skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a PR problem.

Scaremongering is a double-edged sword. I'm not a fan either. It can cause some people to pay attention and care about the problem. But it also causes other people to dismiss the worry as exaggerated (because by definition putting too much emphasis on the extreme range of the probability range is by definition exaggerating).

But it's a mistake to confound the scaremongers with the underlying science that provided the inputs for the worry.

The uncertainty bracket is large. You can't really know if we're going to experience problems at the scales that most people would recognize as "doom" by 2020, 2040 or 2140. But that doesn't mean the underlying model is wrong, it just means that the uncertainty bracket is large.

If the practical every day problem starts at 2040 or 2080, is this any better? Because you'd be dead and it will be somebody else's problem?

Or because when the problem will become manifest we'll just fix the problem then?

The inertia of the system goes both ways. The observable parameters have long changed and the system has been slow to move towards the predicted target. This also suggests that corrections to the parameters will take a very long time to fix.
We used REE for a while and it was excellent. Thank you for your work on it!
Many people here say that software not being polished is kind of a problem but that is irrelevant - you can always install alternative app and you should. I would be most happy if all those default garbage "apps" are left out on ANY phone (i.e. minimal install) - just give me OS and let me be, I can install stuff I use on my own. You should never use apps tied to vendor as portability of your tools is most important.

Not only Xiaomi phones are cheaper, but technology is IMO way better then that of Samsung and friends:

- Face recognition NEVER FAILS. It fails on MS Surface (and in kinda embarrassing way really), Samsung, Huwei etc. but never on Xiaomi - it can rain, snow, you can change haircuts... its irrelevant, it only scan eyes.

- MAUI is way less bloated IMO then alternatives

- Glass is awesome on my Redmi - I recently dropped it on asphalt (which is very sharp) from 1.5 meter height and then I hit it with my foot while walking so it slide on asphalt on the glass side, traveling around 5 meters. I thought it will go to trash can after that, but I picked it up and there was just a small scratch ! Amazing

I am not judging only using phone xperience - all other gadgets I got from the company are great and 3 times cheaper then alternative - air cleaner, roborock etc.

Good job Xiaomi.
Mediocre workers have nowhere to hide
The downside is that you lose DRM-enabled content. For example, it's a hassle to use Netflix at 720p/1080p, and what's more important to my use case for example, is Spotify. It's _possible_ in theory, but it's extremely hacky.

I personally went the Google route w/ a Pixel 4a, so I get a simple, zero non-sense UI, with no forced ads or anything, just a smooth experience, at a slight premium (not that much to be completely fair ...)
Do you have any recommendations for a game for children who cannot yet read? My 3yo loves Putt Putt (we play the Steam version) because the car talks to him. But in the early 80s computers did not yet have speech synthesis or enough storage for audio. I would love for him to enjoy Oregon Trail some day, but I don't think he's ready for it. Did MECC make any games targeted at younger children?
It's really confusing because so many Wikipedia and Media Articles write that Oppo is a Subsidiary of BBK...
Polish Cavalry did charge German tanks in World War II and they won
> Don't disclose to the client anything not in their view.

Either full of edges cases (how do you efficiently compute visibility, and can you prevent models from popping in as a result of latency) or computationally expensive[0]. Valorant, CSGO, League of Legends, Dota 2 are some of the games that I know about that implement server-side occluding to minimise the impact of wallhacks, but eventually a client will still need information like the position of an audio cue such as footsteps that cheats can make use of.

[0]: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-...
At first I thought I fell somewhere in between the depth and breadth groups you've put forward. But now I think I more align with "breadth", definitely.

I'm very erratic, distracted. In a recent project with some peers I did something "trivial" but it led to a major change in the project. Mty peers were impressed with my finding. I figure they think it's trivial. They probably don't (maybe?).

I didn't get good grades in school, due to my mental state. But after school and into University I'm suddenly performing better than I could have ever thought I would have. This comes with some impostor syndrome. I think my course is easy - but it can't jusy be "easy", I passed that one class notorious for a 75% fail rate with a distinction, that was _me_. But still, my mind is ripe with doubts.
Clout Chaser
/klout 'CHāsər/ noun: a person who strategically associates themselves with the success of a popular person or a currently contemporary trend to gain fame an attention. This personality disorder is often resembled as, "riding the wave" without concern for damage or integrity

Relationship? What relationship? Creators who can offer only "slice of personal life" to the audience have no value.
But wait? They are using Big Brother reality show model.

Everything for money and fame. And this is what? The future?
No thanks.
"When HR gets to know that he is combat veteran, they run for the hills (I heard phone interviews)."

Sounds like he's applying to the wrong companies. Look for companies that that domain knowledge, like Lockheed, General Dynamics, etc. There are also organizations that will help veterans find jobs (some might have timeframe limits, others might only help those who are unemployed).

Of course he will still need to learn about IT. Maybe get scrum master certified. Maybe get an MBA or business certificate to show he understands stuff like budgeting. AWS Cloud Practitioner is easy and will give him a basic understanding of concepts and jargon associated with the platform. I would say it would be good to learn at least one language and build a small project with it, then look at more complex projects on GitHub just to understand the architectures. A class on system's architecture would be a good idea too. It's important to understand the basic concepts and structure behind the project as well as the budgeting and development processes to be able to make strategic leadership decisions about it.
Ironic isn't it? Try to pretend that everybody is exactly equal to get woke points and the people you're trying to pander to end up being the ones who suffer.
If your identity is bound up in working for google you will need to somehow deal with the cognitive dissonance of accusations of your employer's unethical behavior.

Either your identity has to be kept separate (i.e. working there can't be something you're proud of) or you have to challenge or downplay the accusations, because they reflect upon you.

A great deal of googlers are proud of working there.

I worked for what many would call an unethical company for a while but I was never proud of it. When people talked about its behavior I would usually agree with them, but some of my coworkers were proud and they would defend it or try to downplay the accusations (e.g. we're not as bad as X).
I know the kernel of Hol-Light very well, as I implemented proof terms for it [1]. 600-637 do not define subtypes, but entirely new types. And no, you cannot add subtypes to a COC prover easily.

[1]: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11814771_27
> IMO, we're this is about many-2-many communication figuring itself out, at scale. Many-2-many is our default mode, what we naturally do. A group of people talking shop over dinner, a bunch of kids deciding between soccer and tag.

I think it would be more apt to refer to this as few-to-few. As the number of people increases in a party, people prefer to splinter into small groups where they have a greater speaking to listening ratio than all stand around listening to one person speak.

See here for more: https://www.danielnettle.org.uk/download/002.pdf
> openly-racist phrenology-based diagrams to section up the different areas of the brain.

What was racist? Was the picture inside some black face caricature? If so, was the actual scientific part inside the racist drawing accurate?
As neat as the various intact de-orbit scenarios for the ISS are, the majority fail to take into account its design as a zero G structure. The totality of the ISS was never designed for gravity loading, or major loads at all really.

The only way to get it back down to Earth (or even somewhere on the moon) would be in pieces. Disassemble the non essential modules of the station using the arm and ferry them off with Starship flights and then once it’s small enough start folding back up the solar arrays (they were all designed to retract), break down the truss segments, bring them back, bring the arrays back, then finally the core modules, pretty much the reverse of how they assembled it in the first place. Though the political logistics would be a nightmare as technically each country owns their modules and would have to agree to all this in the first place.

The fate of smaller space heritage items however looks less dire, as the starship could in theory be setup to retrieve Hubble, the Apollo 11 ascent stage, and a number of other interesting historical space objects that have yet to de-orbit. It just becomes a matter of money.

Personally I’ve always thought it would be neat to build a high delta-v largeish cubesat size mission to retrieve Telstar 1 would be a neat salvage demonstration since the satellite is small enough to be brought inside the ISS airlock meaning you could in theory bring it back to earth aboard a pressurised Dragon cargo flight. The obvious buyer being Intesat, until their bankruptcy last year that is.
ML News – Facebook AI adapting robots – Baidu autonomous excavators [video]
I am not denying that there are examples of democratic liberation. Especially from history. Take the Yugoslavia conflict. Intervention by an international force there was at the time probably the lesser evil. It stopped genocide (a great plus in my book) while at the same time generating hatred that created terrorism (a big minus).

There are no easy answers.

But most current interventions as well as many historic ones were not motivated by ulterior motives but by economic ones and questions of power.

Coming from Germany and having studied history I must ask myself when did liberation turn to intervention because of political or economical gains? While keeping the rhetoric more or less the same.

There is imho a difference between WW II or Yugoslavia and Kuwait. Or Irak. Or even Afghanistan. Or Serbia. Or different South American states were intervention is often less militaristic.

I feel we need to have a way to differentiate and look closer to be able to discuss without falling back to ideology or "party lines".
it's a bit like "-ism", Modernism etc...
Sustainable? Eco-friendly? Community?
Just join the Amish?
According to Wikipedia they killed only(!!!!!!!) like 1.5 to 2 million people (around 25%). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge#Number_of_deaths

Also, Khmer Rouge had like 4 years to kill the people, and big waves of covid-19 last approximately one or two months. For example famine and unrelated illness that can't be treated because the hospitals are not working usually take more time to kill people.
> - Face recognition NEVER FAILS. It fails on MS Surface (and in kinda embarrassing way really), Samsung, Huwei etc. but never on Xiaomi - it can rain, snow, you can change haircuts... its irrelevant, it only scan eyes.

What about false positive rate? It's there for security after all, not for convenience. Actually that's what makes me worry about biometrics. I was able to find out Apple claims about security characteristics of their fingerprint recognition and face recognition features. But I was not able to find this information for Android vendors, it's like nobody cares.
You can still build a big network with ex-military buddies. Those bonds tend to be stronger than the ones formed in a non-military (or similar group/experience) network.

But you are correct, the percentage of the US population in the military is about 2%, and the percentage of veterans is about 7%.
That’s when it goes from dystopian concrete jungle to Arcology right?
Our favorite on the C64 in Finland was a game where you flew a helicopter on a world map and had to find different countries by name. Not sure what the name of that game is.
> Face recognition NEVER FAILS

Are we talking about the false negative or the false positive rate here?
Double-Pfizer but I still wear a mask. Several reasons: reminder to me to be careful touching my face/eyes with dirty hands, and is probably a significant factor in the low flu count last winter. If I suddenly sneeze, you won’t wear it as it’s mainly trapped in the mask. It’s a reminder to others that I’m paying attention as their wearing one reminds me. Finally, if I’m somewhere where talking loudly or yelling is required, it keeps the spittle under control. Watch any concert video up close…. Vaccines aren’t perfect. Those near me might not be vaccinated. No skin off my nose to think of others.

Edit: and I wear a multilayer mask not a disguise.
Pretty much. During the pandemic one of the first things the company I worked for did was install extra invasive tracking on our laptops.

The bullshit rationale, the fact it interfered with doing my actual job and the creepy vibes I got were one reason why I quit.

Im almost certain theyll try to drag people back in.
> How does LineageOS stop the "little black box" which handles GSM/UTMS/etc traffic from spying on you?

Is that part even made by Xiaomi?
Maybe punks from the punk rock movement didn't like neithe their tribe name taken and used for something different but it's how language/culture works.
> The uncertainty bracket is large.

I completely agree. It's so large that it's expected that any near-term predictions will be false, and that's what we see. By now there's a huge graveyard of false climate doomsday predictions that are swept under the rug by the media, seemingly because it's so useful for them to have something scary to talk about.

We know that the atmosphere's temperature goes up and down, and does not require human activity to do that. It has ranged from about 10C to 25C over the past 2B years (obviously with no human intervention). Earth has been about as cold as it ever gets recently, so even if there were no emissions by humans, it wouldn't be surprising to see the earth heating up. That's what it's done many times in the past.

We're being told that it's definitely due to CO2 emissions, when we lack the computational ability to prove such a thing. Because of this insistence on the CO2 hypothesis, all talk is about ceasing emissions. If we thought the earth was heating up of its own accord, all talk would be about configuring society to have huge amounts of reliable clean energy, which pretty much means nuclear, rather than solar and wind.

Note the same anti-human pattern as in the case of sea-level rise: it's fine for nature to add e.g. 2000 ppm CO2, but it's evil, wrong, and potentially disastrous for humans to add 100.
Insert NCO joke about who gets things done...
Right, and this is a common problem with British mountains in areas where people regard the top as some sort of accessible tourist attraction; I've actually seen high heels at the start. They may not be that high, but they can be easy enough to die on. Some comments sound rather as if they think the volunteer mountain rescue don't know what they're talking about (assuming they've been correctly reported).

My experience of mobile phone signal is rather different to what others report/assume.
Looking at rules over liability for fires caused by equipment malfunctions is probably a good place to start.

Limited-Liability corporations are incentivized, by their legal structure, to disregard liability for damages over a certain threshold which would bankrupt the company.

If they could cause damage worth 10 billion or 100 billion say, these would get treated the same if the company's position is such that a loss of 5 billion would bankrupt the company. In a just world they should be working to ensure the "100 billion damages event" is 10 times less likely than the "10 billion damages event", however under limited-liability rules they all blur together as "5 billion or company bankruptcy" and don't get any extra attention as the level of damage (to the company itself) is the same.
Some German WWII tank manuals [1] were written in a different style.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerfibel
Peter Parker = Spider-Man, but "Peter Parker" != "Spider-Man".

It may or may not be true that 12345x54321 = 670592745. (I either put in the correct number there, or changed one digit in the middle at random.)

Let's suppose I didn't change it, and that you haven't yet checked. Then those two things are, really truly, equal -- they are two names for the exact same number -- but you don't know that they are equal. So the _meanings_ of "12345x54321" and "670592745" are not exactly the same, even though if "=" belongs anywhere it belongs between those things.

Philosophers call the thing that's the same the "extension" and the thing that's different the "intension" (not to be confused with "intention" which is an ordinary non-technical word). Sometimes you can safely substitute one thing for another whenever the extensions match -- e.g., when doing algebra. Sometimes you can't -- e.g., when talking about someone's beliefs.

I am not a fan of Edward Feser and I think this article is pretty wrongheaded, but there isn't anything specifically wrong with what he says about Peter Parker and Spider-Man.
Author's github repo on the language https://github.com/jloughry/BANCStar
I think you just made an equivocation as those Time.now’s are not the same

A = Time.now
A != Time.now
A == A

Just because Time.now looks like the same symbol it is not as it is an impure function that never returns the same result.
Yeah, it'd be easy for me to get a promotion if all it took was pointing out the worst examples and saying, "See, I can't do worse than that!". But the world doesn't work that way, except maybe for two party system politicians...
In the article they say:

> The “punk” in Solarpunk is about rebellion, counterculture, post-capitalism, decolonialism and enthusiasm. It is about going in a different direction than the mainstream, which is increasingly going in a scary direction.
Does OSM actually store the data for contour lines? As a contributor, I thought not, and topography is an add-on.
A great solution. Personally, I really liked this solution. It seems to me that this is the best thing that I have met of this kind.
Ask HN: Can you start a company in same field different sector?
e.g i work for an insurance company doing security work to protect their apps/systems.

can i start a consultancy on the side protecting other company's apps/systems?
I wish English writer investigate about this topic
> aside from Quebec, of course

Is Quebec not homogeneous or not well-educated? I believe vaccination rates there are similar to the rest of the country.
Relative to agreements you have with your employer?
I’ve only read “Consider Phlebas” and it gave me a distinctly dystopian impression of the Culture.

Like WTF, I understand why people thought this was a good idea, but I sympathize with the people fighting (and losing) against the Culture more.
There was never any meritocracy, and the recipe for revolt that exists now doesn't owe anything to any meritocracy, perceived or otherwise.
Ontario did a terrible job at pretty much everything. I volunteered with a some other devs to build https://vaccine-ontario.ca because otherwise there was no single dashboard to find a vaccination clinic that had available appointments.
I've run production systems on H2 that ran rings around the same company's dedicated-DBA systems.
I don't think we should underestimate the value of comfort blankets though in this situation either.

I had no problem wearing a mask but I did have a problem with what seemed like a Pascal's Wager argument that was not just being passed off as science but as unquestionable religious dogma.

I don't think you can underestimate either the cover and scapegoat masks gave politicians in this situation. "My plan would work but it is these people not wearing masks that are causing my plan to fail!".

While I hope we really do solve what the actual effect of mask wearing was on this it does seem like a very hard experiment to run. So many different environments and levels of use, then noise in the masks themselves, on and on with variables to control for.
The missing threading on mobile and overall app experience was what made me not switch to protomail. It wasn't the actual missing feature but the fact that when I googled for it I found people requesting this feature several years ago (maybe 2016) up until now and staff doesn't give any answer. So I thought it might not be the most customer focused business.
> Limited-Liability corporations are incentivized, by their legal structure, to disregard liability for damages over a certain threshold which would bankrupt the company.

No they aren't, they have an incentive to make a profit. Going bankrupt is not a cheerfully accepted outcome.

Bankruptcy means the concern has failed. The owners should lose all their capital (I say should, I don't know the details of how the US and/or California implement this). It is a catastrophic outcome for the owners.

The fact that there is a cap on the downside doesn't mean that relying on the cap is incentivised. Losing all the money invested is not an outcome greedy people ever want to happen.
I just signed up to the "free for individual students and educators" plan using an .ac.uk domain (the UK equivalent of the US' .edu). Perhaps your problem is more of an edge case? What is the TLD you are trying to use?
> Under Linux, I would require many more dependancies since I have no guarantee what libraries or API’s the users have installed.

That is an unfortunate, probably unavoidable, byproduct of the freedom that brought Linux on so many computers, platforms and users. Everyone can write a software, or fork an existing one, nobody enforces a standard for development or integration. I guess it's not easy to build a giant free community around a free software and keep consistency.
It's a mess, and has been a necessary one when the aim was to spread Linux as much as possible, but now we're paying the consequences. (Which is why I believe the day Microsoft will reveal their Linux distro, bringing stability and unification behind a known brand, is the day all non technical die-hard users and more importantly most commercial entities that use Linux will abandon the usual distributions, essentially killing them.)
Haiku however was born as a clone of a closed system, and only recently is seeing some media coverage; there's no guarantee that, should it one day reach Linux' level of popularity, the influx of developers , users, and demand for more software, won't create the same issues there as well.
Sadly difficult to read. There doesn’t seem to be any easy way to get past the paywall.
I dunno, reading that I’m more inclined to prepare for cyberpunk than to magically assume we can fix millions of years of evolution.
Two reasons (in the context of a standard desktop user, not headless server):

1. Desktop environment, which uses the video card; this is not a big deal, since one can terminate the session

2. video drivers correctly and fully releasing the card; this is possible, but in my opinion, not stable.
Parasocial relationships are a bug in your brain deriving from the fact that your social circuitry wasn’t designed to see people who are not literally in front of you.