skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is commonly done. I work for John deere and we have a team dedicated to making sure that our products don't use conflict minerals, which if I understand correctly means mined with slave labor. I know for a fact that we have all of our suppliers traced 6 levels deep just to ensure that the whole chain is okay. We can put whatever want on the list, though we sometimes run into problems because we are too small to get any chip maker to care. (electronics are about the only thing that we are small players in, our list is in general common with the likes of GM so there is a lot of pressure potential suppliers for must stuff)
> ... should I, the consumer, be able to choose what I want to do and not ...

Society has decided that, for the good of society as a whole, this answer is no. That the good of society is more important than the desires of any given individual.

For example, most countries (an organized society) have laws regulating gambling (and drinking, and smoking, and ...).
You're acting like Facebook isn't hostile to adblockers, Facebook is making it very difficult to block their ads continuously.
Climate change has never struck me as an existential risk. Certainly it is a major problem. But it's slow moving. Slow moving problems are way more soluble than fast moving problems. (For comparison, a hostile AI takeoff theoretically could wipe out humanity in a few minutes given the proper means.) The worst case scenario from climate change itself seems to be a small population of humans living in an artificial habitat in 1000 years. And of course there is a broad spectrum of other outcomes from there. If, for example, we master interplanetary colonization quickly by our effort to get to Mars, this would greatly minimize the impact since we could adapt the technologies used to survive on Mars.

The biggest argument in favor of climate change being a true existential risk is if the conflicts it would spawn would result in a global war.
"What's so hard about PDF text extraction?" - if Weird Al ever wrote an Elvis Costello parody
I understand it is not ideal, but that’s a huge jump to “world war”.
> and I think "my kids dying horribly in a resource war or food riot".

I still think "I'll believe it when I see it". Scientists are very good at making apocalyptic predictions based on theoretical worst case scenarios, but reality just never seems to match said predictions. In reality, stuff happens more slowly on much longer timescales.

Just look at covid - back in March, the predictions were pretty dire - it was predicted millions were going to die in the US alone... 6 months later it turned out it wasn't nearly as deadly as we thought and a lot of measures we took (like SIP, shutting down economy, etc.) probably caused more harm than good.
I created an open source investing guide to make investing as easy as possible. My goal was to build a one-page tutorial and it should be fast and nicely readable on a mobile device. HTML, CSS and AMP-based. I added sources and links for further information.
The ask was:

> I've seen TikTok videos go viral being really critical of the US government including its foreign policy.

I posted an example of a video that is critical of the US government including its foreign policy. This seems like reasonable evidence that one can find videos critical of the US government including its foreign policy on the TikTok platform.

Noteworthy is that TikTok is a distinctly different platform than Twitter in many ways. One might even go so far as to say that it's possible that TikTok may even have the possibility of being a more influential platform than Twitter, particularly for certain demographics such as young people, who often have impressionable minds and openness for new ideological beliefs.

A potential example of the power of ideological beliefs might be observing that intelligent, rational people in a forum will downvote someone who literally provides an example of what someone else asked for. Imagine what sort of mass behavior modification could be achieved with an ongoing campaign designed by people who have a deep understanding of human psychology, leveraging the capabilities of a platform like TikTok that is well proven at propagating memes.
Sure, they are a non-profit organization doing research on some breakthrough treatment options for mental health issues like PTSD and depression. You can check out their website here: https://maps.org/
Thanks for this. I've been planning a similar work for years and haven't gotten off my ass (too many other projects lol).

I definitely agree that reading from stdin is critical if I'll be able to use it. Don't take the criticism too hard though (especially the "author doesn't appreciate unix" stuff. Sometimes we can be such assholes to each other).

Nice work!
If you use a fleet of drones at once, presumably you could get an even larger synthetic aperture (radar from each drone bounches off the ground and is picked up by all other drones)? Contrary to movement-based synthetic aperture this would be movement+many-receivers?
> Agriculture (even without fossil fuels) has a far greater impact on the environment than all fossil fuel use combined

Can I get a source for that claim?

A quick Google gives me the following:

> Globally, fossil fuel-based energy is responsible for about 60% of human greenhouse gas emissions, with deforestation at about 18%, and animal agriculture between 14% and 18% (estimates from the World Resources Institute, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and Pitesky et al. 2009

https://www.skepticalscience.com/how-much-meat-contribute-to...
When people who don't like big cities are voting on transit and density initiative, it's because they live in or on the fringes of a big city. Most likely they are there because the money to be made is more important to them than their dislike of cities. Ergo, when business leaders say transit and density are needed for further economic growth, that message appeals to a strongly held value.
It's really easy to find services like this just by googling the right thing. I've never used one, but just from a quick search $630 can get you 200 five-star reviews. I don't know if the site I found will let you repeatedly purchase for even more reviews, but several of these sites came up when I googled so it would also be pretty easy to just use 5 different fake review sites to get up to 1000 fake reviews.

If the price is consistent across them, that means 1000 reviews costs about $3.1k. Expensive, but it apparently only takes 1 tricked user to become a profitable scam.

Not saying a similar scam would not have fooled me, as I'm looking at the screenshot in the article with the knowledge that it's a scam, so it's an unfair comparison. However the first thing that immediately stands out to me is there are no 2,3,4 star reviews on this app. The reviewer comments are also very generic and have many grammatical errors in each featured one in the screenshot, and the featured reviews are all from Sept 1.
Most fraud starts with people thinking they are getting something for free.
Just finding life on venus does not mean, it evolved independent from the life on earth. Microbes travelling with asteroids is possible.
>> but I'm sadly not very optimistic about big changes in the next decade or so.

Yeah. I liked it a lot as well, even though there was nothing new.

This documentary is like walking into a crack house and saying "Hey guys! I've got this great PowerPoint presentation on how bad crack is for you!"

Nice idea, I guess, but there's no reason at all I would think it has a chance of accomplishing anything.

These efforts appear, make a splash, and then ... dissolve. I wish it weren't so, but there are some extremely powerful social forces at work here. A TV show ain't going to do much.
>Data is a copyable asset. Most other assets are not.

The consent to have that data is not copyable though.
well, someone payed 8k to show an ad to 2.6 million people
it was just not a good ad
Any reason the RTP doesn’t approach zero?
After some more thought, it's also just plain hard to believe in a pure atmospheric bacterium. I'm not sure we even have such a thing on planet Earth. Plenty that survive in the atmosphere better than expected, may even actively use it to spread, but nothing that lives up there. (Links to corrections solicited.) We don't routinely experience green days because of a mass of atmospheric bacteria blowing in above us and blocking the sun as they photosynthesize.

Energy it has in abundance, but where is it getting the atoms it's made out of? Carbon and oxygen are readily available, but you need more than that. Water is minimal in the atmosphere, and mere presence isn't enough, you need to be able to gather it against the strong osmotic pressures pulling it back out. (Earth life seems to have needed hundreds of millions of years just to grow on Earth land, a wildly more friendly environment than an atmosphere that still has puddles of nearly pure water to work with. Even a cloud is, by comparison, water-poor.) How do you get any nitrogen? Lightning may fixate it as it does on Earth, but then it immediately dissipates. It's very difficult to use N2 directly, although some Earth life manages. After that what's left in the atmosphere is some vicious acids and some noble gasses. So in the basic CHON equation, C & O are covered, N is exceedingly chemically difficult, and H is almost missing. Trace elements are also not available because they don't float, except sulphur (we use this ourselves, but it's not the most useful one), and while bacteria may get by without using as much of them as we do, I'm not sure you can make a life form out of nothing but CHON, let alone CO(Nish).
> they have 1,750 employees, which is really expensive!

That is astonishing given how little development they seem to do! Even allowing for the small army of CSRs required to run any PvP game. I don't mind a few dollars a month for the ongoing exp bonus, but the people spending £50 on a single ship are clearly in a different zone.

On the other hand, compared to other sorts of collector hobby, that's cheap. I could buy every ship in the fleet with what some people spend on a camera lens.
Adding Deno support to the Eta template engine
How ultra-processed food is ageing our cells
I'm no fan of Trump but it's worth noting that we tapped Angela Merkel's phone under Nobel Peace Prize Winner President Obama.

Better PR is nice but it doesn't change the underlying incentives.
Very American opinion. You are aware that there's a lot of non-native English speakers who can absolutely miss a few typos?
> Environmentalists are already abandoning their field and reskilling not only because of lack of funding but lack of public attention and change.

Thank god. We need people who are logical and pragmatic, not ideological and dogmatic. I don't think anyone has done as much damage to the climate as environmentalists, by opposing nuclear power. Fortunately the climate (no pun intended) slowly seems to be turning.
http://archive.is/iBcOt
But, in China, they are not in an "internment camp" for leaving one country and entering another illegally.
Canon Law and the Fight Against Child Marriage
Again, as of the last millenium at the latest. Chernobyl was last millenium. Fukushima was a tsunami. There were 0 (zero) deaths from radiation there (and ironically, perhaps there were deaths from irrational fear of it — from the rushed evacuation — perhaps it would be better named FUDushima). And tsunamis don’t happen in the US.

The west coast has had catastrophic human intervention in the natural fire cycle, piling up fuel year after year until it was too big of a hazard for humans to handle. https://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-paradise-lost-15420...
Also plenty of time for python 3 to get a `from __past__ import py27` to run in backward compatibility mode so that python 2 code could be imported in python 3 modules.
I understand your argument, but honestly, as someone living in a heavily polluted area, I couldn't care less about the CO₂ problem. When you have the immediate concern of people dying 15 years earlier than they might have, when your throat burns 300 days in a year, and you often can't see much farther than 400 meters, I would be very happy if we could just switch everything coal powered to natural gas.
It’s interesting how much of a bubble we can be in, that everyone’s coding/studying in their spare time. I do wonder what it actually looks like for the broader tech community.
Agreed, we need a national standard that states need to meet, and not just some test scores.

Suggested standards:
max class size

max admin to teacher ratio

standardized pay rate for teachers in each state

standardized credentialing

paid school lunches

standardized mandatory "recess"

standard list of "extras", let clubs handle the non-standard extras

no school sponsored sports, let them be PTO affiliated and funded

mandatory list of supplies for students and teachers.
Anecdata here as well. I've had two times where I had to contest a Paypal purchase. In both cases, Paypal took a reasonably short amount of time to rule in my favor. (Both however were for clear-cut cases of "online vendor took an order and didn't bother to ship anything at all nor reply to Paypal inquiries".)
They spelled 'voucher' two different ways (vocher), and the poor grammar should be a sign of trouble.
I recognize and understand the snark/sarcasm regarding that sort of stock market gambling, but regardless of other details, at least you can cash out any earnings in Robinhood, no?

The apps discussed in the article are more like the video slots/poker/etc. that I've seen in bars around here. Real video gambling machines aren't legal so they make them for "entertainment only". Some (many?) bars let you cash out under the table as a way to keep people playing, but if someone managed to win a lot of "credits", the bar would be under no obligation to pay out since technically they aren't allowed to anyway.
> I think Fricas is more powerful than Maxima (maybe much more) regarding symbolic integration and its type system

Citations or proofs?
I had a family member who tried to do a similar thing with a potted plant in the airport lobby, but it was still gone as security apparently runs metal detectors over common hiding places every so often as part of a bomb sweep.
> Your mistake is...

Not mine. I just posted what Niek van der Maas wrote on his GitHub. I don't think he's even reading this HN thread.
jeez, wonder why... What could they possibly be afraid of?
Pathetic.
1 is easy to work around (handy tip incoming for any tools that _seem_ to not support stdin but actually do, as stdin is also available as a file in unix):

echo '{"foo": "bar"}' | query-json ".foo" /dev/stdin
That's untrue.

(famously so, Intel used to ship arm chips with WMMX and Apple for example ships their CPU today with the AMX AI acceleration extension)
More likely images and photogrammetry.
tl;dr: Arm has lineage back to Acorn computers, which built the processors for the BBC Micro, an inspiration for the Raspberry Pi. It's a little sad to have seen this plucky British tech company get gobbled up by another US tech conglomerate, kind of like Mini getting eaten by BMW.

Nvidia wants to up its AI and ML game, and mixing Nvidia and ARM gives Nvidia tech buzzword superiority (just read through the Press Release).

In the short term, nothing major changes (licenses stay intact, Arm Holdings HQ remains in Cambridge), but in the long term, maybe this creates new opportunities for RISC-V and/or the Open POWER chip architecture.
Polybius

"I spent so much money on this arcade game back when I was a kid."

Oh no
So when does everyone switch to risc-v then
Yes. RocketLab recently announced they'll be sending a mission to Venus. Privately funded, and the details will be announced shortly.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLab/comments/g8bxmy/rocket_la...
In 2023:
https://www.space.com/rocket-lab-private-venus-mission-2023....

I have to wonder if they had contact with these MIT scientists pre-publication and that's what partially spurred this mission.

(RocketLab and Photon seem like a REALLY good platform for low-cost, small planetary missions like this. You can launch a mission for the price of a paper conceptual study and without the constraints of being a secondary payload, which is problematic for planetary missions with their narrow launch windows.)
I don't feel comfortable tying any two logins together for any site, regardless of mobile vs. desktop. Choosing to log into any site using facebook, google, etc. is setting up for trouble. I much prefer a strong password manager and separate logins for everything.
To show that something is a global issue, I merely have to display instances world-wide, not in every single country (that's the difference between global/ubiquitous and 'universal').

Having the issue in Africa, North and South America, Europe, and Australia is enough to satisfy that. I'll have to defer to others experiences in Asia, as keeping up with 4 continents is enough for me ;)

Additionally, this ideology expresses itself in different ways per country. The issue of white supremacy in for instance Togo, is not that there are white police officers and segregated drinking fountains. It's that the French forcibly colonized the area, then set up an exploitative trade zone after WW2, and continues to prop up brutal dictatorships merely because the leaders are willing to cede economic control to France. It's that the French are forcing their language & culture on a country as part of a 'trade' agreement (to the point where the government must buy French textbooks), but there isn't any reverse requirement of cultural exchange.

White supremacy is a global issue.

Yet all global issues won't affect every country equally.
Climate change may have global effects, but as the Fins famously said 'we live in the mountains, we will be the last to drown!'.
Open source does that for you.

You can't sanction public knowledge. The mere idea of such should be ridiculed.
> there’s probably a nontrivial amount of money laundering going on through these apps.

You can't really launder money through an app that offers no way to get money back out of it.

If there were a way to "gift" coins to people, which would allow them to be sold on sites like eBay, then you could launder money, because you'd be able to buy coins from Big Fish, and sell them elsewhere at a discount. You'd lose money on the flip but then, when you launder money, you always lose some portion of it (often quite a large portion).

(I don't know enough about these apps to know whether that's an option or not, but I suspect not.)

The only way Big Fish could be used to launder money is if they were owned by the people doing the laundering, who would then have a route to get money "through" the company. For third parties I don't think it's a possibility, unless they were in cahoots with the owners.

Actual gambling apps would provide a much better option for laundering money, which is perhaps a bigger motivator for regulation of that industry than addiction is. Or at least they would in a cash environment. Apps maybe less so because there's always a paper trail for the money (not to say it can't be done though).

Take all this with a pinch of salt because it's hardly my area of expertise but the main point stands: to launder money you have to have a way of getting money both into and out of a business.
Your comment seems like it would rule out a photon rocket , which proves too much. I think the resolution is that the faster you go, the heavier you are and the more thrust you need to increase your dv.
It’s definitely tricky to reason about carbon. One potential improvement is the incorporation of seaweed into a ruminant’s diet, which can reduce their emissions by a third. There’s also progress being made on breeding sheep and cows that emit far fewer greenhouse gases. But it’s important not to ignore that the animals themselves play a key role in improving the soil (with proper management), which can lead to the storage of tons of carbon annually.
The question is "what's at stake with climate change", not about what happens to invididuals (because everything happens to individuals).

What's at stake isn't the death of the planet, or the death of life, or the death of civilization. All these things are resilient enough to adapt to the effects of climate change.

What isn't resilient enough is our quality of life, which is based on my assumptions that climate change will invalidate. The next generation will thus have to spend their surplus resources dealing with these adaptations, instead of leveraging themselves up into higher and better lives.
How does Valve's VR gear rank in user experience?
“The saddest part is that we’re not even talking about the problem. We’re just talking about how people are taking advantage of the problem.”

Ok so now that you’ve established who is taking advantage of the problem and how, now what?
You can see the schedule for the release on this page: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/schedule.html
Thanks for NFE!! That and FB Purity have reduced the time I spend Facebook to nothing, except for messages.

I put a bit of effort into finding extensions like this, and Distraction Free Youtube, Inbox when Ready, Amazon Lite, etc this year and I've been shocked and how much less "sticky" I'm finding the internet. Willpower and personal responsibility are great, but better yet is not even having to try.

When I use my phone, the difference is absolutely incredible, since I can't bring this huge suite of extensions with me. and as a result I've been uninstalling apps gradually over time -- you can disable surprisingly core functionality on Android, including the web browser.
The fully in ear design works very, very, very well once you figure out the proper tips for you. Otherwise, the around-the-ear IEM design works well too.
It's the problem of Facebook and PayPal that they have inadequate protections and blame the users for that.
I think the issue is of allowing a payment to go through without triggering any security checks.
Probably some basic checks should also be done whether a company publishing an app actually exist.
Read his book, God and Golem. The essence is all there including most of his projections for the future.

Besides predicting to a T multiple aspects of the world we're now experiencing, this book is full of insinuations about several conditions yet to arise (or maybe risen but yet to be discovered!). He doesn't explicitly lay them out, but leaves you to identify and connect the dots. This occultation of ideas is somewhat common in early cybernetics works.

Needless to say, the vision of Wiener will be seen by many who understand it as supremely negative.

An alternative is explored in 'Steps to an Ecology of Mind' by Bateson.
I don't know looking at the other parts the app looks legit, however TikTok asking for facebook login? That is where I would stop and think for a little bit.
I used to work on this project - water cooling is more efficient than air and heat generated by computing is the same. The heat ends up in the ocean anyways.
Globally, data centers account for 1-2% of the worlds total energy consumption. Any efficiency improvement in such a big piece of total energy consumption is very significant.
They have a few other similar games that uses the same tech and feel to them (Tanks instead of ships), but your point stands (and they are all F2P AFAIK, same formula).

I've had a insight as to what you're suspecting (for another similar game), and I can say that it is definitely something like the top 1% that generate most of the revenue, and the rest of the 99% serve as kind of an AI for them to dominate.
Unless you're in ad-tech there is no reason why you would.
Don't Think About Marketing Your Side Project