skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The image of the government official standing in the water "on what used to be dry land" is quite dramatic.[1]

Unfortunately that land is not underwater due to climate change-driven sea level rise, but due to soil erosion. They do mention this fact, however the focus of the article inexplicably remains on rising sea levels.

A factchecker might call that "missing context" (or worse).

[1]https://www.reuters.com/resizer/8doSEMId31ayO3rBn1MaCzPgW50=...
How Nix and NixOS Get So Close to Perfect
A few I can think of:
* Desalinization
* Hydrogen
* Steel
* Concrete
* Recycling
* Carbon Capture
I have Dysgraphia[1]. I don't think in words, without conscious effort to translate my thoughts into words. I don't have an inner monologue unless I'm trying to think of how to put my thoughts into words (or otherwise thinking with language, eg pretending to narrate what's going on around me). It takes me conscious effort to use written language, and a bit less effort for verbal language; I essentially have permanent writer's block.

This person seems to think that everyone naturally thinks in words, instead of that being a skill they learned and got good enough at that they don't even notice it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia
Chris Rohlf is one of the smartest software security people I know, so while this wasn't on my radar 2 hours ago, I guess it is now.
“Are all pretty simple crud application at their core”. No. Really no. Your understanding of the complexity of these applications and what they do invalidate everything else you try to pitch.
People who looked at that strategy have realized that you need way more energy storage than originally thought. Especially in places that need winter heating.

The only way we can get there at a reasonable cost is via hydrogen energy storage. The other ideas are orders of magnitude too expensive.

For the UK, the solution might look something like this: https://hydrogeneast.uk/study-explores-uks-geological-hydrog...
Not to be that guy, but it is cojones (cajones means drawers)
"Business plan" patent there involving tree plantations and herds of beavers on treadmills to generate power. Add a bit more horseshit and its a billion dollar IPO, at least.
It's smart in a gross way. They can materially reduce the risk of being regulated by pandering to them.
The long and short of it seems to be (as it often is) that some people are seeing problems and some aren't, and without any real data, we're all just guessing about how prevalent the issues are.

FWIW, I can't remember the last time I had my Mac crash, either my M1 work machine or my personal Intel. Uptime is regularly measured in weeks.
> That said, the parent comment's ideas are bad and ignorant, for the reasons you mentioned and more.

The parents comments are neither bad nor ignorant. They can be summarized as demand management.

Utilities hate demand management. If they run an efficient market with incentives to shift demand, profits drop. Their profits are based on cost, increasing costs is how they improve their margins. Same as healthcare, band-aids cost $1400 at a hospital. When profits are capped by regulation, this is the workaround.

Don't get suckered into fossil fuel narrative. All the narrative against any kind of progress comes from industry that benefits from status quo and regurgitated by media.
It's like this in Tacoma, WA right now. An Uber or Lyft may never arrive. 5-10 cancelled drivers before the car arrives is normal. A notice saying "No cars available" is shown 70-80% of the time for XL size cars. Often it takes 1h or so to get a ride. Sometimes it will come in 4 minutes, sometimes it will say 4 minutes but then 5+ drivers cancel and it takes an hour of real time, while the app just says 4 minutes.

I have come to depend on Lyft and Uber and they are failing me and have been for a long time now. So long that I now plan to get a driver's license and a car. I don't know how else to make it in this world. If you're at a business and it's closing soon, and raining outside, you are likely to be outside in the cold and rain for 30 minutes waiting for a car.

It's ridiculous. I'm giving up and have already booked my written drivers test for WA.
Ah, wanting to maintain the US as a Constitutional Republic with Democracy is NOT a radical position! Destroying that absolutely is.
I wonder why their lease prices don’t reflect the low depreciation?
Almost begs for a curated list of such HN posts. The story of X as told on HN series …
The problem works like this. If you have an industry somewhere, all else equal, it will stay there. Costs money to move.

A foreign country (e.g. China) wants the industry to come there, so they provide subsidies. The industry moves, because hey, subsidies. Now the industry is there. Do you want them to come back?

The alternative to counter-subsidies is tariffs on countries that provide subsidies, but then people whinge about that too.
That could work for Tuvalu, but I hope you realize that if everyone just used that solution to address the sea-level rise due to global warming, you'd end up greatly accelerating both global warming and sea level rise...
Starlinks “on their way down to immolative retirement”
screen readers don't do OCR.
Just like when Netflix removed their star ratings with a only a thumbs up.
The lint is on by default in the latest version of the compiler
This reminds me of the time I went looking for a satisfactory answer for why the sky is blue.

It turns out a surprising number of people have a surprising number of different opinions and explanations on this. You pretty much need a PhD in physics to fully grok most of them. And every time you think you've read something that at least _sounds_ concrete, someone else comes along and says, "yes and no, the _real_ mechanism is this," ad infinitum until you wind up on the fringes of scientific knowledge.

In the end, hours of research later, as best as I could tell, it came down to: the sky is blue because air is blue. But it's a very faint blue, so you can't actually discern the blue until you look through a _lot_ of air, for example in the sky.
Wow, those are some terrible incentives. I've never had a loan, so maybe I misunderstand the experience. But I'd hate to owe money to somebody that is hoping I fail badly enough that they take my stuff and while keeping my money.
The first game I made was a Breakout clone in Unity -- only rivalled in popularity among baby game devs by Pong clones.

I like Unity, it's free for a super small indie. I liked learning C#. However, when I reached the point where I was thinking of more sophisticated functionality, I started using a lot of 3rd-party development plugins (all so wonderful in the Unity store) and they were becoming a giant crutch.

Now don't get me wrong, I am a fan of NOT remaking the wheel and I'm a total code snippet learner. However, I don't have a foundation in math or science. In the beginning, something as simple as rotation_speed = PI was utterly confounding. So I switched to Godot, which uses a Python-like scripting language. Far easier to learn and awesome for 2D. Also, the lack of a "store" with readily-available packaged solutions forced me to understand what in the actual fuck I was trying to do. It's free as in speech and beer.

I actually learned Blender much earlier because it's closer to graphic design than game dev. It'll be useful if we ever do 3D or VR.

And yes, maple syrup is a superfood. I will not be taking questions on that topic.
They do afaik.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/used-cars-and-trucks.htm

There are different CPIs and debate over accuracy.
Pelosi slammed for officiating lavish wedding of Getty oil heiress
Also in attendance were CA Governor Gavin Newsom and SF Mayor London Breed.

No one was wearing a mask even though it is required to do so throughout all of SF regardless of vaccination status.
when I bought a vacation home for myself I was initially hesitant because the HOA doesn't permit short term rentals or Airbnb's. But I'm actually glad.

The hassle of worrying about your personal belongings is just not worth it IMO. I want to buy nice nice furniture for my place and not worry about strangers ruining it.

Although I do want friends & family to be able to enjoy it. Maybe a site like Path was to Facebook?
If they are so against brigading, why not remove Like counts as well?
And the sad thing is there are no competition to youtube. In facebook people at least can do angry reaction.
I suspect they need something more like some fresh volcanic flows to shore up their land in a way the relentless, rising seas won't quickly wash away.
This is just wrong. The cost of DSARs to most businesses who are subject to GDPR fines is massive.
> but in very simple terms binary 1's and 0's correspond to the high/low peaks of the frequency

This is AM, "Amplitude Modulation"

Wiki has some good articles on other modulation techniques https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplitude_modulation
ok, maybe they mean they don't have anything interesting to write about.
Sounds like a huge upgrade to Apple Business Manager. Two big complaints here:

1. Apple Business Manager refuses to work in Firefox due to an arbitrary user agent block, and they apparently still haven't fixed this.

2. "If accepted, your existing Apple Business Manager account will be upgraded with additional functionality that cannot be undone." - This is a really good way to ensure we don't try this. What if it causes our organization new problems? Why would your beta product be impossible to roll back out of?
TGA files still show up in video game textures surprisingly often
Tether Papers: This is who acquired 70% of all USDT ever issued
Well you wouldn’t want any ~~~centralized~~~ entity having control of the appetizers, would you???

Much better to store every menu of every restaurant on thousands of computers and use menu updates to decimate coral reefs.
I don't think you can just turn it off. You can hide both likes and dislikes and disable comments e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdvidv6RXJY but the buttons still function just without score.

Of course most creator's don't want to do what you say anyways. Like's help them, dislikes don't. Dislike counts are (well were) for users.
Who remembers xserve?
majority of coral atolls have actually been growing in the last 50 years, not shrinking.
Moleculer Lab – All-in-one dashboard for developing microservices
> how do you deal with the seeming need for a phone with secure chip for the endless banking and two factor apps?

I've been without a smartphone for about two years now and would not go back (although sometimes tempted by the false promise that a shiny new product will bring happiness).

It's easy, you just don't treat your phone as secure, do banking on a computer, along with email.

2FA is not magic, it's just another password. Just a password manager like pass [0] can generate 2FA codes, but it's easy enough to do with oathtool [1] that I wrote my own password manager.

[0] https://www.passwordstore.org
[1] https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/
I know they don’t and didn’t say they did. However, there are implications (if you’ve ever worked with physicists or even engineers you’ll feel the results of these implications), so I suggested that if you do look at it from a different perspective, then you get what I said.

I just don’t think they’re useful terms. In many ways, physics and chemistry are the low hanging fruit of science.
That doesn’t seem that crazy to me.
emacs org mode and dropbox
Considering you are YC backed, are there any plans for monetisations that you would be willing to share? Because (as another comment said) notes apps are dime a dozen, and there doesn't seem much that differntiates you from Obsidian (which already has a revenue stream)
I don't think the parent is arguing that inflation isn't real. They are arguing that in spite of inflation we are at 2014 price levels.
Generally speaking, an EEZ is defined as a certain amount of miles from the shoreline of a country. The big question here is the question of: if you no longer have a shoreline, do you get to keep the EEZ of where your shoreline used to be?
The trick, really, is good governance. These problems have been solved before.

For example, the government can:

1. Provide market incentives. For example, the federal government can give a 25% subsidies for school Chromebooks/laptops/etc., require the CPUs and RAM to be manufactured in the US.

2. Provide guaranteed markets. The US military is an efficient place to do this.

3. Provide subsidies with outcomes. If Intel wastes the money, Intel stock moves from investors to taxpayers.

Personally, I'm also a big fan of tariffs. Free trade zones are great, but tariffs between free trade zones on essential goods can encourage local production. If US CPUs cost 25% more in the EU, and EU CPUs cost 25% more in the US, there's a strong incentive to have local manufacturing infrastructure.
This, not to mention it seems somewhat unproductive to lock off 99% of the internet because of information collection instead of teaching how to defeat those collectors. The kid's going to grow up and leave eventually and will have to contend with the full internet, it doesn't feel like a good idea to leave them without any experience of the kind of things you can run in to.
>If it’s something you stopped carrying 6 months ago, that’s sleazy.

But this is also mentioned in the article, if you overwhelm people with out of stock stuff their intent to buy drops.

>If you do the thing many booking sites do where it displays fake “n people are looking at this!” and “quantity just dropped to x!” notifications, it’s deeply unethical.

I mean, that's similar to Amazon having "Only 15 Units Left In Stock", is this unethical as well?

In my point of view, if the information displayed is FAKE - than that's falls into false advertising, and it's illegal. In come countries there are fines for that (I know, I know, no regulator controls online advertising - but that's the problem of the regulator).

If the information is real, I don't think it's unethical.
"MediaWiki is free software. No guarantee or warranty of any kind is provided." Sounds about right!
It looks very promising - but my experience with MSSQL hasn't been optimal.

Definitely worth keeping an eye on this project.
This could also be a pride thing for Youtube/Alphabet. For the past few years the Youtube Rewind video [0] has somewhat infamously gotten heavily downvoted, mostly I think as a reflection of how frustrated viewers are with Youtube and maybe Alphabet as well. I'm sure the executives feel some catharsis taking away an avenue for users to express that frustration.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbJOTdZBX1g
Patricia Highsmith Lived Extravagantly, and Took Copious Notes
Orthogonal to the article itself, I find it interesting how the word "Update" gradually came to be the official corporate-speak for "Cancel".
Hello!

Your body does build a tolerance. But there is a common misconception that the "psychedelic" presentation is where you find the efficacy. In most microdosing stacks, you combine Psilocybin with lion's mane mushroom and vitamin B12. It is usually 5 on, 2 off. Even if you do not feel any upwelling, it is working.

The process of neurogenesis is very subtle, and that is the mechanism which, when combined with other tools, will help you get over depression when microdosing. It takes time, it is a gradual, slow, re-wiring. The affect of the psychedelic experience can provide creative and mood benefits. But I believe these are separate processes with separate benefits.

Often when speaking with folks, and I notice myself, that there are no withdrawal symptoms. There is always risk of dependency when ingesting any outside substance, but something about the experience itself is resistant to abuse.
As somebody also from South America, seeing people from the US having to come to grips with the idea of inflation is cute.
Housing doesn’t seem like a mystery at all. Home prices have been increasing rapidly for several years and supply is partly constrained by the pandemic.
I wonder if they tried a different alternative where anyone can upvote, but only content creators with certain karma (say, 501 upvotes) are allowed to downvote. Some news sites do this and I wonder if things worked out better this way.
If you throw 100M people at this as a solution, do you expect to see most carefully and successfully getting through it like you or would most just become addicted and eventually lose their job and go homeless?
I suppose this is more about the concern the wrong meaning could be indexed. Nice highlight in search results: "Apple BE: Onsite repairs someday".
The people that would prosecute and judge are also part of the scheme. Accountability is just something to teach the poor kids in public schools--who aren't the offspring of the corrupt ruling class--so they behave. Fortunately the ruling class knows to keep us anesthetized and distracted just enough to prevent real change and protect themselves.
There are no dislike/downvote buttons on submissions on HN (only comments), no matter how much you "prove yourself"
Configuration probably dictates origin.
Why would Fiji treat them any differently than the Indians?
Thought the same. ASAP seems just as meaningless/vague as soon?
Thought that was funny too. The company has been around since 2016 (originally called "dashdash") and Pipes shut down in 2015, so it'd make sense as the original pitch in 2016.
How is that ironic? It's a well established spam prevention measure not a complete removal of a useful metric. It exists prominently on e.g. stack exchange sites and has been a common feature in general on reputation based forum software. What's perhaps ironic is that you can't see vote counts on HN comments _at all_ unless you're the author. So HN has already implemented this feature they just did it sensibly and included upvotes (on comments, at least) too. Most ironically, the front page shows only up-vote counts, something people are citing as a ruined experience in the case of YT removing the dislike count yet is par for the course for submissions on this very site.
Advertisers and creators already had the ability to hide likes/dislikes.
It would be nice if America had factories that produced things rather than having to import all of our crap from China. Maybe then there wouldn't be 100+ ships waiting to be unloaded in LA.
Toward a new systems programming environment – Russ Cox [pdf]
We're currently looking forward to use intensively weweb.io to make our frogcast web application.
It's a very specific front end (meteorological forecast).
Weweb has done a very good job moving to webapps !
Congrats!
This isn't something you can really answer, but I'd be game to try micro-dosing psilocybin, but I have no idea where to get it safely (from LEOs and bad chemistry). It would be great if the local dispensary sold it.
Perhaps, perhaps not. In Hawaii there is actually a lot of tension between the Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians), the Marshallese, and Micronesians. I am not keen as to exactly why this is, but I think it underscores the importance of providing more resources for both the Pacific Islanders already living receiving limited assistance, and the new arrivals. I think the government shouldn't just assume they'll get along because of shared cultural heritage.
Plenty of great initiatives listed here. Integrated Supply chain security tooling is going to be increasingly important. For Java we use third party tools to identify vulnerabilities in libraries.
Latin promotional material by Siemens for the soundsystem at Speyer cathedral
So you'd rather they manipulate the data and potentially mislead users? Sounds like a slippery slope to me \s
OTOH, the personal experience of individuals will be amplified in their mind due to cognitive distortions. Our brains remember the prices that have gone up, put less emphasis on the prices that haven't.

People reporting their experience will have significant distortion due to how our minds work.
Well there is no marketing department, so AFAIK the designers have to balance doing blogs and press releases with all their other work which is not easy to do. It is a non-zero amount of work to explain it. If you just want to have a quick conversation about it and are interested to get involved with design then I think it would be faster to do that than trying to get them to write an entire blog article or something.
Me too! I had Magic Realm as a kid and tried reading the manual dozen of times but couldn't get it to stick. They simplified the rules over at boardgamegeek[1]

Actually, there's lots of files and tutorials there[2] -- I lost my copy to a hurricane years ago but I may have to pick up a copy and play online[3]

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/130110/magic-realm-third-...

[2] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22/magic-realm/files

[3] http://realmspeak.dewkid.com/
Maybe you will find this helpful: https://github.com/gcalderone/ReusePatterns.jl

It includes an implementation of concrete subtyping.
How can you honestly "charge off" a debt as unlikely to be repaid, when you are quite likely to be repaid? It seems that in the case of a car loan you can usually reposses the collateral, which recently will have held value oreven appreciated in the interim.
This is the expectation, and the reality is that the government still uses Windows XP. Stealth tech and other military signature detection/evasion techs are probably just exceptional.
Marvel movies aren't generating the buzz they once were, and Disney is an important YouTube partner that has earnings expectations to met, so... gotta do something about the "review bombing from bigots".
If anything I'd assume its about the YouTube rewind getting massively downvoted year after year
Yes it will, just like real estate prices.

Joke.
Please keep nationalistic swipes off HN, regardless of which nation you have a problem with. It reliably makes threads low-quality, leads to worse (usually much worse) from others, and is not at all what this site is supposed to be for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. in case anyone is worried: yes, we post these moderation comments regardless of country.
Jack is a crypto maximalist who is trying to sound the alarm over a very, very unlikely outcome. He's biased.
It doesn't. I have a whitelisting transparent proxy for my primary school-age kids. It's not controversial and they don't attempt to get round it or rail against it. If they want something they ask. If I say no (and explain why) they accept it. They're interested in internet safety and we discuss it frequently. Teaching vs blocking is a false dichotomy.

As they get older I'll remove it in stages: blacklist, logging only, then direct access with no proxy. The opening up will be done when it seems appropriate and in full discussion with them. I don't have a schedule for it.

When they're old enough to have phones I can initially give them managed devices with always-on wireguard and the same transparent proxy. (I've tested this setup and it's not circumventible without wiping the device.)

The claims often made on hn about this stuff, that:

* Kids will resent any attempt to limit their access, and

* Kids are NSA-level hackers who will circumvent any attempt at limiting their access.

are empirically false, at least in my experience so far. I expect they become more true in the teenage years but that's when things can start to open up.

Even if the restrictions have to be entirely dropped or become irrelevant the second they enter senior school, they've already benefited a lot from this over the years.

The other argument, that other kids will have phones etc so there's no point, is just an abdication of responsibility. I feel like I should do my best here, whatever everyone else is doing.

The one thing that is true is that it's quite technically demanding. A managed phone with an always-on wireguard connection to a network with a transparent ssl-bump mitm proxy and a domain-based whitelist with an admin UI to browse logs and block/unblock domains is not an easy thing to set up.

It's possible, though, and it has value. It should be much easier.