skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, at the end of the last ice age, when the Northeast United States was covered by more than 3,000 feet of ice, average temperatures were only 5 to 9 degrees [Fahrenheit] cooler than today.

If 4 degrees Celsius of global cooling (relative to the current climate) can cause large parts of the US to be covered by 3,000 feet of ice, then it's not unreasonable to think that 4 degrees Celsius of global warming could have an equally destructive effect on agriculture and society.
People tend to aggregate in and around the major cities, which makes the health crisis bigger than a land-area quotient.
It applies to any user in the EU and since its hard to know if a particular user is or is not in the EU or a citizen of the EU its easier to just do the right thing by everyone.
They do this because statistics don't sell news, emotions do.
Well if you just have Haskell 2010 types, you're talking about really really basic theorem proving since all you have is propositional logic. The most interesting thing I can think of to prove with Haskell 2010 types is (the constructive version of) de Morgan's laws. Almost all other interesting mathematical statements are out of reach.
It may be that we never can say "Google employees aren't randomly snooping on your files."

We shouldn't start saying it for things that prove nearby but entirely different things just because we won't ever be able to say it definitively.
A little tip: generally HN users expect links to old threads to take them to meaningful discussions. If not, they'll get cranky and come back and downvote you. Never cross a disappointed clicker.

In case it helps, you can use the "comments > N" search trick to find large discussions. In the present case, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... yields two of those, both from 2016:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11921208

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12115128
Nearly 1.25 million people die in road crashes each year.

Think about that.

Self driving cars aren't just a solution to nuisance of driving. They're a solution to one of the leading causes of DEATH and INJURY in the country.

Sure there are going to be edge cases where we as humans will be able to point at the car and say "damnit, we could have prevented that"!

But I sure hope when we do that, the car points right back at us and asks "And for the other 1.20 million lives I've saved this year? You would have killed them"
they already are, trust me
Hi Adam, if you read this, you have a small mistake.

Your quote: "This tells the image viewer program that the image needs to be rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise before being displayed on screen"

should be:

"This tells the image viewer program that the image needs to be rotated 90 degrees clockwise before being displayed on screen".
Cheers.
> Hong Kong is literally protesting to have the right to a trail by jury! How anyone in The West could not take their side is baffling to me.

Because local prejudice can provide bias, jurors can be influenced by a lawyer's courtroom performance, most juries aren't actually a random sample of the population, long trials usually create hasty verdicts, most jurors don’t have a background in law, and jurors do not need to reason their decision.

Not to say that there aren't pro's to trial-by-jury, but not every Westerner is convinced that trial-by-jury is better than many of the alternatives, and that doesn't make a Westerner any less of a "Westerner."
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Driverless, but they didn't say autonomous (yet). I think this means the safety driver will be remote, teleoperating. It is the obvious next step, and if things go well they can start lowering the ratio of operator:car in the way that drone operations already do.
No, the controversy is the punishing of people who dared speak out. Nobody has spoken out for Sweeney to fire or otherwise punish. So his are empty words.
Humanity currently dumps about 2 billion tonnes of waste every year[1]. That's ten thousand times as much as this (projected) figure. And we are currently producing about 400 million tonnes of plastic per year[2], which is itself about two thousand times as much.

There is no particular reason to expect all of decommissioned wind turbine waste to get shredded into landfill. The core of modern blades is mainly balsawood[3], metal parts should be recyclable, fiberglass is inert and probably recyclable. The small fraction of epoxy and coatings should certainly be processed responsibly.

[1] http://www.theworldcounts.com/counters/shocking_environmenta...

[2] https://www.darrinqualman.com/global-plastics-production/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpRudTUIyfM
What’s funny about the bottom navigation menu is that’s how iOS was designed from the start. All the first apps (pre-App Store) and the first wave of App Store apps all used it. Then apps started to get busy, so the bottom menu was removed. Now people have realised if you make your app do 25 things rather than 5, it’s just too complicated, and we’re back full circle.
Thank you, Mozilla. =)
A previous discussion of Underwood Dudley's classic article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14446708
Many human cultures have lived without growth.

Economists and others who think growth is necessary to distribute goods don't know what they're talking about or have ulterior motives.
It's both, actually. People have been counterfeiting Juul pods and they have the bad chemicals in them as well. Pretty nasty problem actually.
Artificial evolution, whatever that is, can still have randomness. Tom Ray’s program Tierra is a simple and real example. There is no rule saying randomness cannot be introduced. And it can be situated in chaotic environments that further vary what happens.
"Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy"

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759376113/unfurling-the-waste...
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Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21199779. We'll merge the comments in there.
25 years ago I didn't need to crack anyone's unix passwords- they were all broadcasting them in cleartext every few minutes because they were using eudora or some other mail client, and I had converted an old sun workstation I found into a packet sniffer.
Ha, the up side of my failed usb port I guess... I can only wirelessly charge is the downside...
Mở rộng góc mắt tạI Thẩm mỹ viện – TMV Ngô Mộng Hùng – Blog
Very long term prediction, but I think the most important technology of the 22nd century will be powering humans with electricity using some sort of sophisticated wetware tech. It would cost less than a dollar a day in electricity to give someone 2000 calories of energy.

Humans will then always be more power efficient than any AI and will be able to live in space and on other planets far more easily.
> A common misconception is that it is risky to use a non-mainstream language, since it will then be difficult to find developers with the right experience. We have found, however, that we don’t need people to know Elm beforehand.

Are there a lot of people who actually want to use Elm tho? Seems like the real risk to me, not finding anyone interested in learning and using Elm.
That’s what he waymo cars were thinking too.
I believe a newsroom located in the US can just as well be compelled by a court of law to hand over information on systems that it controls. Regardless of where the data is stored physically or whether it's self-hosted.
Related from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11545975
Yes, except this presumes that AI would recognize the kid at the same time as a human driver. Or at least soon enough such that AI's quicker reflexes can compensate for any delay.

If AI can't recognize some obstacles at all, then I think it's safe to assume there may be some delay in obstacle recognition compared to humans.
Pair locking is also probably enabled on a lot of people’s work phones so you at least get plausible deniability there.
Crossing into personal attack is not cool on HN and we ban accounts that do that. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site to heart when posting here? We'd be grateful.
An NPR article on the topic: "Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy"

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759376113/unfurling-the-waste...

"...Ninety percent of a turbine's parts can be recycled or sold, according to Van Vleet, but the blades, made of a tough but pliable mix of resin and fiberglass — similar to what spaceship parts are made from — are a different story.

'The blades are kind of a dud because they have no value,' he said.

Decommissioned blades are also notoriously difficult and expensive to transport. They can be anywhere from 100 to 300 feet long and need to be cut up onsite before getting trucked away on specialized equipment — which costs money — to the landfill. ..."
I don't think complexity is bad, it's just harder. "Bad" is a judgement, but complexity is just a description of nature.

This reminds me of an article I found recently while trying to explain to a business analyst that the problems we are solving aren't simple.
https://noop.nl/2008/08/simple-vs-complicated-vs-complex-vs-...

I think what is bad is confusing complex and complicated things for simple things. If you think a problem is simple, when it is complex or complicated, then you'll expect the solution sooner and you won't think deeply about all the ramifications of the solution. You'll avoid breaking the complexity down into simple parts.

By their nature, complex things are unpredictable. Things that behave unpredictably are complex. It doesn't make them bad, just means they need more attention and thought to understand -- and sometimes accept.

Another good resource I just discovered is the Cynefin framework that breaks it down further:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework

> obvious, complicated, complex, chaotic, and disorder
There was a 'What can brown do for you?' ad campaign for UPS a few years back.
Newsrooms, let's also talk about threat models, and which of these G Suite concerns apply to your actual threats.
Thanks for posting this. Thanks to your post, I am now supporting the software I use every day.
Hidden is an interesting way to descibe menus. The UX people at the time called that making all options visible since you could click on the menus and look at all the options. They also recommended the menus not remove options but just gray them out if they weren't available.

This was in contrast to lots of software at the time which was all hot-key based such that the only way to know what options there were was to look in a paper manual.
Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost
You're joking, but many smartphones encode gyroscope readings in the metadata.

And uptime seconds (!?)

And estimated distance to subject, AGPS information, GPS acquisition time, depth field metadata, current battery level, operating system version, ...
The only thing! That is a remarkable assertion. I think our surroundings, which determine where our actions land and what impact they have, is another thing that gives life meaning. If we were just living in a void our human nature would not mean much.

And with those two elements: 1) an environment and 2) a conscious being (whether it’s human, dolphin, dog, machine, or otherwise) it would seem that meaningful things can happen. Can’t see why the conscious being needs to be human.
Very interested to hear if anything like this exists on the Android side.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500
Will they be the current cars, or cars with the new next-gen hardware that are substantially safer? The cars that end up driving could signal a lot to the industry.

New lidar was spotted a few months ago and more recently on the Jaguar cars and the CEO said it’s an order of magnitude better: https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2019/04/21/new-waymo-...
https://medium.com/waymo/waymo-iaa-frankfurt-2019-b3cca36d84...

One would imagine this early announcement comes in reaction to their recent “valuation” cut: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/waymo-valuation-cut-40percen...

If Waymo starts driving without safety drivers en-masse, even on small fixed routes, it will signal certain takeover metrics have been hit. It will be interesting to see if Waymo uses existing cars (the ML and planners just got better) or if they use new hardware and signal a certain lidar improvement is necessary for achieving a viable takeover rate.

The signal won’t be clear but should be there. And then it’s up to the rest of the industry to show how fast they can react to the change.
> It seems that you still have found some middle ground between software engineering and law by creating Docket Alarm.

Yup, for me, it was the right balance. If you want to start a company, learn engineering, then learn something else, then build something for that something else.

> Apparently, it is Django-based, though I'm curious about what are other components of your stack

I use Django, jquery, elasticsearch, and google app engine 4 years ago. For analytics, I have used so many platforms and have built a bunch of custom stuff. Sadly, no native mobile app, but the site is fully responsive.

I'm pretty skeptical of taking my past decisions and re-applying them today. Today, parts of it (especially jquery) seem outdated, I'd probably choose vue. Even Python, which is generally great, is causing pain today (moving 2.x to 3.x; performance for a number of corner cases). App Engine used to be an incredible platform, but google has stripped so many features from it that it's hard to describe it today as a real PaaS.
There's a recent phenomenon, where no link I click on a page posted into an HN comment works. Are we all getting old?
I actually think driverless cars will do better here. They will likely be able to recognize cars deviating from their current path in O(hundreds of milliseconds) and avoid a collision, whereas if a car from the opposite direction lane starts drifting into mine seconds before we hit there's little I can do.
wrt last paragraph: YES! Where is my Tricorder? Or at least modules which could plug into a standard port on smartphones, thereby extending its capabilities?
The ideas have been there(and realized in spots), but there is no real (market) incentive for the corporations to do so. It's all about collecting consumer data, profiling, customer retention, rent seeking via dark patterns, bundling, delivering more ads and so on. For nothing. Except the next generation of gadgets.
A sign and possibly a reason.
Mass of tariffs.

Sanctions on travel of key foreign citizens

To the extreme, nationalization of foreign owned assets

Economic disaster assuredly.
The effects of temperature rises on crop yields could lead to very negative outcomes, given expected population growth and the hard limit of humans' minimum caloric intake.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-crop-harvests...

Perhaps rich countries can mitigate the likely increase in food prices, but it could destabilise large regions of the globe.
The current version added support for importing sidecar metadata. It does not apply LR edits to the previews it shows, though (which would require re-implementing swaths of LR...).

If you see something you want when you try the beta, please tell me!
Cynefin Framework
> ...wouldn't that still imply that Google are parsing Docs in some manner if they're able to be flagged for ToS violations in general?

Public documents in Google Docs are used as targets for spam or phishing campaigns pretty frequently. (The latter is usually by way of Google Forms, which can be used to drop content into a spreadsheet.) Google needs some way to allow this behavior to be flagged, and ideally to recognize it before it gets abused.

Private documents are another matter. Even there, though, I imagine they are obliged to scan some content, e.g. checking images against child pornography databases.
It's no surprise, he is a bear of very little brain.
Not when the sun grows to envelop Earth. Sure that’s a long time from now but eventually it will happen.

And a life-ending asteroid strike very likely will happen many orders of magnitude sooner than that. Could even be in the next hundred years. We don’t have a way of knowing when.
Even if the car occasionally stops for plastic bags, the self-driving is still a massive improvement in the experience I have.

For children you might preemptively slow down, but a properly designed system can brake a whole lot faster. Should be fine.
Would be interesting to see if you can measure any quantifiable effect from wearing the mask.
I haven't seen that: can you give me an example?

(The output of `exiftool -Rotation example.mp4` would be great!)
It couldn't be ignored because the kids of the elites there all have VPNs and access the real/free internet. Someone posted to social media there and it blew up. But no one asks how the tweet was seen in the first place and why access is only for the rich.
It looks like your other account was banned for trolling, which is what tends to happen when an account breaks the site guidelines several times while it is still new.
I mean, YES, of course we should. That’s what I’m arguing for. Tax wealth better, use the generated revenue to improve people’s lives in scientifically proven ways (Ie provide healthcare, poverty assistance, more funding for education). Let’s accept that our world has changed, but let’s use the benefits of that efficiency by building a more equitable and just society.

But we won’t. Most societies that become too successful suffer a similar fate. They become too polarized, and destroy the very foundations of what them great.

I do hope the US is different. Most of humanity has lived under authoritarian rule. For a brief period of time it seemed like a democracy could be the most powerful country in the world. But that’s fast unraveling...
>Publicly going after a European capital?

A Facebook post from someone on the Embassy staff.

>Publicly denouncing the NBA?

From what I've seen, an article in a state run paper.

The embassy event is strange, but I'm pretty sure they routinely publish similar articles in their paper.

I think something is causing the Western media to cover the recent cases in detail, and they write the articles to imply the message came from Chinese leaders.
Wow, then the internet just take whatever famous symbol in China and turns it to HongKong symbol, China have to ban it all. Haha.
First is the Winnie the pool, then Mei, what's next?
It's the machine learning version of people who use hadoop if they could have used command-line utilities.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We ban accounts that do that repeatedly, especially when it looks like someone has been creating multiple accounts to do that with.
> Isn't the other alternative for those families to own a car? That's surely more expensive than renting one to go camping.

No. In many places, you can own and maintain a used car for as little as $200/month. In NYC, renting a car leaving friday at 5PM and coming back Sunday at 10PM will cost you about $400.
I sort of agree with you, we tend to develop passion for things after we achieve a high skill level. That said, it is OK to peruse things that we might be passionate about but not good at. I am not a good musician. After forty years, I mostly gave up on playing the guitar, and took up two easier instruments, didgeridoo and Native American flute. I will never be really good at these instruments either but it felt good when friends asked me to play didgeridoo at their wedding when the bride was walking down the aisle.

I have a keen interest in future society/economy/technology and in a world with guaranteed minimum income, I hope people spend time on niche passion projects and not just binge on Netflix and HBO.
Haha, clever. I have the same thought.
Be careful what you ask for: Fundraising strategies in equity crowdfunding [pdf]
Fair point I have no familiarity with his earlier work, or even that there was suspicion of a connection, I did mean for my point to be a bit more general, just seemed like a reasonable example
The feature isn’t tangible until it is used. Psychologically, people aren’t going to trust it very much because they have no idea about its capabilities. Automatic emergency breakdown my is very much like air bags in that way, which inspire a lot less confidence than seat belts because most people never experience how air bags actually work (whereas they can feel the tug of the seat belts constantly).

The best safety features are intangible until needed for this reason.
Senators Warn Visa, Others Against Associating with Facebook's Cryptocurrency
Internet can easily turn another character to the next symbol XD
Could you bury something like this in the ground all the time since the earth is ~50° at 11’[1]. You could have those plates touching the earth which would conduct heat away from the plate. 50° is pretty cool and would be running 24/7.

Would surrounding earth be able to sustain cooling a disk like this or would the area just warm up right away and you’d lose any gains?

[1] http://www.duanesworld.net/duanesworld.net.sensors.htm
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> So rotating the image data could involve re-compressing the image again, leading to quality loss.

With JPEG, no, 90 degree rotations can be accomplished in a lossless manner.

See jpegtran from the libjpeg library. A version of its manpage is here:

https://linux.die.net/man/1/jpegtran

Quoting:

"... It can also perform some rearrangements of the image data, for example turning an image from landscape to portrait format by rotation.

jpegtran works by rearranging the compressed data (DCT coefficients), without ever fully decoding the image. Therefore, its transformations are lossless: there is no image degradation at all, which would not be true if you used djpeg followed by cjpeg to accomplish the same conversion. ..."
> Humans will then always be more power efficient than any AI

Wait, wait, I've heard this one before. The Matrix, right??

https://filmschoolrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/0un...
> From what I've seen, an article in a state run paper

Plus "a statement published on [CCTV Sports'] Sina Weibo account on Tuesday" and the cancellation of NBA's China Games' broadcast [1].

Later, "Geng Shuang, a spokesman for its Foreign Ministry...said in a regular news briefing Tuesday that the NBA 'knows clearly what to say and what to do'" [2].

Spinning this as not coming from Xi's administration is absurd.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/sport/basketball/article/3031997/cctv-p...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-has-an-apology-playbook-t...
It goes by the trademarked name of "antenna". You can search in a store near you.

#5 is the most exciting. We used to call it "pendulum", but some people complain that they can't insulate the non-amplified signal.
> Maybe his Japanese (distant) ancestry was a factor?

Why would it be?
You can get USGS lidar point clouds: https://www.usgs.gov/news/usgs-3dep-lidar-point-cloud-now-av...

A commenter above you posted a link to a NOAA data site. I believe that site is a resource for GIS shapefiles: https://coast.noaa.gov/inventory/
Because they would make far more money adding the car to their own fleet. Why sell a car for $40,000 when it could generate $300,000 in revenue over a decade? Tesla has already said they'll stop selling to the public after they have autonomous driving completely safe and working.
You can verify what the binary did while you were watching. You can't verify what it did before, or what it will do next. OP said hostile and clever, and part of clever is only being hostile when nobody is watching. Apps that don't snoop constantly, delay transmissions, and hide transmissions in existing and expected communication channels are much harder to catch.