skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet Jekyll just doesn't work for lots of other people. That's why vital software dependencies always need further development…because over time they properly service a smaller and smaller subset of users—unless we're talking about an extremely specific single-use library of some fashion. That's not what Jekyll is!
Canon reveals its EOS R3 pro mirrorless camera in full
The Go language has a spec, but the "batteries included" standard library is full of wild, unexpected behavior: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-... It's really not a more reliable platform than Ruby.
The first chart you posted is global emissions. If you break out Europe and the US, you'll see our emissions-reductions efforts are in fact leveling off emissions, and in some countries reducing them. But globally speaking, China and India have energy impoverishment, they're still ramping up coal to provide lighting, A/C, refrigeration, and things we take for granted. This is expected and we can't fault them for providing basic utilities to their people.

Yeah, we're in pretty huge trouble. I'm definitely cynical in the short-term and medium-term, but I see potential for all these nascent technologies to work over the decades to save our bacon by 2100. Technology got us into this mess, but we're enslaved to our technology now, so we're going to just have to make better and better technology while being slightly more efficient and green-minded as well.
Seems that 17 is an LTS release:

* https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roa...
Reportedly, not much "big new stuff" got into this release (maybe next time), but it's an LTS so it's not the best time for that anyway.
A half truth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-truth
Isn't it standard practice to amortize the cost of capital goods over their lifetime?
yes, except it is generated and maintained by a faceless, nameless holding company in the US.

I'm a businessman trying to hide my wealth, I get one of these cards and top it up with 100k from my CAyman islands bank account, and use it for all my daily spending. That's a very common method of tax evasion.

Strip could now be on the hook for facilitating this, which means they need to trust justuseapp to do proper KYC that complies with global anti money laundering policies, etc. That is a HUGE task, and if they get it wrong, the consequences are serious. So, when stripe says they're worried; they're right to be.

The intented use of this companies service might be altruistic, but it's really easily absued for nefarious purposes.
If old people are the cause, then so is overpopulation. Level it out to ZPG so we don't add more burden.
The bank is in the UK. I don't know if there's any legislation around this communication, but it doesn't seem that great even if it's legal.
"right a tutorial" sigh. how did i miss that.
> I'd say there's a clear difference between what they were doing post Deng Xiaoping and what they've been doing since Xi Jinping came to power. It's much more worrying now.

> I remember 15-20 years ago, my friends in China had hope that eventually it would open up but there's no longer any hope there. The few friends who are still outspoken (and are much much more careful than they used to be) now have no hope of this whatsoever.

Yes. I don't think they were ever exactly for liberalization, but Xi took a hard turn against it (and made that policy): https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-lea....

Liberals (both the American and more classical kind) often seem to assume their ideals will eventually prevail, but nothing guarantees that.
If only I could understand the difference between java 1.8, 8 and 18.
I'm stealing this system! I too have found I tend to remember things better if I write them down, but some things you need electronically in order to be able to easily search. I love the idea of waiting for a while to translate over to your notes app because most notes are ephemeral.

Thank you!
> It's much more complicated to avoid runtime errors or do proper testing in R

It's not that much harder. There's no pytest, but testthat works well enough. I've developed a few packages internally in R and wouldn't say it was that much harder to ensure correctness than for the corresponding Python packages. (We used to keep them in sync, before basically moving everything to Python.)
I think it is correct that prosperity will eventually bring democracy.

Xi sees that too and is busy trying to knock China's wealthy citizens down a couple of notches.
Aliens may as well sort us by the colour of our pants as soon as the colour of our skin, but let's not pretend that such an obvious visual variation as skin tone would be overlooked.

White cat, tabby cat, grey cat, etc? We don't try to say one sort of cat is better than other, but we can tell them apart very well.

Maybe what you're saying is that the aliens would not have the same prejudices associated with that marker as we have.
Perhaps, but what would you propose?

Do we take the approach we take with opiates, and ban companies from allowing users to upload images?

Or do we take the approach we take with nicotine, and force companies to disclose the possible harms that can come from social interactions online?

Or is there another approach you'd propose?

Hopefully this doesn't come across too confrontational - I genuinely am curious as to what solutions are viable, and I do recognize the harm social media can cause. But it seems to me that as long as there exists any platform where we can freely post photos, we'll have toxic comparisons, and I don't see more education changing this - I don't think it's a rational choice that we make, to choose to compare ourselves to others.
Definitely brings up images of aliens cloning humans after we've gone extinct, then placing us in groups with food and hoping they recreate human civilization. I think the result would be more sad and pathetic than Lord Of The Flies.

That said, presumably they'd rear the baby mammoths with elephants and at least develop social skills, even if they can't develop environmental skills; and then support the animals as they become used to arctic conditions. But would that just the be the equivalent of raising Neanderthals and then transporting them to the wilderness for their Exciting New Life In The Wild?
Fortran Conference 2021
They posted this insanely embarrassing "security bulletin" yesterday as well: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-09-13-bulletin

> As a reminder from the Support Team, cycling your secrets is something that all users should do on a regular basis per your company’s security process. If you are unsure how to do this please contact Support and we would be happy to help you.

...and that's it. That's the full "bulletin."
Which one? UK, UKpol, and even AskUK all creep there on occasions.
>> "High quality internet services" are you kidding me?!

I was mostly referring to government websites, online banking, retirement accounts, etc... For example, in Germany, a lot of stuff is still done by paper mail. I've lived in other countries which had web portals but they were often terrible and didn't work properly.

It's only after living outside of Australia for a few years that I understood how smooth all the processes related to the government were over there. In Europe, to get anything done (like to get a national ID card), you have to run around to all sorts of different agencies to collect different paper documents and forms which depend on each other and nobody explicitly tells you what order you're supposed to get them in... It's only when you physically go to one agency that they then ask you to fill out a Form1234 and Form5678 which you were supposed to get from two different government agencies...

As an example, in Australia, to prove my identity, they had a score system so I could bring in different documents like a bank credit card, driver's licence and a passport and they would add up all the scores and it had to exceed a threshold. That was convenient. In Europe, to do some administrative procedure, they may often ask you for a specific document like a certified copy of your birth certificate which is less than 3 months old to prove your identity; it doesn't matter that you have a passport, a credit card, a driver's license, bank statements, a national ID card; they only want to see the birth certificate, there is no flexibility in the process and it's easy to get stuck; and if you do, it takes ages to resolve.
> The wet-bulb temperature (WBT) is the temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked cloth (wet-bulb thermometer) over which air is passed

It seems to be a direct measurement, not derived from anything. You might be able to derive WBT given the dew point and dry bulb temperature, but it would still need units like C or F.

Perhaps you were thinking of a different measurement?
One would dare say that an overwhelming majority of people does have morals.

But a very small minority that doesn't have morals, is causing the illusion that it's most people that don't have them.
> Perhaps it is time we have a frank discussion how older decision makers are preventing the world from dealing with our climate crisis so we may prepare for the realities of a dystopian future.

Am I reading that right, does the author assume that a dystopian future is inevitable? Is this a widely held opinion?
Looking back it seems so barbaric.

I remember how they briefly tried those black foam sticker pads in the corners of the substrate before acquiescing and using the IHS.

At some point they realized they could do better than a heatsink mounting system that involved trying to balance a heavy metal object on a small pedestal while trying to hook a tensioned spring to a clip you couldn't see by exerting tremendous downward force with a flathead screwdriver. I guess those motherboard return rates finally got to them.
Tab in Notion, setup for entire month - every thing I need to do goes in as new entry in one big to-do list. No point in separating it per days, as things will not be done today, but in whatever order.

I'm talking here about things I need to do - tickets will still be written with full specs, PRs will still be opened, things will still get asked, but at least I have an index of all of those things I need to do.
Recently an online book of Fortran best practices was published: https://fortran-lang.org/learn/best_practices .
I still don’t get it. Is the chart supposed to show axes in addition to the left/right and pro-establishment/critical, currently represented by colors and sizes? How do the “lack of human input” and “external assessments” fit into the explanation?
OP, I symphatize with your pain. I've been trying to get approved for Stripe Issuing for 4+ months now.

I have been "approved" multiple times, but the Issuing-related features never get turned on. Every time I complain, there's another review cycle. The most kafkaesque experience I have had with a business.
Males aren't sexually selected for attractiveness. They are selected for their ability to provide for a mother and baby. So, human male's desirability increases with time, peaking at some point where their peak wealth crosses their inability to procreate.
Simple and efficient!

Some ideas of features you could add :

- redundency

- shape of the "pixels"

- adding an icon in the qrcode
> Instagram is toxic for everyone.

> For reasons too personal to put here, I've been pretty depressed and dysfunctional lately and I've unintentionally discovered the experience of doomscrolling.

I never check the Instagram discover tab and I don’t feel like I’m missing anything. For me, Instagram has been a good tool for keeping in touch with friends as we all move around the country. If someone starts posting memes or content I don’t want to see, I use the Instagram mute function on their stories or posts. I can catch up on everything I want to see on Instagram in about 5-10 minutes per day and then I’m done.

Obviously, not everyone has the same experience with Instagram that I do. But by the same token, not everyone has the same experience with Instagram that you do.

If someone is unable to control their compulsion to “doom scroll” and setting limits on app usage isn’t working, I think deleting the app or the account is a good solution.

I had some friends go through similar problems with Netflix: They insisted Netflix was evil because they couldn’t control their usage and were staying up until 2AM every night watching shows. Meanwhile, they couldn’t understand how I managed to watch one episode and be done.

Same story with alcohol: I can have one drink and be done or decline to drink at all. Yet I have friends who find themselves drinking to excess every time they’re around alcohol. Interestingly, the demonization of alcohol is almost taboo despite arguably causing more damage than products like social media. No one has ever died from social media withdrawal, but alcohol has massive negative effects on addicts.

> I have to wonder if this type of media is similar to magazines on steroids, or other pulp media of the bygone era

Definitely. Even if we could make Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter disappear tomorrow, the people who struggle to control their compulsions would quickly find the next thing to fill their time. The only sustainable solution I see is more education about responsible consumption and taking accountability for time management. Not an easy thing to do, but it’s the only lasting solution I can see.
Ransom payments are tax-deductible? If true that is nuts! Do you have a source?
Instagram basically wouldn't allow you see anything if you don't login. All you need to do is delete your Instagram account, then you are out.

I never have an Instagram account, and never see the need to create one.

I had a Facebook account, but I deleted it years ago. Problem solved.
1) Be Space debris company

2) Setup shadow satellite corporation

3) Satellite corp launches satellite to valuable orbit, and intentionally separates into 2-3 easily caught pieces. "Oops! Our satellite failed"

4) space debris company cleans up the orbit quickly and easily, receives bounty from government agency

5) Profit

A little far-fetched maybe, but there's a good sci-fi short story wrapped up in there.
It's an important distinction. The fact that huge numbers of people rotate through the hacking side of 8200 (like the NSA, vast majority of 8200 members don't work on that) is what drives the supply.

Intelligence services typically have less turnover. Though that is changing, particularly for NSA, where people leave to go to contractors.

Also, frankly, describing NSO as ex Mossad just makes phone malware sound much more complicated than it is and much harder to stop. At the end of the day, its software, written by people in much the same way any software is written. It just exploits mistakes other software devs made so that it can run.
That is (approximately) accounting for two weeks of annual leave, but not budgeting for illness or other factors, I normally go with "roughly 200 work-days" (socialist Europe, here, so I start from a base-line of five weeks of annual leave), that gives 1600 worked hours per person, taking it to 160 million hours. Still, plenty.
The Taliban write their dates 11/09/2001 so this would have been 11-9 to them which is wild why they didn't pull this off on Nov 9th. Also 9/11 is meaningless in a country that doesn't even dial that number for emergency services. Therefore 9/11 seem very likely to be planned by a Western organization who didn't mind sticking it to the Arabic world (cough Zion). So it's been super fun to see silly people believe in sophisticated cavemen. Great money in FUD. Covid is the next FUD, go get jabbed and please put a permanent tattoo on yourselfs too so we can tell you apart kthx
And when the current "young" generations grow up many of them will not want to change things too.

I think article assumes a lot reasons wise & ties things together that don't jive. Just because some poll indicates there's something age related about climate change views doesn't mean that age determines someone's support for a given unrelated congressional policy just because congress has a lot of old people in it ...

I think it is more fundamental human nature about what we think as time goes on, and everyone will take their turn at it.
Waveguides make a very poor quality image by design.

The solution been know since WW2, but trendy boys are still ogling over waveguides just because they sound cool, and score more investor money.
Mammoth, a novel by John Varley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_(novel)
100% on the money. People will gnash their teeth because they don't like the truth being told out loud. It's the same reason why online dating is completely fucked up: incentives are completely different for men and women. Women hold access to sex (which men want), men hold access to relationships (which women want). The problem is that each wants completely different demographics; women generally want older secure men, and men want younger more fertile women. There's nothing wrong with this.

This has been ingrained in us for millions of years yet people act like a few decades of social upheaval will change this.
From a strict physics perspective, I tend to think you are right, but from a messy human perspective I think orbital cleanup companies stand to do a lot of good even if they never retrieve more than a token satellite or two.

Being able to say "You just made a $200M mess," priced on the cost of cleanup, is a lot more powerful than just being able to say "You made a mess." A concrete price tag is a boon for regulation, for liability & enforcement, and even for space startups explaining to their investors why yes, they do have to include fuel budget for the viking funeral, and no, they can't just decide not to, because the alternative is a $200M cleanup fee.
I agree that the fact it's threatening is the key issue. It was threatening to me for years before I took the leap. People have softened to the idea, but it is still the only stance I hold that I still get either rigorously questioned or belittled for - despite all the commercial and cultural support that continues to grow for it. This doesn't happen for any other political, ethical, or religious stance I hold - such confrontation would be frowned upon under normal circumstances, so there must be a reason for such a trigger. We are now actively weighing the benefits versus the costs of animal agriculture in a different light, because for the first time in our history we are, by in large, no longer reliant on it for our survival as individuals.

A young philosophy YouTuber of all people (Alex O'Connor) was the one who put the ethics of veganism in the right light for me; I had already decreased my animal product consumption to almost nothing with it being the leading cause of deforestation and habitat loss, but was not sold on the animal rights front in the slightest. Alex dismantled all my "egotistical" arguments as you put it. I followed it by reading his recommendation of Peter Signers book 'Animal Liberation' which really nailed the coffin as it were.

I recommend these videos [1][2] and this book [3] whole-heartedly for those who are on the fence, or even far beyond it but would like a "reasoned" view of veganism rather than the shallow arguments to might hear from your hippie friend or 14 year-old newly vegan niece/nephew.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1vW9iSpLLk&t=192s
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcVR2OVxPYw
[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29380.Animal_Liberation
[ For the curious : this is some kind of overly-literal rendition of RTFM "lege - manvualem - fututum", where the grammar appears somewhat strained, but a detailed analysis would be not appropriate on YCOMB for several reasons... ]
Contemporary goats can keep a grassland from becoming forest all too well (by eating the seedlings) and overgrazing can have serious effects [0]. Maybe woolly mammoths played a similar role in Siberia, but being less numerous, did not desertify the region, only kept it open and treeless.

Grass does not have much nutritional content. A beast of the size of a mammoth will have to eat a lot of it to sustain itself.

[0] https://www.climatechangenews.com/2013/09/09/mongolian-stepp...
> .. I still believe that ranking/recommendation models should be open.

Today, we don't know how social media recommend posts to us, we don't know if it is biased, or good for some sub communities. There are [1] some engineering blogs where we can see that is based on some research ideas (e.g. embeddings) are prune to bias [3] and "rich gets richer" phenomena. There should be an open marketplace where institutes/researchers submit open & explainable ranking/recommender systems. This is how you democratize access to such social platforms, but the business model opposes such idea to make it reality. There is a large body of research in the area of explainable recommendation systems/Explainable AI. There are regulations today to use Explainable AI systems in healthcare field, but few of them in areas that impact our mental health (e.g. the use of Social Media).

[1]: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/powered-by-ai-instagrams-explor...

[2]: Explainable Recommendation: A Survey and New Perspective, https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.11192

[3]: https://aclanthology.org/P19-1162v2.pdf
Early Look at 2022 Cost-of-Living Adjustments
You wrote "all animals are ultimately consumed".

So if an animal dies of a disease, is it "consumed"? Could you explain your claim?
See also Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin by Nicholas Ostler:

> The history of language is the history of politics, society and religion - and in the case of Latin it is a story of incredible staying power, the tongue sturdily outliving the Roman empire. As Nicholas Ostler points out, by the end of the first millennium AD Latin was the language of religion from Iceland to Sicily, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, from Poland to Portugal; and 500 years later it was still the language of organised life throughout western Europe.

* https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/dec/08/featuresreview...
FIFA 22 Ratings REVEALED: EA unveils the best 22 players in the game
Well, now they are losing to AMD, so what does that tell you about it being a sound busineas decision?
Most products/projects I know are on Java 11 LTS and will probably upgrade to this release. Between 11 and 17 there's quite some new stuff.
I don't think so. People unwilling to endure inconvenience of any kind are prevent the world from addressing climate change. We know cars are a problem but we still drive them basically everywhere, we know our overconsumption is a problem but we still buy stuff constantly, we know eating factory farmed meat is a problem but we still go to McDonalds.

> Americans are once again subsidizing farmers to prop up a failing system a little longer. We can thank the head of that committee — Glen Thompson (R-Okla) a 62 year-old politician.

Americans vote for these politicians in part because they protect their interests. Of course if I'm a dairy farmer I'm going to vote for the guy who wants to save dairy farming, right?

If we're ever going to solve this problem we need to stop blaming everyone else and start looking at ourselves and how we are helping prop up the status-quo .
Before 1880 or so, if you wanted to listen to music, you played an instrument yourself, went to a pre-arranged concert on their schedule, or were incredibly wealthy and paid musicians to give you concerts.

In the 1920s you bought a radio or phonograph.

In the 1980s you bought tapes and then CDs and could listen on the go.

Now you can pay a subscription service and a bandwidth bill and get much of human music anytime, and nearly anywhere.

Food was stuff you or your neighbors grew; then it was stuff from your area; after refrigeration it could come from anywhere.

Books and television are cheaper than they've ever been before; movies are more available.