skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You do realize that if a scientist could put up a reputable set of studies that disprove the central climate change theories that they would be set for life under a cavalcade of fossil fuel sponsorships.

You don't understand scientists then. They don't want to be "set for life". They want status within their own bizarre little community.

While no doubt Exxon would be more than happy to bankroll them at any level, the left made sure to poison that... anyone even hinted at to be accepting their money is a "fossil fuel shill". So no, they're not interested in taking that money.

If there are any such people out there now, they do the easy thing... they go find something else to research where they can be honest without it ruining their career, they publish, and we can't even know how many of them are. If they self-identify, careers are over.

> If there is such a complete and totalizing suppression of actual inquiry in climate science,

Why would it have to be "complete and total"? You still think I'm talking about some conspiracy. I'm talking about fools and halfwits doing this accidentally, by instinct, and so when they pipe up "but we're not suppressing!", in their own way they're even honest about it. They genuinely believe they aren't.

> Your argument is based on your being completely convinced that a very large swath of people, many if not most of whom are parents like yourself, are acting in utter bad faith.

I don't posit any bad faith in any of this. Stupidity and incompetence, and a complete lack of immunity for groupthinking tendencies suffice. Right now, you believe you're very righteous in even typing out your comment.

> but if you look at the very real scientific progress that's happened in the last several hundred years,

You don't get to appeal to the scientific progress, without taking credit for all of the regress that happens too. It's slow, accidental, and there's no way for you to know, one way or the other whether you're a plate tectonicist or continental fixist in all of this.

> or at least disproves the notion that groupthink is likely to wholly capture a scientific field.

The history of science is replete with examples of entire fields being captured by groupthink. Sure, so far, it seems that eventually it fades away. But without a better understanding of the sociology of groupthink, we don't know that's a universal feature. And besides, even if it does... seems the only sure fix is to wait for the old guard to die out. Meaning I'd have to wait another 40 or 50 years minimum.

> belief that Professor Q is somehow right and all the other professors are wrong (probably because of the bad faith part),

And not because it's a recurring theme in science? Not because, you don't need consensus if you're actually correct?

> belief in government or corporate control over the discussion,

In what part of my comment did I even hint that I believed this? Or are you just talking about the other skeptics because they're easier to attack than I am?
Did your Singaporean friend's family have a house in Singapore? If so, that explains how they could afford a couple Aston Martins.

For reference - house ownership is almost impossible in SG without either being old money or making millions and moving back.
Which policies are you speaking of? How are they hidden? What would you like to tweak that you can't?
It looks like they pay a VAT, plus a greenhouse tax. But the greenhouse tax seems relatively small, equivalent to around $100 USD—though there are many factors that would change that number a little bit. The VAT is much higher, something like 25% of the vehicle price. But I would not consider VAT a tax on car ownership, per se, since it is applied to many other goods, and we would not consider a VAT levied on, say, a microwave to be a tax on microwave ownership.
> and you're back to the 5B number

no, if you include anybody in the World, you are back at 7B

The point was that you contradicted yourself: if 3B people use the internet (as you said) only 3B people are in danger of being spied through the internet.

> I don't really care if your system of choosing leaders is democratic elections

Unfortunately the dictionary does.

And one does not imply the other, I mean it's one thing to have cameras in the streets for (allegedly) safety purpose and another thing entirely to be hanged from a crane if you're gay.

Let's not pretend that everything is the same everywhere just because we don't like or agree with a particular aspect of what happens in our own country.
One would think they should make a lottery if they want to limit the number of cars. Like the Green card lottery for visa in the US. Then it would depend on income. And every person in the household can participate, so larger families with perhaps greater need would have higher chances of winning.

Bidding also opens a lot of problems, see NYC taxi medallion auctions.
Ask HN: Has progressive enhancement lost of the war?
With the widespread adoption of JavaScript dependent SPAs and frameworks, has progressive enhancement lost the war?

Is there a place for it today?

Edit: For the sake of the argument, let's include tangential ideas like graceful degradation, unobtrusive JavaScript, etc.
How Broken Is IPv6-Only DNS Resolution
Restricting spoofing so that you have to own the spoofed number should cover the legitimate use cases, I think?
What do they mean by "neural input?" Do they mean a voluntary, willful mode of making the sound, as opposed to involuntary process, like breathing?
I can tell you exactly how I noticed it because it was on my workstation this reproduced originally.

I have a Ryzen 9 5950X CPU and it has a crazy fan ramp. Anytime a process maxes out the CPU it will be audible to me when I'm working. Now, to put this in perspective. It doesn't happen when I'm gaming. I can play Diablo 4 and Cyberpunk 2077 without this noticable fan noise but when setup.exe loses it, the fan noise is how I notice it. It will max out one core and I'm going to assume "never" complete. The longest I waited was 78 CPU minutes before killing the process. This would happen now and then but it would not prevent Chrome from successfully updating. So, it was bizarre to begin with.
DMT is pretty famous for, oddly, inducing hallucinations of Machine Elves in people. Don't discard the building tunnels part though, it is a weirdly popular hobby among the very male-brained.
Elysium – A Tranquil 3D Nature World
Ask HN: Is there a point in obfuscating emails in our bio with GPT?
A lot of people put their email in their bio with a sentence like "my email is my HN username at a popular email service starting with g". I guess the idea is to avoid scraping emails. However, GPT4 is able to solve these. For example:

"""
Based on your description, it sounds like you are referring to an email address that starts with your Hacker News (HN) handle "REMOVED_FOR_THIS_POST" and ends with a domain from a popular email service that begins with the letter "g". A common email service that starts with the letter "g" is Gmail. Therefore, the string you're referring to could be "EMAIL_WAS_CORRECT". However, without confirmation, this is just a speculative interpretation based on the provided information.
"""

Is it time to move on from obfuscation?
Is there something of the like but for orbital mechanics? Out of all the engineering that is nearly superhuman to get us to do everything we do in space, there's something about the knowing that "if I point it at this direction, in 3 days time, going this fast, it'll hit this object in 4 days" that I just find utterly fascinating but am hopelessly ignorant about.
Thanks, Calendar component by myself
I never really considered "advanced malware protection" as a benefit of moving to the cloud. Knowing that a group is actively trying to detect and prevent abuses of my systems is comforting. It's one more thing that I don't have to do or worry about. Nice!
No, this is 'science', following decent ethics - deceased animals that were donated to science by their owners.

Perhaps discovering the source of purring isn't the deepest mystery cats could unlock via donation, but it's ethical, and might give us some insights into how the 'healing properties' observed by cat purrs works, or how to mimic it, either for vetinarian, or human medical purposes.

Whereas neuralink is just killing healthy animals for eventual profit.
The thing that I don't get is that when I was growing up on Argentina, I never saw anything like that. We heard about the shootings and bomb threats in the US, but once a teacher got stabbed in an Argentinean school and was national news. And that was the biggest event in years. Why do these kind of things only seem to be prevalent on one country? Gun prevalence explains the medium of choise these past 25 years, and one thing that needs to be tackled, but there seems to be other factors at play as well.
Do you mean the ones they travel through the sea? And on top of that, it’s just a ‘country’ for rich. Singapore is not a fake country, far from it.
As a remote CEO, this is beautiful for us. Remote postings will get a ton of applicants from great people who have personalities beyond the office game. Really grateful big companies with unlimited salary budgets are taking this path.
Nukes, schmukes – fuel cells could power future datacenters
I was very impressed with my Thinkpad X13s. I was able to open it up, just screws, --no glue to soften with a heatgun, careful spudging, or suction devices to pull things apart--and replace the 512 GB M.2 card with a 1 TB one.
The economic model is going to change one way or another. A model designed around perpetual growth will always fail, and there are already plenty of cracks showing.

A major economic change sounds impossible, but we've done it in the US at least three times in the last century.
Interesting! Is it possible to mix and match GPUs from different providers e.g. AWS, GCP?
Everybody knows the laws, why would you insist on breaking them?
I run the ClearURLs extension [0], so when I click that link - or most Amazon affiliate links, or an O365 tracking link, or many other tracking links, it sends me straight to the destination without hitting Google's servers.

A feature request/complaint is that it doesn't support hovering to see the target URL/check if the particular tracking domain is supported, for example Tom's Hardware uses a "georiot.com" tracker that embeds GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp... %3Dtomshardware-us-1038331347314950500-20... and doesn't successfully parse out the raw amazon.com/dp/[product ID] link.

[0]: https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon
The vehicle is Chinese made, from what I understand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_ZS_(crossover)#MG_EZS/ZS_EV

But MG is a British car marque, so I am not sure how much manufacturing and assembly happens in the UK vs China.
weird. Walkable cities are much more quiet than the car ones. Sure, a busy area is noisy from revelers. Cars are just loud technology, compared to bikes or walking.
Looking for contract, part-time or volunteer work, specifically in renewable energy consulting. Preferably smart grid, wind energy, solar PV, energy policy.
Location: Remote, prefer opportunities in US/Canada
Remote: Yes, please.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies: Python (Pandas), Excel
Résumé/CV: On request. See linkedin: https://www.linkedin.co/in/eldrichrebello
Email: eldrich at eldrichrebello.ca
Scientific publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=a0oog-YAAAAJ
Vitejs team is working on a new bundler: rolldown
I wish they hadn’t changed their name from the more evocative “International Earth Rotation Service”. It used to make me think, “What if we stopped paying them and they stopped cranking?”

More seriously though, it should remind us all of what a web of relationships and interdependence we have. Those clowns who blithely say “We should just fire half of the civil service” don’t even understand how things (barely) work. Its only thanks to the quiet efforts of others (in this case halfway around the world) we can do our own things.
Where I work the onboarding sheet instructs you to make a custom search engine for servicenow because it's way faster to bang in the record number than to use a link in Teams.
It's not the tuition that's expensive (well, if you're not Swiss it's 1000/month instead of 1200/year, but that's still way cheaper than US. Germany's still cheaper though), it's the courses you have to take before you can even enter Uni ("passerelle", 6 month mandatory course, you cannot start before you've completed at least a Berufsmaturitat, costs for the course according to kme.ch: 2* 17000 to 20000 CHF (meaning ~40000 CHF), not including study materials or the actual exam cost, oh and to add insult to injury you get to pay extra for a mandatory psychological interview to see if you're motivated).

This does not consider that you'll need to actually attend this course, either in the evenings (min. 10hrs per week, for 2 years), during which you'll have living + ... expenses. Attendance is mandatory, and frankly it's the only part that I can imagine you'll fail.

Because passerelle is waste of time (look up the course ...) you're much better off getting a degree in Munich or Stuttgart, any will do (any bachelor degree also gets you admission to any Swiss university, regardless of language, but of course that doesn't help to get you your first degree). You can for example get a philosophy bachelor (which you can get for 800euro + attending the exam once, and while I'm sure it's possible to fail this course, you'll have to fail it a lot before you run up the 40000CHF bill it costs in Zurich to get admission to university, plus it's so easy I suspect a dead cat might pass. Can be fully studied in an afternoon). But passerelle is what you're supposed to do in Switzerland, as a Swiss. A lot of people do it this way. (note: a non-German bachelor will only get you admission if you also present a Goethe C1 or C2, or a some school finishing certificate from a German school)

That gets you ONE chance. If you fail any year in Zurich at any university, you can't continue studying at all.

This is ignoring the demands of the university itself, the one you want to get into (ETH Zurich), has extra conditions which they publish one year in advance.

And even that isn't the end of it. If you're studying a "desirable" degree, like medical doctor for example, there's many more traps to fall into. At that point you might want to consider just studying entirely in Germany, without even trying in Switzerland, even if by some miracle you actually satisfy the conditions.

Lastly, the government is looking to limit enrollment further. So I, for one, expect these requirements to become more onerous over time, not less. The goal of these regulations is not what the regulations actually regulate (there's funny idiotic parts to the rules. For example: German Swiss degrees count as proving your German language skills ... even when the classes are in English, like most scientific bachelors are). Also, for example Passerelle is effectively a local jobs program, at the expense of university students. You will not learn anything in the course.

But yeah, tuition is pretty cheap, even the auslander rate. Great.
Nice of them to put the redirect under google.com, so you cannot easily block it, unlike MS which uses https://nam01.safelinks.protection.
'Gay furry hackers' brag of second NATO break-in, steal and leak more data
Sometimes software is just done.

HN is pretty close to perfect. The only things I'd change are cosmetic (dark mode, better mobile CSS, etc).
What's wrong with the Fairphone?
Not to mention it lead to them designing their own anechoic chambers for testing all their radio/antenna.
Both the PolyForm Noncommercial License and the Prosperity Public License are irrevocable. There is no lock-in. Everyone gets the code, just like with an OSI-approved "open source" license.

Dual commercial/non-commercial licensing like this is a simple way to require commercial users to fund the further development and maintenance of the software.
Direct URL: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-1-4842-971...
Depends on the car model. Some can use GPS or radio time signals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signal
Drills are awful too. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/active-shooter-drills-a...
+1 for runfiles but beware of the multi-gigabyte installer + installed footprint. Not complaining per-se, just plan for it.
Amazon.com is not known to not to be fake?
I'm hoping "cargo vet"'s approach to supply chain security becomes standard practice:

https://mozilla.github.io/cargo-vet/

Adding a "pay upstream" feature to it would probably be minimal incremental effort. Someone is already supposed to pay the third-party auditors, after all.
Do you mind being more precise about what you find distasteful about it? The paper writes that the larynges came from animals that were deceased due to illness:

The larynges were harvested from animals that had to be euthanised due to terminal disease unrelated to the respiratory tract in veterinary clinics in Vienna, Austria. The animals’ owners gave their explicit consent for the larynges to be investigated postmortem.

This seems quite different from Musk’s Neuralink to me but I might be missing something.
If the cost of owning and operating a car included paying for externalities like CO2 emissions it would already be unaffordable to the middle class. Internalizing those costs is only fair.
So Pythagoras also invented time travel??
>If you listen to BitTorrent's DHT network, you'll build an index of everything shared on BitTorrent (over time),

Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I understand, passively listening on DHT would only mean you build up a list of infohashes of everything shared on BitTorrent. You'd actually have to reach out to your DHT peers to know what files the infohashes actually represents.

Wrapping back to grandparent's question of

>Also what happens if illegal content gets scooped up into the index?

I think this could get dicey if someone announces something very illegal like CP, and your crawler starts asking every peer that announced the infohash about it's contents with this[0] protocol. This would put your IP into a pretty awful exclusive club of

A, other crawlers

B, actual people wanting downloading said CP

[0]: https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009.html
My experience with climate change fearmongering. 'Most ever' turns out to be 'the last few decades'. Lets see shall we?

Headline: "September Was the Most Anomalously Hot Month Ever"

In the article: "September was the most anomalously warm month ever recorded."

So september was the most anomalously hot month ever 'recorded'? So what? The last 50 years? 100 years? Which isn't saying a lot. They always misrepresent and lie and fearmonger. But why?

Since the 90s, 'global warming' ( now climate change ) was supposed to have ended the earth and humanity a dozen times already. Yet we are all still here. Just like the same peak oil nonsense. Remember when oil was supposed to run out and civilization was supposed to collapse?
Kerbal Space Program. The original is more refined at this point, the second one will eventually have better tutorials, but if you watch Scott Manley videos you'll have the basics in no time. Then there's Dover Press with Fundamentals of Astrodynamics.
Fun for everyone.
Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive
“Why would architects let themselves be so vitiated?”
Yes. As pointed out to me above, this was actually the result of a consultation; so they've already met and worked together to come to this conclusion - possibly the fine is a symbol of "we're serious and have the right to fine", but just puts a stamp on the relationship they have now on how to go forward. It's also a message to the industry about what expectations will be in the future.

Companies do have a choice in many cases, so being super aggro against them isn't really beneficial. If they can be reined in by threats+negotiation, while still doing business here (within our oversight) it seems ideal.
While discussing code review, howabout shooting whoever wrote that comment.

Why is there an assert? Python case a cast function if you really wanted to force the typechecker to see a_thing as Thing but (and I'm sure this is the point you are making) you are likely hiding a prolem.
AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation
My point is space is not the issue (Monaco is smaller), policy is.
It's not your site, it's my document on my hard drive.
Apparently the post is from 2006. I wonder if this contraption is still street-legal.
Linode/Akamai pauses managed database product offering
Via an email I received a couple of hours ago, in the form of a new support ticket on my account. No article on the blog yet (https://www.linode.com/blog/).

Hello,

We hope this message finds you well. First and foremost, we want to extend our gratitude for your continued support and trust in Akamai and the services we offer. We highly value your business and the opportunity to serve all of your cloud computing needs.

As part of our ongoing commitment to innovation and better serving our customers, we have made the strategic decision to pause the sale of our Managed Database offering for all customers who do not have an active database deployed.

*Why are we doing this?*

This decision comes after extensive evaluation of our existing Managed Database product and is driven by a desire to focus on performance, reliability, and scalability. While Managed Databases have served our customers well, we recognize the need for a product that offers higher performance and the capacity to handle more complex workloads. By pausing the sale of Managed Databases for new customers, we’ll be able to focus on supporting your existing workloads while we build a new database solution that meets the high standards Akamai customers should expect.

*What does this mean for you?*

Since you either have an active database deployed on this account currently or had one deployed within the past few weeks, *this change will NOT impact your ability to use Managed Databases*. You will continue to be able to deploy, provision, and manage the service exactly as you do today, and we’ll fully support your Managed Database workloads until our next-generation database solution is available. Your trust is important to us and therefore, we wanted to notify you directly about why we’re making this change.

Our team is actively working on a next-generation database solution designed to meet our customer’s evolving needs, and we are confident that our new product will offer enhanced features, improved performance, and more efficient resource utilization. We will share additional news and an ETA on this enhanced product as soon as it becomes available, and we will be offering migration support programs once we are ready to switch over.

Thank you again for your support and understanding. We look forward to sharing more details in the coming months, and we are here to answer any questions you might have.

–
Akamai
I find this to be true until you deal with parallel programming and distributed programming where the physical world can impose itself :)
From the looks of it it's just oscillation caused by breathing in certain ways, so yes, part of the autonomic nervous system, rather than something the cat chooses to do.

The wording makes it sound like this is not all purring though, so there may be other ways cats can conciously choose to purr.
We have so many bad cases of people mislabelling themselves like chiropractors that call themselves doctors. This doesn’t seem like the biggest “problem” to worry about. Next you’ll be complaining about people who call themselves “sanitation engineers”. I think you can call a job whatever you want as long as it’s not deceptive. Any current conventions are arbitrary anyway and have nothing to do with the original meaning of the word “engineer”. And millions of people already use “software engineer” so it’s a well established term.
Weed smokers ruins it as much or more?
When I lived in Hong Kong long ago, IIRC there was an approximately 400% sales tax on new car sales.