skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the Sahara and Kalahari, Africa will be desperately overpopulated long before it matches Europe or China for total density. There's simply a vast and growing uninhabitable fraction of land in Africa.

Increasing population pressure is actually already causing desertification that make it worse.
Does it play OK like that? I vaguely remember it dropped frames or the sync was out or something that made me go 'ugh'.
Unfortunately, Antartica is very boring thanks to a few kilometers of ice sheet on top of it.
You seem to be missing the point that you continually bringing it up does not make it accurate or even relevant. You wouldn't download a car! This is a dumb argument.
FWIW, sometimes when I forget my wallet at the corner store, the clerk will just let me take the stick of gum because he knows I'm good for it later.

There's a lot of reasons that analogies between mom and pop face-to-face businesses and massively-middleman'd intermediary transactions break down; this is just one of them.
For generations the people of Eastern Europe would use Pine forests to treat TB and other ailments of the respiratory system. I suppose the menthol affect of the Pine would help heal the patient. I know when I have gone camping and setup in a Pine Forrest I feel extremely refreshed.

Mother Nature is full of surprises. Great Article....
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How are those things related at all in the context?
Maybe you would elaborate this?

I would rather say that the population growth that is only taking place outside of western democracies (with some minor exemptions), is the main reason behind the loss in living quality, as the explosion of the world wide population living below acceptable western standards puts the pressure on the wages all over the globe.

Being it through imported goods made in a country with much lower wage standards, or through stagnating wages of low skilled jobs due to immigration (please note that I just state that somebody new in some society is most of the time in more difficult position and is more willing to accept an offer considered not acceptable for longer time residents).

I understand that many societies value highly a human life but as irony had made the human life less valuable around the globe though this worldview.
> Many of the stations are very deep - the equivalent of a 15 storey building

I find that incredibly hard to believe. Assuming 4 meters per storey, you are saying that the London underground stations are at a depth of 60 meters.

If true, that's really amazing.
I have HBO Go now for a while next to my Netflix account (that I have longer). Man I hate that app.
I want a smart scale. I've considered bluetooth but would prefer wifi, just waiting to catch a deal on one. Seeing my daily weight charted over a year gets my analytic side giddy, but my frugality has so far beat it back.
I have had the same experience with my car. Car manufacturers are far better at the car/dash experience than phones, however the phones have been catching up. Apps like Waze are hard to ignore. What would be ideal is a high quality integration between the two worlds, or at least the ability to use the phone's touchscreen as an extended mirroring display of one's phone if you choose as a universal standard.
I've made that argument myself, but agree that the current video streaming situation is just dumb. Could you explain me why that analogy is wrong? I understand there is no damage done as in, they don't have less money than they had before, but they still have less money than they would have if i bought/rented the video.
Devils Advocate: The alternative of "not consuming" digital products is less valuable to creators than "consuming for free."

Allow me to reference a very famous Bill Gates quote on Chinese piracy of software:

"And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

There are more ways to monetize a media property than pay-per-view so to speak. Merchandising is a big one, not to mention word of mouth marketing.
> We really, really tried to do it the legal way and pay money for the content we wanted to watch, but it was far too complicated to even find a place to watch it, let alone actually successfully watch it.

Why didn't you just stream Amazon or Play Movies from the computer since you plugged it in anyways? How was stealing it more convenient?
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Travelling 1000mph is about mach 1.3. Hypersonic is mach 5 to perhaps mach 15, if our space launch research goes well. The target has to travel less than about 5 mm in that time. A foot would schmear the light too far.

[Edit] OK, I've done a bit of calculating, and I think you're right. The laser pulse could be a maximum of about 175 meters long.
> would be able to knock out a target’s nuclear capabilities fast enough and thoroughly enough to pre-empt any attempt at a retaliatory strike.

Did the author completely forget about nuclear subs?
Seems to have no OLE support, so pretty authentic in my book, as that only came later. Surprised the ancient computer isn't dying under the strain of so many visits.
It's possible to speak to the phone using the buttons of the car. Specifically pressing the dial or command button. If your car has bluetooth phone audio, or bluetooth "music" audio connection it becomes a lot more possible.
> What kind of interface would you have?

The best interface is no interface. In a perfect world, we wouldn't need to request anything from machines. Things would get done before we realize they need to be. This is what we should aim for.

One way to do that is to get machines to learn what we want and why. I'm surprised there isn't some kind of repository where I can store all my specifications and preferences, for example. When I shop online, I don't want to see women clothes, I don't want to see extra large clothes, I don't want to see pink hardware, I don't want to see a book written in German, I don't want to see things that don't ship to Canada, I don't want to see snacks with peanuts (if I'm allergic to them), I don't want to see accessories for products I don't own (or plan to own), I don't want to see shoes made by kids in Bangladesh, etc.

I'm expecting the interface to guess what I want, and present an option to me. If the system guesses correctly, perfect. If the system guesses wrong, that's an opportunity for it to learn from you. You tell the system why an option is not adequate (i.e., "I don't like the color") by pointing at it ("it" being the part of the UI that communicated this feature you don't like to you), and the process continues. Basically, you're only reacting to being presented a version of the world that you disagree with.

A lot of what we use software for, is not triggered by some random inner desire. When I look for a way to get to destination X, it's usually because this destination has been recommended to me (likely through the system). I should not have to launch Google Maps or Uber and input my destination. It should be the other way around, the destination should trigger the search for a solution.

Basically, any trigger that would cause me make a request to the system, should be directly interactive so that it's done in one step. If I see some interesting sculpture, I should be able to directly get information about it. If I see a product I would like to acquire, I should be able to do it directly. If I see a full trash can, I should be able to notify the janitor/city instantly. If I hear a song, I should be able to capture it and identify it instantly. If my door is locked, I should be able to unlock it directly. If the volume is too light, I should be able to adjust it directly.

I'm sure this is confusing and hand wavy.
The reason the comparison is objectionable is because 'theft' is not the same as 'failing to pay a fee'. Theft implies a non-duplicatable object has passed from the possession of one entity to the possession of another thus depriving the first entity of any use or advantage from it.

While we might disagree on the moral shading of copyright infringement can we agree that piracy and theft are different things?
Why does Siri seem so dumb?
We're growing brains outside of the body
The snake game music when you click to defrag... Felt young and old at the same time.
This kind of piracy existed before. Remember sharing music CDs with friends? Remember libraries over buying books? Remember letting your friends borrow your comics or reading photocopies?
Parent said "UX" not "UI" problem. UX broadly encompasses all aspects of the experience, not just the UI. Sucky licensing hiccups, buffering, etc. all lead to poor UX.
Interesting article, but most graphs would be more readable if they would use log scale.
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With the chromecast extension on chrome, you can cast amazon prime just fine from your computer.
This looks really bad.
Any chance anyone has another side to the story?
Is that Hulu making the decision, or the content owners? I'm guessing they're going to keep making the wrong decisions, while the various services throw up their hands trying to deal with the insanity.
Out of curiosity, are there any Tesla owners that can chime in about their experience?

Do you use the in-built GPS, or just use your phone?

I would think if anyone has it right, it would be Tesla.
Thats not how the chain of command would actually work in a nuclear exchange. You are much more likely to go all in anyway.
I suddenly find myself wondering how successful a Game of Thrones season kickstarter would be. ;)
The embedded systems I work on are never internet connected and updated manually by trained service technicians when necessary.

Like the discussion at the top of this thread, we've really muddied up the waters when it comes to defining "embedded devices".

There are devices like mine, which are the early definition of the term (single purpose, low cost, tightly defined I/O) and then we have low cost highly compact computers, literally servers, that can be multi-purpose and are internet connected 100% of the time by design.
> If an attacker compromises any device on your network you think they'll stop there? Hell no. They're going to pivot and compromise every other vulnerable device on the network and we're already seeing "crime kits" (aka customizable malware) with built-in exploits for things like networked printers and cameras. It won't be long before they have built-in exploits for light bulbs, refrigerators, and more.

Yes, while it would certainly work on a targeted basis, it's impossible on a massive scale basis. You can't just go hack all smart lightbulbs because you can't just go hack all home networks. There's no large-scale threat here if a vulnerable lightbulb is behind a NAT, where it cannot be directly attacked. It might be a point where an attacker who broke in already could lurk, but it's not a new and trivial point of intrusion.

> Also, what about IPv6? To date, consumer routers that support IPv6 are configured by default to hand out global IPv6 addresses (as they should!) to connected devices via DHCPv6. What this means is that your IoT light bulb is going to get a globally-accessible IPv6 address.

I commented on this already: By _default_ routers need to be firewalling off incoming connections completely via v6 too, as they effectively do with v4, NAT is probably the only reason we're not still in the worm era. This is incredibly trivial for manufacturers to do, and I'm hoping the majority will do it. Seriously, it's like one iptables rule that needs to be in their config.

NAT _is_ a security tool, like it or not, if you're preventing your most vulnerable devices from being directly attacked, that's a damn good security tool. Not a perfect one by any means, but a very important one for the non-expert majority of home network operators.
Peak population isn't coming in the next few centuries. The 2008 UN data these charts are based on had mistaken data on African growth. African fertility is much higher than expected then and continues not to fall.

The later 2100s in these charts now look to add several more billion and growing, almost all in Africa. Or from Africa; migration from poorer and overcrowded countries means Europe will probably be majority African by 2100 and have several hundred million more than shown in these charts also.

The post-2008 revisions of UN projections are quite sobering about the future and sustainability of humanity. We are not on a path to sustainability. We are cratering full speed toward a potential Great Filter.
Does anyone else find this a really bad metric? This list is relatively static if princess bride is still on there. What about the top 10 by year? Most people want to see the best and latest movie not the best older movie.
It seems we have quite different ways of looking at things, so it would be futile, and honestly unnecessary, to debate on that.

> If it's important to the conversation, the commenter can point out their own past experience (which Animats did by saying "As one of the early workers on network congestion").

This is basically what I was trying to convey. By making it known via some mechanism, HN would help posters from repeatedly posting their credentials before saying something deep and insightful or unpopular. A mechanism that isn't obvious, as in a button that makes something else visible that shows something about a distinguished poster, would benefit both parties I think.
IndexedDB is actually not fixed in Safari 10: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/545ylm/psa_inde...

Hopefully they'll figure it out eventually!
> lie to you to make you comfortable

People do that all the time, and for a very good reason. Life in a society where everyone only speaks truth would be impossible (which is why, for instance, atheism is not very popular).
I got this one:
https://jammingsignal.com/commodore-wi-fi-modem/

But there is also this for far less:
https://www.cbmstuff.com/proddetail.php?prod=WiModemOLED

There is also a great place that will 3D print enclosures for either.
http://corei64.com/store/index.php

You asked! :)
> The technical problem is relatively easily fixed

except it's not. When content has to flow through umpteen layers of draconian DRM software and hardware, the chances of things going badly are very high. Will the DRM layer in your 2010 tv work with 2020 DRM "standards"? Will some 2016 proprietary DRM solution work on your 2014 OSX that you can't upgrade on your 2009 MacBook Pro?

> The licensing problem is a bigger one.

The licensing problem is the original one from where all the madness flows, but it's actually the simplest one to fix from a technical standpoint: Hollywood just has to write simpler contracts and poof, everything else fixes itself.
Loving Power BI.

Dashboards, reports, etc are a pain - but its what the clients want. They don't really care what we're doing in the background, they just want their metrics and analytics reports. Power BI has made that part of my job 100x better.
I'm a white man and my name is Lyndsy. My experiences thus far strongly suggest that success is not tied to having a male-sounding name.
Yeah, that blog post is also me :) hehe. Anyway glad to hear you find it interesting. If you want to help out ping me. There's tons of stuff on the roadmap, and currently I'm almost entirely focused on the secondary index.
The kettle in the story does do that. The user simply chose to continue to try to get it working as intended, rather than pressing the boil button on the kettle base and going on with his day.
Also if the timeline could be adjusted. Lots of things are more interesting if the first 4500 years of no data could be skipped so we could actually see the recent developments.
A society just needs to maintain its population, perhaps with little growth to edge the losses from unaccountable forces.

Growth is not needed, only thing that should be checked is that the growth does not become negative. This should not be patched by the immigration, as it will just delay the problem, not fix it.
I know this: the subject is complex and many varied and valid arguments are made on all sides.

But amazingly, folks accept whatever argument gives them free entertainment. Objections are suddenly 'irrelevant' when watching their favorite TV show is at stake.

Folks who wouldn't go in the back window of a bar to avoid the cover charge, will gladly go in the back way online to hear their favorite band. And they rely on the (pretty indirect) argument about how the source is generated to rationalize it.

Pardon me for my cynicism.
Meanwhile in the warez land everything is just 1 click away, hassle free and non-DRM encumbered.
Right, the way map updates are priced it seems best to me to update roughly once every five years or so. My habit is to try the car nav first (because there are some things about it that are more convenient, especially the next turn information on mine below the speedometer) and if it doesn't find an address or the route looks somewhat off switch to my phone.
I'm not sure I understand. Is it "I prefer movies that aren't especially good so that I don't have to listen to other people talk about them"?
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> The Facebook arrangement meets all of those requirements with the one stipulation that you forfeit the license when you enter patent litigation against Facebook for the granted patents. I don't consider suing Facebook for patents applying to React, while USING REACT, to be a serious fundamental software freedom.

Where does it say that the stipulation refers only to patents applying to React?
It "works", but it can be really flaky. I've used it to watch at least 2 movies, but at that point it feels really shitty to be jumping through so many hoops, most likely breaking some law somewhere in the process anyway, just to give someone money for something all the while they actively fight me.
Piracy and larceny are entirely different crimes. Nobody "stole" anything, in this particular situation. In order for something to be "stolen", the victim must lose something that they already had. You might try to argue that streaming services lost a sale, but they never had the sale and they make the process so arduous that they would never get the sale.

To be clear, I am not promoting piracy, it does pose ethical problems. The metaphor to stealing simply fails to illuminate any of them.
'Serverless' as currently jargoned is used to connote that the developer does not have to think about servers (or VM's or containers) directly. The 'serverless' buzzword does not mean that there are not servers somewhere doing useful work.
Yeap, at least I got a refund.
That is great news! Beyond Meat is not the only player on the block, though.

The challenges in the alt.ag. sector lie in the development of mass production technology. From the side of the market, consumers need an extra benefit (animal cruelty free products are not enough) in order to be converting. Outside of the startups, the time to maturity is hypothesized to be 5-15 years.

Tyson is a very forward looking company, very much worried about the future of protein food supply. I had the pleasure of meeting some of their folks, and at least the top level very well outlined the problems we are going to face.

Current business model in the sector is focused on high volume production with strong attrition, little regard to animal ethics (low regulations) and consolidation among manufacturers.

Just the numbers make me shudder:

* Livestock produces 18% of greenhouse emissions

* Feed animals occupy 70% of arable land on our planet.

With the classic animal protein supply chain being almost max'ed out in terms of capacity (and energy+matter conversion effiency), we have some grim perspectives here.

Disclaimer: I work in the alt tag tech startup sector.
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Version 2 of the Apple Public Source License includes the following termination clause:

12.1	Termination. This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate:

…

(c)	automatically without notice from Apple if You, at any time during the term of this License, commence an action for patent infringement against Apple; provided that Apple did not first commence an action for patent infringement against You in that instance.

Like the React patent grant, this applies to any patent suit, not just ones that allege that the covered software infringes. The Open Source Initiative considers APSLv2 an Open Source license, and the Free Software Foundation considers it a Free Software license. Note that this clause terminates your copyright license, not merely your patent license - it's significantly stronger than the React rider.

So I think the claim that it's not open source is a bit strong, even though I find this sort of language pretty repugnant.
I'm glad for Netflix original content. It's been high in quality, and I've already seen all the top 250 IMDB movies I want to see. What Netflix could do to prove its love of movies, and which would probably make good business sense, is unearth movies that have never been shown on TV, or never been digitized to DVD or even transferred to VHS. There are websites devoted to those lost treasures, and movie lovers who would bow and genuflect to Netflix if those movies were ever aired. Consider that eBay does big business selling VHS tapes to people who don't even own VHS players, but who buy and send those tapes to services that will rip them to DVD. (My latest is "We're Talkin' Serious Money" with Dennis Farina - a 6.0 IMDB rated movie I just HAD to see again.) Who else has the power to deal with rights holders who control rights to old movies not deemed worthy of a VHS or DVD release? I type this hoping that someone from Netflix understands and agrees with me. They could make it a big event, build excitement, even though those movies are not high rated. They're just unobtainable rarities, like the 1998 movie with Molly Ringwald, Twice Upon A Time, that I've wanted to see again for 15 years... Great movie, too bad you can't watch it.
I really want pypy to be the future of Python along with python3. I haven't used it in a while but the performance improvements I could get by switching from python somecode.py to pypy somecode.py were magical.

So what is the best way I can help support pypy3? Are there any easy issues I can help contribute to?
yarn's immediate acceptance by the community over npm appears to be a wholesale rejection of semver and an embrace of dependency determinism. Every dependency is locked down to the patch level with yarn. Instead of major.minor.patch, it might just as well be a single incrementing number now.
The really funny thing is that people seem to assume a la carte would be cheaper, but there's no economic reason it should be. I get 200 channels from Xfinity, and I watch about 5 of them. My neighbor also watches 5, though a different 5.

That is, I've already proven to Xfinity that I'm willing to pay my monthly cable bill for those 5 channels, so if they offer them a la carte, those 5 will cost about what my monthly cable bill costs.
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If you are taking about data center, that's 50k. Cheaper, but I doubt it add's 50k of value over the alternatives for most users.
With an IC, it makes sense to work from two different RAM ICs. I'm not an electronics engineer, however.