skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“If legislation makes abortion murder then it is.”

I fundamentally disagree. You objectively cannot “kill” something that is not “alive”. That is just a fact of life itself. A government can legislate all they want, but it does not make an unborn fetus any more alive. And thus any law rooted in this idea is fundamentally absurd, preposterous, and so downright stupid that on the principle alone (aside from the many others) any such ban shouldn’t be followed.

To entertain the idea that government can legislate whatever it wants is to imply that a government can dictate the laws of physics. It’s just nonsensical.
Stupid question here, what does TA spell out?
Yes, your comment is very low grade. I agree.
You are strawmanning an opinion about a single metric.

Sure, molds are great for the environment! Molds in your lunchbox? not so much. You have built a whole narrative out of sparsely collected news pieces on a single issue.
At-most-once delivery is easy in anything. At-least-once is hard from scratch but there are good tools (TCP, HTTP/3) and patterns (retry, acknowledgement, logical monotonicity) and it’s generally not back-breaking.

Of course what everyone wants is exactly-once, which is profoundly difficult even when you know the exact cast of characters in terms of problem domain and compute fabric.

Idempotent updates with retry and ack is a very popular compromise that’s usually pretty feasible.
I suspect it is in part the combination of academia being a somewhat "normatively standard" path for people to take but, unlike most other such paths, inherently requires a lot of self-discipline and self-motivation. The result is that mental health issues may cause worse extreme outcomes, for the sort of person who can go into a PhD. The "standard" alternative path for somebody like that is some office job where you can just sort of muddle through: you may be deeply unhappy, but the money still comes in and it's easier to find satisfaction in other aspects of your life.

There are other paths where self-discipline and self-motivation are important, like being an independent consultant, but those are generally not considered "normatively standard" paths for people to take.

(My personal experience with academia was great. I was genuinely interested in the topics, had great colleagues and a great advisor. It probably helped that it was in maths, where there is money for decent pay but no lab work with which PhD students are routinely burdened.)
Or, perhaps, we should stop doing gain of function research in the same way like we are nit doing human cloning research?
Hydrogen for short term storage, ammonia for medium term storage. Both much less efficient than just using electricity directly, but the aim is to drive down the cost of generation so that the inefficiency doesn’t matter so much.

There are also tons of other short-medium term storage solutions, and we probably need all of them that we can get our hands on, but hydrogen and ammonia are the ones that feel most likely to operate at grid scale.
I somewhat think the obvious political decision is to embrace a bit of corruption for the greater good, and just offer the fossil fuel companies the opportunity to transition to green energy and own the next great monopoly. Or just pick new winners.

frankly dealing with a monopoly and a bit of corruption is better than dealing with the effects of climate change.
>> I have to wonder if they used that linked “RSA Encryption & Decryption Example with OpenSSL in C” tutorial…

Makes me feel better about my own incompetencies. But also makes me scared for the future of safety in vehicles.
Was that sample code GPL'ed?
Mate, Europe ain’t gonna collapse. Even with cold winter, enough resources to keep citizens running will be found. We might have to cut production output, yes. There will be more climate related deaths, yes. But we ain’t gonna collapse.
> Teams will remain a complete joke to me as long as I am forced to play the “try to map initials to names” game in order to figure out who is talking. I don’t know my coworkers by their initials, Microsoft. I don’t know why you can’t just show me actual names.

I’d say the expectation is that everyone sets their actual photo as their profile picture, that would probably solve your problem.
Open source was never about being against commercial activity anyway.
How do we deal with the security issues of nuclear, though?

Look at the situation in Ukraine with Russia actively threatening the stability of their nuclear power plant as a bargaining chip. Attacks on nuclear facilities during war are quite common, even the US has done it a few times.

Also, unstable countries need energy too - would it really be a good idea to start building nuclear power plants in Syria or Somalia?

Perhaps we need an international UN agency in charge of all nuclear reactors in the world, with every country signing a defence pact? To be clear, I do want nuclear power, I just don't feel like society is stable enough to deliver it.
Temperature variations in ancient times are very unreliable, because they can only be inferred indirectly. The big giveaway for anthropogenic climate change is co2 concentration, since we can directly measure its value hundreds of thousands of years in the past thanks to air bubbles enclosed deep in glaciers: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-re...

It clearly shows that the atmosphere never looked anything like this since humans climbed down from trees. Bonus fact: All mass extinctions happened when the co2 levels rose over a certain value (we're already at 419ppm, that 393ppm value in the article is from a few years ago): https://johnenglander.net/co2-levels-and-mass-extinction-eve...

If they rise over 600ppm for example, the oceans will acidify and their ecosystems will collapse. Since most of our oxygen comes from oceanic plankton, we'll literally suffocate when that happens - and at the current trend it could happen before the century is over.

The largest extinction event ever, the Permian-Triassic event (where 80% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates died), is currently thought to have been caused by massive emissions of runaway greenhouse gases in the thawing Siberian tundra - similar to what we are seeing right now.
That might be skewed due to testing practices, lots of places will only test you if you're a homosexual or bisexual male.

African monkeypox cases, for example, are not concentrated among gay men. 60% of the affected are men and 40% are women:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
Sounds like Brian has never used a good debugger
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Nobody does. But they might enjoy the time in between the commercials more. They might, an hour later, still have a level of happiness that's greater than if the show was without commercials, and answer accordingly on a survey.

If something is less enjoyable than you think it should be, I think "Maybe it's the lack of disruptors" is a fair guess.

Especially with some very intense shows that could be emotionally fatiguing without breaks, and when the timing of commercials is well chosen. It's not just random interruption, they can be used to make segments between like mini acts or episodes.
When I tried vim mode on VSCode it seemed to have extremely few vim features. So it's basically more to get the vim keys. That was one of several reasons why I didn't like VSCode.
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I read these titles and always facepalm and laugh.

If you remove researchers who have differing opinions *of course* you’ll get the claims you want. Particularly, when those researchers are funded in a way that incentivizes particular claims.

Now to these easily debunked claims, look at energy production vs capacity vs consumption in Germany:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany

Even though renewable energy capacity is 60% renewables, energy consumption is only 10% renewables.

This is every country. Because renewable energy comes in bursts. This also doesn’t include the fact it costs a ton of fossil fuel energy to produce a lot of these renewable systems (solar, wind turbines, batteries).

I’m not saying this isn’t a “doable” goal, but only way you might get there by 2050 is destroying quality of life, population reduction and investing all resources into this space. You’d also have to force countries like China and Russia with force… so good luck.
There was a golden moment - perhaps 2003 through mid 2004 - when xbmc running on the original Xbox could do everything…

But then HD content arrived with bitrates too high for that hardware and everything splintered and got confusing and which Mac mini was beefy enough to play 1080p @ 30fps and which downloads were “HD” but not so hd that you couldn’t play them …

It never got back to the elegance of a modded Xbox and sd content …
It's not "gatekeeping", but suckless is targetted at a very specific audience. There's nothing wrong with that and just as much "gatekeeping" as writing a text in German for German speakers with German cultural references that may be hard to follow even for people who picked up German as a second language.

Everyone is "gatekeeping" to some degree because everyone comes from a different background and wants something different. The only difference is that suckless is more explicit and honest about it.
Currently;

[1] https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/batteries-and-energy-storage/n...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-24/community-battery-yac...

[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-05/community-battery-in-...

'Community' local area batteries are $1 million (AU) and service ~ 200 homes (at $5,000 per home across a decade) with some 280 kilowatt-hours of storage, soaking up power during the day from rooftop solar | wind and feeding it back at night | during lulls.

These complement hybrid smart grids and greatly reduce fossil fuel usage at approx $500 per home per year.

Early days, time will tell.
That is kind of what it is, yes: "Tokyo Metropolis [which] consists of 23 special wards and 39 other, ordinary municipalities (cities, towns, and villages). [...] Today, all wards refer to themselves as a city in English, but the Japanese designation of special ward (tokubetsu-ku) remains unchanged" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_wards_of_Tokyo)

Some of these wards consist of high rise buildings only, some are residential areas with hidden alleys and family-friendly environment. As a fellow European who lived in Tokyo for one year, I cannot support your statement but your experience walking around highly depends on where in Tokyo you are. For some wards, you are probably entirely correct. However, other wards allow for the experience shared by others here.
The trick seems to be too use several carbon steel pans when necessary. One thing you can do in teflon that you can't do in steel is fry up yer veggies and yer meat in the pan, then crack the eggs in, stick-free.

So, use two pans, one foot the fillings and a fresh one for the eggs, adding the fillings once the eggs hit the oiled pan. Afterwards, neither needs more than a rinse out.
Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?
I am reading more and more about startups which are focusing on investments in real estate [1].

Doesn't anyone feel uneasy about it, that more and more people are looking at real estate as a financial tool, not a basic human right to have a roof over one's head?

Aren't startups like this just adding oil to the fire which is the real estate market?

I do not understand how will someone expect for future generations to achieve their own personal freedom and living inside their own four walls.

[1] - https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/backed-by-forerunner-and-bezos-back-arrived-a-startup-that-lets-you-buy-into-single-family-rentals-for-as-little-as-100/
Much of Odaiba is currently closed for renovation/rebuilding.

LaQua is probably the closest equivalent now in Tokyo, although it lacks the {kitschy,fun} Ye Olde Tokyo theme of Oedo Onsen. But hey, you get a roller coaster instead.

https://www.laqua.jp/en/
It’s a small part of the document. What’s wrong with a little levity? Not everything has to be super serious all the time, even for a corporation.
Have you ever played the factory building game "Factorio"?

It's an amazing lesson in scale. In the early game, it's pretty easy to recover from supply chain issues and refactor your setup to adjust to your growth needs and expansion across the land. Once you reach mid to late game, and something goes wrong, your whole factory starts to grind to halt as you try to diagnose where in the whole system things have clogged up, you need to measure and monitor throughput to make sure you are producing the materials needed for consumption by other machines at a rate that is sustainable. Refactoring at this point really means shutting most of it down and building from the ground up again.

Kind of like humanity 100s & 1000s of years ago. Most of life was localized, food, raw materials. We were not over fishing the seas or pushing the soils to the limit. The scale of humanity now, is such that all the supply chains, food and resource requirements depend on such a plethora of things running as they have been, uninterrupted (gas, food, water supplies, raw materials, spare parts).

That is why this argument about "climate disasters in the past" really never made sense to me. This is an entirely different game.

And yes, "humanity" may survive. But just like the factory that stops working that needs to be largely deconstructed and re-built, a lot of people will be unnecessarily plunged into hardship, famine and probably death. Economies and societies will be affected in ways we really can't imagine.

The question then is, what will humanity and society look like after? And what will our successors and future generations think of their ancestors who had the time, knowledge and the technology to ease or circumvent their suffering.
Their official numbers are 5k deaths in 2 years. Are we seriously believing in any official number coming from them?
AFAIK the basic functions (add/sub/mul/div) work fine, but the trig functions don't [0]. It's not a processor issue; it's a libc (or whatever) issue. Of course you need the trig functions in almost any engine, but at that point you can write them yourself.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28318425
Yes, long distance transmission for geographical diversity of wind power. This is studied a lot in the power generation industry. Without long distance transmission you need natural gas peaker plants capable of the same output as solar/wind, and solar/wind is more expensive than just building natural gas plants (but less CO2). We cant build enough batteries to use in place of peaker plants until sodium batteries are production ready and produced at large scale (this could happen by the end of the decade though).
We're already dealing with effects so in this case we get both. Which I guess is what the oil companies want.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32389282
> Reminder: the biggest source of new diseases is animal farming. Especially in countries that allow massive use of antibiotics.

Reminder, this is obviously false.

Animal trade, human travel and commerce, alien species, exotic pets, exotic wildfood ... are much, much, much worse.

The only animal diseases that we had studied seriously and extensively are:

1) Human diseases

2) Diseases of pets. Canine and feline diseases

3) Diseases of human food. Poultry and cattle, and some fishes.

We farm since 3000 years or so and have spent huge resources into researching each disease of cattle. Anything hidden in cattle that could affect human has affected us since 1000 years ago and is definitely not new. A farm would be the last place to look for a lot of new diseases.
It seems it finally got merged!

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft/-/merge_reque...

Not yet in a release though.
And it's not gone. I can't seem to find the reference anymore, but I'd swear I recently saw a talk from a Supercell fellow describing they use fixed point today, for their online games.

Edit: this is it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUF-LFTs-A

The whole talk is very relevant to anyone interested in this topic.
I think most people in the space have a pretty good idea who it is, quite likely the guy who made the predecessor. The important thing is it's ambiguous and unproven which stops this kind of legal stuff.
I've heard of much worse security no-no's. The worst example I'm familar with is of a Fortune-500 corporate database with data for millions of private citizens exposed for years on the public web over plain old http (not even https), without any password or public/private key protection, such that anyone anywhere with the right URL or IP address could access it.

The big question, of course, is: Why haven't we had a security apocalypse? I imagine it must be because most software engineers are honest, and because the bad actors who have the skills and resources to pull it off (e.g., foreign government agencies) have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

So, non-technical managers everywhere go on with their lives thinking their software infrastructure has been "secured," without really knowing whether it's true. Consider that no executive or manager at Hyundai was aware until now that their vehicles have been using a previously published private key to update their software.
Gain of function research is very important in that you get to see how a pathogen behaves. From this you can formulate a plan/vaccines/treatment etc. It is too difficult to infer from what is already known. You just gotta be careful.
If X inferior to Y but X is supported by politics to a degree that Y is being slowed down and prevented, then Y still needs political support, even if superior in objective terms.
> But if you have an abundance of electrical power you can literally lift up concrete blocks with a crane and generate electricity by letting them down.

That doesn't seem like the best idea if you think about it: https://youtu.be/iGGOjD_OtAM
> This kind of cartoonish exaggeration of how totalitarian regimes
operate only muddies the water on the actual harm done by such
governments.

What do think you know about "how totalitarian regimes operate"?
Worked for some have you?

What we do know, from well sourced documents, is that real-time
keyscore type filtering and flagging of every byte of unencrypted data
occurs at ISPs, and that is common practice in our own
non-totalitarian nations. What do you imagine goes on in less savoury
dictatorships to whom we sell the same intercept equipment and DPI
firewalls?

To describe that landscape as "cartoonish exaggeration" seems either
naive or disingenuous.
> Sometimes I wish for a 'debug' version of PG which adds an "order by random()" to all queries

interesting! I like it.

> or appends a "random()" clause to an existing "order by" clause

That one I don't understand. If the Order By is there, why randomise it? I guess

order by p, q, r, random()

then it sort of allows you to find out if it's been ordered sufficiently for your needs - is that it?
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WhereBy is no-login, no-plugin conferencing tool. Albeit expensive now (They’ve been jacking up the prices regularly and show no sign of stopping), but it is entirely possible to make extremely simple webconf UX.
“Sysadmin”
>For example, it is inadvisable to look up information about abortion from within some U.S. states, war crime in Russia, or democracy and human rights in China.

This seems to be an exaggeration. I live in Russia and just the word itself, "war crime", when taken alone out of conext, is safe and not punished for. Maybe I'm reading an article about American war crimes in Vietnam, who knows. I would never think it's dangerous to say this word. Unless it's a public statement, it's pretty safe. I don't know about China, but I doubt it's a huge problem in the US as well.
I never said the "artificial neuron" would be stateless. Natural ones have states and, if we model artificial ones as stateless it's just because they are easier to model that way. In that sense, an artificial neural network is an exercise of how little "neuron-ness" one needs to make a useful neural network.
Bit of a nitpick, but it was not Corona which conducted a psychological operation against the global population, it was people.
>If I could figure out all of the security measures of the firmware updates, I could modify an existing system image with my own backdoors, giving me full access to the IVI.

I suppose if you brick your own computer the dealership probably won't realize that you were the one responsible. Just don't say, "yeah I cracked your ivi but after I modified the system image the car wouldn't start anymore...." Still, you might want the full warranty before attempting this step...
I doubt that it's a testing thing. Very few cases are asymptomatic and the disease gives a really painful rash. It is very unlikely to pass unnoticed.

I do agree that it's not just gay men. I'm sure it will/has already spread to swinger clubs etc. But I do think it is related to promiscuity in general, meaning most of the population will not be affected. The cases originating from non-sexual interaction are a really small minority.

I think the men/women disparity is not really due to homosexuality but because due to societal views. A man who is promiscuous is viewed a as a 'cool go-getter'. A promiscuous woman is viewed as a 'slut' (Note: I don't agree with that!!). So it's just more common in men at first.
> "So, why is this a problem for dictionary lookups?", you might ask. Some knowledge is forbidden knowledge, depending on your local authorities. For example, it is inadvisable to look up information about "abortion" from within some U.S. states, "war crime" in Russia, or "democracy" and "human rights" in China.

Ill-advisable to look up linguistic information? Has there been a single precedent that would justify such claim?
Yes, damage control becomes more and more necessary. That just means any progress is becoming more urgent.
I had this issue with non-stick pans too.

But since that ceramic coating came out a few years ago, I bought one and didn't need a replacement since.
> Surely there's some motivations behind these behaviors

The primary motivation is probably that it's an annoying case to handle, pretty hard to test, and very uncommon.

It's also the original behaviour (IIRC from the fsyncgate reports, freebsd had added keeping the buffers dirty in the early aught but other bsds had inherited the ur-behaviour of marking them clean).

A second motivation I can think of (with more historical relevance) is that I don't think there's a userland API to tell the kernel to discard dirty pages, so if you can't mark the pages clean there's good chances you've leaked them. In our modern world it's common for writeback errors to be transient (e.g. a USB key that's not ready yet or somesuch) but 40 years back I'm not sure it made much sense. Though I guess network drivers were always a thing and could always have issues.
Interesting that you speak from some group of "we". Seems presumptuous at best.
Another important thing is context.

Would you enjoy a pizza you found on the floor, or would you be imagining that it probably fell on a sidewalk loogie and has coronavirus on it?

Games used to have LAN parties. People used to watch stuff together more. Many activities had annoying prep work that could be considered like grinding in a game, but in real life.

Context makes or breaks entertainment.
I like Vaclav Smil’s shorthand tool for assessing these claims. Be suspicious of any predicted year for full renewable rollout that ends in a zero or a five.
> ultimately decided I'm too stupid to get that right and roll the "log error and bail out" route ever since.

That's exactly where postgres ended up: https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit...

> PANIC on fsync() failure.
Especially Russia since they’ll only benefit from climate change - destabilisation of Europe via refugees from Africa and more arable land in Taiga