skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and you can also talk about specific nutrient needs, and really the obesity epidemic is also a part of the battle to feed humanity.

But Ehrlich wasn't talking about any of that. He was specifically saying there was no way we could produce enough food to feed the population of the world in the 1970s, and we'd have to drastically curtail population to survive.

"The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970's the world will undergo famines—hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate, although many lives could be saved through dramatic programs to "stretch" the carrying capacity of the earth by increasing food production. But these programs will only provide a stay of execution unless they are accompanied by determined and successful efforts at population control. Population control is the conscious regulation of the numbers of human beings to meet the needs, not just of individual families, but of society as a whole."
Well, we evolved to live in the warm African climate, not the Northern hemisphere, so you may or may not be shivering in the winter. Also, they did have fire, clothing and shelter.

I think the evidence suggest hunter/gatherers lived longer than civilized people prior to modern medicine and sanitary practices, had more exercise, ate better, and didn't catch the same diseases (domesticated animals were a big source of disease).

That's not saying it's preferable. I have no way of knowing, having grown up with all the advantages of modern life. I do notice the large amount of overweight people, the preponderance of mental illness, and the various complaints about abuses from governments and corporations, the environmental impact of 7.x billion people, and the large number still living in abject poverty. Also the history of institutional slavery, war and genocide. So it's not all roses.

If I were forced to pick between medieval life in London or hunter/gather, I would pick the latter, unless I was nobility.
Also, there is a CLA: https://gist.github.com/WallarooLabsTeam/e06d4fed709e0e7035f...

Glad to see Pony adoption, disappointed in this "open source" project. Free Software or nothing, please.
I don't know, I can never process numbers this big.

"To understand how sensitive the LIGO is, imagine each arm stretched out as far as the sun. Even if we had the resources to build an object this big, we still would not be able to get people to understand this intuitively at all."
It's correct in the long long term. Population rates have stabilized because of birth control (in the first world anyway.) But in a few generations, people that are allergic to birth control, or genetically want large families or whatever, will dominate the population and growth will continue.

There are some religious groups that calculate if they can get each of their members to have 8 children, they will become the majority of the population in like 2 generations. Fortunately even the best groups only manage like 3 or 4 per couple on average. But that only pushes it out a few more generations. And the groups that are the best at keeping their members from leaving, and the members that are the most loyal, will naturally be selected for.
Another filter: language. Many people don't speak English. Maybe you can automatically detect the language and add to your list of languages as you go?
I thought for sure the reason would be China's crackdown on crypto.
>I'd like to see Apple re-focus, make single models of .. MacBook, iMac

Apple made multiple models of iMacs and MacBooks (and PowerBooks) under Jobs - I think this would be a horrible idea, for computers specifically you just can’t address everyones needs with one size of laptop/desktop screen.
I don't want to trigger any bot detection by voting all your comments up in a short amount of time. So, I will say thank you and mention that is is contributions from people like you that keep me coming back.
I thought this was good, unfortunate to see it flagged.
"Turn off suggestions (stop sending keystrokes to Bing)"

It's right there under where you were typing

Nothing to see here folks
>The FAA does, however, exercise very strict oversight in other areas...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Peter Thiel tried to point this out to Eric Schmidt a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q26XIKtwXQ
This sounds like a rant by Tommy Saxondale.
Is it possible for the Govt to make money without my taxes?
As a Norfolk resident and previous DoD contractor with the Navy, I can confirm basically every thing in this article. The repair yards and new build yards I've been to all across the eastern coast are in despicable condition. The Navy has bigger eyes than stomach.
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You are right that information is a little bured right now. You'd have to look at the code.

At the moment, core stream processing and state management are 100% free.

The forthcoming exactly-once and autoscaling features (they mostly exist, just not general release yet) are enterprise features.

There are build time options to decide what features get compiled in.

I hope that helps a little. We will be improving the information around that over the coming weeks. There are some issues around how installation etc should work, what are the defaults and we punted on those. Our assumption for punting on those is that it's unlikely anyone is going to want to put Wallaroo into production during the next month or so and that if they do, they could contact us to get more information.

It's not the best answer but we decided to invest time in other bits of polish while we figure that out.
Then you're free not to use this project.
Reading that and your FAQ for that post led to quite some amusing sites. My favorite so far is this: https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages/20170914-dnssec-name-an...
I think the point is that the answer is YES to both questions.

There's enough food to be able to feed everyone, but people still die of starvation, because it's not well distributed.

The other question links to http://dopeoplestilldieofstarvation.com/
Naturally, the american tax payer still foots the bill via subsidies.
It's not the opposite question though. There can be enough for everyone, but not properly distributed so that people die of starvation.
Specifically if you want to operate HF phone or in digital modes (CW is allowed in >15m band for techs along with some limited hf phone and digital modes in 10m). Also you can operate marine SSB (which is hf phone) outside of a HAM general license as long as you operate on designated marine SSB channels.
Being a Ham radio operator sounds kind of romantic on paper, but then you try it and realize that 90% of the other operators are curmudgeonly old Trump supporter types. Not really any fun chances for discourse when the person on the other side is pining for the return of Jim Crow laws
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I've been wondering. Is it possible to build a logic circuit out of a radio frequency? If so, it would be possible to build a computer out from it.
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- Free — one ad related to the combined list of tabs (stackoverflow / programming blogs links => tech job offers).

- 1€$/mo (billed annually because banking fees) to remove those ads.

Ads are a necessary evil when the average person considers that software has no cost.
Unfortunately, the development of agriculture and civilization are usually conflated to mean the same thing: people predominantly contrast pre-agricultural, pre-civilization peoples against agricultural, civilized peoples. This causes confusions when people cite instances of agricultural, non-civilized peoples to support claims on one side or the other (I'm unaware of any examples of non-agricultural, civilized states; the closest examples I can think of are still nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoralists, which is still agricultural even if the reliance is on domesticated animals instead of plants).

Also unfortunately, it's hard to know which to prescribe the "problems" and the "benefits" of the agricultural and civilization complex to, agriculture or civilization. The existence of things like specialization and war are hard to find unambiguous evidence for in archaeology (it can sometimes be hard to remember that there are multiple plausible explanations for a find, and picking a certain interpretation may more reflect an archaeologist's biases than the actual truth), and so figuring out when in the course of human development they first appear is difficult if not impossible. I'm generally of the opinion that most of the problems postdate the development of agriculture, but I hold that position less because there's strong evidence for it, but because there's no strong evidence either way and I find it more useful to get other people to consider multiple interpretations of the matter.
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No - what Apple will do is evolve the iPhone camera(s) and computational photography, over and over every year, pushing it further and further until most of the needs for a mirrorless camera are gone.

Rather than disrupt the high end consumer camera market with a camera in 2 years, they’ll do it with iPhone in 5 or 10 years.
Uber has good karma. The writer of this article clearly had no post traction experience.

They have an investment thesis that isn't playing out as planned due to regional push back. Economics.

However, Kalanick should never have written a public apology as that gave journalists and their SJW counterparts grounds to stand on.
You have to register to watch the recordings, unfortunately.

Edit: And even then, they aren't yet available. October 6 is the guarantee. I regret posting this.
How does https://whosmentoring.com compare? Albeit hosted in SG so may have more latency.
Are you assuming that the collective brain trust of that growing population will fail to innovate ways to feed themselves?
I made these tech flash cards for a group of elementary school kids. I downloaded the questions and processed them with a small python program that generated latex (I can provide the source code if anyone needs it)... They're at http://www.employees.org/~stannous/tech.pdf

The first test is not hard... a couple of 9 year old kids passed it after studying a little.
Right.. now going back to the India/US comparison, its pretty fair to say 99% of people in India will not immigrate to the US. So the hypothetical value of saving lots of money in the US to spend in India doesn't really apply. The SF/NYC analogy does not hold exactly to US/India.
Nice! Is Scala supported too?
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There is one very important unstated assumption in all of this: Who defines what is considered credentials?

Let's forget about the Google example for a moment, as it's not really that great an analogy.

When someone steals your SSN, say, what they have stolen is just your SSN. There is nothing about an SSN that makes it inherently a credential, it's just a unique number signifying you. The only thing that then makes it a de-facto credential is the decision of a bank, say. The bank decides that they will take someone telling them your SSN as proof of your identity, and that is how it becomes a credential. If the bank does not decide to accept knowledge of your SSN as proof of your identity, then there is absolutely no problem with someone stealing your SSN, because then it's not a credential.

This unilateral decision on the part of the bank is what the "identity theft victim" is the victim of. The bank might just as well decide that knowing your first name proves your identity, thus supposedly making your name a credential.
We are no longer in the middle ages. The most effective method for teaching/learning is to hand out the lecture notes before the lecture, preferably at the beginning of term. That way students can study up on the content before hand and arrive ready to absorb and discuss.

In my experience most profs (not all) would abhor this approach because their strategy is to come in, fill the boards with notes fast enough that students have trouble taking the notes down never mind thinking about them. At lecture end the prof asks "are there any questions" knowing full well everyone is still confused and he gets through yet another lecture with minimum effort.
So, Wallaroo is a source-available project. There IS a term for this sort of license, and it isn't "open source."
The military isn't giving up seats on military flights to members of Congress today because they need the space for vital supplies and personnel, which is one measure of how hard it is to get into PR right now.
To get a good dental degree with masters in india without govt scholarship? It costs atleast 200-250 k USD . It is misconception that education is cheap here
You can definitely do that. You just have to pay them 20x more money and give them 50x more time and give them absolutely all the tools they need. Best possible hardware. Best possible software. Fastest possible internet connections. etc.

Show me an employer willing to do that and I will immediately sign up.

Most companies want to do the exact opposite. Spend the least amount possible, because, you know, the budget is tight and the business side wants all these features ready yesterday, nay, last week.
Yahoo! gets code improvements back and, by being the originals and having the most experts familiar with the entire code base - and it is huge, they retain their competitive advantage. They also do this while fostering good will and, potentially, reducing the number of bugs, improving security, and increasing efficiency.

It's brilliant, in a way. There are risks, but they are small and mitigated. They may even end up selling support and customizations, or enabling that market. The upside potentials are many and the downsides are few and only risk small impacts.

Hell, you can get RedHat for the low cost of nothing, just by signing up for it. On top of that, they will give you every single last line of code you want. They'll give you all of the code, and do it for free.

Yet, they are a successful for-profit company. They don't even accept financial donations, as far as I know. They aren't the wealthiest company, but they are doing quite well and not suffering financially.

Open source doesn't mean no profit. It just means additional rights for the source code and/or user. (Different licenses prioritize different liberties and have different goals.)
Here I thought it might be a good overview on corporate strategy and how things went wrong at Uber. But I open this only to read about Uber's bad "karma" is biting them. The problem is a similar article could be written for say Snapchat too but then they are doing moderately fine hence nothing to learn from them, at least for now.
Might this be a reason why accounting firms shouldn't be offering Cybersecurity consulting?

https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/risk/solutions/cyb...

Background: I've noticed a trend where traditional accounting firms are advertise "cybersecurity" consulting expertise and services. It is concerning. Most often they are accountants who have moved into a Cybersecurity consulting role.

I had a client a few months ago ask me to sit along with them to deal with a cyber security consultant that was being pushed on them. He didn't know up from down.

Should someone get accounting advice from a non-accountant?
Well that's an error. Fixed.

Comparable cannibalism rates have been observed in other mammals. Do you assume humans are exempt of it? If so why?

Cannibalism makes a lot of sense, in hunter gatherer societies. After all one source of protein that is always present in human group is human.

Did you see the video I linked? There are links in the description.

Cannibalism is usually a taboo in modern western societies. Instance of ritualistic cannibalism mentioned in video was in 1960 in Oceania.
> They outright say BSD is not copyleft

Do you think this contradicts something I wrote above? Are you intentionally trying to use misdirection here? No one would dispute that BSD is a non-copyleft license. You're using a really underhanded style of argumentation, where you make some statement X that is controversial and untrue, and when pressed about X, defend some obviously true statement Y. This can come off looking like a "win" for you, but only if nobody is paying attention.

> Anyway, all I was trying to say is

This is the written word, so it's easy to see what you said--and it's easy to see if you're attempting to rewrite it, too. Here's what you did say (and consequently, what you should be defending, not whether or not BSD is not a copyleft license):

> they are actively campaigning for any developer considering BSD to use GPL instead[1]. Basically, anything that is not 100% copyleft is considered non-Free by GNU and FSF.

> If you are intent on calling me a liar for that, so be it, though you should know that ad hominem attacks are not welcome here.

I know what's permissable, thanks. And Person B making some claim that Person A lied is not an example of ad hominem, by the way. This form of misdirection is something else that only works if no one is paying attention.

EDIT:

> [Not copyleft] means it is not Free Software by the FSF definition

Sorry, you're not going to be able to get away with saying so many untrue things—especially when they are verifiably[1][2] untrue. It is not the position of the FSF (or GNU or RMS or...) that licenses must be copyleft to be considered free. Stop propagating falsehoods. Please spend 15 minutes reviewing the actual positions of the people you're trying to comment on. Otherwise, what's the point of saying anything at all?

1. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#OriginalBS...

2. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#ModifiedBS...
The original Commander Keen was the first PC game I ever played, and it will forever hold a very special place in my heart.
Drug testing of pilots is regulatory capture now?

Is there anything left that an HN commenter won't describe as regulatory capture or rent-seeking?
> There have just been too many incidents of people with e.g. sexual assault on their rap sheets turning up working in shelters where there are all manner of vulnerable people.

No chance such a person might be trying to help others as a sort of payback to society for his past transgressions, I guess. Or might have such a record because some girl at his school had a morning-after regret and now he has a record that prevents him from doing almost anything else with his time other than volunteer.
This description of the device I gave in the previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14659236 is probably most accurate: "RF-powered cordless phone".

I'm not even sure if multiple of these devices could be used simultaneously like traditional cellphones, which change frequencies/channels as they move between cells and to avoid collisions with other mobiles. Judging by their description, it works on a fixed frequency and the "phone" itself has basically no active circuitry, being nothing more than an analog audio-to-RF modulator.
Forget about COBRA, it's never affordable. Buy health insurance yourself. If you leave your corporate job, that'll be a "qualifying" life event, although that's not too important since open enrollment is coming up in November.

Don't expect anything comparable to your employer's plan though. I pay about $300 a month for an HMO in California, and the deductible is $10k. It's basically catastrophic coverage.
Whether and how closures generate cycles, and consequently the best implementation strategy, depends heavily on the language, though. You might have a strictly nested call stack or thunks and continuations; shared mutable environments or immutable copies and moves; copyable environments or linear/affine closure types; boxed closures that can be stored in data structures or unboxed closures that can’t always; first-class or second-class closures; a GC to rely on or none; &c.
It also works quite well to read the article through Lynx.
Some time about there was a discussion that the wiki you linked isn't really updated anymore.

I'm also skeptical if .dev will ever be open to registration.
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> google.com is complicated because there are some subdomains that would need carve-outs, which are not yet supported by all browsers.

What other than http://clients1.google.com/generate_204 needs that?

(And yeah, that should always have been on a separate domain entirely, but, hindsight.)
> the iceberg spanned 580 square kilometers (approximately 103 square miles)

That doesn't sound right. Isn't 103 square miles about 266 square kilometers?
Me too! It taught me that life is strange, terrifying, inexplicable, and buggy. But that's okay; you can cheese the rules so long as you have your pogo stick.

I was considering trying to make a power-assisted one for commuting and cosplaying, but we don't have good enough full-body airbags yet.
I sit in class and watch the people around me. Today the person on my left was txting on their phone under the table. The person on my right was getting txts on her screen every minute or so (which she read). One of the three people in front of me was writing on gmail, the other two were surfing the web unrelated to class. In front of them was a woman using a large iPad to take notes (I think).

It seems that network addiction is alive and well. About 50% of students walking between classes are looking at their phones. Phones should have a collision alert function built-in. I am tempted to carry an air-horn to alert a student who is about to crash into me.

Fortunately, there is progress. It used to be that you had to tell students to turn off their sound before starting class. Now I never see a class interrupted by a ringing phone. Of course, I rarely see a student using the voice feature of their 'phone'.

One prof asked students who use laptops to sit in the back of class so they do not distract other students.

As for the comment that "not use technology is holding them back for no valid reason"... well, if you're actually paying attention it seems that every sentence the professor utters is relevant to the message. At $50k per year, you'd think that it would be useful to give your undivided attention... but I don't think most students are capable of that anymore. 80 minutes of class without world-contact seems to be impossible.
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Cool heatmap for cryptocurrencies. I always wonder why don't most exchanges offer this.

That said, this reinforces one thought process - most if not all coins, for whatever innovation they are doing move in tandem with bitcoin. BTC is down? Most will go down. BTC is up? Most will go up too.
Core technology is usually built on older technology (C, C++) to avoid platform risk. The flashy product stuff is built on the latest bits for execution speed. The best C++ architects/leads are in their 60s and the best React Native architects/leads are in their 20s or 30s.
https://hamstudy.org is really nice