skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
European cities are usually worse than American cities for many measures of air pollution because the streets are more tightly packed, which means less ability for the pollutants to disperse. Housing and pavements for walking also tend to be closer to roads. On the other hand, the highest levels of pollution are usually experienced by drivers, because they’re sitting closest to the sources of pollution, in the flow of traffic and in effect just behind the exhaust of the preceding car. So it may be that pollution levels averaged over a city are not an accurate reflection of the health impacts on individuals, or on certain subsets of individuals. You’re much more likely to be walking in London compared to most American cities, rather than driving, but you’re also more likely to be living right next to a road with a lot of traffic. Either way, air pollution in London is a problem that has to be tackled, but it’s not going to be that easy to directly compare different cities.
Wouldn't just having a second key which the government keeps in escrow in case they need to decrypt a message achieve exactly what you are saying is impossible?

How would that work? A basic principle of encryption systems is that only relevant parties have access to the secret information. Typically in asymmetric systems they generate their own private key or other secret and never share it with anyone. Moreover, techniques like perfect forward secrecy rely on generating new session keys at each step.

As soon as you mandate a systemic backdoor where someone else's secret can be used to unlock anything, you have undermined the whole premise of the system and created a huge single point of failure.

Not only that, but normally if there is any concern that a key has been compromised then you can change it to at least continue to protect future communications. With this sort of back door, any compromise is permanent.

If you think that's not a serious risk and governments could be trusted to keep such an important back door key secure, let me first ask you this: which government(s) should have access to that key? What happens when, say, someone in the US has family in Iran, and the governments of the US and Iran both insist on being able to intercept messages between them? What happens if a more authoritarian government is elected in Australia and a more liberal one in Canada, and the Five Eyes agreement collapses?

Don't forget that a large part of the reason there is so much public debate about these issues today is because someone walked out of the most powerful intelligence agency in the world with the modern equivalent of a note of its deepest secrets in his back pocket and then shared that note with the world.
Sometimes the exponential trend does last much more than would seem reasonable to common sense.

Moore's law is an example. It did taper off, eventually.
> secrets management stores

Maybe starting from something like an Arduino is a better route for that.
Sounds like an urban legend. Colt and John Browning shipping something that needs to be hand fit doesn't pass the smell test. Major world powers don't adopt a gun that can't have parts interchanged as their standard sidearm in the early 1900s. For a specialty weapon of 30yr earlier maybe but only the cheapest of "boring old small arms" were still being hand fit around that time and even then it was rare in industrialized countries.

Edit: adjustable gas systems are in fact there to tune for ammo variations and fouling.
I wonder if a poncho would with the same pattern would have the same effect...? brb registering ponchos4cows.com
I heard there was a lot of hot air going around but to be fair no substance detected so far.
John Goodenough is 97 years old and still moving the state of the art forward...

https://cen.acs.org/people/profiles/Podcast-97-lithium-ion-b...
(article also mentions he studied with Zener after whom Zener diodes are named)

Middle-aged startup founders are kids!
To me, the most striking thing in this article ISN'T that there's a vast, opaque, multi-trillion dollar shadow stock market for institutional investors and elite individuals.

Instead, it's the fact that over the past 25 years, these vehicles have only managed to beat an S&P 500 index fund by 1-2% after fees. And that over the past 10 years, more than half of them are underperforming a passive index fund.

Even if I had a few extra billion dollars lying around, I wouldn't get involved with private equity firms. This audience comes across like a combination of insolvent pension fund managers desperate for a way out, and wealthy individuals who just enjoy the feeling of being in an exclusive club. With dubious "financial engineers" fleecing them all through fees, and hollowing out thousands of private companies to make the whole system possible.
It's a trade off.

Diesel engines are more efficient at using the energy in the fuel and as a result produce less CO2.

However, diesel engines generally produce more NO2 and particulate emissions which causes local pollution. There are technologies which mitigate these pollutants for diesel engines (such as urea injection and exhaust gas recirculation) which are required in the US, but I believe there is less stringent requirements for them in Europe.
> Even if there would be true generalized Artificial intelligence, it is not unreasonable to think that the formation of the right thought framework for those systems to function effectively will require a substantial amount of time.

Who is disputing that? I am 99.9% certain that this is true.

The point of the singularity isn't that AI is coming next summer -- it's that from one developmental point and on the intelligence and abilities explode exponentially. To get to that stage though, thousands of years might pass.

> It is also reasonable to think that such change would probably be in symbiosis with human intelligence.

Now that is not likely. At all. They have to have the same motivation, interests, emotions and needs like us. The chances of an artificial race being developed to cover all these at once are practically zero.

A race not motivated by the same things we are is practically impossible to sympathise with our own motives.
I feel like it does explain this, although it's not a Wikipedia article so it doesn't break them down into a nice table for you.

NO2 output is higher for a modern diesel engine, and NO2 is poisonous. Not like "Oh my god I think I breathed some NO2 now I need to go to hospital" poisonous, but it's bad for you and wasn't there anyway. If Europe had decided it hated diesel and petrol remained more popular (as in the US) there'd be lower NO2 emissions in London.

PM2.5 (tiny particles) is higher for diesel. Again, breathing in a tiny particle that will then permanently get stuck in your lungs, damaging them in a minute but essentially irreversible way, is not going to send you to ER immediately, but it keeps happening and cumulatively, especially over a population, that means deaths.

As the article also points out PM2.5 doesn't even go away if you got rid of internal combustion engines. Just rolling at speed causes tiny pieces of the surfaces that come into contact to break off, probably a racist cyclist even emits PM2.5 though nothing like a diesel truck. So this isn't a problem we can entirely solve, but things like ULEZ aim to make it better, the argument is largely that they aren't enough (and apparently for this journalist, won't ever be enough).
New version of Oat++ Web Framework is now available – 0.19.9
Why “Always use UTC” is bad advice
I procure cameras for some systems development we are doing for the DoD. Hikvision and Dahua are both specifically banned by law. The number of American companies simply rebranding banned cameras and stamping "Manufactured in America" on them was a bit of a shock.
https://www.newsx.today/nobel-prize-in-chemistry/
Ancient lost city uncovered in Israel was the 'New York City' of its time
everything is about pros and cons. there is no silver bullet for building form if you enjoy building a form with JSON schema good for you too. Thanks for checking it out tho :)
Which Career Fields Should Businesses Be Expanding?
or the fact you can go from Amsterdam to the black sea fairly directly and from there to st. petersburg is even more mind boggling
The Isle of Man is not in the UK
Mobile apps from banks have eliminated my phone communications. I get real-time notifications for every transaction and can report anything myself through the app. No more risk of scams like these.
I didn't see that in his message. Why are you so bitter about one developers perceived ego?
Pretty sure I tried it in the 70's with a TXE4. Didn't work.
Or, less bizarrely, presumably it also works if painted like a Friesian?
>more unrealistic

Some* booru owners complained that realistic 3d tags gained a significant share and views in recent years. I don’t remember if they posted exact percentages.

* not going to post it here, but it’s not hard to figure out
Revealed: Firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
Faking the geolocation might be more fun and frustrate any attacker :)
keep up the great work -- great products!
Rugby World Cup 2019: Live updates – Scotland v Russia
Scotland play Russia in their penultimate Pool A match requiring a bonus-point victory to keep their hopes of making the quarter-finals alive.

A four-try score would mean a four-point gap to Japan and set up a winner-takes-all pool decider against the hosts on October 13.

Scotland, who lost to Ireland and beat Samoa so far, have made 14 changes with key duo Finn Russell and Stuart Hogg rested entirely as they set their sights on the final pool game.
https://www.newsx.today/rugby-world-cup-2019-live-updates-sc...
Looks like a hog to me ... [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks
Ripper: Story of the Egregiously Bad Videogame
The real answer is to get rid of fossil fuel powered cars - gasoline or diesel.
Why don't browsers do this? Firefox should implement this (warn about geolocation and suggest either remove it or fake it).
Highscores – A Brief History of Computer Music
Lightning Strikes Twice as Much over Shipping Lanes
> I need to write a C++ CLI app

At first I thought you meant this obscure little language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B/CLI
Thanks a lot! It would be amazing if you would create those integrations but can understand if you have different priorities. In this case, simply add the integrations you need as a request to the forum. Other people can then upvote them and I know what to work on next. For example, already created a request for a Shopify integration myself a month ago which you could simply upvote:
https://community.n8n.io/t/shopify-integration/22
> What if the belief that GI - never mind consciousness - can be modelled with our version of computing hardware is just plain wrong?

I for one fully agree. I am pretty sure that whatever true generic AI emerges in the future will definitely not share brain schemata with us.

It seems to me that you attack the idea of the AI singularity in a very narrow framework: human-like intelligence, human-like hardware, copyable consciousness / intelligence, etc.

What if none of those restrictions apply? (And I am pretty sure they don't apply indeed.)

I agree that singularity shouldn't become a religion. But you are too quick to discount the possibilities of an artificial mind with more processing power and more efficient algorithms (compared to our brains').
The article talks about NOx. Do brakes and tyres produce that?
"The caller called me twice in rapid succession" this is to bypass the "Do not disturb" functionality on iOS if you have "Repeated calls" enabled. https://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Do-Not-...
> before spikes know what to netdeck and most are clowning around

What does this mean?
I think that with the current access to birth control and abortion, you can't exactly extrapolate sexual activity from birth rates in Western Europe.
Some parts of the world are still living in conditions resembling the Great Smog of London, only it doesn't go away after a while, but stays for years.

For example, the daily average pollution levels across all particulates being tracked in my city (PM 2.5/10, CO, SO2, NOx, and some others) have been several times that of the highest levels on the dirtiest day in London's history for the last 10 years.

If we compare, say, our daily averages taken on the dirtiest ~1/3 days in a year to the most polluted day in London's recent history, the ratio goes to something like 10-200x, depending on pollutant.

https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/london-average-air-qualit...

You'll never see it mentioned in big news outlets though. Who would give a damn? It's certainly not London.
I can think of example in other field: Art. Some people just great at using/picking color. They just pick the color they want quickly and paint without thinking about perfect harmony color scheme theory at all, yet their art always result in great color combination.

Just ask them why they pick that certain color and you won't find rational behind it. They just...did, their hand just move to that color, paint it, and it looks good—the results of tons of practices over the years. Not to mention some artist didn't even have proper art education, not to mention art theory. Why and how it happened to be the same combination as in the color harmony theory is surely hard to explain.
I think it's interesting to see how hard we've worked on making the web secure by adding all sorts of checks and protocols, but we've neglected to do the same with basic telecoms.

When I first started using web based communication platforms like Twitter and Nexmo I was really surprised to learn that I could put anything in the from field when sending a text message. All I could think was that it was a weakness that was ripe for abuse.

I believe there was a case in Germany a few years back where a group of phishers had online banking login details for several hundred users but couldn't initiate transfers without entering a PIN sent to the account holders phone via SMS. So the phishers set up a fake telephone company so that they could issue SS7 commands and have the account holders phone's temporarily redirected to another number where the PIN could be intercepted.

I think there is a false assumption amongst many people that the telephone system is inherently secure. Stuff like the above and all the robo calls coming from false numbers should warn otherwise.
Remote in US only or worldwide?
I really enjoyed this talk when it was presented about a month back at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway.

Interested to hear if this view of computer music history is overly Norway-centric at the end or not, and if there are any other resources on the topic. Hope you enjoy it as much as me.
> the physical identification of terrorists i.e. by various body measurements

The guy was disciple of Cesare Lombroso, I guess? Ah well... that should put a swift end to the "good research reputation" of that institution.
It would save so much wasted bandwidth if smartphones actually guided users through a workflow of resizing and compressing photos before they leave the phone or hell even when first saving them locally.

Instead everyone's sending many-megabyte barely-compressed highres JPEGs I presume since cameras have always defaulted to saving the highest quality images with the expectation that you'd post process them before distributing. That and I imagine it's desirable to not have to burn battery power on compressing photos, and maybe at&t and friends kickback some $$ to make the default flow burn more bandwidth. Many people pay for metered data and receive giant photos from friends w/unlimited bandwidth and zero fucks given.
Nobel Prize In Chemistry Awarded For Development Of Lithium Ion Batteries

https://www.newsx.today/nobel-prize-in-chemistry/
> I don’t want my users turning their work machines turn into Bluetooth beacons for Apple.

Is it really that bad? I get that you always have to consider privacy concerns, but Apple has been pretty good at user privacy compared to, say, Google. And there’s already been a real world case of Apple’s new Bluetooth tracking helping someone find their phone before the stable
version of iOS 13 was even released.
The problem I have with the paper is regarding the nature of the controls.

They painted black and while stripes on the cows. But they don't say what the controls were that I can see. Unpainted cows? Or cows painted a single colour.

I'd want to see all white and all black painted animals - perhaps the makeup of the paint put off the flies?
Just a programmer, so excuse the lay explanation. My understanding is that the goal is to get the CO2 effectively locked in a cycle. Trees naturally spread themselves, obviously, and I would expect the net growth of trees to be > 1 annually (more than 1 new tree grows for every tree that dies, every year). However even if the rate was < 1 (perhaps in the case where trees only thrive in the area with human help like.. the Sahara), then at least that CO2 was sequestered from the air for some years, somewhat alleviating the problem.

If tree decomposition is really a problem, maybe we can automate a carpentry dystopia. The year is 2080 and there are just chairs and cabinets as far as the eye can see.
>When I read the thread now, it's obviously full of red flags. I was successfully manipulated, and whilst I'm certainly not as clever as all the people pointing out they would have caught this from sentence one, I believe I'm also not the lowest hanging fruit in terms of a target :-) Makes you wonder what this will look like when these scams evolve another couple of generations in terms of complexity ...

I think this is a social skills moment. For those that claim it's "easy" to spot: This is not the right time for people to brag about how they would have totally spotted it. This is mostly for protecting people who (as most people in this world) don't have time to build up a solid understanding of all aspects of internet security. If you don't care about these people, as some sort of Darwinian schadenfreude, stfu. If you do, focus on their perspective, not your brilliant detective skills.
That would be pretty good privacy.
I think your sticking point here is "(given the hardware)". There are always limiting factors. AI robots are unlikely to be building and repairing themselves anytime soon, and can always be deprived of electrons.
While spoofing numbers on incoming calls is far easier, it is also possible for an attacker to redirect your outgoing calls from the right place in the phone network.

You just shouldn't consider any aspect of the phone network to provide authenticity or confidentiality.
I use Emacs + Eclim. Other coworkers use Vim + you complete me. Or just raw vim, because they're far more patient than me. Others us VSCode + clangd, etc.

You can generate a compiler_commands.json from ninja for these tools. I don't have the command handy -- but you can google for it.

They all perform quite admirably when compared to CLion, unfortunately.
The Kings College sensor data is visualised on this page: https://www.londonair.org.uk/LondonAir/nowcast.aspx

When I used to cycle in London I noticed that I struggled to recover at traffic lights. On one occasion I thought "this is it" because I simply could not catch my breath whilst my HR spiked. Most unpleasant.
Complexity Is Bad (2017)
Why open source is good for your business
Can you write proper Chinese? The whole world is trying to adapt to a single universal language and for some cultures with completely different roots is probably much more difficult than for others.
This is a really good reply! In fact, React hook form is based on uncontrolled components, I guess the mainstream is still controlled, but I would like to give some fo the love to uncontrolled and explore the benefits from it.
I think it was about 30 year span. Like from 15 to 45.
Odd that the youngest bracket (14–19) is bounded with a minimum age of 14. There have been a handful of births from younger mothers in the past 30 years (a 10 year old girl in 2006 in the US). Insignificant in the total graph, but weird to exclude given that the oldest bracket is open-ended (>50). Just renaming the bracket to ≤19 would suffice.

The youngest documented mother ever was 5 years and 7 months (Peru, 1939).
> There’s a huge difference between “shuffling feet” and “clenching jaws”, for example.

What is the difference between the two?

It may boil down for why you read, but this is really not what makes character interesting to me.
The security part of PSD2 is starting to look like another cookie law. Banks of course didn't implement any proper 2FA like U2F but rather send you scrounging for the phone with their app every time you want to look up a transaction or an account number, something that didn't require second factor until the directive.

In fact, because it makes checking recent transactions that much less convenient, it probably made me less safe because I do it much less often.
Show HN: GraphQL Editor Shows Promise as IDE for GraphQL API Development
So covering the cows half in white paint, halved the number of bites?

Seems like a large number of flaws in this study:

1. This wasn't 100% so maybe flies avoided the painted cows and just went to bite the non painted cows in the study. Would this work if the whole herd was painted? I know from personal experience that the best mosquito repellant is to bring a "city slicker" as bait but you need DEET if one isn't available.

2. Maybe it's the paint and if you cover the entire cow the flies stay away entirely?

3. How long did this experiment run? Once they horseflies get hungry or ending their season, they get more aggressive (they are getting aggressive right now in Ontario)
If you look at the actual data over the last 25 years, it's clear that London's air quality has steadily improved over time:
https://www.londonair.org.uk/london/asp/advgraphssiteplot.as...

There are particularly large decreases in Sulphur Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide - the former due to reduced sulphur in fuel, and the latter due to catalytic converters. But pretty much all the other metrics have continued to improve too. Having worked in Bloomsbury for 30 years, I can definitely tell it's got better.

But it's not good enough. When City Hall is hailing that air quality is actually legal for the first time in ten years, that's both good and comical at the same time.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-42681113

As an aside, I moved from London to the Bay Area for a number of years. Many of the Londoners I knew who moved there developed terrible allergies after a few years. Certainly I have less problem with allergies in London than I had in Berkeley. This should in no way excuse London, but you have to get things in perspective.
If covering the cow helps, the pattern on the cover will not make much difference? I assume covering itself is problematic and therefore (too) expensive.
Can you point to a real world example of what you mean?

I think I have heard of something similar but it didn’t seem to have caught on in any major web frameworks that I know of (strongly typed json API server which generates runtime validators on frontend and backend). Even then most people want control over the presentation of the form and wouldn’t want to create fields from the schema (e.g. a number type is sometimes a slider and sometimes a drop down)
Are you sure you haven't signed some obligatory arbitration clause?
There's quite a few articles about this happening in India through Google Maps:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2018/11/26/fraudster...
CSS prefers-color-scheme is used to detect light or dark color system theme
I doubt the author can pinpoint his health issues to the effects of NOx. Particulate matter can also cause asthma attacks for instance. I'm not saying that Diesel cars (and buses, trucks etc.) are not a factor in pollution, but the article is focusing solely on them and describing Seattle as a comparative paradise, which I find pretty laughable. Ok, Seattle probably has better air circulation than London, but I hope you'll agree Diesel engines can't be blamed for that ;)