skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way to reduce the temperature of Earth is to have thermal energy leave the Earth + atmosphere system (Q_out) at a faster rate than it enters the Earth + atmosphere system (Q_in). The first law of thermodynamics renders any scheme to reduce Earth's temperature without ejecting heat from the system as futile.

The only viable way to reduce the imbalance between Q_out and Q_in is to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (so photons are reflected back to Earth at a lower rate). This has to be done at national and international scales, and it will require massive, painful changes to powerful interests that invested in fossil fuels plants, meat production facilities, construction projects, etc, which will cause massive economic displacement.

The only CO2 consuming chemical reaction that could be scaled up to the level needed to decrease the atmospheric CO2 concentration is photosynthesis, which sequesters CO2 in the form of wood. We could plant billions of trees, but that requires massive tracts of land where the trees can grow for decades. Unfortunately, the rate of planting trees would have to exceed the rate that trees are being cut down, and under Brazil's new dictator, Captain Planet villains in Brazil alone are cutting down 1 football field of Amazon rainforest every minute.

Unfortunately, we're too late to stop climate change from disastrously harming our futures and life expectancies.
This is not a very practical response. Trust is not binary.
Doesn't Marvin Minsky make it relevant?
Correct.

Possibly related:
https://www.ammoland.com/2013/04/every-mass-shooting-in-the-...
And that plausible deniability is reason enough that it would be a bad business decision to allocate resources to Firefox compatibility as long as Chrome is dominant.
The fact that your well reasoned comment is downvoted shows how bad the Chinese hysteria has gotten.
Small UAVs Extend Coast Guard Capabilities in the Inland Rivers
Worryingly so. To my mind, the price looks intended to kill off other independent services, especially netflix. I can't see these deals lasting at all, but even three or four years could be enough to cripple Netflix so long as they are generous with their back catalogue and new releases.
Does that even make sense from a technical perspective?
They are talking about a PIN code to unlock the phone to access the data on the phone. Could they not just remove the memory chip and access it directly? Even if the data on it is encrypted using a 6-digit PIN, brute-forcing that should be a trivial task.
You don’t have to get it right 100% of the time, you just have to look like you’re trying.
Gun murder rate per gun ownership rate is still vanishingly low in Vermont and most of the Rocky Mountain states, despite high rates of legal gun ownership
Notably it includes 30 seasons of the Simpsons.
Without a doubt, the executive structure of Huawei is opaque to any outsider and up for speculation. However, it should be easy to verify that Huawei does distribute its wealth to its employee and it does not share its profit to the state. So there is financial interest for the employees, at least. In any case, the company may choose to things that benefit the state, but that does not mean it doesn't benefit the company.
Please try to use a different example. I have CRPS, the most painful disease known to man, and have not been prescribed any analgesics two years in because of fear around opioids. You might think you’re excluding my ilk when examples like this are used but you’re not in practice...Just trading tragedy you know for tragedy I hope you never learn about. Almost exactly like the freedom from unreasonable searches. Ty
No, Google is openly undermining Firefox.
Womp :(
Right, I guess you'd actually want a measurement like "murders per population density" or "murders per (person per square mile)". Or, as it's more commonly known, murder-hectares per capita.

Murder-hectares per square capita? Murder-capitas per hectare? I'm not actually sure how the dimensional analysis works out.
Ask HN: What's good tool for visual project management?
Can anyone recommend a tool for visual project management? We have an overall goal A. To reach A, we need to achieve B, C, and D. To achieve B, we need B1, B2 and B3. I want all this visualised in a tree structure.
I wasn't paying attention and followed the link thinking it was to your notes, because I definitely don't have time for the transcripts. Have you considered putting your notes online, or even expanding on them and making a series of blog posts? I imagine a lot of people might be more amenable to shorter form exposure to select ideas that they can them go to the source for if they find it interesting enough. Also, I often find preparing a point of view to be publicly expressed brings me to new understanding of it, so perhaps you would benefit from it as well.

In any case, it's the type of thing I would love to read, so you have at least one reader if you do so. :)
Absolutely a travesty, but still you're engaging in false equivalency. The difference in being jailed with or without some legal process is significant. Study up at https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-world-... and acknowledge that the US's score of 86/100 is a far cry from Canada's 99, but worlds ahead of China's 14.
> I don't think overcommit is ever needed in a modern system or is even a useful feature.

If you want to spawn child processes from a process that uses half the system's memory (not uncommon in server environments) using fork/exec it is useful. In case you aren't familiar with how that works, the parent process makes copy of itself, including a virtual copy of all the memory assigned to that process. That memory isn't actually allocated or copied until the child process child tries to write to it (and then only the specific pages that are written to). Typically, the child process then calls `exec` to replace itself with a new program and replaces the process memory. Without overcommit or swap if the parent process is large enough, then the fork syscall fails due to insufficient memory.

In a desktop environment using swap/virtual memory is fine. But in a server environment, where the disk may be network-attached (higher latency) and just big enough for the OS and applications, needing significant swap space is often undesirable.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Disney Life is only available in the UK and Ireland. Disney+ will be available to a much wider audience.
Let me restate: you’re going to have to give more information than that if you expect anyone interesting to bother to sign up.

I didn’t. This field is full of cranks, and this doesn’t advertise itself as anything worth spending precious time and attention on.

Best of luck to you though.
AI pioneer accused of sex with trafficking victim on Jeffrey Epstein’s island
What do you think the FBI is going to push for, to solve this problem of theirs?
That was an iPhone 5C, which did not have a Secure Enclave. Apparently it is/was easier to image the device to brute force passcode attempts at high speed.

There are technical articles out there explaining it in more detail. On my phone now or would paste some URLs.
It looks like they are trying to take advantage of the situation and force apple to release a tool for fbi to break in.
Blockbuster used to cost a Euro per day. 1.50 for new releases. Renting something from Amazon costs 3.99, about as much as buying a used DVD. I don't think that's a fair price.
$6 a month to the actual content creators. $100 a month to the monopoly that owns the 30 year old last mile of cable.
That's a very racist thing to point out. We all know that Vermont is one of the whitest states. [1]

[1] https://www.vpr.org/post/why-vermont-so-overwhelmingly-white...
In other words (and I say this with great sadness and not a hint of flippancy), we're super boned.
I would love to read more about this. Any suggestions?
Interesting fact: there's a personality-testing company called "abeo." They claim that their name in Latin means "I am transformed."

The actual meaning, though, is "I go away." The word only refers to transformation in certain metaphorical contexts (compare the English idiom "go up in smoke").

(Can't find the link. The name must have worked!)
If it’s an iPhone, the data is encrypted with a key derived from the PIN and a random key that is baked into the phone’s CPU. The CPU has instructions for encrypting and decrypting with this secret key but no instruction for reading the key directly. Short of decapping the chip and going in with an electron microscope to figure out what this key is, your only option is to brute force on the phone’s own CPU. But that CPU won’t run software that isn’t signed by the manufacturer, and that software imposes ever-increasing timeouts when unlock attempts fail.
This is the new "I installed Linux on my (calculator|washing machine|furby)", isn't it.
“ultimately measured in a mounting number of victims — men, women and children who are the victims of crimes, crimes that could have been prevented if law enforcement had been given lawful access to encrypted evidence,"

I don't understand this. How would getting into his phone post facto stop the shooting? Do they have a time machine?
They also limit the number of pets per flight. Or, they used to. Once it became fashionable to pretend pets are service animals my wife and I opted to drive or not bring the dogs with us, so I'm not sure if those rules still exist but I would assume they do. Prior to that it was actually great. Most people rarely even knew they were with us. Oh well.
Could also be that both are true. Maybe they really can't get in and they also want to take advantage of the opportunity.
A young girl (10? 12?) was a famous streamer than sung a line from the national anthem in a sing-songy way and was jailed for 'making fun of the nation anthem'. You can see the exact moment she realizes she messed up.

advchina/serpentza/laowhy86 are the canaries in the coalmine atm.
If you're not a sports fan, it seems about equal to Netflix. From my experience, Hulu is flat out worse than Netflix, then adding in Disney raises the value. That being said, I'm much rather just have Disney movies on Netflix.
Ask HN: Why are we consuming thing we don’t need?
Hey,
In the last weeks, I often ask my self, why we buy things we don’t need.

Sure, status symbols. But why dose we need a new iPhone, when we just use it for Twitter?
Why do we need more then one car per Person?
Why do we need this fancy gaming PC with 128GB of RAM, when we only utilize 15% of it?

Has anybody asking such things them self? And do anyone has tips to stop buying useless things?

Max
I don’t think there’s much of a dilemma here. There’s little reason to think that requiring backdoors in encrypted devices would reduce killings.
Visionary, it was fun to see
Nagasaki wasn't even the selected target for that day it was Kitakushu. However the cloud cover over Kitakushu was too heavy to determine the target so Nagasaki was very much a secondary target and they dropped it an area of low population density in a valley that would minimize the fatalities while still making the intended point to the Emperor. It really just had to emphasize that Hiroshima wasn't a fluke or a meteor but a new kind of weapon and the US had more than one of them.
Possibly attempting to suppress evidence or similar laws against biasing court cases. It might even take down executives eventually; they knew, and they attempted to cover it up. It might not be illegal, but it can certainly be used as evidence to help prosecute things that are illegal.
> "...best course for everyone involved is to work soberly and in good faith..."

Well, AG Barr is probably sober. I'll give him that.
Maybe that is what rentals at Blockbuster cost at the end of their run (or before they were super popular). I used to go to a wonderful local movie store for $0.99 - $1.99 rentals because blockbuster was $3.99+ a rental. Granted, that was for 5 days, but Blockbuster was definitely pricey in it's prime. Disclaimer: pricing is just based on one suburban area in the United States.
Why, WHY did it take so long to do something about McElroy? The very civilized townspeople endured an inordinate amount of crime and abuse from him before what? Getting a consensus that he had to go.

Sounds like the UN...

I grew up in an urban neighborhood with much less patience. We had a fair share of sheep and wolf types, and if the justice system failed to take a menace off the streets, the menace would eventually get capped. Depending on who the bully fucked with, jail could be a better alternative to street justice.
I didn’t say it was solely due to espionage, only gave an example I found interesting of how they use it for their benefit really.
Probably to understand motive, and check for potential involvement of others.

And whilst they have a metric shit-ton of spying capabilities on US civilians, those are not really intended to avoid crime. (Maybe the shift of perception of what is terrorism might change that, though)
Yes. They got the guy. There's not much question about him pulling the trigger. And he's dead. What's to find out?
>There is an Einstein quote where he talks about how 'most people can't even form their own opinions' and he is right.

Pretty much Nietzsche was the only guy who said you could make your own values.
I have a problem with the above post, but I don't think your comment is much better because of it's first half.

The problem with the above post is that it lacks substance, attacking things like using "um" in text is not productive.

Hacker News is an international website, we should remember that different cultures interact with the internet very differently.

I saw the shorthand and interpreted it as the poster probably not being from a western country rather than taking it as some personal slight or indication that the poster doesn't respect their audience on HN.

If the poster had made a more substantive point, I'd hate to see people attack them for using "um" or some shorthand here and there.
Is this true? This despite previous year's events with the previous President?
I worked on a semi-similar project, to let people turn bash scripts into FUSE filesystems: https://github.com/jasonhansel/microfs

For example, this script is used to make a FS that turns the web into a filesystem, so reading /www.google.com/GET will show the Google homepage: https://github.com/jasonhansel/microfs/blob/master/http.sh
Go home, coder. You’re drunk!
I find the explanation of "to err is human" far more likely.
I like this cloudfront s3 static site model.
Missile alerts direct Fort Greely residents and workers to take shelter
McElroy was quite the cocky punk, wasn't he? He was begging for someone to put some rounds in him and end his miserable life.
Scarecrow Video in Seattle had a huge selection, more than any other video rental place. A small, independent video store was able to compete in a local market with the giant chain, and they did pretty well for themselves. I wonder how feasible it would be for a small, independent streaming service to even exist these days.
It's important to note that this deep integration of corporations and the state is by no means unique to China - to a great extent, Deng Xiaoping's modernization in the 1980s emulated the chaebol of South Korea and the Keiretsu of Japan. Korean and Japanese business is based on tacit relationships between extremely large vertically-integrated corporations and the state while China has more overt elements of a command economy, but the effect is essentially the same.

The least cynical reading is that it's an expression of neo-Confucian values; those in a position of political, military or economic power have a broad belief in the importance of cooperation and "social harmony". If the NSA want to access all of Google's data, they hide an implant in a data center, put optical splitters on key fiber links or bribe a third party to provide a backdoor in a vital software dependency (PRISM and BULLRUN). If the PLA want Tencent's data or the NIS want Samsung's data they just ask for it, on the understanding that a) they're not really in a position to say no and b) cooperation with the state is a mutually beneficial quid-pro-quo.
Its easy when you don't need to make money from it. Netflix makes all its money from subscription, so has to actually cover their costs. Disney makes most of its money from parks, merch and movies.
I think the world of Joe Armstrong (may he rest in peace), and was really excited about jumping into this world. In practice, I think this philosophy is better on paper than in the real world.

Start with message passing over multiple processes. The Erlang/Elixir ecosystem leans toward lightweight processes and message passing for everything. Isolation is great, but it has a cost. Part of that is paid in reduced inspectability. Good luck getting a meaningful stack trace, or figuring out what someone else's code does, when even the simplest action is split over a half-dozen concurrent processes and supervisor trees. I know it's a bridge that eventually has to be crossed, but a very expensive one!--like pouring the foundation for global HQ before the first customer has even signed.

Dynamic typing is another pain point. Wrangling types is not fun, but to keep growing something, they're non-negotiable. Facebook and Hack. Microsoft and TypeScript. The preponderance of C# and Java in the enterprise world, and C++ in games. These weren't accidents of history. Without mandatory compile-time type-checking, re-factoring eventually becomes so perilous that it is avoided, and the product withers. Why they chose that in a "robustness" language is a head-scratcher.

Also, the compiler is slow--which wouldn't be so bad if it caught more errors (like type mismatches), but it doesn't.
I can think of a way those differing views are consistent: there are a lot of jobs at GS25, and probably not a lot of parents who pull strings to get their kids entry-level jobs there; once you move up the food chain to more desired jobs that is likely the opposite.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20631123
Maybe I do not understand something about your system (or how all of this is supposed to work). When I view companies/dashboards/the buy/sell and stock price screen, lots of data is from June? Some of the charts for a company show current information, but the top chart always stops at June? Is this right?
Won't they just jack up the price each year like Netflix has been doing, in order to recover their original investment?
I knew this guy's brother lol.
Again no. Fuel cells that can be used for wind and solar to store their energy isn't close at all it's not just cost it's also the physics.
> If you zoom in on the San Francisco waterfront, you will see a grid of dots.

And yet, some of those dots are significantly further inland than rounding can account for. There's one faint point near 4th and King, for example, and a strong one on Spear between Howard and Mission. All signs point to the source data being imprecise enough that transmitting it at a higher precision wouldn't improve the results.
Well yeah, but if they do say it’s constitutional then people can immediately turn around and sue Fox News, gab, stormer, etc for “censoring” “leftist” content.

Which will be expensive for everyone, hopefully such that even today’s unconstitutionally appointed Supreme Court will day no.
To put this in context, roughly 70 police were killed last year, and police made over ten million arrests. Your chance of being killed is roughly once in 10,000 arrests.
Are you implying that SF is a lot less racist than America is on average, or that there are places in America that are a lot more racist than SF?
NBC have the EPL rights until 2022.

https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/chicago-fire/nbc-sports-re...
Corporate priorities can be absolutely 100% nefarious as the wage-fixing antitrust investigation and subsequent settlement shows:

https://pando.com/2014/03/25/newly-unsealed-documents-show-s...

https://pando.com/tag/techtopus

In May of this year (2019), https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6 was on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19798678 .

I take this last event as an example of "the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing": these sorts of events that further corporate priorities without corporate knowledge or corporate sanction clearly can and do happen.

---

Widely speculative thought experiment follows

1. Let's hypothetically assume there was a rogue team at Google trying to kill of Mozilla Firefox.

2. Let's further suppose like the YouTube IE6 story they flipped some switch to start the process yesterday.

3. Let's further suppose they were discovered by any one or more of their managers / their directors / Google's legal and compliance / C-level executives today.

4. In my opinion, what we should be asking ourselves is: what actions the last group of people (3.) can take at and with what would be corresponding probability of that action being carried out.

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tl;dr Do we trust Google to not "be evil"?
It turns out that selling things for less than it costs is a bad business model.
This is subjective. I never wrote a macro in Elixir after two years of being paid to work with it. I remember I studied Erlang in 2010 and I was like "great concepts but the syntax is horrible, no wonder it's very niche." I never wrote anything with Erlang but I can read it. I looked at Elixir when it was at one of its early versions and I could immediately work with it. I wrote some code and eventually got a customer.

This could be affected by my background. My trajectory is 99% in the imperative set of languages. BASIC in the 80s, a little COBOL and Pascal, a lot of C and Perl, some Visual Basic, a few PHP, a little eLisp, some Java, a lot of JavaScript for the web but mostly Perl until I picked up Ruby on Rails in the middle 2000s. Some Node and some Python until I got a customer with Django. I'm mostly work with Elixir, Python, Ruby and some React now.

I script in Ruby for myself. The Python ecosystemis for the web looks complicated by design (but simple compared to Java), Elixir is OK for large projects, too cumbersome for small ones.

I sincerely dislike the syntax of GenServers (this would need a blog post) and Ecto is unnecessarily complex and a productivity sink. But the Elixir and Erlang way to pattern matching is heaven.
FWIW, the past tense isn't needed: Scarecrow Video still operates, five years on as a non-profit.

Reckless Video is also still in operation at Roosevelt and 90th in Maple Leaf.
Notably it includes 8 notable seasons of the Simpsons.
It's a shame that

> Our academic paper gives a lot of details about design choices. We encourage you to read it if you want to understand how the code works.

yet

> Link to paper to be published soon.