skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turning wind, sun, or water into a good source of electricity is fairly low-tech.

There's also still a ton of easily accessible lignite everywhere, which our present civilization doesn't really care about for its inefficiency and ecological concerns.
ah yes, from the same company that shipped this: https://medium.com/hackernoon/new-macos-high-sierra-vulnerab...

and this: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/6/16611756/ios-11-bug-lette...
Here's a silly idea... could APL be to [programming language] what emmet.io is to HTML and CSS? :-)

I imagine writing an APL expression that expands to, say, 100 lines of C++ :-p
I agree with the article in general except part of the final conclusion

> The simple fact that image data is reduced to a small number of bits leads to collisions and therefore false positives

Our experience with regular hashes suggests this is not the underlying problem. SHA256 hashes have 256 bits and still there are no known collisions, even with people deliberately trying to find them. SHA-1 only has only 160 bits to play with and it's still hard enough to find collisions. MD5 is easier to find collisions but at 128 bits, still people don't come across them by chance.

I think the actual issue is that perceptual hashes tend to be used with this "nearest neighbour" comparison scheme which is clearly needed to compensate for the inexactness of the whole problem.
What? No...

Or, more accurately: if you need "dozens of trillions" that implies a false positive rate so low, it's practically of no concern.

You'd want to look up the poisson distribution for this. But, to get at this intuitively: say you have a bunch of eggs, some of which may be spoiled. How many would you have to crack open, to get a meaningful idea of how many are still fine, and how many are not?

The absolute number depends on the fraction that are off. But independent of that, you'd usually start trusting your sample when you've seen 5 to 10 spoiled ones.

So Apple runs the hash algorithm on random photos. They find 20 false positives in the first ten million. Given that error rate, how many positives would it require for the average photo collection of 10,000 to be certain at at 1:a trillion level that it's not just coincidence?

Throw it into, for example, https://keisan.casio.com/exec/system/1180573179 with lambda = 0.2 (you're expecting one false positive for every 50,000 at the error rate we assumed, or 0.2 for 10,000), and n = 10 (we've found 10 positives in this photo library) to see the chances of that, 2.35x10^-14, or 2.35 / 100 trillion.
Landlords hoard housing and sell it back to people for a profit. It's arguable that most people would be better off buying their housing directly, but like you say the options are extremely limited.
Everyone is subsidizing your housing appreciation when you don’t allow more housing to be built. The activists who are driving up the price of your property are the activists trying to stop upward growth. It’s pure supply and demand.
> It takes a lot of tech to turn a River into a source of heat.

No it doesn't. Turning motion into electricity is fairly easy, and turning electricity into heat is even more so.

The biggest hurdle will be manufacturing quality mechanical parts, but you can do without quality in a pinch.

Also producing heat is a matter of survival, not civilization. We can safely assume people will at least be able to make a fire.
SpaceX Starship Stacking Produces the Tallest Rocket Ever Built
You can do 1+ million lightning network transactions that will settle as 1 transaction on the BTC blockchain, so ~$93/1,000,000? Sounds amazingly cheap for uncensorable transactions.

ESG people are trying to solve something that is already solved. POW is here to stay and will scale tremendously well as we all move to layer 2.
Why not use unvaccinated people from the general population?

There would be some selection bias, but it's going to be irrelevant for most things.
This is the difference between climate and weather. You can very easily predict that there will be on average x amount of days over, say, 100 deg. Predicting which days, however, is not really possible.
Yeah, but what Chrome/Firefox version are you using?
There was a comment here that got deleted. It had something cool I haven't seen before: a risk calculator/estimator for Covid (both death and hospital admission), for the UK:

https://qcovid.org/Calculation
Real world UX
Not sure anyone will shed a tear for the loss of this civilization after the mass extinction event was caused by them (us).
If you have a mass extinction event and go more than a generation or two without restarting, all the skills and education will be gone which means you're restarting from zero. We needed readily available high grade energy sources to get to high grade renewables, and those trying to restart civilization will as well, but by the time the get there their forest will be consumed just as ours are, and they won't have oil and coal to discover to get them the bridge to solar or nuclear or high tech wind and tidal power.
One could even eliminate the heavy and potential dangerous battery with some sort of overhead wire or rail contact.
And since the cars can only move in one direction within a tunnel, one could eliminate the need for steering by placing them on a set of rails. And maybe use some sort of automatic control system to make sure the train stops when needed. Wait..
Survivorship bias. Look it up. Congrats. You didn't die or kill any one drinking and driving or not wearing any seatbelts. Lucky you.

But guess what? They do save lives. That's why it's against the law to not wear a seat belt or bike helmet in most places or to not drink and drive. The vaccine can save lives too but it works best if as many people as possible to protect those who can't, to prevent breakthrough infections etc.

I'm not "obsessed" with death avoidance. I'm just not such a selfish asshat that I can give an hour of my time to go get vaccinated, reduce spread and maybe save some lives.

It's not like those people with comorbidities were going to die tomorrow without COVID anyways, they were going to live 5, 10, 20 extra years. Time to see children and grandchildren grow up, spend with friends etc.
I guess... But it's sort of like saying "digital cameras[1] don't record in color, they record in greyscale," which is technically true, but also misses the point. By the definition they are using, even color film doesn't really record in color.

[1] Other than the minuscule # of Foveon sensor cameras.
I apologize for calling your comment out, it was not exactly the kind of comment I wanted to address. I should've provided a better example.

My comment was actually not about your comment specifically, but about making these comparisons without the appropriate cultural context taken into account. I'm not passing a moral judgement or saying it's inappropriate, I'm just expressing a desire to have these comparisons be more meaningful by explicitly acknowledging the context.

I have an issue with making a direct comparison as in "X phenomena is the same as Y phenomena", because it glosses over a LOT when you compare countries like India and America.
Where have you been that has both? From my reading, it seems like cities need to prioritize walkable / bikable OR cars, but I've never seen example of a city doing both well.
> No standing water means no ideal spots to lay their eggs. In the ’60s, Potter accomplished this by digging drainage ditches built into the park’s base layers, effectively draining the swamp in its entirety.

Seems like this is the real meat, I wish the article had gone into more detail here.
Apple and Google need to be under a serious investigation and broken up. Their hardware needs to be accessible to install an OS of your choice. This isn't possible on iPhones. It may take decades for this to happen given the lobbying dollars both spend but by then it will be too late.

We are headed for a China style surveillance state and there is no stopping this train.
Truth or (as you point out) ignorance. Which is different from the UK and a lot of other countries.

But the practical question is: can The Intercept afford a legal fight against Dow?
Do you mind explaining that a little more? As it's currently designed, a company could use DBT to model their raw data into dedicated metric tables and then Growth Book sits on top of those with a really simple SQL query and some settings (e.g. is the goal to increase or decrease the metric)

I'd love to see an open source standard way to define metrics, but haven't found anything yet.
> But when a backdoor is installed, the backdoor exists and history teaches that it’s only a matter of time before it’s also used by the bad guys and authoritarian regimes.

Problem is that this scanning is necessarily fuzzy and there is going to be a false positive rate to it. And the way that you'll find out that you've tripped a false positive is that the SWAT team will knock your door down and kill your dog (at a minimum). Then you'll be stuck in a Kafkaesque nightmare trying to prove your innocence where you've been accused by a quasi Governmental agency that hides its methods so the "bad guys" can't work around them.

It isn't just "authoritarian regimes" abusing it, it is the stochastic domestic terrorism that our own government currently carries out against its own citizens every time there's a beaurocratic fuckup in how it manages its monopoly on violence.

This is the "Apple/Google cancelled my account and I don't know why" problem combined with SWATing.
I'm not aware of any examples where car software 'crashed', in any vehicle, causing the vehicle itself to physically crash.

And if you're talking about FSD, most of those instances are from exceptions eg. unexpected pedestrian, parked truck, construction works.

Its fair to imagine that these tunnels will be custom-built for self-driving cars and will be totally controlled environments.
I might amend #2 a bit to read "Be friends with the police" as that has historically been more beneficial to those who are.
Of course it is not OK. Does making it illegal and violating everyone's privacy rights reduce child abuse? I'd like to see the evidence. Another example is virtual child pornography which , evil as it is, does not harm anyone during its production, yet that is also illegal (in the US). The question is how far will governments go with the instrumentalization of child abuse prevention in order to spy on their own citizens
That's an old school Laptop, windows XP and everything!
Just for clarity, I don't think the commenter you were replying to there is affiliated with this startup. I was confused at first by what you meant by "your link".
> Edit: Want to also point out that in practice we don't seem to attenuate messaging in black pop culture. It's some of the most explicit sexual and sometimes violent content in existence and it appears all over radio, TV, and the internet. I'm not saying it's exclusively that, but it doesn't seem to suffer from expectation that it be attenuated "for white people".

Why do you think that this messaging is what you associate most with black pop culture? Attenuated messaging does not have to be universal. Imagine if white pop culture was almost exclusively promoted as Britney Spears et al., Dumb and Dumber, and slasher flicks. Is that an accurate portrayal, or a curated subset that projects a certain image?
The APL Orchard and The K Tree.

https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/52405/the-apl-orchard

https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/90748/the-k-tree
No, they don’t.

This is a classic example of listening to what people say vs observing what they do. And it’s a good lesson in product development. Ask your users “do you want X?” And the answer is inevitably “yes”. Ask them “do you want A or B?” And you’ll start to get a better approximation of user behavior. Better yet is observing actual behavior.

In this case Americans have chosen the suburbs in droves.

Americans want walkable areas in close proximity to the exact kind of house they live in now with all that entails: large single family house on a large lot with their 2+ cars.

People would don’t love in the US may not realize just how large the lots are most Americans live on. In Australian cities a quarter acre block was once the dream. More typical now is half that.

You will find areas in Atlanta where the lot size is one or even two acres.

It’s only the older typically East Coast cities that have anything remotely approaching the density you might see in Europe.
I'm hesitant to call the slum population "homeless". We have people in the parks, footpaths too, and that's very different from people living in many of these slums.

Here are a few facts: some of these slums are 100+ yrs old. A lot of them have "permanent" homes, something lot harder to uproot than tents. And lastly, if the government attempted to destroy them, it won't be just poor people, almost entire society will be outraged. Something similar happened here in Dhaka.
Lack of standing water, if anyone was wondering.
So what are we going to do about it?

I have a large user base on iOS. Considering a blackout protest.
> California is a NIMBY paradise, legally speaking.

100%

However the state has and can overrule cities. First ADUs were legalized and next, if SB9 passes, duplexes. It's baby steps, but it's possible and probably the only way forward.
> Are you saying the data is simply wrong?

The data only measures cement production and fossil fuel burning, as the caption says. It says nothing about total emissions per capita. Hence the title is wrong, yes.

> The article is about per capita emissions, not household emissions.

Household emissions contribute the largest share of per capita emissions. But hardly any household emissions are measured by "cement production and fossil fuel burning".

> Nobody said it was. What's this got to do with anything?

Burning wood is carbon neutral.
In this case, there is a suspected autoimmune link between the similarity of the inactivated viral protein and a brain protein that is associated with sleep regulation. The real question to ask isn’t whether the placebo group was better off, but whether people infected with Swine Flu had a lower risk of narcolepsy than vaccine recipients.
I guess it depends. Personally I don't like having rebuilds longer than a day.
It's just a matter of time as systems become more dependent on it.
Thank you! Lots for me to think about re: planned cities in the middle east, net cost of living, and arco agritecture.
For this reason I just ended buying an HP, the display is exactly what the description said it would be. 300 nits, brigthview.

No surprises, no a thousand bucks lottery ticket sold with "but it has a good keyboard".
About the 4G VoLTE feature phones
Just make sure to update your rail cars once in a while so you don't end up with old pieces of shit that lose power every few km and give you tinnitus when traveling underground. Like some German cities.
That's great and all but are you telling me you consider the programming on this website to be on par with the best sitcoms of the 80s and 90s?

If you read the OP, it's a blatant bait and switch.
I often joke that aliens would mistake the cars, not people, to be the dominant intelligent species of this planet.
Seriously. Everyone probably knows the famous use of forced perspective at Disney. [0]

Or the famous story how on the soft-launch days, Walt would hand children candy at the entrance, then watch how far they walked before they threw the wrapper on the ground. That's where they would place the garbage cans. (Yeah, sounds fanciful enough to be a fable, and perhaps it is. Even if the story is embellished, it definitely reflects the truth of the attention to detail at the Disney parks)

But did you know they do similar "real world UX" magic with music as well?

The different "themed" areas of the parks play different music to match the theme.

As you walk from one themed area to another, the "transition areas" play the treble from the area you are leaving, and the bass for the area you are entering.

Since all the music is in the same key and tempo, it produces a "fading in/out" effect as you travel, and never sounds dissonant or clashes, even though the themes in the different areas are totally different otherwise.

They also do crazy things with smell. In certain areas they emit (very subtle) scents to evoke certain sensations. This is something you may never notice, but once it's mentioned, you'll definitely notice it.

Here's an interesting article that describes some of this:
https://factsandfigment.com/2020/05/01/the-illusion-of-fanta...

(that article describes the use of projected/highly directional sound, but not the "fade in/out" technique... I'm trying to find a source for it, maybe someone else can confirm)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_perspective
An artificial womb that not only somehow grows a human for 9 months, but then exposes this infant to an environment with no caretakers, and somehow protects and trains them to survive to reproduce? And you're going to make enough of them to create a sustainable population? Seems pretty unlikely to me.
I have to imagine that most prefer organelle cooperation to, say, spontaneously bursting into flames while on a trip to the opera.
The best way to think about this is that all of these variants exist:

APL uses custom glyphs

J uses symbols from an ASCII keyboard - its a big set of primitives

Q from Kx systems uses words.

The conceptual basis for the languages is very simple. As others have said - your experiences will guide where you feel most comfortable.
Just for whatever this is worth to you, and I know you probably already know this, but networks rejected Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, South Park, Mad Men, and, I think most infamously, Stranger Things.

There's nothing wrong with that --- perhaps the networks involved should have rejected those shows! You pick one, you gotta turn down another one. But having more venues specialized in a specific type of show means that, for instance, when BET passes on your thing, it can still find a home somewhere else.

I don't know anything about these particular shows. But look at the first couple episodes of Broad City --- not the extremely successful TV show, but the low budget web series that started it all. I'm inclined not to dismiss things based solely on production quality relative to what's on FX.

The rest of these points are probably well taken!
Minsk does both well
You're still speaking with too many negatives. Try phrasing with positive words in place of "without", "impossible", or "illegal", and especially avoid "not illegal".
At the highest level, the revolving door and cushy "retirement jobs" in industry.

And once you have the bosses in your pocket, they exert pressure down the chain.

Middle management isn't getting the real pressure, but their bosses are breathing fire down their necks, telling them expectations.
"226 Alligators removed from Disney World since toddler’s death 5 years ago"
You're thinking like a modern resident, not like someone living a decade after a global extinction event. Turning water into electricity requires significant infrastructure for making motors and generators and bearings and permanent magnets and transmission lines and the like (even if in principle the math/physics is easy)
Sorry to be a pedantic but: Two People created CopperheadOS, one of them now works on GrapheneOS. The security mitigations developed for those were incorporated upstream into Android, decreasing the attack surface.
The staircase in particular looks amazing. I think in your description you should expand/ link some of the jargon, e.g. BVH is Bounding Volume Hierarchy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounding_volume_hierarchy), and SAH is Surface Area Hierarchy (https://medium.com/@bromanz/how-to-create-awesome-accelerato...).
The original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVmejDsMrM
Hmm, interesting comment: it could mean either of two opposite things, but that makes it self-contradictory!

Just for clarity, when YC funds a company, the goal is not to have it get acquired. It's to have it go public. Acquisition interrupts that, so it's a suboptimal outcome. That said, YC supports what founders want to do.
They are scanning phones for porn material they can use for profit, blackmail, and their own perverted entertainment.
Even with single-family housing, the density is high enough to support a supermarket and other stores that are visited at a rate of once per month within walking distance, easily.

Source: the town I grew up in: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/51.2413047,6.9602975/51.2481...

Population is 36,000 or so. I've added the walking distance from the outskirts to the very center, which is 2.3km. You'll note that there are supermarkets distributed throughout, usually within a few hundred meters.

If you need anything special, it takes 30 minutes by public transport (https://www.google.com/maps/dir/51.2413047,6.9602975/K%C3%B6... ) to a shopping district in the next larger town, which has any type or brand of retail that exists in this country (Streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.2254878,6.7800095,3a,75y,64....)
Either way, the higher-order effects will continue and cascade in perpetuity. The world is not a well-controlled experiment, and if you think there is an obvious “better” choice here which can be separated from all the context, then you have no idea how the world works.
IMO Portland is actually kind of like this (for now). I've heard Berkeley, CA sort of, too.

In Portland (where I live), I have a driveway and convenient street parking right outside my house, but I can also walk to many shops and restaurants, and have a pretty good busline nearby. I usually take the bus if I'm going downtown, so I don't have to worry about parking. But in my part of town, which is less dense, I can conveniently drive or bike. Parking can be a little annoying on this side of town, but it's usually okay.

That being said, Portland is clearly moving in a denser direction. Housing has gotten too expensive here, and the only way out of that is density. Our cycling infrastructure and public transit are decent, but need to get better IMO. All of this will probably negatively impact the car-friendliness, but I think that's the right move for Portland right now.
This is already possible today with things like iCloud Photos, Google Photos, OneDrive etc.
Once kids are in the picture, school districts with greater proportions of wealthier families is the priority.

Plus, the easiest way to avoid dealing with homeless people and/or gangs is to live in far flung suburbs where everything is so far that cars are a necessity.
Also wood gasification can trivially take wood inputs and run internal combustion engines.
Not necessarily true. The incidence rates of those are well-known. Rarer side effects are impossible to find by comparing vaccinated/unvaccinated in a phase 3 and need larger groups to be found. That’s routine, though. Look at the VITT for the Adenoviral vector vaccines, no strict control group was necessary to identify that.
The reason for that is that you still want to be able have an XSD to validate.

In the context of SAML, these values are completely arbitrary metadata without fixed meaning in the protocol itslef.

You could even use attribute names that aren't valid for XML tag names.

It's the same reason why -- for example -- AWS APIs return tags as a similar entity list. You don't see

<Name>Example</Name>
<BillingGroup>prod</BillingGroup>

but rather

<tagSet>
<item>
<key>Name</key>
<value>Example</value>
</item>
<item>
<key>BillingGroup</key>
<value>prod</value>
</item>
</tagSet>

---

Database EAV would likewise be 100% appropriate if users could use the database to store arbitrary attributes. (Think JIRA custom fields.)

But if users are limited to certain attributes, then encode that in the schema.