skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Remember when the previous administration suggested looking into the Lab Leak theory and was laughed at?

The previous administration was completely nuts and would do and say all kinds of random things. The problems with communication and trust were too many to know where to start. Besides that, the context was totally different. A president trying to "wage a trade war" on China, stir up nationalist sentiment, distract from his responsibility to respond to the pandemic, constantly regurgitating conspiracy theories and other misinformation, constantly trying to distract from scandals, etc.

> Remember how you would get banned from Facebook for suggesting that the lab leak theory was a possibility?

The amount of misinformation about COVID was and is extreme. Yeah, they moderated their platform, which is under intense congressional scrutiny, in the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic. Even so, I think you're conflating the bio-weapon theory with the lab-leak theory.

> Then major social networks and the medias reversed their positions. What changed in the meantime, other than the president?

Major social networks and medias didn't "reverse their positions"...we learned more, we're still learning more. What changed in the meantime is so, so many things lmao.
To be fair, mammals just appeared around that time, so no wonder.
They are gas lighting people who are upset about what is really happening, and what will happen in 5-10 years, and portraying them as confused and ignorant instead. It’s the standard “you’re holding it wrong” Apple play
To play devil's advocate, competing app stores could just be a race to the bottom.
T2. He is only like 11 years old. So I think he was exercising enough, in terms of he plays a bunch of sports.
Can we please stop recording … so it would cool again?!
If only we were a plant
I switched to Duck Duck Go on mobile as a direct result of AMP. So not only did AMP fail, but Google lost most of the eyeball time they were getting from me and they're not getting it back any time soon.
Yes I understand this, the current covid situation has taught us that scientists don't always agree, especially when the answer isn't a universal truth. However, for the covid (or for example that smoke causes cancer debate) each scientific camp has some agenda and things to gain (either economically or scientifically or even as a matter of personal pride). The thing with Chrichton is that (as you say and I agree) was that he was an outsider to this field. And he knew that his opinions would be considered controversial and won't be liked by many people. But still made them public, along with a lot of data to support his claims. This behaviour is puzzling to me.
I don't see how hearsay evidence could ever be debunked. And even if a recording could be found of him saying that, he could always just say he was joking.
Read up on some real science and geography. Earth has been much warmer in the past and there was still plenty of oxygen. warmer also means wetter (in general). Local climates may change quickly but there will still going to be plenty of water, oxygen, and life.
I don't understand why they mention this probability, because it's useless to me without other information.

"How fast were you going?"

"30."

"30 what?"

"...Speed."
They actually weren't. They wanted to start, and they thought this way of doing it was more privacy-friendly. Craig says all this, but apparently listening to what he says is forbidden.
Flight Testing Will Soon Start on the World’s Fastest Reusable Aircraft
It only matters what China and India do. We aren't emitting enough where reductions matter in relation to those two.
It's common in several European countries including Belgium and France.

And it is idiotic, of course.
Around 10 years ago when I was telling everyone what will happen soon (floods, wild fires, heat waves etc) people looked at me like I'm some kind of lunatic. These days the same people ask me what I think about the future. Few years ago I believed we can still win with climate change but now I'm certain that we will not. Problem is in the fundamentals of our current economic model that is based on infinite growth, which keeps society stable. General population social hierarchy of values is also a huge obstacle, what's going on Instagram is a huge indicator of that. Most people care but not enough to justify lifestyle change. I was very unhappy and worried a lot about what future will bring and that we are not doing enough to stop it, but now I'm relieved and happy, because I've accepted that this will happen either way and I can't do anything about it more than what I'm doing already. This will be controversial advice on HN but here it goes.. if you are miserable because of climate change and you constantly fear of future just let it go, you can't control the future. Not everyone needs to be a hero, live you life, spend time with your love ones, do what makes you happy, be kind to others, try to not consume too much so you don't contribute to climate change and plan accordingly.
Tesla will recycle 100% of its batteries in-house, says the 2020 Impact Report
I mean, sure, it's dumb, but choosing to take a weekend flight to Vail to hit the slopes emits more carbon than a year of rolling coal, and nobody is seriously trying to crack down on recreational travel.

I think the deeper problem is that even "concerned" people have emissions deeply baked into their lifestyles but don't realize it because they check all the right cosmetic boxes.
I'm more or less in this camp. I definitely believe we technically could do something about climate change. But, when I think about the sheer scale of collective action it would take, combined with the fact that we can't even get a sizeable portion of Americans to exercise common sense public health measures to deal with a pandemic, that's when the doom & gloom mentality sets in for me.

This is not typically my public stance; I would very much like for us to do something about it. I'm just afraid that even that amounts to wishful thinking these days.
Precursor to the NFT craze..
well, he is actually Cuban who lives in US and follows the situation. I am willing to believe his take much more than random dudes from CA.

Here's some of his writings on Cuba.
https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/the-cuban-tank-man-will-be-...
Yep, yep

Wherever happens the planet will continue, same can't be said for modern human civilization on said new climatic landscape, wheat, corn, and other plants staple foods just didn't exist back then and heck knows if we'd be able to keep cultivating them with such different weather patterns and co2 amounts

I believe tho, that rsther than you quoting the jurassic, you ought quote the Permian triassic event, that's certainly more apt for how abrupt current atmospheric changes are
I agree. I think k8s virtualizing ingress, networking, monitoring, restarting, logging is brilliant; I just wish I could write code to make it happen instead of reams of YAML.
Very cool. We'd love to connect with more UK universities and researchers as we currently only have US customers.
I'd really like clarification on this from Apple, considering we know from warrants - if nothing else - that they have been doing this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/02/11/how-a...

Do they mean they haven't been doing it for iCloud Photos, but were arbitrarily doing it for other parts of iCloud?
Book Review: Amanda Ripley, High Conflict
Starting with plain HTML, CSS and Javascript makes sense as it helps to know underlying concepts.

But its a big leap from writing basic pages to writing React. Suddenly you have to know npx, packaging, transpiling and what not. Nothing in those basics prepare you for that. At some point you have to jump in and figure your way backwards from there.
Yes, it will match two images that look the same even after minor transformations.

That isn’t the same as saying it will match things that look kind of the same.
The US market, at least, has been very clear that their ideal vehicle is a long-range electric Rav4. Some subset will buy an electric pickup instead.

Sedans seem to be on the way out overall.
The good news is (no, not that Good News) that education and information are working to reduce the influence of this group. See [1] and [2] for some survey data and [3] for some more discussion, [1] in particular indicates that church membership has just this year crossed below the 50% mark. Also, it's strongly age-correlated; 58% of Boomers are members but only 36% of millenials are members, so as time moves on this trend will continue. Note that these surveys are often influenced by a strong halo effect where people conditioned as children that they ought to be more religious answer that they attend church more often than they do and that they hold beliefs that they believe to be virtuous but do not actually think are true, so I expect the actual numbers are significantly stronger for this trend.

Also, "PMCs"? A search suggests "Professional-managerial class" for the acronym, but I wasn't familiar with that. Is an engineer or a programmer considered to be in the PMC?

[1]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-...

[2]: https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christ...

[3]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-not-just-young-whit...
Once you start using high speed sensors taped to the screens, you starting noticing how slow LCDs are. It's a lot slower than the marketing wank says. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbZUgKpzTA0
Given the experience of the last couple of years, I think this would be a very plausible scenario. And we'd deserve to go extinct like the dinosaurs did.
I'm not even anything close to a climate expert, but I can imagine that this is because most of the world lives in places that are livable in our current climate.

Most of us don't live in Siberia or Greenland. Sure these places might become great because of climate change, but it doesn't matter, since barely anyone lives there.

In the places were we do live, the temperatures are already (semi) ok, meaning that increasing these temperatures will bother more people than it will help.

Furthermore, most people live close to water, which means a rising sea level will be bad for them. Maybe (probably not, but just imagine that) after the sea level has risen we have more viable land that is close to water. However, at that point all the current cities have been ruined by it, because they were built for the old water levels.
For those interested in these kinds of interractive math experiences, I have been keeping track of them for a while. Here is my list so far:

• https://www.intmath.com/ - Interactive Mathematics Learn math while you play with it

• http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/ - up and down the ladder of abstraction

• https://betterexplained.com/ - Intuitive guides to various things in math

• https://www.math3ma.com/blog/matrices-probability-graphs - Viewing Matrices & Probability as Graphs

• http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html - immersive linear alg
You cant give people a pass on hate crime because it is happening online. You risk excusing it and ultimately then normalising it.

"Oh it is ok - their hideous torrent of systemmatic abuse calling for <ethnic group A> babies to be drowned at birth is totally A-ok because they said it on twitter so no harm done." No no no. This sort of thing cannot have any "get out" clauses where it is allowed in some circumstances but not others.
IMHO, saying that "Dad makes teddies" is simply a manipulative form of "Man makes toys" is just drawing arbitrary lines on the spectrum of the descriptiveness of language. It primes the reader for a more light-hearted, cute story, rather than a factual retelling of a series of events. Evoking emotional !== being manipulative. It _can_ mean that, but just because something tugs at our heart strings doesn't mean we are being manipulated.

Further, why not consider that "Man makes toys" is just a manipulative form of "Dad makes teddies"? Sure that primes us just as much as "Dad makes teddies", just in the other direction, no?

EDIT: Rereading this it sounds like I'm coming at you, or the OP, but I'm not :) Just thinking out loud in response to your comment!
I'm not in the US so that's why my perspective is maybe different but the first generation iPhone did not have MMS support, which was a critical feature at the time and pretty much killed it as a mainstream phone.
I chose this because that's exactly where I am in the book.

I am literally listening to it right now!
it seems you're spiritually correct but google is trying to remove the payment loophole that apple enforces as well so I'm curious if we can pressure them both to allow donation links even if normal payment options are banned...
People 100-150 years ago washed their clothes one a month (victorian England). Rich families had more clothes and extra help; they could afford to have clean clothes.

By using more efficient mechanical washing machines the effect wouldn't be more people with bulging biceps, they would just smell more. But slightly less than the victorians.
Right now?

Invest on lowering the price of solar and increasing panel production;

Invest on lowering the price of batteries (I'm not sure ramping-up production is wise right now);

Invest on nuclear power on the (very few) places it can be ramped-up quickly, and stop taking offline the reactors that have no extraneous safety problems;

Invest on electrifying transportation (that's mostly by replacing trucks, buses and cars, but if it's viable to replace things by trains, that's a double gain, I would ignore planes for the time being);

Invest on lowering the costs of carbon capture (I would focus on atmospheric capture for chemical usage, but any kind could be great);

If you live in a place without them, press for carbon taxes, the government can use the money to pay for the things above or distribute it to the poor. It's easier to get if you make it mildly protectionist, but that has the side effect of impoverishing your local economy (politics is weird).

You personally can not do much, unless you have a lot of money. But any reasonably rich government can do a lot of change (it doesn't even to be at the national level).
For those who are interested in the historical data, 'Paleoclimatology' has been a fascinating deep dive into what seems like very decent long-term data.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Paleoclimatology/...
After land-locking the supply to the most ethical producing nation to the north.
Coffee was largely impactful for most of the progress and golden ages of world civilizations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAPG18zNtXk
I believe this is the premise of an upcoming Netflix movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Look_Up_(2021_film)
It's all right here: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/billions-could-face-tempe...

Nobody wants to do anything about something that's only going to affect people decades in the future.
You need 30 matches before they do anything, so a single false positive wouldn't cause anything to happen.
There's absolutely nothing stopping the author from distributing his app in following ways:

- on F-Droid, an app store dedicated for OSS software

- on Samsung Store, an app store preinstalled on most Android phones sold in US and other western world

- on Amazon store

- on Huawei app store

- on their own webpage as a downloadable APK

But what they really want is to use Googles distribution system while not paying the margin.
I think this is the first time they have mentioned that you will be able to compare the hash of the database on your device with a hash published in their KB article. They also detailed that the database is only the intersection of hash lists from two child safety organizations under separate governmental jurisdictions.

My immediate thought is that this could still be poisoned by Five Eyes participants, and that it does not preclude state actors forcing Apple to replicate this functionality for other purposes (which would leave the integrity of the CSAM database alone, thus not triggering the tripwire).
Serverless lambda cloudchain functions!
Baloney Detection Kit
For some reason I have a scythe in my shed. I've used it a couple of times when my lawn mower was dead after I came back from holiday and the grass and weeds were waist high. It's surprisingly efficient and easy to use as soon as you get the hang of it.
Brought to mind the famous video by Dave Haynie about the last days of Commodore and their then almost empty fab in West Chester, PA, just days before the bankruptcy ended it all. If you want an account on how it feels when it's happening, that's probably the video to watch. Contains some interesting vintage technical stuff too.
As an old Amiga user, It makes me both sad and angry every time I watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaTjwo1ywcI
While it's true that perspective is limited and memory is fallible, it's a pretty disturbing trend in society that some feel the need to tear down personal experience, and use sites like Snopes to do it.

Someone who lived through something probably won't know everything, but they'll certainly know more, especially about what they experienced, than someone who wasn't involved at all.

This comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...

> Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

> In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
Isn't that a normal thing? Where isn't this done? If you bump into someone you know do you just greet them and then leave?
A Microsoft operating system was on 97% of all computing devices in the year 2000, even higher if you narrow the definition to something like "home computer".
I find it fascinating that science is not performed in a vacuum, it requires the vast breadth of expertise in scientific disciplines, physics, math, and statistics, supported by IT & Engineering.

Yet, it those dreaded statistics Pros most often finding flaws in my limited, anecdotal experience

I think it is important to think about the different way in which we humans can look at the same data and draw dramatically different conclusions. Although I have views, I like to read contrary opinions for the sake of balance and synthesis. Believe this is different from "bought & paid for" external opinions, although, most organizations need income. So a think-tank, an FFRDC, or Academia are likely equally willing to study a topic and analyze it for funding. Provided you are not dictating conclusions I don't see an issue with it though.
While I understand what you're saying here, I would guess that it's seen as bypassing the intent of the rules, if not their specific wording.

If I put an app up on the app store for free, then link to my site and ask for donations, I am effectively using the app store for free. The app in question is effectively setup to say "you don't need to pay for this app, but we would really like you too"... and then the payment is handled outside the play store. Arguing over whether it should be called payment or a donation doesn't really change the fact that is it the user giving money to the developer because of the app; the app they got on the play store. That's the behavior that the rule in intended to avoid.
I came up with a similar solution; using True/None/False instead of 1/0/-1 allows for more self-documenting code

def monotonics(seq):
run = []
last_v = None
increasing = None
for v in seq:
if last_v is None:
pass
elif increasing is None:
if v != last_v:
increasing = v > last_v
elif increasing:
if v < last_v:
increasing = None
yield run
run = []
else:
if v > last_v:
increasing = None
yield run[::-1]
run = []
last_v = v
run.append(v)

if run:
yield run

and, I'd add a two more test cases: [], and [1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3]
> They even published a paper about their process and its economics in Cell [2].

The journal is Joule.

https://www.cell.com/joule/aims
Very cool! I've made a small prototype of something like this before, but what's always gotten me is the limitations of text to speech.

Hopefully some point soon we will have options for more natural speech.
Yes, that's an explantation that could support his behaviour.

However I don't think that he was doing it just to present himself as smarter than the other people. He firmly believed that opinions, at least that's what I was getting out of his talks and some of his books.
That makes no sense - iCloud Photo Library is a separate service from iCloud Drive. It isn’t part of the filesystem.

In any case the claim that the system will scan files other than photos chosen for upload is just a lie.
This is the way to do it. Very glad to see that you value these important facts. I need a new Iranian provider, could you recommend one? I'd settle for similar if that is not available.
you can start writing your book
Well, if science advances one funeral at a time, an increasingly hostile and less inhabitable planet may give us opportunity for advancement ...
I think Sublime Text is pretty simple https://www.sublimetext.com/. I still use version 3 because it's enough for me. You don't have to install any packages, can hide the sidebar (I do); just have a simple window.

Regarding autocomplete, I made my own. You can add files which contain only the words/keywords you want.
How is an adda different from a normal conversation that people have? I feel like the article did not explain this sufficiently.
Compare the situation to ISPs. There's Comcast, Cox, Charter, etc., but a given location is often only served by one of them, so they don't actually compete with each other. Similarly, nobody has a choice between those two app stores. iOS users can't use the Google Play Store, and Android users can't use the Apple App Store.
> Imagine if you went into Walmart, bought an Android phone, and then when you turned the phone on Google wasn't allowed to show you any links in the Android OS to their support pages because technically you can navigate from the support pages to the online Google store and then buy another phone from them directly without giving Walmart a cut.

No, imagine if you went into Walmart, picked up an item for free and then used PayPal to sidestep Walmarts margin. And then threw a giant fuss because Walmart stopped stocking that free item.
> The lowest tax rate in the US/CA is Alberta and the highest is Quebec

> However, saying Canadians on the whole are "overtaxed"

I was talking about the total amount of money that engineers take home. So just replace the word "overtaxed" with underpaid, and the argument holds.

Engineers in america get way way more take home money, regardless of any tax rates.

> Folks don't move to the US to evade taxes

Ok, they do it to get the high salary. Or a lot of them do.

> but still attracts the world's best talent

Yes. Because engineers get paid way more money than trash collectors.

So great, canada should go ahead and pay their engineers the same as trash collections (through a method that will certainly result in them having to spend a bunch of money to do it), and we in the USA can poach a lot of those engineers.

Once again, feel free to show the example of a real country that is spending an equal amount of money on their trash collectors, and their engineers, and I point out how that country is likely having a lot of its engineers leave.
Or the Falkland Islands, population 3,000. They are the real problem!

The combined populations of the small states above you don’t even reach 1/3rd of the USA’s population.