skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are doing the same about hydrogen right now. Notice that hydrogen is promoted as green fuel by oil companies. Why? Because 95% of our hydrogen is produced from natural gas. But they always talk about electrolysis, just like they used to talk about recyclability. Producing all the hydrogen we need by electrolysis would be way too inefficient, there are too many losses and we would be much better off if we just stored all the required electricity in batteries. Oil companies are promoting hydrogen because they know it will allow them to keep drilling oil and gas. It's like "Thank you for smoking" all over again.
CA owns 3% of its forest lands.
The droughts happen in multi year intervals, and the reservoir system hasnt been expanded since the 60s. The primary issue is fuel buildup and invasive species. Global warming is just icing on the cake.
> I’m a psychiatrist, and psychiatrists are kind of obsessive about preventing their patients from knowing anything about who they are outside of work.

Maybe that's true in the US. In the UK I follow a bunch of psychiatrists on twitter and they all use their real name. And they're strongly encouraged to use their real name by their regulator (the GMC) if they're making claims as a doctor on social media.
Not strictly.

At this stage of the studio, we are orienting to a more "senior" team, but that basically means senior+. We're not particular about titles as it's still a small, flat team. As the team grows, we'll gain the mentoring capacity for more junior talent, but for now, we're focused on an experienced team.
Finland is not a great comparison point though, since it's generally too wet. Forest fires do happen during dry spells in the summer, but not on a Californian/Australian scale, because a dry spell is measured in weeks, not years.
> Smith allowed people to put two plastic items in their bins: soda bottles and milk jugs. He lost money on them, he says, but the aluminum, paper and steel from his regular business helped offset the costs.

Wait, what?! He should've just said "aluminum paper and steel only" and earned greater profits. It's not like people have a choice of recycling providers.

The plastic recycling catastrophe wasn't caused by advertising. It was caused by entities irrationally subsidizing plastic disposal, for political reasons. Like this guy at a municipal waste facility. And like China.

People get finite-sized trash bins, and they must pay if they want a larger size. Make them put the plastic in the trash bin and they will get annoyed by plastic packaging. I know I do.
I think this is a bit of a meme that we keep telling ourselves.

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_7362899f13ec8816e5dee88b26...
According to Lee Kai-Fu who launched Google in China: "Chinese laws are clear about what foreign companies can do to operate in China. In TikTok's case, though, the company was left no choice but to consider a forced sale."

China doesn't routinely ban American internet companies for no apparent reason. The same laws laid in the clear are what the American competitors in China follow. Google proactively made the choice to exit China (it also somewhat didn't. Google ads has a sizable market share in China as does Facebook). This is not to say that I'm suggesting that they should have elected to follow Chinese laws. But it's not arbitrary.

This would be akin to saying the French are savages and routinely ban gun toting Americans from visiting so we should feel justified to ban any French from visiting. Sovereign governments have their own laws.
Global warming is just icing on the cake.

Or, ahem, gasoline on the fire.
Interesting things happen around this "undocumented" cases.

For example, imagine you expose a "map" API and you explicitly don't mention it's a hash map or some tree. You also don't claim the the iterator will be in order, but you fail to document that you explicitly don't promise any order at all.

Some users will not read the documentation and say "wait a minute, it doesn't claim whether any ordering is guaranteed nor it claims the contrary, hence I must assume it's undefined behaviour thus I can't rely on any ordering".

Instead some users will look at the behaviour and assume the documentation just forgot to mention that aspect (and if the implementation indeed iterates the map in order they'll just assume that's what the documentation should have written).

After all, just as code, documentation can have bugs and will be amended in subsequent releases.

Now, you finally realize that you forgot to say "the iteration order is undefined" and make a new release with that documentation fix. The question is: would you consider this a major "breaking" change or a minor point release?
Security through obscurity is not fool proof, but neither is cryptography in general. It's all about making the problem as difficult as reasonably possible. Someone could guess a private key by incredible luck according to Murphy's law and while the probability of that happening is so extremely improbable, it is not zero, and therefore not foolproof.
Sorry, wrong direction: sharks and horses are closer than sharks and tuna.
The way his writings and audience cut across political lines, I bet he’s happy to skip it.
> I guarantee you that nearly every digital asset breaks numerous laws in every developed country

Do you mean that Ethereum in fact has allowed collusion to happen within the greater context of the world more easily and at larger scales ? Such as by enabling groups of criminals around the world to collude together against the rest of us?

Not sure if that's what you were saying, but in any case, I find this an interesting thought when contrasted with the message of the article.
Given the date and the pronunciation "a-LIED", this sounds like the Mid-Atlantic accent, an invented accent that was taught in acting and preparatory schools in those days.

Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn were among the best-known practitioners of this accent. It was very common in movies and newscasts back then.

In the NBC Chimes Museum article, the announcer in the first audio clip under "1944 the fourth chime" is another good example of the Mid-Atlantic accent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

https://www.google.com/search?q=mid-atlantic+accent
It is estimated that 3 mil acres burned in 2020 so far.
But before the Golden Rush that number is estimated to be 4.5 mil of acres per year. We need better forest management which means more controlled burns.

Climate change is not the root cause here, it is an amplifier. Which means we need to plan for the effects of climate change too.
And the only hope to slow climate change is a global effort, or at the very least on a country level. California closes nuclear power plants earlier than expected and then LA county buys 18% of its electricity from Utah generated on coal plants.
Having used Java somewhat, the biggest pain points I encountered with checked exceptions was their incompatibility with highly generic code (aka streams). What if all library functions taking lambdas (e.g. map, filter) all took throwing functions as parameters (i.e. have an extra generic X argument for the exception type, like R apply(T arg) throws X) and simply rethrew those exceptions, AND have the exceptionless functions (R apply(T arg)) be a subtype of the throwing version so they are compatible? I haven't touched java in a while so I may have forgotten a thing or 2 about its type system
> oil and plastics executives began a quiet campaign to lobby almost 40 states to mandate that the symbol appear on all plastic

Yeah, but this was a really good thing (probably the only good thing the oil+plastic lobby has ever done).

Those symbols are a godsend for DIYers; before we had them you could never know if a piece of plastic could be glued to (and if so, with what glue) or what kind of chemicals it could safely hold (as demonstrated in _Breaking Bad_!)

Everything else they did was evil. But not this.
These figures are a few years old. You can't seriously consider 2020-2021 figures, considering how all economic activity has essentially been shut down for a solid 3-6 months. Revenue has plummeted.

Revenue numbers I quoted included the federal contributions, not CA alone. You can split hairs all you want about general fund vs. other subdivisions, but the fact remains that CA is an insane boom-and-bust state (it has been that way for the majority of its history) as far as its fiscal picture goes.
> price for some product between $5 and $10; the differences within the range reflect difficult-to-see factors such as the seller's internal costs, their own willingness to work at different wages, supply-chain issues and the like.

No! Why is it so difficult for people to understand that price is set by supply and demand? Cost has absolutely no influence on how much the customer is willing to pay.
I think that's a false dichotomy. For example, have new hires pair with someone who is making good progress on something medium sized and medium impact. Share in a nearly guaranteed success, learn, and no need to hoard one-pointers.
Of course we only hear about famous (or semi-famous) people

Off the top of my head...

Stephen Hsu of MSU

Greg Patton of USC

Bret Weinstein (a few years ago.. this backfired).

Jonathan Friedland (fired for using the N-Word in a meeting discussing sensitive words in PR),

Peter Boghossian (still is employed, but was harassed IRL and investigated under ethics charges after the grievance studies papers).

But, it's the famous people that are the most important for signalling that if you publicly voice an unpopular opinion you will have to endure retribution. It's the chilling effect that important as that will silence multiples for each public witch burning.

For most of human history being ostracized from your social group was a death sentence. We are wired to respond to negative group pressure. We learn the rules pretty quickly. Avoid certain topics, post anodyne content, virtue signal to my in group.
This is a totally valid question that is getting down votes it shouldn't. And the answer is yes, there are alternatives to burning.

Burning will return what the tree pulled out of the atmosphere, so it's already carbon neutral.

Decomposition and fertilization (eg hugelkulture) will also release greenhouse gases. So, again, carbon neutral.

Pyrolysis allows you to produce synthetic gas, biochar, and energy from the wood. Biochar is a useful industrial and agricultural product, and it's pretty much just solid carbon. Hypothetically you could bury it and be carbon negative, but there isn't really anyone doing that at scale.

You could also bury the wood deeply enough that it wouldn't re enter the carbon cycle, but wood is heavy, large, and difficult to move around.

I hope your down voters realize the intent of your question (can we sequester the carbon from forest waste/slash rather than releasing it?) and adjust their votes.
CA can put restrictions on land owned by individuals. What's your point?
It is mostly webshits heralding it as if they learnt computer science by knowing difference between stack and heap.

Especially the ruby and javascript communities are very popularity-obsessed.
Pipewire is actually the successor to pulse. Its already works as Jack replacement and can do video. Pulse is still in progress.
Is not recycleable for free. Always say that part. Because it can always be recycled for a little bit of money if we care a tenth as much as we pretend to.
>Cost has absolutely no influence on how much the customer is willing to pay.

Giffen goods are an example of where that isn't true. I have personally experienced it myself when I became more tempted to buy BTC as the price started rising.
The first thing I studied at uni was Political Science. I liked statistics more, but it did prompt me to read up on the many interpretations of what democracy is. To sum it up; it's deeply flawed, but it's also the the best we can do.

Democracy is what caused Socrates to drink poison, but at the same time it's also what has made freedom-loving countries the best places to live on earth. Within this system, there are various ways that you can amass undemocratic power, and make undue influence on others, and IMHO that is why Assange is still in jail. I'm not talking solely on "evil elites" here but also of the undue power of bureacracies and institutions that are built up by the very democracies they are meant to serve. And in this special case, diplomacy in particular.

This is why we should work to unravel these powers, to see them for what they are, not least to shed light on who benefits from them, so we can make a democratic decision upon if it benefits us as a people to have such institutions at all, or in what way they can be changed to better serve us. One of our tools for soft change is of course reform and reorganization. But in the face of unchanging and monolitic institutions, there is another way; to build up entirely new and competing institutions in order to challenge the decisions of the "powers of old," as it were.

I can name one such institution in Norway, for instance; Datatilsynet, the Data Inspectorate, that primarily works for the human right of privacy in terms of what kind of personal information the state and other actors can and cannot legally store in their computer systems. They are experts on these matters, and the law, and often advice courts and big institutions on matters regarding privacy, but also cryptography and other measures that make the storage of data safer for the individual. They were among the first to challenge the Data Storage Act, for instance, where all Norwegian internet protocol traffic (sender and receiver IP's and such) is to be stored by ISP's for at least six months to aid possible police investigations, for instance.

In Norway some of these actors are part of the state, like the Data Directorate, because we trust them to do their job for the people. But in other countries, it is perhaps better to have them as wholly private actors, as is often the case in the USA, for instance. But because The Data Inspectorate is part of the state, they are also respected that much more by other state actors than special interest groups, because they have real power granted to them by the people, and so they are authorized to intervene in matters of privacy and data security. So, perhaps one such institutions should also be made to intervene in matters of freedom of speech and persecution.
Post is flagged?!?

Why, oh, why?
The database key should be generated per encrypted database and then stored using something like the OSX keychain. The OS enforces that only a given application can retrieve that key (via application code signing).
This is not the first time rust crowd is being hyperbolic.
Rolling your own crypto: most definitely a bad idea.

Using existing best security practices AND adding in a few low risk plot twists: genius.
Fair enough. Now that you mention it, I remember how during the height of the lockdown cardboard pretty much ran out. People bought more stuff online (lots of cardboard in packaging), while there was no waste paper collection to fill the demand from the supply side.

There still isn't enough waste paper collection happening, really. The communal large containers are emptied at most once a week - and they have capacity for less than two days. People have a lot more cardboard packaging to get rid of, but with collection points hitting their capacity in 1/3 of the pre-covid time, there's a constant backlog to get through.

> last time they pulled this stunt back in 2011 or so

Wasn't aware of this historical detail. Thanks.
This same argument would work with cash, wouldn't it? If this is an effective way to launder money with any currency that doesn't have traceable records, do you think it's commonly done with cash? If it's not, why not, and why don't those reasons apply to crypto?

At least thinking about it myself, it seems like the conversation with an investigator might go something like this-

"Where did you get this money"

"I made this art, and then bought it from myself."

"Why?"

"No comment."

"...okay, where'd you get the money to buy it from yourself?"

...and now you're in the exact place you were before you tried the art thing, except you now look extra suspicious. There may, however, be some emotional benefit from letting your creative juices flow and expressing yourself, so I guess it's not all bad.

Or did I misunderstand what you were asking? Sorry- getting a bit late here.
It was a purposeful misspelling lol
Have NIMBYs gone too far now?
Have a source for that inflammatory plant claim? It's news to me..
I still don't really understand Linux audio layers and how all this stuff works together, how do I configure it, and so on. Is there some good manual/blogpost/etc that would explain that?
U.S. Company Faces Backlash After Belarus Uses Its Tech to Block Internet
In case that wasn't a rhetorical question, I use a Sennheiser 4.50BTNC every day and it works flawlessly, both on my phone and on my Linux computer (through a generic USB adapter).
If not for legal reasons, why is Poloniex no longer operating in the United States?
It still has nothing to do with cost though.

The only things influencing price is always the product and the consumer. How much it cost to make the product has nothing to do with that price, even for giffen goods.
I agree as with this all well :/
When they say "data is a new oil", they also mean that it should be processed to maximize value.
If carbon credits are implemented without massive fraud, I don't think it's fair to call them indulgences. If enough people bought carbon credits under a working system it would be a flood of money toward restricting carbon release and recapturing carbon.
2050 headline: How Social Media companies Misled the Public into Believing They were only connecting the society
If you transfer over $10k USD from one bank to another, or in any financial transaction, you are obligated to trigger an array of forms and the institutions must take actions to tell the government of your activity. In crypto, not taking similar actions won’t cause any issue because the government can’t revoke your “crypto license” that doesn’t exist. Good luck!
Not who you are responding to, but can they put restrictions on land under the federal BLM? My understanding is that the feds manage about 58% of California’s forestland, including much of what is on fire right now.

It’s a mess; the state and local government should do more, but also the feds, people should stop building up so much in the woods, etc. lots of blame in a complicated situation with no easy answers.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/08/13/california-u-s-forest-serv...
an non-scarce asset cannot have high value. I guess thats why there's this "data protectionism" trend, though it will probably fail
Exactly what I've been saying for years. Public perception of incinerators is pretty poor though.
Under the GDPR it is permitted to keep PII, resposibly, if that PII is used for conducting normal business, which should ideally be anonymised. Arguably, apps that you have downloaded from an online store fall under this category. You can close an AppleID, thereby deleting donload info, but you'll lose access to the apps that you have purchased, including IAPs. There is absolutely a discussion to be had around that, but that's moot with regard your point. Asking Apple to delete the info about app purchase history is self defeating. A better question to aim at Apple is to ask if the data is anonymised. The same is true of Google Play.

See https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Have you missed the "specially with libraries without any kind of documentation" part of the sentence?
I’m really interested in what you feel about the potential applications of CS/ML to sociology. Or if you might have any resources that talk about that.

I ask because I’m enrolled in a research program in “computational humanities”. My initial feeling towards the program is that it’s kind of a sham.

Computational Humanities seems to be as computational as an accountant using Excel for their work. Not that I particularly mind, I’m not very interested in the computational aspect at all.
Related HN discussion on Aug 5 of the Luau github page [1]: "Luau A fast small, safe gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua" [2]

[1] https://roblox.github.io/luau/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059432
LoL. As if rust build times are much better than C++.

The rust compiler / internals section has very few experts. The compiler produces poor LLVM IR and compile times are as poor as C++ __Despite having modules__. Basic performance improvements like ```TrustedLen``` took a lot of time to surface despite everyone touting "zero cost abstractions".

Given the hype rust is getting by ruby/js hipsters learning it, you would think they would have a better, faster compiler backend instead of depending on LLVM cruft which can't even utilize rust's Mutable Xor Shared guarantees.
This is a solved problem, just rarely implemented in real life on a large scale. Karma systems.

You can be anonymous and at he same time have some valuable history of past interactions.

Slashdot, Stack Overflow, etc. are good examples.
> Because it's an existential need for many people trying to run an online business?

There's Android, Windows, Linux and the web. And for games, also the PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch.

> And because most Apple users don't actually know what the ramifications of ramifications of Apple's policies are and instead blame the app developers instead?

Developers can pull out of iOS and inform users to use Android etc. instead.

> And because Apple makes it practically impossible to run apps on an iPhone any other way, with even personal use requiring a reinstall every 7 days or paying Apple 100 dollars a year?

Users who want to do that can use Android etc.

> And because Apple's 30% extortion fee

Android, Windows, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Steam, Epic etc. have the same extortion.
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You are comparing a drug kingpin to normal transactions for commerce. The state cannot attack small amounts. You are dreaming of a dragnet that does not and IMO cannot exist.
I'm not convinced that more than a tiny minority of people want or need the pain that comes with truly remaining anonymous from state-level agencies.
There isn't anything especially natural happening on a farm either, they are artificial environments to the same extent as a city. There isn't going to be anything there that isn't being managed by humans.

And if our artificial crops collapse we're doomed. Nature can't support the population levels we've reached.
What are the consequences to humans if wildlife declines past the point of no return?

I know bees are absolutely necessary for pollination, but what will the absence of wildlife do to our species?
In 1991?
A Guide to SVG Animations (SMIL)
$14k fine for causing 4 deaths?

Seems legit
Renewables don't work short term without gas peaking plants, which are not renewable and are extremely bad for the environment.

"Renewables", as usually pitched, are anything but renewable. Solar with gas peaking plants is not renewable. Wind with gas peaking plants is not renewable. Nuclear on the other hand, is extremely green and can be working at 100% capacity on windless sunless drought-stricken days.
Adding JMAP would be a definite +1 for me. I use fastmail and their web interface is good and mobile app is better.

I use Thunderbird on my Mac because I need things like smart signatures that are dependent on my outgoing email address but I want a combined Inbox.

A native app that supports JMAP and provides that sort of integration would let me migrate from Thunderbird, which while it's been awesome for the years I've used it, is showing its UI age.