skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your data is not representative, but your conclusion sounds reasonable to me. The fact that cannabis is forbidden while much more destructive drugs like alcohol are promoted in our culture is ridiculous. If only we treated cannabis the same we treat tobacco or alcohol :/.
> We know of the disgusting things white people have historically done

Really? Let the "race" that is without sin cast the first stone.
You could have debunked that thought with one simple search like https://www.google.com/search?q=volcanic+eruption+co2
> Perhaps a resurgence is possible with words like "baitclick" and "postshit"?

Perhaps "fixbug" and "closeissue" for software types and "cleansignal" for a front-end engineer.
A modern OS should be a distributed system allowing for the interconnection of multiple devices into a single shared unit. For example I have a desktop, laptop, and phone. These devices should comprise a single encrypted file system privately available over the internet without use of any server. I should be able to execute applications on any of these devices from any other device I own and message between them in a many to many relationship. Remote Desktop is not good enough.
Why are we not already Geoengineering, sequestering carbon at scale? It’s either this or the very likely collapse of civilisation.

We’re still just hoping we stop polluting. It’s not happening fast enough.

Edit: Do we actually have any chance of using geoengineering to turn things around?
Mirrors in Space to Generate Solar Power at Night
Okay, playing the devils advocate here, but sometimes the "lingo" is useful.

Grabbing a "couple of beers" could really mean a "bunch of beers". But a "dyad of beers" is very explicitly exactly two beers.
https://financialpost.com/opinion/opinion-ipcc-global-warmin...

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2021-08-11-bjorn-l...

A few extracts (I got the date wrong its 2100 not 2050):

Because of economic development, the UN estimates that the average person in the world will become 450 per cent as well-off by 2100 as they are today. But climate change will have a cost, in that adaptation and challenges become somewhat harder. Because of climate change, the average person in 2100 will “only” be 436 per cent as well off as today.

Also:

This matters, because globally, many more people die from cold than from heat. A new study in the highly respected journal Lancet shows that about half a million people die annually from heat, but 4.5 million people die from cold. As temperatures have increased over the past two decades, that has caused an extra 116,000 heat deaths each year. This fits the narrative, of course, and is what we have heard over and over again.

You don’t hear this, but so far climate change saves 166,000 lives each year.

But it turns out that because global warming has also reduced cold waves, we now see 283,000 fewer cold deaths. You don’t hear this, but so far climate change saves 166,000 lives each year.
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Its the natural order of things.

Local wildlife can be devesating to other local wildlife, can be devestating to the whole ecosystem.
These were great back in the day. I had a 3G one which was super quick at the time and meant no bothering with bad client wifi.
Imagine Let's Encrypt disappeared tomorrow. Not an outage, but just up and vanished from the face of the earth. Maybe they get raided by the FBI. Maybe all of their engineers suddenly die. Whatever, it's gone.

How much of the encrypted web would cease to function and when? We'd still have their certs in our browsers, but no one would be able to get a new cert. Many would revert back to unencrypted because they don't want to pay for a cert.

It's an interesting thought exercise. I'm all for the encrypted web, but I would like to see the eggs spread across more baskets.
Animals have to be fed B12 for the meat to contain any. They bacteria who provided it have been killed off by industrial farming practices.
Why would it be ‘moderately terrifying’? It would fucking suck.
Different people can come to different conclusions.
And maybe, in 50 years, we will know that the tipping point was well before 2008 even.

The earth is a complex system and surely you don't want to deny the massive changes that human activities do to its ecosystems. It's better to be careful than continuing the careless exploitation.
https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2021-08-11-bjorn-l...
Oh dear. Are we still going on about this?

Magnus is acting like little baby. He ruined the tournament by rage quiting.

There is zero evidence of cheating. Just literally zero. It's all circumstantial and hearsay.

Kasparov himself said that white's opening was terrible.

But noooo, instead of the reasonable idea that them man who can't be bothered to defend his own title might have had an off day, we are considering it more likely that Niemann had Stockfish built into his vibrating anal egg. I don't think so.
If you are not doing shared dependencies, count me out.
I see similar duality in engineers between big corp and start-ups.
In big corp, engineers tend to focus on a small part of the system, a small part of the software development cycle. In big corp, engineering could mean a frontend of a customer facing application, uptime of a backend, deployment throughput of something, etc. In start-up, you can be a mix of an idea guy, project manager, frontend, backend, ops, customer support, QA.
On the journey to big-corp, start up starts to specialize, cost of communication increased, silos created, customer insight got lost, then the whole cycle repeats (in other start-up).
> I was wondering why more cities don't try smothering battery fires with sand.

Because it is much more annoying to clean the street afterwards than foam and water.
I guess we can conclude a watermelon is a really bad weight reference unit!
Prompts that we run into in blog posts are generally quite small, but it's not hard to imagine prompts of comparable complexity to a typical contemporary startup's entire code base.
A pair of Linux kernel modules using Rust
Because it's more expensive than the simple solutions.

It keeps fossil fuel suppliers rich at the expense of everyone else though, so it's regularly suggested as a solution.

Ask them to pay for it though, and you'll get a different answer.
I think it’s a fair critique; at the very least MacOS should more readily expose this information to power users and sysads who want to know.

I don’t think it should be necessary to rely on third party software to review the status of an important first party system component.
One would think the default mode of all cryptographers not affiliated to NSA would be not to trust the NSA, NSA could as well mean Eve.
> With regard to <masks>, The Science™ really has never been controversial and has not changed significantly since the start of the pandemic

That is, in actual fact, not the case. From an article at the beginning of the pandemic published by Oxford uni's Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEMB):

> Evidence from 14 trials on the use of masks vs. no masks was disappointing: it showed no effect in either healthcare workers or in community settings. We could also find no evidence of a difference between the N95 and other types of masks but the trials comparing the two had not been carried in aerosol-generating procedures.

It goes on, and helpfully points out the problems with these studies that means it would be hasty to use them as the final word.

> So we got into this situation unprepared with a faulty evidence base and hotly debated practices, after two decades of “pandemic preparedness”.

You'll note that the debate ended with the British Medical Journal's[2] executive editor, a proponent of masks who states that they think CEMB's review and subsequent articles on the subject are mistaken, defending the CEMB's views from being censored by Facebook:

> A disagreement among experts, especially about interpretation of a study, is a common occurrence. It is the usual business of science.

I wish I could make that bold and quoted.

> Only, Facebook didn’t see it that way. The social media platform that allows statements about injecting bleach to prevent covid-19, as well as calls to behead the leading US expert on pandemics,67 decreed that Heneghan and Jefferson should be censured for misinformation after they reposted their Spectator article on the site.

The Science™ certainly isn't settled on this, to portray as such does a disservice to the actual pursuit of truth. And that after lamenting bias in reporting.

> Perhaps we need to create a new degree program

You mean, like the CEMB has?[3]

> Our team research, practice and disseminate evidence-based medicine in health care decision making, and are committed to improving healthcare by fostering wider communication of high quality evidence, by promoting the principles of EBM through engagement, knowledge sharing, research and education.

[1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-masks-on-or-off/

[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4586

[3] https://www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/about-us/about-cebm
When you get to 12kg it usually mean a cylinder and a hose. You have the cylinder with handle in one hand and the hose in other.
Occasionally I accidentally stumble on to Reels or YouTube Shorts, and it's amazing how addictive it is to keep scrolling through them. Surprises me that engagement isn't higher.
Cool! I guess this only works with stones where the center of gravity is more or less the same as the geometric center (or more likely, the point where the shadow is the strongest, which may not be the geometric center depending on the angle of the sun).
You can do exactly the same with a feature branch on the remote side. This is not a replacement for actually communicating around what work you do.
Electrifying tracks can be more difficult than it first seems. For example in the UK on certain lines you have to replace most road bridges that go over the track. The bridges are not high enough to fit electric lines underneath. Tunnels can also have the same problem.
> In what way? Precedence of what?

I don’t get what you’re finding confusing. For example the Accession ceremony we just had - why was it like that? Because that’s how it happened last time - that’s what precedence is.

Why does writing it down make it more equal?
No, it wasn't the topic for the parent comment which tilts the definition in this direction:
>they have no idea as to "what" they are painting.

You just shifted to "you can't distinguish" - a common tactic for wanna-be AI hypists.
If we hit one of these tipping points and Obama could have changed that via some action in those 4 years then he did have 4 years to save the planet. Possibly he did, we just don't know it.

Generally the positive action towards climate change has delayed and minimised the predicted impacts. So Obama's administration probably gets some credit for that.
The plain text email train has left and will never return. Everywhere it is HTML only. People expect that. Paste a Spreadsheet part from Excel, highlight something, bold something, inline images, etc. Quoting on top ... all bad things happen in mail first.
EDI is standardized; however, the standard is not enforceable. So it's not like you can't send crappy data or some custom flavor of the format.

The problem is that the receiver of this "standardized" data has to work with it, although it often doesn't comply with the standard.

It's pretty much offloading all pain/responsibility to the other side. But you can do that with a web API, too - send a bad JSON over.

The only difference between working around the formatting issues, EDI or JSON, is the tooling. Developer toolkits for API are far more modern and advanced and have a higher pool of developers to choose from.
I have trouble interpreting this comment. I feel that it is very disingenuous and ignores the changes and improvements humans have done.

For example, in 1989 there was a treaty banning the usage of chlorofluorocarbons CFCs which were the main culprit of ozone-layer degradation.

Since the publication of said articles, we have only seen an increase in weather variance. As weather variance increases, extreme events become more frequent. In fact, we saw this a few months ago with Texas freezing, and last summer with Toronto being under a heat dome. We saw precipitation that caused massive destruction in Europe, and a few months later we saw horrific draughts that resulted in historic lows. Similar events were seen in China as well.

Furthermore, one of the main culprits of such events is the far more frequent split of the jetstream above Europe which is one of the best predictors for extreme weather events.

A tipping point does not imply immediate destruction, but it means most likely irreversible changes. Accumulate enough such changes, and the extreme events that cost billions in damage, and cost human lives will be more frequent and costly.

Denial of this is akin to ostrichism, shows the inability of the human brain to think long term, and its tendency to fall for into cognitive biases.

Recommended watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx2yS2iIVSk
Excerpt:«Tons of Mirrors is using satellite-mounted reflective surfaces to redirect sunlight to earthbound solar panels at night.»
Well by which variables does manipulating markets to make small vehicles uncompetitive (or outright ban them) and having public policy designed to make non-car travel as difficult as possible make anyone's life better?
That might make sense if it'll make or break you. If successful you can afford to fix it later.

But, maybe spend a day on it. I've been to places where the build took hours and there were obvious 30min solutions to fix it (which I did, in some cases).

Consider it an investment. 2 weeks now gives you how many more features over the next six months due to increased dev velocity?
A more complete, and written in English, obituary : https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2022/09/13/jean...
> There's always idiot drivers and bikers and every now and then someone gets hurt or killed.

There are idiots everywhere. I just prefer them to be on a bike or walk, because then they are much less likely to cause harm if they don't care about others.
Nope. We've already passed a number of climate change milestones and then some. We are literally living the disaster: multiple once-in-a-hundred year floods and heatwaves within a decade, food shortages, global instability, entire settlemtns wiped off the map (Lytton)

>Obama had 4 years to save the planet. So I guess he figured that out, so that’s good.

I wish.
What's the “Any” Keyword? Understanding Type Erasure in Swift
Changed from https://www.liberation.fr/culture/jean-luc-godard-est-mort-2.... Thanks!
First of all: to prove Hansen wrong in the articles you picked you would need to prove that we haven't already reached the tipping points he describes. Climate change is not a nuclear explosion, you can't see it explode but it might have done so with the effects being 50 or 100 years in the future.

Secondly, the temperature is actually rising steadily, which is very different from Zeno's thought experiments.

And thirdly you are not actually making an argument at all. People being wrong about tipping points might be the one's who cried wolf but in the end the wolf will still be there according to the best science available – even if there are not tipping points at all! Climate change alone is set to harm us and especially the poorest people on the planet, even if there are no additional tipping point effects.
Just wait till artificial l neutral nets start reproducing themselves and paying their own way…
One time when you do want to get badgered about something, macOS hides it!
Have you tried synchronizing three disparate feature branches this way? I don't think it's really possible. We had a very bad experience trying to do that.

The thing is, I want my developers to code, not talk all the time about what/where they would like to code and that the others have to wait until they're finished or suck up the merge conflicts if there's no time. Some communication is always necessary - but this solution with feature branches requires constant communication and still, the developers would rather wait that try to synchronize this way.
The answer above is neutral, yours is not "don't birth a kid with a weed tinted fertilizer". There are many things that hypothetically could be bad and we do not have the answer. Which is we normally go by the opposite approach:

What data do we have that indicates, that high sperm is bad?

As far as I know, none.

(A pregnant mother smoking is a whole different story)
he downloaded and ran my free utility XProCheck

....

I also suggested that he looked at a third-party
anti-malware product for a second opinion

...

you’ll find third-party tools like my own SilentKnight,
silnite and XProCheck a good start. And they’re
completely free to use

So the user was afraid of malware on his machine because he received an email that looks malicious.

And the solution is to have him download binaries of the internet and execute them?
But so does "two beers", and it doesn't require you to know a random Greek word.

I mean, it doesn't necessitate you to ken an aleatorial Hellenic lexis.
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding a few points, maybe someone can help me out.

> Traits bias the Self parameter, which can make some multi-parameter traits rather odd.

Can someone show me an example? What does bias mean here?

> Type aliases are leaky, and can expose implementation details via definitional equality.

What is definitional equality? What does an abstract type alias look like?
Bob 0.6.0: Blazing fast DAG execution
Lot's of optimizations going into this release. Now being able to execute tasks in parallel.
> that is also a tremendous amount which the next British generations will labour decades to pay off, just so today's pensioners can heat their homes to the 25C they are used to, and still have their ski outings in Zermatt.

It is a tremendous amount indeed, but i don't know why you think it's only pensioners and skiers who would benefit from not having to choose between food and energy.
Arrests of protesters prompt free-speech concerns
Nonsense, as always from AI research. Not even single neurons are properly understood and hardly possible to simulate. Don't even get me started about all this marketing bullshit.
There was (apparently suspended currently) also a hydrofoil ferry connection between Busan, Korea and Fukuoka, Japan:

https://thetripgoeson.com/busan-to-fukuoka-ferry/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W26g0XlVTPI
Apple doesn’t need a weather app to obtain location data from users. If they were going to track and sell location data they would just do it invisibly through iOS itself. This (and other tracking opportunities) is the reason Google gives Android away for “free”.
This is a contentless spam advertisement for "XProtect Remediator"

edit I stand corrected, I regret the error. Probably Apple should not ship software named "XProtect Remediator."
There exist other free ACME providers, let's encrypt was just the first and biggest
So is a "pair of beers".
I guess it will be in the detrimental of the users to have Apple publicly disclose all the security risks they are exposed to. Although the current state is not perfect, it is the optimal choice. There is no way of making these risks publicly available only to "power users". How would you disciminate the good actors from the bad actors in this category?
The Walt Disney Company debuts its first AR-enabled short film
There are also a lot of disabled people that have a hard time walking or using public transport, because of steps, need to sit down and stand up, etc. But with the right bike it's much easier for them to move through the city. So even there the bike infrastructur is an enabler for disabled people. Don't force them into cars.
Follow the article and some Googling, I found this VSCode extension. Idea like this might help people (and AI?) read, analyze and build some automation on old COBOL code with modern tool chains.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Micro-Fo...
What practical alternative, within a lowly user's reach, would you suggest instead?
I fail to see how these are attacks and not just the model giving you what conforms to the original prompt text the most according to a seed value.
Recursion in JavaScript – What Is a Recursive Function?
I'm not sure why you are so insistent. Of course it is important for accessibility. I have also worked for government sites, conducted a11y tests myself, and worked with independent auditors from Canada and Germany. Semantic HTML is a very basic but critical part. See https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/info-and-relatio....
They have/had a blog where they publish decisions like "batch of wood recalled for good reason" which outlets would sensationalise as "Grandnephew of Hitler banned toothpicks since adults are too dumb".
Patent troll attacks against open source projects are up 100% since last year
Thinkpad x13s? Surface?
It doesn't take much for something to be toxic to soil, wildlife, &c.

> Lithium batteries contain potentially toxic materials including metals, such as copper, nickel, and lead, and organic chemicals, such as toxic and flammable electrolytes containing LiClO4, LiBF4, and LiPF6.

Also, from the article:

> an estimated 180,000 to 200,000 pounds of lithium ion batteries stored in the warehouse caught fire,

Almost anything human made burning at that scale will be toxic to some degree, lithium batteries aren't made of flower petals and lavender essential oil. Have you ever had a battery fire in your house ? It's nasty as fuck, even from a single small phone battery
I second that; it is the core of all EDI issues. Outdated software and ancient complex maps that no one dares touch. That's why so many adapter/data cleansing projects spring up to isolate the COBOL-style software from the rest.
> If you require 15GB storage, you will pay $120 for the year.

This sounds like a lot, just so I can keep my native Windows/Linux/MacOS builds online. My current usage need is 14.9gb.
> You are aware that disruption has been the human condition for 1000's of years, yes?

So what? Slavery and The Plague and Cancer was part of the human condition too.

And its wrong - technological disruption only appreared recently. For ten thousand years my ancestors lived nomadic lives on the eurasian plains, their lives were disrupted when a gun and a steam engine were invented few hundred years ago.
The standard weight (derived by US NIOSH studies) that can be lifted in workplaces is 30 kg, hence most heavy packages are 25 kg (think of a bag of cement/plaster/etc.) in most EU, see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31465982
OSX was an operating system for both power users and common users. macOS is just for the latter. Power users require hardware and software they can trust and rely on and macOS is an unreliable garbage which breaks UX under the disguise of security updates.

Ivy and Cook made me switch from their computer products to whatever I can run FreeBSD or Linux on. It's almost like Cook is waiting for security flaws discoveries to push UI changes, take configuration options away or introduce another privacy-invading snooping mechanisms under the disgraceful pretense of protecting children.
I don’t know how many times I’d have to say listen to movies.
Random cockatoo/FAANG story: I had an all-hands meeting earlier this year at Netflix, with me remote in Sydney, and a cockatoo knocked on my glass office door wanting to be let in -- so I'm saying "stop it! stop it!" when I realized my mic was on, and I'd said that to the whole org as my new manager was speaking. I quickly explained to everyone that I wasn't criticizing the meeting, oh no, I was actually talking to a bird that was knocking on the door.

I then felt it best to post a video of the bird knocking so people didn't think I was crazy. They knock with their beak: tap tap tap. Gets annoying when they do it at 6am to wake you up.

Recently I have noticed cockatoos raiding the bins in Sydney, it's definitely a thing.