skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Abstract

> Primary fluid inclusions in bedded halite from the 830-m.y.-old Browne Formation of central Australia contain organic solids and liquids, as documented with transmitted light and ultraviolet–visible (UV-vis) petrography. These objects are consistent in size, shape, and fluorescent response with cells of prokaryotes and eukaryotes and with organic compounds.

> This discovery shows that microorganisms from saline depositional environments can remain well preserved in halite for hundreds of millions of years and can be detected in situ with optical methods alone. This study has implications for the search for life in both terrestrial and extraterrestrial chemical sedimentary rocks.
Is this an oblique reference to the San Bernardino iPhone access case?

They “both stopped” because the government paid a company to unlock the phone, not because Apple caved.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute
Notwithstanding Musk's continuous lying about it, Starship would take nine months to get there, not six.

Once there, of course, after a single trip around the hab can (can hab?), you would start counting days ... sols ... until you could go home. Presuming it would be possible and permitted. If not, sucks to be you. Mars is a frozen wasteland with nothing of enduring interest.

The only export of any value conceivable would be excess Raptor engines taken off of landers, with their bells cut off.
Removing beef from your diet is actually quite easy, even as a person who semi regularly eats meat
Same here. Writing/sketching is thinking. By the time, I’m actually typing code, I know exactly what to expect. Having that clarity is quite empowering and ascertains control.
My partner and I are looking to move back to NZ and settle down in around 3 years and I found it quite depressing that we need to now consider climate change impact on the city (near and far future) when we decide where to settle down.
It's pretty expensive. They give you 100 free credits but I burned though that in about 10 minutes just trying to figure out how things worked. Didn't get any nice images.

After that, it's $1 per 100 credits, so about $6 an hour maybe.
Nit picking, but not quite the majority yet, last NZ census had irreligious at 48%
D just went ahead and implemented bit fields. They work, and it's hard to find any way to improve on them.
Note taking software like Joplin but with different UI?
I'm trying to find a app for Ubuntu that has exactly same features as Joplin but different colors, and different UI. Because ik it's stupid to tell, but I'm getting negative vibes and it's not matching my energy when I use joplin but I love the joplin because it does everything that I want.
Important features for me are:
1) Paste image (embed it so that you can see it instantly, wysiwyg)
2) Have multiple tabs support (vertical bar or horizontal bar doesn't matter).
3) Increase font by zooming with pinch touchpad movement. Or just have better font size choices.
4) Scrolling with mouse or touchpad should be smooth. (It's not smooth in trilium notes).

That's all I want, and I'm quite surprised it's so tough to find an app that does both in laptop.
I tried zim which is probably most close to these features, but it weirdly changes the position of tabs when you click on it, it's annoying.

I'm using trillium notes but increasing font size isn't very possible here. There's a "pseudo-fix" to it, but it's lame. There's not even a font size choice in trilium notes.

So, can you suggest me any apps in ubuntu laptop?

I've tried all apps present in Ubunutu Software app.

![image|182x137](upload://dcapJoatzDOT9cejKGpARf5d3R2.png)

I've also asked it here in hackernews!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32606983

But I can't use obsidian because it creates new tab(or new sth) for every pasted image. Sometimes, my notes are just images pasted with some texts in between, and it creates a havoc in obsidian. I'm not sure if that can be fixed in obsidian and I really don't understand the purpose of it.

I've read most askubuntu answers and still not satisfied with most. And yes, I've tried every apps that are present in ubuntu software store(that comes pre-installed with ubuntu by searching "note" and I downloaded every note application).

I don't need any encryption, syncing, backup, any thing at all except what I mentioned above. Because I don't write notes and study from laptop, I don't get anything that I write in laptop. What I instead do is to collect every information that I collect from various sources in 1 notes (or more than 1 as a chapter has various topics) and instantly within 2-3 hrs, I write everything back to my paper. I don't even need to save those notes.

Notepadd++ was doing great job except it could not add images. :(

I just tried typora, it's great but doesn't support tabs. Tell me if it does support it or if there is a way to make it support tabs.

I could use google docs, but the reason why I don't use it because it's in web. I don't like too many tabs. Plus it seems to consume heavy resources compared to just pasting it in a note taking software. So, I don't prefer it. I require note application open throughout the day.
Yeah.. unfortunately we still fight about some piece of land and who should rule over it: one corrupt country or another corrupt country.

It will not work.

But nevertheless, I agee, we must stop pretending that life will end and we must stop run around like headless chicken pretending we COULD stop it IF. We wont stop it, we might slow it down, but it is already here and it will hit us harder as nobody is going to sacrifice his wealth for it. We must stop finding solutions for how to deal with it.
Underactuated Robotics http://underactuated.mit.edu/index.html

Discrete Optimization https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization
Looks really promissing
Tons of little problems happen throughout a typical mission and it's normal. Space ships are designed with a lot of redundancy so that the overall vehicle keeps working while folk on the ground work through the problems. Robust and flexible telemetry and command systems are incredibly important.

I help design UAVs for medical deliveries now, and while it's really satisfying work, launching a new UAV prototype is only a small fraction of the adrenaline rush of launching a falcon 9 rocket!
If it is, then every human brain is guilty of copyright infringement.
China’s chip maker SMIC achieves 7-nm tech breakthrough
Does this work with metal festivals?
I’m sorry but none of what you said is true. At this point, the facts are indisputable. Check out my other replies that point to the congressional hearings.
Apple is not doing proactive scanning of iCloud files or your chats.
Amazon enabled 2FA after an attack vector with vulnerabilities was demonstrated using email delivery[1] on Kindle. The researcher says that Amazon now(Jan 2021) sends verification link if they cannot authenticate the email id.

But my hntokindle.com email id had SPF & DKIM from the start and the verification links started occurring only late last year (or) early this year. That's what lead me to believe that the 2FA is enabled after the number of emails from an email id crosses a threshold.

I don't expect Amazon to clarify this in their docs. They might have whitelisted domains from known services like Instapaper (I think they generate unique sender email ids) along with the id they use for 'Send To Kindle' if they used email for that in the first place.

Although it might be possible to reverse engineer 'Send To Kindle' browser extension to send your HN item, But it might also raise legal issues(INAL).

[1] https://medium.com/realmodelabs/kindledrip-from-your-kindles...
If you need spin gravity, you put a pair of cans at the ends of a cable. Or truss if you are being extravagant.

Boosting at 1G the whole way would take a hell of a lot of fuel just for reaction mass, even with fusion. Producing enough 3He to do that with a crewed spacecraft would take a long, long time. Typically, you have to make 3H, tritium, and wait for that to decay at a half-life of 12 years.
Year old B-52 bombers to get their biggest upgrades ever
There’s a combination of few “big” companies being founded recently, and the stronger attractiveness of China and Korea to young founders I assume, but Japanese-Korean ventures will naturally have a fair share of Korean CEOs (Lotte from the top of my head)

I would also assume entertainment business has also a number of them, but they might also not put it forward for image reason.
> Given the racist protrayal of Indian American Raj Kuthrapalli

The racism is entirely in your imagination.
These AI Models will make an impact in many domains and affect the distribution of job types available in art, legal, software, and other professions.

To prepare for the upcoming major changes, we need to urgently make creativity and innovation much more prominent in curricula across the board. Kids and adults will need to learn to adapt so they can thrive with such AI tools in the market.

Skills such as creativity, collaboration, communication, innovation using new technologies will be even more crucial to a large number of people in the coming years.

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I found this article to be a good discussion of many points involved. The author demonstrates pretty good understanding of the powers and limitations of these narrow AI models, although I'd say DALL-E-like models do have some level of understanding of how people use objects, based on both their textual and visual training data.

https://betterprogramming.pub/dall-e-2-will-disrupt-art-deep...

"...What these systems have is the meta-ability of learning to paint — anything in any style, already invented or to be invented. This is a crucial difference and it’s what distinguishes DALL·E 2 from any previous disruptive single-purpose technology.

...Artists can escape a camera because it’s static in its abilities. It can take pics and nothing else. ... AI wouldn’t replace just one style, it would replace all styles.

....

The most important one is that it doesn’t understand that the objects it paints are a reference to physical objects in the world. If you ask DALL·E 2 to draw a chair it can do it in all colors, forms, and styles. And still, it doesn’t know we use chairs for sitting down. Art is only meaningful in its relationship with either the external physical world or our internal subjective world — and DALL·E 2 doesn’t have access to the former and lacks the latter.

...

This means it can’t understand the underlying realities in which its paintings are based and generalize those into novel situations, styles, or ideas it has never seen before.

This limitation is key because we humans can do it very easily.
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Related, why is rangefinding like on rangefinder cameras not usable?

1. videos: https://www.lensangle.com/how-do-rangefinder-cameras-work/

2. a photo or two: https://www.howtogeek.com/365801/what-is-a-rangefinder-camer...
That's a good point. A simple k nearest neighbors search of users would likely turn up very similar people to you even if you don't explicitly include any demographics.
What's wrong with (4) - report all CSAM positives to the relevent authorities and then abide by their decision?

They don't need any of the "tools of a court of law" you mentioned in (2) if they defer to the authorities and then stay in their lane.

It seems to me that the big issue here is Google digging its heals in on an account ban, even when the victim of a false positive had been cleared by the police.
CPAN, Maven, NuGET,...

It isn't as if it wasn't done before.
It took a while to scroll to find this. I'm glad someone has read the actual reports.

All of these campaigns aimed at the everyman will do almost nothing to avert climate change. To actually impact it, companies and the ultra wealthy need to be the targets. If every US citizen making under $500,000/year drove an EV, kept their power off most of the day, and ate only vegetables there would not be a perceivable impact on the climate. Yet, we are sold this nonsense by the media who is ostensibly controlled by the very people doing the most damage.

I find it completely insane the idea that the farmer with his diesel truck, or 100,000 farmers with their diesel trucks, are the cause of the problem. The numbers say otherwise. It is not "our" problem, it is their problem. The ultra wealthy and their companies.
The strategic use of interns. With obvious ROI that makes subsequent interns easier to acquire.
Archive: https://archive.ph/EPwfs
Be happy that NZ will have plenty of water even under extreme scenarios.

What's more, the areas that will fare best for precipitation and temperature rise are also the areas that tend to be sparsely populated and have cheap(er) housing. Though those sandflies in the South Island can be vicious.

https://niwa.co.nz/our-science/climate/information-and-resou....
Can’t you achieve a lot of this if apple merely enables end to end encryption with iCloud? That way, only keys you own can be used to decrypt the data, so it isn’t a big deal that encrypted data is on the cloud.
I’m not sure what you’re saying. Both the 5950X and the 7950X are 16 cores/32 threads.
Florida hasn't sunk yet....
> No school is going to compete on the basis of "we don't use Google services (we pay for more-private infrastructure)"

Um, what? Didn't you just get through saying you don't want your kids to have to have Google accounts just to go to school? Do you think you're the only parent who wants that? Isn't the protection of your kids' privacy by the school worth something?

If you're unwilling to pay anything more than zero for something you claim you value, then your claim that you value it becomes, to say the least, questionable.

> if I'm a parent of a school-age child, what exactly do you think I should do?

You mentioned homeschooling yourself. In our current environment, unless you are very lucky in what school district you happen to live in, that is probably the only option to avoid giving up your kids' privacy.

> don't have any right to expect our data to be private

Google apparently doesn't think so, and neither do your kids' current schools (and I suspect your implication that the vast majority of schools in the country are similar is correct), which means the government that runs those schools doesn't think so either.

> Sometimes the only way to crack collective action problems is government intervention.

No, that's my point: governments do not solve collective action problems. They grab power using the excuse that they are going to solve such problems Real Soon Now, but they never actually do. Governments run all the public schools in this country: they have had all the tools they need to solve the collective action problem of how to protect kids' privacy in a digital world for quite some time now. And they don't care. And this is just one of many, many examples.
Censorship was just as widespread if not worse in Taiwan before the military dictatorship fell away. The smash hit "When Will You Return?" by the cross-strait superstar Teresa Tang was censored: The titular "you" pronounced in Mandarin rhymes with the word for "army." "When Will The Army Return?" was never going to be a hit with the military dictatorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Taiwan#Music%20a...
importing LNG by ship? that seems like an incredibly expensive and unsustainable solution.
Doesn't this just use their "stripe" lib to do the heavy lifting...?
The examples you gave sound like they would only be for the top tier of today's artists though, or a small number of AI taste supervisors, not the general workforce. A company would need to hire far fewer people if all they need to do is feed a new style into the image generator occasionally. I also don't see that as a new role created by this technology, since people are already doing that - those are just a few people who might not get laid off.

If standards rise considerably it could help, but I'm not really able to picture what that would look like, in a way that would mean more roles for people. Or if the tech gets stuck where it is now and never becomes truly useful, then I could see AI as just being another tool.
do you think archive.org is immoral/unethical then..?

print books were published by publishers who sell physical copies and run ads, tours and stuff.

yet pretty much every modern published book (within reason) is freely available to any person who is able to get a library card. similarly those people could use the computers to access archive.org and browse all online content.

how is that not free?

i'm not even going to get into equivocating "reddit" and "best information on the internet"
The good ol’ Paradox of Tolerance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I've had IRL conversations with almost fanatical climate change activists, and I believe they look at it this way: even if they're completely 100% wrong, nothing is lost by improving how we treat the environment.
I would love to share my experience of release management at MSFT but it would out me.

In the ballpark of 20ish engineers chasing build errors and test failures for a month to bump a version number (one line change).
LastPass Confirms Its Second Data Breach in Three Years
If we look at other 'as implemented' age verification policies, say cigarettes or alcohol if you present as less than 35 or so access will be denied[0] absent ID.

[0]In an entirely spurious and random manner at the relative whim of each establishment.
I think when most people opine on tea there's an unspoken, and often unrealized, assumption that it's uncaffeinated tea. Because often when people discuss the relaxing aspects of tea or making tea what's really being described just seems like a purposefully self-occupying nothing action that offers little in the way of chemical stimulation. Which is fine, I'd agree such things can be both relaxing and good for giving ourselves time for certain kinds of reflection, but try it with a competitively caffeinated tea and I suspect the reality would be much less relaxing than the hypothetical.
I only clicked the title because I was mildly intrigued as to why "China" is shortened to "CA". Now I'm solidly amused... and a bit more grateful for GDPR.
As far as appeals to authority go, it's hard to do worse than MTV India.
I want to lock MOC and Mencius Moldbug in a room together with access to only one blog.
I'm from India and I have seen shows like BBT, HIMYM, Friends, etc,. dozen of times on different national televisions and then again on streaming platforms. I have not seen a single instance of censorship in these shows(except for subtitles replacing words like Fuck with ** on national television). I'm not saying we don't censor at all but it's definitely not as bad as this post or GP is saying.
because politicians care about pet projects and winning votes and not about solving problems. solving problems is hard and does not win you votes.
Also, the images uploaded to Google cloud were independent of sending the images to the doctor via his wife.
MIVA Script
While this example feels pretty obvious, I think in practice, these conversations conflict with the third caveat mentioned:

"Your team is always working on the next most important thing (as prioritised by the business)"

When the business functionality and marketing needs compete with technical advances, there's a decent amount of negotiation that needs to be done and that negotiation varies wildly from company to company.

Early on in my career I felt angry at these kinds of negotiations. As I've become more mild and open to business needs across the board I realise that most people will agree with the goodness of the idea but it becomes the duty of the proposer to sell it in terms that the business unit can agree to.

Overall, this is a great thought provoking article. Concise. Yet nuanced.
That’s a terribly selfish way of thinking. It’s not just about you & your own life but about generations of life to come. We have been given the most amazing planet in the known universe and we’re going to kill millions of years of evolution and diversity because of greed.
updates are the worst. just do it right the first time, like winrar.
Those are just the worst case scenarios that bureaucrats will put their name to.

If the east Antarctic ice shelf goes we’re looking at 50 meters.
Banned _some_ guns. My semi-auto .22, bolt-action .308, and the .177 air rifle for my kids to plink targets are still fine and dandy.
It's good to highlight that CRPA changed CCPA, but there's a reason CCPA is still the widely used term. According to your first and second links, CRPA heavily amended CCPA and gave it the protection that voter initiatives have under California law, but it didn't repeal and replace CCPA with a different law, and it's still recognizably an evolution of CCPA.

If we're being truly precise, CCPA and CRPA are just (acronyms for the) names for the laws which amended the California Civil Code, and the resulting sections of the Civil Code as amended don't officially have either name.
I liked the EdX Statistical Learning course by Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani, it's a great introduction to statistical modeling and data science (assuming you already have a solid math and statistics background):
https://www.edx.org/course/statistical-learning

It is not too math heavy, and the focus is on basic, interpretable approaches and concepts like:

- linear and polynomial regression

- logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis

- cross-validation and the bootstrap

- model selection and regularization methods (ridge and lasso)

- tree-based methods, random forests and boosting

- support-vector machines

- neural networks and deep learning

- survival models; multiple testing

- some unsupervised learning methods like principal components and clustering (k-means and hierarchical).

The instructors are really articulate and passionate about teaching well. As a bonus, there are guest speakers about every second week including Jerome Friedman and Geoff Hinton.
What's the technical term for "largest single bloc"? Because that other 52% isn't just Christian.
Is anyone else automatically skeptical of these “serial entrepreneur” types?
How about geo-engineering? Already being employed in secret government programs.
Can you expand on this ? I'd be more impressed by microformats if the microformats website could parse a DTD or schema and launch a structured editor for it.
> The requirement is to do something to estimate the age of users, nowhere does it say that would always need to be more invasive than asking the user if they're over 18.

No, it doesn't say that it would always need to be more invasive than that.

I doubt a prompt asking the age would generally be seen as "Estimate the age of child users with a reasonable level of certainty..."

Having to deal with invasive means of validating your age is a reasonably anticipatable consequence of this law. And it shouldn't be a big surprise that the data ends up misused, even if the law makes a token (very weak) effort to prohibit that.
I mean sure if Europe wants to simple give 5-10 billion to a US cooperation that is destroying its own launch industry. That would be the exact opposite policy they had for the last 40 years.

France is so jelly of RocketLab that they spend a large sum of money to have its own micro-launcher despite the market already being hilariously flooded with companies.

If you want solar power in Northern Europe, just put collectors into southern Europe and put a DC long distance power transport line.

But why would you want solar? Norway and Sweden are already mostly green because of hydro and nuclear.
John Williams – The Truth
Everyone has to read this...
It doesn't help that National won't meet the Greens even half-way on their social issues.

Or that they purged the blue-greens cos Judith Collins.

I'd like a liberal green party a la Switzerland, as the Greens are too far left for my centre-left self.
These sites should be blocked from the source, not from the ISP.
DALL·E 2 Will Disrupt Art Deeper Than Photography Did