skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the problem. These floods didn't happen at the usual locations like Rhine and Moselle because they weren't caused by snowmelt but usual heavy rain.
You are trivializing the problem, just like some trivialize climate change by saying that these also happened in the past.
In both cases these things happened slower than now. The flood is one problem, the short time frame another and you are completely ignoring the latter.
Inspirational analogy. I also looked at it that way as a test to ensure they were getting someone who really wanted to be part of their team and not just a job. I contrasted to the end in Willy Wonka. A test of rejection and how you would handle it.
People should care about taxes a lot more. I want to know exactly how much money the government is taking from me by force. It's a good reminder that we need to be vigilant against uncontrolled government growth, and vote accordingly.
I think the parent commenter knows that, I took it as a humorous deliberate misreading to get the joke in.
As I said, while I'm technically equivocating (you too), I am not really saying that there are no reasons to be skeptical of black box algorithms. We agree on this, I think.

That said, I'm not sure that we can make algorithms explainable. We may get better at interrogating them, and the analogy to human "black boxes" may get spookier, but I suspect that they're unexplainable in a "hard" sense. An explainable algorithm would have made different decisions, and probably won't be as good at making them.
Be careful with this one. If you see a house/apartment where lights are repeatedly being turned on/off that’s generally considered a signal that they are in distress and you might get first responders dispatched to you curtesy of a neighbor who saw this and called 911.

Also I honestly can’t think of a worst way to try to save money, especially after you factor in the power it might take to do the facial recognition. There would be a good chance that you actually lose money unless you are in a hanger full of Na lights.

Edit: 5 bulbs in a room that each consume 10 watts (fairly generous), people blink up to 20k times a day, an average blink is 100 ms. So that’s 2000 seconds of blink time or just about 33 minutes. 33*5*10 is 28 Watt-hours saved per day or about 0.84 kWh per month. At the rate of $0.20 per kWh you just saved $0.16 a month.

But wait you have latency to detect the blink so let’s cut that figure by 15%. And since we don’t know how long a blink will last (some are shorter) you also need to reduce the off time by one standard deviation of a blink so to be safe let’s make the off period after detection last only 60 ms. So now we are at $0.096 per month. And now we also need to run multiple cameras and facial detection which has to run continuously. Unless you can do that under 28*0.6=16.8 Wh per day you are losing money.
I mean, I think that ship has sailed... Here's a Samsung definitely-not-MBP: https://www.samsung.com/hk_en/pc/notebook-7-np730xbe-k02/NP7...

And of course there's the suspiciously named Huawei Matebook Pro.

If Apple was inclined to sue people for making MBP lookalikes, it has far more interesting targets to go after.
> isn't going to fly.

Literally - 100Wh batteries are maximum you can take on planes
NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT+ claims
A friend maintains the vintage computing blog https://bytecellar.com/ .
So "Ready Player One" with Zuck in charge? No thank you.
Strong Towns disagrees with that. Suburbia is expensive and only survives by siphoning off money from cities via state grants.
Either don't suspend it, or just scrap it altogether.

One thing I keep seeing is people that are ideologically opposed to restriction of speech keep getting caught up in a semantic argument about the rights of private companies- and fail to actually come up with a solution.

This far into the game, when the sitting White House press secretary goes on record stating that the current administration has been giving these social media companies guidelines and cues on what to clamp down on...we are so far past these arguments. And regulation/regulatory capture is not the solution. These exemptions are really just retroactive proposals to legalize what the big tech social media companies are already doing.
I've bought two houses in my life. My second one is the youngster at around 100 years old now. The first one is of unknown age, but based on old town maps was between 186 and 199 years old when I bought it (it was on the later map and not the previous).

Both were great experiences, indeed with some maintenance needed (just like any structure). Both appreciated significantly during my ownership, in addition to providing shelter.

I'm glad that people generally don't want older houses. It means I can get a lot more of what I want for less money; I'm perfectly happy to have 1.5% annual maintenance (and worse insulation) instead of 1.0% when the place sells for 25% less than a comparable structure (and often has more land around it and land that's quality soil often with established/re-established trees).
History of Clojure – HOPL IV
You got an invalid ZIP file, so behavior is inherently undefined.

Per the blog + spec:

A ZIP file MUST have only one "end of central directory record".
> Suggesting that climate change is likely to be true because you have non-climate-change reasons to want to replace fossil fuels is motivated reasoning

Except I didn't do that.

> The fact that you brought up non-climate-change problems with fossil fuels in a thread about whether climate change is occurring suggests that you're doing it.

The thread isn't strictly about whether climate change is real, it was about climate change alarmism, about whether climate change was reducible to a single variable, and whether we should be motivated by the available evidence to make drastic changes to potentially avoid the predicted outcomes. The additional point I made is perfectly in line with that.
Remember I said over decades (60 years?). The space industry looks to expand by one or two orders of magnitude during that time.
Does the phone you carry in your pocket look more like a flip-phone, a blackberry, or an iphone?
As an American... this model is crazy
Law on the Far Eastern Hectare
> It's completely self evident that as the person responsible for untold suffering through the UK's increasingly punitive immigration policies they'd like her to see her face a taste of her own medicine.

Yes that was obvious to anyone with common sense. But when challenged they denied that's what they ever meant! Dog whistling. And rightfully called out as so by others on the left.
Yes. If they use cryptography to ensure that the database is obfuscated, they could even make the database public with no consequence and anyone could verify the current money supply. That seems like an advantage over the current system where we trust them to report the correct amount?
I agree, but I'd rather this conversation happen than not. I think the readers of HN are smart enough to reach this conclusion, regardless of the headline.
It's not mathematics and, unlike in the atomic era, they're not becoming useful.
They support arbitrary locations on external SD cards on Android yet?
That's the point, every year you are aware of how much the government is taking from you. If citizens weren't aware of exactly how much taxes they paid they would be more inclined to want more tax increases
There Has Never Been a Better Time to Have a Headache
> That's certainly a better outcome than not fixing anything, but that's still a worse outcome for the company, probably, than asking your devs what's wrong with the code and how they want to fix it.

I think this is homing in on the different starting points: if you experience static analysis as something imposed on the development team (e.g. by a bureaucratic security mandate) you'll definitely see more cost and less benefit than when the team itself selects that tool and selectively uses it as part of their ongoing maintenance work along with other tools (compiler warnings, fuzz testing, etc.).

For example, I've used tools like this where you add it as a CI stage where you say that new code shouldn't make the problem worse and then the team spends the next few months triaging reports on the area they're working on, tuning rules and prioritizing valid findings. Generally that'll have a surprising impact on the average code quality over 6-12 months, in part because cleaning up the chaff tends to make it harder for more significant bugs to be missed in a sea of compiler warnings and convoluted code.
Independent Peer Review of AI's Forensic Methods for Identifying Pegasus Spyware
iOS app "Requires iOS 13 or later" :-/ . Too bad I can't use this on my still functional-and-receiving-security-upgrades iPhone 6. I suspect an overlap between the population enjoying birds and the population not buying a new phone every year, so I hope they can reconsider and broaden support.

I contacted the authors at the email on the page, asking them to support iOS 12. Maybe email them too if you're also impacted.
Dreading the future Win11 corporate laptops that I'll be assigned.

Hoping the myriad of public/private services I rely upon will have dropped the "Internet Explorer 11/Windows" requirement that keeps a single Windows PC lingering on my home network.
Nay, this all wrong, though you can get them in some disreputable sandwich shops - but liverwurst????

You want to be sitting on a patio, in the south of France, just after the nice baker lady in a van has been and delivered your fresh croissants, and maybe a baguette or two, and with a cup of freshly brewed coffee at your elbow, and a big slab of Normandy butter, some jam, some marmalade. There will be bees humming in the lavender and/or jasmine.

There will be no liverwurst!!!
what’s the camera like ?
Calculated assuming 20% utilization, which is the low end of industry average (20% – 40%).
Hey pal (and anyone else having a similar issue)!!

If you look at the top right hand corner, you’ll see a globe icon. That icon handles translations - the site is available in Brazilian Portuguese, English and Spanish.
I thought it was trying to be a door handle
Not all US locations have those zoning laws. Houston, for example, doesn't.
To manage this, you're essentially back to writing a tool which handles both compression and zipping, which is exactly what zzo38computer set out to avoid.
What else is there to the story? Any proof at all?
it's equal parts vision, equal parts philanthropy.
All the usual reasons, such as cpan, terseness, interpreted nature, quick turnaround, etc
Print yourself rich

Make the job interview impossible

Cheer on the burning and looting of your own country

Complain about the skills gap
I had no idea that such good photos of exoplanets are available. I remember a few years ago just being blurry blobs. It's amazing to me that we can see the star and the planetary disk.
because it's worth it to most people to make less working 0 hours per week than it is to make a more putting in 40 hours.

The government is competing with businesses for buying time, but they are willing and have the means to push the price to infinity.
In the beginning I felt the same, like TikTok was able to figure out what kind of content I wanted from the signals I was giving it.

But lately I’m getting bored with it. I feel like TikTok has put me into too narrow of a type of interests. And now for every fun or interesting video that I see, there is like five or ten videos that are too much of the same as what I’ve seen a million times already.

Idk, maybe I’ve just been spending too much time on TikTok lately and it was bound to happen regardless. Maybe even it’s not TikTok maybe it’s just me. That I am tired of watching videos in general, except for the ones that I can use for something. I’m gonna take a break from TikTok.
I really, REALLY hope this takes off. This would be my ideal laptop
I promise that was an unintentional pun. But yeah, that's the limiting factor.
Well that's nice, but what percentage of paint splatters are valid APL?

on edit: actually how many country fences are valid brainfuck.
I wouldn't even say a reprimand is necessary here.

Programming safety is like safety in auto racing or rock climbing: you build the safest thing you can, but the activity you're doing is inherently unsafe, and it will generate failures despite the presence safety measures, so you do your best to study those failures to mitigate them the best you can.

The only time adverse action like a reprimand is necessary is if the manager or tech lead don't take any action to prevent future issues. The only time a firing is necessary is if the security issue was created with intent, rather than accidentally.
This would make the law depend on the content of the speech. I'd think that would make it subject to strict scrutiny for a potential first amendment violation.

There is a vague sort-of exception to 1A around "false statements of fact":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

But even if that applies here, it would be constitutionally suspect to apply it to statements about just one particular topic.
I bought a few Acer's for my kids and upgrades were still really easy. I actually bought extra RAM and an SSD and had my daughter install them and it wasn't difficult.
>So, instant payments are coming in the next 18 months [3] (it is actively in testing currently with a handful of participants), and free accounts for everyone is a stroke of legislative pen. What's blockchain solving?

Blockchain will still solve the problem of currency losing value by unlimited printing.

You should be thinking about what problems will retail banking and payment processors be solving. An easy to use CBDC will render many of them unnecessary.
Um, I use social media "responsibly" and it's quite easy. I look at various social media sites I'm on perhaps two or three times a week. Takes up maybe 30 minutes of my time a week. I feel no addictive urge to use them more. Most people I know may use them a bit more, but not much. The only adults that I know who use social media a lot more do it for work.

I submit that the majority of adults use social media sites are using them "responsibly" (i.e. occasionally and non-obsessively). My opinion (with no real evidence) is that the addictiveness is overblown for most adults.
Interesting that you find filling them with nutritious food is yuck but dipping them in coffee or adding sugar in the form of marmalade or jam to a starch/fat is good.
In the US property is also governed by ones rights to defend your property. We have castle doctrine for a reason
Narcissism isn't just a medical diagnosis. It's also just a character trait used to describe extreme selfishness outside of psychiatric circles.
You seriously think that people want less taxes just because they are difficult to file?

Don't you think that paying 10-40 percentage points more (like in Europe) of your wage each month has something to do with it?

The typical educated European makes 30k a year. 40-45% in taxes right off the bat. That makes the take home to be around 18k.

Sales tax is around 20% throughout Europe. That takes it from 18k to 16k.

Gas is double the price solely because of taxes

Property tax can increase the housing cost by 10%

Automobile property taxes are outrageous compared to the US. New vehicle registration tax can reach 150% in Denmark (if the car costs 30k, pay 45k to the state), but are pretty high everywhere. In Romania, to register a 10 year old car with a 2.4 liter engine you have to pay 6000 euros. In a country with the average wage 1000 a month.

I find it so amusing that people think taxes are just an inconvenience.

By the way, if you want to pay more, you can just donate your money to charities: you have a higher impact than giving it to government, much better directed at what you care about, very easy to do. Donate 10-20% of your raw income to an ngo, then talk about doing that for everyone, compulsory.
True, I was considering mentioning Hamilton, but it's been so long since I read those books - so wasn't quite sure if I'd call them hard sci-fi or not :)
Is it my imagination or has TheIntercept (or at least, the subset of it posted on HN) moved rather leftward since Greenwald left?

I don't read TheIntercept; I only see it from what gets posted here. From that, I had the impression that most of its articles were of the form "Left-wing media still ignoring this thing I've been harping on about".

Is that just a change in what I'm noticing, or has there been an actual change?
MySQL GA dates:
5.5 3 December 2010
5.6 5 February 2013
5.7 21 October 2015
8.0 19 April 2018

The average seems to be about 2.5 years between minor releases, so this doesn't seem unusual.

Usually new minor versions are only released if there are:
* Changes to database behaviour defaults (e.g. default sql mode)
* Deprecation or removal of features
* Compatibility changes (changes to replication formats)

New features are fine, as long as they don't introduce regressions in other areas.

Even MySQL 5.7 received some good improvements in the past 18-24 months (not just bug fixes).

I feel this is a really pedantic complaint from someone who either doesn't use MySQL, or wants to hate it for a silly reason.
> Can we determine the ultimate fate of the universe from the current state?

In fact I can tell you a lot about its ultimate fate if you just tell me its geometry.
This is strange to me. I have lived in big cities for my adult life (San Francisco and Los Angeles), and I have never experienced any crime.
Do deaths per million over the last 3 months instead of the last 7 days.
There's a registry key that can move the taskbar to the top. I was on the win11 beta for about a week before going back to a clean win10 install. I hope they can smooth out the taskbar issues because that alone is what put me back to win10. It's a beta, of course, but the taskbar is currently very buggy.
> It's a US embassy. It's full of spy equipment. If it was microwaves, they'd have a full recording of the spectrum and would have probably triangulated it by now.

IIRC, I do not think they're claiming these attacks happen at the embassy itself. My understanding is most, if not all, embassy staff live outside the embassy in local housing, and that most of these events are claimed to have happened there.

So the embassy is probably full of equipment like you describe, but a diplomat's apartment is not. IIRC, earlier, when the government wasn't taking these reports seriously, diplomats were complaining that they weren't being given adequate monitoring equipment [1]/

[1] Their complaints included funny sounds, so they were only given a microphone and has their complaints dismissed when the microphone didn't pick anything unusual up. Apparently microwaves can also trigger the (false) perception of sound, but they were not given anything to detect those.
Evolutionarily, can you consider them a failure though? They've procreated. That checks the box for being "successful" but it doesn't mean your offspring will be.
I'd classify it as "not bad, but not nearly as good as your iPhone"
How did you even know that it worked??! ;)

Can you invert it so the light only turns on when your eyes are closed?
Key quote “findings are observational and should be interpreted with caution. Low sensitivity or specificity of PCR testing could result in cases and controls being misclassified, which would attenuate the estimates of vaccine effectiveness. Low sensitivity or specificity of PCR testing could also affect one variant more than another, although this might be expected to affect the alpha variant more than the delta variant, given that, with an emerging variant, more cases may be detected earlier in infection, which may result in higher viral loads and increased sensitivity and specificity.”
Discussed at the time:

93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576425 - April 2019 (132 comments)

93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834351 - Aug 2019 (7 comments)

Also this, recently:

The four noisy horsemen of Perl hate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27902296 - July 2021 (51 comments)
You are trying to solve a policy and government concern with technology, attempting to avoid a currency controller from debasing the currency. If the government, through regulation or legislation, prohibits distributing your own currency, you can't prevent monetary policy by way of operating your own currency (in this case, crypto). Guns and laws > your crypto node.

Tangentially, its strange to me that people believe that imaginary money (fiat) should always maintain the same amount of value, when it's an economic tool and not a store of value. The entire point of devaluing a currency is to encourage investment in productive assets while stoking consumption.
This is one of those truths that is so obvious to me and simultaneously puzzling that others don't see it as obviously the preference of many people.

I have hated every shared-wall/ceiling/floor accommodation I've ever lived in, even fairly high-end newish construction. (I hated the idea that my noise was annoying others almost as much as the times when their noise annoyed me. In my house, if I want to do a woodworking project, listen to Van Halen, or watch a movie at 10:30 PM, I'm free to do that.)

I love having outdoor space that's "just ours". If we want to plant a garden, we plant a garden. If we want flowers, we plant flowers. If we want a trampoline, we buy a trampoline.
Maybe but we are discussing agricultural production techniques here, not marketing
In 2014 I tried to reduce my "cloud" usage and went from Dropbox → BitTorrent Sync (now Resilio Sync) → Syncthing. I have it running on all computers, tablets[0], and phones[0] I have/manage. In total, it keeps ~70K files and ~9TB in sync across devices running Android, macOS, Windows and Linux/Ubuntu/Raspberry Pi OS.

I don't remember when was the last time I had to use a flash drive or a cable to move files around.

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[0] Android. iOS is too restrictive to do this.
2 networks have 5G in my city, my network has no immediate plans to introduce 5G here.
Every editor knows that the headline shapes the conversation more than the article.
You're assuming any of this has an existence independent of your mind, that more than the present moment exists, and a whole lot of other things.

You make reasonable assumptions, but proving them is hard, because any attempt you make to prove them still end up being filtered through your potentially unreliable senses.

In practice we decide to just accept that a material world with semireliable senses exists, because the alternative is no certainty at all.
Then it's great that we have different options for people who have different preferences!
I was disappointed with the slow sync speed, as in sync 'realization' compared to say Dropbox, but it's great otherwise
Most regular people don't have such fragile egos.
How do astronomers calculate the age of a star?
Note, a similar post under another username is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27922803
That’s irrelevant though, because in this thread we are discussing agricultural production not marketing.
Unless they are picked on for a very successful boycott, it's going to be mostly aversion from current and potential employees, with Google-like staff evaporation but with much lower attractiveness.

Does Activision have backup studios in "developing countries" or other clever plans?
Helen of Troy: The Pearl of Women – BeYOUteous
> It actually worked really well, I couldn't perceive the room being dark at all.

From the video, it seems there is quite a bit of latency between your blink and the lights blink. But it's an interesting project nonetheless!
Note, another post like this with a different username is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27922707