skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a change you have astigmatism.

I purchased cheap glasses online and intentionally turned down the astigmatism correction. Significantly reduced eye strain.

* During the day, I use my "correct" prescription. Even though it gives me a bit of eye strain.

* At night, I switch to my adjusted prescription. Not as visibly clear, but significantly less eye strains.

It's nice having a clear separation between "focus" glasses and "relaxing" glasses.
The relevant question is not: “Could airships move full shipping containers?” but rather: “Could airships find
an economic niche and turn a profit in that niche?” Perhaps
they move cargo in lighter containers (fiberglass, aluminum, etc.), or in moving high-volume low-mass cargoes like prefabricated cylindrical tanks, or wind turbine blades. Perhaps they specialize by replacing “ice road” transport to tundra or arctic locations. Or to jungle locations - mining or drilling operations. Maybe they replace sky-crane helicopters rather than replacing barges, container ships, trains, or trucks. We have mostly replaced sailing ships,
canal narrow boats, stagecoaches, and the pony express.
Nothing is forever. We’ll know that H2 airships have really
arrived when they are mentioned in country music.
> In contrast, the iPhones that I've used -- 6S Plus, 8 Plus and 12 Pro Max -- are all extremely frugal on using battery when the device is idle.

As a iPhone user (that uses an android device for work) myself, I can't confirm this at all.
The referenced research mentions Belchatow power plant in Poland as the most polluting of all. This was an interesting fact about efforts toward carbon capture at the plant I found. [1]

"Carbon capture initiative at the Belchatow thermal power plant
PGE signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Alstom in December 2008 for the design and construction of a pilot carbon capture plant (CCP) at the latest unit of the plant.

PGE signed a grant agreement of €180m ($245m) for the installation of carbon capture, transport, and geological storage facilities in May 2010.

The project was expected to be completed by 2015, but canceled in 2013 following environmental opposition to underground storage of carbon.

If completed, it would have captured 1.8 million tonnes of CO2 a year."

I don't understand why there would be opposition to storage of carbon?

[1] https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/projects/belchatow-power-pl...
Pretty much this.

Sounds like you are doing better than you think you are. I know CFS is making life hard but your feedback loops might be making it harder. If you work hard and feel like you are failing, that can lead to burnout. Sometimes you need to realize that you're actually doing great. Allow yourself the joy of working hard and feeling good about it.

As for brain fog. I find listening to Binaural Beats with noise cancelling headphones really helps me. Most of my brain fog comes from my inability to ignore the world around and get a good focus on. Distractions cause context switching, context switching causes my memory to get overloaded.

Lots of small breaks help too. Sounds like you're doing that. Small breaks are a good way to refocus don't feel guilty about taking them.
Greer has been writing similar things for some time (over a decade). Some interesting, some repetitive. Mostly well founded, though much of his writing is based on pretty old studies (so I would double check his climate citations against better studies). Here are some of his older articles on the same topic:

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-07-31/dark-age-ameri...

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-08-07/dark-age-ameri...
Actually you should pay a wage that clear the market. Not that different from the price of tomatoes.

Moreover, if you cannot pay market clearing wage (I.e. cannot make a profit after employee costs), you should close your business.

What you see are businesses that exist as an arbitrage on employee salary - I.e. paying less than the market rate to put the profit in the owner pocket.
My source for my previous comment is Bill gates’ book.

Aside, I think a big battery in Australia makes a lot of sense because they have lots of sun year round and lots of unused space. So you are pretty much just storing for night time and can easily build solar panels.

In many other places, you have to store for much longer term which means you need much bigger batteries (and bigger generating plants).

This is to say I think the cost in a place like Australia may be 100s of times less than places in most of the USA (which is where I live).
> That’s assuming CPU bound workloads. C++ spends just as long as Ruby waiting on a database query.

Some of the TechEmpower benchmarks have a significant database component as well. Obviously if you have database queries taking 0.5s or more then it's a different story, but in my experience the server language/framework still has a large impact on total performance even with the database in the equation.

In my experience, memory footprint is also a huge variable. For example, I rewrote a certain gRPC service in Rust and cut the memory usage by almost 80% relative to the initial implementation in a higher level language. We weren't bottlenecked on requests/second performance but being able to scale down our memory usage had a huge impact on cloud costs.
Those two articles are somewhat in conflict. The latter makes it sound like the doctors were doing experiments on Ouchi, while the Wikipedia article's tone seems more in line with a medical team trying to save him. It also mentions that the doctors were instructed to try to resuscitate him (after multiple heart failures) by his family, but the second article makes it sound like they were doing it on their own, to try and prolong his life so they could study him.

Which is right?
Target sells a Zulu Ace water bottle that I really enjoy. The bottom screws off, so it's incredibly easy to clean.
How about taking the money to bomb and instead just like... build replacement plants? Why can't we just directly try to make things better instead of trying to punish people (especially who might not actually have the resources/power to do it themselves)?
> machines treat words as if they got intrinsic meaning, when the meaning is actually negotiated between speaker and hearer at the moment of the utterance.

IMO, and I'm not a linguist, I've always felt we need to treat conversations as transactions, with each speaker acting as a party and continually updating some contract over time, with each speaker's goal to use conversational tactics i.e. clarification, questioning, answering a question, diverting the conversation, humor/jokes, lies, as a means to "guess" the contract the opposing parties are operating under, then using the best guess of the contract to later retrieve information relevant to the system when it has some confidence in the answers it can expect.

Something like an exceptionally complex game mixed with financial system theory, like I "bet" that you're going to keep talking about your cat, and maybe that bet is wrong, so I can ask a question, "What do you mean by wug?", but the act of asking that question will cost me some points, maybe you can think of it as though we're at a secret club and you use a phrase meant to represent a key and I'm supposed to respond with the proper answer. Even though I'm asking a question, I'm giving you information that you can use to update your best guess of the contract that allows you to assume I'm not part of the in-group of the club and I shouldn't be allowed in.

I've thought about a system designed like this for a bit but I suppose the biggest challenge has been how do you treat a conversation as a game considering neither party may "win" in any reasonable time frame. We could go years chatting and I could never fully predict what your answer might be because your usage of conversational tactics may be refined over years by speaking to multiple people of backgrounds similar to mine. So if I'm a cop, you might know not to admit to a crime when you figure out I'm a cop.

Right now, I don't think ML can do that, not because it's impossible but because I think conversations are as difficult as predicting the stock market. Fortunately it seems solvable, not everyone is expected to win every conversation in their lifetime
I think we are all throwing wrong questions at wrong entities. What we should ask is what the hell is going on and what is forcing everyone to implement backdoors in this organized manners.
The point is that offline content detection on data that will be uploaded to iCloud feels like a prelude to offline detection of all content on your device.

In fact, given that Apple do not E2E encrypt backups and already implement CSAM functionality by scanning data in iCloud [1] it's not clear what the purpose of the new PSI/CSAM system is. Which leads many to speculate that it's only purpose is as a prelude to scanning all offline content.

[1] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/09/apples-scanning-...
Condoms :-)
Iirc there is a great YouTube video with Bill Hammack about this. Highly recommended. https://youtu.be/ixxXhZVFXxQ

He also wrote a book.
You only need so much money. Past a certain point, just live! There's not a lot of luxuries better than enjoying what you're do for most of your life.

This might not be applicable advice for most other fields, but even the lower end of SWE salaries pays so well.

Also with a job you love, you could actually live like a hermit and enjoy your life.
> I'm torn. Not about the conciseness of the language overall, but about using symbols vs. names. I do see how the symbols make things more concise, less clutter, and can even make it easier to grasp a piece of code if you are deeply familiar with them[1].

I think the "if you are deeply familiar with them" is important. Using non-standard symbols makes comprehension more binary: either you've memorized them and understand or you don't; there's no muddling through, relying on common concepts and terms to make up for incomplete memorization.

That probably also results in a much more binary user base: true-believers who dedicated a bunch of time to become proficient, and non-users who were unable or unwilling to, and not a whole lot in between.
Despite Pledges to Cut Emissions, China Goes on a Coal Spree
Clothespins, carabiners, tiedown straps, and S-hooks. They are all physical fasteners. My apartment and equipment are littered with them. Any thing that has a loop can thus be attached to any other thing with a loop. Any cable can be simply knotted once to hold a carabiner, thus any cable can be attached to any loop.

It feels like adult Lego. Just wish more things had loops.
My takeaway wasn't 'never abstract'. That's obviously absurd. Even C itself has abstractions which it tries to make zero cost. Only that it's sometimes not worth it in the language, and C++ neglected to look at the other costs in the past.
That we might expect compilers to boil this statement down to calloc(n, s) is astonishing. The subtilty compilers is amazing.
OCSP isn't "scanning". It checks if a certificate is revoked.

https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/
> You don't think that VCs are buying future cash flows with their investments?

The point is that they risk their own capital to create new opportunities in the economy. 'future cash flows' do not exist.

Which is almost the exact aim of an actual stimulus package.

>Do you think they're just giving out free money because they're feeling generous?

No. Anything that needs to be sustainable has to produce more that it consumes. And that extra production is what people happen to call profit or "exploitation" depending on the envy.

It is like saying the farmer is exploiting the fact that people can become hungry and need to eat.

Or saying that a doctors should not be paid what they want because their primary job should be to heal people.
In V8 I believe it's limited by the stack size and when you get a stack overflow that gets converted to a RangeError in JS land.

OTOH, Webkit and Firefox have arbitrary limits 65537, and 500k args.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80797
https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/1475b3b0cb274b2a71...
also posted previously as

Stages of denial in encountering K, March 9, 2020, 422 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22504106
Reminds me of https://skarnet.org/software/execline
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...

The article is from 2015

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https://history.aip.org/climate/co2.htm

Scientists have known and have been warning about climate change (then called the Greenhouse effect) since the 1950s

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scie...

Climate change, as a human activity driven phenomenon was observed and studied for well over a 100 years.
Anyone else have no idea SFCs were experimental? Whoops!
You can put the languages in separate files

https://v3.vuejs.org/api/sfc-spec.html#src-imports
There is a third option, which is to use secure elements in the datacenter to encrypt the device key with the user's screen lock code. The secure element prevents brute force attacks even with a low entropy passcode. The user can restore their backups on a fresh device only knowing their screen lock code, but backups remain end-to-end encrypted.

Google has done this for Android backups. Apple has actually done it too, but only for Keychain passwords and a couple of other things. So Apple actually already has an implementation of the right solution and intentionally prevents you from using it to secure your backups, reportedly because they failed to stand up to the FBI. Which is strange given their public stance in the San Bernardino case.
I see why this has been downvoted, but agree with the premise that it’s not just about practice (whether you want to call this IQ is up to you).
As they say, a good mathematician finds analogies, whereas a great one find analogies between analogies. It’s not at all evident to me that pattern recognition is trainable to a high degree.
So, if my sums are right it takes about 640 km/s of delta-v to get from the surface of the earth and hit the Sun. Alternatively, 20 km/s can get you away from the Sun forever.

I've got to have the math wrong.
And that's why nothing will ever change. Everybody can't have their own little cabin some day, and nobody ever wants to be the one who has to tell people that.
So confused. According to techcrunch article, they said Kalo the CEO's old company died. But if you look at TOS of Polywork is says: "Welcome to Polywork, the website and online and/or mobile service of Kalo Industries, Inc. d/b/a Polywork (“Company,” “we,” or “us”)." So Polywork is just DBA of Kalo.
Turn your Android phone into SMS API gateway
Personally, I'd just prefer people assert less often what they don't know to be true with a good degree of confidence. I'm including myself in this goal. I'm trying to say, "Why would ...?" rather than, "I don't think ...", especially when my basis for thinking a certain thing is shaky.
i don't follow from this why plasticity reaching its limit in some part of the brain manifests overtly as seizure/paralysis/deafness. those sound more like existing pathways being disrupted, as opposed to the ability to form new pathways being inhibited?
> 10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off."

Looks like this actually came true for cars.
Solid js there
> This really is something Tim needs to address before he again stands on stage and give lip service to Privacy with a capital P.

Cui bono?

Why does Tim Cook need to address this? To benefit Apple shareholders? To assuage the doubts of Apple customers who bought the false claims that Apple has made regarding their respect for users privacy?

Truth be told I don't think that Tim Cook as CEO of one of the richest and most powerful organizations in history needs to do anything because Apple has their customers by the balls. What are the few Apple users who even care about this issue going to do? Switch to Microsoft? Linux? Hah!

Face it, Apple users have made their bed and now they have to lie in it. People have been warning them for years about the Faustian bargain that they were making and how it was corrosive to society to entrench an entity like Apple and now here we are.
I think that we should be looking at emissions per capita more, but it is still useful to know what countries could have the bigger impact.
you mean under your friends spawn point
Seems like we have some relatively low hanging fruit available for making some meaningful improvements if we will just put our heads together and figure out how to arrange to buy them out or something instead of our usual bellyaching about how we are doomed and it's all pointless, we gonna die!
I don't know the veracity of this, but when I've seen concerns about this raised, usually it's mentioned that something that pours so much energy into the edible part for no reproductive benefit would have a hard time outcompeting something that doesn't do this.
I don’t understand how we don’t?

I make sound snapping my fingers. Whistling.

Why is it so hard to accept mirror neurons fired when early humans heard birds and animals, each other’s grunts and over time we refined it?

Everyone has some capacity to refine and strengthen muscle. Why do we need some abstract meta-construct to explain where language comes from? It comes from us. Fleshy meat bags that mutate state over a short period then die.

Chomsky diagrams, conceptual organs and the like are useful for “being on the same page” in a particular context, but there’s no reason to believe language is a requirement for consciousness except our own propensity for romanticizing our existing.
Are there actually people succeeding in obstructing digitalization of stuff?

That is, for reasons other than wanting to use a chunk of funding for something else.
> false claims that Apple has made regarding their respect for users privacy

What false claim have they made?
CGP Grey did a video on this. Mercury is the mostest-closest for all the planets.
I was patiently waiting for the M1 16in MacBook Pro to come out. After reading all these revelations, I am now considering not buying the new MacBook Pro and instead, just stick with Linux.
I've been looking for something like this but on the JVM (specifically Java or Scala if possible)
Whered you get that idea? They talk about FEATURES being experimental, not sfcs.
First off don’t do rash things. We didn’t get here overnight and we’re not getting out of it overnight. Make measured, well thought out plans. Treat it like you’re developing medical hardware/software.
10ft charger cables (laptop and phone)
This still seems like it would require a significant change in functionality, which they would likely announce. I.e. lose your lock code, lose all your data. Also, are you going to enter your lock code online to browse photos in a browser? What about syncing between devices?

In the absence of an explicit announcement regarding these changes in functionality it seems unlikely to me.
> And we need employees to start demanding this internally

If anything, this is the only thing which can actually get Apple to reverse their moves. Similar to what happened to Google.
> if you have one device (as many users do) and you lose that device you would lose all your data. The alternative is the key is derived from your iCloud password, in which case, if you forget your password, you lose all your data.

This is all a good point.

Purely coincidentally, the imminent next release of iOS adds new account recovery options: https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/06/how-to-use-icloud-data-recove...
Can't understand if its sarcasm ablut their custom templating and other languages not being JS or genuine admiration haha
//No part of the encrypted content is ever sent to Apple.//
Except all the data before it is encrypted, if it matches the data Apple wants to see. And don't anyone dare say this is a backdoor. It just scans for arbitrary secret files a 3rd party is interested in, and sends out info whenever it finds something interesting. That is perfectly fine bc shiny Apple said so.
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I used to believe this, and failed miserably when studying algebraic topology. Intuition, the so called "feeling", is way more important than pure mathematical logic.
Take this in context of the recent news about CSAM scanning.
Mainly time-series data processing through kdb+. There's an IDE and language tools for q (which is a thin layer over k) that is primarily written in q called: https://code.kx.com/developer/

Unfortunately it's closed source so I can't share much about the world of application and library development with q/k. If you want to learn more about how it's used though, I'd recommend checking out KX and kdb+.
Every claim that Apple makes about respecting user privacy is false because Apple does not allow users the means to independently verify the claims made by Apple regarding security. Additionally Apple does not allow users the means t control the hardware that they purchase by for instance, installing whatever software that they want on their devices.
The uncanny rapport I feel by reading "lazy Tuesday afternoon, visiting The Orange Website, self-consciously averting your eyes from the C compiler output in a nearby terminal" builds enough trust that I'm willing to pay attention to what John Earnest (IJ or RtG) has to say about this. He's a great writer.

Naming things is hard. It's one of the 2 most difficult problems in CS, along with cache invalidation and off-by-one errors. Of course, in this context I mean "CS" as "Computer Science", not "CouchSurfing".

For the K programming language, meanings are specifically defined. In the article:

"The word “ordinal” can mean anything, but the composition << has exactly one meaning."

That's fine for the K compiler, but not for Google Search, or grep. I use "<<" to mean a bit shift to the left, presumably because I was taught C in university.

Unique names are more useful for addressing (e.g. IPV6) but common names are more memorable (e.g. a URL. Translators (e.g. DNS) can't be perfect when there's a one-to-many or many-to-one correlation, but they try their best.

K does well to enforce structure, but in the process, makes it very hard for the programmer to find examples and other documentation. I guess that's why the language hasn't become as popular as other languages, whose syntax is sufficiently familiar to be legible and memorable but unique enough to be searchable.
> Are there actually people succeeding in obstructing digitalization of stuff?

Copyright holders keen on maintaining artificial scarcity.
I am an app developer who was thinking of upgrading to the next M1 Mac mini coming out later this year. For my work, I pretty much need an Apple hardware. However after this whole privacy debacle, I have started looking into Hackintosh and whether I can build one to for building my apps.

If anyone has experience with developing for iOS/MacOS on hackintosh, please let me know your experience.
It's really two separate problems but they kinda interact.

Unitful quantities with heterogeneous units don't have a `zero` function that works correctly, which gets in the way inside numerical routines. [0] There are other places where 0 or 1 is added, which is an error for quantities but not for plain real numbers. [1]

Zygote doesn't handle mutating arrays. [2]

[0]: https://github.com/PainterQubits/Unitful.jl/pull/472
[1]: https://github.com/SciML/NonlinearSolve.jl/issues/36#issueco...
[1]: https://github.com/rakeshvar/Zygote-Mutating-Arrays-WorkArou...
You're right, Apple is definitely not going to secretly enable end-to-end encryption without announcing it.

If this client side photo scanning thing is part of an ongoing plan to eventually enable end-to-end encryption of iCloud, then Apple made a huge blunder. They should have waited until end to end encryption was ready first so that they could announce it simultaneously.