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In parts of Arizona people are getting 3rd degree burns from asphalt and other things exposed to the sun. [0][1]

> “The temperature of asphalt and pavement and concrete and sidewalks in Arizona on a warm sunny day or summer afternoon is 180 degrees sometimes. I mean, it’s just a little below boiling, so it’s really something,” Foster said.

It can take only a “fraction of a second” to get a “pretty deep burn,” he said. For people who have been on the pavement for 10 to 20 minutes, “the skin is completely destroyed” and the damage often goes down deep, meaning it is a third-degree burn.

Foster sees burns like that after people survive a house fire. “These are really serious injuries,” he said.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/health/arizona-heat-burns-er/...

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/arizona-is-so-hot-paveme...
I thought Notebook is getting deprecated. What is the difference between Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Notebook ? Are these developed by two completely different teams? Why maintain two code bases?
Can we interpret these 9-bit square arranged combinations as letters in Marain, the language of The Culture?
going for 150m increments instead of 500 feet increments is only an error of ~8 feet. that doesn't seem so bad.

On the topic of switching over: obviously you'd not do it all at once, but phasing in metric on new planes would at least fix the issue eventually.
My impression of what's holding back improvements to CV and ML for medical images is that close to none of the research in the field will ever be put into practice. There's a huge amount of research done and then the companies actually producing the software used by technicians and doctors choose a tiny number of things to pick up, incorporate, test, get certified, and it takes years. People working in the field have admitted to me they have few to no hopes.
Curious how much you backup, which version of restic you're running and why you think the deduplication is borderline unacceptable. There were several major (orders of magnitudes) improvements made to pruning within the past ~1 year, that's why I'm interested.
I don't follow your reasoning at all. Unless intelligent life appeared everywhere in the universe spontaneously at the same instant, which seems rather unlikely, then someone has to be first.

If the universe has, on the scale of potentially uncountable trillions of years, just barely reached a stage where the probability of life appearing has risen above "infinitely small" then there's nothing chauvinistic or anthropocentric about speculating that we're it.
> Nothing is unlimited. But just as we over-fished lobsters and moved onto other food sources, so we will with everything else. Don't panic. Innovate.

While it is true that nothing is unlimited and humans have historically adapted their behavior when resources become scarce, the argument of not panicking and relying solely on innovation to solve resource depletion concerns is overly optimistic and potentially dangerous.

Firstly, the comparison to over-fishing lobsters and moving on to other food sources oversimplifies the issue of resource depletion on a global scale. While localized shifts in consumption patterns are possible, the depletion of critical resources like fossil fuels, freshwater, and certain minerals poses more complex challenges. Merely assuming that innovation will provide an easy solution overlooks the significant time, effort, and investment required to develop and implement sustainable alternatives.

Secondly, relying solely on innovation to address resource depletion ignores the urgency of the issue. Natural resources are not infinite, and some of them, once depleted, cannot be easily replaced. Delaying action in the hope that future innovations will come to the rescue can lead to irreparable damage to the environment and exacerbate existing global challenges like climate change.

Additionally, innovation itself can be a double-edged sword. While it has the potential to create more efficient and sustainable solutions, it can also contribute to resource depletion when not guided by responsible practices. For example, the rapid advancement of technology can lead to increased electronic waste, which is already a significant environmental problem.

Rather than dismissing concerns and promoting blind faith in innovation, a more prudent approach would involve a combination of strategies. We should focus on both responsible resource management, such as conservation and sustainable practices, and continuous innovation to find alternative solutions. Emphasizing a diversified approach can help mitigate the risks associated with resource depletion and foster a more balanced and resilient future.

Innovation is an essential component of addressing the resource depletion. But we must not overlook the severity of the problem and the need for urgent and responsible action. Relying solely on innovation without taking immediate measures to manage resources responsibly can lead to irreversible consequences for the planet and future generations.
Eh, cost/benefit; some people are backing up 100MB of documents and don't care, some people are backing up terabytes of media and have the time.
I am @ctz and I'm forever being pinged by zig people lol
No, please don’t. Those Linklater films have already shown too much of (for most of the world anyway) serendipitous unrealistic European romance :)
Their FAQ has a "why is distributing our images illegal" section.

Not sure why that would mean hating users, distributing modified software while keeping their trademarks is always a no-no, at least with Linux it's possible to just rebrand (which these guys don't want to do).

I guess they could ask to merge their stuff upstream and get away from these roundabout ways.
“don’t bring it to school”, yes, but the rest should be safe.
That's answered in the FAQ:

https://eupnea-linux.github.io/faq#why-is-sharing-depthboot-...

“The Depthboot base distros all allow image/iso/rootfs sharing, but only in an unmodified form. The Depthboot script customizes some internal distro behavior (for example it adds our eupnea packages) and thereby creates modified images. To allow modified images to be shared, all trademarked content would have to be removed, i.e. all Distro logos.”
This license-washes Open Street Maps data into proprietary systems so big corps can use it without contributing back.
Yes, it's not like a country is it's people and their culture and achievements stemming from those, and that if the "country is good" it's because of that.

No, a country is just a landmass, and when "Japanese become the minority" that would be a problem solved (the problem being entitled people from outside the country wanting in).
Not all of them have jobs involving keeping secrets. Some involve disinformation.
If it's cheap (and shabby) enough to reason once in 3 years upgrade, that is no longer a problem. And that's exactly how long my Lenovo laptops tend to survive these days.
this reads like /g/
Similar to your last point, Dockerfiles are a lot easier to learn/use than Vagrant, making people more likely to put in the effort to doing them right
iTunes was a DRM infested crap. Meanwhile pirates offered drm free files that you could play anywhere.
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

<https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>
James Undefined.
Dunno, there is still a long list of things people love to force others to do.
> PR stunt of a socialist mayor

Although the mayor who actually does it is socialist, it was initiated by a right-wing mayor (Jacques Chirac, who went on to become president) famously announcing he would himself swim in the Seine in the 90s (he didn't).

a) it was probably not cleaner 100 years ago, but that's the year when swimming in the Seine was banned because of pollution

b) Paris is not really downstream of any large city on the Seine and most of the pollution by far is produced by Paris and its suburbs, not by Troyes 150 km upstream.

What they are doing to reduce pollution is explained in detail in the linked article.
This is a question that statistics can answer. I don’t have the data myself but I’ve seen one analysis that pins most of the drop in birthrates to childlessness rather than fewer children per mother. That is, among women who become mothers, the average number of children is relatively stable over time. But the proportion of women who never have a child is rising rapidly.

I’ll add that the drop in birthrates is not something that has persisted for generations—as recently as 1950 Japan had a fertility rate over 3.
Most younger people in USA only access internet via iPhones+Safari so this all debate is pretty academic at this point of time anyway - soon neither Chrome nor Firefox will be relevant anymore. There's no other choice than Safari there and Safari has DRM builtin as well.
Seems like I am confused. Are you saying decline due to over fishing is acceptable? Doesn't that contradicts unlimited abundance argument?
That honestly doesn't sound right. Drinking more water won't dilute your blood / BAC. You're mostly limited how fast you can drink that much liquid.
Sorry to hear this. Recently watched a video interview with her, wearing a hijab, she'd moved into Islam, said she was wearing it though she didn't have to (age), and then that she was mostly into Sufism. (2:05 of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je8Mh7Bc2hI

She never shyed from a difficult path.
I'm keen on this as well
can’t wait for Rasengan and Sharingan frameworks
Because you can also buy a real PC pre-loaded with GNU/Linux for about the same price, around 300 euros.

And if one is going for the 1000 euros Chromebook variants, then there are certainly real PC deals much better than a Chrome kiosk OS.
Germany has also "climbed the value ladder" focusing on production of high-value goods whilst counting on imports to provide for low-value ones.

Some of that is of course classic Ricardian "comparative advantage" of trade. Much is, though, outsourcing high-impact / high-resource / high-effluent production to elsewhere.
(The “CT” is a typo)
> I have never heard of this. Where did you get this?

I meant that sugar causes cancer through obesity, not that there's an intermediate step between sugar and obesity.

> Bacon aside, there is no proof which shows that red meat causes cancer. Yes, there are studies that show a correlation between red meat and cancer. However those studies did not differentiate between fresh unprocessed red meat and other processed meat like bacon, sausages, etc.

Most studies do differentiate between unprocessed and processed red meat. And the correlation is fairly strong, not to mention the rest of health effects that a diet high in red meat is associated with.

> I'd argue the opposite, bacon aside. Red meat is a highly nutrient dense food. Sugar on the hand is just empty carbs, Metabolizing sugar will drain you body of important vitamins (e.g. B1).

Do you really think it's easier to take out sugar of your diet? I think the only way is to go full carnivore (not even milk or its derivatives). On the other hand, you don't even have to go vegetarian to remove red meat and bacon from your diet.
Are there any very important things that congress/US government is doing right now?

In other words, is this UFO thing trying to distract the public from something very important?
Absolutely, but you gotta remember my man. Some of us made our account on GitHub 14 years ago and named them after our Quake 2 handle from 1997
Maybe do things that take the pressure off fathers to be sole providers?

What the Nordics in general do well, and Germany does ok, is preserve the ability of mothers to have careers, thus making motherhood a bit less of a drastic decision (it’s still a drastic decision. You’re committing to unconditionally love someone who will, say, bite you hard on the shoulder because you had the temerity to suggest it was time to go potty instead of play with trains, and to take the physical damage of pregnancy that has so far led to my first broken bone and back pain that never quite goes away)

But I’m still working in my pre-maternity department, in a scaled-back version of my old job, and more critically, keeping up with our industry about as well as my not-mother colleagues, so once the little nipper can escort himself home from school, I can more easily go back to full time.

And in case my husband loses his job that currently is our main source of income, we have the backstop of my job and the potential to go back to my full time IT income.

This would be far more difficult in a country where my large employer was not obliged to let me work part time for several years, and Elterngeld didn’t make taking a year off after the birth of a child fully expected and planned for by employers. My husband was also able (and expected) to take a month off after the birth, and then another when I went back to work. A lot of men in relatively conservative Bavaria were initially hesitant to take those two months, but it’s now normal. We’re not at the point that it’s normal for most fathers to also exercise their right to switching to a part time schedule for their children’s first few years - no idea if this happens more often in Berlin or Hamburg.

Germany has its own demographic problems, but not as severe as Japan’s.
Just what the world needs right now, throw away hardware every 3 years.
She also specifically says that anything she asked her employees to do, she'd do herself, but if you read that backwards, the implication is that she is setting up a cultural expectation here: to achieve a tight deadline, if necessary, you should sleep in the office.

Which is not only an incredibly unhealthy expectation (for individuals who will burn themselves out for someone else's schedule and benefit; for team leaders who will destroy any sense of team cohesion and motivation in the long run; and for managers who would get more results from a slower but more consistent pace), but it also doesn't seem to have won her anything in this case - she got fired, and it doesn't sound like she was particularly listened to or respected by Musk, despite trying to provide genuine insight and wisdom.
It's off-the-shelf MHonArc[1]. If implementing a decent mailing list archive were a prerequisite to launching a business, no business would ever be launched.

[1]: https://www.mhonarc.org/
Casey Muratory was spot on about using containers was not a solution to any problem, but just more of the same complexity increase. Full presentation at: The Only unbreakable Law

https://youtu.be/5IUj1EZwpJY
Yes and no. Informal work is generally done by poorer folks. While they should be paying taxes, the Brazilian income tax system penalizes low income earners the most. It’s not a progressive tax system like you find in Europe or the US. When you go to the next tax “band”, it’s not just the excess income that gets taxed at the new band. it’s all of your income.

For example, say there’s no income tax on incomes below 30k a year, and the first tax bracket is 20%. The moment your earnings go to 31k you’ll net less money than someone making 30k because the 20% is applied to all 31k.

This obviously has a pretty negative effect on low income families.
They have been conditioned to become greedy. That’s how the system works.

You need to continually show growth. Actual profits don’t matter, it has to be expressed as growth.

The first one to blink loses as money flows out of the stock. So right now everyone is squeezing their business to avoid showing flagging growth. Jacking up prices.

Because investors only need growth, it doesn’t need to be sustainable - if there’s a general market correction that’s fine but you don’t want to be the one starting it.

Look at google. Ads is clearly on its last legs as a growth model but but aggressively pushing all levers like a cable company adding more and more ad breaks, they create the impression that things are still growing while gesturing at AI in hopes investors see the future growth there. No metric here measures the advance to the tipping point where customers abandon you to an alternative and they are not used to there being alternatives.

The current earnings season doesn’t show business health, they show greed dynamics.
There are plenty of river ports/quays with power and water hookups. If you want to houseboat it, you really only need to move when you want to dump the septic tank (and in some areas, not even that).

The "good" spots are highly desirable and usually privately owned (or on a very long-term lease), and you often need to buy a boat to get the mooring spot beneath it. (A buddy of mine in London ended up with 3 boats while upgrading his mooring spot.)

Another options is to vagabond it, where you move your boat to a new area every week or two -- this is usually unserviced, so it's more like camping, but lets you use unofficial spots and is free.

(The last option is to find goofy loopholes. E.g., in some areas of the Thames, you can create a nesting habitat for an endangered bird on your boat, and then once the bird settles in, they can't force you to move, since doing so would destroy an important habitat. Sounds stupid but a surprising number of permanent city boats are there on some sort of loophole.)
He sure came off that way to me.

Body language, manner of speech, everything.

Just look at his eyes, they scream "I'm full of shit".
Countries are just landmasses and real estate, didn't you know?

Local population can be relegated to a minority and what makes Japan alluring today will still exist just fine. There's nothing about a particular people, with a particular culture, and a particular approach, having built a country of a particular outlook.

Besides, we can improve the norms we don't like. And of course, we totally deserve to live there, after all we've watched all these anime and ate so much sushi...
just a heads up that microdosing dmt (non psychoactive doses, just a mg or two) are game changing instant cures for some forms of cluster headaches. Can be worth moving to a locale where plant based medicine has at least been decriminalized.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 vs. Z Fold 3: What has changed in two years
My GitHub username is @public. I get quite a lot of email about JavaDoc strings.
Why our fears of being scammed are corrosive and damaging
Interesting that the Long Now foundation is apparently separate from the EA "Longtermism" movement (though both share the same cultish vibes IMO)

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/against-jackpot-longtermism
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36796212>
>Owned by state-backed Tencent and increasingly privacy invasive and censorship-driven, why does WeChat why does Apple let

Hmm.
Google “houseboats <european city>” and you’ll see how they are moored and connected to services. There’s many good videos on YouTube doing tours of boats if you want to go down a rabbit hole.
It's a reminder that there are a lot of people out there.
I regularly drink 4% beer, and it's not difficult to get quite a bit tipsy on it, you just need to drink more. I regularly see men in pubs who drink 5 liters of such beer in an evening and that does get them drunk.
I was expecting this[0] video. That "whoops" gets me every time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2CsO-Vu7oc
> But as mentioned above, isn't doing so against Google's own self interest?

I don't see how it is against their interest, it would cement Google into power in a way that is very difficult to undo barring government intervention (which I doubt is going to happen).

> It seems like the project is explicitly stating their goal isn't to allow for websites to do this, and they are implementing it in a manner consistent with that.

If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, it will float there quite placidly. As the water gradually heats up, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.

> If I understand correctly Hulu cannot act unilaterally with the currently planned implementation of this.

Hulu will keep their attestation implementation ready to turn on at a moment's notice because it's patently obvious that the hold-back stuff will be gone when it's ready to go, and it's obvious because the currently described implementation (with the hold-back) does not really serve any real purpose.

The hold-back is only on the spec to keep people from revolting while the thing is built and tested.
I work in this field - IMO, your assessment is correct insofar as the absolute need for commercialization of research done. However, we haven't gotten to the super-human performance for medical images yet. We don't even have the ImageNet-equivalent, nor do we have any open source (or just source & weight available) models that Google and other big corp claim to be so wonderful. Most of people in the field, rightly so, then dismiss anything like Med-Palm M and other PR-like papers from these groups. Why base your career (both academically and product-wise) on this?
Mine is 23000ish and I still couldn't get "Stavros" (a friend got it first).

EDIT: Wait, how? His ID is 500k or so. Hmm.
A phrase that I learned to use recently is:

"In the private sector everything is allowed, except those that are explicitly prohibited.
In the public sector everything is prohibited, except those that are explicitly allowed."

This is why in the EU (which is not a perfect society, but 'good enough'/'better than others' we got GDPR and EUDPR which cannot and should not be ignored.

If you allow the public sector to go rogue, then freedoms and right will be corroded and eventually taken away 'for our sake'.
@Japan is the official Japan gov account.

And @XJapan is some account with unclear owner.

But X Japan is a music band in Japan going back to the 80s.

It's unclear what this submission is reporting therefore, whether it's factual, and what's with all the broken Twitter links lately in submissions.
That’s not actually what inflation shows. There are different types of money - and the money pumped by the fed before mostly didn’t matter because it didn’t move into the economy. Covid aid did of course.

No current inflation is a result of companies jacking prices. Because they can. Because regulation failed.
I don't want to be unfair because there are certainly lots of smart well informed people out there on many websites, but I suspect that intelligence agents would focus on sites with more users and users that generally have less discernment than in HN.
It's a remote that charges via the USB-C port. If it doesn't follow USB 2.0 spec, or the USB-PD spec, or any spec associated with the type-C port, how is it supposed to get power from the host device/charger?
Write Clean Java Code
Here are a few essay recommendations for anyone interested in more heretical takes on the same topic:

- "The fate of empires and search for survival"

- "The population cycle drives human history"

- "Our fragile intellect"