skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a beautiful idea, would love to read a novel based on this premise.

The sort of forced nomadism from "only" having ~1000 years before a location becomes uninhabitable would make for some interesting dynamics. Real estate at the leading edge would be very valuable, potentially with some kind of homesteading dynamic for claiming the land (as nobody has lived there for thousands of years). Also value of land would depreciate over time because it would have an 'expiration date'.
The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
We’re humans. We’ll try ANYTHING
You've abused HN badly in this thread by taking it into the worst kind of political/ideological flamewar. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's still useful though. We create models, and then when we find more data points on tidally locked planets, we can compare those points to these models. For example, we may be soon able to determine atmospheric composition of both sides of the planet thanks to different spectrograph data available from our perspective. These models can tell us something about the concentration of gasses in those atmospheres at different times. Then those models become testable models.

I don't understand this anger about having untestable models. How would science progress without having theoretical possibilities before testable possibilities?
Amazon could do what Amazon used to do, and what everyone else does: Don't comingle supplies from trusted sources from random third parties. Have you every tried selling a wholesale bag of carrots to a your local grocery store? They aren't interest, for good reason.
It only works that way up to a point. That point is when the private stuff is either illegal or is directly relevant to the work, as in this case. #metoo anyone?
I agree about the risk. It is incumbent upon we who know better to sound a loud and long cadence about the unreliability of technology and the risk of false-positive.
Nice web site
Thanks! This is certainly the best list of emacs themes I've seen.
I honestly do not see how the 4th amendment's text obviously applies to surveillance, especially as it pertains to being identified in public. I don't even think it matters whether or not someone is a suspected criminal. It's not a search or seizure. And only in case law are there examples of the text being interpreted in favor of things like audio recordings needing a warrant. But this isn't one of those amendments whose text is clear on an issue like public facial recognition.
It never ceases to amaze me the extent to which a humanity's response to new life is either: "Can I eat it?" or "How do I kill it?".
Granted, it's not your own comment you're defending, but that's a single carmaker, a far cry from the "all" that was claimed.

Also, now I'm curious, other than sharing the numeral 3, is there evidence for the model 3 being "precisely positioned" against the BMW's 3 series? I haven't been following any of this that closely, so I only recall it being hyped as Tesla's foray into an affordable mass-market sedan, which seems incompatible with BMW's premium branding strategy in the US and with a $60k ASP for the Model 3.
Webflow. It's a fantastic product. I am happy paying $15 per month for creating and hosting the site.
However, people install security cameras in their own homes all the time---some of which are even wired to cloud services or outside security monitoring agencies.

I agree that privacy exists alongside security. Where the balance-point is best placed varies from person to person. In public spaces not scoped for private activities (such as the streets of a city), the balance point has to be agreed upon by the citizenry in general and is almost certainly somewhere past both "toilet stall" and "personal residence" in terms of collective value for surveillance.

After all, we already put up security cameras on street corners.
Don't mistake a small loose end in a complex argument condensed to fit in an HN comment for proof that the argument is wrong.
Hope that apology isn’t taken at face value and they get hit with more regulations along with punishment.
Citation? I'm unfamiliar with the views on this, but considering the amount of starvation in the world, this seems suspect, especially considering an increasing population.
Can you propose a more current way of checking whether a thing tastes good?
Uh huh, just like he's fixed autopilot
The scenario-based costs table at the bottom is particularly interesting. If you need to run the detectors on all incoming images of a site ingesting, say, ~10 million images per week, you're looking at nearly $15,000/week, or close to $800K/year with AWS, and nearly $1.2MM/year with Google, and either way you'll still probably need to employ some type of backend engineering team to maintain the wrappers for calling it and manipulating the response data.

We were able to solve this in-house using only about 15 8-core servers (we used a few general GPU servers for training, but found we only needed CPU machines for runtime, and did not have the poor latency of the AWS calls) with quite a lot of redundancy for traffic spikes and a pretty easy deployment system if we needed to add or remove nodes, and it was only one of several dozen different machine learning projects going on, so whatever portion of the total cost of operation could be allocated to paying the salary of a machine learning team, it would further be amortized by work on many projects. For example, amortizing the cost of GPU machines for model training across a variety of projects.
Seriously this would be the way to go. As part of membership they send you a small juice pack style battery which you manage the charging of and insert as needed.

http://www.mophie.com
For science. How else would we know what they taste like?
> I am sure there were many in Oceania perfectly content with their life, thinking they were free because they never butted up against the edges of their cage

I do not recall getting that impression when I read 1984. Rather, the majority of the proles were absolutely under the figurative boot, and kept there via fear. Even the Inner Party were aware of the edges of their cage -- either they tested them and got reconditioned, or they were all-in on the dystopia, but I don't think that counts as thinking that they were free. Rather, they traded freedom for power over others.
Please elaborate how his divorce is either illegal or directly relevant to his writing
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Thank you for providing these links. Some people, especially on HN, seem to be surprised how far GCM modeling for exoplanets has gone.

Besides the examples you mention, research groups are now doing data assimilation for Mars (https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/research/geophysical-fluid-dyn... https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...).
Other groups are testing and improving models for Jupiter and Saturn, as you mention, based on various remote sensing observations. (For Saturn, see: https://theoryofclimate.sciencesconf.org/conference/theoryof...).

All of these cases have allowed modelers to observationally test their models and model physics against non-Earth conditions. This work has been going on for a decade now, but it somehow has not reached the technically-aware audience.

The case of tidally-locked planets is another step beyond the above solar-system planets. Thank you for the references you supplied, in your original comment, on GCMs for this case.
We've come to realize that GM/Cruise's "self-driving" cars will require a vigilant, highly-trained safety driver to be onboard, for the foreseeable future.

GM/Cruise's software is inadequate for reliable unmanned operation and the progress needed to overcome this deficit appears to be intractable.

Tesla is building systems that assist the driver. Driver and autopilot together are better than driver alone. This is a viable product, in contrast to full autonomy.
This is a ridiculous comment... Because it has been available doesnt make it any better...
I know you're trying to make a joke, but once you get past the snail&frog stereotypes (which really aren't that bad), French cuisine is some of the best in the world.
> what's the importance of improving existing ray tracers

In the offline space (film, visualization), cost. Movies get cheaper to make.

In the realtime space (games), lots of visually important effects are difficult to do with rasterization, leading to complicated/large/expensive-to-maintain rendering solutions. With a physically based path tracer, a lot of these effects come out of the box. Path tracing has traditionally been too expensive to do in realtime, however, and has been 'just around the corner' for the past 20 years. If I'm not mistaken, recent advances in image de-noising, which seems to be the crux of the new NVIDIA technology, have made real time path-tracing on the GPU much more practical.

> Is writing one a particularly challenging thing to do?

Depends how deep you dive. You can write a basic tracer to render a sphere and fit it on a business card -- this is a typical assignment in introductory graphics courses. Rendering complicated materials is a never ending rat hole of complexity, lots of rendering research looks effectively like material's science, these days.
I'm a longtime ORCL investor, and sold it all a couple years ago because of this. Any company where customers use it because they have to rather than they want to is a company with little long term prospects.
I believe the point Gelman is making is that there appears to be minimal evidence for the idea that there is a new epidemic of loneliness.
YouTube is the most difficult service to break away from, simply because it has all the content - and more and more of my entertainment time is spent watching YouTube. I'm thinking YouTube was Google's most ingenious purchase.
1) I'm going to guess that what my grandparents meant by "lonely" isn't quite what my generation or yours, means. I think we use this as a relative term - "less connected than other people" to at least some extent. So that might skew longitudinal statistics. If you only had two friends to talk to (almost every day) in the village back then, you were lonely, and probably being ostracized to boot.

2) To a significant extent, it's possible to translate "I'm lonely" into "I'm too disgusted with the ethics, crudity, vile political opinions, manners, dress, accents, musical tastes, spiritual nonsense, etc of the people I meet these days to go out of my way to meet them again, thanks." This may be a downside to diversity (for those too-easily put off), or a reflection of the fact that we're all social climbers, who are too optimistic about our "social value" in the eyes of all the other social climbers, I don't know.

After all, almost all of us have solutions to loneliness handy if we aren't at all picky about our company. And back in the day, you couldn't be - your village was your world.

A hidden factor, IMHO, is the rapidity of cultural change. Last long enough (age 28 in my case) and you are necessarily a time-traveller, in a foreign culture to a large extent, and it hurts mightily to know that your tribe has moved on; but it has (unless you joined an uber-traditional church or cult as a youth.) If you opt to deny this, as many do, your world is gonna shrink and keep shrinking from that point on. You're gonna miss a lot of fun, too.

PS - volunteer.

PPS - I'm not 28, that's just how old I was when I realized I wasn't part of "the younger generation" anymore, and had to decide fast whether my generations' taste in everything was going to be forever supreme in my head, or to start making an effort to see what the real kids were up to, and whether I might like any of that, too. I chose the latter and bless that day.
Incorrect, we have a huge surplus of resources by any measure. We're simply not very good at distributing and allocating those resources, which gives people the illusion of overpopulation.

The world is not overpopulated — resources are just under-distributed.

As for your environmentalist remarks, you're just being pessimistic. Al Gore in "inconvenient truth" predicted the ice caps would be melted by 2017. Didn't happen. Tech will save us from whatever Doomsday scenarios you're imagining, bro: it's already saved us a million times before— and history rhymes and repeats.

The "Modern Religion of Environmentalism" (as Peter Theil refers to it in Zero to One) is really just pessimism in disguise.

I'm an optimist so I'm more of a member of the Technology Religion. ️
>Is writing one a particularly challenging thing to do?

I wrote a simple ray tracer for a college project in the 90s so I would tend to say that part of the novelty is that it's actually quite easy to write a very basic ray tracer and get cool looking images :)
Enough to justify the tax breaks?

Without transparency, it's hard to tell -- which is the other problem the article is about.
That looks just like choo!

choo https://choo.io/ uses tagged templates too.

It's 4kilobytes.
I think most people understand that rarity and antiquity have an intrinsic value to many people, including for violins. If someone said they value their Stradivarius because it's a piece of history, I don't think there would be much debate. What some people are skeptical of are the claims that antique violins also have better acoustic and playing characteristics than violins made by the best contemporary makers.
I believe you're describing a form of whataboutism.
Right valid true. Its just that it's scary if someone has tons of money and users and AI etc etc that has this capability and misuses it on a massive scale kind of how big data only works when its big. No one cares that my localhost website has root access to my machine for example but maybe that's a silly point but I think you get what I'm saying, kind of like the tree falling in the forest... take your pick of metaphors.
Hmm. I honestly prefer Manu's blog post and phrasing from 2012: http://www.k9ventures.com/blog/2012/05/31/hope-and-numbers/
This is basically an ad hominem attack.
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It's easy to exaggerate the differences between the UK and the US, merely because the US is a bit unfamiliar. When there is a small cost for something that exists in both countries, it is not an earth shattering difference for it to be paid from taxes in the one case and part of the insurance premium in the other.

To wit, uninsured motorist coverage is provided by the government in the UK, from what I read:

"The Motor Insurers' Bureau (MIB) compensates the victims of road accidents caused by uninsured and untraced motorists."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_insurance

You can get $1 million in liability insurance in the US, and people do. It's not unaffordable, and while it is a pre-requisite to the uninsured coverage mentioned previously, it can be purchased alone.
So marrying someone younger than you is now equivalent to rape?
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It actually makes a lot of sense from a survival of the fittest standpoint.
The topic is fascinating, but I found this paper hard to read.

Could someone provide an extra clear ELI5 so I can re-read with that context in mind?
Not the parent poster but:

a) Type classes/interfaces.

b) "Native JS for me, not for thee". Much like Go gatekeeps generics to the language authors only, Elm restricts native JS access only to the language runtime because devs "might get it wrong"; forcing them to use the ports system, where they have to type the use of even perfectly pure JS code as a side effect.

c) The official package manager forbids the upload of any package that interacts with JS without the blessing of the BDFL.

I'm aware on the tradeoffs of each case, I understand Evan's intentions; but I heavily disagree with them, which is why I don't entertain Elm as an option for production use anymore and would rather go with something like Reason despite being less knowledgeable about it.
Any thoughts on business models for Databases going forward? Some interesting recent developments make DBs a challenging vertical to bootstrap in

a. Proprietary is a non starter, since increasingly large customers will insist on the source being available.

b. Integration / Consulting is no longer viable since the cloud providers will likely offer a hosted / managed solution around a new OSS.

c. Licensing is difficult to enforce if you are giving your code away for free.

Will DBs join file systems and debuggers as pieces of the stack where the only way to build one is to be inside a megaco or as a side project? Am struggling a bit to understand how to monetize infrastructure software going forward. (I have ignored the option of raising $X M to build something and be acquired before shipping to a large customer base).
The change is the most important part. Talk is cheap.
> I suspect that total involuntary surveillance is not something the majority of the (United States) populace signed up for.

I certainly agree, but just wait until They/Them/Those start telling us this is part of some sacrosanct "social contract," and those who don't like it can simply leave.

Edit: small changes for clarity.
Even if the money is never spent, those rich donors are still worse off than if they had kept the money. So I have to wonder what you think is their goal.
Duo recently added a feature (haven’t tested it yet) that allows you to transfer to another phone.

Quote from email:

In late August we will release an updated version of the Duo Mobile app that includes a new feature called Duo Restore. This functionality enables Android and iOS Duo Mobile users to recover their Duo-protected accounts when they get a new device.

Duo Restore is an opt-in feature that can be enabled or disabled by Duo Administrators in the Duo Admin Panel. It is not enabled by default.
There is plenty of food being produced to feed everyone at present. The problem of starvation is one of distribution and not one of production.
What's interesting though, is that these people actually know him. Anyone else on earth most likely doesn't know him, but has formed a negative opinion of him via his own actions and those of his company.
Finding someone else to eat it?
If you live near any urban area in the Bible Belt, it is more common than you think. Granted, if you're in a small town or rural area, you're absolutely right.
There are several definitions of overpopulation, making you both right.

The first definition refers to a population so large that resources get depleted so much that the population crashes. The canonical example is lemmings.

Another definition refers to a population so large that it causes widespread harm to the ecosystem.

So it's a myth by the first definition and a reality by the second.
true to that and also most os's give pretty good individual app control these days. the only thing i can see is special group controls. to be honest i do not really see the addiction factor especially to the device itself, it's possible functions i suppose. i have seen people that can have very strange addictions though like gambling but there are some very unique ones specific to individuals all of these types are neurological as opposed to physical addiction though.

like you i find them annoying as well but keep important ones like appointments and such.
Is this really Kyle Vogt?
Well. Old-fashioned communication is dying anyway. Even IRC channels I used to be active on even in 2017 are now moving to different platforms like Discord.

For person to person communication no one I know was using XMPP still uses it.

Is that good or bad? Probably bad. Single open and secure standard (I don't care which one) should be better for average person experience. Not having to keep 4 apps running and stuff.
No, because the user can both have a government agency do it for them, and delegate the right to apply the GDPR to a nonprofit advocacy organization.
Not that surprising when food and safety are two of the most basic human needs.
Isn't vdom diff a way to not do things?
Hey, check out all videos on youtube about doing pushups!

How hard it can be to do a pushup? But everyone has his own style of video and maybe you don't like/understand 8 in 10 then 9th is not that good and 10th is something you like.

With CS stuff like programming, maybe your approach will be understandable for people more that what is already written. Maybe you will pick up some detail that others skipped.
You're being disingenuous to claim I inferred that.
ORCL did not participate in the tech rally of the last couple years. I think their tactics have caught up with them.
So, for an extension like Shipstation, which is how many ecommerce sites manage postage and labeling, I see that they haven't updated their extension since last year: https://woocommerce.com/products/shipstation-integration/. The listed compatibility is with WooCommerce 3.3.

Put yourself in the shoes of an ecommerce site operator. When a Wordpress minor release like 4.9 comes out, do I upgrade or not? How do I balance the security patches with the potential of breaking a critical part of my workflow?

EDIT: I meant WC 3.3. 4.1.19 was actually the plugin version
Replacing the entire tree is very rarely, if ever, faster than doing the fast thing.
I'm always surprised by how little we understand the soil under our feet.

For example, Glomalin is a soil protein produced by fungi which can constitute more than 10% of soil by weight (as is strongly correlated with 'tilth'/high quality soil). It was only discovered in 1996!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomalin
> I agree, especially when we incarcerate kids for having an ounce of pot for years. It really feels like a war on the poor sometimes. Other countries have laws with much bigger teeth than here and it is sad.

You're absolutely, completely, 100% correct! This crap is abominable. It destroys lives and whole communites for no reason at all other than that they're the wrong color.

This case, though? It might be a little different and maybe not an example of the pattern you're looking at. To be clear, the SEC doesn't bring criminal charges. It's quite literally not an option for them. They shouldn't be derided for doing what they're capable of - levying fines.
Almost certain it is not. EU is way more consumer friendly then USA and FB is an American company.
> Oreos

You need to take them out of the original packaging and put them in a greyscale container as well.
It is interesting that Facebook has chosen such an obviously non-compliant approach. Maybe they think thyy will just get away with ignoring the regulation. Or they want just want to see what EU move and user feedback will be as soon as possible, so they can start to prepare/work it.
Reversing back the clock on evolution feels counter productive.
Same goes for any recent Windows version (1709 or 1803?) - Settings -> Ease of Access -> Color filters.