skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of some reasons why this might be a problem, but the article doesn't seem to make a strong case? Without extrapolating a bit with my imagination, the only conclusion I can draw is "medical ai considers race in it's diagnosis, and it is neither a good nor a bad thing". They seem to leave it as a given that it's bad, but tbh as a layman I could imagine arguments both ways[1]. An article from a professional like this one is where I would expect to find them, along with a summary that effectively "picks a side", with a justification for picking that side.

1: Eg: using race as a clue that some reading might indicate a disease common in that race could be good, on the other side there might be some very expensive scan that could throw off the diagnosis because the training data is skewed towards old white men by the sheer price of doing the scan.
AHV = rent

>via health insurance companies, though that shouldn't make a difference.

The difference is huge, in the time between income and give it to the citizens you can make huge amounts of money with it.
This is quite obviously the answer, and UI design isn't a skill like software where your boss can say "If you've finish your work, start a new project." We don't need more UI designs like we need more useful/efficient software.

Imagine If software engineers could get paid to constantly refactor the code and change APIs -- oh, wait, API devs do, for the same reason.
Invite him to do the next few masses naked. See where he stands after that..
The prefix "crypto" means hidden or disguised in English. Neither cryptocurrency nor cryptography have a monopoly on it. The way people get exercised about this issue you'd think that "cryptography" is the only word in the English language to use the prefix "crypto-".
This talking point is simply not true: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1424038327905230850
Sorry only just saw this.

I'm a software developer, have been for my whole career, so I know what building software is like. And while I agree that sometimes there are significant unknowns to resolve, and these can require large amounts of time, still the company has to market and prepare to sell the product before it's finished, otherwise as I said the company has to wait months or even years to get paying customers, by which time a) they'll have burned a huge amount of money without seeing any return and b) they may have missed their market opportunity. In the case of B2B transactions, the customer may have made significant operational decisions based on the deadline they've agreed to, and the supplier missing that deadline can have serious repercussions for a relationship that may have taken many years to build.

And come on, let's be honest - most of the time we're not designing a new type of aircraft engine. We're building something that looks very much like existing engines in general form, but with specifics that are different. I know it's hard, and I know estimates are a significant source of pain, but we need to have some sympathy for the rest of the company that's ultimately bringing in the piles of money that we get paid.
I don't think the suggestion is that developing countries should get to pollute their way into modernity the way the West did. As you point out, the planet won't care whether the extra pollution comes from a place of historical "fairness". But acknowledgement of the fairness element here does imply a straightforward (though far from simple) solution: massive transfers from those who've already dumped their pollutants into the atmosphere to those who are still in the development phase where they need to. Ignoring geopolitical realities and playing the global benevolent optimizer for a minute, this is a pretty clear-cut way to make sure that the externalities and benefits of pollution-driven development are borne evenly, while not ignoring the realities of the planet's response to pollution.

I'm not necessarily endorsing this policy. Just pointing out that the dichotomy you're setting up is a false one.
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Are these domains still managed by mozilla? I thought thunderbird was moved out of the organization?
As someone else pointed out, this is a huge collective action problem that we don't seem to have the institutions and social structures to solve this. Some people are willing to make sacrifices to solve this but many are not. We don't have means or willingness to force the non-cooperating people to cooperate. I'm surprised we haven't seen more terrorism targeted at carbon emitters. But then I see that recently a huge pipeline and a beef processing plant got hacked. That got blamed on Chinese or Russian hackers. It makes me wonder though, if those had been hacks by climate activists would the government tell us? The public discussion sparked by that would be quite different and might lead to an increase in that type of activity. This also is straight up a plot line from The Ministry for the Future which.
Blegh. I think that cryptocurrency was a well-intentioned experiment trying to solve real problems, but that it has broadly failed, and that some of the knock-on effects of speculation on top of the cryptocurrency ecosystem are just unambiguously harmful at this point.

It's not just the environmental concerns from PoW; I have concerns about privacy, about how coins have derailed (in my mind) more legitimate efforts to improve modern financial systems. And I have cultural concerns about how this plays into some of the worst instincts of modern society towards speculation and artificial scarcity purely for their own sake, disconnected from any problems or utility. NFTs are the type of technology that honestly shouldn't have been developed, they're pointless and exploitative.

But as much as I do kind of want cryptocurrency to crash and die, I really don't want to do it this way. I've seen some people argue that this wouldn't apply to software developers, but I don't like that the question is under debate at all. The idea that it theoretically might is terrifying, if it's not intended to apply to developers why wouldn't we clarify that in the bill to assuage those fears? And even where miners are concerned: I would like to see mining (particularly PoW mining) eventually become unprofitable, but pushing those people into the category of brokers seems really problematic and short-sighted.

My worry is both that this will open the door to a lot more unnecessary data collection, and that further down the road it might hinder efforts to make better alternatives to the current cryptocurrency industry. The financial concerns are real, but the really troubling part to me is the reporting requirement. Software developers shouldn't be collecting this kind of information, neither should miners.

I also haven't seen a lot of consensus about what technologies the label "digital asset" could apply to in the future, and that worries me a lot as well. I am not a legal expert, I don't feel qualified at all to speculate on how this stuff is determined. A smaller group of people saying that "obviously X made-up digital token or point system or game item wouldn't count" -- that's not super-reassuring to me because I'm not smart enough to evaluate the accuracy of their claims. I want to see more qualified legal experts weigh in. I don't want to see games suddenly collecting a lot of personal information just because technically someone could sell a digital item to another player for money.

I like Wyden's amendment: it still goes after brokers, but it makes it clear who a broker is (and importantly, isn't). And I thought that there was pretty decent bipartisan support for Wyden's amendment. It's really frustrating that support seemed to only be good enough to get 29 votes.
Germany's per-capita emissions are significantly higher than other Western European nations like the UK and Spain though (9.44 vs 5.55 and 5.40)[1] and pro-nuclear France manages even lower per-capita emissions than those (5.13).

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...
> The last two people will fire bombs at each other and kill each other for sure.

We've had nuclear bombs for 70 years now and yet we're still alive. This doesn't seem to support this stance. I also don't see everyone on earth rolling over the second it gets a little hotter. Sure some people will but the vast majority will want to survive
Sailing faster than the apparent wind[0] has been going on for a while, especially on v.high performance land and water yachts. [1]

The physics involved still twist my brain, but there's nothing terribly new here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_wind

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_sailing
I mean, to some extent, defense will always be stronger than offense—offense always needs to travel to get there, for instance, while defense happens where you are—but the degree makes a big difference.

If, all else being equal, it takes a force of 1500 attackers to overwhelm 1000 defenders, defense is still stronger than offense, but you can still expect to be able to make progress relatively easily.

If, on the other hand, it takes 5000 attackers to overwhelm 1000 defenders, suddenly you have to make very different kinds of calculations about what is worth the cost, and what is even strategically feasible to take without destroying your army's ability to fight.
TIL the legal definition of “firearm” includes the stipulation that the projectile be propelled by “explosives”[0]. ATF probably would need to go to Congress to get the relevant section of law updated to be more tech-agnostic (maybe based on muzzle energy?)

[0]: https://www.atf.gov/firearms/firearms-guides-importation-ver...
wow. what a comment. I think there's a place for this product. sure it's not for everyone, but modern investing apps are already erasing the lines between risk on and risk off money.

https://tolusnotes.com/the-true-cost-of-fdic-stability-broke...
The US aren't the only government with a stake in that. And countries like China, Saudi, the Emirates have a lot of leverage. Financially and diplomatic. Heck, Facebook bowed to Myanmar just to get the users there.
This is a coordination problem.

A problem in which everyone is supposed to suffer a little to prevent greater collective suffering in the future.

It has one important characteristic: everyone would rather not suffer and let some else suffer. When problems are like that, there is need for coordination, for people to agree on what is a fair amount of suffering for each actor.

I happen to agree that CO2 per capita is a much better measure of what is fair, especially when comparing the US and China, both countries that are growing very little in population
Yes, it's likely one of the most effective methods that basically no one (in the west) would have a moral objection to. But there is some middle ground between that and nuclear annihilation.

Making free, widespread birth control and sterilization available in areas with high population growth is one option that would likely be more immediately effective than education, but less morally objectionable than bombs.
From what I have understood is that the Ruptly crews are safe because they are trusted and known to publish a factual non-editorialized stream.

The traditional media? Not so much.
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Oh my goodness. Here is Portman himself in his own words:

“The Treasury Department, the nonpartisan Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation and others believe that the current language is clear and that the reporting requirements only covers brokers, but my view is that we should work to clarify this given the potential for confusion on an extremely important issue. In particular, we want to be sure miners and stakers and others now or in the future who play a key role by validating transactions, or sellers of hardware or software for digital wallets, or node operators, or others who are not brokers are clearly exempted.”

Video: https://youtu.be/p0auPbbDQnY

AND YET the Warner-Portman-Sinema (note the Portman in there!) amendment doesn’t specifically exclude stakers or validators who may now or in the future secure the networks, and certainly not the catch-all “others who are not brokers”? Only exempts proof-of-work miners? Yet he claims it was already “clearly exempted” in the proposed bill at the time of his speech and the amendment was supposed to clarify that??

I wonder if the Senator’s own words on the floor, and assurances that the Treasury and others hold the same view, could be used in court cases to clarify the meaning of “broker” later on, in favor of the defendants (Ethereum proof of stake miners, say) when they will invariably be served papers and prosecuted for not reporting.

Seriously, how can you say one thing and do another so blatantly? This is worse than “if you like your plan you can keep it”.

Will the Treasury and others likewise say one thing in private (as he reports) and quickly flip when it comes to making examples out of non-reporting POS miners?
Just before you do, have a read through who Mozilla is in 2021[0]

> "Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's top executive, was paid $2.4m in 2018, [...] Payments to Baker have more than doubled in the last five years."

> "Mozilla recently announced that they would be dismissing 250 people."

[0] https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
In the veratasium video [1] you can see it starting just from the wind (first attempt is around 5:20). It works just fine because as you scale up the vehicle you scale up the propeller, so there's plenty of surface for the wind to push against.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyQwgBAaBag
I strongly recommend the book Unix Power Tools for all such questions. Quotes become easier to grok once you think of different ways to remove meaning of special characters. Basically, 1) backslash removes special meaning of the next character, 2) surrounding by double quote removes special meaning of all characters except backslash, dollar, and backtick, and 3) surrounding by single quotes removes all special meanings.
rasz was still correct about Paula though. The sound chip didn't change.

Too bad AGA was too little, too late. If it was released a few years sooner, say with the A3000, it might've been different. ECS barely added anything over OCS, other than extra chip RAM. There were a few modes hardly anyone used.
"It's more than Europe they plan to unify" - jc Denton
For those interested, today we have a source which references some present companies that use CL in production. It is by no means an official one, we collect data when we find it, but it makes our answer to "who uses CL?" way better than only 2 years ago: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ Google (still, with ITA Software, people from Google contribute heavily to SBCL), Intel (for the Tofino programmable chip https://allegrograph.com/press_room/barefoot-networks-uses-f...), all quantum computing companies (the new AI?), Boeing, web companies (the new OSS app Screenshotbot), cloud providers (keepit), music products (the awesome ScoreCloud app), banks (russian Sberbank), financial analytics (Ravenpack), etc. Several of them are still hiring.
The error with lead was the opposite one. It was a moral panic that's lead to the current health crisis, both mental and physical. People need heavy metals, they are essential.
No, the wind is not turning the propeller, the wheels are.

The reason the wheels are able to turn the propeller without slowing the vehicle down is that the speed of the wheels over the ground is greater than the speed of the propeller through the air thanks to the tailwind.
To a point. Once the magnetic field gets to a certain strength, the projectile magnetically saturates and the only way to really get more kinetic energy into it is to make the barrel longer. If they can demonstrate this firing the equivalent to a .22LR, it would be really amazing.

Edit: They claim "up to" 75 ft-lbs muzzle energy, which is in the realm of .22LR. Check out this chart: https://www.mcarbo.com/22LR-Ballistics-Chart
I had a good use for these old compilers- in this case I ended up using code from the Zortech-C library to reduce memory usage for ARM embedded. It turns out that the float to ascii conversion functions for printf from the Zortech-C library are much smaller than the ones in newlib. I'm sure they are less accurate, but I don't care for this application. Same for strtod. Also they are faster.

I put the code here:

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/blob/master/snippets...

I see the Aztec ones for x86 are hand assembly..
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I completely agree that our product could be used the wrong way, and we want to make sure we guide our customers to the investments that will have the best risk profile for them. In particular, we are currently seeking to become a registered investment adviser, so we can make suggestions based on our customers' individual situation (e.g. so we can recommend that people without significant savings invest in lower risk securities like US Treasuries and Bonds).
>The problem I have with this approach is that it introduces on-device scan for images.

Windows already does this via Windows Defender. This is a basic AV functionality and much more privacy preserving.
I started to notice I was getting less hits on searches related to .NET development for versions prior to .NET Core. I pessimistically assumed it was due to some concerted effort to reduce access to MS-related articles. I don't use Google for much more than that nowadays so I wasn't aware it is a general lack of quality results across the board.
"cleaner than vans" - Glad you did a study to find that

jokes aside, the faster thing is genuinely somewhat surprising
The original Veritasium video https://youtu.be/jyQwgBAaBag

The video of the bet and the further explanations - https://youtu.be/yCsgoLc_fzI -- at 13:28 is an example without aerodynamics.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210727051112/https://arcflashl...
Newsletters, especially paid subscriptions, are thriving right now. It seems some people grab onto actual reporting when they find it.
Would having to curb CO2 emissions stunt Indian / African economic development more than the effects of climate change will? Those two areas are particularly vulnerable to the worst of the impacts as I understand it (extreme heat, food supply disruption, etc.)
>I'm probably missing things happening in Asian countries due to consuming western media.

Tokyo Olympics, specifically the heat has been getting tons of coverage in western media. As a Tokyo resident I can't recall a summer this hot over the six years I've lived here. Floods in China have likewise received a fair bit of coverage. A few media outlets have managed to join the dots but they appear to be in a minority.
Nitpick, but "US treasuries" include long-term bonds, which can fall substantially in value if interest rates rise. So low-risk short-term assets are confined to things such as Treasury bills with duration less than 1 year.
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Meh. Compared to 10 years ago we still live in a bright future where e2ee is available to everyone who needs it. Yeah, you might need to enable some options (like in Telegram) or disable some other options (like iCloud in iMessage), but it's still there.

Even with this on-device CSAM thingy, Apple knows less about you than they did 10 years ago and random staffers at FAANG can't just go and spy on their spouses (the way they could not that long ago).
I do agree that this should be positioned as a brokerage account with a debit/credit card for spending.
It's also super concentrated in the Salton Sea which limits the global scope of the mining operation.
So this is an investment account ? If you are not FDIC insured, can you guarantee that I will not lose any money at any time ? If not, it is not really a checking account in my opinion. With my brokerage account, I can already sell securities whenever I want and take the cash out (with tax consequences). Aren't you essentially doing the buy/sell for me but everything else applies just like any investment/brokerage account ?
Dumb question: do we know from what they've released publicly if it will be possible for security researchers to snag a copy of the database, perform the same perceptual hash algorithm on a given image, and determine if there's a "hit", without violating some kind of license term?

Perhaps the community could run a crowdsourced "keep them honest" service web service -- upload the latest illegal-in-China Winnie-the-Pooh meme, oh hey look at that, it's in the China-only version of the database, isn't that weird, etc etc. (Obviously you wouldn't want people "testing" images that are in the database for the actual stated purpose...)
No. There are some per-country implementations, but nothing EU-wide.
I immediately guessed this was a green screen studio or 'virtual studio'. It has that tell-take 'fake' look to it that is easy to spot. Not knocking the effort or the impressive technology that underpins it.

A recent development is 'virtual' sets with LED background screens replacing the traditional green screen. The blend of background and actors is seamless and impressive.

Here's a behind-the-scenes look of The Mandalorian that uses this new technology.

Why 'The Mandalorian' Uses Virtual Sets Over Green Screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufp8weYYDE8
And there's tempeh, a soy food produced with a fungus. [1] I had some for the first time in a long time in a stir fry last night, and it was delicious. Nicely chewy; tasty all by itself, unlike tofu (although it needs to be fried). Would make a great burger.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempeh
I voted Remain in the EU referendum here in the UK but, in 2021, a few things have happened that have caused me to question whether that was the right choice and whether, with Brexit, we have the right outcome (albeit for very much the wrong reasons seen through 2016 eyes):

1. Ursula von der Leyen and the EU Commission bullying companies and non-EU countries about vaccine production and provision. A wider point here is that the undemocratic nature of the Commission is something that I have always viewed as a problem.

2. The generally shambolic and inconsistent handling of vaccine procurement and rollout within the EU (which does now at least appear to be running much more smoothly; the UK government did well here but, overall, has handled the pandemic with majestic ineptitude).

3. This[0]. Chatcontrol 2.0 isn't the first ill thought out piece of legislation to get approval in the EU, and it won't be the last, but it is certainly one of the more sinister, and a significant violation of privacy amongst the majority of law-abiding citizens.

Overall I would still probably prefer to be in the EU than not, but I'm simply not as certain about that as I used to be.

[0] This whole assessment is of course contingent on the UK not simply falling into line with this legislation, a la GDPR, anyway. I'm on board with the spirit of GDPR and related legislation but the way every organisation seems to comply has certainly made the web suck more.
Video walls can change perspective. They're heavily in use for shows like the Mandalorian among others.

They'd essentially just show what's being composited in behind them, and react to the camera tracking.

This is how the Mandalorian works
My colleague Mulugeta Ayalew Tamiru has done research on a much cooler federated Kubernetes setup than what KubeFed gives you. It scales horizontally (Pods and Clusters), it does cross-cluster networking, and has network latency-aware scheduling. Simply amazing stuff. :)
Duh, can't do maths - 25% population increase requires 20% impact decrease to stay still. Still seems unlikely to me across a 30 year timeline.
Why did you write "yeah" and then contradict everything parent said about revenue impact?
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