skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Must be a terrible thing, if anything good can come out of this I hope it alerts people to the horrors of nuclear war. I am puzzled by why we speak so much about global warming but almost nobody talks about nuclear war.

Global warming is not remotely as dangerous as nuclear war. Sure it will make crops fails some places, cause water shortage for some millions, force people to move off the coast etc. But it will not kill billions of people. Nuclear war could do that.

As long as the US and Russia stockpile huge quantities of nuclear weapons the whole world is in jeopardy. The number of times nuclear war has almost gotten triggered due to mistakes like this one in Hawaii is scary to think of.

How many human errors or hardware/software failures need to happen before one day, an actual launch of nuclear missiles happen by default?

These weapons are far too dangerous to stockpile in such huge quantities. There should be a push to reduce the stockpile to something like 20-30 missiles.

It isn't hard to imagine a president in the style of Donald Trump, acting irrational and making a rash and stupid mistake which puts the world on fire.
Cool. Are you able to share any more details? I'm guessing this isn't a standard WinForms app. What advantages does moving away from GDI+ give you?
Thank you! this is what I've been looking for, but searches for token, substitution, and "defining subdirectories" have not led to this. Calling it a loop is confusing.

It seems the values have to be defined in some other file, so I couldn't chain them, though.

Suppose I want to write something like...

paths:
BASEDIR: /somedir
SUBDIR1: {{ paths:BASEDIR }}/subdir1
SUBDIR2: {{ paths:SUBDIR1 }}/subdir2

Doesn't seem like that would work. I would end up putting all my definitions into a separate file.
> The POINT is that the parent claimed Facebook is acting illegally, my point is they were not!

Except they weren't? Not respecting the law is not the same as acting illegally. If a Chinese manufacturer exports toxic food to Germany, is that illegal (according to German law)? For all I know, it's not. Does that mean that they are respecting German food safety regulations? No. Would it still be a problem if Chinese manufacturers exported toxic food to Germany? Yes. Does the fact that exporting toxic food to Germany is not illegal mean that it's not legitimate for Germany to try and find ways to prevent export of toxic food to Germany using its legal system?

> Even if something is illegal in Germany, you can not enforce German law on every company that stands to profit from a German audience.

Well, true? How is that relevant to Facebook, say? As far as I know, Facebook is not every company?

> Therefore, if you want to use German law to "teach" those companies, you're out of luck.

So, you are saying the German legislative effort known as NetzDG is not having any effect on how Facebook behaves?

> As a German myself, I am very glad about this, because (for example) I don't have to wait until 10PM and verify my identity to consume government-sanctioned pornography, as German law would require.

So, because you disagree with a specific law, you think the German state should not enforce any laws on foreign corporations? Because you think that German limits on porn are idiotic, you think an American bank defrauding German customers should not be held accountable, say?

> You don't see a lot of people asking for respect and enforcement of those laws, yet as soon as it comes to "hate speech" the nanny-state-conformists come out of the woodwork...

Which has what to do with whether laws should apply to foreign companies exactly? Are you seeing a lot of people asking for enforcement of porn laws against German companies?

> The porn law applies in the same way that the hate speech laws apply, insofar as they're dealing with German "customers".

I'm not sure it does, but in any case: Is it really a good state of affairs that it's enforced selectively-ish? It's not exactly protecting the constitutional rights of porn stars and porn producers in Germany, is it? Sure, overall, it might be better that at least foreign porn is accessible unrestricted than none at all, but is that an argument for selective enforcement, or not rather against restrictions of porn?
Intermediate Rust user. Obviously she excels at coding.
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Nonsense! Now let me go eat this small jar of apple seeds I have saved up from a month of an-apple-a-day.
Did eye doctors have a theory for the connection between dry eye and driving? How many breaks did you take during the 20h drive?
The biggest advantage to trails for me is the variation in elevation. When it gets steep or I get tired I walk. Less constant stress and pushing myself than when I was running long distances on roads.
Would abolishing privacy be beneficial?
This always gets brought up but gold is used for much more. It’s in electronics, people value it as jewelry, etc. I can go to a coin shop today and exchange my gold for a much smaller fee than Bitcoin. Gold has historically shown its ability to store value.

If the fees come back down, all of the Bitcoin people will start saying they never called it a store of value. People just have to justify why they’re making irrational decisions.
no shittin, a full sized human can't bear a full sized human. I think that's the same for all animals, though and doesn't explain the difference, unless you implied dolphins carry their unborn for way longer. which they don't. (I'll have to check)
When you are trying to extract value, you don't want to reveal your estimate of the value extracted, or even give people more information than necessary about how you are estimating the amount of value you can extract.
Oh, the issues from that repo are entertaining. This issue alone should be enough to make the case that you shouldn't build a production trading system in JavaScript.

https://github.com/DeviaVir/zenbot/issues/1037
I would argue that part of the decline of HTC has been Because of their FTC penalties.

Look at the last year of equifax’s stock price. One major dip related to one major news story.

Their are a few anecdotes, but most of the time, there is no major financial impact.
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This might just be my own misunderstanding.
Congrats on consistently missing the point.
It definitely locks you out after a few requests. In the past I built a LinkedIn profile scraper, but they are really really good at locking down their data. If you even somewhat appear to be a bot, you’re blocked.
Skia is one part of Chromium; you also have Blink (browser engine) and V8 (js engine).
It was changing on a near-daily basis until May of 2015. It was extremely hard to build big projects in it until that point.
> I have read about 120,000 resumes.

Sorry for the insubstantive comment, but wow. I've read about 10 and it was honestly a bit of a struggle
> You can't get bigger than a juice company announcing it will be doing "something with the blockchain".

As in, you can't get higher than 1,000 using blockchain technology? What about 50,000,000 using blockchain techhnology. The point of blockchain techhnology is that any company can create their own token and have a decentralized currency, independent of banks or country legislations.

So in that respect, blockchain technology is at 1/50,000th of what it's made for. Peak? No.
Is this "transflective" concept and technology dead now (commercially, R&D, etc.)? For a long time, I was waiting for a responsive display that I could read like a piece of paper.
Of course, you do realise that dolphins spend practically their entire lives in close proximity to a reflective surface, seeing it from both underneath and above? Of course a surface where they can see clear reflections close up is going to be interesting to them.

In other news, dogs are better than humans at self-recognising the smell of their own urine.
A missing piece of information is that trehalose is a rather new additive. It was very expensive to manufacture until about 20 years ago when a new cheaper process to make it was found. And voilà, because it appears safe and is somewhat useful, it starts showing up in all sorts of products without any labeling indication. And the fallout is just now being noticed. One of the commenters used the phrase "food science" ... hah! We're the guinea pigs!
Same here, I switched to Kinesis Advantage keyboards many moons ago, and it saved me. I went from braces on both forearms to nothing, and never looked back.
In the Googleplex they have networks designed to be slow and crappy to test exactly this.

All people working on consumer facing apps and sites are encouraged to use these crappy networks on a day to day basis.
yep. many animals are born knowing how to walk and many other skills.
I think you make some good points, but I'm not sure about the following...

1) "We have a chance to cut out the rent-seeking middlemen"

In the case of Amazon, is there really rent seeking? They provide lots of benefits as the middleman - trust, support, consistency (YMMV).

2) "...centralized marketplaces which like to pick and choose who is welcome on their platforms."

Again, for me this is a feature, not a bug.

3) "...but what did those drivers/hosts get in exchange?"

Money.

"New token economics"

What are new token economics? And why are they any better than what preceded them?

The token sale doesn't reward participation, it rewards speculation
>Apart from that it appears to be a bunch of copy pasta code from other projects

If it takes the best of all blockhain projects, I'm all for that.
This page links to research on blue light effects, https://glarminy.com/2016/04/11/are-your-eyes-sensitive-to-l...
Note that it wasn't proposed as a solution.

Are you saying that no one should do anything good, or encourage others to do anything good, unless it fully solves a problem? I suspect that's not the point you were trying to make, but it sure sounds like that if you read your words.
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Can it differentiate between a bot and a human opening up a dozen links in tabs? I suspect the tumblr one can't, it appears to rate limit me for using there archive pages.
Virtually every mammal (marsupials are, IIRC, the main exception) gives birth to young that are much more fully developed and physically capable than human newborns. Dolphins are definitely not exceptions here.

That they’d also be closer to same-species adults in cognitive function is not that surprising.
And that's how Amazon's Android play store wins.
Or Samsung's, or one of the other ones.

Google by design isn't the dictator of the entire ecosystem. Not like Apple. Nowhere near.
Are the biggest exchanges reporting earnings to the IRS? No, coinbase only reported the top earners and are actively refusing to give all data.

There’s a reason why regulations were created and Bitcoin skirts around them. Don’t expect those same regulations to protect you if you don’t follow them. It’s the Wild West for crypto right now and some people are going to make it big but the majority are going to lose.
This specifically needs an android update.

Androids the fault here not the Chromecast
You should have a look at 4Coder:
https://4coder.handmade.network/

Currently targeting the C++ language. The guy is writing it in C++ and is targeting Windows & Linux. I think he's using openGL.
How do I seem like that when I am talking about "the constitution" in the context of German law? Maybe I should also mention that I am talking about the German NetzDG, not the US NetzDG?
I consider network censorship to be a feature, not a bug. I want airbnb to be able to enforce that hosts are not able to deny service to black people. I want my uber driver to have insurance and a quick background check. From the perspective of somebody in the marketplace I prefer having people who break the social contract removed. Now there can be marketplaces that screw this up and perhaps there is some place for a truly censorship immune marketplace but they will be niche rather than taking over existing systems.

Development is not free. Users generally want new features over time. A distributed 2000-era netflix service where people mail each other dvds wouldn't survive in 2018. Who does development without a middleman? Part of the reason why something like uber works is because drivers do not have the technical capacity to build their own system.

The idea that cryptoassets and associated systems is going to bring about a revolution that frees people from capitalism is insane to me. Wealth is amazingly concentrated among early adopters and difficulty curves are generally weighted hard towards benefiting a few early people. Why would a distributed marketplace suddenly bring the power to the people? You still need the capital to buy a car to be a distributed-uber driver after all.
Look at how popular organic, ethical and local food has become in the last few years. You have restaurant chains based on these ideas, supermarkets like Whole Foods, and food processors like Amy’s. This is because consumers are voting with their wallet. I like to think it’s been inspired in part by documentaries like Fast Food Nation, What The Health and Supersize Me, certainly that’s how I became a more conscious consumer.
eat wild caught fish

But how does the consumer know the true origin of a product?

"Wild-caught" claims are only as reliable as the least honest entity in the supply chain.
Warning: "fix" is permanent.

(that's the whole point of it)
While we’re here, lets do a quick eye-related work checklist:

1. Monitor should be arms length away.
2. Brightness should conform to the light in the room.
3. Try to get a good bit of ambient light from the side (via a lamp or window).
4. Keep eyes at a 10-15° downward angle on the monitor.
5. Take a break every hour and let your eyes rest for a second.
6. If you have glasses, wear them.

Those six principles will go a long way toward keeping your eyes happy!
Fair enough, if you fear karmic retribution that makes sense. I don't, so for me the shoe remains on the same foot. Other people are more valuable to me than animals, and also more dangerous. The stakes are higher and therefore the moral considerations are more prudent (or karmic, if that's your bag).
It'll happen when a neighbour uses a dodgy microwave.
Ask HN: What would you put as the last parameter of this AI equation, and why?
AI equation (inspired by the Drake equation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation):

10^22 estimated number of stars in our universe

10^20 estimated number of stars having planets

10^18 estimated number of star systems with planets having at least one planet in the habitable zone

10^16 estimated number of planets in habitable zones having life

10^14 estimated number of these planets having multi-celled life

10^12 estimated number of planets having evolved a life form analogous to the abilities of early pre-language primates

10^10 estimated number of those planets with life forms that use tools and language to a level analogous to early humans

10^8 estimated number of those planets with modern societies and technological capabilities analogous to late 20th-Century humans

10^6 number of those planets hosting civilizations that develop AI

10^?? number of those planets that developed AI, where the AI experiment went well both for the AIs and also for the civilizations that created the AIs.

All the other steps are using (for purposes of discussion, but it seems like a reasonable very rough estimate in aggregate) a factor of 100 at each step. Note there is no source for this factor, it is just a seat-of-the-pants estimate. Yes, I pulled it from there.

What factor do you think should be used in the last step, and why?

Or maybe you might think it's a flawed question: the "experiment" (for lack of a better word) may go badly for the creators, but may end up creating a fantastic and worthwhile/meaningful (not just paperclips all around) world for the AIs. Yes there's room for quibbling over "meaningful" but let's go with an admittedly unfounded assumption that human standards would be a decent starting point for judging what is meaningful and what is not... given that, again what should the estimated factor be for the last step, and why?
OK, so what is unclear about my words then?
His point is that earth is flat if your perception is in a spherical coordinate system ... ok. The crazy youtube conspiracy theorists though certainly aren't claiming that or even have a sophisticated enough understanding of 3 dimensional geometry to begin to grok it.
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>Also can browsers do anything to warn users "the last time you visited this URL there was a valid certificate, but there is no longer any, shall we proceed?"

so... HSTS? afaik (at least with firefox), it doesn't even let you override the warning.
Lmao Oh JavaScript first you steal time by being an unproductive language and now you help lose money because you’re not an industry grade language smh.
Japanese scientists just used AI to read minds and it's amazing
What's wrong with polygamy?
I recently removed a bunch of my work from the web or simply stopped developing it. There is a partial list of new/current (not very fleshed out) projects here:

https://www.patreon.com/DoreenMicheleTraylor

An old personal blog with substantial content is here:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/

I also have an old health blog called Mic Eats on blogspot that has substantial content. Like the one above, it is not being further developed, but it is also not being removed from the internet.

I have a number of new projects kind of in the idea stage. When they have some content, they will be added to my Patreon site. I also tweet new posts when they are published, even for blogs I have no desire to list on Patreon.
I with this. You could replace the whole resume with "I built https://beaver.digital/ and https://www.getfractals.com/" and I think it would be 10x better.

You've done great work, but the resume doesn't highlight it.
Perhaps because they caught it themselves? If I had the time and land I’d go fishing and hunting. But since I don’t I just restrict myself to a vegetarian diet.
This will make meat cheaper and people who currently don't eat as much meat because of price will start eating more.

You cannot solve a collective action problem by individual action; the incentives for others to cheat means that you are trying to push water uphill.
For the "they" side you elided natural selection, lateral gene transfer, and generation times measured in hours.
If you haven't heard of the 20-20-20 rule, it is a simple rule-of-thumb to remember to look 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds every 20 minutes.

Using a standup workstation during part of the day may also help you because the "activation energy" required to move around and leave your workstation is minimal compared to sitting in a chair.

You can also get a weaker prescription if you have eyeglasses (not sure about contacts) that will help if you stare at a screen all day.
Hence the stew pot ;)
I got those couple of months ago too. I got my eyes tested thoroughly but they didn't find anything. Only explanation I got was ageing.

I did a screen free 2 weeks but it didn't do anything.
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> Just because you have a URL, doesn't mean it is connecting to the expected IP.

Ignoring how weak of an argument that is, I don't see how that is any different of a risk between curl-pipe-to-sh and regular software downloads.

> Remember who these kinds of installs target: developers with little experience.

I think that's a little condescending. I image these kinds of installers target folks who want to get up and running quickly and conveniently, regardless of their experience. And I imagine, on average, folks pasting this into their shell have more than average experience already, since they (1) went out of their way to try this software and (2) know how to open a shell and copy commands into it.

> You can't ensure they'll notice a missing 's'. You can't ensure a worn-out admin will either.

You think it's more likely they will notice the missing 's' in the click-to-download-the-installer scenario than in the paste-a-command-into-the-shell scenario? I find that hard to believe.

> Have a glance over Heroku's Ubuntu script.[0] It's not fenced, if that echo breaks, it could case some chaos.

So file an issue. If their normal installer has bugs in it, things would break too. I don't see the difference. Buggy installers are buggy, which is just an argument against buggy installers, not against different install methods.

> I wouldn't curl a microcode update.

You missed the point. You can download it any way you like; unless you have its source, though, you can't audit it at all. So your claim that binary software is untrustable falls short in the practical world.
Google employ a small number of people to write TCP/IP core stack functionality. This is not a 'twenty hundred fiddy' people problem, its a six rising ten people problem.

The core issue is: how do we get the team in question to acknowledge and respond, with a timely code change?
A personal anecdote: I've tried cutting my meat consumption many times in the past, but I ultimately fail to keep up a low-meat diet for the following reasons:

- Vegetarian food is really not that tasty in my opinion. (edit: the kind I can reasonably prepare myself)

- It's very difficult to eat enough vegetarian food for me to meet my Calorie requirements (I target 3500/day).

- Eating a balanced diet of vegetarian food that tastes half-decent requires a substantial amount of preparation, especially if you have carb/protein targets. Non-vegetarian pop-it-in-the-microwave food is plentiful. There just aren't enough hours in the day.

I stumbled along with this for years, trying and failing over and over. One of my best friends became a vegetarian and I watched as he basically dialed down his diet to peanut butter and lentils.

Last year, I unintentionally became mostly-vegetarian entirely by accident: I started drinking Soylent. It's high-Calorie, it's consistent, there are five different flavors (three with caffeine!), each flavor tastes decent enough, and it's not a pain in the ass. Other than the odd takeaway order (two or three times a month, or if I run out of Soylent) effectively zero meat enters my apartment.

My coworkers have rolled their eyes dramatically, but it's pretty good. The bottles get recycled, they come unrefrigerated direct from the manufacturer, and the drinks are (seemingly) made from half-decent stuff. If my office put them in the lunch line, I'd probably stop eating meat at work, too.

(And they're pretty cheap!)
> a medium of exchange that doesn't use absolute units, but is a function of your ability to pay.

This is already implemented in many areas of modern life, especially by governments (Obamacare, progressive taxation, social security, etc), and it has a major negative side effect of incentivizing poverty: either real (by encouraging the young to work as little as possible) or faked (by encouraging those with accumulated wealth to conceal it as much as possible).
> And even if it were, why roll back the block chain to rectify the situation? In traditional accounting, wouldn't you need a ledger record of both the mistake and its correction?

This is exactly what happened. The blockchain wasn't rolled back. New transactions crediting the victims were injected into it.
I'm usually a critic of my home state for a variety of reasons but I have to say it's been impressive to watch them change over time.

Whatever folks think of Ford and Quicken Loans as companies, it's great to see the public sector being open to new ways of doing things like this (within reason of course)

I still hate the weather among other things there, so I won't likely be returning but it's heartening to see this change taking place! Even if they don't get the bid, I hope they continue this kind of thinking.
Boycotting isn't individual choice, however; boycotts, when they work, usually work due to PR and reputational effects rather than market effects.