skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I don’t remember the exact cycle but basically you first get grass type colonisers, then you might get shrubs, then possibly trees densifying to a forest. Even the tree presence would change as the forest builds up as some essences don’t like being crowded (so won’t replace themselves once the forest densifies) while others prefer shade (so won’t appear until there’s a canopy proper).
The rate of change.

There's a climate science "gotcha" which is that the Earth's average temperature has been much higher in the past than it is now. No one disputes this. The problem is not so much the absolute level as the rate of change, which gives less time for everything to adapt.
I like the teaching idea, but I feel like there is a step missing in here:

> When my students encounter a math problem they can’t answer, I have them put it in the error log with an explanation of how they did and how they knew how to do it.

If they can't answer it, where does the "how they knew how to do it" come from? Their teacher/tutor?
I can see a use-case for scaring off predators, but the time tested 'bell on a walking stick' sure is more polite to other hikers.
The IPCC delivers its starkest warning about the world’s climate
I'm not well versed in reading studies like this. Could someone who is tell if there is any mention of a correlation to a reduction in inflammation caused by CBD?
If you want to play creative - sure. About survival - I mean, would you think using Google Maps for driving instructions is cheating? What about those cheater self-driving cars, damn them! Back in my day we used to walk uphill both ways, etc.

Besides, it's mostly for multi-player. Playing this game single-player is only the beginning.
I don't claim to have an ideal solution here, but to your point: There weren't highly-effective global distribution networks for CSAM "before the advent of the internet" either. This capability has created a market for these people to produce/obtain this material, and thus creates financial incentives for people to abuse children in this way more than in pre-internet times. There needs to be some way of combating this that can keep up with this growth curve, and that answer can't simply be to throw up our hands and say "the criminals will always win, so there's no solution worth doing".
I just did.

I will only reply to messages if it seems a conversation is warranted. I've had the experience on HN and other groups of someone contacting you with something that looks interesting only to identify you and then go away. Not interested in that at all. I hope you understand.
Not sure.

Let's say we have fortifications. People are needed to man them. This is understood by everyone. Entry points are checked, etc.

Compare with 'cyber' systems. How many people are adding features, working on bugs and the like, versus how many are even looking into security vulnerabilities?

Translating to the physical domain, it would be as if we were building a fort, then moving almost everyone to build extensions or new forts, with a handful responsible for the security of all fortresses - and the paths in between them! In the dark.

The fact that most systems are not immediately "owned" speaks volumes on how difficult this is to accomplish. Barring zero days, the main way one gets compromised is by making mistakes (not patching, leaving systems unsecured, etc). That is, there's a door that's open and unguarded...
AMA with Adam and Eric from Nvidia
Via https://twitter.com/tadeuszgiczan/status/1424734523519025152
"New PM at the nuclear command centre":
https://youtu.be/1OitCT1KT4k
Looks like a neat NFT generator.
> No. I refuse.

...

> I'm open to data. I'm open to discussion.

These statements sure seem to be in conflict, so I'm genuinely curious: Are you, though? Open to discussion?

You seem to have made up your mind. You've decided you won't believe "government leaders". You won't believe "policy makers".

I'm going go ahead and guess, based on the tone of your comment, that you are similarly distrusting of information from the medical community.

That would seem to rule out any and all potential sources of data that might demonstrate "the efficacy of the masks that are widely sold, used, and accepted" (e.g. https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118 - "The available evidence suggests that near-universal adoption of nonmedical masks when out in public, in combination with complementary public health measures, could successfully reduce Re to below 1, thereby reducing community spread if such measures are sustained.").

So... are you really open to data and discussion? Or are you just saying that because it seems like the right thing to say?

And no, I'm not trying to be a snide smart-ass. I'm trying to reveal what you're actually thinking and feeling. Because I'll be honest, I don't think what you've written here reflects your actual, deep-down feelings on the topic.
Ask HN: How to Overcome Status Addiction
How do your deal with the never ending ambition that gnaws at you day and night unless you somehow advance your status position?
I think the answer is we _want_ to solve it.

Now the important question is why human beings want to solve this, and what exactly do human beings want.
> Why does this need to be solved?

Obviously it "doesn't". Equally obviously this is mathematics, and it's worth doing if it's interesting.

But a somewhat more serious answer is this: the fact that we don't know the answer to this relatively simple question implies strongly that we don't know how numbers work. And if there are obvious gaps in our understanding of number theory that show themselves in trivial ways like this, there are probably more serious questions that we could answer if we had a better framework.

And that's sort of how hard problems in mathematics work. They aren't solved by amazing insight within their own realm, they turn out to be evidence that a new branch of theory needs to be developed first.
Good points.

I suspect for a lot of projects reproducible builds are themselves a bit of a hurdle and not being verified in the rarer case that they already exist, but the point of reproducible + signed builds as indirect source-signing stands.
I wonder if a V2 of the vaccine with multiple independent targets is where we'll end up? Right now, covid is winning the math-war, with more mutation at-bats on average than it needs to hit a home run with its batting average.

Say the chance of any one area of attack being evaded is 1%. If successful variant candidates must hit two simultaneous mutations, now it is 0.01%. Throw in a third at 0.0001%. At a certain point, it would seem like you can make the math unfavorable to the virus, especially if your targets are against these more optimized strains--in order to mutate, it might be stuck with less-optimized mutations to get off the local maxima.

Anyone know the status of any multi-valent vaccines?
Ear-plugs for when I sleep. I used to wake up at the slightest noise, which made me extra groggy the next day. Now I can sleep soundly.
I’m confused, but think I concur with you.

The two phrasings read as identical to me:

- do we have a reporter who worked in some East European country?

- is there any reporter (among ours) who worked in any East European country?

- exists? (reporter in our-reporters) where (reporter.base in east-european-countries)

I’m confused where the difference is supposed to be, between them.

For every case, naming a person for whom that is true is a witness “yes” is correct; and being unable to is “no” being correct.
Gonna sit this one out, I'll see you at deno in 2023
It's really good to hear that wakelock hunting is no longer an expected practice. ^_^

I'm super interested in getting a Xiaomi (and modifying it enough so I can be reasonably sure that it doesn't stream all noise around it 24/7) at some point so hearing about how Android got better in this regard is exciting.
Technically speaking, sulfur is an oxidizer in gunpowder, not fuel. Sulfur is even in the same elemental group as oxygen.

Sulfur is commonly used as an oxidizer for metal fuels. In the case of gunpowder, that would be the potassium in potassium nitrate.
Please show where those legal requirements have been applied to E2E encrypted files.
After pulling my back a while ago, I did this with a VR headset. It worked well and was about the only way I could look at a screen. I mainly used the built in browser in the Oculus Quest, but you could do remote desktop with mouse and keyboard instead. I had a several foot virtual screen projected a few feet above my head. I would never want to do this if I didn't have an acute injury since laying in bed all day sounds like a sure path to muscle weakness.
Unauthorized computer access in still unauthorized doesn't matter if you hack back and take over a botnet from cyber-criminals.

Yea there are exceptions where US authorities together with Microsoft sinkhole, takeover and shut down botnets. Why Microsoft? Because majority of botnets are botnets of compromised Windows computers.
And so the slope slide continues…
With a huge balloon and flexible solar panels + fuel cell (they've already got to carry H2) they could be nearly zero.
Singapore to Grant Licences in ‘Momentous’ Move for Cryptocurrencies
For what it is worth, npm v7 added "workspaces" ("monorepo") support (similar to yarn's) where all the node_modules are hosted a level higher in the folder tree and shared.

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/using-npm/workspaces/
I think this is worth considering!
This service is more like Certificate Transparency

https://certificate.transparency.dev/

and less like AuthentiCode or app store code signing.
"Duty calls" as in "Someone is wrong on the Internet!", I'm fairly sure. Hey, it's that new hot processor, so a fairly memorable number. "Little Bobby Tables" is 327 IIRC; also the CI capacity of an old American V8 engine (a Ford, I think).
Just a heads-up: for your contact information to appear in your profile, you need to include it in the "about" text area. The "email" field is only visible to moderators.
Mural Motion Developer Conference – Aug 20
> "I think climate change is no more than 20 to 25% responsible for our current fire problems in the state, and most of it is due to the way our forests are,”

It's refreshing to hear that. Human driven climate change is real and I'm not denying it, but we have to understand CA's climate for what it is.

CA plants are uniquely adapted to fire and they serve as a testament to the history of fires in CA. Las Pilitas Nursery, which specializes in CA natives, has a nice writeup here: https://www.laspilitas.com/advanced/advecology.htm

I find it especially interesting how the droughts typically preceding a fire suppress herbivore levels so that post-fire seedlings are protected from predators. It's really amazing how our ecosystem has adapted to the challenges of our historical climate.
Glad for Sen. Sanders standing up to this kind of pork bullshit.

Bills should be different for each reason/topic and stand or fall on their own merits. Tired of this bullshit that allows for "give my state/corp sponsor a tax break with this bill too, or else".
I was interested in a Waterpik but I thought it would be too difficult to maintain. I found out about both a toothbrush and an oral irrigator that you hook up to your shower which are really cool.

There are also some tricks for oral hygiene that you don't get traditionally or when you go to the store for toothpaste. You can try putting a drop of Dragon's Blood on the toothbrush or brush with a bit of ozonated oil to help gum issues.
I'd tell you, but I was keeping all that info in extended attributes and lost it all when I switched filesystems.
None of the other countries are doing it either, so it isn't just DARPA. I think it just doesn't have an obvious use case.

Everyone says cargo, but what is it better at at than rail, truck, ship, or air (cargo jet)? If you want cheap you go with rail or ship. If you want fast you go with jet and then truck for the last mile. Airship would be cheaper than air, but noticeably slower, so it basically has to compete with truck on price. Can it do that? Maybe, I have no idea.
We have essentially never been in the garden of eden. Humans have been shaping the landscapes that they live, hunt, gather and farm in for at least 10s of thousands of years.
> Which do you think we have more robust data about, Earth or other planets in the solar system? The amount of data has a large impact on Bayesian inference…

This is not a question of robustness of data. This is a question of commonalities. If there is significant climate change occurring on other planets, one can infer that there are influences outside of the planet.

> What, in your opinion, would be the correct way to measure direct human impact on climate?

Well, we can measure water pollution due to run-offs of industrial waste. These measures are well established, obvious, & there is a history of direct evidence & scientific consensus that mercury and pesticide run-off causes problems to the ecosystem & human health. CO2 in the atmosphere & it's direct effects, not so much. There has been plenty of credible scientific opposition. The problem is there is too much money riding on the opinion that CO2 is the #1 existential problem facing humanity so the credible voices in opposition are drowned out on an institutional level.

> we didn’t have direct measurement of the Higgs particle and yet we were able to do wonderful things inferring the strength of gravity by other means

What makes you so sure that physical reality is composed of particles. This is an atomist bias. Fields are another way of looking at physical reality. For example, our electrical equations are based on fields & can be applied to unify different phenomona.

> being, I’m not yet convinced your bar for knowledge is appropriate.

If I had $Trillions of wealth, I could easily hire people & even peer groups who have a reasonable "bar of knowledge" & incentivize them to have the "appropriate" opinion; meanwhile push out the non-believers, I mean those who have the "inappropriate" opinion, from key roles while filling those roles with people of "appropriate" opinion. In the meantime, a series of propaganda, I mean PR, campaigns through the various organs that $Trillions could influence would convince you to think "appropriately" as well. My offer still stands...

> And my comment is not meant to distract from your point about central government but rather to question the strength of the basis of the claim. On the contrary, I felt your comment was a classic misinformation tactic but I was trying to employ the tack that every downvote deserves a response

According to your view, which is biased, any opposition & questioning of Epistemology is considered "misinformation". Yes, do not think outside the narrow confines of your worldview, or it's "misinformation". I bet if you took my offer, gave me $Trillions, you would not think what I say is "misinformation" within at most a couple of years.

But. Just. Tax. It. Very credible. Begging the question is "not appropriate", only the tax money is flowing my way...
Are you sure that any of them is feasible at grid scale? How much it would cost to store 451 GWh (one day of electricity production in Poland if I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Poland right)?

How large overbuilt of renewables would be needed to avoid blackouts during windless snowy winter months?
“So, what's the most common kind of error novice Java programmers make? […] mis-matched or unbalanced parentheses.”
I think Washington state did manage to pass a carbon tax?

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-states-...
I think you knew this but it wasn't obvious from how you wrote it. Your orbit is not required to be a circle. The diagrams we draw for children are nice circles, but most things that we know are orbiting something do not travel in a circle, e.g. the Earth -- if the orbit was circular our seasons would be slightly different† and the insight that the orbits can be non-circular ellipses was critical to the reasoning that eventually got us a heliocentric model of our solar system.

Geostationary communications satellites do have a basically circular orbit, as you said, but many other birds do not.

Russia has a bunch of stuff in orbits that "linger" very high over Russian territory for much of their orbital period then shoot right around close to the back side of the planet quickly and linger again, these are called Molniya orbits.

The US has a bunch of secret (presumably spy) satellites that fly less obvious orbits like this too, for presumably similar reasons.

† Edited: This post originally said "very" different, but in fact the difference would be modest since our orbit just isn't that elliptical. I wasn't able to find out how modest, but certainly if you think summer in New Zealand (in December) is pretty similar to summer in England (in June) then it's reasonable to say at least that similar.
There's a lot of nonsense in these comments that doesn't hold up to the most basic scrutiny.

>Humanity is going to go extinct

There's no evidence for that. A temperature rise of 2 degrees celsius is by no means a threat to the human race. It is a problem, but not an extinction event.

>We should invest in nuclear

Nuclear is extremely expensive and prone to going wrong. It's not a valid argument to state that "nuclear has improved and now it's safe" because nothing is 100% safe and the Fukushima Daiichi disaster is a perfect demonstration of how even recent iterations of the technology with multiple redundancies can go wrong.

>Wind/solar doesn't work because it's intermittent

There's no reason we can't have a distributed network of wind and solar farms around the world that can fulfill demand at all times.

>We should tax carbon

Taxing carbon could reduce output, sure, but the fact is that humanity is dependent on fossil fuels right now. How can you possibly suggest we start punishing consumers for their carbon footprint when there is no viable alternative? Besides, reducing output at this scale won't have any impact now, it's too late for that. We need to be reversing output.

>We need to stop eating meat on Mondays

Sorry but these schemes have no purpose other than to make one feel good about themselves. Most people are not interested in giving up meat at all, let alone for one day a week, so the demand for meat isn't budging. Meat alternatives are promising but won't take hold unless the consumer has an incentive to switch.

>We need to capture carbon from the atmosphere

This kind of technology has been debunked by Thunderf00t and many others. To grab that carbon you need to spend at least as much energy as you got from the combustion. So, effectively we need AT LEAST as much energy as we have used since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Trees are good at gathering carbon but they're not good as a long-term carbon sink.

>We need to use electric cars

...this solves nothing. The energy still needs to come from somewhere, the carbon is still in the atmosphere, and moreover we need to build everybody a new car which is a carbon-heavy and environmentally unfriendly process in itself.
It's interesting that node.js packaging has improved by borrowing an idea from the PHP world.
Which is why if you care about sensitive data not being recoverable from failed media (eq. banking database, PII, mediacal records, etc.) you should always use full disk encryption (LUKS, bitkeeper, veracrypt, etc.).

That way anything one could recover from that device afterwards would be effectively random noise to them without the decryption key, regardless how the firmware of the device actually wrote the individual data blocks.
Squatty Potty is good too and has hilarious ads :)
Hard to imagine a solution to climate change that doesn't involve the fossil fuel companies given their enormous political importance.
It’s the fact that the phone is scanning your images and relaying the results to Apple that’s the issue. If this feature were just an extension of existing on-device scanning and stayed on the device, perhaps informing the owner “Hey, it appears a few of your images may be CSAM. Would you like to review them?” then I don’t think people would be very upset.
> it's wrong to suggest anything that doesn't come from a peer-reviewed paper is misinformation

I agree with you - I updated my comment to be more clear in this regard.

> It was supposedly in data released by an Israeli government agency

Correct and no one has been able to find an official public source for this data. Unless someone can provide such a reference, I hope you agree that we must consider it misinformation.
yea this is ridiculous, they have lied through their teeth about what happens on Android. tho of course its probably half clueless negligence or a missed change, half not caring. all the same
You are correct, but assuming the holding was < 1yr and STCG applied. If >1yr holding period, LTCG would apply. chances are it would only be a 15% tax rate in a LTCG applied tax. given current 2021 tax brackets.

Even this is incomplete, because we don't know the other tax situations, was there a tax loss carryover that would/could be applied, etc, etc, etc.

Taxes are complicated.
Is there something wrong with that proof? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7SmNyte6nA (in French)

The 3x+1 Conjecture is false
Text in English : https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10681
Thank you, this gives me some perspective regarding humanity's effect. I won't claim to understand it all, or agree/disagree with it, but it definitely helps me account for scale.
> Not a US citizen, so I’m not familiar with this argument. As I understand it the government isn’t searching anything themselves so would the requirement for a search warrant apply?

There's a difference between cops paying someone to break into a suspect's house to steal evidence without a warrant, and a 3rd party that, while doing business, comes across material that might be criminal evidence.

The former case, in the US, falls under the doctrine of the "fruit of the poisonous tree"[1]. Evidence collected illicitly won't be allowed in court, and any evidence or argument based on the tainted evidence can be thrown out, as well.

I think the line is blurred with the system in the OP, where it seems like it kind of fits the latter case. It's fuzzy to me when parties are working in tandem with law enforcement, even going as far as running law enforcement's own systems voluntarily, or collecting or giving up information without a warrant when simply asked. To me, that seems a lot more like former case, where the government persuades someone to collect evidence on their behalf without warrants or subpoenas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
I have and it worked well enough. Last time I pulled my back I worked a day in VR and spent a day watching shows and playing xbox before I could stand again. I find that immobilization is the best way to let muscle pulls heal so my method is to just stay flat on my back for a day or two. Before I had the headset I stared at the ceiling for 2 days.
I think the argument here is that (1) the model is going to have false positives (e.g. revealing pictures of you and your spouse, your beach photos, etc.) that will permit access for non-CSAM (or at the very least, mark your account as suspicious in the eyes of authorities), and (2) the model itself can be updated/replaced for any reason and potentially at any government's demand, so the limits on scope are effectively moot
Gig work gives workers in crappy jobs personal leverage because they can always find work if they need it and don't have to take abusive situations. The real reason institutionalized people are against gig work is because it makes individual workers less dependent on those who exploit them both financially and politically. If someone offers you everything but dignity, I'd recommend checking their bone fides.

That's some pretty 2015 lingo though, but I'm hep to that. :)
“Apple has removed iDOS 2 from AppStore, citing the same old 2.5.2.”