skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case "drive" is short for "driver current," how much current is being used to direct the voltage in a particular way. For instance, in classic RTL you have fairly big resistors between power and all your outputs driving them weakly up. But you have NFET transistors that may or may not strongly drive your outputs down. So you've always got a 'H' leading into the outputs but sometimes also a '0'.
Only the elite should have access to meat in order to stop climate change, the rest will have to do with soybased fake meat substitutes. It's healthier too!
Battery life is an even bigger issue. I don't want to see ads, but I also don't want my phone or laptop's battery being drained so the site owner can get a few fractions of a penny.
People love to neglect grass fed meat. Much of the planet is grasslands that require grazing animals. You put grazing animals on the land, move them around, and that’s it. The only real energy input is the sun.

Compare that to monocropping which requires vast oil and pesticide/herbicide input, displaces local habitats, reduces the biodiversity of the planet.
All that would happen is people would quickly aclimate to killing their dinner. We did it for humdreds of thousands of years, it’s part of our genetic make up.
Not having an ID isn't a plausible excuse for anything. You really need to have your ID.
If it's more expensive the less eco friendly ways of making meat will be consumed instead.
Science is not a leftist agenda.
Absolutely, the only stronger decision one can take is having one child less. But as this is not considered by most, limiting meat to one or two meals a week would already be a good step forward
Any citation on illegal immigrants voting?

Or are you calling "connections to citizens who can vote legally" a massive opportunity to cheat?
This is rather true.
Hotmail died this year? How?
> Ive found it's much easier to shrug off discrimination based on my skin color than it is to shrug off discrimination based on my core beliefs.

Are you white?
This is it. I'm in agreement with Anthony Bourdain here about vegetarian food in most places. If I lived in India, in particular Punjab it would be far easier to be a vegetarian because stuff actually tastes great (better than meat!) but elsewhere it's hard. Being half decent isn't good enough, the vegetarian food has to taste as good as or better than meat. The worst is places where the idea of a vegetarian meal is taking the meat out of a burger and feeding people the bun and lettuce.
What's in an Emacs Lambda?
I'm wondering. I had to give up reading it because it's so cluttered and unintelligible it was actually making me anxious. What an absolutely ridiculous piece.
One might wonder why huffington post is

a) ridiculing the people who complained that ever since the great recession job statistics are made up [1]

b) publishes large and beautifully animated articles about how millenials face "never ending job insecurity", facing years of unemployment between jobs they lose for the slightest of mistakes (see post these comments are about)

I mean exactly one of these articles is not a complete lie. Unfortunately, both are published by the same news organisation ... (perhaps because we currently no longer have Obama's government ? [2])

Frankly, I got my first real job in July 2001. Yes, that 2001. As a tech consultant. It almost sounds like a joke. I had colleagues who made 10 TIMES my wage just because they were hired a year earlier, and I was far, far more capable than some of them. And let's not mention the company cars. Let's just not. Granted, they fired some of those, but still.

Tell me about unfairness.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/trump-unemployment-jobs-n...

[2] https://successstory.com/people/arianna-huffington
Culture can change. Meat consumption in Belgium is down more than 16% over 4 years: http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20171103_03168897 (in Dutch). This coincides with several vegetarian and 'flexitarian' campaigns.

See also: the Netherlands becoming a bicycle country thanks to a sustained effort over several generations.
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I’m thinking about backups and vendor lock in. In that regard are there any Salesforce competitors that allow easy importing of data from Salesforce? Has anyone done that here?
That makes sense, considering YouTube videos probably follow a similar pattern even though it's pretty easy to search for them at any time.

Though maybe it's just me but I don't go to Facebook looking for video content because I can't actively seek anything I'm interested in or find that cool video my friend told me about. If someone says they saw a cool video in Facebook I go look for it on YouTube first.
Strawman. No one is arguing that it would magically get rid of carbon. However, incentives and prices work. If we had a global tax on carbon that accurately reflected the externalities, carbon emissions would plummet.
It didn't, it became outlook.
Absolutely! And everybody who wants to type a message on HN, has to build his keyboard himself. And his computer. And the internet.
Depends which area. Europe is dying out with a fertility rate in most parts of much less than 2.1 as required for sustained population.
https://jakubmarian.com/fertility-rate-by-region-in-europe/
Meat is a big one, but its the #3 - #5ish big one depending on how you look at things (at an individual westerner vs. other lenses).

Roughly in order it goes

- having more kids than adults (population growth)
- living in a single-family detached home (land use sprawl + hvac inefficiency)
- owning a car
- flying
- eating red meat (particularly beef & lamb)

So yes by all means, eat less red meat, but after you've moved to a multi-unit building and sold your car and stopped going to conferences.

For context, a six ounce ribeye steak is the co2 eqiv (really its methane) of 330g of emitted carbon. That is almost the exact same number of grams it costs to drive an electric vehicle on an average u.s. grid mix 2 miles. Gas burners more like 1 mile.

So ditch the car and enjoy the steak.
That would be a great thing to analyse, but I don't currently have stats.

Note, Google crawler will also submit anything it sees, so if your CA lags by a week but your new site is crawled in the next hour, you'll end up logged.
Population will not continue to grow at the same rate. The global population is expected to level off within 100 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
The original values are 3 dimensional and therefore best represented in a cube. If HSV is used, the hue is isolated to one dimension, which would represent the circumfrance of the color wheel you’re thinking of. The colors around the circular surface of your cylinder could be calculated from that, but you would be left with only one more display dimension and 2 more values: value (brightness/darkness) and saturation. You could only display one of them in the single empty dimension left in the cylinder.

Another way to explain why a cylinder is only good for representing two dimensions is simply that a circle asserts that length(x) == width(y) leaving only 2 values represented by a cylinder: (x,y) and z.
How is climate change anywhere near as dangerous as a nuclear war?
"Corrected" seems a bit strong. The treatment mitigates the cause of the disease but it's not a cure, at least not yet. Does sound promising.
When we look at the 3 countries with the most growth in combination with meat consumption (data from wikipedia)

1. China 58.2 kg/person and year

2. India 4.4 kg/person and year

3. USA 120.2 kg/person and year

There are very big differences that have more to do with culture and income rather than growth.

sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_cons...
Such as? You think if meat in the US doubled or tripled in price there’d be a black market that would overwhelm those gains? I really doubt that you have any evidence for that.
While climate change is extremely serious, I don’t think there are any models that show it causing human extinction. The second half of your statement is more accurate to show degradation. But pairing it with extinction makes it harder to see your point through the hyperbole.
As price rises, recycling will be more advantageous and will compete with mined materials reducing their future economic power by the same amount as it would if you recycle now.

The maximum effect of your policy will be to delay the moment when recycling becomes economic advantageous, and waste money/energy until then.
Where do you move them to during the winter ? Do you fly them to green pastures in the other hemisphere then ? Or maybe you just forgot that 600kg animals won't keep the same meaty and fatty bodyshape if you don't provide them silage or else during the cold seasons ?
Exactly. Price in the externalities, and people will make better choices.
I agree with you. The debate is a lot more nuanced, but you would never know that listening to the hyperbole from both sides. Someone can be completely for net neutrality, but against classifying ISPs as common carriers as the solution. The problem with using the FCC classification is that we can a) get flip flops like what just happened and b) it opens up ISPs to unknown potential regulation that in theory could slow down innovation (will the government start regulating pricing?).

I thought this article from earlier this year did a pretty good job laying out the whole issue:
https://hbr.org/2017/03/the-tangled-web-of-net-neutrality-an...

I support net neutrality, but would prefer a better long term solution than the FCC classification. Unfortunately, there is still no better law in place, but with the current energy level people should be calling their congress people to get something done.
Grrr, paywalled research articles.

I have some questions that maybe someone who has read the paper (or has access to it may be able to find out).

The abstract talks about Outstanding effectiveness and fairly positive effectiveness, what was the scaling they used? (Great, good, neutral, bad, awful? or something else)

Similarly, it talks about correlations with motivational and cultural factors, were these identified at all?

And what was the methodology/measure for the effectiveness rating?
It's a challenge to share anything inside of Facebook! Look at any popular video and all the comments are nothing but people tagging a friend, no actual discussion. It's impossible (or I haven't figured out how) to share something I come across with an individual friend. My wife and I just text each other screenshots of our Facebook feed when we want to share an image or post with each other.
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Read this story first, please:
https://www.quora.com/If-mosquitoes-were-in-danger-of-extinc...

> Within a month we destroyed the mosquito population. We could actually go outside in short sleeves again. We were very, very happy.

> It didn’t take long to notice the change in the ecology, however. Being in a rural area we had a large amount of diverse animals and birds. When the mosquitoes went, all the birds went too. Not a few birds, not just the song birds, but all the birds. We created our own “silent spring”. The bats and dragonflies also went away and with them many of the fish in the lake became more voracious and desperate to eat, which meant that they were much easier to catch. In a short time the lake was fished out. And because all the birds were gone we got a tick explosion. Instead of mosquitoes we now have ticks everywhere. It’s annoying to be constantly pulling off ticks, checking for ticks and finding ticks attached to one’s genitals. In addition, there have been a number of cases of Lyme disease as a result.

...

> The Law of Unintended Consequences is a very powerful law. You may be attempting to do something good over here but the result is an unforeseen and negative change in the infrastructure over there. It’s funny now how we get together outside and notice how dead we’ve made the area by killing all the mosquitoes. It looks beautiful, just like the environment looks OK in Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”, beautiful to look at, but devoid of life, devoid of sound and requiring constant laundry, showering and tick checks. It’s extremely disheartening to come into the house and finding a tick attached to your genitals. And although we cannot attribute it to our killing of the mosquitoes, the leech population has exploded in the lake as well. Maybe the loss of all the fish that ate the mosquitoes and leeches allowed the explosion of the leech population.
> Both cases make good, secure implementations harder.

You literally can't secure XML without refusing to enable (or implement) standard features.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/may/05/eva...
Good point. I guess we have solar as an example of that, but solar was also heavily subsidized by the US gov't.
> You're quibbling over semantics

I never understand what people mean by this criticism. I'm debating people based on the words they use and what they mean by using those words... and that's a bad thing? What else you would like me to debate them on instead? Their syntax and grammar?

And my local Conservative councillors seems to Tweet mainly about school funding and how important is is to preserve the green belt for the sake of the environment, so there you go.
As traditional mining becomes more expensive, recycling certain metals becomes the new mining.

Also, certain plastics are very easy to recycle, so it's already profitable, I suppose.

Otherwise, you can see landfills as future mining sites, when technology improves.
A friend of mine once told me that swimming in Thames would be a serious mistake as its water is poisonous. Are the neonicotinoids the reason or are there other dangerous chemicals too?
> Yes, so you disagree with the prior commenter.

Possibly.

> You think science is the "validator" of knowledge.

Where did you get that from?

> "I know that I am in pain" is not validated by science, and science has no role even to play in "validating" it.

What is your justification for considering that an instance of cultural knowledge?

> "I know that science works" is not validated by science and science has no role in validating it.

So, how do you know that science works? Or are you saying that it doesn't work or that you don't know whether it works?

> It would seem there are probably knowledge claims which belong in the domain of culture that are likewise orthogonal to science

It would seem that something seeming to you to be the case is not a particularly convincing argument.

> ("I know that we liked the new Star Wars").

Are you saying this claim is not derived from empirical observation of "we" and/or not accessible to falsification (like, you think it is impossible to ask a representative sample of "we" whether they like Star Wars)? If that is what you mean, how do you know it, then? If that is not what you mean, how is that application of the scientific method orthogonal to science?
But it's clear who will have access to these technologies once they exist -- those who can pay the most. Access to such technologies will probably also give the user better economic outcomes, so there's a very legitimate fear that such technologies will significantly widen the already wide chasm separating rich from poor.

The kind of argument you're making only stands to benefit those who will get access to these technologies by default (i.e., the rich).
The largest present threat to human well-being around the world, right now
Yes, we should be concerned, especially as the outcomes other than differences have not been tested in that specific study. In other words, whether the prejudice was accurate or not and harmful ( to the goal of having a better orchestra) or not.

The irony is that there is strong prejudice that every prejudice and bias is harmful and in a major way.
This actually remains to be seen.

To follow from your example, investors in many index funds do not have access to individuating information yet are making profits. Which means their perception of the market is at least somewhat accurate. But some investors who do have access to special information (and are not caught as doing insider trading) cash out much bigger. Often they do no better or worse too.
You get too actually evaluate outcomes of each investment (or hiring) system.
Goodbye AIM, you were the catalyst to my Information Security career. Good times.
That is true, but usually the wifi login portal is not under https, which seems to be what the article implies.
Yeah, choices like voting the "meat tax party" out of office.
True, but people are attached to their chicken sandwiches, too. For most people in the US, at least, sandwiches (with a few specific exceptions) are supposed to contain meat. What else would you have, rabbit food on a bun?
It became Outlook like five years ago, unless I missed something.
This is really cool! I'm a painter and have spent a long time doing gamut analysis of paintings.

Thank you for including both HSV and HSL. Not enough people appear to understand/care about the difference between the two, and for painters the distinction is everything.
Bill Gates is funding some efforts to that effect to kill mosquitos.

https://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_myhrvold_could_this_laser_z...
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Where did this idea come from that you should buy a house where after you've lived in it for 40 years, it should still be able to turn a profit? That seems like a uniquely American derangement. If only you guys would approach car ownership with the same mindset.
While this is a good point, it’s exactly the statement Altman is making. The complaint is that the degree to tolerate is too low and that is harmful to society.

No one is calling for absolute tolerance where Nazi pedophiles and sexually harass people. But perhaps firing the CTO of Mozilla because be donated to Prop 8 is too strict a level of intolerance.
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I had AIM-to-SMS set up so I could keep my chats going even on my flip phone, and then on Windows Mobile even if I didn't have data service. These days I can't even check Facebook unless I have LTE, if the phone says 4G I know I have no service.

Man how things change.
Law of unintended consequences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931659
The article says "In the incident, hackers used sophisticated malware to take remote control of a workstation running a Schneider Electric Triconex safety shutdown system"

"Remote control" certainly implies that it was connected at least indirectly to the internet, though something like a direct dial-up modem or leased line compromise could also be possible.
I'm not sure if they are mapping every single pixel or using some average pixels, but it's pretty fast.

Here is a shameless plug for one of my color extracting library: https://github.com/jathu/UIImageColors/

It currently takes around ~0.3s on average to extract the colors. However, with my new PR (https://github.com/jathu/UIImageColors/pull/54), it takes around ~0.14s on average. IMO this is still slow, I would like to bring it below 0.1s.

I tried to optimize this with k-means to reduce total number of colors, but the result was slower and worse color choices. If anyone has methods to improve the performance, please make a PR.
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I had the same thought. Now that it's dead, maybe releasing/leaking the source would be legally defensible as fair use in the name of historical preservation.
I think that if scientists were robots, results would be much better than we have today - robots don't care about careers and grants.
For reference, AOLserver (https://aolserver.github.io/) is an open source Tcl-scripted _Web_ server.
Great tool, I use it often.
I wish the original AOL and CompuServe access clients and the servers could be opened as well.
Truly sad. So much of my young social life was experienced through AIM. Screen names are still part of the identity of some of my friends. For some folks that have already passed, our last conversations are on AIM. Don't know what else to say, but it definitely feels like a link to another era of my life is fading away. Nothing is permanent.

RIP running man!
That's a fascinating chart. Yes, it shows that war deaths have been decreasing for decades, but it contradicts that great-grandparent's claim that "life for the average human today is more peaceful than at any point in recorded history". Looking at the red line, it seems that there have been many peaks and valleys in the last 600 years. We're in a local valley (more peaceful period) right now, but it doesn't suggest a long-term trend to me.
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However you interpret a NULL (as "value existent but unknown", "value not existent", or "no information, i.e., value might exist or not"), you will have a hard time matching your interpretation with SQL's behaviour, no matter what the standard says. In fact, interpreting NULLs as "value existent but unknown" is the most troublesome of the three interpretations, both because of SQL's rules (for instance, select * from T where A=A is empty if A is NULL, but an existent value should be certainly equal to itself even if you don't know what it is) and due to the intrinsic computational complexity of related problems (basically, related to the intractability of recognising tautologies).

The closest to a sensible semantics that I have seen is a 2012's paper titled "On the Logic of SQL Nulls", which argues that the "correct" interpretation of NULL is "value not existent". It is a quite theoretical paper, though, and it covers only a subset of SQL.

If you want to use NULLs meaning "value exists but is unknown" I recommend that you the papers written by Hans-Joachim Klein, mostly in the '90s. His "switching semantics" provides some very interesting rules for writing queries with NULLs, which are at least guaranteed to output a subset of the correct answers wrt some reasonable definition of "correctness" (some of his results were rediscovered recently by Libkin btw).
I love the last line:

"And we still need manufacturers to design secure equipment, because even if a device is not directly connected to the internet, there almost certainly is an indirect way in."

I think what Trend Control Systems was getting at was that most networks aren't isolated. Electricians think that DMZ's are enough. But often times if you're behind the router you can still find the units using an old fashioned port scanner on the LAN.
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From what I've heard on HN, scientists are actually robots who massage their data until they get a p-value <0.05 and then immediately publish.
JSON is readable enough. The format is simple - no inline functions, no circular references, just maps or arrays of key-value pairs. This makes it well suited for describing what a config file should, which is an initial application state, without much needless abstraction.

Config isn't meant to be code, and config files shouldn't be updated often, so a config file format doesn't need a great deal of expressiveness. Dealing with quoting keys and commas in JSON isn't more or less of a hassle than dealing with significant whitespace or whatever pecadillos those other formats have.

Although personally I really like Lua tables for config because they have an even simpler structure than JSON and you can add comments. I have to resist the tempation to turn Lua config files into applications, though.
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