skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read a bit about them and most sources say this, 'they were more encephalized and even in absolute terms had larger brains, but probably were not more intelligent.'

I didn't have any idea anyone would interpret this as racist, wtf?

The discussion on skull evolution I reference here is also mentioned in the OP. How can I be accused of racism and not the OP? That isn't consistent.
Before I deactivated I tried this.

Unfortunately this didn't always solve the problem. For one thing, it would still show those pages when someone interacted with those posts on say, someone else's profile who shared it.

Even then, there are thousands of new junk pages created for that garbage every day. It's nearly impossible to keep up with it. Though I unfollowed or unfriended those who were the worst offenders, there would be others who took their place.
On the surface this looks like a useful project. If you plan to use it, do yourself a favor and avoid looking at the source code.
I’ve also worked for major Bay area tech cos, and your description hasn’t matched my experience in any of them.
The current market doesn't price the externalities of carbon emissions. Without accurate pricing, market forces will stall some distance away from the optimal level of emissions, and we'll be worse off. Governments are the only entities powerful enough to solve such a widely-distributed coordination problem, and properly-functioning markets are contingent on properly-functioning governments.
Person 1: Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network.
Person 2: What is Google+?
I think there’s something that people mostly forget. Most of the times we are compairing microservices with monoliths but forget that almost all monoliths are much older than whatever microservice someone have recently built. Also whoever built those mostly have the luxury of not making the inevitable mistakes you did when you built the monolith. So saying that microservice is better than a crappy monolith is kind of not true. You can argue all you want about whatever style but anything well build is still good. And it’s easy to fuck things up in both scenarios.
But presumably we can say the same about the neanderthal of that era, given we have genetic material from both. So it seems a little odd to consider one extinct and the other some sort of continuity of species, when both populations contributed to our makeup.
Most of the startups we've seen grow massively in the last decade through word of mouth have been because people make a change and then tell others about it, i.e. viral growth.

If you switch to become veggie and start biking, and persuade >1 others to do the same, we should see exponential growth and you will have played your part in a substantial change for society.

I don't think it needs government intervention. The reasons to do it are compelling enough on their own with a little research. Look into it and consider making the change.
A 4 year old gaming CPU should still be plenty today. It's great that we're getting more cores, but they aren't much faster than the old ones, and many games haven't figured out how to use more than about 4.

GPUs? I have a few hundred old unplayed games on Steam that I'm working through. See you next gen!
What do you think it's more profitable to sell: one CPU with 8 cores or 2 CPUs with 4 cores?

What do you think it's more profitable to sell: one CPU with many PCIe lanes that you can attach 8 GPUs to (8 NVIDIA GPUs for 1 Intel CPUs), or more CPUs with fewer PCIe lanes (8 NVIDIA GPUs for 2 Intel CPUs)
Hubble Telescope, Disoriented, Takes a Nap to Reboot
This redirects to a 404 on a .pl domain. WTF, BI?
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I mean, is this really such an intellectual threat that it needs to be dissected with charts? Maybe it is, I dunno, but I don't feel like I actually see this viewpoint put forth in a serious manner often enough to need detailed arguments against. Sure it's a pastoral fantasy, every era has its version of that. People don't do it because it isn't realistic, I think that int itself is plenty refutation.
Email, call, text them. I've started sending birthday cards to my close friends (whose birthdays I actually know) rather than simply writing a message on their profile or shooting a quick text. I've found most really appreciate the card - it's interesting how birthday cards used to seem the 'easy' way to wish someone a happy birthday but now they appear to have more meaning.
The buried lede is that Google is shutting down Google+. (EDIT: for consumers: Google is keeping it as an enterprise product)
Funny, I am the opposite. I wouldn't buy an Intel at this point.
Individuals do care about efficiency, because they care about paying less in their electric bill.

How did the USA lower emissions the most in 2017 while also withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord? Because efficiency is increasing across the board and people are buying more efficient devices.

If you produced lab-grown meat that was undistinguishable and utilized energy more efficiently, then it would be less expensive and people would buy it.
Company finds a security vulnerability caused by a bug. Logs show that it has never been used by anyone. It patches the vulnerability.

[Honest question] Should the company announce it publicly?

PS: Keeping in mind that this is part of the Murdoch vs. Google war going on for about 10 years:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2009/11/murdoch_vs_google...

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/03/28/timing-everything-ru...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/22/16920254/news-corp-rupert...

[Edit: added the "Honest Question" tag]

Edit 2: Related post by Google:

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strob...
Dunno... this looks like the bare minimum Intel thought they could get away with. Sure, they added a couple cores but you give up HT on many models, no Spectre/Meltdown architectural fixes (ok, might still be early to expect that), iGPU stagnant, cutting back on cache size, every variant still significantly more expensive than Ryzen counterpart. Be curious to see how the overall performance comes out. It doesn't look so much like they're trying to compete as they are trying to not compete with their server processors. I'll probably be going Ryzen when I'm next in the market.
How I Overcame My Gaming Addiction and Built a Business to Help Others
I would say it does. Research shows that people are better able to do statistical calculations with whole numbers. So instead of 10.453% it should be 10453 people (can't find the source unfortunately).

If that's a thing, then I think your comment is also a thing.
FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals
I was about to say. Individuals didn't move, its just that the centre of mass of living humans shifted when people died off somewhere and prospered elsewhere.
Also in a similar situation. Make sure you let in all the love around you.
Notes on using git-replace to get rid of giant objects
I once saw a demo of a foam sealant that could be used temporarily to fill cracks in a basement. The demo had a person shove the end of the can into a crack and then just press it and shot out and filled the crack. Once it absorbed enough water, it would start to dissolve and came out as a kind of slurry where it could easily be vacuumed and replaced with a proper sealant. It wasn't a permanent fix but was just there to buy some time. If they could implement a system like that in a car where the foam fills the cabin instantly and then water or sprinklers quickly dissolve it, something like Demolition Man could probably be a reality.
It's just an excuse assholes use
Superluminal: Profiling Reimagined
Technically it's shutting down all consumer functionality for Google+.
My point here was not that people shouldn’t reuse good solutions and avoid redundant work if possible. It was that if this approach is “overly” desirable, then we will naturally see solutions deployed that are not 100% tailored to their application. Writing and designing good business is _work_.
it's about preemptively conditioning the west into accepting the mass arrival of "climate refugees" that's going to happen no matter what.
I’m doing this right now. I’m leaving Seattle for (censored) and I’m really happy to have not seen a single person here singing
praises of its many virtues and apologizing for its flaws yet.

If I see a comment further down doing that I might downvote it. :)
> There is going to be no way to use it with just one. If someone figures out a solution they will be the hero of the decade.

The deputy mission head seems to disagree with you

https://twitter.com/rachelosten/status/1049100320570261504
The Navy has always permitted beards, and still do. Has to be a full beard though, not just moustache.

Special forces too on ops. Some Scots regiments like Scots Guards still allow beards for Sergeants and possibly other ranks. They might even still encourage it.
GDPR proving to be great once again. The case for a US equivalent gets stronger. And more importantly, all these fuck ups will ensure that whatever bill gets drafted isn't just what the Facebook/Google lobbyists find acceptable.
I don’t see why it’s an amazing statement since it’s been a very common perspective since at least The Mythical Man-Month decades ago.

If other people makes plans based off of junk (read: any) estimates, it just amplifies the problems.

If you’re at least honest that the estimates are meaningless, everyone can acknowledge it and come up with different solutions, especially regarding speeding up the process to get started and make checking in about blockers more meaningful and consistent.
I hope the chrome team is looking at this too, with 65+% market share, it'll be real impactful when chrome makes similar optimizations.
Because we continuously reuse use a fairly limited number of patterns we get to optimize the hell out of them. At a generic level, not specific implementations, but you can still make them fast.

There are some other mitigating factors, like:

- the datastore is fully in memory

- you can spin up multiple datastores to share the load

You also don't tend to accidentally run into a performance issue. The constructions that cost more (e.g. nested derived collections) or are risky (kicking of derivations at a high interval) are known beforehand. You tend to know already if you're going to use a lot of memory or expect high CPU load.
> but they aren't much faster than the old ones

Each year the new CPU it's about 20% faster then the old one. After 4 years, it adds up. A top Intel CPU will now deliver twice the same single-thread performance than a 5 year old one of same price.
Minor clarification:

The DOM builtins should be helped by the Reference Types Proposal for WebAssembly. [1]

`The host bindings proposal` is going to help speed up new and getter/setter calls. [2]

1:
`Currently the only built-ins that we support this for are mostly limited to the math built-ins. That’s because WebAssembly currently only has support for integers and floats as value types.

That works well for the math functions because they work with numbers, but it doesn’t work out so well for other things like the DOM built-ins. So currently when you want to call one of those functions, you have to go through JavaScript. That’s what wasm-bindgen does for you.

But WebAssembly is getting more flexible types very soon. Experimental support for the current proposal is already landed in Firefox Nightly behind the pref javascript.options.wasm_gc. Once these types are in place, you will be able to call these other built-ins directly from WebAssembly without having to go through JS.`

-- https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types

2: `there are still a couple of built-ins where you will need to go through JavaScript. For example, if those built-ins are called as if they were using new or if they’re using a getter or setter. These remaining built-ins will be addressed with the host-bindings proposal.`

-- https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings

(BTW I could be mistaken, just quoting the article)
It'd be impossible to implement and verify. Countries would cheat.

It'd be better to take all associated costs with implementing and verifying such a scheme, and give them out as grants to entrepreneurs creating electric vehicles, clean energy, greenhouse-neutral farming, etc.
Brazil flirts with the far right
I would view it somewhat of another way - there is so much excess space in these Teslas, that the vehicle could be made smaller. Do we really need a frunk? What if the vehicle was made ~1m smaller instead?

This is what they are doing in China, with LSEVs:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-giant-market-for-tiny-ca...
Supprised no one mentioned Singapore yet. Lived there a couple of years. Huge tech and business scene in Asia, everyone speaks English, they welcome foreign talent, cheaper local food than most of western Europe, average residential Internet connection is about 7 times faster than the US according to speedtest.net, one page easy tax filing (no huge personal tax filing industry like H&R block), and you can rent a room in a shared appartment for around $400 per month. You also dont need a car and the typical doctor visit is much cheaper than the US. Singapore is like a well-oiled machine, clean and organized, a great feeling to be there. Worth checking out.
This trend is nothing more than a reflection of the fact that unemployment is at record lows. It does not represent a new, heightened morality in employees (that would persist even if the job market soured, for example).
Nice to know this fact.
I mean, he is saying the exact same thing you are saying - Intel kept making quad core CPUs for ages, bevause....they could. They had the tech to make CPUs with more cores for years - my workstation at work 5 years ago was using an 8-core/16 threaded Xeon chip. The only reason why it wasn't available branded as an i7 was that they wanted to keep it to the more expensive enterprise platform.
Not if programmers demanded the same salary universally, regardless of cost of living expenses- that's a big if though.
Facebook is a great place to get that message out, but it's only an echo chamber for ideologies. I guarantee those who don't believe in climate change are only seeing articles about why the IPCC report is wrong (note: this is an example, NOT my personal feeling).

I would argue Facebook is making the problem worse by making it very easy spread misinformation.
IIRC, there were a few different reasons why it was scary.

One of the first was this mission was the last one, it was a difficult repair—SC4 did the first in-orbit repair—to do at the time, especially outside of the telescope. Because when you leave the safety of the shuttle, you’re traveling at a rate of ~17,000MPH and where the hubble orbits, there is a much higher chance of debris floating around than as if they were lower in the atmosphere. So in laymen terms, you’re attached to a cord that is supplying you with O2 and spinning at 17,000 MPH while trying to avoid rocks and other dangerous floating objects.

One other danger was the O2 levels. He said the suits are heavy, all of your tools are attached to you via cords and you have limited time to be outside. If something where to happen in this situation, not only would you become unconscious within seconds from the lack of O2, you’d pretty much be a forever piece of debris floating around the galaxies as your body will never decompose or fall from orbit.

The latter part was one of his biggest worries. He knew that he’s on limited time, he also had to renter the shuttle slow because it’s similar to divers and decompression. If for some reason he went too fast or there was a leak somewhere, his suit would have instantly filled up and the pressure would have blew him apart inside the suit.
Not really. As soon as you change the dimensions, not the shape, of a pressed or forged or cast part you need new tooling. That is during production.

During assembly the dimension of a particular beam don't matter that much. The fact that this beam has to moved through an assembly line does. Once you remove that beam assembly is getting a lot easier.

You are right regarding swapping a fuel tank for a battery. But that was before they went to re-tooling assembly lines for EV vehicles. So it is easoer to run both cars through the same, specialized line. But that is the whole point, isn't it? Once these manufacturers did the re-tooling that doesn't matter anymore. And as soon as number go up even existing plattform are not that important as the are now.
one officer was yelling directions, the other officer shot him

the officer yelling directions was prosecuted, and that obviously failed because he was not the one shooting

not sure how to prosecute that, or what procedures in Arizona are available
Keep in mind that you are in Seattle, where many people will today celebrate "Indigenous Peoples Day." Outside of liberal enclaves like Seattle, I guarantee you that there will be lots of schoolchildren singing about how "Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492."

One can't help but enjoy the delicious irony of there being a federal holiday for a person who never stepped foot in this country, who sailed under a flag that wasn't his own nationality, who by all historical accounts was a raping / murdering / pillaging rogue. And then getting schoolchildren to sing about him. Says something about our country, its values, and its education system.
Ask HN: Documenting my child's life
Hi Everyone,

I'm about to become a first time father and I've been thinking about how to go about documenting my son's life. By documenting, I mean collecting all of the pictures/videos we take of him along with text descriptions of the events. Things like what we did for his 3rd birthday, his first words, when his Grandma died, etc. A sort of official record of everything that happened to him during his life. The idea being that when he's an adult he will have all of this in one place to go back to and look at when he wants.

The three main things I'm looking for are:

1) General Social Network stuff like uploading a post, pictures, etc. Possibly allowing other family members to contribute
2) The ability to download everything (pictures, posts, videos, etc.) into a single archive that comes with a html file that can be locally viewed
3) Something I can expect to exist 20 years from now

2 & 3 effectively eliminate every commercial site and anything that isn't open source in my mind.

My googling hasn't come up with anything that I think is suitable. I've come up with a few options:

(1) A self hosted Mastodon instance not connected to the fediverse. Mastodon has the most momentum behind it, but it doesn't seem to have the focus I want. It's more for short thoughts that are relevant for a relatively short amount of time.

(2) Creating my own site based on the ActivityPub standard. This is attractive because it gives me something to start on and would allow me to hook into the fediverse, if it ever really takes off. However, I can't seem to find a good basic ActivityPub library (preferrably Ruby/RoR) to use and rolling my own seems complicated.

(3) Creating the site from scratch based on my own data format. This is the simplest to get started, but it's going to be lacking in a lot of features and I'll spend a lot of time reinventing the wheel.

Anyone have thoughts or suggestions?
A Swiss startup will turn carbon dioxide into stone–for a price
Google did not disclose security breach because it feared regulation
But what happens when the folding space blanket fails on Webb?
That system seems incredibly flimsy and will be the downfall.
As someone else pointed out, "the evidence is that the earth is warming":

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/monitoring/climate/sur...

That scientists predict and mispredict is nothing new, but the overwhelming evidence now is that climate change is here, and it's damaging.

If almost all climate change scientists are in fact wrong, but we decide that's a (slim) risk we can't afford to take and we do something about it then the worst that can happen is we perhaps slow down the economy of the world (which given that the economy, at least to my reading, is a self-referential pyramid scheme, doesn't really matter that much). There's even the possibility later if we discover that climate change is just a natural fluctuation that we don't have any impact on of just reverting to our old behaviour.

If we decide that climate scientists are wrong, and do nothing about it, but it turns out they were right, then the worst that can happen is that there is a huge amount of suffering, strife, and ultimately death.

Also, as far as I can tell from some limited research, "no tricks zone" seems to be pretty biased, and fairly easily debunked.
Or they were trained that helping people means making them compliant by any means necessary so they can be brought to the hospital safely.
What an incredibly touching and personal post.

It felt to me that the song embedded in the middle of the article perfectly encapsulates the mood of the writer. Definitely worth listening to and reading Tony's words.
True, it is memorable. I talked to someone who works at an ad agency and had worked with State Farm in the past yesterday. She had the most articulate explanation of memorability over quality I'd heard. I'm sure I'll mangle it, but essentially, as long as the ad isn't actively bad, memorable is far more important than being good (although the platonic ideal would be memorably good).
This has always been my preferred option for data sharing with government (or even private companies). It should stop people looking up celebrities or ex-lovers details just because they're bored.

For practical purposes there should be delay (say six months) so an investigation stands a chance of not tipping off the person being investigated.

For delays longer than six months to keep the access hidden a full court order is required.
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You don’t realize you’re talking about a completely different victim here? Do you think he’s talking about schizos?
What would the EU fine for Google be now GDPR is enforced? 2.2 billion dollars?
When ratings don’t define success, more TV series are staying on the air longer
Yes, because when you go public with the issue you are able to control the narrative. Bad judgement to assume that these issues will never reach the public eye. Especially knowing that a patched was successfully applied...instead Google looks like it is having trouble living up to it's Don't Be Evil motto.
I find it best to put a TODO file in the project that I'm working on. Sometimes I commit it, sometimes I hide it from git. I think it's a big advantage to have it all in one place, not very far from the code, and it won't get lost.

TODOs in comments end up getting forgotten about. Bug ticketing systems are too much work for the kind of notes I write to myself. I've tried using paper, but as I turn pages, notes on previous pages get lost forever. Staying in the text editor helps me not lose my flow.
As the fall season begins this month, 13 shows are entering at least their 10th season, believed to be a modern-day record. That includes such programs as “Grey’s Anatomy,” entering Season 15, and “The Simpsons,” entering Season 30. Viewership for each of these shows is down more than 70 percent from their all-time highs.
As AMD shareholder I am glad you see it that way :)
Out tutorial runs you through setting up something small, and example code lives on GitHub: https://github.com/M-industries/AlanProjectTemplate
Impure functional data structures
Gitlab discards additional boards on free plan
True. Which is unfortunate because I'd like to think there are/were plenty of Italians and Italian-Americans more worthy of recognition. Dude never got to the mainland of the United States, sailed centuries before there was a United States, and didn't even sail for Italy.