skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the most recent IPCC report basically says, "We're fucked, its gonna happen now no matter what."

More precisely, that climate change is going to happen no matter what. Yes, that's true.

But the report does not say we cannot adapt to climate change. It only says we can't stop it from happening. We should be thinking about how to adapt--which is just the large scale equivalent of you wearing a seat belt, looking both ways before crossing the street, etc., to adapt to the fact that there are whackos out there who don't drive carefully.
That makes sense indeed. I think what you described is the declarative viewpoint whereas I was thinking strictly imperative, where we are talking about a decision in one particular moment.

> At the end of the day, English rules are more what we like to call guidelines.

Tell that to my English teacher;-)
I tried to set up a Zoho account a few years ago. Could not even get through the signup process. Haven't been back.
In theory, they get it for that reason. In practice, the actual reasons is that if Mozilla went under, Google would potentially have an anti-monopoly case on their hands. Or at least they think it's cheaper to pay Mozilla than to maybe find out if it's the case.
And yet somehow it was fine all this time?

Virtually nothing in "user land" is politically neutral but I would think/hope that the underlying technology and protocols have a large degree of neutrality.

Case in point, I'd see something like AWS as a neutral utility, kind of like electricity. You can do lots of bad stuff with electricity but your electricity provider doesn't care.

That idea of separation of concerns is now completely broken down, the entire stack, top to bottom, is political.
Just today, discovered a couple apps on my son's Windows profile that he must have accidentally installed since just browsing Windows can cause you to accidentally install apps from the Microsoft Store.

After I uninstalled them, I went to hide them from the Store to prevent the same issue, and nope. Microsoft won't even let you hide apps that you accidentally installed now from the Store. This is in addition to not being able to delete apps from your account either that you installed from their pathetic Store.

Don't get me started on them collecting everything you click on and search for in Windows as well even if you disable telemetry by simply logging into a Microsoft account for the Windows Store (for example, if you use Xbox for PC).
Just two weeks ago I found out, that the Sennheiser headphones (RS180) I believed to be dead, just didn't work anymore, because the rechargeable batteries were broken. After replacing the batteries, I went on and replaced the ear cushions and now they are as good as new, despite being 10 years old or so.

I am so happy to have bought a product that allowed me to easily replace both parts.
I get such 1984 vibes from everything about this war and Russia. Really makes you stop and question everything you think you know.
> So, by your moral standard, the entire Earth should have isolated the US economy when the US government/military was killing Iraqi and Afghani civilians and destroying non-military targets, right?

It is not hard to convince me that yes, that should have happened. Where does that lead us? Should I feel different now about this particular agression because there were agressions we did not respond appropriately?
I can learn MacOS or Arch "internals in depth" -- even the proprietary stuff in MacOS -- in "a few weeks?"

I'm glad I use an OS where I don't have to know the internals.
About the security content of iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4
the entire grid has loses of roughly 7%. it also takes energy to pump gas around, and leaks aren't all that limited.
Not everything has to run linux. There's enough of it in IT already.
> 2. Linux: There is an age old Ubuntu bug (which bleeds into many Ubuntu based Distributions) where the installer wipes out the bootloader of a drive that you aren't even installing the OS on. Dear open source community: your desktop OSs are still hobbyist tweaker mode.

Then stop using Ubuntu. But, to be fair, the whole Ubuntu/Debian installation scene is quite a facepalm. The installer is overly complicated and completely undocumented. Also, they didn't really account for any serious customization.
Exactly. Don’t for a second buy into any notion that Putin has gone crazy - within the framework where human life has no value and the population is so placated that risk of popular revolution is small, everything he’s done sofar is completely rational.
I wish the gap between clinical treatment and recreational use was bridged, and you could use a nasal spray on your own time a couple evenings a week instead of a daytime injection.
I can't help but notice none of these items actually needed to get fixed.
Did you try if it worked on other people :p
I think we're agreeing, but yelling past each other
I am surprised that people here still have this all-or-nothing approach when it comes to managed vs self-hosted e-mail despite it being covered countless times.

If what you mention does turn out to be an issue, or you decide it's a worthwhile tradeoff to not have to care about IP reputation, you can choose to route all or a subset (depending on destination domain) of your outgoing mail through a provider like mailroute/mailgun/sendgrid/fastmail/posteo. Or even gmail/AWS. You can still self-host the rest even if you don't want to hother with outgoing SMTP, which you can always add later should uou choose to.

> If you stay on top of all the best-practices for running your own mail server, your hidden cost is the mind-share that that takes.

Are you actually speaking from experience here? Over the past 20-30 years it's been like, what, 4-5 new things to learn?
I think `when` would be a good name for this even if Sass didn't exist - CSS is not a procedural language, it is a flow language. That is, the conditional block is applied reactively to the condition changing, not just the first time the file is evaluated. Sass's usage of `if` is the latter, which is how a programmer intuitively thinks about `if`, and since the CSS construct is the former, it makes sense to use a different word to highlight that there is a difference.
Okay. So what do you think will happen when a significant chunk of the United States economic power is under water?
It sure is clunky yes. It's certainly not totally immersed.

But it's so much more immersive than what we had before that it's still really amazing. If you had skipped computers in the 80s and 90s because they were nowhere like perfect yet, you still works have missed out on an amazing time. The same is happening now.
So long as we live in a free market economy I would hope consumers wouldn't be as stupid as to go that route. Sure, with music, movies, and even electronic peripherals many people go the rent vs buy route. I imagine however that many more would have issues with ownership and bodily autonomy if the items were actual physical implants.
Yeah, I was looking at this and thinking "At 20m, basically the entire Eastern and Southern Seaboard of the US is gone."
At the same time Arctic is having close to record high ice coverage: https://weather.co/analysis/arctic-sea-ice-extent-second-hig...

Can it simply be some natural cycle that makes the ice cap shift from one pole to the other?
Yeah I am not sure, I assumed leading zero didn't matter. It had flag of belgium on google's screen but started with 046 which as you said, Sweden is +46. Maybe it's a Belgium number and starts with 046 and it hides country code.
I don't think it's that bad. It's so far down.

And it's fair to call it out. Rust is new & a sub
community of software with a shared set of values & ideals.

I'd call out stuff built with Haskell for similar reasons. There is a community aspect to it that is undeniable.
Visualizing black holes with general relativistic ray tracing
We're using multiple definitions of "hobbyist". The act of using Linux outside of the server context for a personal machine is hobbyist.

There are hobbyists within the hobby.
A more useful chart, shows how it is doing over time https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901-20...
Not OP (and not yet uninstalling firefox, but it feels ever closer), but it feels like mozilla have done something sneaky and questionable every quarter now for the past 2 years. For OP, this is possibly the straw that broke the camel's back
I do not believe S3 is written in Erlang... do you have a source for this?
Or, accept that listening to and trusting a capable team of advisers is perhaps a better qualification for the role than thinking on your feet, and definitely better than being able to recall which of your rehearsed sound bites to use in response to which prompts.
> All the science tells is that there is more energy available for things like hurricane and cyclones which are powered by the difference between surface and atmospheric temperatures

Actually, they're powered ultimately by the difference between polar and tropical temperatures, correct? A cyclone is basically just a big thing that transports energy from the tropics to the poles to equalize an imbalance. And warming affects the poles more than the tropics, so the difference between polar and tropical temperatures, and hence the energy available for cyclones, should be decreasing, not increasing.
Mixtures of multivariate normals can be regarded as a method of fuzzy clustering,
where each point has a probability of coming from each of the component Gaussians. The EM (expectation maximization) algorithm can be used to fit mixture models.
You are asking why people pay for advertising?
> as long as we have good intentions we don't care about the outcome.

Well put. This sums up my feelings on another topic just as succinctly too.
We will never have any way to interfere with the planetary magnetic field, in any circumstance.

Blasting our way back to the stone age will succeed in chopping off CO2 output suddenly, though. The climate could then return to normal in only a century or three, if the sudden change did not instead trigger an ice age or something.
+1 the point of on call was to wake up the team who caused the problem in the first place, and presumably have the ability to fix it via code changes etc.

This is in contrast to the model where there's a team that fields issues and tries their best to fix them, but ultimately has to put fix-it tickets to the software owners.

The on call rotations I've seen end up being a hybrid where you get the worst of both worlds. The team has enough responsibilities that no one person on the team knows how to handle everything and are so inundated with pages that it just becomes accepted that one person from the team every X weeks is going to be nothing but keeping the service from burning down.
As soon as I read "volunteer on-call team" my wtf-o-meter got pegged.
I would guess that the point is to share more code between web and mobile.
Old number is still listed in the account but the attacker put their number as the recovery email and phone (I guess there is a priority/default)
Linux Mint. Sure, you will have some quirks with any Linux distro if you install on a Macbook (blame Apple), but it is by far the easiest to use, most well supported "productivity" distro I have ever used.
Another student had a phone with him/her. It might be tethered to the bluetooth device.
I’m wondering if you could compile make to wasm and include it as a cross platform dev dependency?
You can use takeout.google.com to export your entire inbox.
Sounds like Windows users are unpaid beta testers.
All true, but I'd like to add that - after having stayed at Crystal City Doubletree - that hotel is full of service members and what appears to be higher ranking Pentagon staff.
It will come. FB is investing the big bucks but once they start seeing real success (and they are) others will see the value and start competing for real.
I think we finally learned we shouldn't.

Looks suspiciously at Google docs, which is free, rapidly approaching monopoly status if it's not there already, and has no revenue stream for personal users to speak of.
One time Windows 10 wiped the boot loader on my desktop and threw a fit until I formatted the whole disk so it could place itself first unlike the partition I thought I had assigned it.

Then I reinstalled windows 10 on the same computer a couple of years later and the installer couldn't even format my drive to install it, just threw bland "not working" errors until I manually formatted and installed the windows bootloader from a rescue drive.

What's your point?
You must be a mathematician.

https://unijokes.com/joke-6757/

I have no idea how an ad got upvoted so much. Don't look at me!
Get the developer preview of Webkit if you can download apps given your locked down profile.

https://webkit.org/downloads/
https://youtu.be/Baj1OXZTuE8
Fish Bones Found in California Chinatown Reveal 19th-Century Trade Network
I actually think if we had the technology to do that we probably would be, we spend billions on climate research and even on carbon sequestration tech but we just don't have a good scalable way to do it yet.
source that isn't the express: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60744605
Assembly Theory (YouTube)
I don't care about the ear guy, but how are people scaling the building not being noticed? Wtf? :D So bizarre.
Don't worry, it's not robbing you of the the evenings and weekends, which "maybe you like", it's a fun new challenging opportunity. Have you had a chance to panic yet on Saturday morning at 3 AM? Would you like to? It's such a thrill.
Yeah- been there. They at least now tell you that, rather than the support playing dumb and telling you they have no idea what's going on.
In fact wind turbines are routinely erected in forests with no difficulty. But, we neither need to build them there, nor need to avoid building them there. Talking about trees as if they were a problem for wind turbines is just noise. Complaining about that fact being pointed out is more noise.

You have contributed exactly nothing of any substance to the discussion.
I sort of understand the cultural aspect of it, curious what you mean by the biological adaptation needed. As far as I know a person from the tropics has no problem living in Canada (well sure they complain about how cold it is, but they do fine).
I want it so I can uninstall Facebook Messager.

On Android I can log into Facebook's website, and receive push notifications via the web-browser. On iOS my choices are either the native iOS app (which has substantially more data hooks) or nothing at all.

Essentially browser Push Notifications increase my privacy.

PS - I am sympathetic to complaints about push notification request spam, but that feels like a solvable issue without throwing the dishes out with the bathwater. You shouldn't need an "app" just for notifications.
Extraordinary intervention at huge personal risk. Her name is Marina Ovsyannikova and she is a hero
Define efficient. We have ways that take about as much electricity to remove the CO2 from the air as we get from burning the fossil fuels today. If we got to a point where we have an extreme energy surplus, we could do it. But as long as we're burning fossil fuels to generate electricity, we can't really pull the CO2 out of the atmosphere more efficiently than we can put it here. It does allow a type of location arbitrage, where places that are good at producing clean energy could pull gas out of the air for places that don't have any options besides fossil fuels. You'd have to convince the places burning fossil fuels that it's worth paying the clean energy rich places for that service though. Then after you have it out of the air, storage becomes another hard issue.

At the moment there's the low hanging fruit of carbon capture at plants that burn the fuels, which can be done many times more efficiently.
My uninformed hunch is that the time and attention spent to optimize your payment-processing fees would be better spent either

a. Finding additional markets of customers

b. Making your product more appealing to increase your conversion rate

c. Maybe switching payment processors to one with lower fees and a lower churn rate
Web developers are interested in the features that are widely supported. "Being first" helps no one.
I was a dev turned SRE in one point in my life. Man, the anxiety basically ruined my life. I could see I became very hyper person checking my phone all the time, to the point that it impacted my relationship at that point. If you are inheriting a bad project or service without lot of automated remediations, or processes, paired with a toxic work environment, just don't. No one prepares you for the anxiety the role brings itself with. In the end you would realise the work and 2x-3x rate per hour is probably not worth it. I have seen people getting burned out. You have to have tools and certain processes in place for an SRE/on-call duties. Also, slack notification on phone are actually the worst as brain always thinks that got a message for some reason when you keep your phone in your pocket. Just my opinion.
Great to see Safari add lazy loading for images! I’ve been hoping for that one, I wasn’t aware it was in the works.
Not true.

I lost access to gmail because of 2FA - Google Authenticator to be precise.

One random sunny day my 2 year old bit in my phone, thereby breaking it. A few days before i had reinstalled linux and apparently had not yet logged into gmail. So suddenly I have only unrecognized devices and no authenticator. Despite living in the same place, using the same wifi, etc, I simply cannot get back in since then. Its been years with dozens of attempts from any possible 'known' device, but there simply is no way. I know the password, I know previous contacts, i have old emails, i have the password, ... But even when I enter all the info Google requests for account recovery I simply get a screen saying they will get back to me - and never do.

My fault for not having a backup sheet of codes, but I was too worried someone would find and abuse that sheet. Well, goodbye 10 years of email.
I feel like discharging the batteries before amassing them like this would solve these kinds of problems. Yes I know it's a hard problem, but still.
Just for the record, what is it that Google is paying them $500M/yr to do? I haven't installed Firefox for while, is Google the default search engine or something?

edit: Upon more searching, I find passages like this:

>in 2020, Mozilla Corporation’s revenue was $466 million from its search partnerships (largely driven by its search deal with Google), subscriptions and advertising revenue. [0]

as well as a fine from France for 500M Euros.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/13/mozilla-expects-to-generat...
You are arguing an opinion independent of what I am saying.

>West doesn't have anything that it can give Russia to withdraw

The west absolutely does have something it can give Russia, This is indisputable. One can argue over if this would be enough to secure withdrawal or not. One can argue if it is wise to give something to Russia.

> The US does not control who goes into NATO other than that they can say 'no' (like everybody else).

Correct, Saying "no" is control and this is something that the US can promise to Russia. Russia asked the US several times for this explicitly before the war, threatening to invade if they didn't get it.

>This is no longer just a war of arms, it is a war of clocks:

This may be entirely true, I am not arguing that it isn't the case. This is independent of the question of if the US and west can give concessions.

>any other token wins (such as Ukraine 'never' joining NATO, which by itself is a pretty dumb thing to ask for as a settlement because that wasn't happening anyway

This is not factually true. In 2021 NATO declared verbatim that Ukraine would become part of NATO and its process would proceed. People can debate of if this was wise or not. Obviously Russia does does not get a vote on NATO decisions, and I'm not saying that it does. This does not negate the fact that in the real world, Russia has very strong opinions on it. A maniac with a gun doesn't have a legal right to shoot someone, but that does not mean that they cant do it!

>Make no mistake: Russia has made itself into a Pariah state and it will take more than some token concession to get back to 'normal'.

I never said otherwise.
Agreed, seem like a very pretentious comment from OP that doesn't seem related to the real world.
Wow; wow, wow.

I honestly can't believe anyone uses this pile of shit OS anymore.

I left Windows because adware and spyware became such a prevalent problem that I just got tired of dealing with it.

But when the OS itself is the adware, I just...I honestly don't even know what to say. You couldn't pay me enough to use Windows. You really couldn't.
Russian influencers take stock after Instagram access blocked
Apple iOS privacy settings to change now
Wouldn't Remix be a better fit? It's easier to run in more client-orientated environments.

Currently, I like to have the API and web pages (signup, marketing, policies, etc.) made with Remix.

Then, the cross-platform app (native & web) can be made with React Native / React Native Web using React Navigation as the router.

I can certainly see being able to combine those two into one as a plus, but React Router / Next Router and React Navigation conflict. React Navigation is needed for a nice app experience.
I've still not been notified that the free service is going away. Nor does the admin portal account prompt me to upgrade.

I'm not sure if my account falls into some sort of never-never-land or if I'm gonna just end up getting charged.
I do not think that it is that easy. It is more like Russia does not respect international law so they will be cut from world economy as soon as it is possible.

Sanctions cannot stop this war unless they will lead to coup or state collapse (both are unlikely in near future). Sanctions put pressure on Russian elites and together with foreign aid also probably will prevent Russian victory in Ukraine.

I hope that no one is so stupid to resume business with Russia if they end the war quickly. They need to completely change their mindset from imperialism first. Otherwise it is similar to doing business with North Korea.
Thread with additional context about Marina Ovsyannikova https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1503453848786059270?s=2...

Her bravery is incredible.
This is an incredibly brave move. Sadly I don't think this woman is ever seeing life outside of a prison cell again.
It also had infrared so you could even use chat apps. It was attenuated for short range precisely for this reason but obviously that protection was useless in the hands of electronics students.

I still have my 48GX. Though I never used it at an exam. As computer science student I simply never had any exams that required a calculator. I just had it for personal interests.
This makes me think that, while Chesterton's fence is a great principle, sometimes the best way to find out why there is a fence is to remove it and see what breaks...
There are treatments for that? I've never had anyone suggest anything other than therapy for it.
Similar, this is about magnets in ears. https://forum.dangerousthings.com/t/tragus-implants-and-you-... https://forum.biohack.me/index.php?p=/discussion/2642/tragus...
Both forums are the right place to find that info, though biohack.me is kinda dead.
>At the same time Arctic is having close to record high ice coverage

Too bad there's no incentive for media balance surrounding climate-hysteria
Russians already know this.

It's the West that needs this kind of intervention.
I see yea that makes more sense.
Now where's Max Headroom when you need him?