skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does not deserve a sensationalist depiction. Everyone in space industry, astronomy and even the public now thanks to this terrible movie Gravity knows about the Kessler effect.

Some thoughts:

- Putting 12000 big freezers (900 pounds at most) in orbit is never going to "crowd" the place; imagine these objects on Earth, then the claim that on a much higher radius sphere these could be seen at any point seems ridiculous.
(I am not speaking about speed or dangerosity, which even up the numbers a bit, or powerful light-emitting projects)

- In that sense, the video displayed is annoyingly misleading.

- The danger of the Kessler effect is a long term one, and as such it seems purely economic to me. Increasing the number of space debris will gradually increase the probability of collisions, and raise the costs of space industry, in an upwards trend that may at some point represent a real financial burden. This is the only question: at which point does it become economically interesting to tackle this problem, and are we not underestimating the future costs at this point ?

- My take is not yet, and SpaceX will do fine managing their 12000 space fridges.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/nov/15/space-j...
- how is everything so slow (aka JS engine GC not working as it should)

- how to place files on the desktop

- how to configure virtual desktops in all directions

Does the JS engine even have a JIT?
I don't think they pay them that much for data entry/labelling but yeah... a job is a job.
And those groups are full of predators.
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People still use the international financial system and the banking system in particular even though they have done and still do business with very dodgy people. Afaik HSBC is still alive and kicking even though it has helped some Mexican cartels launder their money, we’re talking about monsters who like to skin their victims alive.
Yeah...the title is totally misleading. They basically resolve captchas
That is, if all the satellites are functioning. Those that aren’t do actually end up becoming space junk.
I collaborated with Gtkmm in the early days.

Nowadays it seems Gtk and GNOME documentation lacks updates and is full of broken links.
Loud motorcycles should be violently taxed and restricted to low density zones of operation. I can't think of any other behavior that is as destructive to the common good for so little benefit to the individual. "I like loud sounds" is not good enough reason to inflict them on everyone else.
are they doing it by suppressing right wing sites?
Also, nobody answered the question -- they answered instead "what book by an academic (near my field) deserves more influence".

Which if this is a gift shopping list is a more useful question. But largely separate from what books have been influential already.
I guess I have seen something like this before. This is very interesting.
Right-clicking changes the position of Click Me link, is this intentional?
It is the violence that people have a problem with not the speech right? I mean if the neighbors upstairs are talking about how much the hate me I don't have a problem though that would change if they knock on my door with baseball bat in hand.

It sounds like Gab is being de-platformed for the typical part and not the otherwise part.
"But [Apple] has conspicuously not promised to collect all its recycled aluminum from its own dross..."

Apple's keynote says their recycled aluminum is a new special alloy. I know nothing of such things, but it occurs to me that recycled laptops would need different processing from say recycled aluminum cans.
> They are moving EF6, Winforms, and WPF to .Net Core (Windows only).

What about webforms? I haven't been able to find any info on that one.
exactly, misleading title
The 2nd is imho much better though.
And you cannot really show the Satie notes without the original running commentaries above the notes, esp. on the
Gnossiennes. The original sheets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlU80BLtAwE

E.g.
Postulez en vous-même.
Wonder about yourself.
Munissez-vous de clairvoyance.
Provide yourself with shrewdness.
Seul, pendant un instant.
Alone, for a moment.
Très perdu.
Very lost.
Ouvrez la tête.
Open your head.
Superstitieusement.
Superstitiously.
D'une manière très particulière.
In a very particular way.
Léger comme un œuf.
Light as an egg.

Also, he was pretty weird:
https://flypaper.soundfly.com/diversions/composer-erik-satie...
Follow your line of reasoning to its logical conclusion and you'll end up with...

- men not citing radical anything produced by rabid feminists ("why would those men acknowledge the contribution of a man-hater?")

- religious people not citing atheists ("why would those people acknowledge the contributions of an unbeliever?")

- atheists not citing religious people ("why would those people acknowledge the contributions of a sky-fairy theorist?")

- lefties not citing right-wingers ...

- right-wingers not citing lefties ...

- ...

And 'poof', there goes the scientific method.

Don't go down that path, it leads to nothing but destruction.
Curiosity killed the cat and all that, but what is your field? I had a look at your profile, comments and submissions (hopefully that doesn't sound creepy!) and I can't tell.

It's Saturday morning (and I got students' papers to mark) :)
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The example with image blending mode looks killer!
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Yemen Amal Hussein, whose image drew attention to famine, dies
The complaint wasn't that it was worded poorly, but that a direct comparison was made at all, using kinda spooky language such as "It sounds suspiciously as if you're drawing a direct comparison" and "That can't possibly be an argument you really want to make.".

English isn't my first language, even I had no problem understanding the intention of the words, and arguing against the "strongest plausible interpretation" is in the guidelines.

> And then we can discuss how social norms and the legal system interact

Personally I'm content with it being settled that "few people care" is an invalid argument.
> So you'd rather just ignore all scientific results until somebody does a NASA-level code review because there might be bugs?

The bugs, if serious enough, can make it not scientific, in the same way that a paper that has grave errors in it is wrong and thus obviously not scientfic. So, before we do a thorough review of the code, we should treat it with due scepticism.

EDIT: this can also be expressed in terms of risk analysis. For typical software, the consequence of a bug is low - most software is commercial, so the impact of the bug will be limited to that company's bottom line (with exceptions of software that can kill, but these people already are serious about bugs). Also, most bugs in most software are either highly evident (the button does not work, you get random segfaults etc.) or have limited impact.

On the other hand, the bugs in climate change models, given their "pipeline" nature (wrong result from one module is propagated downstream all the way to the final prediction of expected temperature change), can quite often have severe impact. They can also be not evident at all - they can for example change the final outcome predicition by 1 C.

Compound that with the fact these predictions are used to make trillion dollar decisions on global policies, and you can see that the actual damage done by bugs is not unlikely to be in the trillions. And that's why I say it's probably wise to subject the models to extreme scrutiny.
>> "But one thing that's critical in our line of work is to not pay wages that would distort local labour markets. If we were to pay people substantially more than that, we would throw everything off. That would have a potentially negative impact on the cost of housing, the cost of food in the communities in which our workers thrive."

What a joke! We don't to pay them more because they will be able to buy decent house/invest in infrastructure or god forbid even start a small business...that would totally distort local labour markets, right?
The problem is that too many people want a life in academia, heavily insulated from the outside world

Just like school teachers in America, PhD students are taken advantage of for the exact same reasons

People want the jobs, and America doesn't believe in regulating supply and demand
For pretty much every online community starting from the smallest web forums, you need an ability to remove unwanted content and people from that platform. Even platforms for very free, unrestricted discussion need to fight commercial spam and simple vandalism. The ability to have a community of group A for topics that interest group A requires effective moderation, i.e. the ability to remove unwanted topics and people from that forum, blocking them before the majority of the group have had to encounter that unwanted content, otherwise you have a very, very poor experience full of spam that kills the forum, and that is very relevant from a practical standpoint.

For some of that content the proper answer is "go have your community somewhere else"; for other content (e.g. penis enlargement spam and people who post it) there probably is no community that wants them, and for that freedom of speech consists of being able to freely speak on a soapbox somewhere where all the 0 people who want to hear you can do it.
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Red Hat (as a company) is a massive contributor to Gnome.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions#GNOME_d...

(interesting to compare with their KDE developers just below).

The whole reason everybody got stuck with systemd is because Gnome wouldn't run without it. Every distribution had a choice of getting rid of Gnome or moving to systemd.

I actually gave up Gnome several years ago when they decided to make it so that every window shared an IME. That would mean that I couldn't have a window that had Japanese input and a window that had Roman input at the same time. Red Hat developers were busy making patches to every IME that existed so that it would follow the grand vision of what they had decided for Gnome. The only hold out was FCITX. I think they eventually saw reason but there was a good year or so where Red Hat was bent on breaking my computer just because that's what the Gnome developers had decided was best for everybody.

Red Hat doubled down on Gnome a long time ago. They aren't interested in anything else.

Edit: Also of note - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions#Desktop...

Go down the list a bit and notice: "GNOME Shell - Primary development by Owen Taylor and many Red Hat developers and interaction designers" among many other core Gnome infrastructure.
The comment [1] could be relevant.

I use KDE, if I introduce someone to Linux they're likely to use KDE as well. If significant "influencers" use KDE, like universities and people writing software for the public sector, then many casual users will follow.

SUSE is German, Mandrake (Mandriva) was French, both defaulted to KDE. When I first used Linux, it was easy to find a magazine with an installation CD for one of these. Presumably there was some sponsorship, or simply network effect.

Also, Gnome's top menu bar felt like it was trying to imitate Mac OS, which has always been less common in Europe than North America.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18367356
Looking at the security page, which generally points to the announce list - and a sample (serious configuration) issue:

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/nix-security-annou...

It's not immediately clear to me that there's an "lts" or "stable" that would allow easy security only updates, preferably in an automatic fashion? Or is this one issue a special case where a) the admin must see the announcement, and b) manually act to secure systems?
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Actually it is.

New Qt features are mostly implemented in QML with the high performance parts in C++.

Widgets are mainly for desktop deployments, with QML being pushed for embedded devices and mobile.
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> A lot of people here are playing semantics and ignoring the message of the article just to be "clever".

Welcome to Hacker News!
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"Apple isn’t the only tech company contributing to this problem. In fact, the company may generate less e-waste than other tech firms"

People love to hate on Apple, if other companies are worse than them why aren't they the target of the criticism. A lot of the time it seems Apples mistake is to be successful.
> ...for 4 years without issue. What is an issue is when I forget and am still awake at 1am.

Well, that's exactly the issue I would expect from long-term use. The body tends not to bother manufacturing its own supply of something as much when you're providing it from an external source. There are generally negative feedback mechanisms in place. You might now be dependent on externally-supplied melatonin.
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I’m sure Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines only wanted their ideas to be seen as ideas, just like all others!
Its not open source but this tool helps in managing labeling by your in-house team or contractual workers. It also provides you annotation software for most of image and text usecases. Here is link to the same.

http://dataturks.com
Long time reader here, I decided to create an account to reply to this.

We recently created a web interface for docker swarm as part of a university project, part of our requirements were that a compose file could be submitted via the web interface to create a new stack. We used ace for this and it worked quite nicely.
> _All_ the studies are measuring the same tendency : the temperature is rising.

Are you talking about predictions (and not measurements, you don't need a model to measure temperature)? Assuming you are, there's unfortunately a huge problem with modeling (and heavy math and stats-based science in general), in that researchers tend to stop looking for bugs in the model when it returns the results that they expect. In other words, if a bug in the model tells the researcher that Earth's temperature will decrease by 4 C by 2100, he will look over the model until he finds the bug, but if the model tells him that the temperature will increase by 2 C, thus confirming his inner bias, he'll declare it correct and move on to writing a paper based on the "finding".

Alternatively, as a thought experiment, imagine if math research were done in the way climate science is done. We would have proofs that are millions of pages long and were never verified by anyone. We would trust in them only because the author says that they are correct. Is this science?
Agreed, that is a particularly offensive line of bullshit. Labor arbitrage is a thing, sure, but it takes a special flavor of insipid shithead to try to unfurl that kind of tortured logic to handwave past the obvious exploitation taking place.
Vienna also has a significant amount of public housing: http://cityobservatory.org/housing-policy-lessons-from-vienn...
>If a scientist knowingly lets false information be published he is causing a disservice to society, harming progress.

Often it's not so much false as empty or useless. Nevertheless, since all people in a community know the values of individual papers, and these are the same people 'making progress' in that field, I don't see how science is so much harmed. I agree the situation is kinda ridiculous, but it's not a "sky is falling" situation either.

>If incorrect papers are out there, those who can correct them have a duty to do so.

Sure. How much are you willing to pay me for me to prioritize this 'duty' over the literal hundreds of duties I already have at my lab?
There is an N-dimensional generalisation for complex numbers, quaternions and hypercomplex numbers called Clifford algebra. I'm not an expert in that field (coming from physics and optics) but apparently it's not by chance that quaternions are connected with the rotation group SO(3) and complex numbers with SO(2). You can generalize to SO(n) with Clifford algebra.
Gab's frog logo is not a coincidence. The network was created by people who believed they were being censored by the left.

> Many people pointed towards lgbt content being taken down and said: "Look, you guys brought this on yourselves."

Nah, LGBT content being taken down or deemed obscene despite not being explicit or pornographic is the default state of society and has only recently (past 20 years) been more permissive.
While the main stream media is eager to portray fakenews as the gravest threat to free society, this type of clickbait headline writing essentially exposes their duplicity. So while the press like to pontificate from their ivory towers on their unalloyed noble purpose, they are ultimately human institutions, with all its ensuing fallibility, all its flaws.
Knowing that the temperature will rise is not enough to make policy decisions though. You need to predict the increase's magnitude, as well as practical consequences, such as climate change, how much the sea level will rise etc. And for that you need resonable and bug-free models.
That's closer to human captcha solving business. I wonder, if Google's most recent captcha is actually being human generated?
Yes, I'm currently building the light mode. ;)
> an unreasonable number of independent codebases must have identical bugs

Entertaining[0] badpun’s skepticism, it is not necessary they have identical bugs, only that their bugs yield similarly biased results.

For example, if a significant number of bugs are identified by their affect on the results, then bugs contributing to “wrong” results might be more likely to be identified and fixed.

[0] In the Aristotelian sense.
The article is dead wrong about the economics of whether buying a house is a good investment. So much so as to be intellectually dishonest.

1. The alternative to buying a home is renting. If the net cost of home ownership is lower than renting, you do not need to make a net profit on the sale of your home for it to be a good decision. The right way to make this decision is to look at all net cash flows, discounted to their present value, such as is done by the New York times rent vs. buy calculator.

2. The article ignores the fact that mortgages, which most people use, amplify the gains of inflation.

3. The inflation hedging properties of a home make for a good way to protect your future self and retired self from cost of living changes in a way that alternative investments cannot.

Many people outside of VHCOL San Francisco have found housing that is both affordable and a good investment.
I know, which is why I said Linux containers. Although, Docker on Linux can't run Windows containers, can it?
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These theoretical programmers - are they being paid? If so, then the platform is hiring for a business. If not, then the platform is generally OSS.
There have been spontaneous demonstrations among the workers voicing their joy and gratitude at our happy new way of life. /s It seems pretty naive to assume that a handful of individuals being paid a fraction of the going rate for western labor is going to have a meaningful impact on the country's economy or lead to sweeping social changes.
I just find the mental gymnastics fascinating that they are talking about how these people are living in abject poverty, and yet in the same article have the gall to highlight how people in the US are losing their jerbs. Which is it? Are we helping people in poor countries have a slightly better quality of life by working in an air conditioned office vs agriculture, or are we taking US jobs? It's one or the other.
What is the "American Council on Science and Health"? See here: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Council_on_Sc...

1 in 4 Statisticians weren't asked to commit scientific fraud. Within the article:

"Researchers often make "inappropriate requests" to statisticians. And by "inappropriate," the authors aren't referring to accidental requests for incorrect statistical analyses; instead, they're referring to requests for unscrupulous data manipulation or even fraud."

This isn't even remotely close to what the title of the article claims.
I think it works for coding too.

I don't like morning and prefer start coding late.
But if I can wake up in early morning and start work in first half-hour, it improve my coding skills: I write better code and do it faster.

But it depends on personal qualities and daily regime very much.

And one interesting thing: it show enhancement only for first times. My current experiment is wake up at 5-5:30 a.m. And in first time I had improvements to my productivity, but now I work like in the past before experiment.
I’ve recently written a blurb on this board for the OSDev Wiki[0], might be helpful.

I was also thinking of porting Tock OS to the board and would love to collaborate.

[0]: https://wiki.osdev.org/HiFive-1_Bare_Bones
HN guidelines state that you should assume good faith, so nope, they most probably did not mean 12 year old kids doing heroin.

Nobody said that smoking marijuana is natural, the argument was that the desire to alter one's mind and to experiment is natural.
If user password is "passsword" he may be reusing it across 50 other websites. If you leak information that "password" is linked to "email@gmail.com" I can hack the 50 other websites. If you never knew that the user password is "password" you can not leak it and I can not use it to log in into 50 other websites. Leaking "5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99" is useless to hackers, because he cant go and use it to login into another website.

So, there are properties that differentiate "password" and "5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99", even if for the server it's all the same.
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I maintain a code beautifier and parser. I use Ace to allow users to better read and understand their code as they use the features of my software. I also ensure that Ace is optional and can be turned off.

* https://prettydiff.com/

* parser - https://prettydiff.com/parse-framework/runtimes/browsertest....

By turning off Ace and turning it back on you can experience a huge change in user experience
My foreign friends, especially older professionals are leaving in droves from Shanghai the last 12-18 months as foreign companies dis-invest. It's a sad trend to watch.
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please show me the content neutral platforms on the internet that are optimal for creative and productive exchanges of ideas.

4chan is good for the memes, but i'm not sure what else.

It mostly sounds like a truism to me, but I'd like to be proved wrong.
I've been meaning to do a similar blog post for my hobbyist TCP stack, but this here does explain it more concisely than I could.
I'd wager historical artifact. The feature set in git alone steamrolls SCCS, and concurrency methods have decidedly moved away from lock in favor of merge. There's also been little activity in the last three years or so. I'd also wager there are still some good uses for it, and it's probably enjoying use by some folks still, but it looks like it's gone the way of CVS.
Well you know the company is going under because they don’t sell the most phones anymore. But of course these phones somehow contribute the most to e-waste.