skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there is any point to go to a preindustrial climate though. By the time we get technology to the massive scale required to actually fix it, the worst effects will have already occurred. The climate will have already changed and we will have dealt with it one way or another.

Going back at that point will basically mean another climate change. One that will be mainly for the better but will again have impact on nature that will have adjusted in the mean time. It won't be a 100% positive. I wonder if that is really worthwhile. And if things will really get back to what they were; For one the arctic ice, would that build up again in the exact same places? They have a large effect on jetstreams so I'm not sure if things would really go back to the same way things were in pre-industrial times.

Also, in pre-industrial (and early industrial) times winters were really harsh sometimes. It wasn't all rosy either. I think around the 70s/80s the climate was the mildest though I didn't study it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23957892
> So STEM types arrogate "real science" to themselves, while they suffer the same reproducibility crises as "soft" science.

What are you even talking about? STEM is science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Yes, these are hard sciences.

Medicine and economics are soft sciences and yes, they suffer a lot more from a lack of reproducibility than STEM studies.
This is why journalism is dead. Not focused on what is important.
A new standard would also make it easier to fallback to no colors/decoration if the user wish so. At the moment, there is no way to do that without a flags or similar for each app. Even detecting if the terminal support colors is a pain.
Hitler himself may have watched her in Captain Blood or Robin Hood. She lived to be astoundingly old and was supremely talented.
If the coworker is part of the union and you aren't, then the union has fine its job.

The issue is that I think most of us agree when it gets to the level you describe, perhaps that's not a job worth doing.

It's easy to see how it gets to that point though. Friends in the union might not care who is in the wrong, and selective retelling of the facts can get other union member up in arms about the "raw deal" their fellow member is getting, so it's probably easier for the union to just protect all but the most egregious behavior against non union people. I imagine that's just how the incentives work out.
> Actually, there's compelling evidence that overfitting is a necessary step for achieving state-of-the-art performance with DNNs!

I think the term you are looking for is "overparametrization". Overfitting is, by definition, worse generalization performance despite better training performance.
I bought $100 wired 'gaming' headphones 8 years ago and they still sound amazing and are as comfortable as when I bought them. I didn't give a shit about handling them well, since they were only $100 and seemed to have a very durable construction. The earpads are starting to get torn up from use, but those cost $10 to replace. The headband cushion is nonreplaceable but is only just starting to show any wear now.

Well-built wireless headphones have a lifespan of a few years; well-built wired headphones have a lifespan of ∞, as long as they are designed so that the wear parts can be replaced (earcups, headband cushion, cable).
Please go back in time and tell that to anyone whi changed the paradigm science. I'm sure Galileo would appreciate your viewpoint.

Ben Davidson is not a pseudo scientist and has plenty of training in the scientific method.

I'll start listening to you if can predict earthquakes as good as the community developed by Ben over at quakeqatch.net
Sounds like that company was as shady as rocketreach... someone who threatens their own customer in bad faith (or negligence) just for 30k is likely to be more trouble and of less value to you in the future if that's their focus of increasing revenue.

Good call ditching them.

[edit] speculative aside...

What if they were intentionally feeding rocketreech miss-information? it might seem far fetched but these personal data collecting companies like rocketreach or even equifax obtain their information from a variety of untrustworthy sources.

I was a victim of this through my own foolishness a couple years ago:

I was using a car insurance comparison site and guessed one piece of the required information I couldn't completely remember - a speeding ticket date - I couldn't remember the exact year. Turns out I entered it exactly one year off, and it was so long ago anyway that it had no bearing on the quotes.

After continuing with my existing insurer, a few months later my insurer sent me a demand for a rather large quantity of money... that's right, they attempted to backcharge me for 5 years worth of insurance over an extra speeding ticket they had "discovered". Obviously there was no way I would pay them but it was extremely difficult to convince them to stop harassing me for this money even though they had no proof. Even after demanding they provide evidence of their discovery which they refused.

It's scary how easy this is to do, and I wasn't even trying.
That's not true, unless "VIP" means something that I don't understand.

I use SORBS on a rather busy mail server with thousands of messages sent to and from Gmail daily. Aside from very occasional SORBS rejections, which happen more often with Outlook.com and Yahoo, this simply isn't the case.
From personal experience as a parent, I've learnt that withdrawing computer/tablet/YouTube access is a good strategy to improve behaviour. Our seven year old went from almost being thrown out of swimming lessons due to naughtiness, to near perfect behaviour, once we started saying "if you don't behave at swimming you are having no computer for the rest of the day" and it became clear that we really meant it.

Similarly, he kept on being sent home from school early for misbehaviour. The school introduced this system where the teachers give him "thumbs up" for being behaved and "thumbs down" for not. We told him that he has to come home every school day with at least five thumbs up and no thumbs down to get his computer, and we demonstrated to him that we meant it. And since then, every day he gets at least five thumbs up and no thumbs down. (We have to ask the staff when we pick him up, because we know otherwise he'll just claim to get five thumbs up even if he didn't.)
Trees are not a great solution. Their CO2 storage is basically static in terms of the amount, once the forest is grown it won't have a huge net capture anymore. We'd have to raze them and keep re-planting to do that. Which has obvious nature impact.

But I agree with your comment. Preventing is better at this point, especially while we're still emitting (and will be for a long time). I view Carbon Capture at this stage basically as a decoy from big oil to keep doing what they're doing.
The consensus is wrong. Climate change is coming from the sun.
Nice to learn he helped create the Mill's Mess juggling technique. I learned how to do that in 1981 at UofM.
Statistics aside for a minute.

Every single interaction I’ve had with the police personally has been worthy of complaint.

He’ll, I’ll even complain when I see them take their side arms in to the bakery for lunch, here in Launceston Tasmania.

Who is so insecure they need a gun with their croissant.

Additionally, when the police prosecutor charged me with drug trafficking on evidence they knew was collected illegally, and 27 months later they had to drop the charges, there’s no simple way to have the officers involved and the police prosecutor charged, or even reprimanded in any way, for knowingly contravening the law.

Those 27 months weren’t real comfortable for me, but ok I’ll wear that, I did have the drugs in my possession, my guilt is indisputable, but my privacy, in that case, is more important than the intentional malfeasance of these institutionalised bullies, and the courts here, at the time, agreed.

To summaries, anyone who can act with impunity deserves constant derision until we see real change.

The police need to be trained that escalating violence isn’t the only path to working in the community, and that even when they honestly believe they caught someone in the act, they need to be treating that human being with kindness and respect.

What I’m saying is, if the police can’t behave, and they presently aren’t behaving, then another agency needs to be created that sends agentes out with the police to act as a public advocate, to protect the rights of everyone, and guide the police in their responsibilities.
Reminds me of Cord which was launched by a couple of ex googlers around 2014 IIRC.
Hopefully this feedback is helpful: I built something like this myself for fun also around that time and I think some people are self conscious about the sound of their own voice and sharing voice messages with friends. I'd focus on making people comfortable or finding a niche like Calm has.
1) If it‘s a tree, it ain‘t got no loops
2) The stack isn‘t to deal with loops, the „visited“ flag at each edge is there for that. The stack (for DFS, BFS would be a queue) is there to keep track of which nodes have been visited such that you can construct a path from the starting node to the one you‘re looking for.

Obviously there are variants to this, depending on what you‘re actually trying to achieve with it. My point is that a stack would be a very inefficient way to deal with loops.
Of course, what are we, un-mannered savages?
The O2 content of the atmosphere is 21%. The CO2 content is 0.04%. If you removed 0.04 percentage points of the O2 from the atmosphere, nobody and nothing would bat an eye.

And photosynthesis, as well as any other capture process from air, has negative feedback. If CO2 content (technically, CO2 partial pressure) goes down, the efficiency of the capture process goes down faster.
I've been so irritated with self hosting I've gone the other way: I'm in the process of setting up an email hosting co-op, with the aim of paying for managed service from a small hosting provider for most things but paying no more than I do now. That way it won't only fall to me to deal with deliverability issues etc.
Bob Swan, a non-technical bean-counter, is famous for running a social club rather than a serious Board of Directors at Intel. It is a big threat to national security if Intel goes totally fab-less, or hits some other performance benchmark of severe management failure. Money alone can't fix this, only replacing Bob with a real technical leader will do, preferably sooner rather than later.
Thanks for explaining. (How surprised I would have felt, when first getting contacted about sth like that and a lawsuit)
Firefox is unbearably slow on everything including high-end Xeons if you don’t have a video accelerator (think headless VNC).

Perhaps the video driver or compositing is misconfigured?

Firefox is my default browser, and I’ve found Firefox to be fine on low end machines as long as it can use the video card properly.

Chrome tends to have better compatibility with chomebook-class hardware for obvious reasons.
> I've made a habit of manually checking the public-key when I SSH into a new EC2 instance using PuTTY. It is not obvious how to do this. Existing tooling just isn't set up with it in mind.

This is a not necessarily useful if you use key auth. The attacker can’t perform an useful MITM attack on the connection no matter what key you accept from the server. At best the attacker could let you log into their server, but presumably you’d notice that you’re logged into the wrong server.

I guess there are a few corner cases where this might help, such as blind scp uploads.
(one of the) longest musical performance
Computer Generated Influencers
We're actually getting rid of export credits because it's caused confusion over the years. We now just have query credits to download data/ do searches, and scan credits for users that want to request on-demand scans. We announced this change in the most recent Shodan Update newsletter. You can already use our new website (https://beta.shodan.io) to download data using your query credits.

Export credits were the first way I tried to monetize Shodan and it became a legacy system that lots of companies used so I was hesitant to get rid of it until something better was in place.

I'll also add that the API was purposely not designed for downloading lots of search results. The API is designed for security operations center (SOC) use cases. Companies that need large-scale, bulk access to our data would need to check out our enterprise platform (https://enterprise.shodan.io).
How to RDP into a Windows Server from Your Remote macOS
It's a problem for the vendors, not the banks. They get hit with chargebacks for fraud that's no fault of their own, hurting the whole ecosystem of vendors and their customers.

https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/credit-cards/cred...
People are talking about more responsible disclosure. Is it feasible to even track down the owners of 4,000 different unsecured databases, much less go through the whole process with them to ensure the database is properly secured?
See for yourself:

http://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/209.85.128.65.html
I'm not gp, but let's take a step back for a sec.

(I've mostly lived in the northeastern US)

I live in a small (~20k population) rural technically-city (but... it's a town) where crime is not much of an issue; my car sits unlocked in my driveway and I seldom lock my house -- when I do, it's almost always when I'm at home (alone) -- it's about a feeling of security, not any real risk of a break-in. I've lived this way in this town for many years and have never experienced a robbery. I think it's pretty low risk, not irresponsible.

I've also lived in a larger city. There, I absolutely locked my doors. And I've traveled to tourist-y locations known for pickpockets, and kept an even closer watch on my belongings.

The internet is two orders of magnitude larger than the world's largest city and policing it is exceptionally difficult, since it spans national borders. There will be crime.

I wish this weren't the case. I much prefer living in a safe place where I don't have to worry about locking my doors when I go out. But when crime is common, it's negligent not to protect against it.
Show HN: Kardius – find people like you, near you – made with Rust and Rocket
I've seen disappearing menubars and color glitches of the desktop in the top-right quadrant, this is on an external monitor connected to a 15" 2016 MacBook Pro. It's not in public beta yet, and it shows.
I also recommend http://learnyouahaskell.com/. Super cool and easy to understand
Reminded of this article. Not exactly the same as the bridges grow in place, but the idea of growing the final product is similar.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/asia/...
Caprice Linux:A Hitchhiker's Guide to Pkgsrc
I hope you manage to fulfill your dream!

The relationship between CW and the City is interesting. I have a theory that the insurance bit of the City has tended to stay there (e.g. in the area around Leadenhall) because it is more bespoke, less automated and hence face to face contact is more important. Whereas banks have moved to CW for lower rents and larger floorplans (which are seen as desirable for certain activities). I expect that the larger banks will probably stay in CW but as you say some professional services firms could move back.
except that we're already in a position of pretty low expectations. your 'good' might make sense relative to all the other poorly conceived and executed startups, but still might be a worse investment than treasury bills
[ Edited/Deleted reply because I missed the fact that this code distributes a single mono signal across 2 outputs. The terminology for this stuff is never totally clear: some people would call this a mono panner, some would call it a stereo panner, some call it a 1in/2out panner ]
My blame scale for breaches, most to least:

1) the cultural and economic forces driving everything online way before that’s anything like a good idea,

2) companies storing more than they need to,

3) the people who left it unsecured (bigco, tech startups, and anything very sensitive),

4) the people stealing data,

5) the people who left it unsecured (Smaller shops that’ve been made to feel they must be online),

[large gap]

20) someone who simply deletes all the insecure data (assuming they didn’t also steal all of it)
> Always thought that a great statup idea would be to interact with dedicated server provider and offer on top of those cheap servers AWS like services.

Which is what AWS is anyway...? Also, I don't think AWS' data-centers exist in isolation: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/wikileaks-publish... Definitely not the Cloudfront PoPs which ought to be leased, surely?

Also see: https://www.tatacommunications.com/solutions/cloud/infra-dc/

And: https://www.vapor.io/vapor-io-partners-with-cloudflare-on-na...
The book Crafting Interpreters has a design note specifically about this special case [0] and how different languages handle it:

> The increment clause really does look like mutation. That implies there is a single variable that’s getting updated each step. But it’s almost never useful for each iteration to share a loop variable. The only time you can even detect this is when closures capture it. And it’s rarely helpful to have a closure that references a variable whose value is whatever value caused you to exit the loop.

> The pragmatically useful answer is probably to do what JavaScript does with let in for loops. Make it look like mutation but actually create a new variable each time because that’s what users want. It is kind of weird when you think about it, though.

[0] https://craftinginterpreters.com/closures.html#design-note
Manjaro Linux Review: “Arch Linux for Human Beings”
Minisign is designed to be compatible with signify.
Raspberry Pi 4 rig with M.2 SATA boot SSD, ICE Tower cooler
Because they have complex software in for bluetooth connection, noise cancellation and other behaviours like automatically switching off when taken out for example. You don't have to update it of you prefer not to.
The title is a clickbait.
> Every instruction operates on a memory tape. This tape is essentially a static array of double-precision floats.

Why doubles? I would think integers are the more primitive type.
Yes I am a huge believer in the algebraic view.

That's true even for implementations; I want to see the general ideas implemented as libraries so the implementation isn't an monolith mashing up ideas from various of many papers, but a composition of libraries.

Yes, there is a lot of rich stuff in the MLSub thesis which is hard to follow, but the functional perl approach here I also find confusing so there is no attempt to distill the essence of what's going on.

Towards the bottom of the accompanying paper (my PDF viewer lags less than my browser!) there is a little bit of theory discussion, but I would like to see more. It would be very good if someone could take some of the tricks here and present them more abstractly.
Rape is a successful evolutionary strategy in many animals. See ducks.
I stand by my post.
Very impressive!
Many years ago, I had made a fluid simulation (a different kind):

https://jsexperiments.herokuapp.com/sph/

Code:
https://github.com/asadm/SPHjs
I used chiaki. It works with any controller connected to your phone or even a built in touch control system that probably would suck to use, though i did need it for the home button and did have to remap controls bound to the touch pad buttons. We were even able to play borderlands on local coop that way despite only owning one dualshock 4.
Bose has a computer-based firmware updater over USB, I used it with their relatively new noise cancelling 700 headphones since I don't use the Bose Music app. Website launches a Windows desktop application for the update. Worked great in a Windows virtual machine with USB passthrough.

For older QC35 headphones there's a 'based-connect' repo on github that lets you configure the headphones; unfortunately the newer models such as the NC700 have encrypted firmware update files so I couldn't easily reverse engineer the protocol to get all the BT commands to configure all the options you can change in the app. Actually the app didn't even work on my Android phone without GApps, so I couldn't sniff the connection either...
Ask HN: How to help fight climate change as a developer?
Is our profession doomed to function in a profit-only niche or are there ways to join the fight against the already obvious next global crisis?
Her, author here! :)

Glad you liked it!
I don't have concrete plans actually, just doing this for fun so we'll see how far I get :)
And there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...

The wikipedists are a very strange bunch.
Embracing Algorithms [video]
I wonder if some sort of community hearing where any police officer that had a complaint filed had to sit in front of the community and have the details recounted and could explain their side would be useful. If the community had the power (through some elected or random jury) to censure, or cause a week or two probation without pay, or request a more detailed investigation of possible criminal actions, if that would weed out police the community did not deem fit.
Likely the greatest threat to our species is that the new big oil, is big oil.
if meerly "convaying meening" iz the bar then tihs snentenennce is currect english.
Facebook banned automated posting to personal accounts a year or so ago.

You can still manually post links to any site that isn't banned though.
That doesn't sound right. You can definitely get a million dollar loan with $250k down on a $200k salary. I'd say it's pretty common. My friends own homes and fall into that category.
I've got some Heroku projects, which don't have a static ip. How do I protect myself against this?
Gumroad is good, and I've heard good things about Podia as well.
One user is worthless, a few pennies. A million and things get interesting.
To work around Bluetooth bugs in newer phones/OSes that come out.

Bluetooth stacks constantly get broken with new revisions, the burden is unfortunately placed on individual device makers to update to work with whatever has broken recently.
In large portion of "real world", Java 8 is the latest. Sometimes because of JWS deprecation, even.
A big part of it is that nurses have been granted authority to do more procedures/prescriptions, and are now overlapping with doctors. For healthy people, a nurse practitioner could probably fulfill all of your standard medical needs.

You can see the effects of this in the clinics popping up inside a lot of grocery stores in the US. They have nurses on staff who can do standard procedures like flu shots, strep tests, common cold treatment etc. And to me, it seems, the outcomes are effectively the same. You get your tests, if it comes back as something known, they prescribe you meds. If not, they advise you to go to the hospital or a specialist.
Unfortunately, you can't just magic something from a waste product into a resource, particularly something like CO2, due to the second law of thermodynamics.

Carbon fixation is endothermic. It requires a lot of energy, and very specific conditions. Organic carbon fixers (plants & algae) are by far the most efficient way to turn CO2 into something useful, but they require sunlight, and there's only so much of that to go around.