skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This seems a pretty US-centric conception. I for one wouldn't know how to assign a "racial identity" to myself, and most of my acquitances would surely say the same thing. I doubt that this study holds much meaning outside the USA.

I’m outside of the US (Australian born, resident in Europe for many years) and I wouldn’t find this difficult. If asked, I would assign myself a racial identity of white/European/caucasian. If someone else was asked what race I was, they’d probably say about the same.

I don’t think that my race is an important part of my identity, mind you, but it is ‘real’ in that it impacts how I am treated by others (that is, it has social consequences).
You are right, a carbon tax without a fair and progressive redistribution is doomed to fail. This is partially why we had the "yellow vest" mouvement in France
Would you mind avoiding the tortured use of terminology from CS to describe what is not a CS problem? This occurs too often on HN and often conceals gross misunderstanding behind a veneer of technical jargon. You end up reasoning about something other than the thing at hand because you've tried to redefine it in terms of something you're more familiar with (see "Law of Instrument").
It’s just sad how things have shifted.

During the Cold War, the West in general and the US in particular were proud of spreading freedom and democracy. Rock & roll and Levi’s played a big role in bringing down the USSR.

Then in the 90s, the internet had this same ethos. People fought against filters on computers in libraries and schools.

Now that rich westerners have their porn and their video games, apparently many are happy to let the rest of the world rot.

I guess I just expected more.
T-Mobile was once BANKRUPT?
T-Mobile went from 5 people in the early 90s, to now over 75,000 employees, with a market cap of over $180B dollars... But did you know that it once had to file for bankruptcy, and its Co-Founder had to wait in a freezing room for weeks, begging their vendors for money?

Check out Alan Bender's startup journey on The Seed!
The situation is worse than this. There's a hard limit of 6MB for arguments and environment variables combined, no matter how big the stack is: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170707185729.GA70967@beast/T/... (which was merged as commit da029c1).
Reminds me of the homeland security threat level chart. When its orange, we're serious. When it's red, we're super for real serious
There realy wasn't. Engines switched to fuel injection, which made the octane number less critical, and catalytic converters were mandated that made lead destructive to the car itself.
Can't you just bury the trees?
One of perhaps a dozen rules. The one rule that was tightened in a sea of rules being loosened.
That depends on what are we trading.

I would definitely trade my privacy with the government for any tax discount (and I think I'll have the longer stick, I'm no Indiana Jones) but whether I have an alternative or not is important.

A better question would be: would I move to a country where encryption is illegal if it had 0% tax?
No, I would shop for another country.
For a similar reason, I don't live in Dubai (0% tax but policies I don't approve of).
It's a good point, but also believe it fits within the framework I was (poorly) attempting to describe. If you don't believe those people deserve their wealth and power, then when we achieve wealth and power within our own spheres, we will have doubts about our status as well, and again, it is inconvenient to the human psyche to believe these things about oneself.
Masks Are Back, Maybe for the Long Term
Virtual reality will change trading for pros and everyone else
Thats a really good point actually!
Remote work isn't remotely working for me
In my opinion it's impossible for a small group of people/ politicians to determine what's good for 445 million people.
I don't understand this. Your claim is that it's literally impossible to complete industrialization with non-polluting technologies? Why? Is there something inherent to the energy that fossil fuels provide beyond their cost and ease of access?

> they know the virtue signaling premise (the world can still be saved, if only the developed countries fall on the sword) is a giant lie.

If it's cost alone, the answer is straightforward, especially as your premise already includes the developed world "falling on its sword": countries that polluted their way through industrialization heavily subsidize the clean version of that economic process in countries that have yet to do so.

This is obviously devilishly complicated from a geopolitical perspective, and I'm not necessarily recommending it. But the idea that the developed world has no levers to pull here is nonsense.
totally agree. that seemed like marketing schtick. we are still very much in the gp/chemtech age of ballistic propulsion. alternative propellant is not better than electric vehicles are to oil vehicles, for now...

but i feel that with higher power density battery tech, warmer superconductors, stronger magnets, and metamaterials with exotic electrical properties, maybe this category isn't something we should totally write off for not just niche 'artillery' applications but something like this hand-held category but gamechanging?
Furthermore, it does not matter in the slightest what number it turns out to be. It's going to be nonzero, it's going to continue to be nonzero no matter what legislation you introduce, and so you can always use this argument for more surveillance because people (especially parents, but mostly just everyone, and understandably) get very upset about this topic.
Welcome to the modern Internet, where special interests like crypto outrage-farm on HN in support of their lobbyist objectives.
> Even if emissions went to zero, it would only push the timeline back a few years

If this is true, I need an an explanation.
There's a difference between me _opt-in_ to give private data in exchange for points, and that being unilaterally imposed.

It's also kind of harder to abuse information on my shopping list, whereas there's plenty of ways to abuse having total and complete access to all communication between private parties.
This option is transparent to the user and easy to change. Also, anyone who has done IT support will appreciate that yeah regular users actually want / need backups enabled by default, it's often a life saver for them.
> It does NOT scan photos that are not uploaded to the cloud, despite being on-device.

Yet. Once it's on the device, it's a MUCH smaller step to use it in other ways. It's certainly easier fro governments to argue that they should be able to force it to be used arbitrarily... you know, for the children/terrorists/etc.

> And it's important to note the threshold and manual human review system put in place before the authorities receive any notification at all.

Until it's not. Once again, once it's in place, it's a lot easier for malevolent actors (governments) to force it to be used other ways.

This a back door. Plain and simple. The fact that it's not _currently_ going to be used for evil (depending on your definition of evil) does not mean it won't be in the near future. Back doors are bad. How many times does this need to be said?
I liked Snowden argument:

“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7308507-arguing-that-you-do...
A better link: http://www.geocities.ws/tablizer/top.html

Author's profile on C2: https://wiki.c2.com/?TopMind

About the query language called Tql: https://wiki.c2.com/?TqlRoadmap
Socialism won here, time to move to Mars.

The more I think about it and the less distant China and western countries look like. We all drifted towards socialism.

China is just a tiny bit more into it that we are and we still like to tell us we have elections to control things.
According to https://www.enforcementtracker.com only EU companies get fined for GDPR violations. I assume a private citizen can sue a foreign company for violating their GDPR rights (??), but am I right in thinking that the EU can only prosecute its own entities? Therefore, unless an EU individual sues me for "violating" his right to be spied on, I should be fine? Or would the blame fall on the EU individual for having used a comms channel that doesn't allow the EU to spy on him? I probably am totally wrong, just trying to understand how this works
When looking at the delayed and cost overruns of the California high speed rail, and the slow adoption solar and wind on the west coast USA, and the slow development of batter technology, and the reverted carbon tax in Australia. I would say we very much tried (1) and failed. In particular I would say politicians failed us because they were too busy handing out favorable legislation for the wealthy class, who very much relied on business as usual to keep their wealth growing.

I hold no hope that a new technology will save us, while the politicians act this way. Remember that the White house used to have solar water heaters, but they were removed under Regan.
I posted an explanation for the downwind version above, but here's the gist of why all this is possible:

To extract energy from the wind, you need a reference that is slower than the wind. The ground is one such reference. The vehicle gets access to that reference via the wheels. It can therefore extract power from the wind regardless of where it's going or what it's doing.

So it's like a wind turbine on the ground, connected to a car that has nothing to do with it. Of course the car can go faster than the wind in this situation; the wind speed doesn't matter, only the drag of the car and how big your wind turbine is (how much energy you can get out of it).

This vehicle just makes the whole thing self contained with gearing and counterintuitive rotation of the propeller. It's touching the ground and can use that reference via the wheels, so it can pretend to be a stationary wind turbine on the ground this way. That means it can go downwind, or upwind; doesn't matter. As long as the wind is moving relative to the ground, it can harness that energy.
Difference is L2 BTC transactions are uncensorable, instant, and the BTC itself cannot be confiscated.

>This is of course after you consider opening a single LN channel for every human on earth would take 75 years and 300 billion dollars if the chain did nothing else.

This is completely wrong. Custodial wallets exist, side chains (liquid network) exist and if you need more security, wallets like Phoenix exist that allow instant dedicated channel opening for 3000 SATs (~$1.50, which is less than the 3% fee for a single $100 Visa/Mastercard tx).

Don't forget, when the Bitcoin price 100Xs again, throughput of existing lightning channels will 100x as well (LN node with $50M of channel capacity will automatically turn into a $5B node with 0 intervention).

You wrongly believe scaling is a lot more complicated than it actually is.
The view from a recumbent bike becomes highly obstructed when you're riding in a tight peleton. The group road rides that I do don't allow recumbents for safety reasons. Traditional bikes have their dangers but at least your eyes are up higher to allow a good view around other riders.

Maneuverability is important for time trials. Most courses have several tight turns and crashes are common.
By that logic, any site that allows to display third party content is a phishing/spam site and should be blocked - including twitter, facebook, HN and of course gmail.
They've done so (at least partially) by moving the bulk of their industrial production into the 'developing' world.
Why would a shitty app promote more sales?

The only reason I use MegaBank and its obnoxious but functional app is that Local Credit Union can't afford to build a decently functional app.
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The age of consent goes low as 14 in Europe but that doesn't change the definition of CP. Probably they won't prosecute when both parties are underage and such so heavily but consent age doesn't change the fact that nudity is 18+.
Non-firearms guy reading, was just looking at muzzle velocity, ~245fps (75m/s), where a .45ACP round goes ~500fps. - but joules would be the way to compare the physics. In terms of energy/silence, for hunting, it seems like you can buy more powerful crossbows at a camping store.
Additional energy just seems like an optimization problem that could be solved with an external power pack source.

However, the real game changer may be in the economics of EMP shielding and weapons, where if all legal civilian firearms are electronic, they are also remotely manageable via DRM and less user servicable. The analogy could be like what electronic fuel injection did to carbeurators and the autonomy of drivers to service their own vehicles.

This rifle seems like a bit of a gimmick, but from a political perspective I could see some people saying, "let them hunt with coilguns, nobody needs gunpowder anymore," which will be a new leverage point on 2A limitations whereby this product is a managed substitute. Independent of where one stands on that issue, the product is a technology that could change the dynamic of that discussion.
Nvidia chip shortage? It only leads to cheaper prices long term, innovation, etc. sorry you are sad about not gaming in 4k.

Bitcoins co2 will get better, its also less than the energy used in trafitional finance (buildings, employee's, security, mining, etc). If anything crypro mining is encouraging green energy and able to locate itself to use otherwise wasted energy.

The war on drugs is one of the most useless and innefective policies EVER. It was created on racist terms to combat hippies and black activists, to protect monopolies (tabacco, big pharma) and it has led to the largest non violent prison state in history and made criminal cartels immensely wealthy. Not to mention the billions wasted and the millions dead. Look at Portugal, making drugs legal is the way forward.

Prohibition doesnt work. If you are afraid of cheats, gambling and pollution.. look no further than the big banks caught over and over laundering money for cartels and arms dealers the world over and to the largest polluter peotecting them, the military.
I think your criticism is a bit misguided. The FDIC insurance fund only covers a tiny fraction of bank deposits and if a single small bank had a run the fund would be insufficient to cover it's customer base. It also covers derivative losses before balance losses, so it's really more of a psychological tool then anything else.

Also banks are investing all of your money in highly illiquid risky assets (aka mortgages) so I don't see how this would ruin the economy or even meaningfully change the risk profile if adopted at a large scale.
Video walls aren't very suitable for this use case actually.

The Mandalorian has very specific prebaked imagery to do what it does where latency isn't a big deal. It also uses post production to clean up.

With the kind of volume space that the BBC have, and the frame rates and sweeping camera moves, they likely can't make use of current LED walls.

They don't have the offline resources to clean up the seams in the wall panels, and they probably can't afford the latency of the walls (with walls you need much lower latency than green screen since there's no temporal room to compensate for rendering latency)
When I clicked the link (and when the link was posted), only the original comment was present: https://github.com/blocklistproject/Lists/issues/453#issue-9...
Yes, at the extreme end you can find videos of 3,000+ lb cars flipped by the wind.

It looks quite aerodynamic, but by comparison I can start pushing a 3,000lb car on flat level ground. So this thing probably needs less than 10 pounds of force to start moving.
A place I worked blocked their own website, we never found out why
Think of it this way: what is more important to you, the convenience of exchanging text messages with your friends, or keeping these conversations private?
Here is one federal statute related to the definition of a firearm. It seems that the common denominator for firearms is the use of an explosive.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/921

The term “firearm” means
(A) any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive;
(B) the frame or receiver of any such weapon;
(C) any firearm muffler or firearm silencer; or
(D) any destructive device. Such term does not include an antique firearm.

(4)The term “destructive device” means—

(A)any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas—
(i)bomb,
(ii)grenade,
(iii)rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces,
(iv)missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce,
(v)mine, or
(vi)device similar to any of the devices described in the preceding clauses;

(B)any type of weapon (other than a shotgun or a shotgun shell which the Attorney General finds is generally recognized as particularly suitable for sporting purposes) by whatever name known which will, or which may be readily converted to, expel a projectile by the action of an explosive or other propellant, and which has any barrel with a bore of more than one-half inch in diameter; and

(C)any combination of parts either designed or intended for use in converting any device into any destructive device described in subparagraph (A) or (B) and from which a destructive device may be readily assembled.
>that it by far dwarfs the original meaning of the instantaneous rate of change in calculus.

That's not even the original meaning. According to etymology section on wiktionary, it dates back to middle french and latin, before issac newton was even born.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/derivative#Etymology
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> Wyden's amendment is a result of reasonable concerns expressed by miners

I'm honestly kind of surprised Wyden's amendment didn't get accepted. I guess I misunderstood the level of support it actually had; it seemed reasonable to me and I thought that most of the interest groups had gotten onboard with it.

Maybe that's an area where I'm just in a bubble.
Counter point to UN environment programme: We are safer than ever
Awesome, this is why I come to HN, for comments like this; to learn. (aside from the dopamine hits from posting...)
What makes you anti-crypto specifically?

Edit: see my sister comment for much more info
The propeller pushing backwards on the wind uses up less energy than it gets from the wind blowing it – when it spins backwards to “keep pace with” the wind, that means the wind is faster than it and it can get boosts from the wind.
So, you trust Apple to install this spyware and only use it in the way they currently describe. Great!

But what happens the second they get an order from $GOVERNMENT that tells them to use the spyware to also look at other documents on the device?

I think it's pretty obvious what Apple will say. They'll say "OK." They have no plausible deniability to tell $GOVERNMENT to go pound sand - they have demonstrated the capability already! Telling the spyware to scan different files is a trivial change from a technical perspective.
Nice! I hadn't realized there were two unrelated plant groupings called Silphium.

The original was a valuable, multi-functional plant grown in ancient Libya and traded all across the Mediterranean; its exact species is lost to history. It may have gone extinct around the second century BCE, or it may be a surviving plant that we can't identify.

Leopold seems to be referring to a sunflower-like genus of North American plants which were named after the ancient crop, and are also known as rosinweeds. These, fortunately, appear to have survived to this day--or at least many individual species have.

Interesting stuff.
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HN: WE ALL GONNA DIE! THE END IS NEIGH!
HN is infected with a severe case of tinfoilery. Time to call Dr. Johnes and order some happy pills.
Pretty sure porn involving 16-17 year olds in the Netherlands is also very illegal though, but correct me if I'm wrong.
> which allows the GR-1 to fire up to 20 rounds per minute (at full power) or up to 100 rounds per minute at 50% power.

Huh?

EDIT: Aha, I thought it meant battery power, but this is more likely the applied power for 'slinging' each 'bullet'.
Build a Web3 App on Ethereum with Solidity and Smart Contracts
You mentioned that you can optimize which investments get solds. Assuming my risk tolerance is fine with stock index funds, what happens if I want to withdraw, say 1/2 of my portfolio but the S/P 500 is down 20% (aka March 2020 withdrawal).

Would this go through and the customer loses 10% of their account value or will you guys stop such a withdrawal.
Your comment makes it sound like everyone who lives in a city is a hipster quaffing expensive coffees and wearing silly t-shirts, doing social media influencing. Those are exactly the kind of people who will benefit from remote working.

I'm talking about cleaners, administrators, callcentre workers, fast food staff, delivery drivers, supermarket shelf stackers, etc, living in a small flat in an unfashionable neighbourhood. They suffer very much from social exclusion, and handwavy arguments about how everything will just work itself out sounds naive and silly.
Him again!
Any good email client alternatives?
Poverty and hunger is killing more people in India and Africa than extreme weather.
This is so fake it's not even funny. These are just images generated by the model from https://thisartworkdoesnotexist.com . It's hilarious to see so many people falling for it here
The tell that the tables are real is they are never reflected or bounce light against the virtual set.

Nothing real in their shots is reflected, because they're not using a screen space reflection of their real world content.

Which is why, even though this is well done, everything looks a little floaty
So this gets complicated so
Improv 1.0 is available on m68k next hw.

Improv 2.0 was only available for windows x86.

Lighthouse design quantrix for nextstep is available on m68k, x86, hp-parisc and sun hardware.

Then there’s an offshoot of lighthouse design quantrix which is quantrix modeller written in Java and available for windows and Mac. It costs $2500/year.

I’m learning improv on m68k and quantrix(the manuals interchange freely) on m68k/x86.
> nudity is 18+.

You mean like in movies, those "can't see boobies before you're 18" labels? Because capturing a nude 13-year-olds is perfectly legal, just not in a pornographic manner. E.g. my Dutch biology book had nude ~6 and ~11 year old girls depicted (as well as an adult) for educating different stages of development.
It's dangerous to call this a checking account alternative. It is not a checking account, it is a taxable investment account.

You're going to get users who sign up thinking this is just like a bank account, but with better returns. Then the market will drop 10% when their rent is due tomorrow. Bank rates are so low because the money is always there and insured. Anything without these features should not be called a checking account.

You call yourself Bogle fans, but passive index investing and instant cash access are fundamentally opposed from a time perspective. Finally, this is a tax nightmare. People will think they have huge gains in their account but get hit with a capital gains tax when they go to withdraw.
Talked to a recruiter who said that companies were reversing the return-to-office directive in some European countries as employees were refusing, concerned about Corona obviously, and travelling on public transport.
Maybe if you somehow gain some power over this trillion-dollar company, it will start to care about your opinion, or the fact that you've been disadvantaged.
There are actually sanctioned eMTB races now. Seems a bit lame but whatever.
I don’t know if the title was already changed since you wrote this comment, but the current title of “Crystal arrangement results in 1,000x more power from ferroelectric solar cells” is accurate.