skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Zenexer,
I just get aware of the existence of this thread.

I still don't know if our "GreenLionSoft" account is going to be reinstantiated but I've got more info from the review team.

Our company account hasn't violated any policy but it was "associated" with my personal account that hadn't violated any policy but was "associated" to a third account from which I had console access in the past and that was terminated due "IP violation and Trademark" months before personal mine. The owner of this account appealed denying any IP violation but was ignored and the termination cascaded from one account to another.

The point here is not whether this first termination was fair or not, the point is that now anybody that shares wifi, hardware or console access with anybody that suffers a termination will be terminated too.

It is quite usual that developers working for a start-up, have also their own personal GP account just for publishing their pet projects or just testing new API's or features. If any of your employees while or before working for you have their account terminated the company account risks to be terminated too.

I have now sent back to the review team extra info to demonstrate that my personal account and company accounts were not created to impersonate this terminated account, nor republish any suspended app.

Still waiting an answer...
> ...as a defence mechanism, people embbed complex (almost impossible to understand during the talk) information in their slides...

Yes, this happens a lot, and it has the effect of alienating those who actually need to hear the talk and coming off as pandering or cloying to those that already know the material.

One thing I suggest to folks, if there is some insecurity about not covering "everything", is to make some slides on detailed sub-topics that aren't included in the main talk but are intended to be used when/if there's a follow-up question.

If the speaker is careful, they can even "bait" their talk to implicitly suggest follow-up questions for which a detailed auxiliary slide has been prepared.
Does it really need pointing out that a headline on huawai.com is a claim by Huawai?
Cpus were new tech, brand new tech. They have only been around now a few decades. Batteries have been studied for centuries. Even incremental improvements are much less likely, and much more expensive, when dealing with such mature technology.
Understanding Gaussian Processes. Implementation and TF-Probability Example
Yes. I'm just thinking about the author of the article. It might be an error to assume that people living the default would be happier or better off finding their love for surfing. Those who seek would assume that was true, but that might be because they are a different kind of person.

I feel that I'm hitting a language barrier (English is a secondary language) trying to explain what I mean. I'll see if I can explain my thoughts better later.
It's partly because he was a journalist, but also because state-sponsored murder in that state's own consulate is rare. More typically, there's at least a thin veneer of plausible deniability.
Maybe I don't know enough about linguistics and terminology, but aren't Americans famous for their dramatic intonation, especially at the end of sentences which aren't questions?
It's too early to say. Clojure's still very young in Lisp terms, so it's
natural that it has more hype around it now than languages that were cool 30
years ago. It's also not exactly taking over the world, and I think you're
forgetting the buzz Lisp had in the 80s. It will be an innovation in the sense
you mean if it has wide adoption and hype in 2050, but it's certainly not
anything unprecedented yet.
Does anyone else remember when, circa ±2009, Zuckerberg used to frame Facebook as (in his words) a utility? What has happened since? The company grew and became more "normalized" and thus inline with the "company activist" model so prevalent today?
No you haven't. HiSilicon K3V2 is a 6 years old mobile chipset built on ancient 40nm technology with DDR2 RAM, so like every other mobile chipset in existence, it has massive thermal issues due to non-existent cooling—even more so due to the terrible manufacturing process.

This is a server CPU built with modern processes, so thermal problems are out of the way.
As always, this begs the question between hate speech and disfavored political speech. I think Britain First is doing their best to actively revert the UK back 50 years, but I struggle to see why it is they're simply hate speech and not a valid political movement.
Maybe the solution is to have better business practices around the technology that we do have. Why does the battery needs to be part of the car at all? It clearly depreciates and is technologically disrupted on a different time frame than the car itself. A Tesla Roadster is a fine car and will continue to be for decades, if you can only refresh it's battery pack every 10 years or so.

I'm thinking of a modular battery that is hot swapable at the charge stations and where you only pay it's depreciation based on what you actually use. This would significantly lower ownership costs for light users and drastically increase efficiency and flexibility for heavy users who are no longer dependent on charge times. Since it's modular, you load the number of units you need, say one battery unit for a Leaf, two for a Model S or 10 units for a light truck, all in standardized format and with their own computing that tracks things like life span, charge cycles performed by the user himself for proper billing etc.

I know Tesla experimented with and later abandoned battery swap, but that's predictable without the proper business structure in place, no one is going to leave the most expensive part of their car back at the charge station. If you were to purchase a Model 3 at $15 - $20K and have the option to pay for "battery as service" at prices comparable to gasoline, people would flock to buy electrics.
I agree, but I think that a lot of people seek happiness and not much else.
There is already a way to manage that: remove the petrol from petrol stations and add huge batteries / capacitors. Charge those at normal grid load when no one is using the station then unload like crazy.
Indent 4 spaces to format as a code block instead of flowing together or separating with blank lines as paragraphs:

// // Dear maintainer: //
// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
// please increment the following counter as a warning
// to the next guy
// total_hours_wasted_here = 42

Note that on narrow windows or mobile screens this doesn't wrap and needs to scroll sideways for long lines (though these are wrapped to 60 characters), which is annoying
You need to some psychologist!
Hello Hacker News!

I recently accidentally crashed my entire infrastructure with Caddy server. Thus I had to quickly switch to nginx to get my sites back up.

While dealing with the nginx setup process I found it super annoying to switch between the various commands all the times

(ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/ .., vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/ .., systemctl restart nginx, ..)

So I built this little wrapper around the commands to streamline the process!

I hope you find it useful and give it a shot on your local dev setup or similar!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-localized_mode

For anyone wondering what ELMs are.
I mean from a security standpoint you're right, but having opportunistic WPA3 seems to be the only sensible way to deploy until you reach acceptable device support.
I'm Danish, I didn't really understand that for a long time. I would say that it doesn't mean Danes are super happy, it's just that the good economy, free education, free health care and strong social benefits makes it much harder to be very unhappy. So just happier on average.
This is a short series on Gaussian Processes I've been working on for a while. It's a 3 part series:

1. Part 1 introduces the concept of Gaussian processes with the help of a simple Python implementation: https://peterroelants.github.io/posts/gaussian-process-tutor...

2. Part 2 illustrates how to practically fit kernel hyperparameters to data with the help of TensorFlow probability: https://peterroelants.github.io/posts/gaussian-process-kerne...

3. Part 3 goes more in-depth in the different kernels fitted in part 2: https://peterroelants.github.io/posts/gaussian-process-kerne...
Last time I checked, the extraction process for lithium, which is needed for the batteries, still has a heavy impact on the environment. This article mentions a cost of 500,000 gallons (almost 2 million litres) of water for a tonne of lithium. [1] Considering that as of now the most lithium is produced in desert regions of Bolivia and Chile, using what little water exists there in the first place may be detrimental to the population of these regions.

Are there any news regarding new, more environment friendly mining processes?

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environmen...
Eh, it is my opinion that we are a long way from even having a net-positive prototype reactor (if ever).

Even if we get one operational, I suspect the construction cost alone would be an order of magnitude more than a traditional nuclear reactor. Then, how much of a net output will you actually be capable of generating, probably a fraction of the energy it consumes which is something but by the time you factor in construction costs as well as maintenance/upkeep costs you're probably going to have a fantastically expensive power source.

Then consider that if we had a viable fusion reactor TODAY, and only needed 10,000 of them to replace the 62,000 something power plants in the world it would likely take many decades to build them all. Then of course, energy consumption increases over time.

Between 1990 and 2008 world energy consumption increased 39%. Since 2008 we've added considerably more electronics to our lives just in 'the first world' nations so I suspect that increase has been even greater in the past decade. Factor in electric vehicles being added and...

So even if we do get fusion working in the near future, it's not going to be anywhere near a miracle.
Qualcomm's only real advantage as a company is killer patent portfolio, and lobbying power to sue every competitor out of the market. There were 10 mainstream Smartphone SoC available on the open market during 3g era, but only 2 in 4g (Mediatek and Qualcomm, with Samsung being out of competition due to their non-compete treaty with Qualcomm.)

It is only because Qualcomm can't go against Mediatek on its home soil, they went after their channel, and clients in courts.

I believe that Huawei's decision to home source its own SoC was also in part dictated by them being afraid of channel risk (i.e. Mediatek going down to lawsuit, or the civil war restarting)

BTW, if anybody remembers the company called Allwinner that was all the rage during tablet boom. I have 100% certain info that they too got into secret non-compete with Qualcomm in exchange for distribution rights of their low-end chips for 10 years.
Yeah I was disappointed when they discontinued the Volt.

I wonder if it was just too complicated compared to having a separate gas engine like most plugin hybrids today.
I feel that a lot of concern about replacing wood is misplaced or fails to properly differentiate between different species of wood harvested in different locations.

America has a mix of forests for nature preservation, recreation, and lumber production. The latter are very well managed, with loggers very careful to replace all the trees they remove with saplings so their sons and daughters have something to harvest in 50 years. The total result is that the number of US trees has doubled in 70 years, and were actually back up to 2/3 of the estimated 1600s tree count. I personally have no qualms about consuming American harvested hardwood, because I know that it’s part of a successful forestry program that’s planting more trees than it takes.

Now the one place the above doesn’t apply are South American and African hardwoods, which are currently not super well managed. So feel free to enjoy your Oak or Cherry floors, but maybe pass on the Mahogany and Teak.
Gitlab is down
Seeing 503 for landing, user, repo and issues pages.
Ask HN: Who all are web developers here on HN, your web stack?
Show HN: Square Footage Calculator for your weekend projects around the house
There's a prominent option in Firefox.
This has the added advantage of levelling the grid load beyond just the charging, like V2G without the car.
How to beat depressions and achieve creative consistency
give me a break, Obama's team was allowed to suck up Facebook's entire social graph and also used an app to get the data for all of the app users friends without consent

https://www.fastcompany.com/40546816/obama-campaigns-targete...

Zuckerberg and Sandberg hosted events to raise money for Obama

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-harnessing-facebooks-soci...

The media called it genius and a good thing when obama used data and social media to win. Those dumb dinosaur conservatives were being left behind by tech savvy democrats. Now it's portrayed as evil when the reverse happened. Pure propaganda

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.htm...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-...
"engineered" is the key word here. I too have bamboo flooring. When cutting pieces to fit I noticed a distinct epoxy/chemical smell foreign to what I'd encountered when cutting standard red oak flooring.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of CLI programs you install on linux
I was reading a post about a CLI program for listening to the radio in the terminal. So I installed it, then realized I had already installed a similar program. Any advice on keeping track of CLI programs installed on Fedora, or any linux?
This made me stop and think about how I've raised my children. I'm glad this was posted.
When I was almost 11, I started sucking on my knuckles because they were dry and cracking. My mother immediately knew what the problem was and showed me the hand cream. She didn't need to scold me or make a big fuss.

Honestly, this article really isn't about "the hand licking incident." It's about all the drama in the mother's life at the time; the drama in the mother's life was unrelated to the hand licking. In all honesty, this article would be much better if the author got to the point about the dry skin very close to the beginning, and then described why the drama in her family distracted her from understanding her son's problem.

(To re-iterate, the article isn't about hand-licking, it's about the mother's drama.)

As a relatively inexperienced parent of 2, the hardest lesson for me to learn is that it's not about me, it's about them. The second hardest lesson to learn is how to get my kids to explain their various aches and pains.
In academic research you'll be eclipsed by the truly obsessive people
> Based on the TaiShan servers, Huawei Butt also provides elastic butt services

Looking at huaweicloud.com, the "elastic cloud" servers seem to be all Intel :(
In a firefight, you need that ammo to get to the gun. This means it's not that easily distributed between an entire section. You're also going to need the correct sort of pouch on your armour/webbing to carry it. My experience is most of the time the majority of the gun ammo is carried by the gunner. The gun is also a lot heavier than a standard rifle.
Taking a 4000 pound car (typical mid-sized sedan) and ballooning the weight to 5000 pounds (Tesla S) is 2.5x the road damage. (Tesla 3 is ~4000 pounds vs the 3600 of a comparable A4, so a factor of ~1.5x.)

By comparison, four 16000# axles on a trailer are 8192 times the road damage per mile (and likely drive a lot more miles) of the 4000# sedan.
I still don't know what to make of this language. If anything, it sounds too easy, making me think "what's the catch?" Is this a small programming cult or is it Czech wizardry obscured by a language barrier? Are there no highly visible Red projects because of shortcomings in the language and its community, or because the language is so potent, its users so empowered, that big libraries aren't necessary?
What's the different between that and plain old structured programming subroutines?
The counterpoint of that being that if you can’t be happy with what you have now (assuming of course no abusive relationship/living in need of food/shelter/etc), what tells you that changing what you have will meaningfully affect your capability to be happy?

Wherever you go, there you are.

I liked this recent read:

“My father knew a family named Wolfawitz who wanted to go on vacation but didn’t know where.

It hit them. Take a two-week road trip driving to as many towns, parks, and counties as they could that contained their last name: Wolfpoint, Wolfville, Wolf Lake, etc.

They read up and found things to do on the way to these other Wolf spots: a hotel in a railroad car, an Alpine slide, a pretzel factory, etc.

The Wolfawitzes ended up seeing more than they planned. Lots of unexpected things popped up along the route.

When they came back from vacation, they felt really good. It was easily the best vacation of their lives, and they wondered why.

My father says it was because the Wolfawitzes stopped trying to accomplish anything. They just put a carrot in front of them and decided the carrot wasn’t that important but chasing it was.”
This should be applied to politics as well.
I agree with you here. Details of this particular issue aside - the chilling effects are likely to have a significant impact in the future. I don’t generally agree with censorship, but in cases where it’s needed I think it must be objective and not subjective. Eg. “i’ll know it when i see it”.
Paying to haul an engine around when you don't need it is using extra energy for nothing.

I do think that a market for trailers [possibly rentals] that have a small generator and some trunk space could exist. When people go on road trips they not only need the engine which is normally not needed, but they also want to have extra luggage. 4 suitcases and a small generator can fit on a trailer and run your electric car all day, leaving space in the trunk for other things.
Taiwan Arrests Six Accused of Leaking BASF Tech to China
(Increments time wasted counter)
Regardless of content I don't want to live in a world where corporate interests censor me.
In the 'New Yorker', 2003, the famous neurologist Oliver Sacks explain that he had a very poor mental imagery. But once, it took a strong medication and his mental visual skill increased a lot but after stopping his medication everything got back to poor.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8da6/ee8fa95f52476fc5d81f60... (page 9)
Yeah, but one of the main roles of pretty much every government is regulating what is sold in their markets.

(Were this a less autocratic regime,I would have said "governments are just people", but I take your point on the government of SA being largely disjoint from the citizens)
Blazorise 0.4.0 released
I’m not a big fan of bamboo as a hardwood for all the reasons listed above. But the stuff does make some rather lovely, but expensive, flyrods.
> The firewall is there so that Facebook and similar companies made it possible to Russia and other states to interfere with election in the US cannot do the same in China.

No. The great firewall is mainly there to prevent the Chinese people from organizing and disseminating information in ways that challenge the government [1]. They want to prevent something like the Arab Spring or the color revolutions [2].

Since you bring up Russian election interference: some Chinese government actions on the internet actually resemble Russian troll armies more than anything else [3].

[1] https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-censorship-china-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

[3] https://gking.harvard.edu/50c

> Yes, China has elections.

So have the Soviet Union and all kinds of dictatorships [4]. There's a big difference between having party-controlled "elections" and free and fair elections. The PRC most certainly does not have the latter.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election#Sham_election
Yusaku Maezawa: Japanese billionaire tweets most retweeted tweet
Anyone remembers how the internet was going to liberate the expression, instead we got two, three bottlenecks manned (or is it personed?) by censors actively supported by the MSM and virtually the entire university system.
The disagreement isn't really between those two things. It's whether such speech is actually political or a proxy for hate speech.

"We don't hire ethnic Muslims" vs. "We don't think you're a good culture-fit for this company."
> If you were to purchase a Model 3 at $15 - $20K and have the option to pay for "battery as service" at prices comparable to gasoline, people would flock to buy electrics.

I wouldn't. Not to be a naysayer, just giving some context. The cars I buy are already in that price range, and I already pay "comparable gasoline prices" (via gas, hah), so in my area all I'd gain is a different type of gasoline when in city, and when I go camping/etc I'd be at risk due to being in slow adoption areas.

Don't get me wrong, I want electric, but due to the areas I drive I've already settled to likely being stuck with Hybrids for the next X years.

With that said, if the model you laid out still ended up cheaper than gasoline it would at least tip the balance towards its favor. I just can't handle a zero sum trade - and I imagine the same would be true for many around this large, slow to adapt land masses.

Cities will become much, much nicer though. Air quality alone. I look forward to it
Yes! I meant more, you have awkward spaces to fill and it may be convenient to mount a panel at some odd angle but still have it display things aligned with the floor.
Does this mean countries with nascent independence movements will be able to declare these movements "hate speech"? I don't see much difference. Let's say Chiapas rebels or Puerto Rico or Scotts’ Independence movement want to seek independence, can the government declare that hate speech and have all that taken down? If this argument sticks, I can’t see why the above isn’t in similar vein.
Because, with politics, it's impossible to be objective.
WebGL + Rust: Basic Water Tutorial
In my survival training, the instructor taught us about our "useless" water filter. He told us that he'd only ever had to use it for real once and that one time it made it worth it to carry for every time he didn't need it.
Really hudge, how they are going to make it very lucrative? Monthly payment? Or sponsored hidden ads?
extracting fossil fuels now also requires a ton of water.
I don't think you can dismiss the Chinese element in Nortel's downfall quite so easily. Undoubtedly Nortel made missteps themselves, but rarely does a large organization fail for just a single reason. In Nortel's case it definitely appears that China played a part. I think it can reasonably be argued from either side on whether or not China's activities served as a tipping point.
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> Ads for a Britain First petition to stop a mosque being built in Maidstone, Kent, appeared on Facebook over the Christmas period, despite the group being banned by the social network.

> The three ads and the page on which they originated have now been removed, after BBC News contacted Facebook.

I think it’s safe to say that the “to stop a mosque being built” is the important phrase here.
Kotlin is not an option with Flutter.
> revert the UK back 50 years

In what way?
Same here. Everything in the Apple Store now seems designed to impress me rather than to help me get work done. Battery life gets shorter, keys and ports get removed, prices get higher. But boy do these things look amazing in the store!