can easily expect it to be covered in snow - whenever it snows - which is all winter.

So it'd only be beneficial here during the summer, except when it's raining which is currently 3/7 days of the week.

I mean it'd be a nice bonus I guess, but at least for my situation it wouldn't make a ton of sense to spend extra on.
There's neither surprise nor accident in Factorio's Turing completeness. The developers were aware of and fans of the existence of proofs of games on that list (Transport Tycoon is a particular example that they intentionally modeled train mechanics from)
If you've ever looked up at the sky at night in a dark area I don't think you could honestly say it's "dead emptiness". It's fascinating to gaze up at the stars and taking that away would be a tragedy
I don't think 3000 satellites are nearly enough to completely blot out the sky across the entire planet.
It's difficult to fathom how "you agreed to worse in the TOS" could be considered synonymous with "consideration" and "doing the right thing". It's frankly surreal to see a person suggest it.
There were big cuts to legal aid in the UK under the Coalition.
I've heard that at least with the SpaceX satellites, they have full plans for decommissioning with these satellites re-entering the atmosphere.

I do agree that this is a real concern though, and we'd hope there's pretty careful consideration, considering the sheer number of satellites being launched. Still, space is big .. really big, even the space just above our planet.

I don't put it past humanity to not fuck up space. After all, look at all the plastics and waste in the oceans. Hopefully all these companies and FCC regulators are thinking far ahead, and require the right designs and safety measures to make sure we don't end up enclosed in a float garbage pile.
I don't follow. Do they match faces to crimes or match faces to faces of criminals?
GrubHub has done nothing wrong...

Whether or not this is the case is unrelated to what is permitted by law or contract.
No disagreement at all from me. I just wanted to point out that the suggested 'should I cancel MCAS' heuristic was not nearly sophisticated enough.
If the intended systems were "secure", One couldn't bypass it and stream it on youtube :-D.
Or Kinder Surprise eggs [0]. No problems going to Walmart to pick up a firearm though...

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/feat...
Sure, but that means that currently there's no reason to have the limit, except that they don't want to invest any effort to change it.
> It's shockingly obvious why the iPhone was a game changer if you're doing anything other than looking at capabilities and checking off lists of features.

It lacked MMS; it wasnt even really a phone, much less a capable smartphone. You're grossly over simplifying if you call things like that a list of features.

I used windows mobile phones for years before the iPhone. The iPhone was complete trash to me because I couldn't do the basic things I was able to do on a windows phone or even my flip phones before that.

> When the iPod was released everyone said the same thing as you're saying about the iPhone

I said precisely nothing about the iPod release. What I implied was that the iPod was viewed as innovative by the time the iPhone was released (hence my usage of the word inertia; inertia of iPod innovation counts for precisely nothing at the release of the iPod).

> Slick hardware and good UX is way more important than people in tech give it credit for.

The iPhone wasnt even in the same league as WebOs phones as far as UX; why didn't Palm make it very far? (Because UX counts for a lot less than you think) The modern Apple is a marketing titan and the fact that anyone thinks they're largely innovative is a testament to their marketing prowess.
then it would go over budget by 100x, and if it ever did finish, users would be subjected to the intersection of all of those countries moralizing content bans?
No FCC license unless you do, so yeah - it's accounted for.
Unless they want to operate entirely without US downlinks.
I do ground stations for a living.
Apple doesn't always do this. But they do have a pattern of sometimes doing this, when they feel like the thing they delivered is just fine, and they are blind to the problems that are being reported by the industry.

And when that happens, and people scream louder, then Apple digs their heads under the sand just that much deeper.

It can take a pretty earth-shaking size disaster before Apple finally wakes up and smells the kitten poop [0], and decides to actually do something about it.

But once Apple does finally decide to do something about it, they're usually pretty good about bending over backwards to try to repair that part of their damaged reputation.

Usually.

[0] All young creatures are stinky, it's just the nature of being young and small and in the hypergrowth phase of their life, and lots of input results in lots of output. But somehow kittens seem to be particularly stinky at this phase. One tiny kitten can stink up an entire large five story house. Been there, done that, narrowly avoided officially giving the name "Stinky" to our then-kitten, which would have stuck with her the rest of her life.
Dang suggested reposting it since it didn't get much attention the first time.
Catlab.jl: Experimental framework for applied category theory
Or it might be easier because the opposition - which is quite strong if you look at places all over the world (e.g. who won elections in Brasil or the US, and in my native Germany the new right-wing is far stronger than ever and not exactly a fan of climate change action - would have it harder to organize too.

In the past the leaders could get things done more easily - possibly, not quite sure. Of course that's a two-edged sword. I do believe that if we get through getting used to the new communication methods we will come out much better on the other side, but occasionally not having to listen to the crowd can be advantageous.
I think there's a lot of insight in this comment. I also believe a lot of customers (current and potential) would really like to buy an EV from an established car maker rather than a new comer, and I believe they really want it to look and feel just like a 3-series, or 5-series, or whatever they're called – not the abomination that is i3. I believe this is what everyone except Tesla understands, and I really don't know but
maybe it's exactly for the reasons you lay out: they don't want to cannibalize on the gas guzzler series. But if they don't eat themselves, someone else sure will!
Names are expected to be stored in a database, passwords are not (only the hash should be stored).
so 19% were criminals :)
> The problem is that innocent people could go to jail because they fall into that 81% of incorrect matches.

No. This is a fully-general counterargument. You could say this of everything: 'innocent people could go to jail because of X!' This is true and irrelevant, because it is true of both good things and bad things, and not even wrong. It is sheer concern-trolling. The question is whether X works well enough. Nothing in OP or your comment remotely establishes whether it does or does not. Citing '81%' is merely throwing out scientific-sounding rhetoric. (It has numbers and it looks big, therefore it must be bad. It would be the same if it was 98.1% or 81% or 8.1%.)

So again: is 19% not enough? What is enough?

Bueller?

Bueller?
1% error would arguably be scarier for that 1%, just pointing it out. I hope this tech evolves along some strong regulations on how they are used as evidence.
Maybe it's time to talk about tech-free preserves established by international treaties.

E.g.: sections of each continent and ocean can be declared tech free where modern technology is forbidden on earth,sea or land.

This is so we don't lose and forget the nature that forged the present.
Electrically adjustable tint for windows would be a better option if it existed. Keep the heat out instead of dealing with it after it heats up the interior.

Just regular tint would be good too. I'm not sure if there are tints which block depending on the angle of the sun.
I believe this is happening because it is using the same peer connection. If you start to separate instances of the browser (e.g. in a VM or another machine) you should be able to see both users.

The design is taken from the Chat guide for https://feathersjs.com. Feathers is a JS library that allows to architect APIs in a way that they are protocol independent. Which worked great in this case because I just had to swap out the existing REST/websocket Feathers adapter for a DAT/Beaker API Feathers adapter.
Satellites are outside the regulatory authority of countries they operate over. They can do far more of value than merely provide Internet access to poor people.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? Also, could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but should have some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
How the Home Run Derby Became America’s National Pastime
> I'm not sure the iPhone changed the game much at all,

The iPhone was the first phone that a) had a plan with data as a guarantee and b) had an appstore that didn't suck.

a) meant that you could browse get maps & real webpages (albeit with ATT it was 2G/EDGE) anywhere you got signal.

b) was without peer for years. The alternatives really sucked. I know, I tried all of them. Do you remember installer packages or having to DL the app on a PC to sync? Yeah, this was a game-changer.

It was as others mention, also the first widely available device with capacitive touch (Apple called it multitouch) and it was a UX coup with iOS.
That depends on how big they are. :)
> where no human anywhere on Earth can look up and see an authentic sky, as their ancestors did.

The past ~80 years of light pollution has already prevented this from happening.
The video in the article you linked is not a good example of the long term impacts. The satellites were at a lower orbit than their final orbit and not oriented the same way they will be once in their operational orbit. Once they reach their final orbit, which most of them have now, they will be far more spread out, higher, and all around much harder to identify. That and SpaceX is actively working with astronomy groups to try and lower their impact.

Even if they are easily visible, so what. Should we not build roads because then our children wont be able to see things the same as we saw them? It's progress, and really good progress in this case.

All of that aside, I fail to see how it makes a dystopian future. A quick Google says the definition of dystopian is "relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice." I fail to see how internet providing satellites are making people suffer or feel injustice. If they work out they will bring internet to a substantial number of people who cannot get reliable and cheap access to resources you and I take for granted every day.

SpaceX's whole goal is lowering the cost of access to space. Again assuming they achieve that goal to the degree they want to, and Starship is sure looking to be a giant step in that direction, then deploying a space based telescope very well might just be the better option. You can basically make it as big as you want and shipping it to space could be cheaper than shipping it to some random place on this planet to be built.
Most smart phone hardware keyboards > software keyboard. The iPhone caused a regression in capabilities in that regard; so I'd say the two cancelled out.

(Though I seem to remember a capacitive screen on one of my windows mobile phones; I could be wrong though)
Thank you,i think this has to do with higher order numbers' symmetry with each other
Terrifying how we have people taking the side of a TOS belonging to a shitty gig economy startup over small business owning human beings
You seem to pop up every time someone mentions the project and spread this copypasta. Where did they hurt you?
not a problem if they are maintained in the way the SpaceX sats are going to be.
I think it’s probably because for server usage, RHEL/CentOS is used significantly more than Fedora (with its shorter supported lifecycle), and Fedora is essentially the upstream for shakeout testing prior to inclusion in RHEL/CentOS, so hardening and security technologies – e.g. SELinux, fstack-protector, etc. – are very close. RHEL/CentOS 7 was based largely on Fedora 19, and newly-released RHEL 8 is based largely on Fedora 28.
"Mainframe" doesn't seem like an actual answer to me. Why can't mainframes handle passwords longer than 20 characters? Are mainframes incapable of doing password hashing? Can't modern databases have text fields with a max of 20 characters, why is that problem unique to mainframes?
I'd be interested in why he thinks we can't scale up solar and wind. He didn't really seem to offer any reasons why he thought that would be hard.

Doing lots more of something when it's cheaper than the alternatives seems like a different thing from doing something that costs extra because it's the right thing to do.

I'm sure if someone talked breathlessly about how many roads or cars or oil or fidget spinners the global economy produces every year it would be a number so big it would be hard to grasp. But we do it without too much fuss, why can't we do it for cheap energy?
Nevertheless, the site is well-built and their monetization strategy is non-invasive.
I can't speak on the Kenyan project you linked, but I did recently complete a 3000 tree habitat project. Even at bulk rates we purchased our trees at between $0.80-0.90 per tree. It took 3 people about 5-6 hours to complete the actual planting using a tractor and a tree planter. Outside of the actual purchase of the trees, other things to consider are:
Labor was unpaid, however the county has a cost-sharing program we could have applied for which would have paid ~$8/hr per person to offset labor costs. I wouldn't be surprised if many of these non-profits use volunteer labor but also take advantage of reforestation grants to offset the cost.
We borrowed the equipment and only used a couple gallons of diesel, but normally renting that equipment for the day would have been in the hundreds of dollars.
Plenty of hours were spent meeting with state foresters to plan where the trees would go for maximum effect and deciding which species to plant.
We had to transport the trees from the nursery and store them until they were planted. There is also a very limited window of time between when they are harvested at the nursery and when they need to be planted. If you wait too long many will die. Also to note that we had to call at least 4 nurseries to get the order we wanted. There is a limited supply of seedlings available each season and you have to plan well in advance if you need more than a couple hundred trees.
At about a month out we're noticing about 10% dead loss, which is better than expected. Over the next year that could inflate to 30%. The goal shouldn't be to just plant 1T trees, it needs to be adding 1T new healthy trees to the environment, which means you would have to plant 1T + X0B extra to cover the dead loss.

So $1T in cost is a good ballpark to start with, but don't be surprised if it balloons pretty quick. Tree planting doesn't scale as efficiently as we might like.
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