skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see the population control argument made a lot, and while I don't want to throw this conversation out the window entirely, I personally don't think it's very constructive right now.

What we need is a drastic reduction in emissions FAST. X0% less now buys a lot more time and has a much bigger effect than X0% in say 50 years when most of the damage is done.

Any means of population control that is not straight up genocide will take decades if not generations to make a real impact.

Long term planning should of course be a core part of our strategy, and whether population control is part of that or not is not my call to make. That being said, the next five to ten years are much, much more important, and my experience in these contexts has been that the population control argument tends to interfere with this more important conversation about actions to take right now.

What would help most in a shorter time frame is economic incentives to move away from fossil fuels. Carbon taxes, and most importantly changing where subsidies go in the first place would go a long way. More funding for research in relevant areas would, as well.

Before those and other things aren't well underway, there is really nothing to gain from bringing up population control every time the climate change comes up, in my opinion.
It is quite ironic that the site is almost 4 MB, mainly because of oversized png-encoded photos. And wtf is that favicon?
> And in many cases they should, on top of the mandated minimum insurance.

It's not only mandated minimum insurance, you also have to buy it from a monopoly provider. And you can't opt out by pointing to your pile of cash for self-insurance, either.

(At least not without jumping through a few legal loopholes.)

> That won't stop the state taxing them and providing minimum insurance with the taxes. Why? Because unexpected negative income volatility that isn't covered has social as well as personal costs, and the simolest way to mitigate the social costs is to assure that people are insulated against some of the personal costs.

That's just welfare, not really insurance. Welfare for poor people is a different thing.
> it's a piss take of Irish country life and a very affectionate one. I grew up in Belfast, spent a lot of time visiting relatives on farms in Donegal.

The cup of tea thing isn't a rural Irish phenomenon. It's a widespread thing that would happen in pretty much every house in every (at least ROI) Irish rural/village/town/city.
Really? I thought the roadster came out really quickly after Tesla was founded

Edit: founded in 2003-4, roadster came out in 2008
The numbers coming out of the US are not representative of what other countries have been seeing. Apparently it's more like 60% of people who're hospitalized that are unvaccinated in the UK, for example, and that's pretty in line with other countries with reasonably successful vaccination campaigns.
Checkout medium unlimited extension
It's 200 million or 0.2 billion
I think it depends on how it's done.

I'd like to see this implemented with roughly the same systems which make me wear a bicycle helmet, a seatbelt, or have turn signals, which I don't find so scary.

In these systems, you have a law. You have law enforcement. Law enforcement doesn't catch everyone, and doesn't have particularly aggressive police powers.

I'm fearful it will be implemented with the same systems which make us register guns and have background checks, track bank transfers over $10,000, check IDs when buying cold medicine, or track us as we travel.

In these systems, you have law enforcement. Enforcement is given tools to track and monitor what people do just in case someone might be a criminal.
A registryfs would be. The data structures underpinning access would not need to change.

The importance of using a filesystem interface is reuse of the access control mechanisms and filesystem API. It would avoid the type of bug above, due to nesting a hierarchical permissioned structure inside a file.
> and how the published result will be interpreted.

I think we lost that long time ago when news started hyping up any study containing "cancer" and reporting their ideas as "researchers say".

The best we can do is discuss details as we do here, but without the hyperbole. There are claims made by the study and there are things not done in it. (whether missed or not possible to do from the data) Let's acknowledge them. But I think the "winning the lottery" is just going ad absurdum. If you'd like to see the split of impact for smaller groups, it will have to come from another paper. But it doesn't make this paper wrong or show "poor stats".
Why not just tax empty stores at a ever increasing tax rate. If you can’t fill a property in a year taxes double till you do. They keep doubling till they hit 20% property value or till rented out. Empty stores are a Bligh and should be charged accordingly
Where are you getting 64GB of ram on a dedicated server for $50/month? Even OVH and hetzner charge almost double that.
> That VW currently out-delivers Tesla in some markets is not a rebuttal

They've taken over the biggest EV market from Tesla. That hardly fits the narrative of it being "impossible to win this kind of technological race". Look at the trend:

https://eu-evs.com/bestSellersCharts/ALL/Groups/Line-Cumulat...

Year by year they will continue transitioning to EVs:

https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/press-releases/volksw...

The case that the big car companies won't remain big car companies is flimsy at best. It's a product of wishful thinking more than practical realities.
clickbait nonsense headline. article even contains the truth:

> In collaboration with local telecommunication companies, people were sent from door to door to physically unplug the infected routers and put them out of commission.
Look at the Uniform Server, a complete WAMP stack pre-hardened for placement on a public server. Just run the installer, it is that easy.
I think it's a better example of random chance. We had a series of diseases. We didn't heed that as a warning. One eventually (and predictably) slipped out.
Then you need to donate the space to a community organization or pay taxes. The donation can come in yearly increments until you fill it.
Now I'm glad I've waited 8 weeks !
According to the Tweet, the leaker provides a claimed data sample that is a list of phone numbers without any additional information.

A list of 3.8 billion phone numbers that simply exist is useless. The leak would only have value if the numbers were associated with some identifying information.

If it’s really only phone numbers, I wonder if it’s a leak or if someone brute-forced all possible phone numbers against a ClubHouse API that leaked information about whether or not the number existed in their database.
Is the obvious "smarter people are better at avoiding covid" theory disproven?
> When you self-host, the government has to come to you for your data.

Right, and your example of a literal server in a basement supports that, but if you are colocating or using a VPS they will almost definitely go to your provider first and probably won't even tell you.
I shoot birds in flight as a hobby. It takes some skill, but it's not _that_ hard. And a bird taking up 1/4 of your FOV is close enough that you have to focus on it. A plane/UFO taking up 1/4 of your FOV is much further away, and you can just pre-set your focus at 'infinity'. >1% of UFO photos should definitely be taken with good equipment by someone who knows how to use it.
Hetzner EX42 and AX41 both start at 40.46 € (local price, so incl. 19% VAT), how is that almost $100?
What are you selling, if I may ask?
What does this have to do with the article? The edited headline mentions UFOs presumably for clickiness value, but the article is about interstellar comets that show acceleration properties we're not sure about, like Oumuamua did.

Though I can understand the confusion, given the misleading headline and they never explain what UAP stands for (so it could be a euphemism for UFO since I imagine "ufo research" is a good way to get your funding cut). I happen to have read a book on Oumuamua so coincidentally know that this isn't exactly UAF (yes at this point I'm parodying U* TLAs) fighter pilot related.
There are a few startups where that definition needs some flexibility, specifically startups that are based on large assets. A farm might be a startup, even though its key underlying asset (land rights) really will never approach zero. It could still fail without ever getting into net zero equity.
But your ability to delete the data is substantially higher than your ability to get Amazon to delete it.
Exactly.
And there would be a lot more hurdles since countries generally don't give such access without good reason.

Another issue would be reliability. Doing an attack on the network to break the verification backend would cause a fallback to manual border control which is a problem if your whole process is already relying on the automated gates and you have scaled back the available agents.

Doing that during a time with very high demand would allow an "attacker" to use it to get more people through due to less attention of the border guards.

If I remember correctly the usual timespan a border agent is considered to be attentive enough is 2 hours, at which point they would need to be rotated out, but if your demand has unexpectedly increased so much that you operate twice the manual gates you don't have the people for the normal rotation
in some setups, you could send non IP packets (especially in MPLS fabric if accounting happens by LSP).
I have the same strong feelings about walled sites and tracking. May I recommend installing an extension to disable paywalls/tracking? Something like https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome (supports firefox despite the project name) which automatically wipes cookies from sites like Medium which enable "sign on" requirements after so many visits. It really improves the browsing experience.

I used to open these sites incognito or delete the cookies manually but it's really such an annoyance. Better to automate the policy of disallowing these folks to store cookies.
> “Father Ted,” in some ways, is a warning against the “integralist” state, against the suffocating, politicized omnipresence of a religion that ultimately must rest on individual faith.

Funny, as Graham Linehan is banned from Twitter because of intolerant trans activists (my opinion).

Unrelated, one funny aspect of Father Ted is how the priests don't get any special treatment or respect from the island inhabitants.
Well, presumably because you could buy it at a price that made the investment feasible. That price could be $1. Maybe the land truly is worthless. In which case the auction is for nought. Then the community might decide to form a small playground for the plot of land or a community garden. Maybe the land could be used for housing instead of for commercial purposes.
Just naively translating the registry into a NTFS directory structure would require 1kb per value, simply because that's the size of a file record (NTFS already has an optimization to store small files directly in the file record if it fits in next to all the attributes and ACLs).

Also the Windows Filesystem driver stack is not very efficient for accessing many small files. It's built for flexibility and security, not speed.
I like vitamin D since we have a clear mechanism-of-action specifically for COVID19:

- We adapt skin color based on latitude to maintain vitamin D levels and prevent sunburns at different levels of sun exposure.

- At this point, we have incredible strong correlations between vitamin D and COVID19 outcomes.
They’ve clearly and openly committed to trying for years. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2705826/amazon-web-ser...

Even Twitter doesn’t like to roll over, and they’ve got a lot less at stake. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-05-17/twitter-fi...
>We send them to our students taking our foreign language classes and they use them to practice with their instructor in 360 photo environments of popular tourist places in their target country.

Man this is actually my number one idea for a VR app: VR language learning for more powerful immersion. Looks like I'm not the first to think of this I'd better hurry.

Imagine you're learning French and when you get to the word "voiture" a car materalizes in front of you, when you get to the word "cheval" you're suddenly riding a horse, etc. Now apply some SRS soup and you're learning vocab in an unforgettable way. I have no idea where to start but I want this.
I remember this same thing happening with the celebrities running their garden fountains and watering their lawns. “Should we just jack up the cost of drinking water after 10,000 gallons?” -heck no, just try to fine them after neighbors snitch
Ha! I was similarly disappointed. But you might find this a good starting point, if you've not come across it before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cloud_Atlas
Macintosh Guided Tour: Intro and “Mousing Around”(2009)
The Corporate Tax Question: Facts and Fiction (by Aswath Damodaran)
The trust of their customers?
So over time the vacancy tax is increasing and the sale price is going down. Obviously the vendor needs to sell or redevelop before the price hits zero. If they fail to do so then they lose the property. Speculation sometimes fails. What's the problem?
Posh offices, tons of press, zero trucks delivered. I can see lots of surprises coming from rivian in the future.
I mean it's a natural progression of how products are designed and made. We have electronics that are relatively easy to break (either through normal use or casual misuse), and then are simply not economical to repair.

All sorts of things (both supply and demand side) are misaligned with respect to minimizing wastage as a whole.

And that all being said, there really is something valuable about the 'cheap product' thinking - and that's specifically the mindset of decoupling your enjoyment and utility of a product from its up-front cost. And this is valuable, because the very thing that we need to do to minimize waste is to increase the up-front cost of like... everything.
The SAT was an IQ test at one point. Anyway, other modern Western countries seem to have figured this out.
Self-hosting is a great learning experience and can be fun for personal projects. Beyond than that, I think this quote sums it up pretty well:

"Asking everyone to host their own services is not even utopia but rather stupid"

(BTW, this is from the linked article.)
This is the the social equivalent of boiling the ocean.

If you could “just” fix all systematic disadvantages then we wouldn’t even be talking about college admissions.
And most importantly, only work some % of the time.
Wine exposes the registry as a file.
> Even then, you need to have fair amount of knowledge about networking, protocols, security, current software, vulnerabilities, etc.

...

> Encrypting client-side and using a managed solution is a compelling option.

You need a similar amount of expert knowledge to properly configure your client-side encryption, ensure the algorithm wasn't cracked, the implementation you're using doesn't have any severe vulnerabilities, etc.

If we're in a situation where we can trust no one, not even ourself, then we have a problem.
I'm pretty sure recipes aren't copyrightable, even when they are attached to a story.
WiFi with AC on FreeBSD
Why not assemble onshore and tow it out fully assembled rather than messing around with tilting the turbine?
It was the FAA, not NASA, and you think there was some groundbreaking discovery by engineers or scientists on the very same day of the Blue Origin flight that led them to change the definition of astronaut?

That didn't happen. It was a political change by bureaucrats.
Wine exposes the registry as a file.

Current machines aren't the ones as Windows 98 with 32MB of RAM requiring binary configs for the OS everywhere.
I am confused how having read access to the registry allows local privilege escalation. As a Linux user, having read access to the registry sounds like having read access to /etc, which every user already has. What sensitive data is stored in SAM that allows that?
I loath it when statistics with titles like that are published.

The biggest amount of greenhouse gasses that china emits is from coal power plants. Naturally, figuring out what amount of electricity was used in the production of the exported goods is basically impossible, which is why its considered consumption in their data.

I'm sure the spirit of it is still correct (that most of their co2 emissions are for internal products/usage), but its hard to take that conclusion at face value when they didn't even mention the caveat that they ignore the by far biggest contributor of their emissions and consider it consumption by default.
https://neeva.com/ ("Get 3 months free, then just $4.95 per month.")

(Haven't tried it so I don't know how good it is.)

(They have many posts under https://neeva.com/learn that seem to be anti-Google in slant while being well-informed, as they come from people very familiar with the ad industry and Google's ad business.)
And this is where interviewing gets hard. Are we really going to not hire someone because hash table is O(n) in the worst case but O(1) on average. It seems like half the time there isnt a match, the interviewer is just as wrong as the candidate, and they are looking for someone who knows the same info as them, even if its half baked.
I live on an island in Canada and the farmers here are in a fight to get access to groundwater. It's not just inland areas in hot climates that are having problems getting water. You'd think living on an island there would be lots of water.
There is a difference between confident because you actually know what you are doing and confident because you are a dumb teenager. I don't know, maybe I was unusually smart, but I never dared mixing alcohol with driving.
Heat dome brings yet another heat wave this time covering most of the US
Yes but a filesystem is also a hierarchical database.

A filesystem solves these issues specifically because it avoids reimplementation. As the registry has been extended as you say it approaches parity with filesystem functionality, but on a parallel track.

At a high level, avoiding multiple implementations of similar metaphors is ideal in terms of security. Reuse what you have.
It can be, but that depends entirely on what kind of career path one is interested in. Not everyone is interested in landing a SRE job.
You haven’t tried an Apple Watch? I don’t worry about it breaking. It’s expensive but in this case you almost get what you pay for.
Afaik the US Government is a big Amazon customer.
The fight over the Thirty Meter Telescope
Cygwin also. Extremely trivial implementation
I still see it as a file system, very similar to NTFS (similar in the sense of having similar features), apart the (recent) project just mentioned (ProjFS) there existed a file system like driver for it, only for the record:

http://reboot.pro/topic/7681-the-registry-as-a-filesystem/

https://web.archive.org/web/20090413131629/http://czwsoft.dy...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140401212651/http://pasotech.a...

And:

https://github.com/jbruchon/winregfs
I think that's partly a false dichotomy. They serve primarily by protecting.
I should have clarified that it is how dates are pronounced in American English. British people will say “it’s the 21st of July, 2021”.

I don’t think the US resisting things is so mysterious. The US is a large country that largely defines its own culture (and exports that culture to the world). The average american isn’t going to switch systems unless they have a VERY good reason to. For the fields where it matters (ex. the sciences) they’ve largely already switched.
Well we cheated a bit there as we used the images the document scanner recorded and put that on a phone.

So we had exactly the images the scanner expected, but it is not an unreasonable assumption that a document forger would have access to such a device.

In the final version we had it running on an Android device.
We did know the exact scanning sequence and timing (first IR, second visible light, third UV exposure) so the phone showed the IR image by default and used the brightness sensor to detect the first flash of the recording, then an internal timer ran to determine when to switch to the second and third image.

If I recall correctly the digital part was done with JMRTD [1] flashed to an empty smart card

The certificate check obviously would have failed, but as mentioned in a comment above that is not always an issue.

[1] https://jmrtd.org/about.shtml
I was going to buy a house in the sierras but half the county is on fire.
A lot of the retro experience is in the physical form. A matching keyboard would be an important addition.

I’m not really sure about going for the Amiga 2000 though… The 3000 and 4000 were much friendlier towards modern hardware, as well as much more capable out of the box. I could probably work from a 3000 running Amiga Unix (thanks, X11).
I would say that 90% of the bugs are just logic issues, but there is a heavy tail of devious bugs that will take 90% of the time, even if they don't surface right away.

Although I still haven't really played around with Rust yet myself (still trying to grok the new C++20 features in recent weeks), the fact it puts your code into a (sometimes admittedly annoying) sandbox to prevent these bugs could be a godsend.
I like your comment, except the last sentence. The guidelines ask to write civil comments, and I believe it even includes people that is not here.

The video is 15 minutes long and I get bored a. When does exactly the satellite "gets cloaked"? The second comment in YouTube links to https://earthsky.org/space/i-saw-a-flash-in-the-night-sky-wh... Is that a good explanation?
I closed the tab at "wink wink"
Weed is funny; Unlike with smokers and drinkers, stoners are generally unwilling to admit that their drug of choice could result in any significant long-term consequences whatsoever.
Does marijuana cause schizophrenia? Probably not.

Does long term self-medication of it for mental health disorders boosts their symptoms? Probably. Paranoia is a common side effect and I don’t think that’s very beneficial for someone who is already struggling.
Why is it a bad thing that Rust requires you to learn more things? As 'mjg59 pointed out recently, the kernel dev community intentionally asks you to learn more things unrelated to your code as a means of keeping the "bar" high and fielding only committed contributors. Isn't it all the more reasonable to ask people to learn a programming language? https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1413406419856945153

Rust isn't terribly hard to learn, especially for a kernel developer with a good understanding of C and of memory. You can pick up the basics in probably an hour. A lot of its design choices match approaches the kernel already takes (traits are like ops structs, errors are reported via return values, etc.)

And Rust is a language that plenty of college students pick up for fun. Professional kernel engineers should be able to learn it just fine. Frankly the hardest thing about Rust is that it makes you think deeply about memory allocation, concurrent access across threads, resource lifetimes, etc. - but these are all things you have to think deeply about anyway to write correct kernel code. If you have a good model for these things in C, you can write the corresponding Rust quickly.

In fact, learning Rust and thinking about Rust's concurrency rules has made RCU a lot easier for me to understand. RCU is famously a difficult concept, but the kernel uses it extensively and expects people to use it. So "requires little knowledge and is easy to understand" is not an existing design goal of the kernel - but having people pick up Rust might help there anyway.

(Zig seems like an entirely reasonable choice too. Send in some patches! :) )
I would imagine that particular customer would rather Amazon not quietly honor, say, a Russian subpoena for their data.