skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s worrisome since peat is rich in carbon, and fires can release it into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Peat fires can also burn underground into the winter and reignite in spring
This is scary.
I had a similar situation. Had won a small contact and was the only one working on it. Then turned it into a much bigger contact. It was like 30% of the company's revenue so I asked for a raise (I was at the bottom of the ladder). Said no so I started applying to grad school. They started micro managing me and asking for a 10 page report each week detailing what I did. When they caught wind of my leaving they asked me to write everything down about how to do what I was doing.

Company is still there but they lost more than half their engineers. They didn't realize why people were leaving. Sometimes it's suits. But these were engineers. I learned a lot about how not to manage people though.
I hear you. I grew up in an Asian country with very very frugal day-to-day lifestyle. Think restaurant eating only on birthdays. Watched movies in theaters only twice in 18 years.

I have serious trouble spending money. I just feel so bad spending $15 on a movie ticket or buying t-shirts more than $10. This despite earning well into six figures, in NYC as well.

Growing up with shortage has fucked our psychology.
Yep. These lines made me squirm.

Amazon probably isn't a bad employer even by warehouse standards. But these kinds of statements are paternalistic propaganda on behalf of capital.
Comments are likely to stray far from actual information for this story. It is an app. It is only an app.
Movie about this event:

https://imdb.com/title/tt6537238
OK, just trying some contrarian speculation, as I do.
There have been reports of people with green cards and even naturalized citizens having trouble lately. There have even been press reports of naturalizations being challenged or native born Americans being told their birth certificates are fake.
Not accidently unintentionally saving state is in fact hard.
> what are some of the possible nefarious things I might dabble in?

My concern is breaking today's crypto so only the big kids can have it. I've no idea if this is a real worry -- lot's of smart people here could probably address that....
And we won't stop posting until Glenda and her labs bread hoard have crushed all others!
Seattle has had that two years in a row so far. SF had it last year

I now own air testers, 3 portable air cleaners and a brand new A/C system with whole new filters
Initialising a fixed storage image with random data offers plausible deniability.
What if ICE or a company funded by them released such an app? Not like covert fronts for various government orgs don't exist.
I’m sorry to say this, but it can’t happen soon enough.
Yes you are correct, and Pach is noted as one of the most frequent collaborators with Paul Erdos. My apologies, I no longer have the option to edit my post to correct the spelling.
working to alleviate the scarcity

That's exactly what ipv6 is...
> I spent a month trying to figure out why ..

That phenomenon is what keeps me from using Linux as my main laptop OS. I have done, for long stretches (and probably will again), but I'm always driven to either OS X or Windows by a waning desire to spend time troubleshooting or on sysadmin. If not for that I'd use Linux f/t as I prefer many of its traits.
The author is presenting this as if they found a serious security flaw in Docker. They're starting a container in privileged mode, what exactly did they expect?

This is like acting surprised that a Linux root user can do immeasurable harm to the underlying OS.
Small thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17068017

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744920
This app helps people break the law. Lol.
Summary from the excellent, erudite Twitter thread (https://mobile.twitter.com/DrTELS/status/1151868725336952832) cited in the article:

Why should we be worried?
Peat shouldn't be available to burn. It only burns when it has been disturbed by some significant environmental change (e.g. drainage/drought). Siberian peatlands should be moist/frozen through summer, but this year's heatwave has dried them out.

Peat fires in the Arctic are part of a number of positive feedback mechanisms in the climate system. They release old carbon in the form of CO2 & methane emissions, exacerbating global heating, and they leave behind a dark charred surface leading to localised heating.

Some tentative conclusions:

- at least some of these fires were ignited by lightning

- ignition made far more likely by heatwave

- fires are burning peat soils

- this is the symptom of a sick Arctic
Unbelievable - an app that aims to help the illegal immigrants. So basically let the legal immigrants eat their own $h*t.
I wonder if Apple/Google would approve an app to protect drug dealers from DEA agents. This app seems to promote illegal activity
Who said I have been called a nazi?

I object to theses terms being thrown around like candy at a children's party to the point where they have almost lost all meaning. Right now if someone under the age of 90 is called a nazi it is almost certain that they are not a nazi.
>New Orleans doesn't count.

I'm not sure anything outside the Northeast does. There were many calls to stop funding post-hurricane reconstruction until Sandy hit. Puerto Rico is still struggling to get funding years after Irma and Maria, and Houston is debating if they really want to stop construction in the Addicks reservoir and surrounding areas.
It sounds to me like it's just as much about notifying people that you need a lawyer...

But even for that purpose, flashing your lights on the highway to inform oncoming drivers of speedtraps has been found to be free speech (iirc), I don't see how this is different.
Judging the app/website itself, it annoys me. You can see the first iMessage bubble for a few seconds but then it gets pushed out of view by the second message and the top part gets cut off.

Based on the website, it looks like they are trying to appeal to young people at a cafe in leisure rather than at-risk people on the run from government agencies lol. It doesn't look like anything I would put my trust in if I were in that situation.
The app is to notify your family and legal counsel that you've been taken into custody, not to actively prevent you from being taken into custody (how would that even work?).

It's not any more "help you break the law" than an app that helps you find or communicate with defense lawyers, IMO. It's significantly less useful for breaking the law than Signal or even Safari.
How's this any different than apps like waze that helps drivers (of the speeding, or running a red light variety) from being caught?
Here's a block diagram of my 30 Mbps link.

http://www.w6rz.net/ofdm3.png
Don’t feed the trolls.
i remain unconvinced this has much to do with legal citizenship:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/1488-us-citizens-mistakenly-ar...
I doubt even losing NYC and LA will make China or India change course.
You think this could be a trap?
What do you use for indoor air testing? I'm generally curious about my indoor vs outdoor air quality living in a city.
You can just claim you are a citizen. They told us citizens don’t have to carry proof.
Waze has been on both stores for years, and one of its core features is advance warnings of where law enforcement are.
I'm confused what you mean. As a native speaker, these are definitely rules. As your parent comment says (missing the sarcasm of the article), these examples sound (and are) wrong.
ICE have been detaining and deporting legal aliens. Being cautious as an immigrant is just a sensible precaution at this point.
Do you really think most banks charge monthly fees for having a checking account?

I just checked and the bank I had an account with for many years requires $50 deposited to open an account and no minimum balance or monthly fee, includes free checks and debit card.

The credit union I use now has no minimum balance, no monthly fee, and no fee for writing checks. You have to deposit $1 for a share of the credit union, which you get back if you close your account.

My impression is these days they are making over 2% on deposits absolutely risk free, so they better not charge anything.
There is such a thing as a double exponential rate:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_exponential_function

If their claims are correct, using the Wikipedia example, if they are as fast as a cell phone in year one, then they should be faster than something like a million of the biggest super computer in year two.

In year three, the incremental improvement will be incomprehensibly faster.

So, they are making some pretty strong claims. Their current claims are definitely stronger than the ones that led to the AI winter.

(edit: and, if it could do physical simulation poorly in year one, by year four or five, it would be simulating an incalculable number of universes starting from the Big Bang, at much faster than real-time. I guess they could then recursively contain comparable quantum computers, which would progress even faster than the host machine?)
According to the book Vimy Ridge by Pierre Berton the Canadians were taught from the start of their training (in Canada), by Currie, not to take prisoners unless specifically instructed to do so, say to obtain information under interrogation later. It was official policy not an emotional reaction. Currie was very self-made as a military man and may have come up with that policy on his own. Or not.
Rezoning plans usually include refactoring to current infrastructure and public transit. If you let things sprawl then you make infrastructure and public transit cost more and less likely to ever happen. Take Austin for example, they've spent millions on rezoning plans and they always get shut down from the NIMBY types. Meanwhile lower income individuals in Austin suffer due to poor public transportation and increasing cost of living. Additionally adding more efficient and convenient public transportation cuts down on personal vehicle usage and having people live in higher densities incentivizes public transportation efforts. If there is too much sprawl they can't really meet the needs of everyone and remain convenient.
nim/zig/red.

* I already use nim and I'm very productive in it.
* Would like to use Zig for "system programming" when and if something like Nim (and D) are inadequate.
* Red because its a REBOL and it can be a mind blowing experience to read some clever REBOL/Red code.
That link is blocked outside the US.

here's a mirror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljxEb3H0Ic
It's essentially no different, but some would argue the weight of the 'crime' is different. I haven't given my personal opinion on this btw, I was just saying who the likely target audience is, as legal residents aren't likely living worried about being deported any day now (I'm one).

Hell, I don't even know if actual illegals living on the low over here would even be able to find this and know what to do with it lol. Are there illegals browsing HN? Genuinely curious.
Fast Galois Field Region Multiplication Techniques
Lunar Lander in Apple Logo
Sure, but the stated purpose of the organization behind this app is to protect undocumented (i.e. illegal) immigrants: https://unitedwedream.org/about/

edit: can you show an example of a legal immigrant being deported?
Paid sick days aren't just for when someone is contagious

Taking all 10 and just those has no indication on anything
The whole article is a little hyperbolic, but the distinction is important. To "lie" is to position one's own self, while to "lay" is to position some grammatical object. Confusingly, "I will lay myself down" is grammatically correct, because "myself" serves as the object.

There are situations in which using the wrong verb conveys a different meaning. "Please lie down on the floor" is a request to put yourself horizontally on the floor, while "please lay down on the floor" is a request to spread soft feathers underfoot.
Wow, an interview from Year 1 MIP!

Bill Joy’s Law: 2^(Year-1984) Million Instructions per Second

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mil...

>The peak computer speed doubles each year and thus is given by a simple function of time. Specifically, S = 2^(Year-1984), in which S is the peak computer speed attained during each year, expressed in MIPS. -Wikipedia, Joy’s law (computing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s_law_(computing)

>Introduction

>These are some highlights from a prescient talk by Bill Joy in February of 1991.

>“It’s vintage wnj. When assessing wnj-speak, remember Eric Schmidt’s comment that Bill is almost always qualitatively right, but the time scale is sometimes wrong.” -David Hough
I get that alot.
What if they take you into custody anyway?

Detention of US citizens with passports has become increasingly common:

https://twitter.com/repbarragan/status/1152359133330444288 (citizen daughter taken into custody along with undocumented parent, released after congressperson intervened)

https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/ohare-standoff-border-p... (citizen children detained at airport for 12+ hours on arrival to US, CBP insisted on only releasing them to their undocumented mother)

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Young-US-Citizen-Deta... (citizen 9-year-old in possession of her passport detained for 32 hours with no coherent reason provided)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-deny... (passport applicants with valid US birth certificates who were born near the Mexican border placed in deportation proceedings)

What makes you think your green card will keep you safe?

You are right that you have the legal right of habeas corpus, but whether you have the practical ability to convince government agents to lead you alone is quite a different thing, and has always been that way under every government.
I'd like to read more. Links?
I don't think that's the case at all. F-Droid is very user-friendly. It supports advanced users, but then all software should.
Could we get a Bfloat32?
Falsely claiming citizenship is a felony and will make you inadmissible to the USA. You may even lose your green card.

See 18 U.S. Code § 911
Energy Slaves
Funnily enough I had the same thing thing moving from Bristol in the UK to Sydney in Australia. My salary jumped more than 2x, I've got no idea how to spend it all despite my best efforts to drag everyone to the pub, and so at current rate I'll be able to retire at 45 or sooner.
For those who do not know exactly how OTP works:

jancsika is right in the sense that this is possible, but meaningless. The reason for that is that in OTP, you use your key ("pad") for every transmission, in 1-to-1 ratio to amount of data being transmitted. And you can only use your key once (hence "one time pad")

So let's say you brought 1000 MB of OTP keys to embassy in diplomatic mail, you can use it to send up to 1000 MB of encrypted data, and then you have to get a new one. If you are low on OTP keys, and you use it to send a new one, you'll have to spend 100 MB of "old" OTP keys to get 100 MB of "new" OTP keys -- entirely pointless process, as amount of unused key data won't change.
I don't think it's because you're saying placebo is powerful. It's because you're anecdotally suggesting that there's some group of people who think that placebo has no place in science, and then you're connecting that hypothetical group of people to the HN community.

The predictability is a good thing I think. If you fart in an elevator, people will predictably be disgusted. It's about social expectations.
I read these stories over the last few years as they appeared in the press, so I don't have them handy, and your google-fu is as good as mine.

Here are a few that came up in a search.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/30/643218390/report-u-s-denies-p...

https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/396923-trump-adminis... -- opinion piece citing this: http://apnews.com/1da389a535684a5f9d0da74081c242f3

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/686188335/ice-tried-to-deport...

Then of course there was the widely reported fact that the travel ban initially intentionally affected people with valid visas, green cards, and dual citizenship.

The short version is if you are legally in this country (either by visa, green card, naturalization or native birth) but have any reason to think somebody would ever believe you might not be (perhaps due to accent, skin color, name), it is very understandable that you may be concerned with everything going around in the headlines.
The app is from United We Dream, which is well-known to not be on ICE's side.

Of course, that doesn't account for possibilities like United We Dream being an elaborate ICE front (a la 1984's Brotherhood), the app developers being compromised by / secretly working for ICE, the app or its servers being compromised by ICE, etc.
Can I presume that the models used to make predictions about climate change did not consider this? As a contributor to the process accelerating?
My humble tribute to Apollo 11 AGC
Flying on a Boeing 737 or 777? It’s Probably Best to Turn Off Your Phone
The app is closed source? Hard pass. Unless you know the data is being securely encrypted client-side, there is no way someone in a sensitive targeted group should make it known that they have this app, let alone upload personal contact information to a server somewhere.

The organization behind it looks legit enough, but that doesn't stop one guy with a USB stick from exfiltrating the whole database.
Isn’t it the height of hubris to believe we could plan 100 years ahead? What cities haven’t radically changed in the last 100 years, with nearly everything being replaced with something better than they could have conceived of?
Small-scale compromise seems well within the realm of possibility.
>ICE have been detaining and deporting legal aliens.

How does a legal alien get deported when there are literally millions of illegal aliens? Mistaken identity?

Do you know how many wrongful deportations there are?
Well, it's not like they're going to be able to help her at that point. Might be that supervisors were just trying to get employees to clear out of the way of police ect. Without knowing the exact wording of what employees were told, it's kinda hard to judge the reaction.
The ‘digital services tax’ could set off another trade war
Thank you for the thorough analysis, I only wish the graphs were not disabled :(
It's different in that the speeding drivers might kill someone by causing a car crash.

I don't like helping others drive extra fast. But I like the app and I hope the immigrants can stay.
Photorealistic Path Tracer
The scrollwheel does not work on this webpage in Firefox. It's quite rare to see a site with issues in FF, but having the scrollwheel completely broken is a first.

I can still drag the scrollbar to scroll, but on many systems there has been a move to having the scrollbars hidden by default.
In NJ we got "stronger than the storm" and zero reputable talk - that I recall - about the possibility of not being so willing to rebuild.

It's difficult to sway public opinion about the immediacy when so many other signals parrot tradition and the staus quo.

We're not stronger than the storm, only amazingly dumber.
Feature vectors do tend to get incorporated in relevance tuning (regardless of the engine), but from what I've heard of Vespa, features (and ML in general) are first-class citizens, whereas with Elasticsearch and Solr, text statistics are your first-class citizens, and you're adding in additional features and integrating ML at the periphery.
Speeding or running a red light usually (although there are cases when you really have to hurry) is a voluntary choice which puts yourself and others in danger for no good reason and you just pay a fine or get jailed for some time in worst case if you get caught.

Having no residence permission usually is a circumstance you can hardly change, there is no choice, your mere existence is outlawed, you are destined to live on the run or get thrown back to hell for the rest of your life if you get caught.
An app that could put you and your family members at risk of being put in a concentration camp and/or deported.
AIUI there are several forms of unauthorized presence in the US that are not crimes (and, like most traffic law violations, are just misdemeanors), e.g., overstaying a visa, losing an asylum claim, etc.

Also the moral culpability of people brought to the US illegally as a child is approximately the moral culpability of a passenger in a child seat in a speeding car IMO. Continued presence in the US without authorization is (again AIUI) not a crime. My understanding is there are quite a few "dreamers" in tech.
That paper used High Level Synthesis which would be the equivalent of coding something in ruby and comparing it with another algorithm written in optimized assembly.
There are also examples of veterans and immigrants married to US citizens having their residency challenged and/or revoked, when in the past that usually meant you were left alone unless you committed particularly egregious crime.
Paywalled by medium.
As a legal resident, that's basically why I feel pretty confident in my green card. What the fuck kind of priorities does ICE have if they are messing with people who actually have documents and are here rightfully while there's actual illegals roaming around?

Also, the fact that I live in SoCal, makes me feel pretty safe somehow. :)
You have 100% given your opinion: it's dehumanising to call people "illegals".

People who are in this situation speak to other people and share good resources - if this app is useful and trustworthy (which is unclear), then it will get used.
So it could be used as kind of drum computer in nowadays use of the term, too?
Either nodejs or c# I haven’t decided. I like c# because I’ve done it a long time and it’s a fine language that’s battle tested. I like nodejs for the ability to use typescript and the vast ecosystem and minimal ceremony.

Haskell is worth learning as a brain expanding exercise and it’s also battle hardened and good for production work.

I am thinking of learning go next because I’d like to make some software that’s fast and I can distribute a single exe to people without ceremony. Compare Jekyll which I’ve never got working on Windows to Hugo which just works.

This advantage would also be true of Haskell but I find some it it a bit too hard but maybe I’ll try again.
Yeah but Mons was the opening weeks of the war before the entrenchment and stagnancy on both sides. In some respects it was one of the last battles of the old tactics, still fighting the last war. A cavalry action in 1917 would have been pointless slaughter. Mind, so were most of the infantry advances.

Horses were used as transport, and lugging around field guns throughout the war - they were more capable than vehicles in the conditions. Those were supplemented with the narrow gauge trench railways. Internal combustion wasn't yet up to replacing all those uses.
The phrase "debloat" is a marketing-hype word that's being used to bait you all into someone's personal view of how computers should be

Well, my personal view of that topic is certainly a lot more valid than Microsoft's.
How much of that is permanently fixed, and how much of it goes right back when those organisms die?
Your friends and family don't want to offend you. You need people who dont care if they make you feel bad.

First step is being more forward about it; understood you don't want to be self promoting here just asking for help on the meta-problem of how to promote: still appropriate to have your one or two sentences of "This is why we're better than sex and everyone who doesn't use us shouldn't bother procreating." with a link to show what you're talking about.
That's you projecting what I mean by "illegals", while I'm just using official terminology. I do not have an opinion one way or the other regarding the app's existence and motives.
I am surprised there are no comments -- this is a fantastic analysis. Thank you for sharing. Could you please screenshot and add the plot images, right now it says the plot tool requires the author to subscribe. Thank you!