skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a company that knows more about you than you can possibly imagine,

Maybe the problem is that they don't actually know that much about us.

Since one of the other threads (which one, I cannot remember right now -- one of the adtech ones I think) brought up how much supremely accurate location data Google or FB etc knows about any given user, I have been thinking about how much the megacorps actually know, you know, about us.

If someone knows that I go to the grocery store two or three times per week, do they also know that I detest going to the grocery store? I do it for a reason, of course, but e.g. showing me ads for grocery stores is likely to create negative feelings in me.

So, someone might know I go there a lot, but that doesn't mean they know enough about me to make my world better in any useful way.

I don't doubt that some companies know a lot of objective facts about me -- where I go, what I spend money on, with whom I associate -- but I would be surprised if any of them know much about me, about who I am, about what I really like and dislike, about what motivates me, about what I care about, et cetera.

Maybe they know more than I can possibly imagine; maybe they know less.

Maybe that's not at all why moderating comments programmatically is so difficult. I certainly have no idea. But it makes me wonder.
And here's a link to my app btw:

https://getpolarized.io/

It's a reading management platform for annotating and tagging your documents.
I don't see why you can't have both.
The biggest problem is that in general you need to unlock the bootloader to install custom firmware. On some phones it might be possible to relock the bootloader after you flash the firmware, but I think most phones won't let you do this with a custom firmware.

Once the bootloader is unlocked, anyone with physical access to the phone can reboot the phone into custom software and run arbitrary code, read data etc.

I guess you can still use encryption in case your phone is stolen, but anyone who temporarily gets access to your phone could backdoor it.
What is it about rust that makes it impossible to pretend Xt is a text terminal?
Except you are probably cross shopping with a Chevy volt (which also has $0 gas cost). You could use the same logic to justify lowering the listed price of a Prius because it uses less gas than an SUV.
>Of course the commenters on this site would rather everyone in China whether they be Han, Uigher, Manchu, or Mongol, be "liberated" Iraq style.

I understand why people outside the U.S. (assuming you refer mainly to American commenters) could develop this impression, but in my experience the situation is quite the opposite.

Anecdotally, I’m an American with family in government/the military and friends of every political stripe. Nobody I know thinks the Iraq invasion was a good idea or would want to repeat it elsewhere.
"where existing solar projects are seen by many as eyesores that destroy desert ecosystems and fuel larger dust storms"

My intuition would suggest that renewable energy would take energy out of the system (wind power at least). Reducing dust storms.

So are they correct? Is it climate change being attributed to the cure?
I guess an argument could be that the distribution of electricity still costs money. For example, if households use more electric power, we can either increase the electric current or the voltage. For the former we may have to replace transmission lines to be thicker; for the latter we may have to reconfigure or perhaps rebuild the local transformers. In either case, there are other costs involved that do not involve the cost of electricity itself.
We could also split more atoms, which is carbon free and has really small impact in terms of land, mining, carbon, death, pollution, etc.
In the desert, many plants simply will not survive without regular shade, so yes.
I don't know. In his giant image asking if the icon is the commit icon, my first though was "history".

I was actually looking forward for me being hilariously wrong, and GitHub having made funnily incomprehensible icons, and he did not deliver!
Or have the ability to run code on your computer, in which case they’d just wait until you enter the private key password and then steal all your TOTP secrets.

Having your TOTP secrets on a unique device means that an attacker in that scenario (access to your endpoint) could steal a single TOTP code for the single site, but wouldn’t be able to steal the seed secret itself.
Pakistan to Release IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman Today
This is surprisingly low given what's out there. For comparison:

- Azure pipelines offers 1,800 minutes a month

- Google Cloud Build offers 120 minutes a day

- CircleCI offers 1000 minutes a month

Weird that they wouldn't even try to compete with these.
There's no mailing list, I'm afraid.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/9ulb17/is_there_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/an1fo9/whats_hol...

The LineageOS subreddit is another news source, as development team members do comment there.
These sorts of posts are just so ridiculously off base.

People are absolutely desperate to show that ML isn’t the answer to everything, which nobody in ML claims it is. But it is the very clear answer to some things, and problems like license plate detection fall so unambiguously into that category that, quite frankly, if you think otherwise you’ve really disqualified yourself from the set of people who ought to be asked about these things.

In my team, we don’t use deep learning for every problem. We don’t even use machine learning for every problem. I’m a Mathematician, and frankly I’m just not that immature. The fact is, ML is a great solution to a lot of problems, and Deep Learning is a particularly good solution to an ever-increasing category of problems.

If you can’t tell the difference between such cases, then you should probably not conclude that everyone is doing it wrong, and instead conclude that you have more to learn.
Sure, issues can be complex and journalists can get things wrong even when they’re acting in good faith. But how is the average reader in a better position to evaluate the facts?

If the facts are genuinely not well-known or agreed-upon by experts, then absolutely report on that. Not so readers can “make up their mind” (since that shouldn’t be the goal, if experts can’t even agree), but so readers can understand the complexity of the issue.
There are a wide range of things that are considered deserts and organisms that live within them. They aren't just empty acres of sand. I'd recommend the Planet Earth episode about deserts to help gain a little appreciation without having to visit one.

They occur naturally and life has adapted to them. From a conservation standpoint that's enough reason for me to keep them around.
Incremental Search - This can be incredibly slow on large files and/or network mounted files. It can also interact with line wrapping and highlight search to slow vim to a crawl. So I think it makes sense to leave it off.

Tabs - That's the way god intended it. Stop trying to force your indentation width on me.

Stable working directory - This is how every text editor I'm aware of works. I can see use cases where you might want to change it manually or automatically, but I don't want to have to guess which directory I'm in every time I open a file.

Even some seeming no brainers like turning syntax highlighting on can be terrible because it doesn't work well with dark backgrounds or other random colour schemes.
Sure they would.

Game studios were one of the first areas to care for UX.

During the 80's and early 90's many kids got into games by starting as group testers after school.
Hello Nineties. Are you home? I miss you.

I don't believe I've really thought or heard of Nasm for the last two decades, but boy is it time for me to dig it out again and get assembling. For absolutely nothing but the sheer fun of it and for reconnecting with my hardware.

Thanks for posting.
Chances are most readers aren't qualified to judge competing statements without further research and don't have time to do it. That's a reason newspapers became a thing in the first place.
I saw the Flat Earth documentary and I wonder if model could maybe be applied to conspiracy theories, alternative thinkers thinking the same.
Redash – connect to over 18 types of databases
I experimented with just mov eax, 1 and found it be slower - though I didn't try inc eax.

Using 16-bit registers is tricky because they leave the upper bits unchanged. Its easy to trigger a partial register hazard inadvertently.

p.s. the comments were nicely lined up in my editor, don't know what happened once it got to github.
If I have my house in the middle of nowhere and I put solar on my roof that more than covers my power usage. So much that I can run air con 24/7. Even when not home. This is obviously over consumption but I have an abundance of energy raining down on my roof. What difference does it make that I run my air con all the time when that energy was already wasted heating my roof.
>have 5 more but it's not related to t

Doesn't matter elaborate
I especially like the aggregator functions, it allows to select an additional dimension of data.
> and it is worth protecting for the same reason any other biome is.

Other biomes are worth preserving as they keep this planet habitable. I thought deserts do quite the opposite.

https://www.environmentalscience.org/deserts-ecosystems

> Even though the plant and animal species that exist in hot deserts are well-adapted to those environments, we know from studies that such organisms are treading a fine line over environmental tolerance; some are even at their limits, according to the IPCC (25).

>Both The Sahara and The Namib are extremely hot deserts and in recent years have experienced some of the hottest temperatures to date. Pakistan and Iran have also experienced record dry spells and high temperatures in the last decade. Even semi-arid desert climates are experiencing an increase in hot and dry spells, becoming more parched and experiencing wildfires in areas where scrub, brush and tree cover is more abundant.

...

>Evidence demonstrates that the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula alone show increased water vapor feedback, much higher sensitivity, and increased sensitivity in deserts to greenhouse gas emissions. Simply, deserts become hotter and drier during a warming climate with wider implications for the warming climate.

However I was not aware of this

>Many are not aware that deserts are a net carbon sink, providing some relief from the increase in greenhouse gases. This will be problematic while carbon emissions continue to increase, and world governments will need to do something about it in the future. The discovery was made when researching bacteria in the desert. Research suggests that bacteria located in massive aquifers beneath the sand and in the sands itself, are capturing carbon from the air. In theory, the aquifers could hold more than the entire global population of plant material at present at 20 billion metric tons (or 22 billion imperial/US tons) (33).
Thus begin the challenges of ramping up distributed low-density intermittent energy harvesting by a factor of 40x.
Just for reference, and this does not diminish the parent's point significantly, inflation accounts for approximately 24% of that increase. That's still a 36% real increase in operating budget assuming student size held constant.
Importance of Customized Web and Software Applications for Business's Growth
Your privacy policy does not mention that you collect and store data on when users take screenshots
Is there sales tax?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamization_of_Xinjiang
I have high expectations for China. China is failing to meet them. America doesn't meet other of my expectations.

Censorship is not an excuse for their behavior. It's a further criticism of the Chinese state. The suppression of ideas and history is something which makes outcomes like these more likely.
I had fun recently generating Intel assembly for mathematical expressions:

https://github.com/skx/math-compiler/

Mostly the project was to write something that compiled, from start to finish, but it was a nice refresher on assembly which I've otherwise not touched seriously for 20+ years.
Last year, LineageOS bundled a prank app that showed a persistent notification for April Fools' Day, but the timing was off:

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/04/05/dont-freak-lineageo...

They promised to "do better" this year:

https://lineageos.org/An-April-Apology/
Google cares about being polite/correct too much. They are hyper-sensitive to any controversy about them. On the other hand, controversy loves to find its way to Google, because bad big tech, rogue algorithm is a hot topic of these days.

Well that is what this will end up with, in an era that everyone is easily offended by everything and anything, the common denominator might be a very very small number.
Umoja, Kenyan village where no men are allowed
How far does the does spread? How long until it settles?
FWIW if you want 2-factor SSH you can do that. Just add the PAM module.
I kicked 5k off of the deal price a subaru forrester 2 years ago, by saying no 3 times. No trade either.
Wow, that is some remarkable timing.
I shouldn't but I love the UI of this thing. It's fresh and bold.
This approach fails e.g. The morphological operations you need for an infrared night time image with washed out white is different than what you need to detect the plate in the day time etc.
Actually a lot, especially at scale. Solar PV is not as bad but wind is a significant threat to hoary bats as a species and to large threatened birds like eagles, owls, etc. Yes cats kill 1000x more birds than current wind but they kill swallows and robins and stuff, not damned eagles.

Mining and fabricating the amount of low-density energy harvesters and storage systems needed to fill in the intermittency also requires dozens of times more materials, land, and waste than the major carbon-free competition (nuclear).
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I've driven the model 3 and the model S (which both present the same information).

I think the dashboard of the model S puts good information in your line of sight. In comparison, using the model 3 display seems a little like trying to use your cellphone while driving.

As to dials and guages, I'm not trying to pin it down to that. Just driving information in your line of sight.

I could also say a HUD would be cool too. I've actually spent some time in military aircraft simulators with actual hardware huds, and I can tell you that it draws you in.

But who knows, I might be one of those people bemoaning the new "iphone gadget" and it's lack of a keyboard :)
They probably just reset the miles to zero. No one would know.
Did you look at the site?

It lists 35k up front, and then lists estimated payment after incentive secondary.
Even more context: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/avwxq1/comment/ehijdw...
> They leave it to the reader to make of it what they will. In my personal opinion, this is how reporting should be.

If one side lies out their ass or states "opinion" that is easily disproved as untrue, then it shifts the conversation without having facts.

In my view, proper journalism needs to reaffirm basic facts in their coverage so viewers/listeners don't have to put up with obvious bullshit or crazy opinions.

People are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.
> Why is your release binary built in debug mode?

> Be grateful for what you have.

I loved the FAQ overall. But something about this at the end made me bust out laughing.
I'd wager there are a fair number of us that are quite glad not to have python as the main language.

I am curious if there are specific things about elisp that you dislike.
Welcome to every single planning meeting in California politics. And also many other places too, but California enables absolutely tiny groups of people to delay any construction or change.
There was an X too and a second different Model S with it.
Cheap renewables won’t stop global warming (2018)
IANABotanist either, but your real problem isn't finding the right species of ground cover. It's coming up with sufficient water in the Mojave desert.
I remember reading an article about Java performance many years ago. It had an example for Java being faster than C++ and it was maths on arrays / matrices. I guess that kind of code least trips up HotSpot optimizations, so it wins due to availability of runtime information and a really good implementation of certain parts.

Though I doubt that Java usually wins against the Eigen C++ library. Eigen uses some template tricks to fold operations together (which can avoid intermediate storage and unlocks more types of restructuring optimizations) and uses SIMD extensively.
Large scale GAN training for high fidelity natural image synthesis
> but if your goal is to have a more stress-free existence and feel like your work is actually helping people then there are alternatives.

I've interviewed devs with over a decade of experience who clearly opted for a stress-free existence feeling like their work was actually helping people, and now here they are in their mid-40s looking for a job with an obsolete skillset and an obvious track record of not adapting to changes.

It's great that you lead a stress-free life in your 20s and 30s, but how do you expect to cope with the problem of being obsolete and useless and no better than a 20yo fresh out of college (and in some regards far worse) when you reach your 40s and 50s?
I cringe the day where my connection gets temp-banned because my browser rendered the site too quickly because I disabled all the junk a page loads.
I've been wondering about this and was about to make an HN thread asking about it as I couldn't find anything online.

I'm no longer able to bypass the paywall via Incognito Mode. It appears to be IP-based and perhaps even guessing based on geolocation? I sometimes can't even get around it by using a VPN in a different country.

And now, I've seen it block Incognito browers (I have to login to be able to read in Incognito). But oddly, I left the browser open on that page and about ten minutes later the paywall disappeared and I could see the full article.

NYT should just go full paywall like FT. No way around it. if you are paying for a subscription you should feel confident knowing there's no way to bypass and get the content free.

the dumbest paywall is the Australian Financial Review's. you can just hit Escape and stop the page before the paywall loads. or use Outline.com or Textise as the content is all there, it's just behind a css element. and they charge subscribers like $1,000 per year.
I think it's a great precedent, when branches of governments abuse their authority a different power must step in.
Frankly, picking a non-conventional language in order to associate yourself with "true hackers" is PG's least useful advice. I am not even sure if he would still agree today. Hackers use the language they are most comfortable with and that gets things done. Everything else is secondary. I wrote a blog post on the subject [1].

[1]: https://shubhamjain.co/2018/12/01/why-paul-graham-wrong/
"Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK"

There is also "High Integrity Software: The SPARK Approach to Safety and Security", I never read it, but it is written by a well known author in the Ada community.
Yes, there's merrit to this, but up to a point. The problem is that the "glue" you're using to connect your ingredients is bash, and that quickly gets unwieldy >100 lines or so.
I don't get it - this says it's new, but MS has had an LZW-based compression algorithm named Xpress since forever, easily found by googling. Is this really just a very bad name clash?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols...
If you put an asterisk by it you can
Yeah I feel like guile-emacs, then rust-guile, is the proper migration path.
This contains a link to the actual discussion [1] which I highly recommend watching. Bill demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of energy systems, guided by one of his favorite authors (Vaclav Smil) who recently wrote the incredible and humbling book, Energy and Civilization [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1EB1zsxW0k

[2] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Energy-and-Civilization
What's worse for YouTube? That news articles continue to be written about how they're ignoring a pedophilia problem, or some channels getting caught up in the algorithm? It sucks to be negatively affected as a content creator, but YouTube is doing what everyone has been pressuring them to do.
Then source's credentials, data or other factual bases for the opinion can help the reader/listener/viewer decide (e.g. source1 is a 25y veteran meteorologist, source2's data is based on postings from 4chan).

Without facts and common assumptions, opinions are noise.
SPARK is a subset of Ada 2012.

Your examples are possible with contracts.
The only reason I still have yahoo as my homepage is the the comments on the top stories. While most are low quality, there are some very clever comments and I feel I get a better sense of what everyday people are thinking about it.
I also really enjoyed your post. However, I'm completely uninformed about the mass internment of Uyghurs in China, and think that it would have been well-served by a link to some sort of summary of the issue.

If I am understanding your argument correctly, it is that the wave of highly publicized acts of terrorism in the early 2000s, combined with cultural isolation between Han Chinese and Uyghurs, led to the mass internment program?

A short article I read on the issue[0] quotes David Kaplan as saying, “The repression of the Turkic Uyghur Muslim community in western China…is a key part of Beijing’s new imperial policy,” and that the Belt and Road Initiative “requires the complete subjugation of the Uyghur population”. (Sadly, I don't know what the Belt and Road Initiative is, either.)

Is this also consistent with your views?

[0]: https://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/?p=37293
To be fair to FTP, it was written for NCP in the 70s. Network protocol design was a very different problem back then and NCP required incoming data on a different port to outgoing (usually with adjacent, odd/even, ports though).

However I do completely and emphatically agree that FTP needs to die. There is no need for it in the modern era. We’ve had a whole plethora of better suited protocols since (I don’t agree HTTP is a good fit replacement but there isn’t a shortage of options out there) and in many cases FTP - even once you’ve applied the mountain of kludges and workarounds just to get it working with SSL behind two NAT’ed firewalls - still falls short of what a great many alternatives can already do.

FTP not only needs to die; it should have already died 10 or 20 years ago.
A lot of them get bought by liquidators who clean them up and list them on ebay. Search for "server" and you'll find lots of listings like "Supermicro 1U-Intel Quad Core 2.5GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 2x160GB" where there are hundreds of a given configuration available.
It is possible that they were being conservative because they were afraid of degradation of batteries. Over time, with more data coming in, perhaps they decided that it wasn't necessary. It's not really such a surprise that the limit all of those things -- I think that's necessary for the correct operation of the vehicle. It's just a matter of where you put that limit and why.
I'm not trying to unite anyone. I was just pointing out that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are closely related, and only distantly related to anything Han Chinese.
It's actually important that emacs is a text program and also has a gui version. All the time I use a program on the command line that needs me to edit something, so it pops up a textmode (vt100 ui forever) emacs that I can edit a file in. Sometimes in other contexts this can happen where it's an xwindows gui. When I'm on a windows machine I can do either also.