skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, thank you. I was thinking of commenting something similar, but I didn't have numbers.

The oddity of South Korea and Japan isn't that they aren't having kids; that's par for the course for a first-world nation. It's that they have no significant amount of immigration. If South Korea and Japan took in the same proportions of immigrants as North America and Europe, they would have the same population projections as us.
Is it? You're holding a contract that stipulates you're owed 1000 dollars...

Normally, you'd sell that on for more than the original 100 dollars.
It's incredible that medical tourism can allow people to be treated by a Mayo & Brigham and Women's trained physician at a fraction of the cost, and that the physician actually makes more. I suppose much of the expense here is what American facilities normally charge, though I wonder if the stated prices in the article are before any negotiations between the providers and payors.
This made me curious too, so I went looking. Texas self defense law seem thoroughly standard for a southern/rural state. It has 'stand your ground' rules and a low charge rate for claims of self-defense, but neither is unusual.

There are only two exotic elements I can find. First, Texas permits the use of deadly force to stop some non-violent criminals (e.g. burglars, robbers) from escaping with property. Second, it allows deadly force over theft and criminal mischief only at night.

That last clause is pretty bizarre, but none of it adds up to anything like "needed killin". Deadly force to recover property is somewhat unusual, but that wouldn't apply to the case in the article either.
There is never less of life, just fewer humans. When humans disappear other life takes their place. Also the economics of Black Death shows that if you live in a country with a declining population the rich are forced to pay the middle class more, unlike a country with an increasing population whether through birth or through immigration.

The Economic Impact of the Black Death of 1347–1352

http://msh.councilforeconed.org/documents/978-1-56183-758-8-...
I think there are some proposals based on geoengineering. A widely discussed one is the stratospheric aerosol injection [1]. The concern is that no one knows the unintended consequences of this approach.

Generally speaking, it's not possible to control the planet's temperature. All solutions are focused on either greenhouse gas emissions, or solar radiation management. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radiation_management
jokes on all of you :) working on open source makes sending links of images for failed build a breeze. though we do not use EBS per-se, but same concept/security-tradeoffs.
>Why is mobile used for important things

In the developing world, this is often the only link people have to the Internet at large. I worked in a company with primarily Nigerians and one of the biggest developments in recent years are payment systems built over mobile networks.

Since most other countries don't bundle the phone with a contract and SIM-lock them, SIM-swapping is a very reasonable way to pay-as-you-go while hopping between mobile networks and regions.

>However it is silly to pretend mobile is as safe as landline for all uses

What's the alternative for people lacking wired infrastructure? It's not desktop systems, it's not landlines, and they can't rely on the government to solve these problems for them.
Please go see a psychiatrist tomorrow. You are depressed. It’s a disease. They’ll give you treatment that’s appropriate. It will remove the bad feelings while you figure out the career stuff.
These guys are trying: http://NovaSolix.Com
For the record, DMC were not sponsored or incentivized by adidas until well after the song was produced and distributed. Basically adidas jumped on an existing trend.
Gimp isn't so bad. Flash is dead, Director and authorware are long dead, free video editors are better than premiere. After effects is slower than blender. Alternatives to adobe are pretty good at this time.
So you agree keeping things simple to reduce attack vectors is the best way to go ?
If the solar panels appear glowing, it's because visible light is being dispersed away from the solar panel itself. The consequence of that would be wasted photons that could otherwise be converted into electricity.

So, from a pragmatic perspective, I would say that no, they wouldn't glow - proper engineering would ensure these particles are collected.
Not many of the excellent programmers I know went to grad school. It's probably self-selected for people interested in social issues.
Collective intercellular comms through ultra-fast hydrodynamic trigger waves
The csi interface doesn't take up as many CPU cycles, so if frame rate and performance is important, or even power consumption, it's better.
How I Built Reliable Bits to a Million Dollar Business
So what was you business model, how did you plan to make money?
The World’s Smartest Chimp Has Died
Cost. We can make single junction GaAs solar cells with efficiency close to 30% (damn close to the theoretical limit for a single junction cell of ~33%)and we can make GaAs based multijunction cells that have efficiencies above 40%. It's just that those cells are so expensive that they really are only useful for niche applications (e.g. space).

Meanwhile silicon and CdTe solar cells continue to decrease in price and increase in efficiency year after year. At this point the current technology is cheap enough to be profitably used to supply power in many regions of the world. Any one who says we need a break through in solar to make it economic is wrong. At this point the solar panels themselves are less than half the cost of a solar installation.

Nearly all press releases talking about efficiencies over 50% are just talking about unpractical theoretical limits that would require cooling the solar cells to freezing temperatures or other schemes (i.e. talking about the carnot limit instead of the shockleyy-quiesser limit).
Its like the end of an era. Before then there was Woolworths.
They did by writing the eIDAS regulation.
That is very interesting! I watched that and found some more information after searching a little:

[1] https://www.yokogawa.com/yjp/solutions/solutions/minimal-fab...

It seems like this fab is a demonstrator, and is planned for
sale. This makes me wonder if/when this will be available for maker style setups, at which process nodes & price per piece. Would be nice to be able to design some fully custom ip, have it tested, bonded and packaged, and optionally soldered, like you can have it with pcb services today.

One can dream, yes?
I don't think that's necessarily the hurdle. The people that believe climate change is real are more likely than not billionaires or wealthy individuals. Right now, there's a real divide between what people believe and the actions of their representatives because attempting to fix the climate isn't profitable. And capitalism is real bad at solving problems without a profit incentive. This combined with industries and individuals whose lives depend on climate change not being a threat means that it's just another class warfare battle.

Solving this problem requires new elected officials who believe climate change is an issue and then taking actions that'll likely outright destroy prior industries.
> Too much scrolling

macOS's Preview.app has great support for tables of content, which it displays in a sidebar by default, permitting you to jump around easily. And of course LaTeX and similar TeX-based frameworks do a great job of generating a proper ToC automatically. So I actually find PDFs better than web pages (even ones with floating ToC panels) or any other format in terms of ease and consistency of navigation.

Except... the PDF viewers in browsers don't support ToC display and navigation. And typical MS Word PDF exports don't seem to generate ToCs, judging by the fact that I rarely (if ever) see a Word-generated PDF with a ToC--at least one that Preview.app displays. If Chrome, Mozilla, and Microsoft put in just a little effort here then the world of document sharing could be immensely improved.
The article clearly states that the attackers and the researchers use very different ways of triggering the vulnerability. It is a coincidence.
Given how quickly coinbase managed to respond to an advanced attacker I think they know what they're doing.

Insider threat is also really difficult. Working from a point of "I don't trust my employees" is very painful for many reasons.
Thanks for the comment. I think where I read of the other synchronous discovery was hinting to what you wrote but I deliberately wanted to hear about the probability of researchers being compromised.

Maybe this is not the case but if somebody has powerful means, knowledge on how do successful targeted attacks, and access to the right 0 days, it would make sense that can use their resources to find other 0 days in this way.
>I run 32 panels on my roof, in the pacific northwest which is known for its rain

Aren't you still connected to the traditional grid anyway?
I see, thanks! Why are visible light photons "stronger" than infrared photons?
The part on choosing to swerve vs brake based on risk being hit from behind does not make sense to me.

It reminds something motorcycle riders say after a crash: "I felt that I won't be able to stop in time, so I leaned over the bike".

The real reason is: they press the front brake too hard (instinctively), the wheel locks up and without gyroscopic effect the slightest disturbance let's the gravity do it's work. However, admitting the mistake is embarrassing, so a story justifying the action is being told.

In the fractions of second needed for the decision, instincts prevail. Some people swerve, some people brake. If there is enough time to evaluate the action- it doesn't matter which choice was made (either the distance is enough to brake or there are no other cars around).
Yeah - referential transparency is what allows it to Just Be Substitution.
But your life is the perfect example to make my point!

We SHOULD use cars. But we should treat them as garnish, not the main course. Use them for exactly the things they're great for: moving houses, needing to visit the hospital, long road trips to a destination where you'll need flexibility to drive around once you reach etc.

I'm not advocating a ban on cars. I'm not even advocating not owning them. The simple step of banning them on the main shopping street is a far cry from any of those things, but makes the actual experience of being on that street a lot better for the shoppers.
> wait till the patents expire

If this is the case, then wouldn't "buy a bunch of patents and (with great fanfare) make them open-source" be a relatively low-complexity way for a billionaire who feels like making a name for himself to accelerate progress on fighting climate change?
They were kids and changed their mind when they became adults. This is a very common pattern in the behavior of abused people.

> American singer Barbra Streisand spoke in Jackson's defense, saying "his sexual needs were his sexual needs" and that the accusers had been "thrilled" to be with him. She added that the accusers were "both married and they both have children, so it didn't kill them".[73]Streisand later apologized and expressed sympathy for the accusers.[74]

What a comment coming from a woman that didn't even want to have a nude picture in the press. Which blew up in her face and is called that the Streisand effect.
for these sort of numbers I generally look to the RealClimate dot org blog.. for example this:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2019/07/can-pl...
the camera portion of this is comparable in price to the cheapest IP camera you can get out of china, and probably works better.

even with the solar, it's cheaper than a nice IP camera from Axis.
Is solar efficiency the new "battery breakthrough" that will transform our lives "in 10 years", for 25 years straight now?
Just as a fun tidbit, I've grown accustomed to using Estonia's banklinks, and then like approx. 10 years after that the 3D-secure system starts appearing on foreign sites that almost provides the same functionality - it's nice to see finally some steps taken but damn, it's basically 20 years behind what everyone could have had.
The same chance of getting two movies with the same premise (Armageddon and Deep Impact, White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen)
And they all would have failed to get past the phone screen from the recruiter wanting to know how many years of experience they have had with "the XML" or "the Spring".
That's exactly what I thought! Call Thanos and he will solve it... More to the point, this is typical elitist nonsense: saying that the back death was good for future generations is just psychopathy in disguise. There is nothing preventing our society to improve life conditions for everyone, except that some elitist groups don't want to lose the privilege of having more than others.
I strongly support studying humanities, especially as a way to learn how to think clearly and communicate effectively. Unfortunately much of what passes for "humanities" is simply empty sophistry. Dig below the surface and there's nothing there. Yet everyone is afraid to say that "the emperor wears no clothes" for fear of being labeled unsophisticated by a gang of pseudo-intellectuals.

I know bullshit when I see it.
I'd consider 9% of all human emissions[1] to be a "major source". Just because it's not the majority doesn't mean it's not important.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
On some websites I can access the content with “reader view”. Didn’t work for this site though
Your attempt to unnecessarily insult Silicon Valley in retort, badly falls flat.

VC is a model that works that way intentionally and you're holding that intentional behavior up as though it's incompetence or stupidity. It is in fact an ideal approach to what it attempts to accomplish: high rate of experimentation and very large outcomes.

There's nothing special about most businesses failing within eg five years: that's how it works everywhere, the majority of mainstreet businesses do not survive more than five years. The VC model seeks to dramatically increase the rate of early expansion, in pursuit of locking in market dominance, and trades a higher rate of failure vs the typical hotdog stand, convenience store or restaurant.

Everything from eBay to Google to Apple to PayPal to Facebook to Cisco to nVidia were backed in that wildly successful model. The reason the US has dominated tech globally for half a century now, is thanks to the VC model - a model everyone else has sought to copy, including Europe and China. For good reason: it works very well at what it attempts to accomplish. There is no other scenario where the US builds the enormous tech ecosystem that it has minus the VC approach.
"They are interacting with a caricature of a person they've built up in their heads based on a highly limited set of information."

I don't think it's reasonable to put the blame on the users. Facebook in particular, creates that caricature in order to increase "engagement".

You will not see a representative sample, much less all, of your friends posts if you use it normally. If two people make one in 20 posts that are outraged, anguished, political, Facebook will probably show them only those of each other, which creates a feedback loop.

People talk about possible future "paperclip maximizer" AIs overwhelming society, but Facebook is essentially doing that right now, only it's "engagement" instead of "paperclips".
Why would an aerospace engineer have any particular insight into climate change moreso than any other random non-climate-science engineer? Burt might be one of the most famous aerospace engineers currently living, but that is mostly due to his aerobatic stunts, and not his knowledge of climate science.

Personally, I think anthropogenic climate change is clearly happening, but I think the dire prognostications about our future is too much - I think we'll be just fine. So it appears I may agree with Mr Rutan, but I just don't see why his opinion is relevant to point out.
We've had the technology to do all of that without fossil fuels for decades. We are close to doing it in rich countries today, despite both active opposition and the usual passivity of the status quo. Renewable energy sources are now cheaper than non-renewables, across the board, regardless of subsidies in either direction. England for the first time since the Industrial Revolution generated more power with renewable sources than fossil fuels this year. Norway, an oil exporter, is on a path to be entirely fossil fuel free soon inside the country's borders. Germany and even the US have also had periods where large amounts of the country's energy grids were entirely renewable.

It's silly to claim we are entirely reliant on fossil fuels for all our modern conveniences, when everything but cars/trucks/shipping is mostly energy source independent and the grid is overall greener than it has ever been in decades, and getting greener. (And we certainly have the technology to solve cars/trucks/shipping today, too.)
The next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg.
A lot of the stuff, e.g. 193i immersion litho, gets reused the by the fabs, other stuff gets used for older nodes, which are often still thriving, e.g. 180nm is popping for analog.
The Hitachi SuperH-3 Processor
Say what you want about Google/Alphabet as a whole, but Google Flights is incredible. It's absolutely amazing how quickly and largely that Google crushed all its competitors in terms of usability. Kayak, Hipmunk, Orbitz, Skyscanner were all my go-to's at one point but G.Flights is far superior in so many ways. It actually remembers your airline preference between searches. You don't have to beg or change settings to see a few days before or after... every search has a date grid and long-term graph, both which respond almost immediately to additional changes to date ranges. Searching multiple airports or destinations is super easy. Plus the calendar view, with lowest price for every day -- sure other sites have it but only for unfiltered searches. Google's calendar view is updated with every filter change.

There was a time in the 90s when eAAsySabre was publicly available to anyone, and text based searches were simple and fast and so easy. But Google Flights is even better, IMO.

Pretty amazing that sites entirely dependent on travel search seem satisfied with 10-year old UI while Google showed how much better it could be.
Yeah, they could have moved processes before execing the shell. Detecting "Firefox + Shell" is quite easy and standard, even in existing SIEMs.

Detecting "arbitrary program + shell" is at least moderately more difficult.

It's the attacker's dilemma though. They only need to trip one alarm to trigger IR.
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Remembered from the time, found at
https://www.tor.com/2011/07/06/heinleins-worst-novel/

"That said, was it Analog or F&SF where a winning entry in a contest for SF-related jokes was:

Q: What do the speed of light, absolute zero, and page 60 of Dhalgren have in common?
A: No one will ever get past them."
How to survive 12 hours in an airport
I’d suggest reading The Prince.
Penicillin had to undergo decade long R&D to go from Fleming's petria dish to a cheap practical drug - I cannot find the article now but I believe the investment levels from the US Military were compared to Manhattan (obviously poorly compared) but the point is this was not the "gosh what luck" story it is in mass media.

Having made that first breakthrough, world class teams across the globe fought to bring the efficiency up from "froth on the top of a brew" to "gallons of the stuff"

Florey was a big part of the story but so were teams in US and Europe and then the US military scaled it up beyond belief.

We spent money, targeted money, on the best teams globally and then put serious industrial might to it once they found the answers.

That exact approach is what I am calling for again.

And as for patents - if enough global effort is put in, with enough government funds, the pressure to put the results "in public hands" rather than hold out for patents is really strong

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_penicillin
I disagree and I don't think that conclusion logically follows from what you said.
Don’t mistake “more than what the doctor would make from Medicare” as anything close to what they make normally. Medicare pays pennies on the dollar.
Ok, we swapped invent for propose above.
This is the most absurd escalation I've read regarding the US healthcare system. What a laugh.

Since it's this bad, it alludes to vast untapped potential for more cost saving measures that are both funny and embarrassing.

A quick google suggests prisoners have to pay 10-100$ copays in some states, but otherwise receive care. I wonder if there's a topology of illnesses where a financially optimal course of action to acquire treatment is to commit some petty crime and receiving treatment in prison? After lost wages, and earnings potential from your now tainted record, and all else. There might be!

Here's a business idea that might already exist, vocational-technical elementary / pre-school for trying to lead your own children into and through medschool. Doctors are so expensive you might as well make your own!

That one baby saving medicine that just got approved costs like 2 million dollars, right? For anything ~ 200k+ that isn't literally holding your baby hostage from imminent death, it's probably cheaper to get a degree in chemistry and some lab equipment.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-o...

It's crazy, but only in a crazy system can things like this approach rational.

Here's another idea. What if patients could rent hospital administration as a service. Put payment for a procedure in escrow, sign all the malpractice waivers and try to attract a doctor like tinder. I'll sign all malpractice waivers if you'll just cut this cancer out of my gut. We can use my living room! It's this or death anyways so fuck it! America WOO
Necessarily it is operating at the limit of precision. If it wasn't blurry, you'd keep making it smaller until the blurring starts to become a problem again.
If reader mode loads everything, does it also execute all of the javascript? That's ultimately what I want to avoid; I want effectively a static page with zero javascript.
Soon enough, It will also store pedestrians' feces.
JavaScript Party 88: Droppin' insider logic bombs
Hi, I made this script.

I get very annoyed by these types of articles, even the tech ones like "is javascript dead?" and I wanted to highlight them.

Manually finding them to tweet was a daunting task so I wrote some python, which I haven't used for ages. I'm sure there are better ways of forming some of the python code, and comments or even pull requests are welcome there, as are suggestions for more sites to crawl.
Aspen Institute fellowship for techies interested in policy, apps due 8/15
I sort of get what you're saying. A lot of formerly-anti-Apple people have started looking at them with new eyes because of their welcome stance on privacy.

But even with the Apple example, aren't they the most valuable company on Earth? Despite having anti-consumer policies like removing the 3.5mm jack or making their laptops nigh-on irrepairable. Clearly the market shrugs at those 'tradeoffs' in exchange for Apple shifting more product more quickly. This is what I mean by the market not being the perfect device to self-regulate. Perhaps on a VERY long term scale, but not on human time scales.
I wonder if there is a framework where we can systematically reason about all those trade-offs we usually navigate empirically
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Also, the most likely set of victims to win in the current political climate.