skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an environmental studies major. My father fought in the front lines of two wars (edit: including WW2) and was twice decorated.

I'm one of the annoyingly upbeat people saying things like "We don't actually know that. We don't actually have as much hard data on historical climate as we pretend we do. If you think we know what's going on here, you have much more faith in human mental models than I have."

Actual temperature recordings by humans go back to about 1850 and we were delayed in discovering the hole in the ozone because our computers were told to disregard "zero" as an error in the data.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record

We have mental models for the climate based on things like ice cores and inference but, no, we don't actually know and Jurassic Park is silly not because of the genetics but because the atmosphere was thicker back then. We know that because dragonflies and the like were huge, with two foot wingspans and our current atmosphere would not support them in terms of respiration and probably not let them fly, as a guess.

The respiratory system of dinosaurs likely would be insufficient to support them in this day and age because the atmosphere is too thin. They would gasp for air like a fish out of water.

This detail is generally overlooked and typically mocked and dismissed if you bring it up.

General understanding of past climate on earth is not as sure fire "We know this for a fact" as humans like to imagine. There is a lot we don't know and one of the truisms about actual science is that real science is open to learning "We were wrong. It doesn't actually work that way."

Science is our current best understanding of reality and it is full of incomplete info, erroneous ideas, etc and anyone who is actually rational actually knows that.

And anyone who actually knows anything about people and getting things done in this world -- like businessmen -- knows that if you don't bother to try to fix it, it doesn't get fixed. If you run around screaming "The sky is falling!" and trying to prove that and convince everyone you are right, that tends to be self fulfilling prophecy.

So if one is actually concerned about the future, one focuses on solutions, not on hand wringing.

The world has been on the brink before and survived it. What humans broke they can sometimes unbreak. But that doesn't happen if your only goal is to convince everyone "We broke it and it can't be fixed."
My use of the term privatized means a defense sector that can sell its weapons to anyone who can pay for them. I think that's far-fetched.

Rather I'm arguing that the person capable of building hard tech might be lured to build dumb tech if the pay is better. Some people do it for patriotism, some for the challenge, but some just do it for the money.
I think that attitude is in itself completely a cultural product of the sort that Dan talks about, and which Mark Fisher lamented when he talked about the consequence of the neoliberal era to cancel any concept of the future.

A little over a hundred years ago we hadn't invented flight. We probably have many thousands of years left. Who says there's no way to build a city that makes our cities look the same way we look at a medieval town? Our 'developed' world is boring and stagnant because we've made a choice to not push towards the future, and instead relive the 80s pop culture in VR.
Attention to detail is literally one of the four symptoms of OCD.

You're just being deliberately antagonistic.
I guess you were triggered?
I'm full-time exploring VR, video, and some hard tech problems, primarily using rust.

A few things I'm poking around with:

- VR molecule visualization in bevy (a la pymol)

- real-time video production also in bevy

- VR instruments

Based in SF, always down to chat with people with similar interests!
People actually think Google is going to just close shop on something like this?
Has Google ever closed a big service that had real paying customers?
Ah, Thunder Bay. That is one of the nicer spots that I've visited. Lake Superior is more like an inland sea and Thunder Bay is on of the best spots on the lake.

The chances of me coming back to Canada are very, very low. Another country in Europe however, especially one of the Nordics or the Baltics, that might just happen.
So you're willing to pay to keep anti-vaxxer's alive right? You're willing to pay for their housing, food, healthcare, etc. so long as you can keep them away from everyone else?

Honest question.
Why would someone want to try that?

In Copenhagen, I can walk to several grocery stores in 5 minutes.

Although since my 15 minute cycle to work takes me directly past seven (yes, seven) grocery stores, I usually stop at one of them on the way home from work. It is essentially like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYHTzqHIngk
Ah yes, I see now how that sentence works. Thank you for pointing that out.
Ask HN: Any New Years' Resolutions?
Every time a new year starts it's common to have some long goals for the year, maybe fitness-related, or new tech you wanna learn, or for your current projects.

What are your resolution for 2022? Both tech related, and non tech ones?
Rather than they “used to build cities this way”, perhaps it just takes centuries for cities to evolve to a good form.
Don't mean to detract or go off topic, but the first thing that popped into my mind reading the title: "What if cars could stop you from driving as C19 positive?"
They usually “do” but very long lived - every time my modem died I got a new prefix. Lightning.
Bill Gate's book has a good summary of the technical challenges and the scientific and engineering needs. It's an easy read and I highly suggest it.
> What can the NET stand for?

No Elven Taskmasters
I am interested in discussing maths. You might want to add an email in your profile for contact. You can find mine there !
Yeah. Here is the manual. https://manualzz.com/doc/7054597/nukalerter-manual

From the manual:

Gamma Sensitivity: 18 counts/sec @ 1mR/hr (10μSv/hr)
Accuracy (Cs137): ± 20% background through 600R/hr
Saturation: No saturation below 1000R/hr
Background: <10 counts/minute (Shielded)

Downvote me all you want this isn't useful unless shit gets real.

Here is an interesting paper on gamma-ray monitoring:

https://www.osti.gov/pages/servlets/purl/1356898

Here is [ostensibly]: some specs on the 7121 dectetor the "Nukalert" shitty USB product is based on: https://www.lndinc.com/products/geiger-mueller-tubes/712-2/
I do the same thing; really nice for those things you just can’t put behind a VPN for one reason or another.
> I dislike most of the red apples, especially the ones you can find in malls

My dad likes Starkrimson. I did not but he gave me a big bag of them mixed with Florina so I find them eatable now, after eating all the Florinas. The juice is great though. Not that acidic. My favourite for eating is Fuji but I also like Gala and Florina. It seems like most of apples we eat in Eastern Europe are in fact intended for cooking? Normaly I'll get them from my family's orchards or the farmer market. Jonatan and Jonagod is really common here, but too acidic for eating raw, great for apple pie.

I don't remember trying Antonovka but we sometimes do get a fair share of Polish apples in the supermarket. I'll look for it. But if it is anything like Granny Smith I'll probably dislike it.
You're talking about Portland, OR.
I often read people mentioning this ridiculous affirmation about pedophilia in Japan, but I'm still not sure where it comes from.
Several vaccines are already mandated for a variety of travel to countries, jobs etc.

Covid is not new in that regard and all this nonsense about an “intolerable precedent” is ridiculous. The precedent has been around with us for a long time and we’ve been fine with it. The only reason this comes up now is because of increased visibility on it.
Some people treat messaging as having a sync social contract. I’ve had a few people ask me within a min why I’m not responding. I’ve had to set expectations and they thought I was weird.
The Sherlock Holmes case is the one I was reminded of as well. With such high impact fictional characters it took years, spread over a range of published works, to establish the quintessence and backstory people know them by now (not that Mickey Mouse has many redeeming qualities beyond being instantly recognizable).

That said, I'm looking forward to a potential noir detective reimagining of Pooh. I hope they don't do the zombie thing though; that feels overdone by now.
> help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org

What happened to the orphanage in Uganda? Not a criticism, just curious about the change. It's fantastic that Bram uses Vim's platform to lead and encourage others to support those in need.
Author mentions internal tools, so I assume they already have a user database they integrate with on the back-end? LDAP or similar.
I've been paying excellent attention, the panel efficiency for the various crystal lattices and layering combinations has hardly moved in the last decade. A little bit here, a little bit there.

Sure the price has come down, but that wasn't what this was about.

Also, I think the tone of your comment could be a lot better than it is.
You can induce the phantom wiggle by looking at a matrix scanned 7-segment display and making motorboat sounds that vibrate your head.
I'm curious what the evidence is that it's not mostly old people with too much money and handful of young influncers.
Yeah, I can definitely relate with you on that point.

I grew up in a mid-size suburban town where I knew many families in my neighborhood and generally felt a strong sense of community. I’ve lived in various cities over the years since, and I’ve never quite felt the same connection with my immediate neighbors. I still know and identify with many people in the area I live now, but they’re much more interspersed.
I've always found the 90-9-1 rule fascinating. Especially when considering anonymous or semi-anonymous forums such as Hacker News or Reddit. These sites have large audiences and don't require users to log in. Therefore, they have an incredible amount of "lurkers" who do not comment, post, or vote. I think voting is an important aspect of content curation. So if a type of individual is more likely to vote, then that type of content will be more prevalent even if it is not necessarily the content the 90% want to see. But they're not voting so they're irrelevant.

In turn, the users who do actively post and comment have an amplified affect on what the 90% actually see. I find this to be particularly interesting when the culture of a userbase changes. I've been a long time user of Reddit, however rarely am I ever logged in. Overtime, I've felt that the culture of Reddit has changed to be much more liberal with posting low-effort comments. Many new users post on every post they see, while a previous generation of users may have dismissed that kind of behavior as being "Facebook-like" behavior. I think it may be another factor in the age old rule that the larger a site grows, the more the quality of discussion drops.
Is there something deeper here, or only Ripple’s attempt to whitewash its reputation after the SEC lawsuit?
It is not going to be a little warmer: do you know about averages? Two degree higher average temperatures means many European forests will burn and not recuperate. With four, even Ireland desertifies. Climate change is only just getting started, by the time people like you realize action is needed, it will be much too much too late. The movie "don't look up" comes to mind.
I think it is closer to investing 70% for a 10 year target, actually. And that is a pretty "great case" scenario.
>proof of stake coins with multibillion dollar valuations

I can mint a billion PoS shitcoins and sell myself one for ten dollars and suddenly, I have a valuation of ten billion. That doesn't make it less of a shitcoin. Every PoS coin is one such shitcoin.
The implied comparison of the accuracy of orbital mechanics with that of climate prediction is absurdist.
You can try the synthesizer and other audio code if you're using Linux.

Here's an earlier version of the synthesizer (licensed under AGPL3). The MIDI CCs for controlling different parameters are listed in the source code. You'd want to clone the repo, run through the installation instructions in the mb-sound repo, do a bundle update mb-sound, then run bundle exec bin/complex_synth.rb. https://github.com/mike-bourgeous/mb-surround/blob/3823de44a...

Here's the core sound repo (licensed under BSD) with some examples for getting started: https://github.com/mike-bourgeous/mb-sound

I don't plan on making the visualizations available, in part because the system is too convoluted and they probably only work in my specific environment.
Yes I'm aware, I've had to debayer imagery from industrial cameras and worked on media forensics. I think we are on the same page but commenting past each other.

The problem is vendors all seem to have their own definition of what RAW means nowadays. But the typical meaning is one with the raw pixels via color filter array (eg bayer8), and need debayering (to get the usual rgb8).

You can have raw/Bayer Tiffs, I've worked with them. So the file format is not enough, you gotta know the image encoding.

"RAW just means uncompressed" yes that is technically wrong, but the point I'm addressing is "You can still manipulate a RAW image" and "without the painting-like qualities of its default image processing." It does not matter what the color encoding is, you can still do painting-like processing. I've literally worked on detectors that detect manipulation of RAW, Bayer array images. This is not theoretical.

I guess what I am saying is, Apple giving the user a raw/.dng file is not a guarantee you are actually getting the ADC output straight from the sensor.

Really, the operant question is "what is the processing provenance of this image".
Sucking a statistic out of thin air, I'd be amazed if you can get 1% of people to even be aware of copyright terms, much less feel politically motivated to spend political capital fighting Disney.

It's the easiest lobbying in the world to extend copyright terms. There are waaay more important one-issue topics on the table than to worry about mickey mouse.

If Disney wants to extend it, they will. And if they do there might be 15 seconds of bad press, then the next big story will come along...
But still, why reinvent the wheel? There are plenty of libraries, even services available that do what you want.
Probably true. I’m not suggesting it for your enterprise project. I’m just trying to remove personal roadblocks so I can test an MVP before I invest too much development time.
This guy ponders whether the Beluga can be converted to a huge passenger plane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AySkO26_PR4

It actually can't lift the huge load. The Boeing dreamlifeter is better at it
For those of us used to degrees F, keep this in mind:

10 C ~= 50 F

20 C ~= 68 F

30 C ~= 86 F

So 15 C is about 59 degrees F.
The old joke "Every program grows until it can send email, except for Microsoft Exchange" is still true on 1/1/22.
The Marine Corps Is Rapidly Forcing Out Vaccine Refusers, as Promised
This is great for small projects and services that have just a few users and an easy way to change passwords and create/delete accounts directly in the backend. It’s secure (although you must use HTTPS) and is very easy and fast to use, especially if you have a password manager that automatically fills out the login form.
I say the same thing about 3.3. See my comments with Jasper.

I actually consider dealing with buffers and shaders to be far nicer and clearer than dealing with the old 1.x style API but I suppose for someone already intimately familiar with it that might not be the case.

I understand if someone already has an existing codebase that uses the old stuff, but if you were starting a project from scratch it really isn't that hard to use 3.3+. And once you do it once, you never have to think about the setup process again, you already have your helper functions for loading shaders and other things. You don't even have to write your own, there are so many helper libraries out there, and things like GLM to give you every math related thing you'd ever need.
Nvidia can design and manufacture asics too you know. Likely they have enough expertise to revolutionize the asic market as you know it, using the 3nm process at tsmc.

Since Bitmain asics are currently being made at around 16nm nodes, using 3nm process that Nvidia has access to - think about that for a bit.
If I remember this correctly, you send a request with incorrect credentials either via javascript, or by sending the user to a "/logout"-endpoint where you disallow any authentication credentials, causing the browser to prompt the user for a new username and password. This not great in terms of UX and depending on something implicit for something as important as logging out does not seem great for security.

Why browsers do not have better functionality built in for authentication is something that's always been a bit baffling...
Did you even read the post?
A New Ban on Surprise Medical Bills Starts Today
I'd say if they don't form an ordered field, they shouldn't be called "numbers". The complex numbers really ought to be called an algebra, not numbers. They're the dimension-2 Cayley-Dickson algebra, after all!
The assumption here is that you have enough of a functioning state with enough security to have things like "cellphone towers" and "electricity" and "IC manufacturing" while not having the ability to tax economic activity within it.
> nor do they necessarily want to buy into the false prophet scientists who have been claiming the end is nigh regarding this subject for decades now (always pushing the new end further down the line, but this time it’s for real, they swear!)

Meanwhile, what has actually happened: the scientists keep finding that their earlier predictions were too optimistic.
Even if there was a Varna system, before it was solidified to maintain the status quo of the Brahmans, why do you say as if it was a good thing? The Varna system is an equally evil practice as it still creates hierarchical structures in the society and worse, it completely disregards dignity of labour. It shouldn't matter what your occupation is, you should have equal dignity in society.
I occasionally visits NL, but I've always missed it. I would be happy to drive out for that.
Thanks, glad you like it!

For organising information Temin has been an entirely positive experience for me. For the first time what's in my head matches what's on a screen.

Early on I expected that mental model to fall over as the amount information in a metaverse grew, but I have ~12,000 sticky notes/pieces of paper in my 'main' metaverse and haven't personally felt the need to add any search functionality yet. I'm honestly not sure if I know where everything is, or just how to get back to it. Speaking to a neuroscientist or similar would be great - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_memory#Current_theories

I'd also be keen to speak to anyone who has thoughts on Temin as a graph, as more recently I've been finding sticky notes mean multiple things and belong in multiple locations. https://temin.co.uk/#links does a rather poor job of explaining my current solution.
"Suburbanites shouldn't have to pay for city subway and potholes."

Then city residents shouldn't have to pay for the roads that make car-centric suburbs possible or the various subsidies given to rural residents. Honestly, one of the benefits of civilization is that we help each other out even when it does not immediately benefit us as individuals. Rural and suburban life would not be possible without cities, and cities would not be possible without rural and suburban residents.

Cities form naturally because of industrial operations that are more efficient when they are concentrated in a single place. Remote work changes nothing about it because there are still plenty of jobs that cannot be done remotely, including many of the jobs needed to support remote work (e.g. data centers, warehouses, intermodal terminals). Suburban life depends on industries that make no sense in suburbs or whose presence will ultimately transform suburbs into cities.

If suburbs were as superior as you suggest, cities would not be growing and real estate in cities would not be as valuable as it currently is. People are choosing to live, work, and raise families in cities more than they are choosing suburbs. Remote work has not changed anything and will never change anything. COVID-19 led only to a transient spike in demand for suburban homes that is already declining as people realize that the pandemic is already in its final stage.
Only lead 210 is radioactive. Lead 210 is only created by uranium.

Lead 210 has a short half-life, uranium 235 has a long one. Thus, once uranium is removed, lead 210 levels drop "quickly".
I talked to someone who worked in this team. A mere 30 min conversation opened my eyes to the complexity and he wasn’t even scratching the surface. It’s hard for most people to appreciate the true complexity here. I agree that accountability is needed but even a trillion dollars won’t be enough for bug free code - especially with dates.
First, it’s going to be a bigger change than those periods. The “business as usual” scenario is warmer than today by the degree to which today is warmer than the ice ages. (And I think at least some of those were local climate changes, not global ones?)

Second, it’s not about life everywhere except for people who stop as soon as they finish the headlines. Some farmland will go from marginal to good, others from good to marginal. Unfortunately the latter is going to hurt more than the former will help, fortunately there are already solutions, unfortunately they are expensive. Probably more expensive than green subsidies, even if the tech never improves.

Thirdly, IIRC, we don’t yet know the conditions which would interfere with the thermohaline circulation, but we have observed the bit near the the U.K. — the Gulf Stream — moving north. Mess that up and the U.K. suddenly turns from a pleasant mild-ish climate all year round into something more like Newfoundland, which is at the same latitude.
Sounds like a great cause. I have experience in building hardware, and can put you in touch with some folks who might be great contacts for your endeavor. Sending an email :)
May I suggest https://keepingyouawake.app/

As a gnu/linux person forced on Mac for work, this was what I settled on that worked reliably for me. (I found I would often crash iterm2 or alacritty and lose my terminal based caffiene commands)
You should try "Envy" apples, though they may not have been around in 2013
If they were wrong, the comment would have continued rotting away unnoticed. But they got lucky and were right -- confirmation bias is a wonderful thing.
Winnie is still not available there. Do they track public domain?
The last time copyright was extended was in 1998. Copyright was considered a boring topic then, so no one but a few librarians cared about a copyright extension. The political landscape has changed since then. Organizations such as the EFF and even Google would present strong resistance to another extension of copyright.
My bet is this will be the next 2003, after western Canada last year, mainland Europe may well be due for the next roast.
I like the Winter Banana apple. Uncommon but grows well here in Seattle. Once picked it keeps amazingly well, stays crisp for months in a cool basement. Moderately sweet out of hand and good for pies and baking.
Unless I missed some part here, you’re probably referring to this part of one sentence as the only mention, correct? If so, I find this not very credible when we look at the length of the post alone. But yes, technically you’d be right and I should have phrased my comment better.

> That’s due to the operation of detention camps for ethno-religious minorities