skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A Fayetteville, North Carolina teenager has reached a plea deal to avoid being charged with multiple sexual exploitation counts after his cell phone was found to contain nude selfies of himself. Seventeen-year-old Cormega Copening, who took the photos of himself when he was 16, agreed to the deal in order to avoid possible jail time and being registered as a sex offender. As part of the plea, the teen agreed to random police searches without warrant for one year as well as other penalties, Fusion reports. The teenager was listed as both the victim and the perpetrator on the sexual exploitation charges.

This is quite possibly the most kafkaesque "justice" story I have ever heard coming out of America and that really says something.
My company still has issues using yarn, as elastic beanstalk and their node environments only support npm... Does someone know an easy way without using own docker containers to fix that?
This is definitely a non-exhaustive list - for example a lot of initial Soviet Uranium stock was mined in the Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) and contributed to it being forced to the Soviet sphere of influence.

Some references:
https://www.osti.gov/etdeweb/servlets/purl/20224726
https://www.suro.cz/cz/vyzkum/vysledky/strategie-rizeni-napr...

While most of the mines are no longer active I'm sure there are still reserves that could be mined by modern methods (ideally without political prisoners doing the mining this time) and I'm sure there are more places like this.
"Yet he consistently made stupid decisions with drastic consequences for the entire world"

I'm sure you can easily mention 2/two such decisions.
The article mentions that climate change only has a small effect, and that with or without it, natural management works to improve forest ecology as well as reduce the impact of fires.
I mean "recognising patterns" is a such broad term that you can use it to describe pretty much any mental skill.
And now you didn't answer the main question. Just because, let's say, stats showed they mostly invest in people under 35, does it mean they discriminate people over 35? If most of founders they invest in are white, does it mean they discriminate against asians, blacks etc.?

What are the appropriate percentages that show no discrimination? 50% of everything?

Once again, what proves discrimination?

If someone is in for the money, would they be discriminate against a certain group of people? Or would they invest in people with the best ideas and the highest probability of success? What kind of investors would prevail over the long term?
I remember one of the national parks I visited a while ago (I think it was Redwoods NPS in California but not sure) where the Ranger told me that one of the tough decisions sometimes they'd need to make when a wildfire is raging is to whether to put it out or just keep it spreading naturally to the benefit of health and biodiversity of the forest. In an extreme case, he mentioned that for a few occasions the Park Service even may need to ignite the wildfire and they have done it a few times before. This all was pretty surprising to me considering all these wildfires news I've been reading recently.
Sometimes it has its place. Can you imagine a public speaker making errors like this? I think it detracts from the message. Public, and especially popularly read stuff should be as correct as humanely possible. Good grammar is a habit, improved by repeat exposure.
Could it really be a precedent when polio vaccines have been mandatory in all states for generations of children.

Suggest we're just making up what authoritative idea would be considered a precedent.

Republics or Representative Democracies or whatever can and do authoritative things. Typically you regulate the intermediary instead of regulate the individual, ie school admission requiring it, military service requiring it, travel requiring it etc.
Nature is a hacker and finds a way.

I'll think twice whenever I encounter a sticky plant part from now on.

Edit - obligatory:

Feed me, Seymour. Feed me all night long.
My biggest take-away from this was FRACTRAN[1], The Bestest Ever™ programming language designed by the (sadly, late) John Conway.

To run a FRACTRAN program, you lookup its catalogue number, and repeatedly evaluate a certain simple function on it (which has the same spirit as the 3x + 1 one in the video).

As in 3x+1, all operations are integer operations.

FRACTRAN is Turing-complete, of course, so you can rewrite any program in FRACTRAN, and the paper provides quite a few examples!

Written as a sales pitch, this is both the most hilarious paper I've read in a long time - and one of the most mind-blowing ones.

It's pretty accessible (as far as math/CS papers go), too!

[1]http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15455/resources/Conway87.pdf

PS: The real mind-blowing part is thinking about whether 3x+1 is, too, a programming language. We simply don't know, and possibly never will.
Argentine Lawmaker Proposes Bill for Businesses to Pay Employees in Crypto
A boat absolutely can sail downwind faster than the wind speed. The crazy cutting edge boats like you see in America's Cup or the giant trimarans that vie for various world records do this somewhat routinely.

The key to understanding this is: sails are devices that work like wings, via lift, not via drag (exception, spinnakers and such). A sailboat has two wings: the sail, and the keel (or centerboard). The boat is extracting energy via how the lift vector of the sail projects onto the vector the keel keeps the boat tracking along. As you sail downwind the apparent direction of the wind begins to rotate forward in response to the boat's forward momentum. With extreme performance boats, this process can continue to the point where the boat is experiencing a forward apparent wind while sailing downwind.

This is all pretty counter intuitive but valid physics. Speaking for myself, the most easy way to get an intuition for it all is to rent a windsurfer for an afternoon. It'll all make sense after that.

People have tried sailboats with propeller rigs like this cart, but they end up being more trouble than they're worth. The current best anyone has figured out is solid wingsails, which have anywhere from 3x to 7x the lift drag ratio of traditional cloth sails. Hence their use in the crazy billionaire bragging contest races.
Mozilla decided to trust Cloudflare. So you're still just trusting Mozilla.

Companies have lots of suppliers.
I take issue with “Remote Work suits ‘Makers’ over ‘Managers’”

I’m a manager and remote work suites me well. I’ve been a proponent and participator of remote work for years.

I couldn’t care less where my teams work from as long as we meet our commitments (which has never been an issue). My job is not to tell them how or where to work. My job is to remove roadblocks, ensure they have what they need to do their job, and advocate on behalf of the team and each individual for their long term success.
OP here: Names imply age (see also my other comment).

When we list all the ages of the names that I have listed, then we know for sure.

We will(would) see that I am right: Most in their 20ies.
> But, I think to clearest, easiest way is to just ban "coal, gas, oil".

Doing this would result in mass deaths. Food transportation would collapse within hours. And mechanized farming would be unfeasible anyway. Death toll would be in billions.

That is nonstarter.

And that is without part "people would freeze to death in unheated homes" applying in many places.

If you mean "reduce dependency on them slowly over years/decades" then it would more reasonable but it is not "just ban".
As a canivorous plant enthusiast, this news today excites me! What a fascinating plant, maintaining a balance between consuming and allowing pollinators to move along.
Yeah. Two boats could sail faster than the wind such that their center of mass is moving directly downwind faster than the wind.
Interesting project, what are some similar self-hosted solutions that allow you to search torrents on public trackers?

To the author: How do you personally use it, do you have a custom interface to search the aggregated results or do you just plug it into a bigger content consumption system?
> This is not happening, so I will assume "code red" is hyperbole

If you take the current pandemic as an example of what we do when under dire stress, I don't think we should be that confident. Yes, some people can perform astonishing feats, and yet other people can deny there's even a problem even when it's obvious.
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a system of communication where only the communicating users can read the messages. In principle, it prevents potential eavesdroppers – including telecom providers, Internet providers, and even the provider of the communication service – from being able to access the cryptographic keys needed to decrypt the conversation.[1]

End-to-end encryption is intended to prevent data being read or secretly modified, other than by the true sender and recipient(s). The messages are encrypted by the sender but the third party does not have a means to decrypt them, and stores them encrypted. The recipients retrieve the encrypted data and decrypt it themselves.

Because no third parties can decipher the data being communicated or stored, for example, companies that provide end-to-end encryption are unable to hand over texts of their customers' messages to the authorities.

Would it even be considered end 2 end encryption based on this Wikipedia definition? I don’t think it meets the definition if apple can determine certain files exist in a conversation.
Presumably, VW buying their own cars to offset their CO2 emissions redistributes some of their profit from more-CO2-emitting cars into their supply chain, thus incentivizing them to sell fewer of those cars.
If you can't sell people on nuclear power, there is no way in hell you're gonna sell people on extreme taxes on oil. And even if you could, the base load problem will still be there.

Maybe if carbon were heavily taxed it would incentivize energy storage solutions but as of right now cost effective solutions are no viable yet.
Yarn 3.0 was released in July 2021 (https://dev.to/arcanis/yarn-3-0-performances-esbuild-better-...)

Meanwhile, as much as I respect the work of Mael (yarn maintainer) I’ve switched back to npm. Mostly because:

- isaacs (original creator of npm) did some commits lately

- now backed by GitHub

- they introduced workspaces (monorepo support) in npm 7

- it’s still easier to use the standard tooling in dev/ci/prod

- like many, I had issues trying to convert my projects to yarn v2/3

The only thing yarn did I want in npm is an easy way to enforce the npm version across all environments (https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/policies/).
I wonder if they considered openSUSE Tumbleweed as a base rolling release and if so, why they picked Arch.

Is it because openSUSE Tumbleweed is less popular? Too "opinionated" / "customized, with Yast and all? Or just that (someone in) the team is more proficient in Arch?

openSUSE seems more robust than Arch overall, and especially for updates for which you are not particularly expected to read the document before updatinopenSUSE seems more robust than Arch overall, and especially for updates for which you are not particularly expected to read the document before updating [1].

It would seem that just using openSUSE Tumbleweed instead of Arch would mean less maintenance work for Valve because of this. I guess they need to test and validate updates before pushing them to the device anyway.

KDE/Plasma is also a first class desktop environment on openSUSE, so it would also be a good fit, since they are adopting this desktop environment.

Maybe Arch is more "KISS" and therefore easier to hack?

I also wonder if they considered Gentoo, which would help them tweak the (optimization-related) compilation flags for customized builds?

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Read_bef...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
They are certainly useful, but it seems quite plausible that they could continue being useful without ever "solving" the problem, in the general sense.
I actually find the limit to be somewhat less insightful.

It sorta shows that it's possible, but it doesn't really show why it works in this case.

1. Air isn't solid.

2. There aren't two rollers.

The analogy is a little bit distant.

I just need to find time to make mine more eloquent.
This leads back to the McJob [0] problem. McJobs lead to underemployment, the oft ignored cousin of unemployment. While the McJobs are often advertised by employers as extra money for e.g. high school students, for a lot of people they're primary jobs. For that cohort they want a better job but can't find them so take what they can get with the McJob.

What we've seen in the past two decades with the four recessions we've experienced is companies cutting the "good" jobs and never bringing them back. In the overall job market they're replaced with McJobs, so the U3 rate goes down while the U6 goes up or remains steady and everyone rejoices because what the hell is the U6?

McJobs also tend to have pretty high costs to the employees that aren't always obvious or even recognized. Split shifts and variable schedules (and demands for complete availability) make scheduling anything difficult or impossible. Getting child care is expensive. No medical benefits mean anyone not eligible for coverage under their parents' plans (provided they have insurance) mean ridiculous expenses for medical care. Wear and tear of vehicles for commuting to the split shifts or driving self-owned vehicles as a gig is expensive.

Not all jobs need to be careers but we have an environment where most people working a non-career job are just wage slaves.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McJob
> > 85% of uranium is produced in six countries: Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, Namibia, Niger, and Russia.

What about thorium? Other elements?
I am not sure if cooking food inside a plastic bag is healthy.
A large observational study - no paper yet, but great data.

They compared 2 groups of PCR positive patients - 3269 patients who received Ivermectin this winter and 18,149 patients who did not.

Dosage was 0.6 mg/kg for 5 days - a higher anti-viral dose, as lower doses are mostly just immunomodulatory.

Great results, again will be met with silence. Great that no safety issues were reported with this high dose.

Immunomodulation is now accepted as Ivermectin's mechanism of action for Covid-19 at low dosage levels- see the Pasteur paper on this:

https://embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/emmm.202114122

Anti-viral doses are higher than standard 0.2 mg/kg and work early in the disease course. In this study, 0.6 mg/kg led to stat sig faster viral clearance for patients with higher Ivermectin levels in plasma in this dosing study:

https://thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/eclinm/PIIS2589-5370(21)...
Thanks - we've switched the URL to that from https://aphyr.com/media/talks/2021/vldb.mp4, which is not responding at the moment and is presumably a video.
> If it had the same review time as all other vaccines

Good news - it has! Approval is expected this month, delayed largely by the fact that the actual wait is one of the few bits of red tape they can’t speed through.
Also frequency. Burning the same area too often will destroy seed banks because the plants cannot reach seed maturity fast enough to rebuild the bank.
Logging takes the healthiest and largest trees. The ones most likely to survive a fire. While leaving behind all of the fuel. Doesn’t seem like it would help much.
I have worked in a properly-organised devops environment (same number of staff, totally different culture).

Anyway, I was just telling a story about a different kind of "incident response".
Sigh. Duly upvoted. If only our friends on HN were a little bit more alert to humor.
> Nuclear is able to compete on merit and has been forever

Hmmm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49823305

"Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget"

> Last week, prices for new wind power delivered by 2025 were set at prices as low as £40 per megawatt hour. By comparison, power from Hinkley Point C is expected to cost £92.50 per megawatt hour.
Unfortunately random number generation is not an exception, I saw a lot of IoT SDKs which are just terrible in general. Bad gotchas, missing error handling, dangerous failure modes and so on.

When possible, one should try to use non-vendor aligned OS project.
This is cool but the FAQ needs more information on how legit this is and who the company is.
I suspect you mean if the west believed it was actually code red...

Good luck with that...
A couple of previous comments, both of which point to the related paper, which is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10554.

Elle: Black-box transactional safety checker based on cycle detection (Jespen) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692162 - March 2020 (1 comment)

Elle: An open source transactional consistency checker for black-box databases - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22690299 - March 2020 (1 comment)
I started working on converting our npm managed FE codebase to Yarn 2 just to get a sense of how much work it would take. The requirement of ensuring all deps are explicit before the build passes has exposed heaps of implicit dependencies in our code base - from devs back in the day that never npm install -S, yet it still worked somehow because some other package relying on the dep I presume.

I haven't got the build working yet - and not sure it's even achievable - because so many of our explicit deps have implicit dependencies themselves (and some refuse to fix) - but it's been a valuable exercise.
There are storage possibilities beyond batteries, e.g. hydrogen/methane
I run CalyxOS on a refurbished Pixel device. Works great, very privacy-respecting out of the box. Good at being a device that you actually own.
Did you go to your optometrist and ask for this specifically? I've been struggling with this a lot, but figured if my prescription and glasses are what they are, this strain is maybe just a fact of life. I'd love to get rid of it.

I'm so near-sighted that I need my glasses to see the screen, but just barely. In some situations I can take my glasses off to work and it makes such a difference - there's no strain at all.
That repo is for Yarn v1.

V2 (now v3 ...) lives at https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry.

No idea why they did it that way. Probably because Yarn 1 is still very actively used, and things would get confusing otherwise.
There are a couple of reasons gasoline won.

While cars are nice in dense 19th century cities. Not strictly needed when you had street cars and walkable neighborhoods. And delivery services. They are more useful in rural America which was 60-70% of the population. And Rural houses didn't have electricity. No electricity no way to charge a car. Even city houses had very limited service, 10-20 amp was common.

No power semiconductors which meant inefficient motors and chargers.

Lead acid batteries have a quarter the energy density and output power that modern lithium ion batteries do. Which meant range sucked. And horsepower sucked.
> Instead, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) tried to piggyback consideration of his own amendment, which would have added $50 billion in military spending, to the crypto amendment. Sen. Toomey, who had risen to ask the room for unanimous consent, allowed it, but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would not. Sen. Shelby then killed the cryptocurrency amendment.

So he kills the amendment because he didn't get his $50 billion? Just ignore the crypto end of it and tell me how crazy that is. Wow!
It only applies to children up to age 12 (inclusive).
Headline is a bit spun. The plant is known and has been attested since the 19th century. That it was carnivorous is the new discovery. It has a sticky stem, and is (somehow, though it seems like they didn't identify a mechanism) digesting insects that get stuck to it.
At least Germany, which came up upthread, also charged those they helped return: https://www.euronews.com/2020/12/28/german-passengers-sue-go...

Apparently they charge the price of a one way Economy ticket. The difference in cost was paid by the Government. Seems quite reasonable to me.
EU Companies are now allowed to scan your private communications
For what it's worth, you can get reusable, resealable silicone bags which work well and are less likely to leach into your food.
You've got at least two incorrect names in your post, and possibly three.

Trayvon (not Trevor) Martin was killed by George Zimmerman. Phil Zimmermann (different last name than George 'nn' vs 'n') wrote PGP.
Most of the Californian land in question is owned and managed by the federal government. See eg. this map of land ownership in CA - green, orange, and pink are various federal agencies, while brown is CA state/county lands and yellow is private:

https://ucanr.edu/sites/forestry/California_forests/

Land management in the west is different from the east. On the east coast almost everything is private, then divided up into municipal, county, and state governments. In the West large chunks of land are still owned by the federal government. Private ownership under state authority is only about 40% in CA and less than 20% in NV.
They literally domesticated many of the fruits and vegetables that feed you. Corn, Tomatoes, Peppers, Avocado, Beans, Cocoa, Peanuts, Potatoes, Squash, Quinoa, Sweet Potato, list goes on...
Clearly had a lot of info on plant management.
> In other words, we must get, from a multitude of possible interpretations of the above question, the one and only one meaning that, according to our commonsense knowledge of the world, is the one thought behind the question some speaker intended to ask.

But, can humans do this? I think not; I still disagree with the author about what "Do we have a retired BBC reporter that was based in an East European country during the Cold War?", translated into code, means.

They write "Doing the correct quantifier scoping: we are looking not for ‘a’ (single) reporter who worked in ‘some’ East European country, but to any reporter that worked in any East European country"

My interpretation of this requirement is that they want a list of all the reporters who meet the criteria. However, I would probably write this query to return a boolean, not a list of reporters.

And even if my interpretation is wrong... well, my point is still correct, because I failed to extract the "the one and only one meaning" that the author intended from that sentence.

Even humans are only probably approximately correct.
I use a blue light blocking screen on my monitor to get the same effect.
I feel like that the resulting lower attention span is a bigger issue. Even if my phone is away, I constantly find myself switching tabs - moving from work related reading to HackerNews or reddit. I'll tell myself I'll take a 20 minute break but end up extending that by reading articles that really don't improve my life in any meaningful way. I would be far happier if I could just work and then relax.