skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a vast difference between what the entire fucking world promised at Paris and what they have actually done since. Only the EU seems to have certain intent to move toward neutrality and their efforts have, at best, been intermittent and inconsistent.

Meanwhile the West keeps sending more business, more manufacturing and more recycling to China - they are, in no small part, merely moving the accounting of the West's emissions. Of course they are also a developing country - it's not realistic for them to do that entirely sustainably without Western subsidy - an idea not discussed seriously since probably Rio in the early 90s, when there was briefly talk of an intent to help the developing world fast-track right past our dirty phase of development. China have been inconsistent about coal too. So have some countries in the best performing bloc, the EU. Notably The Netherlands, Poland and Germany.
I suspect it relates to:

Relative wealth - it's progressed rapidly but Eastern Europe is still generally poorer than Western.

Cultural differences - Eastern Europe has a reputation for far greater cultural conservatism, religiosity, etc. . Perhaps this reputation is unearned, I don't know. It correlates to "out of date" for many western Europeans though.

Lack of exposure - plenty of people in Western Europe study French, German, English - fewer study Hungarian.

Lack of reference material - for a long time views of Eastern Europe were based entirely on being behind the iron curtain, and we've only had about a generation since then to build material.

Media coverage - Based on the news I know that Hungary is run by a far right would-be dictator, or that Poland wants to cut down the last primeval forest in Europe, etc. and not much else.

That being said I think it's changing. Slovenia is often viewed in a positive light (I adore Ljubljana for instance, and it's the only country I know with real light pollution legislation!) and if nothing else I see Eastern European cities/countries being recommended as holiday destinations more as time goes on.

Though I'm an American who lives in Ireland. Not sure if views are changing in the states; some people seem to think Ireland is still mostly thatched cottages and sheep farms.
The Yemeni Civil War makes it appear as if there is very little involvement from the three global superpowers, while the Syrian standoff was worryingly similar to a cold war era proxy war. Also quite close to Europe, thus more important for our media and upcoming elections.

Though with the Syrian conflict dying down, I'd expect others like Yemen to get more attention by filling the "war" slot in media.
_"...appear pseudo-scientific from today's point of view..."_ implies, at the very least, that it is in any way scientific. And that is a HUGE problem, for it is distorting the definitions.
It _is_ a big deal, because once you start skewing eroding definitions, the very foundation of human communication & coordination is compromised.

Definition of word "scientific", according to meriam-webster[1] is : "of, relating to, or exhibiting the methods or principles of science"

So, call it fun or interesting. Say it makes people feel better. Point out it makes life easier to live for some.
But it is not, from any point of view, scientific. Because it fails to comply with the scientific principles.
Mental mechanisms that produce and amplify superstition is well understood.

There's but one reason why superstition/religion want to hide under, integrate or identify with the scientific framework, while science is sharply separating itself: science works, therefore is powerful, while other has no effect beyond placebo.

1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scientific
> Is it fraudulent to offer a religious service to people who believe it's real?

If one knows something is untrue then I'd say it's fraud. After decades growing up in increasingly progressive churches I'd say that secular education is whittling away at all the falsifiable claims.

Conveniently there are scriptures like "don't test the Lord your God." So there are parts that, in their view, can never be disproven. (Of course god can and does test people and violate free will.)

EDIT: fixed incomplete quote
> Can I steal this ?

Absolutely.
The RECAP project is a great project, and highly recommend its use.

But PACER charges 10 cents per page for access and I don't have a problem with that. These fees keep the federal courts open to do vital business when Congress decides it's a good time for a shutdown. Any complaints re: PACER fees should be directed to Congress.
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Personally, as someone who does not believe in god, the divine or the supernatural, I do believe that religion is fraudulent and that most believers at this point are indoctrinated. I mean, obviously believers think otherwise and I'm not going to argue with them, everyone has a right to their own beliefs, but I think pushing those beliefs on others, especially children, is immoral (but I also understand that if you believe, then you would believe the opposite: that not doing so is immoral). Its a tricky situation, so I don't try to change anyone's minds.
This is probably not a viable strategy for any startup without significant financial resources and time to dedicate to it.

From the post itself:

> It is tempting to settle with patent trolls if you can settle for less than litigation costs. Our portfolio companies do it all the time and it is rational behavior.

That precisely is the trolls' business model - make settling with them the rational way to go. The system is broken and needs to be fixed so that this business model is no longer viable.
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From the guest perspective, the differences are minimal. Even boot time of the guest (thinking about a custom-built minimalist Linux kernel here) is roughly the same.

On the host side, things are more interesting. Firecraker has a smaller TCB (Trusted Computing Base), is written in Rust, and is statically linked. On the other hand, QEMU provides more features (especially in the block layer, with more formats, network-based block devices, asynchronous I/O...), can be configured at build time to adapt it to a particular use case, and has a pretty good security record.

In the end, KVM userspace VMMs (Virtual Machine Monitors) are learning from each other, giving users more options to choose from. Everybody wins.
Launch HN: CoWop – Remote CoWorking Members' Club
Hi HN,

After working remotely for 7 years and seeing more people struggle with how socially isolating it was, I created a Remote CoWorking Members' Club called CoWop (https://cowop.org).

I wanted to get the best parts about when I was in the office: the team, the culture, the collaboration and space, with the best parts about remote work.

I'd love to know your thoughts about it :)
If terrible leaders could be voted away there would be no politicians in power.
Please—and I can't stress this enough—do not make up lies about this kind of thing. It's dangerous.

There is currently no evidence that PrEP "lulls many into a false sense of security". It's possible that the existence of a method that can effectively eliminate the risk of HIV transmission could cause a change in behaviour which exposes people to other, different risks. It is entirely far from clear that this is the case, or that if it were, then that there would still not be a net public health benefit.

PrEP is, FWIW, quite possibly more effective at HIV prevention than condom use is. It would plainly be ridiculous to be worried about the existence of condoms, because they were likely to "implicitly bless dangerous behaviour", and we have plenty of evidence that abstinence campaigns pushing this message are absolute failures.
Not the hardest bug I've had, but working in Common Lisp I've run into macros that crash the runtime (SBCL) when you attempt to see what they expand into. Makes it difficult to debug them.
I was hoping the same.... Why tf people post these articles?
Google must have faced the same problems that Oculus faced when it came to user retention. Carmack reported that people tried Gear VR once or twice before never touching it again.

Meanwhile, Quest managed to have user retention solely from how seamless it is to strap on a device and get going in VR. This is opposed to the inconvenience from taking out the phone from the case and putting it inside a device.

A seamless, cordless experience like the Quest is probably the future of VR even if it has limitations now and is still too relatively expensive for the masses. The Cardboard/Daydream/Gear VR line of VR is seen as a dead end now. Daydream is dead, and Gear VR might as well be dead.

Google must have looked at what it has on the horizon for VR and decided that it now can't compete with the likes of Oculus and HTC.
A free trial is intended for you to decide whether or not to subscribe. If you already know you won’t, it’s not a trial, it’s just free, and arguably signing up like that is not acting in good faith.
Being the government means never having to say you’re sorry.

(1) Public Health Exemption Legislation

(2) Use the NSA/GCHQ to get the data, run the analysis and once you know the answer do parallel construction with a much smaller, legally available dataset.
Oh, I see what you mean! In the UK, "potted" plants are actually called pot plants more often than not.
This sounds like a very sensible idea. Why not move it to its own area where the tourist crowds can have their selfies and, if they're done at that point, go do something else without clogging things up for the rest of the visitors?

From what little I've been exposed to about art management, it's also not great for the works in general to have crowds around them - aside from obvious things like people touching them, it puts an extra burden on the climate control system.
Actually, water contamination by lead and other compounds is present all over the US. This isn’t an issue that should be likened to “other peoples problems” as it’s national. I would identify it as part of the growing infrastructure crisis, though, as a New Deal type project is needed to properly address this stuff.

Lead map: https://mytapscore.com/pages/the-lead-map

Pfas map: https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2019_pfas_contamination...
No - what I meant is exactly that a hardware key permanently left in a computer is still safe from brute force attacks by software running on that computer (which could be Javascript on a website the user visited) because it requires physical interaction for each single operation it performs.
I am reminded of that Thunderbirds episode where they attempt to relocate the Empire State Building, with predictably disastrous consequences. [1]

It's interesting how in many ways, the future the show predicted was more negative than the present. It seems the hubris of man has calmed down a bit since then. Or is that the spirit of adventure? One of the two.

https://youtu.be/i4qfSrN27qo
Do you know any garbage men? Also the proper term I sanitation worker. It’s a critical job that literally keeps you from dying of highly contagious diseases.

Most of the automated trash collection services haven’t automated much. They simply moved the responsibility of rolling the bins to the curb from the workers to the residents. Now it’s my job to wake up at 5am to move the bin to the street so the grappling arm can catch it. And then move it back to the house before 8am or get fined.
Every empire from Rome to the US has said the same thing.
> Well, screw them?

Yeah, but the experience would also be much more pleasant for the museum's other patrons if the Mona Lisa were elsewhere. And the Louvre would make more money by opening a whole new location with a massive visitor count guaranteed, although they would have a significant investment to recoup. Moving the painting helps all involved.
I do have a software job in the USA. However, with the exploding prices of everything in Austin, it's getting harder and harder to hang onto any cash. I get consistent raises year over year but don't feel that I have any more money.
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Just one thing: It failed to mention that those extra pane w/ doors on the metro platform also help safety.

People falling on the metro line (intentionally or not) is a real issue, and, aside from the obvious immediate consequence to the body integrity of the person that fell, it also yield a significant cost.

It is become increasingly common to put those type of protective pane even on non automated metro lines. I saw them in Paris and Barcelona for example.
Isn't that exactly what this does? https://youtu.be/r3_UdBvyicU There has been a few videos about it on the Cody's Lab YouTube channel
Age of empires (original and rise of Rome) grew a deep interest in ancient cultures, particular the non-Roman empires. I played the game primarily for the competitive multiplayer. But the ancient cultures and way of life (and war) inspired the imagination. I still find ancient history the most interesting period.
I think you're not really appreciating what a tribal lifestyle is actually like.

Live in a rural area.

No education except what you can do yourself. No travel. No books. No movies. No music except what you can make yourself. No shoes.

No food that didn't grow within a few miles of you. You will eat the same 12 things your whole life. No spices, no seasoning, probably no salt either. No cooking oil.

No refrigerator or freezer.

Healthcare is whatever you can assemble at home. Dental problem? Sharp rock. Cancer? Goodbye. Infection? Goodbye. Same for your kids. Be sure to have extras to replace the ones who die.

Wash your clothes by hand, if at all.

No shampoo. No soap.

No bed. You sleep on skins.

No AC, ever. No thermostat. No heat but fire and body heat.

No birth control.

No retirement - work until death.

No police. Someone threatening you? I hope your family can back you up. You will be called upon to do violence. There will be no morality in it, only advantage.

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You could easily - easily! - work 15 hours a week and live at this consumption level (in fact, far beyond). And, eating better than a !Kung would be extremely simple on $5 per day.
The harm is - this things spread. One person going to a psychic in an isolated case that doesn't matter. When that person can communicate with other people - it's a problem. One person believing in woo-woo make other people believe in woo-woo which eventually spirals down to people believing in all sort of things that are not scientific, makind science equal or less than psycho-stuff, making people doubt things since they can't tell scientific claim from astrolloger's claim, making people believe in Trump's fake news lala, global warming is a myth and all sort of bullshit because they cannot differentiate between "magic" and reality. So yes - harm done to the planet.
>>" there is a good difference between knowing the solution for something, and convincing the patient to abide to that solution."

This is an absolutely key observation in many facets in life, and I still struggle with it.

Whether presenting an IT solution to client; or something more mundane in real life, knowing or arriving at the "right answer" (let's leave that definition / certainty on aside for moment;) is only part of the battle - and not even necessarily the hardest one, requiring most of one's empathy/cleverness/skills. Making it happen, likely by convincing/persuading all the parties, is frequently the more difficult, and certainly for me the more frustrating, part of the process.

As a (historically) technical geek, I've (historically) been of the narrow minded "Here's the right, demonstrated, supported, proven answer; why are you not following it? I don't understand what's happening..." outlook.
I'm getting a bit better in my old age... :->
Has anybody here solved their actual bugs with record & replay technology, aka reverse debugging, like Undo, rr, MS TTL etc? Would love to hear the stories.
By that logic, people don’t commit murder or steal because prison is undesirable. I’d like to think that there’s other motives than just 50 bucks for chargebacks (which, as far as I know, can be negotiated with payment providers anyway..)
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> Why good?

Who knows? We would need a time machine to know that. I could imagine several reasons:

- Because it works sometimes (coincidence or not)

- Because believing to understand what is going on around you gives you an illusion of savety in a dangerous world

- Because it gives you power over people (if you are the king/emperor/village doctor/priest)

- Because it is embedded in a religious/philosophical context that might have advantages beyond that specific case

> There's no way to convert analogical reasoning into specific ideas about what is good or bad without making stuff up

I am pretty sure that traditional Chinese medicine has developed some complex theories that explain why some red berries are good for your blood and others not.

Edit: Ah, I understand your comment better now. You say that this kind of reasoning does not help you to predict whether a red berry that you see for the first time is good or bad, right? Well, I think you are right :) We are talking here about world views, not scientific theories.
Thanks. I'm aware of those issues.

But in the three TFAs posted recently here, I didn't see anything about blackmail or extortion.
You're saying that reverting the 2017 federal tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefitted rich people, valued at some trillion dollars, financed by borrowing (vs offset with spending cuts), is a bad idea because non-rich people will have to pay a few bucks more?
I find a lowish size limit is a good equalizer. Higher chance to succeed as an individual.

I don't know about 4K vs 256b. A particularly appealing format is amiga bootblock, which is a little under 1K because a signature is needed.

With no limits, you'd be going against large groups with much experience. A new scener stands no chance.
Employers didn’t value the lives of their employees very much and employees lacked the power to do much about it.
Not that I totally disagree with the gist of your comments, but the Syria situation seems much more relevant internationally, with Syria involving direct military actions in of two world powers and a NATO member. Not to say that any of the attrocities are to be ignored...
What about privately-held stocks?
True, I always thought that having Mona Lisa being part of something bigger was motivating people to check out the rest of the museum but according to the article this is not correct.
Forget a horse, the same argument can be made on a person's own self. Our conscious mental efforts cannot even "total takeover" our own bodies.
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It's not the alternative, democratic countries also rule by force in the end. The governments wouldn't work if they didn't have guns, prisons and nice interrogation methods in their toolset.

With democratic country everyone has some minimal effect on how those tools of violence are used, unlike in dictatorships or monarchies. So I think also it is a better system.
BTW I hope you realise that the original meaning of "3rd world country" included extremely rich countries like Sweden and Switzerland - basically, all countries not aligned with "1st world" (United States and Western NATO countries) and "2nd world" (Soviet block) where Hungary was.

Hungary is not as rich as e.g. Germany, but it's certainly not a backward country; it has indigenous culture that runs universities and is comfortably in the "Very high HDI" bracket for human development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...
Being a good guy boss left me £1.2m in debt
Ebay is where I get my out of circulation library books for really cheap. I just picked up a never loaned "Toward Artificial Sapience : Principles and Methods for Wise Systems" for $3.73. On Thriftbooks it's $156. Looking back, the seller was "BetterWorldBooks"!
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1. In the grand scheme of advertising it's actually still a fairly small budget.
2. For this advertiser they really only advertise q4 so it isn't quite that much.
3. It's a CPG in a grocery store is all I can really say.
Update - apparently they've now fixed this: https://twitter.com/MiAirports/status/1192433053743927296
I understand if you want to see the Mona Lisa in person or you want a picture of yourself next to it (understood but annoyed). I do not understand people taking pictures of the painting by itself. Who does this and why?
SkillsMatter got funded by crypto firm and it bankrupted them
Wouldn’t taxing wealth reduce the real value of properties?

Say you have a 100 acre farm[1] valued at $100 and produces $10 of goods annually. If you start taxing on the $100, no one is going to pay $100 for the farm once a wealth tax is implemented as now they are taking on tax liability that previously didn’t exist.

[1]for the sake of argument and illustration, were ignoring property taxes which are like wealth taxes.
>The profits from operating them should go to the people operating them

Well, economic theory says that the profits should approach zero as more and more competitors join the market and the provided goods or services become commodities. This effectively is a redistribution mechanism. The reality is a bit uglier.

By the way, prevention of wealth accumulation doesn't require repossession of existing property. A simple redistribution policy could dictate that a single person is not allowed to inherit more than 50% of the wealth of their parents. This forces parents to have two children and split the wealth. After a few generations the children will have 25%, 12%, 6% of the original wealth and so on.

There are still ways to exploit this if the siblings are colluding but let's be serious. If your family is rich and owns 50 billion dollars. Would you prefer $25 billion or $0 billion for the sake of higher generational wealth?

My point is that you need to create policies that even rich people would agree with.
increasing the IRS budget wouldn't cost money but would make money from tax cheats. political opposition to this has always been the most clear demonstration that congress is in the pockets of wealthy donors, in my opinion.
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The workers for the Standard Oil Company's TEL building would like to have a word with you.

Admittedly, they did have a way higher exposure than anyone else, but we definitely were spewing enough into the atmosphere to affect everyone.
it would depend on the offers and the startup
Thousands of Facebook internal documents and emails published online
I'm from the Flint mtro, currently working ~50 minutes away from Flint, my mother lives in Flint across the street from Mott.

I have literally never heard a single person from the area say anything but neutral to positive things about Obama's visit.

And the filtered water in most places has been EPA-compliant for a long-ass time.
I've always seen it as a matter of risk. You could have an absolute monarchy and end up with the smartest, most empathetic person in the world as your leader who would be a net-benefit to your society for years to come. You could also end up with a total asshole that you're stuck with until death do you part.

Democracy (or perhaps bureaucracy) just de-risks the chance that your government fails you through diversification of parties involved, similar to diversifying your investment portfolio. Given that human nature tends to lead people into the "asshole" column, I can understand why democracy would be the preferable of the two approaches.
Awesome thanks! Sorry to bug but this is very interesting to me. Did you use a framework like Serverless?