skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada produces a fair bit of wine. Very little of it is exported outside of North America though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_wine
> It's just dark and less dark.

With summers being bright and less bright :)
e.g. the last time I went to Hawaii I got sunburned so bad I couldn't go outside for a week.

But it's not true to say I'm racially inferior for Hawaii living or that I'm not suited for going on vacation. What I should've done is wear more sunscreen.
Now this is where I have to disagree. "Wrecked" is very much an indisputable description for what micro-gravity does. There are health problems that develop even with short stints of micro gravity (less than a month) including abnormalities in the brain that we still don't know the long term health implications of. Keep in mind that the majority of people who have been sent up there are astronauts who are by necessity at a level of physical fitness that's not representative to the local population. For the average person, they will cope even less well.

If we want to establish a long term presence in space, we want to use rotating habitats to approximate the forces gravity places on the body. For these to not nauseate the human body, they need to be fairly large which is part of why there has not been any such stations built yet (another is scientists are obviously more interested in the effects of micro gravity than of something that already exists on Earth). Rocket launches are dropping in price sharply in recent years though and space tourism is likely to grow exponentially starting this year and out (there are already more civilian launches scheduled for this year than there has been since the space age started combined).

One question which we have no idea about is what are the effects of low gravity on the human body. There have only been 24 people who have visited the moon (only half of which walked on it's surface) and none of them stayed for longer than a few days. We don't know if the Moon's gravity is more than enough or if Venus's gravity would still too little. If the program does not burn into a fiery heap from a corrupt congress and Boeing, the hope is that the Artemis program may begin answering these questions.
Naming things is art. If you assign a label to something, people will see thing in the shape of that label. Sometimes changing labels may have some benefits, especially if "thing" you are labelling is intangible. People try to measure productivity of developers since the start and if it's a problem for 50 years, maybe we don't even measure the right thing?
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And that house is what is causing the climate breakdown in the first place, since it is a detached single family home with a garage, reducing population density and magnifying the amount of energy required to push all the mass people want to live (water, sewer, gas, people, groceries, vehicles, trash, etc).
Never mind. I was just curious.
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A lot of comments are talking about whether or not an expert can distinguish between a cheap and an expensive wine. I don't understand how they possibly could. You can't taste price. Of course I understand the point of the argument, but it seems to disregard a slew of market dynamics that dictates price. It just seems very uninteresting to try to judge wine expertise by deducing price categories. Maybe I'm wrong?
Anything you do in your twenties ends up being the most formative in general.
I thought this was a Google paper since the domain shows up as "research.google.com", but it's actually a random Colab notebook.
To clarify, I said I lived in the UK just to lay out my bio, but didn't want to imply that everything is dandy there.

When I was there I lived in London, but occasionally travelled to an office in Peterborough. I therefore saw two worlds, one where opportunity abounds and another which was, in all honesty, pretty grim. I loved the people there to bits but their degree of dejection was very much comparable to what you see in Spain, if not worse in some regards (as many lacked, in my observation, the strong familial ties that support Spanish society).

I will say however that despite this very poor outlook for some regions in the UK, even in the worst of cases many British people seem to hold on to a certain optimistic national outlook and to an entrepreneurial or "trading spirit" that is much more rare in Spain. The culture, laws and economic structures seem to still support this, for example the conditions for sole traders are infinitely better in the UK than they are in Spain.

But otherwise yes, I know from both personal experience and from studies I've read through the years that the situation is far from utopian.
That is just an ad hominem. If you have an argument, state it.
The problem is the scale. If all war-sites should be protected, and ammunition properly defused and archaeological researched- then all of europe will do nothing else for a century.

Large land-strips in several countries are essentially mined mass graves. Once you set precedence, that upkeep costs for that are multiply exponentially.

The ordinance defuse operations and it constantly blocking business for days in major cities every year comes to mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_bomb_disposal_in_...

2000 tons in germany alone every year.
Excavator drivers life dangerous over here.
So, yes, if this were to be dealt with properly, goodbye European economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge

To avoid opening another barrel (poisoned waste by war production, hidden in the sealed of production caves etc.) - many municipalities employ the three monkey strategy. Don't hear it, don't see it, don't have to deal with it.
When did Google ever set clear rules? It's all rubber paragraphs that are enforced at the whim of anonymous bureaucrats who will never be held responsible for whatever decisions they make.
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> No, electric vehicles were 'the past'.

Meh, by that same argument you could say VR is the past. The point of the discussion is that VR is now at a point were it will most likely get adopted, instead of just being a feat. Hence the comparison with electric vehicles.

And no, hydrogen fuel-cell for mobility won't be the future. A niche in some sectors for sure, but that's it. The efficiency is just as bad (~40%) as with combustion engines. And that's not even taking production and transport into account. Sure, it's cleaner, but the whole "hydrogen is the future for everyday use" is lobbyism from people who want to keep their current infrastructure (especially transport and production) running ...
> Just warrant+gag

And ... that’s probably ok? The people are not meant to be protected against all searches, only warrantless search.
> No one would claim to be an expert of a philosopher without reading and studying his book and articles. But, if the substance was more important than the form, it should not matter. One can master Gauss' mathematics or Einstein's physics without reading the original works.

I don't think that's fair. I'd generally expect an expert (a professor, say) to be familiar with the original work regardless of whether it's philosophy or physics.

You don't need to be fluent in Ancient Greek to get a philosophy degree. It's not as if there's an unwavering insistence on reading the original work in its original form.
Sort of my point, saying that what you majored in uni doesn't matter is a bit silly.
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If you're taxing to disincentivize consumption, you tax all alcohol the same no matter what form it's in or where it comes from. If you're taxing European wine more than locally produced wine then it obviously has nothing to do with health.
> has he considered that Google has a valid point?

Then why did Google not flag this during one of their release reviews?

Randomly banning already approved apps over minor wording problems without giving devs any time to react is insane.
Daily reminder that your business/project/hobby should not depend on anything controlled by Google.

Edit: Despite all their shortcomings, I wouldn't mind seeing android phone makers join force and create an independent app store.
Reversing which decision?
Well, you don't want to design work to be anti-fulfilling, do you? I suppose it's OK if it's neutral.
This might not be an option for you, but have you considered changing your working hours? The sun doesn't care how your clock is set. There is the same amount of sunlight in any given day.

If your problem is that your working day is too early or too late in the day, maybe thats what should be changed - not everybody's clocks.
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I don't think "But I can get money for burning my children's future!" is a good excuse for sais burning unless you're literally starving. Which the burners in Brazil et al are not.

People have agency, there's no Coca Cola goons with guns to their heads this time.
If immune systems forgot everything that quickly, vaccines wouldn’t work.

None of us are living in hermetically sealed clean rooms, either.
How can I get the bulk USA email database?
I cant hear it anymore, when companies claim to have become "carbon" neutral. It almost always boils down to - "we bought a paper in some third world country" on which is stated that money has been paid to plant trees or otherwise capture carbon. Usually the reality on the ground shows that this money went nowhere and thus, that company is not carbon neutral.
Almost surprising it hasn't happened yet.

If it was cheap enough they could send quite a few.
You apparently don’t believe viruses exist, so maybe sit this one out? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26461410
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.eu domain usage isn't that high, I don't think. I only have anecdata from my time in the UK, but .co.uk appears to be "the" domain to have in the UK.

From what I've seen the same is true on the continent. .fr and .de for example are highly popular in France and Germany. You rarely see local business reaching for .eu domains.

According to wikipedia, the number of affected domains is 344,584. Also compared to wiki there are 11M .uk domains and 16.5M .de domains. According to EurID[0] there are 3.7M .eu domains

[0]: https://eurid.eu/en/welcome-to-eurid/statistics/
Since when is google in charge of app functionality and UI??
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The alternative is to design systems, structures, and procedures more robust against infiltration by selfish actors or actors loyal to foreign governments. "Defense in depth" instead of assuming you can ring fence the good guys, etc.

Law enforcement ends up having to rely more on undercover work and informants, as it used to in the past. The CIA and NSA end up getting less intelligence for the same budget, but conversely, spies who infiltrate the CIA, NSA, etc. get less bang for their buck, as well.
This comment perhaps illustrates the most likely explanation of why people keep on suggesting we should have permanent "summer time" rather than permanent "winter time": they genuinely believe or subsconsciously imagine that the government can legislate for better weather.

Unfortunately, here in England, there is no flexibility for adjusting our timetables in the winter: the length of the school day is roughly equal to the duration of daylight. There is therefore no point in changing the offset from UTC in the winter.

That's the theory, anyway. But perhaps some kind of magic happens if you change the time to UTC+1 in the winter? Unfortunately, no: they tried it around 1970 and it was a disaster just as rational people said it would be.

In Scotland the duration of winter daylight is shorter than the school day. Perhaps it's still better to have twilight for travelling in both directions rather than light in one direction and total darkness in the other? In any case, the Scots were not happy with the 1968-1971 experiment of having UTC+1 in the winter.

So let's just have UTC all year in England and Scotland, please.
Yea because that's what drug cartels care about. Package loss is part of the process.
Seems they got the wrong URL, http://geometry.cs.ucl.ac.uk/projects/2021/im2vec/ has more info, also the link to a github repo: https://github.com/preddy5/Im2Vec
Apple of course shouldn't be in this list at all, Wozniak was never a CEO and I'm sure he'd be terrible.

I'm also not sure many of the others qualify either, were Sergey and Larry "good CEOs"?

As others have noted, the correlation between developer CEOs and success is that many of the most successful companies today are software companies. Is there even a single large non-tech company with a developer as CEO?

If anything I would assume developers are substantially worse than average as CEOs, from lacking interpersonal skills to exaggerated focus on details.
On desktop at least, there is a very subtle vertical line coming out of the top of the avatar image of the linked tweet. When you start to scroll up, you'll see that this line is part of the "thread" indicator that links all the posts above it. On my screen, it's about the same as the "x-height" (lower-case letter size) of the username font, at the thickness of the UI grid lines.

It would of course be much better to have the previous tweet partially on-screen, possibly under a small gradient.
Spinoza's logical proof of the existence of god is that "man can't invent ideas, therefore all ideas are true including the idea of god"?
change good to successful
That's basically what fark.com is (was? is it still as popular?). Obviously with an eye on stupid stuff and snark.
Semi-related fun fact: I've experienced a large speedup doing MD5 checksumming with Python's hashlib instead of md5sum(1).
Spain is well lined up on the 0 meridian, but is on continental time. It should surprise no one that odd times result.

China is on a single time zone, IIRC. Imagine if SF shifted clocks forward 3 hours just because that's what Washington does.
Of course, but the post I replied to said nothing about local vs import. It only said that some bottles of wine was a lot more expensive in Canada than in their countries of origin.
"Fairness" is not a useful concept to apply here. Yes, it's not fair that Ugo the caveman could just bash Uga the cavewoman over the head and rape her while I can't do the same with my neighbour Sally. But that lack of "fairness" is irrelevant given that the thing in question (rape/destroying the environment) is bad.
Sort of. Poland has traditionally relied heavily on coal. Now for a variety of economic, ecological and political reasons, there are no new coal plants being installed, and old ones reaching EOL. There is no nuclear, despite half-hearted attempts to bring that about. Gas has mostly been imported from Russia, with constant concerns about continued supplies being used as a political tool, so no significant gas plants either.

So yes, once you factor out all other options, solar and wind is the only thing that you can make progress on. But that's a far cry from saying you could run the country on them.
It is probably a reaction to the pressure platforms (IMO to some extent rightfully) receive from regulators. Kicking downwards... but platforms especially app stores will probably be forced to do this anyway in the middle-term future - be it social pressure or regulatory enforcements.
> This always sticks the bill with the only person actually paying to begin with, the business owner. If society thinks people should be paid more perhaps it should mandate paying more for the company's products to compensate for making them pay their employees more per hour.

You just said the business owner is the "only person paying" and then contradicted yourself by saying "people" pay more. Everyone pays for things because the economy is a cycle.

Intervening in the economy (eg with minimum wages and just giving people money) can improve the health of the economy by increasing money velocity; economists don't think it's strictly bad to do this anymore*. It can lead to inflation but that's fine, most developed economies don't have enough of it.

* https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-15-minimum-wage-is-pre...
This is a better way of putting the point I was inelegantly grasping at. The neighbor kid is just an industrious kid---they happen to be nailing up drywall, but it's not that nailing up the drywall is why they end up running Berkshire Hathaway (or whatever) later. It's that they're industrious, and have various other traits that---in some other context---would result in them doing whatever else.

Maybe they turn into the engineer who can extract water, if only for reasons of path-dependency. And in a world where water-extraction is a valuable industry, that path-dependent contingency will result in them maybe starting a valuable water-extraction engineering firm. But it's not that nailing up drywall as a kid made them uniquely qualified. It's that they were industrious and smart and had sufficient fortune and whatever else. Which is good, all that stuff is good.
Fab summary, thank you !
> Apple of course shouldn't be in this list at all, Wozniak was never a CEO and I'm sure he'd be terrible.

Wozniak is many great things, but sadly yes he probably would have been:

https://www.lamag.com/mag-features/steve-wozniak-us-fest/
> […] the promise of leaving the clocks on DST all year around.

Which goes against the current scientific/medical consensus on the issue:

> As an international organization of scientists dedicated to studying circadian and other biological rhythms, the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) engaged experts in the field to write a Position Paper on the consequences of choosing to live on DST or Standard Time (ST). The authors take the position that, based on comparisons of large populations living in DST or ST or on western versus eastern edges of time zones, the advantages of permanent ST outweigh switching to DST annually or permanently.

* https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07487304198541...

American Academy of Sleep Medicine (with 36 footnotes if you want to dig further):

> It is the position of the AASM that the U.S. should eliminate seasonal time changes in favor of a national, fixed, year-round time. Current evidence best supports the adoption of year-round standard time, which aligns best with human circadian biology and provides distinct benefits for public health and safety.

* https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8780

* https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.8780

See my comment from a few days ago for more references:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26416581
I agree with you except about Bezos, the point is not if you work as a developer while you're the CEO, if that was the metric no CEO of a large company would "be" anything.
> Yeah, being poor doesn't give you the option of having conservation at the top of your list of priorities.

Yes it does. Very little of todays poverty, particularly in a place like Brazil is of the starvation-level variety and the people burning down the forrests are very much NOT the starving poor, they're on the wealthier side even!
The article's title is a little misleading, but I agree with their overarching message.

Law enforcement should never be given the easy way out in terms of breaking encryption. Asking for backdoors to be installed in every device is extremely lazy police work. I'm sure there are other ways of breaking encryption like the rubber-hose technique (of course with valid arrest warrant).

Arguing that law enforcement should stop attacking encryption because it jeopardises privacy seems a little naive to me. What about criminals that profit from creating spyware? In fact, allowing law enforcement to actively research new ways to break encryption can be productive for improving security in the long run. Stop using weak passwords people.
yeah I'm actually quite happy with the comments on the Guardian. They don't have them on a lot of articles but when they do they always have their Guardian Picks, meaning high quality comments that are highlighted. I don't know why the general comment section there is good but one point is definitely moderation. They even delete postings (spam or flame wars).
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"I read Complex numbers came in FORTRAN IV, so mid 60’s."

FYI, this link [PDF] https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/paul.johnson-2/... contains the peculiar statement "Over the next few years, FORTRAN II would also add support for the DOUBLE PRECISION and COMPLEX data types."

At face value, that statement implies complex numbers came later but before FORTRAN III, which also implies a point release (FORTRAN II was released in 1958). Moreover, I read somewhere that FORTRAN III had it but it wasn't widely released. Likely then that FORTRAN IV was the first widely released version with complex numbers. As it was released in 1961, we should assume then that this was the likely date.
The TSA masterkey case is an interesting analogue example.

I don't know much about locks, but I wonder how it could ever be secure, even if they never leaked photos of the masterkeys. In principle, it should be possible to reverse-engineer the shape of the masterkey from any masterkey-compatible lock. Would it be practical to do this?
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> predicated on an overly rosy view of democracy-as-civic-participation

Ah, the 90s... when people would deliberately leave mail relays open as a service to the community, and people just made stuff for others to use, without worrying too much about hacks or security because the internet is a community and that sort of thing would be bad netiquette...

A simpler time.

There was a time and a place for flamewars, and it was called usenet.
Why do you think we have any control or say over the situation?
> deemed illegal by the Federal government

I'm guessing you mean the US Federal government, not the Federal government of China, or any of the many others around the world. For a global network, why should the US government's rules be more important than others? Or should networks be restricted to one country only?
If you gave a list of non-software companies that had software engineers as their CEOs, i'd give this some credence, but as is this is kind of rediculous when you have a giant elephant in the room confounding factor that you're pretending doesn't exist.

> Prospecting for oil is one concrete form of the abstract pattern of discovering value

So is literally everything.

Police officer: discovering value by figuring out the right person to arrest

Doctor: discovering value by figuring out what disease.

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