skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, this got me really curious about the science behind this assertion. After starting to dig, I found the Wiki on the Twaites Ice Shelf [1] has this statement:

"However, complete melting of Thwaites Glacier, which would increase global sea levels by 65 cm or 2 feet, is unlikely to occur for many centuries."

How much hotter overall on the planet would the temperature have to rise for that polar Glacier to become totally melted? I found these temperature averages for Antartica:

"At the South Pole, 2,800 meters (9,200 feet) above sea level, the average annual temperature is -49 °C (-56 °F), ranging from about -28 °C (-18 °F) in January to about -59.5 °C (-74.5 °F) in July. The lowest recorded temperature is -83 °C (-117 °F), while the highest is -12 °C (10 °F)." [2]

So, basically, we'd have to get an average temperature increase on the planet of (ballpark figure) 40 °F for the Glacier to start melting overall. I say this, because I am assuming that the current area of the glacier that melts is where it meets the ocean.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thwaites_Ice_Shelf
2. https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/antarctica
I was specifically thinking about the politicization of protection and treatment. The economic impact was definitely always going to be a debate but basic safety measures like masks and vaccination didn’t used to be a strongly partisan issue (think about how American doctors historically leaned Republican for tax reasons).

Different countries matter less in the internet era, too. In the English-speaking world, the Murdoch media set the message in the US & UK, of course, but these days that spreads quickly outside of national borders and it was easy to see those messages jump to other language communities on social media. This was especially accelerated by the early recognition of certain risk factors which were compatible with the strong man posturing common to a lot of right-wing ideology.
You can host the webfont yourself. And an email contact form doesn’t require a cookie banner.
I feel like this is the most illuminating comment in this thread, so, thank you.

That said, if I can choose between receiving $600k in cash today, and receiving $600k worth of public company stock today with restrictions on when I can sell it, then I will choose the cash, because it is worth AT LEAST AS MUCH as the public company stock (because, again, cash is freely exchangeable to public company stock without restrictions, and the opposite does not hold true in this hypothetical).
I'm with DHH 100%. TDD is a form of premature optimization where you are prematurely optimizing for code coverage. In the early stages, requirements rapidly change and writing twice the amount of code for modules that will ultimately be sent to the trash is insane. TDD proponents are so ridiculously dogmatic and drunk on Kool-Aid that they won't even listen to someone with a pragmatic approach to testing.
Why is this even a service that needs to be offloaded to a third party? Implementing this properly obviously requires a ton of work, and no site is going to be able to dodge it by simply putting a banner service in front.

Using these automated services that pretend to "automatically" block various categories of cookies is also a ripoof. They use simple keyword searches and similar to try to establish whether a specific script is used for statistics, preferences, etc.

A properly implemented banner (i.e. hand-crafted for the site, and obviously updated each time any script is updated) would be pretty expensive to create and maintain. But if one doesn't see that as one of the key purposes of the law (i.e. push web sites towards using fewer of them because the technological and legal overhead is costlier than whatever the gain is) then I think it's being read a bit naively.
I love these one domain one function web apps.

Can't say I will use it, but good on you for rolling it out.
just Googled the three line equals sign and apparently that means identical to instead of simply equals to.

I can see this in the context of programming objects.

How does this apply in the context of math which is all primitives (in my understanding)
Pre-covid, if you picked a random hospital at a random point in time in the U.S. there was a 16% chance it would be at max capacity and something like a 30% chance it would be over 80% capacity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840149/

It amazes me that hospitals are shutting down, healthcare worker numbers have barely recovered to 2018 numbers, bed capacity is shrinking in many areas and even still people think we have a healthcare crisis.

We've created 80% of all dollars ever created in the past two years. We have the money. It seems obvious (to me, anyways) our healthcare spending would explode in that sector and solve simple issues like capacity and worker shortage, if in fact that was an issue to begin with.
A superb article. Integrity design is essential and woefully unpracticed by the entire tech industry. It's all about the engagement sadly.

https://integrityinstitute.org

There is a lot to be done. A whole lot.
Some things I forgot to mention:

- In "Compared to a video with aliasing", I meant "compared to a video with spectral replication".

- I'm surprised that this song's "synth female choir" sounds practically identical to the choir samples I've heard in SNES games. Though it makes sense, considering SNES music comes from the same era and had similar size restrictions, requiring cutting down samples and reusing them across wide pitch ranges.

And a question to the composer: When I downloaded the .mod, looped the sample 3 times in Audacity (joining the seams), and switched the track to spectrogram mode, I saw spectral discontinuities (more energy than expected in between harmonics, at multiple frequencies, both low and high) at ~19084 samples (the loop point) and ~14501 samples. Is this second discontinuity the point you began the crossfade?

(When I opened the .mod in OpenMPT, it said the loop point was at sample 2. I tried looping the sample from Sample 2 in Audacity, but this resulted in a far more prominent spectral discontinuity and an audible click upon looping. Oddly OpenMPT wouldn't let me set the loop start to any position below 58.)
I tend to agree with the author of the article. Somewhere along the way, term devops changed its meaning. Initially, devops symbolized a way of working and a multi-disciplinary team. Nicely captured in [1]:

> Under a DevOps model, development and operations teams are no longer “siloed. Sometimes, these two teams are merged into a single team where the engineers work across the entire application lifecycle, from development and test to deployment to operations, and develop a range of skills not limited to a single function.

Today, devops is often used to describe the engineering role very similar to the classic system administrator. I guess this is mostly because it sounds "more modern" and it's more attractive.

But, the comments in this thread made me aware that there indeed is a role that's focused only on serving developer needs. I guess we could call an engineer a devops engineer if their job is only to build and maintain system tools for developers.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/devops/what-is-devops/
I don't think it's really comparable - as the rules at play here are designed to protect the privacy of EU persons. There are plenty of things that I could buy from parts of the US that are considered unsafe in the EU for example, and so it is forbidden for me to engage in trade and get them. They would (theoretically) be confiscated at a border.

Despite some politicians best efforts and desires, there's no practical way to stop someone 'importing' privacy damaging web traffic, so the risk of non-compliance is being loaded onto foreign website operators. Therefore should a US website desire to follow EU laws, there would be no restriction on them being accessible to EU people.
From the FAQ:

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Yes, that would be correct, under the assumption of a lowpass filter. As I've just mentioned elsewhere in the thread, though, I don't think kalal accepted that there was a lowpass filter involved, and even stated such, indirectly, and without that it's easy to have a delayed subtraction that amplifies higher frequencies, as in the image example kalal gave.
On a sidenote but regarding VPN's, I have never encountered anyone who could make an argument against choosing Mullvad.

If you have very specific needs, there might be something better than it. But no one ever got burned by choosing Mullvad.
This would work if cookies was the only way to track people. There is also localStorage, ETag (and other cache-oriendted methods), fingerprinting, owning a browser, etc.

What we need is a low that forces websites to obey the "do not track" header.
> For instance, how can one be guilty of a crime if one had no choice in committing it?

Guilty is a social concept derived from the assumption that some events in the universe are "bad"

> Why try at anything if you have no choice — everything that will happen was decided at the universe’s origin and is merely playing out.

> It’s nihilism to the extreme.

Realising that there is no free will is not smth negative or positive. It's just smth which sets your further path which had no other purpose but spreading Life in the universe
clickbait.

this has nothing to do with the speed, it has to do with quality of information and implementation of it. there are people that never absorb anything or implement anything.

I can relate to Mike as well, I was one of those people that always had a side project hoping it would magically get big enough for me to quit my day job. No book helped with that, what did help was that I was at a company that ran out of money and eventually let my division off. I was raising capital on my lunch breaks and that was inefficient, so I realized that I actually didn't need to look for another job for once, and continued raising capital full time.

Capital made the next project big enough, and it was non-dilutive capital too, which skips any organic side project growth hopes.

So there should actually be more sympathy for the Mikes of the world. They are too comfortable, (or perhaps uncomfortable), to quit their job no matter what they learn.
I'm not disagreeing, but trying to turn this forum into a support line is a little selfish. Complete with the "aww but I'm a mommy" and "I talk to dead people" and oh hey maybe one of you hacker types might work at Facebook per chance? please.

You know who doesn't get help from HN for Facebook problems? EVERYONE ELSE
heh. I've lived in Spain too.
j/k. sort of.
But actually I did live in Spain, and some of my best friends were Shia, Sunni and Druze, and our discussions over drinks would terrify the hell out of the Spanish or English seated nearby. And then we'd go get a shawarma.
This is an attitude of making yourself relatable and human towards making friends and knowing people intimately - it's as a form of self defense, or just realism - that I seem preprogrammed to do. It's a nice part of my day, too. My grandfather never owned a gun. He had talked and romanced his way out of too many deadly situations. He believed being human to others was the only way to survive.

This whole internet of naifs is going towards a place where they're willing to slaughter before knowing each other, so it's helpful to have real world experience how to make friends.
Are you sure about that? I thought repossession of collateral from a defaulted loan is a basic part of cultures with both common and code law.

https://www.frenchentree.com/french-property/law/so-you-cant...

What happens if you don't pay your mortgage where you live?
Article notes:

a ≡ b (mod n) means that there is an integer x such that a + nx = b. A more intuitive explanation is that the reminder of a / n equals the reminder of b / n.
SIM swapping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam
Typescript is fundamentally bad for this because the type system does not exist at runtime. I’ve yet to find one I like so I just hand roll both typings and JSON schema. Particularly because I want the schema for other languages too.
Bsh: undefined command paint.exe
When I saw the 200/hour pricing I thought "that actually sounds reasonable", but how is 699/month for unlimited review going to work out?
Even weirder! MacOS?
No, if you don't pay for it then it's the bank's car.

It's like saying "the super stole my TV!!" when actually the super just let the police in with a search warrant, and they took the TV you stole down to the station.
> Postulating that there's an additional entity dependent on the wavefunction that "is" the real world (as e.g. pilot-wave theories do) is violating Occam's Razor.

Not really, because in Bohmian mechanics the wave function is nomological, ie. not real, and merely describes a law of motion. Bohmian mechanics is kind of the dual of many worlds in this sense, and so requires no more postulates.

> There are, but again, all interpretations have that problem

Since you mentioned Bohmian mechanics, the Born rule was derived from the postulates a long time ago, and the Bohmian form of Schrodinger's equation is structured in a such a way that the quantum component goes to zero in the limit, thus reducing to classical mechanics.
I agree with your sentiment, but RSS and the likes are not 'the same old weapon but better'. It was never 'weaponized' in the first place. It never really came to fruition for the masses. To me, RSS is like two sticks and a string, and it needs some people who can see that they can make a bow and arrow out of it (to stay in the realm of 'weapons').

I don't like talking about tech and business in a sense of 'weapons', 'winning', 'smashing the competition', etc. Talking about it in this sense makes it a struggle, because one will look at tech from the pov of a stockholder, capitalist, or just a narcissist. The wording is very important, and the moment you make that wording your own, you can't see it in a different light anymore.

To be honest, it's only since recently that I myself take RSS seriously. Before, I developed a sh1tload of websites without even really knowing what RSS is capable of. Ignorant me.

Thanks for your reply!
I'm honestly not sure if this is satire or not.

> Static was a fun diversion, but we're back to what works.

Static works really well for many use cases. And you are never going to beat the performance of static in a cache close to your user. I agree that there are many cases where server-rendered is the best option but static with a good sprinkling of JS and server-generated embeds definitely works.

> Tailwind CSS is the best thing to ever happen to CSS

This is obviously controversial. Maybe for non-static websites where every `<p>` in your site is generated from the same line of code it is trivial to add `class="m-4 text-gray-900"` when I may use the same component in multiple places that gets boring really fast.

> GitHub Copilot

Maybe if you weren't writing `m-2` on every p this wouldn't be as helpful /s

Maybe I haven't seen the light yet, but in most weakly-typed languages Copilot felt like a huge loaded footgun. It also generally worked on the simple cases that didn't require much work anyways.

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I think it is clear that this person found an approach that works for them, but it seems like there is still a lot of from for improvement here.
In th elast sentence hear → get (autocorrect...). Sorry cannot edit anymore.
You don't need a plugin to increase/decrease speed, the following bookmarklet works for most sites to increase speed by 10%:

javascript:(function(){ let speed =[...document.querySelectorAll('audio,video')].filter(v => v.currentTime > 0)[0].playbackRate += .10; console.log('media speed', speed); })()
I'm just going to say it. There isn't a lot you can do.

Not to be harsh but Facebook doesn't care that you're a mom, have two or ten daughters, what you've used it for, etc. This is a well known issue with tech giants, and because they give away their services for free in exchange for advertisements, you don't have a lot of recourse when trying to get other parties to help you on this.

> I am so upset because I have so many memories on the account with my Grandma and Grandad (both deceased), photos and videos of my two young daughters growing up, as well as many others.

Very big mistake. Facebook is not a government or public-owned entity, they are a private company. This doesn't help you get anything back, but in the future NEVER have the only copy of anything important on a single service. You should have a computer or USB drive (you can get them for iPhones) and store your important photos and pictures on it. At the very least make sure your important photos, pictures, etc. are on another non-Facebook service like Google Drive.

There's a lot of talk about what Facebook should do and other sympathizing/emotionalizing on this thread, but none of that is going to make Facebook do anything different.

- Factory reset your home router and update the password on it to a secure one. Get your ISP or a tech-savvy friend to help you with this.

- Work with someone tech-savvy to save the data on your home PC if you use one and reinstall the operating system. If your PC had any malware spying on you this will take care of it.

- It wouldn't be too bad to treat this like an identity theft situation. Update every password to every account you use - email, banks, etc. It's a good time to go through any online services you use and disable/delete accounts you don't use.

- Prepare for the possibility you may not get access to this account again. If someone else you know has access to your profile you should be able to download pictures and videos from that account from a computer.

- If work requires you to have a Facebook account, the only thing you can really do is try to make another one. Do this from a work computer if you can.

- If you primarily used Facebook to talk with family, try to get everyone on an alternate platform, such as Whatsapp or Telegram. I would also start collecting more direct methods of contact such as phone numbers and email addresses and make sure your phone contacts are up to date. Facebook can't take these away from you.
OP here: Due to HN limit on the length of post, I had to cut down the details to about 4000 characters. I skipped tech used, a lot more details about the applications and the timeline.

Now I am 36 year old and as stated in the post, I am giving yet another shot with https://blanq.io with a hope of succeeding this time.
Ask the author maybe, since the tweet says "Their SA data are ours"

Tom Moultrie http://www.care.uct.ac.za/care/staff-members

UCT = University of Cape Town, South Africa.
I want to emphasize that I said "making it so that nobody can take Algebra 'early'", i.e. California education bureaucrats are in the process, moving in that direction. They have not succeeded or completed the process. (In retrospect, I wish I had said "far fewer" rather than "nobody", as I cannot read their minds to determine if they are against anyone in California taking Algebra before 9th grade. However, the possible slight exaggeration does not affect the substance of the claim.)

I insist upon the precise nature of my claim because its precision is what makes it correct. So many in these comments imply that the changes proposed in the California Mathematics Framework (CMF) are hopelessly "complex" and impossible to understand for the layman, and so therefore we should trust the experts and not attempt to make any factual statement whatsoever about what is in the CMF. This is encouraged by the CMF itself, which is 800 pages long and does everything in its power to deny that it is anything in particular, merely generally wonderful [1]. This is smokescreening, obscurantism, credentialism, and most of all elitism. I do not accept it. It is absurd and anti-citizen democracy to insinuate that ordinary citizens are incompetent to understand and opine on math curricula.

All that said, please read this, and links therein: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6146

Select passages follow. Again, please follow the links in the original for details:

> ...the CMF encourages schools to stop offering Algebra I in middle school, while placing obstacles (such as doubling-up, compressed courses, or outside-of-school private courses) in the way of those who want to take advanced math in higher grades. When similar reforms were implemented in San Francisco, they resulted in an “inequitable patchwork scheme” of workarounds that affluent students could access but that their less privileged counterparts could not. The CMF also promotes trendy and shallow courses (such as a nearly math-free version of “data science”) as recommended alternatives to foundational mathematical courses such as Algebra and Calculus. These courses do not prepare students even for careers in data science itself!

> The CMF states that “many students, parents, and teachers encourage acceleration beginning in grade eight (or sooner) because of mistaken beliefs that Calculus is an important high school goal.” Students, parents, and teachers are not mistaken. Neither is the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), which set in 2015 a goal to double the number of African American students taking calculus by 2025. Calculus is not the only goal of K-12 math education, but it is important for students who wish to prepare for STEM in college and beyond.

See also:

[1] "Ra" -- the quality, embodied by the CMF, of aspiring to general wonderfulness while evading being pinned down with any specifics https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/ra/

[2] The shoddy and sometimes outright fraudulent statistics supporting the CMF https://www.familiesforsanfrancisco.com/updates/inequity-in-...
You appear to presuppose that a name is necessary. In plenty of places it's perfectly fine to have a bell with just a number.
I'm quite disappointed you didn't press charges to he honest, (s)he must've understood perfectly what (s)he was doing and the consequences, yet he still did it. And you're likely not the only person abused like that.

Yes there are loads of nice appreciative collectors and they are doing us a service, it's just sad when the predators come and ruin it.
>I want to know why they never fully investigate why there is such a disparity of outcomes between people who catch SARS2.

It's been, and is being very intensively investigated. We know an awful lot about some aspects of it, but the factors that lead to different immune system responses are very difficult to figure out despite many decades of research into the mechanisms.

In the first instance, the specific sites and pathways in the body the virus initially infects and propagates through make a big difference. It might initially infect the nasal passage, throat, lungs or even the nervous system. Even the specific sites in those areas and the initial viral load make a big difference to the progression of the disease.

As the infection spreads the many, many different combinations of which systems in the body are infected, in what order, how severely and in combination with what stages in the immune response, together with the weaknesses and strengths of different systems in an individual leads to a massive explosion in the number of possible different scenarios and hence likely outcomes.

A big problem though is our limited understanding of the various failure modes of the immune system, or at least in our ability to manage it. Inflamation is our immune system causing collateral damage to our own bodies. There are many, many diseases related to this and they can all be extremely difficult to treat.
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