skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Makes me look back at the last 20-30 years of discourse in the United States and let out a deep sigh.

George H.W. Bush ("Bush 41") actually had a decent track record on the environment and climate change:

* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/george-h-w-bush-underst...

The craziness with the GOP started more recently (post-1990s).
> Their are claims of concerns about carbon emissions, but absolute opposition to any work around nuclear. If carbon emissions was the or a very important issue, you'd be going full out on lots of ideas.

While I agree nuclear is the right way to go... it's frankly too late to put all our eggs in that basket. It takes over a decade just to turn on a new plant in the US due to all the regulations. We can work to improve that situation, but at the end of the day, solar and wind can be deployed much faster and at a lower cost.

> I'd love to see more problem solving from the left, rather than the sort of in your face bans on things.

I'd humbly submit you aren't listening the left arguments if you think they aren't putting out solutions.

Most people I know on the left deride paper straws just as much as you do.

The serious solutions that have been proposed are things like carbon taxes, subsidies for renewable installation and electric vehicles, ending subsidies on the fossil fuel industry. Regulations decreasing allowable fuel consumption from vehicles.

These are serious solutions that would have major positive impacts.

And, as you can imagine, they've all been met with total opposition from the Republicans. Ranging anywhere from outright denying that climate change is real to lying about the impacts of renewable tech or fear mongering over things like "How can we recycle every part of the solar panel! Guess we better just burn oil instead".

Nuclear is a fine solution, it isn't the only solution and it is absolutely more of a long term solution until regulations around new plants ease up.

In the mean time, the best actions we can take today are making it more expensive to release greenhouse gasses in the first place through taxation and subsidizing greenhouse gas free power generation.
The 420 rule

- 20 times a day

- look and blink 20 times

- at 20 different distances

- at least 20 feet away
In fairness, we did get vaccines ready nearly from the get go.
Fwiw my Uncle is a nurse in North NJ and says this “wave” is nothing. Small uptick over last summer. Nothing like last April when it first hit.
Both have been proposed:

http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/16202/1/Hunt2019_Article_C...
>…effectively becoming the central point where power is concentrated.

More ETH/= more power. In my understanding, an attacker would need to control half of all staked ETH to stage a 51% attack, which would require many billions of dollars. But actually exercising this control by attacking the network would undermine the network’s security/utility, potentially sending ETH to zero and obliterating the wealth of the attacker.

This is, supposedly, a strength of PoS: the more ETH you have, the less incentive you have to attack/destroy the system.
A semi-bouyant tunnel that sits ~100 meters below the surface with anchors to the floor and floats above might be ideal. Imagine if it was a conveyance even for just "packets" (cargo conatiners that are shot through the tunnel, no humans...)
If you consider how much refuse you generate per day per household member - and then consider that an encampment has next to no sanitization infrastructure, It becomes obvious that the encampment will generate orders of magnitude more waste in the ocean per capita vs. ordinary households.

I wouldn't be surprised if the litter ratio was 10,000:1 or more.
I'd say it's a bit more like a truck driver who doesn't know how an engine or transmission works.

Sure, you can learn the habits just fine, and maybe go your entire career without knowing what goes on under the hood. But sooner or later you're going to get stuck on the side of the road waiting for someone else to come out and fix something trivial.
“Casualties have been disproportionately Jewish because about a third of Surfside residents are Jewish.”
But this is like an architect trying to lay bricks without knowing how
>pristine Spacemacs

>vanilla

What? :O

Spacemacs is like 50k LOC away from vanilla config.
But that's using "perceptual matching" too isn't it? They say it's configured for a low risk of false-matches, though they don't detail their testing procedure. Presumably they would know almost immediately of false matches, maybe if the odds are really 1/trillion they should commit to disabling the system if any false matches happen at all.

Also, is this all configured on the server-side? Suppose Apple has a pervy employee who vouches my daughter's account "looks suspicious," would he/she then be able to override or "manually review" all her pictures? Would I be notified of any such review?

There are a lot of unaddressed questions here.
They are desperate down here with COVID, she can probably call their bluff and win.
Although there's some good stuff in here (some of which may be considered "obvious" these days), the tone is so typical of computer security: "Everybody else is dumber than me! No, seriously! I'll just enumerate a bunch of things they do, create a straw man case for why it's dumb (by for example not mentioning the constraints people are under, like time pressure and lack of funding/training), burn the straw man, and all that's left is my obviously superior advice which they should be ashamed for not discovering by themselves."
TUG (TeX Users Group) 2021 online conference – Program
Thank you! Pundit is awesome, they did such a great job with it and we drew a lot of inspiration from it.

We're heavily focusing on adoption of the open source product right now for helping developers with application authorization. We do currently charge for things like support + consulting, but in the future we're planning on providing additional functionality through a service that would be more on the operational/security side.
> unless you happen to work with binary formats and protocols

ie, embedded systems and microcontrollers - which is where binary formats and bitwise operations still rule out of necessity (limited processing power, precious cycle counts per operation, limited memory and storage, etc).

I highly doubt your average web or app developer will ever need to use bitwise operations. They're harder to read and understand quickly, and none of the limitations that make bitwise operations attractive exist on devices with gigabytes of ram and terabytes of storage.
If Firefox is out and Chrome bans ad-blocks, Firefox will be in again, reborn from the ashes, just like last time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream

> The warm water and temperature contrast along the edge of the Gulf Stream often increase the intensity of cyclones, tropical or otherwise.

There should be less quantity and intensity of storms in the Atlantic, in the event this takes place.
Proposal: emacs is now irrelevant. Stabilize it, freeze and kill "future development".
Oh, sorry, emacs 'development' is solely about emacs, rather than being about productivity. Too bad that emacs is more about DECs TECO than reality.
> You shouldn't design a street like a road. You will end up with something called a stroad, that is bad at both beeing a street(a place where you can live, shop and whatever) and a road(something that connects two places)

Wow, I never saw this phrased like that.
Having the source code available is much better as an investment. Unity support (forums, answers, whatever) is a joke.

It is very sad that whatever gamedev question you have, if you search in google and add "Unity" the answers quality degrades a lot.
No one except loonies see "You can't own a car, consume meat live anywhere but NYC and can't visit your family 5 states over" and are okay with it.
They should not pay taxes in full to get 1% of the benefits.
I assume "first" here means "highest order"? That's what the solution does.

Assuming it's an unsigned shift, of course. If it's signed you will get the most significant bit replicated, and I doubt that's what you want.
Now all you need is a license for ATG Dynamo and you can setup your own circa 1998 ecommerce website.
I wish I could offer you some more confidence in particular for the mRNA vaccines.

I almost consider your talk about side effects fear mongering when the overwhelming evidence is pointing to a safe and effective vaccine. The mRNA vaccines by now have more evidence on their record than most vaccines when the become available. That should count for something. Vaccine hesitancy will cost us dearly.

Like, after the million of administered doses I would offer you a bet that the side effects are less than 1,000th of the effects a corona infection.
Yep. Same reason your phone's GPS won't work above a certain speed and/or altitude.
This is true. Or, I think it is, I just checked the last 10 years; the three COVID vaccines have 60% of the reports from that time.

However...

Death 5,191 1.25%
Life Threatening 7,110 1.72%
Permanent Disability 6,103 1.47%
Congenital Anomaly / Birth Defect 232 0.06%
Hospitalized 23,990 5.79%
Existing Hospitalization Prolonged 228 0.06%
Emergency Room 58,335 14.08%
Office Visit 84,704 20.44%
None of the above 274,035 66.14%

Death, life threatening events, permanent disability, birth defects, and hospitalization events accounted for about 10% of the reports. 66% of them were "None of the above". (Multiple events can be reported, i.e. hospitalization and permanent disability, resulting in >100%.)

Further, there are limitations to the conclusions that you can draw from VAERS:

"VAERS accepts reports of adverse events and reactions that occur following vaccination. Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public can submit reports to VAERS. While very important in monitoring vaccine safety, VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness. The reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. Most reports to VAERS are voluntary, which means they are subject to biases. This creates specific limitations on how the data can be used scientifically. Data from VAERS reports should always be interpreted with these limitations in mind."

If someone gets a vaccination and is then run over by a bus, that can be reported as a "Death". Additionally, given the politicization of COVID vaccines, I think we can expect that there is a strong bias towards reporting events. The COVID vaccines have a number of common side effects (mine were almost as bad as those of my shingles vaccination), which may explain some of the excess.

But fundamentally, the VAERS data simply cannot be used to determine whether or not a vaccine is unsafe.

On the other hand, consider: There have been 349,000,000 doses administered, with about 428,000 events reported, meaning that 0.12% of doses result in an event and 0.04% result in an event involving health care. I ride a motorcycle. I would be overjoyed at those kinds of safety odds.
The pressure point in the traditional financial system is not the Russian authorities cutting off the Russian hacker from a Russian bank, it's SWIFT cutting off the Russian bank from the global financial system.
We had layoffs a year ago and got moved into an existing team that none of us knew. Then they reassigned more people on and off the project.

After 2 months our team lead realized that we were having problems so he organized 2 meetings a week but there is no status taking. It is all "What problems are you having and let us try to collectively debug it." Share your screen, other people draw on it, give control of your screen to a coworker and let them try a command.

It has actually been great. I have gotten to know 4 of the remote people really well now. I hope to meet them in person some day and have a beer with them.

I'm doing semiconductor design, not software in case anybody is wondering.
This is a pretty moot point.

Realistically no one can develop for a console without having a significant amount of funding.

Microsoft had an indie storefront a while ago , but it's essentially gone. I wasted hours , and 25$ trying to get my Unity game to build for Xbox S. The tools Microsoft has for hobby devs are just completely broken.

Looking on the bright side with Steamdeck we might see even more great handheld PC games.

I wish Godot was anywhere near Unity, but it's not. UDK melts my computer and I've never been able to do anything with it.
This is interesting from a "look what we can do!" perspective, but practically speaking, there's not a good reason for doing it this way. It would be better all around to use one of the "native" Common Lisp libraries, such as Caveman: http://8arrow.org/caveman/

Even as a big Common Lisp fan, I would really question using it in a situation where the project has strict requirements to use a particular framework for another language.
* deleted... in hindsight my silly comment doesn't add to the discussion.
"This quotation is often cited as having come from Mein Kampf, the autobiography and political polemic written by Hitler during his stay in Landsberg prison, but no such passage appears in that work. In fact, this quotation appears to have been virtually non-existent until 2014, when it was used as the heading to Chapter 11 of Willfully Ignorant, a novel by Pat Miller set in Nazi-era Germany. (That book also mistakenly cited Mein Kampf as the source of the quotation.)"

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hitler-control-quote/
On top of this, I have inside knowledge that some extremely common libraries that implement SAML were built not by reading and understanding the spec, but simply by looking at sample XML documents in the wild and writing code that handled it.

Multiple exceedingly obvious vulnerabilities have been the result. One fun one was: looking at an XML signature in the document, verifying it, then ignoring the assertion it was claiming to sign and just trusting the assertion at the document root.

I tried to write a standards-based implementation and gave up. The standard is enormous, and consists of three parts:

1. The definitions of what each XML tag means in a vacuum
2. Patterns on how to assemble those XML tags into a document that means something useful
3. Protocols that exchange these documents back and forth to accomplish some authentication objective

Half the problem comes from the fact that it's meant to do anything and everything, and so you can theoretically just mix and match all the above parts to get what you want. But that also means that it's exceedingly simple to mix and match stuff in ways that are subtly (or not so subtly) insecure. The other half comes from the fact that the standard is so damned complicaed in order to handle everything under the sun that it's damn near impossible to wrap your head around it all. So people just glance at the spec occasionally and just write something that handles documents they see in the wild and hope for the best, with predictable outcomes.

The whole thing is a tire fire.

Note, I last worked with it about a decade ago so I may have gotten some of the characterizations wrong.
The science and tech is usually always there to tackle problems. It's the political will and policymaking ability which pulls things back.
You might be thinking of the Younger Dryas - which was a relatively short cooling in places like the UK with some re-glaciation here in Scotland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
I remember an Apple conference where Tim Cook personally assured us that Apple is fully committed to privacy, that everything is so secure because the iPhone is so powerful that all necessary calculations can happen on the device itself, and that we are "not the product". I think the Apple CEO said some of this in the specific context of speech processing, yet it seemed a specific case of a general principle upheld by Apple.

I bought an iPhone because the CEO seemed to be sincere in his commitment to privacy.

What Apple has announced here seems to be a complete reversal from what I understood the CEO saying at the conference only a few years ago.
Miner extracted value.

https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest/
Let's say something is not worth someone's time.

Dutch people: "xyz is not worth my time."

Polite Dutch people: "Unfortunately, xyz is not worth my time."

British people: "xyz is interesting indeed."

I don't really know well enough what other cultures would say.

They're all opinions, but on direct opinions you can at least trust that the person telling them believes them. It's not disrespect, direct communication yields a higher signal.
What commands, in particular?
Why? Why don’t we use TAI or GPS time for generic world wide coordinated computer time?
That is not true, they are only scanning photos uploaded to iCloud against the database. The only on-device things being done are detecting nudity in iMessage for minors and alerting the minor/parent. Also something about Siri and detecting searches for CSAM content.

Edit: Minor correction, the scanning on your photos does happen on-device but only if you are going to upload it to iCloud.
I'll just quote what I said above:

> As with any 'rule', there are exceptions, but that is the general idea yes. There is little need to worry about future variants.
Apparently the type of plastic is quite relevant; but whether straws are worse than air-bags for shipping... who knows.

But perhaps more relevantly, however unsightly this whole plastic soup is, I kind of doubt the impact is anywhere near that of climate change, and I'm concerned these kind of issues serve as a kind of feel-good distraction.

Maybe that's too pessimistic; maybe the world can deal with plastic soup and climate change and forever chemicals and animal welfare and whatever at once. I'm just not very confident of that.
Sure, science was never the problem.
> Don't citizens of (almost) every other country in the world have the ability to go live abroad and keep all their benefits, whatever they are?

aren’t those benefits just the travel-ability of their passport and the right to return?

I can only guess the US is such a great country you need to pay fir the right to return?
I’m frankly less concerned about climate change - in reality we don’t have enough data for super definitive answers. Further, we can and the world can fairly easily adapt. A few degrees over a hundred years is easily manageable.

In contrast, insect populations are dropping like a stone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_population...

We’re going to have serious problems within the next 5-10 years if that continues. We also have declining water availability and increasing water usage in the western US. And we have a potentially massive issue with solar weather (which can theoretically wipe out all electronics).
And in fairness, lot's of smart people have worked to create renewable alternatives to energy, etc.; but a subset of society has decided we don't need that. Sounds a lot like the COVID/vaccine situation.
I keep everything in my life in plaintext, so I've been looking longingly at Org for several years now. There are three things standing in my way, from least to most important:

* I sometimes view on or want to share documents over sites like Github/Gitlab. If I share Markdown or even usually AsciiDoc, then the document is formatted appropriately even for people who are used to Word and rendered HTML. EDIT: Apparently this has changed since I last looked. Good news!

* I often edit from mobile devices, which almost certainly have no support for Org features. EDIT: There are apparently good org-specific editors.

* My desktop editor of choice is not and likely never will be emacs, so even with plugins that support Org it's always a hampered experience relative to what the format claims to offer.

It looks like it does everything I want and more, with all the little helpers you need overtop a plaintext format that's decent enough to read on its own. But I'm not changing my text editor just to use a single different format.

So instead I opt for the worst of all worlds and just use Markdown for everything because it's supported everywhere. It gets me headers, lists, code blocks, and sometimes checkboxes, and the rest I can handle ad-hoc.

EDIT: 5 responses in ~10 minutes, but 0 or neutral upvotes. I knew mentioning an editor preference was a mistake. Yes I have tried emacs for an extended period, yes I respect it, no I am not likely to use it myself.
Sadly there are no free releases of these old versions available. Not even sure it's legal to install from authentic media if the hardware is not real SUN hardware...
That is so cool. I remember seeing the giraffes at the San Diego Wild Animal Park at near head level, and they really are something up close. Didn't get to feed them, though!
They are using AI techniques as part of perceptual hashing. In other words it’s trying to match files with specific images rather than abstract concepts.
It’s always a few people that save everything before resulting in a clown fiesta. I hope there will always be the few people.
I strongly disagree with your comment. Your definition of luxury is narrow and proscriptive. If you're trying to evaluate whether people would accept certain changes in their lifestyle, their definition of luxury is the one that matters.

In a tight definition, indoor plumbing is a luxury. As a person whose family vacations used to include an outhouse, I most certainly do not consider that a luxury in my life.
> their slow rate of adaptation to change

This particular failing of Neanderthals resulted more from their extremely small effective population size, i.e. spiralling inbreeding, which eventually lead to total population collapse.
So cool and useful!
I'm just about ready to pack it in and hope the next generation is smarter than this one

Sorry, the Flynn effect is dead.
When the power went out in Cambridge (MA) the computers in tech square would all crash. But when the power returned the old KA-10s would continue. The only semiconductor memory was the machine registers (in DTL, not TTL, logic). So the program running at the time would crash, but unless the machine was in the monitor (kernel in today’s parlance) everything else could continue just fine.
Mobilizing scientists is easy because you don’t need to explain to them that everyone’s survival depends on it.

It only becomes difficult when you have to mobilize politicians and regular folks.
Then again, should take about 5 minutes tops to get bitshifting enough that you know where to look if you ever need it.
New development generally does this, as far as I've seen and read. https://www.sparkenergy.com/why-dont-more-communities-bury-p...

Retrofitting is much more expensive than original construction, though, so older US cities and developments are at a big disadvantage. So somewhere in-demand but older like California coastal cities give you the delightful result of paying more for crappier buildings and infra - because you're paying for the location, not the condition of the infra.
Firefox was based on the existing Mozilla codebase maintained by dozens or hundreds of engineers. Likewise, as long as Firefox is actively maintained by Mozilla it only takes 1-2 people to maintain a small fork. But if Mozilla goes out of business and Firefox becomes completely unmaintained all of the forks will also die.
I guess I am unsurprised that this started out as an interesting read and then evolved into a full-on advertisement for Elon Musk companies.
Your Uncle needs to understand that just because North NJ isn't seeing much of a surge, doesn't mean there isn't a surge. The surge is happening on the Gulf Coast, Arkansas, and Missouri.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html