skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...Windmills kill ~300k a year

That is a low estimate:

>...The most comprehensive and statistically sound estimates show that bird deaths from turbine collisions are between 140,000 and 500,000 birds per year. As wind energy capacity increases under the DOE’s mandate (a six-fold increase from current levels), statistical models predict that mean bird deaths resulting in collisions with turbines could reach 1.4 million birds/year.

Though the issue isn't so much the number of birds, but the type:

>...Although fatality rates for raptors may be lower compared to passerines, raptors are especially vulnerable to collisions due to their flight behaviors. Given the life history traits of raptors (i.e., long-lived and low reproductive rates) their populations are more at risk of decline from the number of different sources of impacts that affect these species on a daily basis.

https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds/...

This isn't to say that means we should drop wind, but we shouldn't hand wave away the issue and pretend it is not an issue.

>...that can be reduced 70% by painting one blade black

A lot of different techniques have been used to try and limit bird deaths and painting blades a different color is one of them, but it doesn't reduce deaths by 70%.
Ubur's next spinoff:

Uburinal - the potty that comes to you
Yeah, as long as one stays away from the cheapest lines, Lenovos are pretty good (and yes, they all have a LED camera light nowadays). I reckon their trackpad is worse than in MBPs, but they more than compensate for it with a much better keyboard.
5G is Not the Cause of Covid-19
We tried that during the 1950s with the Communist Party as the early adopter, didn’t work out too well.
At four times the computation, which is a pretty big problem when you’re trying to authenticate every packet on a >= 10 Gb/s network

Using a better hash like Blake2 makes a lot more sense
There were a lot of people during the civil rights era who were upset that they couldn't criticize Martin Luther King or it would be equated as being against equal rights.

Maybe the problem is that you're overly concerned with how you can safely criticize the movement. Do you personally think black lives matter? Have you spent as much time criticizing the problems that created the movement as you have spent criticizing the movement itself?
I like JSON Schema and I wish Typescript did something more like it with it type definitions.
If you want to serve private content, you have to encrypt stuff and authenticate users.

If you want to serve public content, you still need to encrypt it to avoid a MITM attack.

SSH solves the first problem trivially, but is slower. HTTPS solves the second problem trivially, and the first problem with some work (login flow or client certificates).

I only see a case for FTP for underpowered hardware like older RPi serving stuff locally. But I suspect the bottleneck would be in the USB-connected NIC, not even im the CPU.
Thank you! I'm much obliged.
I built and run a stock market email that is fully passive earning around $60mo https://bullish.email. Probably can earn a lot more if I put the effort in doing marketing but I have more fun writing code.
I am certainly not happy with Tim Cook from a Product and Strategy perspective. But from an Operation / COO perspective. He is second to none. So good that I put him as Genius in this Category.
Google should add direct download links for public domain content, but that's another fight entirely.
> Or that the original upload itself be a violation?

The original uploads are on the artists' channels and are monetised (i.e. when I accessed 2 out of 3 of them, an ad played, so I assume some of the cash the adverstisers paid Youtube somehow wound up at the relevant copyright owners).
I do think they do plenty more than "yay" or "nay", but the lack of courage among our legislatures is evidenced in both the California legislature and Congress, so I'm less inclined to think term limits is the relevant issue

In California I think the huge dominance of the landowning class is more pertinent.

Really, I want a non-FPTP parliamentary system. Politics should officially be a "team sport" as it is in practice, and should be a battle of ideologies not personalities. Coincidentally, these means (to me at least) that not having term limits is way less of potential problem, and so I would be against having them.
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Bullshit. Is the author long Filecoin or something?

It's easy to migrate code if need be.

What's more likely - ad-infested SourceForge goes bust, Gitlab gets acquired by Google or Github goes bad? I'm very happy that MS owns GH, it's been getting better since MS acquired them and MS has enough resources to keep improving it.
Thank you for that reply - particularly the informative explanation.

I was sort of assuming it must be a reference to the parallel schemes because with SHA256(MD5(x)), once you had an MD5 collision you would be done.
Or content from the public domain.
I’ve worked for a few commercial equipment makers. Talked to Oakbrook and Romeoville but never been inside.

Every time McDs changes CEOs I feel bad because that means almost every current project is going to be shitcanned as the new person tries to make their mark. Are you still there now?
You should really check out Rebol's ability to build GUIs and so forth. Generally not as full featured as WinForms, but infinitely easier to use.
But there are even better choices for non-cryptographic hash functions (FNV and MurmurHash for instance) because they were designed without the need to have a tradeoff between cryptographic security and efficiency.
In ruby:

require 'cgi'
require 'json'
require 'net/http'
res = Net::HTTP.get URI 'https://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=aqz-KE-bpKQ'
vars = CGI.parse res
json = JSON.parse vars["player_response"].first
pp json["streamingData"]["formats"]
Your post and links got me thinking: in many ways hydrogen is happening a lot more now than nuclear. China is building tons is alkaline electrolyzers. Europe is looking to PEM. There are new MW-scale electrolyzers used for silicon production. There's an active industry that is scaling and innovating and growing. Nuclear is in decline, with all the giants failing. The few startups are working on engineering projects where iteration is measured in decade time scales rather than months.

The hydrogen industry exciting right now, and honestly I can't imagine saying that even a year ago. Europe's investing tens of billions of dollars in it, which will result in massive changes and improvements for the technology. A similar investment in nuclear would not move the needle at all.
The reality is most people struggle to distinguish 128kbit AAC from the original, especially in typical listening conditions.
Someone in my company is using MD5 for passwords. This is recent software, like built in the last decade. Passwords were not a mystery to anyone when it was written, at least not anyone who cared about security.

I don't know what to say about it. It's not the first time something dumb has happened, and I'm tired of screaming at the brick wall.
I felt like everything was at least tolerable up until I read this:

> In a particularly memorable example, a few years ago the Samoan islands wanted to be on the other side of the international date line to get the same weekends as their Australian trading partners. So on midnight Dec 29th, they changed their UTC offset from -11 to +13 UTC, skipping Dec 30th and going straight to Dec 31st.

How you could program your way out of that, and plan around that as a possibility in scheduling/calendars, is a bit mind bendy. "Turns out this day won't exist for you" is never something I'd have considered a possibility.
The Indonesian accident was definitely related to maintenance - the AoA snsors are external, and at least one AoA sensor had been damaged.

The Indonesian NTSB found the pilots, mechanics and Boeing equally responsible.
> C was the K&R book

How could this be when zero implementations behaved in accordance with K&R?

The authors and fans may have claimed it as a “spec”, but it never was a functional “spec” in the real world.
There is some substance to the claim, although the people highlighting it are predictably motivated: https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herse...

Communism can be pretty fashionable these days.
Ok, there is an organization (several actually, including at least one huge scam https://mobile.twitter.com/bri_sacks/status/1272624867905425... ). But they are not the most interesting part of the movement.
> On the other hand, the modern carpenters sometimes go a littler overboard with their tools and have problems that old-school carpenters don't have, especially with their tools randomly stopping working in the middle of a job. It might not be often, but it happens.

Great extra point. I'm often surprised at how much random breakage other people just accept as normal in "modern" webdev (meaning, for better or worse, you're involving javascript somewhere in the process). Put another way, I'm frustrated by how much I'm expected to just 'deal with' because a seeming large number of other people don't see a problem with it (or don't see enough of a problem with it).
Depends what you mean by "provably secure." Hashing algorithms are usually only practical because of what compromises they make to achieve "good enough."

- At the most basic level, (practical) hashing cannot map all inputs to the same number of outputs, since consistent output length is usually highly desirable. This means that for sufficiently long inputs you will get collisions. What determines how good a hash is is often how hard that is to do.

- If your inputs map 1:1 to outputs, rainbow tables become harder but you open yourself up to a number of other possible attacks starting with the obvious length analysis.

- Hashing also often has to be very performant, which leads to its own compromises, but in many applications (like message digests) throughput performance is given a lot of weight.

In the most formal way, I guess it's possible to have a provably secure hash for all possible attacks, but this would most likely require a 1:1 mapping between inputs and outputs. This would be impractical for a few reasons.
Wouldn't adblockers violate this just as much as youtube-dl does, then?
Sometimes we have to remember the bad things in order to never let them happen again.

Though my country fought at the side of the axis during WWII, the government did not sent the local jews to the camps. I was at a gathering where a jewish woman who was a girl at the time talked about her experiences during the war. Truly moving experience that gave me much deeper understanding of the times, what people have been, and what they are capable of both good and bad.
As a technical aside (to the main topic of this HN thread), I had written a blog post some years ago, describing some uses of youtube-dl, and some commentary giving an overview of what its source does:

youtube-dl, a YouTube downloader in Python:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/03/youtube-dl-yourube-downl...
But HyperCard wasn't really for making GUI programs - i do not even think many people who used it viewed themselves as programmers (at least not any more than people who make complex stuff on Excel do). Sure, you can place buttons and input fields, but it was more of a hyperlinked painting program that also allowed you to enter interactive elements.

I think it was closer to something like Powerpoint (which i think also allows you to put interactive elements and jump between slides) and Access (though actually Microsoft Works' database is much closer to it) than even Visual Basic (as was mentioned in another comment).
I dunno, I believe Microsoft's Azure Notebooks predates Colab and perhaps gave Google the kick to make it public, and Colab was a spinout of an internal tool with a rather rocky relationship with open source that has still been a pain point I run into using it for teaching ("what is the difference between Colab and Jupyter?" is a question without an especially clear answer). Also they stole the name from GE's old internal social network.

That latter one, at least, was not entirely serious criticism.

I'm not sure that even Colab is an unmitigated win for the company, it does definitely have "that AWS feeling" of an internal tool that was made a product without really retooling it for that purpose thoroughly. This has kind of become the norm in cloud platforms, though.
> I'm terrified of climate change.

Why? There's no rational reason to be terrified, unless you've been propagandized.

Climate change is generally considered to be a gradual problem eveolving over the next 80 years, while we've had corona pandemics since 2003. People die every day of poverty and malnutrition.
Correct. It's the same as "antifa". I can't criticize the group without being called a nazi.

These things are named this way to weaponize them.
Dude, you’re clearly not married. The last thing most married people I know want is more time with the in-laws. I didn’t dislike my in-laws but something like that would never have been in my list of “top 50 things to do after work”.

I know you were just reaching for an example, I’m just saying it’s a pretty bad one. A better one would be “the kids can spend time with grandparents far away”, that’s an actually-desirable outcome for most people.
I'm not afraid of the power source, I'm afraid of the cost and trickle down taxation imposed on us to do that instead.
In the US*.
This is the argument for term limits, BTW: Incumbuants are terrified of their next campaign (which is a every 2 years threat for representatives in the House, btw.) whereas more term limits means more brazen lame ducks.

Then again, lame ducks need a job afterword so it's a bad augment too.

My conclusions is that term limits seam mostly for show, with muddle benefits and disadvantages. Perhaps the real policy move is term limits + enough UBI that the lame ducks are truly safe no matter what.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition is a neat idea which is like term limits but on steroids: you're as suddenly on the job as you are suddenly off it. I think this example, with the heightened stakes / wider Overton window, makes for the more interesting debate.
If the argument is that widespread technological improvements always come from heavy investment in something so technologically challenging, then why Yet Another Particle Collider instead of the myriad other technologically challenging physics experiments we could be investing in? What's specific to a particle collider that produces these serendipitous side-effect advances compared to, say, a space telescope or other ambitious experiments?
And another angle, if you want to store a snapshot of a repo on IPFS
https://github.com/whyrusleeping/git-ipfs-rehost
Nuclear is expensive due to regulation. Renewables are going to destroy vast swaths of the world. The drive to get raw materials with strip the amazon of her forests. All of this because we’ve adopted a fevered dream of storage from solar or wind.
I'm sure the developers have the whole thing on their local machines and it would be terrible if it was uploaded somewhere in a country that doesn't give a squat about DMCA.
I got one and here it is in unedited form: https://pastebin.com/SKmBytXX
And what's unique about that to Yet Another Particle Collider compared with the myriad other challenging, data-heavy experiments we could be investing in?
You seem to be reading “the purpose of this source code is to circumvent technological protection measures” as though it means “this source code can be used to circumvent technological protection measures.” There is a difference.
When you say "having an attitude", is that in derogatory term? Or having an attitude that's good, happy, motivating, etc?

I've been passed for promotion for positions that I clearly qualified for because I was too happy, yup, you read that right. Then I've also been promoted despite the fact that I clearly didn't give a shit. Honestly, I don't really know anymore. I rather just be helpful and nice to others, it makes me feel better.
> I’d be curious to know how BLM leaders are “communists”.

One possible explanation:

Patrisse Cullors specifically has credited Marx, Lenin, and other Communist figures as ideological inspiration (which isn't the same thing as being a Communist, to be sure.)

I think it was also Cullors who made a comment about herself and one of the other founders (Alicia Garza, I think) being “trained Marxists” in, as I recall, the context of explaining some of their strategic/orgabizing approaches, not ideological goals.
You're welcome! I remember digging hard to find that page when I ran into the same issue you described above. (:
This is one of the many ways that shows how broken (in the "defective software" sense, not necessarily directly the cryptographic sense, yet) the entire PGP/GPG ecosystem is.
Couldn't you concatenate the two hashes? Twice the size but you'd have to find a collision for both algorithms.
> Interesting idea, but I don't see how you can solve a technical issue by legal means.

Why do you think that Chrome's dominance is a technical issue rather than an issue of default bundling on Google devices, advertising on Google properties, and other anti-competitive practices?

From a technical perspective, Firefox already keeps up pretty well with Chrome. It's better in some areas, and worse in others, but it's definitely competitive.

Even if you want to throw Firefox out the window and start a new browser from scratch, the existence of Web DRM is one of the biggest issues that's keeping you from building a new browser on top of V8 or Servo. If you want to license Widevine from Google, they're not going to approve it for a highly experimental browser. There isn't a technical solution to that problem at all -- it's entirely a legal problem.
In the very best case, it is indeed easy! I've seen the entire process take less than a month for a completely novel structure - those were extremely lucky cases of course, but my point is that it costs very little to set up some screens and see what happens. (Small globular proteins of course, not ribosomes or ion channels.)
Lot of consolidation opportunity in the marketing/email/CRM space.

Could fairly easily collapse all of the following into your SFDC stack if you add their Marketing Cloud (fka ExactTarget) module:

MailChimp

MailGun

Mandrill

Marketo - basically a CRM like SFDC

Outreach.io

Sigstr - believe SFDC is building (or already has) similar functionality in their CRM

SurveyMonkey & Qualtrics - both survey tools that you could consolidate or potentially migrate to built in SFDC/MC survey tools
oh. why dont you try aurora store? that app allows you to download actual play store apps which is what i use. it uses anonymous google accounts to login and give you access.
This is a fun story for a Friday evening. If we peg the beginnings of intentional electromagnetic emission from our planet at 1900, then by 2226 all of these stars will be able to "receive" or potentially detect, non-random emissions from the planet which will scale exponentially both in power and in frequency.

Those stars that are currently between 50 and 70 light years away will be experiencing our "golden age of television" about now.

Perhaps it would be useful to have a SETI project that focused on EM emissions to see if any of them have started transmitting. It would be hilarious if the first reception from an alien civilization was "Who shot JR?"
It is not an "unreasonable search" if you install the cloud-enabled camera that is embedded in some other device yourself and click ok on a ten page legal contract you didn't read.
A game I have been playing for 25 years. Usually try to get it running on every new device as a poc - latest was a Pi 4.
If you have an argument make it. Even in your new link you've editorialised "satanic monument" to "religious display".
YT Music is atrocious. On the bright side, it encouraged me to try self-hosting my library (using Navidrome). I haven't figured out how to replace GPM's recommendation engine yet, but that's not a big deal because YTM's recommendations are useless.
As crazy as it sounds, they should probably switch to a Chromium "back-end" so they can innovate on top of it - like Brave and the new Edge. Firefox has no chance at competing with these multi-billion-dollar juggernauts on the browser engine itself.

They should build a brand as the privacy-focused flavor of Chromium.

Chromium is the new Linux.
I wonder when chastising outsiders for extrapolating from summer that winter must be hellish overtook Herb Caen's "don't call it frisco" as the ultimate S.F. meme shibboleth?
M. vaccae is an fascinating example of beneficial bacteria found in soil! I think you can simply breathe it in from being around soil, but don't quote me on that

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_vaccae

https://www.google.com/search?q=m+vaccae
I think a lot of semi-delusion happens around whether or not cryptographic hash functions are used for integrity and what kind of integrity.

I would argue against this two ways: First, if the only concern was bit-error detection, forensic tools would use a simple checksum. CRC, for example, is far faster to compute than any of these cryptographic functions. Second, one of the functions of evidential custody is to provide some defense against malicious tampering with evidence, even if unlikely. And for this purpose MD5 is clearly an inferior choice to a SHA2 function.

The real reason that forensics tools stick to MD5, I would contend, is a combination of the state of the art in filesystem forensics tools being surprisingly bad and bureaucratic lockin related to documentation and interoperability (the chain of custody form asks for MD5, after all, not SHA512).

This kind of factors into one of my hills to die on, which is that careless or cargo-cult selection of hash functions causes problems. When you select a hash or integrity function for files, you need to make a clear decision about whether your goal is to prevent collision or simply to protect bit errors. You should then choose a function that is state-of-the-art for one of those two categories. The whole line of reasoning behind "MD5 is good enough because we're not really using it for security" is just asking for trouble. When you split the middle you either have a bad integrity check, a bad security control, or more likely both (MD5).
In that analogy, the RIAA is saying “hunting knives are illegal, because they’re primarily designed or marketed for hunting, which is illegal” and you are saying “that’s unfair because I use my hunting knife to cut pizza.” The analogy breaks down because hunting knives aren’t illegal, but copyright circumvention devices are.