skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Already in 2007 Greenpeace published a "Ranking of the most polluting power stations in Europe":

https://wwfeu.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/european_dirty_t...

Nothing has changed since then. The two most polluting powerplants in Europe are still running:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%C5%82chat%C3%B3w_Power_Stat...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niederaussem_Power_Station
>Scots is a dialect of English

It's up to the linguistic community to decide that, if their variety should be considered a "dialect" of something else or a "language" on its own. Linguists already gave up that question, it's more useful to talk about varieties anyway.

And it's the same deal with Galician versus Portuguese, with a difference - "Scots is a dialect of English" threatens Scots, but "Portuguese is a dialect of Galician" doesn't threaten Portuguese (it threatens Galician instead).
Ditto. Also in traditional doctrine it was good because the fall led to jesus. Look up felix culpa on wikipedia. As for the mushrooms, it's not as if medieval clergy didn't have a good time.
B. pseudomallei is not considered to be transmitted via air or respiratory droplets in non-laboratory settings. Person-to-person transmission risk is considered extremely low as there have only been a few documented cases of person-to-person transmission; contact of damaged skin with polluted soil or water is the most frequent route for natural infection. Healthcare personnel are generally not at risk if they follow standard precautions. However, laboratory personnel are at increased risk because some lab procedures may aerosolize particles and release B. pseudomallei into the air. Laboratory personnel can reduce their risk of exposure by following good laboratory practices.3 Laboratory staff who may have been exposed to B. pseudomallei should refer to existing CDC guidance.

https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00448.asp
My grandpa is 89 and refuses not to work. He thinks he'll fall apart once he does.
I’m English, and lived in England for 23 years. I have never ever heard of Scots before.
I went through the dead and down voted comments prompted by this but couldn't find any gray/dead entries that I'd consider good. Can you maybe make a few examples of comments that have been unfairly down voted in your opinion?
My most ranty and deservedly downvoted HN comment was expressing this same opinion. The kitchen cleaning analogy is great. What's amazing to me is clean-up takes less than a second. I view all my left over tabs like food scraps, and sweep them off the counter in a single click.
NSA Awards Secret $10B Contract to Amazon
I used this back in the day when I had an iPhone 3G and no SMS plan. I used an app that allowed a text like interface for email and then created an apple script that went through my contacts to look up their carrier and add their gateway address to their contact card. Looked weird to them to see a text from vividsiphone@ymail.com, but it worked!
Another dimension is weight, if price per kwh was identical these batteries would be be more efficient by making the car lighter. As well as efficiency and handling this presumably also affects the degredation per mile driven since you're discharging less energy to move the smaller battery.
Enhorabuena !!
Hopefully, this makes this makes gig economy more equitable for the gig workers.
Fennel is one of a fairly wide group that have those characteristic branching stems and umbels (flat-ish clusters of tiny flowers). Other possibly-familiar members: carrot, parsnip, hemlock, celery, parsley, and the asafoetida mentioned in the article. This is the Apiaceae family.
I don't know why this is downvoted... the question legitimately opens the door to a fundamental phenomena in markets...

The answer is, corporations seek long term profits. Short term gouging tends to make customers angry and seek alternatives, and the same is true for large buyers/government agents.

If this were a single transaction, it would make sense to extract as much revenue as possible. But Pfizer/BioNTech have to balance that against their long term relationships and how to maximize profit over long time scales.
I’ve long been thinking about how things like this are in the Bible:

> They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel ... Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.

— Ezekiel 1:15

And I’ve been thinking, that these kinds of things could have their explanation in people having ingested plants or been stung by insects or something, that altered their perceptions of reality. Or even maybe just hallucinating because of hunger, or from having been born with a brain that was producing these types of hallucinations on its own.
The rule of thumb is, whichever is least sensational is probably the truth.
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Making Julia viable for your use case is probably a quicker path towards this goal than trying to persuade C++ and Rust to cater to the math audience.
You have to use something like FUSE to mount HDFS, if that is your intention. It's not really like Ceph. Unless your app is written to use the HDFS API directly it's going to be a bigger rigmarole to store stuff.
He's saying it's unlikely, just to avoid detailing what Apple will do in case it happens, and it will happen.

Many people will fall victim to scumbag hackers that will do it just for fun.
They not going to go through Apple if they planted CP on your device, they going to take you to custody saying they got an anonymous tip or something along this line or just tip off the police to do the job for them because it worked in the past, requires less effort and maybe I'm wrong on this but there is no additional gain from going though all the hops when you can do it with an anonymous call.
I'd give it about as much credit as I gave his "COVID will be gone by April 2020" tweets.

The man is phenomenally effective in certain engineering contexts and deserves to be listened to if he's talking about rocket engines or something. He's no more credible in public health and population modeling than any other rando.
True, and tires - either smaller (cheaper) tires or longer lifespan of those tires.
Same here- I was doing a bit more complicated rebase than usual and thought it was my fault for a good few minutes there.
> Google has scanned your images since 2009 in the cloud unencrypted, but now when Apple makes situation better, it is suddenly bad.

At the moment Apple's scanning policy is about the same as it was before. They claim they're only scanning photos if iCloud photos are enabled. The change they're advertising is doing the actual scanning process locally.

The problem is two fold. The first is Apple went from scanning only explicitly uploaded content to local content. Since they've decided to intrude on local content once "for the children" it's not out of the realm of possibility (if not likely) they will make further intrusions in the future for prima facie noble reasons. Are third party apps going to be restricted on saving data unless they allow access to Apple's CSAM scanner? Will it start scanning texts or e-mails tomorrow letting and rando flood a person's phone with CSAM and get them arrested? Adding a local scanning system like this is a slippery slope.

The second problem is the opaqueness of the system. This has multiple sub-problems. While the NCMEC has a laudable goal, involving them in the CSAM scanning process involves an outsize level of trust I don't think they have earned. They have law enforcement's unfortunate disdain for personal privacy coupled with a fanatical devotion to their cause. They believe their actions are always correct and just so long as they supposedly serve their goal of "protecting children".

Due to the opaque nature of their content library it's not crazy to think repressive regimes will get self-serving content added to the source libraries for CSAM scanning. There's plenty of places where homosexuality is punishable by death and even mildly anti-government content will land you in jail. Obviously you and I can't go look at NCMEC/ICMEC CSAM libraries to check for falsely added content. So how are we supposed to trust a system run by fanatics to not have simple errors?

Which leads to the other opaqueness sub-problem. Apple's design is interesting, if not laudable, but is closed source and full of black boxes. PhotoDNA, NeuralHash, and the like are not published algorithms anyone can verify. We don't even have a way of knowing if some image we have tripped a false positive and have to trust Apple's unknown "threshold" isn't 1. So not only does the public, the subject of these new intrusions, have no way of auditing the database but they have no way of auditing the code or process. A stupid bug in the scanning system could get a user reported to Apple which we then have to trust not to forward (and not to have additional bugs in their reporting system) them to law enforcement and ruin their life.

So I am concerned with scope creep and bugs/false positives. I can live with a bug that causes video playback to stutter or a black box system in Maps that gives me the wrong hours for a restaurant. It's much harder to live with bugs that can get me arrested or even killed thanks to trigger happy police. Apple's system might be technically adept but their promises of future behavior aren't trustworthy since they've already changed their behavior with this new system.
Most work happens despite the managers because most managers are bad managers.

I've had my manager change out above me, and the difference has been night and day. The good ones gave me a defined goal, then stayed out of my way, yes, but they also listened when I raised concerns, and brought me answers and solutions, and provided cover when I needed it. They made my job easier. The bad ones made my job harder.
I look in high class parking garages around me, and easily 1/3 of the cars are giant pickup trucks. Around here, tons of people will regularly buy a giant cab truck with a 6ft bed they'll mostly use to commute to an office job.

Welcome to Texas.
Thank you, momentum is definitely the term I should have used.
My mistake, there may have been more than two modes in the older builds. Perhaps it was called "Regular" or something, whatever the default was.
No, only "Option 3" cares about security of the signing key.

Other options do not rely on compromising any encryption keys or production servers, they just need a developer's machine being compromised.

You are talking about PCR and hashes, and they are all good, but ultimately, it all ends up as a "Attestation" field in the request to AWS. And then it is evaluated against a policy, like that one: [0]. So what prevents someone from planting a trojan on arcurn's machine, waiting until they log into AWS console, and changing this policy to remove "Condition" block? Once this is done, anyone can fetch AWS keys and decrypt customer data.

And I don't think "TLS certificate validation" is going to help here, as it will be talking to authentic server. Nor checking of PCRs -- because this is done in that "condition" lock which is so easy to remove.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/kms.html
The outbreak happened in the city where gain-of-function of research was being done. The Chinese government prevented travel from Wuhan to the rest of China but allowed international flights from Wuhan. China has stonewalled investigations of the origin of covid. Why should the Chinese Communist Party get the benefit of the doubt?
>Free online communities make money from advertisements. So it is in their obvious interest to discourage all attempts, by anyone, of "free" advertisement. Especially their competitor!

The mods of these communities aren't getting the money from reddit ads, so that doesn't apply.

>The solution? If you want to make money, you have to spend some money - Just pay for a suitable ad in the free online communities and support them.

Okay, and when reddit ads are trivially blocked, and platforms won't do OF ads, what does that leave? Have you thought this through?

Note: before you say "their content sucks", yes, I agree, sucky content should be removed. But the question here is where a submission that otherwise qualifies for the sub should be removed merely on the basis that the profile of the submitter links an OF page. Again, that's even when the submission itself doesn't link it.
Equifax to acquire Appriss Insights for $1.825B
Is this supposed to be an argument in favour of the 2 hour commute? Because that still sounds like a miserable waste of time to me. I would take the pay cut, look for a new job, or move closer to work. No job in the world is worth putting up with that kind of a commute to me.
Don’t leave us hanging, what words did they come up with?
Also American, but was routed through, what was at the time, an experimental program called Integrated Math. Class was structured around word problems and the students were guided towards figuring out the formulas rather than rote memorization.

There was a ton of group work, which worked out really well for me, but if you didn't want to learn it was pretty easy to coast and let the group leader do most of the work / learning.
Cities are attracting remote workers with incentives
this recent trend of stories about people taking things into their own hands with the help of AirTags to go on a vigilante search for their stolen bikes, cars etc, is concerning not to mention dangerous. This guy took cops along, good call. Another one I read last week where somebody went to find their stolen car I thought was nuts to go to a random place and try to 'steal your car back'.
I mean even in this e-bike story the store employees were threating guy with gun fingers etc.

I know it's hard to get help from law enforcement and it feels necessary to do it yourself but there's more than a small chance this doesn't end well in many circumstances.
There are several problems with this article. To start with, it mixes up the Tree of Life[1] and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil[2].

Second, the Genesis story is Jewish, and predates Christianity by at least five if not ten centuries. And most importantly, early Christians were Jews first. Post-Pauline times, pagan or Gentiles in the Roman empire did join the growing movement that was soon to be called Christianity, but they were weren't dragging in any pagan rituals they may have had prior to their conversion. Three hundred years later, with the conversion of Constantine and the co-optation of Christianity for Roman imperial designs, certain pagan rituals and practices were papered over with Christian beliefs (cf Easter, Christmas), but not the other way around.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(biblical)

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_knowledge_of_good_...
That's a lot of money.
Good point. At least they make it obvious that they will discriminate based on your age, or why do they ask? They aren’t creating marketing lists.

I wonder if startups that get accepted into the program are also advised to bias toward younger new hires as well. Seems consistent with the acceptance criteria of the program.
I was surprised - and very happy - to see "River of Doubt" mentioned here. That is indeed a very good book, and kicked off a fascination for me with TR in general.

The author, Candice Millard, has two other books which I also enthusiastically recommend: "Hero of the Empire", about Churchill's escape from a POW camp during the Boer War, and "Destiny of the Republic" about the assassination of President Garfield.
I watched a thing about how Koko the guerrilla didnt really understand sign language. They showed extended, unedited clips of koko fumbling and just brute forcing a whole series of signs until she got a treat. A lot of her "understanding", along with other apes undergoing the same treatment, were all heavy interpretations of the "researchers". She never actually learned a real version of sign language either. It was made up by "researchers" who never learned sign language either. Honestly, when you watch the videos, it feels like watching the unedited videos of those tv psychics who fumble at cold readings. Cherry picking editing does wonders as "scientific proof".

Moral of the story, after reading this article, I agree with you. This isnt as groundbreaking or interesting as it seems. I'm pretty sure they're finding patterns that dont exist and are over rationalizing. Of course an animal would have the concept of none, a little, a bit more and a lot, especially when applied to the idea of scavenging for food. Appling the idea of mathematical concepts to them, with little support just feels like a cheap attempt for grant money. Which, surprise surprise, was the same sham pulled with Koko.

That and some of these tests they talk about, either they're shit at describing them or even I would fail to prove I could count or do arithmetic.
> Eve’s ribs are bold slash marks, as if the artist wanted her to appear almost skeletal.

The artist probably wanted to highlight the fact that there are an even number of them, in contrast to Adam's odd number, since the story is that one of his was taken (to make Eve).
Just had flashbacks to my Sansa Fuse loaded with RockBox.

The whole Sansa line was pretty awesome.

Thanks for that.
Do you think Tim Cook uses iCloud? They keep encrypted local backups over WiFi around as an iOS feature for a reason...
> There will always be a scummy Martin Shkreli[1] type and Germany is not immune to this. See VW and Wireguard.

I assume you are referring to Wirecard [0] and not privy to information which I am not about the stellar Wireguard [1]? :)

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirecard_scandal

[1] - https://www.wireguard.com/
Like the Airbnb host, politicians aren’t going to surveil themselves.

Although the NSA could be monitoring and blackmailing the American political leadership…
> Compensation is not about value provided. It’s only about market rate and convincing the person to stay at the company.

I don't think reasonable people would disagree with this statement about compensation. That being said, I don't believe it says much.

"Only about market rate" allows for tautological reasoning in that the market rate is just whatever you end up getting paid.

A stricter definition of market rate as "you get paid what people like you get paid" doesn't seem to say much either: when you get a promotion, did you suddenly start producing more for your employer? Or did they suddenly realize you produced more for them?

As most pricing goes, so does employee pay: you're paid the salary to which you agree. You can increase your salary by 1. threatening to quit your current employer unless pay rises or by 2. convincing some other employer to pay you more.
xBrowserSync has completely replaced all bookmark managers for me. No more hunting through extensive folder trees (what a mess that was!). When adding bookmarks, I just manually add a couple tags and be done with it. With xBS, bookmarks are accessed mainly through a simple tag/keyword search.

Bonus: I'm no longer tethered to any particular browser's sync ecosystem. BitWarden has my passwords and xBrowserSync has my bookmarks. I can browser hop on all my devices!

Double bonus: Open source and you can self-host.
Equality was non existent in the Soviet Union. Technically a talented researcher would earn just as much a factory worker but the researcher would have access to apparatus granted privileges like living in a better apartment, occasionally shopping in an non empty store, access to better hospitals, and so on
Researchers find a ‘fearsome beast’ that soared over outback Queensland
Being remote puts you in a broader labor market. This move will lower EVERYONE's salaries in the long run. If big tech companies decide it doesn't impact performance too bad, they want this.

I also work for a FAANG remotely with a rare skillset and an autoimmune condition, so this had impacted me less than it will others. For my health and my lifestyle, the pay cut is easily worth it.
Think of it like walking in a rainstorm. Walk at a slow pace and most of the rain hits your head, but if you're moving very fast all of the rain will seem to be coming from the front because you are running into it instead of it running into you.
I don't think most had 20+ Excel, PowerPoint, and Word documents open at the same time so "Google Workspace is browser based" doesn't explain why most have 20 documents unclosed in Google Workspace it just explains why said documents were originally opened in a browser.
I couldn't possibly find fault in that, but find it extremely mysterious and frustrating that the desire for a quality, analog, no nonsense single-purpose system, ie vehicle, isn't adequate to drive the market toward more affordable versions of the Bollinger. I read a while back that Honda intends to eliminate touchscreens and return to tactile controls for future models, which indicates at least some interest in reasonable vehicles. I hope it's enough to retain at least one option in the future for something not designed for children.
A reference to a quote by Terry Davis the author of TempleOS when he said that federal intelligence agents glow in the dark.
The nuance is that both of these can be true. Apple isn’t violating the 4th and Apple has no choice (unproven).

The government, by way of Apple, could be violating the 4th amendment.
Me neither. That's the premise of a horror movie now. You don't know anything about the place and neither Airbnb.
>Imagine that everything known about the COVID-19 pandemic was based on people giving their best guesses about whether they have the virus, instead of highly reliable medical tests. Now imagine that people who actually have the virus are more likely to misdiagnose themselves. The consequences of relying on this unreliable measure would be far-reaching.

Why do we need to imagine something that actually takes place? Phase 3 trials of vaccines relied on self-reporting of symptoms by participants. E.g:

https://cdn.pfizer.com/pfizercom/2020-11/C4591001_Clinical_P...

See section 8.13. COVID-19 Surveillance (All Participants).

A lot of other medical research relies on self-reporting of symptoms as well.
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