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The year is 2087, the remaining scientists that weren't hunted down in the previous year, have issued a dire warning that time is running out for action on climate change.

The claim is rebuked again by a conglomerate consisting of Breathing apparatus manufacturers, Sunblock body-paint makers, Subterranean city developers, Biohazard swimsuit makers, Soylent green icecream industries, Nestlé, FEMA holiday camps, and the Corporate Emperor of USA.

The 2088 hunt is scheduled to begin March 1st.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/pn6x3g/record_nu...
Woz is probably the most genuine very rich person in the world.

Partly that's because he was a world-class working engineer, and partly it's because he likely suffered a serious head injury in a small airplane accident, which is why he left Apple.

His combined hardware and software work is truly stunning. I started my career shortly after the Apple 1, and there were almost no books, let alone Internet, for what he was doing. My town library had mainly vacuum tube books at the time!

(AThe famous early engineers were not hobbyists - Woz (HP), Peter Norton (industry), etc.)

This is not well-known, but when Walleye (which used Sidewinder modules) missile development wound down, several Naval lab engineers joined industry and advanced TV and imaging analog circuit design.

Most of the video you've seen from the Gulf War of missiles entering windows and doors was Walleye nose camera footage that used analog edge detection circuits.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-62_Walleye
Cigarettes are already know pre covid, they are off patent, availabe in generic form and big pharma are not pulling the strings. That goes a long way to making them a viable cure for some.
like asking a Jew about translating the Torah

But it is not. A single person of Jewish faith has no conflict of interest.

A better example would be a centralized rabbinic authority, which hasn't existed since the fall of ancient Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanhedrin
The problem is mainly that on IRC messages coming from a server connection are assumed to never be lies. A server can do anything from disconnecting people to spoofing messages.

Which is in fact how services such as nickserv operate. If I don't log in to nickserv, nickserv will spoof a nickname change, blocking me from using the registered nickname.

Having server connections be freely available to everyone is worse than giving everyone OPER powers.
The problem is that, sometimes, simplistic introductions do more harm than good to understanding of a subject - especially when they are presented as introductions to a subject.

This list is similar to explanations of quantum computing that claim the qbits solve all versions of the problem in parallel - it may give you a wrong intuition about what the subject even is. In this case, it may make you think that there were actual humans that worshiped all of these gods and only these gods - when in fact, over 3000 years of Egyptian civilization, gods changed and merged and so on; and most likely the very idea of worship and humans' relationship with the gods changed.
In some way I am happy that we have these billionaires playing an appendix measuring contest over which of their space ventures will be first/best/else in space.

These are not easy not cheap problems to solve. So let them pour their money into it.

I would gladly also accept a new company into the race that has altruistic motives guiding it.

Just have a hard time believing it.
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"Heavy fallout" overstates standard maintenance and replacement practices.
You're a one man misinformation army. There is no reason for a vaccinated individual to wear a mask?

Look closely at the green lines, and compare them to the red lines:
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america?view...

You won't learn anything, because you're a deranged wingnut with a trapped prior. But maybe the cognitive dissonance will be enough to get you to shut up.
Feels like they’re now doing this since, they are in plans to integrate with Discord.
May be all these days discord had some arrangement with google to allow music bots till they can build their own integration.
Al-Qaeda AI...I can't stop doing this find and replace in my head since I learned that Al-Qaeda means The Foundation (or The Base).
To be clear this is just smoking related and not related to nicotine? E.g. nicotine patches wouldn't have an effect?
Interesting, I did not know that one had to be a 'developed' user to be able to down vote. I may have to look more into the history of this and see some examples of implementations. Thanks for the info!
Universities have fooled the world and their own silly students that plagiarism is bad, worse even than P hacking and lies and misinformation, which their own media departments do regularly.

It's a good trick, to think plagiarism is bad means you have to think the original authors words have value, even a magical style value.

I guess it was a good trick since most people now know Universities have failed because of their inability to self-police bad research while bike shedding a poor mans copyright protection.
Wind power is getting really cheap. The open question is whether it comes online faster or slower than coal is taken offline.
> > First the GUI to edit the GUI disappears, then the about:config option follows later.

> > That's what's been steadily happening.

> You wrote this in a way that is (probably deliberately) misleading. Neither of those things have happened nor is there any indication that they will.

You're not so much misleading as outright lying. That is exactly what has been happening, over and over again.
>GMO

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
"You are now dead" is a perfectly valid continuation of the text. The drinker might be extremely allergic to cranberries, or grapes. The cranberry juice might be poisoned.
There actually was a blog post!

Here's the commit that has the information: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commit/6562466c32a875...

And if you follow the link in the comment there, that brings you to the blog post from about a week ago: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-community-contribut...

Regardless, not having the manpower or not prioritizing community contributions is an interesting situation that hasn't been seen much in the past before. I wonder why it is that they can't find the necessary manpower not to have this problem. Is it a matter of priorities? Or of the job market? Or employee related expenses?
hm.. have you seen DALL-E/CLIP? It's literally a language model applied to images and text. It's also the dumbest possible way to generate images (generating tokens one at a time, down and to the right) yet it works.
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>> So some very short passages were taking from other sources, but these were things like the list of countries that joined the EU.

No, these were not just facts, but slightly edited passages taken from studies and other books (https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/plagiatsjaeger-stefan-we...).
But in the end, she probably didn't do it herself, but her ghostwriter. She doesn't have much luck with people working for her. Like her financial officer who embezzled 270000 EUR from the party and later has been accused of prostitution (sorry, only German: https://www.berlin.de/aktuelles/berlin/2811150-958092-neue-v...).
But is that a reference to the Bible? "To earn (my/your) daily bread" is a set phrase in English
and many other European languages (French pain quotidien etc) as well.
In German "hrmpf" is an exclamation and expression of frustration, with a possible connotation of acceptance that something has indeed gone wrong. So it’s a very apt name for a rescue system :)
all the way through, not counting plays? Only 4. Parts of scripts, probably about 20. But at any rate the reason why someone uses misspellings such as Twain in Huck Finn is to delineate character for the readers in an entertaining fashion - I don't think misspelling neutral is a real character insight and as a general rule when you are first writing the script you are writing it to be read by a very limited audience for whom the purpose of reading is not to be entertained.
The wife and I started collecting cups and mugs whenever we travel. No touristy I<3 NYC, but if we run into a nice mug, we take it back home. Whenever you grab a coffee or tea, a little memory is there with it.
> depending on time period

It is evident to any human that the question includes an implied "right now" temporal qualifier. You've just failed the Turing test ;-)
More and more academic journals are using automated plagiarism detection tools and they will happily detect and flag self-plagiarism.
One of the most (in)famous american journalist, famous for inventing gonzo journalism, focusing on the writer themselves diving into situations and writing about it.

His political texts are excellent and I highly recommend the book Fear and Loathing on The Campaign Trail '72 for a good analysis on the McGovern vs. Nixon campaign.
Being on HN he probably invented a novel way of making kids click on ads. But yeah, fridge bad. Car bad. t.HN
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Wait, those are both words? I sort of assumed the second one is a misspelling.
I wonder, problems with PA emulating ALSA were AFAIK always blamed on apps abusing ALSA APIs. Does Pipewire do a better job of emulating ALSA than PA did, or does Pipewire just rely on the fixes installed to make those ALSA apps start to work OK on PA?
I think this is right. This is a major blow to Apple. If you look at the 10 games on the app store, revenue goes up by 1.8x for every placement. That meant that there are a few VERY profitable games, and it drops off very quickly. My bet is that its the same for non-game apps. If the App store is that tilted, then there are few developers representing most of the revenue, and they can afford setting up an alternative payment process, and the reduced fees for these companies will be significant. They have a lot of incentives to do it. If Apple loses half of the top 40 apps, to alternative payment systems, it will mean a significant amount of revenue lost.
Do you perhaps have a source for this claim?
Much less than citations, it's a basic empirical observation of SOTA for many NLP+vision tasks that, crucially, supports asking for a _lot_ of funding: $$$$ for hw, and skim $$$ off for a big lab of people for a decent amount of time.

Less cynically... they have to do it for going after low-hanging fruit around the current local maxima. I'd expect similar writing happening in grant proposals at other big AI labs too.
I don't think there is such a crime. At best it should be embarrassing.
The .eu domain was never really pushed, it's been using NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW for many years to avoid duplicated content penalties from Google and double crawling. The .at/.de domains should still be very visible in Google, at least they were a few years ago when I checked regularly (I use Duckduckgo exclusively).
It's a list of non-specific predictions and cliches - "AI revolution", "cryptocurrency driving major societal change", "we will be able to do stuff with bits and atoms we can barely imagine now" (!?). It's like he has no idea what he's talking about but for some reason insists on making predictions while not really making any actual predictions.
I think it’s just the name data from the Unicode standard? (possibly the CLDR data but I might be wrong)
Are you aware that the Orthodox church doesn't have a single leader? It is several organizations which co-exist as one united body.

(More or less. There are some recent schisms which are probably temporary. There aren't currently any partitions, ie Constantinople and Moscow are still united through Antioch, etc.)

Technically Christ leads the church, but even among God there are 3 of them who co-exist.
Indeed, and that was for the reason of ending emissions within a city. A poor person who commutes with one is likely (even though not guaranteed) to be using it over the sort of distance where the tiny battery is sufficient, so with regard to achieving that goal rather than that method, I think hybrids would probably be sufficient.
Did we get some major AI breakthrough in the past 3 years? or are we still sinking billions into things like self driving where the problem is always 97% solved due to AI being a poor fit?

On the crypto front it looks like there has been some progress, my $100 of tether now costs $150 worth of eth to send, whereas it only cost $30 to send during the last bull run.
Show HN: The C++ Guide for JavaScript Developers
Hi Hacker News! I'm Oscar!

I do a lot of react native and web development, therefore I mostly code in JavaScript, however some of the new technologies coming up such as web assembly and the react-native JSI require knowledge of low level languages.

In order to leverage this new tech I had to learn C++ and it was not an easy path, a lot of the documentation and knowledge out there is way too hard or in depth for my purposes, I just want to use C++ as fast as I can to achieve my own goals.

Therefore I want to make the path easier for other developers, in just a couple of hours I'm trying to cover the most interesting parts of C++, the 20% that will allow you to achieve 80% of what is possible. Course is completely free, hosted on youtube, if you like it I would ask you to subscribe or to follow me on twitter! feedback is of course welcome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOsCv4_vMgo&list=PLanS_SVm5swgrFrqo-NTITZxud4KRmZgB
Java really sucks for this kind of work. Auto-boxing makes it really easy to accidentally end up with Objects which will kill performance. Also, Java doesn't give you good access to bit manipulation, processor intrinsics, or other useful low level tools.
I wish this was not behind a paywall!
What it invalidates is the notion that research that does not include RCT is automatically wrong.

We currently see this in action in the way corona is being treated. When we were told that masks don't help stop the spread of corona, what was really meant was "there has been no RCT that demonstrates that the spread of corona is less in a mask-wearing group" - in other words, the issue was simply untested, but this was formulated in such a way that a lay person would believe it was already known that masks have no effect, which is something completely different. The use of Ivermectin is arguably in the same situation right now.
https://archive.is/mSjoO
> And you buying food makes food more expensive for everyone else.

Not true. You raising the demand of a good enables the producers to employ economies of scale thus making food less expensive for all.
Crewscale appears to be a very interesting platform, as many people lost their jobs during the Covid period, and it it seems to be a great platform for them as well.
You can put the mask “controversy” under this perspective: do we know how surgical masks and airborne diseases work? Do we need more data to prove their effectiveness?
https://archive.is/qiaEA
The 4D website probably shared your IP address with Facebook. While it can be pretty inaccurate it might be the best they got - and it completely circumvents cookie blocking.
Social media also heavily incentives ritual punishment for any transgressions. Especially whenever there are political overtones.
I have one question about PW I have not seen an answer for.

At one time I relied on a graphic equalizer module inserted into PA. Then, it went unsupported. Soon after it seemed to have vanished entirely.

Is there a supported graphic equalizer I can insert between PW and my poor, damaged ears? If so, what does setting it up involve?
Unfortunately "Recently degraded" means more like "fell off a cliff". :(

The problem manifests itself again just now. Searching for these terms just gives bullshit results, instead of saying something useful like "no matches" or actually showing pages that meet what I asked for:

"JBL" "ACTIVE-1" "Linux"

Those specific search terms are due to my trying to work out whether the JBL ACTIVE-1 will work under linux. eg for driving my JBL LSR305/310S active monitors. There's a USB port, but no mention of Linux on the ACTIVE-1 product page. ;)
I have no particular affiliation to any German political party, but I also find the Baerbock case a bit ridiculous. The book is essentially her election manifesto, you pretty much expect it to consist of various party publications glued together with anecdotes, and the bar is much lower than (say) a PhD thesis that's supposed to be both genuinely original and thoroughly cited.
And what if the creators' requirements don't align with the requirements of broader society? We already know that some nation states can behave relatively responsibly with nuclear weapons but we maintain nonproliferation policies with nuclear weapons to prevent rogue nation states and terrorists from wreaking havoc on the world.

The destruction that nuclear weapons can cause is nothing compared to the potential destruction from self-replicating machines and it is very unlikely that non-proliferation of self-replicating machines will be impractical if not outright impossible.

I am fascinated by youtube channels like Primative Technologies and I am struck by the fact that once self-replicating nanotechnology is developed it is very likely that a properly motivated and well-read individual could walk into a forest with little more than the clothes on their back and walk out with a self-replicating machine, or rather float out with whatever sort of flying machine that their self-replicating nanobots would enable them to build.

Once this technology has been invented there's no stopping it. I don't know what we do then.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
I think Apple knows the big blows are coming and they will most likely not come from the court but legislatively. I mean they are most likely going to lose badly in the EU anyway but the writting is on the wall regarding digital stores and restrained access to the NFC chip. Even if what they do is legal today, it will not stay that way. Considering that, it seems in their interest to milk the cow as long as they can.
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"In fact, it seems equally plausible that the larger the company, the less of an effect the CEO has."

This is easily shown false by simply comparing Apple with a small accounting firm. The max effect a CEO in the latter can have is on the order of $1 million, which is about 4 or 5 orders of magnitude less than the negative consequences to Apple if its CEO sucks. For a real world example see what happened when Ballmer was replaced by Satya Nadela. Or see what happened to Enron when a criminal CEO was steering the ship.

"your argument is that the average salary has gotten lower"

That is not my argument. My argument is that the increasing supply of low skilled labor has meant that wages have not gone up alongside productivity growth, which contributes to the wage gap with CEOs. That's a subtle but important difference.

"If CEO pay was correlated to performance, we'd find that CEOs whose companies did better were better compensated."

That's exactly what we find. CEO comp in the form of stock and options are usually tied to milestones or stock performance. Look at Musk's arrangement. The stock price is often used as a proxy for performance because it aligns incentives and is harder to game than explicit metrics.

"is there a level of inequality that you would consider unjustifiable"

Not at all. If someone invents nuclear fusion in their basement and delivers $50 trillion worth of value to humanity, I really could not care if they keep a $5 trillion slice of that. They've gifted $45 trillion onto the species and I am extremely grateful to them for doing that.
Now that's interesting. I hadn't heard that the shopping list reference had been called into question. That deepens the mystery quite a bit.
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>you seem to be advocating Maoist principles

I've actually tried to avoid advocating specific principles (although I'll allow that some may have leaked through).

But, FWIW, I don't think the choices are between unfettered, laissez-faire capitalism and full-blown Maoism. IMO that common framing is part of the notion of immutable laws and fixed, mutually exclusive systems, etc.

In practical terms: I'm a capitalist. But, I also believe we need moderating forces to tame inequality; some level of which is untenable to the point of actually being anti-capitalist.
My wife wrote two papers covering different aspects of the same experiment, and copy and pasted the experiment setup description (a couple of paragraphs) from one paper to the other. The plagiarism detection software of the journal she tried to publish the second paper in flagged the paragraphs and they refused to publish until she 'fixed' it.
I prefer Armadillo because of the Matlab-like syntax that feel like writting down the equations as they are in pencil and paper. Much more readible:
http://arma.sourceforge.net/docs.html
I made my own protocol
It was released six months ago...
You, like me, are a proud second-degree vegan: we only eat animals that eat plants.

If you find yourself around vegans, you might also at some point want to casually throw the word 'vegavore' around, and then explain it means 'someone who conciously only eats plants, as opposed to people that do so accidentally or unwittingly'. With some luck they won't realize the deception and start using it themselves ;-)
It wasnt some people. This appears to have been a developer of video player pre-seeding workshop with Asian pr0n for Chinese market? There are other examples on steam forum of some screen savers having workshop flooded with JAV "content" by Chinese IPs. Perhaps great firewall blocks access to this type of material, and Steam is a convenient distribution channel.
> If you look at the 10 games on the app store, revenue goes up by 1.8x for every placement

OT: Where can you see this kind of data?
Note this is about two distinct types of work: Guttenberg faked a dissertation to obtain an academic degree, Baerbock did so when publishing a pop culture book, essentially the offline equivalent of a medium/substack account.

Not a fan of plagiarism either way, but those two cases are hardly comparable. Both are copyright issues, but faking a dissertation adds fraud to the equation and disqualifies the person from future academic work.
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The general navigation / structure seems similar to ...

LEARN theme applied to a HUGO blog

https://themes.gohugo.io/themes/hugo-theme-learn/

Or is this a more common pattern that is implemented multiple ways?

Is there a simple worklfow to convert Markdown documents to a Hugo or JupyterBook site. I want to build some simple step-wise guides or workshop in this format -- and want to spend most of my time on content and less on the publishing tools and pipeline. Any advise appreciated -Thanks!
Covid-19 Graphs Germany
If you are interested in COVID-19 graphs for Germany, and all its districts, https://jalsti.github.io/cov19de/pages/Deutschland.html is a nice view, although a bit slow on the larger pages, due to the huge daily data tables.
(Seems to be a more worked out fork of https://covh.github.io/cov19de/)
I generally distrust modern Greeks' knowledge about Ancient Greek. For example, beta has changed pronunciation, becoming something like English v instead of English b like it was originally, but most modern Greeks will vehemently deny that the pronunciation has changed.

We have good evidence that it used to be like English b (voiced bilabial plosive):

https://www.foundalis.com/lan/betapro.htm

That's just one example. Native speakers are usually the worst at understanding and explaining their own language.