skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article talks about US Customs and TSA as if they are the same thing. It also references border officials which TSA agents aren't. I understand the musician not knowing the difference but I would expect a reporter to know the difference. That she isn't competent enough to know the difference makes me highly doubtful regarding the rest of the substance of the article.
You can also use SSM and session manager to get a similar experience for those instances: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...

I haven't had to manage SSH keys in a long time ;)

With this I just have a bash function for my various environments (e.g. dev = dssm) where I provide in the instance ID giving me issues if I really need to log into the server.

e.g.

function dssm {
aws --region us-west-2 --profile my-dev-profile-name ssm start-session --target $1
}

Then:

dssm i-abcdef123456

And I'm dropped into a shell. SSM Session manager is far from perfect, but it gets the job done, and is fully auditable, gets logged (including commands ran), and best of all works with SAML IAM profiles right out the gate. No more sharing keys, no more managing keys, it's great!
> As long as it stays within the boundaries set by the law.
> Stop trying to tell a large corporation to stop doing business and make profits, go change the society in which it operates.

This comment posits that companies act in a closed system. Companies don't just act within the boundaries set by the law, they actively seek to directly change laws by lobbying and to change the interpretation of laws through litigation in order to best suit their interests. They are political agents as are their workers.

It might bring more gray area into your life but like it or not what you do for your day job can have moral implications. You may have taken this post as a personal attack because you work at Google, which may be why you are so vociferously arguing against it. But even if one disagrees with where this person drew the line I think it behooves everybody to at least occasionally reflect on the ethical implications of how they spend their time, especially in tech where what you work on can easily affect millions or billions of people.

I'd hope this discussion would be more about the merit of where this line was drawn in this case rather than whether or not one is even justified in taking a moral stance instead of just putting their head down and shutting up or quitting.
In 2004:

https://web.archive.org/web/20041014223623/http://pubs.giss....

> While most of the Earth warmed rapidly during recent decades, surface temperatures decreased significantly over most of Antarctica.

In 2005, their map shows the cooling and heating trends:

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003100/a003188/

However in 2007:

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/WilkinsIceSheet

> Between 1981 and 2007, most of Antarctica warmed. Portions of West Antarctica experienced an especially rapid rise in temperature.

By 2009:

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_antarctic...

> Red represents areas where temperatures have increased the most during the last 50 years, particularly in West Antarctica, while dark blue represents areas with a lesser degree of warming.

Within 3 years, they started saying completely opposite things. If in 2004, the "scientists" at NASA said that "temperatures decreased significantly over most of Antarctica in last few decades" but in 2007, they started saying "1981 and 2007, most of Antarctica warmed" - both can't be true at the same time. Both are from NASA.
I just checked with the Jim, the author of the blog post, and module (we both work for Meltwater).

He confirmed "You only need one instance per account, we have always been fine with just one".

I will let him fill in further details here but I figured you would be interested in a short update on this.
> if they can shift their consciousness to a form of duality with a virtual agent by sufficient sensory override.

Can you explain what you mean? It seems we already have this with naïve use of consumer VR devices on most VR experiences.

For instance, while playing Richie's Plank Experience, the player already feels qualia due to:

1. virtual self in virtual world: looking down the plank in mid air where the plank is virtual and being in mid air outside a tall building is virtual

2. physical self in physical world: if a friend nudges you from behind (or out of sight of virtual self), or you have a fan blowing wind that would correspond to the breeze you would expect to feel in the virtual world, or you're walking on a real plank to which the virtual plank has been resized/calibrated (this one is a true hybrid real+virtual 'quale': you see the virtual plank but feel the real plank with your feet).

If you meant the virtual agent would have separate agency from the player, please explain as I don't quite follow.
> Except when we do the experiment in the real world we can't keep the quantum superposition for macroscopic objects from collapsing

No. You don't actually know that. Because the act of you "observing" this macroscopic object, could be the cause of this object collapsing.

So the macroscopic object that collapsed could be due the fact that you have observed it.

> One is state of the universe

You have no way of knowing the state of the universe, unless you have observed it. So if you are ever looking at any state of the universe, it is observed and has already collapsed.

> Then we declare that the whole universe except the conscious observer is in a superposition of states until the observer decides to observe it or not.

Yep that's the theory.

> I have no proof that I have a free will independent

Yes, that could be true as well.

> seems very self-centered and unjustified

So, here we get to the Crux of the matter. No matter where we say that the wave "collapses", it is all unfalsifiable.

It could be that the observes collapses it.

It could be that it was collapsed once it had any interactions with a photon or the smallest microscopic particle.

Or, as you pointed out, it could be that the universe has never collapsed, and the whole universe is in a super position right now.

And all of these positions are equally unfalsifiable. There IS no justification that any of these are correct, and there is no way of saying which is more justified.

So, yes, it is unjustified. But it is just as unjustified as any other collapse theory.

It is a fools errand to give arguments as for why one collapse theory is worse or better than any others, and they are all equally unfalsifiable.
There are problems where fossil fuels are suitable, related to how dense and stable they are to store. So mostly emergency power and/or remote areas (eq. power's down in a remote mountain village, etc.)
I don't follow what you're saying about 'GEN IV' reactors. AFAIK, that's reactors of a type that won't be online until at least 2030: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

The primary failure at Fukushima was a sea wall too low for the tsunami that occurred. How is the reactor design relevant?

Also regarding Superphénix, your telling of this seems a bit biased - The rocket attack occurred in 1982 and it was shut down in 1997 by the prime minister due to excessive cost.

As for whether fast breeder reactors are 'still considered next-gen and highly favorable' see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superphénix

"a group of 80 physicists from the Lyon Physics Institute wrote an open letter about the risks of breeder technology, and in February 1975, about 400 scientists signed their name to an expanded letter."
Here's a thing to consider: your current phone, in your pocket, would it not be perfectly sufficient for the next 10 years if software wasn't making it obsolete? Is there any new app that really needs twice the processing power. Is the bajillion DPI screen hard on your eyes? Like, other than wear and tear, do you really have any reason to buy a new phone? I have an iphone 7, but to be honest I'd still be using my 5c if the battery hadn't kicked the bucket. This is no doubt a real problem for apple/samsung/etc.
What were they making?
> The alternative interpretation is that Firefox is a particularly effective toolkit for finding OS bugs.

That is one way of looking at it. I'd argue that it's not a particularly usefully of looking at it. Ideologies aside, your last sentence says a lot. The fact remains that buggy software from a cross platform vendor is causing this issue across the platforms they provide the software for. Be under no illusion, the issue is Mozilla's a no-one else.
> the Sun is what heats and cools the earth

The Sun very obviously heats the Earth. However, in what will come as a complete shock to many, things can have multiple causes - particularly things which occur on a planetary scale. The Sun is a source of heat that everyone is well aware of. If that was all there was to it then the models would be extremely simple. We can measure the Sun, we know what it is doing.

Building a climate model based on a single variable would be fantastic if it was predictive. Definitely important and good start - now add the other 10,000 variables to the model.
If you want detailed virological and epidemiological research and discussion, please see: http://virological.org/

There are other virology / epidemiology forums which may be of use, but I don't have these links at-hand.

For instance, the following link is a highly descriptive, accessible analysis of nCoV-2019: http://virological.org/t/analysis-of-wuhan-coronavirus-deja-...

OPs article does have merit, as far as giving a first-person account of treating the virus and quarantine procedures, but you'll learn a lot more about the virus itself if you follow the research.
Has anyone heard of any of those "good / reliable consultants, experts, mentors"?
Wild idea: make verisign verify that all new .com registrations belong to a commercial business and issie a X509 cert. If they want to charge more, make them work more.
It's not about fault, it's about actionability. Telling hoards of people they should interpret things differently isn't actionable feedback. You aren't likely to change the behavior of so many people.

But the author is just one person. If that author learned to structure their work better they can singlehandedly improve the comprehension of across the entire mass of readers.

If you're communicating to the masses and they're not getting it, it's your fault. It may not be 100% true, but it's 100% useful to think of things that way.
What do you know, a data company that knows how to deal with data when it counts.
How did it affect big parts of the company?
There is a scene in From Here to the Moon that takes place after the deaths of the Apollo 1 crew. Frank Borman is testifying before a congressional panel and, in talking about Ed White, he said "At the plant, Ed saw a group of men off to the side so he went over to talk to them, which never happens. It turned out, they were the men who made the tools that build the spacecraft that will take us to the moon". It wasn't just the scientists, engineers, and technicians. Everyone who had a role in the program felt a sense of responsibility and pride in what they did to take these astronauts to the moon and bring them back. It was an amazing time, considering all that was happening at the same time. I feel very fortunate to have been able to witness the whole thing as a kid.
Yup, but one brought together by morals and ethics for the sake of morals and ethics. As Jeff points out, tech is not known for poor compensation or working environments. Tech is pervasive because convenience is a hot commodity. Technology disrupts, tech can make or break monopolies / monopsonies by changing the status quo. Having the ability to get another job on a whim doesn't matter much if you one day unintentionally end up serving the parent company that you resigned from; as big fish swallow small fish through acquisition etc.

I wish there was another way, but I can't really think of one that's within our control... Unions are certainly not above corruption either. I see Republicans / Democrats as two opposing unions; instead of making rational decisions on each issue independently everything gets encoded into a binary choice. Red or blue and all the good / bad that comes with either choice.

The real solution is smaller companies. Local businesses that you can simply stop using / move away from. That seems like a pipe dream though; it's more convenient to buy your internet from Comcast and support a monopoly than start your own ISP - even if you do and it gains traction, Comcast will come knocking and you'll take the money and retire.
The physical results might be the same. Imagine your universe is that of an empty 2D plane with a single unit circle in it and you use euclidean metric, but 1 of 2 coordinates you experience as time. From your perspective the life of the matter in that universe starts at T0 as a point, then grows to a line of length 2, then shrinks back to a point.

Now there might even be a "physical law", describing the evolution of that line as "time" goes (and I am sure there is a simple one), that has "cause" and "effect". But in the end no matter which direction you choose as "time", the law is the same.

Now I leave the question of how can you exist in this universe open (or rather obviously impossible in any meaningful sense), but there might be other more complex constructs, that permit "intelligence" along a certain dimension, and it is another question whether our universe is one of these.
Had you said that 6 months (or even 6 days) ago I would've laughed it off but right now I actually agree.

Laughing foremost because I'd certainly be asking the wrong guy as I'd expect most HN guys to be power users. Not laughing because I recognize the huge potential of waste of time the internet brings along, that I hadn't really seriously considered until recently, had just figured it's half necessary to keep myself up to speed with things. We really don't need to be up to speed with things, outside of work at least, and if work is stressing us to the point where it becomes uncomfortable we should simply just change our work.

I do however like to be efficient in whatever I do so I would still like a convenient way of browsing the web, but... in the big picture it's not that important, especially if you leave out the time consuming stuff. Then it's mostly looking up stuff, which you can do using whatever tools.

In a couple of months I will be cutting off most of those time consuming tasks, whether that's FB, Reddit, HN, following politics, mindlessly looking for entertainment/escape. It's a life choice and I'm really looking forward to it.

For work I simply use Chrome and will keep it that way. Simple, easy, compatible, not fighting the mainstream. For private browsing though I would prefer to use something more.. personal. Brave works fine, currently trying out Cliqz. And I've tried out Next and Qutebrowser the last two days. Being a geek/ADHD I guess. There are more important things in life. Meditation helps. So does sailing. And not ranting on HN.
Well, nobody said there's rule that says reality has to align with how we would like things to be.

The problem is greater than that. I urge you to read the paper and look at the data. We are talking about planetary scale issues here, which means solving the problem in 50 or 100 years by forcing it (chemically or whatever) is far more likely to kill all life on this planet than to fix anything at all.

And, so, sadly, 100% renewable --which is impossible-- and reforestation will not do it either.

First of all, aside from the fact that 100% renewable --again, global, planetary scale-- is impossible, we already know that, if we did that, atmospheric CO2 levels would continue to rise exponentially. That's the paper I linked to in my comment.

That leaves reforestation. So, we start with atmospheric CO2 continuing to rise exponentially and want trees to fix it.

Here's the other dose of reality, which comes from a simple question:

How did the planet "fix it" on its own when we were not around?

Simple:

- Trees grew
- Storms, cyclones, hurricanes, rain

And it took 50,000 to 100,000 years for that to drop atmospheric CO2 by 100 ppm. Again, please, don't take my word for it, I'm just another delusional moron, go look at the data and challenge that. I'd be very interested in learning I am wrong and how.

The other question is:

How did the planet cause CO2 levels to rise?

Simple:

- Massive continental scale fires burning for tens of thousands of years

Look at what's going on in Australia. Even with all of our technology we can't stop it. I have no idea how much CO2 got injected into the atmosphere so far but it can't be trivial. Now imagine that at a global scale, with massive country and continent scale fires raging unimpeded. That's how the planet did it.

Which brings me back to the reforestation issue. Yes, we need to restore the Amazon and other areas. What we've done is criminal. However, we are not going to fix the problem in 100 years by doing this. We can't.

The other danger is, once again, fires. If we plant trees on every available square meter --assuming that was possible-- we would be creating massive amounts of fuel for fires much larger than what we are seeing in Australia. In other words, just planting trees isn't a solution at all, and doing it without an understanding of the dangers involved could kill more life on earth than the alternatives.

It's a very difficult problem. I don't claim to have any solution. All I know is that we are not discussing the truth. All we have are two religious camps, one saying it isn't real and the other saying we have to destroy entire economies to fix it in 50 years. Both are crazy.
If you want to play with it you can interactively with some javascript here. Holding the mouse down removes the vertical striping. You can also edit the code.

https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/illusion/45...
Seems like a materialistic evolution. If you're using pieces, picking them up and moving them seems natural. If you're writing it down, it's not as intuitive to erase and rewrite.
They sent an update that slowed down many phones. They didn't tell anyone how to make it not slow.

If their intent was customer happiness, they would have notified. But they didn't, and there was a lot of upgrade money to be had.
> And exactly the next day, the government announced a new policy that offers free treatment for all coronavirus-infected patients.

According to some Twitter videos I saw from Wuhan that is not actually the case, as in supposedly the local hospitals still ask people for money. There are also cases like this one [1] of people not being let in even though their relatives have paid some money.

This latter link might also be interesting for the HN crowd as the lady from the video can be heard shouting at a hospital security guard that het older mother wasn't able to pay the money through any phone apps (supposedly because of her age and her not knowing to use this modern stuff), which made me think again about how eliminating cash and person-to-person transactions is really detrimental for large swaths of the population (in this case older and sick people).

[1] https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1224959223915827200
Boris has made it clear that they want the UK to move to an Australian style points system for immigration. And then having the Startup/Innovator visa on the side. The problem is that (a) existing startup visa is terrible which gives you a hint that they just don't get it and (b) how are you supposed to attract non-UK talent ?

There have been truly scary immigration incidents at the Home Office e.g. Windrush which doesn't give anyone confidence that they particularly care what happens to immigrants. And we are seeing the same pattern now with Brexit where they were looking to bargain with citizens rights.
>>I had the unchecked belief that China claiming to be a communist country would be covering medical costs.

This is the problem with socialist, they believe the government is always the good guy, and entrust it to provide for everyone.

We capitalist know that government in all cases the worst solution to any problem
The lead-acid batteries still cost a lot less per joule of capacity than the lithium batteries do. They just weigh more. Or maybe charge efficiency is the reason?
One of the most important things that is left out of most computing narratives is that the early space programs had a tremendous amount of stuff pre-computed, i.e. cached and memoized through the hard work of mathematicians and physicists back on Earth. It is not like these days we don't have to run those numbers, just that our computers taken over most of what used to be done by hand. Noting the amount of human computing manpower taken in conjunction with the guidance system would give a much clearer picture.
Thank you! I'll check out aquameta, looks interesting.
When I've back of the enveloped electric aircraft the reduction in flight and maintence costs looks is tantalizing. Currently light aviation is kinda stalled because of high costs, safety issues, and noise. You'll never get an electric aircraft with the same range as a piston powered one. But you might also never get a piston powered one as cheap as an electric one.
My advice - go all the way into RDS territory.

This is a killer feature. But it is hard to adopt it by itself, while being on RDS, which is what most people end up doing.

If you can build a management layer that gives better-than-RDS features ...while allowing me to BYOB my own cloud, you are on your way to win.
Japan has been increasing its year over year coal consumption since like, the 70's, and while I'm sure "more coal" isn't a good thing, ~20 Mt a year jumping up to ~21 Mt a year isn't exactly dramatic.

If you happen to take a peek at the coal consumption metrics from around the world, you'll notice a small country a few miles to the west of Japan which currently has the distinct honor of being the only country in the world to measure its annual coal usage in billions of tons instead of millions of tons (although to be fair, India is pretty close to breaking into their first Bt). Thats probably what I'd look into first.
This is a real issue. My wife uses her Mac for netflix and maybe light photo cataloging/editing, and yet after 10 years it's now slower than molasses. Why should we upgrade? We're not doing anything that requires a new computer.
No you couldn't, I remember this being a PITA.

Unless you had done the backups of your data yourself and wiped the installation of the machine, you were screwed. This is the same situation for iOS.

https://www.overclockers.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2889...
> Irish gallons are long obsolete.

The word "Irish" in this sentence is unnecessary. Gallons are long obsolete.
As a now-former long-distance runner,
you can buy any damn shoe you want and it wont make you
run 40K.

Hard work, dedication, sweat, pain, and perhaps a little genetic blessing can get you there over time.

There is no magic here.

but yes the right shoe, apparently, might give you an advantage but then you must already be running at a very high level.
Perhaps connect to your wireless network and snoop traffic.
>This special illusion shows how the background of the object or the object around it has a significant effect on the perceived speed of the object

Does it imply that if I drive a brighter color car, it will appear that I am driving faster? (when compared to a darker color car traveling at the same speed)
And for those who wonder like I did, I counted around fifty of those on that page: https://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/football
Just moved here in September. Similar situation. We love it here so far. Kids are far more independent than USA. Strong work life balance. Tons of diversity.