skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That works fine when it works. But when it doesn't work it can go completely to hell. One pathogen could conceivably wipe out a large portion of America's entire corn or soybean crop.

Can this realistically happen? Are there examples of this happening? If it's such an obvious catastrophic problem just waiting to happen why don't farmers or the government do anything about it?
> been using Google Voice for several years now for most of my communications in text, email, slack, whatever (only on phone, of course).

Just a heads up, Google Voice is the name of a product that offers telephony service including SMS, and has been around for a decade or so.

https://www.google.com/voice
If you don't want to lose your blog in the future like you did already, you should own the url.

That may significantly complicate your task, but this is the price for future-proofing your means of contact.
my dudes: charge yearly $$ to get a cert that allows you to request permissions higher than "access {camera, location while in use, microphone}" and most of the truly harsh PII issues go away afaict

the harm isn't consumer oriented, since it's somewhat diffuse, it's about concentration of market power in the industry.

we could live in a world where you target one distribution platform, and phone vendors compete to police malware, but instead we have walled gardens that police content & economically lock you to their environments and don't even do a good job about malware
I have both Firefox and Chrome installed. I can't tell the difference between the two in terms of scrolling. On both I can flick and it keeps going for ages. It sounds like a bug to me.
~75% of addictions start with people using them _without_ a prescription.

https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-DetTab...
Yeah, this is actually a great question imo.

So the main problem would be nutrient absorption, and there would be a number of problems that would impact it, from literal surface area of your digestive system, to current bacterial populations etc. etc. These problems matter less in a 24 hour window when you are far less likely to hit the same thresholds eating a reasonable amount of food. But basically, you could not effectively break down and absorb all the nutrients quickly enough, and you would have pretty nasty shits/vomiting.

But, let's say somehow you could, and somehow your body ended up storing a bunch of fat. In general, the second half of your statement is totally doable because the human body absolutely kicks ass at energy storage and expenditure. https://www.sciencealert.com/the-true-story-of-a-man-who-sur...
I don't have a source / link handy at the moment, but a couple relevant notes to consider :

1) the vast (vast) majority of corn consumed by humans is processed into things like corn syrup, modified starch, whiskey, etc, rather than eaten "whole" as a grain [like, say, as tortilla chips or whatever], so the notion of broken kernels, etc, scarcely applies to this particular consideration -- see above-linked infographic

2) The question of what type of corn is grown is a really interesting one -- I could rattle on about this for a long time, but suffice to say that the family of varieties generally known as "Corn Belt Dent" [derived at some length from Nothstine and similar early dent corns] is designed to serve both feed / silage and processing-for-human-consumption [including ethanol] purposes. Now, this is not stuff you eat as "corn on the cob" [those are called sweet corns, though back in the day folks used to eat green Corn Belt Dent roasted as "Trucker Ears"], nor is it the same as popcorn [which is its own family, derived at length from flint corns]. There are in fact varieties designed specifically for silage [the common type of feed, where pretty much the entire plant is fermented and fed to animals; these varieties have less fibrous leaves and sometimes more leaves] and grain / processing / ethanol ['floury' types], but it's a matter of choice / market analysis from the farmer's perspective, and ye olde corn belt dent can serve both purposes if need be.

one quick link re : ethanol : https://articles.extension.org/pages/27536/corn-for-biofuel-...
Interesting. Here's an article describing the changes: https://9to5google.com/2019/02/15/google-chrome-detect-incog...
Well aware of a ton of results in older Alife work. A main goal here was to couple the ideas there with MMOs. I think a lot of older Alife projects puttered out because it was not clear where to take the environment next. In contrast, MMOs are an established game genre that we know how to build out and develop in order to support more and more complex play.
Maybe I'm mis-remembering plD where D was device, but at the same time a single letter of differentiation, and one that is pronounced similarly, is asking for this kind of error in communication/memory.
Define "interesting" ...
different from _desktops_, but pointedly not browsers. from a HCI standpoint it's actually quite similar to browsers: sandboxed point and click
winrar and 7-zip can break up files into chunks of any size you specify.
Nepotism is wrong, but incredibly common.

Its natural for people to question whether or not Nepotism got them a role when people get into a position of power. Ex: do you really think Donald Trump Jr. deserves the powerful White-House role he has? Or was he only put in there because his daddy is the President?

Whenever people see nepotism, its only natural to instinctively question the qualifications of the individual. In the case of Chao (and being the wife of McConnell), the fear of nepotism is certainly a factor... but as far as I can tell... its fine because Chao actually has experience in Maritime Transportation.

I can't blame anyone for being cautious with nepotism (real or imagined). Being the son, daughter, or wife of someone important isn't a qualification at all. People have to be judged on what they themselves have done in life.
Thanks @cretz :)

We have had a lot of churn, but I am really proud of how we split everything out. DTLS, SCTP, ICE and SRTP are a real pain but once it works it is amazing.

We are also working on https://pion.ly/knowledge-base I want to create a resource that pulls all WebRTC info together RFCS, summations and links to relevant code etc...

If anyone wants to help we would love to have you! Especially someone who has an eye for design, we have a resource but they aren't able to help often, I am always happy to chat in our Slack channel https://pion.ly/slack/

----

I still really want to tie your IFPS work together we something like https://github.com/pions/asciirtc then we can get decentralized chat that works in browsers and desktops (with a single static binary to run it locally) would be amazing
Well this is the WWW at its 30th birthday... we have regional internet nowadays :(
Bingo, correct answer. I'm a bit saddened that I see how few people seem to understand this.

This is a real cost of the GDPR. If enforcement ticks up more companies will do the cost/benefit and some will decide to withdraw from the European internet. That leads to a more fractured web.
While it's easy to complain that this number is "wrong" in that the radial difference is what we always, or mostly, care about, it's worth pointing out that it does accurately represent radio communication lag times. In other words, messages sent to Mercury will get there, on average, in less time than they would take to get to Venus.
I’m more curious from the perspective of someone with a normal BMI. CICO isn’t relevant at that point, as that is a solved problem. It seems like every health blogger has an article for why eating X is bad, where X has exhausted virtually all values.

It sounds like your conclusion is roughly that, sufficient nutrients aside, it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference which columns the calories are under, not just in terms of weight management, but general health.

Yet, I struggle to entertain the possibility that the guy eating a lot of pizza and ice cream and candy is going to encounter health problems a lot sooner than someone of the same CICO eating avocados and chicken and broccoli.

Is one just as good as the other? What about skinny people who get heart attacks?
Not sure what you're implying, but that was frankly the only solution if you wanted to create something that could be used by the majority of people with iOS devices.

Proprietary "sugar" on top of standard protocols is almost the de facto answer for how Apple operates these days. Their efforts to get the extra stuff past standards bodies (so that everyone can use it) is at times hit or miss, but I'm increasingly convinced the overall approach is correct.

Why Google can't do this on Android is an open question.
That depends. Blogs and Twitter were great until they became marketing tools.
> That observation results in what we call the whirly-dirly corollary (named after an episode of the cartoon Rick and Morty)

Hoo, boy

Also: If your wonderful new metric gives every planet the SAME closest neighbor, then maybe its not a meaningful metric.
Scientists Find Relic Neutrinos from 1 Second After the Big Bang
>You're conflating divorce to remove oneself from an abusive situation with remarriage. I happen to think that remarriage after divorce is fine,

No, I'm not. Christian conservatives are frequently bemoaning how common divorce is, and pine for the "good old days" when people stayed married for life, ignoring the fact that not many of those marriages were very happy, and some were abusive, and this was simply accepted by society because divorce was considered so taboo.
I agreed. 'As is' is a well defined legal term, as well as person including legal entities (hence my use of the term legal idea). The same as person in the legal sense where a person can be an individual or corporation or other invention that can be assigned property.

> Did you get to this part of the post?

Why would I have read this? It is no way linked as part of the OP. If it was intended to or you are part of the team that helped resolve (in reading some of the links it appears you are) but there isn't reference to your reasoning within two obvious clicks of the license.

I agree with the conclusion of the line by line analysis and commentary you did, with the MIT/BSD x-clause being not what you wanted. I guess that leaves us with the obvious question: why isn't apache 2.0 what you wanted? or the CDDL? Is it just because it's 'hard to read' and people get it wrong? Where have you showed if an entity is releasing code to the wild and never intending to take on contributors that an MIT/BSD x-clause is the wrong thing to do?

I still don't feel like this is better than any of what's existing. This may be because while the license may be more sound for a contributor based arrangement this license site right now does not do a great job of showing a novice in the street how to do it right and any checklist to ensure that they haven't botched it. Where's the workflow to convert MIT/BSD x-clause to Blue Oak? If the only way to understand it is to dig into a bunch of random blog posts, I don't feel like that's such a large improvement. If more time is spent making a clear way to self serve a correct arrangement I would be more inclined to support this license if some of this supporting documentation existed to provide evidence on what the intent should be.
This is great. I've been working on voice systems for VR and AR applications. On the HoloLens, it's a dream once you have your entire interface speech enabled. Can't wait to start porting to Android. Daydream and ARCore apps are going to see a huge improvement.
Nope, but I did personally pick up the game again because of this project. It's an endless source of ideas.
Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (2014)
No, illegal drugs are just a small part of the problem. If every drug were legal there tomorrow you'd still have entire communities that have no access to a good education, healthy food, jobs, transportation, or affordable housing. Imagine an impoverished village in a 3rd world country, no natural resources, and constant violent tribal disputes. Whether drugs are legal there or not doesn't make a huge difference.
One thing I'm interested in is emergent language from scratch within a setting like this. Probably not the best idea to attempt to train a language model on MMO chat logs.
Because almost all universitys are NOT businesses... they are non-profits. They don't provide their services so they can make money, they make money so they can provide their services.

Now, you can argue that incentives sometimes get messed up, but that is the case for ALL charities/non-profits.
Empirical study: Org structure predicts failure-proneness (2008) [pdf]
A reasonable argument iff you use no external libraries, or personally audit every one of them completely (including all updates). Otherwise maybe I trust you, oh random person on the internet, but should I also trust the 49 authors of the 37 libraries you're including from 4 different CDNs? (Bonus points if you run ads and let under-vetted 3rd parties inject whatever they want into the page)
@bobowzki we would love to have you on Slack https://pion.ly/slack/

If there is anything I can do I would like to support your Erlang implementation! I can answer any questions you have, and would be happy to help get more eyes on your version as well.

It would be fantastic to see Go, Python, Erlang, C++ and Browsers all communicating directly without any software in the middle :)
iPhone Trends Going “From Bad to Worse”
This article is less compelling than the title would suggest.

After the Lion Air crash the FAA released a Emergency Airworthiness Directive, these five comments are in response to that directive. That differentiates it from pilots that had a negative run-in with MCAS or other defects in the 737 Max 8 (which would be significant news).

This article might inform you pilots are unhappy, but that fact has been widely circulated elsewhere since the Lion Air crash. The fact that five pilots submitted official comments doesn't add to what we knew.

These comments for example wouldn't have helped inform the FAA's decisions, since the FAA told the pilots about the issues in the Emergency Airworthiness Directive that these comments are based upon.
I take it you haven't been following the field lately, have you? It is surprising because convnets just work better for speech recognition ([1] is the latest SOA). I'm guessing gated convolutional LMs are slower than RNN transducers when deployed on mobile. Can someone confirm?

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06864
Yes. The post also said avc1 and av01 are both av1, when just av01 is av1.
I can attest that disability is a way of life in certain parts of the country. $15k/year may not sound like a lot, and it objectively isn't, but a household of 2 adults and 0-2 kids pulling $30k/year in some parts of the country can actually get by pretty well. If you can get an extra $10-20k/year in free opiates that's either a great way to feed an addiction or to make money on the side. There are counties where almost half of the adult population is on some kind of disability and those also happen to be the counties hurt hardest by the opiate epidemic, and known for "pain clinics".

But, I think there is a third part of the cycle that the article you linked mentions. Nobody grows up wanting to survive off disability and being an opiate addict - while the pain clinic/disability combo might enable people entering this state, the reason people give in to this is that they have poor life prospects. Going on disability is basically giving up. We need to figure out how to provide better job and educational prospects in the areas / for the kind of people who are incentivized to go on disability so that they actually have much better options. The average West Virginian isn't intrinsically less able than the average resident of Utah
I grew up through AIM, MSN Messenger, ICQ, etc. and Facebook Messenger is used the same exact way except that it has "offline receiving" which expands its usefulness.

Maybe you are over-extrapolating from the fact that you stopped instant messaging as you got older.
I have a few sites like this, but very few people use them. These days, box and related sites have absorbed all the file uploads.

About 15 years ago, my sites were pushing 400-600mb/s non stop. Nowadays, I barely hit 1% of my network cap at each VPS location.
They are also able to detect private mode in FireFox

I was able to eventually get past it using ABP by adding rules to block https://courier-api.dallasnews.com/v1/paywall/* and www.dallasnews.com###courier-iframe
The buses and trains leave on a schedule. It's kind of a crap getaway car if the police can identify which bus or train you're trying to take out.
Firefox Send - Share up to 2.5GB of Files at Once (for Free)
I'm still trying to grasp why these discussions so quickly spin into extremes. The author clearly states her intent in the first paragraph:

> With the new version I wanted to prove that it was possible to deliver an amazing user experience with a great design while drastically reducing the complexity of the code, maximizing reliability, and minimizing the cost to the end user.

She goes on to show us what she did, where it worked and where it didn't. The most important points I take away from her article are:

1. It's quite possible to build nice-feeling (YMMV), non-single-page web-apps without (a ton of) JavaScript

2. Critically evaluate if you need the complexity that an enormous JS framework brings

> You probably don't need a "Progressive Web App." Seriously evaluate if your app needs such complexity.

This has nothing to do with FAANG. Nobody disputes that there are use cases where it's a really good idea to use React+Redux+Jest+Enzyme+XYZ et al. But _maybe_ (and in my personal experience, in projects significantly smaller than Amazon.com, often) you simply do not need that amount of additional complexity and challenges.

It'd be so nice to just accept that the author provides an interesting data point (it can work without JS) in a community strongly biased towards starting projects by importing ~1000 node modules.
Penetration Testing Active Directory, Part II
That's Type 2 diabetes, which is misnamed since it's a completely different than Type 1 which honestly affects more people.
The grandparent comment was talking about landing in Iran or North Korea. I assumed this was about travel rather than economics.
I use FF on macOS and Linux; a bit on gaming Windows machine as well. On macOS it's about the same as Chrome, on Linux Chrome is comically horrible, even 1080p YouTube videos stutter (using GPU acceleration). Developing using Chrome under Linux (Ubuntu) was making everything super slow, e.g. debugging some JavaScript or GWT code was reducing performance of web app comparing to FF like 5x, making it unbearable.
Living separately and being together "almost every day" seems to make little financial sense if you think marriage "serves no useful purpose": if you're spending that much time together, why wouldn't you just live together? You'll save a ton on living costs, plus maintaining a household requires a certain amount of time as well. No, you don't actually have to get legally married to live together, but for your example you are talking about people who aren't just unmarried, but also maintain two separate residences. I don't see how it's "pointless"; if you're so particular about your space or set in your routine to live together, then how do you manage to "be together" for so much time? Do these people live next door to each other or something? Just the driving time alone is going to add up.
Oh I see. (I thought FB was used for IM.)
I don't understand why you need a machine at all.
Counting ballots is trivial to parallelize.

You just have each polling place count its own ballots publicly, display the result in a permanent manner, reseal the box and communicate the count to a regional center. The regional center publicly sum the counts, display the sum and communicate it to a bigger center until you have the final count.

Where I am from, it takes less than two days to count a bit more than 30,000,000 ballots. You also get a very good result prediction two hours after the closing of polling places by using the official result of a set of selected small polling places known to be fairly representative of the voting population.
I have 0 desire to engage in a protracted debate on Hacker News, so I will not respond to any specific aspect of this post with the traditional fisk-and-rant format. Instead, I'd like to encourage any reader who chances upon this thread subsequently to scrutinize this post carefully, because it attempts to suggest multiple equivalencies that I feel are not only inappropriate for the discussion at hand, but suggest a rather stark worldview.

In particular, there was lots of press coverage on the Evergreen event and any observer can go and read a variety of perspectives on it. It's also worth noting that Evergreen was an extremely unusual style of university, and as such already had a lot of interesting customs. Suggesting that Prof. Weinstein's protesting of white people also having a venue to participate in a longstanding tradition of a black student walkout is somehow relevant to conversation about biological gender differences is chilling, because it raises the question if in this poster's mind there are relevant biological racial differences. Is this poster asking us to take a careless leap between questioning biological differences of the sexes to biological differences between races? If not, why are nearly all examples given in reference to an issue about race relations?

Similarly, one can investigate the claim that conservative professors and students are unfairly targeted. The numbers there are interesting, but don't tell a convincing story. You can also investigate the implication that conservative and traditionalist students are treated unfairly is not well supported by the numbers.

Finally, one need only look towards the career advancements and growing department sizes of evolutionary biology to see that they're actually doing fine. Evolutionary Psychologists are having a hard time, but they're also facing many challenges actually demonstrating consistently testable predictions (as is the larger field, as statistical expertise becomes more normalized in the field).

You shouldn't trust links provided in threads like this, particularly on this website. They're often carefully selected (and I say this in a non-partisan fashion; everyone does it). You're much better off investigating these things organically.
That is great to hear :)

If there is anything we can do to make it better I would love to work on fixing anything that comes up, thanks for using Pion!
It's too bad Mercury isn't tidally locked to the sun; imagine the opportunities for solar collector / manufacturing if that were the case.

Though thinking about it a space station ring or something orbiting around that gravity anchor might be better in some aspects.
I've heard this argument before and I think it made sense the first time I heard it when self-driving systems were uncommon. But now every major tech/car company is working on it, should it still be considered?

I mean, isn't it likely that a new company/startup will show up when self-driving systems are robust in 5-10-15 years?