skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Climate change is a potential problem but not existential and not something we can't handle with our current technological understanding.

Climate change is not existential to humanity, but it is existential to human civilization as we know it.
Demonstration-Guided Reinforcement Learning with Learned Skills
Cryostasis still seems to be a thing:

https://www.cryonics.org/ci-landing/human-cryostasis/
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I got mine installed in northern california in 2019, I would have liked to go with Tesla but they were too expensive at the time. When I looked again last year, they actually looked a lot cheaper than everyone else. I think we paid $2.75 / watt. We used energysage to get and compare quotes, and there is a lot of other useful advice on that site.

In Cali there was also some issue that the rebates for each Tesla powerwall were somehow distributed per company. So if we bought the Powerwall directly from Tesla, we wouldn’t have got a rebate because they had run out, but other installers could still supply the rebate.

The Tesla software to monitor the solar generation, battery use and home energy usage is really nice, certainly much better than the “enphase” software that came with the solar panels and inverters.
Wait until Windows 11 comes along and has more security features enabled.
Yes, but you should at least know some basic troubleshooting skills like running netstat to see a socket in syn sent or whatever to get an idea if there is a network connectivity issue to your endpoint.
this is probably better link:

"Jacob Riis' photos of New York life in the late 1800s" http://100photos.time.com/photos/jacob-riis-bandits-roost-mu...
Nice, is there a form we can submit others? Also, no code db: Seatable
Ok, then where does the meaning of a given word come from? It comes from somewhere. If not from consensus, then where?

this is all unfortunately very far from the original argument, which is that it takes no effort to just use whatever pronoun is asked for. It’s no different than when someone named Thomas says “please call me Tom.” Do you jump up on the table and start citing Bible verses about the perils of falsehoods, or do you just fucking call the guy Tom?
I think you've hit the nail on the head. It's not entirely insignificant, but it certainly is not the driver of wildfires. If we perfectly buried all the power lines, we'd have fewer fires, but we'd still have most of the fires we already have.

The primary problem remains fire suppression practices, forest management, and changing climate. This seems like a very expensive way to eliminate a quarter of our wildfires.
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I do a middle-ground approach where I enable the macOS "red dot" for Slack on the dock, but disable the actual push notifications. This way I know immediately when I have a message, but a sequence of messages won't ping me over and over keeping me distracted.
More than just dismissal of the case. Compensation or punitive actions.
If only conditions matter, but triggers do not, why don’t all forests catch fire all at the same time when it gets dry enough? Think about it: average forest in California will probably get dry enough to support forest fire at least every few years. Why then it takes decades or centuries until the fire actually visits them?
Mobile internet disrupted in Iran amid Khuzestan water protests
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Hmm, seems weird that the price per watt doesn’t seem to have dropped since then, unless we got a really good deal..?

https://news.energysage.com/how-much-does-the-average-solar-...
LG pledges to operate with 100% renewable energy by 2050
Is this curated based on experience or some metric?
It was nice; you would submit scripts via a command line API, get the results back.

I never used it much, as I tend to prefer a real, SSH-able machine, but it was always near-ish the top of my list of things to revisit. Not quite at the top though.
when I read for the first time Balzac's novel - nucingen Bank (1839) [1] and about business 'mindset' at the time I was mesmerized
[1] https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Nucingena (no wiki for english lang at least no hyperink)
The irony in your comment is tools like networkmanager, snaps, systemd are kubernetes like and severely disliked by experienced unix admins due to the needless complexity and usability of them.
There's no point, you're right. On the other hand, there is no money shortage. I wish the government ordered PG&E to make poles ready for fiber instead.
He said DirectConnect!
Author here. Not a typo, I just cut off the chart at 3s because otherwise you can't see any useful info about the other extensions.
Context-Free Judgement
Don't work at Facebook anymore, but most things on your list (including this) are not nefarious in any way. Sometimes it's automation gone wrong, sometimes it's a good, intentional takedown and the blog/news lies. When I worked there I was able to "look behind the curtain" on a lot of these, and often the mods of groups and pages that were taken down were basically spamming hate speech at people.

In this case, my guess is that the takedown was caused by rule-violating activity on the pages, and the takedown was delayed until after the election for legal reasons.
One of the best posts ever here on HN on a difficult topic.

Lots of personal experience here (family). The suicidal 'mode' needs to be interrupted before death. Usually it lasts only an hour or two.

Helping one interrupt that mode is a learned skill that is very effective, and relatively easy to do.

This isn't universal of course, just my experience. If anyone reading this suspects someone is suicidal and they don't answer the phone at a time you know they are at risk, go see them asap. You might save a life.
…and? Why did you create an account 27 minutes ago to post this? Sincerely curious.
I see, thanks for explaining. That would have made for a nice addition to the article. :)

IMHO an infrastructure of this size & importance might just as well be state owned, but I guess rate hikes will also do. As long as there is some mechanism to help (yes, probably with tax money) those who might not be able to afford them...
Isn’t part of the VG business plan to sell cheaper zero gravity time for small experiments ?

At least cheaper than going to actual space and longer than using parabolic flights in planes.
Yes but at least you won’t be labeled as conspiracy spreading platforms by the /very important/ media, and your woke employees won’t walk out and disappear.

Oh and the current administration won’t pass legislation restricting your platforms or revoking article 230.
> how rich was Stalin

Stalin didn't buy his way into power. He took power by force, then used that power to make himself rich.

This is not capitalism. As I pointed out, people who take money through force are in a quite different category.

> I hope you feel like you've learned something.

I'm dumbfounded that you believe that Stalin, Caesar, etc., were free market capitalists gaining their wealth through running a successful business.

> It is only our recently invented democratic institutions that enable billionaires who profit from non-violent sources.

None have yet turned that into running the country. Note how billionaire Bloomberg's presidential campaign failed miserably. As did Ross Perot's. Rich people in America have not had much of a track record of buying themselves into office, though elected representatives have a tendency to get very rich while in office. Hmmm...
Doesn't AirBnB require identity verification to use the platform as a letter, let alone to list a property?
Pegasus Project: Why I am hesitant to defend the government but must
Import Google In-app products using Huawei Conversion tool-Huawei Developers
I think there’s a big fire underway right now that PG&E thinks was probably set by two of their electrical fuses. Burying fire in dirt stops fire, so removing the power equipment from direct exposure to oxygen and tinder by burying it in dirt is a really effective way to stop electrical sparks from leveling up into wildfires.

You might send a manhole cover into near earth orbit now and then when an underground transformer explodes. As the famous saying most definitely does not go: One small leap for manhole cover, one giant leap for not celebrating your fifth anniversary of burning down ratepayer homes and national parks.

(As you might suspect, they’ve been making tidy profits every year for decades while choosing not to invest in burying power lines. The only reason there’s been such rapid change and a proper incident reaction in IT terms for an actual megacorp, is that they’re in bankruptcy court and the judge can compel them to act competently and rapidly, and shame them and penalize them for failing for the fourth year in a row to do so. Non-US folks, our power utilities are a mix of for-profit and not-for-profit, and ethical behavior that costs money is less common in for-profit ones. Co-ops are usually a good idea, but megacorps not so much.)
This is for what utilities call "medium voltage" distribution (1KV to 35KV), not high tension towers. These are the cables you see around your neighborhood, upstream of the pole transformer. They're usually not insulated other than by airspace.
Clearcutting around those would wipe out the trees in most residential areas.

The big high tension towers go through clear-cut rights of way.

The big headache is not burying cable. If there's nothing else in the ground, that's not too hard. It's working around water lines, sewer lines, gas lines, driveways, phone, data, cable TV...
Discussed today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27910621
Fillers provide facial volume, whereas Botox paralyses muscles. Botox can also be used to treat things like excessive sweating or chronic pain, but I’m unsure of the mechanism.
I agree that project risks should be explored and multipliers are not substitutes for them. However multipliers are useful for ongoing dynamic distractions outside of the project that reduce your productivity, for example company meetings, hiring/debriefs, getting pulled into critical bugs, helping to support colleagues, etc.
I would say yes and no. If you (the employee) are heavily invested in the success of the company because you have a lot of stock options, or its success would look great on your work history, or you lied about having certain skills and now you have to work double to get the job done while learning, then you might decide to put in crazy hours. But that is a don't ask / don't tell situation. If there is any record that management knew you were working 7 days straight, then they would be in the soup. But ultimately this gives the power to the employee. At a previous company where I was that overworking employee, management tried to force a new oncall rota onto the whole team which clearly took the piss, I was able to pull on the ripcord and say "fuck, no". Unfortunately this put more pressure on the US team. And if management try to fire you in Europe they better have a better reason than "wouldn't work longer hours" or "knows their rights", so you're protected when you do raise the concern.
Even a cursory reading of both the documents that you present shows the following points.

1. While the number of fires have reduced, the total area consumed by fires is still rising.
2. The average area fired up is increasing at an alarming rate (Fig. 41.3, still upto 2000 only.) Refer the first document. Fig. I, the trend in forest fire area affected is increasing, from about 2 million acres in 1990 to about 10 million acres in 2020.

Also, fig 41.2 is data from 1908 to 1988.

Edit : Please see the 10 million acre figure in the first PDF. Think of the enormous costs related to containing the fire. The data is not in isolation. Fire-fighting techniques and costs have to be taken into account.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2015-Fire-Budget...

This document from US govt explains how much they are spending fighting forest fires. Budget for wildfire management rose from 15% in 1995 to about 52% in 2015, with more increase projected upto 2025.

Also, the cost of wildfires is enormous.

https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Publications-and-medi...
Ok, honest question. How do they come up with those names for the malware?

Glupteba!ml looks like a randomly generated thing, but I’m sure it’s not.
If a human made the same mistake, we would call them incompetent, careless, and negligent.

- incompetent system

- incompetent robot

- incompesys

- incompebot

- inept system

- inept robot

- inepsys

- ineptobot

- inepobot

- bunglebot

- hambot

- sloppybot

- careless system

- careless robot

- carelessys

- carelessbot

- neglisys

- negligent robot

- neglibot

I like 'neglibot'. "YouTube neglibotted my video." "This is my new email address. My old one got neglibotted." "The app works for typing in data, but the camera feature is neglibotty." "They spent a lot of effort and turned their neglibot automod into carefulbot. In another year it may be meticubot.
I still think the original analogy works here - if you make sure that in the moment of panic the windows don't open to prevent voluntary and quick death, the person now has to suffer the agonizing pain of the flames for the rest of their life.

It holds even more true if we consider that a large part of suicides are not because someone wants to die - no - it's because someone does not want to live like in present situation anymore. Just like with the fire, the goal is not to die on a sidewalk - it's not dying in the fire. You attempt suicide as last resort - if you die, it's okay, it's final. If you don't, it perhaps changes something for the better.
Hardly when linear memory segments don't have protection against internal corruption.
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2020-June... for a description of what happened; tldr it isn't.
IMO, Go is a good alternative for the people who don't want to use Java. And there's no very powerful and complete framework like Spring. In China, there are many internet companies prefer to use Go as their main language in developing because it is easy to learn and its excellent performance.

These Go frameworks want to solve the problems of productivity and robustness.
The problem seems to stem from 'American' being synonymous with the United States, when in a literal sense it means the entire North and South America continents. People will probably know what you mean with context but it can be confusing, so adding on 'Native American' just requires more explaining whenever you bring it up when not among peers.
What, that they have 6 million active users per month? Is that supposed to be a high number? And those are the number of people who trade with bitcoins, not people actually “using” them for anything.

Gold is also volatile, but not nearly as bad as cryptocurrencies. And since gold actually has uses, it exists at least some kind of backstop for its value. I expect Bitcoins value to eventually become zero.

So how is Bitcoin doing better what gold is doing?
Verschlimmbesserautomatisierung.

Composite noun of verschlimmbessern [1] and Automatisierung (automation).

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verschlimmbessern#German
This is incredibly cool!

Is there any way to get "mouse look" without having to hold the button down? On a trackpad this is not so nice, and intuitively I want to be able to control this like a normal 1st person videogame.
Can you not get charged for bandwidth overages? What happens if you use 3x your transfer limit?
Big fan of the archive, especially openlibrary. But the lofty talk of “democratizing” this-or-that is a bit overblown: in authoritarian countries, the archive does zero democratizing, because it’s either just not available, or all the relevant individual documents are blocked.

For democratic countries that have democratically elected to restrict the distribution of some materials the society considers harmful, such as Germany with Nazi propaganda, the archive happily decides to undermine those clear, longstanding, and — disproving the single argument for free speech absolutism — not slippery-sloping anywhere over decades. Why? Because laws you disagree with are, apparently, illegitimate.

It probably helps their bold defense of all that is holy to intimately know that these really are democratic countries, which aren’t going to just send a wet team to dismember them, Saudis-style, or to spend millions on an elaborate plan whose only purpose is to let you live for another month, with a clear mind that has complete certainty that you will die, and who did it.

The anti-semitism and racism on archive.org, plus some copyright violations isn’t a byproduct of their “freedom”. It’s all of it. There are plenty of free hosts for video or documents, and an hour at minimum wage would pay for hosting quite a lot for quite a while for most of the archive’s audience. But the killer feature is immunity, through anonymity and DMCA’s Safe Harbour.

Sure, everyone here is only defending “free speech” and would never agree with the swastika-fetishists. Only, somehow, they never complain about ISIS having a hard time on Twitter, or porn being censored on Facebook. It’s the scans of Der Stürmer, especially of the 38 to 44 vintage, are the chosen symbols of “democratization”.

[0]: https://www.sfgate.com/california-politics/article/Internet-...
There are more people on this site that indirectly benefit from facebook existence.
Triggers are necessary for fires, obviously, but getting rid of the triggers does not solve the problem. There's another wrinkle to the whole matter: when a forest survives the dry season without burning down it doesn't reset. The following year there will be even more dead wood and other dry material in the area. This means next year's potential fire will be even worse than the last.
Don't forget the company also poisoned an entire town.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley,_California
It's a double whammy, you get the complexity of Kubernetes, and then you get to exec into a docker image that has been stripped of any useful debugging tools under the guise of security.

Its even better when its a busybox based image for that linksys router/80s unix troubleshooting experience.
A study of teabags sold in British supermarkets in 2011 found that the teabags containing the most L-theanine per cup (24 mg versus 8 mg per cup) were the lower-quality brands containing black tea, with a supermarket brand of black tea having the highest theanine content. The study demonstrates that brewing time is a major determinant of the amount of l-theanine extracted. Addition of sugar and small quantities of milk make no significant difference, while larger quantities of milk reduced the measured theanine content.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine

Hm, i ask myself if the reduction in measured theanine is just by dilution or if the milk reacts with the theanine.
I've been off caffeine for 3 months from now.
It is harder to start to work until I get engaged into what I am doing (previously it was instant after the coffee shot), but I am getting used to it and I feel way less stressed during the day and more balanced in the aspects of energy and mental states.

It is not like now my life has changed, but before I needed the coffee to be able to work properly and now I do not.
Why is this being flagged now? Certainly seems relevant to “hacker news”.
Chess is systematically racist, so this is fine
I love malgorithms having been exposed to the malicious grift of the healthcare industry.
Great list! A form to submit more alternatives should be useful!
Turns out ocean warming and acidication is already happening:

https://www.quora.com/When-will-the-world-s-oceans-lose-thei...

https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co...

https://knowledge.insead.edu/blog/insead-blog/the-ocean-cann...
Since you like to invoke a climate of fear, why not add the death sentence to that list?

But ... would you then like to work in that area, if you fear every step you make, can be your last?

Do you think there would be much innovation, if the punishment costs are so out of balance?
to keep it DRY: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27916094
I worked in a Python web-scraping team doing 3 million requests per day. Their solution to manage concurrency was also one pod per crawl, each with its own DB connection. It really struck me as crazy that everyone thought this was a good idea.
Having been handled quickly and competently for an unexpected and unusual internal growth, involving a unique surgery, I disagree with your assessment. My wife also received excellent emergency surgeries and post-injury rehab after a vehicle collision. I am very pleased with the healthcare I have received in Canada over my 50-odd years.

The value of anecdotes, eh?
I don't think OP is saying one engineer is 3x "more productive"; rather they're saying that engineers tend to be consistent in how much they over- or under-estimate tasks. It sounds a little like "story points", where each developer may end up having their own estimation scale.
Local authorities do licence checks on pubs and bars at the moment. If there was someone illegally running a pub out of their own house it would definitely be cracked down on in this way — does that mean that we currently have "prohibition-era enforcement" on alcohol too?
This is an old problem I could have sworn there were promises they were going to change their procedures.

The question I have is how fast is the content removed after the domain name registration changes, i.e., is there is a window of time between the appearance of a new robots.txt and the next scheduled crawl, and if so, is it be possible to "rescue" the content, as ArchiveTeam would do, during that window, before it disappears.

If this is possible, there could be a service for monitoring changes to domain name registrations for sites that have large amounts of historical content. I would happily volunteer to set up such a service.
You were alluding to long term effects.

With hundreds of millions of people having received mRNA vaccines by now, we most likely have seen all the short term side effects that there are, except the rarest of them. I would not worry too much about these either.
I personally never really vibed with qbittorrent. Stuck with deluge for years.

May I ask why you use qbit?
So the purpose of Blue Origin and Branson’s companies are just to be space rides for billionaires? And these guys are pumping billions of dollars into these companies just for fun, not because they might actually believe in space exploration?

What exactly would they need to do to prove its not a carnival ride? Help me understand what your bar is.

Before you can run, first you learn to walk. And before that, you learn to crawl.

So in your view, Blue Origin is nothing more than a vanity/fun project. I’d really like to understand what objective take you have.

For the record, I do know engineers at Blue Origins, and knowing how much they believe in the mission (their words), I’m struggling to understand what objective take you might have other than “I don’t like Bezos or billionaires and so I’m going to dismiss all the hard work that went into this as a carnival ride”
Not clear. Suppose she has a spouse, roommate, son, friend, etc who uses the same computer and since her account is automatically logged in, comments from the same account.

If she could bring someone who would say "Yes, I wrote that on her account" or show that the time of the comment she was teaching or something - I think that would be pretty compelling.
A federal grant might work too. Wildfires on this scale affect more than just Californians.
draining other aquifers is only delaying the inevitable. Look what happened to the Aral sea. we will need canals and pipelines too, but I do think we are going to have to rely on water desalination.

I have a crazy dream of greening the Sahara with desalination plants.