skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no "natural balance" in the climate. It has always changed and always will and there is no foreseeable scenario where we would be able to predict all the consequences of say attempting to bring the climate to stabilize so that Manhattan would always be above water. Or prevent Europe from being covered in ice again (which it likely will be at one point).

We need to start thinking about how we can adapt to various scenarios, rather than imagine that we are omnipotent here (we are not and will most likely never be unless some miraculous breakthrough in predictive powers occurs).

Adapting and making sure that our footprint going forward is as minimal as possible is the only reasonable strategy, ASAP.
With inflation above 8%, that means real wages have fallen at a 3% rate.
I don't know that I'd categorize placing a silicone film the size of Brazil at the L1 Lagrangian Point as "simple".
Have one branch for every story in Jira has been incredibly helpful in teams I’ve been in.

You can check in git if work has actually begun, and you can get from and old commit to Jira by virtue of the merge commit.

I don’t know how you’d do it in a non-mono repo setting
Pumped hydro is great but there are limited locations where the geography and geology allows it to work. And there are ecological concerns with building more dams.
Legal writing has something like this.

If you look at the - sometimes dreaded - Bluebook, "signals" play a large role in indicating the relevance of the cited source to the argument.

See generally Peter W. Martin, Introduction to Basic Legal Citation: § 6-300 Signals, Legal Information Institute (last visited July 10, 2022), https://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/6-300.
Why have traditional taxi companies when evidently just having some computers in the cloud can do the same thing for basically free and let the drivers take all the profit? I don't like Uber as a company, but I don't see why we can't have similar services around or why it is wrong to try to change laws to make such services legal?
IME is disabled and neutralized on my Librem 15, which runs Qubes flawlessly.
I said it’s sometimes a drag and you said actively hates -- well done.
This feels like a variation of the trolly problem where currently we're on one that's killing millions (fossil fuels), and everyone is afraid to pull the lever for one that kills a handful because it has the unreasonable requirement of needing to be perfect (nuclear).
Yes, those Nazis really hate _squints_ everything looking the same?
I can't imagine wasting that much water by having a pool in Phoenix, insane
I miss the fun days.

Catz and Dogz were all interactive pets you could use during the early Windows era.
Great answer, thanks.

I often get that feeling of "enjoying the beauty of the writing" with Patrick O'Brian, who was pretty prolific. I've read all 20 Aubrey-Maturin books twice now. Even though I don't understand sailing and ship design at all, hardly, I don't mind it -- I get the gist.

(I was inspired by POB; I'm not comparing myself) Writing my two books, I took the same direction: maybe some people won't get all the technical details, but I hope they won't care, like I don't care that I don't know what "wearing" is.
I would love to know why Ted Gioia is being posted here.

I think it is because of a youtuber Rick Beato had a video of him recently which he was featured. Which lead me to start reading his substack.

Is that how other people found him? I like what I have read and he seems like a really interesting guy and knows a lot about music.

Just interesting how he bubbled up and wondering if others found him from Beato also?
Wind-powered vessels are very counter-intuitive: not only you can get faster than the wind by going downwind (with such a device) but you can also get faster than wind while going almost upwind (it works better when landsailing).

It's counter-intuitive because people often imagine the wind “pushing” the sail, while the force that actually happens is lift, which works with apparent wind instead of true wind.
Most economic systems go through the same 3 step process:

1. Start out with a good idea.

2. Go through a golden period of good results, in which there is much innovation, and established dominant players are upended.

3. Revert to form, in which the newly dominant players prevent further change.

The key is not looking for the perfect system at step 2, but the one which causes step 3 to break down in the quickest time possible.
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She got a notification within 2 hours and disabled the device. Sounds like the protections worked as intended, and thanks to Apple she was alerted to the fact that somebody was stalking her.

Let's consider the alternative of a world where AirTags didn't exist: The stalker probably would have followed her around for 2 hours, and she likely wouldn't have found out until a physical confrontation.
Still a million times better than what it replaced. About 20 years ago I was working with the Australian taxi cab industry. The hq of the regulatory authority shared the address of the main payment system. The regulatory authority was made up of representatives of each taxi cab company that each had one vote. There was one taxi company (the one that controlled the payment system allowed) with 200+ subsidiaries that made up that organization. If anyone tried to get into the taxi industry they'd use their 200 votes to say they are not allowed by regulations. This was a company making 2billion a year in one state of Australia alone (NSW). It was so incredibly fucking corrupt and i am thankful to Uber Lyft and all the other incumbents for managing to get their foot in. It required dirty dealing to get past this corruption.
Signed up in 2017, and have over 5000 games. It's a great site, all free.
War Amps solve a very different, much simpler problem. They don't help me find the keys dropped between sofa cushions or left in my car. They require somebody else to do work on my behalf to get me my keys, like go to the post office. I can't see the realtime location of a thing with a War Amps tag. They're not useful if somebody intended to steal the item with a War Amps tag.

> What if you have an Android phone?

From the article:

> "Non iPhone users, Apple created an app for androids for this very reason called Tracker Detect"
Wikipedia is non-profit and still manipulated by shills.
I was the most recent instructor of 61A and just wrote up tips on auditing it:
http://blog.pamelafox.org/2022/07/how-to-audit-cs61a.html
However, I don't recommend 61A for folks new to programming, it's better as a second course.
To a carbon negative anti-racist economy that values LBGTIQ+ lives and the rights of birthing people.
how about this?
https://imgur.com/a/fdbfZ2m

this is a quick experiment I did to apply color highlights to english book the same way we do it with programming language in IDE.
To what? What level of consumption will make all these problems disappear? Going back to pre-industruial lifestyles is arguably worse for the average person than climate change is.
Let’s call it what it is - malware
Legal citations have specific ‘introductory signals’ to specify the way in which a case is being cited. Eg ‘see’ or ‘contra’ or ‘but cf’.

Found a summary of one of the standards here: https://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/bluebook-legal-citation/intro...
CFC doesn't buy transport or transit from Bell as their pricing is ridiculous ($10,800 per month to go 26 km at 10Gbps? No way.). We only rent poles and strand from Bell. As Bell owns a good percentage of the poles in Ontario, it is practically impossible to build aerial plant in rural areas without running into Bell owned support structures. Putting up new poles is a $10k per kilometer added expense, and even more if there are a lot of rocks.
Sounds reasonable to me. 20/25 K's is 15 miles or so. 20 minute miles is a totally comfortable pace. - so 300/60 5 hours. Plus add whatever and you get to 8 or 9 hours of walking.

I wouldn't want to do that if it was really hot but other then that it doesn't seem particularly bad much less unlikely.
I mean the IRS makes 990 forms publically available. They may be a year or two behind, but it's valuable financial and personnel data from nonprofits.

EDIT: Ok, I see that this is about a search engine structured as a not-for-profit, not as a search engine for nonprofits.
Not only am I a black male I also live and work in Africa. That might explain my dig at diversity because we are mostly black people also changing logos for seemingly silly reasons.
This is the paper they draw examples from: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/7/884
I bet writing that first paragraph made you feel really smart, thus giving you a nice dopamine hit. I recognize that feeling. I honestly have no idea what you meant by it though.
yeah that's what I was thinking of doing especially the second point. Thanks.
Learn something new (a language? geography? history? match coworkers' faces to names?) using flashcard apps:

- https://apps.ankiweb.net/ works offline, supports pictures, sound, and other media. You can find shared decks at: https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/

- https://quizlet.com/ features a smart deck builder which lets you crowdsource and autocomplete definitions.
Uber Files: leak reveals how top politicians helped Uber
Access company Kisi's blog post from 2018 on hacking 125Khz and 13.56Mhz cards: https://www.getkisi.com/blog/how-to-copy-access-cards-and-ke...

Hardware device that copies many keys including encrypted: https://icopyx.com/
> freaking Roger Penrose

Unless he is an expert on cognition or neurobiology, which he isn’t, I still think his opinion has no more value than mine and certainly has less value than that of a field expert.

And you did resort to a logical fallacy in that.
I have, but nothing stood out. I even tried Firefox Profiler (which is pretty good btw, kudos to the team), and it looks like DOM processing and renderer both spend a lot of CPU. But alas I'm not a frontend developer and have no incentive to dive deeper :)
> We got compilers. Otherwise none of this

Did you have the option to take the relevant classes as electives in your postgraduate studies? My postgraduate had a single mandatory course and otherwise just required that I spread my classes among 3 of ~7 major focus areas. One of these areas was computer architecture, which taught me most of the low-level things I listed above.

Another thing I forgot above was formal education in distributed systems and databases, especially the postgraduate databases class that covered the inner workings (like transactions, WAL, dependencies, rollbacks, etc.) and distributed databases, which nicely connected with the distributed systems lecture (which dealt a lot with CAP theorem and consensus, e.g. paxos). That's also something you can learn on the job, but the formal education gave a pretty broad background that I would think is hard to learn on the job.

> computer science by some definitions

I guess if there is a distinction between computer science and for example computer engineering they would mostly end up on the computer engineering side of things, which sits somewhere between computer science and electrical engineering. Though the level on which I studied these concepts in our computer science department was to understand how it works, history and state of the art and it's implications on software. It was less about how to create such a system from the electrical engineering side of things.
It depends if you include residential solar in your calculation. Roofing is a dangerous occupation.
> About 10,000 students sit GCSE Latin each year and most of them are in private schools despite government attempts to lift numbers in the state sector. According to a recent British Council survey, Latin is taught in less than 3% of state schools, compared with 49% of independent schools.

Is this supposed to help increase the number of state students studying Latin?
Meh, any corp of this caliber lobbies as much as they can. It wouldn’t have succeeded if cabs weren’t so shitty.
They made Tracker Detect for Android inferior to the protections they give to iPhone users.
Thanks. Yes, a more open car API would be welcome.

For V1G (ie one-way demand response charging), I'd prefer cars also have a Set It And Forget It option:

Always charge immediately to [ 30% ], then charge to [ 80% ] by [ 7 AM ] [ weekdays ].

And then it just Does The Right Thing.

For configuring stationary batteries, the equivalent would be:

Always reserve [ 40% ] backup, then trade with the grid when payout exceeds [ 20¢/kWh ].

Current generation Tesla systems allow some of this configuration, but not all.
"Why not? Isn't that how the current ones came to be?"

There's an interesting history of rights prior to the Constitution. But now that we have a constitution, there's a defined process for amending it.

Of course, there is still room for interpretation. But if you allow politicians and judges to wildly change the constitution on a whim, you might as well not have one.

What you are suggesting qualifies as such a wild change to the notion of a free press, and should not be permitted without an amendment. And if such an amendment were proposed, I think it would get very little support.
Well, that's a problem with the management of the service desk. Most walk-in service desks log the ticket for you.

But it would have been interesting had you told them you couldn't use your computer because the screw is missing, and how do they expect you to log the ticket? Sounds like there is an arsehole in the service desk. I'd lodge a complaint internally.
Could you elaborate more on the type of documents you are referring to. Are these the same documents like software documentation or some auditing reports type stuff?
Nuclear is more expensive than solar + batteries even in China.
What if the finder doesn't intend to return the item/keys?
A link to a good starting point in the atomic archives is there in my reply to a peer comment.

It might not be a story of Australian expertise in (then) cutting edge technology that you like, but it's a real nugget of history.

His mentor was a New Zealander ... now a determinedly nuclear free country.
> I'd like the ability to drop files to a VM from another VM, like shared folders in Workstation.

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/how-to-copy-and-move-files/
For example, Uber can be replaced with an open source, decentralized marketplace that doesn’t take 50% of all drivers’ revenue, but has a free market and ratings / reviews operated by the community.

Sure! I volunteer you to build it for me.
This is tricky since it delves into first amendment territory. I wonder if it may be overturned by a higher court.
Your post contains three sources, but I respectfully have to say I consider it completely misleading.

There is no real evidence "decoupling", that is GDP growth combined with stagnation or decline in resource consumption and emissions.

All studies that are widely cited claiming that European and other western industrialized nations have achieved any measurable reduction in per-capita emissions and resource consumption have, to my knowledge, been debunked.

> US total CO2 emissions and CO2 emissions per capita have been dropping for a while now. The same is true for the EU as a whole

Economic growth depends on very material and observable effects on the physical world.
I admit that I only looked closely at your first link, but arguing against this trope again and again is tiring.

So far I feel that all of these statistics have gaping logical holes, the worst and most obvious being considering "territorial emissions". Your first link seems to suffer from that too, at least at first glance.

It is outrageous to me that questioning "Green capitalism" is still considered a fringe position.

I can recommend e.g. this read (don't focus on the relatively tame headline):

https://eeb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Decoupling-Debunk...

> we should be doing better in the west, but it's a lie to tell ourselves that driving an electric car and putting solar panels on the roof is going to solve the problem.

I agree, at least in part.

But your conclusions are off to me.

Solar panels on the roof should mostly a net-positive thing (or net negative after a couple of years, in terms of emissions). The more widely deployed, the better.

What a pity that they are not widely deployed. Seems to be a systemic problem, fracking and coal are more lucrative.

Also they can ot offset an ever-increasing resource demand, eco-blind urban planning etc in their own.

That's a problem with most of the "eco products" out there.

We don't
just need a new product, we need new politics.

As far as I know, western countries have not effectively reduced their per-capita emissions or resource consumption. At best, temporarily in times of recession, but the overall trend remains upwards. .

Even countries with stagnating population numbers keep on broadening the trail of destruction they impose on the world.

The way we delude ourselves into being "ahead in green progress" compared to developing nations sounds to me very neo-colonialistic and delusional.

Your comment hints at this fact, but only in a away that most people seem to paraphrase with "India matters, while us accelerating the global depletion of NNRs and raise of emission does not".

I feel like most coverage of climate change and environmental is purposefully framed in a way that implies there was no alternative to growth and capitalism. Also downplaying the scale of the problem and how we continue to perpetuate it.

The spurious statistics mostly reward countries that let others do the "dirt work" for them, sustaining absurd excesses of the rich and the population clashing over the "trickle-down" remains.
Lichess is amazing given how little they receive in funding. The interface is miles ahead of commercial competitors.

They also handle guest plays much better. I've faced less cheating bots and no annoying pop ups on lichess when playing as a guest compared to chess.com

Can anyone point me to how they handle cheating detection? I would love a high level overview of how it works especially when you have no data on the player.

fun nugget: HN users hosted tournaments on lichess at the start of the pandemic [0]

0] https://lichess.org/team/hacker-news
Are there any category of workplace issues that do not decrease productivity and morale?
This is just a deeply unhelpful way to think.

Firstly it punishes those in the worst situations. Those in countries with abusive political systems, those who have no legal representation, etc.

I don't even believe the idea is right in practice "serves to preserve the status quo" is just wrong in this case. HTTPS completely breaks most terrible things ISPs can do. It completely dismantles the system.
“Sometimes we have problems because, well, we’re just fucking illegal.”
"It's all okay because our legal and compliance teams said it was."

Talk about non-sequiturs.
They are and there is no such implication.

The writer knows less than you.
Security breaches are bad for business, so IT can impose draconian measures to prevent them. Right now we're bad at measuring the cost to business of IT making developers work harder.

Maybe eventually they'll be an insurance policy against lost revenue from security breaches and we stop getting in developers way. One can only hope
That it uses a prime field is a bit awkward, as it requires repacking bytes to and from the field.

Leopard (https://github.com/catid/leopard) is similarly fast but constructed over GF(2^16) so it doesn't need any repacking. OTOH, that also limits it to 2^16 packets per codeword.
Helping your 'old' PC build faster with your mobile device
Except that there is.

Maybe not from korija in particular; you're probably right about their specific intentions writing that post.

But I've seen posts—hell, I've met people in person—that clearly put forward the opinion that computers are a mistake, they're overly complex, and we need to go back to the time before they existed.

Most of the time, this is at least couched in the form of "Aw, man, these computers are just so dang complicated, y'know? I can never get 'em to work right! You know how it is, right?" But there have been multiple occasions where it was much less playful and much more seriously "computers don't help, they only make things worse, I hate them and we should just all go back to pencil and paper."

Poe's Law[0] is around for a reason.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law for those who aren't familiar
> Why can't we just draw down our unsustainable industries and ramp up biological carbon sequestration?

Evidently not, or we would have done it already. Starting today, even if we adopted those strategies successfully, it would still be too late to prevent a catastrophic rise in global temperatures. In fact, the only thing that would prevent such a scenario is an aggressive and distasteful technological solution (maybe this, maybe something else). That's the situation we're in, like it or not.
yup I agree with you on that one. Thanks for mentioning AngelList - I had forgotten about it completely. Seems like a nice site for lead hunting. Also LinkedIn.
It’s hilarious how everyone acts like the pre-Uber taxi world was one of generous wages, honest hard working companies, and politicians working hand in hand with stakeholders.

The taxi industry was (is?) insanely corrupt. There are literally state-sanctioned limits on taxis and artificial markets for medallions that made early purchasers absurdly rich.
Trudeau's policy picks were to check boxes on unwritten gender and race quotas. They are unlikely to have been the best people for the positions, because that wasn't the criteria being applied. Some people might take umbrage at me calling it out like that, but it sure looks like that's what actually happened. It was affirmative action to score political points.

I don't like or agree with affirmative action as a policy. It's slapping a bandaid on the problem without addressing root causes. It's demeaning to the people selected, and it's discrimination on constitutionally protected grounds of gender, race, sexual identity, etc.
Well, for one, if you get low pressure in one set of water pipes the entire water grid doesn't attempt to collapse because it goes out of sync.

The grid is a gigantic clock that at least in the US is running at 60 ticks per second. This is pretty easy to manage if you have some massive power source on it like gigantic turbines at a nuclear power plant. All your small clocks aren't going to push that around so much.

The problems come in when all you have is small clocks, who sets the phase of the grid?
How is Tracker Detect inferior to Find My? And is it a limitation of Android's background bluetooth APIs?
I don't know of a more corrupt industry than the taxi industry. The tight control of supply via taxi licenses, the low pay of drivers and the inability for any incumbents to enter. It was horrendous and hugely profitable for those in power and exploitative for anyone needing such services.
If he just needed plausible deniability for why he was selling stock, why would he need the Twitter board to agree?
lol - you'd think that HR would be there for these things in most organisations, but in many they are petty bureaucrats. HR are not your friends.
Outside of maybe freshman politicians I would think that corruption exists with many, if not most, politicians in the US as well. I can't speak to other countries but power tends to corrupt.
There is still some disagreement though. Here's a more recent video by someone saying that those didn't get it right [1].

I have no idea what his qualifications are, though, as that is his first video in English, and most of his other videos don't seem to be about physics. But at least on first watch his physics sounds sound.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw1Bk4g50YM
Right but that metadata (like password rules) is pretty much public information so it doesn't matter if an attacker gets it so it doesn't have to be as secure as a "vault".