skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trees don't stop growing. Trees also die, fall to the forest floor, and a % of the carbon is released as CO2 during decomposition but the remaining % is retained as soil. The coal we mine to burn is from the retained % of ancient forests. The oil we drill to burn is from the retained % of algae and plankton that ended up trapped under rock and essentially pressure cooked into oil.
Adjusted for inflation, pretty flat:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=l7U1
It's actually pretty interesting to see how the captchas have evolved as, presumably, Google decides "OK, we have enough data to consistently identify this thing" and moves on to the next challenge.

I recall the modern (non-text) captchas used to be cars pretty much every time. Then, the images started getting grainier as they apparently wanted to improve their recognition in different conditions. Then crosswalks and store fronts became quite common, eventually with the same kinds of noise distorting images. Now I've started seeing things like buses, bridges, motorcycles, bicycles, etc. It feels like they've finished getting enough data for improving Google Maps and have begun moving towards collecting data for their self-driving car projects.
You don’t, you wouldn’t even need a webcam, you could just splice into the video signal at output and interpret it directly (much as the HDCP bypasses do).
WoA Installer Also Brings Microsoft’s WoA to Raspberry Pi 3
Conda also solves the multiple versions of Python problem, in addition to SAT-solving the dependency map, and handling binary distributions.
This looks like a prototype? It doesn't look like they're selling this.
I never disagreed that it worked, I said it worked less well than people think.

And what you call soft money is actually called freedom of expression, and you're going to be a lot harder pressed than you think to prove that soft money works as directly as you're claiming.

Finally, no lobbying is not a substitute for "money in politics". That's factually wrong.
Toyota has always been very frugal while delivering quality, Volvo was not, so no. And I think you meant 'have' instead of 'of'.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toyota_Way , pay extra attention to section #2.

Volvo took a much more 'premium' route towards quality, starting with galvanized steel bodies and other such costly measures, as well as producing on less efficient lines than Toyota. Even so, their reputation until the Chinese take-over was excellent, since then the division is as far as I know profitable so maybe this is a happy medium between baked in quality and cost to produce. But it will never go back to the 'tank' status that their older line-up has, which in a way is good because the modern ones fare much better in the crash tests than the oldies, even against mid-range cars in head-on or side-on collisions.

On another note, given the history between the two countries I don't see the Japanese government ok'ing a take-over of one of their prime brands by the Chinese.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Japan_relations
To be sure I would focus on all modern media platforms (reddit, facebook, twitter, wikipedia etc.) and not focus on youtube only. It is about time to seriously do that.

At the same time, I wouldn't mind to also get rid of GDPR. GDPR alone is the worst law implementation of the decade. Not sure why those people in Brussels get paid such a great salary considering how worse they make life for people on the internet.
1 million tcp connections with vertx / kotlin

https://github.com/lfmunoz/vertx-kt-rocket

Nothing special other than having to tune Linux
What? I want my acquaintances to be able to give me a ring if they found my number through mutual friends. That’s a good thing. Preventing or discouraging that would be bullshit.
Ask HN: How do you deal with the anxiety of interviews?
they stopped using the text because some forum campaign that promoted typing cursewords instead of the unkown word. they probably started showing cursewords on the rendered search highligths on google books.

there was a decent write up from a whitehat showing the damage, but I can't find it
Do you mean to imply we should be using world population statistics to judge if US companies are sufficiently diverse? Because by that standard, we could judge the US itself, by not reflecting global demographics in its population, to not be doing enough to advance minorities.

Minorities by US standards, since otherwise white people would also be a minority, and not even the largest one, depending on how you define 'white'.
Anything that doesn't rely on the boiling of water's fine by me!
Videos of Police Brutality Traumatize African Americans, Undermine Justice
The price and availability of truffles in the US may improve in the future as the result of "the great race to grow black truffles in Wine Country [where] Sonoma County has beaten out Napa Valley despite getting a later start"

"Ground-breaking truffle harvest portends something big in California" https://www.sfchronicle.com/wine/article/Ground-breaking-tru...
I experienced this block on Three. I had to turn off the adult filter by clicking on a button or two, and then turn data off and on (via airplane mode, although Three's web page said I'd need to restart my phone).
Most of them aren't in the US, so it isn't clear how that would work.
I can't answer your question, but after a lot of experimenting and reading I ended up with styled-components as my preferred solution if I were to go the SPA way.

It allows you to write your CSS inside the backtick js strings (template literals?) and then inserts/removes the relevant CSS as components are loaded/unloaded.

Personally I've gone in an entirely different direction (server-side everything, and simply diffing the HTML on the client when necessary), but if I were to build a proper front-end app, I'd probably go for styled-components.

The main downside is that the stuff needed to parse the css-in-js-string is yet another thing that increases payload size, but for an app it's not too bad.
Didn't see that, even though I read it.

In fact looks like my browser scrolled right past 3-4 paragraphs.

Now that I look, there was a stupid advert that pushed the content up and out of the way. Way to make a site, guys.
Then the units would be time squared. That doesn’t make any sense!
I'm one who has used number spoofing for good. I create a system to call patients and remind them of medical appointments many years ago, and we would spoof the Caller ID number so that it showed the call coming from the appointment desk of the relevant Doctor's office, even though all the calls were actually originated from a central location. The company had ownership of all phone numbers we displayed, and it was beneficial to users who could call back and reach an appointment desk with the power to help them.
Health Benefits of Drinking Water
> would a "philosophical zombie" pass the mirror test?

Since a philosophical zombie's behavior is, by definition, indistinguishable from that of a conscious person's, yes, such a thing would pass the mirror test. As well as any other test of consciousness based on observable behavior that we could devise. IMO that's a reductio ad absurdum of the concept of a philosophical zombie.

I agree that a lot of different concepts can get lumped under the label "consciousness", and that there is a wide spectrum of capabilities involved, not just a binary thing that's either there or not there. If the question is whether or not an animal is suffering, I'm going to go with observable behavior over theoretical concepts.
The FEAR AI is actually simpler than you might think, though with some really good insights in term of applying behavioral design to gameplay. https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/gdc2006_orkin_jeff_fear...

> As much as we like to pat ourselves on the back, and talk about how smart our A.I. are, the reality is that all A.I. ever do is move around and play animations! Think about it. An A.I. going for cover is just moving to some position, and then playing a duck or lean animation. An A.I. attacking just loops a firing animation. Sure there are some implementation details; we assume the animation system has key frames which may have embedded messages that tell the audio system to play a footstep sound, or the weapon system to start and stop firing, but as far as the A.I.’s decision-making is concerned, he is just moving around or playing an animation.

> Now let’s look at our complex behaviors. The truth is, we actually did not have any complex squad behaviors at all in F.E.A.R. Dynamic situations emerge out of the interplay between the squad level decision making, and the individual A.I.’s decision making, and often create the illusion of more complex squad behavior than what actually exists!

> Imagine we have a situation similar to what we saw earlier, where the player has invalidated one of the A.I.’s cover positions, and a squad behavior orders the A.I. to move to the valid cover position. If there is some obstacle in the level, like a solid wall, the A.I. may take a back route and resurface on the player’s side. It appears that the A.I. is flanking, but in fact this is just a side effect of moving to the only available valid cover he is aware of.
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Cite?

I can't imagine some forum has enough traffic to meaningfully screw up their data, and they don't tell you which of the two words is the unknown word, so you're just going to fail a lot doing that.
This is an amazing piece.
Compact C Type Format

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ctf&sektion=5&manp...
Jvm is very optimized, so it's actually something not that non-special.
Your recollection is correct. Consider too the dust accumulation predictions for the moon landing. It would appear that we (as humans) are not very good at dust estimates (dustimates?). This is reinforced by the continuing struggle/inability to manufacture dirt. As an avid composter with a ton (lol sorry) of experience, I can make you hummus for days. I can turn 90% of your organic household waste into growth medium, bokashi tea, or pre-dirt in anywhere from 6 months to 2 years. But if you want me to make dirt? I'll need a decade to get you a production level process that requires raw stocks, pre-processing, vermiculture, aquaculture, and many rounds of late stage funding. Dirt production stymies every modern industrial process because as it stands, you cannot reduce the time necessary for conversion from hummus to dirt. I find it beautifully tragic that terraforming Mars will require mass dirt transfer from earth (consider this tonnage conundrum and revel in the irony).

Don't take my word for it. Go out and try to make earth yourself. If you can reinvent this fundamental, elementary process, you will join Jonas Salk and Fritz Haber, and very few others, in changing The Game in a fundamental way.
> If you are a W-2 worker you have to be at work at a certain time and you need a car that can start every morning so you can get to work on time.

That has nothing to do with being a "W-2 worker". Being a W-2 just means you're not an independent contractor. I'm a W-2 worker, and if my car breaks down, I can just send an e-mail to my team and tell them I'll be working from home.
One solution is to remove Google out of your life as best as possible.

Personally I now use...

- iCloud.com instead of Gmail

- DDG for search though I do have to !g like 20 to 30% of the time for things like driving directions (from X point to Y point), local movie times nearby and flights.

I still use

- YouTube

- Google Maps some as its great for getting distance between X and Y

- Google News (is there a better substitute)

- Google Photos (is there anything that compares)

Hoping in time to rely a ton less on Google products.
Because almost everyone tests with one client IP and one server IP.
I don't spend any time writing notes. If I read something (let's say documentation), it's to serve a direct purpose for something I'm trying to develop right now, so as soon as I read it, I apply it.

Then I keep repeating it in slightly different use cases as they come up, and eventually after enough times it starts to stick.

Basically, less reading, less writing notes and more doing.
I see no mention of memory safety or unsafety in the issue you linked. Could you be more specific?
wonder if someone is collecting actual data instead of listening to udfalkso, the google sales rep here.

maybe to save them a few $ from bots and spam (bandwidth and storage is very cheap today) they might be losing new users by the thousands (and traffic acquisition is far more expensive than the formers)
Arctic Blue Ocean Event.. Then What?
What makes you think Google's image classifer would think that's a mountain?

Especially if this is all used for learning, enough people saying "that is clearly not a mountain" would reinforce that it's, in fact, probably not a mountain. Even if I got classified as a robot, I'm not sure I would think "oh, a system designed to classify images would think this not-a-mountain is a mountain", so I definitely wouldn't double down and keep marking it as a mountain. I'd, well, not. And assume the system is at least as good as classifying the images it chooses to use as I am.
The heterochromia and slit pupils are really what sell me on the product...
Nope, because it's a cat-and-mouse game with robots. It's not in Google's interest to publish it because it would give an advantage to the bot writers.
IMO, good.

The dependencies causes noobies loads of trouble, making it hard to scale to market.

Also, since everything is written in Javascript now, the more vanilla you can get, the better.
I was being a bit pithy, but in that case, surely there's some sequence of smart fuzzily-heuristic analysis that can be played out to check that my humanised identification isn't acting like a bot?
287 Startup Failure Post-Mortems (2018)
Most of the projects you're thinking of probably never even generated high-resolution images. Until recently, the actual output layer for most of these systems would be something like a 256x256 array of pixels.
So, you're basically not reachable in an emergency unless someone knows the special code to get hold of you? To say nothing of local service people etc. who you might have to deal with.

I don't like junk calls either but cutting myself off from normal communication channels doesn't seem as if it would be very practical.
“Syrmor” Became VRChat's Best Embedded Virtual World Reporter
Was the.. To make a funny about the constant pause before a program runs?

Knock knock.. Who's there....
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Yellow cab kinda sucks though... most people weigh multiple factors and aren’t as inflexible as you imply.
>automate this nonsense

What exactly are you automating? A notification system for transferring of ownership?
That's been the case for a very long time. I have a 1980 BMW 528i, and it's the same. BMW motor, but everything electric is Bosch, including the L-Jetronic fuel injection. Transmission is ZF as well.
It doesn't matter what the actual requirements are, the issue is that it gets dismissed out of hand for the perceived requirements.
They have been shipping DM42 for over a year now: https://www.swissmicros.com/order.php
Where I work Compliance and Security are completely different departments. This is great because the Security department does whatever they think is best for security, regardless of compliance requirements.

The Compliance department has one job: passing audits. They never tell Security what to do; they document "compensating controls" and if that's not good enough for an Auditor the Compliance department will run whatever worthless compliance control themselves.

I'm not saying security compliance itself is a joke. It forces small businesses to at least try to get their shit together. But for big tech companies with real security programs, security compliance is a worthless tax.
Voicemail is the 21st century Turing test. Once robocalls start faking that, we're f-cked. :/
Are you trolling, joking or just misinformed? CTF in the context of the OP absolutely means Capture the Flag.
20% is a third higher than 15% - that’s a pretty wide margin that actual taxes can swing. 70% marginal rate on a new higher top margin of only one kind of tax (income) obviously would not increase overall tax revenue by a tremendous amount. But even if it ends up having a minimal overall effect, it could still represent a significant shift in the distribution of taxes.
Yeah, that's one of the issues. There are actually quite a few legit reasons to spoof Caller ID. So "ban spoofing, period" is pretty much a non-starter.
It's not just about power trips. It's about utility and context.

Vim and Emacs give you actual power, not just the feeling of it. Vim's "shortcut grammar" and Emacs' deep interoperability are a huge productivity multiplier for any imaginable task that you can reduce to manipulating text.

Information density is about providing context. A good example here would be Google Maps. The app is optimized to be used as a point-to-point navigation tool, but some design decisions - like inconsistent showing of street names - make it pretty much useless as a map. Your UI design may be leading the user down a prescribed path, but if you make it show the minimal amount of information necessary on that path, the UI automatically becomes useless for all other related paths.
You almost touched on something car manufacturers aren't doing, and that's providing software updates.

My Subaru's infotainment system has strange intermittent bugs with the Bluetooth system. I get annoyed that even if the developer fixes it, I'll never see an update without buying a new car.

It's one of the reasons I'm such a Tesla fanboy. They do software updates. What's really great too is that they're done over the air. You don't need to bring it to a dealer and pay a ridiculous fee for it.

It'd be really nice if the other manufacturers could get on that.
Somebody made those computers dumb in that exact way. That's the complaint.
I get the sense that nearly all social networks have a large financial incentive to either not talk about - or to minimise and downplay - the volume and impact of bots & manipulative actors.

The chance of this behaviour getting addressed is microscopic while these incentives remain as they are.
that's good. tor traffic should not leak on the open web. that just diminish tor network and cause headaches to node operators.

if you care about all that, run a node without internet exit, and also strive to make your sites available on tor (hate the "hidden service" nomenclature)
In the case of Cloudflare specifically, they support Privacy Pass[0], an extension that allows solving one captcha to allow you through to multiple sites without de-anonymizing or reducing the security properties that tor provides.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-supports-privacy-pass...
It's also a matter of federal budgeting; when the rovers landed, NASA definitely did not have enough funds budgeted to keep tasking the rovers for 8,000 days. But as the rovers continued to operate, NASA requested more funds to continue, and Congress provided them.

Once a robotic mission accomplishes its primary objective, NASA has a great story to tell about marginal cost vs return of additional funds. It's not that uncommon; heck they still get funding to keep the Voyager program operating.
no boiling required just something beyond absolute zero, of course, higher temperature means more heat content so more collision per second, and more wattage. a steaming cup of coffee could be used to provide a small electrical current, even room temperature water as well
Nintendo announced new 'Super Mario' for Switch that lets you create levels
It's not a joke. I think most of the people behind this are simply so naive that they can't believe the free market won't fix this.
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My findings so far for legal FLAC sources are:

bandcamp: if it's there this is the best solution, you get option of what format you want and you don't have to pay more just for lossless. Unlimited number of downloads.

7digital: technically geolocked but I can access other country stores on their site and add to checkout and pay (??). Unlimited number of downloads.

tidal.com store: everyone knows them about streaming but they have an actual store with lots of stuff and the option to get flac. Much higher prices for FLAC vs MP3. Availability depends on IP location but with a proxy in Europe I'm able to buy as if from Europe (although I use a US credit card). Only allows to download (MP3 or FLAC) once per song so better backup those copies...

And last but not least, CDs: just buy second hand CDs as cheap as you can from discogs, Amazon or ebay and rip it. If it's not heavily scratched it won't matter that it's used.
To the contrary, we (as a society) do worse things to animals when we aren't able to actually see it happening. If I were a boar, I'd rather have lived a natural life and suffered a tragic end than have been born and die in brutal slavery. Working in a factory farm setting is known to have a negative affect on the psyche [1]. The small-time farmer who just ships live animals off and the butcher who is cutting up an already-dead animal don't have this problem. To me, this signals that we do in fact see cognition in these animals, and ignoring it causes us to ignore that cognition in humans.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/108602660933816...
Sounds a lot like Trickle Down Economics, which has been disproven time and again.

Also: if amazon’s profit is double what it was last year, shouldn’t that profit be taxed? If they never pay taxes and continue exploiting labor, aren’t they a net drain on society?
I've been jQuery-less for quite a while now, but honestly I still miss it sometimes. [...document.querySelectorAll()], event binding, and quite a lot of other jQuery stuff is still a bit more verbose, even in the hippest browser environments.
1e-10 cents.
That part would work out by making it impossible to have an international call spoof US caller ID.
> What’s important to note, though: It’s not “the EU” in general that is to blame – but those who put special interests above fundamental rights who currently hold considerable power.

Who's to blame for the general environment of encroaching information "protections" and general government oversight of the internet? You can't out of one side of your mouth decry everyone warning about slippery slopes as though they are nonexistent and then on the other side blame others for taking advantage of said slope you pretended didn't exist. The slope never had to be there. When you can't take the bad with the good of an open internet, this is what you get. Sadly with slippery slopes in either direction (whether or not people acknowledge their existence), hovering in the middle becomes unsustainable.

Freedom has consequences, regulations have consequences, many times they are mutually exclusive, so pick and accept said consequences. Only liking the good parts and not liking the bad parts, while convenient to shirk responsibility, ignores that they are often inseparable.
They were way too big and annoying and flipped around all the time. They also certainly should've added at least the category of company you were from, if omitting the name, as too often networking ends up in a conversation that is not going to be productive.

The one good thing they had was color-coding the lanyards to express your interest in being photographed.
for google, you are the enemy. not even bots.

captcha is google master blow against ad blockers.

a regular user, who they have all the info, give them dollars per ad impression. You, with your doNotTrack (ha! that was a joke) and privacy addons makes them only cents per ad impressions.

you are google's enemy. remember this when you get stuck in captcha hell (and consequently censored from most sites until changing device/ip)