skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please explain this logic. I'm not being facetious, but if that's just what happens over thousands or millions of years, why is there any coastline left at all?
> We estimate heavy losses, maybe near extinction

Do you mean human extinction or extinction of certain animal species? I can definitely see certain animal species dying out, I couldn't see a scenario where humans die out though. If you mean human extinction could you provide some further reading?
While the potential excites me (self-driving cars can't come fast enough IMHO - I despise driving) I agree.

Tesla has been given an incredibly long rope by regulators and it'll just take a really terrible accident or two to bring it all to a screeching halt.

It's hard to imagine Elon not realizing this, but the incessant drive to the endgame may cloud his judgement.
The reason that ship came to Beirut after all is very weird, there is reportedly a mysterious businessman who pretended that there was another shipment going to Jordan, that the ship could pick up on its way that would the ship owner who was unable to pay its crew, to get some money, but it turned out it was a ploy to lure the ship and take its AN shipment as a compensation for an old debt between that mystery businessman with the owner according to the marine agent.
Not sure if you meant this in jest, but seeing what GPT-3 can do and extrapolating from there - I'm left with an uneasy feeling about this very idea..

What does it really mean to understand something? Is it all just an illusion generated by a fancier biological generative transformer? :P
And now you're eating data.
I hate to break it to you, but reporters lie all the time, and so do sources. Have you ever seen the Weekly World News?

I don't really have much to say about your speculation. You'll probably just have to wait until the next annual report.

The search engine deals are based on the amount of searches made by firefox users.

Many, many firefox users use firefox on a school or work computer.
Which models are these? (i.e. [Citation needed])

The fact that people actually deny warming let alone the consequences of said warming does not bode well either - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTk8Dhr15Kw
Thermal stuff just feels much better designed and integrated than any of the IC based stuff.
Covid-19 has exposed how almost all world leaders are useless when faced with big challenges - any action taken will be far too late; too little and often times plain wrong.

So as I read about Greenland’s ice sheets I can only conclude that we are all doomed. Raising awareness won’t really help; the leaders who could do something about it simply won’t.

It’s sad and it’s depressing and I’ve no idea what any of us can do to actually prevent this next global catastrophe.
No, not at all. Your perspective and style has value.

I answered a fairly simple question on Stackoverflow many years ago that has a bunch of upvotes, and still generates a few dozen a week.

I didn’t do anything magical, just wrote a response in a way that resonates with people. I have not repeated that feat either, so I possess no unusual skill. If you write every day, you’ll do the same thing eventually with something.
> see http://unicode.org/history/unicode88.pdf, particularly section 2

it's Fascinating to see how people can arrive at the answer No and conclude that the answer is Yes
When “scientists” are openly pushing for particular solutions (always involving massive government control and global wealth redistribution), they are politicizing it too.

When the “green” movement also opposes the best alternative energy, nuclear, it’s worth being very suspicious.

That is of course all orthogonal to whether it’s actually real and preventable and worth acting on. Though that last question requires expertise beyond climate science. It also requires a fine understanding of economics and international power politics. When climate scientists pretend to have those too, people should be skeptical.
But also the college students probably aren't interested in policing the cafeteria in an attempt to reduce the 600,000+ deaths from heart disease every year.

I'm not sure we can take your comment seriously.
Quantum leap straight into the side of a firetruck.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165395.
Yep, had issues yesterday. Botched a big deploy for me too.
That's just not true. The CDC estimates that between 10% and 70% of of cases are asymptomatic with a best estimate of 40%.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

As we saw in Italy and New York, COVID-19 has the potential to overwhelm hospitals. Officially, almost 170,000 Americans have died. NYTimes estimates that COVID-19 already caused over 200,000 deaths by comparing against the expected number of deaths if we weren't in a pandemic. So yes, COVID-19 is a clear and present danger to our lives.
Someone mentioned that the bang syntax works, e.g. !ddgno or !ddgde
> 2) Carbon Taxes everywhere

Which was locally recently show to be ineffective - https://biv.com/article/2020/08/bc-carbon-tax-ineffective-ce...
~33k people a year (About 90 per day) die in car accidents in the US because of humans. It’s us who have been given the long rope

There have been four deaths while Autopilot was engaged [1], almost all because the drivers weren’t paying attention. Autopilot has been used for 3 billion miles, 1 billion with Navigate on Autopilot (automatic passing and interchange routing), and 200,000 automated lane changes [2]. Is this not impressive?

Yes, self driving is hard. Yes, there will be fatalities due to edge cases. It is unreasonable to confine the tech to a test track until it’s perfect, considering the human incurred death rate as it stands. We should be racing to take the person out of the driver’s seat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-driving_car_fatal...

[2] https://electrek.co/2020/04/22/tesla-autopilot-data-3-billio...
I probably don't need to say this, but it all depends. Many operating systems and GUI frameworks internally use UTF-16 because it was more common when they were built. Lots of old files use really obscure encodings. Sometimes you get a UTF BOM to identify UTF-16 and UTF-32, other times you don't. Then there are the pesky ways you can encode characters with HTML or XML entities, the occasional double-encoding of such, and so on.

When I worked with library records, I had to deal with text encodings that pre-dated SQL, though I suppose I should be thankful that ASCII existed by then so they were mostly ASCII compatible, but even today there are systems designed to output MARC-8 + UTF-8 as a fallback only when a MARC-8 character isn't available (MARC-21) instead of just using UTF-8.

I'll admit though, outside of MARC-8 and the various Unicode encodings, I'm having trouble thinking up systems that would still be incompatible today. Old documents, yes, absolutely would be encoded in different charsets, Windows still generally defaults to encoding in their Latin1 if I recall correctly, but most systems today do expect UTF-8 over the network at least, and UTF-16 for display perhaps...

Don't get me started on line endings though, and how many files use one, both, more than one ... and especially how much fun it can be with git repos cross-platform, or when automated tools use platform default line endings when they should be configurable, etc. CSV files that aren't properly escaped are also a special mini hell...

Data is never easy. :) And that's assuming it's written correctly - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/08/11/files/
Just because the Constitution says that Congress is allowed to create a post office doesn't mean they're required to. Enumerated powers aren't mandatory
"Massive displacement" is a tepid euphemism in sight of current politics around human migration, which will only get worse as resources become scarce. Should Canadians be as cruel as Americans have been to their southern neighbors. Hope ya like toilet water, eh.
My first BillG review (2006)
Email the mods. I'm 99.9% certain there is no auth API, though.
uh. they banned a video game. death of a country? dramatic much?
Steel frames generally have a plenitude of attachment points for bags, which is important for people who need to carry all of their food, clothing, and shelter (and tools and spare tires) on the bike.
Dropbox Having Major Outage
This is by far the best online image colorization I’ve used; it was offered free back in the early days of the quarantine and I was impressed by the speed and quality. It’s not professional photoshopper quality, but a beginner can easily tweak the finished product into skilled amateur quality.
This is like the 538 election models that swing wildly as more polling data comes in. A model that is so sensitive to new data is a pretty poor model since it should have roughly predicted that new data in the first place.

When you combine that with the fact that it is anathema to question Climate Science orthodoxy and this is wielded for massive political and financial ends, the only rational approach is to be extremely skeptical.

Central to this discussion is the point that climate science is not science in the same way that physics is. There are no repeatable experiments that can be run.
This doesn't seem much like bullying. If you support third-party logins, one of them must be Apple's. And yeah, requiring two-factor auth in addition to that seems broken.

I mean, yeah, it's extra work for you as a developer, but as a user, I only want to use login with Apple, and if you ask for my phone number in addition, it's a delete for you.
I find it interesting that people equate/equated Elon Musk with Tony Stark. Years in the future, I think there’s a good chance people will look back and instead recognize him as an incredibly talented salesperson.
No, the article normalizes for volume
Might not be the most likely scenario, but a runaway green house effect is certainly possible.

If a positive temperature feedback loop happened to the earth’s atmosphere we could definitely end up like Venus, where no living thing can survive.

And as engineers we understand that positive feedback loops cause changes in exponential progression. It can be “almost fine” for a while and then suddenly “there’s nothing we can do” even in human timescales.

And it could happen fast enough that humans don’t develop tech robust enough to survive other planets unsupported, so game over for humanity, better luck next time.

I personally don’t think thats going to happen, but to be honest I wouldn’t want to risk it.
Normally I like to say that HN has some of the best discussion on the internet, but the pessimism here is rivaling the political Facebook groups that everyone's racist uncle's share posts from.
e-bikes are probably going to vastly expand the market of bikes for this guy's target demographics: women, casuals, and older people. They overcome a lot of the power problems with wind and climbing that make biking inconvenient for the less athletic. You can get around town without dripping in sweat at reasonable biking speeds. You can bike at good speed without back-straining aggressive postures.

The Dutch are bike-crazy partly because of the amazing flat terrain they have, and e-bikes effectively flatten all terrain.
I'm seeing the same on a 30" desktop screen... It sounds interesting, so I'm bookmarking to look later.
There are a lot fewer people to spread it to now than there was in March.

The USA is over 5M confirmed cases now. The CDC estimates that the true infection count is 6x-24x that. So on the order of 30M - 120M Americans have already had it now.

The distribution is uneven. Places that hadn't gotten hit are getting hit now. But on average we are likely close to herd immunity.

This is no longer an exponential thing here. We can't have an OOM more cases. It's mathematically impossible. The worst is over (again, on average). I don't think we explicitly tried to follow a herd immunity strategy but that is what ended up happening.

1. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
i dont know the legal barriers or if some one tried it before, but self driving cars should train their model in Indian traffic with a human supervision , the traffic is very unpredictable and mostly experienced humans who have driven there long has nailed how to drive there, it will give some interesting data points
The Sinclair QL was the first thing I thought of.
Ultimately if you are made of flesh and blood any adventure you partake in is one small piece of lead away from ending. This is why guns are perceived as the great equalizer; no amount of bodyguards or telekinetic combat robots can stop a bullet traveling 800mph+.

You could just not go outside, but at that point with the onset of depression from complete lack of socialization and Vitamin D you'll eventually kill yourself, yourself.
Next up for Apple: making you sign over rights to your source code.

I'm only half kidding.

This is egregious and exactly what Stallman warned us about. (I know he's done some terrible things that make him no longer worthy of being our role model, but he was exactly right about this.)

Pretty soon we won't own any of our devices. We'll rent them.

We won't own our data. We'll license it.

We won't be free to conduct business. We'll be given a revocable visa.
Yes, there's exactly 0% chance that this ends badly. I don't know why the lady swallowed the dog to chase the cat to catch the bird to eat the spider...
I understand there is an "academic" perspective to this somewhere. But, integrating two systems like what is proposed is probably one of the least favourable things to do if I want a low-code (or a no-code) CRM platform (at $10/user/mo + $ 25 /mo).

There are many options - right from building your own using Bubble.io (starts $29/app), using all-in-one builder like AppSheet (starts $5/mo), or to simply choose a "core" platform like Zoho CRM or Zoho Creator.

https://crmcog.com/crm-apps-of-the-future/
You can also cut + paste

It takes a lot of the tedium away when you made a miscalculation and need to be just a little bit closer or further from something.

Now you can cut, move over 1 and paste.

I've also found it really nice for rails. If you want a t-junction, just go away from everything and make a 90-degree rail curve. Then cut it.

Then go back to where you wanted the t-junction and paste in the curve and rotate it and paste again to get perfectly lined up sections of track.

and then you can have blueprints and upgrade planners and destruction planners.

upgrade planners let you convert say all slow belts to fast belts and leave the inserters alone.

destruction planners let you remove only walls but leave the electrical towers and rails alone.

it just goes deeper and deeper.
Here are some reasons I can come up with (3 is weak):

1) Fancy updaters with bindiff and compression take time and money. As a first step, you need repeatable builds.

2) A broken fancy updater results in a reinstall, support calls and refunds.

3) If the updates are pushed by the store, there is no incentive to reduce the cost.

With those three, if you can get away with shipping everything that's changed, you're going to do it.
Nothing we can do. Brace for impact and setup a flexible lifestyle so you can rapidly move and adapt depending on what hits first/hardest.

Obviously still support any possible measures to mitigate the damage. Maybe we can still work together to avoid complete catastrophe.
Plate tectonics.

It's a broad area of study, but tl;dr, the planet's landmasses move and rise/fall independently of above-ground forces like erosion.
The idea is to attach it to the correct group that the report authors (or the news outlet) want to have this blamed on. It’s a great political tool.

Literally everything in some societies is part of the larger game. We are not immune in the west either, unfortunately.
OK, we've inlined IDM in the title above.
Real estate?
Let's leave the only planet to have an atmosphere that we can survive in for a planet that is no longer holding onto any atmosphere at all. Sounds like a winner to me
Oracle Brings the Autonomous Database to JSON
Right, it seems like a ploy to expand the author's SEO footprint. I wasn't lost to the author/OP's comments being a part of the hustle. Given the content of the article, the ploy could almost be called something like "meta-hustle".
Probably a huge fan of microservices and cloud computing.
It's not a two-factor auth, we ask phone number confirmation because our masters need to contact you to deliver our service. If there is no phone number, our app is useless for you. So it's perfectly fine for us if you want to delete the app instead of giving up your number, and it seems like a better solution for privacy concerned people.

On the other hand, if we allow to login but only request phone number later, this will seem somewhat deceiving to the user. Like we pretended that he can use the app while keeping his info private, while in the end it ends up that he cannot.
In the case of the US I think useless is being kind.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trumps-war-on-blue-s...

Even if the linked article is a complete fabrication, the actions of the Trump administration so far have been deliberately harmful let alone useless.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/covid-forecasts/
Hopefully the American Electorate are tired of winning at this stage.

Edit: downvotes but no counterargument?
Depending on how the models are expressed in the environment, theres a good chance they end up as triangle meshes with unique coordinates by the time the running game eversees them.
b/c new land is constantly being created by the clash of the tectonic plates and by upwelling of volcanic activity. Once all geological activity ceases (several billions of years in the future) then land might eventually erode away and the Earth's surface might briefly be covered completely with water. However, eventually all water will escape the planet's gravitational field and Earth will become, like Mars, a dead planet. See

"Here's What'll Happen When Plate Tectonics Grinds to a Halt":

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/08/news-happ...
This is a non-story.

In most cases, there is no point asking for a phone number as 2FA if the user chooses Sign in with Apple (SIWA).

SIWA requires access to the device. App credentials are usually persisted per device, so 2FA doesn't really help if your device is stolen as the attacker would have app access anyway (if they were able to unlock the device). Even for non-Apple-device sign ins such as on Android or Windows, SIWA requires device access to generate a password, which requires 2FA on the Apple account [1].

Uber is allowed to ask for a phone number because a driver legitimately may need to contact a customer to arrange pickup. But in this case, Apple does not think that this app requires a phone number, and is thus protecting the privacy of its customers.

There are other issues I have with Apple's ecosystem/the App Store, but this is not one of them.

EDIT: After posting this comment OP has written in another comment that their app requires a phone number to arrange delivery. This information was not in the original tweet. In that case, I think this is likely a misunderstanding between the App Store reviewers and OP about how the phone number would be used, and I would need to see further discussion between those two before declaring Apple a bully in this case.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204397
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164470 and particularly the top subthread.
donnie deported to gitmo.
Don't get me wrong, the company pushes laptops for reasons other than eliminating UPSs. Even a nearly dead laptop battery should tide you over for the minute it takes for the building generator to get online. I don't think managing laptop batteries is a big concern for our IT department.
Is there any study that shows the effect on the environment caused by the current slowdown on polluting industries and travel?
It sort of struck me as "the learn new concept" vs "keep doing what I know".

You can get really good at burner inserters or learn about electricity.

Or keep get fancy with belts... or learn about trains.

or get a personal roboport and learn cut/copy/paste
SciFi theories say diseases like COVID-19 are only supposed to thin out the herd, not eradicate it. It's like an evolutionary test or something. I'm still waiting for the Monolith to show up to start zapping the members of the species that can't evolve to the next step.
Depends who your employer is, there are varying levels of remote monitoring & administrative tools. Smaller companies are likely to invest less in this due to limited resources, where larger companies may invest more heavily for compliance and security.
Ok, so no info then. Sorry, but if you want to discredit that reporter you will have to do better than just a general statement about reporters 'lying all the time', that sounds just a bit too much like a certain politician. I've been on the receiving end of interviews and have had my words misunderstood and occasionally twisted in a way that did not align with my intended meaning but I've yet to meet a reporter who would make something up.

The 'Weekly World News' was fiction, I hold the register to a slightly higher standard.
... then they lay off the Servo team.
The number of grey market installs of this where people will use _any_ available US address to get the equipment and then take it back to wherever they are?

Wow. This isn't just rural USA, this is rural Canada, Europe, South America, Africa. Anywhere and everywhere.

Think back to US sat-tv providers selling into Canada. Think back to the original iPhone selling internationally.

Regulators be damned.
Not sure how Load-Acquire (LDAR) and Store-Release (STLR) fit into this. They seem to be intended to be atomic only against other LDAR/STLR pairs, rather than doing a general flush.
There's also the whole "shareability domain" thing - full system, outer sharable, inner sharable, and non-sharable. Barrier instructions get to specify how much consistency breadth to request.

So there are situations when every store may not be visible to every CPU core, but the ones that don't get the word shouldn't have access to that memory anyway. You can sort of see the architects of the CPU trying hard to prevent the cache system from choking on inter-CPU traffic, and trying to get more help from the software.
Ever heard of grey goo? ;)
Location matters, so FWIW it seems to be from northern US / southern Canada to LA.
> It would be more effective in curbing emissions if it were higher, she said

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-british-carbon-tax-coal-fired-...

There is at least some evidence of success in the UK (combined with other policy + economic reality). Our climate policy is probably the only thing the government have done well recently - dwarfed by the impending iceberg of Brexit.
I'm not sure which video you're referring to, but there are several things at play that can cause visual effects like you described.

1) The seismic wave travels through the ground much faster than the shockwave in the air, and will rattle the camera. Cameras with anti-shake technology will try to compensate, often badly, resulting in smeared or blurred images.

2) The visible expanding shell of vapor is not the shockwave, it is caused by condensation in the low pressure zone behind the shockwave. The shockwave itself is harder to see, but it is still visible as a distortion or slight blurring.
We ask phone number for the same reason as Uber does - our masters need to contact the user to be able to deliver the service. Explaining this to Apple took a week of back and forth, and only lasted for one submission.
If you think the same execs have been at mozilla for a decade, I have a bridge to sell you.