skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not "Mammoth groves" if you want to meaningfully "buy time". A grove is an open tree stand a few acres wide. That's not what we're talking about. It's not adding a little bit of tree seed to unused spaces. It's inverting our footprint entirely.

It's planting the entirety of the UK, every year, indefinitely. It's employing a few million people with heavy machinery to walk from one side of the planet to the other and bulldoze every farmhouse they find, leaving behind mixed saplings at a wide spacing in the fields.

It's just way easier to decarbonize most of our society than it is to spend the land on forest carbon fixation. It's a lot of land, more land than we'd ever agree to dedicate.

And I would point out that planting trees and then sequestering that carbon periodically with charcoal production is by far the easiest way. Every other technique is ten or a hundred or a thousand times lower payoff.

If you want to slow things down, you have to mostly stop burning fossil fuels. We need to tax the hell out of them, we need to shut down new projects, we need to electrify anything feasible, we need to heavily subsidize and aggressively plan for rapidly scaling renewables. When we're at a 90% reduction in fossil fuel usage, then we can re-assess priorities because we've both "bought some time" and eliminated all the low-hanging fruit that's easier than deliberate carbon fixation projects.

More likely, we'll keep on steamrolling ahead, and something like sulfur geoengineering will be put forward as a way to stave off the worst effects for a while.
Incorrect, Facebook is flat out banned in China no matter whether they comply with CCP censorship. I'm very interested in sources to substantiate the claim that Facebook is refusing to ban groups that even the US designates as terrorists.
This isn't true -- all Aldi locations accept SNAP EBT.

https://www.aldi.us/about-us/snap-ebt-payment/
I believe the general rule is that if it is interesting... there ya go.

HN may often be technology focused, but it isn't a requirement.
The easiest way to disable this in a Chevrolet with OnStar is to pull the fuse (Fuse 38 under the dash for the Chevrolet Malibu 2024). Other options disconnecting the antenna (can still connect if strong signal), or pulling out the box/microphone (disassembly required). At least for the 2024 model CarPlay features seems to keep working, but I haven't tested Bluetooth yet.

There's somebody on YouTube describing the parts of the OnStar feature: https://youtu.be/TZILodhvjdw?feature=shared
My current plan (obviously open windows if possible, don't drive into lakes, etc.) is to use the resqme spring-loaded glass breaker (my work gives them out as branded swag at conferences, but I gave away hundreds in Iraq/Afghanistan when I worked there too) or glowrhino carbide tip I keep with me. That doesn't work very well on laminated glass (but I'm often in a rental, so I don't know which cars have/don't have it). Failing that, put some rounds into the glass and try to pry it out of the frame. Shooting a handgun in a car with closed windows (especially) is pretty disorienting, I've done it while wearing earpro but never without, but beats drowning. (I'm somewhat surprised the sheriff deputies in the Chao case didn't try this...seems very Texan solution to opening a closed thing)

The technique with laminated glass is basically to make a line of cracks/deformations to allow you to deform the entire panel and pop it out, not to make a hole to go through. Pretty hard to do with a carbide punch, but probably your best bet. Then use legs or body to push the entire window out.

Also, the smaller/accessory windows are often NOT laminated (esp on Tesla), so hitting one of those to let water in and then equalize pressure to GTFO is an option.
This has been true for several years. An insurance agent once told me that there are life insurance companies dropping the requirement for blood draws / medical exams and are just buying prescription records to correlate with financial, educational, and other behavioral data.

Edit: changed prescription “data” to “records”
And that, gentleman, is why most of my video game collection is in their little disc boxes and SD cards. I avoid digital purchases as much as I can.
> expectation on HN that all science and math should be made approachable without requisite prior knowledge

I doubt anyone expects this, but there are sharp trade offs involved. The more accessible you make a presentation, the wider the possible audience. With each year of additional technical training you expect, the total audience drops significantly; a math article targeting people whose math training only made it to an introductory calculus course can be read by perhaps 1000 times as many people as a math article with prerequisites from grad-school pure math coursework.
GPU mining went waaay down since Ethereum went POS (Proof of Stake) almost 2 years ago. Does BTC even use GPU's for mining? I am pretty sure they use ASICS.
It's galling for me once pointed out because I know that a lot of black people have totally different hair to the degree that it's a separate skill to cut that hair versus white people hair. I knew someone who would only have her sister cut her hair because none of the stylists in town could cut it without ruining the shape. They'd use the same tools and techniques as with perfectly straight hair and would destroy it. The hair is something that seems intensely personal and to have it erased and morphed so completely is really broken.
Right now we hear

Libera te ... me ...

Soon we'll hear

libera te tutemet ex inferis
It is necessary to Garry Tan's dream of disrupting the entire American society for the people to believe that everything about the economy is extremely bad.
I'm not a carpenter, but my old house was built out of redwood.

Never had a problem with it and redwood keeps most of the pests and bugs out. I think that's due to all the tannin in the wood.
And it’s not necessarily the fault of the specific person in that position but rather those who set the priorities of what that position needs to accomplish - the Board of Directors. The MBA in itself didn’t cause the failures. I don’t fault an engineer going through the hoops to check the MBA box in order to be a viable candidate for that position. I almost did the same a few years ago to do the same. My motivation wasn’t money or ego though it was because I imagined I could make a difference in our organization if I had a better hold of the reigns. I ended up not doing it and decided it was just time to move on instead. In the end it was me being a bit selfish and my motivation was simply quality of life for myself and family.
How so?

Passenger comfort IMO depends on seat width, legroom, headroom, climate control.

Secondary would be ease of luggage access, lavatory size/number, ride comfort (resistance to turbulence) and aesthetics.

Does the a321neo have better legroom and seating than say, a 737?
Trump opposes this bill so rest assured nothing will come from this.
It’s probably an issue of messaging: telling a population that someone is misusing the information, potentially militarily, is an easier pill to swallow than telling them they are susceptible to algorithmic manipulation by a foreign adversary. And do they even want to open the can of worms about their susceptibility to domestic manipulation?
From an admittedly brief look (while interesting it has no direct immediate relevance to me), I can't tell if this applies universally regardless of scale, or if there is any sort of gradient. Does anyone know? Some of it seems reasonable period at any scale, but some of it would be worrisome or strike me as unreasonable/negative if it applied to individuals as opposed to larger network where emergent effects happen. To take a personal example, I selfhost Blue Iris and am using some AI recognition in my home security system, which I also use for wildlife monitoring. It's really awesome vs the old plain motion or even motion zones, and as there is zero exposure to the internet, nor even any view of public property at all (end of 1/3 mile driveway with woods). It is useful to be able to classify known (me, family, regular neighbors) vs unknown people as well. I think the societal harm potential of an isolated system like that vs the individual benefit is low, and thus I'd lean towards skepticism if that too fell under their banner of "Biometric identification and categorisation of people" or "Real-time and remote biometric identification systems, such as facial recognition".

But of course in a public setting, and/or networked with lots of others with enough scale to start effectively following people through space and time not just capturing one private slice, the metrics all change. So as I watch various AI efforts I'm always thinking about how they address that (or not). I don't think "profit" is even the deciding thing here, something can not be commercial but still potentially a problem at enough scale.
Plot Twist: Uncle Steve works second shift, so 4:25 his time is the perfect time to call him.
"That year, he published a memoir which reportedly took him eight years to write using a plastic stick to type on a keyboard and dictating to a friend."

Talk about determination
And it turns out that that's irrelevant in terms of net benefit to the citizen of a country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage

Resources are reallocated elsewhere
Poor people have less time, and also worse access to good educations. Stupidity is not required.
“Sometimes the value is the amount you can buy”
Sure, but on a systemic level we can still see the issue, i.e. that being poor is expensive.
Name, age, location, politics, device, amount of time spent, interests, etc.

The easiest actionable thing would be propoganda of some sort, but there's a chance of a lot of smart people working on something that I can't imagine. I'm not saying this happening, but looking at Youtube and Meta, it's not hard to imagine.
What is being mined using CUDA?
We absolutely restricted distribution of state-controlled news.

We didn’t block it. Same as, even if ByteDance refuses to divest, this bill wouldn’t block TikTok from being accessed on the web. It’s just taking it out of American app stores and off American hosting services.
There might be more people thinking like you than other way around... in America. But I bet in Europe it's the opposite: More people can't stand iOS compared to Android. (I'm one of those.)
I don't want to abolish time zones. But I would like them to be more standardized.

I don't know who else has looked at a time zone map, but it is a clusterfuck. And that's putting it mildly.

In so many places, you can tell the time zones are set politically, not geographically. Which goes against the entire philosophy of time zones. I should not be able to drive due north/south and change time zones.

I'm not surprised that certain regions in China use a local time as opposed to their "official" time zone.

I also think that's a lot of the reason behind the resistance to standard time year round. Some people live in areas that are geographically in the wrong time zone, so their solar time is already fucked.
Is there any hope for something like a Privacy Bill of Rights to ever be passed? I feel like privacy is an inalienable right for all humans and the passage of something like this would be a light speed jump ahead for personal freedom in the new era we find ourselves in. Just because tech enables it doesn’t make this any creepier than someone following behind you in the woods stalking you on your horse 200 years ago.
Sure beats VisiCalc and Lotus123
No, we shouldn't. Be we also shouldn't be schmucks that give market access that isn't reciprocated. Most free trade agreements work on reciprocity. We agree not to put tariffs on country X's cars because they agree not to put tariffs on ours. A ban is essentially an infinite tariff. If that's how a foreign country is going to treat American companies, why not respond in kind?
For Loops and More in Go
Why link to the twitter post and not the article linked from within it?

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/sima-generalist-ai-age...
It's an election year. Intelligence can include things like your political affiliation and level of engagement, and can be (ab)used by targeting specific areas/demographics with supportive/decisive content. Think Theil's Palantir, but controlled by a foreign government.
>A lookup table for what? If everyone is living on the same time, what exactly are you looking up?

In the context of the webpage where that is quoted, it means looking up the typical activity for the time in that location. By avoiding the look up of time zones, you haven't really reduced complexity and only shifted it somewhere else because now you're looking up relevant "activity" windows for that location.

You always have 2 components of a key-value dictionary in either system. (1) the "fixed" a familiar knowledge you have as a "key" and then (2) the lookup "value"

- Timezones system: (1) fixed knowledge key is "I know people are awake doing school & business between ~8am to ~5pm and sleep ~9pm to ~6am" for entire globe --> (2) now lookup what timezone they're in : e.g. "California TZ is UTC-07:00"

- no timezones : (1) I know the entire globe is on identical time --> (2) now lookup what numerical values correspond to "awake vs sleep time" in that part of the globe : e.g. "California school/business hours are ~3pm-12am UTC"
I turned it off as an experiment ~10 years ago and haven't needed it since. Like the author, it was jarring at first, but then I grew to prefer it.

I still highlight trailing spaces in bright red, but otherwise it's (nearly) white text on a black background.
How does the author generates those passwords in a safe way?

Problems:

Experimenting with babies and many other urls could make people laugh, at best, or frown.

If dishonest admins log passwords before hashing them, they could iterate the query string over its domain and check if it works in some other popular site.
The point where we admit that HN is the patient.

A longtime HN commenter just switched to iOS? Seriously?
These are the best I've found (for compact, functional): https://resqme.com/

The problem with the hammer style is you might be injured or pinned in a position where you can't develop much force. Also hit the corner of the window, NOT the center; I've bounced a sledgehammer in class off the center of regular window glass, it's amazing.
Where is freedom of speech involved with changing the ownership of a company?
Using Fiber Optic Bundles to Miniaturize Vision-Based Tactile Sensors
Thank you for the answer! None of this is true as far as I'm aware. I'm also sure my employer would actually be pretty supportive.
Assuming that person trying to brute force your password knows that this passphrase generator exists and starts their search with all possible insult passphrases, otherwise they're searching in a much larger space
just gonna leave this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYjABzbqRbg
I think that is a slippery slope race to the bottom of morals/ideals.

Pretty soon you have "China doesn't let people say bad things about their leader, neither should we"

and

"China uses force to take things from other countries, why shouldn't we"

Your ideals and morals should be strong enough they don't change based on a bad actor.
This is a pretty dumb objection. There are many things that would need to undergo a difficult transition if one were to abolish timezones, but the google answer box is not one of them. If time zones were abolished then "time in melbourne" would say "2 hours to sunrise" and the before and after would be functionally equivalent.
Palestine is already a testing ground for small quadrocopters with rifles mounted to them. Reporters in the area have shared stories of these quadrocopters patrolling and shooting at anything that moves. It wouldn't be surprising at all to see other military robots tested there, it's a shooting gallery filled with people who can't fight back, and nobody cares about.

https://defence-blog.com/israels-army-to-get-modified-multi-...
Indigenous Australian fire-stick farming began at least 11,000 years ago
It's a bullshit argument. With time zones, in some countries it's perfectly acceptable to call at 7:30 AM, and in other countries that's way too early. How are you supposed to know? Maybe the person you're calling is an early bird, maybe they're a night owl. You want to call a business - maybe they're open on Sunday, maybe not. Who knows when an appropriate time to call is?

Easy. Without time zones, you post the hours (UTC) when you're available. You refuse to answer the phone outside those hours. UTC makes this easy!
Broadcast news and radio are limited to at most 20% foreign ownership by default [1]. Applying a similar requirement to large internet news distributors seems reasonable if they want to do business in the US (even if "banned" they could still distribute content, they'd just be restricted in making money).

[1] https://www.foster.com/newsroom-publications-The-Road-Map-Fo...
Funnily enough, this is why I prefer Chinese devices and apps as a Westerner living in the West. My threat vector is my local security apparatus coercing my data or my devices. Correspondingly, If I were living in China, I'd consider it safer to use Western tech. Meanwhile, I don't really care what China does with my stuff while I'm not in China, I just hope that China doesn't collude with my local authorities.
> This only makes sense if you think poor people are dumb or naive. They don't know how to compare prices?

I wouldn't go so far as to say "dumb or naive" as we're all susceptible to dark patterns. But the Dollar stores definitely prey on people this way. They have specially sized packages made for many products to make comparison more difficult.
The 8086/8088/80186/80188, 80286 & 80386 all required an external chip for floating point.

The 80386DX was the full 32-bit data bus version. The 80386SX was a cost reduced version with a 16-bit data bus (akin to the difference between the 8086 & 8088).

The 80486DX had an FPU; the 80486SX had a disabled or missing FPU (depending on vintage). You could pair the 80486SX with an 80487 FPU, which was just a full 80486DX in a different pinout that took over from the crippled part.

While some Intel doco did start calling them Intel386 & Intel486, they didn't drop the 80 until Pentium. Intel lost a court case trying to prevent clone makers from calling their chips '80486' or whatever because the judge ruled you can't keep your competitor from using a number.

Weitek made floating point units that paired to the 386 and 486. Some motherboards supported this, and a small amount of software did (early Autocad).

Correcting one down thread, the 486 is more than just a 386+387. There a cache, it's pipelined, and there are some changes to the ISA. 4x the transistors.
If you love Python, but envy the compiled-binary-ness of Go, you should check out Nim, and Nim bindings for Webview:

https://github.com/neroist/webview

(Obviously, Nim is not Python, but I like it. It does feel like a compiled, fast Python. And no disrespect to Pywebview, it's great, too.)
Weren't they doing this and then got pushed out by Boeing? It seems like the business of making airplanes has an incredibly high cost of entry, tons of regulation, and fairly thin margins. One incident would be all it takes to shut a newcomer down.
One passenger trip to Europe from where? It's the internet. No one knows where you live!
This reminds me of Aldi from about 25 years ago. Today, I buy most of my diet from Aldi: organic berries, grass fed beef, pasture raised chicken and eggs, etc. All are higher quality than other grocery stores, but much cheaper. I'm guessing this must be regional, which is sad.
One doesn't have to belabor the obvious unless someone asks for a cite. Stating the non-obvious/unintuitive/controversial does requires citations, or you're going to get downvoted.

Some exercises are ok to leave for the reader.
"Implied consent"

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/dui/implied-consent-law...
It doesn’t say what kind of tools they tested, and says that it “isn’t clear” how window breaking tools work on newer windows.
Seven kids at my elementary school learned algebra in sixth grade. More should get the opportunity.
Being able to reason about something as fundamental as time without assistive technologies seems pretty important to me.
Curve Walking Reveals Cognitive Decline in Elderly
> Why would you want a flat tax rate if some of the money you made is not taxable?

The flat tax rate would be much less, of course. Instead of taxing me 50% and a bunch of deductions, tax me a flat 25%. I'll take the deal, and the IRS gets to not have to read five hundred pages of crypto transactions.
If they are sponsors I'd make their status stand out.
Yep I know they used to as Lockheed. I have no idea if they’ve thought about it since then.
Not advocating. Very few companies can be overhauled in a significant way while remaining public. Boeing is a strategically important company from an economic and military perspective, so I have to imagine it will be treated as a special case.
Yeah, I was one of the people who actually bought Darkspore back when it was new, and while that game kind of sucks and I didn't really want to play it again, it did really bother me that EA decided to make it so that a single-player game can't play without phoning home, and so when they shut off the server it simply didn't work.

I understand not maintaining the multiplayer stuff, but in the case of the single-player stuff, all it would have taken is one patch to disable to always-online DRM, since they weren't going to be making money from it anymore anyway.

It's just theft. This is why I still try and buy Blu-Rays.
Notes depend on the video. I have an upcoming trip and take notes on the videos related to that (things to see, ways to get places, etc). If I’m trying to learn something I may take notes to reference, so I don’t have to go back to the video and scrub through if I forget something.

For other videos that are more for entertainment, I don’t take notes. A Tom Scott video, for example, provide some interesting information that may come up in conversation down the road, but I’m not taking notes on it. It’s ultimately entertainment.
Haha! :) Glad we got that sorted
Family Dollar aggressively lowered the number of employees in their stores leading to disorganized and dirty store locations. It isn't surprising that they are now closing these locations.
This particular one I live with constantly being in tech and living on a ranch in the US west.

I'd never call a tech friend at 8am, I might well wake them up. And I'd never call a rancher after 8 - they will be working without cell. 6-7am is ideal they will still be working, but hopefully inside cell range with a cup of coffee.
> This only makes sense if you think poor people are dumb or naive. They don't know how to compare prices?

Its pretty hard when each thing is served in a different size container and it can have different values from the most important ingredient. This is sometimes pretty easy to figure out (e.g. juices usually have the same 2-3 sizes where I live) but sometimes its practically impossible to know whats the best value for money, e.g. paper towels -- size, number of layers, number of sheets, total length etc are all the parameters that one should consider. Or bring a precision scale?
Probably, Boeing was the topic of discussion on Last Week Tonight relatively recently.

We're all experts now.
> Due to new regulation that aims to reduce the number of drivers ejected from vehicles during crashes, some manufacturers have been switching to use laminated glass for side and rear windows.

I'm surprised that getting ejected from the side or rear window is common enough to warrant such a change. There seems to be a lot of downsides - any emergency where a person (or pet) needs to be freed from a locked car quickly comes to mind.

I actually assumed that the laminated glass in the Tesla story was a security feature.