skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scientists have done more than enough. The issue now is entrenched interests blocking progress.

We had all the technology we needed to go carbon neutral back in the 1980's. Back then, even the American Petroleum Institute (yes, the planet burners) were raising alarms over CO2 and global warming.

We have many technological doublings ahead of us before technology fails to provide opportunities for growth. That's not the problem.

The problem is that our economic system is terrible at pricing in externalities.

Edit: Come to think of it, the American Petroleum Institute scientists said the exact same thing back then. Skip to the last page:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3483045-AQ-9-Task-Fo...
If it was double spend, I imagine we would have heard the news.

It's probably illegitimate money.
Because cash can't be easily identified as stolen, so the problem does not exist.

Just like the electricity cost of bank transaction cannot be easily quantified, so the problem does not exist.

Those problems only exist in Bitcoin. /s
If Putin doesn't care about the opinion of his own voters, the whining of the Western world wont matter (China, Iran, Venzuela and others are not against Russia).
The people who buy the game then resell the key on other websites for less than you find it on steam. They can buy many licenses when the game is on sale, so even if there is no chargeback, the devs can lose money through these methods. Otherwise it is still a money laundering tactic.

Here’s a blog post where they talk about this eco system.

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-303
So if a proper chromakey setup is more of a commitment/hassle than many people are willing to accept, and software background removal is imperfect to the point of distraction, why aren't depth-sensing solutions (like the $300 Intel RealSense D435) an ideal solution to this problem? What am I missing?
I was in 6th grade, when we walked into second period English the teacher had a new channel on the TV. Noone had told us anything was going on so my friend and I were sitting in our desk making jokes thinking it was some movie until the teacher came in and told us it was real, then the second plane hit. Weird day...
So why do we do this already? The longer we way, the more money and influence they get. I don’t buy Chinese goods anymore. If I can’t confirm it didn’t come from China, I don’t buy. If we had govs onboard, and another supplier of chips, this would be easier than you think.
Yes, both unbound heap allocation times and GC pauses could stall and cause critical timing failures. But you could theoretically use these features in a system designed for low latencies.
Not disengenuous. They make a good point.

No one knows the long-term risk of the vaccine or the virus.

So being skeptical of either one is a reasonable position.
Sounds too dumb to be true. Especially since they were found out. There’s a message way above says “this link has been shared in public chats, please only share with friends.” And they go on recruiting more and more.
How Russia's invasion of Ukraine could impact you
Blaming technology for societal failures... here we go again. Development of more powerful technology will always require development of responsible regulations. It's not a good argument toward becoming a nation of Luddites, and more importantly, abdicating our regulatory responsibility to the companies who stand to profit from it.

> AI technology is the fundamental technology that underlies "Surveillance Capitalism,"

How about this -- capitalism is the fundamental system of economics that underlies "Surveillance Capitalism".

To the deleted comment:

My point in turning that statement around is that if you see surveillance capitalism as being bad (the author says this plainly), then perhaps the discussion is really about economic policies and not AI.

The author bends over backwards to paint nebulous "AI" and "machine learning" in a bad light over problems that existed long before their arrival. What these more powerful tools have done is to ramp up the problems and put them front and center. But in the end, the economic profitability of surveillance capitalism has never been challenged.

Nothing in this article really has to do with AI at all, and it's confusing why the author spends so much time trying to draw up so much negative sentiment, in order to deflect from the real underlying issues.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJXwLzII278
Is that why they’re not intelligent? Or an entirely unrelated factor? Would anything change if you implemented exactly the same algorithms on a decimal computer instead? I don’t think it would.
The Vaccines were not really so highly effective, cause in the end people had to take like 4 doses, most basically gave up and accepted to live with corona.
Ask HN: How to contact GitHub product managers?
After what happened to Faker.js, I've been trying to find ways to help open source maintainers. As you aware, there was a project on adding terminal ads, but this was not accepted well by the community.

My idea is to make a change to GitHub repo page and show a list sponsors. With their logo, clickable url, some text (if they want). I believe this will be a good advertisement channel for sponsors, it will, for sure, increase their visibility.

I'd push further, GitHub should allow more customizations to repo pages.
And it doesn't even matter. It's almost a distraction to even think about conspiracy theories or worrying about sounding like a conspiracy kook.

By now it doesn't matter if there is a conspiracy or not.

The totally boring unimaginative hard nosed practical conclusion is you do not accept cryptographic advice from this source. (NIST, or the US government at large, or any other government either, or really even any large corporation.)

It doesn't require any "aliens guy" at all.
Facebook and Twitter algorithms pretty consistently show you content from people you don’t follow. They also decide to show more/less content from certain people you do follow.

Before quitting twitter I had a 5,000+ account blocklist, it’s insurmountable for the average person. The algorithms are the primary issue, back when I only saw content from who I was following it was easy.
Except, you know, 100% of the energy obtained by fossil fuels also eventually becomes waste heat. All of our electricity consumption and production is a rounding error to the earth. Global warming only works because the Sun can do most of the work.
The problem is that rich gov kids would go to China or India then. Which is the fundamental problem of all these sanctions. Ultimately it's counter productive to push Russia into closer relationships with our rivals. And it hurts twice because it does so at some economic cost to the EU/US.

The path we're on is the worst for everyone involved.
> An important caveat is that this is according to Russia.

if you really wanted to, you could easily find an article on the evidently Ukrainian site, stated that "Advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Orestovich in a comment to the Country confirmed that Ukraine refused to negotiate with Russia." (thanks to google translate)

https://strana.today/news/379089-ukraina-otkazalas-ot-pereho...

In this time it is really easy to wash brains and make fake news, but if you make a little effort and use different sources, you can always find the truth, and I encourage everyone to do so, use Telegram public channels, contact people from the "other side", always double check mass media and don't be ignorant.
This reminds me of when I heard the phrase "lenticular cloud". I looked it up, hoping to learn something about how these clouds are formed, etc. It simply means "shaped like a lentil".
The Bitconnect Coin was among the world's most successful cryptocurrency token until its price collapsed.

So you have to be quick if you want to ride the wave of a scamcoin
Have we learned nothing from IBM contributing to the Nazi regime? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Stop trading with murderers. Rally the people to conserve energy. Rally allies to shore up LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) supply into Europe. Maneuver the subsidies so that the western world shows solidarity and stands united in sacrificing and sharing the burden. Putin invades because he thinks the west doesn't have the strength to cut gas. Reinstate when Russian attacks stop on Ukraine. Show him he's wrong and we have a much better chance at reversing this atrocity.
That's not how this works. Classified material is not classified because it would make people feel some type of way. It's because the release of the material would have some effect on national security. With the end of the war in Afghanistan, there is no clear reason in my mind why the declassification of any existing video would be a cause of concern.

https://www.archives.gov/files/isoo/training/training-reason...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
RuneScape, I’m writing a book about it actually. Why We Play. This question fascinates me.
There's no bombastic announcement, it's a link to an image that op made an opinionated title for.
Is signal propagation actually close to being a limiting factor in clock speeds for most designs? I thought it's pretty much always thermals.
That would explain a lot of things, but what the Russians are doing is even more inexplicable, with a mix of good and bad tactics and cheap assets and valuable assets. It’s amateur night in some places, but at least one reporter accidentally discovered that the airport they were reporting from had been taken by Russian paratroopers. (“How far are the Russians?” “We’re the Russians!”)

There’s more nonsensical stuff, but I have the feeling some - but not all - important people on the Russian side really, seriously believed the crazy idea that Ukrainians would all immediately surrender, and acted accordingly.
Walmart (like all large retailers) spends a ton of effort trying to address e.g. laundering efforts with gift cards, actually. Google around for all the press releases about how they partner with the FBI, etc... They absolutely recognize that they're part of the laundering chain (and that this makes them liable to punishments under AML statutes, of course).
I think Rapids AI's cuML tried to go into this direction (essentially scikit-learn on the GPU): https://docs.rapids.ai/api/cuml/stable/api.html#logistic-reg.... For some reason it never took really off though.

Btw., going on a tangent, you might like Hummingbird (https://github.com/microsoft/hummingbird). It allows you trained scikit-learn tree-based models to PyTorch. I watched the SciPy talk last year, and it's a super smart & elegant idea.
> unless American gas producers artificially lower their gas prices

Is that an option? Through US government subsidies or something similar?
That would have Canonical CLI ads vibes...
Today in why global variables are bad...
Just for another point of anecdata, I've also had success with OBS' virtual camera with most video conference apps, besides specifically Jitsi in Firefox, which seems to have an issue where it forces loading the hardware camera before letting you choose the virtual camera, and that fails because OBS is already hooking it.
>I want it to pick one and shut up unless I’m about to miss the turn: “Turn right at the next light” “Are you going to turn or what?”

Easy solution here would be to have some feedback mechanism for the nav. Surprised it doesn't exist already. I miss what the nav says about half the time, because I'm paying attention to other things. But if i could say "ok, got it" or press a button that says "ok, got it" the first time she gives a new direction, that would shut up her reminders, that seems ideal.
Boring things can be interesting!
Lukashenko is not doing well health wise. And yes it does seem like is the only one keeping Belarus independent and not Putin’s “dump ground”.
With scientific instruments doing dynamic measurement that have always been data-heavy, something like EKG recorders, before digital data storage typically it was a paper chart recorder where there was a roll of graph paper passing under a pen.

When the signal was stable you get a straight line until some deviation then the pen moves positive or negative and draws the graph/curve in real-time.

For applications where the areas of curves above a baseline are to be considered rather than just the comparative heights, the optional mechanical integrator was available on the premium chart recorders.

There would be a second pen, connected to the integrator which followed the first pen's deviation, limited to its own small integration band of the roll paper where it would also draw a straight line in parallel to the raw baseline signal until some actual signal of interest appeared.

Then following the deviation of the first pen, the second pen produced a blip for each unit area of deviation the main pen made from its established baseline, in real time.

For a full-scale signal excursion on the main pen, in the integrator band it would draw maximum blips-per-second during the peak apex, with greater blip spacing upon the rise & fall slopes.

When a different curve having the same area was detected which had far less than full-scale readings, it would naturally be over a longer period of time, and the more slowly drawn integrator blips over that longer period would add up to the same number as the taller but equal peak had produced.

It sure beat counting the little squares on the graph paper while accomodating all the squares at the edges of the curve not fully included.

Or cutting out the curves with a pair of scissors afterward and weighing them on the analytical balance, even when using the special uniform & humidity-resistant paper intended for this purpose. However depending on the various instruments' adjustments and how the total system was operating this could give you the greater number of significant figures when it comes to data precision.

It sure was a lot quicker to just count the blips and do the math from there.

No computer necessary and you could handle far more analog data in greater detail than any accessible computer at the time.

But it was still data so you still needed fully appropriate storage and a proper file system.
The “Hamburger” button or “≡” represents a list of options, which is what a menu is.
The best place on the Internet for Berkshire Hathaway news and discussion is on Reddit: r/brkb

It has more than two dozen value investor moderators and it was created by the legendary and eccentric u/100_PERCENT_BRKB... somewhat of a jerk, but he runs a tight subreddit.
It is very much not just semantics. Ponzi schemes are illegal so the difference matters.
There are some resources out there if you search for the stages of money laundering. Companies that have to fight money laundering have to know what it looks like and what they can do to catch it.

The stages are Placement, Layering, and Integration.

Here’s one source that may help explain:

https://www.stpaulschambers.com/stages-of-money-laundering-e...
Here is the experiment on terminal ads case https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/
Yes, but you wish for safety and also recommend downloading some unspecified mesh network software to organize protest. That is extremely dangerous, if you don't know what you are doing. And I know a bit about IT security and I have no idea, what software I can recommend to safely organize a protest in russia.
I know the first thing I do when involved in a project with any kind of nda is go right on HN and say I can't talk about it.
I really hope it is true, that internal support is wavering.

I have a tendency to believe our western media's over expression of news stories that make it look like the Russian forces are having a hard time.

I can't place my finger on it (maybe I just am afraid of the worst) that we need to be told things are worse for the "enemy" than they really are to avoid sentiment that causes WW3. The spark has been lit in my eyes.
Agreed. I think the Russia situation may be an interesting test to see whether cryptocurrency can be a viable replacement for SWIFT. I don’t think it will be because, as you said, it is not extragovernmental, and at some points those funds need to be repatriated. And of course cryptocurrency provides a useful public ledger all the way to repatriation.
GTA and deer hunter (or cabelas version). I liked them because I could explore the map.

Also CS. It's a nice game in which i can focus 10 minutes a d that's it. No bullshit
A pittance from a gigantic American corporation. I’m sure Ukraine appreciates this advertisement for Google. I guess it’s hard to advertise over all the “noise” of geopolitical events unless you attach your product to it.
Cash is completely fungible because there is no clear trace of money from one person to the next.

If someone steals 100k of cash, there is a very low probability that the serial number of those bills were recorded somewhere. And even if they were, you couldn't easily trace the money though complex systems.

Bitcoin on the other hand is a complete and open ledger. When these large heists that constantly happen, it is trivial to identify the transactions that happen afterwards.

Cash is actually anonymous and Bitcoin is only pseudo-anonymous.
We can recall our leaders. (At least in the US we can.)

Of course, you have to get enough people to agree with you that the leader should be recalled. You can't recall him/her because you want to recall him/her. You can only recall a leader if we want to recall him/her.
Blocking HN has a certainty of low gains, with probably low costs but a small possibility of escalating costs up to an unknown high amount.

Yet, the most probable explanation is that nobody relevant even knows about the site to decide to block it.
> The only reason it's not a total nightmare here is I'm sure the police are so underfunded that they couldn't take advantage of all this bullsh!t, even if they wanted to.

This actually makes it worse because this means it will selectively be used against "enemies" of the establishment. That and for select and well-publicized chilling effects.
I got rid of a Mercedes C class for this exact same reason, it tried to kill me - twice - and that was enough for me. No more automatic brakes on my cars, the risks don't seem to outweigh the advantages. At least Honda seems to be responsible enough to address this. According to MB there was absolutely nothing wrong with my car, it was 'operating as designed'.
Uplinks: Poland began service in September 2021. Service to west and central Ukraine should be possible now, depending on where the Polish ground-stations are located. Additional ground stations could be rapidly deployed to Poland's eastern border.

Supplying user terminals: Ukraine has borders with Poland, Hungary, Romania and Moldova so all possibilities for transferring to Ukrainian authorities.
Being skeptical of both is absolutely fair; however, ignoring the virus’ potential for long-term impact is absolutely disingenuous and this is what most vaccine deniers participate in.
The Ukrainian MoD is officially saying to detain people laying markers and signs, so I don't think it's untrue.
It's worth noting that Meduza is an extremely opinionated (and thus biased) source.
Ask HN: Is it possible to cut Russia from the internet?
Might just be statistics; the Accord and CR-V are very popular. You should report those issues: https://www.nhtsa.gov/report-a-safety-problem#index
So what is your own red line then? Baltics? Moldova? Georgia? Probably not…? Czech Republic? Poland?
It's not that there isn't sufficient natgas to offset most of the Russian production. The LPG terminals, pipelines and other infrastructure required for that doesn't exist yet, and even if we started crash construction projects today they wouldn't be online in time to prevent a disruption. That said, such construction clearly needs to start anyway.
It's pretty much all politicians. Not only American politicians.
1. Hardly anyone has taken four doses. Stop spouting sloppy nonsense, you quickly lose respect.

2. The latest evidence says that three doses provide a broad immune response that protects against severe disease long-term [1]. Variants may continue evading the immune system and causing symptomatic illness, but vaccine protection is still extremely meaningful if you don't want to get hospitalized or die from COVID.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/health/covid-vaccine-anti...
Fraudulent payments are very much possible in the "buying stuff with a stolen credit card" kind of way. This is a much more common type of fraud than the "double spend" attacks Bitcoin protects against.

Bitcoin is only resilient to fraud only if you define fraud as "violating the rules of the blockchain". Any definition of fraud that involves meatspace is possible.
> The fact that cryptocurrencies are even Ponzier than any Ponzi scheme

What does that even mean?

Especially since most cryptocurrencies factually doesn't fit the definition of a Ponzi scheme.
This kind of attitude is detrimental to the overall progress and improvement of ethics in general. Insisting on absolute ideological purity before a person or group is "allowed" (or "in a position to") make any comment on ethics is both hopelessly unrealistic and deeply counterproductive.

Yes, there are ethical stances, and records of conduct, that are so egregious they call into question anything else someone says—but to say that the ACM is "in no position" to call for improved ethics in AI and a move away from surveillance capitalism because of a completely unrelated objection you have to their conduct regarding copyright does no one any service.

Call out their bad behavior, yes—but when they say something that's genuinely positive, acknowledge that. Reward behavior you would like to see repeated, even if it isn't absolutely everything you want or responding to your personal pet peeve.
> But I also admire the patience of anyone who actually manages to use it in practice

Nothing you point out gets even close, in my mind, to stuff like null pointers or untyped code. So I wonder what languages you have in mind that require less patience.

> you need IO for that. Which the language makes intentionally hard to use

Well, that is simply not true.
Trends in social mobility in postrevolution China
It’s interesting to me that even 20 years later, any comments that don’t fit the official narrative still get downvoted on HN (and the rest of the internet). There was such a giant push after it happened to not question the official narrative, and that still remains embedded in everyone’s heads. I wonder how long that will last.
Business associates absolutely must abide by the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

> By law, the HIPAA Privacy Rule applies only to covered entities – health plans, health care clearinghouses, and certain health care providers. However, most health care providers and health plans do not carry out all of their health care activities and functions by themselves. Instead, they often use the services of a variety of other persons or businesses. The Privacy Rule allows covered providers and health plans to disclose protected health information to these “business associates” if the providers or plans obtain satisfactory assurances that the business associate will use the information only for the purposes for which it was engaged by the covered entity, will safeguard the information from misuse, and will help the covered entity comply with some of the covered entity’s duties under the Privacy Rule.

Source: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...
I always used to think the founder was the guy from the famous YouTube meme. Never in my wild imagination would have though it would be a guy from pretty much rural india. World is more connected than I think I guess.
I prefer this Bitconnect song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chuYu7E7RrA