skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The complicated part that I have spent many hours trying to understand is how more CO2 increases the greenhouse effect if the the frequencies it absorbs are already 100% absorbed.

I'm curious where you're getting the figure that the relevant frequencies are 100% absorbed, I didn't think it was that high, but I'm far from an expert on this. I don't think you can ever get to 100%, just arbitrarily close -- there's always the chance that a given photon will get lucky and escape without hitting any CO2 molecule.

But I think that if every IR molecule that was radiated from earth hit a CO2 molecule, what would happen after that first absorption would matter. The photon would get re-radiated with an equal chance to go in any direction. If it goes up, great, it escapes into space -- but the more CO2, the more of a chance that it gets absorbed again and re-radiated back down.

So it's not a concrete wall, it's like a field of gopher holes with gophers that will take any golf ball that falls into their hole and chuck it out randomly. Even if the field is dense enough that you can't roll a golf ball directly across it without going into at least one hole, if you increase the density of gopher holes more, it still lowers the chance that the ball will make it to the other side.

*edit - This article[1] I just found goes more into the math, it helped clarify it a bit for me.

[1] https://www.geoexpro.com/articles/2022/04/recent-advances-in...
Helping people decide whether to pursue a PhD
Is this 'just' an insane amount of manual effort? I'm not particularly up on ML, but suspected it at first partly just because 'insane amount of manual effort', but also because many seem clipped too short. But the repo makes it seem very much just like a manual clip collection; acknowledges a 'listicle' of Wilson 'wow' films with 'wow' counts (slight reduction in novel manual effort.. but no timestamps).
[I'm promoting a short e-book that I wrote to help the Seattle Children's Hospital - all proceeds will be donated]

The e-book is to help students work through the decision of pursuing a PhD: Should I Do a PhD?: 8 Tips To Help You Decide Now.

The book can be accessed here:
PDF: https://sfmartins.gumroad.com/l/ShouldIDoAPhD
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YRB38W3

Ping me directly if you want the book for free (I'll limit this at some point...).

If you read it, please let me know what you think and how I can improve it! Also happy to schedule a few live calls to get feedback!
I should have been more specific. Registering is indeed pretty easy. But using a domain is quite difficult without a lot of background knowledge. Everyone understands how phone numbers work well enough to use them, and there are lots of systems in place to walk you through the process whenever you need to change phones (or numbers), etc.

Connecting a domain name to a piece of software running on any of your devices should require nothing more than a quick OAuth flow to your domain provider to connect a tunnel to the application. You shouldn't need to understand DNS, TLS, HTTP, ports, ip addresses, NAT, CGNAT, etc in order to self-host simple programs like URL shorteners quickly and securely.
I made this demo project a while back, you might find it useful:

https://github.com/SallySoul/regexc
1. oops. thanks for the report, we'll look into it

2. that's kind of our thing, we're gonna stick with it for a while longer :)
How would one go about finding such consulting gigs?
I’m semi-retired now, but with nearly 4 decades of experience, I still didn’t feel comfortable becoming a full-time consultant.
The first version of erlang was written in prolog. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)
You don’t think the fact that immature teenagers operating fast, heavy vehicles is dangerous factors into that at all?

But sure, driving education requirements should be more thorough across the board, not just <18.
This is fantastic, the best of luck to you!
Was about to show my wife but realized she's eating.
Someone knows if a Chrome browser extension has access to heap snapshots?
Reptiles (and other ectothermal vertebrates) will “artificially” give themselves fevers by staying in heat sources longer when they’re fighting an infection. It’s called a behavioral fever.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27381718/
I am hopeful, too.
I've lived in a lot of places, and I've never once had to take any kind of exam to renew a license. Not sure who told them you need to do that - I don't think that's a thing in any US state, and probably not in most countries either.

Renewal of a license is mostly just updating the photo.

You can also transfer licenses between states with no exam. Not necessarily between countries though, some allow it some don't.

I think the OP was talking about an initial license though - for the most part exams are not very hard, you just need a basic level of skill, and some knowledge.
How to generate random number sequences (in your head)
I work for Google Search. There is NO requirement of threat to remove anything listed as personally identifiable information on this page (such as personal contact info, medical records, login credentials, etc):
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/9673730

Beyond those things listed, in some cases someone who is being threatened might feel there's additional information that someone might feel is somehow personally identifying. This is where the doxxing/threat option can be used, for something not on the list where no threat is required.

Appreciate this is confusing to some; we'll be looking at how to clarify that.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/missouri-governor-says-security-1...

In theory you're right. In practice, just because something responds publicly does not mean it's public.

If someone left the vault door open on an ATM it doesn't mean you can just have the money, or even take pictures of the insides.

Obviously, in IT, people should strive to prevent leaking information, but that's obviously going to be an issue for a great long while.
Thank you, cormacrelf. Your gratuitous, utterly unwarranted nastiness here is an excellent example of why communities like Radiopaper sound particularly appealing right now.

That kind of overtly obnoxious response is generally discouraged on HN.
And then it's just the small task of understanding DNS, TLS, HTTP, ip addresses, ports, VPS management, and security patches.
I don't like when I post something and it doesn't immediately show up, like why comment at all

Granted I don't expect to write something bad but yeah, I just have this gut reaction I did something bad, like downvotes

Like a "shadow ban"
> You can't riot when you perceive insults to you religion or ethnicity and be civilized in the west

That...isn't consistent with observed behavior of even the historically dominant religious and ethnic groups in the US, so I guess the US is either non-Western or non-civilized.

> With out this we could go back to killing catholics for their instance on synergism and semipelagianism instead of sola fide.

Many Catholics are very much aware that the disproportionately political powerful evangelical theocrats in the US are aching to do this once they are done playing nice with gullible conservative Catholics to suppress the left, and that it wasn't that long ago that the same faction in the US spent the same energy attacking the Catholic Church as the literal tool of Satan that they now spend on the culture war topic of the day.
That seems in doubt as young drivers are not improving (we would see lower auto insurance rates if so.)
What’s a yute?
> The key mechanism that makes Radiopaper different from other social networks, and more resistant to trolling and abuse, is that messages are not published until the counterparty replies or accepts your comment.

Advocate here. The Devil is my boss. Don't hate, please. But I'd like to mention...

So an idea isn't valid until the person being "challenged" signs off? That might mitigate trolling but there's also (likely) collateral damage. It could also accelerate (?) echo chambers.

What, off the top of my head, makes sense is sonething simalar to Google's image-based CAPTCHA. That is, does X idea make sense? Is it factual and correct?

Leaving the "challengee" in control feels subject to bias and "reverse trolling".

I'm certainly pro an alternative to the usual social media suspects, but people are going to be people. For better and for worse.
Love the aesthetic
The headline is correct. The current homeownership rate in the United States is 65.5%. For most Americans, owning a home is a reality, not a dream.

That rate hasn't varied much over the years. Between 1965 and today, it has never been below around 63% or above around 69%.

-- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
What is your platform?
But you don't need that level of complexity for large classes of problems.
> Maybe this is like Sam Altman's thing...Is this actually that same project?

No, that project is called Worldcoin. We share the goal of trying to create a UBI, but have a different approach. For starters, we're a non-profit and our token has no pre-mine. We believe that that is the correct model for a project like this (for various reasons, see draft whitepaper [1]).

Second, as far as we currently know Worldcoin doesn't aim for their token to be stable/slightly inflationary in value like GLO. We think a continuous, weekly income that won't go up in value per token is a better fit for a UBI that tries to alleviate poverty. Poorer people have a more urgent need to spend, so they can't hodl.

Third, Worldcoin is tech. We are an economic model carrying a monetary policy, which could be implemented on any (or multiple) networks / blockchains. We're looking to develop as little tech as possible ourselves.

More extensive comparison between Worldcoin and Global Income Coin in the whitepaper:

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E09fdrvBr_TgsUqODq-MROfo...
I work for Google Search. We're working to clear this up. Threat is not required to remove the listed PII. I'll repeat what I shared in another comment here:

There is NO requirement of threat to remove anything listed as personally identifiable information on this page (such as personal contact info, medical records, login credentials, etc): https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/9673730

Beyond those things listed, in some cases someone who is being threatened might feel there's additional information that someone might feel is somehow personally identifying. This is where the doxxing/threat option can be used, for something not on the list where no threat is required.

Appreciate this is confusing to some; we'll be looking at how to clarify that.
I have experienced this several times and almost never have a headache. I definitely can't read what's beyond/obscured by the scotoma. The first time it happened was during a test in high school and the splotch grew until I was forced to read the questions in my peripheral.

I have an anecdote that corroborates your observation that cognitive experiences are more complicated then assumed: I was once very, very sleep deprived. I became aware that my body was reacting to something, as if there was a jump scare in a movie, I unconsciously flinched and pulled away from something without knowing why, and then a perceptual moment later, I heard a loud noise caused by something falling to the floor.
Does the perception of those things actually matter? From my entirely unscientific anecdata it seems people concerned about being "canceled" are toxic assholes that can't believe other people don't want to deal with their shit. No one is owed a platform to be a toxic asshole. Trolls don't deserve a response on someone's platform. They're all free to go start their own platforms and pay for the privilege of broadcasting their bullshit.
What companies if you don't mind sharing?
> The notification emails contain context that explains that if you reply to the email, your message will be published on https://radiopaper.com

This (or this part of it) is not so radically different from the concept of posting to a mailing list, and having that show up on the web archive.

Also, if you write to a moderated mailing list, your conversation is initially between two people: you and the moderator.

> more resistant to trolling and abuse, is that messages are not published until the counterparty replies or accepts your comment.

While that's certainly resistant to trolling, it's not resistant to the abuses. Certain users can favor certain other users and promote their comments while suppressing other comments.

If we think about HN for a moment, that's completely opposite; here you cannot even be downvoted by the counterparty to your comment (the user to whom you are responding). There is a good reason why it is that way.

Being able to veto people replying to you sounds like a good recipe for the nucleation of echo chambers.

I don't believe there is any magic formula that eliminates trolling, yet respects everyone's freedom. The closest thing is the model of Usenet, with personal kill files. Everyone has a right not to read what they don't want: what they find disruptive, annoying, offensive or whatever. Everyone also has a right not to have someone else prevent them from reading what they want. The only way to achieve that is for everyone to have their own personal filter.
You get shadow banned when you annoy everyone, ending up in everyone's kill file. That is fair; you cannot point fingers at an unfair moderator. You were talking at a group of people, each of whom preferred not to listen. The weak spot in this idea remains, of course, uthentication; users changing their identity to evade being blocked by others.

An interesting concept might be bayesian filtering. Every forum participant has their own filter. Instead of blocking/killfiling users, you indicate to the system that some content is unwanted, and that trains your filter against that sort of content. A troll who uses multiple identities cannot evade that filter as easily, because to do that they have to change their content and style. And anyway, if thereby they cease trolling, that may well be fine.

Finally, even the perfect scheme still has the problem that people may be harming themselves if they shun whatever they disagree with. What is a "troll"? Sometimes it's actually just a bearer of an uncomfortable truth, perhaps without the best of manners. But are the manners the real reason you want to block the troll, or the uncomfortable truth?
That argument seems parallel to 'Yeah nothing cool about M1 Mac. We've had transistors for decades.'
Seconding this. And Tynker has skins for pretty much anythiNg your kid is currently watching on tv so it’s more alluring that a command line out of the box.
> Military would be better off pushing for soda and other junk food to be made illegal for national security reasons

Coca-Cola is a national security threat. Ten times worse than any Muslim terrorist organization, worse than China or Russia, maybe similar to China actually, no Coca-Cola more, as America spends more on obesity than DEFENSE. Chemical innovation? Treason. Fluoridating the water? Makes Americans fat and retarded.

OK this sounds VERY incendiary but I legitimately believe it's true. Freedom of speech! Maybe I'm fucked in the head--apparenty I am, well for sure I got fucked in the head (lobotomized) from what I reconstructed but that's different than...is it different? Well I speak in good faith. Whatever is left of my brain after all that chemical innovation I uh metabolized, can't testify as to how I absorbed it because there was a lunar month of roofies...but that's beside the main thrust of my comment. I have some amount of brains and I can talk (very fortunately).

I actually don't want to get flagged for saying this, I'm saying it in good faith, I can explain all these statements, but I can only answer questions once they are asked, not before. I truly believe fluoridating water makes people who drink that "water"--actually brine--fat and retarded. It retarded me, in the original sense of the word "retarded" meaning slower, Attention Deficit Disorder which is what people originally meant by "retarded" is caused by fluoridation. I can not only testify to that but quantify that to about 7 figures precision, in Hertz, with a "tempometer".

Despite being super skinny skinny I know it makes me crave water from sources outside the tap, meaning Coca-Cola.
Which isn't fluoridated. I budget for other water sources. I don't see it as a waste of money, some people say it's a waste, but I have no guilt, I simply can't drink brine alone why would I?

Actually looking to get water delivered, basically what the tap is meant to do, but manually getting jugs. Tons of other SMART people around here do it (downtown Santiago). I'd rather have sea-water on tap than the flúor brine I get. Like drinking it feels like chewing rocks. It's bad for cooking, it's bad for showering in...actually thinking of using the jugs for bath water, it's just poisonous on that level.

And most people, it makes fat. Crave salt, for one, to get the right halide (chlorine) balance instead of fluorine. Sugary drinks to maintain brain function to compensate for the electronegativity and therefore activation energy of fluorine occupying the chlorine-ion channels. Sometimes both fat and retarded. Fluoride atoms are the most powerful atom by far, nothing else compares in reactivity, they react with all but three chemicals, those being three pure noble gases. A select minority of noble gases don't react with fluorine.

And they put it in everybody's water. For their teeth! The single most unreactive part of the human body, it's supposed to react with that in two known ways and literally no way with no other part of the human body! Like do I look like I'm made of helium?
Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular
I had understood that Playwright actually used the DevTools protocol rather than the WebDriver protocol, as mentioned here:

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/4862

And there's a bit of detail about how they're different here:

https://stackoverflow.com/q/50939116/142780

However that's more a detail and doesn't really undermine your point about Firefox / Safari being handled differently, it's just that Playwright implemented their own versions of the protocol for those two non-Chromium based browsers
I think this might be a feature? differentiated, insightful comments are the ones that yield the most interesting, differentiated replies.

If you get enough overhead from the platform from writing boilerplate comments, maybe you just stop?
> Internet literacy is probably unrelated to punch card literacy.

The parent commenter was using self-deprecating "humor", which I understand can be confusing for Lumon Industries innies. Your outie will appreciate it!
> As a working principle it's very interesting. Like decoding the enigma cypher!

More like decoding the Bible code. The method is so broad that it's always possible to find some parallel, no matter how fuzzy and distant. But this is not proof of anything, you can only start from the assumption that the replicas Fomenko talks about must exist.
> Airbnb rentals don't go for 3-6 months. (So what I was doing wouldn't have even been possible via their website).

They certainly do. Airbnb host here. Most of my tenants stay from 6-18 months.
> Bluetooth continues to be one of the most critically under-delivered standards, in my view. LC3, that this update discusses at the end, was announced January 2020. Over two years ago. There's still, to my knowledge, no devices that support it. None, not a one.

Bluetooth >= 5.2 and LC3 are some of the prerequisites of LE Audio, but LE Audio is a separate standard that builds upon them.

The Bluetooth has only finalised the core parts of the LE Audio standard 22/Mar/2022 [1].

Some optional parts of the standard, e.g. "TMAP: Telephony and Media Audio Profile" are still not finalised. [2]

Many of the phones that support Bluetooth 5.2 should be able to support LE Audio.

On the software side, Android 13 (expected Q3 2022) will be the first OS to fully support LE Audio, and that's a few months away.

It was indeed very poorly communicated, and there was poor expectation management, but within a few months all the pieces should come together and the first devices should appear.

1. List of recently adopted standards:
https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/

2. Diagram of all the different pieces of the specs: https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-bluetooth/recent-enhan...
Yes, but any proprietary license would be equally impossible to enforce so it's not that interesting.
> If you want to start a conversation with someone, enter their email address and type your message

I feel this may be abused in some form. good luck!
In addition to what others have already said, my own random sampling now shows quite a high false positive rate.
Famously, Issac Newton also thought that the chronology was off even in his time, by at least 500-800 years. And like Fomenko, he had a mathematical basis for his theory which couldn't be refuted by any soft scientist. There are others, the Jesuit chief librarian to the King of France, Jean Hardouin, for example.

I don't think I've ever seen anybody attempt to refute any of these works. Just lots of kvetching and "literally how could you believe this" type bloviation.
Rubles aren’t real money, because they’re not exchangeable.

Not exchangeable... by whom? Maybe you might not be able to, but there is a whole world out there that is separate from you and which has no trouble at all.

The 'Western World' is merely one-eighth of the 'Real World', but its population is too parochial to understand that.
Irregular events can’t be a barometer though. On the other side of the fence, India also rendered 80+% of its cash unusable overnight.
I think this is actually the fallacious statement. Failing to list any consequences doesn’t require listing all consequences to rectify. I agree with the statement that saying risks are “very low” is insufficient, especially when considering pumping a ton of stuff into the atmosphere. Rather one would expect a thoughtful analysis of what “very low” risks have been identified and why they’re low risk.
Not a criticism of the code here by any stretch, I always find it impressive when people manage to understand languages that are totally foreign to me, that being said however Prolog has always struck me as uniquely unreadable. Even back in university when we looked briefly at different styles of programming, the code always ended up looking something like lines 107-132 in your example, which to someone jumping in is pretty much indecipherable.

Is anyone aware of any higher level abstractions for logic based languages that is actually used in industry? From what I’ve seen in the various banks and fintech groups I’ve worked with, prolog itself was very rarely if ever used ‘in anger’, but I have heard of it being used for automation so I’m very curious what that looks like.
I'm familiar with it, I wouldn't say Swift previously intentionally lengthened lifetimes for the purposes of having fewer refcount operations.

It's more like the old version of the optimizations were just heuristics (so they didn't work that well) and the new versions are formally proven, meaning they're more aggressive and found some memory safety holes in C/ObjC APIs.
I can't believe https://futurecoder.io/ hasn't been mentioned!

It has an integrated Python environment in the browser, so the learner can hop right in! That's not even the best part though; I love how well simple concepts are explained. I've been programming for a long time, so there are a lot of things that I forgot aren't a given. futurecoder explains those things really well.

I really cannot recommend it enough! It is a bit pricey though.. JK it's FREE! They don't push it a lot, but they do have an opencollective if you should feel so inclined to donate [0]. I'm not affiliated; just a relative of someone who benefited.

[0] https://opencollective.com/futurecoder