skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes me think that the US will give me a framework to enact change? They already do. You can freely discuss what you are currently discussing because of this framework. You are currently using it. Enjoy it, don't take it for granted
They’ve ramped it up to NIMC.
What's the useful life of modern solar panels? Will these solar farms have to be decommissioned or retrofit in the future, and will we have to deal with a bunch of toxic material disposal say 30 years from now? I guess it certainly seems like a no-brainer to build these things in deserts with consistent sunlight, but I'm just curious if there are externalities we're not thinking of yet because we haven't had to.
There’s a pretty vast gulf between 70s era threshold, edge detect, morphology type methods and deep learning.

Robust feature detectors, voting methods, etc. can fill that gap for object detection and pose estimation. Also simpler machine learning models for classification like SVMs.

It increasingly feels like the slice of computer vision techniques I learned in the early 2000s is receding in relevance. But at the same time, there ought to be a more modern grab bag of robust tools to build engineered solutions.

In the end any algorithm is only as good as the dataset it’s developed/validated against. Ad-hoc methods may fail in bright sunshine, but so too would a neural network if that condition never arises in its training set.
I feel this can be a self fulfilling prophecy.

When I went to China, I definitely got along better with my Han Chinese friends, coworkers and acquaintances. Granted, there weren’t many Uighurs there, but interacting with them felt very shallow. And it wasn’t a Muslim issue, as the ones I met that were Hui were very friendly.

There is a difference between me and other expats: I can speak and understand Mandarin. I find the interactions with Chinese people changes dramatically when you speak to them in Mandarin.
The amount of fuss over “may cause cancer” is excessive.

On the other hand RadiThor existed so clearly the other extreme also existed :)
In theory, the phone stores the TOTP secret on a TPM that can't be backed up. So the TOTP secret is fundamentally tied to that specific phone. You can't back up the secret, and somebody with brief access to your phone cannot copy it. Even with unlimited access to your phone, it's unlikely anyone can copy the secret.

This solution stores the secret in your home directory, which is easily readable by any process that has access to your hard drive. Anyone with brief access to your laptop/workstation can easily copy the secret. If you back up your home directory, anybody with access to your backups has access to the secret.
LineageOS 16.0
It's PoC, works through Telegram. The only concept is the same.
They are pretty much useless without government funding and subsidies.
Oh no, I definitely have never paid a delivery fee. I am one of those weirdos that reads the entire sales contact before signing.

You have to be pretty bad at negotiating to be hit with a delivery fee since in my neck of the woods, aka SoCal, most dealers will waive that for everyone.
3D Graphics on a Calculator
Wind power is routinely deployed in an environmentally irresponsible way. https://www.audubon.org/conservation/audubons-position-wind-...
When projects like these are planned, they consider the entire lifecycle of the project, including end of life.
It makes sense if the locals benefit from tourists driving down those roads to observe the scenery. A place without roads may be even more pristine, but it also might as well not exist because normal people can't go there.
I own a Toyota and I was definitely able to negotiate a lower price.
Internal and external apps are both deployed on the same PaaS. Only difference is that internal apps aren't reachable "outside the VPN"; when it comes to building your service, it's an extra line of yaml in your service config. There's a network engineering team who works with the PaaS team to make that happen - it's definitely a nice luxury of a big company that you don't need to worry about setting up VPCs etc yourself.

The actual PaaS relies pretty heavily on AWS Cloud Formation - it predates swarm, mesosphere, kube, etc. So when we deploy a new version of a service, it's really "deploy an auto scaling group of EC2 instances across several AZs fronted by an ELB, then there's an automatic DNS change made which makes the new stack of EC2 instances live once the new stack is validated as working". The upside of the one service per EC2 image approach is no multi-tenancy interference - downsides are cost and it takes a bit longer to deploy. There's a project underway to switch compute to being Kube-based though, so that's promising.

All this is apples and oranges though - solns for big companies don't make sense for a 1-person shop. I still have side projects being deployed via ansible and git pull instead of Docker, because it hasn't been worth the ROI to upgrade to the latter.

Re asparck - yeah, it was my personal site but I struggled to find the time to work on it. In the end I decided it was better to have it offline than terribly out of date, but hopefully I'll resurrect it some day.
Thanks, didn't knew about M-theory, I'll look it up!

Science taught me about how everything is made of particles while their interactions follow the laws of nature. Much later, reading Wittgenstein, I understood that the world is not so much about it's particles but more about how things interact together. Because if something never interact at all with anything, it may as well not exist at all. So the very existence of something always comes with its interactions to the world and whatever rules they happen to follow...
For what it's worth, 500 commits is <2 commits per weekday for a year, which seems pretty low for the kind of power user I would assume github is actually designed towards.
> We are seeing substantially more children coming of age now without any social skills or ability to interact

I would even say that the stubborn refusal to even see a problem here, and the shallow, abstract and disinterested ways in which that is argued, is evidence of pretty hefty damage already inflicted on previous generations.
Not completely true, i might complain about the price of a car dosent mean i dont want to buy it
Actually, the overall budgets of universities have increased substantially— they've more than made up for the lost state funding by raising tuition and other fundraising.

U.C. Berkeley, for instance, has increased its overall operating budget by from $1.6B in 2006 to $2.7B in 2018. That's a 68% increase over just the last 12 years! [1]

Universities are spending, and taking in, more than ever.

Even with all this cash, Elsevier's subscriptions are not cheap. The estimated cost for U.C. Berkeley is $1.15M per year. [2]

[1] https://controller.berkeley.edu/home/uc-berkeley-financial-r...

[2] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-cost-for-a-university-subs...
I'd love to have a similar product, but will produce only the React Element in json form only.
I really enjoy this kind of articles. The author started with small logical steps that indeed made sense and then he did a crazy leap to nowhere. The final outcome is silly.

In any case, I would like to see a follow up article, taking account of the feedback. That is how design works... iterations
> If everyone is paid a standard salary, those who live in high-income areas would have less discretionary income when compared to their counterparts in lower-income communities.

Yeah, but that's their choice isn't it? I could choose to live in a busting metropolis, bike to work without a car, and pay higher rent because its in a prime living area. Or I could move out of the city, get a low mortgage on a home and drive to work. Still my choice, and a company shouldn't need to worry about my "discretionary income".
It’s probably because these threads always devolve into Chinese “people” bashing.

Israel is doing some horrible things as well, but the conversation around it is much more muted and balanced. A US politician was even rebuked for talking about “Israeli political influence” but would have been praised if she warned about “Chinese influence.”
Do you trust your VPN? Are you sure?
I would start by closing all the accounts that made creep comments on children's videos, or showed a pattern of viewing videos that are obviously intended for that audience, and banning them from creating other accounts (hard to enforce, but at least they can hold that in their pocket if one of these creeps shows up on their radar again), and then forwarding their information to law enforcement. Lots, or almost all probably, of those accounts can be linked to a real person (either by the username or their IP). If police knock on some doors a lot of these guys are going to be too stupid to lawyer up and will probably confess to much worse things or agree to hand their laptop over for inspection after a couple of questions.

Additionally, by a simple analysis of what videos are overwhelmingly viewed by accounts that view other inappropriate videos they could detect and remove almost all the videos that creeps are into. The original video which blew the whistle on this even pointed out that the youtube recommendation algorithm had detected this pattern of behavior, and once the person viewed a couple of these child exploitation videos they were recommended hundreds and hundreds of others.
No, they aren’t - arbitration is hugely biased in favor of the company, to the extent that the only way you can reasonably hope to win is by hiring a lawyer. But then to recover your money (a few grand maybe) you’re retaining a lawyer potentially for months, but because you’re not actually in court your chances of getting your legal fees.

This ignores that if you are a low wage employee subject to this kind of contract you are unlikely to be able to afford the initial retention costs.

My inclination would be to allow the arbiter to be selected by the employee. If companies really do believe arbitration is fair they should have no problem with that.
The Challenge of RISC-V Compliance
The Canadian Nuclear FAQ – Section F: Security and Non-Proliferation
Misophonia – “Hatred of Sound”
You either don't live in the US, or have never lived outside an east coast urban center.

And as others have mentioned, if financing can be done for less than the value of the money in your pocket, it's better to finance!
Because the topic, as unfortunate as it is, has little in common with the usual types of content that appear on HN? Easy on the paranoia there, buddy.

On the other hand, the extremely regular and clockwork-like appearance of China-related stories on HN that are all-politics and non-tech is eerie and bizarre.
If I remember correctly, the same kind of hack is used by atom to allow fast startup.
Who founded this? Who is behind this organization? Is it just a random person?

Before people downmod this, I'm an Elixir developer - just curious who wrote it. It doesn't _seem_ official.

Edit: I see Jose there, it's legit! https://twitter.com/sheharyarn/status/1101306957531570176
There's a really nice icon used as the favicon on their website, shame it's seemingly not used anywhere on the web page itself.
One solution for dealing with what you're going through is to become a teacher or a mentor for people who are looking for one.

You're making good money means you must have learnt a few things you can teach others, so why not share that knowledge. It is the best way to do something new while keeping yourself in the game and meet a few like minded people too.
Bell does this because they know they can get away with it. With barely any competition - and the other 2 companies act the exact same way - they know that people will be pissed but nobody will change carriers.

There was a large bit of media last year about cost caps and limitations. But, hey, that only covers part of your bill since Texting is a different "service". This is how Bell gets away with it. They may finally back off now that this has hit the national/international news but it shouldn't need to reach that point.

How is the teenager supposed to know her text is going to the US or is being sent from the US? Maybe she knows where her friends are and maybe she doesn't. In any case this can happen to absolutely anybody at any time. I don't know where my friends may be located at every moment of the day (I guess they take vacations sometimes). And with the constant barrage of spam I doubt I would even believe a random message telling me to pay up.
What possible reason would they have for doing otherwise?

The questions re ethics that I'll ask their employees in interviews, should they ever happen to interview with me.
I need a column to show file size on github.
What are some useful use-cases for this?

I can already use JSON in Sqlite by doing parsing in the client outside of the Sqlite API. Any examples where I'd want to use this instead? I'm guessing for where clauses in queries, perhaps?

Can I create an index on a field within a JSON tuple?
No private corporation should have this much power. It just seems bonkers to me that some people in a board meeting in Menlo Park or whatever are trying to determine whether a post by some gal on the internet saying "men are scum" should be considered hate speech or not.

This is NOT the "world wide" web I signed up for.

#DeleteFacebook
Get Off My Land Dag Nabbit
One thing that strikes me as a person who grew up with mouse pointer interfaces (starting with Workbench on Amiga) is how strange it is that the terminal allows for a time-lag between a mistake in typing and the user's becoming aware of it by pressing Return. Intense tab spamming removes this alienating phenomenon though, and I imagine that with a perfectly smart terminal (and commands), virtual tab-spamming is automatic so that a user is immediately informed and even prevented from typing something that could not possibly render a valid command.

I suppose this is how voice command will evolve too. Cortona will stop you short when you're not making sense, and even learn your idiosyncrasies in expressing yourself much like a spouse does.

By the way, I for sure thought this link was about a the complete J.S. Bach collection.
This deprioritizes the readme even more (and it's already too much; why can't I see it all by default in the mobile view?)
Progress Is Ugly
What does the 'C' stand for? County? Country? City?
> Especially if you're using PRs and using "squash + merge" for all your changes (which should really be the default IMO)

I tend to use either "rebase" or "merge" for everything, and I expect people submitting PRs to make good commits.

> What else might be really cool is some kind of indicator of how often the file changes

That's a good idea! How about a sparkline-sized indicator of change activity over time? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline
This is not a surprise at all, provided the features live up to the claims. Development like this is expensive, if someone gets something for nothing it often seems like they expect the world out of that software. However if they're paying for it they tend to be slightly more forgiving. Also self driving stuff requires changes to the control devices. However, I would not be surprised if the devices are actually standard (more expensive to produce multiple variants).
What’s in the Water at the George Church Lab?
Such as? :)
Even that analogy has problems. America was at war with Japan. China is happily and deeply economically engaged with Muslim nations. It is almost entirely an internal matter for China to maintain control and order.
Notes from Malcolm Gladwell's Writing Masterclass – Part 2
Assuming this issue is up to date - yes, but it's on the todo list to remove:

https://github.com/remacs/remacs/issues/105
> I can see definitely a lot of added value to the scientific document there.

You fail to see that nonprofit publishers (IEEE, AIP, APS, AMS, etc.) also typeset and copyedit articles just like Elsevier, and that too at a much smaller price. The point is that you don't have to charge customers exorbitantly if the only thing they are gaining on publishing with Elsevier is neatly typeset articles. Further, Elsevier outsources the production of its papers to companies [1] in India. If it's production quality that one wants, those companies can probably do it at a fiftieth of the price Elsevier finally charges the customer.

[1]: http://rivervalleytechnologies.com/#clients
I gave this a little bit of thought. I agree with the decision, but not at all for the reason that San Bernardino County cites.

We have (and California/Western States especially) drastically reduced per capita water consumption over the past few decades. Almost nobody has noticed.

This same approach needs to happen with electricity and other forms of energy. We shouldn't build any net new large-scale generation facilities (replacements are ok). To really make a difference, we must consume less. Consuming the same or more is no longer an option, even if it renewable or carbon-free.

Thoughts?
I held on as long as I could and saved up money and kept driving my 11 year old Honda. Had it totaled in a car accident a few months back and had to buy something so now instead of the $35,000 Tesla I had wanted for so long I own a perfectly decent Honda Insight. At least it was cheaper.
My point is that if the existing laws were followed, children shouldn't ever be seeing those comments unless their parents are insane and allowed them to...Don't give your young children a youtube account. Youtube can and should add blocking _ALL_ comments to the parental controls.

If all of these services weren't being offered for completely free, you could require a credit card purchase to make an account and solve this problem in an afternoon over a cup of tea. That's how simple it is. The problem is that the economics of these services allows and encourages children into these spaces without restriction.

Part of being an adult is figuring out how to deal with a world where some of your neighbors are horrible monsters. You don't just drive them into dark corners where you pretend they don't exist.

If pedophiles want to self-identify, that's great, because it gives us the option of getting them the treatment that they need AND of keeping our children far away from them.
Ask HN: What happens to datacenter's servers once outdated?
With an evergrowing cloud of datacenters, constantly updated offers with better and cheaper servers, what does actually happen when those servers eventually end up being replaced?

Dumped as garbage? Shipped to poor countries? Recycled? Sold? (Like we could buy custom servers like Google or facebook have). Just curious :)
Do you have any idea what it takes to run a Wordpress service at scale in a way that doesn’t get the host rooted every ten seconds?

You have little idea what you are talking about for somebody so dismissive.
I don't even think I have finished signing papers doing the mandatory training etc. getting my computer accounts etc. on day 1, but I have always been a full time employee.
A DBA’s Guide to the Amazon Redshift Architecture
Lots of good touches. Digging the new UI as a programmer.
You want to do oil analysis like the professional diesel mechanics do.

Most people don't need to change their oil anywhere near as often as the manufacturer specifies. Especially for large diesel engines, it's often fine to run them 3x-5x the interval, but you should do oil analysis and find out, instead of just using the rule of thumb ones the manufacturer gives you.
> reduced per capita water consumption

Immigration though, and also electric cars etc will need more energy.
It's a fucking desert.
Probably not a good precedent to set.
How can I get notified once my device is supported?
Since you can make effectively arbitrary index expressions[1], I'd expect the answer to be "yes". The article doesn't explicitly state if they're deterministic or not, but it seems like some of them could / should be.

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/expridx.html
This is truly the stupidest statement I have ever seen.
CovenantForum – A decentralized forum powered by CovenantSQL
It's blank for me, is it μblock?
>victim

didn't realise being able to get a loan is a human right now.
Frequently people cite comments that look foolish in hindsight. But some people are able to gauge things well too.

Github:

> This really is a very cool little community . . . they're going to make a killing when they start charging.

Dropbox:

> This is genius. It's is problem everyone is having, and everyone knew it (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/lazybackup ). If it really works as well as it looks in that demo then they nailed it. I'm both envious and inspired. I'll be surprised if YC does not fund them.
I am LISPing in this summer:)
Github is used for at least two things: (1) finding new repositories and check how actively they are developed and (2) actively developing repositories.

This design fits well for (1). But for 2, it performs badly. I need all the files, the commits etc if I'm working on the repository.
We said the same thing back then too.
Facebook doesn't become a "publisher" by removing user-generated content from its platform. They'll continue to qualify for DMCA Title II's safe harbor provision as long as they take down copyright infringing material that gets reported to them. Facebook is not required to leave non-infringing material intact to be protected under DMCA Title II.
This has shown up on HN a few times but the only significant discussion seems to be from 2014.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8696975
Fun article to read, and has some interesting ideas!

In case anyone else is interested I wrote a similar style of article about refactoring GitHub’s interface a few years ago too:

https://ianstormtaylor.com/refactoring-githubs-design/
I suppose a divider with solar panels in it that also provide shade to driving cars would be out of the question.
this userscript will automatically detect and link DOIs to scihub: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/36188-sci-hub-automatic-li...
It seems valuable enough to have in the standard build. That and the CSV extension as well.
Do we know if that's the final solution? To me it seems more like a short term plug solution until they can train specialized models and adapt their moderation. I see no signs that this is the final long term solution to the problem.
No, generating less solar and wind will mean burning more natural gas and coal. Fossil fuels don’t get charged for their pollution externalities so their price on the energy market is artificially low, and demand artificially high.

Also, you just claimed that consuming more energy is not an option with making any arguments to support that claim. In fact, consuming more energy is an option every household has, and if we ban solar and wind then that energy will come from fossil fuels.
Mobile bedside bioprinter can heal wounds
If it’s renewable and carbon-neutral, why isn’t it an option to consume more?
I just looked at a paper on Elsevier's site, and saw that it was $36, while a paper on IEEExplore was $33 (non-member price). I open to the idea that the IEEE is less expensive than Elsevier, yet not convinced that there is a big difference.

To be clear, the IEEE does have good journals, and is the best place to publish for many. There are countless volunteer reviewers and editors and officers who do great work. My impression is that the paid IEEE bureaucracy (in New Jersey?) are designed for a pre-Internet age. While cutting-edge cryptographic techniques is published in the journals, the IEEE email alias has terrible security. I guess this is a common story, and I'm expecting too much...