skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In a single eighteen-month period during 1971 and 1972 the FBI counted an amazing 2,500 bombings on American soil, almost five a day."

-- https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/

That was extreme and unprecedented for America.
They are not at all unrelated. It is not easy to grasp, so I understand the confusion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

Fun rabbit hole would start with classic paper by jaynes

Many more recent examples relating bit erasure costs of computation.
Some names to look up if interested include charlie Bennet,Dave wolpert, James crutchfield, Susanne still, for starters.

Edit -- a collection of ideas related to this problem and mixing in "complexity" can be found in SFI proceedings called "Complexity, entropy, and the physics of information"
"Is your contact information being shared with malicious, threatening, or harassing intent, which is known as doxxing?

- Yes, the contact info is being shared with doxxing intent
- No, the contact info is not being shared with doxxing intent"

The headline is extremely misleading.
According to the source, "Current man-made and natural ISA emissions total over 100,000 tonnes and have many beneficial climate effects". They are not advocating for doing anything particularly new, just scaling up those (partially natural) emissions by a factor of 2. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea. Forest fires are natural, but we would need to study very carefully before we attempted to double the amount of forest fires by artificial means.

In my opinion, though, it would take some pretty strong evidence that this would be actively harmful to dissuade me from wanting to run large scale experiments. Shoot, if leaded gasoline had the potential to slow down climate change it might even be worth bringing it back, considering the damage that climate change has already begun to cause and is projected to cause.
> the world won't go down due to climate change. It won't go down because of some silly war either.

When most collapse-aware persons write about "the end of the world" they mean "the end of complex human civilization", not the total destruction of the planet or even the end of humanity.

> It's just a bit but maybe in a thousand years we will come out of our puberty.

You're asserting that we'll solve the phosphorus problem (among others) in the next 50-100 years, then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_phosphorus
> a completely screwed up sense of priorities

This one, although I wouldn't choose quite that phrasing. Most people don't seem to care too much, so we're condoning the behavior via democratic process. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant chunk of people support it in the name of stopping the terrorists. I don't agree with that, but such is democracy. Especially in a system where we effectively vote on a whole world view by electing representatives, instead of voting on laws ourselves. Joe Schmoe might be anti-surveillance state but even more pro-gun, so if his options are anti-surveillance and anti-gun or pro both, he picks the pro-gun one even though his views don't entirely align.
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Thank you! This is happening on iOS 14.5.1, in Safari. I’m on an iPhone XS.
"concepts are transferrable and should set you up for building your own bundler."

This is a very informative article and wroth reading. But I wonder, why should I need to build my own bundler?
I did find this very interesting. When you experienced the Scotoma, was that combined with pain by the eyes? I get migraines from time to time, but could never imagine pushing through the inability to focus my eyes because it usually comes with pain/nausea.
Extensive analysis of Optery and the topic of removing your personal info from the web on HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605010
The other limiting constraint is the capital needed to engage in some activities that were comparatively inexpensive a generation or two ago.
He might have a look at NAND2tetris and see if that grabs his interest.

Arduinos are also fun.
Are you discussing internal projects because Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google have been profitable for a while. Netflix lost growth and was crushed.
I’m not familiar with Ruby, but in java you can just specify the try-catch block’s scope as explicitly as you want.

```
try { var response = http.postForm(APIURL,)
} catch (Exception e) {
# handle PostForm error
}

try {
var body = ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
} catch(SomeSpecificExceptionType e) {
# handle specific exception differently
} catch(Exception e) {
# run for every other kind of error
}

If a given method is defined as
`void postForm(…) throws IOException` you have to handle the exception at the call site, or mark the containing call itself with a similar throws clause.

I really don’t see anything not handled by these. Also, the defer part can be done by a try-with-resources construct that will clause the resource in every case, whether exited without exception or with one.
I doubt it would scale very well. It's easy to put a private guard within 5 minutes of nice homes in a high crime area. It's another thing to have guards 5 minutes from everywhere. You run into the same problem as a private sector post office or internet provider. They will not provide the same service to everyone regardless of location. The mail that has to be delivered by helicopter to the top of a mountain costs a stamp. The private shipping company wants a small fortune to delver there. The private internet companies won't provide service to some rural areas at all (even though the government pays them over and over again to increase accessibility)
The headline is extremely misleading. They will only remove the information if you are being targeted by a doxxing campaign, and they make it incredibly onerous to remove the information - you have to provide screenshots, the URLs that generate the search results, and then, bizarrely, you must also separately provide the search terms.

The whole thing feels like a /r/maliciouscompliance post.
Is this an option for blog comments or something that is standalone? I’m on mobile and the interface looks pretty, but seems a little strange. I’m being exposed to the middle of conversations and missing the lede. Like walking into a room and having no clue what 2 people are chatting about.
I imagine that they're mostly targeting sports where the university doesn't typically offer (full) scholarships. That's probably why basketball and football aren't included.

There's also the possibility that the student wouldn't be obligated to play the sport in order to get the scholarship money. Most students want to play their sport anyways.
If you know nothing about programming, you should probably start by learning Python and the PyGame engine.

If you already know programming, then a lot of games are written with either the Unreal engine (using C++) or Unity (using C#).

There are certainly exceptions. Minecraft was originally written in Java, but I don't know of any other major games using Java. Undertale was made in GameMaker Studio. Any game with a custom engine is likely using C or C++, but I wouldn't try writing your own engine unless you really know what you're doing. It is not a task for the inexperienced.
So this idea is what makes you think of that story, and not the century we've spent actually seeding the atmosphere with greenhouse gases?

Maybe we should put some thought into reversing this massive artificial change we've made, before we suffer the sort of consequences described in the story.
The video these cameras capture is tens of gigabytes of data. I think you can expect about an hour worth of video on 1TB. It’s completely impractical to think they’re taking your video from the camera itself.

It’s also likely to be useless footage for anyone but the person creating the content. Keep in mind the video will still need to be edited for color, adding or removing sound, and cropped. Then spliced into a final product.

It’s also useless for rights holders because 1. It’s easier to hash on the camera and send the hash only, not your video. And two, the camera isn’t recording the final product so there’s likely no music yet. Finally, for a professional video shoot, you’d acquire the rights anyway. Double finally, as a rights holder it’s far easier to do a content claim on YouTube, Netflix, Vimeo, or wherever the content is going to end up rather than on the first step of the process, the camera.

I don’t even know what law enforcement would want with random video footage of outtakes for a small, medium, or large video production.
> 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.

Isn't this the same thing as protecting your tweets and restricting who can tag you and reply to your tweets?
I enjoy the design; clean and simple! Somehow, the initials in red reminds me of liturgical texts

Also, I love the approach with close integration with mails - I think it is strange that the mail protocol isn't more widely used - having my own copies of the conversations, easily searchable and exportable, is a huge advantage!
Anecdotally I think it's the long tail of ideological content rather than the extreme examples that make people leave. But I suppose it could be specific things that push people over the edge.

I'm a strong free speech supporter - I'd rather there be lots of things that people find offensive on offer (as long as they wouldn't have been illegal in the year 2000). But having all new content revolve around some aspect of identity politics means there's nothing actually interesting to watch, which is why I've abandoned netflix now that I've seen all the foreign police procedurals.
It was written in tandem with a prover and is generally very nice to use to develop compilers and analysers. The biggest company using it does algorithmic trading with it.
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Looking at this through the devil's advocate lens, it's easy to see how that kind of policy prevents a lot of people from going to college. That could be a bad thing.

On the other hand, it could also be a good thing since it would push more people towards the trades, which we sorely need. And maybe it would provide downward pressure on the cost of an education.
We already alter the climate with every action we take, or every action we don't take.

It is less dangerous to take deliberate actions with intent than take actions without intent.

Every government on the planet is ALREADY determining what weather you and others have. Countries that burn large amounts of coal have an impact, as do countries that ban coal!
Do you have a source for that claim? I wasn't aware that was necessarily true.
This book is phenomenal and I highly second this recommendation.
I think you're also overlooking the fact of the sheer file size of RED video footage. It would take them hours or days to upload that video to their servers just to view it to see if it were worth using, and on top of that, no where in it's verbiage does it give them license to use or view your copyrighted work in any way.

If you find your work on their site or in their promos, they are in violation of copyright laws and are liable. No judge would stand behind such weak boilerplate to allow RED to steal artist's work with impunity.

I hate to say it, but you're far too worried about this. I understand the misgivings but the reality of the situation doesn't match your concern over the matter, or to put it another way, you're making mountains out of molehills.
FYI to anyone reading: gruez and I had an exchange a while back where I tried to pin down what the collateral is accomplishing and why the customers couldn’t buy even with settled funds.

I don’t think it resulted in a satisfactory explanation but it goes over a bunch of the same questions being asked on this story, and I still think it’s useful to help isolate what part doesn’t make sense.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693578
Nice response, thanks.
Property taxes can be raised, if higher density makes it so that existing taxes are too low. Furthermore, education is more strongly correlated with parental education and involvement than with spending per pupil. Wealthier, more educated people tend to live in suburbs, that's why schools do better there.

Higher density makes mass transit systems like subways more viable, opening up alternatives to automobiles. Furthermore, greater density means more revenue to spend on infrastructure projects.

When a metro area experiences growth, higher density is inevitable. It's more a question of how that density will be accommodated. Construct no housing and it will take the form of ever-increasing home costs, and higher rents for increasingly subdivided apartments. Construct denser housing and people will be able to live comfortable and affordably.
This looks like a bloody brilliant idea thus far. I'm curious as to how you guys approach implementing some of the traditional social media experiences (likes, follows, retweets, etc). There are so many things to consider.. I was telling my BIL, who is a psychiatrist, that we as devs don't do enough to include other voices from other experts in the dev process.. It seems like many of the traditional social media functions could be more harmful then helpful, both individually and as an unhealthy group dynamic. Perhaps simple changes can make big impacts, such as approving people to follow you when they request it, and the option of turning off new follow requests altogether.

It's interesting I see this project, because I've long thought the problem with social media is that everyone can talk to everyone and anyone at any time. Like everyone is in a giant stadium with access to the PA to announce themselves... and everyone in the stadium can use it all at the same time. Real life doesn't work this way. While unfettered communication is nice, it is also overwhelming and positive and healthy communication needs filters and topics and such.

I'll definitely be watching this app and hopefully using it. There is a lot of opportunity here. I really enjoy the clean and simple interface. Personally, I think this is probably the best social media app and idea I've seen come through HN in a long time.

A 'contact me' button which quick copies a link would be a nice addition.
As annoying as this is, at least it shows you the name of the original track but it's grayed out, as opposed to when YouTube would remove a video you wouldn't even realize it had been deleted from your playlist.
It's confusing. The policy document lists contact info twice, and to the form is missing the "other doxxing content" option.

It looks like the form has design errors that don't match the policy.
Isn't there substantial evidence that he actually was? The Wiki article states he got shot 3 times in the head at less than 10 yards range, then his unit actively tried to cover up the killing as death by enemy fire. That's pretty sketchy.
Good luck with that; the NCAA exists to ensure schools can get top sports talent for as little money as possible.
> How can the places that the city has deemed appropriate for the economically distressed be so bad? It’s not because of a lack of funds. San Francisco has an eye-popping $1.1 billion homeless budget, much of it spent on such supportive housing.

How much do you want to spend on this? Everything you listed out costs money, and it seems like SF spends on all of those services without much measurable success.
At this point, I think maybe Python ceases to be the correct tool for the purpose. There comes a point where trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of something that is, relatively speaking, not focusing on raw performance is just stubbornness. Write the slow part in C/C++/Rust/Zig/Nim or something and be done with it instead of making your Python unreadable. At least your native code can be idiomatic instead of being filled with arcane tricks.
I guess Philando Castile wouldn't have been murdered if he didn't interfere with police target practice either?
The NCAA limits scholarships in an attempt to level playing fields.

If scholarships were unlimited, schools with money could just scholarship their entire team.
I've been living in Sweden for 6 years. Never touched any Swedish cash. I don't even know what it looks like.
This is a great strategy. It expands athletic scholarships, which has an automatic combination of diversity, accessability, and merit by itself, and then gets people with degrees through the military.
Just to add to this great recommendation, https://p5js.org/ (JS port of Processing) is really great as they can get started right away and the docs are super simple. Dan uses it in most of his videos and really starts at a basic level, but works up to really complex concepts as well. My kids are younger, but they like the graphical part of it way more than me showing them the terminal and Ruby.
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this works for them because there's a close mapping between the code and the infra it needs. For the more general case of IaC, it usually benefits greatly to being closer to data rather than code, allowing a wider range of tools to work with/process it over long term maintenance.
1) Except that NO OTHER COMPANY needs to prepay pensions for 70 years. I have no problem with the fact that companies must prepay pensions. Then make it the law for everybody--not just the USPS.

2) The USPS is supposed to be unprofitable--it's supposed to service everyone. If you are going to hound the USPS about profitability, then they should be allowed to drop service in rural areas. The easiest way to decrease pension obligations is to permananetly drop a whole bunch of workers from unprofitable areas, no?

The problem is that the arguments around the USPS aren't made in good faith. The goal is to bankrupt the USPS so that they have to sell off the extremely valuable real estate that many USPS facilities sit on.
We currently do what no society has ever done every day, and in larger terms every decade.

It's easily conceivable that 100 decades from now we could do this too.
Yeah that's a 'Housing Only' failure.

'Housing First' literally implies a 'Second' and 'Third' issue to be addressed.
There are some for sure, and I do miss the office. But parts of what I miss about it are lunches with co workers, drinks at cool spots every now and again. I don't miss the desk drive bys, traffic, parking, slow elevators, etc etc.

I would provide a co working space or stipend for that for the teams / people that want that environment if I were king for a day.
It was 100% necessary, they didn’t have the necessary cash to post margin with the clearinghouse.

They would’ve been a failed brokerage if they kept allowing GME trades without being able to post the required margin, the SEC would’ve taken it over and people would’ve had to wait weeks/months to ACATS their shares and cash to another brokerage.

Does that sound like a better outcome for Robinhood users? I didn’t think so.
I would ask why you don't have the same problem with energy?
Public perception never really lines up with the predictions.

The Day After Tomorrow for example somehow jumped from slowing down ocean circulation resulting in lower temperatures in the north, to ice tornadoes. It’s like stuff can’t just be really really bad for a lot of people it also needs cause people to run somewhere or be flying around in helicopters.
..as a general statement, I think that's being too kind.
It really doesn't. It just gives them more incentive to do something about Twitter.
What is the alternative to spending the money needed to house and treat people?
Even if people don't care about privacy, they'll care about the network costs and battery drain from transmitting all this audio. If the audio is being parsed on the edge device it'd cut down on network costs, but result in even more battery drain.
Show HN: Zb, a self-contained zip blog
> is that messages are not published until the counterparty replies or accepts your comment

Ok, this is a really smart idea.

Can you just please add a link to your about page on your home page? without this posting, I never would have found it.
Yeah, that's why they are constantly trying to kill each other...
...unpopular or unsavory in its implications?
Well except that a lot of countries didn't have any unusual excess mortality in 2020. And anyway how do you separate the deaths caused by the measures from the deaths caused by COVID?

Such as

Discharging hospital patients into care homes:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/28/the-covid-care-home...

"The practice of discharging untested patients from hospitals to care homes remained in force until 15 April 2020."

Killing people with ventilators:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ventil...

"Bergmann’s case illustrates a shift on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, as doctors rethink when and how to use mechanical ventilators to treat severe sufferers of the disease - and in some cases whether to use them at all. While initially doctors packed intensive care units with intubated patients, now many are exploring other options.
No, it could not.
That’s a very interesting question, and not one I have thought about before. Thank you for asking it, it has added a new dimension to my thinking and I will tell my grandchildren about your incisive inquiry. No. Do you see how you described a system based on identity, whereas this forces you to review individual comments before they’re published? There’s no way on Twitter to request the ability to reply.

Edited to add the kind of fake boilerplate that seems to gush from every message on there in order to encourage acceptance.
>Why can't I remove it without jumping through hoops?

Because the biggest hoop is that the data is not located in just one place. It's the internet, so the data is shared/duplicated as fast as it becomes available. You have no idea how many places it lives because not all places are available for public browsing. Some one buys it, then resells it ad nauseam.
What if legislators were elected monthly for terms of 11 years?
I just use vlc and the s and d keys I think for adding audio offset either slow or fast!
“ The first is related to the third is related to the second is related to the first isn't an argument. It's trying to avoid the argument because you can accept the truth.”

“ Yes. Far more generous than I should be.”

This sounds angry. I apologize for upsetting you. I hoped to equip you with some thoughtful feedback on your ideas. Please practice more generosity towards others.
There are plenty of reasons to map roads on private property, and presumably it is visible in satellite imagery, so I don't see that as a compelling argument by itself. If we're not counting oceans, most of what is on a map is private property.
How can it be ok that people get to make massive changes to everybody's climate, as a side effect of making a personal profit? That's what's happening today.
Thanks, will have to read up on it.
You seem to interpret "punishment" as "inflicting pain".

What about denial of privileges or a simple "stand in the corner"? If a kid is being obnoxious right before going to a birthday party, maybe stay home or go late. Or if you're already out, maybe say "this isn't fun anymore" and go home?

I guess you could argue over where the line is between "punishing" and "not rewarding". But I don't think that's a very useful discussion. It's more about how the kid interprets it, and if it's less than they normally get, it feels like a punishment.
> Stepped-up Cost Basis means that aging Baby Boomers are highly incentivized to never sell their homes. After their death, their beneficiaries receive a huge tax benefit.

How does that work? If I buy a house for $100K, then sell it 30 years later for $1M, am I really going to get taxed on the $900K gain?

And what tax benefit if it's inherited? Does inheriting reset the cost basis so there will never be taxes due on that $900K gain or something?