skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I missed out on the flash but the pressure wave rattled my front door like someone was trying to get in (and the dog was none too pleased about that).
What country, if you don’t mind me asking?
I was just thinking that it’d be really hard to avoid theft in a camp settlement.
A mix of propane and iso-butane can be used (perhaps illegally, depending on where you are) as a replacement for old R12 refrigerant.
Covid-19 vaccine distribution vs. reported cases
The poll will happen in this meeting on August 3rd:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/blob/main/main/2021/...
is a raspberry zero?
Yes, DW is among the few who mostly report fairly. On the other hand, DW in germany is almost non-existent for ~95% of the populace.
Usually when there are serious bugs in Windows, these get notified.

Latest example:
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20...

Released Jul 1, 2021

Workarounds:

Option 1 - Disable the Print Spooler service

Option 2 - Disable inbound remote printing through Group Policy
No amount of videos can teach you how loud a gun really is. Especially when you're holding it literally next to your ear to aim down the sights.
Why did the USSR help to create Israel, but then became its foe
They would have to compromise your client which is in no way different from compromising your device. The NSO / Pegasus systems do just that. They allow arbitrary command execution, which includes sending any file on your phone to any contact over Signal. Nothing software can do to protect from that. If you need 100% guarantee something doesn't leak over electronics, don't store it electronically. Ask them Slavs https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/russia-reverts...
Google Chrome Home
I know you touched on it but the importance of consistent overload is paramount as well for strength and hypertrophy. 80 bags of cement won't cause adaptation unless it's a regular occurance.
The article is very thin on details, but I don't think dismissing the idea that we are headed for disaster is the proper response.

During peak covid wfh period, there has been a clear and obvious difference in the quality of air. This, to me, seems to indicate that the air quality difference is mainly due to the lower amount of people driving. Are we not concerned about returning to a smog filled status quo?

I was recently hired by a company and quit 1 week in. Why? Turns out the position was to assist with IT work related to oil fracking. Is everyone collectively pretending that fracking is not damaging to groundwater in a large area?

Amazon is globally ( esp. in US though ) driving other businesses ( small, medium, and large ) out of business. Do we really believe that the demise of Toys R Us and Sears have nothing to do with Amazon? What about the demise of shopping malls generally?

The last US president is deemed to be a certifiable scumbag by half the US population. We have current articles and video indicating that the current US president is a pedophile ( or at least very fond of touching kids ) We just went through a huge reveal that pedophilia is a big business both in the US and globally. We also went through a lot of recent protests in regard to police and government treatment of us. Are we pretending that society is stable and well?

Education in the US is pitiful compared to education globally. It shows no signs, that I see, of improving. It's going downhill. We are okay with this?
Thinking in Systems: Everything we know is a model
The more I see of them the more I am convinced they are an objective evil and create net negative value.

With invoking the words, "absolute evil", you seem to also take part of your observed trend:

When I look at the popular ideas on all sides of the political spectrum, the trend seems to have been toward ideas that are not only more one dimensional and extreme
I love the terrible commit name. "Updating recipient merging."
Remember the fiasco that was Olestra?[1] It's an indigestible fat. I had the misfortune of being in a test market and tried some Olestra Doritos and they tasted great. Unfortunately the whole point of Olestra is that it's an indigestible fat. Guess how that works out when it reaches the end of the GI tract.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olestra
Yep, it will impact any language with WTF-16. Those languages may incur a performance hit if the vote passes to not support "expressive UTF-16", but more notably, there will be data integrity issues that can lead to security issues.
Part of this police department's intelligence program was posted on HN[1] before. The body cam footage[2] from it is horrifying.

Here's a summary of the program and how the department feels about it and those they target[3]:

> The motivation of the program is more sinister than merely “fighting crime”: The Sheriff’s Office acknowledged that they want these “problem people” gone. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco, the architect of the program, boasted that the goal was to predict which residents are likely to commit crimes and then “take them out.” In the words of a former Pasco County deputy, they were under orders to “[m]ake their lives miserable until they move or sue.”

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24363871

[2] https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/p...

[3] https://ij.org/case/pasco-predictive-policing/
One thing to consider is that cable TV with many channels proliferated 1-2 decades earlier in the US than most other countries. We had 40+ channels and the resultant social splintering of interests much earlier as a result. It wasn't until satellite TV became a thing that many parts of the world could get more than a handful of over the air channels.
Why Companies Can't Stop Top Execs from Blasting Off to Space
Newsflash: No you don't.
Man, what an uncanny trip! I don't mean to say it's any less impressive, but it was uncanny.

The surrealist nature of the piece notwithstanding, I was bothered by some of the artistic decisions made in the pictures. Maybe the lack of (traditional) perspective; but even that I can chalk up to a conscious Escherian aesthetic. I was also slightly bothered that the images were not available in higher resolution. Surely that should go without asking, in a piece going for this kind of artistic subject matter?

My suspicions peaked at https://moultano.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/1626575570_the_... because it really does not look like a cafeteria to me.

And when I got to the coda, it all made sense.

Long-ish PS:

> We believe that every book contains a world. But more than just believe, we know this, because we know that our world is made out of words. The person who created our world thought of words to describe just one of the rooms in our library, then saw it, and was so amazed at its beauty that he described more and more, and saw more and more.

I got chills when I first read this because it's so meta. Then I got to the behind-the-scenes explainer of the methodology and this quote (which, to be clear, I'm aware R. Moulton himself wrote) just reached another level of meta, if that's possible.

Thanks for the tour. I enjoyed it!
It's telling that a search for the term "sentiment" in the article yields nothing. It's an obvious companion analysis.
He never said anything about agreeing or disagreeing with his conduct.

I disagree with his conduct but I could never condone his treatment because yes, fundamentally the actions of the US government here are as close to fascism as we see in the modern age.

It's putting international justice to shame.

If they don't have a sound case then he shouldn't be persecuted until such time they do. If he truly committed a crime there must be evidence, they should find it and bring proceedings against him in a fair manner.

Unfortunately there is little evidence to suggest the US government is interested in a fair trial and much more that they are just being punitive to trying make an example of him.

It's disgraceful and we should demand better.
I was wondering what the hell that was last night
biomass (study in Germany, over 27 years)

> "When the total weight of the insects in each sample was measured a startling decline was revealed. The annual average fell by 76% over the 27 year period, but the fall was even higher – 82% – in summer, when insect numbers reach their peak."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/18/warning-...
Threema is worth a shot. Signal looks promising but isn't quite there yet.
Most portable air conditioners I've seen use "R290" (propane) as a coolant, both from expensive brands and budget brands. I'd say propane is very popular in that industry, it's not just an option.

Of course, there are some risks to using propane (which is why these devices come with warnings not to store them in small rooms) but I suspect many people will already be using propane cooling somewhere without even knowing.
Why does greenwald attack democrats and “liberal media” so much and give the gop and Fox, the most popular cable news station, a pass? It’s hard to take his reports seriously. And why is he trying to imply 1/6 was the product of FBI informants.
I'd argue that by their own criteria, every member of the Pasco Sheriffs Office should be on this list, given that rates of domestic violence are 2-4x higher in police household than US households in general.

citation: https://sites.temple.edu/klugman/2020/07/20/do-40-of-police-...

edit: Someone posted an unredacted version of the 2018 version of the Pasco Sheriffs Office ILP manual in another comment. Appendix B lays out the specific criteria they use. It appears they tally up the number arrests or bookings (but "suspicions" are not counted). I'm not a criminal law expert, but it sounds like that just means the more times the cops haul you in the higher your score is, even if you're never convicted of any of it.

So my initial comment wasn't quite right. Their criteria provides even more incentive to not book fellow cops for misbehavior, as that happening too many times (even if nothing comes of it) would make them pop on this list.
Merriam-Webster defines scam as a "fraudulent or deceptive act or operation". So yes.
> the prices that Purism charges aren’t due to lack of economy of scale you can make these devices on the cheap

I've never understood that to be their argument. Purism is actively paying people to improve the mobile experience of Linux. They can't charge for software, and they certainly don't get a cut of app sales like Google or Apple. So to fund the devs that write the software, they mark up their hardware.

This improves mobile Linux, makes for a reasonably sustainable company, and gives Pine64 a free ride regarding software like Phosh, Phoc, Calls, Chatty, etc. So without having to pay for developers, Pine can sell their hardware dramatically cheaper. Simply put, I don't think "Good software isn't cheap" should be a surprise to anyone here.
Thanks For response, we will provide you with the top freelancers on fiverr, instead of wasting a lot of time looking for the best.
I think the places where the friendships are the hardest all tend to be guess cultures[0]. That isn't exactly surprising to me. Guess culture should make creating friendships much harder. If you may only ask if someone wants to hangout until you are very sure they'll say yes, then you'll very rarely ask for that. You'd need circumstances with long periods of being 'stuck' together to make a friend. Thus you'd expect people to disproportionately from work or school.

As someone who believes in the Moral Foundations Theory, I don't think it's an accident that the places that are known for low friendships tend to be culturally liberal places. Since most probably don't know what Moral Foundations Theory is, a quick and dirty version is that all moral judgement can be reduced to the following core values (or moral foundations) which I copied from Wikipedia:

* Care: cherishing and protecting others; opposite of harm

* Fairness or proportionality: rendering justice according to shared rules; opposite of cheating

* Loyalty or ingroup: standing with your group, family, nation; opposite of betrayal

* Authority or respect: submitting to tradition and legitimate authority; opposite of subversion

* Sanctity or purity: abhorrence for disgusting things, foods, actions; opposite of degradation

I'm also a fan of the tentatively accepted liberty vs oppression foundation. I really think it should be renamed to something like agency vs domination. Anyways, it would value being able to make decision on choices deemed important and rejecting those who coerce others.

Anyways, culturally liberal places pick care vs harm as their primary value and in some cases have made it the default choice for answering moral issues. I think this naturally leads to guess culture. You get told as a child, frequently, that saying "no" can hurt the askers feelings. You learn to feel bad for saying "no", since it violates care vs harm. You realize that the person you are about to ask a question to is going to feel bad if they say "no". Making them feel bad would be harm, so asking would be harm... unless you can figure out if they'd say yes. That's how I think a guess culture would develop.

The reason I bring up moral foundations at all is I believe the solution is in the last 3 foundations: loyalty, authority, and purity. Those 3 are characterized as the group-ish ones. They are what separate acquaintances from friends, neighbourhoods from communities, and coworkers from a team.

[0] - https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/05/askers-...
My work uses GCP not AWS so I've been experimenting with google cloud run (it's actually parallelizing R code so need the docker container infra). My only problem is that I have very bursty useage and the auto-scaling is too slow. I made one attempt [1] to encourage larger allocation but don't know another way. Do people have experience with this

[1] Slightly costly but ~ 5minutes before I need it, I set the minimum instance size to a larger number so it starts ramping up, then when I'm done I lower it
Nebulex seems interesting, I may be tempted to replace cachex with it.

It also seems a clean way to fill the lack of integrated cache solution in ecto.
Yes even going back to Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt rewrote his drafts of his speech to obscure the fact that the Philippines, a major site of the attack, was also a US colony.

"How to Hide an Empire", Daniel Immerwahr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaKOOqXDnqA
The great thing with the “European money”, is that you send 100 every year, it sends you 50 or 60 back( if you’re one of the top contributors like the UK, France or Germany), tells you how to use it, and you are supposed to say “thanks” and put up big signs saying “the EU paid for this”.
"...farmers benefit from a price that accurately reflects the supply and demand of their product."

But does society benefit when it's cheaper to let the crops rot than take delivery?

"This is an example of futures working well because that oil otherwise would've been dumped or burned since the price was negative"

The whole reason they weren't dumping oil and tankers where making bank was because you can't legally dump it. That is why rates were negative - you had to put it somewhere and many of the contract holders where speculators with nowhere to put it.

"Without futures farmers would have to buy price insurance through some sort of middleman insurance company, which is almost certainly more expensive than the market."

They already have crop insurance, which includes price issues...
So let me see if I got this straight...

You will never use an app that HAD 0.000000001% chance of outputting a file on your phone to wrong peer over 100% end-to-end encrypted channel...

but...

You knowingly use an app that leaks 100% of your group chats, including attachments, 100% of your 1:1 desktop messages to the service provider, who can be bought, or hacked at any time without you (or them) knowing, and that doesn't provide any kind of active protection mechanism against similar bugs than this one...

...on the grounds...

...that such bug hasn't happened, yet?

Is that what I'm reading?
Looking forward to statistics on vulnerabilities in Copilot suggestions
It’s been an incredible year. Blizzards in Texas, burning heat in the northwest US, intense rain bursts in Europe and China. Then of course in the last few years extreme forest fires in Australia, the US and Brazil. Steadily worsening hurricanes.

Climate scientists have been predicting more extreme weather for decades. This is just the early phase.
Sounds like you’re saying the authors suffer from cognitive distortions. They’re disproving their point by proving their own point.
66 grams of propane are 35.1 liters. The lower explosive limit is 2.1%. So if the content leaks out slowly enough to mix with at least 2 cubic meters of air, it's going to be fine. However, if it leaks a bit more quickly, I can totally see it creating an explosive mixture in the space behind your fridge (or inside), to be ignited when the compressor/light switch trigger next.

I can see why people aren't super happy with the prospect. A stoichiometric mixture forming inside your fridge and blowing up when you open it would definitely ruin your day.
I never said it was "complicated." Don't hike alone, leave a detailed itinerary with others, carry warm overnight clothing just in case, etc. Collect a few of these simple rules in one place and what do you have? A manual.
I knew someone homeless who told me his tent had been attacked twice - slashed, and set on fire one of those times - while he was sleeping in it.

That sounds like enough of a reason for 24/7 security to me.
Their work is definitely an illustration of precisely what they're talking about.
A fantastic first-person account of a disaster we have much to learn from. Thank you for sharing the link- it was an amazing read.
unless you start overloading it too fast, and lift too close to failure and with bad technique...

I love deadlifts, but It is very easy to mess up your back with them. On the other hand, whenever I didn't deadlift, eventually started getting random back pains (from sitting too long), and wrists pains (from typing) as those muscles were getting weaker.

TLDR: Deadlifting, powerlifting and such are great for your back and posture, as long as you don't push yourself to your limits (keep it within 80-85% of your max) and watch your technique.

Most people want to push their personal envelope, and that's where they get injured.
Reading the articles, I've found the Pasco Sheriff ILP manual[0] in question which was obtained by Tampa Bay Times. The section specifically relating to kids is on Page 70. Interesting read, though I haven't had much time to ingest all the details.

It appears as if the sheriffs have been creating dossiers since 2011. Is sheriffs really this well funded in Florida? Where i am from, the sheriff is essentially the court agent, transporting prisoners, seizing defaulted property, serving some process, etc

If you are well informed, I am interested in learning about the analytics and tools they are using. The report mentions CompStat, Problem Oriented Policing and a methodology called SARA (scan assess respond analyze) as well as post-9/11 derived information sharing developments. They have ALPR and video feeds from some in their community as well they are using, and also mention in passing facial recognition to identify the unidentified.. uh whoever.

[0] - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20412738-ilp_manual0...
A quality 120 is louder and has a higher pitched noise than a quality 140.
Which unfortunately suffers from the same metadata leaks as email.
Yeah. Damn your grandfathers, for all that polarising they indulged in, 1941-45. If only they'd allowed a little wiggle room!
> I look forward to Westminster taking climate change more seriously now…

Despite talk of the environment in the recent G7 meeting, I suspect it's going to take a backseat to economic recovery. You have the ongoing issues from Brexit and the fact that the government (and their opposition) have an impossible standard for COVID vaccine success.

Also I'd be interested to hear what you want to see Westminster do. I've heard a lot of ideas being thrown around, but I remain sceptical.
I would like a browser extension that automatically reports all youtube videos whose title contains "shocking", "astonishing" and "what happens next" as spam.
Wait until you're 50.
I put 'mostly' and not 'entirely' because I do think it is both.
small government persons are seldom pro police persons. the former recognize latter as necesary evil but are not supporting much.
The economy is a negative sum game and so, while the rich keep getting richer and their friends keep getting richer, opportunities for the majority of people are drying up. It becomes increasingly easy for the rich to earn money and increasingly difficult for the poor to earn money.

Almost everyone who rich people interact with are at least relatively well off and doesn't have to work too hard for their money so they don't see or relate to the suffering and hopelessness of the poor who are desperately competiting for their attention.

Wherever the rich look, things start improving - But where they don't look (which is most places), things are always getting worse.

In this crony-capitalist system, the attention of a rich person is as good as money.

The monetary system is to blame for this. When currency isn't backed by anything, the economy and society becomes 100% about capturing the attention of rich people. You cannot compete in this system without the approval of rich people. No matter how much better value your products or services may be; you can never compete because their earnings are mixed in with easy money straight from the money printers, yours aren't - You can never beat the margins of a big corporation which has direct currency pipelines to hedge funds, governments, etc...

Money should not be so important but when you are far from the money printers, it's the only thing a rational person can think about. Getting the attention of rich people is the only way to get closer to the money printers. It's not a distortion to see things as negative or bleak. Things really are bleak for most people. The real distortion is thinking that everything is fine.
Try asking about crypto on /r/webdev, /r/javascript or anything similar. You'll never see libsodium put forward.
Which wasn't determined to be a source or contributor to the fire.

> The Boston Fire Department investigated possible causes of ignition, the rapid spread of the fire and the catastrophic loss of life. Its report reached no conclusion as to the initial cause of ignition, but attributed the rapid, gaseous spread of the fire to a buildup of carbon monoxide gas due to oxygen-deprived combustion in the enclosed space above the false ceiling of the Melody Lounge. The gas exuded from enclosed spaces as its temperature rose and ignited rapidly as it mixed with oxygen above the entryway, up the stairway to the main floor and along ceilings. The fire accelerated as the stairway created a thermal draft, and the high-temperature gas fire ignited pyroxylin (leatherette) wall and ceiling covering in the foyer, which in turn exuded flammable gas.

Yes, they used flammable gas in the AC, no that was not determined to be a source or contributing factor to the fire.
I do have kids.

I observe a correlation between overattachment to animals and lack of empathy toward other humans.

In other words, people with "fur babies" are far less likely to have well-formed consciences.
How is it that the police have the time of day to do this? Aren’t there homicides and cold cases to go over? Rape and domestic violence cases to persecute?
I assume using it results in a less efficient system though, right?
>it is invisible on this graph

I don't know why you got downvoted -- but there is a definitely a visible artifact on that chart between 1939 and 1946, it's just not all that huge compared to modern deficit spending.