skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What makes xPress stand out from the crowd is that no configuration data gets embedded into an .xpr archive. So it doesn't matter what version, OS, or architecture, you used to compress your file."

I don't understand this. For any archive format in modern use, it doesn't matter what version, os, or architecture was used to compress the file. I can decompress a zip or lha file created on an Amiga 500 no problem, 30 years after the fact. Is there something I'm missing?
Populations tend to saturate their environments by increasing both overall numbers and resource consumption per capita. Increased efficiency and new ways of living can only offset this.

If you and everyone in your country decreases their consumption and number of offspring then the slack will taken up by others until the environment once again bears as much as it can.
You can replace an acetylene torch with gas electric arc welding and cutting. It is done, but is currently more expensive (not a whole lot mind you).

The problem is not manufacturing but mostly smelting and refining. (Including recycling)

You need huge sustained and peak energy input for that, renewables do not deliver it.
> Why would it be the company's duty of care and not the parent's?

It is the company's duty of care for the same reason that

- it is the city's duty of care if the child goes outside and falls down an unmaintained manhole

- it is the school's duty of care if a fire extinguisher malfunctions and kills the child

- it is the driver's duty of care if the child crosses the road and gets struck on a green crossing

In all these cases, the entities assume a certain privilege to operate due to the trust placed in them that enables the freedom for the child to go outside whatsoever. If that duty does not exist, then there is no trust the child can safely leave home unattended. In effect what you're arguing for is total control from the parent -- a much worse outcome for a child than self-moderation on behalf of the trusted entities they would otherwise have had the freedom to interact with.
He purchased it from Tesla. Why should the experience be any different than buying a new car?
That's one in the podcast. Some African countries do the full demographic transition within a decade (!). That means bringing girls from the home to school, increasing their wealth creating capacity and hence less and later children. That's very hopeful. Let's say that with all the (religion based) wars for parts of Africa and Asia things are looking less hopeful. You can only include females in human capital when there is relative peace. I think their focus and girl development for the ultimate goal of less CO2 ppm was the first time I grokked some of the more modern gender discussion which I usually cannot relate to (mostly because of terminology and fervour, not for a lack of basic instinct of trying).
More to the point, you should put untrusted input into a different type from trusted input. As much as I admire the design of the servlet API I think the biggest mistake is that everything is transmitted as Strings. The input characters should have had a different type than the output characters.
Simpson’s Paradox (2016)
In addition to what others have said, you could still use biogas or synthetic derivatives when you really have to. It becomes more expensive and people do not like that but I would not call it a ban.
Not really. Induction boils water faster most times - there are multiple videos showing this, my link is just one of them. I'm pretty sure you can get quick and very hot with the induction tops. If you specialise in wok-type food, i'm pretty sure they will be customised to be even better.

https://youtu.be/h45dzeugIZw
I found that teaching others (for example to code) helps a lot with motivation. I try to support my local https://hourofcode.com/us initiatives.

Otherwise, here is a cool side project I am starting to try and build at the moment too - a desktop Muon counter.
http://cosmicwatch.lns.mit.edu/about
> When I work in elisp, I seem to find it cumbersome to do many of the mundane things, like using a local variable, and if/then/else with multiple statments, loops (continue? break?), oo stuff, etc.

That's, frankly, because you don't know the language. It doesn't take much to learn it, though, and lisps tend to be similar, so you'll learn a bit of CL and Clojure at the same time :). I would similarly struggle with Python, for a short while at least, if you sat me in front of PythonMacs.

Your example could be rewritten as:

(let (foo)
(cond (condition (setq foo 10)
(bar))
(t (setq foo 20)
(baz))))

... which already looks like Python code, except supports arbitrary number of branches (cond is if/else if/else).

Lisp has a slightly different style of writing than in Python, which yields comparably tight and readable code... and then you can use macros, which Python doesn't have, dynamic binding, which Python doesn't have either (and while a pain most of the time, they're a life-saver in some cases, and the type of code you write for a text editor has lots of those).

Elisp isn't a bad language. It can handle all the stuff Python does and then some. I get the preference for syntax you're already familiar with, but individually, it might be worth it to just bite the bullet and learn some new syntax. If that's your first exposure to Lisp, then it'll be especially rewarding, for all the "code is data is code" and "code that writes code that writes code" enlightenment that comes with it.
Assuming that sequential IDs are handed out sequentially. Assuming further that gaps in this sequence indicating deleted tweets.

You could reduce the sequence ID space by employing the fact that it is overall less likely that a tweet is deleted than otherwise and a sequence of two CONSECUTIVE deleted tweets is even less likelier.

E.g. If you find sequence ID 0 but don't find 1,2,3 than you can probably skip 4,5,6,7. I don't know the probabilities of deleted tweets, but i am sure someone could calculate it to determine the 99% threshold.
From a CO2 standpoint wouldn't it be good to stop subsidizing immigration to the first world? It's not just delta-population it's people moving from a low consumption environment to a high consumption one.
HN-like math research discussion for Ph.D.s
My best idea is containerized video platforms. A parent can pay for the service or host it themselves. You control who is on it. The place where this breaks down though is not everyone has friends and the world would no longer be the audience. As well, video hosting is expensive, not sure it is affordable in most countries.

I don't think there is a great solution yet.
Ding ding ding

Questions is an understatement, that shit was a full design doc. Mine was about 15 pages long.
They're also ignoring any sort of internationalisation. In other languages there wouldn't even be room to label all those tabs.
>but the reality is a lot of people think in patterns that drive these comments

and that's where you might be mislead by machine-learning optimized comment sorting, recommendations that drive more people that'll agree with any given videos point and vocal minorities in general.
Boy, do you need to travel 1 year a few countries!!! By the end, you wont know where to focus your efforts.

I would, but I really can't add anything to this. Go.
I think it's the other way round. Anonymity (or rather: the right to present different personas to different audiences and to give up a burned persona when you see fit) makes the internet a bearable place. It also allows people to make up their mind without standing in their own way, and disregard hurtful comments as trolling (which they often are). Facebook painfully shows that real name policies do not necessarily lead to more civil discussions, instead they facilitate ad hominems, and expose vulnerable groups to hate everywhere, as aspects of their identity can not be selectively hidden anymore. This even extends to their real lifes, with their names being publicly known. Now speech needs to be controlled, because people lost control of their personas and need to fight everywhere, instead of just when they choose to.
This is nice, first time I hear about it. But I cannot find much info about it, where did you hear they are re-implementing the client / server in rust?
I wish for an AirPort iOS Time Capsule. One with a 2.5" 1TB HDD, with a Sub $199 pricing.

For $3 Dollar a month, you get 200GB iCloud, Most people don't need that, As your iOS, Apps, Music, doesn't need to be backed up. Those takes up in between 15GB+. So if you have an 64GB iPhone, that chances are 55GB iCloud ( 50 + 5GB Free ) is enough. That is $0.99 / month, $12 a Year, $24 for two years.

Surely a $199 iOS Time Capsule makes a much better business case than $12 a year backup plan?

Those who don't want their government spying on them, could have use this instead.
Intersting, I've been looking into this recently and this might be the thing I need to finally get stuck into it. Pricing seems reasonable, I'm not sure about other comments saying it's a little high.
You will be fine.

There are two key comments: (1) "require a lot of self-study"; and (2) everyone here likes you and wants you to succeed".

In my experience when you choose to work in high tech, your learning never stops. So self-study is essential to stay up to date. In your masters degree is simply the foundations upon which you will build your personal technical prowess.

I have had at least 3 jobs where I had to learn at high speed on my own time to come up to speed on areas that I didn't have prior experience. One of them was WAN, LAN, internet networking and all the protocols. Another was to become an Oracle and then DB2 DBA. Then there were times I had to quickly learn new business practices in order to understand what wasn't properly documented in the requirements.

If you don't like the idea of ongoing self-study, then the question of you working in the right industry (not just your current job) for you is relevant.
Just as with decisions in China, nothing is truly inevitable here either.
Solar panels are, by weight, mostly(>90%) made up of glass and aluminium.

Also most of the environmental footprint of the panels comes from the production process, which requires high temperatures and solvents.

All in all it's not much of a problem.
My gut feeling is that people entering a middle class lifestyle in their own countries far outnumber those doing so by migration. I might be wrong though.
As a user of cPanel, there's some assumptions you're making in this statement. I can and do build servers, at work. When I'm at home, I just want to do things with as little work as possible. Sometimes these choices are made because it's easier to not have to support every last bit of an architecture.
I don't think that matches what most people mean by using a language, if you use those applications you are using applications that use the language but you do not use the language yourself. Although in CouchDB you can write plugins in Erlang so maybe.
Funny thing, space heating is probably the last thing you want electrified, instead investing in heat (re)capture and building design.

Air conditioning including plain old ventilation is the hard one to tackle and is already electrified.
I met Vaclav Smil 3 years ago in Zurich and talked with him. He told me, he doesn't believe in climate change. I find that very odd. His books might still be good so.
I think so! I am reluctantly using it currently, it’s simplicity is great if your just building, testing and deploying to a couple of environments. So maybe it’s just good enough for most, and that’s fine. However, It’s practically useless, and wholly frustrating as soon as you want to build any remotely functional CD pipeline. Fan out, fan in? No chance. Build step history? Nope. Random step failures and wait times to pull images? Yeah, loads of them. To top it off, it’s all part of Bitbuckets incredibly slow platform where pages take up to 10 seconds to load. My favourite part of it all the discussion forums and 7+ year old feature requests for things like commit signing.
Run the code through in Softagram analyzer and start digging into the structures using the visual browsing capabilities in Softagram Desktop app. There is free trial at softagram.com where you can do it easily if you happen to have your codes in some Git repo in cloud services such as Bitbucket or GitHub... Shameless self promotion this is however, as I work for the company. But that approach I have also been personally using more than 10 years: static dependency analysis coupled with excellent visual dependency browsing. I think some expensive version of Visual Studio has also similar stuff available.
I just don't see how anyone will choose to lower consumption even to save themselves. Just look at how China is cannibalizing their environment for short term growth.
One neural network for image search, image captioning, similar words and images
Have anyone read bylaws section?

> Section 4.8. Fellows. To be eligible for membership as a Fellow, a member must be nominated by a Fellow of the corporation [...] Upon election, a Fellow shall remain a Fellow for the remainder of such person’s natural life, subject to any limiting provisions of this document. Fellowship does not continue during any extension of life by non-natural means, such as zombification or vampirism.
I like it, simple but effective. I like the design but I am not a designer so my opinion on design shouldn't be taken much seriously.
The problem todo apps, timers etc... is that I sometimes just forget to use them for some time and then don't use them ever again. Whoever solves this "accountabilty" has my money
This is shitty, and if your post is true, I hope Footpath's owner addresses it, since they are (or were) actively participating in this discussion.
No one mentioning carbon extraction technologies here?

Just adding less CO2 to the atmosphere is not enough to stop the trend, we actually need to undo what we've been doing all these decades and need to massively invest in carbon extraction technologies. Trillions of dollars, probably - about the same amount of what we spent on the Iraq war, so I'd say it's not undo-able.
After reading the four-word-long README text and viewing the gif, I have no idea what this is or does.
Facebook chat doesn't use Erlang anymore, afaik.
Yes, I'm sorry. It was meant as an answer to 'Incidentally, I've been wondering what app I should write to test my Lisp.'
Creating tab-completion for your programs
Singapore ICA Officials Interrogated and Deported Travelers During 2018 Holidays
Is that a national or regional diet anywhere?
If the "x, y = y, x" is implemented using the x86 "swap" instruction then the CPU could implement the swap using register renaming, I think - with no execution unit activity required. I don't know if it does.

But everything that golang (or C or C++ or whatever) does has to be expressed in assembly language, and assembly language doesn't directly control register renaming - it's a hidden implementation detail.
There are a lot of assemblers, but I've used MASM. It ships with visual studio. I think you can find the actual binary by searching for ml.exe or ml64.exe. Then you just write some MASM code and assemble it. It's less well documented but entirely possible.
Since the sole feature of this extension is pretty trivial and can be easily replaced with a bookmark, I would be honestly worried about some "hidden features".

The barely two sentence description and low resolution preview picture also don't inspire much confidence.
They keep out of it from a human rights perspective and I agree. It obviously would help, but what's the end state in that world? Haves and have-nots? That's quite Hunger Gamian / dystopian.
Not to counter you, but why would a low-income household consider buying a new car? A properly maintained ten year old car these days is normally quite reliable and safe.
In China, This Video Game Lets You Be a Parent
Compare the US and Western Europe. Europe has lower Co2 emissions, smaller houses, and still maintains quality of life.

No doubt you could go much further along that road.

And what's wrong with wearing more clothes in the winter?!
Where did you get the idea that immigration was subsidized? It's often extremely expensive.
I have high hopes for cheaper Nokia (HMD) phones. Like 6.1, https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_6_1-8972.php . LineageOS doesn't seem to support it yet, but aosp does: https://downloads.aospextended.com/PL2
It's simply absurd for YouTube to manually moderate comments at the scale they currently operate. If you force them to do that, it won't be profitable, and you'll end up with YouTube blowing channels away because they can't afford to host them anyway.
Finnish breaks natural language processors
My name is Andrey, I'm an engineer. I'm contributing to PostgreSQL on behalf of Yandex.Cloud. Also, I'm working on WAL-G. I like jogging and quake[2,3].
Not sure what else defines me...
The rust implementation is mostly talked about on Scuttlebutt itself, the repository is https://github.com/sunrise-choir
A chance, which is completely unpredictable. Classical methods have predictable failure modes which can be covered and fixed.

How do you fix an ML model that fails to cover a weird special case?

Ultimately, you will need to validate the model, whether parametric as the old algorithms, or not, as in ML.
> But, what concerns me is that they don't seem to acknowledge that parts of the system contain proprietary software.

They do acknowledge it:

https://puri.sm/learn/software-freedom-in-perspective/

https://puri.sm/learn/freedom-roadmap/
The inspector didn’t inspect anything. That’s a massive failure on their part.

How else can you reasonably assess the work of someone titled “inspector” when they fail to “inspect”? Especially when they approve a device they haven’t “inspected” as an “inspector”.

If you see logic in calling them something other than a massive failure then I’d like to understand your thought process.
> videos with speech for which subtitles are available

The subtitles often don't match what is spoken exactly.
Nice, always good to provide more avenues for people to enter the field, IMO. Is there a way to apply as a mentor? Or are you pretty set in that department? I can’t find anything to facilitate that at the moment, but on mobile right now.
Sure. It would also be better, from a CO2 standpoint, for developing countries to stop developing.

These are obvious non-starters. It’d be rich people saying “fuck you, got mine”.
The Shells of Wild Sea Butterflies Are Already Dissolving
I will make a separate submission but since a lot of security minded people here- I want to ask- how does everybody manage their pins? I tend to forget them but password manager seems like an overkill.
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GBoards – A Trello Like Angular Application
I think the point is that electric transport is not limited by the cost of electricity, so it will largely happen or not happen independent of whether power generation is low carbon. Yes, conditional on transport being electrified, reducing the carbon cost of electricity increases in importance. But the latter is not enough on its own.
This just conjecture, but isn't the body slightly more amorphous then the face? Body-fat and muscle can make someone, even a pig, look different but variables like the eyes, nose and ears generally stay the same (at least past puberty). We also have facial recognition technology already and it may be that it's easier to adapt to another mammals face than it is to work from the ground up again.
Machine learning combined with parametric models is old, works and is not sexy tech so it does not get talked about.
My understanding is the preference for gas is more about being able to instantly adjust the heat and see it rather than the raw heat output. I also haven't used an induction top in a long time so maybe this is better now.
What percent of that transport is planes and boats?
I don't limit my digital footprint in what I say on the internet — for proof see some of my hyperbolic posts on HN, ;-) — because I reckon what I say is pretty harmless, albeit opinionated. Similarly, I've no hidden thoughts to harm people.

That said, I consider it a different matter when it comes to the Googles and Facebooks of this world pinching my data without paying for it, it's why I rile against invasive technologies such as JavaScript which provides the power to these large multinational megaliths (and many others) to do so. (Privacy is a war that end-users are losing and have effectively lost as they've essentially no tools or other recourse to fight back).

I also self-censor when it comes to searches or when following links from innocuous sites that may eventually lead, chain-like through others, to ones that may be deemed undesirable. For an inquisitive techie like me this is a damn pain.

As I see it, in the current political climate, it'd be stupid to do otherwise. My you, 20 years ago nothing would have been further from my mind (or I'd imagine on the minds of most other internet users for that matter).

Unfortunately, both corporate and state surveillance is fact of life and a sign of the times and we just have to get used to it. If that limits the full extent of access and the liberties that the internet actually provides one then so be it. Sadly, we've little other choice.
Better option regarding both CO2 and immigration, IMHO:

* Global programme to drastically reduce birthrate.

* Global development programme based on good governance and actual results, not just "sending money".
This assumes, that giving someone free speech forces you to listen to it. Do you have an example of where this happens to you?
OpenSSL 3 Strategic Architecture
You don’t need linum-mode to jump to a line number. Just use M-g g, or M-g M-g.
This style of article of "Let's post 4-5 random tweets of people mentioning the points!" annoys me...

My main browser is Vivaldi, I now have Firefox set-up to clear cookies, etc, on exit, so if I want to browse WaPo I load up Firefox and the website thinks I'm just a fresh user (although this too has stopped working with WaPo's site...).
I totally agree! Tens of times I tried to move to the branches page only to realise that I'm in some view that doesn't display the secondary navigation, and I need to go to main repo page first
It will still be some time until Google and Facebook have a profile on every pig on the planet.

Other than that this is a pretty cool application of cheap easy accessable machine learning technology.
A particularly bad solution that requires data of still huge amount and still has terrible failure modes. It is not yet ready, not until we can reason about those failure modes better than using highest end statistics.
CovenantSQL uses a CA less protocol to distribute log.

To implement a decentralized system, I wrote a TLS like P2P net stack. The main idea is removing CA Cert from the whole system by using a DHT for Naming and Key Exchange. I am not a crypto expert, so if there's any flaw please point it out for me here or Github
I use an Elliptic Curve for asymmetric encryption

DH-RPC NodeID is generated by hash of Node PublicKey and an Uint256 Nonce:

NodeID := sha256(blake2b-512(NodePublicKey + Uint256Nonce))

I refer to S/Kad idea to define the number of consecutive 0s in front of the NodeID as difficulty and to impose a minimum limit on the difficulty of the NodeID allowed to be stored on the DHT. DHT is used to hold the NodeID:PublicKey NodeID:Addr map. NodeID and Nonce are sent to do ECDH getting shared secret after TCP connection established.
GenECDHSharedSecret(APub, BPriv) == GenECDHSharedSecret(BPub, APriv)
The main procedure is described as sequence chart: https://github.com/CovenantSQL/CovenantSQL/blob/develop/logo...
Because in the decentralized system NodeID is the URI, not "Bob/Alice.com". So anyone tries to fake NodeB by overwriting the address or public key on DHT without the private key of NodeB will be failed to get the correct shared secret.

Github: https://github.com/CovenantSQL/CovenantSQL/tree/develop/rpc
If someone can change a database, then why couldn't someone change data before being entered into a blockchain?