skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't hate the player, hate the game. We're all trapped in an economy where not growing/"innovating" is death. If a company dared announce they were done building and would just go into maintenance mode, their stock would fall of a cliff. One of the stated mandates of the Fed is maximum employment. They structurally require 100M (or whatever the number of working age adults is) jobs, so yes we will come up with a 100M jobs even if 50M are useless because everyone needs to eat.

Modern software development is only becoming cancerous in the same way as any other established industry. There's no use being all sad about it, every other white collar profession has already been through this, and these things are not for us plebs to decide. Just go in and half ass your 4 meetings a day job building the 10000th note taking app, the economy demands it. If we don't make the stonks go up then what are we doing anyways?
Vaccinated people must be required to wear masks to prevent the transmission of more virulent strains.

Unvaccinated people, because they would be homebound (or killed) by the more virulent strains, must be allowed to go about their business maskless. This way, we'll achieve herd immunity by spreading less virulent strains around. Sort of like an airborne live attenuated vaccine.
I've had a kindle for years, though it was idle for about the last two... Recently brought it back to life, read a few pages then tried to continue reading on my phone (which I had never used before). First thing it did was take me to the wrong page. I suspect things aren't as perfect as you think they are, and the parent comment has faced issues just as I have. Denial of possible issues is the same as release notes which say "we fixed all the bugs".
If anyone actually believed it was "code red for humanity" they'd be pushing nuclear power. There is zero chance of moving off carbon energy sources without causing catastrophic mayhem, unless we use massive amounts of nuclear.

For instance, the last 4 years my state has averaged 37% production of total possible installed wind generation capacity. This is a very windy state which is in the top 2 for installed wind capacity and number one per capita. But throughout a day wind power can very from nearly zero to close to max capacity. Those periods of near zero production can last non-trivial amounts of time no realistic battery could provide for.

The only solutions are continue with our gas turbine/wind power mix where we build enough gas turbines to handle 100% of the load for when the wind production is bottoming out, or replace everything with nuclear.

Nuclear gets us to net carbon zero fastest and with technology easy to export to developing countries in desperate need of plentiful, reliable, cheap electricity.
> What did people do before CSS transforms?

What sibling comments said, and also jQuery helper functions such as $.fade [1] or GSAP [2]

[1] https://api.jquery.com/fadeIn/#fadeIn-duration-complete

[2] https://greensock.com/gsap/
there was another book published a few years ago with the same title, "Appendix N"

https://www.amazon.com/Appendix-Literary-History-Dungeons-Dr...
> Global CO2 emissions declined by 5.8% in 2020, or almost 2 Gt CO2 – the largest ever decline and almost five times greater than the 2009 decline that followed the global financial crisis. CO2 emissions fell further than energy demand in 2020 owing to the pandemic hitting demand for oil and coal harder than other energy sources while renewables increased. Despite the decline in 2020, global energy-related CO2 emissions remained at 31.5 Gt, which contributed to CO2 reaching its highest ever average annual concentration in the atmosphere of 412.5 parts per million in 2020 – around 50% higher than when the industrial revolution began.

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2021/co2-em...
It's hard to argue they did this for a vision of privacy.

They did this because they want YOUR phone to be a liability not THEIR servers.
Even if they literally, provably did nothing, I'd still wear one out of courtesy to others if it would make them feel more secure. We're still talking about a small piece of cloth, right? It's practically zero cost, and there are no down sides. It's about as much of a hassle as putting on underwear or wearing a seat belt. It's sad that basic courtesy, decency, and the sense of doing something (if only a shibboleth) for your community, have become politicized. Toxic Orthodox Individualism has become a religion.
I guess that is covered under "an exercise in technique (one person doing the work of an institute?)". Thanks.
Let's talk about these quotes from the article/Taylor COO:

> According to the court document, Taylor's COO admits that it sought to obtain a Kytch device "in order to evaluate and assess its potential technology-related impacts upon our Soft Serve Machine—such as whether the radio frequency of the Kytch device would interfere with our software signal, or whether the Kytch device would drain the power source of our software and/or cause it malfunction," but denied that Taylor mined it for trade secrets or even "need such information."

Drain the power source of their software..?
> I want to be forced to changed my behaviour, along with everyone else on the planet, through taxation for which I am happy to vote for and support with all my being.

I agree with you, and do so with my fiat (EVs, solar, no air travel unless absolutely necessary, vegetarian, etc). There are billions of global citizens who likely don’t agree with you (or us), who will happily consume regardless of the consequences (and either can’t or won’t pay for the per ton emissions).

The challenge is in changing the behavior of disinterested or adversarial parties in the face of political apathy. It’s going to get uncomfortable.
in the email above, "that produces 200 watts" is the wrong baseline. That's the current value for a different technology.
> Or are you a denier?

You really are 100% trolling on this site.

Here's refurb's previous "contributions" to the topic for anyone curious as to why I called him out:

> Do you have data showing that every hurricane, tornado, fire and monsoon season is “getting worse and worse”?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28094216

> Pretty sure they predicted the collapse of another ocean current like 5 years ago, yet here we are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28086413

I'm confident that there's more where that came from.

Update: As I thought, here's some more FUD/derailing on climate change in just the last month or two:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27739215

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27727460

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27711924

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699141

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27671657

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27671641

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27872967

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27792095

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27771181

And you're talking about good faith in other comments?
> And then, once you are scanning encrypted data,

They aren’t.

> iMessage is next whether you want it or not.

Is there some evidence you have of this plan? Sounds like this is just a fear you have.
The 1000x efficiency headline is from Figure 4 of the source PDF:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/7/23/eabe42...

Units are Amps per miliwatt on the Y axis and electron volts on the X axis. The black BTO line has a minimum of around 1x10^-10 at 2.8 eV, which is the energy of a photon in 450 nm blue light, and the red SBC222 line has a minimum of around 1x10^-7. Yes, the difference between 10^-10 and 10^-7 is 1000x; good job, headline! But no, that's not the key takeaway from the article.

Solar cells have an efficiency curve based on their bandgap and the energy in the incident light. It's theoretically a straight line, and regular silicon cells get pretty close to it, see the figure here:

https://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/solar-cell-operation/spe...

Note the units in A/W, not A/mW, also, the research is at a temperature of 77k, the boiling point of liquid nitrogen, while the above plot is close to room temperature. At 450 nm = 2.a silicon cell produces about 0.35 x 10^-3 A/mW, which represents an efficiency of something like 30% in the real world.

This research and that figure 4 plot fundamentally show that conventional barium titanate = BaTiO3 = BTO, produces very little energy from 450 nm light. The researchers fixed this problem with a multilayer cell using strontium titanate, SrTiO3, or STO, then BTO, then calcium titanate, CaTiO3 or CTO, in an STO_2/BTO_2/CTO_2 crystal lattice stack. That's the breakthrough result; they were able to bridge this gap in energy output and take in more wavelengths of visible light.

The actual efficiency of the starting point was about a million times worse than a good silicon cell. There's plenty of room for improvement when you start that low! The end result is still on the order of a thousand times worse than a silicon cell. A production dye-sensitized solar cell today reaches about 10% efficiency, a monocrystaline silicon cell gets about 22%, but the DSSC has potential to be much cheaper to produce, can be flexible, and is not as well understood. This research may help to close that efficiency gap.
This is an interesting comment. If you had an Apple device it was never truly yours to begin with.
Socialism is not about centralized authority. That is just how it ends up when you have oligarchs needing a better brand than naked kleptocracy.
There are a whopping 505 amendments for this bill.

Thank you for the direct link to the Wyden/Lummis/Toomey amendment.

I don't know how anyone can keep track of what a final bill would look like - seriously need something like Git to even keep up.

I think I understand now when folks in Congress complain they "don't know what they're voting for". They need better tools.

Here are all 505 if anyone is interested:
https://www.congress.gov/amendment/117th-congress/senate-ame...
Both of those block usage on mobile device. Is this irony?
Take a look at how they filled the Mandalorian. Quite a lot of it was filmed inside a large video wall / cube. One of the big advantages for them was that it resulted in far more realistic lighting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUnxzVOs3rk
> Kids being unvaccinated strikes me as a weak argument because they are the least vulnerable demographic on average.

I have heard that, yes.

But I've also heard [1] saying when a Houston 11-month-old presented with Covid, five "major pediatric hospital groups" said they had no beds available, and she ended up at a hospital 150 miles away.

I can understand why a politician might not give two thumbs up to such a state of affairs.

[1] https://abc7chicago.com/baby-with-covid-treated-at-hospital-...
"if the world acts fast".., from the article, then I understand that it is going to be really difficult too.
Taxes are unnecessary in any country with fiat currency. This is plainly evident by the complete lack of correlation between tax revenues and government spending. The government can simply create as much money as it needs. Taxes exist only to track and control the citizenry.
> Haig wanted to use tanks to brake through German lines, the hole should then be exploited by horse mounted cavalry.

That makes a lot of sense actually. For example, Red Army has shrunk its cavalry dramatically during the pre- and early WW2 period, down to 13 divisions (about 80 thousand people) in favour of tank divisions... and then when the Germans came, the Soviets suddenly found themselves lacking highly mobile forces, so they reverted that decision: during the 1941, almost 110 new cavalry divisions were created. And the Soviets have been using cavalry (in form of cavalry-mechanized groups: tanks plus cavalry) throughout the rest of the WW2 precisely for the purpose of penetrating deep into the rear of the German lines and interrupting supply and reinforcement movements there. And no, they weren't charging with swords drawn, they were essentially mounted riflemen.

So Haig was pretty much on the spot: make an opening with tanks, rush into it with cavalry. Sure, mechanized corps would perhaps be better but you gotta fight with what you have.
The thing that scares me isn't so much the violation of privacy. It's the idea that some computer algorithm can accuse me of a crime automatically with no evidence and generate an investigation.

Judging by how police respond to these leads, you can end up in jail based on this "Evidence." While you wait for a 6 month investigation to be completed you lose your job and get an arrest record. Even if your photo is just a picture of static on a TV which produced a false positive.

It reminds me of the dog who always indicates the presence of drugs 100% of the time. Probable cause, made to order.
I'm not sure if this comment was troll bait; i'm going to reply as if it weren't.

> if they want to be xenophobic, what's the problem?

One of the problems is that even if the majority of people within a country are xenophobic and they get to decide the lays on a majority basis, there will still be people form other countries living there, or people who in general will be disadvantaged by xenophobic laws.

It's nice for laws to not be dictated only by a majority, but by a plurality. Instead of thinking "what benefits >50% of people is the right thing" we can think "what benefits the most people, including minorities", or "what avoids hurting the most people" to be the right things :)
I was told that an offshore oil exploration drilling operation costs as much as the most recent Mars rover mission ever will. When it comes to keeping the world moving, there's room for ungodly amounts of complexity.

Solar cell installation is pretty easy, but there is some non-negligible complexity in producing them.
I'm new to Zig but I think this is how you would do it:

{
var i: usize = 0;
while (i < 10) : (i += 1) {
// use i
}
}
I see.
I don't live in the US, so I don't know how easy it would be to convince someone to have a startup as a bank there.
In Europe, I'm pretty sure nobody would pick a new bank (especially a startup) just for avoiding monthly saving tranfers. That seems more like a nice feature a bank could have, rather than a new business idea.
If you use carbon tax to fund ubi, it will only hit above average emitters, who will be incentivised to emit less.
I suppose if you live in the US, keep busy with the US government and do weapons/violence related things that might be a default go-to. In the rest of the world, not so much.

Weapons exist for one reason: easier application of violence. That is their only purpose.
> so this doesn't really say much about the WebAssembly spec from a host security perspective

To be clear, it does. WebAssembly does attempt to ensure that it compiles and executes programs in such a way that they are resistant to memory unsafety.

From webassembly.org, section "Memory Safety":

https://webassembly.org/docs/security/

Webassembly advertises itself as more or less solving the "insecure C is still insecure" problem. In reality it's missing a lot of memory safety mitigations you'd find in a C program compiled with a modern compiler.
SpaceX is buying satellite data startup Swarm
We stand for progressive* ideals

*where profitable
> I've heard before that it's only "code is data" and not "data is code" since the data you manipulate will not always be code. Is this correct?

Any data that is going to be processed impacts the result of processing, so data is code, too.

That's most clearly true when data gets passed directly to an execution engine (eval, or sent to a database as SQL after some other bits get stuck onto it, etc.), but there's a perspective in which it is true generally, though not all data processed is unrestricted code.
Planning processes from five years ago or ten years ago don't always get updated. And corruption is still a problem in China. Perhaps not as bad as, say, India, but still an issue. Which is to say, that not everywhere makes cost optimal decisions all the time.

Even the IEA, a huge skeptic of renewables, that consistently makes ridiculous claims limiting the potential for solar and wind, acknowledged that solar is cheapest:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricit...

Decision makers often have huge biases from past data and cultural influences. The bias against renewables and storage in the energy industry is absolutely oppressive. And in most infrastructure decisions, decision makers don't have to answer to shareholders about getting outcompeted by a smarter decision maker that made a better choice.
They rebalanced tracks at some point, and you get IIRC 3 or 4 each time you build some now, instead of (again, IIRC) just one like you used to. Back then, tracks were really expensive. Now, between the resource cost change and salvaging them from abandoned mines, they're a cheapish way to connect places that are too close to bother with gates (or put them in the Nether between very distant gates for super fast transportation).
The Kytch device is discussed and demoed at 22:37 -- the whole video is very interesting, though!
Your explanation that the propeller works like a fan implies a sort of perpetual motion, though, since it implies that the source of energy that pushes it past the speed of the wind is somehow coming from inside the car itself.

The truth is that the car is always getting its energy from the wind, and not expending any of its own. It's just that it's been set up in a clever way that breaks our intuition. We tend to want to mentally simplify the propeller down to a disk whose motion vector is the same as that of the car. But here you've really got to think about the rotation of the propeller and the helical path its blades travel along. The wind is interacting with surfaces whose momentary motion relative to it at any given moment in time are very poorly modeled by the disk abstraction.
> All what is needed to adopt it to scan for different kind of images is to connect it to different database, say, Winnie the Pooh memes featuring CCP chairman, and boom, jailed dissenters.

The CCP have already throughly demonstrated that they don’t need manufactures consent to build these systems.

Look at the Uyghur population in China. They already have their phones scanned on device for dissident material, not by coercing manufacturers, but by forcing the population to install a surveillance app. Then making it illegal to use a phone without it.

Being caught at checkpoint without the app installed and working is grounds for immediate arrest and re-education.
Simplifying Titan Security Key options for our users
> but when I read "build your own..." I'm thinking the actual hardware, or compatible.

I definitely thought the same thing being it was an Adafruit post and disappointed both times to see it was just a basic howto on running the OS in a VM. Still very useful knowledge if someone wants to play, but kinda can't help think they worded it that way to draw folks in. I was really hoping it was some FPGA or maybe even an MCU running an emulator, but alas, QEMU / Virtualbox is what they used.
As a Euro I've wondered what drives this insufferable consumer entitlement in the US as on display at r/publicfreakout. This one puts it into perspective.

I really appreciate The Atlantic's on point writing. More European-centric themes would make me subscribe.
My favorite xterm capability is the ability to display Tektronix vector graphics.

http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/~landaur/nacphy/coping-...

I started combining that with subleq as an experiment in minimalist programming.
I wish I did, I've searched for it a few times, but that was perhaps 10 years or more ago.
Bitwarden is OSS and if you want to really not pay for such a feature, you can strip out the license check code fairly trivially. I think its a good balance.
It's basically about surrendering individual power/consent to collective decision making, isn't it?
Comment you're responding to probably didn't mean American conservative. Most conservatives support abortion in the EU, it's the far-right that doesn't.
We are talking about pro-cycling. The descents in pro tours have _a lot_ of turns.
Progressive taxes harm the middle class whilst the rich figure out ways to avoid them. If you want the average person to do well, you should support a flat tax.
this is just a show of loyalty to the government to prevent any sort of monopoly action against Apple. The government actually loves monopolies because it makes monitoring citizens easier. The Feds would hate for Google, Facebook, or Apple to be broken up. Much better to have everybody using a small number of platforms with government backdoor access

Wouldn't be surprised if this was agreed to behind closed doors in exchange for other assurances from the government. The government passing laws forcing Apple to do this would be very bad PR, better for Apple to appear to do it voluntarily
> However it's also important to remember the popular phrase "those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." This phrase is popular because it expresses the way many Americans, including myself, treasure freedom above all else, so any sacrifices of freedom should be done slowly or not at all if possible.

That's a bad quote to reason from. The key word there is actually "essential" and is left totally undefined. This also demonstrates America's Achilles' heel, because that sentiment can easily be twisted into an argument against any kind of responsibility or sacrifice.

I know many non-Americans, and the pandemic has disillusioned them towards America. They used to admire it a lot, but now they've seen so many Americans use liberty-rhetoric to justify acting in stupid and selfish ways that they think much less highly of it and those so-called ideals. America was supposed to prove the value of its ideals by being better at handling the pandemic than other countries, instead it's used those ideals as a justification for its failure, which is not a good look from any angle.
> “It’s ironic that while so many people believe that phubbing behavior is rude, they still do it,” Sun said.

That's not irony. It's hypocrisy.
Not yet, but I'm on FB. I have a neglected page that tries to teach Watch Repairing--It's called "Watch Repairing". My page has a b/w picture of my bench.

You can message me here--I believe:

https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=732457960219638&ref=co...
Where Are My Extroverts?
> The article mentions that 40% of CP investigations in Germany are started against minors (implied: through sexting), which shows that this concern is not purely theoretical at all.

I've read news about this. Teenager sends nude photos to her boyfriend, calls the cops after the break up and they proceed to nearly ruin his life by threatening lifetime sex offender registration. The implication that the girl produced and distributed child pornography of herself is never even mentioned.

It's completely insane.
so apparently it was a db-15. i think the dac lived in the monitor, and devices that connected were things like modems and voicemail units. line level audio could be noisy so i wonder if it was just 8 bits of data (or more) and a few control pins that were attached directly to the m56k... i think the native width was 24 bits...
Exactly. I don't have anything to hide, but there are some things I need to protect.
> [W]hat makes you continue working for/with them?

Nothing. Except money.
At some point you start to learn how mobs (creepers, zombies etc) spawn and their various behaviors, which you can exploit to set up farms to automatically harvest their loot. Some farms are incredibly simple, and others very complex, but the end result is roughly the same. Some can be adapted to also let you farm experience for enchanting. Admittedly it can break progression a bit when you have enough of them but generally one or two well optimized setups can produce a fair amount of resources.