skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look nice, any chance to have a light them for the docs? It's really quite straining to read the docs in dark mode.
I was born in a landlocked country with plenty of lakes, and was taught to swim simply by jumping into a deep river. I've learned how to deal with otherwise deadly whirpools by letting them drag you to the bottom then swimming along the stream. I knew how to efficiently swim against a fast stream if needed. I knew how to navigate the muddy water. I've crossed a spring flood once when I was young and stupid.

I was sure that seas with their salt waters are no problem. Boy was I naive; in my first real sea swim I nearly died to a current dragging me a couple miles into the sea through a flock of jellyfish.
> firearms ownership become very important as that becomes one of the few things that forces people to have value for each other at a very basic level

... what? Fear at a basic level, perhaps, but making murder weapons widely available is the opposite of respect for human life.
Dave Chappelle tells a story somewhere about his all-time favorite comedy being an old tape of Richard Pryor bombing terribly, early in his career. Apparently Pryor goes on for 30-40 minutes, doing a bunch of different bizarre routines, none of them working at all. Then Chappelle's punch line is that when you watch this tape knowing Pryor's later material, you can see how every bit is the raw initial form of what would eventually become his best, most famous routines.
Seems utterly bizarre considering all of those devices must have come from China in the first place...
readline and ZLE (and indeed libedit/editline) provide both emacs and vi key bindings.
“Be careful when reversing Unicode strings.”
Really interesting.
https://www.sherekhudahazratali.com/2018/08/khana-e-kaba-ki-...
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If I were Apple, I'd just not pay the fine and let the EU try to ban the iPhone from being sold. And then I'd ignore the ban until they tried to enforce it, at which point I'd just stop selling them.

It would cause an absolute uproar. No iPhones because the EU doesn't like the Lightning port? The argument won't stand a moment's scrutiny and within a week, individual governments will be so averse to the controversy that the EU would be forced to fold.
I'm slightly surprised that it took this long for someone to try a drone assasination of a public figure. Drones have already been weaponised in Syria.

Of course, there are at least three competing suspects for this one - Colombia, Venezuela itself (false flag or internal opposition), or the CIA.

Edit: for "drone" read "quadcopter or similar multirotor electrically propelled craft"
Revenue seems apt. Countries GDP also do not take costs and taxes into account...or does it?
If a researcher told me they couldn't provide primary data because their hard drive crashed, I'd contact their dean and the editor of the journal that published the article, and let them know. Researchers have a duty (unfortunately not well codified) to retain primary source data, and "hard drive crash" isn't an excuse (it means they didn't take even basic backup and archival measures).
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Most of the reference I found have some relation to blockchain in it. Do you know of existing work of DID + IPFS?
They wouldn't allow it to happen to a state.

But to Puerto Rico? Yes, very much so. To Detroit? Sure!
Well some hope is good. Cows are a bigger deal than you might think see eg. "Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars" https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/cow...
That'll actually be complimentary. Long-haul trucking is the part that's least desirable for humans AND the easiest to automate.

Highway driving is not hard in comparison with the actual local driving part, getting into tight loading docks, dealing with humans giving directions (at the terminals), handling driveways/paths not on maps, and so on.

And that's the sort of job that's a better quality of life for humans than long-haul is. Go to the terminal in the morning, make short trips all day, be off work at a normal hour, sleep in your own bed and be with your family at night, just like a normal job.

So given that, I actually see trucking as one of the areas where increasing automation may be a smooth transition, especially with the labor shortage in the industry.

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The hypothetical middle-term future then, looks like: Humans on either end making the last-mile trips, automation getting trucks between major terminals via highway.
Then we find out whether a gun fitted with propellors counts as a "drone" or a "firearm".
Out of curiosity, what did you do differently in order to get your speedup?
Ok. I personally don't think that's a female activity, but I take your point that others might.

That said, I don't have any children of my own. As such, I only have a vague idea about the challenges involved. I am without a doubt, ignorant to the reality of child rearing.

Does that make me sexist?
Great video! Thx, for sharing.
>Has anyone had any luck finding a way to put perspective on it, or figure out a lie that helps keep you going?

The article itself has some helpful perspective if you read past the headline:

>The authors of the essay, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, stress their analysis is not conclusive

>New feedback loops are still being discovered

>Rockström says there are huge gaps in data and knowledge about how one process might amplify another

>Another climate scientist – who was not involved in the paper – emphasised the document aimed to raise questions rather than prove a theory. “It’s rather selective, but not outlandish,” said Prof Martin Siegert, co-director of the Grantham Institute. “Threshold and tipping points have been discussed previously, but to state that 2C is a threshold we can’t pull back from is new, I think. I’m not sure what ‘evidence’ there is for this – or indeed whether there can be until we experience it.”

>Rockström said the question needed asking. “We could end up delivering the Paris agreement and keep to 2C of warming, but then face an ugly surprise if the system starts to slip away,” he said. “We don’t say this will definitely happen. We just list all the disruptive events and come up with plausible occurrences …

A very nuanced take from the guardian imo! Then again, they pull an unscientific quote for the article conclusion:

>“In the context of the summer of 2018, this is definitely not a case of crying wolf, raising a false alarm: the wolves are now in sight,” said Dr Phil Williamson, a climate researcher at the University of East Anglia.

Tfw there's no penalty for crying wolf...
That doesn't account for focusing on other things. There are a multitude of things to take into account while playing dota that can pull your attention; you can't always directly focus on your character in expectation of a blink initiation.
When you become large enough that you are effectively replacing the town square, you have an extraordinary responsibility to let everyone have their soap box, because otherwise, you are dictating public opinion.

For better or for worse, the ideas that grasp the most people have prevailed historically.

Letting one small group of people, regardless of how they're chosen, or how self-righteous they feel, decide what's okay and not okay to say, will never end well.
You could reformat the drives but what if someone has infected the firmware on the drive?

Check out: https://www.malwaretech.com/2015/04/hard-disk-firmware-hacki...
minor nitpick, but Apple (the publicly traded corporation) by definition does not own any shares outstanding and therefore would have none to sell. But yes, if 90% of Apple shareholders sold in a single day, something would be terribly wrong.
The solution isn't magical. The mechanism is explained in the article.

Also, it doesn't promise to solve climate change, only to limit the output of methane pursuant to California regulation.
Too bad it failed if it was a real attack. They didn't even manage to rip the umbrella: https://twitter.com/nukestrat/status/1026564955087228928
Well, you explained the attractiveness of both vim and emacs better than I did, so I now better understand why people like Emacs, and I hope this also helps explain to the grandparent why people often try Vim.

Emacs still is not that high of a priority for me to learn (I don't care much for org-mode or non-CLI-git), but at least it's on the list now, so well done :)
You're not important enough. HIPAA rules, which are incredibly vague (I've had to implement HIPAA-compliant systems, and the guidance is non-existent), are in place to protect the rich and powerful, not ordinary people. The fines are exorbitant, and are targeted to individuals, not institutions (i.e., the hospital doesn't pay the fine, the nurse who accidentally lefty a folder lying around does).

Personally I think HIPAA is a cruel joke and we would be better to do away with it, in favor of writing or enforcing laws against abusive behavior. I.e., it should not be a problem if people know your medical history if there are laws protecting you from, say, insurance discrimination, or personal prejudice by your medical practitioner. Such a law, however, might require protecting ordinary people.
That depends if you are reading original journalism or aggregated journalism. Something from Reuters or AP (or a tweet .. ) might be on hundreds of websites, but look at a list like this, https://www.aldaily.com/media/ , how many of these stories dont really get published elsewhere.
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Man, you don't have any faith in human resilience?

An average global temperature increase of 4c is bad, but survivable easily with modern technology and good planning.

80% of the worlds population live within 50 miles of a coast line. There's still plenty of room inland.

You want a retirement plan? Buy land in the the Rockies or the Alps.
I assume you are looking for some product to build, but 99% of the time what people want is access to accurate and complete data. Provide quality data and you can offer it up as a wordstar text dump via ftp and people will use it.

This is all just a long winded way of saying focus on the data and leave the API till later.
You're right of course. Nevertheless there's a difference between saying "the simulating computer probably uses error-correcting codes or something" (speculation) vs. saying "an experiment suggests (same thing)" (science).

To borrow from Nick Bostrom: suppose we run two types of simulations. Important simulations and un-important simulations. For the important sims, we use error-correcting codes, we save checkpoint images, etc. For the unimportant sims, we don't do those things, in order to save money. This allows us to run far more unimportant sims than important sims. Thus, if someone is incarnated randomly in one of the sims, it's probably one of the cheap ones (just because there are more cheap sims than important sims, by basic economics). The point is just to show that it is possible for a philosopher to argue against error-correcting codes etc. Indeed, if we leave it to philosophers, we'll probably never make progress.

We need to appeal to the muse of science, that harsh mistress who serves us cold hard facts, every single one of which throws 50% of philosophers out into the darkness where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth :)
The pull is pretty strong, and you can feel it pulling you out. When it's not pulling at you any more you can feel it. You can be quite a long way offshore before you're out of it.
And yet, trials exist.
disregarding contraband, lots of people distrust the non-transparent bidding system on centralised platforms
> Venezuela itself

If this was staged then it was too realistic IMO. There's too much confusion, people don't fake staged stuff that well.
I mean look at their economy, if that government was a system that enabled capable individuals to excel (to stage such events so effectively) then the country wouldn't be such a shambles.
I found the endless scrolling for dribs and drabs of content to be horribly annoying, and the graphs didn't seem especially meaningful to me.
In the table it also specifies which is male and which is female.
Selected Excerpts:

"...so it turns out that every flash memory disk ships with a reasonably powerful microcontroller to run a custom set of disk abstraction algorithms."

[..]

"The embedded microcontroller is typically a heavily modified 8051 or ARM CPU. In modern implementations, the microcontroller will approach 100 MHz performance levels, and also have several hardware accelerators on-die. Amazingly, the cost of adding these controllers to the device is probably on the order of $0.15-$0.30, particularly for companies that can fab both the flash memory and the controllers within the same business unit. It’s probably cheaper to add these microcontrollers than to thoroughly test and characterize each flash memory chip, which explains why managed flash devices can be cheaper per bit than raw flash chips, despite the inclusion of a microcontroller."

Translation: Who would have thought that a plain flash memory card -- might have an actual computer on it?
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Yeah I was thinking the chances of tech solutions like solar wind and batteries getting better helping are quite high, the chances human nature and habits changing are a bit lower.
Well, we really don't know what was said as the blog didn't actually provide any of the original communications. It's a he said she said thing at this point. Frankly the author comes across as having a huge axe to grind. That may be with good reason but it's hard for me to judge the quality of the Azure support when we never see any of their communications, just paraphrases.
I've heard that Scratch is a good language for children.
https://scratch.mit.edu/
Did you do a split test on this design and find that the page without these transitions provides more value? No?
A bit OT, but if your hassle with disk utility was related to imaging your card, I'd recommend https://etcher.io/ . It's an unbelievably simple and friendly tool.
This is making a good case for death penalty.
Of course, and that's why you don't have to make several attempts each time you want to turn on the lights. Sure, sometimes it misunderstands you, but the error rate is similar to that of normal conversation. I never thought I'd like voice control until I got an Echo Dot, but now I'm 100% sold. Of course I don't buy things with it, but I don't buy that much with Amazon anyway...
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Fucking ninja edits on HN all the time. Good job justaman.
Somebody who was fantastic at picking exactly the right word for a joke was the British comedienne Victoria Wood.

"During a stand-up routine from 1996, Victoria says the word "bollocks" then comments on the scandal inherent in this. "It will be in the paper on Monday. ‘Woman says bollocks near Cheadle'.’’ As Rebecca Front states in the documentary: “Cheadle being the absolute perfect near-Manchester town. It just falls in the right way.” Victoria could have said "Sale" or "Hyde" or "Droylsden", but they wouldn’t have been as funny as "Cheadle". She had an unerring instinct for the mot juste."

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/bbbRrf2hng7ddQ7HVH6...
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I am old enough to have been through several cycles of people announcing various calamities ahead. I'm not going to list them. Your question was about finding perspective, not about this particular issue.

For each of these, when confronted by my friends, I have asked them to write down what they are worried about and what disaster they see in 10-20 years. Then later, after that time frame has passed, come back and make an assessment of where we are now.

By writing it down they get to judge whether or not their current assessment of the future turns out to be actually as bleak as they imagine it to be.

This has not been the case so far. Oddly enough, I think many people find that disappointing as well. I firmly believe when the end of the world finally arrives, there will be a ton of pissed-off people that it didn't end the way they were worrying about all those years.

But after being disappointed and a little angry, most of my friends have found some solace and calm in the fact that it's never as bad as you think it's going to be. This has nothing to do with the climate. The same can be said of many, many other personal tragedies that do not involve it. Writing it down and then honestly looking at your thoughts later is a great way to separate your natural inclination for disaster-seeking from what's actually occurring.

Everybody has a natural "set point" for either being optimistic or fearing the future. It's important to learn what yours is.
Ask HN: What are the best way to mental dump?
I'm considering the same with my kids but not done it yet yet. Scratch seems like a pretty good start. If they prefer seeing something more physical rather than an animated cat, the BBC Microbit can be programmed to do blinkenlights in the same way.
I love the sarcasm, truly, but that doesn't actually accomplish the goal. If the goal is to live near a group of similar aged folks, all buying a single-family home does is separate the walls a bit. You are now locked into a neighborhood in which your neighbors can easily have children who will run around screaming in the area, often ignoring who's yard belongs to whom.

Source: Bought a house before, neighbors moved in with 4 kids who ran around screaming loudly and ignored that my yard wasn't theirs to play in. They also had 2 rather large labs that barked loudly day and night. Working from home with that sort of constant noise pollution is super irritating.
Perhaps Scratch? https://scratch.mit.edu/
You have subscribe and save and amazon dash buttons as non-voice alternatives.

I've never had the slightest problem with my dash button WRT counterfeit and SKU foolishness... push button next to empty kitchen trash bag box, receive kitchen trash bags tomorrow, it really is that simple.
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I don't think it is possible for a 5 year old.
Even with a Puzzle language like scratch you must read and know basic numbers.
I'm not sure you read the parent comment as it was intended.
It's also a new form of slavery.
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Note that this doesn't work like the recommendations in the activity stream, where recommendations are picked client-side from a standardised list.

> we want people to clearly understand that Laserlike will receive their web browsing history before installing the experiment

Thus, keep that in mind before installing the extension: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/advance
This is presentation by Jamie Berard[0] was held at a Brickfest in 2006 and provides a few examples of connections that are legal and their illegal counterparts. While this is a great reference when it comes to understanding the concept of legal and illegal connections, please keep in mind that this is only a glimpse into the quality assurance at LEGO.

Some of the illegal techniques in this document are now legal.

Original PowerPoint presentation (ppt) also available.[1]

Discussion[2] on Eurobricks forum has many additional info about "legal" and "illegal" LEGO bricks connections.

P.S.: On June 22, 2018 Brick Architect blog published latest interview with Jamie Berard.[3]

[0] http://en.brickimedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Berard

[1] https://pileofgarbage.net/misc/LEGO-StressingTheElements.ppt

[2] https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/105...

[3] http://brickarchitect.com/2018/interview-lego-creator-expert...
In the old days of scan codes the left hand side of the keyboard had (in general) shorter keycodes than the right hand side, so could accomodate more keys being pressed.

People started playing fps with the big keypad, but you'd often run into issues where you could only use 2 or 3 keys at a time.

Several games such as Duke Nukem etc came with utilities in which you could check if your specific keys would lock the keyboard; after that the default movement keys switched to wasd. For myself I preferred to use 1 finger per key, so I switched to escf.
The other opposing force to including everything is user interface design and usability.

You don't want to put too many irrelevant things in the menu or list of activities you can log, goal you can pursue, or questions you must answer.

The system can filter out some things that don't apply to you, like only suggesting pram jogging if you have small kids, but then it has to ask if you have small kids to know that, and it might leave out people who help take care of other people's kids. So should it also ask about those personal details? Should it ask for your home's geolocation so it can check if you live on a steep street, before suggesting you pedal your kids around in a Bakfiets, so it doesn't accidentally give you advice that leads to a heart attack?

So you have to balance what you put in with how much the system needs to know about you, and how many irrelevant questions and suggestions it's going to throw at you.
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Do you really believe this stuff improves reading?
Just google the "Scott Adams rule of slow moving disasters". Even if the climate is changing, it won't happen overnight, and there are many ways to either adjust to climate change, or to adjust the climate itself.
I like him!!!! even if I don't agree with him sometimes.

People need to be a lot more straightforward in their daily dealings with others. The world would be a much better place.
Your description of experimental quantum physics exactly matches the work done in state of the art biology. It basically takes 10-20 years of training and excellent brains to reproduce your competitor's paper in a way that lets you build on top of it. Many people who complain that papers aren't reproducible just don't have the skill to move the state of the art, because it's become so esoteric and challenging to run the critical experiments.

I used to be a "everything must be replicable by even the simplest of people" person, but I changed to "for progress to be made there must be <X> competent people who can reproduce challenging experiments and run new ones".
Do you use Gmail or Google search?
Yes, this is a whitewashing of that exactly. My father and 3-year old nephew also left this comment! I had no idea he was so advanced for his age.
How exactly is using Alexa giving up personal privacy? The device isn't recording your conversations you realise?
It says 50 million "users". I'd be curious how that's counted. 50 million dedicated Alexa devices in current use would definitely be something. But I've got 3 non-dedicated devices that I nominally could use Alexa on, but they're all off. Are they counting me as a user, or possibly three users? Because I'm not.

(I don't want a voice assistant anyhow, but the devices in question are two tablets and an Android phone with the Amazon shopping app. I'm not sure how "Alexa-y" the latter is, I've never fully experimented with it. Hitting the microphone icon says I can order things.)