skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've been shutting down nuclear power and keeping coal.

Take a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/File:...

Nuclear went down, to be replaced by wind/solar. i.e. they did nothing useful.

Actually it's worse than it looks - they've outsourced their CO2 emissions to China to build all those solar cells, etc.

Germany is an example of a failure, not a success: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19910540
I'm not really sure colonialism and morality really go together full stop, but that may be me projecting my modern morality where it doesn't belong, its entirely possible the average Victorian thought they were doing good, by bringing 'civilisation' to the 'savages'.

But then this isnt classic colonialism either, the Dutch Boers weren't exactly there first. This is one set of colonisers fighting another, so on one level, singling it out as immoral betrays a certain kind of bias. Yes the British invented the concentration camp to lock up the Boers, but what were they doing to the Zulus when they were at war with them?
I think it's the much greater PSI concrete... https://www.wired.com/2007/04/irans-superconc/

Regular concrete can last for 100 years and who knows how design /needs can change during that so it makes sense not to build with much more expensive 500 year concrete.

Bridges are another story.
The destruction of Carthage probably included the slaughter of many children ...
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Forest fires. Not sure how common peat fires are - don't know almost anything about them. Looks like a much bigger deal (because it's rare, hence the ecosystem/communities are not prepared to deal with them).

Also they're having forest fires too, like every year: http://smoke.alaska.edu/current_fires.html

> Pierre Markuse, a satellite imagery processing guru, has documented some of the blazes attacking the forests and peatlands of the Arctic.

I was just there a few weeks ago. Reduced visibility in many places due to smoke, many "thank you firefighters!" signs along the road, helicopters picking up water from some of the millions of Alaskan lakes. It's still a very beautiful place.
Ask HN: What software do you use for Video Surveillance?
A reminder: Please run as many tor nodes as you can. They don't have to be exit nodes. This is a mostly free way to give back that has a big impact on privacy and free access and helps to prevent state actor attacks.
I for one cannot buy the fact that this article is authentically written by a worker in Amazon warehouse. Seems like a shadowed approach from a different segment of media to just do cleanup or take a shot on Oliver's program.
The US doesn't need to lift a finger. Climate change will severely disrupt China and India's populations, and likely lead to the collapse of some neighboring nations - it's an existential threat they are motivated to address.
Yes, there are billions of people living in poor conditions around the world. I know first-hand what it's like. I also know the solution is not unfettered immigration. There isn't a single example where just shifting a bunch of people (and we wouldn't even approach 1% of the people in need) has ever solved any serious national issues with a country that is broken.

Either way, when it comes the law, illegal entry is still a voluntary action.
Nice work and presentation, always fun with ray tracing. Bonus points for the fractal :)

I assume you did this in RGB space, so no pretty prisms? I couldn't find any explicit mention. From the report I guess you didn't implement refraction at all?

Spectral leads to great images, but the color space conversions are such a pain to get correct.
> The app doesn't facilitate lawbreaking.

I think we are supposed to read between the lines.

Of course, if they intend to be able to keep the app running they can't say "this is to notify others to avoid the area so they are not caught" and they have to present it as a "notify my lawyers" kind of app.

But then why erase the contacts when message is sent if it is to notify lawyers? Is the identity of the attorney secret, how are they supposed to file on behalf of the client?

The example of message on the front page also kind of indicates the usage:

> "This is Julia’s last known location. Do not go there now."

Why emphasize the last known location in the app, but then admonish recipients to not go there.

It might be better if it is re-framed as an emergency location group broadcast app without focusing on immigration and lawyers. Maybe re-use the wording that those "life alert" systems use and then spread the app name through the word of mouth or other channels.
Drawing historical parallels between Rome and what we currently consider "Western Civilization" is also risky. Commonly held central tenets of Western Civilization seem to be: the scientific method, judeo-christian values, and classical logic. All of these things weren't state-sponsored beliefs for most of what most people would consider ancient Rome, which began its long decline around 100 AD, 400 years before the period you mention.
A good question! Although I wonder why the timeline is set at 12 months....

This is what I learned:

1- amateurs try to hard sell and persuade with much energy. That is how you know they are amateurs. They make up for competence by inflating their confidence.

2- true experts are those who can explain things patiently and completely (and sometimes enigmatically and paradoxically so that it makes sense on a lower level that we understand even though its seems like there is more to it than our understanding allows) and dont feel threatened by your learning them, too. All the rest "experts" are bozos.

3- I learned that the limit of my achievement is the limit of what I don't know that I don't know. Which in turn can be expanded by directionless search in random directions, kinda like how probabilistic methods solve deterministic equations in higher math.

4- I learned that the ancient saying "women lack reasoning" is false, because women have a different kind of reasoning machinery. And it works on a different wavelength than is normally assumed. It is not important to know exactly what wavelength a woman's reasoning systems operate (you won't ever find out) but you gain some advantage knowing that it is DIFFERENT and always CHANGING.

5- Body language is approximately 10 times more powerful than verbal communication. It includes tone of voice, the way your eyes look on to the world, silence, and even how you socialize. It is the ultimate tool to prevent people from getting fresh with you. Ignore the nasty ones, and it hurts them way more than engaging them.

6- I learned that small differences (and issues and squabbles) dont smoothen out with time. They become bigger and worse. Prevention is 100 times more effective than cure.

7- I learned that the most intelligent and wisest writer born in UK is Robert Burton, not the moronic Shakespeare.

8- I found out that all the smart cats (and some wannabes like me) hang out on news.ycombinator.

9- I learned that deadlines are necessary but they should be quantity-based, not temporal. "I have to finish reading two chapters today" sounds like an ideal deadline than, saying "I must finish this book in 2 months".

10- I learned the best way to learn something is by reading books, not watching lectures or videos. They put me to sleep, videos do.

11- I finally managed to create a site such that the buttons turn on like a light bulb. Www.jans.surge.sh

12- I realized that optimism wins even when failure is guaranteed. Better to lose a game you enjoyed than to win one you didn't.

I could go on. I will stop because I have more things to learn!

:)
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I find it impressive you still have code you wrote for a university class in '98!
> It doesn’t help people evade detention at all.

It doesn't help the person being detained, but it might help others.

It's right in the example message being sent (from the front page):

> "This is Julia’s last known location. Do not go there now."

The idea being that the person being detained, is being detained, but the can warn their friends and loved ones to stay away from the area so they are not caught as well.
That's me! I make a ton of money for where I am NOW, but there are certain circumstances that made it so that I'm now just trying to recover. Logically, I always knew that every single step I was taking would lead me to this. Emotionally, it didn't matter and I'd be able to deal with it.
You do know that sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere causes acid rain, right?
Well the first difference here is that Quark is a free software, Adobe Air is not.

I din't know enough about adobe Air to comment on technical differences, but one thing that strikes me is that electron(as hence Quark) appears to be more popular than Adobe Air.
So, two observations. First, how does this compare to the naive method of SGD with differentiation defined using something like simplex search?

The second question, if this is fully differentiate, how do you define the existence of an polytope in a scene in differentiable way? Is the input space for a given parameter optimization limited to material or phong / specular parameters?
"the Albanian underground had to import a 50 cal AA gun from the US. What for? To shoot at UN helicopters attacking their citizens"

I'm trying to parse this.

Did the US knowingly export this AA gun? Why were the UN attacking the citizens.

Are you referring to this? It doesn't seem to bear much resemblance to what you're describing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Alba
I identify with that part, so I will explain my interpretation of it:

If you do things the way they all do, you go on the path well-traveled. But if you dare to do what your heart tells you to do, even though it is outside of the "standard" way of doing things, then you stop being a commoner and become special.

If you didnt dare to be special, you will never know what you will have missed. True courage is living your life the way you want it (without harming others in anyway, of course) and not by the socially constructed dictates that are ephemeral anyway.

Be real, stay cool, and enjoy the journey!
A good project. Problem is where is the software? What does it run C64 C128 Apple IIgs software?
jedisct1 sure is prolific with all these lean and friendly crypto-related applications.

dnscrypt-proxy, libsodium, libhydrogen, minisign, dsvpn, probably others I've never heard of.
Without the defeatists, the optimists, and everybody in between we'd have it licked!
Apple's not that stupid.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19378567
Right. But no one needs a $15k car, let alone a $50k one, to get to/from work. If you're counting job income as RoI from a car, why not buy a $7k car? That's far better RoI.

And after one has held a steady job for a few years, no one should need to finance a $15k car either.

That's where most of the costs of car ownership come from (apart from long commutes) - depreciation, interest payments, and insurance.
Especially on YouTube, there are quite a lot of people whose opinions are not calculated, fact-backed and experience-baked, who merely say things because they gotta say it.
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I'd suggest that there is no way for either of us to know whether we actually have free will or not. So you are free to go on acting as if we don't, and I'm free to go on acting as if we do.
You might want to look at the account’s entire comment history - appears to be far right astroturfing, and yes, I know we don’t throw that around lightly here.

Also see account vwdhx.

If you ban me for pointing this out, then I really am done here.
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You used the wrong sock puppet, vwdhx.
Try clicking on the narwhal... https://www.dremio.com/xyz
It's possible he was echoing the callousness by not expounding on it. I don't think word count is the best way to measure importance in literature. Understatement is a tool authors use.
"Consider a man lugging around a 35lb anti tank rifle."

You seem to be describing mounted infantry rather than cavalry.

Mounted infantry fought on foot, they didn't charge into battle. They also equipped soldiers with bicycles when would have had a similar effect.
This got me thinking. Instead of a fixed 404 page, using something like what the Post-modernism Generator[1] uses[2] to generate a web-page, kinda best-effort style.

Could be fun :)

[1]: http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/

[2]: http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/
Wow, people are downvoting this. Hey, downvote this all you want. It's about as effective as anything the US could do to stop China and India from marching forward.
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This was my thought, but then wouldn't Australia and New Zealand have been the same?
In those cases, I reverse ssh the vpn ports to my server, put it on a tiny computer, fly over to a country with limitless dsl and place it behind a router at a friend's house. Easy.
My failures were ones of optimism about an open web.

1) When the semantic web didn't emerge, I got excited by embedded microformats as a way that many of the same benefits to be achieved in terms of computable knowledge.

2) I was always optimistic about P2P tech until I realized that we live in a world dominated by centralizing forces, both governmental and capitalistic. P2P can't exist in a recognizable form without some centralization that allows law enforcement or capitalistic gain from the service it attempts to provide.

In both cases, I underestimated the control that governments could exert, and the power to capture dollars and mindshare that centralization due to corporate profits would entail.

You see that in the web itself. The demise of RSS, the demise of the personal website, the reemergence of walled gardens. We're back to AOL, albeit with three or four players taking the role of one. What are hashtags but scaled up AOL keywords? What are Facebook groups but scaled up AOL forums?

The web of those dreams will only exist in the margins and never at scale. Like ham radio or hobbies outside the mainstream that don't scale.
I would disagree. What Quark offers is much more. You don't have to learn a new language. You have access to this massive javascript ecosystem. And it has out of the box support for React.js, Vue.js, Typescript and toolings like webpack that developers love.
If everyone with a brain and a conscience would do their best, independently of everyone else, this wouldn’t even be a problem. Now too many uses everyone’s else inaction as an excuse for their own.
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Why the downvotes? This seems like a reasonable question.
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Perhaps it would be better to call it a shallow dismissal. Those are also in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I have a small Windows 10 Intel NUC that I use for Visual Studio to pull code to test and debug.

I did tweak it by removing many packages with:

Get-AppxPackage | Select Name, PackageFullName

Remove-AppxPackage ...

I also did tweak the group policies to prevent Windows 10 for many things, such as not use Cortana and not to auto-update and restart without notice. The software I write needs to run for weeks without leaks, that's one of the things I need to test on that system.

That NUC computer running Windows 10 is a pure joy to use. Once trimmed down Windows boots in seconds and never interrupt me while I am working.
Super interesting, but I don't understand the very last comment "We too have mustaches," referring to the controllers who caused the problem. Is he defending them, saying they were experienced? Seems there's more to be said.
And that was my point.
You probably have friends with asthma, it’s quite common.
People in cages

During Obama; stopped by the Trump administration.
This paper considers that very question: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2009...

From the "Conclusions" section:

> Analysis of our results and comparison to the results of Kuylenstierna et al.[2001] and Skeffington[2006] lead to the conclusion that the additional sulfate deposition that would result from geoengineering will not be sufficient to negatively impact most ecosystems, even under the assumption that all deposited sulfate will be in the form of sulfuric acid. However, although these model results are feasible, should geoengineering with sulfate aerosols actually be conducted, local results due to weather variability may differ from the results presented here. With the exception of terrestrial waterways, every region has a critical loading value a full order of magnitude above the largest potential total amount of acid deposition that would occur under the geoengineering scenarios presented in this paper. Furthermore, our results show that additional sulfate deposition tends to preferentially occur over oceans, meaning the chance of such a sensitive ecosystem receiving enough additional sulfate deposition to suffer negative consequences is very small.

Also note that I did not say that sulfur dioxide injection was a good idea, only that we could afford to do it.
I get the point you're trying to make but 100 years is not a long time-scale for construction projects a bit larger than a single-family home. I think expecting the foundations and the facade of a building to last 200-300 years is reasonable.
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If their software product feels threatened by something that a developer came out of his basement. Perhaps it's time for them to rethink their entire strategy.
What I meant (and should have made clearer originally) was: if you can find usages where the word 'disingenuous' is being used in a personal context without implying dishonesty or bad faith.

Of your five examples, only #4 is personal. I can't tell what the word is implying there.
If the C++ code in comparison uses boost.coroutine2 library, then it's not surprising it performs poorly. Boost.coroutine2 library has an architectural flaw which causes it to throw (and then catch) an exception on coroutine completion. https://github.com/boostorg/coroutine2/issues/25
I think autonomous indigenous communities are sitting on a huge untapped market of data centers operating under their own globally competitive data privacy laws

Casinos are so 20th century
Yes, if everyone on the titanic had just believed a bit harder then it would have floated.

It’s not about inaction being an excuse, it’s about realising that trying to put out a house fire with a water pistol isn’t going to work - particularly if half the neighbourhood is there chucking gasoline on it.

I live responsibly, recycle, grow my own food, built my house out of traditional and local materials, plant trees, pay for other people to plant trees.

None of it is going to make the damnedest bit of difference, other than mildly soothing my conscience. If I really cared about my impact, I would kill myself. I’ve done the next best thing and had myself sterilised - no children, ever.

The world is still going to die. I’ll just be in a happier place when the food riots start.
Good laugh and a good summary of FT branding ! Any other ideas to create fun easter eggs ?

First lazy search for a good starter : https://www.bryanbraun.com/2018/04/01/several-ways-to-hide-e...
I guess I'm easily entertained, but I always liked Amazon's "dogs of Amazon" 404 pages: https://www.amazon.com/404
"I don’t know what to think."
I believe the author's point was that John Oliver's agenda doesn't match his own personal experience (his own 'agenda', which you now question), so dissonance comes down to who's agenda seems more genuine, who benefits most, who has more to lose, who has more to gain.
I recognized the final project structure of CS488. Great class, though quite time-consuming.

The author links to past year galleries:
https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs488/gallery-A5.html

I'm not sure if this was done in all the years, but one of the interesting (and slightly unfair) aspects of the final project was that you were not only graded on the quality of the final render, but also how closely you aligned to your plan as stated up front. That is, if you planned an ambitious render BUT had to scale down to something slightly less ambitious (due to difficulty or time-constraints), your mark would be lower than the individual who planned a simple render and executed that.
Unless they can predict the future accurately (I don't know anyone who can), the first guy. The second guy had a lot of potential scenarios where he was destitute for the 10 years before he died.

Also, the second guy probably didn't do the world any favors with his resource footprint, given equal earnings. As a parent, I kind of care a lot about that.
Yes that seems reasonable. :)
Maximum Tjunction for an STM32F303 (just happened to have datasheet open) is 150C, as is most other ICs I've seen.

So is 105C just a very conservative number, compensating for the probe location, or are there process specific things which brings it down to 105C?
What if you need to take some time off? Your brother is getting married? Or you just haven't had a vacation in a while? You take your PTO now, and you don't take it later. If you leave the company before that PTO accrued it's taken off your salary.

Yes! you can take vacation before it's accrued in any normal workplace.
That’s brilliant - Funny without being unusable. But I wouldn’t want to be the person monitoring their 404 errors right now.
extraordinarily difficult

The USA grants over a million new Permanent Residencies a year.
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You're in the very first slot now. Congrats, this is super impressive, both in implementation and documentation.
In - fucking - credible, the amount of attention to detail in your implementation and in compositing the scene.

I haven't read the meta programming thing yet but I really enjoyed reading the thing about the path tracer.
Armchair physicist here, and yet:

> The probabilistic predictions of quantum theory are conventionally obtained from a special probabilistic axiom. But that is unnecessary because all the practical consequences of such predictions follow from the remaining, non-probabilistic, axioms of quantum theory, together with the non-probabilistic part of classical decision theory.

Well this seems crazy! We can drop the Born rule axiom, because you (a game theorist) will make the same decisions whether the universe is deterministic or probabilistic?

The difference is crucial, right? A PRNG requires hidden state: exfiltrate the state and predict all future results. But there is no room in the wavefunction + Schrödinger equation for such state: you either augment it (Bohmian mechanics) or accept the essential probabilistic nature.

Probabilistic predictions cannot be obtained from deterministic axioms, just like PRNGs cannot produce true randomness.

How does Deutsch resolve this?
The DEA could hypothetically ask the treasury to reprint a note with a particular serial number, given enough time. So random selection is an important property.
I lived through peat fires, those can last decades. And it makes forest very dangerous to walk, it’s possible to fall into a hole created by peat fire.
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"Hacker News," folks. LOL
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