skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2,000 per shell shoulds like a a very small lower bound. The density would be less than 2,000 humans spread over the entire earth.
That’s how I read it too. It’s interesting to see how platforms’ freedom to moderate as they please is being assaulted from all sides—some groups are claiming they must be forced to moderate more or be punished for what their users post, while others are claiming they must be forced to moderate less (or not at all) or be punished for what their users post.
Those governments (and the ones in the US) are at least beholden to voters.

Large companies have no accountability, and if they disrupt the democratic process, they have no consequences either.

Mark Zuckerberg is the authoritarian ruler of an extremely powerful entity that, in some countries, is more powerful than any local government.
Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels? (2020)
Where can I find cheap home decor?
Does the At Home store have online shopping?
You never worked with any of them. You only know that you applied your measure.

What's interesting is that the people doing all this "weeding out" seem so sure that they're bravely defending the fort against an onslaught of incompetent hordes... and yet they're missing this extremely basic point about the nature of the process they've chosen to use.
Trump 2024 bitch
That's marketing hype. From the CREE datasheet at https://cree-led.com/media/documents/ds-XHP702.pdf, each LED runs between 1500 to 2000 lumens.

That flashlight has 18 LEDs, so 36k lumens at the most.

Also, for the rated brightness, each LED has to be run at 12VDC 2.4 amps or ~30 watts. The thing has 8 21700 cells at ~3.7v each 4Ah. So the cells are probably wired in a 2x4 configuration giving 7.5v and a total of 32Ah. Current draw for the LEDs is higher at lower voltage, so it's 12/7.5*2.4A = ~3.8A per LED or ~70 amps total draw. So yeah the numbers show it's feasible to run the 18 cells at full current for about 25 minutes and get the 36k lumens.

The heat dissipation will be about half a kilowatt, so quite likely the flashlight will get too hot to hold fairly quickly, even with its heat-pipe cooling.

I'm not an EE, I'm just channeling my long ago physics class on circuitry, so I could be egregiously wrong in places.
Or, maybe you just don't want to believe it and you are reaching for any excuse not to.
I'm a C guy and have played around with C++ back in the day, but have come to despise the language, with all of its increasing complexity, warts, design flaws, and footguns. I'm highly suspicious of Rust and Go as well. I prefer the C way of doing things, with no garbage collector, though I do tire sometimes of all the extra grunt work that goes into implementing anything in C. Looks like D has a lot of features geared toward making development faster, without loading up with too much complexity like C++. Just read about the 'better C' mode which sounds interesting. I like that it's made to integrate seamlessly with C libraries. Are there any good examples of larger programs or libs written in D you could point me towards, so I can learn by example the 'D way' of doing things?
> First, you can sync your browser with your Firefox account, so this is I guess what you want?

Maybe? Probably not though. For example, with GSuite I can manage the settings via the web UI and then have policies that enforce that those settings are verified correct.

> Third, if you use all that Google stuff in your private life, I don't really see why you would be worried about Manifest 3-related privacy and ads/tracking matters anyway. I mean, Google already has your data.

I opt into Google having my data, but I want to be able to opt out of running arbitrary content in my browser. uBlock and uMatrix give me that, Manifest v3 takes that away.
At least governments (in a democracy) are subject to public scrutiny and accountable to the electorate. As far as I can tell, the big tech firms aren't answerable to anyone.
Waymo to start curbside grocery delivery in SF next year
i think one key passage from Muratov's Nobel lecture is the following: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2021/muratov/lecture...

""Peace, progress, human rights – these three goals are insolubly linked to one another.”

These words are a quote from the Nobel lecture of member of the Academy of Science Andrei Sakharov, a citizen of the world, a great thinker.

His wife Elena Bonner read it out here, in this place, on Thursday, December 11, 1975.

I felt an urge to repeat Sakharov’s words here, in this world-famous hall.

Why is it important today for us, for me?

The world has fallen out of love for democracy anymore.

The world has become disappointed with the power elite.

The world has begun to turn to dictatorship.

We’ve got an illusion that progress can be achieved through technology and violence, not through human rights and freedoms."
> I think that's the counterargument, and I can imagine it being true, but I also think we just don't know. Maybe there'd be just as much advancement but more developers would be properly compensated. It's hard to say exactly what would have happened because we're talking an alternate history.

Yes, valid and important point. We could look at how other industries develop. Software + Internet is especially condusive to 'free' products. Other industries must at least share knowledge, which arguably is embedded in FOSS software.

> I'm seeing of people wanting FOSS but also wanting FOSS developers paid a full wage. It seems fundamentally at odds, if you want people working on logging libraries to be paid full wages, stop making FOSS logging libraries.

An inarguable logic ...
Ironically, the title on HN made me think they were warning against Silicon Valley censorship.
No worries, this time it's the good guys who want to censor you. We'd never abuse such power. We're just saving you from the bad guys. Pinky swear.
If I'm rich enough, I don't care replacing my Merc with my own money, instead of going through the pesky insurance.

Insurance is great when you can't handle the cost of replacement.

That's why you don't buy insurance every time you buy a $100 electronic appliance. Now scale your money to a rich dude's money, you'll get the idea
A data breach isn't the primary concern here. This exploit allows full pwnage of a system and could take down entire networks for as long as it takes to rebuild them.
d) stop

It’s not like there is a parable about killing the goose that laid the golden egg to teach you how to appreciate these things.
Would it be unethical to refuse to fix bugs reported by employees of large corporations, unless those corporations pay a support contract or contribute a patch themselves?
Primarily Mandarin speakers I have known were taught, and believed, that the "dialects" were basically the same as Mandarin, just with different pronunciation.

They sincerely believed that when (e.g.) Cantonese speakers read and wrote, they were not wholesale translating from and to Mandarin, but simply, when writing, transcribing Cantonese using the universal ideographic calligraphy.

In fact, writing in dialect languages is not taught. The extremely elaborate system dictating which of usually several, often many syllabary characters that sound identical must be used in writing a word in Mandarin (very commonly mistaken for ideographic writing) cannot work for the other sinitic languages.

(Sinitic languages admit about 1200 distinct syllables, but the syllabary writing system uses many times that number, so many necessarily sound alike. Mandarin speakers are taught that the characters are not merely syllables with attached historical rules, but ideograms that represent distinct thoughts. (Numerous just-so examples are used to support the notion.) This has often led to belief that ancient documents using the characters could be read and understood without deep knowledge of the actual language and world of the writer, resulting in, at best, comical translations.)
Japan's zoning system does a decent job of mediating between the two. Here's[0] a good summary of their system. For your case, category 1 would fit perfectly. When category 1 is 20% of the land, that's fine. When it's 80%, like it is in most of the USA and Canada, that's why we're seeing backlash from the likes of StrongTowns/NJB.

[0]: https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.htm...
Well, really you _lean_ left more than you turn the handlebars...
The problem is not that everybody can access information. The problem is that click-bait false information is pushed by ranking algorithms more and more in front of the eyes of people who are ready to believe in them. The information bubble then is making people more and more radicalized.
These researchers (with their 3 dead subjects) completely leave out the critical pro-inflammatory & pro-Covid effects of the nearly universal D-deficiency in all obese, versus we very few who have lucked out with better information or doctors.

Since D is completely fat-soluble, the huge fat-masses we obese carry around absorb all the D we normally get, leaving us at highest Covid (& everything else) risk. Still, most of our fat cells are left unfilled and unprotected by immune hormone D! (Our blood levels are insanely low, too, unless intensely supplemented, filling the fat first and only then spilling into our bloodstream where it can do its work.)

Only after 20 years of a D-depleting anti-seizure carbamazepine/(Tegretol™) Rx let me double in size and drop to a very dangerous 8ng/ml, was I finally diagnosed & supplemented, though I later discovered 5,000IU/day was far too low for my obesity, raised it to 15,000! (Others can start getting obese after D drops from a simple No-UVB Winter, or standard, insufficiently-supplemented pregnancy.)

I now have a super-Replete level about 70ng/ml (my ultimate goal.) I am amazingly cured of my 2-decade severe depression, arthritis, back-pain, pre-diabetes, and my peripheral neuropathy is almost gone, too. Also, no colds or flu's in 4 years. And obviously, every one of my fat cells is fully protected, (along with my blood vessels, heart, lungs & brain) chock-full of D! This is completely unlike those tragically less fortunately informed (who's fat cells were still largely empty of D), and therefore defenseless subjects! They died only because their low D allowed Covid to waltz right in to those very fat cells making them so deeply deficient, and wreak its deadly havock.

I luckily caught Covid after I had reached just 54ng/ml. I had no symptoms at all, except a single day of mild sore throat & mild anosmia. At 8ng, Covid could easily have killed me, likely by the mechanisms described in this incomplete study!

Yes, I was pre-diabetic, ↑BP & BMI=44 when I flew through my barely noticeable infection, but REPLETE D>50ng/(125nmol) easily protected me as well as any either healthy or CovidComorbid person. It's the low D levels, not the poor condition that let's Covid seriously sicken or kill us! ALL CovidComorbidities are simply conditions of low D!

Now, relieved of depression & pain, I've finally found hope & motivation to do the over-a-year Keto & Intermittent Fasting lifestyle to return to my pre-carbamazepine healthy body size, if not the supreme competitive fitness I previously enjoyed. I've already lost 45 pounds, only 80 more to go!
If the only alternative to fission was fossil fuels, you'd be making a point. Also, the person I was responding to was comparing nuclear waste to waste from renewables and batteries.
Did they want to remove it because of security concerns?

If so, I really wouldn’t hold someone to any backwards compatibility promise if security is a concern.
Have you heard of abductive reasoning?
Active amplification of disinformation is just as much a threat to democracy.

Sure yellow journalism existed. But it had anything resembling the scale, scope, reach, and speed as current technology (which is why it is taking over). Trying to trivialize this new reach would be like trivializing using everyone's iPhone/Android GPS to hand out speeding tickets - sure it's the same law, but an entirely different regime when you can get a new ticket every minute.

Despite free speech laws, it has always, and under pretty much every legal system, still been illegal to utter certain types of speech, such as yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater, or inciting riot. It is never absolutely free.

If all you do when any hint of managing dezinformatsyia arises is cry "everything must be free (as in speech) and anything resembling censorship is horrible", you are being too simplistic. (and leading with it's "so complicated" and moving to censorship alarms is no less simplistic.

People and companies need to be responsible for the consequences of what they spread. Wildly amplifying disinformation based on engagement, without anything resembling a moral compass is not sustainable.
That tweet listed in that article ... gah. So bad so full of stupid.

The moron who wrote it is a GOOG programmer who thinks that 300k is what programmers make.

That is a tech-bro who lives in a place of privilege. And from the comment I am guessing not a programmer? Or very young and not so mature.

Open source is not broken.

Open source has always been a programmer scratching their own itch.
If other people have the same itch and the code is used in more places... and so on until a larger company uses it.

And then god help that company they are evil for exploiting the guy at the bottom? Yeah nope.

Would it be great if everyone did pay that dude for his open source library? Yes it would.

Figuring out how to pay people all the way down the open source stack would be an incredibly hard problem. You could pay the one guy who started the project but what about all the other people who have worked on it?

I mean if I contributed even 1 line of code to log4j I would like a cut of the 300k the GOOG guy is going to donate.
It might just be enabled for the front page only, not that it has nothing to do with the post itself. Also because it colors the rank rather than something about the post, and the front page rank is code that runs only on the front page. You could also be right, of course, but it doesn't really seem to fit the evidence.
> You can't have it both ways. Either your working conditions are bad, in which case quit, or your working conditions are "beloved," in which case what are you complaining about?

This makes zero sense. You can be doing a job you love while your boss is a piece of shit. You can be doing a job you love but not getting paid enough for it. You can be doing a job you love but being put at risk while doing it. And a million other things.

Come on, man, you are not this dense.
Refraining from wildly amplifying is not censorship
Not to mention that we now have literal armies dedicated to spreading propaganda and disinformation.
> The compensation model is the problem. It doesn't mesh well with the way corporations function. If you don't charge for your product or services, corporations have no standard mechanism for addressing that some other way.

FSF: Pardon me, here's a little process that encourages sharing so that everyone can...

Corporations: gnawing on a giant proprietary turkey leg Doesn't Mesh Well nom nom nom No Standard Mechanism nom nom nom

**

Corporations: yelling through a mouthful of turkey What in sam hell is Linux why does IBM have a billboard about Linux why don't we have Linux?

Underling: Sir that's open source, our standard licensing mechanism wouldn't...

Corporations: belching through a mouthful of turkey change the goddamned mechanism I want linux and pass me that mayo
Yeah but one uses npm and the other maven.
Nobody is "saving democracy" by denying people the right to participate in the democratic process. In fact, it does quite the opposite by destabilizing the political discourse. The "solution" is to stop trying to control people.
> workers fighting their employers never ends how you think it will.

Absolute factually untrue. Learn from history.
Memories! One of the things I had to do in my first ever job was swap the backup discs in a Vax PDP-11 that ran a big pharmaceutical inventory system. All that time waiting for those huge discs to dismount and re-mount...
Both are terrible things to do. However, doing the second may be more of a deterrence in the long run.

On the gripping hand, holding a laser potentially makes you more of a target than if you use a flash-suppressing sniper rifle.

It's best not to be in the situation in the first place.
https://archive.md/hMeOd
I don't think we need to be this cynical - this could simply be someone who saw the log4j news and was wondering why people use logging nowadays.

Which is, incidentally, a question that I also have.
Posting because I am intrigued by the implications this has on Nuro's outlook (their pitch was to get ahead of competitors by focusing on passenger-less vehicles). Now that Waymo is going to have special-purpose delivery vehicles in 2022 [1], how do Nuro employees feel?

[1] https://www.stellantis.com/en/news/press-releases/2021/decem...?
How much of that was people passing those things off as fact, when there wasn't the evidence to back them up? The problem is, everyone thinks they've become an epidemiologist and virologist over the last 18 months, people jump onto pre-prints that haven't been peer reviewed to push whatever narrative they want - some of the trials that claimed to show Ivermectin as a wonder drug were plagued with badly designed trial protocols, and flat out suspected fraud.

Claiming that it was definitely a lab leak because of furin clevage - saying it with certainty, is most definitely misinformation, the truth is we don't know (and may never). If people say "it could have been a lab leak" (and many people did, without being "censored") that's different.
If I misspoke or offended anyone it was certainly not intentional. The bulk of my comment was based on the linked tweet:

> "Log4j maintainers have been working sleeplessly on mitigation measures; fixes, docs, CVE, replies to inquiries, etc. Yet nothing is stopping people to bash us, for work we aren't paid for..."

I guess that sounded to me like a very small group of isolated volunteers struggling to handle a lot of press and attention along with demands from numerous loud users. I thought perhaps they could have benefited from having some additional support.

My apologies if I unintentionally offended.
> an ethnically integrated China is, in fact, a modern invention linked to the rise of nationalism at the end of the nineteenth century.

This idea is a very sensible one in the context of China being forced to open up to the world. It's like a man, living in wild, has assume he was alone, and have no idea he was actually a male. Until one day he run into a similar creature that is a female.

The undernote of this is that Chinese society is extremely complex. Easily orders of magnitude more complex. Comparing to the US continental, the geographical diversity and the cultural heritage shows such a vast range of changes that one should feel US is probably culturally only equivalent to a typical province in China! They eat differently, speak different in accent and words of expression, have different customs in almost every aspects of the life (child birth, birthdag, marriage, funerals etc etc)...

China is indeed a humongous collective of diverse human communities that defies any singular or universal interpretation.
I call *BULL SHIT**

Backwards compatibility doesn't trump catastrophic failure. Break people's shit to prevent a disaster. The idea that backwards compatibility is more important than safety is moronic. That simple....
Long grain basmati that has aged a couple of years. I dont know if you can find aged basmati in the US.
Oops, that was supposed to be moderator-only. There are lots of complexities like that in the mod UI to help those of us whose job it is to stare at the front page. (I've done a s/are/were/ to the title above to preserve its accuracy.)

In this case, the rank was black when it was the highest rank reached by the story so far.

I'm trying to figure out good visual ways to make use of the information (1) highest rank reached by story; (2) amount of time the story has spent on the front page; (3) amount of time since story reached its highest rank.
You know, you might find it less unsuccessful to engage with the intellectual content rather than distracting from it.
It's great to see more discussion in this space. The way I see it:

1) It's really difficult to donate to Open Source;
2) Companies don't get enough value in exchange for donating – They are businesses and think in dollars & cents;
3) and, Devs much prefer to write code rather than chasing companies for donations & sponsorships.

As a result of these dynamics, OSS is very mispriced at the moment. Unfortunately that is going to impact quality and we shouldn't be surprised by the Log4j bug.
Your understanding is incorrect.

A WARNING means a funnel has been sighted or detected (e.g., by weather radar).

A WATCH means tornadic conditions are highly favourable.

From NOAA:

What is the difference between a Tornado WATCH and a Tornado WARNING?

A Tornado WATCH is issued by the NOAA Storm Prediction Center meteorologists who watch the weather 24/7 across the entire U.S. for weather conditions that are favorable for tornadoes and severe weather. A watch can cover parts of a state or several states. Watch and prepare for severe weather and stay tuned to NOAA Weather Radio to know when warnings are issued.

A Tornado WARNING is issued by your local NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Office meteorologists who watch the weather 24/7 over a designated area. This means a tornado has been reported by spotters or indicated by radar and there is a serious threat to life and property to those in the path of the tornado. A tornado warning indicates that you should ACT NOW to find safe shelter! A warning can cover parts of counties or several counties in the path of danger.

https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/tornadoes/

It's quite likely that either detection (and so sightings) has improved, or that tornados are now more prevalent in actuality. There's good evidence for both.
It's mentioned in their comment history that they're Australian.
The people calling for that have really not thought their positions through. The SV companies have a lot of flaws, but they do appear to be genuine in their belief that their censorship is helping. That is arrogant and not good enough ... but there isn't going to be a better option. The alternatives to them having control enable people who are more arrogant, less able and do more damage when mistakes inevitably get made.
I don't think the body runs BGP. But I am pretty sure it has bandwidth/delay product problems.