skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not be intimidated by that scary keyboard thing.

I think it's more about showing you can use the computer with just the mouse. They went to great lengths to avoid having the series-of-menu-selections/commands-by-keystroke-and-arrow-keys type text mode UIs (which were the norm on other personal computers) replicated on Macs. The original Mac keyboard didn't even have arrow keys.
I think these trolley problems are a waste of everybody's time. Building redundant reliable braking systems will be orders of magnitudes easier than creating a system to fairly and accurately assess who is the best set of people to kill in a disaster scenario.
Σημαντικά παιχνίδια σε Ιταλία και Ισπανία
GP is saying that the article is about the person who established a lot of known dates. Those known dates are then used by others to establish the C14 baselines.

Two distinct but related facts.
Some micropayment / street-performer-payment solution will emerge if ads are gone. It may take a few years, likely not have anything to do with cryptocurrency (though it may).

There are quite a few people already supporting themselves through patreon; people are willing to pay if the donation is reasonable, and friction low enough.

In many ways iTunes/Netflix/prime beat “free” pirated content - but only once friction was low enough. That can happen on the web, but right now ads are incredibly low friction - they will have to go away first.
I had a very similar one-time experience with Charles Barkley. I was a regular at the bar at the Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South in NYC, and was introduced to Barkley by the bartender, who often connected solo diners/imbibers with each other for conversation.

We had a nice conversation about NYC, vegas, gambling, friendship, etc. along with a number of tequila shots. He was extremely down to earth while not pretending like he was anything other than a world famous former basketball player.
> The irony of the articles website asking to turn off adblocker :)

Are you sure? For me it looks like the message is just an example picture.

At least the button "How to whitelist" isn't real for me...
Non-Paywall version:
https://outline.com/gYnEz2
this was a good read. I am currently myself spiraling down into depression and fighting against it. It's very interesting to try to get a grasp of what's going on and in the past year or so I learned more about brain chemistry, receptors, amines, enzymes, etc than I did during my entire school curriculum.

I call myself a self-proclaimed guineapig: I read a lot of papers, talk with my doc about different attempts of medication and things that I don't want to touch such as SSRIs and why, and self-medicate for things that don't need a prescription or are off-label useful for depression. Some things worked, but aren't sustainable because they aren't prescribable where I live.

Yet after a long time of fighting, the feeling of hopelessness is getting more and more stronger. Depression is horrible and I would give so much to turn back the clock to when I didn't feel the way I do now.
My youngest child was obsessed with Minecraft. To the point I decided to check it out, ended up running a server where he and I and my two adult children could play. This lasted a year or so, before they moved to Fortnite. I joined them. I'm a good shot but can't keep up with the end-game build battles. Point is, games come and go. My kid and your kid is no better or worse for liking any particular game at any time. Just know it's coming...and going and enjoy it while you can.
100%. As a person who has always had some anxiety over peer acceptance, I would have been afraid to pursue a trades job due to rejection from the opposite sex or even peers and family.

If you have any single friends who are successful lawyers, you might be surprised how easy they have it on dating apps compared to someone with more normal jobs. I don't think there's an easy answer to changing that social behavior at a massive scale; it's just part of our culture and the only thing we can do is teach our children to be accepting of everyone and that they are free to pursue whatever careers they want without judgement.
These Incredibly Realistic Fake Faces Show How AI Can Now Mess with Us
Exactly. Nobody is surprised. I have asked my coworkers many times to stop using these poisons on their kids. They do not listen. They do not care. One reply that I often listen to is:

"Everything has pesticides in it. If we start caring about these things, we may as well stop living."

Well, I did what I could. The consequences are yours to bear.
I'm intrigued but this is ambiguous, could you make a complete sentence?
The US government does have the power to seize private property for the public's benefit, it's called Eminent Domain [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
I wish there were an option to make the successful face scan my username, not my password.
I think the point is to have a unit test like

for parameters in parameter_generator(n=100):
assert(old_version(*parameters) == new_version(*parameters),
f"Versions produced different outputs on {parameters}")

This lets you transform old_version with more confidence that you're not corrupting its logic.
AWS IoT Core Software Quick Reference
I'll try one more time and then I'll let it go. I enjoyed the story, and only wish it was less remarkable.
got extra space in the shipping box? fill it with CRaP... haha...
DeepMoji has learned to understand emotions and sarcasm based on emojis
I'm pretty sure this manual was written by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Espinosa

Source: He was a highschool and college friend.
SuperGloo: open-source project to manage and orchestrate service meshes at scale
Maybe a series of magnet pairs, spaced at different heights, could approximate the spring effect. Each pair would be bound together (e.g. with strapping) with the negative charge being on the outside, since Earth has a negative charge. The bottom of the stick would have the strongest magnet, negative charge facing up.

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The pairs could then repulse each other at a closer distance, approximating the spring function. I accept royalty donations :-)...but it's probably patented by now.
Everyone has 20/20 vision in hindsight. Many things that turned out to be disasters looked perfectly reasonable at the time.

For example introducing the cane toad to control cane beetle, the larva which it was assumed the toad would dig up and eat despite the toad not having that kind of habit.

It is possible that the desire to appear to be doing something overpowered the motivation to actually do something. It is also possible that the people involved simply didn’t realise how incompetent they were to make that decision.
Chinese vendors:

Anhui Ankai Automobile
BYD
Shenzhen Wuzhoulong Motors Group
Zhengzhou Yutong
Zhongtong Bus
Zhuhai Guangtong Automobile

In Europe, there are buses by EBUSCO, Daimler, Solaris and a number of others. In US, mostly Proterra, Canadian New Flyer, and BYD

More here: https://evtrader.com/c/electric-bus-manufacturers/?fwp_locat...
Yes, but it's still very limited. The price point where nobody will want to advertise is pretty low (I'm guessing). There's no way to escape that, and basically your only option is to change the entire monetization scheme.
Cool project! Keep it up ;)

On the website, you might want to add the mouse pointer back when hovering clickable icons. It's not immediately apparent that they are clickable since the cursor remains the regular arrow instead of changing to a pointer.
Huge amount of the opioid crisis is due to unintended overdose from fentanyl in the drug supply that was not meant to be there. Lots of people accidentally dying because their cocaine, xanax, or other pills have too much fentanyl.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...
Learning from negative examples can be more effective when we can conclude that all inputs didn't work. The problem with positive examples is that we don't know which of the inputs was responsible for the positive result.
Some of us were on the web before it became an ad infested cesspool.

It wasn’t as slick, sure. But it was usable, and useful. Most of the useful things on the web that arrived since, with the notable exception of modern search engines, are independent of ads.

There needs to be a solution for commons like search engines if there is no ad revenue to be made - I would gladly pay $50/year for a good search engine (which is infinitely more than google and Facebook are making on me now, as I use as blockers) and I am not alone.
Also, it might be incredibly rare because most people follow the instructions, and/or the people who follow instructions poorly live in areas with highly treated water (essentially the entire urban population). In warmer rural areas, using rainwater or borewater, it is likely to have significant growth of Naegleria fowleri. Children are particularly susceptible.

https://healthywa.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E/Amoebic-meningitis
https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/pathogen.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/professor-encouraging...

There is a similar problem where cleaning contact lenses with untreated water leaks to Acanthamoeba infection, leading to possible blindness of loss of an eye.
Here's a related development:

Amazon has been pushing many of its larger Amazon FBA merchants to use Seller Fulfilled Prime (SFP). Instead of these merchants shipping from their own warehouses to an Amazon fulfillment center (FC), merchants ship directly from their own warehouse to customers. Amazon is dangling huge fee discounts to incentivize eligible merchants to use SFP.

The benefit for merchants is that they get to ship at the negotiated rates for UPS/FedEx/USPS that Amazon has access to. Additionally, these SFP merchants still get the Prime badge.

For Amazon, this will likely mean fewer FCs to build, and being able to save on labor, packaging, etc.

To me, it was always evident that Amazon loses quite a bit of money on shipping/handling some larger items. When an FBA merchant sells on Amazon, there's a referral fee and FBA fee. The FBA fee is often absurdly low, and might be lower than the cost to just ship from the merchant warehouse to a FC.

It seems to make intuitive sense that instead of shipping from point A (warehouse) -> point B (FC) -> point C (customer), if you can ship from point A to point C in a reasonable amount of time, it saves all parties money.

ADDENDUM:

It's also worth considering that SFP will be great for Amazon's efforts to build out its own delivery fleets. I imagine that in the future, SFP merchants will be forced/given the option to ship with Amazon's own parcel delivery service. This will be a steady base of business (extreme "dogfooding") to start off with, similar to how AWS originated with internal infrastructure for Amazon.
> I do not recommend this platform for hobbyists for this reason

There's also the fact that the article suggests that they come in batches of 1000 at $1100 each.
I use google photos for anything with my iPhone as it's unlimited storage with unnoticeable compression. As for computer related files and videos I use google drive through my old university email since that also has unlimited storage.
The problem aren't ads per se. Ads in newspapers and magazines were always fine. There, the advertisers would directly (via their agencies) close contracts with the publishers, based on the typical audience of the publication. A lot of these ads even can be considered part of the content. Most computer magazines of the past had sometimes as much value in the ads as in the articles. Because after all, ads can (and should) be the way a potential customer can find out about a product or service.

The problem with web ads was and is, that the nature of the ad business was changed completely. Rather that a publisher made contracts with the advertisers themselves, ad networks acted as a middleman. Publishers would no longer run ads of their clients, but rent out part of their web space to the ad networks, who would control the content posted on their sites. While this produced a lot of easy income to the publishers (they just rented out the space, had no further work to do), it had grave consequences:

- it introduced tracking of the web users to target ads, as the ad targetting was no longer done by linking it to the publication, with all the unacceptable consequences to privacy

- it far too often created anoying or even offensive ads, as there was little or no curation

- beyond annoying ads, far too often plain malware was distributed via the ad channel

So I am glad to hear that web ads in these form are dying. I hope the web publishing industry reacts in time and goes back to a more classic advertisement model. I don't mind reasonably presented ads which don't endanger my privacy or computer security. I even would be really interested in ads that are informative again. There are some websites out still, which seem to have direct ad contracts like print magazines and just integrate them in their page layout. And of course, they are not blocked by ad blockers, so they remain effective.
How many would benefit vs how many are inconvenienced? Seems like the beneficiaries easily outnumber the few who lose out.
It doesn't know about dropoffs. It only knows about lane lines. It's really good at following lane lines. Sometimes right into an obstacle.
We should also never forget the classic gaming inspired by Charles Barkley - Barkley, Shut Up and Jam![1], or the spin-off RPG, Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Shut_Up_and_Jam!
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley,_Shut_Up_and_Jam:_Gaid...
2018 BC: Don’t mess with nature because the gods are capricious and will get offended at your hubris and will punish you.

AD 2018: Same except substitute some other term for “gods”.

It is manipulating nature that we learn about nature and uncover new things. Ultimately, if it had not been for farming, we would never had landed a human on the moon. Humans are the first earth species who is not limited to earth. Within our lifetimes we could have humans successfully living on another planet. Let us respect the intricacies of nature, but not get intimidated into inaction and passivity. Our human ability to adapt earth to our needs on a scale far above any other species is a feature not a bug.
I wonder about that sort of "waste" if they have a marketing role like say offering milk despite losing money because it brings in traffic. Dropping CRaP may harm their one stop shop status for traffic.
Or, if you are coca cola, you will know who all of you major repeat dash customers are. Just ship them a "coke now" button and cut out Amazon completely. Surprisingly, product is no longer unprofitable once you cut out the 15%+ Amazon cut.
> I wonder where the line is. My helper Android library that obtains an IP?

GDPR only applies to parties who store and process user data. If your library doesn't talk to your own servers when embedded in someone else's app, you've got nothing to worry about.
Tracking provides a way for advertisers reach their intended audience without altering the message of the publisher. Advertising won't go away even if ad blockers reach 100%. It will just transform every article to an affiliate-supported promotion.
why not a website
Polluting a river is something very direct and very visible. Also therefore directly punishable if people violate it. It makes sense for the average Joe, that weird chemicals from a factory don't belong in a river.

But in the contrast declaring CO2 as bad is something very arbitary. We all exhale CO2. So suddenly CO2 is bad, exhaling is bad?? ... is a bit off worlds for the common people.
As CO2 clearly is something normal. Nature needs CO2.

The excess is the problem. That we suddenly release all the stored carbons from millenias. But still this is less clear. How much is too much.
Because burning fires is something humans do since we are humans - very counter intuitive to declare it all wrong now.

So corrupt leadership is not really the problem if the common people are not fully convinced that CO2 is really that bad. And we are talking about the global population. Not just the intellectuals in the western world.

And even if they are aware that it is not ideal - if they feel cold now, they will burn coal to warm themself now, if they lack (affordable) alternatives. (I do). So they also would not push their politicans to forbid this. And in a democracy it is the will of the common people that matters. So the problem is just a little bit more complicated, than you make it. Saying politics should do something is easy - but is still not a real solution.

Solutions would be affordable
alternatives. And if you look at the developement of prices of solar panels and batteries for example ... you see that change is happening. I just don't see it is comming from politics. Politics can maybe help the process, yes. But not so easy. As out whole industry is based on fossil energy. Changing that simply takes time.
So teach people about is, yes. But don't preach to them nor force them. Otherwise they will circumvent it.
Five myths about space
>I don't get the hate the Minecraft gets now as my experience was really great

My experience with minecraft was when notch was on /v/, and my dislike of the game is how notch basically has/had no idea what he was doing. He accidentally stumbled into a good formula, and arbitrarily followed community requests with no real plan, destroyed any interesting aspect of survival mode, until it became that creative held all popularity, and then the whole game slowly became a lego building-maker, with a thin veneer of survival on top (mostly amounting to a random sudden death, but otherwise completely ignorable once you figure out the main enemies). As /v/ got fed up with his constant hiatuses, he moved over to reddit and I quit paying attention.

But the game early on had a lot of potential, and it was mostly wasted. Its only notable aspect is an addictive feedback loop, and online play, at this point.

It has more wasted potential in it than spore — impressively disappointing.

And it got so close to something fruitful that it ruined any game that actually does attempt a proper survival mode — they’ve all become minecraft clones, or minecraftlikes, and cant escape the perpetual black hole of its name. Even now the genre of survival-building-sim is only just getting back onto its feet, but it’ll remain crippled probably for at least another decade
I have to admit that, as an engineering manager, this is exactly what I was thinking!
Given that's true, we all know those around us are not well equipped to help, and therapist are so impersonal, it does often seem pretty pointless...
When building a product for embedded applications closed source libraries and drivers that do not support your platform are no obstacle at all. You contact the vendor and make a deal. That's in their - and your - interest.

This is a totally different world than the open source world that you are referencing, likely that embedded product will also not be open source. Commercial licensing is your only option in that case anyway, unless you are just looking for FOSS stuff with permissive licenses, but in that case those won't be closed source to begin with...

So the problem you perceive simply does not exist. The biggest questions will revolve around commercial viability, proof-of-concept and time to market. Rarely around such details as closed source libraries or drivers. Though, in case your supplier goes belly up those could become factors, but for that you have escrow agreements.
I do not know if centralized planning is capitalism. Beijing decides what need to be done, then they make that happen. It might look like capitalism from afar but it is not. For example, in true capitalism, companies that make money-losing decisions go out of business. In China, the central government does not go out of business and the government owned companies executing those ideas do not go out of business.

Having the losers go bankrupt and exit the playing field is an important part of capitalism.
It's 501 for some reason.
It only works if it's possible to understand what doFirstBit() does without understanding how it does it. E.g. compare "reorderArrayBasedOnSomeDomainSpecificConstraints(&array)" vs. a screenful of code that reorders the array in-place (especially if it's plain C and the temporary variables used in that part are mixed with the rest of the function's variables).
You can buy the development kit by itself, The article is referring to the processors themselves for the 1000/batch
The ones pictured in the article are BYD. I couldn't find any figures for the makeup of the fleet overall, but I imagine it's mostly BYD, as they seem to be by far the dominant player in the electric bus market, both in China and worldwide.
You have to actually use the system for it to work.

Context: I have pomodoro timer, Asian Efficiency, 7 Habits, Personal Productivity self help books galore and still get nothing done.
Offer more money in defense jobs. Talent will show up.
That's the best way to learn! Congratulations for shipping the project. Keep them coming up.
Pushback Derails Company That Thrived on Patent Lawsuits
> ... and not to the better.

That just depends on the time scale. Everyone is fine with dingoes ("Australia's native dogs") despite them just being dogs that have been wild here for a few thousand years. If pigs had been introduced in 500BC we'd be campaigning to save them instead of trying to eradicate them.
Inverse-cube for magnets
I'm not an ancient Egyptian expert but considering their culture was obsessed about the past to the point they created these ancient tombs, i would imagine they had maybe just a little more respect for their ancestors.
I tried to find a little more context on the quote. Note that Alan Watts was a major popular figure for bringing zen Buddhism to western audiences. Turning things like definitions on their heads is definitely in line with that goal. :)

> We must here make a clear distinction between belief and faith, because, in general practice, belief has come to mean a state of mind which is almost the opposite of faith. Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would “lief” or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on the condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go. In this sense of the word, faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deception.

The previously missing sentence and the very beginning of your quote seem to address your comment: "in general practice, belief has come to mean a state of mind which is almost the opposite of faith. Belief, as I use the word here, ..."

My impression is that belief has become according to Watts as an assertion of a specific hypothesis: I will open myself up to this idea if and only if the idea fits with my preexisting ones. If you are testing a hypothesis, this is a poor attitude to have, and it can affect how you perform the test: the test could be wrong but agree with your preconceptions. This is how "belief clings".

Faith, as the "essential virtue of science", according to his definition would be detachment from the outcome of testing a hypothesis, "whatever it may turn out to be", with "no preconceptions". You have a question, and you are employing a method, and the outcome remains unknown until you complete the test (and perhaps even after). This is how faith "lets go".

Religion of "self deception" is one where those practicing it only open their minds to any particular idea "on the condition that it fits with" their preexisting ideas. Religions that do not deceive themselves must then be religions that open themselves to new ideas, whether or not those new ideas agree with ideas they already hold.
Ah, what i mean is, for the latter part, do not rewrite from scratch, instead change the old architecture incrementally.