skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Rising from the Antarctic, a Climate Alarm"[1] was a much much more interesting article that covered way more than the simple, superficial change in sea-level that this article focuses upon. It talked about the antarctic's impact on carbon-capture/carbon-release, and plenty of other nuanced climate issues. That there's short/medium term threat of this glacier potentially rising sea levels seems pale in comparison to the total net climate impact we could be facing. Where-as this "doomsday" article focuses on a single symptom of the gaian ecosystem being deeply out of whack.

> By some estimates the oceans have taken up about 25 percent of the excess carbon dioxide, and more than 90 percent of the excess heat, that has resulted from burning of fossil fuels and other human activities since the 19th century. But the deep ocean water that upwells around Antarctica contains even more carbon dioxide — not from current emissions, but dissolved over centuries from organic matter including decaying marine organisms, tiny and immense, that sink when they die.

For what it's worth, nearly every article is focused around the ocean-level rises. WaPo article[2] was similar, so was science.org[3] (although some really good details on the situation/research) here.

One random thing I'll note, the science.org article showed a map of the area of concern, & wow, it's remarkable what a vast area of glacier could run out to sea via a relatively-small <200 km ice-wall giving way, failing to retain the continent's ice. It sounds absurd but, like... can we reinforce/build a man made retaining wall?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/climate/antar... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29550920 (9 hours ago, 0 comments)

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/12/1... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29555411 (15 hours ago, 0 comments)

[3] https://www.science.org/content/article/ice-shelf-holding-ba... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29546875 (21 hours ago, 42 comments)
Thank you for your question.

There are virologists and immunologists currently exploring the mutation-space of SARS-CoV-2 for nearly all potential mutations that produce a viable virus capable of infecting human cells. Based on that mutation-space, they're trying to determine if a vaccine regime can exist which can counter all possible mutations of SARS-CoV-2. So far, it looks like it's possible.

Here's a presentation about the work being done at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIcaSqQFrX0
There were warnings here where I live in SW Missouri, but that storm was really just building up when it passed by us. I stood out on our back porch and watched the sky for a few minutes after the alerts went off. It was an amazing light show with the lightning flashing constantly and illuminating the clouds.

I didn't see any funnel clouds but the wind was blasting and the roar of the thunder was more of a constant growling than big booms, which was strange because I could see the lightning strike but not hear the boom.
An exception has a stacktrace. This single piece of information is crucial when you debug and makes handling errors in Golang embarrassing.

I rest my case.
So.... a script to headlessly render a p5js sketch?
As far as I know this was always possible since modules were introduced. You just have to prefix the version tags for Go with the subdirectory in the repo: "my/sub/directory/vX.Y.Z"
"Our vaccines are working exceptionally well. They continue to work well for Delta with regard to severe illness and death - they prevent it, but what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission,"

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky
> Likewise, there's no Microsoft, Google, or FB waiting in the wings to buy up/bury any advancements

Why is "big pharma" not this?
Does Gavin Newsom believe in a 'zero Covid' future?
The author presents the idea that "you may be born into a culture with social practices that you don't understand but that work for your benefit; they may work better if you don't understand them!"

I find this idea a little repellant, but it's something Friedrich Hayek wrote about too. (In my mind Hayek is the person most associated with distributed knowledge.) ~"You may not understand the forces that have led society to be organized the way that it is, but you should respect that sometimes the order of things reflects knowledge you may not have."

One of his essays on this topic was "Individualism: True and False":

"""This brings me to my second point: the necessity, in any complex society in which the effects of anyone’s action reach far beyond his possible range of vision, of the individual submitting to the anonymous and seemingly irrational forces of society—a submission which must include not only the acceptance of rules of behavior as valid without examining what depends in the particular instance on their being observed but also a readiness to adjust himself to changes which may profoundly affect his fortunes and opportunities and the causes of which may be altogether unintelligible to him."""

https://fee.org/articles/individualism-true-and-false/
"This is a display issue only and does not impact trading" https://twitter.com/CoinbaseSupport/status/14708761525038039...
Shouldn't you do DB updates in production in a way that N backend always works at least with N+1 schema? So you just rollback the backend...
Visualize protein sequences with I-PV
Alexandra Elbakyan's Reply to Nature over Sci-Hub “Threat”
You can already bridge NFTs from ethereum to solana and back using wormhole though.
Analogies are a tool used to describe a situation by relating to something more familiar: are premature babies really something all of you "dissenting" voices have experienced? Analogies can trigger all sorts of responses (intellectual and emotional).

Whether you care about the responses of your audience is your choice. I am not disagreeing that my feelings are my own (though they are not a "problem" for me), but I am sharing them for the benefit of those who might care. If you don't, that's "your problem".
some 15-20 years ago most of the big taiwanese electronics manufacturing companies (top tier x86-64 motherboard makers would be a good example) moved a lot of their factory operations to mainland china, for lower cost labor.

it's very interconnected now.

there's a fascinating yearly trade show of taiwanese manufacturers: https://www.computextaipei.com.tw/en/index.html
If you stand by the door asking every woman who walks by if they'd like to go out with you (no, I'm not making this up. It actually happened in college), I'd say that's a bad idea and not going to end well.

If you see someone who's attractive and you managed to strike up a few conversations with them and it seems that they like you, then I'd say that asking them out is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
> We don't really know what happened here

First they said it wasn't going to impact the author's open source work.

Then they started talking about delaying mGBA development until the product was released.

Then they started talking about delaying mGBA development until many months after the product was released.
I’ve been keeping my eye on that and it will probably come closer than anything else to date, but I’m skeptical that it’ll nail everything so long as it’s using Qt. Much of what makes macOS interesting is rooted in Cocoa, so a good macOS clone is going to have to be built in something that’s a close analogue (if perhaps modernized in some ways) to Cocoa.
What do you mean by studying past pandemics?

We did not had that many and I'm not sure but I assume COVID is one of the most studied ones.

Due to our modern technology and the high capital damage.

Certain predictions were expected through pref pandemics like expecting COVID becoming 'normal' like the common cold.
The light reflecting off the Moose's eye was probably mistaken as a headlight.
I wish the antivaxx/snake oil/it's just the flu folks were held to that standard.
At least in Rails, DDL migrations syntax is not really part of the ORM syntax; it's something separate, that mimics SQL.

I recognize and support the advantages of using an ORM in application code, but I find the migrations syntax (which, again, is different) a useless cognitive burden.
I definitely understand the draw of ORMs. The big issue with SQL in most programming languages is the pretty large impedance. It's like writing go in a Java source file. Doable, yes, but not something anyone really likes to do.

However, ORMs can easily cut the other way. So, it's all about making sure you know what you are doing.
transparency is a deflection and most of the implementation is based on lies

many forms of good deeds also rely on secrecy
Are there any onboard cams to watch the deployment after it reaches L2?
I wish they would just triage unvaccinated people below everyone else so hospital capacity would stop being a problem.
I'm pretty sure accton's compal's communications subsidiary
And it's back to normal now.
You had me until the last paragraph. If "smugly" insisting X would make them dig in their heels, what are we supposed to do? Say "Oh of course it's totally in your rights, please send your unvaccinated children to the same school my kids go to"? Because I don't think it will change their minds either.

What happened to "personal responsibility" that these people like so much? If the whole country tells these people to get vaccinated, they don't, and they die, then I don't think I should be held responsible for being smug, or snarky, or whatever.
I recall reading somewhere that some animals get fixated on the lights before they get hit. Perhaps flickering the lights at high speed can get their brains to not zero in on the lights and get out of the way.
> At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further
encroachments on individual liberty

LOL okay I literally can't go any further than the first sentence. Very good much wow so projection.

I like the document title, though. "Microsoft Word - Document1". Very classy.
There are currently trials in the US for a universal influenza vaccine which will counter most possible mutations of the influenza virus: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-launches-c...
This article is a sad way to look at the world
What I find funny: the guy who runs STH frothing at the mouth about a typo. To paraphrase Nick Fury: "Pot, kettle."

The STH guy can't spell to save his life and his grammar is terrible. His sentence structure and general writing skills are about what I would expect from a fourth-grade child.

He also is an incredible drama-llama, making mountains out of molehills; I've seen him do this time and time again.

He sees a misprinted sticker and sees supply chain attacks? Dude. This gear is assembled by people in third world countries making wages that amount to a few dollars a day or less. They don't speak English. They may not even read roman letters. I'd challenge him to do QA on any non-roman alphabet...

I bet someone did notice the stickers, but getting them reprinted (assuming it was caught before assembly started) may have meant a delay. Even a minor delay can be a major, major problem since this stuff is scheduled practically down to the hour in the factories; ditto for shipping deadlines. Or if they were already on assembled boards (or worse, inside assembled equipment) the cost to replace the sticker would be astronomical, with exactly zero value to the vendor or their customers. It's cosmetic.
>if starvation was on the horizon, we'd be able to spin up food production in the places where the climate allowed it,

Ok probably I do tend towards pessimism, but I would suspect that food would go to people who could pay for the food, so like say if your country's economy in the past was very reliant on agriculture and now that agriculture ain't working, you ain't getting any food in from outside - unless we assume that the crisis will make people more humanitarian which maybe it will but still seems to be on the optimistic side.

So I assume people from the hottest regions of the world will probably be hit with more extreme famines than they are used to and lots of those people will die. Since there is a lot of fear of water wars breaking out, not sure if the majority will die from starvation or war.
Tattoos as Moral Contracts
Regarding plan 1, the prenup is the most romantic idea of all. Why? Because you stay together not out of fear, but out of love. Sadly, there are limits to what prenups can do (they can't apply to time-sharing the children, in most states). Note that not getting married is not enough; common law marriage applies if you live together long enough.

As for the rest, it's disturbing and I don't want to think about it. So I won't.
Pinecone does this, at least if I’m understanding your use case right: https://www.pinecone.io/docs/metadata-filtering/

And you’re right, it wasn’t easy to build.
>What exactly is wrong with considering China as the enemy? China is a genocidal, totalitarian state that actively tramples over human rights.

Can that not also be leveraged against the US, and how others feel about it? America is the world's bully or policeman.

>IMO it is the closest thing to pure evil in this world next to the DPRK.

Check out Eritrea, commonly called the North Korea of Africa. They will extort foreign family members for money so they don't kill their family in Eritrea. I know a programmer in Australia, sends lots of money back money to a country he hates so they don’t kill his family. China doesn’t even do that. Of course the US also double taxes. ;)
It's 2-3 generations old at this point. Really wouldn't recommend getting something this old. Comet Lake -> Ice Lake -> Tiger Lake -> Alder Lake (now). The starlabs starbook is quite interesting if you care about coreboot.
Very well. Let me just say that any large company involves humans telling other humans what to do, even if the workers work there "voluntarily". Many people have no choice but to work for such companies.
coinbase finally posted a note:

Display Issue - Non-tradable Assets
Some non-tradable assets on Coinbase.com may display inflated values - this is a display issue only and does not impact trading.
Yeah I was running into the title-length limit unfortunately.

The setting was automatically enabled by default for me after the 96.0.1054.53 update. Users are shown a prompt like [1] that indicates that the setting is active, but users have to go into Settings to turn off the feature.

[1]: https://static.cnbetacdn.com/thumb/article/2021/1112/30d96e0...
>I wouldn't want any part on something as mission critical as getting a rocket to deliver something into orbit.

I hear there's a need for 3rd party libraries to log data.
I’m working in the middle of the field so I might be biased, there’s incredible innovation
The best thing that worked for me is the Apple's tensorflow pluggable device for metal. It could utilize both AMD and M1 GPU to 100% capacity. It's a shame apple could do it as a small project in the side to use metal but AMD couldn't do the same with Vulkan.
Iowa sees something like 40 a year:

https://datacentral.desmoinesregister.com/tornado-archive/
We don't talk about this stuff because we've lost the ability to have honest adult discussions about the cost/benefit of anything that involves not just harm, but risk of harm, let alone death.

There's a classic engineering ethics problem involving an overpass. Build a cheap overpass with a support in the median and eventually someone may die crashing into it. The odds are low and the cost of a bridge with no support is high.

Modern, western, white collar society is unable to look itself in the mirror and say "we're building the cheap bridge" for anything but the most ludicrously extreme cases.

If it wasn't Covid that made this clear it would have been something else.
The author is a part of that 'cult':
- https://dynomight.net/air/
- https://dynomight.net/humidifiers/

So from context I think that the Hobo-Dyer projection and using bromine are both supposed to be superior to current common approaches, but, like ultrasonic humidifiers, normies don't accept these superior new facts even though the arguments for them are strong and flawless.

I still don't get the point of the last two paragraphs in that part.
It's 1% of the whole population, but a much larger percentage of certain political ideologies.
Just like I know I am thinking of an elephant, but I cant "see" an elephant. I know I am thinking about a topic and precise words I am using like what I am typing out now, but I cant "hear" the voice in my head of what I am typing / about to type.

My friends do notice my sometimes weird behaviour of me mumbling something. Which is actually me thinking in my head without me realising I was actually saying it out.
BLM protests took over an area of Seattle called the CHAZ...and stopped all government activities there for days, even the police left.

Still a protest...

Interruption of government activities does not make an insurrection.

The January 6th protest was not even close to a violent overthrow of the government.
Imagine if you lived on a pacific island, too bad I guess ?
This is unclear at the moment, see also https://mobile.twitter.com/trvrb/status/1470420216232374281
Who is this :D mason?
> I feel sorry for them.

Oh good grief. There are 32,768 programming languages. People are free to pick the ones they want to use and nobody wants your pity.
Wait, why wouldn’t it matter for a language? I want to know if I can compile my existing project with the new version… isn’t that an important thing to know?
I mean, c'mon, how can this be real (same company):

https://www.synergisticresearch.com/accessories/turntable/ue...

I'm feeling almost convinced that this is deliberate satire.
2021 Toyota Corolla owner here .. it works well enough, but random reflections off of street signs and such cause them to randomly flick on and off. I wouldn't call high beam assist a "safety feature", but more of a "hey, it's better than nothing". I tend to use my high beams more in scenarios where it would have been too annoying to turn them on and off, so it's net safer. If that makes sense. I wouldn't classify this article as news ... it's sort of a given that this technology is a bit iffy?

For that matter, the Toyota lane keeping is one of the better and safer ones that I've driven, but it flakes out and gives up way too easily to rely on (a small gap in the line and it disables, as opposed to trying to push you into curbs). Again, just a "better than nothing" experience that can be useful on the tail end of a long drive. In the case of Queensland -> Melbourne, the car was the better driver at the end.

The street sign reader, speed warning and rear cross assist is absolute black magic and I have no idea how it's so reliable!
Very interesting. I’m running PopOS on my framework, running Wayland— the touchpad gestures is very good. But still not up to par with MacBook. I’m extremely curious as to how this compares.

I think it’s both PopOS’s gestures as well as the hardware (the framework touchpad is quite good!) that has resulted in such a fantastic experience, at least compared to other laptop touchpads I’ve used. Definitely the closest to MacBook gestures I’ve experienced.

I’m working on getting an eGPU setup going so I can properly run X instead of Wayland, and am very excited to try this out.

(Please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is Wayland if you’re running integrated graphics, X if you have a GPU)
(disclaimer, I work at Wolfram Research)

I'd love more tools for using TeX and markdown. There are a few but they're not really given as a first choice anywhere.

About MathML... I mean I'm also not a fan. I'm not sure anyone really is. I've been cursed to work with it in some legacy pages. I love using mathjax. I'm not familiar at all with the two people who from the company who worked on it or that project. But I think it's going a bit far to think that MathML was nefarious corporate plot to manipulate the W3C. (0) MathML doesn't interoperate with WolframLanguage in any particularly great or exclusive way. (1) MathML makes more sense for the time period it was introduced than it does now. Mathjax is technology I don't think people foresaw at the time (Reparsing the DOM and injecting some kind of formatted math notation?!) People really thought math notation would need to be expressed in an XML like format. The other option at the time afaik was static images you'd generate from LaTeX and insert into your document. (2) TeX is a language for typesetting math in a paper and people thought we'd need something that went deeper, representing something closer to the intended semantics of the notation. This was probably a mistake.

Afaik MathML didn't make it harder for people to use TeX on the web.
One of my old motorcycles had a disk brake in the front, and drum brake in the back. And as expected, most of the time I only used my front brake. The rear brake was nearly always only used once I was already stopped so I could take my hands off the bar, or if I had to stop really fast (to keep the bike from trying to do a stoppy). My most recent bike had disks on front and back, and I thought the rear brake disk was a tad overkill. So this combination has precedence already.
I worked on interactive software for learning Japanese in Hypercard many years ago. I think it's still the most productive system for building user interfaces I've encountered.
I kind of understand what you mean, as it's similar to what happened with prototypes and the late-comer class syntax in JavaScript, and in that case, it was a net positive change as most would probably say.

Let's see how this plays out.
Not sure that I agree that it "does not impact trading" since so much trading is done by bots / algorithms these days. Bad data definitely impacts trading.

I think what they mean is that no one can actually sell for these inflated prices, since each trade requires two parties, and no one is buying at these prices.
It seems like it would be reasonably straightforward to create a hypercard clone on top of js and the DOM. Or maybe that's already been done? (a lazy search did not reveal this to be the case).
It makes no sense to replace a meaningful and helpful criterion - whether it breaks code or not - by some purely subjective assessment of what's a "major change." That just leads to usual version creep, from "Go 2.2" to "Go 3.0", to "Go 4.0", to (inevitable) "Go 10", "Go 11", "Go 11 Pro", "Go 11 Ultimate Edition",...
> There are virologists and immunologists currently exploring the mutation-space of SARS-CoV-2 for nearly all potential mutations that produce a viable virus capable of infecting human cells. Based on that mutation-space, they're trying to determine if a vaccine regime can exist which can counter all possible mutations of SARS-CoV-2. So far, it looks like it's possible.

Well, that would be just awesome! Any chance for similar pan-effective vaccines for other viruses?

It would be pretty cool if COVID-19 ended up having the silver lining of enabling a step-function improvement in vaccine technology.
> I'm afraid we've completely forgotten to separate the means from the end goal.

I'm afraid we've completely forgotten "the ends don't justify the means". ;)
> and if I want to know where an error come from, I need to wrap it in an errors.New() because no exceptions = no stacktrace

Zig manages to provide traces with very little overhead:

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Error-Return-Trace...

I am baffled as to why error handling in Go remains so impoverished.