skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels like a perfect summary of the struggle (political, economic, social) that lies ahead for the entire planet.

The post most likely has a political agenda so outsiders commenting walk into a landmine but anyways, here my two cents worth of observations, more as generally commentary

Doing nothing is not an option: Controlling the water consumption, chemical effluent, deforestation, biodiversity impact etc of ever growing agricultural activity is a no-brainer. Yet:

* any misstep in the so-called "transition" or adaptation will be ruthlessly exploited by those who basically do not care what comes down a few generations. Even well-meaning politicians will be reluctant to be proactive or first movers if they face crucifixion.

* more specifically: the food scarcity scare will be used cunningly to protect existing agribusiness interests from lost profits. NB: Tea is a export oriented cash crop. This does not mean its not important (if those exports finance food imports, or even just because a whole bunch of people make their living though this) but conflating unrelated interests is not how an honest society solves problems

I just hope that the people of this beautiful and remote island (Arthur C. Clarke lived there BTW I wonder what he would have thought) find a way to transition and thrive in a sustainable future...
Arbitrary structured data per request helps Opsgenie to prevent incidents
Watch one "conservative news" video and it will do a complete 180. Ads for "rations", "preparing for the end of the world", "how to be self sustainable", tons of PragerU propaganda, and some of the most low quality l BS you'll ever see from political ads.

YouTube delivers content based on what you've watched.
Personally I think anything that's a natural monopoly should probably be the purview of the government anyway, since that's as close to an entity acting solely in the public good as we can get.

However, I also don't count any current social media entity as a monopoly.
Inspired by Fly.io's post a while ago[0] I also did something similar to this on my small k8s cluster with the help of stunnel, sslh, and traefik[1].

Weirdly enough I thought this was the ability to provision a wireguard-esque proxy to any machine you want, operated at the edge of the cloud, but it seems like it's really TCP-over-HTTPS.

It's easy to imagine doing the former (dynamic wireguard proxy surfacing) too though -- wireguard sidecar container with shared network namespace with the workload in question + open-to-the-world port somewhere and you'd theoretically have access to any port you wanted on said machine as well. Feels like an easy set up to trust as wireguard is pretty reliable/sound.

[0]: https://fly.io/blog/ssh-and-user-mode-ip-wireguard/

[1]: https://vadosware.io/post/stuffing-both-ssh-and-https-on-por...
Brands are tiptoeing into Discord
Sure. I wasn't knocking your effort--I just always think of this comment when people talk about "what it takes to be successful."

The reality is just that it's complicated and multifaceted.
> I don't know the process, I just see the crates of rotting produce every fall.

Well, you don't typically spray preservatives on zucchini.

Consider the possibility that there are factors outside your view here. Perhaps the organic farm you're getting the zucchini from is further away, or more successful commercially at selling their best product. Who knows?

Without more information, you might just be the anecdotal victim of confirmation bias.
Rapid release cycle FTW! [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history#Rapid_...
I just wanted to be slightly more descriptive and less likely to collide with other tools.
“I don't think the newer Windows UI-Frameworks are loved that much and UWP is not really convincing for desktop applications. Just too much hassle for too little gain and the threat of vendor lock-in.”

I used to be a desktop dev but after the mess with Winforms, WinRT, WPF, Silverlight, UWP and WinUI I would never bet again on an MS GUI framework. Most likely it will be abandoned soon and put into maintenance mode.

I still don’t understand why they constantly crank out new frameworks that do basically the same instead of evolving an existing one like WPF. The cost of enveloping, testing and documenting these frameworks must be enormous.
Now if only they'd implement the Mac keychain for storing passwords.
{paragraphs of subtle floating point math differences between architectures}

“We've learned not to question it.”

Truly a veteran developer crew! Congrats on the amazing fix.
Something I've never quite understood about semantic versioning. Sometimes fixing a bug is a breaking change, especially if someone is relying on that behavior to be bugged. How does one make the distinction?
You should not buy a cheap device from a manufacturer with bad SW update reputation.

Look at Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge - 5 years old device:

- Released with Android 6.0.1.
- Received 7.0 and 8.0 major updates.
- Has unofficial 11 support.
- Received September 2020 security update.

Cheap device manufacturers unable or unwilling to support software updates should be banned by law. It should be a part of their job. Instead, they often seem to release one "proof-of-work" initial release and then don't care and work on the the next model to repeat the same. Pretty sad.
I'm not proving any point of yours as you seem to be set on your arguments without reading what I say: I'm talking about labeling people here not just anything in general.
> The problem is that these research studies tend to narrowly focus on trying to prove that white people are superior.

Where did you get this impression?

Bare in mind that the studies you hear about are the ones that generated some controversy.
Seems people are very taken aback by the "extremist rhetoric" of the group publishing this. Two comments:

1. Focus on the actual report, the leaked files. Top right corner, or somewhere here on HN there's a link to it. That document is the primary source here and might fit your taste better. Judge for yourselves what conclusions are presented there and whether those match the "extremist" ones you complain about.

2. To be completely clear here I'm more convinced than ever that any moderate response (and rhetoric) about the climate crisis at this point is the truly extremist stance to take. Recently courts have ruled that any semblance of incremental changes are, at this point, endangering the very lives of future and current generations. See e.g. the Shell case, I think in the Netherlands, or the recent constitutional court ruling in Germany.
China has become distinctly less business friendly in the last few years. We'll, at least privately owned business.
Interesting choice by SpaceX to use their booster B1062.

One would presume that, given the profile of this launch, they will definitely pick the booster that they have the absolute most confidence in. And so they didn't choose a brand-new-from-the-factory booster. They picked B1062, which has flown twice already.

It's not a real champ like 1051 which has flown 10 times and may have picked up some age-related defects. But it's also not likely to have any serious build flaws, since it's survived launch twice already without any problems.

I imagine this is the same reason they pushed NASA so hard to let them use re-flown boosters for their human launches. A decade ago, it would be an insane thought, but using previously-flown hardware reduces the risk.
It's quite painful then that people are obsessed with measuring group differences with the only possible explanation being bigotry. If people ignored identity groups and studied individuals, we might not be in such a political mess.
I think there was a 2 and also a 9 as well...

From https://www.openssl.org/news/cl30.txt

OpenSSL Releases
----------------

- [OpenSSL 3.1](#openssl-31)
- [OpenSSL 3.0](#openssl-30)
- [OpenSSL 1.1.1](#openssl-111)
- [OpenSSL 1.1.0](#openssl-110)
- [OpenSSL 1.0.2](#openssl-102)
- [OpenSSL 1.0.1](#openssl-101)
- [OpenSSL 1.0.0](#openssl-100)
- [OpenSSL 0.9.x](#openssl-09x)

End from https://www.openssl.org/news/cl30.txt
Looking at your observation that "a hundred years ago we could easily have the same conversation about simply reading and writing - they (the poor, women, or "lower class" ) luke not be taught to read." I would not be so sure that the fact that nowadays 99% of everyone can learn proves that this historical observation was mistaken.

It's known that intelligence can be significantly negatively affected by environmental factors like malnutrition (both of child and mother during pregnancy), childhood disease, pollution and injury, and there is some evidence (also mentioned in the article we're discussing) that a century or two ago the average person was significantly dumber than now, presumably because of those factors - especially to the poor and women, which often experienced more severe childhood malnutrition than their male siblings.

So it would seem plausible that a hundred years ago a nontrivial percentage of people actually were too dumb to succeed in literacy and perhaps the fix for that wasn't just starting young enough and putting effort in, but rather that we started getting much fewer kids with severe environmental damage to their intelligence.
and the 100% organic Zucchini I had recently were good for 4weeks in my fridge. so?
Which means starting with a globally distributed computer that operates on the level above any military’s capacity to control a territory/populace…
I don't think this could be called technocratic, since the experts about the subject matter were not making the calls.
+1

The more the ShareAPI is supported, the better the web will be.
The lightning network could make small sized cross border money transfers cheaper. (Transfers less than $100).
Google, Twitter, and Spotify built a culture of documentation
you didn't provide data, chemical based farming has been going on industrial scale for 100 years now... no barren land is accumulating.
if 100 years aren't enough to evaluate long term consequences what is?
Made in Switzerland has strict rules as to what percentage (at least 50% for most items, 80% for certain food items) is actually made here. Unlike "based" which just means there is an office or mailbox.

[1] https://bestswiss.ch/swissness-gesetzgebung-marke-schweiz
Nothing was really broken, the problem was just that the 3 CPU architectures, POWER, Intel/AMD and 64-bit ARM include in their instruction sets slightly different FMA instructions, so porting a program between them requires care.

The fused multiply-add instructions (FMA) have been used for the first time in 1990, in the first IBM POWER CPUs.

Some years later FMA instructions have been included in many other CPUs from various vendors, the main exceptions being the Intel/AMD CPUs (where the first CPU with FMA was AMD Bulldozer in 2011, 21 years later than POWER) and the ARM CPUs, which also added FMA quite late, but before the introduction of the 64-bit variant.

The problem is that both Intel and ARM have chosen to define FMA instructions that differ between themselves and also from POWER, in the position of the negation signs.

With real numbers of unlimited precision, that would not have mattered, because the negation is commutative with the multiplication and distributive over addition.

However with floating-point numbers these mathematical properties do not hold exactly, which is what the developers of the Dolphin emulator have discovered now.

This is a general rule for any floating-point computation, that changing a formula using associativity/distributivity/commutativity is not guaranteed to produce the same results.

Sometimes the differences are too small to matter, but in this case they made a game unplayable in the emulator, so they had to emulate the exact formula used in the original game, without trying to reduce the execution time by reducing the number of emulated instructions (emulating the original formula requires 2 instructions, while they initially optimized the code to use a single instruction but that computed a formula with the negation sign moved in another place).
It's not just zucchini. This story plays out regularly.

Yeah, it's possible that there's another explanation, but it's also possible that foregoing preservative techniques causes food to go bad earlier.
These are the demands of Scientist Rebellion, from their "About Us" page on that site:

• To achieve decarbonisation on the required scale demands economic degrowth, at least in the short term. This does not necessarily require a reduction in living standards.

• For a just transition, the cost of degrowth must be paid for by the wealthiest, who have benefited enormously from the current destructive world order, while others have faced the consequences.

• A just transition to a sustainable system requires the wealth from the 1% to be used for the common benefit.

Sure, it's a leftist position. But these ideas are increasingly popular and probably worth debating on HN as well.
Yeah I also bought a lifetime plan from that cloud storage company few years ago, scammed by the marketing page, only to find out somewhere in the settings page that my data were never in switzerland or even in EU but were physically in US, and had to pay to move them to EU, just deleted my account, I guess the swiss thing is just a marketing scam
> Wtf was the Sri Lankan govt thinking..

It is thinking whatever any other co with Marxist streak does.

They want to look cool, and "revolutionary". A lot of stage moves.
I can live with halting all private combustion, but how do we get there?

Who takes the hardest hit? Trick question. The answer is always "The poorest people."

Unless we have a world war (which is likely to have an effect on the climate), where a dictatorial regime conquers all of the world, and imposes these types of things by fiat, we need to learn to work together, which does mean making compromises, and looking at root causes that may be several degrees removed, such as global poverty.

Poverty is something that can be found at the root of so many troubles, yet people aren't particularly interested in addressing it. I have family that have been very involved in addressing poverty, and it's a tremendous problem. They are now engaged in an effort to get groups of people with widely divergent opinions and competing interests, to work together (to address poverty, and other pressing issues).

It's really not simple, at all. When we go into "extreme" mode, our thinking becomes "binary." We -quite literally- become unable to even conceive ideas that would actually fix things.
I think that’s a better approach.

I hope some of the implicit stigma around older undergrads goes away too.

Not everyone is motivated or gifted enough at 18 to grind through 4 years while maximizing social interactions and general happiness.

I really do believe university education is very beneficial to most people but at different stages of their lives and one solution fits all is not good.
Disagree, I have several friends who dropped out, and my brother dropped out of high school, and he is making 150k. A college degree will soon be a recognized as unnecessary.
Ofc you can use words as you want. But match is the correct term. FIFA uses it exclusively, and the use is specifically to determine between the Game of football and matches. It is standard British English. It really do matters, as this whole thread proves.
It is a private company after all. You are pointing out the contradiction of having private business do a public service for profit. There is no way to solve that without controlling our platforms collectively.
I saw how extreme this page was but didn't even check out how ludicrously extreme the rest of the website was — they have an "action guide" on how to smash windows [1]. As if cracking a window or throwing paint will somehow... help the environment, or rally people to their cause?

[1] https://scientistrebellion.com/resources/
Maybe the US strategy is to become (or stay) too big to fail, after all it’s the same people rotating in and out the banks and govt. Once everyone’s on the dole with UBI there’s no problem using inflation as a back door tax.
The problem is that ThePirateBay will not pay you per view. YouTubers stay on YT because it pays out a slice of ad revenue and not because it's just a convenient distribution site. Making those videos costs an insane amount of time and money - which means that most YTers can't afford to do it for free.

Any kind of YT competition needs to figure out on how to keep the revenue streams intact.
> "a former army general has been appointed as ‘commissioner general of essential services’ to raid and seize food stocks. The officer has been tasked to ensure sale of products at government-named prices or on custom import costs."

So many leaders, when their anti-market policies fail, double down. This will further reduce supply, by demotivating farmers. It will help only the lucky few consumers who are first in line, before the shelves are empty.
Evidently so, although one is a subset of the other. I think saying "it requires special software or authentication" merely adds to the confusion, here.

For example, a site may require tor, or it may require a VPN connection to the same network the site lives on - is there a functional difference? And gating content behind authentication would be a good definition for "deep web" too.

However i can see the appeal of having "dark web" or "dark net" signify illicit things, but we also have "dark fiber", so something will have to give.
> would not want to spend her time geeking on her computer

Well, based on studies I have seen, if the family had only one computer, it waay often in boys room rather then in girls room. PC was assumed to be boys toy.

The culture emerges from there.

Anecdotally, that is patter I do see around. Parents of young girls are way more often enforcing "no screen till this or that age" while parents of young boys almost brag about boys playing games on them.
Or anyone that you haven’t replied to yet. I text many people who aren’t in my contacts.
Can some folks chime in on FF battery usage on macOS? For a couple of reasons I’ve spent the last couple years in Safari-land, but FF is always a click away if it’s starting to improve in that area. I just was having issues a couple years ago with FF being an energy hog, and thus switched.

(Though the autofill of SMS security codes in Safari is such a nice quality of life improvement! I’m betting it’s a private API, but man I want other browsers to implement it too.)
We could definitely do a better job than we're doing right now, even if the ideal is out of reach. Shoot for the stars, and hit the moon, as they say.
Based on the article it sounds like the main difference comes down to calculations resulting in +0 or -0. As long as the architecture is self-consistent, it wouldn’t be a problem. Once that floating point value is sent to another architecture, things could go bad. I suppose sending FP values over the wire and used for dsync detection doesn’t happen often?
Anything you see on the front page of youtube, i.e. you didn't specifically search for it, is most likely being promoted by some ad agency or think tank somewhere down the line. Meaning it's propaganda to some extent.
The exceptions to this rule are, of course, independent creators that the algorithm latches onto, but the algorithm only promotes videos that people are gonna click on and generate revenue for Youtube. That is, in a way, controlled propaganda too.
Then why not encrypt the files directly with the passphrase? I think this is where the author mentions “questionable” security improvement from supporting key files.
From my time at college, any 'critical thinking' seemed to mostly be a way to spread the college's accepted narrative, which contains its own brand of disinformation.
Being studied, not accepted in use in humans for COVID. Blame the idiots injecting themselves with the actual horse versions, and the doctors/vets illigally prescribing it. IVM is as useful as eating dirt in relation to COVID, until proven otherwise with studies that aren't fabricated data or otherwise p-hacked to death - it's disinformation, and rightfully removed.
Also, how far did that manure travel vs fertilizer? etc etc
In traditional BSD unixes, swap was always the second partition, very close to the front of the disk, and just behind a small root/boot partition (which was first, presumably due to bootstrapping needs).

Looks like the old timers knew what they were doing :)
I have mixed feelings about this request. On the one hand, fair enough. On the other hand, I'm reminded of the paper 'Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial'[1]. We don't always need data.

Take chlorpyrifos[2]. It's pretty nasty. It requires no additional data to determine that, all else being equal, we'll be better off not consuming its residues on our food. This is not simply an "unnatural = bad" argument: this is a specific chemical with known harmful effects, which you can avoid by buying organic.

Of course, the key question is: is all else equal? Organic farming does permit some other chemicals, and has a wide range of other impacts, including yields etc. So it's possible that organic farming is net negative for human welfare. But it's unfair to characterise a preference for organic farming as being quite as unscientific as you seem to claim.

I also think the article is telling us less about the innate merits of organic farming and more about the stupidity of making huge system changes overnight without training the people on the ground.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpyrifos
The problem is that socialism inevitably leads to authoritarianism through its very nature. See, for example, Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom”, where he lays this case pretty extensively.
genocidal system - so much for subtlety

I guess the affiliation in rhetoric (or Favicons) with the nutjob upper-classist Extinction Rebellion is purely coincidental.
Autopilot in video games and movies does everything. More people exist that have experience with autopilot in video games and movies than has experience with autopilot in actual aircraft.
> But these ideas are increasingly popular

I would be interested in any source you have to back this up because I was seeing rather the opposite ...
There's a difference between trials and it being suitable for public use though, right? It is undeniably a horse dewormer, and has had some use on humans, but not as a covid treatment.

For me, it's about preventing people that aren't medical professionals from self-medicating with a potentially harmful substance. Plus there's been some less than stellar suggestions of covid treatments in the past ranging from dubious to lethal. If it turns out to be safe, then doctors will no doubt prescribe it as necessary.
> ivm is being actually studied right now by Oxford Uni/NHS in their big covid trials in the UK

So you are saying because something is being investigated it must have strong positive properties?

Well - have I got something for you ... You know when you take a poo and flush it down the toilet? Did you know all this time you could be eating it, and it would have tremendous health benefits?

Dont believe me? They did a study on eating shit once, so it must be true, and I must be only just touching on the health benefits of Coprophagia. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168083/
viXra is full of nonsense but then again so is arXiv (see: 750GeV debacle). viXra desperately needed a voting system and if it did it would likely have been much more useful and become a viable alternative to arXiv.

arXiv does not accept papers from authors with no institutional affiliation and viXra was the only (and ugly) alternative. There is an opportunity there to fix both sites.