skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The thing that is important is that, to my eyes and I think to a typical person of this era, these photos of girls with cutouts of fairies look like ... exactly that. When I first saw these pictures, I couldn't believe anyone could be fooled by them. But this period, circa 1917, was a period when photos only recently had appear and so only recently had photo fakes. So the skill to spot the difference had only recently appeared.

Tons of people believe in crude "ufo" and "bigfoot" and "chupacabras" and "lock ness" and such photos, well into today though.
Relevant, Jack Dorsey was on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast recently, and in the first handful of minutes he talks about Twitter and its value[1], bad behavior on Twitter, misinformation, and echo chambers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mP9OmOFxc4
> Bread was the staple food for most of that period.

No, not really. The refined white flour we eat today basically didn't exist until very recently.

Their bread wasn't like our bread. It was coarsely-ground and made of bran, barley and rye. Compared to what we eat today, it had much higher fiber content and more fat. It would have been much harder for our ancestors to mainline pure carbohydrates by eating bread like we do.

Carbs in themselves aren't so bad, but the problem is that your body won't ever be sated by eating carbohydrates. (Kids around Halloween will attest.) Eating pure carbs is a very bad idea.
I have not looked into the Vietnam case but here's an report about how Costa Rica had not had a single case for 5 years until an unvaccinated french child presented at a hospital with the disease a few days ago.
https://boingboing.net/2019/02/25/tourism-brings-the-measles...

There might well be a different explanation for outbreaks in different places; I am certainly not asserting this as a universal causal factor.
It'll be interesting to see which evolves faster.
Is there something about Kutcher I don’t know? Why would you think of him as your potential first investor into your spreadsheet app?
Do you want to talk?
I have the same intuition. It’s not all that different from an old codebase that runs on even older (and disintegrating) hardware. You may keep fixing things, adapt to mildly new requirements, change a tape deck here, a consensator there, but eventually the whole system is going to come down and has to be replaced - there’s nothing we know that lasts forever in a self-repairing way, and that’s what’s going to happen to our civilization. Telling by the worms and the beetles my guess is it’s a matter of decades, not centuries, hopefully not years. The only hope is that we’ve wisened up sufficiently till then to renew without completely getting annihilated or being back at cave-and-sticks level.
One sample is hard to read because even low odds can happen. Picture the following statement: "The chance of life forming anywhere in the universe over a 100 billion year period is equal to 1 in Graham's number".

If this statement is true then it is incredibly unlikely life forms in our universe at our current stage exist. Low odds can occur and the only reason anyone is here to observe them is because they did occur. Since we only know of life forming once we cannot make assumptions about the odds of it happening.
Service X, Destroyer of Worlds
Why don't we intentionally oxygenate the water where ag runoff meets the ocean to encourage algal blooms to either act as food for sea life or to fix carbon by algae dying and sinking to the bottom of the ocean?

Ok that isn't the only issue, but it seems to be a big one.
This is, I believe, one of the big reasons why people find it hard to reject religion (another big one being the difficulty of accepting death, of oneself or of loved ones). There's genuine mystery at work here, or so it seems.

You need to distinguish consciousness from ego/free will. Consciousness is the fact that there's something rather than nothing, subjectively. That you seem to experience: sights, sounds, sensations, emotions. Under that definition consciousness is something that cannot be fake (no matter what's the nature of the universe; no matter whether you're asleep or awake), simply because you experience things.

Ego/free will is a separate concept and is indeed an illusion (or an evolutionary artifact if you like The Selfish Gene). There's a lot of evidence for that, the simplest being that no mainstream physical theory allows us to have made choices any differently than we have (barring true randomness like quantum mechanics predicts; but it's also easy to see that that's not freedom, just plain randomness).
It might also just be because people are tired of reading the frankly propagandic news about other countries that whatever country decides to spew today. It's not very stimulating to read yet another hit piece on some country or other (that yes, maybe we know does bad things - but I come here to read about novel stuff, not to have the same thought reinforced 4000 times per week).
Depends on the spice and the part of the world you're talking about. Chilli was/is used heavily in Mexico and India to add or mask flavour but, also they also have antibacterial and anti inflammatory properties in countries were you have / have had large concentrations of poor people.

Classical French Haute cuisine is heavily flavoured with fats (butter and creame) which required a lot of milk to create, i.e. the yield is low considering how much precious milk one had to put in. That was something that was at the time exclusively for the wealthy.
I think an even better way is not even human civilization, of some sort is in doubt.

It's civilization where you get to walk to the store and buy a week's supply of food in exchange for money, and expect to do so the next week just as easily, which is in doubt.
Didn't know about that. Thank you.
I wonder why this news is worthy of being discussed on HN?
It's '9 meals to anarchy' - so it's basically 3 days.
Carbs are carbs. The biggest problem is that you won't feel full or know when to stop if you're eating just carbs. You need fats or fibers to stop eating, hence "unrefined".
The situation you describe (companies "splitting") already exists, and it's also already not a good guarantee of actual privacy. I'm not convinced that this is any kind of solution.
This sounds very similar to the problem of whole-genome alignment in bioinformatics. You have, say, the human and chimp genome sequences, and you want to align them to find out which portions of each genome correspond to which portions in the other, allowing for the possibility of insertions or deletions of DNA sequences in each one.

Unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with the current state of the art for whole-genome alignment, so I don't know for sure which algorithms are considered, but MUMmer4[1] seems like a good place to start. These algorithms are designed to handle sequences up to billions of letters long (e.g. the human genome, which is about 3 billion letters).

[1]: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...
+1, please share your setup
It feels like us humans are unable to solve the challenges ahead of us.

Every significant challenge humans have faced in history has probably felt like that.

That isn't to say we'll definitely solve the challenges facing us now. We might not. It's just that how we feel about the problem isn't actually very useful besides being good motivation to actually try.
Fixing your Django async job – database integration
Wow, just about everything in this comment is ridiculously demeaning.
It is against common sense and international law to harbour known terrorists on your soil. Yet Pakistan has repeatedly provided a safehouse.

Till now, US & Pak interests were aligned so US acted as broker, meaning Pak based terrorists went Scott free.

For the first time in history a US president has dropped the usual advice of restraint.

Of course, I'm not saying India should bomb Karachi, that's against common sense. Because civilians are killed in such a strike. But targeting a terror camp on a mountain is justified after you know that 50+ Army men were maryted in a bomb vehicle attack 12days ago. And that terror attack was carried out by JeM
Thanks. I was looking for the xkcd, I think you posted it somewhere earlier. I saw it but I did not save it. I have been thinking about it later and thought I never find it again... :-)
This is part of a much larger issue that seems to have no boundaries and exist pretty mouth everywhere: that authorities are uninterested in processing rape cases and bringing the perpetrators to justice. Time and time again they let the perpetrators' institutions handle this. The church. The university. The corporation. Why don't authorities subpoena records instead of letting these institutions destroy them? This is their whole reason for existence, after all. Is it because so often the victims are women and children who are thought of as less than by the police and other authorities? It's despicable that each case is not investigated. Most times even rape kits are not tested, let alone any other kind of investigation. We have given these authorities the power to investigate these crimes and yet they do nothing. It seems to be a worldwide problem too. Are children and women that worthless to the men in power that their rape doesn't deserve investigation, that they do not deserve justice?
SEC Says Elon Musk Violated Settlement, Asks Judge to Hold Him in Contempt
As a proportion of the world population the enslaved is still on a downtrend. How many years (which is what I mean by 'almost') do you suppose it will take us to get from 1% or so to 0.01%?
> Mother Nature is a non conscious evolutionary process.

Of course, and it's completely obvious that I never claimed human consciousness of the whole nature (you can read elsewhere my view of consciousness, hint: it's not given by deities). The answer is not even a response to what I actually wrote.
Tbh to me it looks more like reinvented MS Access than Spreadsheet
The scary thing is in the US most people over 40 probably have impaired executive function and impulse control due to childhood exposure to lead.

Just in case anyone is confused why Trump is president and 2/3 of congress and the senate are utterly off their nut.
Guys guys it's population! Definitely nothing to do with the waste products from how we source all our energy. But <nebulous authority> won't let us solve the population problem so I guess there's nothing to be done and thus no responsibility to do anything!

This line of thinking is morally abhorrent at best.
Looks like a good start!

One comment though - if I correctly understand how you’re using “serverless” in this case (which I believe is literal - the whole thing resides in the browser), isn’t this just an implementation detail? It’s great for you since you have no infrastructure cost, but should your users care?

My apologies if I’m missing the point.
Intel is probably their only supplier they can’t dictate terms to.
Most normal people decide at some point that math is not for them in order not to embarrass themselves by claiming competence in a domain in which they are not confident at all. And hence, compared to nerds or seriously talented individuals who can confidently claim this status, they never spend much time on math and eventually seriously lack skills even in simple logical reasoning. This is basically math anxiety. Nerds, on the other hand, are incentivized to gain social status via math skills as a potential escape of their low status. I think this mainly explains the author's observations that these two skills are not correlated very much, basically an introversion vs extroversion polarization based on social expectations and incentives. Math is also intimidating, so I'd imagine someone with some experience in it also develops overall higher inhibition and hence is a worse verbalizer.

There is a huge literature on the relation between logical reasoning and verbalizing, which the author sadly ignores.
that's not technically, that's arbitrarily
It's a movie about an abused girl who is casually institutionalized and abused and finally lobotomized.

She escapes into a fantasy where she and her friends go on adventures.
> I have yet to find a case where the automatic synchronization has been off by more than ~1 second.

1 second is in the 0 - 1000ms which is still a lot of room for manual tweaking in VLC. I can notice 50ms differences in sync.
While I agree to some degree this also sounds overly dramatic.

First, there's a ton of evidence that people also get promoted/appreciated for the right reasons, not just because they're a fancy Markov chain of buzzwords (example: serial entrepreneurs, like Musk).

Second, there's underlying reality that eventually comes crushing people that fail to meet the expectations that they had built around themselves.
maybe although I got to think that a lot of these environmental issues destroying our way of life way too soon are interconnected, and it perhaps isn't as difficult to rank them as it might seem when viewed as singular unconnected problems.

on edit: typo, changed out to our.
> to make their old lamb/mutton taste better

I find that hard to swallow.

I think if you are brought up on mutton, then mutton tastes great! Although mutton or hogget is hard to find now.

I generally dislike most European beef dishes because they use tasteless (to me) veal or wintered(?) cattle. I prefer grass fed - probably because that is what I am used to?

And then it seems the same crowd get excited about wild pork or venison - strong flavored - the opinions just seem dissonant to me.

Although I do find ram, billy goat, and old glandy boar are rather too tasty for me!
I have to wonder though... Someone taking twice daily injections of morphine because of a little domestic neglect is not.. Well not all there.

Certainly it's not enough to be put into those horrible lunatic asylums but to be fair, people thought they worked. It would be roughly the equivalent of putting someone in therapy today I believe.
Don't be too sure you're worth even close to what you are paid because truthfully most people aren't.
Besides people who manually write subtitles, there's also a whole slew being ripped from DVD's and such.
This is highly irresponsible with the possibility of escalation of hostilities between the nuclear armed neighbors. As some one rightly pointed out nuclear powers carry the additional burden of restraint.
> We find that, while -O2 has a significant impact relative to -O1, the performance impact of -O3 over -O2 optimizations is indistinguishable from random noise.
First off, I'm rooting for Purism since they focus on hardware for running linux distros. But, what concerns me is that they don't seem to acknowledge that parts of the system contain proprietary software.

- Coreboot iirc requires binary blobs. Libreboot is truly FOSS, but only works on ancient cpus

- ME can't actually be disabled completely according to Qubes OS founder Joanna.

I think it's crucial to also talk about the limitations of the system.
I agree with that this is possible. Fixing our planet is a technical problem that is strongly correlated with fixing other things we need (water, food, energy). Basically getting rid of fossil fuels is part of the solution. The tech for that already exists and many countries are pretty far done with the transition to clean energy sources. This will probably take a few more decades but at this point it's more a question of when rather than if this will go to it's ultimate conclusion of completely eliminating the use of fossil fuels for energy production.

In that same time frame most cars will be electric. There are also signs that ships and planes will be running on a combination of fuel cells and batteries in the next few decades as well. So, basically the entire transport and energy sector are in the process of cleaning up their act and progress is very rapid there; driven by cost and other advantages.

The next issue is fixing agriculture. We've turned quite a bit of land into desert the last century. Turning that around is going to require a bit of out of the box thinking but it is not impossible. Apparently soil can capture a lot of carbon, which gets released when the land dries out. So the existing practices of abusing the land with mono culture crops is very destructive. User of fertilizers and pesticides kills the soil. Plowing and burning kill it further. Wind and rain erodes soil that has nothing growing on it. That's the recent history of a lot of newly created desert.

So, fixing this would be a big deal and there are some people who are arguing this is a reversible process. Doing so, would produce usable farm land in the and turn currently useless land back into productive land. And if you consider planned grazing as part of the solution (some people do), that would fix a sustainable source of meat as well.

So, there's reason to be optimistic. I do feel the incentives are wrong, all of the above is happening because it is more economical. Being cleaner is a useful side-effect but we should drive home the point that it is more economical. Making clean the obvious economical choice is the key to speeding this up. Subsidize good things, tax bad things, put a stop to bad practices. Some countries are still getting this quite wrong by doing the opposite.
It might come as a surprise to you, but waste generated by humans and human population is intrinsically linked.
Looks like the oxygen deprivation is already having an impact.
Articles like this are one of the main reasons I regret not pursuing a profession in entomology. Excellent article, nicely detailed. I wish I had access to the equipment and facilities used to make this amazing discovery.
In-Memory Scylla, or Racing the Red Queen
Mozilla is looking to contract with someone to help bring Rust to Hololens/UWP
Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene [pdf]
We'll probably enter the era of experimental geoengineering pretty soon, I would imagine.
I like to think of those more recent PPC Mars machines as Nintendo GameCubes with robotic arms and eyes. Same G3 processor family, afterall.

Well, at least they should be able to browse the web with the G3 version of TenFourFox. ;)
The drifts come from different speed of videos compared to the speed of the videos for which the titles were done.

E.g. if one subtitle is made for 24 frames per second speed (classic film speed) and you have a video presented in 25 frames per second (common in Europe). The original two hours video in 24 fps is then 5 minutes shorter in the Europe-origin version. Or the opposite: the subtitles for 120 minutes would at the end appear 5 minutes before!

Apparently there are some other speed changes, for which I don't know how they happen.

I have done one such correction once, using the linear function to model the correction ^based on the target times of the first and of the last title.
The history-repeating argument, when applied to drunk driving: "so far I've always made it home without killing anyone".

I read a lot about history and the one common thread that appears over and over again is that history is only repeating until it stops doing so. So many cycles that must have seemed eternal to those inside have eventually come to an end. One day, every Cassandra will be right.
I have realised that the age of a AI is just a movement of big corporations towards a profitable monopoly.

They are teaching us how to solve problems with hardware instead with algorithms, and we, as individuals, will never have access to their computing power.
If you're hosting the analytics on your own domain, is it really even something an ad blocker should be blocking? It's not coming from a known third-party service domain (for ads or tracking or otherwise) so there's no real reason a blocker should be blocking it. It's first-party analytics on your own website. The fact that you're implementing it via reverse proxying is kind of an implementation detail, because at any point it could stop being Google Analytics, or an existing first-party analytics solution on a website could become GA.

It is kind of unfortunate that third-party tracking can 'hide' this way but in this case there's not really much you can do if the content author is going out of their way to pull a fast one...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19247821
Wham, that’s a good one, in small doses.
It has and is being bred for. It’s know as hygienic behaviour. Results vary and it’s far from perfect.

You can interrupt whatever that varroa are doing with icing sugar. You shake a cup of bees with icing sugar in there. Anything above 2-3 varroa per cup of bees is the standard treatment threshold. It’s horrifying to see 15 fall off a cup of bees from a strong, healthy looking hive. Varroa are awful.

I’ve just noticed that for first pic in that article is labeled with a scale saying ‘200mm’ presumably it’s supposed to be .2mm (I cant get Greek on my phone).
Are the connections and operations really done concurrent?

Some time ago I stress tested a consul server and while I was happy that it suited our needs I found out that only about ~300 connections/requests were concurrently handled instead of the ~5000 our benchmark originally reported (was some time ago so numbers are as I remember them).

It was due to some TCP connections were taking a long time to actually be established, during which others were already done and served. This resulted in a wide spread of measured latencies for requests.
I think at some point in the very near future it would be better off face facts, avoid ag run off and tackle climate change rather than implement more hacks.
As I see it, the basic fact of ego is something that similarly cannot be fake: my mental life has a nexus called “me” at the center of agency, being a symbol for my own body, my desires and fears, etc. It’s no more an illusion than my cat meowing for food in the morning is an illusion. He’s there, he’s hungry, he wants food, so he meows.
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next time try jmeter or tsung instead of sysbench
Simply having…
Go is a new Visual Basic. But with concurrency. Mediocre language for mediocre minds.
An egregiously dumb take
As one of the authors of the "Interpretation of Neural Networks is Fragile" paper, I would agree with you.

To a certain extent, saliency maps can be perturbed even with random noise, but the more dramatic attacks (and certainly the targeted attacks, in which we move the saliency map from one region of the image to a specified another region of the image) require carefully-crafted adversarial perturbations.
I'm sympathetic but we have been trying this approach for a couple decades and it's not working. I mean you're not wrong, but we're almost at the point of being overtaken by events so you might want to think in more dynamic terms.
> ...in 200 years we went up by 6 billion?

It's not because of we are breeding more but much much better health care, sanitary and less people killed in war. The growth rate is lowering, some countries such as Japan, Germany or Korea will have their population shrink a lot in the future.

> This is the fundamental human flaw, exhaust everything until there is none left and move on to the next thing...

It's easy to think that way, but environmentalism only started to have real traction in the last 50 years (correct me if I'm wrong). And during those 50 years we have achieved a lot: patching the ozone, reduce automobile pollution by having much stricter emission standards etc... It show that humanity is capable of learning and willing to correct their errors, not just a hungry species exists only to consume.
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The point is any such line of thought is unintelligible because all of civilization is based around exploiting resources. All this b/s is putting lipstick on a pig that you are raping. You want to save the world, then go back to living like hunter gatherers, and stop by force anyone who does not conform. Don't want to do that, enjoy the short existence that you have as a species on this planet.