skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(disclaimer, I work in a Climate&Energy group)

- There are a number of technical solutions for climate change.

- There are a number of technical entrepreneurs who would love to implement those solutions.

... there is no market to pay for it.

I will echo other folks in this thread in calling for a carbon tax (or Carbon Dividend, possibly the most politically feasible option) to create such a market. Please call your representative! The number of people that have asked me how they can help, but haven't called their representative is driving me crazy!

Such legislation is not intrinsically complicated. If we can just get that passed, I would go to bed at night knowing that the majority of the problem is basically solved.
Secretary General: This report must sound a death knell for fossil fuels (1989)
Even as the world ends, I will enjoy a few last perfectly soft boiled eggs over my camp stove, and contemplate the meaning of existence. And a major US metropolitan area, near several military bases, airports, and missile launch sites. So more than most of the population.

On a more serious note, as a bit of a "prepper" - it's not hard to cover the essentials. Once past that, working timepieces greatly simplify coordination and other group efforts. Additionally, I would expect decent trade value out of them, should the unlikely but tragic circumstances occur.
It might help if you could restate what argument you think I'm making. It feels like there is a mismatch between us in that way.
MMO Game Destroys GPUs|OpenAI Quits Robotics|Guest Host Sanyam [video]
Spanish village seeks Unesco world heritage status for outdoor chats
wired of course is useless sham shit journalism about the latest in corporate manufactured food substitutes that taste like ass and have the nutritional profile of chemically treated cardboard

failing to mention tempeh and tempehsure even once in the entire fuckity article
No facial wrinkles on the doll? What's wrong with age?
that's entirely circular reasoning because if there was a bias against older founders, then by definition successful founders skew younger.
We changed the url changed from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Washington_Wiley to a less generic source.

(Wikipedia submissions are great when nothing more specific is available - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)
Glad I'm not the only one. It was one of my ways of coping with the pandemic. For me it gave me an incentive to take care of myself and get dressed every day even though I wasn't leaving the house. You?
This article is about iCloud backups. It doesn't say either way whether or not iCloud Photos are encrypted.
This. 90% of the comments here give the impression that their posters would support a caste system.
This apparently violates conservation of energy as you’re claiming to take energy from one source, put it through some apparatus (i.e two skateboards) to produce more energy without putting anything additional in. Can you account for this?
AI-generated patent approved|Germany gets an analog to OpenAI [video]
The vaccine provides better protection than natural antibodies: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr....
OT Security Assessments with Digital Image-Based Apt Breach Simulations
I got into it after my smartwatches, oddly enough. I didn't wear a watch between the mid-90s young kid with a Timex Expedition and the late 2010's adult with an Apple Watch. It was getting in the habit of the smartwatch that made me desire to wear something different again.
It’s No “Mistake” That Bill Gates Was Palling Around with Jeffrey Epstein
Bad air/fatigue.
It's the headache/mind-numbing effect you remember from walking into a poorly ventilated classroom or such.

It's not hard to detect, especially if sudden or strong, but to reliably act you need to regularly train to judge actionable concentrations, so you remember the feelings/perception for the specific actionable levels.
> “What mechanism stops people from forging the original vaccine cards?”

None, and that’s the real problem of the CDC cards. For a service like this to succeed, it needs to come up with a verifiable solution, which I admit is pretty difficult to do other than on a federal or state level.
Thank you. For me the AGPL is at the complete other end of the spectrum: it's a stake in the ground to say "this software must be allowed to progress", even if the originating entity ceases to exist.

As I'll mention in a sibling thread, I think that lawyers can be extremely risk averse in software licensing (it's their professional incentive structure) and that is my guess where this cultural meme about AGPL comes from.
This topic is one of the first ones that really took liberal academia down a few notches in my eyes.

I grew up with a national forest as my backyard, and my grandfather was a logger in the area in the 70s. When I was a teenager, he and a bunch of old timers, including the Native American ones, were complaining about the forest management policies. They literally begged them to allow more thinning of the forest, more and larger control burns, etc.

The out of town forest service (etc) PhDs all had a ton of reasons why they were wrong, and ignored their advice. At the time, I though the old timers just werent hip to science, were being curmudgeonly as old timers tend to be, and surely the PhD environmentalists knew what was what.

Then, the pine beetle infestation hit, and they could not keep up with the needed thinning... and a few years after I left, boom, two ~500k acre fires hit, and it was absolutely devastating to the forest.

At that point, I had learned how to read scientific papers, and started going back and looking at some of the justification papers for some of the policies (including wolf reintro) and I was astonished at how shoddy and poor the science was from these liberal academics.

Not only was the science bad, but they essentially would ridicule the locals as a dumb redneck stereotype, given that the forest service etc would often cycle in people from across the country.

The fires taught me that there is a lot of bad science out there, and that the term is often used as a cudgel against the lesser educated, so I can emphatically say, despite not being pro-Trump at all, that he was right on that one occasion. I said the same thing here when it happened and it spurred some decent discussion.
While it's true that the state has to backstop the externalities of nuclear through insurance guarantees, the obvious and present externalities of carbon burning massively outweigh these guarantees. The state picks up a huge ROI by covering nuclear risks while taxing the living shit out of carbon pollution.
I love mechanical watches too, but surely some cheap digital watches stashed in a shielded box would be the more effective post-EMP timekeeping device, right?
Apple used to be able to say 'we don't have that capability' if, for example, a Turkish judge ordered them to scan phones for a certain picture of Erdogan. What are they going to say now?
> The article title does not make it clear that The linked YouTube vid is actually specific to the Japanese anime industry, which is famously low paid

The website is named "anime news network" and the sidebar makes it obvious.
Nuclear is able to compete on merit and has been forever, but we chose to create a legal environment in which one or two dedicated NIMBYs could stall a project indefinitely. That's the entire reason why "the economics aren't there." We aren't talking about costs of building a reactor or risk of it melting down, we're talking about the cost and risk of 1001 strategically sequential ground squirrel environmental impact studies pushing the project duration out to infinity. Allowing this is a political choice, not an evaluation of the technology.

I tend to agree with you that the ship has sailed, though. If we had just kept building at the same pace as 40 years ago (linear extrapolation, not exponential) then we'd recently have celebrated the completion of a zero-emission grid. Unfortunately, we chose to pump the atmosphere full of CO2 instead. Ugh.
I absolutely agree that age discrimination exists in our industry, and it’s even worse in SV. But I really think you’re barking up the wrong tree here. Anytime you have an institution with single digit acceptance rates, you invariably are going to have truly excellent candidates who don’t make it in.
this. tempeh is actually really edible, nutritious, and digestible, it merely requires proper processing to be edible- much like with kimchee western chefs and processing partners don’t know how to capture the essence because they insist on taking it down to the base and trying to integrate that to western tastes which means it turns out bland
The problem is that in any sizeable population there will be bad apples that impose asymmetrically costly problems.

Because cause and effect can have a non linear relationship in the real world.

People aren’t going to accept having their rent go up 20% next month because a bad apple wrecked some common shared stuff that is peculiarly difficult to restore. People by and large don’t accept non-linear effects when it impacts their wallet negatively.

Thus in fact there is never enough money to repair everything.

Society at large gets around the issue by reserving very harsh punishments in such circumstances, though even now that is declining in frequency nowadays. Rental management do not have any punishment authority beyond taking away a security deposit, if that.
I've got some rounded corner jpegs in my other coat in case you need them to affix at the intersection of two border images. Modern web here we come!
Only life is renewable, technology cannot and will not save us.
It sort of baffles me how much engineer time is seemingly spent here designing and running these "gamedays" vs just improving and automating the underlying systems. Don't glorify getting paged, glorify systems that can automatically heal themselves.

I spend a good amount of time doing incident management and reliability work.

Red team/blue team gamedays seems like a waste of time. Either you are so early on your reliability journey that trivial things like "does my database failover" are interesting things to test (in which case just fix it). Or, you're a more experienced team and there's little low hanging reliability fruit left. In the later, gamedays seem unlikely to that closely mimic a real world incident. Since low hanging fruit is gone, all your serious incidents tend to be complex failure interactions between various system components. To resolve them quickly, you simply want all the people with deep context on those systems quickly coming up with and testing out competing hypotheses on what might be wrong. Incident management only really matters in the sense that you want to allow the people with the most system context to focus on fixing the actual system. Serious incident management really only comes into play when the issue is large enough to threaten the company + require coordinated work from many orgs/teams.

My team and I spend most of time thinking about how we can automate any repetitive tasks or failover. In the case something can't be automated, we think about how we can increase the observability of the system, so that future issues can be resolved faster.
To be fair that's like half my love of them. Like a fresh blank canvas, perfection is boring.
The short version: it takes much more fuel to fly directly from the earth into the sun than it does to escape the solar system. Because of this you need to use longer and slower methods.
I mean, Australia has been putting forward insane tech bills to outlaw E2EE and demand backdoors for everything for years now. I don't think they're doing this because of the Apple news.
While it cannot be used as an option for "your physical residence.... in legal documents" -- voter registration or the DMV -- the USPS does offer "Street Addressing Service." It provides a street address you can use with UPS, FedEx, and others. P.O. Box 59 would be 500 Main Street #59 (for a Post Office located at 500 Main Street). The service is free. (I just filled out the form two days ago.)
> If the "good will" is making them money, I guess you can count on it.

On that view, they should be willing to sell your passwords to anyone willing to pay them more than you are.

> And you think your own hosted version that you're only looking after is that much better?

Yes. Because I know that I won't sell to the highest bidder.
Good luck changing policy as VCs and anyone else with skin the hype bubble game, collude to prevent it.
Funny to see that the first thing is something about Cruelty Squad. I suggest taking a look at it, it's a really fun game. It's been made with Godot too!
> “In Heidegger’s later work, he argues that technology in the modern metaphysical tradition tends to “provoke,” “force out,” and “challenge forth” the world, such that the primary intention is to “force” the world to yield energy. Heidegger calls this “the essence of technology,” and it is this essence, he says, that constitutes the “culmination of modern metaphysics.” The philosopher Bruce Foltz describes how this perceptual rupture plays out in Heidegger’s work: “[T]o be’ is ‘to be a resource,’ that is to be ‘in stock,’ in supply, ready for delivery.” To say that modern metaphysics culminates in technology is to say that there are tight and dense entanglements between the modern narrative of separation and technology. The perfectly-straight concrete road cut through a boreal forest is a thought structure “concretely” articulated, and in turn it seeds the imagination with opportunities of how to encounter (or use) that forest in ways unthinkable - and thus unreal - without the road. Likewise, a dam built into a salmon river is abstract thought physically articulated; in turn, the presence of the physical structure gathers the imagination around particularly mechanistic, utilitarian opportunities for encountering the river. Narrative and technology reinforce one another in powerful feedback loops, each contributing their share to revealing the world in a particular manner.”

— Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us, and Us in the Wild, by Martin Lee Mueller
I failed basic reading comprehension. The first sentence of the abstract clearly says "It has recently been shown that the mere presence of one’s own smartphone on the desk impairs working memory performance."

So while the presence of a smartphone does indeed seem to impair the working memory, they found "no overall effect of smartphone presence on short-term and prospective memory performance".
>Are you really free when you don't use your own head but reflexively do/don't do something just because you like/dislike the person which says it?

Not quite sure what is the point you are trying to make. If you ask somebody why they don't want to do something for you and one replies "Fuck you, that's why!" do you imply that this person is not free because he or she denied your request based on personal animosity and not "using own head"? Or is it something else you wanted to say?
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1ktjfi/deltav_map_of... is another way of looking at the problem. Once you're in Earth orbit, you need 2.4+.68+.14+.68+1.73 = 5.63 km/s to get to the moon. But you need 2.4+.68+.09+.28+2.06+6.31+1.22+3.06= 16.1 km/s to get to Mercury.

So if you don't use gravitational slingshots (which can be modeled as ramming your spaceship into a planet's gravitational field and bouncing off in the other direction), then you need ~3x the delta-v to get to Mercury compared to the moon. And getting to the Moon required one of the most powerful rockets in human history.

In theory, you could just use a rocket that's 3x as powerful as the Saturn V to get enough fuel into orbit to get to Mercury via a direct route. But this runs into engineering issues with creating a rocket that big. Alternatively, you could develop a way to refuel rockets in orbit and then launch 3x Saturn Vs with one space probe and 2 fuel tanks. This is the plan for SpaceX where they will launch a Starship with humans/robots and a Starship with fuel to get enough fuel into orbit for a trip to various parts of the Solar System.

[edited to fix units]
Not sure why you are being downvoted. I also presume the primary clientele for such services is young adults or people who live alone / have room mates.

Cooking for loved ones is a joy. Or so I've been told by my wife
However, reliably detecting 1000~2000 ppm isn't hard, but will require some training.

And that's the level where you want to leave the place in a state that's not dangerous, followed by getting out of there and waiting for someone with an oxygen mask to go leak searching.

But yeah, CO2 is the thing that makes you want to open a window long before acute toxicity.
They skipped over a few steps of ICS. ICS starts with a single person playing all roles.

It prescribes a way to scale up and down the team in ways that streamlines the communication so everyone knows their role, nothing gets lost when people come in and out of the system and you don't have all hands conference calls and multiple people telling the customers multiple things or multiple people asking for status updates from each person.
Exactly. Said another way, since fire is inevitable the ecosystem adapted to it, and the species that survived are those that actually benefit from it.
This must be some rich person definition of "tiny purchase"...
> it's checking for hashes that match known bad images

Many of the hashes provided by the NCMEC are MD5. There are going to be false positives left and right.
Sure, I was thinking any nation that wants to move cargo over the sea would use ships.

So what conditions other than unestablished areas make airships better than sea ships?
I wasn't attacking the author, I was just surprised to see that he was British.
The parent also ranks the countries by % of world emissions rather than by emissions per capita, which tells a very different story.
Next to nothing. Rural China is still a developing country. Urban China is a developed one.

It's worth noting that more people live in Urban China than in the entirety of the United States. (Again, a stark contrast to the 70s.)
It is not the OS maker, it is the bottomless pit of content running inside of it: IM, Email, Twitter, IG, you name it.

BlackBerry phones used to be called "Crackberries" in the 2G/3G era, because people could not stop themselves from constantly checking the web or sending emails and IM. And that was years before the content deluge really started.

They were called that because the user's interaction w/ push-notification devices was very different from Palm PDAs which were offline-first. You had to manually sync the device with your computer. When you were on the go, your content was only whatever you synced. There was no reason to check your device for something 'new'.
at 50km/h air friction with tires etc is half of the noise, and it goes from there.
This looks a lot like what I was thinking of. They don't provide much information about their extracting filter, but after the CO2 is extracted it is compressed into water creating carbonic acid, then injected it into a suitable basalt formation with an impermeable cap so that carbonate salts could form[1]. They claim all the injected CO2 could become carbonates in under 10 years[2].

If this works like they say, then it's cause for hope.

[1] https://www.carbfix.com/how-it-works

[2] https://climeworks.com/co2-storage-solutions
The building in Surfside collapsed because it was a money laundering scheme. It had half the rebar in the columns than was called for in the design documents; and it's somewhat an open secret that buildings built around that time in Dade mixed sand into the concrete to lower construction costs while keeping the numbers on the books inflated.

Cocaine is a helluva drug.
>> What they did not foresee was 1) how rapidly ad-hoc fortifications (i.e. trench lines) could be extended

From the planning of the former chief of staff of the german army 1905:

[Along the entire line, the corps] will move on the enemy from position to position as in a siege, advancing by day or night, digging in, advancing again, digging in, etc. They will use all the instruments of modern technology to shake the enemy’s confidence behind his lines. The attack must never be permitted to come to a standstill, as in the East Asian war.

come to a standstill = trench warfare; The reason he emphasizes that the attack must come not to a standstill is the dramatically larger armies employed in a future european war make massive fronts of trench lines inevitable. There are multiple commentaries that make exactly this point.

Once the germans failed at the seine the military reported to the political leadership that the war was lost precisely for this reason.

>> The governments want a win. At any cost.

Well, germany believed it had excellent winning odds. But if a compromise treaty was offered to germany by the entente it almost certainly would have been accepted; that was actually the expectation of many german officers. The problem for the entente was that the reason the germans were in favor of a compromise peace was they believed a war would break out again a few years later that they would be in a dramatically stronger position to fight. Russia, for one, was ruined by the summer of 1915. Germany would have benefited a lot more from any temporary peace economically because they would have access to world trade again. Germany's allies would have come out a lot better as well.

Basically, any peace offer by france or britain would have been equivalent to a german victory.
While I do wish the best of luck with your product, I feel like there's a difference in checking account needs for people with 10-20k of cash sitting around and people who live paycheck to paycheck. I think calling it anything close to a checkings account leads to "this isn't a checkings account and you're going to hurt people who think it is."
I remember buying two of these https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12016 thinking I would never need to buy another cable/adapter ever again

ha
Exactly, it's easy with phones - you can have the same phone your favorite celebrity has! Not so with almost anything else. People have just the weirdest reasons. It's also funny to me because I will never ask anything about a persons phone, laptop or other tech gadget if I recognize it from a distance (for example Apple products), but I will ask and converse about brands/devices that I have not seen much of. Not sure why people think Apple products give them any credit whatsoever.
No offense intended, but the fact language evolves isn’t an excuse to be imprecise. As arch discharge lighting became popular the idea of burning began to separate from the creation of plasma because nothing was being used up. We still say electrical components “burned out” because of this idea of fire as something that consumes.

Anyway, as long as you understand that’s not what is meant by the term burning I don’t really think there is anything worth arguing about here. And hey in 100 years your definition might win.
Same here with iOS Safari.
Thank you for the direct link.
> Any sailor worth their salt can tell you that a boat can travel faster than the wind by cutting zigzag patterns; that's called tacking.

This is a pedantic point, but when you're cutting zigzag patterns downwind it's called jibing, not tacking.

I guess there are high-performance boats that can go faster than the wind upwind, and that are so fast that they can perform downwind tacking (since apparent wind stays ahead of the mast), but this is the exception, not the rule.
With wear leveling and modern filesystems, it's harder than that actually overwrite the file on disk (for modern definitions of the word disk). The operating system will ask the storage device to delete the data, but there aren't actually guarantees that the storage device actually listened to the operating system's request to delete the data.