skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Two, Apple isn't democratically elected and I don't know if any accountability structures exist for such activism. What gives Apple more of a right to counter what the duly elected representatives of a state government have enacted, than the voters of that state themselves?

> Okay, but where is this energy when companies donate to politicians? Or spend millions lobbying for specific policies?

What do you mean? Isn't there a huge amount of energy in those areas?

> Or contract with the police or military?

That's not at all like the first two things you listed. Refusing to contract with the police or military (because they're the police or military) is probably a greater interference with democratic government than not siting an office in an area because you don't like the laws the legislature passed.
I can’t downvote a comment if it is older than a day?
yeah, the sources they cite are Thomas Malthus and the Club of Rome. how did this even get on the front page? this is on the same level of credibility as curing COVID with ivermectin.
Yes, it started in the last 3-4 days. I was going to ask on here if there were any high-profile data breaches recently. I never used Epik.
Yes, for me, gmail spam getting into my inbox increased from zero to one or two per day a few weeks ago.

It's very obvious; I'm sure the gmail team must know about it. I'd be curious to know whether they're planning on returning the spam detection back to the previous low false-negative rate.
> All you need to verify a stack of $100 bills is a $5 marker.

Those do not work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit_banknote_detection...
Clearly we should just cancel someone completely. Why stop at airlines. We should have a national list of undesirable people, any corporation can add any name to the list, and that instantly means you are unemployable, have all your bank accounts closed, can not obtain loans, have your home foreclosed, and your children are expelled from all schools.

No Appeal, no redemption, nothing

lists like this have a long history of not working out really well for people...

Who ever at delta that thinks this is a good idea needs to be added to to said list first.
> The thing is we know about natural phenomenon. We don't know whether aliens exist and are detectable. Occam's razor would favor existing natural explanations.

That's kind of my point though. We have tons of astronomical data, but except for neighboring systems it isn't precise enough to unambiguously detect an extraterrestrial civilization. So we go with the natural explanation for what we see, because Occam's razor would seem to suggest that. But by definition that means that if the universe has alien civilizations producing megastructures we would first assume those were natural phenomena. And then we would try to find explanations for these phenomena, and build models, which would be incorrect, but would provide a natural explanation for these megastructures. So, ironically, if the galaxy really was teaming with alien life and alien megastructures, we would likely just categorize it as natural phenomena, and wonder why we aren't seeing any signs of alien life.

I agree that just stars and planets and such are very common and thus unlikely to be alien megastructures. And I don't think there are any objects we've documented that are unique in all the universe. Any potential candidate would have to be something relatively rare in the universe (but wouldn't have to be unique) and would have to be poorly understood (something where we haven't directly observed its formation, or it has properties that aren't explained by physical laws/phenomena that we've been able to validate in a laboratory setting) to be a candidate. As a stab in the dark, consider pulsars. Fairly few known in the galaxy, from reading the wikipedia page it seems like they have some particularly weird and poorly-understood properties. They rotate and emit radiation very precisely, precise enough you can sync atomic clocks to it. It's been proposed that you can use multiple pulsars as reference points to very accurately determine your location, like GPS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar-based_navigation ). They emit huge amounts of radiation and are very small, meaning it would be much, much easier to extract energy from it Dyson-swarm-style. To be clear, I don't know much about astronomy, and I think that pulsars are almost certainly NOT alien megastructures, but I'm just pointing to it as an example.
> should we really demand that everyone like each other too

Maybe not like each other, but acknowledging their coworkers right to exist should be required.
Couldn't believe how many legit emails were in there. Missed a handful of important emails and who knows how many more, since they're deleted after 30 days.
Learn nuance and complexity.

Nothing and no one is pure evil or pure good. Everything is complex. You may call some Facebook actions evil, but that does not mean there is also good in Facebook. For example, plenty of people meet their significant others on Facebook or reconnect with estranged family and friends.
There actually was a legal challenge against this, and right before a deadline to respond the TSA clarified it's current policy: https://www.aclu.org/cases/bierfeldt-v-napolitano?redirect=c...

So if it happens, you can go to court for your individual case and possibly win, which according to this comment happens all the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28635430

So more is needed, obviously. It seems to me that the status quo is that you're effectively guilty until proven innocent, and the people accusing you don't have much of an incentive to stop.
Not to discredit your experience, but as another data point: I love my Moonlander. I love it so much, I have two, actually.

Personally, I find the thumb clusters most comfortable in a position that also gives a good tenting angle, but I think criticizing coupling the two is fair.

That said, I'm not sure how the tripod kit would help you solve that one way or the other. I thought it was designed to go on the outside, not where the thumb clusters are.
They didn't find any special way to do anything, they just lived like people used to live 3000 years ago in the old world.
they're doing it via lightning, which is off-chain until payment channels are settled.
That is somewhat of a good point about testing, but I’m not 100% convinced. The PCB itself should have already been tested at the factory, which should be sufficient for someone like me who’s ordering it without switches.

The purpose of testing the switches how they’re doing it is to ensure that the pins weren’t bent upon insertion and the switches themselves. Neither of those things apply in my case. Other companies sell plenty of DIY hot swap board kits without switches pre installed, so they must have a reliable and cheap way of testing the hot swap sockets themselves (something the PCB factory may or may not do, not sure).
I've seen that study but masks are so grounded in people's political identity at this point I have a hard time trusting any research conducted. Any scientist publishing a paper saying there is no evidence masks work is gonna commit career suicide. Even if it did get published I bet a ton of money Twitter, FB and friends would all label it misinformation and all the "experts" would find ways to rip it to shreds.

One cannot question Covid orthodoxy without getting burned.
This isn't gonna stop until the people who get screwed start buying bulldozers and getting their own justice. It's just too lucrative for the courts to strike it down until striking it down causes less problems for them than not. Follow the incentives.
> I need to figure out what a good dosage is for my dog in case he gets infected with hookworms.

No you don't. Your vet does.
I think there is a sort of "war on the poor" going on (or escalating really). Not specifically organized, but pushing into areas that have an outsized impact on the poor and finding no resistance because they don't push back. Think of most consumer facing environmental laws (emissions, charge for bags, bike lanes etc), car seat laws, health stuff - like basically any covid rule, it's all super regressive. I think there is positive feedback because it keeps the poor "in their place" while simultaneously signaling how progressive the proponents are. Expect it to get a lot worse.
It is not only about hardware. Lineageos re-uses binaries from the original image. The modem still runs original binaries. The bootloader is also original. Plenty of space to hide backdoors, possibly disguised as bugs.
Address isn't mandatory either.

As a matter of fact, photos are getting less and less common on CV's in France.
This is surprising to hear since SDL has never been an issue for me and I have been playing every version as soon as they are released for many years. Is it something that affects the Mac version (which I have never tried)?
Did you actually take the quiz? All it is it charts pulled from public data sources. You know.... data.
The September 11, 2001 Web Archive: Twenty Years Later
In order to make electrofuels cost competitive, you've got to use new utility scale solar, which is now less than $0.02/kWh :
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/08/saudi-arabias-second-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/07/01/new-sola...

Assume an overall efficiency of approx. 40% to be conservative.
Flared trouser periodicity is 20 years.
You can also store the file anywhere else, a la

AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/ssh/authorized_keys/%u

(For example, /etc/ssh/authorized_keys/bob)
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The externality is in removing the carbon from the geosphere and introducing it into the biosphere, since it'll end up in the atmosphere eventually. So yes, the responsibility for the externality is attributable to the extracting companies.
Education plays a really big part of women's financial independence so helping out charities that specifically target schools for girls can be immensely impactful.
If you do this calculation today, then you expected humanity to exist untill X

But if a hypothetical medieval person did the same calculation based on data avaliable to him, then his answer is Y

For a hypothetical caveman it's Z, where Z is rather small.

Returning to today, X grows every day.

These results are non-sensical, seems like the base assumption is invalid: "it says that supposing that all humans are born in a random order, chances are that any one human is born roughly in the middle"
They downvoted you because you speak the truth.
>I'm kinda watching China now for this. If they take a hit to their numbers, but use this as an opportunity to cut the deadwood and zombie companies, then they are going to be outshining the rest of the world in relatively short order, because nobody else in the world is willing to take the pain in the short term for the long-term advantage of forcing their economy to be productive.

This makes no sense. If there is a magical investment that would pay 10% interest then companies would jump all over it and borrow money leading to the usual inflation boom which is followed by interest rate increases. Considering the total lack of negotiating power of labor and the fact that workers are competing for jobs rather than companies competing for workers it doesn't appear that the problem is a lack of productivity. To be blunt, there is too much productivity, too many people are working and saving too much instead of actually spending their money. In fact, most people want to work less but they do so by saving money for an early retirement.

>Eventually you end up in a place like we are in America, where we've kicked the can down the road so many times that the requisite short-term pain to fix the economy would be almost terminal, if not outright terminal.

There is no such thing as a "requisite short-term pain to fix the economy". Is it really that hard to understand that an economy is reaching saturation and has no need for further exponential investments?
I'm concerned that HN moderators may have down-weighted this post to keep it off the front page. If true, this would make me concerned about soft censorship on this site. What do others think?
The parent was talking about the increase in authoritarianism on the part of the CCP (which would presumably also affect the Han population) -- at least that's how I understood the comment.

Are you trying to say that the CCP is _not_ becoming _more_ authoritarian?
“Think of the cheaters!” is the gaming equivalent of “Think of the children!”
When people can't get recourse through the courts they go around the courts. Killdozer dude is the quintessential example.
Books like this, IMO, are generally better when split into 2 pieces:

1. A "core" that describes the motivation for the ideas and then the ideas (as in, what makes a checklist, how comprehensive do they need to be, basic ideas on how to store and maintain them).

2. An expanded form, providing more detail on the motivation (issues that could have been mitigated if not eliminated with checklists, areas where checklists have succeeded, more specific practices around checklists that worked for some people, for the reader's consideration).

This lets you skip the fluff if you've already been persuaded by going with (1), or if you need to be persuaded or want ideas on how to persuade others going with (2). A lot of useful material ends up suffering from self-obfuscation by only providing or too strongly pushing (2) and not (1).

Since there is the New Yorker article, in this case both (1) and (2) exist (after a fashion, it's been a few years since I read that article so I'm not sure anymore what's in it but it is much briefer than the book).
Indeed, it could be pivotal depending on how they handle it. I'm no fan of the CCP's authoritarianism, but part of me is hoping they do the hard right thing, write off the bad debt, resolve the zombie banks and companies, take the short-term hit, and then quickly recover.

It seems that a peer competitor benefiting from doing the hard right thing seems like the only thing that could force the US govt back on track at this point.
This site provides a very valuable service, with a list of companies to never ever deal with or work for.
Tesla fandom is such a bizarre phenomenon. It's weird that a corporation can become such a big part of their customers' identity that they rabidly go after anything negative.
There are a couple different techniques, but it really all boils down to dampening/softening the bottom out with rubber or silicone somewhere in the case sandwich. It gives it some “give” beyond the travel of the switch. A thick desk mat does this a bit too.
Maybe it goes against their mental model because Gmail did it for over 10 years and already broke the trust regular people placed in them.
5 companies have ever been worth more than $1 trillion, Facebook is one of them. Could a different CEO have made more money? Possibly. But the notion is a bit like thinking that you could have done better than Tom Brady as a quarterback because he lost 3 Super Bowls. I mean, yes, it's true, you can imagine a quarterback that didn't lose those 3 games. But he also won 7, which, chances are, your replacement QB would have not. When a person has made more money for shareholders than 99.999995% of people in history, it's an extraordinary claim that someone else could have made more, one that would require extraordinary evidence.
Sure. But I’d question two things:

1) How often do you actually need to read your framework. I used rails for years and read probably less than 2KLOC out of it, ditto with Java and Spring. Good documentation beats out small code bases.

2) How much of the size difference between these two is down to age and uses? Is React so big because it’s unfocused or poorly written, or is that a consequence of it being used by so many people and projects? If it’s the latter, shouldn’t we expect that this project will end up growing if it got popular, eroding the benefit of its small size.?
This presumes that the software companies own all of their intellectual property. Most software companies don't own all the intellectual property that goes into their software or even all of the source code. Open source without the dependent intellectual property is a lot less useful and may be subject to incompatible legal regimes.
I have a Lily58 that I’m still getting used to, got any tenting tips? So far I’ve only been putting a towel under the far end to angle it a bit, which is far from ideal.
Instead of replacing your phone, have you thought about replacing your bank? Is there any competition that does not force this bullshit onto it's customers?
The indie maker guide to validating product ideas
That won't happen as long as Safari doesn't implement the API. For example: notifications
Note that Grpc.Core is deprecated, and will be entirely unsupported some time next year. grpc-dotnet, which is AFAICT the only replacement, by design requires ASP.NET Core for the gRPC server. That is, there is no upgrade path for the .NET Framework or in situations where you don't want to pull in ASP.NET.

(Please, someone tell me I'm wrong. Please.)
>reform

I.e. screw slightly fewer people so public forgets about it but law enforcement gets to keep screwing people. They'll never get rid of it completely.
> To save others the bother, the quiz is OC from someone named Tom Wood, an apparent liberatarian, contrarian, freq guest on Fox News, and COVID concern troll of some sort.

That is pretty weak sauce. Does it really matter who published it? It's freaking charts based on public data! It's not like they made any of it up! You can go right to the state websites and the CDC and create the same set of charts on your own!!

Why do so many people get so upset when people present publicly available data that goes against the narrative? Seriously. Do you have any idea how many times I've been called "dangerous" just for simply posting a screenshot of a state covid dashboard? Seriously, what gives?
> cheats people install themselves are actual rootkits.
reply

Examples?

That’s like the “Apple shouldn’t allow third-party stores because of malware” argument.
Marking you as away on discord/teams
In all honesty - if we could avoid economic disaster by moving the moon it'd be a lot cheaper than what's actually ahead for us.
Server-Side WASM: Today and Tomorrow [video]
>the internet came around

Yes, it did.

I have subscribed (and might still be subscribed) to several news magazines and papers, though not my local. It's kind a circular drain of "lower pay > lower quality > fewer subscribers > lower pay".
Yep same issue here.
Haha, that was my thought when I started reading about gRPC. Waaay back in the day I remember programming "distributed" systems using Java RMI. For some whatever reason we are coming back full circle to that approach.
I couldn't help but read this article through the eyes of CORBA, and the bit about "the olden days" made me crack up even harder.
Japan's population peaked in 2009 at 128.5million:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/japan/2009/

And in 2021 its only 2% lower than that.

2009 fertility rate: 1.37

Today: 1.42

So, it is improving.
This is probably similar to that theory that democrats made covid vaccine political to kill republican voters because they wouldn't take it out of hate for democrats. An absolutely ridiculous sentiment and lie. Somehow, no matter what happens, they are always the victim and being persecuted - even when they are imposing their will on others.
China, which spans 5 hours of "natural time" all operates on Beijing time. In Xinjiang it is dark very late into the morning, and light often well into the wee hours. That is the least of their problems just now.
Not to mention, this is a matter of "losing cases" not "returned assets wrongly seized".

If it never becomes a case, the government can't exactly lose that case, can they?
They're referring to this idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

Obscurity can be a layer, but it can't be the only layer, and in general systems (such as web servers) need to be designed to withstand full-knowledge attacks. That isn't likely to be possible when it comes to anti-cheat, so obscurity plays a larger role.
Northern African countries curves seems to be impervious to the final part of the phenomenon, their fertility rates seemingly unable to going under the 2.1 bar and even going the other way.

And in the case of Niger, Mali, Nigeria etc, when their TFR would eventually cross the 2.1 limit of demographic transition according to the standard model nearly half the global population would live there at the end of this century. It is insane and completely unsustainable even when not taking climate change and ressources depletion into account
Because with less padding, people could spend the other 180 pages reading about 9 other ideas.

Naturally, I know that's not so simple, but it is one of the key issues I have with books that say the same thing over and over again — lack of respect for the reader.
Nuclear industry here.

In the fanciest systems, checklists live in a computerized procedure system tied into the plant process computer, so the plant state and procedures can be kept in sync and mistakes can be avoided when the software can see if you didn’t actually do the step you were supposed to.

A more conventional approach is a document management system and controlled binders in the control room with the latest procedures, often laminated so they can be marked up and wiped off.

When working procedures on paper, we always use a circle-slash system for place-keeping: circle the step number when starting it, and slash through the circle when completed.

Finally, key procedures should have a separate document documenting the bases of the procedure—-why key values were chosen or what other documents they were taken from or depend on. That document becomes the key in change management—-if a dependency changes, or you want to change the procedure, you can use the bases document to ensure side-effects are considered.

Finally, procedures still have programmed regular reviews.
ISO Low Code solutions with decent testing options
I am currently using Node-Red for automating a large number of processes at work. It's basically a quickly prototyped BE that has proved to be very effective at what we want it to do. The one thing it doesn't do - automated testing.

Without testing, we are seeing silly issues caused by forgetting simple things like re-enabling nodes, accidentally deploying things that are broken, etc.
We would like to create a CI pipeline in the future, but without this testing piece of the puzzle, I don't think it is a possibility.

Node-Red does have a test option (https://github.com/node-red/node-red-node-test-helper), but it is not very robust, and it's currently in beta. It is very frustrating to develop tests using this package add-on. The tests are also subject to breaking very easily if the id of a node that you are testing ever changes (say someone deleted and replaced the node with the same node).

Are there any other low code solutions that we can use to manage these internal processes that have robust testing for developing a CI pipeline?
I agree that's a problem, but that's not what the OP was claiming.

The OP asserted that CAF was extralegal, and it absolutely is not.

The OP asserted that the "terrorists won" even though CAF predates 9/11 and was created to combat organize crime. (CAF laws in the U.S. date back to the 1700s, but were infrequently used until, roughly 1920 when they were used to target organized crime during Prohibition. The modern federal CAF law was passed in the 1984, to fight the "war on drugs", specifically referring to the drug cartels, and were modeled on the Prohibition Era CAF laws.)
$36/ton is our cost to capture CO2 from the air. For us it is an input to making things, not a product, so we don't need to purify it to 100% pure CO2, just need to capture it into water (approx. 2% concentration). This requires way less energy and equipment, so much much cheaper.
Absolutely, it's a bezier curve with some random noise, I oversimplified.