skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to being a massive extinction event, the oxygenation of the planet kicked off the evolution of multi-cellular organisms (620 million to 550 million years ago), the Cambrian explosion of new species (550 million years ago), and an ice-age that triggered the end of the dinosaurs and many cold-blooded species, leading to the emergence of mammals as the apex group (66 million years ago) and eventually resulting in the appearance of Homo Sapiens with all of their social sophistication and complexity (315,000 years ago).

Okay, so first of all, the oxygenation of the planet can't be held responsible for all of those things. The evolution of multi-cellular life? Sure. The Cambrian explosion? Probably. But oxygenation can't even be held responsible for the start of the dinosaurs, much less their end. The mass-extinction that set the stage for the dinosaurs was the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, which killed off 96% of ocean organisms and 70% of land organisms. The current hypothesis for the P-Tr extinction is volcanism, or perhaps the spread of anoxic water throughout the ocean.

The dinosaurs, as we all know, were killed off by the asteroid that resulted in the Chixclub impact crater off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula. An alternative explanation is that they were killed off by effects of climate change from the Deccan Flats supervolcano. Neither has anything to do with the Great Oxygenation Event.

This isn't nitpicking, because it demonstrates that the author of the article is essentially muddled on what they're comparing the digital transformation of our lives to. Is it like the Great Oxygenation Event, causing pain in the near term in exchange for opening up new modes of production in the future? Is it like the P-Tr mass extinction -- poorly understood phenomenon that will wipe out most businesses today, replacing them with forms of life that could not be imagined beforehand? Is it like the K-T exinction? A massive hit from an "alien" technology that wipes out old, slow-moving companies are replaces them with smaller, faster ones?

Instead of treating all of these mass extinctions as separate, the author tries to treat them all as a single thing, leading back to the great oxygenation event. Similarly, they try to treat all the waves of digital technology as a single phenomenon, ignoring the fact that social networks today are substantially different from the way they were imagined when The Well was in operation. Yes, there are similarities, just as both we and dinosaurs were oxygen breathing creatures. But the difference between Facebook and BBS's are just as, if not more, relevant than their similarities.

As a result of this forced analogy, the entire piece reads like a muddled mish-mash of various events in the history computing, science fiction, and Silicon Valley culture all forced to map to various events in geological history. It's tiresome, and it does more to obscure the author's point than it does to illuminate it.
I hope Firefox turns this option on by default. Overnight millions will face a hard time with reCAPTCHA and Google might be forced to sit up and take note. Fantasy aside, people will simply switch to Chrome-based browsers contributing to Firefox's dwindling market share. A win-win situation for Google.

Most Google products provide me services in exchange for tracking me, offering a reasonable compromise. With reCAPTCHA, they exploit me as an unpaid worker helping classify and train their ML algorithms, cost me time and wreck privacy leaving Google and the captcha hosting website as the only beneficiaries. Google in this case is more like a corrupt gatekeeper preventing you from entering the town. The town can employ more friendly options, but they don't care as long as the undesirables are kept at bay.

For those who have experience with using reCAPTCHA, is it so easy to setup and deploy that more and more sites are switching to them? Are there no decent non-exploitative alternatives which are tough on bots but solvable in reasonable time for humans without being a test of patience?
pip-tools (pip-compile, mostly) does everything I wanted out of pipenv (a sane lockfile) and is more explicit. I don't have any reason to use pipenv. No idea why pip-tools isn't super popular, honestly.
What is the reason for your worries? It is certainly not anywhere near the frequency/energy range of ionizing radiation, which begins beyond the far ultraviolet wavelength of around 100 nanometers. We are still talking about microwaves here, not even close to the visible light spectrum. You might observe RF heating (like with a microwave oven) if you stand near a source putting out enough energy.
Russia and Ukraine have released the big killer of the Russian army on the issue
Computer puzzles are dead. AI is too good. Anomaly detection is the future. Track your users’ behaviour yourself, find outliers, handle them appropriately.
Now that messages has a web version, I just don't care about anything else. That's all I wanted. Send texts from my computer or my phone.
That’s not true. Only the iPhone XR is missing force touch (3D touch)

Edit: and even there, I believe you can long-press to get the same effect.
Much more for what? In this context, "lockfile" means a file listing all your project dependencies with exact versions pinned. (Not semaphore-files or anything like that. It's not even a python-specific term, e.g. npm uses package-lock.json for the same purpose.) The need for something to store all dependencies with exact versions pinned exists in any language and infrastructure, are there any better solutions than store them in a file? Files are nice, they are VCS-friendly and everything.
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She's been arrested for circumventing US laws by exporting items _made in the US_ to Iran (via intermediate countries).

While I don't agree with the US sanctions, she is not being charged with shipping goods made in China to Iran. Obviously the US has no say in that.
I always deliberately try to mis-train it. But they can undoubtedly filter it out.
Polyfill to JavaScript BigInt Proposal
agreed. it would be particulary nice if DragonFly can be provisioned,optionally, as an underlying OS for Postgres, and for general file servers.

I, for one, am, slowly studying/investigating if Hammer2 can be used to store and serve (with random access) billions of files (media), instead of using more purpose build' distributed file systems.
> "I'm partial to Iran because a multi-lateral treaty was signed. Iran stopped nuclear enrichment. In exchange, western countries pledged to provide economic relief and stop sanctions."

Iran stopped its nuclear enrichment program, so the sanctions were wavered. Iran continued working on a ballistic missile program (capable of carrying nuclear warheads), and continued destabilizing countries throughout the middle east (through proxy terrorism) - so the sanctions came back.

In other words - temporarily halting the nuclear enrichment program alone should not excuse Iran from being held accountable.
Oral History of Donald Knuth Part 1
>>2. It makes it harder to sue the company for bias, because they can turn around and say, hey, look, we made everyone do unconscious bias training.

I think now as well as "Security Theatre" it looks like we have "Diversity Theatre" as well.
Either way, you train ai and watch ads in exchange for content.
> If you want peace, you have to impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia as well.

Funny how Israel never gets mentioned by anyone!
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Literally zero percent chance I touch any software made in Australia now.
Millions? Firefox will have less than 1% market share next year.

It really doesn't matter at all, especially now that even Edge is switching to chromium.
I can't prove it. But I have been hit by unsolvable captcha's when I purposely give it wrong answers.
There's plenty of spectrum at 39 GHz. The band is 1400 MHz wide (38.6 to 40.0 GHz). The problem is that current fixed point to point licenses are only 100 MHz wide, so the demo has to fit into that constraint.

However, the FCC will be auctioning 39 GHz in the near future. When that happens, the band will be restructured.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-352543A1.pdf

BTW, the 28 GHz band is currently being auctioned. 850 MHz in that band.

https://auctiondata.fcc.gov/public/projects/auction101
Undo is an art and Google has been practicing it for awhile on Android.
The problem isn't just that people have to drive far to get anywhere, it's also that delivery vehicles have to drive far out of their way to deliver stuff to these places.
It isn't just the next story the media is after. They are in the exact same business as facebook now. And any form of leverage might come in handy.

The topic or integrity of stories isn't even that important. The focus is engagement and attention.
So they get wrong one in ten thousand. I bet you can't guess the age of 9999/10000 people.
How to check if an integer is within a range?
Until you find the ultimate solution (good luck), here's my practical solution:

1) Port your US number to Google Voice for a one time fee of $25 ; from now on, you can use this number to forward to your new verizon number (also: T-Mobile had much better plans for only a few months at a time, every single time I checked).

2) Get service in Europe from an Illiad affiliated phone company; At least in the past, that included free US numbers you could forward your US google voice to freely -- as well as 15-45 days of free US roaming service. Maybe these offers are gone now - you could just pay $1/month or so to LocalPhone or a similar company to do that forwarding for you.

3) Buy the cheapest Android handset running a recent version (for security updates); I got a new Meizu m6 for ~$90, you could probably go lower for 1st hand or get a 2nd hand at $40 or so.

4) When travelling, switch SIMs between main phone and cheap phone, set up forwarding (directly if included in plan, or through LocalPhone or similar if not), and keep cheap phone on WiFi only, plugged in charging at home, and mostly accessible for when needed.

5) Use WhatsApp web on the new phone to continue using old WhatsApp number. Less than ideal - messages don't pop up - but it works well.

For about $100 one time[0], and about $1/month or so, you could to keep both numbers fully functional and working indefinitely.

[0] Ok, so you'll have to upgrade the cheap phone for security reasons every few years. So not exactly one time, but possible $20/year amortized, or free if you don't trade-in your old main phone and just let it rot like many people do.
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Relativity Develops ‘Pre-Crime’ Abilities with Trace App at ING Bank
My understanding is that the topic of this subthread is whether there is evidence to support the idea that Iran has done something for which sanctions are appropriate. I think there is sufficient evidence of that.

If you want to debate whether the U.S. should sell arms to Saudi Arabia, I think that is a different topic.
Some people are very upset about biological reality subverting the notion that there is no difference between men and women.
I've been unfortunate enough to have my 2 year old daugther hospitalised 4 times already and every time, in every ward, she slept very little.

Constant sources of lights, machines that beep. I get they're serving a purpose but an oxygen monitor going off at full volume every 20 minutes, really? You're telling me that cannot be replaced with a smarter machine that just sends a signal directly to the nurses instead of beeping up the place?

After every hospital stay she fell asleep immediately when we got home and slept for over 12 hours just to recover.
This is interesting. Somehow I missed this, using setup.cfg make much more sense than putting everything into python code. I wonder if pip-tools will allow compiling install_requires and test_requires in setup.cfg into nice requirements.txt and dev-requirements.txt without too much magic...
This only works for editable text, though, right?

Selecting text from websites or other static text is as clumsy as ever.
5 Positives of switching to Microservices
Also it's very hard to debug...

A friend on iOS think he has sent you a (SMS) text message.

You don't get it on your (non-apple) phone.

You don't get it on your (non-apple) work computer.

Three weeks later you log on to your iMac/mac-mini/whatever that you hardly ever use to find messages from whoever uses apple phones and has your email address on their contacts. It turns out that logging in to your desktop PC can link your AppleId (email address) to iMessage and start swallowing your text messages. You can only rectify this setting on an apple computer.

(Yes, I know I'm an edge case but I will never see iMessage as a good thing, walled gardens can suck).
Directed energy weapons research a new frontier for Air Force Medicine
Pinks and purples are non-spectral, mixing red and blue. Browns are unsaturated, dark oranges. Greys contain all wavelengths.
Apple testing USB security key support for Safari
Isn't Atlassian Australian? Or did they move?
less than 1% next year, it was just less than 9%. Do you mean it will drop 8 percentage points in less than 1 month, or in 12 months? Even so I think you will find there is some core percentage it won't drop below as long as it is competitive with other browsers. I'm think at worst - 5%;
+ pension + healthcare + mandatory 20 vacation days + max. 48h workweeks + mandatory 30 days notice period + better social security net

and i dont need a gofundme page in case someone in my family gets cancer ...
As another European: That’s like, your opinion, man.
Aw man, made an account to answer to this post cause I'll plead guilty to doing this a few times.

Especially on my way into the office in the morning or after lunch I've been caught up in a problem I'm solving, an approach I just discussed with someone, an idea, etc and have walked into the elevator without realizing there were people inside.

This is in an office building where FB rents multiple floors and is tight on elevators, so I think we might be talking about the same office and I wouldn't be surprised if I maybe I did this before. It's also the first time I'm living in the city, so I did get elevator etiquette wrong a few times when I first moved in.

I never heard any comments about the making the world worse though. The people in the office tend to be quite nice. I did meet someone in the elevator once with whom I had a good conversation about lunch options at the different companies in the building.

In any case, I do suggest pointing it out next time something like this happens. It might be people like me (or me!) who just aren't always aware of their surroundings. And it case this was me, have my retroactive apologies.
Well they do release tons of datasets,and their open source contributions have a lot of importance as well sinxe the past 10-15 years. Sure other companies do OS stuff too,i know. Even, the massive improvements in computational photography in the Pixel phones are explained by them in great detailed blog posts.
They even built a special search engine especially for Datasets.
Even the UX of reCaptcha has seriously gone downhill recently. I wonder how many hours per week I spend clicking pictures of busses and traffic lights. I would rather pay than complete them at this point.
When the broader discussion is about AI replacing the workforce, here’s a company committed to leave no employee behind.
Leaders like Oleg and a company like People.ai are a rare breed and a welcome change.
British Telecom bars Huawei's 5G kit from core of network
It really annoys me when companies I do business with make me do extra work for Google by employing reCAPTCHA.
How can someone know whether their software is compromised by this?
To whom?
Back in the days of book digitising reCaptcha it was fairly easy to distinguish which word was from the book vs computer generated and only answer half the captcha and pass.
It pretty clearly means that ASIS can't ask Apple to put this malware on every iPhone, but they can ask them to put it on Donald Trump's iPhone.
No problem USA! Go back on the Iran deal, go back on the Paris climate deal, go back on TPP.

Just don't expect that anyone believes you anymore.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, PawWaw, Yahoo Messenger, Odigo, (and 30 more names I can't remeber) - there was a huge instant messaging war, the first stage of which was decidedly won by AOL (with AIM and the purchase of ICQ), but Microsoft later made great headway through sheer monopoly force and persistence - but that eventually became irrelevant with SMS taking over as the main form of instant messaging and then WhatsApp taking the world by storm.

None of this was open source. Not a single one of the successful messengers. In fact, AOL fought alternative clients fiercely all the time, and Microsoft started fighting them as soon as they got non-trivial market share.

What about XMPP (Which started life as Jabber before being standardized?)? Well, that one is open source. But it only survived and flourished because all the commercial outfits were busy fighting each other.

I was tangentially involved with the failed instant messaging standardization process at the turn of the millennium, and Jabber was by far the worst technical proposal at the time -- but the process was political, and when the committee disbanded due to all the political infighting, Jabber, which didn't have the commercial interests, was the remaining option.
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The Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, 2nd edition has shipped on paper too
Great I'll try it out, I always meant to but never got round to it. Does it work on macOS or Windows yet? What's the oldest Linux distro upon which it will run?

Not sure we constantly try to sell our Enterprise product. You could look at it less cynically as we sell an Enterprise product to allow us to provide the Anaconda Distribution for free.
I am resentful for the crime she committed against the city I live in, Vienna.

Google: zaha hadid haus wien

Such an atrocity!
Yes, and children experience emotions before they learn to reason or use language, so they have a personal basis to work from when learning to reason about the emotions of others.

"Empathy" is the name of the reasoning process by which children analyze the experience of their own emotions and behaviors, to draw inferences about the emotional state of others based on observing their behaviors.

But long before that, they are reacting emotionally to the behaviors of others. For example, you can scare a baby.
The most importance is in things which cannot be seen.
Now that vim-go is archived (thank you for all the hard work)
2 cents per advert and the would explodes. That’s what your mental health is worth chaps.
Sounds like what you are looking for is Wire (wire.com).

Desktop/mobile clients. No need for phone to login.

Oh, and server code written in Haskell :)
I mean no cost. Of course I'm not going to pay for parking.

Maybe you think it is normal to pay. I don't. I have paid a few times in over 2 decades of driving a car. I can mostly remember them because I'm still angry:

I paid to park in Boston in 2001, near the courthouse. I sort of paid at a park-and-ride place for an airport, but that included a bus ride. I got parking stickers for a couple colleges. I paid the "parking fee" at the Air and Space Museum Annex in Virginia, which is really a cheating way to charge admission.

I think that's it.

The problem is that some people are willing to patronize places without free parking. If people didn't do that, we'd all have free parking.
It really seems like the company must be lacking top-down leadership. It almost seems cliché to bring up Steve Jobs here, but the contrast is striking. One could argue he took things too far the other way: There was one iPhone. It was the perfect size. Hell, there was one mouse button. It was the correct number of buttons. For everyone. But still, it's laughable to imagine this kind of fractured insanity happening at Apple, and for the most part that was to their benefit.
When exporting a product from the US, you are bound by the export laws of the US, if you then violate those laws (by shipping that product to Iran, say), then you can expect to be prosecuted by the US. If you then enter a country that has an extradition treaty with the US, you may find yourself on an unexpected plane ride to the US ...
The GV app is usable again recently - it was never really abandoned, just not given any major attention for a while. It did lose the "call back" option, which is a bummer.

However, installing the Hangouts client will let you use it as a better GV app for every day use (messages/voice, for settings and stuff you still need the GV app or the GV website).

At least until Hangout dies ...
If it’s not based on total compensation, employers will just use that as a loophole. Compensation will shift even more heavily away from salaries to “additional” income.
Fantastic, I wish I were born those times.