skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The masses generally don't care. I mean, if you look at the Apple debacle recently, most people will forget about it or won't even be aware about it after a few months.
Batteries are better now than 10 years ago. Motors are better than 10 years ago. Solar is better than 10 years ago. Computers are better than 10 years ago. Each is not a huge amount better, but the improvements multiply out.
I think after reading a ton of comments here, the one thing that most people overlook is that each user's experience on social platforms is now completely different because of all of the algorithmic "funnels" they implement.

Some people get funneled into depression spirals, some people find great new music, the paths are implemented by companies bent towards profit and engagement, while as a result the people driven by reckless experimentation can be driven to madness, suicide, and even doing harm to others including animals in hopes of being seen.

I only use social platforms in small spurts because I noticed most of these short video platforms are wrecking my patience and attention span in real life... They are truly good when search works properly and when each user is in full control of what they want to see and the content is properly categorized and tagged, but that doesn't make them enough money... apparently.
Exactly the kind of thing you’d expect China to be doing…
Yeah, I recently switched my main machine from macOS to Pop!_OS 21.04 (another "install and forget" distro based on Ubuntu, so kinda similar to Elementary OS) and I miss iTerm so much that I sometimes slide my chair over to the music workstation (which is still a Mac) and SSH in from iTerm just to do stuff in the terminal.

I think iTerm is probably not just the best terminal on any platform, but also one of the best software applications ever made, period. I would looove to have something like it on Linux, but I've spent several evening beers googling it, after switching to Linux, and there just aren't any.

Random things I like about iTerm, off the top of my head:

- not only is it extremely customizable, it can sync those settings across multiple machine easily via any shared-folder mechanism (I use Syncthing, but you could use iCloud Disk or Dropbox or anything)

- infinite history/scrollback retention, even across restarts

- extremely good performance, regardless of having dozens of windows open (maybe only on high-spec Macs? that's the only kind of Mac I use, since macOS is so crazy slow generally)

- timestamps on every line, hidden by default but can be shown after the fact whenever you want (e.g. hmm... when did this script output this line of text? oh, last night at 1AM, it must be hung then, kill it)

- detaches your sessions when it updates itself, then restarts and re-attaches them

- great shell integration (https://iterm2.com/documentation-shell-integration.html) enables useful extra features

- Instant Replay

- scriptable, so each project can have a little script that opens iTerm and opens a tab that runs a local dev server, another tab with REPL, another tab with unit tests in watch mode, another tab with whatever... and so on
My previous company called that somewhat uncomfortable feeling where you sort of know how to proceed but not completely the "learning edge", and it's a term I really like. I always aim to keep myself and my team on that learning edge to keep people growing (avoiding complacency/stagnation) while not exposing them to too many roadblocks. It's a constant balancing act.
Is this verifiable? Source?
"What do you call the person that finishes last in medical school? Doctor."

Somewhat less snarkily, I was under the impression that medical schools hate not graduating their students, so once you're in, basically anybody who can physically survive the grind will become a doctor. Is this incorrect?
Amazon awarded secret $10B NSA cloud computing contract: report
Why didn't you start with HIV-status cards? That seems to be less sensitive right now.
Have you responded to the wrong comment here? You seem to be agreeing that obese, trans and other niche content is likely to be less popular than generic, less niche content.

1.) A substantial portion of the US population doesn't want to recognize or legalize the existence of trans people? What are you talking about? You're aware of some faction that's actively trying to make being transgender illegal?

Hard to read what you disagree with here, but yes there are factions that are trying to make behaviours that trans people exhibit illegal. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathroom_bill
Hypothetically that's possible, although all three steps you listed are exceedingly non-trivial. The notion that an attacker could pull off two of those steps let alone three is borderline fanciful. In addition, their target must also qualifies with the necessary prerequisites:

• has an iPhone;

• has children;

• took photos of their children which could be mistaken for CSAM by a sloppy reviewer;

• is of sufficiently high importance to justify the effort.

And after that insane effort, all you've done is inconvenience your target for a little while until child safety people investigate your family situation and discover that the photos which got flagged were not actually CSAM.

Immediately after the investigation process discovers the hash fraud, Apple will immediately start delving into exactly how their hash algorithm failed in this instance, improving it to mitigate this exploit. So this target better be worth it!

If this was a plausible exploit, surely it would have already happened to people with Android phones since Google has been doing pretty much the exact same scanning of customer images for over five years. (The only difference with what Apple is now doing is where the hashing is performed—but this makes no functional difference to the viability of your hypothetical exploit.)
This is fascinating! Thanks for sharing. It’s hard to tell what the specificity of the planning was… it seems to have included the street layouts and the below-ground infrastructure, but unclear on the facades and the shop/business distribution?

I didn’t know about this but it makes a lot of sense. Those enormous boulevards are clearly not original nor unplanned.
They're probably unaware because it's not true. The source he cited (https://www.pbs.org/video/nature-why-giant-sequoia-needs-fir...) is about Giant Sequoias, not Redwoods.
In Australia, one of the problems that we face (and we have much more of a culture of "let it burn" and doing controlled burns than CA) is that chaotic weather (almost certainly the result of climate change) has reduced the number of days available for controlled burns. You need pretty calibrated conditions to do safe controlled burns - not too wet, not too dry, and not too windy.

Last round of big fires in Australia, the scale of the fires were contributed to by fewer available days in the previous years to do the burning. Plenty of dipshits with axes to grind blamed it on the "Greenies" as per usual, but the people who manage the controlled burns had another story to tell.
It's a strong counterargument, yes, and I'd argued that a few days ago on HN.[1]

I'm strongly sympathetic to the argument that the US and Canada have mismanaged their forests in a way that increases fire risk. However it's also clear that climate itself is playing a major role, with forsts burning earlier and later in the year, hotter, and more frequently, than in the past, as well as in places where forest-management practices really don't much come into play. The fact that wildfire prevalence is increasing worldwide, including where total fire suppression has NOT been practiced seems to be the fatal blow to forest mismanagement as a principle cause.

Again, I don't at all doubt it contributes. But the global trends suggest something more at hand.

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Notes:

1. See e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28083657
FEC in basic form works like raid 5. M parity packets for every N data packets, allowing loss recovery of up to M of the M+N packets without round trip back to host.

You can dynamically tune M and N based on measured loss rates and RTT.
I appreciate you defending this position. I bought 50 acres of land burned in a very hot forest fire 9 years ago. While there is some grass and some bushes around, the 50 acres of trees have now all fallen by now and are rotting. Some of them have stayed hard and are super annoying to cut with a chainsaw, but others I can kick apart with my boots. Either way I use them for firewood at my campsite and they ignite instantly with no work on my part. Until you have walked through a real fire zone, you can't fathom what it really looks and feels like.

Also, thanks for being a wildland firefighter, lots of us who live in hills and forests really really appreciate you.
How would this help with CSRF? The new feature only applies when someone intentionally clears their cookies.
> "Effective and stealthy manipulation" were your words I believe. Short hop from there for someone else to go further.

A hop you took, not me.

> We just watched people spend 3-4 years claiming that 50 Russian internet trolls were responsible for beating a billion dollar presidential campaign.

Fifty Russian internet trolls (likely more), were working to put their finger on the scale, but it's an exaggeration to say definitively that they "were responsible for beating a billion dollar presidential campaign." Maybe they tipped the scale, but maybe they didn't. There's no way anyone will ever answer that question.

It's like hacking. Has a foreign nation hacked the US power grid to cause widespread blackouts? No. Does that mean foreign hacking of US utility companies is not something for Americans to be concerned about? No. Does that mean the US shouldn't harden its power grid against the threat? Also no.
Don't forget about the singularity.

The ultimate "we're fucked" idea.
> You can disagree with most of his decisions, but to not even consider his advice after all he's experienced seems unwise.

He was a shitty statesman, and a laughably bad political consultant.

For just how a "high class" consultant he was, look for how he absolutely hilariously blew the Rockefeller's plans to enter politics.

Saying him simply being "unwise" would not make him any justice.

> These are the hard decisions one grapples with as Secretary of State. Kissinger's own history as a Jewish immigrant who witnessed Nazism led to this rationalistic pessimism, and this idea that the best state we can hope for is teetering on the edge, slowly relieving tension a la detente, and that true utopia is unachievable.

Traumatic experiences can change a person for both good, or worse. In this case, this bitterness, and insecurity definitely turned a person for worse.
Lots of non-GMO and Organic farmers use stuff that's just as bad as round up. They're kidding themselves if they don't think they are. Nature is full of quite deadly chemicals not made by man, but the "eco farmers" complete ignore that and act like "natural" pesticides are safer than man-made ones.
I was going to say, sending "most" of $600M to organisations like archive.org would be quite a news story.
Probably not in the fast or powerful sense, but if you’re looking to fire up something old and energy inefficient then I’m sure you can find something.
When Eric Schmidt was still active in leadership at Google he brought Kissinger in for internal fireside chats at least a couple times.

It was entertaining to watch the internal memegen when this went down.
I checked my car (2004 Mazda RX-8), which was estimated around $8k. I actually sold through a Carvana-like service for under $1k because I got tired of listing it myself at under KBB's rec ($2k at the time, IIRC)The other online price checkers come in closer to the actual amount I received.

What's the difference between what you're doing, and why should I trust your number? Something that far out of expectations and experience, plus other low trust factors on the site[0], lead me to ditch your conclusion. Sorry if that sounds blunt - but the whole thing appeared to me to be a RNG lead gen for local car dealers who are short on inventory - the incentive is to give me a higher number so I become a lead for you.

[0] low-trust indicators I noticed: poor data curation - inconsistent capitalization (some all caps, some lowercase), multiple options for the same trim with nearly similar names. Rougher design than most modern sites. SEO Keyword stuffing at the bottom of the page. Leadgen pages for 3rd parties in general tend to be sketchy in general.
Before Paradise burned to the ground it was the same way. The city stopped people from cutting down their own trees. Those same trees would fall and kill people. During the time I lived there at least 3 times. 2 in bed one in a truck.

Some people even had trees that were small but just leaning into someone's house, maybe ruining the siding a little.

We should basically cut a 1/2 mile of trees in the semi-urban areas. Leave the 5 or 10 acre properties alone, let them manage their own cruft, but for the "city" part in the WUI, that should be clear-cut with 1/2 mile and maintained yearly. It would create a lot of jobs too. Spend that money on weekly clearing jobs in many areas instead of insurance companies paying that money out to just replace the homes.
I understand that Apple isn’t directly responsible for this policy and a contracted firm is primarily responsible. However, this press couldn’t have came at a worse time when Apple is also facing negative PR resulting from their announcement of expanded protections for children.
Homeless encampment grows on Apple property in Silicon Valley
It is easy to confuse Basmati and Thai. They are both ‘fragrant’ rice. But, do not mix them up. Jasmine rice has very high GI due to lower amylose content.
>The social media functionality is the secondary purpose of the app

That's like saying that providing people with groceries is the secondary purpose of grocery stores, the first being collecting money in exchange for them.

Duh! How horrible! Everyone would be better off if they just grew their own food on their own farm, like in the good old days

Saying TikTok is the "worst" thing is absurd given the article we're discussing. The people clearly see value for them in TikTok that hasn't been provided by other services, and adding that to the Internet is unambiguously great.

So the value to the users TikTok brings is unique and novel, whereas any potential harm to the users doesn't really change (as everyone and their grandma are collecting all the data already).

Yesterday, an average user had, say, 11 data-collecting apps — and today, it's 12. It's not great, but very little changes for the user. Hardly the worst thing IMO.
I'm very curious about the ethics of early retirement. Forgone consumption seems like a reasonable justification. But surely there is a limit? If I retire by early and through compounding interest amass a fortune that would allow my children to retire before they even enter the work force, is that ethical?

Similar scenario: I take up arms to aid the king and in turn ensure stability and peace for society. The land I'm given as compensation allow my lineage to live as nobility for centuries. Is that ethical?

I'm making hyperboles not to discount your logic but to show an extreme and try to pinpoint where the limit is. For what its worth, I'm saving quite aggressively and live very modestly for the sole purpose of increasing my leisure, perhaps to retire early. So I am obviously not making this argument as a way to bash FIRE practitioners. I am genuinely curious about the ethical implications of compounding rewards for legitimate sacrifice. Of course someone who works hard in their youth without consuming should be able to retire earlier without guilt. Though I think Warren Buffett is on to something in his disdain for dynastic wealth.
That's a valid point, but you don't necessarily need to use it on the every fire - maybe just in certain conditions?
If I look at a list of Rust projects (awesome-rust, etc), quite a lot of them either replicate something done in C, or create something that probably would have been done in C.
All the trading in corn futures aids in liquidity and price discovery. Things which seem meaningless until you actually try a thinly traded trade and find that you can lose 30% simply from buying something on the bid-ask spread.

Maybe someday we’ll have a recession caused by excessive leverage in corn futures but so far the activity you mentioned has seemed fairly harmless while producing much liquidity.
Are we reading the same article? Here's the text from article mentioning climate change

# 4. Climate change hasn’t helped.
“Increasing heat, changing rain and snow patterns, shifts in plant communities, and other climate-related changes have vastly increased the likelihood that fires will start more often and burn more intensely and widely than they have in the past,”
There's no way to tell whether those numbers are evidence for or against discrimination because there's no control group of culturally blank ivy leagues to compare it against.
I've read there's maybe other even less defendable factors at play; namely convenience. It's much easier for the whole staff compared to a normal natural labor which can go on an indeterminate amount of time. At least if it's liability you could argue doctors were being excessively cautious, the apparent reasons here are pure convenience for the doctors over patients.

https://www.tipsonlifeandlove.com/health-and-wellness/c-sect...
Humans have thrived in a wider range of ecosystems and environments than any other mammal I know of. Humans have did this without a global industrial base using only local technology and economic output.
These days it is about anything can meme and get people to make fomo-driven buys of crypto at spot prices.

It used to be about decentralized peer-to-peer money that is highly resistant to censorship.

Then that got blown to bit because satoshi didn’t possess enough foresight to realize that one day it will get owned by a handful of people who will leverage the artificial scarcity to conduct endless pump-and-dumps to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor.

How do you think Satoshi would have reacted to the current state of affairs? You think he would see this “cryptocurrency” space as the path to solving the problem of money and corruption in finance?
This is a fantastic article — thank you for sharing it!
100 years in an arbitrary period. Why not go back 10k years to define a luxury?
Some problems from the PDF are not on that web page. I guess that's expected given that the web page is last updated in 2005.
Overly simplistic assumptions.

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002...

https://www.sciencealert.com/logging-forests-to-halt-wildfir...

https://www.opb.org/article/2020/10/31/logging-wildfire-fore...

What evidence is there that logging reduces fires or fire severity?

A far bigger problem than environmental groups are those opposed to building regulations requiring homes be made out of non-combustible materials. Across mountain communities we continue to see materials that are more combustible than dead trees being used to build new homes. You can see the effect of this in fires: homes burned to ash, surrounding by scorched but not incinerated trees. The house burned hotter because of the materials it was made out of.

Homeowners, and local governments, consistently oppose retasking forest service fire fighting budgets, and making home insurance cover the true cost of the risk homeowners should assume for their voluntary decision to live in fire prone areas. Yes, they should pay the necessarily high premiums to live in these areas and protect their property. Why should everyone else subsidize this? It's not like living in fire prone areas has any national economic benefit, unlike living in certain flood prone areas: agriculture, and port cities.

Where we shouldn't be federally insuring homes from floods is on the goddamn beaches with not a farm or port for 100 miles. Those houses should only be able to get private, for-profit, hazard insurance - to help discourage people from building in risky areas, or suck it up and bear the true cost of managing the risk.
If you're looking for options, a better one would be to find the nearest casino and bet it all on black. You're more likely to win there than with some trading bot. And if you do win the casino will actually pay out instead of stealing your money. They might even give you free drinks.

Seriously those exchanges and trading platforms are set up to take advantage of n00bs like you. Don't be a sucker.
Somewhat similar to how an Uber now costs what a cab did since they are no longer subsidizing the ride cost. And also now seems to have similarly low margins.

But, it did greatly improve the quality and availability of the service. Maybe crypto helps push banks the same direction.
Uh… PermGen? What year is it? This must be blog spam from the past.
Are we reading the same HN here? You're telling me there are "legions of anti-Semitic trolls", but all I see is one post that's already been flagged & downvoted to oblivion.
Unity is pursuing cloud because there is such a large opportunity. Even in the world you imagine where WebGL games take off multiplayer net code, matchmaking, server hosting, live ops, etc. could remain large markets.

Today, most large game companies do many of these things in-house — by offering services to solve some of these challenges Unity is hoping to lower the barrier to entry for smaller developers to compete and convince the larger ones that they would be better off using managed services instead.
Or UTF-8 it seems
> the major storage providers
**major**
Swamp coolers cool based on evaporative cooling: water evaporating into dry air reduces the (dry bulb) temperature of the air. So with high wet bulb temperatures indicating air is already saturated with moisture, the swamp cooler won't work.
is it ready for production use? i can't find docs on how to run multiple master anywhere.
There is no universal local file system API, so "terrible" might be a reasonable description of this.

There is a Chrome-only local file system API.

Generally SPAs are limited to browser provided storage like IndexedDB.
Seems that Siberia and California are having fires bigger than those in Amazon.
I've been watching the Siberian wildfires for a few years now. The Nullschool Earth Weather Visualiser is an excellent tool, especially its particulates and CO channels. Here are conditions from both as of an hour ago:

CO (direct combustion):
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/...

PM1 (particulates/smoke): https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/particulates/...

Note that the heaviest CO concentrations are usually directly above (or within tens of miles/km) points of combustion. It's not clear to me whether or not this is the case shown, or if CO concentrations are high enough to be sustained even when windblowen. The size of the high-concentration region is staggering though. Contrast with US/Canadian Pacific Northwest fires:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/...

What also seems to be the case is that Siberia is experiencing multi-years-long fires. They flare up in the summer time, but continue burning, much as coal fires do, in roots or sheltered regions throughout the winter, to flare up again in the summer time.

Mind that with lightning and human activity this needn't be the only ignition source, but it seems to be contributing.

Video showing a "zombie fire" near Yakutia in January, 2021:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BbR7IyshWkA
You might notice that none of them actually crossed the Atlantic, because nobody except Germans knew how to build and operate airships.

None of the airships in your list were Zeppelins. None were ever providing passenger service.

Again, just examine the track record of Zeppelins, and compare it to the track record of contemporary aircraft safety-wise.
The issue isn’t McFlurries but milkshakes