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The climate and environment are critically important, as everyone knows from daily front page disasters that will increase.

I have a PhD in physics and have made sustainability my mission. I wish I didn't have to as fixing problems past generations stuck us with isn't my first passion, but I can't change the past.

As important as the science was to get us here, we have to move to the next stage, which is leadership. I don't mean just passing laws. Even prior to our twin problems of overconsumption and overpopulation, the damage we're suffering is the physical manifestation of our values, especially material growth, extraction, efficiency, externalizing costs, and comfort and convenience. Technology, innovation, laws, and markets augment those values. As long as we hold them as a culture and individuals, we will innovate technologies, laws, and markets that exacerbate the problem.

I will always support more research and value these scientists' work that enabled us to get past the science to restoring our values of stewardship: personal growth, enjoying what we have, humility to nature, resilience, responsibility for how our behavior affects others, meaning, purpose, and the satisfaction of a job well done. With those values, we will innovate solutions that increase Earth's ability to sustain life.

Again, as important as the science is, we must restore our personal and cultural values to solve the problems science revealed. That's leadership and teamwork. We can all act immediately. Since systemic change begins with personal transformation, the fastest, most effective way to change governments and corporations is to act here and now, learn from the experience, act more, and lead others to join.
The house in Germany we finally bought features an almost perfect solution: the master bedroom is alone on the top floor and the only other room on this floor, separated by a 2sqm corridor, is a large bathroom. So you actually have 2 doors available to separate sounds from the bathroom from the bedroom and still have the privacy of an ensuite-bathroom only for the owners (as none of our frequent guests would "by accident" get to our floor.
> Normal "separate infrastructure" would have failed here.

Uh, no? A status page on truly independent infra would not have shared the same BGP announcements.

> And an AWS-hosted status page wouldn't have been of any use

Well that's a matter of opinion, but I would think it's certainly better than having to provide updates via Twitter.
Birdshot at 100 shots per second ;-)

Second thought: is there something like a "constant airgun"? Where you just drop in pellets from a hopper into a high speed airstream?
It clearly means that you, as a normal user, shouldn't care about time zones. It's an implementation detail you should not be aware. What are you doing, asking about specific timezones?
Frankly, it's the issues that seem to stem from disruption of neurons in the prefrontal cortex that are the most worrisome. The loss of taste and smell in covid is not caused by congestion, it's caused by a viral attack in the nasal bulb, and it's generally a harbinger of visual and emotional disturbances. One could easily make the case that the drastic rise in violent incidents in public spaces across the world has not been due to the effects of local and sporadic lockdowns on psychological health, but more likely due to the partial frontal lobotomies being performed by the virus.
Folks in the US are so used to corporations stepping on them a balanced discussion about this (where both parties agree that you being exploited is not okay, but maybe disagree on the solution) is no longer possible.
Hasselmann deserved it. Hasselmann model is stochastic climate model that explains red noise. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1976...
I don't know much about Manabes work but he is a pioneer in climate modelling.

ps. Climate science is political only because those who don't believe in science politicize it.
I believe this article conflates two separate pieces of voice AI: speech-to-text and processing the text.

Google’s speech to text is amazing, possibly related to the “less privacy” part. Siri can handle slightly more complicated commands but so many times I see it transcribe what I’m saying… then in a blink change all the words.
Thank you for sharing tour experience with the topic, i was wondering: where whould somebody start if all they know is basic circuit theory?
Again vaccines autism level of jumping on the first alarmist publications.

There is no statistically significant evidence for this in large scale analyses.

Also, yes of course covid causes an immune response. It's that response that leads to pneumonic symptoms that in the elderly and at risk prove to be fatal. I fail to see how there is any point to be made over stating you get sick and your body reacts.

My statement is that the immune system isn't perfect and there are long term conditions caused by it misbehaving, and that we need to understand this more.
i think diamond age is going to become a reality ,as might most of his other imagined societies ...
I really don't get the point about WA outage being a catastrophe. WA pretty much forces you to put all phone numbers in your contacts to communicate to anyone at all (ok, except group chats to an extent). Why can't you just send an SMS? Why can't you call? Even if it is across the border, just send an SMS: "hey buddy, WA is down, install telegram so we can talk tonight as we agreed to".

I could understand the same argument about FB Messenger, I do occasionally talk to people I have no contacts except Messenger. But we also talk once a month or so, a few hours of outage isn't a huge deal, is it?
Germanmy’s climate is relatively moderate compared to most of the US. In California most people do not have air conditioning. On the east coast you will be miserable in the summer because of the high heat and humidity. No amount of passive cooling will make that better and because of the humidity it remains hot all night.

And $600 is an extreme electricity bill. I have never heard of anyone with a bill that high.
Yes, you think that would do it, but no. Now instead of triggering Siri, you now trigger "Do you want to enable Siri?". I never want to press something that might trigger anything Siri related.

I want a check box that says: "Ask to enable Siri", which I can uncheck. So "Enable Ask Siri" should be off, and "Ask to enable Siri" also off.
Where is the evidence for the disruption of neurons in the prefrontal cortex?

>>One could easily make the case that the drastic rise in violent incidents in public spaces across the world has not been due to the effects of local and sporadic lockdowns on psychological health, but more likely due to the partial frontal lobotomies being performed by the virus.

You don't think it could be a result of massive numbers of careers being destroyed, businesses going bankrupt, and people being physically isolated, as governments restrict people's economic and civil liberties?

And isn't it possible that fearful speculation of the type you're engaging in, is creating political support for the restrictions that are creating all of these adverse social effects?
Is it OK for people in their 20s? :/
>Regulating something doesn't make it more reliable.

In my experience, it makes it less reliable, since that service will no longer have to compete with anybody else.
Really nice work man, thank you for posting it here.
> You can't go and change a program's binary data while it is running without blowing stuff up.

Linux has zero problems with you overwriting a binary (by unlinking and replacing it) while it's in use. Sure, the old version will keep running, but it doesn't prevent the update, and you'll get the new version when you restart it.
It's time Google notifies every user whose data was searched for these warrants.

The notification should say:

Google has searched your data in response to a legal request from XYZ court. Google searched for the keyword "John Smith" in your Google search history. No matches were found, so no further action was taken. For more information, click HERE.
BGP is spoken by all cultures, including those who do not know what "safety culture" is, and thats a good thing because it allows for everyone to connect to the internet, bridging cultures.
When the critical infrastructure in Texas went down, it had everything to do with corporate culture, trying to save jobs, and not with security culture. The engineers where not to blame, what we discus today is likely a similair case.
At nuclear power plants, a single individual can't cause a meltdown due to security culture.
In case of AS owners/engineers this is not always the case yet all of them know how not to fail with the exception of some who are ruled by another working culture than those who talk bgp.One that is not punitive but open albeit with social hygiene keeping the incompetent & corrupt out.
The recent events are not a mistake to be forgiven but a failure to be studied while not taking risks by eliminating the human source.
I agree. More work on latency, pre compilation and PackageCompiler is sorely needed. Julia is also behind on the version of LLVM that is being used, and apparently they are regressions in performance with newer versions. The fact that performance is an implementation detail is concerning, and it would be nice to standardize some of the language.

However, I think it is unfair to compare the inclusion of log10 to the work required to get solutions to these harder problems. I guess why not both? ;)
Ironically enough given its reputation, but this is what Bixby is great at - controlling the _device_ with your voice using short commands - "Open Camera", "Take photo", "Delete last photo" etc all work as expected (as a toy example, far more complicated stuff is possible even before including their Siri Shortcut equivalent)
> This seems like the worst idea with the best sales pitch that I've heard in 2021 so far.

I guess I'll take that as a compliment, thank you.

You're right to point out the unintended consequences of my idea, though, and I see now that it would need significant changes to be workable. Firstly, I don't think that encryption should count as a cover-up in any circumstance, just as the undisclosed contents of your own brain aren't covered up in any way that's punishable by the law.

In general, I think that a cover-up means irretrievably destroying evidence that would naturally exist (like an item of clothing, or a book of accounts) or that you had a statutory duty to create and preserve in the first place (like body-cam footage or internal government communications). Defining what "naturally" means when applied to something like a "no logs VPN" might be tricky, but I think a reasonable line could be drawn.
Homeassistant has gone a long way to make stuff smart, and the maintenance windows are usually when you are at home, on your PC, doing the maintenance yoursef :)
Ethereum is the safest bet right now.

Look into Arbitrum, it operates on the Ethereum chain, but has better performance and much lower fees.
It's not even a social lubricant! The social lubricant is actually approaching the people and talking with them. All the alcohol does is makes you less scared/restrained of doing that (and less scared/restrained in general, yeah).

Well, I can personally confirm that you can just as well train yourself to consciously overcome this specific restraint which is also a rather useful skill in itself. Sure, it takes work and effort but all things that don't "come to you naturally" require that.

And if where talking about cases of actual psychic illness, carefully chosen prescription drugs even when imperfect always beat self-treatment with alcohol.
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The only good social network is the WWW, RSS/Atom, and email. Always own your platform.
I think the article touched on some points (construction boom on a budget), but I've always felt that contractor could get away with this level of shabby building because few Americans actually lived in other countries, and knew what standards could be realistically demanded.
And how exactly does me getting vaccinated protect someone else? I understand that you will probably be outraged by me even asking this question, but I am for real. The official messaging here in the UK has recently removed the vague suggestion that being vaccinated protects others.

If you bring out the usual line that "being vaccinated stops you having such bad symptoms and thus passing it on to others", then surely that means I would have a higher chance of being asymptomatic if I do still catch Covid, and thus not knowing if I am putting others at risk? I suppose you might tell me that's why I need to also regularly test, but then why get vaccinated?

>I'm sorry for them - and I hope they recover - but they should be considered a hero.

I think they would find your gung-ho attitude deeply upsetting, especially when they are of an age where the personal protection offered by the vaccine is significantly more relevant than any supposed benefit to others.
> That's the case with all mainstream operating systems

No, in Android you can keep using the app right until the actual swap happens. Then the app restarts (and presumably a symlink is put in place in between). In practical terms this is zero downtime.
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FWIW - there may be a link between other stealthy viral hangers-on and the long-haul covid effect.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210630/could-the-mono-viru...
I’m going to count HN as a social network. It’s one of my favorite places on the internet. It surfaces great content, and the comments are a gold mine of top-notch information and advice (by and large).

What general principles can we learn from HN that can be applied elsewhere? Does HN self-select its audience? No profit motive? Great moderation? (Thanks Dang!)
> society is poorer if we churn through more stuff that breaks instead of less stuff that holds up.

What I'm saying is that there's a reason why these failed.
I see you are very attached to these glasses and their benefits and capitalism failed them. So, let's dig into them a bit more:

First issue:

- These glasses are equivalent to tempered glass. (similar to gorilla glass)

- tempered glass shatters explosively when a more durable material touches it.

Would you keep glasses like this at home?, I wouldn't.

Second issue:

- It STILL breaks, so it still creates churn. Just a bit less. If the cost to create them is bigger then the delta in churn, they are a net NEGATIVE for society.

Third issue:

- These glasses still exist and can be bought - just search for tempered drinking glass, go wild and buy them.

As for your comment here:

> Ideology is a mind killer -- if this weren't attached to the word communist you'd probably be agreeing, yeah, too bad people won't use the durable glasses and waste energy replacing less durable ones.

Comment has nothing to do with ideology. I was making a point that Communism has a way to push forward ideas that aren't always great. In some places it did manage to make progress like the space race, but that was rare.

Also... how many glasses do you regularly break/replace?, seems like a problem on your side since I can't remember when I last broke a glass.
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That problem can be turned into a boon. You have a better chance that there's something interesting on the list you actually want to do. Or important ones, or whatever you care about.

What about the ones you don't care about as much? Well, you don't care about them, so not doing them is not a problem.

An overlong todo list is a nice tool to help prioritize the valuable things.
Looks like Hacker News really switched. We can expect in a few weeks commentators defending anal ozone and HCQ aspiration for pregnant women as well, can't we?
Yes this is very common with a bad cold. The inside of your nose can swell blocking the 'smell nerve' (olfactory nerve). This can even damage the nerve which, if you are lucky, will heal after some time.
> The construction cost of the house follows that of the land. Cheap land, cheap construction (relatively).

Japan would be the counterexample to this theory. Very expensive land, yet houses are built ultra-cheaply
I too have a long term view of this whole situation, and based on what I see of the never-ending impositions on our every day lives that have removed all trace of many things that made life pleasant, easier, and civilized, have taken steps to ensure that my family do not suffer un-necessarily.
I’m the same. When I’m reading, it’s more like a silent with blurred shapes than me speaking in my head. A few friends say they can’t read subtitles while watching a movie. For me, they’re just an overlay to the scene until I grasp the meaning, kinda like you realized: This is a square and this is a circle. It makes reading more enjoyable as it feels like you’re in an holographic projection, but that can make some scenes quite disturbing.
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I would be happy to have an option to share my availability on Matrix with other people that decided the same if that would mean I could bootstrap my network on that platform.

As it is now, Matrix may offer better privacy and more robust weil federated and p2p, but if I had to personally ask all of my contacts if they actually use it using some other medium, I can keep using that other medium too for conversations.
There really is a gigantic portion of the population who seem to completely ruin everything they touch. It happens to everything that gains popularity. That root of the problem isn’t getting better.
This is great. Do most French people need to file tax returns? When I lived in Britain I only needed to file when I was self-employed and when I worked in Norway I got sent a pre-filled tax return. Now living in the US I need to file every year (both state and federally) even as a regular employee with all my income reported already reported to the government.

It all seems to be an absurd charade. Attempts to reduce the bureaucratic burden are opposed by the tax return return companies who bribe heavily to prevent any simplification.
These are abstraction barriers that isolate locations, layers and protocols from each other. I don't understand this as translation but rather as a separation of concerns.
Interesting. Wasn't aware of screen calibrators.
Will it be better if we destroy FB and the sheep is back at TVs?
Residential electricity rates in Indiana are about 10.5 cents per kW/h, and the average home uses 1000kW/hr per month, for a bill of about $105/month. $600 is indeed nuts, but it sounds like something else is going on there - perhaps this was a larger bill that included electricity in it?

https://www.electricitylocal.com/states/indiana/
Harsh. Unless there is more to the story being fired for a mistake like that is ridiculous. Everyone fucks up occasionally, and on the scale of fuck ups I've certainly done worse than a 1hr DR site outage, as I'm sure pretty much anyone who's ever run infrastructure has. A consistent pattern of fucking up is grounds for termination, but not any one off instance unless there was an extreme level of negligence on display.

> Sidenote: I asked the bank infrastructure team why the DR site was in the same earthquake zone, and they thought I was crazy. They said if there's an earthquake we'll have bigger problems to deal with.

I bring this sort of thing up all the time in disaster planning. There are scales of disaster so big that business continuity is simply not going to be a priority.
> And what would you expect? A secret gathering of company elders to commit the change?

Push your changes to a simulated network to see what it does before pushing to real hardware:

> VIRL is a network virtualization simulator by Cisco. Similar to the likes of GNS3 and EVE-NG. VIRL will be used to build a test network (shown below), so that we can validate our changes prior to deploying them to production.

* https://www.packetcoders.io/netdevops-ci-cd-with-ansible-git...
But we do know. The article mentions those mendelian randomization studies. They give us plenty of evidence that the proposed study would hurt those who were randomly told to drink more than they otherwise would - even if they just drank as much as the study's designers wanted.

And that's a big assumption. Alcohol is addictive. How many times do you hear of people drinking a lot less than they planned to on a night out?

Indeed, this extremely obvious fact is why there hasn't been an RCT for alcohol before. It's not that the idea hasn't occurred to anyone, it's that would-be reseachers have thought "no way would we get that past an ethics committee".

So what has changed? Well, it looks like this Mukamal guy lives in an extremely friendly regulatory climate. They're so friendly, in fact, that they go out of their way to shoo him in as their researcher, seek funding from the alcohol industry, and try to conceal the whole thing! If there's any group that might be willing to overlook the extremely obvious ethics issues of running a RCT telling people to drink, looks like it's the NIAAA!
The sms and phone service infrastructure is more centralised than you might think and carriers probably have less redundancy than big tech when it comes to it.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/21/20974692/valentines-day-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/06/o2-customer...
>Only very resilient personalities are able to ignore the psychopathic monkey cesspool that is the political Twitter.

Then don't visit twitter and post on an obscure nntp newsgroup instead.
I want the same, but for Android. It is possible to uninstall it, but it always come back with the next upgrade.
You have Pyrex at home, right? Ever break one of those? Boom.

I'm not OP, btw, I just noticed your insistence that the commie glasses you heard about 5 seconds ago MUST be fatally flawed and wanted to point that out.
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> How many HN readers actually answer their phones anymore?

Everyone that works for a large company and has any kind of corporation-spanning responsibility. Phone calls are almost always the last fallback if someone really needs to reach you for something critical.
> Also, for the love of god, don't inject shroom tea. It only becomes psychoactive if you digest it, and the spores can actually start to grow in your bloodstream which is definitely a bad time.

I read "inject" as "ingest" at first and was like, wait isn't the point of shrooms/tea ingestion? Important distinction!

Yeah don't inject shroom tea (1). Don't inject anything that wasn't GMP prepared (by reputable companies ) (2)

1 -https://www.livescience.com/magic-mushroom-injection-case-re...

2 -https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Compounding_Cent...
Teenagers should be excluded but I agree that it would be good if it were not about money
This seems like a step in the right direction. It'll help a lot of people deal with mental health issues.
nope.

before you ask me for sources, you haven't provided any, and you're quoting from a release with sources.
and even if you have to fill up a tax return it is very straightforward to do it online.
In my experience many people have outdated phone numbers on Whatsapp, since changing phone numbers on Whatsapp requires all your contacts to update your contact manually. This happens in particular for people that move between countries frequently. Why go through the trouble of updating Whatsapp to your current phone number, especially if you still have access to your old phone number for when you move back to your home country.
It does take knowledge to learn though sadly (and personal drive), I'm helping some family in an underdeveloped country and I stupidly want to be like "learn to code" but yeah... that doesn't really work. They have the time but not the ability to learn even though they have wifi/computer.

Anyway I too learned from the web and it has benefited me a lot.