skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bingo.

It’s great folly to think climate change can be solved by “waking people up” and that whole endeavor probably just makes things worse. It becomes a red/blue issue where nearly half the population take opposing sides, like mindless zombies. A solution, if we are to find one, will not come from the many but from the few, maybe just a single person or invention. Emerging economies pollute, necessarily. That’s the real problem. Surely it feels good to some people to say “I told you so!”, to see oneself on some noble crusade to enlighten the masses about the troubles that are to come. But it’s not at all productive in fact it’s the opposite. Not everyone has the ears to hear. The good side has to accept that sad truth and give up on the political squabbling. Spend energy thinking about solutions that don’t require building consensus with the guys in jack up trucks and the poor third world nations that pollute to survive.
Istanbul, 15/July/2015.
Depending on your place of work, it's a very good thing they block personal email.
For a complex issue this document does a really good job of listing the various problems with this 'scan everything for CSAM' approach. These two points bear repeating:

“You can falsely be reported and investigated for allegedly disseminating child sexual exploitation material. Messaging and chat control algorithms are known to flag completely legal vacation photos of children on a beach, for example. According to Swiss federal police authorities, 86% of all machine-generated reports turn out to be without merit. 40% of all criminal investigation procedures initiated in Germany for “child pornography” target minors.

On your next trip overseas, you can expect big problems. Machine-generated reports on your communications may have been passed on to other countries, such as the USA, where there is no data privacy – with incalculable results.”
Yes, there was a bit of controversy a while ago during Euros, when banners in broadcast for Western/Central Europe had "rainbow" versions of banners whereas the broadcast for Azerbaijan had the regular version of banners.
Not an expert, but I'm going to say no. There is no medium in space, moving relative to the solar wind, against which the "keel" of a solar sail ship could push.
What did Musk or Bezos build? What did they invent? Nothing. Everything built and invented was by their workers. The success of Amazon and SpaceX/Tesla is a form of collective action. The collective action of employees, and the collective action of government policy which provided the playground that Bezos and Musk play in.
Is this similar to sailing? Where the lift generated by wind passing over the curved sail or prop blade produces more lift allowing the boat or car to go faster than the wind speed.
As someone trying to bootstrap a podcast, yeah that bar is lower, but there's still a lot of work that simply can't be automated or made better with tooling (things like marketing, logo, etc.) but there's some clear areas where I think it would be possible to innovate, such as using AI to cut out long dead space, 'umms', and other minor vocal glitches that are simple but very tedious to cut out.
Nothing to do with being good or bad. The work they do doesn't add value. It might even be necessary work so that markets can function, but it doesn't add value.
>Or, what if something harmless becomes illegal

So this is the actual issue then ?

Instead of resorting to hiding, should instead fix the root issue: change the law.
>>On this subject, he has been completely wrong. The pendulum just keeps going.

Well, the hope is that it will eventually swing back with super strength. Maybe it will take a full collapse of the western society first and it might happen long after we're all dead, but I'm hoping that society will go back on this.
The term “derivatives” is widely used for financial derivatives like options and swaps. It’s gained such widespread adoption that it by far dwarfs the original meaning of the instantaneous rate of change in calculus.

I think the simpler answer is that when a word has two meanings, one a widely used category of financial instruments and the other a narrowly defined branch of advanced mathematics, the former will almost always dominate everyday discussion.
> in my home-town of 170,000 the demo was 30 people

This is consistent with my home town in NL.
This is really cool! Is it the most beautiful program ever written? Not IMHO. I can't find it now, but there was a short live coding demo/presentation that essentially went from a blank file, to a stack-based language, to something like a webasm interpreter in like an hour with full explanations that made it all seem painfully obvious. It sent shivers up my spine and was absolutely amazing to watch.
Interesting. That's an (expired) Cloudflare certificate, and those are Cloudflare IP addresses I'm being sent to.

I wonder if Cloudflare broke this somehow (whoops) or if Thunderbird themselves screwed up here. I don't see a CAA record that would tell DigiCert they can't issue this either.
The point is to strike at the enemy the moment they are weakened. Western societies were severely weakened in March 2020 onward to summer 2020. They were on lockdown, there have been logistics problems, which had impact on things like police and secret service. I very much doubt military are exempt from it. Being in a good condition isn't a guarantee you remain unaffected, and the danger of being affected mildly is that you spread it further.
> France, Italy, Germany, Greece, the UK and others are experiencing widespread protest - some in the millions

Germany's largest drew just short of 40k people, that was when they tried to storm the Parliament (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_over_COVID-19_policie...). "Querdenken" is loud but entirely irrelevant.

And in France, the protests are (as usual for the French) not just Corona containment measures, but general social issue protests.
That's not really accurate, since the trees will biodegrade at the end of their lifecycle.

We would need to recreate the Azolla Event:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event

Or even the Carboniferous period where microbes could not digest lignin and cellulose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous

Which is impossible. We simply need to stop digging fossil fuels out of the ground in order to burn them.
The response to 1929 wasn’t to functionally outlaw the existence of stocks.
The rebate-for-poor-people thing is really the main issue. the West is already on its way towards reducing CO2 emissions and it's accelerating with new technologies, without austerity forcing the hand. Meanwhile the developing world (the poor people) are growing CO2 dramatically. It's irrelevant where CO2 comes from. That's why this is so damn hard.
Just a pedantic observation. They never claimed any specific level of harmlessness. What they said was:

> I'm sure they replaced it with some other equally harmless dough conditioner

That could easily mean they replaced a toxic chemical with an equally toxic one.

That being said, the words used certainly imply the thought that the chemical is 'mostly harmless'.
It actually started with XML. At the time there were not any decent options so I wrote my own and then made it a C extension. JSON can next since XML worked out so well. Basically JSON parsers were slow and I thought I could do better.

It started out as just a need for better performance than the standards but with golang I felt a full implementation of JSONPath would be of benefit to myself and others.

The real motivation though is the challenge and knowing people are using the code I write.
A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Finds
True, but we generally waste a lot of our emissions because fossil fuel energy is so cheap. People don't realize that you can save a ton of energy by, say, reducing the thermostat set point on your hot water heater, or putting plastic film over your windows and searching for and blocking drafts when it gets cold (or hot!) A lot of energy use is just habit that can be changed with very little cost, if the incentive is in place.

Granted, that won't get us to net zero, but there are a lot of high-impact, low investment changes we can all make.

Longer term, if fossil fuel energy places rise, I expect a lot more pressure put on local governments to make public transportation more accessible, and to remove legislation that blocks the building of walkable neighborhoods and cities. I'm convinced that the vast majority of driving we do is completely unnecessary, and is just the result of myopic laws about how we can build cities and suburbs that tend not to get challenged, which lead to us just building in a really dumb way that ensures everyone needs to drive.
Or perhaps the history as it is told by refugees from Ingsoc. We don’t get any information about what lies beyond the border, but I always imagined that the Handmaid universe was somehow continuous with this one and that there might plausibly be people who’d escaped.
just look for the qualifier

in this case "ferroelectric"
> Dave hired Colin Angle (then a grad student working for Rod Brooks at MIT, now CEO of IS Robotics) as a summer student

At the time this article was published, it looked like IS Robotics was primarily a defense/military robotics contractor. Very soon after they would've released their new line of home robotics and rebranded as iRobot.

Searching their career page / their SWE roles doesn't show much in the way of Lisp, but I recall people saying it used to power Roomba.
Great read. Thanks for the write up.
they are racing ahead with advanced nodes that few actually need.I hope Europe won't make the same mistakes.
Thank you, that’s helpful. Since my site is comment based with it being the sole purpose of the site, I want to make sure it doesn’t get filled with bot spams.
Is this the modern equivalent of getting stock tips from shoe-shine boys?
Having 9.5 million subscribers on a science-based YouTube channel is definitely more notable than having gone to university, or indeed having a PhD. I think the writer picked the correct description here.
Ok I have taken college level mechanics (after physics 1-2) and I have no idea what you’re saying.
Interesting. The page https://online.stat.psu.edu/stat510/lesson/1/1.1 used Minitab, which I don't use, but other sections of the tutorial use R.
Or much worse yet, otherwise the authors could have used clear language.
This is bewildering and concerning. I absolutely applaud the authors for releasing their code and asking the public to have a look, as well as raising the alarm. Given the degree of due diligence they've performed, it seems too much to hope that there's just some really nightmarish data leakage occurring; but even if that were the case, the difficulty of identifying its origin or even determining the true characteristics of what the models are doing is extremely problematic regardless of whether this particular instance of bias can be explained.
What are the reporting requirements? Will they lead to taxation? Overhead computing resource per block/transaction validated?

Is this reporting only, or will it result in additional taxes?

This seems light on details, and I really don't know what opinion to have on this without understanding what the requirements are. Nothing I've read succinctly explains this.
The Perils of Metaverse Persistency
Sometimes I think the worst mistake we made with cars was making the refueling process so easy. If people still had to lift buckets of gasoline to fill their tanks, they'd have a much better idea about the massive quantities of fuel that are needed for small amounts of car use.

Rubber, synthetic clothing, plastics, do not get used up and ejected directly into the atmosphere. There is some energy use in manufacture, probably some chemistry that may emit some CO2. But it is absolutely dwarfed by the massive amount of gasoline fuel ejected directly into the atmosphere by driving.

The store in a bike frame is probably the most carbon intensive part of a bike. For every pound of steel, two pounds of CO2 is currently emitted in manufacture (but this will probably go to zero in the future).

For a 20-60 pound bike frame, that's the equivalent of only three gallons of gasoline. Three gallons. Because as a gallon of gasoline combusts, it picks up extra oxygen atoms and ends up being 20 pounds of CO2.

Think of a 20 pound plate for weight lifting, and that's a gallon of gasoline once it's burned.

All the other stuff in life--rubber, clothing, plastics--are almost a rounding error compared to the daily commutes we make in cars in the US.

Lesson: get on that bike as soon as possible, and if you can't, at least get an EV.
To those that are interested in Watchmaking.

1. All books by Henry Fried. (A. many books overlap info., but if reasonably priced are work buying.)

2. All books by DeCarle. (see A above.)

3. George Daniel's book.

4. All past issues of AWCI magazine.

5. Oh yea, get Questions, and Answers for AWCI test questions.

(Don't pay a lot for these books, pamphlets. They can be found, but you need to hunt.)

6. Decide if you want to use a loupe, or stereoscope.

7. Yes--it does take a few years to get good.

8. You will not get rich repairing watches, but you can do it forever.

(If you are in the need if a watchmaker in the bay area, in a few months I will have a small shop. The business will be under the name of Jacob Decosta. I'm honest. There will be some very complicated watches I won't work on though. My prices will be vastly lower than factory prices.)
> Increasingly it's becoming more of a good idea to have some math knowledge with GPUs, neural networks, machine learning, etc. but as with many deeper mathematical concepts, they'll no doubt get "black boxed" into something more digestible for people who don't want or need a deeper understanding of the inner workings.

That's already happened. My wife teaches data science, including machine learning, and it's always surprising to me the extent to which modern industrial practice is about picking the right pre-coded tools from toolkits and combining them. Even though such would be up her alley (she has a PhD in astrophysics), in seven years of working in industry before teaching, she never had to translate from math to code (which I did a lot of earlier in my career).
Strikes a chord with me: I need to manage the distractions
The Efficacy of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Children with Tourette’s
> But people have tried, guess which social networks self-select out of survival?

Is the implication that a social media network won't survive if it doesn't steal my contacts? Besides, not all social media companies stoop to that level. For all it's problems, Reddit doesn't steal your contacts.
Alright, let me spell it out. You contend that "submitting your country[sic] laws to legislation from Brusel[sic] was a fatal error", on the grounds of a single piece of legislation. The same argument can be used to argue against any sort of government, since it's a rare government that makes no mistakes at all. The EU is top-tier in a wide range of areas spanning from human rights to food safety. So I ask again - where do you think is better?
Any modern state implements separation of powers, trias politica in most cases. Your argument ignores that. You also haven't made clear what fallacy you mean.

Want to fix child abuse? Fund teachers and child care. Apple cannot help those kids and I don't mean that as an indignation towards the company.
It seems you dont know what open source means.
It could work, just do referendum in every country and then implement the result. It would require that people in power in all countries wanted to give power to their people, and implemented it securely. Which is why it won't happen.
We definitely need public financing — and especially things like HVAC should be table-stakes since it's also an effective jobs program — but we also need those ever-increasing taxes. Most of those people commuting in remote areas use high-emission, low-mileage vehicles for fashion reasons and they can afford to do so because the costs of that lifestyle have been heavily subsidized for decades.

If we instituted a vehicle weight / mileage tax (to fund road repair as EVs cut into the already wildly inadequate gas tax) and send a message that gas prices will never be cheaper in the future, that would change rapidly because there wouldn't be any way to fool yourself into thinking that you could afford that huge SUV which has been keeping you broke for years. It takes a lot to disturb a deeply-entrenched status quo and I think taxes are key, but I would ramp them in slower: set a floor on the cost for a barrel of oil and increase it annually so the writing is on the wall but there's time to make major capital expenditures.

The political backlash is a real problem, especially with the knowledge that the simple solutions like giving people financial assistance for replacing high-emissions vehicles would be met with a well-funded deluge of bad faith attacks (you can just hear the “why are they giving away Teslas to people who didn't earn them!” ads now). I suspect continued subsidies for things like EVs and solar would be possible but I wonder whether there could also be a low-rate loan subsidy program, especially for homeowners and businesses looking to electrify things like heaters, boilers, etc.
Same with the main domain too www.thunderbird.net
Yes, that's where the creator got the idea I believe. He was imagining two sails rotating around a cylinder, which it turns out, is a propeller.
I am replying to all the posts pushing this defeatist agenda. Not only it's wrong, but it's also dangerous.

It is representatives of the countries in the Council of the EU voting these legislations through: hold them accountable as you would hold them accountable locally.

Don't fall for the narration of the EU as a third party where your local representatives have no say. If four countries veto the bill, the bill is dead. 4 out if 27 - all done by influencing your government representative in the Council.
So, did/does the vehicle in the desert start with a push (from a force other than the wind) or did it really get started moving by the wind pushing it?

Edit: FYI in the video he does sort of cover his claim even if it got started by a non wind force by stating the vehicle can maintain a speed faster than the wind pushing it. But I'm still curious, was a non wind force needed in the desert to get it started?
>making the government too powerful and not accountable. If only activists and journalists will try to have the privacy,

Then I much rather for everyone to have no privacy so it level the playing field.

I don't have to worry about having to hide stuff.
Agreed. The simplest example is names. People don't have unique names so you combine it with some other stuff (birthdate, SSN) and call it a primary key. Then someone gets married and changes their name. To anyone doing this for a short amount of time this example is obvious. The point is that almost everything you might think of as a "natural key" is not good enough and you'll get burned when you find out what the reasons are.
You do understand that everyone is forced to endure the consequences of people gambling or speculate with cryptocurrencies, right?

See: Nvidia ship shortage, Bitcoin CO2 emissions, tons of ASICS destruction because miners are literally stealing electricity, ....

It's the same reason why psychoactive drugs are forbidden: no one forces you to use them, but everyone has to deal with the negative consequences of their usage. I don't think we should put drug users in prison, but I d'ont want to see a meth store at every street corner either.
Yes. If I remember right, the angle of attack of the propeller blades when this thing is at speed ends up being about the same as that of the sail when the boat's on a beam reach.

To extend the analogy further, I think that the wheel-and-chain mechanism ends up functioning analogously to the boat's keel.
Hi, you must be new to this game.

Here's the deal: none of this is about, or for the children. It's just a bullshit excuse to label anyone who opposes it a pedo. Same goes if "think about the terrorists" is used instead, which might come around soon-ish, since we started this round with "think about the children".

OT: if somebody does have some statistics, that might actually be interesting; don't let me discourage you from responding, but I'd still call it OT, given that it's not actually about the children.
As far as I can see, they surely are. The front page country-specific bookmarks in the Edge browser are with affiliate links, such as Booking.com, eBay, etc., and then after a few local suggestions.

Was surprised to see how bad the UX was when trying Edge on the Mac. They claim to be super privacy-focused, yet anyways I need to accept a cookie banner with many data partners to get access to the settings button.

Sent them bunch of feedback.
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Max Miller with Tasting History[0] did a whole episode on silphium and what it might have been, and possibly why it went extinct. Some actual silphium to analyze would be really helpful though.

[0]https://youtube.com/watch?v=D-QHd4_1geE
You sure are throwing words around. Undemocratic, lack of direct democracy. Are you confusing the two, or are these different complaints? Sounds like you're trying to say that any representative democracy isn't really a democracy.
Numbers and quantities are important here.

Also, it's important to realize that just because something uses fossil energy now, it doesn't have to in the future.
That's a nice analogy! And just as with diseases, it sometimes happens that people are a lot more vulnerable than they thought.
A Practical Guide to Growing Your Open Source Project: Part 1 – Contributors
The natural gas industry in Russia emits a lot of CO2 by itself.

Generally the fossil fuel industry is one of the largest emitters if CO2 by itself. That is why countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia are among the top CO2 emitters in the world.
Calories in is just a rough measure, as absorption is non-linier as you suggest.

The more you eat the less your body will absorb, as your digestive system will digest and absorb more of a 100Kcal meal that a 300Kcal meal. Also the more you consume higher your metabolic rate will be, while the converse it also true. Because of that you you have to restrict your calorie intake by a fair amount to lose weight, and overeat by so much to start gaining weight. Don't forget that all calories are not created equally, as some foods are digested better that others, and different combinations of fat, protein and carbohydrates will affect digestion. The addition of simple carbohydrates raise insulin which can also increase absorption, which is great for gaining weight and stimulating your appetite.
For AI to grow up, it needs to learn on its own
How so? Please be explicit.
I agree that theoretic top speed is limited only be drag (and other resistive forces) if you are able to adjust propeller pitch, gear ratio, or wheel diameter on the fly.

But if those values are fixed, as with Blackbird, then you are of course limited to a top speed that is some constant multiple of wind speed.
What about wash sales? That seems like a big threat to this model
A beautiful OS that is far more enjoyable to use than todays inconsistent, schizophrenic UIs.
then Western countries subsidizing developing countries sustainable energy should be on the table. If it is purely to stop climate change, and western countries have unfairly exploited the world for centuries, then they should share a larger portion of the burden of a solution
As someone who feels the same way as the commenter you are replying to: it does feel strange that the head of WhatsApp owned by Facebook would have even the slightest bit of credibility when discussing privacy, especially as it relates to Apple. The list of people with less credibility on the subject is incredibly low.
Possibility, I have heard “derivatives” most commonly used as a math term not a financial one. But it’s got plenty of other meanings: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/derivative