skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, I used an SGI Onyx Infinite Reality beast of a machine to do this two decades ago. This was for TV and we had a really good lighting crew to make the presenter look as if they were truly there and a brilliant cameraman to make it all work in a 'hand held' style.

The beast of a machine had 256M of main memory and 64M of texture memory. Our old-school TV skills produced results that you don't get with these new fangled VR things, we had genuinely flickering candle light.

Have to say the sand on the ground is more realistic in this VR version. Having worked on the tomb with some dedication it is funny how I recognise the place instantly from the screen shots!
Interestingly, there's a Wikipedia article on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
No problem, makes sense.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information"
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I've tried it; still like unix-likes better. No af_packet, no cuda, doesn't work for me.
Do not worry. US government is helping China, from building democracy to IP protection. They are urging China gov to accept high standard to make China a more powerful competitor.
Brilliantly malicious
Because, if they use a non-rooted phone or device, a part of traffic will come from system apps or the OS itself that the user has no control over. Before, this traffic could be blocked by intercepting DNS - now, there wouldn't be a way to do it at all.
Steven Krug has a good book as well.
Really grateful to the FAIR team for Pytorch. I use deep learning for computational biology. Pytorch lets me focus on the problem rather than nitpicking with the framework (looking at you tensorflow) to make something work.
At a very micro level it maybe a true statement that someone wasn't deprived of anything they valued.

However, an automaker has a responsibility at a macro level because they sell so many cars.

Here's what seemed exceptional in the VW case.

1) They built cars with software that had a single purpose of misleading (lying is a more accurate term here) to regulators on their efficiency.

2) When caught they denied it.

3) When they couldn't deny it anymore they updated the software to mislead again (lying in hopes they could continue with the first lie)

4) By this point the highest levels in VW were involved.

Not meeting emissions regulations may not be a big deal for everyone but it impacts others and it has direct impact on others.

I'm not saying you are defending VW but I don't think anything they did was remotely defensible.
They're extrajudicial camps used to punish and re educate people, the semantics aren't as important as the reality of the chinese government rounding up, imprisoning, and torturing an ethnic group of "muslim terrorists"
> 1. Steve Jobs was a couple of standard deviations better at this than almost anyone

This is a statistical oxymoron.
The example mbox sender frequency script is measuring the mbone list at isi. I was on that list back in the nineties.

Here's a video from one of the top posters.

https://vimeo.com/56349011
Free range cattle are only really a thing in land that isn't good for plant farming, usually because it's too arid. Cattle open up massive amounts of otherwise-unfarmable land to agriculture.

The number of cattle in the US has been steady for decades now (suggesting something of a drop in intake). For purely grass-fed cattle, they're carbon-neutral at this point, because the life of methane in the atmosphere is about 9 years, as opposed to CO2, which is 100 years.

Corn-feeding is really the only carbon footprint problem associated with beef.
So Tesla went there to open a giant factory? How smart musk is...
Evidently.

FWIW, my original comment was about the truncated headline and not the substance of the article.
I don't think so. For example, GPUs have way more TFLOPS per area than CPUs.
Distraught Mom Letter to Amazon Claims Daughter Alexa Is Constantly Bullied
> However if they sell an electric car they are going to see that car less often.

This is something many people don't get. There are far, far less parts (moving ones even) in EVs. Things like spark plugs(and the cables), fuel injectors, filters, alternators, fuel pumps, the myriad of belts and pulleys, valves. They don't even have a crankshaft. Or a clutch. Or much of a transmission for that matter. Power steering is generally electric too (no fluid or pumps there either), as is climate control. Even radiators are not usually present (maybe in the batteries, used far less often, mostly when charging). It does have a bunch more electronics, all solid state. Even the normal lead acid 12v battery they all have lasts longer, as there is no starter motor to pull lots of amps at once (they are also more gently topped off).

Parts that cannot exist cannot fail, and cannot be charged. Were not for the battery degradation ghost, people would be switching in droves already. But they are familiar with laptop batteries, and they think car batteries degrade the same way.

If the day comes where you can just drive to an autozone or the like, give them your old battery and drive off with a new one at a reasonable price, that's when things will suddenly shift.
Unexpected fallout from /usr merge in Debian
Let's first see when autonomous vehicles come.

I understand what you mean, considering the vast amount of resources that A.I. requires.
I used to think Jobs' Reality Distortion Field only worked on tech bloggers who loved Apple's story and narrative so much, they went overboard to praise their products, in spite of tone-deaf stuff Jobs would say in public like "You're holding it wrong".

Turns out there were plenty of people right there at Apple who fell under that same RDF.
Kava actually costs more than kratom.

But I never said people sell kava as kratom. Selling Kratom in bars is against the law. Instead they set up “kava” bars in which they sell kratom and kava.
We are missing a bit of humility. Just because an apple can be gotten in February doesn't mean you should. It stretches, complicates, and reduces the efficiency of the supply chain immensely.

I heard some advice years ago that one of the better things you can do as an environmentalist is teach your kids about the seasonality of foods. Make a big deal about it being orange or pear or cherry season, cut back on buying these fruits the rest of the year, even if you can afford it. Eat something else instead of making the world bend to your craving.
That INI system persisted until Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2, it was only gone when Westwood switched to the SAGE engine.
It is just as ridiculous a notion as parking meters. Yet, they exist.
There are elements of the article that argue against that though. It argues that the index.html will be small (and thus not an issue to not cache), which will not be the case if you're server-rendering pages.
Depends, is he allowed to have the same budget/resources?
> However if they sell an electric car they are going to see that car less often.

That's of course a direct result of the current (imo broken) model where the dealers depend mostly on maintenance revenue. That means they make more money every time the product they sold you fails in some way.

This sets up conflicting incentives for car manufacturers as well, where their revenue, or that of their partners, would go down if the car becomes too reliable.

I believe Tesla had at some point stated that they wanted service to not be a profit center for them, which as a customer is something I'd really appreciate.
The plan was always for Linux to become the best operating system for everybody. The plan was not to become the best by everybody else deciding to suck. Still, a victory is a victory...
I don’t think that is modern usage at all. The dictionaries haven’t been updated, at least.
You're correct - Google search results don't return AMP links on desktops, but that doesn't stop me from stumbling upon them.

If you come across an article you want to share from your mobile device, and it's an AMP link, it's the AMP URL that gets shared if you post it on sites like HN, FB or Reddit. If I'm browsing those pages from my desktop, clicking that link almost never redirects me to the "original" page, but loads the AMP page in the desktop browser. Sometimes getting around that is as easy as cutting out "/amp/" from the URL, other times it's a totally different URL and I'm stuck staring at a blank page for 30 seconds before it either loads, I just give up or I Google the headline/title and try to find the original page.

Forced AMP results on mobile devices also make it difficult to get to certain pages when I want them. Take Eater's 38 lists[1] that they put together. If I'm on my phone and want to find a restaurant from that list in a particular location (say if I'm out of the house and want restaurants near me), then the AMP result returns a page that doesn't include the map, only a list, which isn't very helpful. In order to get to the map, I either need to go to Eater.com and manually find it, or use something like Bing to search for it. I know that the purpose of AMP is to not load the map in an effort to increase speed, but in that instance the map is exactly what I want and AMP makes it harder to get to.

I'm not saying AMP doesn't have its benefits, but its inconveniences have outweighed them, in my experience.

[1]https://sf.eater.com/maps/best-restaurants-san-francisco-38
Respectfully disagree. DSLs embedded into another language are doubly terrible. Independent DSLs like GLSL or SQL are tricky to get right, but work; but they're just their own languages.

With embedded DSLs you don't get the portability of a library and reusability of a library, but instead get a horribly crooked, compromised, limited grammar based on the meta-programming limitations of the hosting language (looking at you gradle!).
WebKit generally behaves reasonably well on macOS (which makes sense, with WebKit being Apple’s baby). Blink/chrome on the other hand, while behaving better than Gecko has eschewed many Mac specific behaviors, presumably for ease of cross platform development.
I really don't understand the push against skeuomorphism besides "fashions change." I mean, I get that using so many physical world metaphors could be limiting, but the subsequent shift to everything just being circles, boxes and triangles, without any words, was so much more confusing and unnecessarily faddish in my opinion.
Every runner needs to squat – here's why
There are already shading languages and DSLs that work on buffers like Halide. Halide especially seems very good at transformations on buffers.
>On the other hand, Westerners (whether black or white) are seen as exotic and high-status and their presence in China indicates how far the country has made it.

This is an oversimplification. Westerners are seen as exotic and high-status as individuals, but (Han, at least) Chinese also see China as a civilization as the "the Middle Kingdom" (between Heaven and the rest of the world) and that the West is currently dominant in global affairs is an unnatural occurrence that China is destined and entitled to rectify.

The two are quite contradictory if you reflect on it at all, but most people in any country (whether China, America, Europe, or elsewhere) really all that reflectful in general so we are where we are.
An experimental project from Google for controlling Firefox using Puppeteer API
Big farm machines are dumb.

If we could instead build swarms of self-maintaining intelligent human-scale robots, perhaps working with genetically engineered work animals (monkeys?), they could hand-plant, hand-till, and hand-harvest crops at a far greater efficiency with far less disruption to the ecosystem.

Picture ten thousand dog-sized robots going individually planting and caring for and harvesting millions of plants in a big forest, or a field (with different plants shading each other). An individual dollop of manure on each plant. Weeds removed by "hand" without chemicals.

Basically an automated version of the extremely-efficient overlapping-crop style of farming that was often used in medieval Japan and other places with a lot of labor and know-how but without much flat land and without modern mechanization.
Because the majority of the coverage about him has been praiseworthy, given his business success. Now that he's dead, criticism of him will come off as axe-grinding and bitter.
The State of the Octoverse: Communicating with Emoji on GitHub
Yes. Many foreigners working in China have 大山-level Chinese, enough to do business for sure.

And yes, there are also foreigners working in China with specialized skills, but we don’t typically start companies there (I was one of the latter).
“This is a laudable first step”

There is no such thing. “Why take a step away from the oncoming truck, that one strp won’t save my life?”
True that I didn’t call for alcohol to be banned. Are you arguing that opioids should be served recreationally in bars?

At some point we need to draw a line.
Of course, you are totally right. The future is for those companies and app vendors that respect privacy AND take good care of the personal information they have been giving, keeping them accurate and secure, not selling them around for the highest bidder.
I've been using WSL now as my primary dev environment for about a year now and it's really good. I use it for full time web development and creating video courses (which is why I'm not running native Linux).

The WSL environment is very fast and reliable to the point where for the last year I've been 100% at peace with my dev environment. I would say in 20+ years of computing, this has been my favorite overall set up because you get a great dev set up, you can assemble your own computer part by part and you have excellent gaming support all without having to dual boot or run a Linux VM (which I did previously for ~5 years). I finally feel like I have 1 machine that does everything very well.

A typical dev day for me involves running Dockerized web apps (mostly Flask, Rails and Phoenix apps with Webpack, etc.), tons of terminal usage, Ansible, VMs, etc.. Everything you would expect to run as a developer.

If anyone is looking for a more step by step guide on how to get everything running, here's 2 posts I whipped up on getting everything you need installed on Windows[0] as well as getting Docker working flawlessly with WSL[1].

[0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-wsl-and-mobaxterm-to-cr...

[1]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-docker-for-windows...
> Well I would consider this a bit of a harsh take on Haskell programmers and not really a true statement, either.

I did write "subsets", not "all Haskell programmers".

> I personally know some people who are programming language / type theory PhDs or professors

Me too, hence my statement above.
Sure, but the context is relative interface and abstraction costs. Nginx running in Wasmjit in the kernel is unlikely to be making direct calls to internal kernel functions. Even if the JIT and framework were capable of that, I would think that Nginx would still be calling through an abstraction framework that provides proper read/recv semantics. It would be the sum of those intermediate calls until reaching the same point in the kernel that you'd want to compare.
If Google doesn't honor DNT, why would they bother trying to scare off users from setting it?
I certainly hope it was a joke. I don't personally want to see a Web where every HTTP request has to be manually reviewed by a human, let alone a whole legal department, before a response can be issued.
As one particularly loud farmer I'm familiar with is fond of saying, there are certain foods that should only be eaten if you have a gizzard.

Gizzards can't process all of the things a ruminant can, but there's some overlap.

The thing is chickens aren't vegetarians. They're omnivores. We'd be better off if we processed the leftovers through invertibrates (worms, soldier flies) and then fed the invertibrates to the chickens. Same for pigs. And both pathways would still be more efficient than cows.
The rules are clearly defined for entrepreneurs and investors: (usually) any foreigner can incorporate a company and that company being a „legal citizen“ is to be treated like all other legal citizens of a country, regardless of its owner’s nationality.
I think the issue is straightforward, it is simple economics. Nobody wants to spend a lot of money to rewrite applications three or more times. Sure, there are some people who really want a very specific user interface for their specific system, and there are a number of cases where a non-native application cannot do the job. But most users frankly don't care that much, they just want things to work. A vast number of applications can be done using web technologies, without rewriting the application multiple times, and that saves a pile of money. That kind of focus also makes it a lot easier to make one good product instead of three bad ones.

Native user applications are not disappearing, but they are becoming rarer, and that is to be expected.

Related:
https://dwheeler.com/blog/2018/10/23/#no-mobile-apps
> "Characterized by assumption [...]" that's pretending

Maybe by a meaning of "assumption" or "pretending" that I'm not too familiar with. Normally, I would think that someone "assuming" thinks something is true and acts like so, and someone "pretending" thinks it's not true but acts like it is.

> "making an exaggerated outward show"; pretending

My English must be lacking... Exaggerated just means making something more apparent than it needs to be. That's also different to pretending.

> "full of pretense"; hey, what does the definition for that return?

Ok, you convince me there's related meanings with that.
Hi Peter,
I am an Indian citizen on H1B since 2007 with I-140 approved and waiting for GC with priority date of June, 2011. My H1 expired early this year and my company has filed for extension and responded to the RFE received. It has been more than 4 months since the RFE response has been sent with no outcome on extension yet.

Do you know as how long I will have to wait to know of my extension status?
Will I be able to hold my GC priority date, if my extension is rejected ?
If yes, what are ways for me to come back to US and avail my priority date and get GC?

Thanks!
> Society has "agreed" that while those substances are dangerous, it is up to the individual to determine how they are consumed.

Unless you're under a certan age, or driving a car, or piloting a plane the next day, or etc etc.

And there is strong societal pressure against pregnant women drinking any alcohol at all despite there being no evidence that small amounts of alcohol are harmful during pregnancy.
On that note, NYTimes seems to be pushing many climate articles today[1] with an urgent framing but casually neglecting to mention the relatively small number of corporations responsible for most greenhouse emissions[2].

1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/07/climate/world...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...
InSight lander 'hears' Martian winds
I've read that in colonial times, people simply let pigs loose in the woods, then hunted them down later on when they were fattened up.
The hard part of fossil fuels is the fuel itself, once you have it the supply chain is the easy part, much easier than semiconductor manufacturing or high capacity battery (and in verter) technology.
“I'm confident he had good ideas. I'm also confident he had plenty of horrible ideas...”

... as you walk along you path you meet a man. 50% if the time he tells you sage advice that makes you a multimillionaire and 50% of the time he tells you sage advice that doesn’t make you richer. What do you value the mans afvice as?

It’s not a cult or a conspiracy when what the other part is selling actually materializes.
If your primary concern is just job loss, my reply does not address it. Also, I don't really share your concern, or at least the strength that you seem to hold it with.

My concern is with superintelligence. A hostile superintelligence would probably end humanity, or at least the part of it that I care about.

Basically I share Elon Musk's view on this. I think superintelligence is quite likely within a few decades or at least a century or two, and if/when it happens, our only hope is that is imbued with values we share.

Ideally, the first organizations to discover how to do this should be open or under the control of democratic governments, or secondarily, under the control of corporations that can be regulated by such governments.
Wait what? Do you know reddit.com? It's like one of the top 5 most popular websites and some subs are definitely nothing but old phpBB forums.
I think that it would help if more vegetarian advocates focused on finding ways that non-meat diets can fit with people's lifestyles and preferences. For example, I don't like the taste of many vegan dishes and (back when I was more series about working out) I was looking for a high protein, high calorie diet. When I looked into veganism, a lot of the resources came across as dismissive of my goals or felt like they came from a perspective of "we're morally right so we don't have to find a way to work with people's preferences".

I'm not trying to say that's what the people giving advice actually thought; I'm just saying that's how I felt that it came across sometimes.
> rather than help UNIX users, as was probably intended, this just confuses and annoys them.

Compatibility layers are great, when they're actually compatible. Almost-compatible layers are a nightmare.
Airmail or Spark.
Your first link to a "criticism" of AMP makes the same mistake as the author of the article, which is the whole point of my thread. It doesn't matter how heavy an AMP page is if it prerenders everything above the fold. It will appear to load faster than your text-only static page every time -- instant instead of fast. The other criticisms are also from people who do not understand this.

Meanwhile, Google's competitors have willingly signed onto AMP without any criticism of the development of the standard. Your conspiracy theory doesn't hold water.
I'm not so sure - I don't necessarily think it'll be federal straight away, but I think there's real possibility of state-by-state rules, which will eventually give way to federal.
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He's not asking you to trust his judgement. Random hackernews comment!
> use your browsing data to improve security, provide content, services, ads and recommendations on their websites, and generate reporting statistics.
I say they won't:

https://www.carscoops.com/2018/09/vw-group-set-record-year-d...
Timers are key. I have a special needs kid, and timers are doubly needed. For now I just say "20m" set the kitchen timer and when it rings, all the kids have to e.g. come to dinner.

I wish there were some good method for kids to "earn" screen time (ie, parent could add/approve) that would be automatically deducted on usage of the device(s) (with blackout times where usage isn't possible).