skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On your last point:

This process can be sped up via intelligent afforestation (Miyawaki, permaculture etc).

Heavy mulching combined with densely planted native plants of different heights (everything from understory to canopy layer) effectively traps enough moisture and introduces a wide enough variety of microbes to sufficiently kick start a positive spiral mimicking virgin forests.

This requires manual input of water and mulching for the first two years or so. After that point you have a self sufficient, dense forest that rivals natural ones.

Combined with water harvesting (swales, check dams, man made ponds) this has been proven very effective in dry parts India, China, Northern Africa and Australia.
Millions of people using bitcoin do use .1% of world's energy. I'm quite sure their other energy uses dwarf the power used for their transactions with a significant margin.
In Toronto, my doc is always able to see me within two weeks for something non-urgent. They also have 24/7 number I can call to speak with a doc. And my doc responds to emails within a few hours. If there's something non-urgent but I want an answer right away I can go to a walk in clinic and be seen within an hour. The vast majority of Canadians live in dense areas like I do and have access to the same level of care.
Link to track the flight live:

https://www.flightradar24.com/VGX01/285e221f
USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it?
The first word in my comment. Nope.
What do you mean by dangerous exactly? I was briefly involved with some people from the Steiner philosophy (the school) and while some people could definitely be labeled as a weird bunch with esoteric tendencies, none of them seemed dangerous at all.

Everything seemed very open and accepting to people different than themself. In a positive way, not in a "join my cult" way.
Why isn't the person I responded to replying to what I wrote? Probably because he's been dominated.

This post serves to win the game and lay out ammunition for others to use in the future.

Every culture and conversational arena has rules that must be obeyed when playing the dominance game. By pointing out how someone is violating the spirit of HN etiquette I dominate the other party by elucidating how the other person isn't playing by the rules. I can link to this thread in the future for anyone who wants to call someone "perplexing" in the future.

You should note that dominance games exist in both men and women. Everybody flexes sometimes but most people are never self aware about it.

You should also know that relating gender to behavior even though it's scientifically valid is a cultural no no. Expect to lose the dominance game should you ever go this route as you'll be labelled as sexist or people will become incredulous. "Are you literally implying men and women can behave differently? That's preposterous!!"

There's a subtle veiled insult here when you called me a woman. It's also a little off topic, but whatever. The obvious move would be to call you sexist as the rules of our modern culture say it's an easy win. I can also just be silent and you automatically lose as others vote you down. But you aren't technically wrong about the differences between male and female behavior. So I won't take that route because it's cheap.

Either way you are completely off. I'm a dude. I'm a heterosexual male doing what heterosexual male humans typically do in the wild. I seek to dominate ass holes who call others perplexing. I dominate by being fucking completely right and not by using cheap conversational tactics. This entire post was the typical male testosterone fueled maneuver. I'm curious as to why you weren't able to see that? Maybe it's because you're female? Go read a psychology book on gender. Maybe that will help you understand the male mind better.
Are there any actual accounts of security incidents related to such software?
Wasn’t dithering only visible in Windows when using 256-color mode? Bonus for switching apps and having to wait that fraction of a second when the palette was swapped, so you’d possibly see the program you just alt-tabbed to in radically different colors.
The author could have mentioned testing.

The reason I use python scripts instead of spreadsheets for important calculations is that I can unit test the logic extensively and be sure that the code works as expected. This also makes sure I don't break stuff when adding functionalities / refactoring code.

I would never ever use Excel for something important, unless it's completely trivial (e.g., sum/average values of a column).

I assume the same applies to R vs spreadhseets, of course.
It would be a perfect name for a surveillance system in a dystopian government though
This is a great comment and the line of reasoning for work at different scales makes so much sense.
Just type ‘0002.
GitHub URL Hacks
I'm always glad when I see SpaceX's stats in SI, whereas Blue Origin doesn't care at all about it.

It's not like there's limited screen real estate which prevents to show the stats in both units.
>The kids did as scientists asked them. That is compliance - there was no issue of kids ignoring doll or going to play chase

This will be my last response because you clearly don't understand the OP study or the discussion in this thread.
The study looked at a problem solving task with conflicting instructions, and measured the ability of children to complete the task correctly.

acituan and ALittleLight raised valid points that rewards and punishment could change the study results. For example, maybe children would be complete the task better better if they were punished or rewarded if they complete the study wrong for right. My point is that while it would be unethical to beat or harm a child for completing the task wrong, there are ethical ways to include some other forms of punishment.

It seems like you have some pet social and behavioral issues, but I find your poor grammar and communication skills trying, and have no interest in discussing them further.
Alibaba challenges Amazon with a promise: fast global shipping [video]
I pay over $25k in insurance premiums a year for a family of four.

If raising my taxes by $10k eliminates that, I’m extremely ok with it.

The cost of US healthcare is 2-3x the cost of healthcare in the rest of the developed world - counting both public and private spend - and with very similar outcomes.
That's because in that case the legal entity of the company and the natural entity behind it are the same. A GmbH and similar are not directly associated with that. The quick way to prevent issues is to quickly register private insolvency if the money of your corporation is not enough to cover your bills. That means you get to keep a profit of 1.178,59€ monthly plus any necessities like rent and gas/power bills. At most this takes five years and you're free.
I think we'd need to see the total carbon cost for the proessing of the lumber before we can say whether construction with wood has a net zero or net negative carbon impact.

Harvesting, milling, kiln drying, and transport all seem to me like quite energy intensive operations.
For starters, don't reward war crimes. Organize swift trials. They've only recently finished trials of high ranking generals and officials, there are thousands lower ranked ones which will never feel the hand of justice.
So much truth to your entire comment!
What does the parent comment have to so with the cost of stitches at Stanford? I was responding to their generalized comment about costs, which also has very little to do with the cost of stitches at Stanford.

For one, people are using Stanford for the name and presumed quality of care (see tweet about price being much higher than other hospitals). That's shows patients are willing to spend more for treatment there. If you want to dig deeper into the cost, then we would need to know why the price is listed that high, as it is likely a mistake (also speculated in the tweets). It's not really a good idea to compare anecdote that is suspected to be a mistake against an unspecified cost in another system (implied by parent).
The mainstream media is always very hawkish, they are now offering all kinds of excuses not to pull out.
What is the point of "medium" other than to hold your content hostage and force users to pay a subscription ?
Writefreely instead is about sharing. A full 360 from medium.
> Anything important should not be done in Excel.

Hold on a second while I go shut down the global economy for two years so we can teach everyone finance person how to program.
It doesn’t. At least proctortrack and honorlock
Don’t.

Btw: implementation details. It doesn’t invalidate all eproctoring solutions.
I like that he sort of recognizes that the discussion is moot, since no amount of reasonable effort could change a definition used by almost literally everyone in our lifetimes

- but you are right that the arguments against Internet as a name are not strong

Also - he mentions Lee's "Nexus" as a possible name
Online Marketing in Healthcare
Royal Mail Rubber Band
Windows 11 Clone Made Using Webflow with No Custom Code
Windows11

I have cloned windows 11 without even writing a single line of code, Implemented few things as of now, and will be adding more as soon as possible.

Done with
@webflow+ @sketch Such a powerful tool
I am sure this is the longest ad I have ever watched.

45 mins (and counting) of massaging RB's ego and promoting his company.
Women of Venice Discover Boating
And yet this is not universal, so the point remains: We don't know very well which types of policies are effective at reducing fertility rate without resorting the really draconian, authoritarian methods like China did. The only other thing we know consistently correlates with dropping fertility rates, to the point that it contributes to us not knowing to what extent other policies works, is economic development.

To get it back to the subject at hand, the point is that the poster I originally replied to has no justification for the suggestion that this has to do with culture, even less so with bringing up Islam given they've since given three muslim countries as examples of places they claim are doing better (Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Jordan), misrepresented the data, and it's by no means clear what Egypt could have done differently that would have worked. Could they have tried more things? Sure. Might some of them have worked? Sure. But we don't know, and so blaming them for having had a brief dip in a multi-decade drop in fertility rates is unreasonable.
With browser-based proctoring you are free to launch a live linux distro.

The extension will just share your screen, use your camera and mic.
How much shipping can we get through a warming Arctic?
Back in the Csswg
I remember when Spiegel did this same sort of travel story through the US and it turned out the author just made most of it up to fit whatever stereotypes he wanted to confirm about americans. Hard to take them seriously after that.
I weakly support single-payer because it would at least hopefully save me from spending hours dealing with the vagaries of medical provider billing and free people from worrying about health insurance when job-searching, but I don't see much reason to believe it would lower prices in America.

There's some kind of horrific cost disease going on in America. Sure, the insurance doesn't help, but it's not the main problem. The cash price - with a discount - for me to get the five-minute opinion of a nurse practitioner is $125-$150. Self-insured companies are paying 20k+ in premiums for an employee's family health insurance plan.

This is reflected in the fact that a lot of hospital systems in the US are already publicly owned! Taxpayers in much of the US are already paying directly to built facilities and pay doctors and nurses for anything their billing doesn't cover. (Not even counting the VA system.) 64 million Americans are on Medicaid, about 20% of the population; [1] 18% of Americans are on Medicare. [2] (There's some overlap, so those aren't strictly additive.) More Americans than Canadians are already the beneficiaries of public health care! And Medicare/Medicaid is already the one of the biggest US government expenditures. [3] Whatever natural incentives are in place are already there. It may be the case that specific government policies are partly responsible for hamstringing cost-cutting, but I see no reason to believe those policies and worse ones wouldn't perpetuate themselves.

There's a lot of factors driving the crazy costs in the US. Unfortunately, I don't see a reason to believe single payer would do anything but mildly slow the rise, unless combined with a lot of very unpopular policies.

[1] https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/medicaid-facts-and-...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/200962/percentage-of-ame...
[3] https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spend...
The better term is "behind the curtain", maybe institution X should take out an insurance policy for the ransom money asked after a kidnapping, but any such contract will state this agreement most be held confidential or be void.
I like James Joyce's phrase `Mama Matrix Most Mysterious`. He was ahead of his time and probably would have referred to The Internet in similar terms if he was alive to witness it.

The web is like The Matrix (as depicted in the movie franchise The Matrix). It's an artificial construct, and the only people keeping it alive are those who think it's some sort of solid, permanent thing, when infact it's more amorphous and ephemeral.
Convenience aspect quckly turns into money at scale either directly or indirectly through time. It takes zero dollars to take single flowerpot but if you want to take 10000 you will need car, fuel and longer it takes to walk onto and away from lawn less flowerpots in an hour single person can collect. Same applies to computersecurity entering single captcha costs zero dollars but at scale you will have to hire someone doing it at x dollars per 1000 captchas.
Bin Laden was assassinated in Pakistan if that's what you're referring to.
If this had collaboration (many people annotating on the same screen) I’d buy it in a whim. Lots of great videoconferencing software but with no way to point a cursor on the presenter’s screen.
I too hope they read the article and find out what it actually suggests. Raising your kid based on headlines isn’t ideal.
I see things differently.

I believe that they can both coexist. I think that the prior art is centuries old.
Nothing says "arbitrary" more than a quantity that was deliberately rounded up 9km just for the heck of it. Things can be guided by math/logic and still have arbitrary elements. The Karmen line definition is a logical definition with certain arbitrary constant selections, and therefore it's not specific. This doesn't mean it's random, only that there are band of valid definitions.

It's correct to state a boundary defined by centrifugal force dominance is somewhere between 80ish and 100ish km, and the specific number is somewhat arbitrary. It's not correct to say its for 20km (for example), which would be a truly random selection.
Wrong. NASA uses hundreds of suppliers. It’s not like NASA gets a budget and can just work alone to make things happen. Everything that government does has a whole supply chain behind it.
Titoism: The political philosophy of Josip Broz Tito
I find this really interesting...but can we talk about that opening map? It's something I'm seeing a lot of more recently and wondering if I'm broken or the people making them are. I don't think of myself as colorblind, but I only see 'red and purple' on the map. Why did they use tiny variations of those two colors to cover 10 different categories? Or can some people clearly differentiate the shades easily?
Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a single app crash
The syntax issues yeah that was a mistake to include. Although my confusion about = and <- was that I also wasn't getting warnings when using it incorrectly. In Go I cannot mistakenly use = for declaring a variable (without using 'var').

Far more severe is the scant documentation online.

Don't take this as an attack on the language or community. I'm a huge fan of Standard ML and it's arguably in a worse state!

I was interested in supporting R in the first place because I knew of its importance (if only vaguely).
With some subtle product placement for Land Rover as well.
> How many people stopped pirating when Apple made it extremely easy to buy music for $1?

Apple does not allow you to "buy" music, only to rent it.
How did my phone number end up for sale on a US database?
> all sorts of rent-seeking and barriers to entry is an indictment of libertarianism...

OK, so if I understand your point, US healthcare is not free-market enough and even more deregulation is the cure. In that scenario even more hungry profit centers are allowed to flourish between the patient and their doctor. But, that is even more "waste" from a patient money -> healthcare provided point of view.

What has become apparent to me is that some aspects of civilization are not compatible with privatization. Oof. This was a very bitter pill for me to swallow as my background is having escaped Soviet controlled Europe when I was a child. It has taken a lot of time for me to realize that the ideal solutions for our species may not be at the opposite extreme of ideology. The big realization may have been that solutions in reality are often closer to a tensor than any one-dimensional concept or pure ideology.

* Note: by "ideal solutions for our species," I mean optimizing for the survival of the species, and growth of our technological civilization.
I was not aware there was any serious disagreement about the history here, and in fact I can't find anything authoritative to corroborate your assertion, or mine. This is not uncommon for this period of history, of course, and there are agendas on all sides.

When I studied ancient Rome, my (secular) education was that Christianity had few adherents at the time, and since the doctrine was very much in flux (many of the books were not even written) and there were social or legal implications to declaring your faith, it was practical to follow the local custom outwardly, while maintaining your faith inwardly.

The most visible is the adoption of Saturnalia (winter solstice) as the time of Jesus' birth. It was the biggest Roman/pagan holiday, and the documentation of his true birthdate was incomplete, so ... Christmas?

The activities of celebration for Saturnalia and Christmas were wildly different (though to be fair, Christmas celebration didn't begin for a few centuries after 0CE, and they did get a bit rowdy in the middle ages!)

The crucifixion is better-documented. That it fell around the time of an existing fertility festival near the vernal equinox might be mere coincidence, I suppose. But rebirth/resurrection/fertility are variations on a theme, so either interpretation can be reasonable.

Additionally (I don't know if this is canon!), Easter is about 40 weeks preceding Christmas. Immaculate conception or not, gestation is still a thing, and the timing is interesting.
Check out one of the public instances: https://writefreely.org/instances.
Any recommendations for a system like this that runs on old smartphones as cameras?
Pretty sure none of this would have happened if Osama wasn't assassinated.
> right wing parties don't want them unearthed, identified and given to the families

Source for this?
It’s the engine backing https://write.as if you wanna try.
I recommend Rebecca West's 'Black Lamb and Grey Flacon" as good book on the Balkans. The people seem strongly in touch with history going back centuries.
I disagree. I think we should fund private industry and increase the current expenditures by 10x.

I love Bezos and Musk. They’re visionaries and have changed the world. Anti-billionairism is rage induced by excessive consumption of social media.
I can see that you are a big fan of solar thermal power, but how do you explain that nobody is building them? If utility generators are rational actors they will pick the best solution. Currently there are numerous PV plants under construction and zero thermal plants in construction or even in planning, in California. Globally, solar thermal has almost come to a complete stop. So, how do you rationalize that it's a great technology but nobody wants it?
One of my most standard criticisms. It's like people don't spend any time at all researching dataviz color scales.

A quick Google search will bring you to Viridis. Use that or one of the many similar versions in other hues.

Also: the title of the chart is "Least Religious Countries", but the chart is colored so that the top of the scale is "100% Importance of Religion in Daily Life," i.e. the most religious.
The Baltic and, I believe. the Black Sea, preserves sunken ships for many centuries, because no wood eating organisms can live in that water.

So it seems you could weigh wood with some rocks and sink it there as a permanent enough solution.
I don't think the guy who is going to space really cares about getting his ego massaged by commercials.
Am in Germany and can get a basic check up figuratively every day of the year completely for free. It might take a day for a specific appointment, but if i just went to the doctor they would see me guranteed and could assess any ailments. So there you have a country that is similar enough to the US that shows how a single payer system can work. I agree, that there is no such thing as an ideal healthcare model :)
But this is pissing off both the people who did want it, because it’s extra regulation, and also the people who didn’t want it, because it’s ineffective. Nobody is happy.
I take issue with part of this, as do many other actual technical security professionals.

What is said: certifications like CISSP don’t represent the full spectrum of skills a professional needs therefore certifications are a waste of time.

Reality: certifications represent a foundational body of knowledge for new entrants to the field - to start the "scaffolding" of their knowledge. It helps employers test a candidate’s commitment to the career and so is useful as long they don’t mandate it above all else.

However, what does the ISC2 marketing material say? Let's take a peek!

Earning the CISSP proves you have what it takes to effectively design, implement and manage a best-in-class cybersecurity program. With a CISSP, you validate your expertise and become an (ISC)² member, unlocking a broad array of exclusive resources, educational tools, and peer-to-peer networking opportunities.

Prove your skills, advance your career, help earn the salary you want and gain the support of a community of cybersecurity leaders here to support you throughout your career

From https://www.isc2.org/Certifications/CISSP

So, basically, a nontechnical certification that is shallow and broad has managed to insinuate itself as the way towards being able to run a security program, and more valuable than any technical security degree, or a CS degree, or a PHD in Cryptography. It claims to be both for security pros with many years experience, but others say it is foundational material. This has then led to a negative cycle of incompotence, bringing in nontechnical types into a field that is uniquely demanding for broad technical skills normally gained through years in the trenches (SRE/development/administration/network engineering)

Is there any wonder why we have a security problem?
That's not technically correct. The difference is tiny and for most purposes can be ignored, but GMT is based on the mean solar time at Greenwich whereas UTC is based on International Atomic Time.
I think there's another sort of binary thinking that's even worse: thinking that systems are either "secure" (because no bugs have been identified) or "insecure" (because a serious bug has been found).

In reality, all systems contain bugs, but the presence of a single bug shouldn't be enough, on its own, to render a system insecure: defense in depth should ensure that a system remains secure even in the presence of minor bugs in any one layer.