skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it is a USA government website so it holds some credence. Let's not commit a genetic fallacy. (Hah, pun totally not intended.)

The article points to an open letter signed by a number of scientists (are they all food/agricultural/health-related scientists?) who evidence Golden Rice, which in my opinion is thin evidence. But I am definitely not a food/agricultural/health-related scientist, so my opinion counts for a hill of non-GMO beans.
All available evidence indicates that as a society stabilizes and the long-term health and viability of children improves, then population growth slows down.

If you want fewer people in the world, help them live longer.
> FOSS and privacy are tangential matters

I totally agree (because it's true of course). But do recognize that it's in Apple's interest to conflate the two. To make it even more interesting, add "secure" to the list of matters.
If you need whistleblowers to be saints, you’re going to have a bad time. The guy who blows the whistle on bad practices has to have a lot of access, which means he’s probably culpable. That doesn’t make their information less accurate or valuable though. The world of informants is a world of compromised people, but still a world worth engaging with.
Totally agreed. I already think what Musk did with Solar City and Tesla was a distraction he didn't need. Let's hope that Tesla survives, it would be a damn shame to see them pave the way for everybody else. On the other hand, it's not as if they invented electric cars at Tesla, that's how the industry started out and after a 100 year detour of the ICE we're back to square one.
Same - I've interviewed exactly twice, and gotten both jobs. This isn't to say I've only had two jobs but all advancements/movements stemmed from those two jobs I interviewed for (the second after moving cities and being out of my original network).

This has led me to actually be nervous about the prospect of having to interview, because was my success a fluke? Or had I found great fits for jobs? Both interviews I remember getting in to quite technical but off the topic conversations with the interviewer so I presume that was the success bit?
Like you, I have no problem eating GMO crops but as you say, there are potential knock-on effects from a systems perspective. Similar to the financial system, if the sole pursuit is yield, systemic problems arise.

The main issues I have with GMO is the patenting of crops, specifically those that are introduced to third world countries which are typically sterile, causing the farmers to have an ongoing dependence/obligation to the patent holders. Probably an even greater problem is crop resilience - yes, many crops will give far greater yield when given ideal conditions, but by reducing diversity within the same species makes them more vulnerable to specific diseases. In nature, there is always some % of a crop that's resistant to a disease, that diversity is removed when all the crops are essentially identical.
My stance on GMO labeling is analogous to kosher and halal foods. Consumers can and do demand arbitrarily meaningless standard such as kosher, halal, or GMO-free. I am even in favor of protecting such labels by advertising standard law: i.e. forbidding things to be labeled kosher if it actually is not kosher. But GMO labeling requirement is as ridiculous as kosher labeling requirement.
The question then becomes: why the hell do the aircraft production systems run windows? Is making aircraft in bulk that much less important than flying an individual aircraft?

At some point, using systems susceptible to malware to conduct critical business is simply negligence. Windows is not a sane default.
Nice work!

I see a Harmony cartridge in your VCS. For those, who don't know, that device makes developing on real hardware pretty easy and fun.

Emulators are very solid, however, if one is pushing it, or wants to test the variations on original hardware out there, a Harmony cartridge makes a lot of sense.

(just read your page some, and see you mention Harmony explicitly)

You've done a great job boiling something hard to understand and conceptualize down to the very basics in true Atari 2600 style! Few systems offered such a broad range of potential experiences, variety of controllers, color, sound, types of games possible, coupled with a seemingly useless 128 bytes of RAM.

Over the years, I've been amazed at how that combination, and the iconic nature of the game console, drive people to boil things down to their essence, and keep it fun.

There really is nothing else like it.

Now I'm off to play your game on my machine. :D
Bram Cohen didn’t go on Hacker News and invalidate every safe harbor a defense counsel needs, either. Just to be clear, you’ve said, in writing, on behalf of your company, that you are aware of illegal activity happening on your network, that you’re okay with it, and that you monitor the network on which illegal activity is taking place and have determined the legality thereof (enough to know a minority is illegal).

Yeah, he’s going to prison, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong about the potential value of his platform, and it doesn’t mean his motives aren’t good. It probably does mean that idealism is a shitty defense in court though.
>what you actually built is a network for trade that no one controls

That's true in the same sense that no one controls the internet.

People can control their own portion of the network, they can ban peers and report listings to search engine providers. They can create a custom client that will only see certain types of listings.

Distributed networks aren't a new phenomenon, no one controls them either. If someone could control them they they wouldn't be distributed anymore.

There are ideas for governance systems (voting or other mechanisms), but if the network is permissionless then there's really no way to have an effective governance system (that I'm aware of).
The simplest level would to add what settings you want to Prefs.js file.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Prefs.js_file

If you want the preferences locked the application level and not be overridden or be unchangeable at profile level. Mainly important if you are managing a lot systems.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences
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That would make my day. Please do :)
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Oddly enough, the actual link to download the specification, reproduced below for your perusal, seems to link to outlook.com and includes a bunch of other interesting data:

https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%...

The URL embedded within, however, is directly accessible:

https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-spec/av1-spec.pdf

Edit: I started reading the spec and found that the bulk of it it appears to be mostly fragments of de-semicolon'd C code and plenty of lookup tables; in other words, a lot of "how" but not much in the way of "why" or "what". There's a noticeable lack of diagrams as well --- IMHO very important for describing something as visual as a video codec. For comparison, I certainly found the H.264 spec to be much more understandable than this AV1 one.
I was a recruiter for 8 years, and maybe 1 in 100 applications turned into a hire. I suspect a big factor is the barrier to entry for applying has been lowered.
Just fill out a quick form and click submit, so people will apply to any job that looks remotely relevant. An increase in applications makes sifting through those applications increasingly burdensome, and tools have not really made mentally parsing a resume easier, so mental energy gets sucked up trying to filter more content. The more energy you burn, the more tired you are. The less energy you have, the less you can focus on the applicants, and you start responding to fewer applications. Fewer recruiter responses to an application means job seekers need to send more applications. Repeat.
It's only relevant if they need to issue more bonds, though, I would think. Couldn't they issue stock? As we see with ICOs, and Tesla's soliciting of deposit money, and other companies issuing stock with no voting rights, there seems to be a vast ocean of capital floating around that people can be sweet-talked out of for almost nothing. Heck, maybe they could start a GoFundMe.
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I don't think he thought critically.
> What would be the point of it?

Simply to try to define "GMO"; do you have a better idea?

Since everything is "modified", the definition is meaningless if M refers to all modification. To be useful, the definition probably has to carve some subset in the M space.

> It's like typing code by throwing rock at the keyboard until they hit necessary character and calling it "natural Organic coding"

That may be so, but I like being a human rather than some organic molecules on the surface of a rock from which I evolved by this ineffective, dangerous process.
What you think this does: filter out inexperienced people

What this actually does: bias you toward hiring people who are comfortable lying
Thank you for that site. Looks like I have to become more aware of browser internals.
Make sure to watch the video (in 4K) and see just how far away this galaxy is:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1806a/

Mind blowing far.
Okay, so pollen from Bt corn is lethal to monarch butterfly caterpillars.

Meanwhile, pesticides are killing off 75% of all flying insects.

I like monarchs, but if I had to choose between a world with no monarchs, and a world with no monarchs and also just 25% of the flying insect biomass we had 30 years ago and also fewer birds and everything else that consumes insects and all of the beneficial pollination that those 75% of insects would have accounted for ... well, that seems like a pretty easy choice to me.

Gene editing would also provide an avenue for a different approach here, where the crop could be made resistant to its costliest pests without harming monarchs. Good luck doing that through cross-breeding.
It took twenty-five years to go from the solidification of the theory of a neutrino to account for missing momentum in beta decays to direct detection of the neutrino, and along the way atomic reactors and nuclear bombs were engaged in the effort.

The problem is that detection relies upon the details of the recoil of atomic nuclei, and the recoil is much smaller for cold neutrinos than relativistic neutrinos, so we have detected pretty much exactly zero Cosmic Neutrino Background neutrinos directly, although there is plenty of indirect evidence from astrophysical observation. The interaction cross section of a "heavy neutrino"-like particle might be smaller than that of a neutrino of the same temperature (it might not feel the weak force at all, so caeteris paribus it might be many orders of magnitude less detectable just because the common interaction is purely gravitational), so not only is such a Cold Dark Matter candidate harder to detect (because cold ~ low recoil) but the interaction cross-section might be even smaller than that between the neutrino and a big atomic nucleus.

> how much low hanging fruit is actually left

There's no real way to answer that rigorously, as it really depends on what one means by "low hanging". Above neutrino floor? Below detector volumes in low numbers of cubic metres? Somewhere within the reach of existing technology at budgets less than the LHC? Somewhere within the reach of technology likely available in twenty years at budgets (adjusted for inflation and economic conditions) less than Super-Kamiokande?
Roundup causes some serious cancer.

Maybe its not directly toxic like agent orange, but these chemicals are still dangerous.
Exactly. Alt-Title: Why we use webpack.
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They actually had this same discussion in the 1960s when the original "green revolution" used plant breeding and fertilization to increased crop yields dramatically.

If they had done then as you propose, half of the people today in Third World, or having Third World grandparents, would not exist today. How many of your friends and family would not exist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution#Malthusian_cr...
I applied. Who knows, maybe my job will let me take a month off :)
>The world needs a protocol and network for trade that no one company or government controls.

Strictly speaking, that is marketing hyperbole on their part as the world already has a lot of protocols and networks for trade that no one company or government controls, otherwise stuff like international mail would have problems.
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I wonder if this just means they know so much about people from first-party data they've collected (including their share buttons on other sites) that the additional performance gains from third-party data weren't worth much.
You're right, time efficiency certainly isn't as big of a concern for companies with effectively infinite resources to throw at encoding, but the rest of us probably want to finish our encodes within this decade :) (the reference AV1 encoder is extremely slow)
I'll just wait for the LTS release.
> Congress

That's that gathering of political representatives from all corners of the planet, to make decisions for humanity.
The website seemed down earlier, and currently its quite slow. Im wondering, if ipfs is distributed then why isnt it able to handle this traffic? Are there more decentralized options?
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We live in such a fucked up world that people with good intentions need to lie so they can have a bit of protection against those who would use them as a scapegoat from people who abuse those good intentions, even though everyone knows it is a lie.

FWIW and don't take it personally, but i do hope you are wrong and overreacting.
I think this is a welcome gesture, someone has to draw the line. Data shouldn't be a bargain.
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The WHO would probably be a big fan of anything that feeds the hungry masses, so what do they say? America sells GMO, so they could have some bias.
Passion: strong and barely controllable emotion.

"sufficiently non-loathsome...motivate yourself to do it" is a far cry from passionate. Tangentially related @sarahmei on twitter wrote a thread about passion in tech. IMO she nails it: https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/921366047122268165
Look into vendor.js for patching about:config. I know Arch has one for sure in their package.
Ben Thompson from Stratechery has convinced me that Facebook wanted to be a platform, but changed their mind. They realized that making the world's most valuable consumer dataset available to developers (and competitors) was dumb, as was letting those companies all pollute the core FB experience (like Farmville), and they would make far more money in the long run by letting advertisers target with that data.

This lines up with my experience. I did a ton of (painful) Facebook platform development from 2007-2009 or so, but I haven't followed it as closely since. My sense back then was that there was this huge build-up of activity around the FB platform; they were creating all these new APIs and ways for developers to build super social experiences and deeply integrate with the core FB experience, there were huge companies like Zynga that were entirely dependent on Facebook and also were responsible for tons of FB revenue, etc. And then it all seemed to fizzle? It doesn't seem like there's really hardly any activity any more in terms of deep integration with Facebook as a platform, other than FB login. I never see anything on my news feed any more from weird apps, or get invites to take some dumb quiz, or whatever. I mean, I'm sure that stuff is there somewhere, but not anything like it was. That could be wrong though!
You're taking me too literally. If I say you're crazy with a smile, I don't mean your mentally ill, I mean your ideas are out of the ordinary.
I searched for one and found some that seem to be related. Will file one today and also work on a fix, since it appears this is known from a long time and nobody has bothered to provide even a simple fix.
This is reminiscent of the "debate" over cellular radiation causing cancer. How much Roundup do I have to drink to increase my cancer risk by a percentage point?
That fucked up world is called the world, and the world as it’s always been. None of us has to like that, and we can try to change it, but it’s still the world. Ignoring reality in favor of what we want to be true is magical thinking.
It seems like used cars are significantly inflated in price these days - there don't seem to be many Daewoos left any more, but I just checked and people are selling 17 year old examples with 100K+ miles for $2-3K.
Been reading history my whole life and Wrath of the Khans radically changed the way I thought of everything after that.
Recently (few weeks ago) saw a job that required 3+ years professional experience building React Native apps. Announced in early 2015...
Well, then you're gonna love love love love this. Faked videos are certainly bad, but lets travel in our mental time machines back to February 18th 1990, the day before Photoshop was released.

"We are rapidly nearing a world when its trivial enough to create complete faked pictures", they cried. "How will we evaluate truth in the future?"

"Hah," you exclaim. "You can just look at the pixels. There is always a way to tell if you look close enough."

But alas, they can't hear you, because this is my time machine, and I said so.

Just because we haven't had to adapt our lives to the new reality yet, doesn't mean we wont with the same relative ease we always have once that reality smacks us in the face.
The website isn't on IPFS yet. A new marketing site published to IPFS is something we want to do but hasn't been a priority (we weren't expecting to have a big influx of traffic).

The application is available on Github[1], and that's the part that uses IPFS.

[1] https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop/releases
Sure - and I won't argue about whether it counts as "contributory negligence" if you park your nice car unlocked in sketchy areas and it gets stolen (and I'm sure you'll be hearing that from your insurance company if it's you).

But if your sister/girlfriend/wife/mother is assaulted in the street and I said to you "what the hell did you expect was going to happen, that's on you" - I'd fully expect you to punch me in the face. (And yes, I realise the hypocrisy in that - welcome to the inconsistency of being a human being...)
Kind of a simplified argument. "...foundation to achievement and fulfillment, almost without exception, requires that you hone a useful craft and then apply it to things..."

yeah that sort of overlooks a lot of stuff, like bullshitting skills (very important today).
can you share your config.toml for k8s runner?
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Netflix and I assume Amazon already use H.265, so at best they can use AV1 in addition to H.265 in the future.
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Right I'm not questioning the differences between the two. I'm questioning how we know that the unseen stuff out there is regular matter vs Dark matter. Both matter and dark matter can appear dark when not interacting with light or glowing.

According to my knowledge dark matter is identified through its gravitational properties. Matter and dark matter both are gravitational hence my curiosity on why we're identifying this unaccounted gravitational effect as "dark matter" rather than regular matter.
Maybe they used the partner data as ML training data and now they don't need it anymore :)
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I’ve worked on (non-safety critical) airborne systems that ran Windows Embedded, as freightening as it sounds.
Oh, I almost forgot. A good way to think about downvotes is your subconcsious admission that the best recourse you have to any argument is to try and make sure as few other people read it as possible.

That means part of you that you have no control over knows the truth, but for whatever reason, decides your better off not knowing that truth.
> I refused to take over and helped implement the actual automatic summary feature.

What do you mean you refused to take over? You refused to continue “hyping” the undeveloped feature?
I was thinking that the crane robot would run along the wall behind the laying robot and fetch bricks from robot hovercraft that move pallets of bricks.
If you read between the lines, there's no mention of Ben Golub (Docker's CEO until few months ago). I am wondering if that's intentional, or... intentional. Or intentional?
yeah, at least 4 of those 2.2 billion are mine.
The article sketches the explanation — if dark matter doesn’t actually exist and is simply an observational side effect, all galaxies should demonstrate that effect. That this galaxy doesn’t strengthens the case for dark matter being separable from regular (visible) matter.
This to me indicates that it is recruitment companies applying these metrics (3y+, 5y+, 10y+) as a standard for job ads and companies just go with it.

I.e. 3y+ is just a shortcut way to sort CV's, not a requirement.
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What makes eggs glow under UV light?
It's one thing to discount a particular theory, is another all together to discount a huge number of them. Without understanding anything of your model versus the scientific consensus, I can easily say your odds aren't looking good. That's just statistics.

Still, that's exactly the kind of thinking that pushes science forward when it's well reasoned and takes into account all of the observations. Where your model falls on that spectrum I cannot say.
Do you have context to add to the story, or just more reasons to look somewhere else, preferably away from this story?
Some of the issues are funny.

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My favourite:
`ß` is basically not thirteen
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Agreed - part of that is locking your car.

But at least as big a part is paying your taxes, contributing to society, requiring your political representatives to write appropriate and sensible laws, ensuring the police are funded and trained to catch people who break them, ensuring the courts are capable and willing to punish them. "Securing safety" should be mostly a collective thing, not an individual thing. Society as a whole has a lot better opportunity to deter crime in the first place and to reduce the incidences overall - than most individuals do.

[edit]Oh, and not stealing other people's shit yourself, or giving a pass to your friends or family who do.
Uh... I think I know why a search like that isn’t a thing anymore.
So do potatoes; in fact, the link between cooked potatoes and cancer is far stronger than any documented link for glyphosate.
Like Orangutans?
Currently compiling this for Arch. Should be in the repos soon. :)
There will be little privacy in the workplace of the future
Sorry, you cannot just take a board exam and start practicing medicine. Law, you can.
Hi just curious. What is nonbaryonic matter and what is the CMB power spectrum?

Also doesn't microlensing involve gravity? Thus the effects of dark matter on microlensing would be identical to regular unseen matter which also interacts with gravity in the same way? What's the difference?
That's seriously cool. I love that retro computing is still alive. Similar to how classic cars still get so much love. For those of us in computers as a hobby (or a career), it's great to see the history being kept alive and respected.

Also, the sheer amount of effort and skill/talent involved in doing stuff like this is mind bending.
(I agree entirely, but one should endeavor to make that statement the truth to avoid the sharp end of the stick.)
How is the GPU pass-through support in this release?

I'd love to use Qubes but I sometimes want to use my GPU for games or other OpenGL stuff.

Is this already working good or is it still a bit bumpy?