skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we were to lose all the CO2 in the atmosphere, we will all very quickly die. Plants require it to survive. [1]

The problem with bacteria, is that thanks to exponential growth, and an inability to control them, we can end up in deep, deep trouble. Using them in a controlled fashion that will bring us from 400ppm to 250ppm (but no lower) seems incredibly unlikely. Either they won't be able to make a big difference, or they'll bring us to a level far below habitable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth
Thanks! Most places actually give far more specific date ranges, but San Diego is so temperate just listing the months made more sense.

"Powder" I guess is not the word I should be using in places like this, but the dates are usually accurate in places that get powder at all :)
4 ways to frame control any meeting
Are you worried about a cease and desist from uber/lyft for building a "third party client" that interfaces with what is effectively a private API? There is plenty of precedent for them to send you a C&D for that, as many companies do with third party apps (e.g. Snapchat is very aggressive). Beyond that, won't it be a constant cat and mouse game of making sure your app integrates with uber/lyft?

It's very telling that you don't have an iOS app, likely because the security model prevents this kind of integration hack without jail breaking, or if you're lucky, some creative use of URL schemes.

I know you say you're "helping user churn" for uber/lyft, but those companies are certainly not obliged to agree with you and can send you a C&D at any time (I would bet on it). I can't see how you can build a viable long term business on a hack like this, where you are effectively an unauthorized third party app subject to the whims and possibly lawsuits of uber/lyft.

If you get a C&D from either Uber or Lyft, your product and business model no longer work, unless you're willing to go to court or blatantly ignore the C&D and the law by circumventing any technical measures introduced to stop third party apps.

No offense, but I'm honestly surprised YC funded a company with such a fragile basis of operation. Unless the plan is to go to court and fight any C&D, in which case I'm certainly rooting for you to set a nice precedent for third party apps.

Overall though, it's a great business idea and solid MVP. Good luck and boola boola.
This is the job of your operating system's scheduler - to divide the limited resource of your computer's CPU time among different competing tasks.

In the modern era, a program cannot take more than its fair share of CPU time - otherwise, a runaway program could easily render your computer nearly unusable. (Linux, macOS and Windows all use preemptive multitasking.)

The way to tell your operating system what you desire prioritized is, on *nix systems, 'nice'.
Animal is a sum type. It's definition is:

Animal = Cat | Dog

I personally didn't like the comparison, because inheritance is more powerful (what is not always good), and because algebraic types takes most of their usefulness by merging sums and products on the same type.
Multicore Processing: Pros, Cons, Safety and Security Ramifications
with 51%, you just give yourself the entire sum of network rewards not an arbitrary sum.
Agree. It should be called Android Enterprise and take the whole OS world by storm with Android everywhere.
Well, that's plenty for an ICO. Let's run with it. I know some PHP and can install WordPress!
I’m not sure whether this is a good description of Russian culture in general nor how to objectively evaluate such a thing, but as an American I found it very entertaining to hear a German author make the attempt at comparative cultural evaluation.

It rather reminded me of conversations with my Dutch or German friends, with whom I agreed that their cultures were more cooperative/communalistic in character. These friends would often say things like: “In Germany, a grandmother would swat you with a rolled up newspaper for taking up two seats on the bus that way.” or “Americans insist on having too many choices, one flavor of yogurt should be enough for anyone!”, and so on.
How the blockchain will prevent fights like the one ripping Uber apart
I dunno. How do you feel about the political power wielded by the wealthy? Too much? Not enough? What would it take to be too much?
awjr -- where are your associations?

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as far as i know weld is optimized for data analytics workload so far(dataframe) while tvm is optimized for tensor deep learning workloads with great cpu, gpu and other supports
That just seems silly. Not everything needs 911, and payphones aren't all that common anymore. Not to mention the missed opportunity to teach about responsible use... and the opportunity to enjoy the convenience as parents. For example, a kid calling home to let them know when a school event is over, especially if the child can leave early.
In can happen for example in Python with gevent.
Paid support for "Chrome Browser for Business" is called "CHROME ENTERPRISE SUPPORT" too. Argh.

"Enterprise Support Agreements for Chrome Google now offers phone and email support for Chrome, including help with deployment, management, configuration and more...LEARN ABOUT CHROME ENTERPRISE SUPPORT"

Also see: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6351685?hl=en
How would a therom prover like z3 handle this, out of interest? Isn't it the ideal domain for it?
The link that you provided is from May of 2016. AFAIK, Google won that case and the appeals and there are no ongoing appeals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....

Oracle really has a way of being a big swinging legal turd, I do believe they would try anything they could. It just seems like they wouldn't wait a year to get it going.
I'm sure there tired of consumers taking advantage of the unlimited storage by storing PB's of data

I don't see how this makes sense. Instead of closing the whole service they can set a limit which will probably satisfy 95% of the users who aren't using enough storage to make it unprofitable. So I assume this isn't the reason.
Being flagged as "Not suitable for all advertisers." does not mean your videos are blocked in any way. You simply do not earn money from page views from advertisers, which is perfectly reasonable if you start getting into politics.
Qt has been doing something this for a long while: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/stylesheet-syntax.html
Because data collection that is "sufficiently anonymous" _does_ respect privacy. If it's completely impossible to tie the data collected to any one particular user, how does the existence of that data compromise privacy in any way?
Separate but Equal – A Look at Officer Training in the US Navy and Merchant Marine
IDEA in zero latency mode

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/08/experimental-zero-la...
Capital gains are considered income.

In some jurisdictions they receive special tax treatment, but they are income nonetheless.

For example, for the US, they are included in the "Adjusted Gross Income" calculated on a 1040 tax form, but the amount of tax on the income due to capital gains is calculated differently than the tax on wages.

If you look at section 3 of the paper (which goes over their methodology), they explicitly talk about capital income:

http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/PSZ2017.pdf
Well I don't have eResidency card. I just want to know how long it is valid once issued.
I wonder if this is what the curmudgeons from the 70's and 80's sounded like during the web 1.0 boom of the mid-to-late 90's
The go dep tool has been worked on and promoted by some of the Go committers over the past year or so, but we don't really know if the Go Language designers with the clout to change the toolset have been sold on the idea yet, or if it will be vetoed later on. Some of them haven't said anything in support of it (or against it), so go dep is still really just of proof of concept.
Ab Initio ETL Tool
Would be interested to hear your thoughts that led you that way (not saying wrong or right, just interested)
I was recently tapped for a VP position at a bank and out of curiosity I checked it out. An initial meeting later I could see I wasn't a good fit.

I think there is a fundamental difference between myself and the people who are successful in such environments and I've been trying to figure it out. They all seem very confident, polished, with expensive clothes, but is there something deeper there involving people handling and politics that I just seem incapable of understanding or emulating?

20 years on, working mostly for startups and basically avoiding politics for the most part, I wonder if I've actually neglected a key component of my on the job learning by not exercising the soft skills more.
Yes, to academic idea that efficient litigation can be a substitute for regulation. That gets to the main issue in the linked article, which is that consumer financial contracts often require consumer to use arbitration and prohibit them from joining class actions. The issue isn't that consumers can't sue. It's that suing (or arbitrating) individual cases is inefficient. Claims never get brought because no sane person is going to waste their time going through an individual arbitration to recover a $10 or $20 claim.

It's hard to imagine any legal system where a claim to recover a $10 or $20 injury in an individual lawsuit (or arbitration) could be efficient. Such claims could be aggregated in class actions, if consumer contract terms didn't prohibit it. Class action lawyers often think of themselves as doing "social engineering"; forcing companies to pay for injuries they cause in situations where nobody is likely to bring an individual suit at all (e.g., small harms).

Class actions don't normally result in much of a recovery at all for individual consumers, both because amounts for each individual are typically quite small, and because costs of litigation and attorney fees eat up huge percentage of claims defendant corporations are forced to pay. But at least if there were threat of class actions it could scare corporations into not violating terms of consumer agreements. So even if class action suits do end up mostly enriching lawyers, they still help consumers by giving corporations a strong incentive to honor consumer agreements. Class action lawyers as "social engineers".
No results found for Osaka :(
I'm a mathematician, and haven't any idea why it is this way. I suppose there's a name for it, a reason for it, and a bunch of people with varied opinions on it.

But, it does seem true. It does seem that I'm much more exhausted after mental labor (for wont of a better term). I'm retired, today. I do all sorts of manual labor, even though I don't really need to. It doesn't really tire me out that much. Yet, the mental work is still relatively exhausting.

I have no idea why.
Use it in your mouth!
I wonder if these would do well in the wild? If so there is a huge ethical issue here.

I think a more likely possibility is that they might be like like most domesticated photosynthesizers. Loose populations would revert to more natural traits and become less useful to humans and barely struggling for survival.

Consider what happens when farm grown tomatoes or corn go wild. The vast majority die off because their fruit wastes a ton of energy becoming huge and visually appealing. Those with just enough fruit to entice animals to spread it, those that grow faster and those with the best resistances will succeed in the wild.

Can these bacteria benefit from these solar cells without the help of humans feeding them? If they could then natural selection will reinforce our decisions and we could have a real threat.

I agree the risk reward part of this needs careful analysis, I don't think we need to go straight to doom and gloom.

EDIT - Speeling, and grammar.
I find the economic promise of the nascent Internet objectively more plausible than the promises of ~1000 altcoins.
I'm well aware of that. I also know that, in general, having to schedule things slows them down. If everything I'm running is trying to schedule something on my entire machine, it is giving my OS more work. Which will, by necessity, be harder to schedule and slow things down.

I'm not necessarily against all of this, but I'm also not eagerly embracing more crap to slow down my machine for no apparent reason.
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David was working on the smart card authentication system for ChromeOS not too long ago. Glad to see this maturing.
Didnt verizon already lose a court case saying they couldnt do throttling and still call it unlimited?
> we let the neighborhood decide who has access and how access is granted.

“Neighborhoods” generally aren't legal entities that you can deal with this way. When you say “neighborhood” here, are you talking about an homeowners association (which is a very different thing than a “neighborhood”) or...what, exactly?
This is obviously Android Enterprise.

the killer feature is obviously the Play Store - does anyone know if apps like Skype for Android work properly from the play store? Including video and audio ?

What about things like Duo and Allo ?
No idea about their revenue, but Automattic (wordpress.com, etc...) might be a good candidate with 584 employees:

https://automattic.com/about/

https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
I've downgraded to a flip phone for about a year, and recently re-upgraded for Uber + Google Maps + Spotify. I've pushed the self control thing back to "what apps do I have installed".

Basically what will notify me is direct messages from Slack and text messages. That's about it. It's fantastic. I have no idea why people put up with getting poked so goddamn often.
Awesome, thanks mate :)
IanCal, sorry you feel this way. Our goal is simply to help police do their job. Today, only 13% of crime is solved due to lack of evidence. We are trying to help drive that number to 100% and eliminate crime in our neighborhoods.
Then the problem is “enforcing speed limits”.
It's actually inaccurate. People search BEFORE they go. In fact, I can tell you the busiest tourism month in Greece is August. I've been there dozens of times and June is actually a pleasant (tho cool-ish) time to visit - no crowds. And the Greeks are still working (trying to make money to spend on their August vacations - when everything shuts down). Perhaps Airline charters would be a more accurate reflection. Altho I do not know where to source that data.
I must admit I'm not familiar with the original usage of the term. Probably replace "late capitalism" with something like "unchecked capitalism" or something. I probably didn't use the correct term.
He probably uses a randomly generated password that he doesn't bother memorizing and which he copy/pastes.
One of my annoyances on consumer Chrome OS is that the built-in VPN support is tricky. There's a JSON format, ONC (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/comp...), that maps to OpenVPN options. When I last used it the documentation was a bit tricky though it may have improved, I couldn't find ONC equivalents for some of my .ovpn options, and, most frustratingly, there was very little specific feedback if you try to import a configuration that isn't right. Because of all that I wonder if it was developed so Google could support specific large customers' VPNs (think school districts or companies) and its public availability was mostly an afterthought.

If you leave the GUI, you can also run openvpn yourself on a good old .ovpn file, but you lose some of the nice security properties you get with the default Chrome OS setup, you have to do cros-specific hacks to make it work (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/2215#issuecommen... plus switching back and forth between VPN and non-VPN DNS by hand), and last I checked it made ARC (Play Store) apps' networking stop working.

I would consider paying a premium just to get my Chromebook connecting to work's VPN smoothly, though of course I'd love it if improved VPN functionality were available to everyone by default.

At some point I'm probably also going to take a second look at the latest ONC docs. It looks like they've improved since I first looked at VPN setup a while back.
An article about digital readership.... from the site that complains about my ad blocker so I can't read anything even if I turn it off.

Sigh.
A rule of thumb: a hydrogen atom is 0.1 nm in diameter.
Reminds of of the .Net naming debacle several years back from Microsoft. Wonder if any of the same folks are now at Google?
The x86-64 bit isn't bad. You get 16 registers (half named, half numbered---historical baggage) and opcodes galore (more than even the VAX architecture). The x86-32 bit is a mixed bag (8 registers, the specialized opcodes may or may not be worth using depending upon which chip you use), but it certainly helps to know the history (the 8086 and 80286) to understand why it's the way it is.

A few weeks ago I tried my hand at optimizing some code using the vector instructions. While I was able to beat clang quite easily using assembly, I just could not beat GCC. That was sobering. There's probably some 1000 page tome I have to read to understand where I messed up in optimizing.
Define "the neighborhood". I personally don't know more than three or four neighbors in my apartment complex. Who specifically is it then? I tend to believe you actually meant to type 'police precinct'.

I applaud your sense of civic duty, but having a complete panopticon of all outside activities for an unobtainable goal of 100% seems absurd.
See, that's the thing with the old tulip story. At the heart of the bubble there were a number of people who just wanted a damn tulip.
They're still common on gaming motherboards because PS/2 is interrupt based and supports more key presses at a time than USB

Not sure what they're doing on this motherboard though. Presumably the design is based off of one of ASUS's gaming motherboards
Glad to see I am not the only person who finally went full in with VSCode once it got hot exit :)
> It doesn't track who is driving in your neighbourhood, it tracks who owns the car driving in your neighbourhood. A not so subtle difference.

Actually, it tracks who is the registered owner of the license plate numbers read off the vehicles driving in your area, which is subtly different from even what you describe.
It will be especially difficult in the US where many of those services are federated across all fifty states.
This vastly differs depending on what software you write. I have done lots of necessary performance optimizations. Of course, there is a balance. To say never first optimize, is as bad as optimizing everything, in my opinion. It should require a case by case "study" of whether it is worth it. This kind of judgement comes with experience.
No. Sick of cloud assholes offering things then taking them away. Dipshit management types apologizing for their masters' craven pursuit of money. Wealth was the worst thing that ever happened to this field.

Technology shouldn't feel like indian-giving. It should be empowering, egalitarian, and eternal. Backup services promise to solve the eternality question, until one day they don't -- because PROFIT$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
I can see this becoming a form of status-signalling in years to come (if it is not already?)

Just as a sign of status for the CEO used to be the ability to disappear off to the golf course for a few hours, the new status might be the ability to be effectively inaccessible.

The rest of us will have to put up with companies deliberately manipulating "habit forming" type behaviours to push their products. [1]

[1] https://www.nirandfar.com/hooked
Book reviewer runs from technology. Surprise. Considering I have poor dental hygiene I upgraded to a base model electric toothbrush and have never been healthier. Terrible advice/article. I don't have a lot of fanciful gadgets but those I do have purpose.
That’s weird. If you’re not attached to your profile you could try resetting it (go to about:support) and see if that fixes it. Otherwise I’d file a bug.
You can do a dry run with Tarsnap to see how much it would transfer and how much it would deduplicate before ever running for Realz(tm).

Using the --dry-run flag.
That wasn't at all my intention. But nor is it unreasonable to argue that capitalism as it is practiced today cannot sustain itself indefinitely. Nothing teleological or prophetic about it.
This is really awesome. Glad I found it.
Don't worry about it, the vast majority of the code won't see light of day, there is no engineer who has to fix it for production, there is no production.

The idea is everyone writing everything the "right way" from the get-go would be premature optimization.
My only complaint (well, more like my wife's) is that it spews little pieces of toothpaste all over my mirror sometimes.
The 48th #TheRoundUp
Throw your method up on Github and help save us all.
Hmm, sorry about that. I'll look into that, but for now the nearby cities of Amagasaki and Sakai are probably very similar.

https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-amagas...

https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-sakai-...
The Book He Wasn't Supposed to Write
You misunderstand, it's what they cost extra compared to non-smokers, agelengths included.
Skype is completely broken on normal android. Not sure why you'd expect it to work anywhere else. And who are you talking with on duo a d Allo??
I don't think HN is remotely opposed to "cryptocurrency", but at the same time it's abundantly clear IMO that what's happening at this moment is a full-bore speculative mania.
Reminds me of an old tweet I made several years ago:

"The internet will do to society, what highways did to the landscape"

We see cheap fast food establishments scattered everywhere with bright signs while healthy whole food is being quietly digested by individuals and families amongst themselves after patient cooking (researching).
OK, we narrowed the scope of the title a bit.
One problem is that the correct contract to fund an ICO might even change during the ICO (as it has happened with EOS) and the current way these “businesses” are communicating these contract changes is pretty poor.

So yeah, we definitely need improved hygiene that addresses the pain points of trying to do these funding events through a blockchain.
How can they not see this as incredibly confusing? I'm constantly surprised by Google's poor naming and branding choices.
> Not all GPUs have the Z-Buffer fillrate to make that approach viable(esp on mobile). I've seen more than a few cases where it was actually faster to turn off Z-Buffering and do the overdraw. More than a few architectures share Z-Buffer bandwidth with other pipelines.

Uh, mobile GPUs tend to be way, way ahead of desktop GPUs in Z-Buffer bandwidth (especially in relative terms)

and you can't increase your tile count; there's a fixed number of tiles in the frame buffer (unless you're referring to not drawing some tiles at all - in which case set your scissor rect appropriately. oh, and if you can find out the GPU's tile size round your rectangle up to cover whole tiles)
Oh goodness, and polygamist groups. TLC has an interesting show called escaping polygamy, where a few people (formerly in groups) help others escape. They're routinely followed when they drive into places like Colorado city.

It would be so easy to track everyone in those cities. And that would really up the level of danger to those residents.
And just like I said, I'm sure all the neckbeards from the 70's and 80's felt the same way about the Internet and shit like Geocities and pets.com.

But hey, I'm sure it's "different" this time, right? You're right and everyone in the crypto space is wrong.
> the neighborhood owns the data.

You keep using the word “neighborhood” as if it referred to a legal entity with a defined authority structure that can make decisions and own property. This is generally not the case, so it is apparent that this is being used as a sloppy, PR-friendly term for something else, like maybe an HOA. What specifically do you mean when you say “neighborhood”?