skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is exactly why I created a chat service you can host on your home pc... I believe centralization by big corporations plus laws passed with various objectives made by various governments is the end of the internet as we know it. A tool meant to connect the humans from different countries, culture and religions to exchange ideas, discuss, share knowledge and empower people against corrupted governments.

I believe peer to peer is the way to go and we tech people have a duty to inform and vulgarize technologies and outcomes to our close relatives.

This is the digital legacy we will leave to future generations.
Correct.

There's a desire to turn this into some kind of mass moral failing. We're all sinners with our cheeseburgers, or something like that.

This doesn't change the outcome. Mostly it's just an annoying distraction from the massive industrial endeavors that might actually make a dent.

Making more stuff locally would also be a fine idea.
> Categorising what can charitably be called a repackaged website as native or high performance is quite simply lying

Some hybrid apps are "repackaged website", but others are built to be high performance desktop apps. For instance, I wouldn't call vscode or slack "repackaged websites" even though they're built using Electron & web technologies.
It's a sad indictment of the times when people feel that having a million subscribers (read: being popular) is more notable than having a PhD (read: expert training) in a relevant field.

It's no wonder anti-vaccine material is so widespread. Someone famous on Youtube said it was bad, it must be true!
> the alternative is spreading a virus that can have vulnerable people end up on a ventilator or worse

We're already at a point in terms of wealth and technology that Amazon could deliver all of our durable goods and nonperishables, Instacart could deliver all of our groceries, and schooling and most jobs can be completed online.

Every family of average or greater means can already afford to buy everything from these two companies.

Every family of below-average means could be supported by a government stipend to enable them to receive goods this way.

We have the ability to build a society where most people leave their homes only a few times per year.

Surely this is just a small price to pay in the fight against a virus that could leave vulnerable people on a ventilator or worse, right?
> Don't discount the value of unmanned missions. Canned primates are easy to relate to, but there's a lot we can accomplish with sensor suites.

The main thing sensor suites can't do, though, and which manned missions are (were, would be) an ongoing proof of concept of, is colonizing space. If we don't want mankind to perish with this ball of mud in just a few billion years (at the very most), we gotta get out there. We, not just our "sensors".
Probably not, but this shouldn't deter the consternation of Apple users everywhere.
Where the power comes from is easy: the wind gets slowed down. Of course the nature of wind is such that you could never measure this, but the point is that when the propellor pushes against the air, that air's velocity relative to the ground is decreased while the vehicle's is increased. The vehicle leaves behind it an imperceptible region of less-energetic air and takes that energy with it.
Basics of Evolution
What is your point, given that many will reply "what is more important is dignity, so the choice is for privacy"?
Yes, given all the burgeoning authoritarian states where phones are sold it's clearly population control.

Regardless of country, scanning for material critical of PRC, Lukashenko or Erdoğan is the exact same tech you might want to scan for copyright violations, union organizing, political party opposition, cryptocurrency, or any other dissent your local burgeoning authoritarian wants to pay for.

Both phone OS vendors have over and over proven eager to satisfy every authoritarian, no matter the human impact. We're screwed.
So what were you originally referring to? Solar wind in space? I'm honestly confused now.
It doesn't matter if the host remains untouched, when its behaviour depends on outputs from WASM functions.

So you can get upgraded security credentials, while the host remains 100% safe, as a possible attack scenario.

Security is only effective as the weakest link.
Years ago Tomtom was bullied by microsoft on a patent regarding the use of extended file names on fat-based filesystems. Of course, a popular well-designed device running linux instead of windows CE at the time was not in ms' best interest. Tomtom stood by their position as much as they could and, as time passed, microsoft's bully behavior cooled out.

Congrats for your courage Tomtom! If I ever plan to buy a GPS or navigation device, I'll certainly consider your history.
i used window maker too. it was actually after i had a chance to work with the real NeXTstep interface, that i started to get disappointed, because as nice as window maker looks, it is not NeXTstep and the quirks and differences in behavior were just irritating.
Stop repeating this lie. iMessages photos are not part of this. This is written in the technical document. This is only photos from iCloud photos.
It's been debunked, just read this article:
https://daringfireball.net/2021/08/apple_child_safety_initia...

And of course the scope could change tomorrow. Just like the scope of Android could change tomorrow. They could even have changed the scope without doing an announcement!
It is extremely limiting and makes programming very difficult.
> If people were grounded in any type of reality, they'd realize that a chemical warzone requires, at minimum, a full face respirator and chemical cartridges.

This gave me a chuckle. I don't think that is common knowledge in this day and age. Does make me wonder if covid can infect through the eyes. Ill make sure to engage my safety squints.
As a lip reader the mask mandate has made me feel incredibly isolated, but I know it's for safety.
Totally agree, and I notice a lot of people just blindly go down the hosting Vaultwarden route. There's a trade-off that everyone needs to consider, and much of it depends entirely on their skill level.

Having said, I'm all for self-hosting and I hope it continues to become prevalent.
they included India in there. Which has 4 times the population.
Angry Conti ransomware affiliate leaks gang's attack playbook
Minecarts really are useful only to transport creatures around, and to distribute stuff from and to furnaces.
The issue reported by mrmattyboy was resolved. You can now coy-n-paste from generated PDF and HTML files without annoying line numbers.
I only need to make calls on it and send SMS. I never assume those are private.
Many of the red areas I see on the map, particularly in France, are fairly obviously where someone's been running a TomTom while on a train or a boat. Of course that's not going match OSM roads. I'm a little surprised this is not mentioned in the blog post - it seems a bit obvious.
There are two factors preventing this.

1. Some people aren't vaccinated because they're too young, they have some medical condition, or they had the misfortune to be born to anti-vaxxer parents.

There are also other downsides, like people in need of non-urgent treatment getting turned away from packed hospitals, and medical staff who are pushed to the point of exhaustion.

2. This stance isn't compatible with the current position/branding of either the Democrats or the Republicans.

A lot of Democrats are squeamish about people's deaths, even when it's a result of the person's own informed choices.

If I killed myself juggling chainsaws, many people would say "ha, what a dumbass" - but if somehow Biden came to comment on it, he wouldn't say that - he'd say every death is tragic and his thoughts are with my family.

That, alongside the fact they've spent a lot of time telling their supporters how very important it is to wear masks, means it's unlikely you'll find any Democrats politicians agreeing with you publicly.

And as for Republicans politicians? Well first of all it's their supporters who are dying, they're not going to come out in support of that; and second of all, by maintaining the stance that these deaths are avoidable and a result of the crisis being mishandled, they can use that against Biden at the midterms.
> I preferred the old version. But my wife, who had never used it until last year, got on fine with the new one.

This could be one of those things where you don't know it can be better until you see it.

Things like - faster computer, more comfortable car, better mattress (for you). Sometimes you live fine until the glass shatters and the old one will never be the same.

Edit: this sounds very consumer-y, it's just the examples that pop in to my head. It can be better bosses, more competent plumber, whatever.
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You ask how they can know that their false positive rate is 1 in a trillion, without testing trillions of images. Simple, they require more than on hit. If each hit has a false positive rate of 1 in 100, which is very testable, you can simply require six hits.
In principle, these models can be run a la 'ab initio' (from first principles) so no fitting is required. Of course, there are subtleties and unknowns, so some fitting is needed, but overfitting can be checked in the usual ways.
I don't know where you're getting those numbers but nominal .45ACP muzzle velocity is more like 800fps.
> The surveillance powers of the Patriot Act needed renewal by March 15, 2020, and after it expired, the U.S. Senate approved an amended version of the bill. After President Donald Trump threatened to veto the bill, the House of Representatives issued an indefinite postponement of the vote to pass the Senate version of the bill; as of December 2020, the Patriot Act remains expired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#Section_expiration...
Remember here the discussion is about mcdonalds. They absolutely do not need legal protection from a supplier and are freely able to dictate terms. If their ice cream machines don’t work reliably enough it is entirely on them for not making it a priority.

What seems like is going on is that unskilled employees are interacting with a machine which isn’t particularly robust which fails on the side of food safety and management/corporate who do not see the situation as particularly important.
The choice and position of Average Joe and Median Jack should not impact (compromise) the rest.
I’m not sure what this has to do with the parent comment, who’s saying you can just automatically move money to an investment account now.
> You'd have to be extremely anti-crypto to think it justifies the creation of a Chinese-style great firewall and the associated surveillance state.

Even then, I see plenty of chinese users (talking in mandarin) on various forums/servers using decentralized protocols, hardly that effective.

Pipe dream laws for pipe dream deficit spending to continue to prop up zombie companies and industries.
Copying dang's comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23749722 here:

[similar discussions] In order of most comments to least:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874320

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16995389

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17260911

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8561080

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6236478

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17816185

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13955261

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18800421

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15880092

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095884

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17433908

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9204922

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17162935

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17074058

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12607328

Don't miss the lively contributions of https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=davidgraeber. Hopefully we'll get him again!
Yes, keeping the peace sometimes requires minor conflicts to prevent larger ones, and some regions are unstable at best. Meanwhile China has a population of 1.5B+ on its own and atrocities "inside" are still atrocities large enough to dwarf prior world wars. Same with the existence and suffering of nations like North Korea under their protection.

Your selective dismissal of conflict is telling. If you're afraid of, and dislike, the USA then that's unfortunate, but it doesn't leave much more to discuss.
> I get this, but when the alternative is spreading a virus that can have vulnerable people end up on a ventilator or worse... is it not a small price to pay?

It was a small price to pay in 2020 before there was a vaccine, and I paid it. Now that the vaccine is available I wonder why said vulnerable people are choosing to not get the vaccine and putting undue burden on me and my family and so I tend to think it is is not worth paying that price anymore. If said vulnerable person is unable to get the vaccine for medical reasons... those types of people are exceedingly rare and have always had to be super careful. For them I recommend just sheltering in place indefinitely or something like https://microclimate.com/ in public.
I have ... feelings ... about psionics, both as not quite fitting the setting (let's face it, late seventies was a lot of Zener cards mixed in with the occult business) and the mechanics.

To be fair, I have never looked at Dark Sun.

I think psionics could be workable, in a certain light, but that's the subject of a rather half-baked and long essay series I have been kicking about for a decade as to how to "fix" many of the issues in D&D in a way that does not result in the Endless Next Edition problem.
Some years ago you had to pay for updates and they were very slow to add new streets. Has this changed with OSM?
That's correct. McD approves vendors to supply equipment to the franchisees. But they always approve at least two vendors per device for supply chain reliability and price competition.

Financial agreements sometimes come into play when McD needs a new system developed (say, a new type of smoothie maker or a new kind of grill) and the vendors need R&D funding to get a machine going.
Writing Live Music with Haskell
Osmmaps + leaflet.js = luv
This blew my damn mind 10 years ago when it was first written up in Wired - the way the article was written, the build up to the actual run... all of it was so inspirational and today I still refer to it in my mind whenever I think: "People do the impossible all the time and the guidance they get from everyone around them is that they are INSANE"

I think these are the closest we get to moments of 'magic' in real life.
>After all, if some countries benefited a lot from polluting in the past, it would be fair to expect them to pay up too.

Largely the entire globe has benefited from the industrial revolution. If the west is obligated to pay a retrospective sin tax, does the west also then jack up the prices on every technology that comes from that development when exporting to developing countries? For example, should students from developing countries get to come to the US and learn the latest knowledge and take that home and then jumping their country forward through decades of technology research? Should every immigrant into western countries pay huge fees to buy into the modern world, since they are not descended from those who are paying the sin taxes?

Also, do these sin taxes require that developing countries that receive these fund then guarantee not to emit CO2?
Regarding "It was also the first true industrial war", you may like this quote by Scott Westerfeld on the Wikipedia page for Dieselpunk [1]

"But to me, World War I is the dividing point where modernity goes from
being optimistic to being pessimistic. Because when you put the words
"machine" and "gun" together, they both change. At that point, war is no
longer about a sense of adventure and chivalry and a way of testing your
nation's level of manhood; it's become industrial, and horrible."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieselpunk
The 2 youngest would probably fit in these seats, but not for long. I'm not buying a car that won't fit my family in 2-3 years.
Thanks. I was trying to go as native as possible. I did get it to completion by using other tools for everything but web interface. The reason I was so disappointed was because my prior Lisp experience was with Emacs Lisp, which has probably the best documentation and iterative and interactive development experience of all the programming languages out there. I was spoiled and had probably unreasonable expectations. NixOS doesn't make things easier either. I'm looking to make another attempt at this, hopefully I'll do better then.
I'm aware of this. I'm living in a place where power is over 99% renewable and makes use of no gas for utilities, work from home and drive fewer than 5,000km/y as a household, and eat a low-meat diet.

The biggest gains to be had are obviously systemic, and what I do as a consumer is far more limited in its scope and impact. I still limit my flights, no longer attend in-person conferences, try to travel more local, because what else am I going to do? I'm aware this is like putting out a cigarette when the whole town's already on fire, but I can't deal with the dissonance otherwise. It's still an individual luxury that can have an oversized impact compared to everything else I do.

Advocating for it is not going to be sufficient at all, but it's still the most impact I can have when all the big stakeholders who have to fix their powergrid are not even in countries I live in.
If it doesn't mention testing[1] then that figure is misleading by lack of context. That's only where I'd begin. To really show any impact it would need comparison with a similar population, e.g. one part of Japan with another, not a country the size of a continent with an island whose populace doesn't have an obesity problem.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Using docker images is the preferable way to set up TeXLive and related packages. Please check the GitHub repository for details.
Interactive demo doesn't appear to work on Firefox?
Key takeaways from the UN report on the climate crisis
> FAQ 2.1: The Earth’s temperature has varied before. How is the current warming any different?

> Earth’s climate has always changed naturally, but both the global extent and rate of recent warming are unusual. The recent warming has reversed a slow, long-term cooling trend, and research indicates that global surface temperature is higher now than it has been for millennia.

> It’s warming rapidly ...during the shift from the last glacial period to the current interglacial, the total temperature increase was about 5°C. That change took about 5000 years, with a maximum warming rate of about 1.5°C per thousand years, although the transition was not smooth. In contrast, Earth’s surface has warmed approximately 1.1°C since 1850–1900 ...for the past 2000 years, we have higher-resolution records that show that the rate of global warming during the last 50 years has exceeded the rate of any other 50-year period.
There's a bit of dissonance here, since Americans frequently complain that medical care is so expensive it can bankrupt a family, yet most of those who oppose hygiene measures against COVID don't seem to be wealthy enough to take the risk. It's more like they don't even believe the virus is dangerous.
Right, that's what the article says, but what specific data would they be required to report and in what context?
After Snowden blew the lid off the NSA's mass surveillance program, why are we here asking questions about whether some particular type of surveillance has or hasn't happened in the USA?

The USA is absolutely capable of expanding this far beyond what it should be.
I respect Quartz watches. In fact, I've thought about getting a Citizen eco-drive. I've had a timex for years.

But I got into mechanical watches earlier this year - a Hamilton Pilot and a Field. There is a beauty in the combination of accuracy, complexity and the lack of reliance on electricity that I find fascinating, just as someone can appreciate a sailboat or a record player for their amazing engineering.

I haven't figured out how to express it clearly, but things like mechanical watches, pour-over/press coffee, record players, coal grills. They all involve a lack of electricity and lack of network connectivity. The heat is right there from the coal. The coffee was ground and made by /me/. The power comes from the sails. The watch moves from my winding it - it depends on me. The sound is imprinted on the record - The source of the sound, right there on a platter, vibrating a needle, not from a coded bitstream I can only access with an internet subscription, a computer and a music subscription.

Anyway. There is a better essay somewhere in here. My point is, I get the superiority of Quartz over mechanical re: accuracy and maybe even ruggedness, but there is a lost romance.
Since you've got a pretty new account, here's a tip: Hacker News is not Reddit. This community takes a very dim view of sarcastic dismissiveness.

You're welcome to dislike anything you want, but generally speaking, let those of us that are more playful enjoy our whimsy.

Or, to borrow a phrase that's long out of favor - don't harsh the mellow, man.
> I never understood about the game was how TNT and minecarts are supposed to work

I haven't played for a long time but yeah it doesn't really make sense given that you have such a large inventory. If they added some extra difficulty level where the inventory is miniscule it might make more sense. Maybe they need to make mining slower and more rewarding per ore block as well.

Has to be a mod for this?
The level of competition does not change the definition of the phrase. If you think it does, you have never used a dictionary before, let alone understood my comments.
Thank you!

1. It's a good question, I don't think we have really looked into this, so honestly I can say much. But worth of further investigation on our side!

2. It turns out that we need a number of features (investment account, checking account with debit card, etc, ability to spend money against your investments, and a few more), and there are not too many players left that we could build on top of. So it was process of elimination mostly.

3. We haven't, this is our first big public launch.

4. We are built on AWS using lambdas and DynamoDB. We are using Typescript as our main programming language, both in the front-end and backend, which is very convenient, especially since we are using a monorepo. Makes code-sharing very easy. Our frontend is built using React.
Right but you can find these abandoned mines with nicely laid out track along the whole length. The game sort of suggests that you should do that too?

But basically if you don't find enough iron in a given length of cave, you can't have tracks all the way.
I found Boston much more walkable than SF having lived in both. Due to smaller size, higher density, better transit, flatter, safer. I also find Boston seemed to be prioritizing it more, whereas sf govt really struggles to prioritize peds, muni, bikes.
How many people need more security coming from the state in EU? /rhetorical question
Have carbon emissions decreased enough to actually matter in this time?
Climate science has advanced quite a bit since the last IPCC assessment in 2014. We're also seeing far more impact in the real world in terms of more frequent storms, floods, droughts and wildfires. Previously it was more difficult to prove these were related to climate change as there are natural variations.
But where did the idea for the movie come from -- and the belief that it would sell? Seems at least the movie-makers thought there was enough of a receptive audience for a slick packaging of the trope, so it seems to me they reckoned that a sufficient portion of movie-goers wouldn't find it too outlandish...

(Personally, I mostly remember it for OJ chomping down on that rattlesnake.)