skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is John Kerry saying that in 5 years the artic will be ice free in the summer.

https://twitter.com/perpetualmaniac/status/13798504615833395...

I’ve been listening to global warming alarmism for 30 years of my life and none of the predictions of sea level rise have panned out. The forest fires on the west coast have more to do with accumulated fuel on the forrest floor and suppression of seasonal fires than extremely hot temperatures.

The fact that China now produces more CO2 than the rest of the world combined, but yet is exempt from these carbon credit tax schemes is telling. Additionally, even if raising CO2 levels was a bad thing, we’ve had the solution for it since the 1960’s, clean nuclear energy to obsolete fossil fuels. The production of which has been sabotaged by environmentalists that haven’t bothered to read that the per terrawatt death rate of nuclear is an order of magnitude less dangerous then the next least dangerous power source.

Additionally, fertilizing the oceans with Iron can sequester huge amounts of CO2, yet the UN banned the study of this in international waters in 2008.

As the networked oligarchy shows its face, Americans are waking up to the fact that the science being pushed on the mainstream media outlets are a form of political warfare to destroy western industries to the benefit of Chinese industries which get near impunity to continue to pollute.
The shareholder meeting is open to BRK.B holders (~$300 for a share). My sister and my dad went one year. No rumors required. You can watch it online.
I mostly agree, but many scientific communities are rather self-centered/inward-looking, and when it comes to technological innovation like programming languages, it could be a reasonable compromise to align slightly more with a "mainstream" ecosystem and slightly less with the academic community. Of course, ideally, all design choices are compared to the community's state of the art, but this may be impractical if it implies a comparison to tens of obscure languages.
I'm actually curious what makes anyone think Florida has any jurisdiction? Are any social media companies based in florida, have offices in Florida or 'do business' in Florida?
I thought at least one of those had to be true to be bound by the laws of state?

Can Florida create laws that are enforcable over entities with no ties to Florida ?

Also, I like the 'move fast and break things' roller coaster idea!
Well there can still be option to pay full at once. Not quite sure what you gain from this but if you can stream you can also stream all once.
There is no reason to expect life to survive an asteroid impact. The sheer force would likely be enough to crush delicate cells, and the heat of the impact would likely sterilize any remnants.

Also, there are no fungi living off frozen water at -50 to -70 C or below on Earth, and an asteroid impact doesn't really provide time for evolution to work its magic. Perhaps extremeophiles could be found that would survive, though even that is shaky without some form of liquid water, and they would be extremely unlikely to evolve to something approaching fungi (remeber that extremeophiles are prokaryotes, while fungi are eukaryotes, and as far as we can tell eukaryotes arose from prokaryotes only once in the history of life on Earth, so it was literally a once in 2 billion years event).

Edit to add: Mars' surface is also extremely toxic to essentially all Earth-based life.

Overall, it is very hard to imagine that any form of Earth-based life would have survived the series of events you suggest: an asteroid impact with Earth which propelled a chunk of rock to space, being exposed to space, then burning through the Martian atmosphere, crashing into Mars, then encountering the extreme cold, low pressure, missing oxygen and CO2, high radiation, the toxic soil of Mars, and not just surviving, but growing and thriving from this.
I often plug this book, I really recommend you read it. HN crowd will easily see past some of the datedness of it to the true message which is just as valid today as it ever was.
They should quote sqrt(3000) ~ 55nm as the transistor size
This is the whole "black swan" idea that Nassim Taleb writes about – events that are very rare and unpredictable but completely life-changing. This might be a poor paraphrase, but roughly: We're not very good at reasoning about these sorts of events, and domain experts are not immune. It's easy to believe you have more predictive or explanative power than you actually do, and to expose yourself to unacceptable risk as a result.
> Why search for a brand, and not a high quality, well reviewed USB charger?

Tangent, but damn I wish reviews were reliable nowadays. They've fallen to deceitful practices like fake reviews, and are no better than advertising nowadays.
So, do you denounce white supremacy?
If you said yes, what if they followed up with the following questions:

- What have you done to fight it?
- Have you donated to XYZ org?
- How much? Why not more? Surely you could afford it?
- How much time have spent volunteering for causes that fight it?
- How much? Why not more? Surely you could afford it?

If you anticipated this line of questioning would follow, where the person asking the question's intent is to test you, and shame you if you were to fail it, would you still engage with that question?
I think the term “privilege” was coined on purpose to flip the viewpoint and make us think about life in others’ shoes. “What you consider normal life is something they can only dream of”

I don’t think it’s meant to be a serious description of the situation
Basic Telemetry for Audacity
As some sibling comments suggest, not all finance is created the same. Trading systems often use floating point, but banking/accounting systems used fixed point.

The key is whether your system needs to tally up your monies into a known quantity and ensure it is all accounted for. If you summed up the transactions across a number of customer accounts at a bank for instance, it's critical that they all net out.
Okay, but you have to acknowledge that your experience was with a version of the United States that no longer exists.

Things have changed a lot for people on the bottom rungs since the '90s, Walter. Some sympathy for the fact that bootstrapping is vastly more difficult for young people today might be a better look.
Building web services with Racket
All I got to say is the Japanese are really lucky the wind wasn't blowing onshore during the meltdown.
Uh... not sure where you live, but not all grants come from taxpayer dollars. Grants can come from companies or academic institutions, etc.
I keep a file listing software I installed and my usual settings I need to set. Some 30 packages, including UI tools. The homebrew package installer supports a 'Brewfile' which will install everything in one step. https://thoughtbot.com/blog/brewfile-a-gemfile-but-for-homeb...
sorry - I've got ducky, durgod, rebuilt frankenboards, and ergo's... no keychron. I will say, I use it but not the ducky, or durgods...
+1 impressive independent of anything else.
+1 for doing this as an intern.
It's true for law, but for psychology I found that most practicioners use most of their time to sell the reason of their whole existence, so it seems closer to sales.
Absolutely. I don't base my choice of libraries solely on `unsafe` but at work the number of people who will review internal unsafe code is a fraction the number of people that would review even a moderately popular open source library.
Scala has `???`, which does a similar thing.
And the exact same proposition for any use of energy. That you don't find it useful does not mean it is not.

Mind your own uses of energy and leave the market to decide what is really valuable.
I really like their original The Atlantic article of the same name (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-cod...) but was disappointed by the book, too much repetition and filler material.

Still worth a look, though, and the situation has not gotten better in the last 5 years.
I didn't consider multi-screen setups for such old things as net books. But yes, Fluxbox is also very nice for older systems.
But you end up paying for and carrying around a lot more glass (literally) than your sensor needs, right? Fortunately there's third party manufacturers like Sigma that fleshed out the E-mount market.
Did they also have enough firepower to neutralise their armed security?
Security was the prime reason app engine couldn’t add features fast enough, and hence couldn’t gain the market fast enough, else it could have been the money maker for google.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but would Net Neutrality effectively subsidize high bandwidth providers, such as Netflix & torrent providers, presumably creating latency across the network?

Yeah, this is wrong. Netflix is already paying it's ISP, and both sides of a BitTorrent connection are paying theirs.

Someone like Comcast wanting to charge Netflix just because too many of Comcast's customers are requesting Netflix traffic is ridiculous. Comcast already got paid... by their customers.
The PHP if statement – PHP fundamentals
The trouble with being a victim is there's nothing to be done about it. Deciding to not being a victim is empowering, as it means you can do something about it.
I guess the question is: how close does technology R&D need to be to the core business to be a "tech" company? I don't have a good answer. Major automakers dump tons of money into R&D, but we'd never call them tech companies.
Interesting, thanks! That's more in line with what I'd expect coming from Poland - medical degree is 6yrs (& is equivalent to Master's, I don't believe you get a Bachelor's degree during those), specialization then takes additional 5-6 years. For context, "normal" degrees are 3y (BSc) + 2y (MSc), which is also 1 year shorter than comparable education in the US. OTOH, I believe there's no such thing as "associate degree", and colleges are more focused from the get-go - you pick your major when applying for college (& the admission criteria are different based on that).
I love this video from the always fantastic matthewmatosis, where he argues that Tetris is the most perfect game ever created.

https://youtu.be/Tnztj1UlkQs
Maybe address the fair points raised rather than demonizing the other side?
FCC, but yes. Another demonstration of how election choices have consequences.
Monetization systems aside, the game development work on Fortnite is pretty innovative.
> This is visible with block size 64 breaking at 3072 mark 307264=196K, and for block 32 at 6144: 614432=196K.

You mean 192K.
I am a tax payer - tax payers are also on the hook for food stamps and other costs that are a direct result of McJobs not paying enough.
-5% to share in the increased profits?
"conveniently ignores the actual ethical problems (e.g. large-scale collection of personal information)."

Did you read the section starting from "This model has some major drawbacks from a privacy perspective"?
The question is not "when do you leave school?" it's actually "when are you employable as an independent practitioner?". In my personal experience, it's _much_ easier to get an attending/private practice position in the US at a younger age. Just because the country is huge and lots of places lack docs, probably. Of course, that's my experience and I could be wrong.
Re: coil.com, what they do is entirely possible on a centralized system. cam sites have been using token based internal payment systems based on minutes viewed, tips, etc at sub $0.01 levels for 20+ years now. and until the tubes came along, all sides profited handsomely.

source: i helped build some.
Could this method be used to image exoplanets or is that still in the theoretical realm of the Solar gravitational lens[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens
No, outside of programming subjects, he often emits statements along that line.
What about people who suffer trauma, childhood or otherwise, due to the decisions of others? Saying people's lives are strictly in their control is just not true.
The counterargument is people consider fiat proof of stake and don't want to introduce the problems that come with it (like centralization) into btc. I expect a fork like that would go right into the garbage as far as price action is concerned once the risks are understood but you are welcome to try.
Don’t hire woke folk.

How? 95% of the employees that left Basecamp have pronouns in their Twitter bios. There’s your signal.
Have you ever actually had someone on medicare navigate healthcare?

Its only partial coverage and the supplemental plans also are partial. Retirees regularly rake up thousands a year in medical expenses on medicare.

If anything we need medicaid for all. Its a total mess with the piecemeal systems that exist, but in PA at least (where I live) medicaid recipients pay like a dollar for basically any service. None of the copay nickle and diming (to the tune of $30 a pop) my grandmother is hounded with constantly.

And even that is a bitter pill. Its giving private insurance companies all the money and power still. The single payer has strong negotiating power but they still have to get someone to insure the citizenry and the cartel of insurers that exist can predate off that and do so eagerly.
Apple Offered Special App Store API Access to Hulu and Other Developers
heh - yeah, I rebuilt a Vortext Cypher (1) including adding SMT leds to unused pads on the board... What I learned about soldering was worth the cost of the board :-) I like heavy switches so I put kaihl box navies in it. Its probably just bias, but its still my favorite board.

1 https://imgur.com/gallery/IBScxqJ
I pay 759€/month for my German public health insurance while in the US according to Google the average cost of platinum insurance (the best?) is $750/month.
I especially like how Orwell draws a contrived but all too true comparison between the following passages.

I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. -- passage from Ecclesiastes

vs.

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account. -- modern translation

I could definitely imagine reading the latter in an op-ed.
Neat. It feels like there’s space for browsers to “browse” non-html content. This is a great example. So much of my browsing is media based, it makes sense that the web browser should have media controls and features.

I wonder if generating/editing media could also use some love. For instance, basic audio/video editing so you can clean stuff up before you post it.
I’m not convinced that’s a good rule of thumb at all, because there’s so many examples where it applies and is wrong, and many where it doesn’t apply but the tech was revolutionary.

Not to mention the greater point: Im not even that convinced tech is ever really revolutionary (at least at the same time it gets mainstream adoption). Usually the big improvement it made existed years earlier or in competitors but the timing was right for it to appear.

Youtube was doing the same thing as daily motion and another (I think Vimeo?). Facebook was just “cool MySpace”, blogs were personal webpages that got suddenly popular: a lot of these just popped up and executed at the right time and in the right way.

My point is: without looking at the technology at all or knowing anything about it, you could perfectly tell what “revolutionary product” would suddenly become the next big thing simply with perfect information about the market and how it will shift at each step.

You could invent the fastest most efficient and cheapest way in the universe to launch spaghetti, but the “revolutionary” nature of your invention doesn’t matter at all because there’s no market for it, even if the very technical spaghetti enthusiasts suggest “why don’t you just build your own spaghetti railgun?”.

Markets matter, products derive their value entirely from those markets and are worth nothing alone.

Consequently, knowing which products WILL BE revolutionary (here I deliberately define revolutionary after the fact, because amazing product with no market isn’t revolutionary) is very hard because even if you know the initial market, you won’t know how things change.

I suspect the best you can do to make or identify revolutionary products is to really know the initial customer and early market, rely on some long term perceived trend that aligns broad markets closer to your early market, then iterate quickly keeping the pulse on the market onwards towards the mass market - which means we’ve just re-derived the lean startup process.
It's never been easier and cheaper to get an education in the US, start a business, reach a global marketplace, learn how to do anything you want to do, etc.

When I was young it was pretty much unheard of for people to get wealthy before 25. Now it's commonplace and unremarkable.
I think one of the big existential questions for Rust early on was whether the "unsafe is evil" attitude was viable. If avoiding unsafe was very inconvenient, everyone would've kept writing unsafe code all the time, and this part of the culture wouldn't have gotten traction. Today I think it's easy to say "we all know not to use unsafe in 'normal' code", but that wasn't always a given, and it might take some more ongoing effort to keep this culture in the long term.
Dinosaur days were a half-hour shorter 70M years ago
But sufficiently large tax on dirty energy could push out bitcoin out of fossil fuel energy and force it to invest into renewable energy sources.

And there's a lot of non-useful energy usage that is happening because fossil fuel energy is too cheap. Like heating pools and outdoor hot tubs or heating or cooling houses instead of properly insulating them.

I'd say that harsh tax on fossil fuels could do way more to limit carbon footprint and accelerate movement toward renewables than any one measure such as banning bitcoin mining.

Inform the market of the true cost and let it find the best solution.
IANAL, but I do recall that when GDPR passed, The HN Zeitgeist was to tell everyone asking the same question with regard to enforcement on US entities by the EU, that you have to comply, end of story, stop asking questions.
Have the small business owners increased the hourly wages in light of this?
> If you murder someone, you shouldn't be allowed to live.

So if the government murder someone, it should not be allowed to exist?

> Likewise with heinous crimes like Anders Brevik. Why he wasn't put to death is still mind boggling to me.

Why?

> I just think the US's system of perpetual imprisonment leads to a worse system overall.

You contradict yourself; you want harser sentences, but also thinks that harser sentences "leads to a worse system overall."
Are there any rules-of-thumb for avoiding branch mispredictions, other than reducing the number of conditional branches?

For example (not that I expect this to be true), something of the same sort as "your if block should contain the rare condition".
FreeBSD now uses Git for source versioning
In theory yes, but kerosene has a lower viscosity while still having a low vapor pressure. The low viscosity can be important when the liquid is moving a lot, to prevent losses and heating.
To be fair, the FCC ignored the automatically generated comments and focused on comments that were unique, detailed, and relevant. The actual scandal should be what they did with those comments: those that supported rolling back the NN rules were accepted as fact, those opposed (i.e. those in favor of NN regulation) were dismissed as "not compelling." I know this because my comment was among those dismissed as "not compelling," including specific sections that dealt strictly with the factual errors in Ajit Pai's proposal. The only reason they bothered citing my comment (and numerous others by actual technical experts who took the time to comment) was to avoid being sued for ignoring the public comments (they are legally required to consider public comments when making a decision).

It is also worth mentioning that Ajit Pai differed from his predecessor Tom Wheeler. Wheeler had intended to introduce rules that allowed various NN violations but changed course in response to public comments and went with the stronger regulations. Pai never cared what the public had to say and made that very clear in his public statements, where he basically said that the only thing that would change his mind would be comments concerning the FCC's legal authority (not that there was any serious dispute about that legal authority).
I think you're right about the timeline. I do remember livejournal being around before Blogger, which is around when "blogging" became a term.

I remember getting into a few people's web-based online diaries in the late '90s and definitely some folks used geocities to host their journals. I remember using it myself to post whatever nonsense I was doing to share with friends.
LOL...love it
Show HN: An open world RPG that uses NLG to “render” game state in prose
Thinking about it it would be even more inexplicable if the Earth span exactly the same speed for millions of years - but ... definitely gratified my intellectual curiosity today with that one :-)
Is this opinion only, or actual knowledge or experience?

You might be right, in which case I'd agree with you (I have no experience with those details on contract provisions), but again it goes back to being a business decision :).
Maybe it would be helpful if the devs added some sort of "reply to" ARIA tag to each comment? That wouldn't be too hard, would it?
AFAICT - this is the main Git repo https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/
DoD Expands Hacker Bounty Program to All Publicly Accessible Defense Systems
Yes, and Basecamp has with this improved their organization in this aspect.

Social justice activism divides individuals by unchosen group identities into "oppressors" and "oppressed" which is in direct opposition to acknowledging a persons feelings as well as listening to their viewpoints. Social justice activism has due to this predictably lead to resentment and unnecessary conflict in the workplace.
That's why I have the set of printable backup codes in my wallet. One time I forgot my phone, but I had my wallet and was able to log in to my Google account.
Sculpt OS 21.03 [L4-based microkernel] now boots in 2.5 seconds
I think maybe the real threat is that regardless of this, the Five Eyes (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes) will still be in play. That really means much more than the CIA, and in a way doesn’t move the needle much from a law enforcement perspective, but for civil liability related to GDPR, it should provide EU data subjects better protection generally.
I believe this would be able to provide at least low resolution images of earth-sized exoplanets.