skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your points about mining are a bit beside the point. I don't actually disagree that the mining sector needs to be cleaned up. But our economy generates demand for lots of things we dig up out of the ground. If anything, it seems that the likes of Tesla are vaguely being responsible here and are actually making efforts to clean up that part of their business by working to source what they need in a sustainable way.

Mining is not besides the point, mining is a potential major bottleneck for renewables and has huge environmental costs that should be discussed. Also Tesla is trying to reduce the ecological and human costs of producing battery metals by bringing production/mining to North America, and switching to battery chemistries that don't use cobalt. However those non cobalt battery chemistries use lots of nickel. Also it is becoming extremely difficult to start a mine in the United States. Polymet has been trying to get their copper/nickel mine permitted for over a decade, if you include exploration, which started in the 80's, this project has been going on for decades. Starting a new mine is a very slow process and as the whole world switches to clean energy, demand will surge and new mines will be needed.

> You seem to imply that a scale change is needed on the mining front to bootstrap renewables. I doubt that that's as big of a deal that you seem to imply.

There is plenty of research, articles and information about the incoming surge in demand for metals due to the switch to clean technologies. For example this report from the world bank says that production of some metals would need to increase by nearly 500%[1]

[1]: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/05/11/m...
They do, just not emaciated zombie urchins.
Re-read my sentence about prosecuting crimes being the job of civil authorities not some Twitter moderator. I would much rather somebody who did something like you mentioned feared being arrested instead of just banned from Twitter.
I very much admire the irony of the ultimate conclusion of the long I-know-you-know game: Pure observation; non-interventionalism.

Inability to act for fear of losing the value of the method of information gathering that provided the requirement to make the decision to act or not.

International espionage revealed as nihilism.
I think you missed a rather crucial "not" in that first paragraph.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25970101
I actually do something very similar. The light doesn't fade in, but I have some strip lighting which turns on before my alarm. It's a great way to get moving in the morning without a jarring alarm.
Many businesses are moving to digital only.

A digital-only business accepting only crypto will avoid taxes AND have it hold appreciate.

Personally, I'm waiting for an crypto-based onlyfan: it's the perfect niche: performers will decide if they want to convert to fiat, or keep their hold for purchases the government may dislike (like drugs: dead drop are an ideal use of crypto) or cashing it abroad like in lavish amenities that cater to a lucky few and only take crypto (yes, they already exist, and I can only predict them becoming more accessible)

There is a parallel economy emerging. You can deny it, but it's happening.
Just to be clear, almost every species that has ever existed has gone extinct. And almost all of that has happened before humans existed.

That being said, it's almost definitely due to humans, I just wanted to be pedantic.
For Twitter: I believe that's just part of their signup flow

Likely significant reduces the bounce rate compared to requiring a phone number while creating the account
> “Biological objects can have a complexity that cannot be simulated by a digital computer,” Austin says.

I couldn't find more details in the article. Any idea what those details that couldn't be simulated with digital computers (but could be with the simple robots) might be?
I will not be, but some people might. Please consider the history of the world.
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You may be interested in Lossy Zip [1]. It's coming up on 22 years old, as of April 1st.

Admittedly, it's somewhat unclear why the format didn't take off. At its core, it uses the Lessis-Moore algorithm to perform a global bit-wise sort of its inputs, then performs a run-length encoding (plus some other magic) on the results to achieve up to 100% compression.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20050402203136/http://lzip.source...
Sooner or later someone will get frustrated with the no-appeal treatment and go all Matt Damon (Elysium) directly after the management.
As long as the switch itself is dropped. Which one to drop is probably moot and benefits could depend on the region.

It's easier to adjust local schedule than to switch the clock back and forth.
I counted closed issues intentionally — this isn’t some one-off matter that’s easily resolved, as clearly hundreds of people have struggled with these issues over the years, and this should not be dismissed.

It’s far better aesthetically than Python. It’s just too different from the other libraries I use to disrupt my cognitive flow. You might say there are too many ways to do something, too, which makes it that much harder to figure out what code written by someone else (or myself three months ago) does. I also severely dislike seeing calls to eval or unevaluated code within the main body of my program —- quoted code looks awful and I trust it less.

It’d be interesting to see DT repackaged as its own tool with its own syntax. As it stands, it’s constrained by R and it has no comparable ecosystem to the tidyverse around it.
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Should probably be "reactive anime girl", unless she opposes social progress and political reform ;)
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If you see a patient in the ER, and something you did causes an effect a week later, how does your facility enable to you learn about it?
I had assumed it was magnets!
None that she has mentioned, though I don't think they’ve had any really really bad storms this year.
Setting aside the cultural superiority complex: people in North and South America were severely hindered by the lack of large beasts of burden.

It's hard to create an industrialized society without them.

Even assuming "industrialized society" is the ideal, which, given our multiple ongoing ecological catastrophes, isn't necessarily a safe assumption.
To be fair, I think FlatBuffers was also designed with game data in mind. But I agree it seems like a great use case to skip schema evolution -- since you can always rebuild all the data files when you change something. You could probably get away with skipping validation, too.
So can people out in public without masks on be charged with any of these things?
It's HN so it may not be. In Japan, main family is the superior family while branch families are treated as lower class. This imperial system is still very much prevalent and map to skin too.
Mostly corrosion. The half lives involved, combined with the great expense of safely adjusting these things after they're put to rest, means that you would really like something really dry and remote. Fear of contaminating ground water is incredibly sensible to me, at least. It'd be a hell of a thing to get Yucca Mountain un-cancelled...
You might be thinking about:

https://github.com/apple/password-manager-resources

or the related:

https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-change-password-url

But mainly if you are responsible for a system and you're willing to do work to improve security your first focus should be "implement WebAuthn so my users can stop worrying about passwords entirely" not "I wonder if more complicated password handling would help somehow?"
I feel like there are also some jobs is rather not be too public about. I got customers finding me and trying to reach out directly in much more mundane scenarios. If I worked at SpaceX in an engineering role, I think I'd be keeping it pretty private (not secret).
I remember trying. I think I even got one program typed all the way in. I spent months trying to get some adventure game typed in, but never got all the way to the end. Eventually I disccoered BBSes, which were great until I hit my download limit and I hadn't managed to download anything that wasn't already on all the other BBSes that I frequented and so I didn't get much that way. Eventually I found archives on the internet, but by then I had already moved onto BSD - I did something with emulators, but not much.
> Start writing you state government officials and get your laws changed.

I'm lazy. I travel instead. Medical tourism gives me higher quality healthcare.

> EVERYTHING

You wish. I use tor and have had no social network presence for over 10 years.
This is unbelievably sad. I learned to scuba dive in southern California in the early 90s. Kelp was ubiquitous back then, and it harbored all manner of marine life. Swimming through a kelp forest was a magical experience.

No more. :-(
Starlink does create some real increased difficulties for Earth-based astronomical observations.

But by playing its part in SpaceX's goal of driving down the cost of access to space, it also creates real increased opportunities for space-based astronomical observations.
Calvin and Hobbes is a great comic, but I will never understand the level of hero worship Bill Watterson enjoys on the internet. People pour over his work like religious texts, looking for new lessons and ways to apply his wisdom. It's a bit weird, frankly.
That's an interesting thought. Is it easy to extract this in another form? Like coax spdif? Or do you need a home theater amp with hdmi in?
The thing about enforcing the law is that it's still just politics. You can't suddenly start fining everyone without expecting a backlash. A law only works well when most people are respecting it, not when most people are breaking it.
the clock is effectively a human construct. It would make little difference one way or another if there was no twice-a-year time change. You can not change the number of hours a point on the earth receives daylight over a 24 hour period, and you can not change the fact that axial tilt means the amount of time you do receive daylight changes over the course of the year.
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> In science and philosophy, a just-so story is an untestable narrative explanation for a cultural practice, a biological trait, or behavior of humans or other animals. The pejorative[1] nature of the expression is an implicit criticism that reminds the listener of the essentially fictional and unprovable nature of such an explanation. Such tales are common in folklore and mythology (where they are known as etiological myths—see etiology).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
A sudden flood of sellers will cause the price to crash. At that point, the question is if the price can recover. In theory it could, but I wouldn't be so confident, as the currency just lost a big chunk of its market.
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That "version history" page is just a changelog. It also doesn't make sense unless people know what the project is.

The other projects you mentioned are orders of magnitude better known and have been discussed a ton on HN. In that scenario we take a completely different approach. I wrote about this at length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428. Funnily enough it happened to be in a thread about Inkscape.

When a project has never been discussed before on HN, we routinely change URLs to the project home page so that people get a chance to learn about it. In the current case the project had been discussed before, but only a couple times and not since 2017—that binds more closely to the "never-discussed" scenario than the "much-discussed" one, which is why I changed the URL.

If you look at the last paragraph of the post I just linked to, where it says "For obscure projects", you'll notice an explanation of exactly what I did in the current case. But the "no one is unhappy with the mods" part has now officially been falsified!
The only thing that can be done is have fewer children. Everything else is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

The good news is that this is already happening in most places. The bad news is that population growth is still out of control in Africa and parts of Asia, and may lead to a environmental crisis before population growth gets under control.
Very hard to definite art as qm constructuinis quit an art. That is why I love the Popper Criteria can it be refuted. And may I add is that the theory is trying its best to be refuted. If it is, science. If it is not, arts.

And any good effort is an art. Unless some has to add an element of empathy, demonstrating something extra.
The obvious thing is to install solar on your roof. I'm hoping my system goes live this week (I've been hoping that for 4 months, but snow meant they couldn't get on the roof to finish that last bit)
If your numbers are correct, the overall point still stands.
For a somewhat encouraging counterpoint to this statement, check out the book "More From Less." It describes a lot of positive trends including decreasing demand for many resources whose extraction is damaging to the environment. Some examples: we farm far less land in the United States than we used to while producing more food, and that unused area slowly reverts to forest; we use less metal to make containers for the same volume of liquid. There's still plenty to worry about, but more positive signs than you'd think.
In WW2, the US would send spotter planes out into the Pacific where they knew Japanese boats were, wait for them to report that they had been spotted, and then attack.

So inaction isn't inevitable, it's a choice.
You can click on one of the messages in the SVG to be taken to the source message, which also shows a more usable threading view.
I agree with you, but we live in a world where we need to be grateful for webpages that use standards-based OTP, and don't see 2FA as just another opportunity to make you install their mobile app. (Looking at Steam and many others...) WebAuthn is wayyy too much to ask nowadays.
That's not impatience, the page is broken, unless your network is super slow.
Then use Tweetdeck, and leave the "activity" column closed. The only things in your "home" column are things tweeted or retweeted by people you follow, and you can exclude the retweets if you want. There's other filters too.

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
>We can’t even contain plastic bags.

So definitely don't give radioactive waste away for free at checkouts.
But that is entirely artificial scarcity. The fact is that they could be produced perfectly; the physical prints need physical security, because if copies were allowed to be made, it would be difficult to know who owns the original.

If the provenance of the real item could be guaranteed, the fact that you have a really good copy wouldn't matter; people would still pay to own the original.

That's exactly what an NFT is; digital security for a digital print. People who buy NFTs don't care that someone else has a copy, they value the artificial scarcity provided by the NFT.

Look, the fact is that if you like a Picasso, you can have a perfect copy made, and you won't be able to tell the difference between the two. In fact, in a blind test, you may end up liking the copy more. The fact that you value the original more because Picasso touched it is totally, absolutely in your head. Empirically, there is no reason why this should make a difference to you.

And then you have a digital token that Picasso personally signed with his private key.

There are a lot of examples at the intersection of this. If you buy a Damien Hirst, the artist may well never have touched the piece - these are being produced by staff. Sol LeWitt's Wall Paintings exist as instructions that different artists re-execute over an over again.

In all these cases, enjoyment of the art is available to everyone; you can have a really good copy. It is totally disconnected with what people value when they pay large sums of money, which is entirely artificial.
Differential diagnosis is a valuable medical technique... and you want to eliminate all possible baseline information.
We are going to upgrade from LEGO Boost + block based coding [1] to LEGO Mindstorms + Python [2] this year.

[1] https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/help/products/electronics...

[2] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj_k_RHuTqaUojvL-J76TVjG2...
I take a look at the list and found this:
https://github.com/prospero78/Oberon07ru

Looks interesting. I wonder how hard/easy to port this to Linux/Mac, for example.
For some reason Israel is sucking the west technology to provide to a totalitarian country. It learning lesson from nazi German I suppose.
I think it's meant to be closer to "we're not special to the universe, which would not notice our passing at all".
Or by using Tweetdeck.
> the clearly obvious determining factor in gun violence is the simple number of weapons

Except that this simply is not true.

Gun violence in the us is not correlated with gun ownership.

It is correlated with poverty. It’s as simple as that.

This is because ‘gun violence’ is just violence.

Calling it ‘gun violence’ makes it seem like it’s about guns, but it really isn’t.
You can't ignore local pollution while attempting to drive down global emissions.
And there is a compromise to be had here... a one-time 30 minute change, and we’re done. There is strong consensus to eliminate the time change, but which time to choose as permanent seems quite divided. Compromise and let’s move on.
Wouldn't inference based on what they are doing and where they are doing it be pretty useful? Like overwhelmingly so?
This sounds like how nvidia have implemented Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) into computer graphics cards for gaming. Allowing people to run at higher resolutions (e.g. 4k) and in some cases the image looks better than native.
People lived in the north prior to the invention of electricity, so it's possible. Maybe more difficult now due to the quantity of firewood that would be needed with a larger population? Architecture (and dense urban development) plays an important role in electricity-free livability across various climate conditions. Some buildings work well in the cold, some work well in the heat. That's not to say you as an individual can address these problems, but society as a whole can design urban systems which support low-energy living in even difficult conditions.
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>>Elon Musk Mars plan branded 'delusional' by astrophysicist

Maybe, but if you don't dream big you can't accomplish big things.

He's probably going to be the first private citizen to have control over who or what goes to Mars. He once said that he wanted to be buried in Mars. He now has the money and the company that can make that happen. 10 years ago that would have been thought as crazy. Amazing...
Honestly loved the style of Sidonia. I can see why you might not like it, but that's an art style choice more than anything else.
They do, it’s true, but not on the time horizon that we have been seeing in the last 50 years which seems to be speeding up
Split the difference and let’s move on.
> Unfortunately, fiat on-ramp/off-ramp will still be an issue.

It's a huge problem but not for the wealthy.
Oh, they are seriously important to me. Just so you cannot say Columbus was the first is very important. And to give you your dose of pride: yes, Columbus was very important in wiping out almost all indigenous people. Change of course of history my a__e.
“ Given PTSD manifests in people who have never killed and is not restricted to soldiers”

PTSD is the last of a long list of euphemisms used to describe shell shock. To make war more palpable. Eventually the shrinks added all the bad life experiences as causes of PTSD. To dilute the unique horror of war.[1]

Therefore, today a guy who sees his best friend blow up next to him from landmine, or a solder who witnesses one of our “friend and ally” rape a boy [2] has the same diagnosis as someone who got into a car accident.

Even the fact that PTSD is not a word but an acronym oozes with our degeneracy and America’s military bureaucracy in particular.

“You’re transporting values from a zero-growth world, where war was practically the only route to advancement, to a positive-growth one.”

Or maybe our forefathers weren’t as obsessed with
careerism and advancement as we are today? Never mind that those who waged war were born into the highest class so there was little to advance (King Richard Lionheart was King!)

Anyway, we get to pass on higher values because we’re rich? So values are ephemeral not universal? If values are not universal I’ll take the gallantry of the crusaders who mourned their valiant enemies over the moral emptiness of our generals. (And what do these generals have to show for their moral laxity? A long string of defeat. These generals are, as Trump pointed out, losers)

Nor does it appear to be true that we became dishonorable when we became a growth society. There are a great many examples of men acting with honor in the world wars, and we certainly were a growth obsessed industrialized society then! [3]

And the whole argument that war was necessary then, it isn’t now is just not true.

War was as necessary then as it is today. Which is to say not much. Read the old philosophers, Church fathers, the Bhagavad Gita etc, the Chinese sages, and the futility of war is expressed unambiguously. How many ancient texts throughout all Eurasian cultures caution the ruler against war?

No, it is us that are dishonorable, not the age we live in. The Persians returned Leonidas’ body for burial [4]. Obama dumped Bin Laden’s body overboard and lied that he gave him a Muslim burial.

By not treating our brothers in arms with dignity and honor we have become degenerates.

[1] War is uniquely horrible because, when conducted dishonorably it embraces all other horrors.

[2] Afghanistan

[3] my favorite story is of a German pilot in WW2 who didn’t finish off a plane that he had crippled. Instead he escorted it back to the channel. The two pilots eventually met after the war and the German said that that action had saved his humanity.

[4] Xerxes was known for his anger and he uncharacteristically (for the Persians) kept the body to deny it burial. 40 years later, the Persians restored their honor and returned it.
Is everyone taking a huge dilution hit worth that 'tight lid'?
It would be, except that you can easily link the two accounts. Sure, that's roughly equivalent to making sure you have the Coinbase exchange address assigned to your wallet loaded into Metamask and your Metamask address loaded into the Coinbase exchange, but that takes a level of understanding that linking Coinbase Wallet to Coinbase exchange doesn't require.

Coinbase does "provide you a wallet." It just isn't part of the exchange.
Gab dissenter does that. Of course it’s geared toward the kind of crowd that frequents gab.com - take that as you may, I’m just saying.
Aren't the cars made there anyway
How about this: we get rid of the time change, but have schools start an hour earlier march through october than november through february. Change the eraly bird parking hours at bart similarly.
It was 16,000+ years ago, so calling them "Far East Asian naives" kinda undersells that the natives at the time were a completely different group than the ones we think of as current East Asian natives.