skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CCP is literally cancer on all citizens living in currently free democracy. They show that it's possible to keep a huge population under control with current tools and technology. Our politicians show public disdain, but fuck are they being seduced. And Australia is just stepping into it step by step while asking it's citizens to trust the government because they seem to be at odds with CCP publicly.

As someone who lives in New Zealand, this isn't the democracy we want our closest neighbour turn into.

Please wake up and do something Aussies, take no bullshit, you can do it. Can laugh about it later, but this shit is serious.
It's profitable to do so. If I had to point a finger it is because individuals (and companies, made up of individuals) do not take responsibility for their part in supporting institutions that corrode the commons for personal gain.

If you work for a place that is largely just about shuffling money to yourself by exploiting info asymmetry sabotage it or quit. You most likely have a skillset that can earn you a living wage somewhere that's a net positive for society.
It's hateful to a political party, not a sex. Claims that it's hateful to women are a lie. There are women in my family who are rooting for Texas.

I hope the former Tripwire CEO finds a workplace that better suits him. There are a lot of game companies in Texas.
The hate is towards the women who used to have a choice, and now, thanks to an ignorant, under-educated minority, do not have that choice.
Umm arent you a tech company if technology is a major/reasonable export of yours and not just a means of getting things done?
jesus.. that was a hard read. Britney's dad and everyone else involved should be in jail. who wouldn't have a mental breakdown after dealing with that level of control?
How odd. I daresay if he does, it's the only thing we ever agree on in our whole entire lives :)
Depends a lot on your definition of strong and your definition of good times... which kind of makes it a meaningless bit of cornpone so I agree.
I've seen people get fired for a lot less than pissing off literally half of the customers.
Not in Australia but it's been kind of an insult to see my house earning more than the top tax bracket income I've been making from my one-man business for the past 3 years. Sometimes I wonder what the point of trying to earn money with work is. Of course it won't last, but it has a psychological demotivating effect.
In the years before covid, as the sole American in a few 'strayan social circles, I'd receive sh*t for Americans protesting about their "rights" and how entitled they are.
Now with Covid, Australian citizens can't leave or can't come in (without significant effort).

I've seen a shift in thinking amongst my Australian friends and family. The Australians I know now see value in something like a bill of rights. Like in business, no one pulls out the contract unless things are going to crap.
The IPCC special report on limiting warming to 1.5C is probably the best summary of ways to avoid catastrophe:

https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

In particular, the figures in chapter 2 are particularly informative.

We are going to need to start sequestering carbon in the later part of this century, with as of yet unknown methods, but it's doable.

I would caution that climate scientists have been generally too conservative in their predictions, and there's substantial risk that they have missed something that could make warming much worse than we expect. (I would consider a 1% chance of much worse warming to be a substantial risk, I purchase insurance for far rarer risks than that.)

Additionally scientists have been overly optimistic about how much and how rationally society responds to the risks.

So in general I would say we are in somewhat worse shape than the SR1.5 report says, but there's no evidence of that, it's just analyzing the situation using standard risk modes rather than getting point estimates and confidence intervals on the best evidence.
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Look very interesting. I'm looking forward to trying this in Windows.
Tasmania (where I live, and am right now) is definitely _not_ the most conservative state. While this may have been true in the 90s, it's not now, and while we do have a Liberal (the right-most of the big Australian parties) State Government, they are the most left-leaning of the State Liberal governments.

See https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-13/election-2019-vote-co... amongst others.
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Speaking as someone who often communicates before considering whether the people I'm speaking to share my background knowledge... this might be a more effective message if you ask "have you tried ____?"
Thanks for the suggestions. If you like that one maybe you'd like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtolv9kM1qk
I've seen the lack of HW NAT impacting performance of Wireless Network over Wired on some aftermarket firmwares for routers, OpenWrt does a decent job of software offloading but as with any SW acceleration the price is paid by the CPU.

Even with OpenWrt there are forks which can make use of HW NAT and give proprietary firmware level performance but are closed source!
I'm not getting "there is almost no chance that the Webb telescope will deliver meaningful science" from your linked article. Can you elaborate on what you mean by this, and what statements from the project lead(s) lead you to this conclusion?
Watch out for Antarctica Man.
the bar is "less wrong"
Yes, but I think the OP makes a very fair point, and it's impossible to rationalize about events that took place a century ago and graft them into today's situation with all sorts of other unknowns. In particular, some of the 'historical' vaccines were almost entirely about preventing individual infection, whereas we're now facing clearly a very systematic issue and we have an odd problem of ~90% thresholds for achieving certain kinds of tipping points etc. (of course that remains to be seen but theoretically there's an opportunity there).

That said, it doesn't mean that there hasn't been an ideological shift or even some kind of political nuance in the organization.

Both can be true, I'd guess that's at least a little bit the case.
No, 7%. And that’s at july-aug rates. Cases up 2x since the average in study period.

Also infections lower than reported cases by perhaps 3x. Also delta went from 60% at start of study period to 100% now.

Take 6x multiplier + delta prevalence and you get ~50% annual breakthrough odds at current average daily case rates.
Yeah weird that so many American companies set up headquarters in places like Ireland when it’s so easy to evade corporate taxes here.
Disengaged voters will simply vote for the current leadership or loudest guy, typically the same thing, without a thought towards the issues.

Strongmen love compulsory voting, it creates a false perception of legitimacy, because corruption or no corruption, if only 30% of a population is engaged in the issues and the other 70% could give two shits, that is a slamdunk for incumbents.
That's a valid concern and I think the cost/benefit equation has gradually been shifting towards "red-pilling".

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“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”
Various sources are reporting that Labor supported the bill as well.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/australias-hacking-bill-passes...

> The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Bill, with a total of 60 amendments, and while Labor has thrown its support behind the Bill as a result of the amended document being a "better Bill", the Australian Greens have not.
Why 'rage quitting' is all the rage
I suppose it depends on the car company, but a lot of them are logistics companies coupled with assembly plants.

When I visited our customer auto assembly plants the only actual manufacturing going on at was the frame and paint. The rest of the parts were shipped in from other manufacturing facilities.

The auto company did design the parts and send them to contract manufacturers, which is what I worked at. Again, I’m sure this depends on the vertical integration and supply chain relationship of each company, but I think there is less manufacturing than assembly going on.
This seems plausible, but I'm curious if you have a citation?
Are you trying to imply that the JWT is not fit for its mission to deliver meaningful science? Because that's not at all what the article you linked says. It just says Zurbuchen admits that there's a lot that could go wrong.

Nothing, to me, indicates "almost sure failure." Just a realistic overview of the risks.
It's very difficult to succinctly explain things in a way that is accessible to people who don't have any context.
To the downvoters: That's a direct copy/paste from the HN Guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Hungry desperate people innovate.

Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, Robert Goddard, Werner von Braun, William Shockley, John von Neumann, ... those just come off the top of my head, I could keep going for pages.

Yeah, a bunch of hungry desperate people there.

I mean sure, some were deeply flawed or had tragic lives, but that wasn't from being hungry and desperate. They were not poor, and they were supplied with ample resources to pursue their visions by governments or private companies.

That quote is just too much of an oversimplification. The real situation is far more complex and nuanced, and like I said in the other reply it matters a lot how you define strength and how you define good times.
Ethereum is attracting skilled devs faster than any other cryptocurrency
We also need a population that takes an interest in what's going on an will vote out a corrupt politician regardless of their party. Most will excuse anything if it comes from their side.
I'm in SA and I do what I can to support Rex Patrick as I see strong independents like him being the only hope in the immediate future.
Hm, that's strange, your comment is the s/gray/grey one ;-)
"Scientists estimate that 50-80% of the oxygen production on Earth comes from the ocean. The majority of this production is from oceanic plankton — drifting plants, algae, and some bacteria that can photosynthesize"

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ocean-oxygen.html
> I'd argue it's still the best browser out there—Chrome, Edge, and Safari are backed by the biggest corporations in the history of the world behind them

You didn't define what makes a browser 'best' so hard to argue there (although I would argue otherwise, at least on Mac, Firefox is nowhere near being the 'best' browser if by 'best' you mean fastest, most battery efficient and best native OS integrations).

Also Mozilla is 'backed' by the same corporation 'backing' Chrome (90% of its revenue coming from Google).

So I believe case could be made that there is a very real correlation between Firefox market share and the decisions happening at Mozilla.
I've lived in Europe. Would probably go to Spain or Portugal.
It's easy to read that as snark, because that's what OP claims to have done.
But that is the crux of the problem, isn't it? The company loves such people, and it soon becomes the DNA of the place. The finance industry and Silicon Valley are emblematic of this malaise. It leaves no time for reflection, no white space to leave a considered life. People become hesitant to leave work early because of the optics.

I once saw an interview of a British trade union leader reply to a BBC journalist about his anger with immigrants. He said unions had battled for decades to work saner hours, to have time for football, to spend time with their friends and families, and for children to not work. They had got all this codified into law and labor practices, and now the immigrants were upending all this work by skirting laws and acceptable work practices
One can point to Australia's COVID death rates (~4 per 100,000) in comparison to the United States and the United Kingdom (~200 per 100,000) and make a case for that.

This legislation is far less justifiable, and should have no reason to exist. By associating the two issues, you are weakening the case against it.
> Modern conservatives have adopted a strategy of ignoring or exploiting discrimination and inequality

Are you saying that conservatives today are more likely to engage in "exploiting discrimination and inequality" than conservatives yesterday? Or what did you mean by "modern"?
India struggles to contain Nipah, deadlier than Covid
To the point where anthropologists have compiled lists of "human universals" that are seen in human groups everywhere.

http://joelvelasco.net/teaching/2890/brownlisthumanuniversal...

Also genetically aren't all the different distinct populations found around sub-Saharan Africa anyway, with everyone else in the world all sharing a single genetic group that has very little genetic variance within it?
Creator of abbreviation of “thx” for “Thanks” issues apology
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The analysis is absolute garbage for forward risk.

1. 1/5000 daily is 7% on an annual basis. Who cares about a daily rate?

2. I downloaded covid data for jul 1-aug 26th and found daily average was 80,000. Us average 160,000 now. So right off the bat, 2x underestimate. Up to 14% annual risk.

3. Infections are estimated to be about 3x greater than reported cases. So now up to 42% annual risk.

4. Delta is associated with breakthroughs. It was 60% jul 1st. Now 100%. So this also should increase breakthrough risk.

Risk of infection at current case rates likes around 50% for a vaccinated person in the US, on average.

Not so comforting once you make the necessary adjustments above. I do not think they made a serious attempt at analysis.

I used Our World In Data for all stats.
Genuinely having a difficult time determining if this is meant to be satire.
I appreciate that this ecologist advocating for controlled burns is named "Pyne."
>I think the only option is to emigrate.

In spite of the tendency for part of the US electorate to wish to federalize all government functions, there's still a lot of difference between US states.

That seems to work out pretty well. It isn't like California is identical to Arizona, at least currently.
In short tech surveillance are both working and attractive. Regardless of CCP, Australia, US, FB, GOOGL, etc.
It still happens from time to time in local politics.
I do agree with this. Most systems have significant basis in unnecessary or outdated methodologies. I think with the JWST project (with partial hindsight), we probably could have benefited from having a "stepping stone" optical telescope after Hubble which we could have used to proof out some of the hard parts of JWST. We learn quite a lot from just running missions beginning-to-end, and extremely long cycle times sacrifice this learning opportunity. It also means that we focus less on developing extensible "platforms" in favor of one-of-a-kind systems which have somewhat less carryover knowledge for the next project. Shorter mission timelines mean that you can better leverage state-of-the-art technology, rather than being forced into a design which constrains you to decade-old technology.
I disagree that it's authoritarian and the US Supreme Court does as well.
If only there was a way those women could make a choice to avoid getting pregnant...
>I am not interested in engaging in a political discussion

Nor I. What struck you as political in my comment?

I'm not that concerned with Google specifically, since I don't work there.
>I really think Australia desperately needs this system but negative gearing is so ingrained in Australian culture now that it's political suicide to try and change it. I believe Labor made noises about this in a recent Federal election and suffered the consequences.

The senior ministers of the ALP came to a similar conclusion.
Mid this year they announced no changes to negative gearing or capital gains tax offsets.

For the non-Australians following along, this means both major parties support rampant speculation on the residential property market.
> No one is trying to stop anyone from voting.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked, "What's the interest of the Arizona RNC in keeping, say, the out-of-precinct ballot disqualification rules on the books?"

Carvin responded, "Because it puts us at a competitive disadvantage relative to Democrats. Politics is a zero-sum game."

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/voting-rights-case-...
Australia's High Court rules media are liable for Facebook comments
Just gave this a try, looking forward to trying it out more over the coming weeks, really refreshing to see a new take on what a browser is and how it should look like.

The only thing that I found missing was the lack of gesture support.
Sure, I know this sounds like well-actually anyway, but I tried to soften it by not asking "have you not used..."?

On any Ubuntu/debian system this is pretty trivial try using apt install. You've i3 which is an old popular program with a big community. You use it with scripts like dmenu. It's definitely more of a "hacker" setup that your parents probably aren't going to want to use, but if what you are doing is focusing on a few documents, it's hard to beat. It's a lot more complete than floating single windows over your pane of code. The Bonsai implementation is slow in comparison.

There are lots of others like bspwm (even more hardcore), but my favorite anyone can use this tiling window manager is easily pop_os's from System76. When I have to use Windows or Mac and I don't have that functionality it is annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUrvF0Y9AUg

This functionality really should just be built into the OS. The mac equivalent hacks have slowly gotten incorporated into official releases over the years (side by side windows), but they seem to pop up and then die, like Spectacle. If these guys want to do more than just browser documents, what they've got to build is essentially a cross platform tiling window manager. Not easy.

I think the closest you could come to hacking this together is with qtile (py) and you could get pretty close functionality wise.

http://www.qtile.org/
I'm always kind of surprised by people who move to Australia. It's a country that has had an active policy of censorship on entertainment for a very long time - books, video games, movies. The fact that the populace is okay with such a policy would make me reconsider moving there.

I've also read some really questionable things about policies regarding aboriginals in the northern territories. In 2007 the government 'temporarily' banned alcohol and porn for aboriginals as an 'emergency' measure.[0] And apparently it, or some replacement, is still in effect.[1]

Edit: also, turns out that banning alcohol doesn't get rid of alcohol consumption.[2] Who knew?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/21/australia.jame...

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-17/nt-police-commissione...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-07/qld-mornington-island...
It can't be any worse than what we have in the USA. I mean for god sakes, Trump actually won the presidency. Something is definitely broken in the US system (primarily voter suppression, legal corporate bribery, and gerrymandering is my theory)
I think this has changed in 11.
Not being glib, but have you ever tried just getting rid of your laptop, smartphone, internet, TV, etc?

They certainly add the occasional convenience, but it's actually really easy to go a week or three at a time without any of it.

That's always an option, and it's a fairly good one if it's making you feel how you describe.
I mostly agree with everything here but will point out that SE salaries have risen quite dramatically over the past 10 years in Aus. If you are a (genuinely) senior engineer you should be on $170k+. In a place like Brisbane (if you can handle the summers) that's a reasonably liveable salary. But yeah - I fear it's going to end up like the rest of the country fairly quickly...

One of my major gripes is that education here is not at all egalitarian.

> Property in Australia is like a game of musical chairs but the music stopped in Sydney in 1978

Can you explain this analogy?
You're assuming that you are an employee. If you are a founder, and especially if you've taken money, going back to your investors stating that you quit just because your team quit is likely to ensure you never get funded again.
China has nothing to do with the surveillance mandate, unless you believe that Xi got ScoMo's ear.
>Forced voting sounds like a recipe for bad election results.

The previous conservative, neoliberal PM, John Howard, said the same thing. Rationally, it doesn't make sense.

However, even he admitted that empirical, historical evidence has shown it to be a good thing that prevents either major political party from catering too hard to the extremes.
Probably general stability and rise of authoritarianism.
I work in the Analytics space and been mostly on Java and I am so glad that other people feel the same.
At this point, people have become afraid of suggesting something other than Spark.
I see something written in Rust to be much better at problems like this.
I love the JVM but it works well with transactional workloads and starts showing its age when its dealing with analytical loads.
The worst thing is then people start doing weak references and weird off the heap processing usually by a senior engineer but really defeats the purpose of the JVM
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Cannabis laws as well...
Its sad how incredibly asymmetric government and companies are.

It probably took a year+ to pass this law, and took companies all of 1 month to figure out easy workarounds like huge ranges or avoiding hiring.

GPDR was first proposed in 2012. It was adopted in 2016 with a 2 year gap to become valid in 2018. Then every website threw up an "Accept Cookies" popup in a week...
For the first three decades of China’s “opening up”, what they had was not coercive market power but incredibly cheap labor on a huge scale and a stable, pro-business government. And what that government did was to play the long game of requiring all foreign businesses wishing to take advantage of the huge, cheap labor force to do so through joint ventures with domestic companies. For the Chinese people, this was exactly the right move, because foreign businesses would never have voluntarily enriched the Chinese labor force and thus driven up their own costs. China is where it is today because, while the Western companies were planning on the scale of quarters, they were looking decades down the road. However, the rest of the world is finally waking up, and China still has tremendous internal structural challenges to sustaining its growth. So whether China will become a dominant force globally still remains to be seen.
Thanks Dmitry! Love the idea of your app Pony (https://www.ponymessenger.com/). I will try it out. Sent you a connection request on LinkedIn.
I'm the same way with the Backspace key.
I'm not sure this is true, even as a black republican with several black republican voting family members. My experience is that most black voters are more conservative, but almost always vote based on race rather than policy. This is obviously changing, to skew towards black voters being less conservative- but calling candidates racist will usually trump all other values that go into the voting decision.