skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if I agree considering it indirectly competes with both Xbox Live and Teams. In another world maybe they could buy it just for the tech and make something more synergistic with it, but they already did that with Skype. So ultimately I just don't see how Microsoft would monetize it and integrate it with their existing products without competing against themselves.

I think Amazon is a more likely acquirer considering they already have Twitch and Discord could vertically integrate with their cloud + it will make their ecosystem better for eventually launching a Steam competitor which I am 100% sure they plan to do at some point
Does anyone else find it odd that sqlalchemy has it's own proxy which intefere's with postgresql by default?
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Because that's what customers want.

Sure, they'll say they want accurate data, but at the end of the day they're paying the provider with the most bars and not doing even the most basic of independent testing, so clearly that's what customers want. In a free market, you measure what people want by what they choose to pay for.
Building TypeScript Projects with Bazel
Personally I make an effort to not contribute to any freedom-limiting software (GPL 2.0 is already bad enough, but GPL 3 is way worse). I explicitly check for GPL 3 and make sure I don't help in any way.

The alienation created by the crusader model is deliberate. It's meant to control and change, not to live and let live.
Never let the small sample size of your immediate boss and past bosses be the guide to how good you think you are. There is a chance she was picked on, because of some subconscious bias. I’ve had some shitty bosses that have given me awful references and other glowing ones. Some expected me to code as per job spec, others wanted me to be something like Gordon Ramsey off kitchen nightmares turning some fucked up situation into gold overnight.
> 2. Chrome shipped and continues to support a Chrome-only "standard", which is never going to be a Web standard, for some reason;

It's going to be unshipped around April.

Chrome shipped the v0 spec in order to prove out that the specifications were valuable and worth implementing. It took time to get the other browsers on board. Writing a major application like YouTube with the specs provided a lot of valuable feedback for the final version of the specification.

Today, the other browsers are very much on board with these specs, Firefox is even rewriting many parts of their UI with these same specs. Three years ago there was more skepticism, and by building real world applications we could figure out what works and what doesn't, and address the (very reasonable) questions that people had about their design.

> I believe you. I also see that there's a polyfill for this. And yet, YouTube doesn't (need to) use it in the one browser that it's parent company makes?

YouTube does actually use the Shadow DOM polyfill today, even in Chrome, and Shadow DOM is definitely the most complicated and arguably the most performance-critical spec involved. Polymer v1 uses the Shadow DOM polyfill by default even in Chrome because if it used native Shadow DOM it would be too easy to write an app that would only work properly in Chrome.

> You mean, if it weren't for Spectre, a Web version of Google Earth would very likely be shipping today, using WebAssembly.

Would you prefer that the NativeClient version of Google Earth not exist at all? The work that went into NativeClient has contributed to the wasm spec, and (I assume, but don't actually know) the NativeClient version of Google Earth was the basis of the wasm version.

Speaking just for myself, like, I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure how to actually translate it into action. If no one had used the v0 web component specs, then the v1 specs might never have gotten adopted at all, or at least would have been specified with way less experience on the table for how they need to work in the real world.

NativeClient is somewhat similar. It was a proposed standard that informed will (hopefully soon) be superceded by a final standard which could build on the lessons learned in building NativeClient.

Someone is going to be the first to ship a new feature. For a while, asm.js applications were really only usable in Firefox. They would technically run in other browsers through what amounted to a JS polyfill, but not very well. But Firefox's asm.js work was really good for the web, because they were able to gather a lot of real world info on how asm.js and similar techniques work in the wild.

Same thing with WebVR. As I recall, for a while Firefox was the only browser shipping experimental support for virtual reality in the web browser (someone correct me if I'm wrong here). Yes it's annoying when something works better in one browser than another, but how do you add new features to the web platform without experimentation and getting real world use?

The important thing is that the insights from shipping the experiment make it into a open specifications that are implemented cross browser.
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You are wrong. Direct reduced iron[1] is made with natural gas instead of coal. The amount of steel currently made without coal is about the same as the amount of crude steel made in the US.

[1]: https://www.midrex.com/news-literature/news-releases/world-d...
Nutrition is like Audiophilia. Lots of bullshit with little pockets of truth.

Why is it that when someone tells me about how I should eat - especially “nutritionists”, mental guards go up in my mind until I see a research paper or some evidence. I don’t, absolutely don’t believe anything I read or hear about nutrition. Just like the audiophile industry.

It’s infested with the pseudoscience, marketing assholes and fitness folks who clearly have no desire to learn about the truth, evidence or scientific data.

I once searched for which vegetables have the highest concentration of nutrition on Google. After pages and pages of blog spam, men’s magazines and Rachel Ray type nonsense, I stumbled upon a paper from Johns Hopkins about Top 100 healthiest vegetables. They disclosed the exact formula of how the score is calculated. Number 1 was water-crest, Spinach was 7th or 8th and Kale was way back in 50+ rank. I will edit my comment with the link to the paper if I can find it.

I have zero trust in nutrition information on the internet or any popular media. And nutritionists.
More bugs and the support was horrible. I moved my entire company from LP to 1Password. I'm impressed with the quality of 1Password. They get huge props from me for telling me, in the upgrade dialog, what the changes are, before I agree to upgrade.
The film Baraka has great shots of moving fog in mountains: https://youtu.be/r6BJkLWivzY?t=1029

They are still my favorite nature shots. I'm remembering them when I remind myself that the planet has way more great stuff than what I see daily around me.
I'm a real physicist. But I've learned to avoid these debates because I'm not a good enough debater to avoid getting tied up in logical knots.

My version of the argument involves turning it into a perpetual motion machine.

On the other hand, this rule is incredibly useful in modeling energy transfer through optical systems, seeing what things are possible and what things aren't without having to make detailed calculations. It's a real world rule with useful applications.

Instead, I'll just spout nonsense about programming. ;-)
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This would be much more convincing if I didn’t remember salt and dietary cholesterol going from definitely bad to mostly irrelevant or that we were told margarine was healthier than butter. The new health scare is sugar and that’s less than ten years old. Nutritional science in humans is important but it’s also impossible. Leave nutritionists to try and do their research and in your own life ignore everything they say.

You can’t do long term randomised control trials, you can barely do short term ones because people do not follow diets. And observational studies are very, very confounded.
The limitations it imposes are the price.
PXE booting mostly.
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I'm somewhat confused by the downvote. The article seemed to provide compelling evidence that lotteryesque savings accounts encourage savings, especially among populations who save the least. I'll again ask: Why would such a policy need be coupled with the removal of state lotteries? One could implement it and get benefit regardless of the traditional lottery.
That is the problem, what author thinks as ways to freedom, would probably viewed as means of slavery by the people on the other end of the spectrum.

That is why while I am interested to read such article, it will never work: the author is talking to him/herself, while instead he/she supposedly should talk to people who disagree with him/her in the first place.
Interesting to see one of these happen. Put me down for this happening to Mongo's Stitch product next.
Thank you for your succinct summation of the "privatize the gains and socialize the losses" philosophy.
>While I suspect you can't start a fire from moonlight in practice

Ivanpah may be able to, I wonder if we can borrow it at night for an experiment - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
Yeah, pretty shitty how the implication in the video is that Mark Rober designed the device (although he does briefly name-check the real creator), but no link in the description to the guy's channel.

Rober is going to have to do three times as much to recovery any credibility.
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> Discord isn't just for gamers.

That's true! It's also very popular among neo nazis.
He calls himself VC, so he may be more liable than you think.
GPL was a mostly failed, idealistic attempt at creating a separate non-commercial hobbyist computing ecosystem. It's not a big surprise that corporate developers don't like non-commercial software that they're not allowed to use.
Great comment. (Thanks HN, in the real world the only people I bump into who know anything about philosophy of science are nutcases!)

Also..I'm fascinated by Delbruck's principle of limited sloppiness, where being lax with the protocols (e.g. letting your nose drip into your petri dish) is what leads to breakthroughs - be too careful and the unexpected doesn't happen.
Does anyone know if this cheating is permitted on iOS?
There are different qualities of evidence, but the one I provided evidently didn't make the quality bar you're looking for. I wasn't insinuating but accusing. I'll email that account instead the next time, I wasn't aware of that as an option.
Just legislate that everyone has to be nice and give you lots of money. The intent of the law is all that matters if reality is any approximation of the truth.
Bristol Mountain and Swain are both around an hour outside of Rochester.
Except that he didn't engineer it. Someone else did.
Yep it’s a tricky one. It has to be hosted on a domain you trust. Maybe if it’s on IPFS that’s kind of better but any registered domain name is at risk of being hacked or even DNS itself.
Of course you’re always at risk. If there were a way to eliminate the risk entirely, you’d be immortal!

And yes, cancer does happen no matter what. I believe this has been acknowledged for quite some time. For example, prostate cancer in older men is basically guaranteed, and the only question is whether something else will kill you first, because it’s often very slow growing. But it’s still extremely useful to distinguish between this sort of inevitability, and risk factors that could cause you to die from cancer years or decades earlier.

Our DNA is the mother of all spaghetti code and it’s no surprise that there are a lot of different things that can make it go wrong.
Why would I suspect anything else with the way it's presented?

Presumably you'd be entirely happy if I made a fork of Chromium or addon that asked for donations on every Brave related site and personality.

I'd try and tell you via whois data (even when it's twitter and YT that doesn't have whois lookup for end users) when the amount passed $20k. I'd go with $100, but as it's a side project I can't yet add a system to manage smaller donations. It's on the todo list.

You can withdraw funds earlier if you ever happen to randomly discover I'm collecting donations for you. Otherwise I'll sit on it to help with development and hosting costs. Thanks.

Brave Co would be happy with this and would not resort to lawyers?
Wrong. Stores need traffic, which is why they locate on shopping streets, in large malls, offer large discounts at times and use loss leader products, and buy advertising.

Discords user base is traffic.
I'm aware of the history of "numbers games" and concede that while state-run lotteries were instrumental in their demise, I am unconvinced state-run lotteries are still the optimal way of suppressing organized crime.

Haven't law enforcement tactics particularly against organized crime improved greatly in meantime? While there are important concerns about the scope and application of these laws and regulations, it seems to me that moving around large amounts of cash without the federal government noticing has become more difficult for criminals (and non-criminals) than ever before. And might modern illegal numbers games in immigrant communities be related to notoriously poor law enforcement involvement in those communities, which allows criminal numbers games to remain relatively unmolested?

Maybe I'm wrong about all of that, but something else to consider is whether gamified savings accounts might reduce demand for illegal numbers games just as state-run lotteries do. If gamified savings accounts can suppress illegal numbers games in the same way state-run lotteries do, while at the same time inflicting less harm on economically vulnerable populations, that seems like a win-win scenario.
Copyleft is a niche or a branch, not a dead end.

What's a niche to some is a dead end to others. There are plenty of vibrant academic projects that will never, ever see commercial use. From the POV of someone only interested in making a profit, it could well be a dead end.
The labeled data is $300? That's basically free, even for somebody who's just a serious hobbyist, much less any funded public or private research group.

Edit: It's even less [1]:

$0.00 1993 Member
$250.00 Non-Member
$125.00 Reduced-License

[1]: https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S1
No one enjoys hearing people disagree with their decisions but sometimes it's the best thing for us. There are wrong choices that people make. I've made lots of those choices. I've also had some help avoiding some of those choices.

Please don't miss understand my response. I'm not saying don't do what you're doing. I'm saying the path they're considering may not put them in the place want when they're older. Trying to hint that they may be happier if they shoulder some of the burden they're trying to avoid. That while at the moment it might seem like a good deal there is a hidden cost. As you get older you realize that you only get so much time and you may wake up one day wishing you'd gotten further in life.

There is also a lot of joy that comes from taking on responsibility and mastering it. It would be a shame to miss out on that.
No, the customers don't want faked information. You don't expect to people to independently test the contents of every item of food just in case the ingredients on the package on faked.

They simply don't know they're being lied to. In most other areas of commerce, that would be illegal.
Well let's forget the offline android recognizer. That's the one that's built in and doesn't go to Google via the internet to get a better accuracy transcription. It's fairly good for what it is but doesn't come close to the accuracy when you go to the google recognition servers via their API's. That's because the models they offer via the recognition services are much larger, robust and better than what you get straight out of Android. These services offered by companies such as Google do not adapt the acoustic model to individual speakers and are therefore known to be speaker independent.

Secondly, when I say "train", it is in a totally different context than how you seem to be using the term. You are using it in the context of adapting an acoustic model to a individual speaker to improve the performance. I am talking about building the initial model. Typical RNN or even convolution based algorithms require a lot of time and processing power to train. What's even harder to get than the processing power though is of course, data to train off of.
When I lived in France, I had a buddy doing his PhD in French history. He was from Hong Kong. The difference between him and a Chinese mainlander is at species level. The people who grew up in the large mainland cities are educated, writing code for the phones discussed in this thread, and architecting skyscrapers - they speak multiple languages and wear suits. The ex-farmers in those cities poop in the middle of the street, out in the open. others then pump that poop out of the sewers, boil it, and use the floating oil on top to cook with and sell to restaurant.

I would agree that Europe is more diverse that China. Eastern Europe + Russia is not more diverse than China. Neither is Western Europe + Iceland. And China is 10 times more diverse than the states.

source: Russian born, US raised. Also lived in Spain, France, Japan. Been to Every EU and European country, and ~80 countries total. Wife is Chinese, not from the mainland.
How Fortnite triggered an unwinnable war between parents and their boys
And I would hope that a respectable court would consider sexual acts to be acts of expression between parties, which is a protected right.
> The problem with fascism is that its endgame always ends up with its adherents attacking each other.

That's also the "endgame" of pure democracy, and of basically every other "pure" form of government. (Classical Western philosophers knew this very well, BTW - they had very detailed models of how these violent crises happen, and how they lead to different forms of government in turn, with their own inbuilt instability.) It's one reason why sustainable government is pretty much always based on a variety of institutions that enable ongoing checks and balances among different organized interests. It's why we have republics, and not pure ("direct") democracies.
This video was the first time I heard of Mark Rober, and it was a pretty mean hatchet job towards that Indian kid who was obviously just joking around. Dr. Disillusion had a much more respectfully takedown of the same video where he gave props to the kid and encouraged him to keep at it.

Rober takes the "I'm an engineer, so I know what I'm talking about" shtick too far; there's probably 10,000 more-talented engineers in Boeing's SPEEA local alone.
Also it’s now old tech for them - pushing it to the public domain allows the public to maintain it and improve it for free; not to mention having more people use their system is like free training before they hire the person.

However, pushing it out surely does enhance the public knowledge - in the same way that Carmack released his 3d engines that were out dated in industry by one gen but still helped the public.

Lastly - they need to push it out as they need to attract top talent, and need to demonstrate they have top tech there (and are willing to let their researchers claim credit for it once it becomes old enough).
> Except it's not "heat energy", it's electromagnetic energy that's getting transferred.

Thermal radiation == electromagnetic radiation.
A lot of skeptical remarks here. The commenters seem certain, without any evidence, that it is simply impossible that problems with iron are even one tenth as bad as the article says the might be.

I think it is quite possible there are some real problems here, and so there should be a big research push to find out.

You know, it occurs to me that if an article raising danger signs about iron fortification is published, the iron fortification industry would have a strong financial interest in attacking it.
Not much different then a potential employer googling you, doing a credit and or background check, etc. Wouldn’t be surprised about the occasional HR person or hiring manager looking at a candidate’s residence on Google street view.
I’ve largely stopped using WiFi except for my home and work wifi. Seems to solve a lot of my wifi issues as the wifi networks I have access to at home and work locations is very robust. Everywhere else I just use my mobile carrier’s 3G/4G service which is usually much better than wifi. Helps that I have lots of data as part of my plan so I literally never run out of data.
Isn't this what quantum computing wanted to achieve?

What's next? Amoeba-resistant encryption algorithms?
Yes! To pick a random example, I typed "teapot" into Amazon and clicked the first link: https://www.amazon.com/Hiware-Removable-Infuser-Stovetop-Blo...

> This teapot is purely hand crafted, made from heat resistant borosilicate glass, Specially designed with non dripping spout and perfect ergonomic handle for sturdy grip

Probably not.
Url changed from https://www.npr.org/2018/12/21/679103541/japans-population-i..., which points to this.
I mean, they are not wrong, you should be using HTTPS.
Well to me the question is:

How many too-young-to-work online gamers are there who have parents willing to pay for their subscriptions / games / in-game purchases?

We already know that these kids who don't have enough (or any of their own) money have a computer, internet access, and the ability to purchase all of the peripherals and a game needed to play. What's making companies stop and say, "We don't think the people who made these non-working kids positioned to be our customers (e.g. they have the minimum hardware needed to play their game / products) will spend any more money on them."?

Are there more kids whose parents buy them computers and allow them to play games than there are corporations / businesses?

Do all corporations / businesses and products made for corp/bus only allow for micro-transactions or are their products a monthly/yearly subscription fee (fixed rate) or is it a one time purchase?

Are we expecting future generations to stop buying computers and games for their children? Are we expecting children to stop being born or stop growing old enough to be able to use our products?

It's a demographic that's got infinite potential and every year there is a new set of customers. And, if you get on any single customer's good side they can become loyal, paying customers when they reach an age where they are no longer price-averse.
Don't know much about the matter, I am from EU and traveled to NY a week ago.

The carrier I was assigned to was AT&T from my own carrier and it showed like I had 3-4 bars 4g all the time, although everything was so slow, in many cases I couldn't even do a search on google.

For a whole week, while being there I felt like I had no actual 4g, heck not even 3g. I don't know if thats AT&T specifically or New York being a very busy city but ye thats a real problem right there tbh, seeking out wifi just because you cant get the service you are supposedly paying for sucks.
Yeah, but GIFs and emojis!
This is why I don't like laws like these.

They're utterly ineffective at their stated goals. The targets are largely unaffected.

However, the average person is affected. And can be deeply affected.
At least that's more honest than what they call "lead-free pipes".