skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, it's entirely irrelevant if the US has continued problems. It's not "cherry picking" a few metrics when the metric is childhood mortality as in "less of our children died before they are 5".

I can't imagine any civilization that would say that isn't an objectively superior outcome. Well maybe the Aztecs are willing to make an exception for child sacrifice?

Not sure why everyone is so afraid to say one civilization has superior outcomes to another. To claim they don't is just hiding the truth and setting back the human condition.
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And this still leaves you open to issues with the absolute myriad of driver issues that exist.
I love how this question, posted mere minutes after the offer to answer any questions, just sits here.

LTSE looked like BS before, now I'm convinced.
Quite disappointing answer, there are many interesting effects possible. Extremely high energy photons can spontaneously turn into particle-antiparticle pair and then it isn't electromagnetic spectrum anymore. Trying to go for even higher frequencies/energies, tiny blackhole would form instead of photon, which would then decay via Hawking radiation at lower frequency.
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Slightly different. Blasphemers used to be executed back then, now you lose your job, ability to bank, go out in public etc. Slight improvement?
Nesher largely occupies the site of the Palestinian village Balad Al-Sheikh which was depopulated in 1948.
So Balad Al-Sheikh Ramla, maybe?
Real people or not, I've been burned by false opening hours on google maps so many times I will never trust it again. I'd rather spend 20 seconds extra to visit the official webpage rather than a 25% chance of traveling half an hour to realize it's closed. Even if extensive work by a human team can reduce this to a 10% chance it's still not worth my trouble.

As the old adage goes. The only thing worse than no documentation is outdated/incorrect documentation.
Anything other than a people weighted democracy would be, well, highly undemocratic.

Resource extraction, highways and wind turbines have to exist somewhere - so aren’t the more sparsely populated areas the obvious choice?
Afaik their accessible remotely over the internet via the WD MyCloud was just a custom daemon running in the background on the device.

Suspect there was a remote backdoor most likely for tech support.
I'd argue that this is serious enough that EOL doesn't apply. Yeah sure EOL for updates, features, minor issues etc.

But this is literally "Anyone in the world can remotely make your product unusable and destroy everything on it while you use it as intended"

I don't care if a car manifacturer EOL'ed a car model, if an issue gets discovered that will make the engine explode at random they better do recall.
I'm aware of that.

They used to offer a way to use it in the browser, too, but that's been shut down.
There have been incidents of (other manufacturers') hard drives shipping with pre-installed malware though [e.g. 0]. I think that's a good analogue for Tylenol.

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/malware-found-on-new-hard-driv...
In Android-land this is currently about the best actually. There is a chance of it improving over time as the updates will be decoupled from hardware support but the situation is markedly worse than on iOS.
Popular may be the wrong word.

Climate change is driven by carbon/greenhouse emissions, which are generated by productivity/industry, which is created by our economic paradigm namely capitalism.

Capitalism is great imo, except when its unconstrained - it then becomes cancerous and a positive feedback loop. Feedback loops are exponential by their implicit mathematical nature. Either this loop is going to go vertical and explode, or we temper the exponentiation rate to buy more time.

A carbon tax will temper the growth rate by treating emissions as a cost and not a willie nillie economic “externality”. But this will make a country uncompetitive in the short term - which makes it politically tenuous and even unviable to those who can only think in the short term. It would likely need to be paired with incentives for other industries and trade agreements/sanctions to force other nations to cooperate.

So all this to say our solutions are become tree hugging hippies, techno optimism (new efficient technology will save us!), or capital controls (carbon tax, etc). I don’t know about everyone else, but the first one is a pipe dream, the second is an existential gamble, and the third one actually seems manageable.
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I used Clozure CL (and I'm now a LispWorks customer) for this reason.
Ridiculous! A terrible precedent and failure of logic. I'm struggling to find words to express my frustration. They don't even list the domains that we aren't allowed to resolve!

Can we use this precedent to sue the US government in court for using DNS to kill Yemenis (drones run software like libc, libc uses DNS), or perhaps to sue Kellogg's for making breakfast cereal that was eaten by someone on the morning they decided to kill someone?
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A software engineer can’t produce any productive work unless a slave-labourer digs out the rare metals for the chip and a whole host of people work to keep the electricity grid running.

Who is more productive? Everyone is, even the people who use shovels to dig the earth, because the effect of their labour is magnified downstream.
> I think this is reasonable advice, in some settings. But for many of us, I think it’s just not practical anymore.

I too disagree, and aside from that, it's such a defeatist attitude.
> I thought a big part of that was that birds have big variation between juveniles and adults, something that mammalians have less of...

You should see what insects do. It just isn't possible, using fossil records alone, to identify whether two insects belong to the same or different species.
Will you post it to HN? I'm interested.
A quote from that article:

“Life on Earth can recover from a drastic climate shift by evolving into new species and creating new ecosystems,” it says. “Humans cannot.”

Seems odd. Humans live or can live anywhere on Earth, but we're uniquely incapable of handling new ecosystems?

I'd like to see the new report.
Yes, but there's a difference between the expected rate of mechanical failure, and the existence of a software bug.

The current fault erases everything on the drive. That can be equated fairly equally with mechanical failure. Let's imagine a different bug for instance, that allows anyone on the internet to read/write all the data on the drive. If one of these bugs emerged after 12 years, then there is a much stronger argument that the manufacturer should fix it, because it is a fundamental fault with the device.

Under the sale of goods act of 1979, the device must be suitable for the purpose for which it was sold, and there is no time limit on that, so any consumer with the device could demand that the person who sold it to them fix it. The device was unsuitable for the purpose for which it was sold from day one - it just took 12 years to find that out.
Even if they do (and they won't), it will be very easy to disable that requirement...
In many biomes, there were large herbivores living since ever. They are part of ecosystem and and if you remove them the biodiversity actually declines. Responsible grazing is not a problem at all.

What is a problem: unsustainable farming of grain/wheat to use as feed (or even feeding processed dead animals). Lumping these together is a harmful simplification.
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Actually, I think this is a JSON object to populate the companies on the homepage. When you click one of these companies a NUM lookup is run on the domain name, then all contact data comes out of DNS.
> I have some 15-year-old netbooks in storage that still power on, should eeePC have to "support" them now? Should they have to maintain a repair depot with replacement parts forever? Should they have to just release their own version of Linux forever to support each model of hardware?

Yes, yes and yes.
Same for me, I have a recent-ish desktop that works just fine (Haswell) but that TPM requirement means I can't upgrade... It's forcing me to throw away a perfectly functional computer if I want to upgrade.
A major software defect would be hard to repair or introduce otherwise.
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And now you are adding another standard that will be inconsistently adopted, especially since it's even less accessible to web developers than the alternatives?
EOL should be made to legally mean: opensource or something equivalent.

If Windows isn't supported on my laptop, I can nearly always replace it with Linux and still keep it alive.
With stuff like this, they can decide to never update it again or just turn off some critical service and render a device unusable. It's not just a thing about owning what you purchase and having the freedom to do what you want with it, it's also about the environment. Forcing things to become dangerous for use or just having the power to kill it remotely out of business interests means more electronic trash.

https://publiccode.eu/ goes in the right direction on a similar topic, but this should also start getting a bit of the limelight.
Weird that anyone would acquire anything for <$5K; I would have thought that sensibly taking on any kind of going concern or project would require too much in the way of legal expenses to make it worth it.

Maybe I have an exaggerated notion of this after having been part of an 8-figure exit to an S&P 100 company, but I would figure you take on anything like this you're potentially buying something with an imminent lawsuit, patent infringement problem, etc. unless you do due diligence, but that said due diligence would be ridiculously expensive relative to the $ involved.

Do they provide any help with this issue, or are they a no-legals as well as a no-code startup?
> I can't believe that Finder is the best Apple can do for a file explorer. I

Try Forklift, you might like it if you hate Finder.
The lack of secure storage space for bikes/ebikes/scooters is also a significant problem (along with rampant bike theft, at least here in the UK).

This is a problem at both ends of journeys - shops/workplaces, but also homes for some. Not everyone has a practical way to store a bike - e.g. if you're living in and apartment only accessible by one or more flights of stairs.
That wasn't OP's point. They meant that they don't have work e-mail or work slack on their private phone, to provide separation between work and private time.
https://nvlabs.github.io/SPADE/
What did Toshiba do? I find them the most trustable in this range.

(Not that I would put anything like this past them; Japanese companies are notorious for leaving ancient buggy software at EoL)
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In the interim is fine. They also provide a vital role in establishing how online shopping for food should work. It's easy to copycat after, as is evidenced by even local providers being able to do it.
One could take 10 digits, 26 letters and 5 operands (+ - * / %) for Base41 encoding. 41 * 41 * 41 = 68921 is enough for 2 bytes (65536 combinatons).
Corporations only behave as logically as the people running them. Maybe the individuals making the decisions don't feel like turnover is a problem they can feasibly solve, so they just go along with it. Maybe the problems regarding turnover are hard to communicate up to higher management levels, so they rarely implement strategies to reduce it. Maybe most companies value making workers feel expendable more than they value low turnover, regardless of whether this is a sound (or even conscious) decision on the part of upper management.
Yeah and you can leverage learning across projects also. Find a marketing strategy that works well for one of the projects, then deploy to the rest.
And one can share the cost of outsourced labor down the line. For example one customer support agent, software engineer, marketing person could work across all products/businesses, which might together fill near a full time role. It is often terribly hard to hire good part-time workers for many roles.
And with a diverse portfolio the risk of high impact business failures should go down also.
More tickets for potential buy-outs from bigger companies also, those can often be quite random, so more chances is better chances.
If the world is that screwed, you should probably think twice about bringing kids into it.
From the article you cite (Section Characteristics):

In the absence of sufficient data for nearly all economies until well into the 19th century, past GDP per capita often cannot be calculated, but only roughly estimated. A key notion in the whole process is that of subsistence, the income level which is necessary for sustaining one's life. Since pre-modern societies, by modern standards, were characterized by a very low degree of urbanization and a large majority of people working in the agricultural sector, economic historians prefer to express income in cereal units. To achieve comparability over space and time, these numbers are then converted into monetary units such as International Dollars, a step which leaves a relatively wide margin of interpretation.

Also note that people "back then" were capable of providing for themselves many of the goods and services for which we rely today on others, so "GDP" translating to purchasing power is not a straightforward comparison of the capability of pre-industrial rural populations to satisfy their material needs.
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Which Indian tribe’s land have you built your high ground on?
Sure does, but Microsoft is eyeing the valuations of zoom and slack and have decided that the fines they’ll get are a bargain for destroying those companies and taking over the market.
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:-(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtutLA63Cp8

EDIT: On oscilloscope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pzvEouWino
I don't think it has anything to do with corporate tax rates (at least no to the extent you suggest it is). It has everything to do with access to cheap skilled labor, resources (water), incentives, and supply chain. Taiwan offers all four through years of honing this industry. After all TSMC is pretty much critical to Taiwan's economy and national security.

Secondly, TSMC is so far ahead of the curve that any competitor will take years and billion of dollars to get to where they are right now. ASML develops the technology in close collaboration with TSMC and I suspect TSMC owns many of the patents required to operate EUV successfully.

The industry is happy with the status quo because TSMC offers the best technology at the best prices.
I may not have sold at that ratio, not sure. Either way the site definitely had potential.

Also this is the first and only time I have done this so please don't take my experience as representative. I do not know
> a planet that you then have far less ability to explore and enjoy

Living in a city doesn't prevent you from getting a train, riding a bike, or (even) hiring a car to get out into nature. The only thing in the way is getting out through the suburbs and sprawl.
Compared to canvas, this looks more like a early 2010s style transfer tech demo :) Thanks for the link though!
A NAS isn't actually distinct from a plain drive in that particular way. A plain SATA hard drive is a cheap computer with some attached hardware, just like a NAS. Literally, there's probably at least one ARM CPU core in there controlling everything and communicating over the link to your main computer.

The difference is the protocol that goes over the link. In a NAS, it's SMB/NFS access to files over ethernet/wifi, and for a SATA drive it is the SATA command set accessing blocks. The difference is small.
I appreciate your feedback and am interested by your point of view on this.

> It's not better for the internet as a whole.

We've built this because we believe if all the people manually trawling websites looking for particular pieces of data were instead fetching this data automatically through ultra-efficient DNS queries, it would be better for the internet as a whole.

> Host your own data behind a CDN and S3.

We could certainly do this, we've made this a DNS-based protocol so domain owners can adopt it independently in their own DNS.
There’s loads of online courses and even free YouTube resources where you can get started for free. Learning from the ground floor with something you built from scratch is far more illustrative IMO.
One option is shucking a high capacity external. Those are more likely to be high quality. Some are rebranded enterprise drives. But the hd model isn't guaranteed, and warranty support might be iffy.
Yet another buffer overflow. Probably the software is written by some C/C++ developers who swear that those never occur in their code. Given the large number of security problems that have been caused by buffer overflows and similar problems, I find it very sad that any programs that need security are still written in C/C++.
There's a vast difference in historical numbers of large herbivores roaming wild and the amount needed to supply demand for meat. If the current level of demand is constant, it becomes nearly impossible to supply as "grassfed"
This must be the world's most energy-inefficient way of searching Stack Overflow and slightly mangling the copy-pastes.
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We can't even know the exact total amount of USD in circulation and we cannot verify ourselves how much is being printed unless we trust the few people in power. I think if we fixed that, we would already be making great strides!

On the blockchain, these trivial questions are resolved with a simple database query.
This is Windows only, probably due to the lack of support for the relevant GFX stuff on Mac?

Incidentally, does anyone know of a straightforward and quick Windows-in-the-cloud solution? A bit like GeForceNOW but giving you an entire VM without setup et al?
I don’t understand this comment. What does Indian tribal land have to do with the naming of this discovery?
I agree, but it also makes me consider what the role of software engineering (as a discipline) is in this disaster.

Shouldn't we design systems that are hard to break by default? Shouldn't the OS assume that terrible things are going to happen anyway, and provide protection from bad faith actors in case the OS is indeed left unpatched for 10 years while being fully exposed to the internet? Is it even possible to design a system that provides this level of security so that we can get away with near-zero additional security expertise from product designers who build on top of it?

I think that, first of all, it's Western Digital's responsibility that things went south here. But shouldn't we build systems that provide bomb-proof security for the many companies that build on top of it? Is it even possible? And if so, how? In the end we would be doing ourselves (as consumers) a favor.
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I don't imagine this will be a popular view, a lot of you are going to disagree but I just have to get this off my chest. I'm not necessarily looking for advice, just wanting to vent about the industry and hear your thoughts in case there are others out there like me.

I have >20 years experience programming, at least 10 of those professionally. I've been programming since I was in grade school. It started with a spark of creativity, I loved making things come to life on the screen.

My early years freelancing were full of learning. It was challenging, there were difficult times, but it was almost always interesting. Then I went and got a full-time job. In just a few short years the professional software industry had burnt through just about every drop of passion I had.

Learning. I stopped learning at work. Few people are interested in anything that might make the job easier, if it means they have to learn something. Senior engineers especially are paranoid because of bad past experiences and afraid of anything they haven't seen before. Instead we spend months writing overly complicated AbstractBeanFactoryFactories because "that's the industry standard". Because its "easier to hire Java devs". I'm just shocked at how resistant people are to new technologies and ideas that could make things so much easier, especially more senior engineers. Because I love learning, I spend my spare time at home learning about functional programming, new languages, patterns, all sort of things just out of interest. I see how so many things we take as standard in the industry are incredibly slow, overcomplicated and inefficient, but when I try to introduce new ideas or patterns at work they're unfamiliar and therefore "too complex".

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Patrick O'Brian is evidence for me that fiction set in the past can illuminate my present. He wrote believable and complex (fictional male) characters, interacting in interesting ways, through lightly fictionalized real events with humor and a fair amount of ripping yarn/daring-do.

For some writers a genre is a crutch - a thousand steel-capped dreadnoughts tearing through the yielding fabric of feebly protesting spacetime blah blah. For others, and O'Brian is the best I've come across, the genre is the constraint that forces true creativity.

I think it is reasonable to observe that his female leads (modulo Clarissa Oakes maybe) are a bit cardboard cutout.
If anything, ecological collapse might hasten this future.

Just last week, there was this news about the Texas power company that remotely raised temperatures on people's thermostats to save power and avoid brownouts/blackouts. This predictably caused public outrage as people discovered what was in the fine print that they signed without reading, but from the perspective of the power company, everything worked as intended, so I absolutely expect to push these remote-controllable thermostats even harder moving forward.