skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice

None of the citations or claims in this article look reputable.
> Ever wonder why they built the pyramids in the desert? It should be obvious: didn't used to be a desert.

Uh, no. Egypt was desert when the Pyramids were built. Egyptian civilization existed (and still does) in a narrow ribbon along the Nile; the Pyramids of Giza are only about five miles from it. They're certainly not in the middle of nowhere, that's just the camera angles working. (See https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Giza-pyr... for an alternative view.)

Pictures of the Pyramid of Djoser (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Saqqara_...) look like it's in the middle of nowhere, but it's four miles from the Nile, too, and only two thousand feet away from fertile farmland.

Meidum? Again, four miles from the Nile and 800 feet from farms, despite photos looking like https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/02_meidu....
https://youtu.be/qQKhIK4pvYo?t=411

Why do slow-mo lightning shots clearly show the opposite then? Unless you're referring to "conventional current", which is about as pedantic as you can get given that that's an obsolete and incorrect school of thought based around flow of positive charges before electrons were discovered.
> if the climate is this bad now (2020)

Is the climate bad now? The human population is at its peak, living standards are way better than ever, so it would seem that the current climate is just fine (for humans at least).
yes, most of them are in pretty good shape.
ZFS ARC actually works the same way, i.e. the records would remain compressed in memory.

When running PostgreSQL, I would probably go with `primarycache=all` for the data dir, a largish ARC cache, and a smallish shared buffers, to take advantage of the filesystem compression.

When running MySQL, I would probably go with `primarycache=metadata` for the data dir, a smallish ARC cache, and a largish buffer pool, to still benefit (slightly) from the filesystem compression.
Quantum changes: abrupt changes in levels instead of a smooth rate of change.

Another example is a earthquake. Stresses build up slowly but nothing happens for a long time. Then all of a sudden, things snap into a new position and the whole tension cycle starts again.
So do airpods actually sound better than the standard wired headphones? If they don't, this is a lot of fancy engineering for some pretty bad headphones. Maybe they just didn't fit my ears or something, but I've always hated them.
Perhaps, but there have been reports of varying veracity hinting that COVID-19 was already in Western sewage, blood and autopsy samples in 2019. Who knows if that was contamination, flawed equipment, geopolitical shenanigans or legitimate data though.
But I'm pretty sure Samsung Buds (perhaps the first gen?) use some sort of standard battery.
I agree. I was able to scroll back up easily to see specific parts without some acceleration taking over.
It checks for specific return code. It is useful for testing specific type of failure . Since in shell all non zero return codes are considered failure, we need a way to know that it failed because of the expected reason and not some other bug. So if testing for failure with err code 2, the function will "pass" the test only if the process actually fails with err code 2.
Is this satire?

The speed limit has barely anything to do with pedestrian infrastructure. It's the interaction points between the two where the problems are (intersections, crossings, etc).

Give people (both pedestrians and drivers) the opportunities to get where they need to go without getting in each other's way and 99/100 they'll pull it off successfully.
There are several 'mathematical' ways you could phrase it (glossing over how to define the colour of a horse):

1) In a set of horses with size n, if horses A and B being both members of this set implies horse A has the same colour as horse B, then all horses in the set have the same colour.

2) In a set of horses with size n, and let f be a function on this set that produces each horse's colour. Then all horses in this set have the same colour if and only if the codomain of f on this set has size 1.

You could probably prove these are equivalent definitions.
https://energyinnovation.org/2021/09/16/after-the-megafires-...

The fire intensities are much higher due to various factors. This kills more of the mature trees and alters the soil nutrient composition such that it become water repellent.

The same effects have been noted in Australian mega-fires over the past decade.
I think this is half of it. From my experience, the other half is that "agile" is a wonderful excuse for managers and product managers not to have to plan anything or commit to any priorities, and for software companies not to hire project managers. I don't think this is particularly agile's fault; no process can fix broken organizations, and most tech organizations are broken. Luckily the magic money machine papers over grotesque inefficiencies so we can all be gainfully employed without having to become real professionals!
And those institutions where everyone knows you go to register and hardware devices everyone trusts don't exist, so you're back to

> doesn't seem to solve meaningful, mainstream problems yet
I've heard that one before... I've yet to hear a "how is it better" set down in a way that describes the architecture in a way that can be explored with more than handwavium.

How does "wallet as resume" solve the implied competency better than a GitHub repo with signed commits?

How does the wallet-as-resume solve the "I copied a project" or "I followed the tutorial line for line?" One can create a NFT or whatever equivalent for code you wrote just as easily as code you copied (be it with cp or typing it all in yourself). Can only one person would be verify a particular implementation of FizzBuzz? If the code is copied, can the original author usurp the "I wrote this" from a pretender?

Does anyone reading resumes actually think that this is a problem that needs solving?
Just because English orthography and pronunciation are in dire straights doesn't mean that it isn't worth arguing for relatively quick wins and easy fixes. Like I said, some Elementary School teachers I've met made a strong case that the diaresis is an easy win and would measurably move the needle based on what they've encountered in teaching with/without it. I realize that's anecdotal hearsay rather than scientific experiment, but I was passing it on as interesting anecdata from people that deal with this subject more directly.

My keyboard layout of choice has an AltGr international key and some useful dead key typography shortcuts and I use that most of the time myself. I do appreciate the efficiency bonus of a keyboard layout that includes a bit more International keys.

Still though, the emoji keyboard remains a far easier way to *teach* someone to type a character than to teach them to switch keyboard layouts, particularly because installing keyboard layouts requires Admin rights in Windows, and is dozens of steps in Settings pages that most regular users don't ever usually see/know/understand. (It's really not at all easier to enable the English International layout if you don't have admin rights to install alternate keyboards at all beyond your system installer's defaults. The emoji keyboard is always available in Windows 10 once you cross its release version.)

Push a key to get a popup no matter what keyboards you have installed is easy to describe. Yes, the navigation could be improved and isn't "efficient" at all, but that's entirely orthogonal to "relatively easy". Bad inefficient navigation is still easy to teach/easy to learn/easy to use. Case in point, the emoji keyboard looks like equivalent soft keyboards on phone devices so it should be familiar with is more corelated to "relatively easy" than "efficient" in most people's eyes. Even if I didn't break down the specific tab/sub-tab in my description it should be relatively discoverable if you have a basic idea how an emoji keyboard should work, and discoverable is also more corelated to "easy" than "efficient". (Alternate keyboard layouts aren't very discoverable.)

Personally, I love that you can type names of emoji/search keywords and wish they would extend that support to the Symbols section as well. Maybe even some dead-key inspired short codes like "o as a replacement for o with diaresis. (:o turns up the shocked emoji at least/in contrast).
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These seem strange to me since I read OP's question as being specific to a founder who has raised money. If I was an investor and a founder took my money to hold in gold bars or Bitcoin instead of engineer headcount or whatever else the business needed to be built by, I would find a way to get it back ASAP.
I don't see how this is beneficial compared to signature-based auth. Didn't people all recoil in horror at the real-names policy that Google performed ages ago? Making it fundamentally difficult to separate my identity on various platforms is bad. And further, I really don't see the benefit of having my username stored on a blockchain rather than in an application database. Is the goal to prevent other people from making an account using the same username that I use on other platforms?
It’s worse than it was 5 years ago. I’ve lived in the bay for ~15 years now, you did not used to need air filters for ~several weeks to months out of the year.
Why not. Take out a lot of debt. The startup will probally not make it, so go out with a bang.

Wealthy folks think like this. Play fast and lose with other people's money.
Hundreds of millions of years is a long period for trees to regrow...a period which we don't have.
The Wikipedia iOS app is just about the most amazing free app I have installed on my iPhone. It's the one app that actually feels like a native platform experience, while retaining everything I like about the original on the web. Truly a shining beacon of light in our ad/tracking/Electron-laden world. So thank you, I, for one, really appreciate your work!
It's been about 100 million years since the last time the CO2 ppm was this high. And it's never gotten this high this fast ever before. A hundred million years is a long time for plants to adapt. 50 years is not
Kind of? It would be somewhat more shocking than trees not re-growing because of drier conditions, which is where the article goes.
It does. But it's not about that. It's about being able to get rid of wires and associated mess.
Grow faster than inflation. Spend cash on items that don't depreciate at the rate of inflation. Exit before you run out of cash. Make sure pricing is set appropriately and has opportunity to increase in the future. Consider "introductory" pricing instead of "lifetime" pricing. And on the flip side, try to lock in pricing now for things you buy that might change in the future. So, buy lifetime licenses where it makes sense, but don't sell them.
What happens when the clathrate gun fires and we look at exponential temperature increase?
There's no upgrade. You swap your Airpods for another set that has had the battery replaced.
When photosynthesis first evolved, the extra oxygen in the atmosphere killed off nearly everything on the surface (by covering it with ice). It took a very long time indeed to subsequently evolve cellular respiration and bring things back into balance (see the "Great Oxygenation Event" for more).

So what I'm saying is that we won't even have been the first species to have done so.
>I own several crypto-currencies and there hasn't been a single moment in which I thought of buying something with a crypto-currency.

This is entirely personal and subjective, but I prefer the user experience of Aave and Yearn to traditional banking with e.g. Chase. I also would way rather make large purchases with crypto (e.g. down payment on a house) compared with wiring money.
Yeah, it sucks to get that mandate and execute a lifeboat drill ( Who are we saving ). Problem is that a lot of the high performers you end up saving are out the door in six months anyway
"Service X preemptively bans me because I signed up for service Y with my wallet" sounds like the opposite of censorship resistance and decentralization.
Have you ever had a positive experience with a person who happened to be homeless? My interactions don't seem to depend on the other person lives. Plenty of jerks drive expensive SUVs, Teslas, or bicycles.

The worst problems I've had with pedestrians were in a college town, where the (housed) students crossed wherever and whenever, as if it was a park.
Both of my computers (laptop and pinephone) get their native applications through secure, vetted channels that have practically never let malware through (their distro’s package repos).
How to Create Your Own Private Docker Registry and Secure It
It's $5/yr in eth for the actual registration fee. The problem is that the transaction fee gas to register and maintain that registration is steep. So it's fairly common to register your ens for multiple years to save on gas. Once L2's/rollups are more mature and under community control, I expect ens to migrate to one and cut those transaction fees down substantially.
That's not happening in 2020 right? We were talking about the current climate.
And this is something that could power reversible transactions as well which I think is a current, but solvable problem of all crypto platforms.

What you are proposing is actually a lot better than the tech we have now. If I ever lose my Google login and their customer service does not want to deal with me then honestly, I'm not sure what I'd do. I'd rather trust my friends and family to help me out than FAANG.
Raymond Hill (author of uBlock Origin) is doing a fantastic work at the addon on both technical level and the politics, which an AdBlock addon tends to get bashed at often.

Even the smartest of us make mistakes. The right thing to do is fix, learn, and move on.

The author of the addon triaged and fixed it in just five days, which is super impressive.
I have never used an ad blocker and have resisted installing it many times. My thinking always was: I'd rather have a web with ads than a web in which I have to pay for content and sign up to 800 different websites with 800 different accounts.

A website that I've frequented a lot, the German news website spiegel.de, has converted to pay only mostly, and i now can't use it anymore. I am not saying that's the fault of ad blockers, but it certainly didn't help.
>Imagine if your civilian job was full of people who were conscripted rather than chose that field

Well, consider juries. While they don't end up being completely random, still, there seems to be a recognition that nobody or no organization should be unilaterally trying to select the best. Or taking volunteers.

I think most people agree that juries are very important.

>draft-era service members seemed to have serious problems from drug abuse to fratricide too

Yes, I just think the problems should have been attributed to the war being fought and not the fact of the draft. Maybe the corruption of the draft; I'm not old enough to have a sense of what it was like during Vietnam, but obviously it's a cliche how people were able to avoid it.

Which reminds me of juries again - it used to be, in my state, there were tons of exemptions for jury duty, and that really biased the pool. There were reforms to eliminate most of the exemptions.
Normally I'd agree but in fairness to the author, they have fixed the table of contents.

I always found it weird and annoying how the table of contents in Wikipedia is a tiny thing jammed at the start. It's so darn awkward to use.
At least for Bitcoin, there's another defense: what the blockchain actually stores on each block is the root of a Merkle tree which has the transactions as leaves. It's possible to discard unwanted transactions, and that only loses the ability of verifying newer transactions which chain to these discarded transactions. (AFAIK, the original intention was that most nodes would discard old "spent" transactions, to reduce the size of their local database.)
A major reason why those blockchains have lower fees is because speculators have not driven up their token price. Unless there is some fundamental reason why the fees will stay low, you've got a time bomb on your hands as soon as people decide that this blockchain is a major speculation vehicle.
Wikipedia still doesn't show the talk page when you are on mobile.

Actually, I'm wrong. It looks like they FINALLY added it less than a week ago.

Took them long enough.
Happy to see some (more sane looking) implementations of distributed SQLite. For a completely different set of thinking on the problem check out BedrockDB (https://github.com/expensify/bedrock ; warning.... contains blockchain :D )
ever fully read your employment agreement and the notice of binding arbitration?
You’ve missed the point - the Tile app agressively pushes users to enable always-on location, which is not the norm for iOS apps, so Tile knows where your phone is all the time.

It’s not about the bluetooth tags themselves.
> If my browser window is the width of a mobile phone’s screen

It's not, is the thing.

I have a 23 inch screen for my 1080p screen. My phone has a 6ish inch diagonal.

When I make a window 960 x 1080, that's still something like 10 inches across and 11 inches tall. It's sheet-of-paper sized. I'm perfectly comfortable reading that as it was designed for a desktop layout.
Exactly. Nature does adapt, but it takes time for a species that previously didn't thrive in a locale to spread there. Often a lot of time compared to a human lifetime.
There’s a huge value in not having to untangle wires every time you use headphones even if there is a hit to sound quality.

Also having the ability to use one earbud without having the weight of the cable tugging at your ear is underrated.
Science is a journal that has been around for over a hundred years and had an impact factor of 41.845 in 2019. Seems pretty reputable to me
Wikipedia is the one website that still has any value and actually serves the purpose of the web. Your website blocks me because I haven't enabled JS or disabled Tor or whatever, to prove I'm not a bot to fetch your front page which should take less resources than serving a captcha or JS check. Modern indeed.
I don't have any insight into their motives, but that's not the trial they performed. The only time blanket testing occurred was to make sure no one in the vaccinated group was going to get counted as a breakthrough case when they got covid before full vaccination. Otherwise they only tested participants when they presented with symptoms, thus "these data do not address whether vaccination prevents asymptomatic infection" [0]. Accordingly, it was not testing Covid-19 infection except to the extent that it presented significant symptoms. The trial also didn't address (not clear how it could have) your ability to keep passing the virus along once vaccinated.

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577 (see p 2612 of attached pdf).
"Most drivers are just dumb."

This sounds like an extreme stereotype.
Here's my take (coming from somebody who has been running what may now be called a "metaverse" company for the past 5 years - https://ayvri.com).

The most interesting part I find is not the 3D VR element, that's like saying the most compelling part of Web 2 was CSS and HTML5.

It's the distributed nature of data and data ownership.
Where Web2 was all about user created content -> corporate owned content, in web3 you own the content you create.

The benefit of this is that the platform that you use your data on, is just a platform. You can easily move your data to another platform for other purposes.

The example I use to compare to "real world" stuff is your fitness. You pay a monthly membership to go to the gym and stay fit. When you want to go on a ski holiday, you don't have to go to your gym and tell them you want to go on a ski holiday and ask if you can use your fitness at the resort, and they can say "oh, we don't have an agreement with that ski field, or any ski fields, so sorry, your fitness stays with us. But we've been selling your data to a bike tour operator, so they know all about you, and you can go use your fitness with them...but only with the bike tour operators we've partnered with and have a commercial agreement with...if it isn't them, then...sorry, you can't use your fitness.

In a Web3 world, your data lives in your wallet, and you should be able to decide who gets access to it and how they use it, and revoke it from those you don't want access to. We're looking at adding this capability to Ayvri. We did an integration with Strava, but our users want an integration with Garmin, Suunto, every little paragliding device you've never heard of, etc.

A friend that runs a fintech company was describing the process people go through when looking for a mortgage. They go to a banks website, give their details to the bank, see the offers on mortgages, then go to the next bank or lender, and do the same again and again. If your data is in your wallet, you should be able to just go - here's my data, do your thing.

Sure there's also all the stuff about de-platforming, and there are going to be issues with propaganda, scams, etc. But will it be any worse than what we have today?
This site allows you to see the amount of forest gained/lost in different regions over the last 20 years: https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/?map=eyJjZW50ZXIiOnsib...

For example, California has lost ~26% of its forest cover since 2000
https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/country/USA/5/?mainMap...
> Apple was not the first company to develop wireless earbuds, but they’ve defined the category since introducing AirPods in 2016.

Sigh.
Hopefully, otherwise we have other problems
> So I ask this crowd are there any non-shady companies in this business

Apple so far hasn’t shown any movement towards collecting or selling location data from Find My…
New York City to impose vaccine mandate on all private sector workers
Are wires a mess? Looking at the Zoom calls I've been on, I've never heard "oh sorry I'm all tangled up in my wires", but have seen "my batteries are dead" or "my headphones won't pair with my computer", etc. (I say "seen" because you don't hear much from people debugging their "magic" wireless headphones.) This has added up to many person-hours of delays, while the wires just keep working.
I had a similar experience with AdWords. Then they randomly re-activated me about 5 years later.
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> This "just blame the drivers" attitude

Where do you see blame? I just see people presenting ways reduce serious harm to others, something I think most drivers would appreciate. As a driver, I'm glad to read it.
They sound better to me than the standard issue Apple wired earphones, but not remarkably better. The Pros sound much better, but don't stay in my ears so I've repurchased the original design (v2).

The game changer for me is how convenient the UX is. Whichever Apple device that you're near can connect, or automatically connects to the right device most of the time and it's pretty seamless. Any other wireless headphones I've used (including the recent Beats Studio buds) are frustrating in comparison.

I definitely won't go into longer calls without them.

I'm no audiophile (but I do have standards) but the real appeal is they mostly "just work".
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I like them for cases where wired headphones wouldn't work, like when I'm doing the dishes, listening to a podcast, but don't want it to be on speakers because it'll wake up the baby.

In fact, on reflection, I almost only listen to podcasts on mine, so I don't really care about sound quality.
Because I'm not a prick who needs clout for every single unit of hobbies I carry out.
Ignoring the subtle climate change denialism: North American forests have been mismanaged for decades. Coupled with environmental factors this leads to more intense fires beyond what happens in a natural forest (i.e. one were fire routinely thins out available fuels before it builds up excessively).