skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most likely future is one where we do mostly nothing for a long time, until things get quite bad, and then one nation or a small group of nations does some kind of solar geoengineering to very quickly lower the temperature of the Earth. Mostly this takes the form of pumping aerosols in to the atmosphere to block out some percentage of sunlight. As far as I understand it we already have the technology to pull this off, and it's not so expensive (tens of billions per year) that a single very rich nation couldn't bear the cost themselves.

At the very least, I can't imagine a nation like China or India or the US staring down a relatively imminent existential climate change threat and not at least trying geoengineering. At that point what do you have to lose?
> 3. Ability to scroll without bringing point

You could probably do this with a transparent indirect buffer with a special “scroll only” mode that reverts once you start typing again.
Role of Chatbots and Automation in Data Center Optimization
Seems similar to the M5Stack (https://m5stack.com/), which is a good thing, if only to have more competition.
WorkerB Developer Automation from LinearB
>once environmental damage is correctly priced in, then reducing consumption is no longer green anyways, because the consumption is now carbon neutral.

Global warming is only a subset of environmental damage.

There's all kinds of other damage in the wake of over-consumption.

When you kill more trees than you grow back, the devastation comes much quicker than waiting for the whole world to get hotter.

Carbon can be looked at as only one material and IF it can be been made neutral in the face of rising or even curtailed consumption, that seems to be the pricing that can be correctly assessed to compensate.

To raise the ante and try to price in many other forms of environmental damage too, you're going to need a bigger bank.

Plus just to earn all that money to allow all that consumption leaves an additional trail of damage behind, with a departing path of financial acumulation leading off in the opposite direction.

And as we know, different currencies have different toxic footprints themselves, and that was before bitcoin which has gotten into a category of its own.

Gemstones and rare elements too, some are bloodier than others. Deaths here can occur faster and sooner than forests are dying.

To me this tends to indicate that reducing consumption will always be green.
Do You Need a Blockchain? (2017)
This is the problem trial registries are supposed to solve.

There is an ethical problem with accepting subjects into a clinical trial, and potentially putting them at risk, then suppressing the results.
Yup! If you want something that just works (no need to prefix with http[s] in your browser’s omnibar, works with Apple devices, etc), `.home.arpa`[0] is the canonical option.

A somewhat on topic tangent:

I did a fair amount of tinkering with this after finding my manually defined `.local` dns entries wouldn’t work with Apple devices. Apple devices see such addresses as reserved for mDNS and will only look them up via mDNS.

To get everything working on my network, I ended up going down the rabbit hole of local DNS naming schemes. In the end I found I prefer the look and feel of `.lan`, so I live on the edge and make my custom DNS entries using that.

Some browsers think I’m searching for stuff when I type “hostname.lan”, but prefixing with http:// fixes that. Wherever I can I try to set up mDNS, though, since it just works and doesn’t require any central administration. Sadly, not all devices are customizable enough for me to use mDNS everywhere.

[0]: https://serverfault.com/a/1041148
20th-Century advice: "Dress for the job you want, not the job you have."

21st-Century advice: "Google for the problems you want, not the problems you have."
I think context matters. If the dog is raised by a drug dealer to be aggressive, and is charging at the policeman, I can't really blame him if something bad happens. I don't think asking kindly to please cage the dog in this context would help.
> The first 30 days since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in the two states (i.e., for the month of March as per the timeline of this study) experienced extremely high level of underreporting, with the estimated average percentages of underreporting being 96.6% for California, and 93.9% for Florida.

> Similar results have been reported by Lau et al. [8]. Based on the reported data till 17 March 2020, they estimated the true number of infecteds to be 53.8 times higher than the reported number of cases in the United States- i.e., 98.1% of the total cases remained unreported.

> Similar situation was also reported by Wu et al. [7], and as per their findings the ratios of estimated cases to confirmed infections in California and Florida till 18 April 2020 were around 17.5 (94.3% underreported cases) and 10 (90% unreported cases), respectively.
They had two prototypes and enough simulations to know that it was unpleasant and unreliable.

That's why .gov dropped their funding and cancelled it.
Sort of like how the Hy language (hylang) compiles a Lisp dialect into a Python AST?
The white 4runner? My read of that driver’s behavior is that lane change was predictable. The 4runner gives up a huge gap to let a space open up, generally indicative of a lane change, but the van wants to keep a constant distance from the car ahead of it. And the van seems to never leave the right-most lane, so I’d expect these events happen pretty often.
Well, based on my own introspection, the strong version looks obviously true to me - so I'm glad someone took time to disprove it.

When I read the description, I understand "determines" as in, your thoughts internally work in terms of language processing, so their complexity is limited to the complexity of the language(s) you know. It sounds plausible, but also testable by checking if humans who never learned a language with complex grammar are capable of processing complex concepts.
> but other folks will have trouble understanding their code, so they'll be less productive.

This assumes, you know, that other folks are incapable of learning anything new.
I was thinking of Extreme Sports... :-)
Avoiding war is never a waste and overall technological progress was faster during the Cold War..
I new to this opinion, but I think more people should try to write non-trivial things in the Hindley-Milner family of languages. Just to get out of the rut.
Waymo's test location was driven by Arizona's friendly legal environment.
Very interesting. But it’s worth keeping in mind that the most common suppression tactic was to ask the researcher not to publish (9%), and we have no idea in how many cases it worked (since the unpublished trials didn’t make it into this study)…
The benefit of individual nations will always triumph over collective interests, such is the nature of power politics in the 21st century.

Climate change is a good example. It has been established that the rising sea level and bush fires proved to be challenges to many nations, but some developed nations see it as an unique opportunity to turn uninhabitable permafrost covered wasteland into arid soil that could be put to use.

With national interests in mind, I strongly suspect the nuclear stewardship may be susceptible to abuse skin to the UN security Council.
They were asked about this recently on This Week in Virology, the most important virology podcast.

They said that no scientist wants to work in a remote location, they want to have a city social life. Which is why these labs are typically located in million+ cities.

They also said that this is safe, because no pandemic to date started from a lab, and that eventually it will be proven that this pandemic is zoonotic too.

They also said that they do not understand why a year and a half in people keep on talking about this baseless conspiracy theory.
But surely word count is not the only criterion that matters. What about safety properties of the two programs, or maintainability/refactorability?
There is a huuuuge twitter thread with all the details. This tweet in the middle talks about a VGA to HDMI adapter https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1424242517243957250
Considering that’s what they used for bringing up dropbear. I would think yes!
He makes us feel smart
I think it's a reference to the fact that NZ looks like a great place to ride out a nuclear exchange.

Most of the nuclear powers are in the northern hemisphere, so you want to be southern.

Obviously you want to be somewhere that's not going to be a target, and as a small island nation without nukes (and in fact one that forbids nuclear-powered vehicles from entering its airspace: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_nuclear-free_zon...), NZ is very unlikely to be targeted by any nuclear combatants.

It's just big enough that it's got some chance of sustaining basic industry in event of the major powers collapsing back into the stone age.

Despite that, as a remote island, no one's likely to invade it for its resources or infrastructure after a nuclear war. It's just too hard to get there without modern navies and air forces.

So, all that to say I think the OP is (sarcastically?) suggesting that someone rich has acquired a place in NZ and is looking to dump this bunker they no longer have a use for.
What else would it be? It's definitely Kalam.

For those unaware: APJ Abdul Kalam was a renowned aerospace scientist and then was the President of India.
>Taliban spreading their terroristic propaganda

They are not "terrorists" anymore. The Taliban is the legitimate government of Afghanistan.

Those opposed to the Taliban are now the terrorists!
Hey we have used Unity + Photon to build this.

It is basically a multiplayer game with live video and chat enabled.

And,yup it is :)
If we take this heresay as gospel we have a situation where an on duty officer would have shot the dog, had they thought they could get away with doing so. Additionally they admitted as much in conversation, and I consider speaking about wanting to discharge your weapon during a call to be an action worth note.

Let's raise the stakes for another example. If a cop does a debrief after a routine traffic stop and says, "I was waiting for a reason to shoot this man where he stands", that's a matter of concern. It doesn't matter that the cop did the correct thing this time, because they're showing that the desire to kill someone is the driving force in their actions.
Due to humidity, temperature rise in equatorial regions will be less pronounced (heat index or humidex, on the other hand...).
This is such a fun article! Are there any books collecting stories about computing like this?
This is why I have a VPN router. All traffic is VPN-ified to/from the wifi signal, and you don't have to risk having your real / naked IP exposed. You can even route another VPN over that VPN for a sort of fake Tor with no problems. Check out GL.iNEt routers: https://www.gl-inet.com/

You can even get little travel routers that you can use when traveling. No affiliation, just pointing out something many don't even see as an option they have.
Because humans are funny creatures that take hundreds of years to convince about seemingly obvious (in hindsight) things? E.g. heliocentrism.
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As it turns out, I apparently don't interact with media employing fact checkers all that much. Apparently, I get stuff from the horse's mouth.

"I don't recall fact checkers ever saying the lab theory was "preposterous", only that it was unsupported by evidence at the time."

As I recall, officials and experts were saying that the lab-leak theory was unsupported by evidence, while people were boycotting Chinese restaurants and attacking vaguely Asian looking people because they held "China" responsible for the pandemic.

"I don't recall fact checkers ever saying the vaccine "stops" the virus spread, only that it dramatically reduces transmission. There was always concerns about variant escape from like, April 2020."

As I recall, experts have always been saying that the vaccines were very effective at preventing death and hospitalization, but did not eliminate the possibility of infection and if you were infected, it might still be possible to transmit the virus. And yes, the effectiveness of the vaccines against variants of the virus has always been a question.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.cdc.gov/coronaviru...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210326123341/https://www.cdc.g...
Could someone provide a link to anyone saying anything else?

(I've previously posted articles about the history of the evolving mask issue.)
They were going at it completely wrong, partially due to the whole Deutsche Physik movement.
US officials naively gave Taliban ‘kill list' of Afghans who aided Americans
If Iran thinks they are safer with nuclear weapons (and accidents) than without, they have as much right to make that decision as anyone else. The sad truth is that wars of aggression are common, and nuclear weapons accidents are rare.
But what real world evidence do we have? Mostly that languages "most people are actually making things in" are picked by the business on the basis of popularity, which is determined mostly by what people learn in university - which is determined mostly by what is currently most popular on the job market. It's a self-sustaining feedback loop that has little to do with relative utility of languages for real-world problems (at least discounting languages' library ecosystems).
> Some US Navy ships have anti-ICBM capability, but that's only useful if a ship happens to be in the right position at the right time.

Interesting anecdote on this topic: One of these shipborne anti-ICBM systems is called the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. By all accounts it seems successful enough of a system, but as Animats mentions above there is the problem that it is only useful if the ships are in the right place. And if you never move your ships, why would you want to pay all the extra costs associated with their maintenance? So people come up with the concept of installing the same system on shore based installations. They called it the Aegis Ashore system. If you squint at it it kinda looks like as if the rough outline of a ship's superstructure is sunk into the concrete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defens...

So now we have Aegis, and Aegis Ashore. Here comes the twist. Japan wanted to install the Aegis Ashore system, but for various reasons they couldn't find the right place on land to put it. So they come up with the idea of installing it on barges. And if they do we will have Aegis Ashore-Afloat. :) (Though I'm reading just now that it seems they have canceled these plans. Pity.)
> You seem to respect everything labeled academic,

I assure you, I really don't.

> but not all "areas of expertise" and not all "fields" are equally valid -- and surely not just because they are taught in universities, written about in "peer reviewed" journals, and so on.

Fully agreed.

> Linguistics is closer to soft sciences than the opposite.

"Linguistics" spans a range of things from the humanities to the 'soft' sciences (in the sense that psychology and cognitive studies 'soft' sciences) to logic/maths.
To be fair, I only used it that one time and I was new to programming. Nonetheless it was very much a "wow, this is a different way to do things" experience. And at the time it seemed to magically solve much more accurately and with much less work than an imperative approach.
On the Koh-I-Noor diamond, colonialism and Brexit
If you have this amount of BTC, why put it in a software wallet? Does this wallet even have a single security audit?
>> Waymo has also partnered with organizations—most recently, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

>This is odd to me. I don’t see the connection. What am I missing?

The SCLC is a civil rights organization that advocates for social justice. Waymo partnering with them is a signal they want to make sure the Waymo cars don't avoid poor parts of town, are too cost prohibitive, etc.

The SCLC also has a strong "get voters to the polls" effort. I can see Waymo volunteering rides to people's polling stations.
The piece is about what is today, not what could be
Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates if your CPU is old
Most video or audio calling sites for starters
they were paid to do that by microsoft as a fud war?

This case was never about merit.
Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)
See remoteok.io/open
The safety zone isn't to protect against the missile exploding. It is to keep the facility far enough away from the likely targets of incoming warheads that they could differentiate warheads from decoys. (As warheads enter the atmosphere the lighter decoys fall away. You want to be at 90* to the warhead flight path to best see this.) Some site were indeed near residential areas in other parts of the country but those were not protecting suburbs. They were protecting more distant targets: population centres and military facilities.
>> I know fewer people online than I do in real life

That sounds very, very strange to me. I know I'm the one that's weird here, but wow.
Do people not trust that the cars won't kill them, or do they not trust them because they are part of a panopticon?
I would say focus on building distribution / a way to reach your audience first (blog, email list, etc). Once you got distribution nailed, and sufficient understanding of your audience (and also trust of your audience), it will be easier to make a product based on their pain and persuade them your product solves their problems.
I have been trying to find the words to describe this for years, you are far more eloquent than I am! Peacekeepers are indeed what the world needs.
To be frank, if Zoom was a web only app (or maybe web plus web-in-a-electron like eg Slack and WhatsApp) there'd be a vocal HN crowd complaining that there was no proper native app.
Maybe you could get the Flex Seal guy to do his next commercial there and seal it for free.
The documentation does _not_ suck. It it literally the most well documented software in existence, a reason for which it has been used for many different things outside its original purpose of text editing.

Yes, it may not be for everyone. But just say that, that it uses certain conventions that are likely outdated for a reasonable set of the population. But you can't say the documentation sucks when you have the below:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/in...

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/in...
Or maybe those people know what they are talking about and the truth is that many people who are big fans of automated testing tend to overrate its value when it comes to many areas of software development. Testing takes effort and makes it harder to change things. In an ideal world where testing came for free then sure, more testing would be better. In the real world there are tradeoffs. If I am writing code that controls a spaceship then it makes sense to spend a huge amount of effort on testing. On the other hand, if I am adding a feature to a web application then in my personal experience, most of the time adding automated testing is a waste of effort.
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I hate to stereotype, but the Röstigraben does seem to mean something in terms of dog heeling conduct from the owner.

(Though in this last year, I have seen more misbehaved dogs in the Deutschschweiz than I have seen in all my years here.)
So your goal is to invest in good companies? OR is that just the implementation for your real goal of "Make money?". Because when it comes to startups most fail. Just like most businesses generally fail.

If your actual goal is to make money then this form of investment might not be the most lucrative.

Of course if your goal really is invest in "good companies" you'll need to be more specific. Good in the altruistic sense? Good in the potential for return? Good in the sense that the people are good?
I agree with you about Swift. I am fascinated by Apple's support for machine learning models as first class components in Swift applications. I have a Swift and SwiftUI app in Apple's store that is really a simple app (short code, written as a nice example for a "Swift AI" book I am writing) that leans heavily on two embedded deep learning models. Really great stuff from Apple.
Top Banks Investing in Crypto and Blockchain Companies
I understand what you feel, but I don't share that feeling. These people are free citizens, they can write what they want. The crucial question is: why should I read it? In general, I read things that will increase my knowledge in the areas I'm interested in. If I'm interested in moral things, I don't have to believe in whatever someone wrote, but I can try and test any system in practice myself.

In this way, for example, I learned that 99% of the time it makes little sense to get confrontational but it's better (for both sides) to try to resolve things peacefully. I tried both approaches repeatedly and that's why I know this. But if I wrote it down, why would anyone believe me? How would it change things if I made a lot of money or not? It makes no sense.

Everybody needs to put these things to test and see for themselves how they feel when they do good things, when they do bad things, what works in the long run and so on. Reading others reflections might be inspiring at times but rarely corresponds to specific real-life situations we need to deal with.
I think they are eliminated by time traveling assassins disguised as Mossad agents.

Soon they will switch from nuclear scientists to virologists and microbiologists.
So browser sandboxing? Is that fundamentally different from native sandboxes like snap, flatpak, et al?
Millisecond timer stored to a 32bit unsigned.
lol we use Zoom for most of our meetings and I always used the web app, without any issues.
Looks like jackalopes have flagged the parent, but I’m guessing they were referring to how politicized the “facts” were last year. When people were criticized for wearing masks, and laughed at for saying it was irresponsible to keep New York open and accuse Trump of “scare mongering” over the virus. People were kicked off social media for saying “conspiracy theories” which are considered facts today. Remember Biden and Harris saying no one should take vaccines that haven’t gone through standard FDA approval process? Likely not since our “fact checkers” are horribly biased and couldn’t care less about the scientific method.
Here's a discussion of (at least one) original Windows 95 bug that causes the computer to freeze after 49 days, along with working download links to fixes: https://web.archive.org/web/20070223101651/https://support.m...

News coverage at the time (2002 or earlier): https://www.cnet.com/news/windows-may-crash-after-49-7-days/

(Feels like a bit of a silly Gotcha! to do it live now - did anyone run their personal computer for 49 days, even counting laptops which went to sleep/standby? But hey, do what you want. :)
I live in Japan but the oven I just got is IoT lol it can preheat the oven before I get home. It also tells me about recipes (in Japanese) whenever I’m waiting for something to finish baking, and then ends with them telling me to install the manufacturer’s cooking app.
What are you working on in Lisp, if I may ask?
I do this too. I also use dns over tls for my VPN network. Non VPN network uses root hints. Two ssids one two different vlans. One VPN, one web.
SMIC is entirely "trialing edge" process technology-wise. If you want 7 nm or lower for competitive advantage, you don't go to SMIC. Also you can NOT trust your IP to remain secure if you use them.
In the late 90s to early 2000s I worked in the Network Planning & Design group for UUNET. They were phased out before I left but when I started Fore/Marconi ATM switches were used for interconnect within PoPs and to terminate the circuits between PoPs. For a while the NOC had to reboot them periodically at a scheduled time or else they would reboot themselves after a certain period of time. I believe it was 45 or 90 days.