skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution to that is for people to stop storing that level of personal info in facebook. I can't believe people would share that kind of intimate information,

People don’t have to specifically share the information with Facebook. You can infer a lot about people based on thier friends graph, thier likes, and FB tracks you across the web. You can tell which income percentile people most likely fall in just by the movies they said they liked (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/02/635129556/grey...).
Memetastic on f-droid works well!
Their subcontractors bring in tax, not them. And Amazon are not creating the jobs that working class wants, since they give no future guarantees.
They also wash the cutlery!

Condiments are also available in recyclable glass containers, including 'HP Sauce'. None of these single portion sachets.

As of yet nobody has died of foot and mouth disease, AIDS, rabies, leprosy or any other ailment known to be communicable via forks that have been previously used.

They could do better though, in post mad cow disease Britain you can't feed the food slops to pigs.
Study hopes to help expand digital financial inclusion
A strategy that has worked well for me was to only use Qt and libraries based on Qt with C++. Qt is pretty comprehensive for a lot of usecases, and has a rich ecosystem of third-party libraries that follow the same conventions as the Qt APIs.
Parts of my local are 600 years old, and there's a Roman road about 5 minutes walk away from my house. I'm always amazed when I look at an Ordnance Survey map and see the amount of tumulus (burial mound) and other ancient structures. We are surrounded by history but mostly unaware of it. I sometimes wonder about what's out there waiting to be discovered. Perhaps one day we'll have archaeological drones roaming around looking for undiscovered treasures.
Anatomy of a Random Number Generator
I cannot square that with a generation jobless, unable to buy their own place or even a car in many cases. If you cherry pick what 'poverty' is, I guess so, and surely even the least of us live better than 13th century peasants. But better than in 1980? No.
Apple scores a benchmarkable path
Not only does private industry spend more on R&D, but I'd personally argue that their $400 billion is required to be more effective at a per-dollar level, given the inherent competitiveness and need to create something profitable.
Venetian Blinds for the 2600 could be interpreted as the first "art game" (only being half sarcastic here)
I'm not convinced of that. If you watch any documentaries or read any articles about the processing that goes on you'll see that it's very labor intensive. That means it's only exporting (or importing) dollar bills for certain markets.
AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chinese Consoles
Hidden Traps in Regular Expressions
Few years ago Bea Johnson, a French born US citizen, was all in the news on how she's near zero waste

https://frenchly.us/bea-johnson-a-french-woman-on-a-zero-was...

I guess she should get on television asap
Researchers use Google Glass to help kids with autism
Artificial Intelligence goes further than just being automation through software or robotics. The difference is the 'intelligence' where, at an increasing pace, more complex tasks can be done completely autonomously. Therefore the impact to revolutionize the society and job markets is much more accelerated. As per the article, agree that new type of jobs will be created, think a recent study by PwC projected a net job gain by the impact of AI over the next decade. One thing is for sure, the accountant will look quite different in a decade or two.
>I don't understand why it's so hard ... we have machines that separate tiny seeds

Not hard, just expensive. And understanding how seeds are separated (not only that they are separated) makes it clear why plastics require so many more steps.

For seeds, it's a two-step process.

First comes threshing[1], which is the act of physically breaking the seeds off the plant. Basically they solved this problem by hitting the stalks against a solid surface. This works because all the plants are the same type and age, so you can dial in a force that will break the seeds _off_ without breaking them _apart_.

This won't work for plastics, because they're combined with all sorts of other materials that whacking won't dislodge. One shot of that "Plastic China" documentary[2] shows a worker using a box cutter to remove a plastic label that's shrink-wrapped around (not glued to) a crushed container.

The second step is called winnowing[3], and it's basically just blowing air through the falling seeds to separate them aerodynamically from the straw and chaff. This works because seeds have a higher ballistic coefficient (mass/drag). Winnowing is also done with screens or slats, relying on the fact that seeds are of uniform size.

But plastics have all different shapes and sizes. Wind winnowing can certainly be used as part of a processing chain (eg to separate films from bulk plastics), and so can screens, but they're nowhere near a complete solution.

Because of these complexities, automatically processing plastic at scale requires a lot more than just those two steps (which nowadays are combined together with reaping in the cleverly-named "combine harvester" or combine[4]). That means it's expensive, and that means someone in China with cheap labor and "externalized" pollution costs (read: make your neighbors get sick and die, but don't even have the decency to pay their doctor bills or keep their windowed spouses/orphaned children off the street) can outbid you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshing

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17678513

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnowing

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combine_harvester
Why live in Toronto for a 90k CAD salary when I can live close to Waterloo and get an 80k CAD salary? Perhaps I'm very lucky, but it goes a lot farther.
Yeah, Hanson phrases this idea poorly. It might be better to say that creating large backroom software has something of a high barrier to entry. For instance, popular packages like DynamoDB (internal to Amazon.com before public release) and TensorFlow (internal to Google before public release) make certain types of work easier and more efficient; they’re also large enough that they couldn’t easily be reproduced by smaller competitors. Those companies had to pay the said “large fixed cost,” as well as a continuous cost for maintenance, to develop those tools. Economies of scale play a related role here—the more engineers you can afford to hire, the less you have to outsource and the more you can create in-house solutions that can be reused companywide and ultimately give you a competitive advantage long-term.

In fairness to Hanson, a natural monopoly is distinct from a “monopoly” in the popular sense. Public utilities are often natural monopolies—for instance, a city might have only one power company because it doesn’t make sense to build the redundant infrastructure for two power companies. Doing so would incur a high, unnecessary fixed cost. [1] I think Hanson’s trying to draw an analogy to such firms, though I find it a bit loose.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
Why does it have to be a self-contained binary? When you pack everything into an virtualenv you get more or less the same result, don't you? If you want to have a single file you can zip it :)
UK Government‘Turns Blind Eye’ to Forced Marriage, Hands Visas to Rapists
i would like to know which African country gets dumped with all this waste
Statically linked binaries are hardly new. As with everything they come with tradeoffs.
Pretty soon indeed.
I've been there.
There's some threshold where "quick wash of everything not explicitly full of stuff" is cheaper/more economical than inspecting, so that shouldn't really prevent automation. Maybe just make it a bit harder.
This is cool! Is there no way to save the image though?
Yet somehow people survived for a very long time without refrigeration. In fact, we evolved to live without it, so those bacteria are probably good for us if anything. Personally I don't even like to eat cold food as it diminishes the flavour.

It's super easy to bring food to work and just eat it at room temperature. But instead people insist on this weird fridge then microwave ritual then complain about it being too difficult.
Or you just bundle them all in to the binary like a monster.
I get the intent, but at the same time, doesn't disclosing all potential negative consequences in the paper also provide a sort of guideline on how to weaponize their research as well?

Seems like a double edged sword, potentially making it easier to negatively utilize the research.
Please feel free to post links to those threads. I did my best to respond to HN commentors in earlier discussions here.
The article mentions some of the benefits. For example:

"Two recent experimental studies by Lee et a and Laukkanen et al in 100 men and women (56% men; age, 32-75 years) with at least 1 cardiovascular risk factor reported reductions in both systolic BP and diastolic BP after 30-minute sauna bathing sessions. In addition to reductions in BP, sauna bathing led to positive alterations in measures of arterial stiffness such as pulse wave velocity."

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(18)...
You're being unnecessarily mean.

First of all, there's no _ in sight in regular identifiers (99,99%). They're always CamelCase and Kebab-Case when including the verbs.

Secondly, it's case insensitive so you don't even need to go CamelCase. Just lowercase-itallthewaytothebank :D

Thirdly, it depends on what you want to do. You can use $_ and % and various Perlish shorthands for faster CLI usage, but it's your call. You don't have to mix, you can go full C# and just use the names or go full Perl and use the shorthands, it's up to you.

And fourthly, that bureaucracy makes things very discoverable. Now you're used to bash, but bash & ecosystem suck hard the first few months, until you accumulate the baggage, sorry, the knowledge to use them proficiently :)
It's a lot more than what you get in Asia or the US, or most of the world. Maybe not as good as Western Europe, and not as good as Scandanavia or Switzerland
China steals IP (especially military and space) from Russia all the time. It just doesn’t get into the western news much. Even if they aren’t enemies anymore, they are still frenemies.

IP theft is also a problem in Europe, Australia, etc, but again, the news doesn’t reach us often.
Lots of that "compostable" stuff won't break down in home compost bins, and instead needs to be ground up and hot composted in a municipal setting.
The book by Peyton Jones et al is certainly broader, covering denotational semantics, pattern matching, polymorphism, list comprehension, type-checking, laziness, garbage collection, etc. It has also quite a few chapters on Miranda, Wadler's (one of the co-authors) favorite language.

Compiling Lambda Calculus (CLC) concentrates on one thing: compiling untyped lambda calculus (or its incarnation, Scheme) to abstract machine code and then to C. It goes more into the depths of lambda calculus and has more examples (like Church numerals, etc). It also contains the complete source code to all compilers described in the text.

I would argue that CLC would be the better choice for a beginner.
Small consumption may with sleep, but large consumption hinders quality sleep.
The people didn't get screwed by the technological advancement. They were forsaken by society. The technological advancement will happen either way. The problem that can be avoided is letting people starve on the streets but as history has shown we prefer to silence them with bullets rather than help them.

The "Luddite" argument is about what happens to the "useless" people. So far everyone just says "It's gonna be fine. Everyone else will be better off." which is equivalent to "fuck you I've got mine".
I know, right? The only reason I realised that was because I am from a country that legally has all of that but none of it properly works. Large corporations don’t work very well in these countries (or they work really well, depending on how illegal they would like to be).
"I've had to cultivate a tougher skin" - love that bit.
And the other party, which came into power just two years later also "could just as easily" have repealed it. So you must blame the other party as well in this case.
Ham radio in the first quarter of the 20th century, when people built their own transmitters and receivers, winding their own coils and making high voltage caps out of sheets of glass. Often the station was in a “shack” in the back yard, because the open cell battery fumes and the noise and ozone of the spark gap caused an eviction from the house.

Hams have continued this experimentation to the present day. The community was in danger of aging out, but recently there’s been a connection with the maker community via WiFi technology, digital tech and sdr.

Happily, hams are finally getting away from Windows and are embracing FOSS.

For example, it’s not too difficult to homebrew a tripod mounted uhf system and antenna which, when set down outside, will orient itself and track a given satellite (itself built by hams) and initiate communications through it. You can’t buy something like that commercially.
Year 0 doesn't exist either. 1 BC is directly followed by 1 AD
There are a whole heap of gotchas that don't seem like a big deal if you're a savvy adult programmer, but are showstoppers if you're eleven years old and just getting into proper computing.

The Raspberry Pi is a very useful thing, but Eben Upton will freely admit that it was the wrong solution for the intended audience. It's just too complex and too brittle to work as a "modern BBC micro" for educational use. The lessons learned from RPi led to the BBC micro:bit, a much simpler Cortex M0 development board that has been a roaring success in British schools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Bit

The BASIC Engine isn't a suitable educational tool as-is, but it could become very useful if it's offered as a commercial product with HDMI or VGA output.
so basically how stuff was sold prior to world war 2 or how most stuff is sold on lcoal markets today?
Patronizing behavior at its very apex: bureaucratic Japan. And deeply ironic, as the average Japanese woman is getting married less and having children less, yet the old greyhairs in charge are still acting as if everything is as it was in centuries past.
I'll ramble on... I don't know, I certainly think that older action movies engage me more than new super hero movies in terms of characters. To some extent I guess it boils down to the fact that it's hard to suspend disbelief and make the protagonist relatable when he's got magic powers that he only uses while wearing spandex/latex.

Even the soldiers in The Predator seem more relatable and develop in more interesting and believable ways. Given their backgrounds, they react to the circumstances in plausible ways. The film doesn't hand you their backgrounds by having the first 30 minutes be some sort of genesis story and a montage, but by having the characters do what they do in a way that tells us more and more about them as the film progresses. I wouldn't call The Predator "subtle" but everything is relative.
China has very strategic reasons to catch up in jet turbines (semiconductors is the other one), so a lot of state money and resources are directed their.

Software IP is also a problem, but it is much easier to reverse engineer or simply replicate the research (all published, open source, etc...) that IP theft isn’t very necessary. They aren’t closely guarded state secrets like jet turbine production is.
Samsung's Galaxy Note 9 video leaked
Actually WPA with pre-shared key doesn't provide any security if key is publicly known (as someone can setup mitm device).

For wifi without password you should look at WPS.
(1) People do not value free stuff.

(2) To some people (like me), a few 100 EUR per month can make a huge difference.
> Compostable will produce methane etc., especially in your back yard.

Is that a bad thing for a small garden compost pile? I understand it's dangerous on a large industrial scale.
Nope, in Colorado there's a Pueblo building from the 12th century. It's there in the article
ProGuard and R8
Well in the short run, many people had a habit of recycling(like my parents) who don't anymore sense the local place doesn't take the materials anymore.
Putting Arch and reliable in vicinity to each other is stretching it a little.
C/C++ is fine as long as you adhere to coding standards like MISRA and you thoroughly test it. Our code for example, is unit tested, then we have java tests running on a server-based simulator, then other independently written java tests running on test benches that more closely represent the spacecraft itself, then a replica of the spacecraft.

The industry used to use Fortran / Ada quite extensively, and depending on company/organisation and team, might still do so. Things like the F-35 are written in C++, which is where I can see these things heading.
Also, people heavily underestimate the impact argricultue has on the enviroment.
Good to see that they are following the universal law of raytracing demos: a reflective sphere stuck randomly into the scene (at just under two minutes into the first video)

If you're trying to demonstrate the 'real world usefulness' of raytracing in games, the appearance of shiny ball bearings is a clear sign that you've run out of ideas.
Biocatch – Behavioral Fingerprinting, a new way to track you across devices
Semiconductor are the other strategic area China wants to catch up in, which Taiwan can do pretty well. Still very protected industry (the knowledge is super diffuse and closely guarded, only outdated fab equipment is exported to mainland fabs).
Methane is around 100X worse as a greenhouse gas than CO2. So even a little, is a lot.
Sure, present but not participating.
I break it down into 5 levels of wealth/freedom:

Class 1: you can afford your current lifestyle without concern for daily expenses, and could withstand 1 or more major emergencies (job loss, car destroyed, $30,000 bill) without reducing your lifestyle.

Class 2: your assets are sufficient that with a reduction in lifestyle you never have to work again.

Class 3: your assets are sufficient that with no reduction in lifestyle you never have to work again.

Class 4: no amount of incremental wealth will increase the amount you’d spend on a primary home, and you never have to work.

Class 5: no amount of incremental wealth will affect your spending on vacation homes, yachts, or planes and you never have to work.

There are obviously levels of subsistence below these. But these are, to my mind, the levels of wealth/freedom. Below these I wouldn’t call someone financially secure or say have “financial freedom.”

I think when creating these tiers it’s important to acknowledge that lifestyle is a variable and some people’s preferences make it easier to achieve different levels. If you have caviar tastes, you need more money to make it into class 1. If you are extremely frugal and well paid, it doesn’t take much actual money to make it into class 5. Lifestyle vs freedom is a choice and there’s a trade off - do you use extra money to buy lifestyle or to buy freedom?
Haha, that link reminds me of a substitution I got one time. Frozen garlic cubes were replaced with frozen mixed veg.

I thought it was a little odd at the time till the next time I was in the store and noticed the frozen garlic cubes were right next to the frozen mixed veg. So rather than apply logic and grab some other type of easy garlic they just grabbed the thing next to it. I actually facepalmed.
I'd say Shadow of the Colossus was regarded as a piece of art by critics on 2005 and the same for Ico, it's predecessor, released on 2001.
Safety critical standards indeed forbid memory allocation usually. If you want more details you can search for MISRA C (automotive market), the standards can be found online.

That being said, stack overflows and null derefs are not caused by dynamic memory allocation, so you still have to be careful about those and use some other rules / tools to protect you.
What makes it better in your eyes?

For a shop using React already, would you recommend Flutter over RN?
Compared to what?

You do realize that humans have toiled in misery, scraping by and fighting for their lives for 99.9999999% of our history right?
Plus you get templates and CTFE, which are both awesome. Though if you're doing web stuff I've found D compile times to not be so great anymore, especially when diet templates get into the mix.
Also I don't think you can access anything in the intranet on that Wi-Fi, it's entirely public, as you said.
Same here; I've tripped over various of the misfeatures described in http://arrgh.tim-smith.us/, which I wish I'd had when I started.

(About the object system: which one? There are several of them.)
Is there an accepted way to do this?
Everything has its cost. All sorts of arguments can be made. But this has to be a blunt political argument, not really about what's the worse societal harm. About big money surely.
No we'd probably work great together and be good friends. Now if I happened to be CEO in a sensitive industry.. it'd cross my mind ya.

Nothing personal, but slightly higher than average probability that you maintain enough ties to home to be persuaded in one form or another by the superpower pouring immense resources into doing exactly that.
Year 0 is obviously in the middle of the two.
Last orders: Ireland's vanishing 'quirky' shopfronts – in pictures
Taiwan was a dictatorship for much of the time it was economically developing, as was South Korea. We can’t really contribute their success to democracy, just perhaps their continued stability.
Maybe now americans will be more thoughtful
I like the intent behind this idea and think that it is important for ethics to start becoming part of Computer Science. I'd be curious if someone with more knowledge about medicine could explain how those publications handle these dilemmas. Especially with regards to CRISPR Cas9 as that is probably the most famous recent discovery that needs some serious ethical considerations.

My fear is that if Computer Science doesn't start acknowledging the ethical consequences of the work being done that it will lead to a sharp increase in regulations. This fear is primarily held with self driving cars which some seem to have been rushed into production and have lead to some serious consequences.
>Xiaoqing Zheng (JOW'-shing zehng)

this pronunciation is so off it offends me
The person you are responding to is talking about the bigger picture, whereas you are focusing on a local detail. While you make a really good point if you consider that you honestly thought you were talking about the same thing, instead you were not. Now it looks like you've subtly moved the goalposts, so that the person you are responding to has an argument that sounds ridiculous. Even though you've not responded to it at all.