skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trees are nice, and have a bunch of benefits in terms of moisture, cooling, aesthetics, and as something you can burn in a camp fire. They are great and we should have more of them.

But as a form of carbon capture they are a cruel joke and people whe supply credits for that are fraudsters.

Even if your plan were to plant trees, cut them down when mature and dump them at the bottom of the ocean (away from the continental shelves) and replace them, they could not keep up with fossil fuel burning which releases about 400 years of global carbon production per year.

It’s like putting a 64-byte L1 cache in front of your CPU.
Do they, though? That seems like a pretty hot take.
> I'm past hoping for people to do the right things en masse.

This isn't either or: we can heavily incentivize creating climate change tech AND drive for a systemic change. It is IMO immoral to just give up on a sustainable political solution because it is hard: huge changes have happened in the past and can happen again.
That's not for the wearer's benefit, in this case, the wearer being the vaccinated. The article even states that. This is to stop community transmission for those who remain unvaccinated.

I don't like that as much as the next person, but if I'm visiting a hospital or a nursing home anytime soon, i'll mask up.
Have you considered that for many people have pets because they don't have/can't have/don't want children? Compared to an actual human child, the footprint of a pet is quite minimal and their lifespans are short.
Dissidents in China are just offensive then?
I'm just over here thinking of the health benefits provided by broken McFlurry machines!
Take a look at this: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace
On a DSLR front: are there now DSLR/cameras that do the type of "computational photography" that pixel or iphones are doing?

Not having to edit the pictures is a huge plus, and JPG files in Nikon, even with dynamic range on, are pretty mediocre compared to Pixel phone.
Stop Fighting, Embrace It
Cold Call
Not solely for the point of evading government regulation. I said it's useful to get around oppressive governments. Governments usually become tyrannies so gradual you don't notice. But it's faster than you think.
They should have mentioned the Beluga. Their body can deceptively look like humans in tight whole body suits. Just look for images "beluga mermaid".
It could also mean that the ferroelectric cells were harvesting 0.000001% of sunlight, while now they harvest 0.001%.

The fact that no absolute number is given in the article makes me want to boycott it.
Because half-face respirators make it you look like you are in a chemical weapon warzone? Also why pay $50 for something a free vaccine protects you from 100x better?
Yes, but current laws also restrict storing images as E2E encrypted, so there is dilemma?
AML / CTF is enacted in the US through US laws (of course).

But, they're a Basel Committee initiative, where legislation is broadly mirrored around countries that have 95% of world GDP:

https://www.bis.org/list/bcbs/tid_199/index.htm

Central banks have come together to either help manage the order of world banking, or to allow evil Rothschild overlords to run the world, depending on which bit of the internet you're looking at.
Hi all, since we've had a bit of traction today I thought I'd ask whether there are any additional features you'd like to see added?

For example, some sort of "self-serve" UI where you could get an API key which would allow users/teams have dedicated rate-limits and not use the default/public limits? Or a self-hosted option where the API could be deployed to the company's cloud of choice?

Or.. leave as is?

Please let us know! :)
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That reminds me of the doglike creature in pre-islamic arabian legends, the Ghoul.
Living in hideouts under Graveyards gnawing the flesh and bones of the dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoul

...
A fun social phenomenon of Hyena and Man as an aside:

The Hyena Men of Nigeria

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28117877
That only adds a float of six months at least. Reddit threads are locked after that point.
Writing can advance your career as a developer
Yeah you're commanded to wash your hands before eating and after you wake up.
What is Bataille's seminal work on the theory of general economy? The Accursed Share? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accursed_Share
"I think framing this is a checking account is what people are having trouble with"

Yes exactly. Checking account is the safest thing you can do online especially with FDIC backing. It is misleading to say that it is like a checking account. It is not. People can lose money with this product and I think that needs to be clarified which is the opposite of a Checking Account.
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>The diffraction limit is a well supported theoretical limit that is caused by the wave nature of light.

That's not written in stone yet, it's a good approximation but still falls down under specific conditions.
Someone once explained to me that any webmail service is inherently able to read your mail: otherwise it could not display your mail to you. True end-to-end encryption means keeping your private keys client-side and the client on a computer over which you have full physical control.
They should be worn by people who are symptomatic or have tested positive, to reduce transmission of the virus.

Beyond that, it's not clear that mass enforcement of nonpharmaceutical interventions - ie masks, lockdowns, etc - will be a net win for public health. For example, the next winter or two could present a very bad flu season, all due to the mass isolation and hyper-sanitizatoin we've come to be familiar with through the pandemic [1].

[1] The impact of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on the future dynamics of endemic infections
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/48/30547
"faster" is not a property of programming languages.

"faster" is a property of programs & programming language implementations on some hardware & operating environment.

The programs shown on the benchmarks game have been crowd sourced, contributed to the project by an ever-changing self-selected group.

The programs shown on the blog post were written by the blogger.
When they cash it in for dollars, they have to report it their gains. That's already built in. This bill pushes further into the crypto space.
> This site doesn't have user-generated content/events/calendar, it's employee generated.

That's incorrect. There's a call to action to register to submit an event here:

https://www.gp.org/earth_day_to_may_day_events_calendar

That's how the spam got in.

Edit: here, I made one for you: https://www.gp.org/janon/aaron695_hello

Edit2: it's deleted, looks like someone is finally doing cleanup
The US has dropped per-capita emissions even when you include the emissions from offshored production: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
Any tariff is not strong enough to reduce production. So instead, use politics.
LMGTFY (which you can Google if you don't know what it maps to) exists for a reason
The phrase, "I have nothing to hide" means more or less, "I don't have anything to hide from authorities who wish to view my data in an official capacity, so I'm willing to cede some privacy in that specific context to those particular actors, if it helps them achieve goals to which I'm sympathetic."

Telling someone who says that to prove it by getting naked in a restaurant is a bizarre non sequitur.
The article alleges they hoped to increase accessibility with the move to Electron.

How is that stupid?

(I'm not an Electron fan, but I think accessibility is important.)
WINNERS: Rule of law

LOSERS: Criminals who saw so much hope in trivially laundering their ill gotten gains now see that as slightly less likely.
> We built Lightly to help companies pick the most valuable 1% to be labeled.

Awesome!
And AACS as well.

I remember buying some FreeBSD disks from Walnut Creek CDROM in the 90s, these shipped to my home in Mexico. When they Arrived, apparently Kerberos was not included in the distribution because "it was not possible to export weapons outside of the USA". 12 year old me was completely puzzled at what that was about.
"I offered him another 10,000 bet" is such bullcrap though.

For the guys making the vid this is win win due to youtube ads. Kusenko isn't exactly taking a cut from that.
My recommendation which China is already seems to be taking is to go for nuclear power and solar in that order. Maybe add some hydropower to the mix but they have a plenty of it.

The chief problem is that they're not ramping up nuclear quickly enough, and it's hard to deploy in desert west of the country.
And thanks to our persistent self-sabotage there's civil unrest related to these power plants.

The nuclear is to be used to ramp production of solar PV and batteries cleanly, then decommissioned. Timeframe would be 25 years.

Decommissioning of current old reactors is a problem already but there's really no alternative - ramping solar PV with standard energy sources would be bad. A lot of reactors are expected to shut down by 2025...
> It's pointing out that there is no realistic scenario in which western countries can prevent CO2 from getting to dangerous levels.

Sure there is. We've had two experiments where we saw this happen:

April 2020 - for a very short time when Western economies took a major hit, emissions dipped quite substantially.

In 2008 - The global financial crisis, which did impact the world, started in the US and again caused on of the only major notable dips in emissions we've seen.

It's very clear that US consumption and economic activity is directly tied to GHG emissions globally. If just the US had decided to remain in our April 2020 depressed economic state, and cooled from there, we would have seen a downward trend in emissions.

Maybe you would argue that economic shrinking is not "realistic" (in which case we are most certainly doomed, unless we run out of fossil fuels before we cross certain boundaries). The common argument is people won't tolerate a radical change in lifestyles... but that change is coming either way. However extreme the changes need to prevent catastrophic climate change, they are certainly less extreme then letting climate change run it's course.

I personally believe we will not chose this path, but don't pretend that this path doesn't exist. As the center of the global economy the United States fully has the capability to reduce global emissions.

Alternatively if we run into a economic crisis of unprecedented scale, which looks reasonably possible, we'll also see reduction in emissions without having to worry about "choosing" this path.
Well, if we need to change our diet, give up pets, give up travelling, give up individual travel in general, etc. then I think that proves the point I'm trying to make.
At least one of those vaccines are reportedly around 80% effective, so if you got 100 vaccinated people in the party then its about as bad as 20 unvaccinated people partying.

If a celebrity many different people per week, 20% vulnerability is still a lot. Its better than no protection, but still put the person at a pretty high risk.
> I'm not sure why I wouldn't be against that. Additionally, I live in Japan where the kind of mask-adherence those back in the west can only have wet dreams about is the norm here, and there's no evidence it's helped here either.

Per https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.h...:

Japan: 818 all time cases per 100k capita.

US: 10,793 all time cases per 100k capita.

I don't think that's "no evidence it's helped here either." It's is evidence that masks didn't completely solve the problem. But mitigations aren't bad.

You have to keep in mind that different places have different ideas of what "failure looks like." Many Americans seem to think failure is only when they, as an individual, are personally dying of COVID right now.
Yes, I'm fully on board with that. No country should enjoy a competitive advantage because they externalize costs onto the environment. I don't think the US is a particularly grievous culprit on the global stage, but if everyone implements fair border adjustments then it's moot.
> Individual action won’t solve this problem. We need to leave the fossil fuels in the ground, which means switching energy sources, which is not something individuals have much influence on.

The covid shutdown should have put this myth to bed forever.

Hundreds of millions stuck at home and no longer commuting took a massive dent out of carbon emissions and sent shock waves through the oil industry.

Individual action can save the planet; we have to be drops in the flood.

> I’m not sure we need to switch lifestyles that much, but we will need to radically change energy production.

There's no way we can continue to works as we do and plan cities as we do and stem the oncoming catastrophe with any alacrity.
Thank you for this argument, I will put it in my cannon of responses to people who are pro spyware.
The server seems to be suffering from the hug of death, here is a recent archived snapshot of the page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210727051112/https://arcflashl...
Yeah, and the weird part is that somehow it completely misses the point that society might actually want 'infringements' (infringing on what?), and that most of the world doesn't like the idea of making it easy for people to apply violence to other people.
Muller’s bet reminded me of the Mysthbusters episode where they put a fan in a boat that blows on it’s own sail and moves the boat forward, which I’m pretty sure I thought wasn’t possible before it aired.

https://mythresults.com/blow-your-own-sail

It also reminds me of the Brayton Cycle, and turbofan/turbojet engines where the output thrust of the blades is applied to subsequent blades that turns the shaft, causing the first fan to spin even faster.

To me this feels similar to blowing on your own sails, and to Veritasium’s Blackbird that blows air against the wind to go faster than the wind. These all feel counterintuitive, but they work.
It might also turn into a good teachable moment for teens about privacy, sharing, and technology. I don’t take a picture on a smartphone of anything that I wouldn’t want to make public, and I surely wouldn’t share or post it anywhere. If it leaves your device, it’s effectively public, regardless of whether whoever you sent it to tells you they’ll keep it “private”.
I’m all for masks, it’s a minor inconvenience.

What i’m worried about is social distancing. Online school. Making it harder to meet people. Cancelling and postponing events. Even large gatherings of vaxxed individuals. And honestly, needing to wear masks at said gatherings.

Correct me if i’m wrong, but the chance of a large vaxxed party causing someone serious illness or significantly spreading the virus to the unvaxxed is still very low. From what i’ve heard, Delta does infect vaccinated people but it’s usually mild.

Moreover, if you ban these sorts of events you’re probably banning them long-term. Humans are social creatures, and it’s one thing to minimize social interaction for a year to save lives, it’s another to minimize for years (someone’s entire adolescence), especially when you’re not saving many lives anyways.

Honestly, i’m an introverted person, i don’t even like crowded parties. But i feel for people who do. Moreover, if schools / colleges stay online or even hybrid it’s going to hurt students’ education and social development. If jobs are online and vacations are cancelled it’s going to make finding and maintaining friends as an adult harder, and afaik that’s already hard. Some things really are better virtual (e.g. virtual meetings), but some are effectively useless.

It looks like right now this isn’t an issue, since i see events like lollapalooza and cruises which require proof of vaccination. And schools are starting in-person (although i’m worried for those under 12, the FDA should really approve the vaccine asap). But yeah, masks aren’t much of an issue, this is much more concerning.
A Physical Description of Flight; Revisited (2009) [pdf]
Many people start wood working at a young age. If they want to build a house, they need to acuire permits, comply with zoning regulation, comply with building codes, get sign off from a certified engineer.

Not all coding is the same. If you want to work to code in a regulated industry, you need to play by the regulations.
Finance is a regulated industry, not a sandbox.
What made spatial finder good stuff, to you?
The EU is either

- an unstoppable authoritarian juggernaut to which countries have foolishly ceded their sovereignty and are now paying the price in the form of draconian regulation

- a weak and ineffectual symbolic union which issues empty proclamations that countries are free to ignore without consequence

Which is it?
It doesn’t matter what my bank invests the money in; my money is insured by the FDIC, which isn’t the case here.
The Hyena Men of Nigeria
You are absolutely right. To be honest, the current situation is not too different from this hypothetical case. Fortran is used mostly to write numeric routines and then we call them from a Python script, instead of writing text and arguments processing (for example) directly from Fortran. But I still find interesting thinking about where these languages would be if these limits had been consistently respected.
Unions an Obstacle to Vaccine Mandates
For those who are interested in superior technology, start reading about quartz movements and the piezoelectric effect. Citizen Watch Company recently release the most accurate quartz watch ever, accurate to 1 second per year. Contrast that to the mechanical watches that Rolex—one of the best mechanical manufacturers—produces and the best they can do is an accuracy of about 1 second per day. Hundreds of times less accurate. Yikes! And then you can get into radio-controlled and GPS-controlled solar watches that you literally never have to set or change the battery. So neat!

Mechanical watches are an emotional rather than rational technology, and hey if that's what you're into: mechanical watches and horse-drawn-buggies and gas lanterns then that's totally cool.
Should we celebrate setting our house on fire to stay warm when the furnace went out?

Yes, the house fire is very very hot. Good job.
In the South in particular [1] things are picking up in bad way, and some healthcare systems are once again being burdened.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/01/health/us-coronavirus-sunday/...
Doesnt go into effect until 2023. Theres going to be time for them to tweak this.
> That's not going to work. A lot of people (and industries) rely on cars to do their jobs

Unfortunately economic contraction is going to essential if we are going to reduce GHG emissions. We've tried the "full steam ahead, green energy will catch up!" approach for decades and it emissions have only gotten worse.

Don't forget those same people that would suffer from not having cars will suffer even more under the worse case climate scenarios.
I’m not going to do that, because I’m not going to spend any particular amount of time or effort defending a position that’s self evident among actual cryptographers.

Money laundering is not free speech, and supporting E2EE does not somehow magically mean that I have to support or be okay with burning coal so that people can crack hashes. If you want to argue about cryptography itself, I suggest finding someone who’s actually against privacy and encryption.
It's one thing to have to wear masks everywhere before the vaccines became widely available. That was a necessary annoyance to stem the tide, which shouldn't have been politicized. It's another thing after mandates went away for several months because in the US at least, since most adults can easily be fully vaccinated.

Now it feels like a temporary annoyance is being turned into a long term one even after many of us wore masks, social distanced and got vaccinated.
"some people"
Apple's banned image reporting wont stay iCloud only.iMessage is next. Maybe all data on your phone. 1) phone scanning is overkill for pics already on their servers. You don't build this and take the PR flack for something you can already do server side 2) Even if it's somehow not Apple's plan, they will be forced to use it on iMessage. Congress has been trying to for years.See the EARN IT act[0].

Apple just erroneously said "it's safe" despite the fact that it clearly can be abused.

[0] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/03/06/earn-it-...
Photonix (self-hosted photo manager) June-July Update
I couldn't find a picture of the fruit, but this article at least has a photo of the basket.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/02/fruit-basket...
The Cloudflare certificate which expired was for *.thunderbird.net which you will be able to find in crt.sh for yourself - and was issued a year ago under Cloudflare's intermediate†

None of those R3 certificate expire today, and the expired cert I was originally served when this was a fresh news item was from that Cloudflare intermediate CA under DigiCert.

It's possible that normally Thunderbird has Cloudflare trust their backends via the Let's Encrypt certificate rather than using Cloudflare's private "origin" CA for that purpose. That would give them the flexibility to cut Cloudflare out of the loop if necessary. But what exactly happened here I expect we'll learn in a post-mortem.

† I assume but don't know for certain that in fact DigiCert operates this intermediate CA simply on behalf of Cloudflare but entirely on their own premises and with them ensuring its obeys the CA/B BRs and other trust store policies. I think the idea of letting somebody else operate unconstrained intermediates with them doing all the work died out after it sank Symantec.
I've seen those designs but never looked too deep into them. Maybe I've seen too many of the 'collect water from thin air' devices and become cynical. If their 90% efficiency is counting manufacturing and power costs then it could be worthwhile in cities and other areas with high atmospheric carbon levels. Same problem as the trees though, if we leave them out or use them for something they'll break down and be back in the carbon cycle. However we collect the carbon we need to lock it in place.