skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/

You're linking the 1.5 degrees warming report, which is already known to be an impossible target, the warming we'll reach if we stop carbon emissions completely by 2050; 2 degrees is the new target. We are nowhere near to being on track for such a goal, so you should actually look at the 3+ degrees predictions.

I should admit that I was somewhat wrong to bring up droughts - the report is much more concerned with flooding. I also forgot one of the most catastrophic predictions - the melting of the polar ice caps and resulting ocean level increase - but I suppose that's also a net positive in your book, somehow.

Regarding the increased frequency of extreme weather, the reports are again very clear [0]:

> It is virtually certain that hot extremes (including heatwaves) have become more frequent and more intense across most land regions since the 1950s, while cold extremes (including cold waves) have become less frequent and less severe, with high confidence that human-induced climate change is the main driver14 of these changes. Some recent hot extremes observed over the past decade would have been extremely unlikely to occur without human influence on the climate system. Marine heatwaves have approximately doubled in frequency since the 1980s (high confidence), and human influence has very likely contributed to most of them since at least 2006.

> It is likely that the global proportion of major (Category 3–5) tropical cyclone occurrence has increased over the last four decades, and it is very likely that the latitude where tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific reach their peak intensity has shifted northward; these changes cannot be explained by internal variability alone (medium confidence).

> Human influence has likely increased the chance of compound extreme events18 since the 1950s. This includes increases in the frequency of concurrent heatwaves and droughts on the global scale (high confidence), fire weather in some regions of all inhabited continents (medium confidence), and compound flooding in some locations (medium confidence).

[0] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
Plenty of other companies can't pay half a million dollars to center a div either. Lots of people will lose visa status, homes, cars etc.
I don't understand how the border topologies change the game of life compared to when it's set on a regular plane

You say it can be played on a variety of manifolds, but if the topology of a manifold "locally resembles Euclidean space near each point", considering that the game of life rules are always super local, then how does that change anything compared to a plane
> This is your second comment since last year.

What an incredibly strange premise for an argument.
> Minimalism is often a fantasy.

True to some extent I guess. But in my experience “hipster perfectionism” is also a fantasy.

It’s easy to think that if we make the user experience exactly the users (or in most cases actually some product manager) wants it then we’ll have massive traction. In reality that’s rarely what happens. In many cases I would say nothing at all happens.

As an example I ran the analytics group at a moderately successful startup a few years back. The engineering team put in massive effort in a new release that would be so much more polished and easier to use. But when we looked at the numbers a few months later it was impossible to discern any meaningful change around the deploy date. I didn’t say anything about this to the higher ups of course, and neither did anybody else.
I seriously doubt a 5 year old can understand this explanation.
Helix primarily follows the Kakoune model instead of Vim's. It can be confusing to switch from Vim, but Helix's model tends to be more intuitive if one does not already have Vim muscle memory.
Personally, I consider GATs a lot easier to understand than async. It doesn't transform my code into something completely different than I'm seeing. It's just the ability to put a generic parameter in one more place, paradoxically reducing the number of traits.

It's something that you naturally try to write when you don't know it's not supported, rather than an additional thing to learn.
> .... Did "they" get removed from the dictionary or something?

When I was growing up, it was explicitly taught in school as being incorrect grammar to use "they" for an ungendered third-person singular pronoun. At some point I decided that was a stupid policy for lots of reasons, and explicitly decided to go ahead and use it anyway. But it still feels weird.
Yes. The plan my employer had in Hawaii was $700/mo for pretty average coverage. On Healthcare.gov the best possible plan I could get, $0 deductible, full coverage, etc, was $510/mo.

I think the difficulty is that most people who have employer healthcare have never checked healthcare.gov because they didn't need to, but it's hard to keep seeing people perpetuate this idea that hasn't been true for over a decade.
Ask HN: Is the Firebase Auth Secure?
According to the documentation, I can obtain the firebase "API" token via the following javascript (see [01]):
FirebaseAuth.instance.currentUser().getIdToken();

It seems like the id token is used as access token/api key?

As there are so many discussions that storing tokens in a palace reachable by JS is very insecure [02]. I'm wondering what I'm missing here.

Also, I do not really understand why is it considered to be so much more insecure? As soon as malicious code has access to the JS, he can as well make the fetch requests from the users browsers, sending along all the required cookies.

So, is it still valid not to use local storage for tokens?

[01] https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/js/v8/firebase.User#getidtoken

[02] http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/13/stop-using-jwt-for-sessions/
> I’m super curious, what are HAL and Holmes?

HAL is just IBM encypted using Caesar cipher / ROT25 :)

Holmes must be Watson (but "Holmes" is also the marketing name given by another tech vendor in this space to their own AI product inspired by Watson - very creative)
What made you remove it?
> I've been using Linux for 27 years, and it hasn't changed all that much in that time.

First there's networking configuration. On Debian and Ubuntu the interfaces(5) used to be nice and simple, but dog knows what to use on any particular system nowadays since there are like three ways to do things: interface, netplan, system-networkd, other?

Plus there's resolv.conf(5) being fiddled with a myriad of ways and you have to figure out which system to use there as well.

ifconfig kind of works and kind of doesn't for some things.

How may firewall system changes have there been in the last 27 years? Are we supposed to be using iptables or nftables in 2022?
by 2013 we already had piles of js tooling

anyone remember babel, webpack, browserify, gulp, grunt?
Somebody on Reddit recently did collect what one gets for donating blood in different areas of Germany: https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/xoqyay/aufwandsentsch%C...

What you can see from that is that a "Aufwandsentschädigung" of ~20€ is pretty common.
I've had a similar experience that really affected me.

When asp.net came up, I wrote an ecommerce in vb.net; I read the specs and wrote the code with notepad. The system worked well for my customer and he was pretty happy. But when other programmers tried to pick up my code using their ide, it wasn't possible. So they unleased a flow of toxic waste in my mail. Now I only program for fun. I was young at the time, and was living in a new environment without friends or support. If I had a stronger spine that day, surely I would have continued.
Patents should be coupled to the product. The patent is hidden and considered in draft mode until a working product matching the patent completely is created and submitted to the patent office to check if it matches the patent.

If you are working as an inventor it's your own responsibility to market and sell your ideas and create appropriate contracts when selling your inventions to someone.

A patent has to go through several layers and areas of concern before finally being approved. The entire approval process must be documented and publically available.
I also think that compared to some pie or at times mirror in the sky terra engineering projects "plants for the rescue" look more realistic at this point.

>The biggest problem is the scale of it - to make a significant dent in global co2 you need to be pyrolysing a lot of wood

The giant scale and use of land is one thing. But increasingly in many places the limiting factor be it for agriculture or forest or biomass plantations is water. While forests and vegetation have more than just a sponge effect, we should keep in mind that a scorched dry forest or a field burns easily.
One may look at it as +/- net zero (what burns was absorbed by the plants we planted), it may be safer to go for high biomass yielding plants we can cut preferably more than 1x a year. In the case of fire only the carbon absorbed in the last say half a year would be released. And nasty plants such as Arundo can re-sprout after the fire. Or in a case of a prolonged drought given the right equipment one can just cut it down and get rid of the danger.

*Edit*: cut one "While" too many
Here's proportional font for camelCase programming. It adds a padding to the left of the capital letters, and has a much wider space character.

https://ericfortis.com/portfolio/design#-verdana-camel

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For aligning content, I think IDEs should be able to represent some parts of the code as tables. For example, similar to the Decision Tables of Jetbrains Projectional Editor:

https://youtu.be/iN2PflvXUqQ?t=357
Democratizing social media, with the freedom of moving around platforms freely
"With Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, I began to question if transferring ownership of a centralized platform to another is really the solution to true freedom of speech.
Mastodon was a platform that came to mind where each instance is run individually by a person or an organization and each instance gets to decide how they want to moderate it.

Although users get to choose which instance to join depending on their tastes, they have to sign up for a new account each time on each instance and potentially lose their followers if their account get’s banned in any of these instances.

So I’ve decided to build Soul, which is an external OAuth-based identity provider built specifically for social media in mind. It comes with several user management and user connections management features that can allow one’s “digital soul” to exist in various platforms as long as they integrate with Soul.

Soul is still in a really early stage of development but it is open source and constantly looking for new opportunities to improve. Please give it a shot and try building a social media platform on top of Soul to tap on it’s existing users (though not a lot at the moment, but I hope it’ll grow)."

Check out our site here: https://www.soul-network.com/ and main Github repo here: https://github.com/soul-project/soul
I have a couple of Boyue Likebooks - see my review at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/09/review-boyue-likebook-p78-e...

Drag and drop files on to it, reads most formats, side-lighting with adjustable colour temperature, no adverts, good battery life, no built-in store (unless you side-load). About £200, although may vary depending on where in the world you are.

It runs Android, but I doubt you'll find a custom ROM for it. But you can fiddle with lots of settings.
You'll notice I'll never spoke of “fault”. I spoke of what is in Youtube's interest.
This doesn't really make sense. The whole point of high speed rail is to reliably and effectively connect the northern and southern existing transit regions that are currently separated.

Its like saying the US should never have built rail across the US because most people don't use it.

Of course if you just do high speed rail, you don't have much, what you actually need is to extend and expand your regional rail and transit network. Then high speed rail benefits both regional transit networks.

Given how much money is invested in highways and how much it cost to build the absurd highway system, rail just makes way more sense.

Its pretty funny to me that what is supposed to be 4 largest economy in the world can't manage a half way decent train network. When there are multiple cities with 500k to millions people are between SF and LA.

There is easily enough population to have a really successful high speed rail if its correctly connected to a larger regional network.
Want feedback on your half-baked idea? Post it on social as your “firm” opinion
Everyone who doesn't agree with me is a fascist!

Democrat Strategy 2022

Let's see how that works out for them tomorrow...
This cuts both ways: it's also easy to "surround" software patents with new innovations that are required to be competitive in the marketplace. Then both parties cross-license and you're good. Yes the lawyers get paid but the cost is pretty low compared with software engineers, and the societal benefit is that these innovative move into the public domain.
Great project! The effect making the text look like an oldschool terminal is brilliant. Love how simple it actually is but achieves a great aesthetic. I'm making a retro game for browsers and might use something like that. Nice!
Perhaps not the most popular take: It actually got saved by Trump.
That works as well. Anything that shifts the balance of power in their favour is fine, whatever that may be per circumstance.

There is something deeper here than just a mass layoff. I think it's something that starts with making Steve Jobs style "tantrums" acceptable followed by normalising bullying in workplaces all the way through "oh he's a genius billionaire - he MUST know what he's doing". Having money and past success does not mean you get a free pass at anything. If we keep accepting it, it will be ever more normalised.
https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/afluo/Neural_Acoustic_Fields...
> As I understand it, it's how many tracks submitted by users owning that drive match the what AccurateRip considers the correct rip.

Wait: I'm pretty sure that's not how it works at all. No matter the drive, there's only one correct rip. And two people won't, by coincidence, happen to read the same disc with the exact same error(s).

So when you rip and compare to the AccurateRip DB, you know you have the correct rip if it matches the one already in the DB.

I don't think AccurateRip "considers" rips correct not: to me it knows with 100% guarantee. Which is the entire selling point of the AccurateRip DB. And which is why it's called that way.
I don't understand your point, do you mean that this cannot happen in other fields?

I imagine that this is the case for most stuff in the world. Ideas are not usually unique but it's the great execution of the idea that present the real challange.
I have no huge insight, only this has been on HN before.
why its not unfounded? Reading his comments, looks like he will focus on having plurality on the moderation team and he will fight the bots and anonymous accounts which are quite noisy and disturbance to the real discussion. Twitter has potential to become the most important communication channel in the World, and I'm sure Musk will be the person leading it to this direction.
Yoel Roth. He has been in that position for almost a decade. Why is the funny?
At least it will be more similar to Eternal Septembers on internet forums than whatever happened to centralised social networks. If an Eternal September happens in your instance and you dislike the after-effects you can just... Move without losing much.
Losing 4 billion dollars over 10 years isn't healthy.
Probably depends on your location. They are still sold here in Sweden for instance, but otoh almost nobody has a gas stove since electricity used to be dirt cheap here.
We have readers at the Delaware courthouse and, incredibly, the courthouse network setup blocks the site for Chrome users if I use Cloudflare. I tried for weeks to find a solution other than removing Cloudflare but nothing seemed to work, and I really want people from the courthouse to be able to read the blog!
Yes, I'm in the UK. BBC used to be my "news of last resort", in the sense that it was the least worst of all the UK reporting.

But with things that you mentioned and recently Martine Croxall [1], I've pretty much switched to Reuters and Bloomberg quite some time ago without realising.

You only have to look at the BBC news site front page, versus their 'most read' section to see what the BBC editorial staff think we should be reading (relentless politics, doom and gloom) versus what people are actually reading (today, right now, Peter Kay's comeback! :) ).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63500745
No, a phone is not social media. Nor is a standard messaging app. Social media is, in my opinion, any platform or service that connects you with an unknown number of users, a feed, and has some form of "likes" or "upvoting" involved. So simply messaging friends and family via your phone wouldn't qualify. But Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Reddit all would. And I agree with the author, social media (according to my definition), comes with an enormous number of negative consequences and we are all probably better off without it, on the whole (and yes, I realize that I am saying this on HackerNews, which also counts as social media according to that definition).
"Welcome to Bauxite Island"
That's why the smart people focus on capture from flue gases, which might be generated not only from fossil fuels but also from renewable biomass (basically the same just so much younger) and leave aside the direct air capture follies. Guess which side the process described in this article is on.
You’re in a cult.
I would bet that robots will come with a subscription as well
Is This Truly a Maintenance-Free House?
Former NSA or Intel community? – vacancy listing to fast track former employees
>Rob Joyce - NSA Director of Cybersecurity @NSA_CSDirector - Nov 6

Former NSA or Intel community? Come on back!

We now have a vacancy listing to fast track former employees back in. Check it out.*

Is the NSA looking to employ ex Twitter and Facebook employees?
There are interactions which are impossible in the square but are real in a torus or cylinder.

For instance, periodic patterns may appear due to translations which do not in the square.
Sega have been publishing Mega Drive collections for PC/PS4/Xbox for years though, and it costs like £20. The controller is possibly worth it though.
I really like this one:

Think different. Simple is harder than complex, which means you'll need to use your creativity.

The KISS people tend to think simplicity is the easy route. The acronym basically says so. But it’s the other way around.
I use the kindle paperwhite this way. You can convert from EPUB to a kindle friendly format and send them to the kindle using Calibre[0].

Other open source devices like the kobo seem really cool and I'd like to try one but my kindle is still working some years later so it's all I've used.

[0] https://calibre-ebook.com/
Why "Of course". Likely the percentage of MISTer owner legally dumping retro cards small. It's a subset of a subset of a subset. Gamer -> retro gamer -> hardcore retrogamer -> hardcore retrogamer that has high enough regard for copyright law that an unenforceable rule that doesn't benefit the original developers should be obeyed.
Either no-one has seriously tried it, it’s impossible for some reason, or it worked and we don’t know. I am of the opinion that the first and last option are implausible, which indicates that humans are remarkably close to our local optimum of intelligence
My money is on Putin doing it, to dissuade any would be throne-pretenders in case of a coup. Any new government has fewer funding options, which would be good to negotiate with Europe, and to pay cooperating oligarchs.

It would be cutting the nose to spite the face, except Putin is cutting Russia's nose, not his own. What matters is staying in power, not the good of the nation.
This isn't really universally true. In Switzerand we have cantons that manage their own school system, regional rail, social security and the list goes on and on. Some of those cantons have something like 200k people.

California itself is larger and richer then most of the world. There is no excuse not to be able to do it.
I don't use Twitter, I was talking about random web ads that I believe are served by Google (or companies that Google bought). Maybe they should fire half their staff too.
You can see the change only at the boundaries of the grid. Away from the boundary it is just like regular game of life but at the boundaries the definition of 'neighbour cell' changes based on the way the grid is glued (i.e its topology)
Well, unrelated to the topic, but I'd be curious how many request / sec you were getting, and how many nodes Render autoscaled up to. I'm running a client's site on a single Render node right now and have been curious how it'd stand up to traffic spikes.
This is one line in a subway network of many, handling 3x more people than the entire MUNI network from opening day (of the full line). The Singapore MRT as a whole already has a daily ridership of 3,400,000.
I think they are being held back by trying to make them human-like. I doubt that people will find plastic attractive. instead they should be focusing on sensation
For me the reason is that I cannot say I understand other industries well enough. But I understand software well enough to say that parents there are harmful. Many of them are too generic and trivial and hinders innovation.
That's a statement of fact, but the GP was asking why it is actually so.
No, the subject is stopping identity theft, impersonation, and slander. Finally Twitter takes it seriously.

Claiming “just a prank, bro” won’t cut it anymore. Good.
If it's 3 months severance, doesn't seem like he's lying.

> WARN protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring employers to give a 60-day notice

https://edd.ca.gov/en/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN
I absolutely agree.

Issues at Rust got to the point that about a year ago the moderation committee resigned. [0]

Anecdotes suggest was over quite serious irreconcilable issues[2]

The rumour mill went wild and I've no idea if we ever got clarity.

It's a rabbithole with spiralling conspiracy theories. A core member seemed to delete their Twitter too. [1]

Very concerningly the original resignation letter said to be sceptical (I think that's the word used) of core team response. This I think was recanted. I'm not sure what the circumstances of the recantation was but it's a very serious thing to say of course. Is it possible it was based on legal advice?

In my opinion there's no smoke without fire and there is far too much controversy in and around the Rust community to call it bad luck.

Something is rotten there but I guess I have no interest in finding out why. Only that I stopped going to Rust meetups at Mozilla due to the hostile atmosphere to any detractors.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/23/rust_moderation_team_...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/qzme1z/moderation_tea...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/rclslb/the_core_team_...
Can you provide very specific examples of these practices?
Netplan happened on 20.04 AFAIR. Doesn't matter much for your cloud vps you never change networking on, but still.

From my perspective, it's not changed much too - I was using apt-get install nginx - I keep using it. Was using systemctl - keep using it. Cannot say I've adjusted my habits during that moves.

Ah, home dirs are property secured now.
Anything will work as long, ereaders are all pretty much the same if you don't connect them to internet. For your use case, I'd get audiobooks, walking for miles staring at a screen is a good way to get hit by a car!

I've tried an Epson AR headset, but tethering, battery, and weight just aren't there yet for all-day ereader glasses, although I think that is a very promising field that will be viable soon.