skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't a ban on space weapons forestall the weaponization of space by a few decades?

Didn't bans on chemical and biological weapons keep research in those fields small enough to prevent the emergence of politically potent factions with a pecuniary interest in their development?

The nuclear test ban treaties have held up well.

There is a big difference between "states openly develop these things and rich people lobby for more budget", and "states have secret programs as a hedge against noncompliance by the other side".
OK got it -- so you're clearly talking about lighting in digitally composited scenes, not on an actual physical set.

So I think it's fair to say that physical lighting has gotten much better (not worse), but that digital composition allows us to create scenes that were never even attempted in a previous era, but that introduces new lighting problems... but that we're making progress on fixing those too, for the best of all worlds!
That’s not how science works.
That’s the major concern I have: take as a given that NCMEC is on the side of the angels here, what happens when some government demands that Apple help identify anyone who has an image shared from a protest, leak, an underground political movement, etc.? The database is private by necessity, so there’s no way to audit for updates.

Now, currently this is only applied to iCloud photos which can already be scanned server side, making this seem like a likely step towards end to end encryption of iCloud photos but not a major change from a privacy perspective. What seems like more of a change would be if it extended to non-cloud photos or the iMessage nude detection scanner since those aren’t currently monitored, and in the latter case false positives become a major consideration if it tries to handle new content of this class as well.
Given the shocking scale of that graph I've got to wonder which part(s) of Asia were consuming all of that gas.
I wonder if they will just switch to other polluting fuels rather than the high investment up front for renewable energy.
This is potentially really bad for everyone given how relatively cleanly gas burns compared to the alternatives.
for all that i know the software doesn’t even need to update itself. it may have the backdoor built in.

so now what? go back to landlines? stop using a “smart”phone?
Thanks for the additional links supporting this, something that I though would be well known by the HN community as it's a very interesting technology change, I was quite surprised to be downvoted to quickly.

Perhaps my use of the word "corruption" comes across as too strong. But for government-granted monopolies, the bias shown by utility planning in recent years can only be described by such a word. There's an inexplicable allegiance to technologies that cost utilities more than renewables and storage, and given that renewables would let utilities charge for lots of transmission upgrades that are a great source of profits, their behavior is really difficult to explain at all without corruption being a motivation. It can't be explained by seeking profit for investors.
What if all of them do at least one egregious thing? Especially when "all" means just apple and Google?
Hm, interesting. This seems to indicate that we gained ice for the entirety of September — June without a single major melting episode.
Is nobody mentioning how squatting is much better than sitting during bowel movement?
While I find your perspective and suggestions are valuable, I think we need to retire this idiom (which I've used myself without much thought):

> Now I am not saying he should not have done what he did

We need to stand up and say, he should speak out, he should have spoken out, seeing injustice and oppression.
Radiation cats [1] would serve as a warning when books disappear.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Forc...
Everybody is misrepresenting this article badly. Here is what it says that is important:

> The person who incorrectly assumes that “with the vaccine, even if I get infected I am less likely to die than I would be without the vaccine,” will be more likely to engage in behavior that risks infection. They may become the “it’s just a flu bro” of the vaccinated.

> If the lack of observed layered protection were made more explicit then people may choose to still wear masks and social distance, to further reduce their exposure in addition to vaccination. They may choose to go to fewer social events. This in turn would reduce the infection rate, and reduce the probability a mutation that evades vaccination finds a host to practice on. (While writing this article, the White House changed its masking recommendation for the vaccinated)
Ode to a Streaming ByteString
Don't use urls like https://user:pass@example.com
I flagged it because of the inflammatory title in no way bears the weight of the rather simplistic claim this article writes conspiratorially at length to make:

The evidence that vaccination reduces the severity or decreases mortality of COVID-19 infection is not as strong as the evidence that vaccination prevents COVID-19 infection entirely.

Where are the "damn lies"? We're talking about splitting hairs in the interpretation of twitter posts that evidence does support. It's interesting, but exactly this kind of inflammatory language is what I will always flag on HN, whether it be about COVID or VIM vs. EMACs.
If anyone thinks pandas has a lot of inconsistencies and unexpected behaviour, you're in for a wild ride with R.
Which is likely the route certain counties will go down given the huge up front cost of renewable energy still.
(the elephant in the room being capacitive storage)
This is bad, because it will incentivize more natural gas being drilled and burned. The long term logic is ironclad and simple: Given a price P of a resource, all recources available cheaper than P will be eventually dug out and used. The only feasible way to stop digging fossil fuels is to get their price so low that it is not worth extracting them.
How are you paying $400 for 3 lines? I’m on T-Mobile’s most expensive plan (unlimited 5G) and it’s only $140 for 3 lines. The 3rd line is free.
That's the idea, I would guess.
Apparently A350 are built with Teijin Tenax thermoplastic carbon. Brochures say it cures in one minute, eliminating autoclave. Could be different from normal resin based carbons.
Once generics ship, there could be progress in this direction. Until then, though, very high level data structure type libraries, along the lines of pandas, are always going to be terrible in Go.
>That sounds like pretty high support.

That's one way of spinning it. The other replies paint a different picture. Specifically:

1. https://i0.wp.com/angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/S... most people prefer the non-supply managed products, taking into account the pros/cons. (emphasis mine)

2. https://i1.wp.com/angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/S... only ~40% "support" it, so concluding that "most of us are very happy to support supply management" is a stretch.
To summarize your post: it is OK to use another editor, if it has better support for the language you you want to write your code in.

I see no drama here: I haven an emacs instance always running as my to-go editor but would start IntelliJ IDEA if I have to write even a single line of code in Java. Because it is so much better. Even if I would always reach for emacs if I have to write in Clojure or Racket. Would I still have to write code in JS/TS, I would also use VSCode - do not see it that much justified for other languages, since the support there is spotty at best and nowhere on an "IDE" level.

But the problem is: emacs nowhere claimed to be an IDE in Go and C/C++ so that it makes no sense to condemn it because it did not become one.
>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A lot of these providers are part of the Open Compute project [0] that Facebook created in 2011 and all the hardware is open source. At least for FB, all the new hardware is part of that.

[0] https://www.opencompute.org/
I’ve wondered that too. In countries with massive class disparities why don’t the classes band together and revolt?

I don’t think this paints the full picture but I believe this is at least partially due to differences in regional identities even within the class. India has multiple major languages, several castes and sub-castes (reference to this has been made in the article). This makes class solidarity much harder among the lower classes, who also have difficulty in accessing good education.

The upper classes on the other hand all speak English or Hindi. They can communicate with one another. Their easier access to education and frequent contact with people from other regions of the country makes them care less about those divisions. There is much more class solidarity in the upper classes.
This could well be interaction between the paint or primer used and the resin/polymer used to make the carbon fiber hull parts.
A woman who rifles through New York’s garbage, exposing the city’s excesses
That's the one of the first things I tried when I got Mathematica for the first time.

Here's a larger view:
https://i.imgur.com/0ROKAi5.png

Like a lot of prime visualizations, it's a weird mix of apparent randomness and order.
What about genuine duplicate photos? Say there is a stock picture of a landscape, and someone else goes and takes their own picture of the same landscape?
Pandas is an incredible piece of software, but it is also a confusing, hard to use and inconsistent api.

It can be both, but it doesn’t have to.
Only progressives could ever think that making energy much more expensive for poor people is a good thing.
That’s not the only feasible way to accomplish this. Taxing natural gas enough would accomplish this too. Banning it’s use will do the trick also. Making usage of alternatives cheaper is another way.
Yes, and quite possibly they did not factor in the long term differences between interaction of paint and materials.
This is my understanding from reading the OP. Lynx is a CLI browser and apparently it sends plain-auth credentials in the clear in the SNI/hostname part of the https/tls handshake. I suppose someone forgot that the authority part of a uri has a slot for both userinfo as well as host, and parsed it wrong. [0]

As far as mitigations go, I guess any of these would work: don't use Lynx; don't use SNI (???); don't use plain auth.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Sy...
>Supply management isn't needed if we're already competitive exporters of a given product.

sounds more like the real goal is protectionism rather than "having a stable supply of food"
Yes but renewable energy is difficult to build such that its always there to meet baseline demand. That is likely to get worse if the climate shifts for different countries and technologies.

Solar in the Sahara great. Wind in the uk great.

Solar in counties with moderate climates requires effort to moderate between supply and demand however.
A quick scan says half-life can be up to 5 years, but also low as several days.
No, that's not true. Both the hardware and the OS remained compatible, although enough differences crept in that applications could get into trouble anyway.

One common problem was when applications assumed all memory was reachable by the custom chips; the later addition of fast ram (which was ram that wasn't slowed down by custom chips accessing it, thus starving the CPU of memory cycles) could break those. Another example is using the upper 8 bits of pointers, which was safe on 68000 but not on 68020 and up which had a full 32-bit address bus. Making assumptions about OS structures was also a favorite of many hackers, and something that invariably broke on later OS releases. However, if you stuck to the API you were fine, and many applications run without problems on all OS releases from 1.2 to 3.1.
> But maybe that is not that interesting.

That’s common, you gain ice from storms which are fairly random. This is why the most days are below the average accumulation from historic data but the line is full of spikes.

Melting on the other hand tends to be much more steady.
The article does consider that option via splitting and storage of water, and then recombination via hydrogen fuel cells.

According to the article the mass of the storage vessels needed to store 2 weeks of pressurized hydrogen and oxygen are comparable with the mass of batteries you'd need, although I haven't done the calculations myself... Intuitively I would expect this to be more efficient than batteries though.
I don't care about models. I care about variance. The additive nature of climate change means that there is no variance in the other way. The effect size does not need a model of time for it to be determined worrisome.

Permafrost is speculation when it comes to time, not the size of the effect. There's no natural process that will reverse the release of 100 years of 2020 greenhouse emissions in a short amount of time.

There's no scientific way to demonstrate that human activity increases the planet's temperature -> therefore no reason to worry, but there's also no scientific way to demonstrate that there are interventions that work to stop the increase -> so no reason to worry?

Of course, the question of risk is asked before additive intervention, so in a way, combustion of oil should have never been done in the way it was, similarly raising of livestock (global pandemics), but the way unscientific think -> no data that demonstrates risk -> no risk at all. Then after the risk surfaces, we ask the question "Why should we change the way we live just because we became aware of the risk?". Sounds worrying to me too.
Does it though? Have you looked at the vast number of vulnerabilities introduced into the Linux kernel in the last 3 years?
That really alarmed me. I don't think a hosting provider like Apple should have a right to access private pictures, especially just to enforce copyright.

Edit: I see now it's not about copyright, but still very disturbing.
Story of Njk, a Tool Mistreated
I could see them simulate a severely constrained internet access, with limited bandwidth and minutes-long ping.
The other guy only linked one of the images.

https://twitter.com/PolarPortal/status/1420636674309165058
Note that vertically integrated smoke includes high-altitude smoke so it might not reflect air quality near the surface. Use near surface smoke to see how bad the air will be to breathe. Indeed, it looks like a sea breeze is currently keeping near surface smoke out of some parts of the Bay Area.
Supporting the entire food industry keeps the entire food supply secure. Shortages in one sector will raise prices in another. Libertarian madness is not a sensible way to run a country. Not even America is that crazy.
There's two images

https://twitter.com/PolarPortal/status/1420636674309165058
This has no bearing on this article, it is not about fatigue but about surface defects, not structural defects.
This definitely feels like a bad solution provoked by a dubious law; the complaints should be directed at our elected officials, not Apple.
I saw a termite "migration" a few weeks ago (I think that's what it was, I haven't looked it up). Never seen anything like it. It was very interesting. (SW USA desert).

It happened outside at dusk after a few days of rain. I saw this swarm of winged insects kind of flitting about, really weird, almost surreal. I hadn't seen that kind before and followed them to the edge of the yard. There were a bunch of tiny holes with more of the winged insects emerging. Surrounding the holes were what I suppose were worker termites with no wings. A big mass of them completely surrounding each hole, guarding it as the winged ones emerged.

Meanwhile big harvester ants were trying to get in and grab the emerging winged termites and the "worker" termites were mobbing them with 5 or 10 termites swarming each ant and clinging to it's legs or climbing on and I presume biting them. The ants were trying to shake them off. I did see one or two ants that successfully had captured a winged termite and were on the way back to the burrow with them.

I had no idea there were even termites there. Anyway it was super neat, the coordination and guarding and fending off of the harvester ants.
> in niche cases like lunar night

Why would lunar night be considered a niche case? Wouldn't this affect any and every long term installation?
Somehow I have never got around to liking Lynx. But I love (the textmode) links and use it every day. Any reasons why Lynx can be a better choice?
A diesel f350’s fuel consumption is only marginally less than a Subaru Outback or WRX.
I’m a cheap bastard so I got a Pixel 2 used for ~$55. I’m sure people will tell me Android is no better and I’d be open to hearing that but they don’t scan your phone as far as I know. I also have the option to install things like Calyx OS, Graphene OS I believe.
The first time I opened up my nice Logitech optical mouse to see if I could fix what was ailing it back in 2003, I was surprised to find a lump of metal glued to the inside. I think this was the moment when I broke from what felt like an instinctual correlation between heft and quality. I was tight on cash back then, so I took the lump of metal out of the Logitech mouse and stuck it in the otherwise crappy Dell mouse that had come with my computer, and it absolutely felt like an upgrade.

To this day I buy gaming mice because you can easily add weights to them at your discretion.
That's not what the article is advocating at all. A table bend is basically a deadlift. It's all about keeping the back straight so the heavy lifting is done by the hips and legs.
This is one of the top comments and one I 100% agree with.

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Sigh... Idiocy is like a virus. We don't have a vaccine for it, but we used to keep it under control through isolation. Every village might have its idiot, but at least the idiots were in separate villages. Thanks to Facebook and other social media, the idiots now get together all the time in online super spreader events of idiocy. Now the idiocy pandemic is out of control, and we still have no vaccine. Of course a new idiocy variant would be the denial of germ theory during a pandemic of a novel virus. We are so fucked.

—-

I think we might be going from a genetic to a memetic evolutionary process/society. Right now we’re on the start of something terrible, because memetically we’ve opened the organism and are letting bacteria fester.

The 1930s were similar. We allowed mass psychosis to set in through the new medium of radio. Now we’re letting it set in through the internet. Different kinds but same effect. We’re about to head into a similar mass psychosis event.
Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop_OS!
Are they in a particular sequence or randomly distributed across the 53 hull numbers? If the former it might be a process change somewhere in the paint or resin/polymer formulation.
I don't know much about how this patent stuff works, but it looks like the application was in 2008 [0], while reCATCHPA's first release was in 2007 [1].

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US8621578B1/en

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA
They can't seize crypto.
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/natgas.php

We expect that U.S. consumption of natural gas will average 82.9 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2021, down 0.5% from 2020. U.S. natural gas consumption declines in the forecast, in part, because electric power generators switch to coal from natural gas as a result of rising natural gas prices.
Well, if you compare used cars of course ICEs are much cheaper, because the market is so much larger. That+s why I asked for new. It seemed surprising to me that you'd even consider a new car when an EV is that expensive compared to income.
Which are themselves not especially fuel efficient compared to the Impreza much less a hybrid or efficient compact sedan.
Yeah I worked in NDT for a bit and it's very difficult to test carbon fibre for damage or delamination under the surface. There are techniques but not as good as for aluminium. And as you said they don't have a nice plastic region like metals.
>Before the vaccine program started there were ~4000 deaths per day in the US, now there are ~100. Clearly it is very effective at reducing death.

Changing the way you categorise death can do wonders..

> Q Can you talk about your concerns about deaths being misreported by coronavirus because of either testing or standards for how they’re characterized?

> DR. BIRX: So, I think, in this country, we’ve taken a very liberal approach to mortality, and I think the reporting here has been pretty straightforward over the last five to six weeks. Prior to that, when there wasn’t testing in January and February, that’s a very different situation and unknown. There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition and let’s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem — some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. Right now, we’re still recording it, and we’ll — I mean, the great thing about having forms that come in and a form that has the ability to mark it as COVID-19 infection — the intent is, right now, that those — if someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.

Now, imagine if, after vaccine rollout, we counts those deaths as cause by a heart condition. Boom. Drop in covid deaths! Vaccines worked! Hail pharma!
I think it is easier than you'd think to get a builder to build a neighborhood. Convincing mixed zoning to move in is more difficult. Largely due to how confusing store ownership is. Often the buildings need to exist and be owned before businesses look to lease in places.

None of which is to say I disagree with zoning being problematic. I fully agree with that points. I just think it is oversold. Folks like having room, and folks are typically over afraid of letting kids play in parks on their own. (I can't really argue against some of that fear... :( )
The rumor is that some combination of paint, stripper and CFRP led to the actual mesh being exposed. If so, that goes considerably further then cosmetic.
What is the non-progressive argument for helping poor people survive climate change? The cheapest policy I can think of is welcoming in more climate refugees to the west. But I don’t think that would be popular on the right for other reasons.
Yes that’s true but I assume this program is working closely with the government. I could care less about child abuser protection but history shows us that it is a very short maybe non-existent slope from “protecting the kids” to whatever overstep a government organization wants to take.

I wouldn’t care nearly as much about Apple scanning my phone it’s about who is pulling those strings they are working with and in America they are (or should be!) bound by the Constitution. I can only imagine the obliteration of rights that will happen in other places. Imagine a Hong Kong protestor with this program on their phone.

We’ve got to do everything we can to keep George Orwell’s quote from coming true-

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
There are two competing goals. One is to help poor people get out of poverty. This leads to more consumption in the short term and this increase in consumption is partly offset by the fact that richer people tend to have fewer children. The other competing goal is to try to stem the great environmental damage humans do as a result of their consumption. It does no good for everyone to be rich if we are all swimming in our own shit.

When a given topic comes up one goal will carry more weight than the other. There are similar instances of this phenomenon with all political movements.
It's basic chemistry. Natural gas consists of short hydrocarbons, i.e. hydrogen on those carbon backbones. Coal is mostly carbon.