skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, I prefer books (old fashioned as I may be). I have spent the last 4 years learning Chinese. 80% reading and writing. My speaking isn't great, but it is because I can't hear enough.

I read normal books, I also review text books for help and I practice writing characters each day. I also try and write e-mails to co-workers and friends in Chinese as much as possible.
I disagree with your first point. I pointed out that the evidence is overwhelming that Young Earth Creationism is scientifically baseless. In that case, I have no problems with pointing to a "tear it down" commentary rather than try to read the primary source, depending on the specifics of the commentary.

Which source am I supposed to be evaluating? cryptonector only pointed to https://wattsupwiththat.com/ . Am I supposed to read everything there? Is the phrase "Just a very small change in cloud cover along the equator can cool down an overheating Earth, or warm a cooling Earth" connected to the “Sense and Sensitivity” posting at wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/28/sense-and-sensitivity/ ? Note that it was from 2010, seemingly never otherwise published, and it was criticized by https://www.skepticalscience.com/SensitivitySensibility1.htm... .

Or is it some later source that I'm supposed to read?

What is bizarre about the trust claims of my original post? I stated reasons why I disagreed with cryptonector's interpretation of climate information and gave links to supporting citations from the scientific literature.

Specifically, claim #1: "we have shockingly little information in the grand scheme of things (30 years' worth of satellite data!)". Response: I referenced a 2013 paper describing 173 different lines of evidence for warming across the last 130 years. (BTW, we have 40 years of microwave sounding units and 51 years of sea surface IR data, both from satellites.)

claim #2: "recent climate change is minute even by standards of the past two millennia". Response: I cited a 2005 paper with quite different conclusions. I asked for the source of the claim. I also questioned how cryptonector could be certain of this claim if we have such "shockingly little information".

I can follow up with additional supporting evidence if there are statements I made which you do not agree with. That's usually how this trust relationship works, yes?
Yeah, they have only one motor, and a whole transmission system which the joysticks engage. The 8-bit guy has a video, I believe.
They may be referring to this: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee
The sugar cereal breakfast was common in the 1960s. The same ones as today were there in the 1960s - Captain Crunch, Fruit Loops, etc.
There are plenty of domains where symbolic AI has had every opportunity to use unlimited computing power, plus decades of design and experimentation, but has lost to deep learning.

a good area for examples is human games (e.g. chess, Go, Atari games, etc.) Symbolic AI has been pushed hard but has lost definitively to deep learning. Furthermore symbolic approaches had decades of investment, compared with less than a decade for the deep learning approaches.

Another good area for examples is natural language. Marcus admits that deep learning is the only viable approach to "speech understanding" (which really means transcription). He doesn't mention translation which demands a lot more "understanding" and where deep learning excels relative to symbolic approaches, again with decades of investment on the symbolic side and much less on the deep learning side.

Except for inherently symbolic problems like theorem proving, I can't think of any AI domain where deep learning doesn't dominate or seem likely to dominate symbolic approaches.
Right. These licenses are a thin layer on top of public domain mostly to disclaim liability. The whole point is that you don’t care what anyone else does with it.

If you want a quid pro quo, then you should have been using copyleft (or something else) all along.
Indeed it is - I was assuming, perhaps mistakenly, that that was the desired behavior. After all, why dispatch requests that are not to be processed?
It's for people who don't have root access to a remote terminal (super computer users, generally) but want more up to date packages.
Something I'm not seeing commentary on:

the initiative is as much about public health as public transport.

“Air quality has been breaching acceptable levels for 10 years and people in the city are being exposed to air that has clear effects on their health, especially those who are most vulnerable, such as children and older people,” said Inés Sabanés, councillor for the environment and mobility.

“There’s research that shows clear links between pollution peaks and hospital admissions. It has a very clear effect on health – on the number of deaths and premature births.”

A lot of poor people are poor precisely because they are in poor health. It tends to simultaneously run up bills and curtail earning capacity. A city full of healthy citizens is going to be more economically vibrant at all levels.
I guess I'm the last of the tcsh troglodytes. C-shell derivatives don't even get mentioned in these things to say "don't use it" anymore.
The portion sizes are really a big factor here I think. A bottle of CocaCola in 1940 was 6 ounces. Today, a small Coke at McDonald's is 16 oz.
What gets me is that this affects later languages too. For example, Swift's internal String storage is either ASCII or UTF-16, precisely because it needs to maintain NSString's performance guarantees when bridging to Obj-C.

That said, it seems the plan for Swift 5 is to change String's internal storage to be UTF-8, and then when bridging to NSString it will provide amortized constant-time UTF-16 codepoint access by calculating and caching "breadcrumbs" for fast lookup of UTF-16 offsets.
I’d be sick of all these “deleting Facebook made me happier” posts, except I deleted Facebook and it made me happier, too.
Are these the space-grade multi-junction panels? Are the Loon panels size-constrained or cost-constrained ?

The article itself is odd - most PV will go to utility and commercial scale. Even on rooftop, aesthetics are possibly down the list after durability, reliability, efficiency and cost.
The Airports of the Future Have Arrived
What's your point? All kinds of businesses give volume discounts.
Sexy = attractive
I want to run my build/test commands in a Docker image.
Well there's a complicated answer, because there are different kinds of relationships.

What I noticed with facebook is that it encouraged a lot of vapid relationships. Not real. And it really discouraged getting to know someone.

And here's a difference in a texting once a month instead of seeing pictures on fb and messaging.

We have to tell each other what happened to us.

Now that may seem simple, but there's a lot that unpacks in that. Jokes happen and you get more a sense of what happened than being shown. You are forced to see the events through your friends eyes. You are automatically filled in on the parts that are important to them, and not the parts that appear most appealing.

I do think the barrier for keeping in touch should be high. You can't reasonable have a good friendship with a lot of people. So it forces you to pick and choose where you are going to devote your emotional time and energy. That's because relationships take work. Knowing someone and what they do isn't a relationship. So someone you have met once and never really talk to is like the relationship you have with a celebrity. It isn't real, but facebook makes it feel that way. I'm not saying all relationships have to be the same as those of a best friend, but I think social media encourages a type of relationship that is more destructive than beneficial. There's also a lot more, but this is already long.

As for instant messaging vs text? Who said I don't use instant messaging? I just don't use Facebook. I do use Signal, WhatsApp, GChat, etc. Friends never have a hard time getting ahold of me. I'm still connected, just not with relationships I don't consider "real".
Platforms are not responsible for user-generated content any more than your phone company is responsible for what you personally say during calls.
If it runs the jvm, a modern browser and it handles laptop standby I’m sold
With CockroachDB, I was able to create a cluster with three commands, one command on each node (docker run ....), one port on each node. It can't really get more simple than that.

With YugaByteDB: I needed to think about master and tserver nodes, to run them and connect them separately. There was no clear guide that had "run these three docker command on the three different nodes" and be done with it.

Note: I run everything is in simple docker images (and not compose, not swarm, not kubernates, just plain docker images).
I agree that throughout the article, she continues to signal in a way that one would signal on IG or FB. It’s offputting because she seems to miss the point of why social media can be unhealthy.
>Furthermore I wouldn't even want kids, if they'll be raised by you. They're better of dead or aborted.

Ignoring the abortion aspect where theres arguments on both sides as to whether its killing a person or not, lets look at the rest of that.

You are saying that you don't want to live in a world where your choices are forced, but if you had to, you'd kill your kids rather then let them live in it? How is this logically consistent at all? The only thing I'm seeing out of your argument is that you believe you are the sole arbiter of right and wrong, and you can take peoples lives if that is your decisions

>My actual position is that life sciences are going to radically change in the next decade or so, anyway. Why bother haranguing people about vaccinations, when five years from now, biological agents might very well be a solved problem, rendering vaccinations as obsolete as brute force quarantines?

So just put our heads in the sands and not deal with any issue because "...five years from now, biological agents might very well be a solved problem?". People who didn't make the choice to not get vaccinated are dieing due to others choices _now_, so we should let that keep happening because it _might_ not be a problem in the future?

I get the whole individual freedom argument. I even agree with it. However, when your choices start affecting others, you are now guilty of the exact same problem you were accusing others of. You are making choices for other people
Google, Apple, etc. tried to make symbolic AI work for their problems but found it had intractable problems. Google fairly publicly transitioned to a deep learning approach for translation which greatly improved their results. Apple is still struggling to make the transition for Siri's question answering.
Social media started out as 'friends hanging out', but turned into 'friends bumping into each other at the mall while salespeople spray us with perfume'
"The vast majority of the population" is not always right...

Wasn't there a scandal a few months ago where YouTube was classifying videos talking about LGBTQ issues as adult content, and demonetizing them? https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17424472/youtube-lgbt-demo...

Is/was it the platform maintainers applying their own morals, or is it the money (advertisers) who don't want to be associated with these topics?

The walled gardens are already quite ridiculous, with FB censoring Michaelangelo's David and the Napalm Girl, giving us a kindergarten version of the Internet (although funnily enough, they can't censor fake news, so the "children"'s minds got brainwashed there).

This has turned to a bit of a pointless rambling.
So what is more personal? Instant messaging? Video chat? Calling? Those tools exist outside of facebook. I don't understand why there's this constant belief that the only way to communicate with someone outside of facebook is text or email.
In India/China with population in Billions, these tests aren't available or affordable.

No company is building Genome Databank through user-friendly collection of saliva.

I don't know why 23andme doesn't have local offering in India.

Who will courier sample to an international lab? Specially, from a country like India where sending anything out or importing in is just too difficult.

23andme isn't expensive for me but they don't offer pickup service in India?
Wait, isn't that what every populist politician doing every day - doing something beneficial to an interest group X in exchange for being praised by this interest group and thus raising his chances of being elected again? If a politician recommends a subsidy to the solar industry, knowing he would be positively covered in New York Times and MSNBC, or, alternatively, proposes an increased military budget, knowing Fox News and Rush Limbaugh would praise him for that - is that something that one has to be jailed for? I am afraid if we'd do that then it'd make most sense to just convert the Capitol Hill to a jail, and the same with every state legislature, because everybody there would be jailed anyway.
Our current financial system has taken 1000 years to formulate into what we know today. People are impatient.
I thought they where all banned in the EU for several years now certainly the last vespa 2 stroke was seems to have been made in 2005.
Summarization:

- South East Asian Royalty adopted Islam due to being likely swayed by rich Muslim merchants + missionaries and then gradually became popular.

- South East Asian Peasant populations without strong Buddhist/Hindu religious influences adopted it to fill void of previous Animist religions or even just Animist traditions.
Think of waiting in line for an amusement park ride. If the ride runs 4 minutes, you'll have to wait in line longer than if ir runs 3 minutes. Same thing, if the guy in the office will leave after 30 years instead of 40 the line waiting or it will move much faster.

And don't feel dumb. We all get hit with it at times ;-)
There are reasons to sequence an individual multiple times: tracking their microbiome, tracking the genetic evolution of their tumor, looking at gene expression, etc. There's not much value in sequencing someone's genome over and over again though.

Additionally, there's a lot more to sequence besides just human. Illumina does genotyping for agriculture, they supply 23andme and Ancestry with their SNP chips, sequencing for forensic applications, etc.
Things must be very different in Australia. I can't even wrap my head around the concept of borrowing 2K from my neighbor or loaning him/her 2K.

I can't believe that's a criteria for loneliness.
It's interesting that men of the day wore loose fitting pants. Today, when period pictures are made of that time, the actors wear closely fitted pants.
What do people there say instead of math? Mathematics?
I agree with your main point, but as regards "run[ning] up bills" doesn't Spain have a pretty effective, universal, single-payer healthcare system?
There are only so many adjectives in circulation.

More seriously: it’s hard to put together a list like this because so many things are subjective. Maybe you prefer fish because it gets rid of some of the dumb things required for a POSIX-compatible shell, but I prefer zsh because it has every feature and the kitchen sink. I don’t know, and neither does the person putting together the list.
OpenJDK 1.8 is (finally) back, and with Swing support even (though only on 32-bit, it still needs to be boostrapped on 64-bit.)

WebPositive works "acceptably", Otter/QupZilla are significantly better. All can at least play YouTube, etc.

We don't have standby support at all. :/ Most of the device hooks are there, and we use ACPICA for ACPI support, so it's just a matter of wiring all the right things up and adding some buttons... but we are pretty starved for time as-is, so nobody is working on it at present.
I think you are missing a tiny point, you are comparing being able not to drown to swimming efficiently. I didn't bike in ages, but I am fairly confident I can ride a bicycle all right. To go back doing cross country biking is a different matter, I will probably need to make mental efforts to keep the right posture, to keep the weight over my back wheel etc. But this doesn't mean I won't be able to ride my bike without crashing.
Ask HN: Should email addresses also give everyone a personal webpage?
What do you think of the idea of email providers also giving each address a web page directly connected to that address?

Optional of course.

Optional of course, but
Highly recommend Sourcegraph. Fast, free, and understands code by using language servers. Install extension to replace github.com search.

https://sourcegraph.com/start
Success in Books – a big data approach to bestsellers
There's a clearer diagram here https://imgur.com/a/h6INwsu

You put a voltage on the gate and the field it produces varies the current between the two metal bits.
This is not a great article. If you're interested in Illumina I think these are better

https://www.wired.com/2016/02/gene-sequencing-goliath-wants-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2014/08/20/flatle...
I distinctively remember a picture of a Chinese lady using a contraption to use a camera to take pictures of herself in some touristic site. This was captioned "the loneliest tourist in the world". This picture was quite famous a few years ago. Nowadays that kind of contraption is so common place that no one thinks twice upon seeing it.
And not just software either. I strongly believe that this monitor-and-replicate methodology is part of why Amazon Prime Video has legs.

Any content provider that uses AWS is just helping to train the beast. That beast might not seem like a threat but it will begin to rival and eventually supplant and usurp its antecedent.
There is nothing shocking here, parent implements strictly regular expressions and compile them to DFA, so of course it will be fast, especially using only ASCII characters and hand chosen regular expressions. Russ Cox articles covers this very well.
They absolutely did. What came out towards the end was that they didn't really have a license for it; it's likely they had based their work on the BeOS source code leak that occurred in the last few weeks of Be Inc.'s existence.
The gist for those wondering if they should watch this half an hour long talk: it's meant to be funny. You'll probably learn nothing about Clojure or any other technology.
I wonder if DNA can change later in life through some mutation or gene expression.
Does anyone have a plot showing % of population that is Muslim over time for different countries?
That's a screenshot of BeOS, so the font rendering engine behind that is from 1998. Not very surprising, then :)
That implies that the impact of "non-resident" vehicles is much higher than that of "resident" vehicles in aggregate.

That seems intuitive for a big capital city... but would it be the same for all neighborhoods?
Yeah, I've heard that (kind of) objection before. It's nonsense. That's not the only way that sick people have additional bills.

If you are healthy and living on a limited budget, you cook from scratch. If you are sick, you get take out or you eat a more expensive TV dinner that further hurts your health. If you are healthy, you shop the sales, you travel a little farther to the cheaper store, etc. If you are sick, you go to the closest store because it's the only one you have the energy to make it to.

Etc. ad nauseum.

Even without medical bills, sick people will spend more for convenience items just to get through the damn day. There are myriad ways in which it is vastly cheaper to simply be healthy.
Remove the 6% from Finland’s income, Fix the spending at current levels, and see a budget hole form.

The US is famous for supposedly favoring the rich. Half of the population pays no federal income. They may pay state taxes if the states collect tax and if the states don’t return based on income. It is possible for people to pay almost nothing, aside from SS and Medicare taxes in the US, while costing hundreds of thousands of dollars over their life. We call them welfare queens. 5 generations of people contributing nothing to the tax rolls, yet wasting fund to maintain them and allow them to procreate.

The bottom 40% of all tax payers cost the US $621. If they paid their cost, the US would take in an extra 48 billion each year. Those people would be contributing to the republic. While 48 billion is not, relative to the national tax a lot, it’s fair. It’s money that could go to paying debt.
> de-platforming

God forbid the vast majority of people in the world don't want to listen to a bunch of racist nut jobs ramble on about various ill founded conspiracy theories.
If you like this, I think you’ll like http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages.htm... more.
Linux could kill windows and Microsoft if it just had an improved UI. Currently it looks like a mashup between windows and mac and it's just not working. I've noticed improvements over the years getting closer to Apple's designs, but not quite there and it's unfortunate how much that last minute matters. Once that list mile is covered I think we'll see linux becoming more and more popular as a standard OS.

If Office Libre were to update their UI I think it would make a killer combination.
No it's not the corn syrup that's the problem it's that it is a lot cheaper than cane sugar so it's used in higher quantities and in more types of food. Also the late 1980s and 1990s was when people started going nuts about "low-fat" diets. When food producers removed fats and oils from their products, consumers thought it tasted like cardboard. So manufacturers would add sugar or corn syrup to make the food taste better, while still being able to call it low fat.
Thank you for the clarification. I've been on the fence about it and it sounds like I will have to wait a little longer before committing to it.
I'm happy enough with the libinput driver that I don't want to go building a whole custom driver from source, but I really liked the "pixel-perfect scrolling in Firefox" tip at the end.
>One of the coolest areas of package management is that you can go back in time and boot up into a previous state of the system, all thanks to the new packaging system. To do this, simply open the boot menu, choose the boot volume, and select Latest state or a nicely time stamped ‘version’. Very cool.

New versions of programs may modify the user config files in a way that old versions may not be able to read those config files anymore and even corrupt them. How is this handled, if at all?
Welcome to a new world ;=)

Lets turn tech into what it was meant to be:
A tool to give people a better live.

</philosophy>
“Everything in moderation”

She wants to go from the extreme of over-participating to the extreme of not participating at all. Somewhere in the middle is a healthy balance that she isn’t considering.

As humans, we have the ability to understand and improve on our failings. First you have to understand that in fact you allow yourself to reach a state of excess and then understand why.

If you aren’t able to approach the true issue then you will just repeat the same cycle the next time something social shows potential for excess consumption.
tcsh was the thing to use back in the days of multiuser systems and ytalk. Knowing when your friends were logged, and command correction were killer.

I’m still happy that macs shipped with tcsh as default for a while.

But I switched to bash when I stopped carrying enough to switch the default shell.

Maybe I’ll switch to fish. I do love its snarky tagline.
Right. I see now that I was unclear in that second part - I should have written something like "just because EM waves can propagate in vacuum does not mean you can induce a current density in vacuum." Of course EM waves can induce current density in antennas and other structures.

> Obviously you can't induce a current in vacuum ...

Yes. I wrote that second part because 'mmmBacon seemed to be arguing that one could induce a current in vacuum; that because vacuum has a characteristic impedance, it isn't an insulator (i.e. can support current because it has characteristic impedance).
Trump Calls for Imprisonment of Deputy A.G. Rosenstein, Obama, Others