skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also constant is the fact that the catastrophe continues to unfold at a rate that falls neatly into the uncanny valley between "slow and marginal enough that most human beings can't seem to comprehend it as a catastrophe" (possibly reflected in your comment) and "fast enough at geological and ecological time scales that human beings have fewer tools for predicting what the hell is actually going to happen" (but some of the possibilities look ugly enough to be alarming).
Ad Tech Could Be the Next Internet Bubble (2020)
Sure, if you get billionaires to pay it, too.
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- Put in URL

- It loads for a bit, then shows some fake ads.

- "Imagine a future without access to knowledge..."

And then some blurbs on campaigning for 'Open access to knowledge'.
Apple Pay flaw risks letting hackers drain money from iPhones
This is nostalgia; for every American in the past that dreamed of great things, there is a Snopes, Salem, McCarthy
Most likely their mom's husband was "daddy" and they were raised like their half-siblings, as peasants.
Three things -

1. When a person charges you with an industrial hammer, Run.

2. If in case, I over power the person and harm the person. I am liable for the medical bill of the person I harmed.

3. Offices here are most likely insured.
afaik no other company tries so hard to manipulate people using their base feelings of social competition/envy/jealousy. at least not among the major ones.
Is a problem because most plastic products release substances that mimic sexual hormones and in particular femenine hormones [1].

In small boys, having more foreign estrogens in their body than the expected amount [2] will affect deeply their entire development, happiness with their self-image, and life opportunities.

I invite you to take the extra step and understand that we all use computers made of plastic for hours and hours. Are we being feminized all the time?. The probable answer is yes, we are.

And this would promote A) accumulating more fat B) developing gradually a desire to change sex Wachowsky sisters style, that is crying loud: "environmental cause" when we have several men in the same place gradually changing gender.

But talking seriously about LGTB issues further that "we all must accept it without making us answers that could hurt the feelings of somebody" is a huge taboo.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222987/

[2] both sexes share female and male hormones, women have also a small amount of testosterone.
I dunno, maybe scammers will tell you that your ssd will burn up if you don’t pay them $200.
Whether a Lisp is a Lisp-1 or a Lisp-2 is orthogonal to whether its scoping is lexical or dynamic. There are lexically-scoped Lisp-1s (like Scheme), lexically-scoped Lisp-2s (like Common Lisp), and dynamically-scoped Lisp-2s (like Emacs Lisp). Someone's probably written a dynamically-scoped Lisp-1 at some point, but I can't think of one.
The History of Metal Gear [video]
If you type in www.google.com, it says "Loading the internet of the future", and in the background there's a Google 404 page.

Conclusion: In the future, Google will have some service outage :-P

----

If you type in "news.ycombinator.com", you get a recent HN main page snapshot in the background while "loading the internet of the future". Then you get prompted to prove that you are over 18... but really, who would be dumb enough to upload their driver's license to some untrusted website for this purpose?

Conclusion: In the future, 18-year-olds will be less intelligent than they are today (or I have an overly high expectation of people's intelligence).
But is it really “alarmism” to yell at people inside a house on fire that they need to “get the hell out now!” even if some people in a separate part of the building (not touched by the fire yet) insist that the growing heat is due to something else, God has it in control and would never set the fire, in fact the people yelling out the warnings are just being “alarmist”, it’s against their constitutional rights etc? We really don’t have time at the moment to resort to gentle persuasion techniques (on a group I might add who are ready to never become convinced because they dismiss every rational argument and all the data). It may not work in a country as politically divided as the US, but trying to convince (the right especially) will achieve nothing but waste time that could be better spent elsewhere. Those who are not persuaded at this point are not going to be just because we approach them with more gentleness or empathy or whatever.
Holiday to Egypt
The EU has a pretty history of forcing their citizens foot the bill for lazy corporations failure to do anything in the interest of society or humanity. The most recent example was when they(Germans, EU) was pushing for a digitalization tax so that corporations could have the tax payer foot the bill for their failure to invest money into themselves rather than funeling it out. There are countless examples of this happening in institutions within Germany that used to be public and were half privatized.

Carbon tax is yet another one of these examples where the tax payer has been sold on the idea that they have to foot the bill for the big corps selfishness.

Completely absurd that these things are even presented as a solution. As for China being a problem? I think all the people that worked decades to push everything to China with complete disregard for anything share some blame?

And then at the same time the IAEA was actually supposed to be an institution to help the world forward in safe nuclear energy development.

Talking about Chinas carbon footprint, while ignoring why it's the worlds biggest polluter is kinda how we kept saying how horrible their and some other countries in the areas ocean trash pollution is while omitting that we were the ones shipping our trash there.

But yes, this is the past and now it's different, but just erasing history doesn't give a good ground for a constructive discussion.

And re: carbon club and China, Germany will never defy China. It's their biggest importer. In the end it's all rhetoric. They just recently released a statement how they want to discuss the Xinjiang issue on mutual understanding. They spent a decade promising other countries to setup a parallel remittance system, which never materialized. It's all talk and no substance
The fix is in. The West will cry Afghanicrocodile tears once China's Communist Party engulfs the neighbouring stepping stone to deepwater port by force of arms and diplomatic payments to mutual interests. Taiwan's bureaucrats and ruling elitists above will helicopter to waiting naval fleet on a scale to evac-civies never seen before in human history except for the next one.
Well, the nuance is not every consumer desires every transaction to have those things.

Trying to make blanket statements leads to incorrect conclusions...there are a myriad of cases where consumers prefer classes of transactions to be digital-cash like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

> The term cobra effect was coined by economist Horst Siebert based on an anecdote of a (possibly ahistorical) occurrence in India during British rule.[2][3][4] The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. When cobra breeders set their now-worthless snakes free, the wild cobra population further increased.[5]
I was one the witness in this case. Dutch investigators are very nice, innovative with techniques and smart.
"But all you've done is built a robot. You can't prove it actually has experience - including self-awareness - unless you can measure experience with objective instrumentation."

We build things all the time based on the models of the universe we've got. Your argument strikes me as more or less saying, "sure, we built that jet engine, but unless we can measure what 'being a jet engine' is we've just not really built the complete, real thing."

If we build a thing that appears to have "experiences" indistinguishably from how humans appear to, then that is it. That is, the notion of "experience," as you describe it, is more or less meaningless in the context of the very physical world we occupy.
Came across this too the other day. For a moment I was hoping that they'd trained some machine learning algorithm on the past evolution of the sites in their archive in order to extrapolate how sites may change in the future, and that they'd have thrown in some futuristic design elements in the mix.

But the way that this thing works is pretty satisfying too. In terms of conveying a message about our future I mean.
"the mind that is not baffled is not employed

the impeded stream is the one that sings"

-- Wendell Berry
I wish LISP 2 was never abandoned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISP_2
Why do we see programming language webpages and Wikipedia pages submission from time to time?
Just so you know, I read your comment about racism and your choice of a throwaway name ending in 88 as a statement that you are a nazi or nazi-adjacent.
I would say commercial banks are on their way to being challenged by DeFi and stablecoins on Ethereum. But it is debatable how decentralized this system in its entirety is given the biggest entities are centralized custodian coins. But still.. massive disparities in yields and flexibility of moving value around at will does have enough disruptive force that banks and the Federal reserve are racing to both regulate stablecoins and push "CeFi" instiutions into registering as banks themselves, while on the other end legacy finance is moving towards adopting some of these systems themselves.
> A somewhat valid use-case is for inserting science packs into labs.

There are seven kinds of science packs in the vanilla game, so without sushi belts, you need four belts to bring all of them to the labs. That can take a lot of space, making it harder to for instance use beacons (which like compact designs since their effect range is limited).
You are willing to pay only if someone more wealthy that you pays, but you expect people who scrape for a living to pay more for their energy and fuel expenses because it's just a mild inconvenience for the greater good?
Mustard mixed with horseradish is also common in Romania.
Wait, are we expected to trust the chat popup that refers to us as "comrade"?
You can run that same study with a control group, and sophisticated advertisers do. Show some of the users ads for your product, and other users ads for something unrelated, and compare their purchases of your product.
I think you underestimate the number of issues a (purely) native app solves. The fact that many developers don't care about some of them it does not mean they don't exist. One of them is shorter delay, very important in interactive applications.

Syncing can be implemented in billion ways, from dedicated solutions to custom ones.

Paradoxically, I think Microsoft got it (somewhat) right with Office. You can use a native C++ app, and this is what most people use because of speed and control. However, if you like working online, don't mind saving your documents unencrypted on Microsoft's systems, don't worry about being offline, you need collaborate with others online, or just like the convenience of having your documents always online, you can use the 365 version with inferior but probably acceptable performance - in this way everybody is happy.
Trump lost his second term. I think society was actually torn apart during the civil war.
He's the most popular man on TikTok. And he doesn't say a word
iPhones since the iPhone X have the same repair requirement, however the screen and FaceID are separate so you can continue to use the original.

There's nothing special about the touch panels, the FaceID component is a TPM of sorts.
I am not surprised that the medical establishment are focused on the high-priced drugs while ignoring a promising treatment which is cheap. The people who turn health issues into blue/red or left/right seem to have missed out on the joys of healthy living and being physically fit. While I understand the medical monopolies want more money, I don't understand how regular people actively resist taking charge of factors of their own health.
I would suggest (as is commonly accepted) that building new nuclear is a net-negative for climate change (due to high cost that could have been spent on renewables, efficiency or other related stuff that would have more impact) but I'm not against keeping nuclear plants open if they are within their lifetime.

Having said that, I've never seen an actual solid argument that Germany rushed their nuclear phase-out.

It usually ends at "they're phasing out nuclear, they still burn coal, they're idiots" yet if you look at a graph of their carbon intensity, it's going down at roughly the same speed as their neighbours and there's no obvious blip from the nuclear phase out. If anything, the fact that they still have coal means they've got a few easy wins left as they phase those out. (This holds true even when accounting for carbon imports/exports).

But the whole "carbon tax" thing is about lots of small changes adding up to make an effective difference. Germany appears to be achieving this even with apparent oddities like nuclear and coal. Maybe those were the political cost of doing all the rest of the stuff.
Alarmist statements DO seem to work though looking at the previous term’s statements on immigration.

There has to be tons of reasons it’s not working in this case, but I don’t think it’s the alarmist portrayal. I suspect it should be far more alarming.
The fact that your money loses value is an inherently good thing. Think about having a coupon for a banana. The store raises the value of the coupon above the cost of the banana because it knows that it doesn't sell all bananas in the store. It has to throw some of them out. If the coupon lost value over time according to the rate that bananas spoil then the value of the coupon would be the same as the cost of the banana.

Just think about how absurd it is that the banana is less valuable than the coupon that gets you a banana. At the end of the day all you get is a banana either way. It's the same with money and labor. If money is more valuable than labor then people hoard it.
doesn't the internet route at scale?
As a whistleblower prepares to speak out, what can be done to rein in Facebook?
> HTTP Version Not Supported
> Your browser is using HTTP version HTTP/1.1. We only support version 2.0 or newer.

The future runs on HTTP/1.1?
Yes. I have on many occasions.

It’s important to remember Hanlons razor. Never explain with malice what can be explained with ignorance. In many situations they were often not sensitive to how their authority gave their opinions so much more weight to their colleagues. Feedback could be felt much more harshly from a senior dev as they might have influence on your career growth.

Also senior devs I’ve found were more personally invested in existing solutions as they themselves often built them. They often can be right in their opinions but not have the people skills to communicate well and persuade others.
"smacked in the face", or "presented with something that takes 5 minutes to get a handle on"?

Think about how long it takes to learn a new API or data model. A few minutes to learn a syntax isn't a big deal.
Navigating an API from the terminal with HTTPie, jq, and jid
> What is the music history version of HN

In the 11 hours since you commented, the answer appears to be... HN :)
That one day that new api or programming language you're just learning will be considered not only obsolete but dangerous.
> This is what makes me think Etherium is just for speculators as there are no use cases where a $32 transaction fee makes sense.

If you transfer 10 000 dollars, 32 dollars in fees is absolutely nothing.

Also, in usual transactions, you can define how fast you'd like the transaction to be verified and you can lower the fees.
That's not just Coinbase. It's every neobank type app or service.

The problem is that they can't handle the large volume of users while also dealing with fraud & law compliance. So they basically have fraud detection algos that flag anything remotely suspicious with many false positives and they don't have the support staff to deal with the aftermath.
Very frustrating. In practice the scientists are expressing uncertainty “we do no know/need to investigate further” not confusion or bewilderment
Come on. The US did not go to the moon because millions of Americans banded together and sacrificed around a single goal. The US went to the moon because the government felt capitalism was losing the PR battle to communism (Soviets) and so decided to pour money into it because they didn’t want to look bad. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race
We’re starting to see the stats change for the delta variant. The article shows incidents of fatal infections now spiking for the 25-34 bracket.

Edit: not claiming qualitative differences in the illness, that’s not what the article is about.
If you will be unable to post here, maybe you could collect some material, publish the best article on HN as a submission, and post the rest of the material in your comments there. We can check your submissions from your profile.
I do enjoy geeking out over medical things in general and would trust that an approved pain killer would not be straight up venom and will happily take it, especially if it lives up to the hype. I'm still going to give any doctor that prescribes it to me just a little bit of grief, though.
Thanks for using the terms 'formal' and 'informal'. Smart people/groups always refine their process so that it works optimally. I'm sure that long before this Agile nonsense there were team that implemented aspects of it informally.

Something similar goes for what is considered the 'scientific' method. It probably existed in various forms before the term was coined. Notice how the word 'science' is used ( or misused if you will) and the 'scientific' method used to justify a claim. Teaching low IQ people a 'process' that involves refining it later, never really works.
We would all need to basically live an Amish lifestyle. Not many will do it willingly. We really need some breakthrough like fusion.
> At some point the brand will become so toxic that engineers who've worked there could find themselves persona non grata in many tech roles.

The majority of startups is still "growth and engagement" as opposed to producing real products/services that people pay for, so ex-Facebook is the perfect match.
> I don't think that's typical for catastrophies

It is typical for pandemics. For the black plague the deaths are reported at the % of population.
Given the effects of tax-funded wars on drugs, poverty, terrorism, etc., I'm in - as long as the money is spent on war against Earth, i.e. earnest efforts to make it heat up faster. I'm pretty sure we only need a few $Tn and 20 years to achieve cooling ;)
> and I wouldn’t necessarily bet on Bitcoin keeping that over the long term.

You can however bet 100% that your dollar is going to be worth WAY less in 20 years than now.
Others out there, such as:

- DataVerse: https://dataverse.org
- Omeka: https://omeka.org/s/
- also many internally developed archival systems

To us it's mostly up to the granularity of the metadata, and wether metadata fields support e.g. ISO standards for validation (which is why it's difficult for a single metadata standard to rule all, unless all you need is free text descriptions). Another need is a way to batch ingest.

> Compatible with hundreds of formats

I'm becoming increasingly critical of file format verification as a gatekeeper for digital preservation, but perhaps someone can explain why I'm wrong. Striving towards open specifications is of course a must for long term preservation (cave paintings persevere, while digital data is fragile in so many ways), but if conversion incurs data loss, parallel archiving should be an option. Worse, we've had issues with old systems that deny archiving data althogether because of an automated format checker standing in the way (we'll use FITS [0] in the future, but that just uses a bunch of other type checkers under the hood and doesn't seem bomb proof from the little testing I've done). Formats such as MP4 also seem like a nightmare to validate (granted, lots of cameras out there ignore following specifications). But archiving nothing at all over a few proprietary formats every now and then is a horrible outcome (see experience above). At the very least, it must be possible to override automated format checking if necessary.

[0]: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits
I think carbon is the wrong thing. We need to go after pollution. People understand pollution, it’s plastic in the lake, or smog in the sky, people don’t understand “carbon” but garbage on the ground is something we can do something about.

Climate change is the wrong term. We need to fight a war on pollution.
I prefer using colname = n (as opposed to colname = $n) so I can use $colname so as to distinguish the column names from local variables.
> I just cannot hear...what changed after

Tap your foot along to the people clapping in the video. They're clapping on 1 and 3 at the beginning, so you should count "1 2 3 4" as you tap your foot, with their claps being on "1" and "3". At/by the one-minute mark of the video, you'll realize that the claps are now on 2 and 4.
well that's true not just for software. For society has a whole to work, you need a bunch of non-critical system to work well together. It doesn't mean you are required to have a license to be alive (However, that would make a great plot for a Black Mirror episode I guess)
On a piano, musical notation doesn't tell you which finger or hand you should use. This seems similar.

Just for clarification, I asked because GP said:

> You can’t quite run it on different hardware: unlike on a piano, the note does not uniquely determine how something is played on, say, a guitar.
Bell Labs was hardly unprofitable, was it? So Merck can fund its own Bell Labs, can it not? Just invert the current typical R&D : S&M budget at any pharma outfit, which is like 1 : 3 at present (research vs. marketing).

Yes, they may have to cut shareholder dividends, yes a more competitive market will mean lower profits. However we are talking about people's lives here, and I don't care about Merck's shareholder dividends at all in relation to that.
The ultimate guide to SSH tunneling and port redirection
I made this free to the HN community a few years back [1], but decided to make it available to everyone via a GitHub repo. There is a paid interactive lab portion (details in the repo) if you are looking for hands-on experience.

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This book is packed with practical and real world examples of SSH tunneling and port redirection in multiple realistic scenarios. It walks you through the basics of SSH tunneling (both local and remote port forwards), SOCKS proxies, port redirection, and how to utilize them with other tools like proxychains, nmap, Metasploit, and web browsers.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19946941