skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OpenBSD acme-client is OpenBSD specific and lacks a whole bunch of features, it is I suppose exactly what you'd expect the default acme-client to be in OpenBSD and so it fits its role perfectly but it doesn't make any sense as the "standard" ACME client with no support for lots of desirable ACME features.
The IPCC AR6 Hockeystick
Well, what field and what journal? If he published in an Art History journal, it kind of makes sense. If he published in an elite engineering or Mathematics Journal, that's more surprising that he couldn't shift within STEM. But on it's face, Simply having a doctorate and a publication doesn't say much, you need to be from a useful field. Also, NZ is an island, wouldn't it be more wise to line up a job first before you move there?
For sure. It's not clear to me whether Apple's approach is truly sufficient to preserve the privacy and safety of iPhone users that whole governments are out to get. But it definitely looks to me like they thought hard about it and have given it a go.
50% of species would be considered an extinction event, and that is absolutely on the table.

We're already in the 6th largest mass extinction event in the history of life on this planet.

I would strongly recommend reading Peter Ward's "Under a Green Sky" (or his academic papers if that's more your style). He makes a very compelling argument about the relationship between rising CO2 and many of the previous major (and minor) extinction events.

To be clear, I'm not saying "extinction is certain!" but in "the worst case scenario" mass extinction is absolutely a real possibility. If we reach the neighborhood of 5+C (which is in the realm of possibility, especially when talking about 'worst case') we're looking at a planet that is very hostile to human and most other current life.

A few books I would recommend (all in the popular non-fiction category but backed up with plenty of academic sources):

- Peter Ward "Under a Green Sky"

- Elizabeth Kolbert "The Sixth Extinction"

- Mark Lynas "Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency" (update of his earlier "Six Degrees")

Ward is an academic, and Kolbert and Lynas are science journalists, but both have plentiful, credible citations.

Again, there are so many big unknowns that very little can be said for sure, but saying that a mass extinction (and more specifically human extinction) event is not possible is simply wrong given our current understanding of the situation.
Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free beer’
Nice post and references. This is basically how I see it too. You could increase the symmetry a little by adding to the Democrats the ghost of an FDR/LBJ "New Dealer" faction, corresponding roughly to the displaced Eisenhower/Rockefeller faction of the Republicans. You'd have something like:

- Eisenhower Republicans : New Dealers

- Reagan/Gingrich "small government" Republicans : Clinton/Obama/Blair market liberals

- "moderate Trumpists" (if there can be such a thing) : "Progressives" (who, I will add, are somewhat less "left" than Wokeists)

They form a 3x2 matrix. Each column represents a side, and each row the spirit of an age.

I guess you could call the rows: "Institutions", "Markets", "Movements".

Then, breaking the symmetry, the "Progressives" are moderated a little by the ghost of FDR/LBJ, while the ghost of Eisenhower lives on in the Never Trumpers, who... weirdly, might ally with what "respectable" Neocons remain, and turn into some kind of "establishment" figures aligned as much with the center-left market liberals as with anyone. Sort of a "deep state" faction without a party.
> I'm not sure about this. How is a perceptual hash sophisticated and impressive given that it can be abused by governments demanding Apple scan for political content, etc?

As it's setup today it can't be. The list is the intersection of at least 2 jurisdictions, and is only checked when items are going to iCloud.

Of course this could change, but it's important to recognize what it is now vs. speculation about what it could become.
I don't understand the puzzle, the seed phrase words are in the text of the blog and we need to find which sentences are wrong and find each word?
this sums it up from three weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27997438
Not the biggest fan of XML either. My primary objections against "simple" XML is repeating element names in open and close tags, the noise of <>, and (in the context of a UI tree) confusion over whether to put element modifiers as XML attributes (strings only) or nested elements (verbose, looks like an object rather than an attribute). And when you bring in namespaces, it gets more verbose and unreadable.

I've actually managed to make "UI in code" somewhat manageable by laying out my UI code in a tree mirroring the widget tree. One issue is waiting for rebuilds, another is difficulty navigating the "big picture" of my code, mapping between on-screen UI and code mentally or through an Inspect Element equivalent.

What do you think about QML?
I'd rather the first be discontinued, since I've never been able to get it to work properly. I've since got a gooseneck phone holder that holds my phone up over my car's AA screen, and use the second instead. Oh well, I suppose I'm not shocked by this decision.
iCloud in China is already run by a state owned company so at least in the case of China nothing will change.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/10/technology/apple-china-iclo...
People with only outrage won't think about their payment processors. Those with outrage who think through their options to enact change will think of their payment processors, and direct group pressure on them.
1. They don't want to know anything about the result of the scanning until you have 30 matches. This way is much more private.

2. If they scanned iCloud, they could never start encrypting that.
The butterfly keyboard was an IBM Thinkpad invention, until other companies copied the design for their own flagships.
Have you tried the new Assistant Driving mode?

I couldn't tell from the article if it was meaningfully different....
The concern that various kinds of legal sex work might be a de-facto haven for human trafficking is at least many decades old, does not solely or even mainly originate from people identifying as Christians, and seems to have a pretty solid factual basis - at the very least, there is a consensus on the broad argument if not the details. The Twitter thread does not even attempt to fairly acknowledge these facts. Very sad and disappointing.
This depends on your willingness to turn away business, and may not even be legal depending on where you work. In the United States, I would not want to defend that copy and paste scheme as being compliant with the Americans With Disabilities act having seen usability tests from people trying to accomplish that exact workflow using screen readers. Remember that things like cognitive impairments count and, like vision and motor control/range of motion, most of us will be affected at some point in our lives.

What I do think would be reasonable is having a well-labeled link which takes you to a confirmation form: someone can follow it easily and choose to submit it with far less friction and it leaves standard web semantics intact.
Don't say "there is no room for discussion" on a discussion forum, it's obnoxious.
I remember following Haiku (I think it was originally called OpenBEOS) right from the get go.

I used to read updates on its development progress about it on OSNews. It looks like all the posts of the Haiku's progress going back to the early 2000s are still on the OSNews site (https://www.osnews.com/topic/beos-derivatives/page/19/). I think I gave up on following its progress (or lack of it) at around 2004.

I liked BeOS a lot... in the late 90s and early 2000s... I may still have the BeOS installer floppy (can't remember if there was also a CD in the package) somewhere in my basement. Haiku is definitely not something I would use today, but I'm still glad they're still making forward progress.
I created an account, not sure what its about. Another form of Twitter?

Another account that will not be used for more than a day...
Look, the article is making a historical argument, and your talking about the modern ways wars are fought. I believe the author has an incorrect belief about how historically battles were won, and I pointed to several historical examples. Now, you can either refute my examples or provide your own, but pointing to the way the military runs today does nothing for my argument that historically "winning a battle" was not a great method of social mobility yo "elite" status.
I’ve seen a few researchers raise the idea that moving this scanning to the client is effectively a political prerequisite for enabling iCloud E2E, so I suspect that may be coming.
Here’s a code you can use to skip the waitlist:

hn-vip

Use it here: https://www.polywork.com/users/sign_up_vip
What's the shortest chain-size that those free CAs can offer (assuming android>=5.0 devices)?

It would be great to have a tool somewhere that matches client handshakes & supported CAs vs server config & choice of CA chains
I thought it already had a mic?
"Apple's privacy measures, such as not scanning your Cloud photos, is what helps enable CSAM."

this is what baffles me.

I'm sure a good number of iphone customers have their photos automatically uploaded to icloud.

For all intents and purposes, the end result is the same for most people. Apple is scanning your photos, and doing so on your phone feels much more intrusive.
Payment processors have been doing this for a while with anyone politically controversial as well. Now people have realised they fold to public pressure, you just need to start complaining about your own pet cause to make it happen.
Figured this was coming once I saw they were duplicating features from Android Auto in Google Maps.

Only thing I really hate about this change is that Maps' driving mode doesn't currently let you do anything until you enter a destination. So until I tell Maps where I'm going I can't even play music over Bluetooth.

Android Auto also starts automatically when I turn on my car, whereas Google Maps doesn't, but I suppose I could fix that pretty easily with a Tasker task.
It's more complex than that. For one thing the current porn industry does have some ethical issues. Even people not opposed to pornography per se have issues. But beyond that, the zealously anti-porn crowd isn't just Christians. It's something of an unholy alliance -- you have more than a few ultra-woke, a smattering of the Q crowd type, and of course the good ol' fashioned core of Catholic and Baptist types. Plus no doubt some others.
I'd argue that it's not. The atomic commit thing is cited because it's about the only argument in favor of monorepo that has technical merit. So a smart debater will latch onto that argument knowing it is hard to defeat. imho it is all about inertia and laziness: an organization begins with little code and one repo. They grow. They write more code. They acquire more code. Nobody is interested in stepping forward to do the hard work of managing all this code. So the repo gets bigger and bigger with more and more discrete projects inside it, until the situation becomes largely unworkable (e.g. clone the tree takes 20 min, CI builds of different projects don't work because tools used can't deal with multiple projects in the same repo). Then people justify their mess with arguments about sharing code and atomic commits. Also I'd argue it is to some extent about lack of knowledge -- people may just not be familiar modularity mechanisms that will solve their problems, because they've always depended on code being in the same repo.
Agreed. Throughout its history, the story demonstrated by Twitter is that network effect is more important than technical competence. From their scaling- pains failwhale era through to this week where they accidentally de-verified Danny DeVito, the site continues to be extremely popular in spite of, not because of, its technical design and competent implementation.
All animals or just emotional support animals?

Well trained support animals seem both less common and more important, but unfortunately they're still animals.
How would you have known if that 20% were real people and not bot activity?
The battery level is likely a single feature in a dynamic pricing algorithm, which has discovered an inverse relationship between battery level and price receptiveness on its own.
Too Much Covid Caution Will Be Bad for Schoolchildren
1) A lot of high-level chess players lift weights, so could be burning twice as many calories daily as an average person.

(Pro US bodybuilders average consuming over 10,000 calories per day, with the record being 20,000 per day. They all take insulin to burn it, which is the open secret inside that community.)

2) Most of the comments about CICO on the Sept. 2019 link miss the point. CICO works for young people with a normal metabolism. But a medical doctor and researcher on one of Joe Rogan's podcasts spent an hour explaining convincingly how that isn't true for others, mainly because fat cells are forever and interact with hormones. His advice on losing fat was, "Get lipo."
He means that you need Apple hardware to start a Facetime call.
Feds Deliberately Targeted Black Lives Matter Protesters, a Report Says
The Chinese government already has full access to all the data of Apple's China user base.
Will AI Eventually Outperform Humans in Intelligence?
I don't recall, it was probably the naïve one.
Source? Or are you just assuming?
Once the VC money starts to fade, the competition has been bought or crushed, and the IPO cash out has occurred it’s time to extract money from the users.
Here's a quick PoC:

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Agree. Twitter threads are pretty illegible and supposedly communicating well is in this sites objective.
All data you share can and will be used against you.
Have you considered, as a service to humanity or yourself, to teach and share how this could be done "properly"? You clearly appear to have some knowledge of techniques that, while you think them obvious, other people don't seem to understand (not even on HN, as the downvotes indicate).

At the same time, these techniques could solve a lot of issues including people losing their livelihoods, mass migration, devastation or even wars.

So don't you think sharing how to do it would be worth infinitely more than your one-liner comment?
Yeah, but most of all this is an incredibly convoluted and inefficient way to spy for the government, and much easier for outsiders to detect.
To lose weight, you simply need to intake fewer calories than you burn.

Exercising is almost irrelevant, because 30 minutes of cycling equals a rather small piece of cake.

So just eat less, count calories and weight the food using kitchen scales. This way I lost 12 kg in 2.5 months last summer. The only difficulty was to overpower myself to eat less, that's the obstacle that most people who try to lose weight fail to overcome.

Also. It is absolutely irrelevant when to eat: only the amount of calories intake matters. I routinely ate before sleep or after midnight
Illinois Bought Invasive Phone Location Data from Banned Broker Safegraph
I think what is making people uncomfortable is the realization it's always been policy.
Software-wise, Zune was lightyears ahead of iPod. If you lost your MP3 collection on your PC, you could plug in your Zune and download the MP3s right off of it. You still can't do that with iPod/iPhone today.
Join, but not start if I recall the announcement correctly.
True, that was a bad choice of words but gmail could still load the page, execute the JS which in turn submits the form which is a POST request to your back-end. It's technically not following a redirect but it's doing things beyond just visiting the URL linked in the email due to it executing JS.
There isn't one. You might get something that looks a bit like it in screenshots, but there's nothing that works like BeOS tracker (filemanager) and deskbar do.
A Haskell equivalent: https://reanimate.github.io/. Haven’t used it myself, but the examples are incredibly impressive.
A perceptual hash by itself is neither sophisticated nor impressive. Apple could have just applied a client-side perceptual hash and auto-reported you and disabled your device. That is not what they have done, and pretending the solution's sophistication is limited to the sophistication of a percetual hash seems either incurious or disingenuous—I'm assuming the former. Either way, it makes it difficult to engage with your argument.
They probably check your # of Instagram and Twitter followers too. Or they will, before long. They have to pull out every trick in the book (and make up some more as they go along).

"True accounting of the last quarter has Uber losing 38 cents on every dollar it took in." [0]

[0] https://marker.medium.com/end-of-the-line-for-uber-901e3077b...
From the HN guidelines [1]:

" Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

Also, the article is currently on the front page, so the discussion about it being buried by flags is moot.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's worth noting that the record here extends back 32 years, to 1989. And that the weather station isn't equipped with rain guages, as those were seen as not useful.

The story also mentions that the liquid precipitation should form a distinctive ice layer which will be preserved in the snowpack, and detecatable in future ice cores.

For those curious about any previous liquid precipitation events, that ice record might give some indication of when those might have occurred. According to the article, "ice core data shows that the last time melting occurred at the ice cap top dates to the 1880s." Which suggests not within at least 130-ish years.

This is a reminder that the duration of direct observations of meterological conditions is limited in both time and geography. Similarly for satellite observations: very comprehensive in territorial coverage, but beginning only in the 1960s and making great strides in each decade since.

Paleometerological records are limited in location to places where weather events can be reliably recorded, and often it's only a specific set of characteristics which are (ice cores, pollen samples, isotopic characteristics, etc.). But they do provide a view across a broad span of time.

Both temporal and spatial aspects have enormous significance.
Your Health Care May Kill You: Medical Errors (2017)
Yes, I want to believe in MAUI but the current state and dev process are very concerning. I don't get a good feeling that theres a clear understanding of how Xamarin "failed" (which it had to at some level for it to be replaced) in order to avoid the same issues. I'm also really concerned how soon the cutover is supposed to be (with only 1 year of Xamarin support after) and the current state of MAUI.
Aella already had a monetized following prior to onlyfans. She is not representative of the potential of a new content creator.
WhatsApp is usable but nowhere near the video and audio quality of FaceTime. It's also only on mobile where the screen is rather small and audio quality is never great - not very important since they seem to use very high audio compression anyway.
I literally can't even type phone numbers into Skype on my iPhone without a massive input delay that actually makes the digits appear all at once, with their tones coming out like a musical chord.

In the 21st century, this is unacceptable. The app is so clunky I loathe using it but it's unfortunately still a good (the best?) solution for dialing landlines and mobile phones abroad for extended periods of time.
Here's the entire Twitter thread in one page: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428584131835748359.html

I hate that we seem to have come full circle:

1. Write coherent, long-form articles which require sustained attention to write and read, but unfortunately can't be easily discovered or nonverbally reacted to by people sitting on toilets.

2. Write intentionally length-limited microblog posts or "tweets" as a cute experiment in brevity by design and creativity under constraints. There's no room for nuance and multi-person conversations are abysmal, but at least your stream-of-consciousness musings have the potential to be "liked" by toilet-bound readers across the world jonesing for buttery-smooth exploding-heart animations.

3. Write coherent, long-form articles, but then break them up into snippets of at most 280 characters, tweet the first one, then reply to yourself dozens of times to reconstruct the original article, forcing readers to scroll past dozens of redundant copies of your profile pic (which of course doesn't depict you) and your clever-only-the-first-two-times pseudonym, truncated over and over, only to invoke a third-party article reconstruction service by replying "@threadreaderapp unroll please."
Rumor has it that OF is the next target of Exodus Cry
The proposed solution is buying us time for other measures. It does not solve carbon emissions or prevent accumulation in the atmosphere or oceans. It might be a bit too complex for a stopgap measure though.

Marine cloud brightening has the same issues minus the complexity. It might be easier to pull off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening
Yes, there was funded pressure; see the tweet thread.
If you want to read the thread more easily: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428587369867792392.html
The problem the goto solves in a language that have predefined line numbers like basic just doesn't apply with numberless line code bases.

It's an example we can understand..

Like never use jquery use some complex framework when you need 5 actions.
Ask HN: Feedback on my keyboard-based flowchart editor?
Hey HN, I’m working on a free online flowchart editor. It’s designed for speed by leveraging keyboard shortcuts, auto layout, and a new kind of sheet-like UI:

knotend.com

I did a Show HN a few months back (below) and have made updates based on what people said back then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27256861

Thanks!
Thanks. I’ll have a read this weekend. I am among the people who assumed that over a hundred year period the overwhelming majority of carbon taken into plants was released back as CO2 through consumption, combustion, and decomposition (and that very little was permanently deposited into the soil).
Banking is already decentralised. There is more than one bank. I think you might be thinking about "central banking", but central banks don't provide banking services.
Facebook's Atlantic Coucil
I want to point out the survivorship bias present here too. Only buried cities can survive millennia to be discovered later. Abandoned cities that were in erosion prone places are in little bits at the bottom of the slope. Cities that weren't abandoned can have buildings that are thousands of years old and actively lived in and maintained.

I spent some time in an Italian hill town that has been continuously inhabited since the Romans. At the same time I visited Pompeii. Most of the buildings in the center were Roman and had identical construction to Pompeii. They were living "ruins" and therefore could not be discovered because they had never been lost. There was a Roman Theater in that town that had been partially built into homes and partially quarried for building materials. There had been a set of giant marble masks originally in the theater, but now scattered around the town built into other building. Conservation of matter, it doesn't go anywhere unless someone carries it away.