skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi HN,

Liberty caps - or Psilocybe semilanceata - are a psilocybin-containing mushroom that grow naturally in many parts of the world. There is a lot of information online about where and when to look for liberty caps, but I wanted to see if data could help answer this question and boost people's chances of being in the right place at the right time.

To summarise how the map works: first, I matched the dates and coordinates of historical liberty cap growth records with data on habitat (e.g. land cover, elevation, soil acidity) and weather (e.g. temperature, rainfall). Second, I used this dataset to train a model describing the conditions in which liberty caps are more or less likely to thrive (for the statistically-inclined: kernel density estimation with model selection by maximum likelihood cross-validation). Finally, this model is used to make live predictions of the likelihood of liberty cap growth across the world on any given day.

For now, the map is limited to parts of Europe and North America (PNW + east coast of Canada) where liberty caps are known to grow.

I used the following data:

- Weather: ERA5 by ECMWF (historical) [1], GFS by NCEP (forecast) [2]

- Land cover: Corine Land Cover by Copernicus (Europe) [3], Land Cover by NALCMS (North America) [4]

- Soil acidity: SoilGrids by ISRIC [5]

- Elevation: SRTM by CGIAR [6]

- Growth records: Psilocybe Semilanceata by NBNAtlas [7]

[1] https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datas...

[2] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datas...

[3] https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/corine-land-cover

[4] http://www.cec.org/north-american-environmental-atlas/land-c...

[5] https://www.isric.org/explore/soilgrids

[6] https://bigdata.cgiar.org/srtm-90m-digital-elevation-databas...

[7] https://species.nbnatlas.org/species/NBNSYS0000021551
Rightly or wrongly, Assange has largely been a non entity in the US media for a long time. This was pretty much after Der Spiegel, the Guardian, and the NYTimes spent a huge amount of resources for over a year, to properly redact the Cablegate leaks and release them, only to find that Assange was unhappy with how slowly this was going and he released them all himself, with basic redactions.

Ever since then regular media has been unwilling to work with him, because they’ve rightly judged him to be unreliable and have barely covered his personal issues from anymore than an arm’s length (the Guardian has been the most active in covering him from what I can tell, but US media has shunned him since then).
My next phone is going to be a Linux phone, and this is partly why. Individuals need to be the ones in control of the software and hardware that they use, not the other way around.
This is how propaganda works. What is sad is that some journalists never learn (that what happened to Assange can also happen to them) and when they finally get it, it is too late.
Police in the US seem to draw their weapons as a normal part of many interactions with the public, so I guess it's 100%.

But I have absolutely no idea why they do that - it seems bizarre and terrifying to me. I'm certain they don't need to be doing it.

If you're drawing your weapon every day but never actually needing to use it... maybe stop drawing it?
XNU is a fairly versatile kernel, it's not really possible (nor would it be particularly useful) to rip out everything that is not iPhone-specific.
XML tooling is fucking horrible.

I still get flashbacks to maintaining XSLT sometimes. It was a tool that didnt really need to exist and arguably did more harm than good by being "recommended".

I remember very clearly that although XML had tooling for schema validation it was awful and people tended not to get beyond the "DTD vs XSD" debate before giving up on it. Both of them sucked.

Then there's XPath. Why XPath? Because if your markup language doesnt map to normal programming data structures you need a band aid to fix it.

As for SOAP.... that can die in the fiery pits of hell with XMLSpy.
The media has hardly covered the Assange case, has smeared Julian relentlessly, and usually baselessly, and now are ignoring this too.

Seriously only a few journalists like Craig Murray even covered the court case.
In 2010 I was living in Melbourne, where he's from. There was a pro Assange petition/demonstration in Richmond. I went over to sign. Assange was an Australian citizen. The Wikileaks leak was journalistic, as far as I could tell. The Swedish indictments seemed extremely dubious. It definitely felt like an extrajudicial persecution of a journalist.

Anyway, the petition did have something about Assange in it, besides the sign. It also demanded an immediate end to Australia's involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan. It called the US imperialist, condemned the alliance, mentioned Israel, various global left wing causes, calls for resistance, etc. I'm not sure if it mentioned freedom of the press at all. I don't remember the details, but it was enough that I didn't sign.

The whole thing presented Assange and wikileaks totally as activists. Of course, that doesn't mean that it isn't a press freedom issue. It is. It also doesn't make the pursuit of Assange ok. In some senses, it's been worse than a Putinesque hit. Hits don't corrupt legal systems and establish precedents.

It's been much harder to think of Julian & Wikileaks as a journalist than it should have been. They present on a nexus of belligerent, activist and journalist. This technically shouldn't affect legal processes, but... reality.

I do think there's an imperative for journalism to remain journalistic, in both the hard and soft sense. Freedom of the press does, IMO, require a distinctive press, easily identified as such.
the only thing I can think is have binary data to be part of the document . I guess one can also use base64 string in JSON.
> Oh, and also you can just run "strings" on the DataUsage.sqlite file and find the deleted entries...

Maybe they should have enabled secure deletion: https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_secure_delete
"I don't care" is frequently a stand-in for "I feel powerless in the face of precisely zero meaningful steps available for me to take to fight the surveillance state/big tech that don't sort of ruin my life".
I don't know whether to laugh or cry for you. Being part of it was something. I took a greyhound to San Francisco in 97 and went through the yellowpages trying to find jobs. Lived in a scary as hell weekly bum hotel in the tenderloin and walked, in a suit, to the Hilton every day to make phone calls for interviews. I was 17. Called one company called "Sunset" or "Sunrise" productions, who needed a designer. Interviewed with them in SOMA; it was Bear Magazine/GBM and man, I walked out of there feeling like fresh meat. But it was almost $30k/year. Got hired for $28k/yr [at a "web startup"] as a junior designer instead - I didn't need that kind of therapy bill. Was treated like complete shit, made to work 12 hour days in competition with senior designers and the AD, while they complained about the webmonkey grunts next to me who I was trying to learn HTML from. In an office of "producers" and salespeople who were all getting ridiculous paychecks and buying late-model jeeps, the only smart ones were the ones who were brewing their own code and staying up late working on their own projects. The producers stayed up late playing WoW and avoiding their wives and babies. Hitting on the one female designer who loathed the place. It taught me never to work in an office again as long as I live.

Can't believe I didn't read either of those Douglas Coupland novels. "Generation X" was pretty seminal, though.
What? US wants Assange for leaking collateral murder vid and documents

https://diem25.org/exactly-10-years-ago-wikileaks-released-a...
"a functioning democracy that respects human life."

I have yet to see one. The only life they respect is theirs.
I believe many people would rather buy gold bars if this wasn't regulated heavily. Today gold bars are not much different from paper money - they must have a label of a licensed foundry, can only be traded by licensed merchants and the price at which an individual can sell a random piece of gold usually is well below the market AFAIK. Cryptocurrencies are way more convenient but are themselves a bubble (which I find less likely to burst than the shares though).
I'm no web historian but IIRC it actually supported XML first. Calling a backend required an XMLHttpRequest call. JSON could be parsed but by "executing" it (shudder).

So, whatever reason JSON won it wasnt that.
The solution is simple. Produce green gas from electricity. Probably first make hydrogen and then add CO2 to create methane.

This will cost a fortune compared to current gas prices, but will allow everybody who is really set on using gas to keep doing so.

Same thing of course for petrol for classic cars, etc.

Technically we can do it, it is just a matter of blocking the sale of fossil gas (or taxing the hell out of it to make it more expensive than the green equivalent).
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> there's never place to discuss the elephant in the room, that the whole game is rigged. The backdoor massive, right in front of us, and nobody's doing anything to fix it

I am tempted to take the bait, and ask you what would be this massive backdoor, which nobody has time to discuss. If I am guessing right, you are still referring to "no default E2EE".
In that regard, I would encourage you to consider that not everybody has the same security requirements, and many people are fine trusting Telegram and with the security it provides.

Personally, I cannot wait for Matrix to become more widely adopted, and to see the UI/UX of their clients to become remotely comparable with the one of Telegram.

Anyway, since it doesn't seem our discussion is going anywhere, maybe it's time to stop.

Thank you for the chat, I liked how we managed to stay polite even though we completely disagree :)

> Given that you wrote your article before Signal had even desktop clients, I don't think it's even remotely up to date to vouch for any kind of fruitful discussion

Yeah, I intentionally did not want to compare it to Signal (because the article was already too long that way).
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Can you share screen on video chat?
Are you suggesting that these movies are boring? Or just that you've seen them all?

Because there are some absolute classics on here that are better than many of the _regular_ modern films. Not to say there aren't good movies worthy of the list, but I don't think emitting them makes the list boring. And if you don't want to watch these films because 'they are old/boring' then I guess that's on you but you are the one missing out.
For me, the surplus gas controls meant that only the 100% setting was reproducible, and i ended up almost always using it.

My induction plate has 9 clear steps, and I usually use 1200/1800.
It's meant to look like a system daemon, probably fmfd.
They trumped up fake rape case in order for him to be brought to Sweden when they would extradited him to us.

Rape is serious accusation, but if you look at this case you can clearly see she got paid to go to court. They had sex, he left the sweeden and months after that she changed her mind and decided it was a rape.
We already live in a world where surveillance changed the way people think and act, causing us to suppress non-conformist opinions.

It is why mass surveillance exist in the first place, to foster collective conformity.

Unfortunately we are prone to accept authoritarianism these days. The more economical and ecological uncertainties there are the more we desire order and stability, no matter the cost. For many having to look the other way is a small price to pay.
The problem is that poor and broke are not like the others.
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As always a great point of view by Glenn Solomon, I really like this part:

"The market fundamentals that underpin this trillion-dollar software sector are clear: as every company transforms into a software company—a transformation only accelerated by the pandemic—developers are in the driver’s seat.

They want to choose their own tools, technologies and platforms, not products foisted on them by their employers. Thus, enterprise software companies that understand and cater to developer needs stand to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue in the years to come. "

The idea that, in the next years to come, an important seat in the business technology world will be occupied by developers can bring back force to the community itself.
X-Windows: …A mistake carried out to perfection. X-Windows: …Dissatisfaction guaranteed. X-Windows: …Don’t get frustrated without it. X-Windows: …Even your dog won’t like it. X-Windows: …Flaky and built to stay that way. X-Windows: …Complex non-solutions to simple non-problems. X-Windows: …Flawed beyond belief. X-Windows: …Form follows malfunction. X-Windows: …Garbage at your fingertips. X-Windows: …Ignorance is our most important resource. X-Windows: …It could be worse, but it’ll take time. X-Windows: …It could happen to you. X-Windows: …Japan’s secret weapon. X-Windows: …Let it get in your way. X-Windows: …Live the nightmare. X-Windows: …More than enough rope. X-Windows: …Never had it, never will. X-Windows: …No hardware is safe. X-Windows: …Power tools for power fools. X-Windows: …Putting new limits on productivity. X-Windows: …Simplicity made complex. X-Windows: …The cutting edge of obsolescence. X-Windows: …The art of incompetence. X-Windows: …The defacto substandard. X-Windows: …The first fully modular software disaster. X-Windows: …The joke that kills. X-Windows: …The problem for your problem. X-Windows: …There’s got to be a better way. X-Windows: …Warn your friends about it. X-Windows: …You’d better sit down. X-Windows: …You’ll envy the dead.

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398...
That tweet doesn't make a lot of sense, because it's essentially saying "don't let people send you images".
Other way around, National Enquirer was the fence using the brother as a cover story for the hack. (National Enquirer is a friend of Saudi Arabia by the way, if you didn't catch the special edition "The New Kingdom" magazine published by their parent company)
Personally, if I had to point at one single thing it would be calling millions of traditional democratic voters a "basket of deplorables".
I know. I have an M1 and and it hardly ever throttles. I was making a point to the OP though
I made the mistake of letting a 3rd party pick out my appliances. Never again. They bought me an expensive induction stove. I love the induction, but the damn touch controls make me want to take a sledgehammer to the thing.

It’s constantly turning itself off and beeping at me because it thinks someone is touching it or that something has overflowed its pot or that it’s Tuesday. Touch interfaces— outside of the phone form factor— need to die a fast and fiery death.
It doesn't actually show a whole lot, because that's not really a very good characterization of how BlastDoor works.
Backdoors can be written in any language.
I think part of the reason Simplex noise isn't used more is a chilling effect created by this patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US6867776
That is not very surprising, given the list was assembled in 1995, thus 26 years ago.

That being said: many of the films on the list are considered classics for a reason.
High complexity, low volumes, I would imagine. A few of the answers below talk about it being a car part but SDRs that can do 3G/4G are targeted at people developing cheaper chips. Electronic test gear is much more expensive than cars (at least at the bleeding edge), so the pricing doesn't preclude it from being used there.
We can make open systems from scratch: https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband

or we can try to reverse engineer existing basebands, but I'm not aware of any successful projects working toward that.
Certainly not for DSL.
Due to expire next year! I wonder if we're going to see existing projects swap out existing noise generators for simplex, or if it's mostly going to be for new projects. Guessing it's probably going to be the latter.
One thing that immediately struck me is that the art category stops in 1968, while "values" and "religion" are a lot more recent.

I wonder if that is related to the more open interpretation of sexual themes and topics more critical of organized religion in more recent arthouse cinema.
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Or in full: "He thought the leadership of civilization would pass to America and ultimately to Asia."

Many today would think that was perspicacious on Einstein's part.
Experts design elegant abstraction is equally as useful as saying grandmasters make the best move.

Immediately lost interest in the article.
Well that looks god damn luxurious. I have no doubt it can be done, it's probably just not cheap so not a great solution to the housing crisis. And, like your example, depends on location and such to make it financially viable to retrofit.

Just as an observation, if you look at the different floor plans, most of the bathrooms and some of the kitchens are located at the immediate entrance to the unit (more towards the center of the building).

I assume that's to minimize the cost of running plumbing from the center out to the edge. But that's a guess, it would depend on the original layout. But it does look like a consistent feature.
It's worth noting the majority of cctv cameras in the UK are privately owned, watching over private property, not owned by the state. So you can assume a) they're not actively monitored b) recordings are stored only for short periods of time (and retained only in event of a crime)

Don't get me wrong, UK has a strange fixation with CCTV. But I wonder how these figures would look if you excluded privately owned cameras

Edit: more information here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Uni...
It’s not untrue. It has been demonstrated in dozens of reviews that the M1 Air throttles under heavy load. Just because it hasn’t done so for your workload, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening for others.

Besides, when it throttles, it’s not a huge slowdown, so most people wouldn’t notice it “skipping a beat” anyway.
I'm not sure that journalists play too big a role. Journalists don't decide what gets printed or played on repeat on TV. Refusing to provide fodder to a propaganda machine (any major news organization) just creates a vacancy that can be easily filled, because it's capitalism and journalists too have kids, mortgages and college debt.
It will be interesting to see how the growing Chinese influence in our media will change popular culture and attitudes.
If you wan't social support nets, get your government to create social support nets. Using "but think of the poor" as an excuse for an industry that is designed to get you to part with as much of your money as they can is absurd.
The recent murder of Sarah Everard was solved largely because of CCTV images taken by, if I remember rightly, a bus and a Ring doorbell. Police were able to retrace her movements using those images as reference points and then working backwards to her last known location and forwards to when she encountered her killer (who turned out to be an off-duty police officer). [1]

I think a lot of the time it comes down to resources. For a high profile murder they're prepared to put in the effort. For more minor offences, it's not worth it (to the police, not the same as to the victim)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/09/sarah-everar...
Makes me wonder how much revenue Perlin ended up getting from that patent, and if he'd consider it worth it in hindsight.
Oh. Thanks for that.

Edit: If I talked about droning Julian Assange, "it would have been a joke."

... that's a pretty weak, fence sitting, denial. That's almost saying " if the recording or memo leaks, remember I said it was a joke
I think what jedberg's idea was is that the partner that mentors that specific startup helps the startup with their first draft. They know the startup well, and (presumably) know what works well on HN too. Saving you a bunch of time "mentoring" the startup founders with HN etiquette.

Unless you already got that, in which case, ignore this message ;-)
> We already live in a world where surveillance changed the way people think and act, causing us to suppress non-conformist opinions.

I don't see many people suppressing non-conformist opinions anywhere. Rather, I see people defiantly shouting their non-conformist opinions from the rooftops at every opportunity. Spend an hour on Twitter or Facebook and tell me anyone is suppressing any of their radical hot takes on anything.
There's always going to be a few who don't get it, and those are the ones who end up publishing. What I'd like to see is widespread understanding on the readers' part of sampling biases like this.
Induction wok burners are a thing, here is a comparison between a 5000W induction wok burner and a gas wok burner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQVDSdW-dPU (look at the description for english description)
If you trust their results, induction burners produces much less waste heat compared to gas burners, which makes home indoor Chinese food cooking more feasible
I highlighted the part, because it's still in the future.
Maybe you’re the one with the bias? Or can observer bias apply only to people who disagree with you?
Are you saying that the media is more concerned with the status of a personal relationship, than reporting on the most important leak of the decade and getting to the truth?
For Android there is a old project from Mozilla that just works like a firecracker on whatever size screenshot directory you have :

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Water heating, like cooking should not be a significant part of the home power equation when done right.

Large boilers need to die. Small "instant heaters" at or very close to each faucet is the correct way. Way way way less energy usage.

Sadly the electrical water heater units usually don't have access to the 240v line and are limited to 120v, 10A or something measly. People then complain their water doesn't heat fast enough or get hot enough for a given flow and then complain/swear off small instant heaters =/
This is just what I wanted for a long time, amazing to randomly come across it because I'd already given up thinking it doesn't exist.

The only feature it's missing - but I know this would be complicated and advanced - would be to scan for similar images and duplicates that don't exactly match. Ideally it would present them all and then I could manually mark for deletion what I want to get rid of.

So many duplicates. We were all so naive when digital photography first became a thing. I remember back in the day everyone recommended "keep all files, delete nothing, storage is cheap".
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I can appreciate that this site is using Mapbox and Plausible instead of giving out user data to Google
This is how a lot of places in Taiwan do it, even some houses. Many restaurants have bottled gas for cooking.
A lot of projects are created in parts of the world without software patents. So I think nothing will change.