skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically, not all men (or women, for that matter) procreated and I think that's OK, given the current state of overpopulation. Many men also died young at war, before being able to procreate. I think we can all agree that less wars is a universally good thing.

Even in western cultures where monogamy was pretty strictly enforced by the church and society, I doubt that more than 80% of men procreated (wish I could cite sources, but there doesn't seem to be good data about this)

We also need to do away with the stigma that you can't have a fulfilling, productive and contributive life without children.
Like everything, it depends.

I think you're right for some classes of problems.

For others, going slow and painstakingly seeking to simplify is the only way. Otherwise the complexity will eat you alive and the whole edifice will collapse on itself.
The headline is odd - not one mention of Congress in the entire article.
tldr w/ translation-

The PGP key servers are designed to accept almost anything unchecked. This leads to numerous problems, most recently the keyservers became more and more unreliable due to attacks with poisoned keys.
I'd think so given their icon. Interesting name choice, nonetheless.
The way Norway's oil fund works makes these decisions easier.

All the oil money goes in a sovereign wealth fund. 4% of the fund's value per annum is taken as government revenue (like tax). So, any new oil found will only gradually increase budgets in the future. Also, the can stop drilling now and the annual revenue just stops growing (unless the market). It doesn't shrink.

Forethought.
As another fellow Aussie emigrant (not to Norway though), I believe they were not only talking about oil resources but all the other natural resources Australia is selling.

My bet is Uranium is going to be an important one too in the future.
I think the first ssid was someone's attempt at being edgy.
Tesla sells European emissions law lifeline to Fiat Chrysler
This is a naive way of looking at things. Your product isn't a thing that robotic ATMs spit out cash for, because they've been told to buy it. Though this perspective is true at some places, it creates a race to the bottom, and will put you out of business. For example, you can sign up contracts for vaporware and then deliver. This may make some money in up-front contract payments, but how long is this business going to last?
Not the parent commenter, but if I had kids with me I’d stay in a hotel.

It can be stressful enough traveling with children without having to worry about all the variables of an Airbnb stay.
Pickled vegetables and salt-cured fish appear to be the most significant culprits in Asia. Also, both high levels of regular table salt (sodium chloride) as well as high levels of nitrate have each been linked to stomach cancer, so it doesn't have to be a nitrate-based salt to be of concern.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2682234/,
[2] http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/21/6/905,
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4291998/
To the Mint guys: thanks! I don't use Mint, but I have in the past, and hundreds(thousands?) of people try it each day. Packaging open source software is a labor of love, and the community appreciates the work you are doing. No one ever says "good job!" when it works, but they raise hell when it doesn't.

Keep doing what you are doing, because while you may not get to perceive it often: people really, really, really appreciate the fruits of your work!
I'm the author, didn't expect my German text to end up high on HN.

If you don't speak German Google translate does a good enough job:
https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=...

If you have questions I'll try to answer them
Data Informed Rolling Forecasts (2017)
We failed to capitalise on the advantages we had created. It has to be remembered that the Computer Literacy Project ended in 1989. The following decade was not kind to the British computer industry, in large part due to a lack of investment and leadership. Thatcher (for all her faults) was seriously committed to computing, but Major just didn't get it.
A lot of commenters tend to think of the law as an API, and frame all discussions about it as such.

"So what, I just have to POST https://law.uk/onlineharm, and I get to take down the BBC? That's ridiculous!"

Any given strawman is ridiculous.
"What the American Big Media market looks like".

FTFY. America ain't the friggin' Universe.
Just a quick reminder that there's a whole world East of New York, West of LA, South of El Paso.
A World where we don't give a damn about the "World Series", for example.
Yes, but are you sure you're the only person who is able to control the door remotely? That's a big issue with a fair number of "smart" devices: their security is not up to par.
America: A Failing State
Sorry, quite correct. Apparently I can't even remember my own domain name!

It'll do exactly what a Kryoflux can do, including flux-transition-level read and write. (I'm not sure if the Kryoflux can write). The big differences are that it has a complete Shugart drive interface which matches what floppy drive datasheets advise -- so it's fully open-collector, with the right type of gates.

This also makes it very flexible -- it's been used to read ST506 MFM/RLL drives and decode the resulting output. It's been connected to NEC 8-inch drives with non-Shugart interfaces.

Its only major problem was that it was expensive - about $150 per unit. You could probably get that down a lot by using a more appropriate FPGA. If I did it again, I'd probably use a Lattice MachXO and the Yosys/Nextpnr toolkit, and possibly an STM32 microcontroller.

Practically speaking if you didn't need Winchester support, you could probably use the STM32's timer and PWM peripherals with DMA reload, leaving a single-chip solution with a bit of LSTTL for the drive interface.
Yes, i'm having to go several pages deep and even then not finding anything relevant, I've started to use other search engines and reddit to actually find useful info.
Oh, yep. I clicked right through to the code and didn't notice that.
Yes: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-bloc...

I used that for w3schools before.
I'm not sure I follow your statement. If the company had a choice between laying people off and failing, a union coming in and preventing them from laying people off doesn't sound like it would help the situation.
Raspberry Pi is a bad target because you are unlikely to make money with your OS and fundamentally you need that to turn the OS into anything serious.

The advantage of Rust is that you can split things into modular code bases. Redox is split very nicely.

I think that one could start a hosting company and write a hypervisor in Rust.
as a person who drives 5K miles/yr and usually buys fuel in a state that isn't NY or CA, estimated fuel savings are always amusing.
Don’t surround yourself with people better than you
I just spent an hour playing around with this, but I have to say it feels more difficult to set up than my own vim config.

If you know the kind of functionality you're looking for, this quickly becomes way overkill.
The actual update can be viewed here: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3736
These comments are boring and increasingly common on HN. On almost every discussion of Snapchat, Instagram, or Facebook you'll find comments like these expressing faux incredulity at the prospect that some users find these services valuable. You may not be the target market, but it really isn't difficult to understand why they're popular with minimum effort. At best, these comments convey laziness and an unwillingness to understand other perspectives. At worst, they're often used to assert moral superiority over others that use such "useless" products and services.
It shifts the supply curve left. It is hard to emphasize how valuable that is. It:

1. Raises prices or decreases total used

2. When prices are raised, encourages alternatives

It is similar to a carbon tax in its effects. Look at the diagram in the article and visualize the S curve moving left, and what effect that has on equilibrium.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
AngularDart Tutorial: Let's Build a Bookmark Manager (Part 3)
Hey HN, we built splitcsv.com to handle extremely large CSV files that break excel and other desktop programs. Give it a try and give us some feedback!
It seems like the opposite actually -- spam is destroying Google.

They're so big that it's worth blackhats spending significant resources to game their algorithm. That induced them to implement a spam filter which is now discarding the ham along with the spam.

Which means that smaller search engines that aren't being targeted by spammers are now giving better results. That is a major long-term problem for Google if they can't avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater like this.

People only use Google because it has historically had the best results. They'll get some way on inertia now, but that doesn't last forever. They need to fix this or they're ultimately in trouble, and we could be heading for a landscape where being a search engine above a threshold size is a liability.
Random spot checks using equipment to scope out for bugs. Some of that stuff is easily available to buy.

If it's such a big problem offer a small bounty and watch people do it for you.
I don't know if it's still true but while Gimp doesn't have filters on layers like Photoshop has I won't make the move. Example: applying a drop shadow and a border on a layer, doing a thousand other things to other layers and then tweaking the settings of the filters of the first layer like it was just applied.

I tried switching and certainly didn't put the effort Gimp deserved but these days I use Krita for quick editing (but I never do webdesign anymore).
In my (thankfully small set-size) experience even with attitude problems it's not easy to fire people.

It's really seldom that you have to fire someone who is just a right asshole with no redeeming qualities - quite often they are toxic because they have some mental health issues, or have really bad social skills, or are just for one reason or another really frustrated and taking it out in the wrong way (none of these are excuses to keep them employed mind you).

You can be relieved after the fact that they are gone while still not enjoying having to actually fire them.
Maybe they or their executives have some investments tied up in Pintrest. But yeah I hate landing on a Pintrest page for search results. It's like the mid-2000s all over again.
My "analysis" was purely one sided; I left it to others to argue the other side because I knew they could do it better than me. And lo, here you are. Thanks.

> Eventually - and I don't think that point is far away - it will be impossible to produce fossil fuels cheaper than the cost of solar/wind.

I hope and believe that you're right. But I don't think it will be because the price of oil is going up, but because the price of alternatives is going down.

> Once EROEI dips below 1, price is negative. It becomes impossible to extract the oil profitably

EROEI is not a constant, it changes with technology too.

And we'll still need oil for plastic, so it's theoretically possible that we'll use alternative energy to heat the tar to extract the oil to use it in plastic.

But woe is us if we ever get to that state. We'll have burnt so much oil that we'll be well past the climate change tipping point.
Thanks for the info, i've never heard of that, that's very refreshing to see that people are indeed trying to update the standard to remove the cruft.

Sidenote :
It seems the PDF/A format open yet the specification is kept behind a paywall ????
>> Googles core business

Which core business are you referring to?
How Not to Become a Rockstar Programmer
I thought it was the lectins in the grains that cause a lot of problems for people.
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope
We'd love to.

We have a WIP patch. At the moment, we're prioritizing MVP functionality, performance, and stability.
A lot of scuffs and smudges can be cleaned off with a magic eraser and some elbow grease. It's certainly easier than re-painting.
Look at how much of this discussion is on formatting, and it's the top threads.

Make a "mufmt" with zero options and let everyone focus on important things.
Terminal Emojis for Java Application
True it was a lazy comment. But we can easily imagine a world without these services, and it would be almost entirely better. That takes no effort at all to understand that point of view either.
I'm not really sure there is much in the way of "efforts".

The drug companies now control and manipulate the market. One law here or there won't fix it.

I think the larger question is if congress wants to effectively break the market and if the politicians want to take on the task of rewriting a lot of law / taking on the drug companies.
I believe Instagram now lets you save them in arbitrarily titled collections. I think the only missing functionality is sharing them with other users.
I've used it in production for 3-4 years with no issues (that I know of) but it's a ticking time bomb.

https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/1965

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/an94xq/axios_ne...
Also don't forget kerosine. Batteries are too heavy to lift.
Bloomberg articles do that a lot. Many feel like "this is a good title" and then they sort of fill content that may or may not fit underneath it.
After Death, Joseph Campbell was accused of anti-semitism (1989)
The thing with fibre and carbs (like in fruits) is that the fibre will line your intestine so you don't absorb the carbs as much, but allows the carbs to pass to the next intestine where the gut bacteria there loves the stuff.
Leads to the same place.
Epic might need to bend over to the big brother uncle G soon.
Important government employees are also more careful. Before they became important government employees, they might not have been careful and have done things that they still wouldn't want to see on the internet. So there is value in collecting compromising footage of a large number of people, storing them, and waiting until some of them become important. In general the same idea that the FVEY are doing with their long term low-suspicion data storage projects, just applied to hotel rooms. Investing into collection now, never knowing whether it's going to become valuable in the future. Young people are more likely to experiment and people do have careers.
https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/
> The issue isn't really about silencing people, but removing their access to a mainstream audience.

Those sound approximately like the same thing to me. What about the difference do you see as relevant?
What do you think of Keybase as an attempt at a solution?

https://keybase.io

Danke!

EDIT to add: Wow, seems like Keybase has pivoted quite a bit from what I understood it was aiming for in 2013 (a repository of public keys tied to/verified via social media accounts, with infrastructure to facilitate their use).
DDG's primary search is actually Bing IIRC.
Matt Cutts fallout.
I was a fan of Nokia N9, I used it for a year and I absolutely loved it. It was ahead of its time that's for sure.

BUT, I am not sure whether Meego would have been the better choice over Windows for Nokia. Creating a 3rd ecosystem requires more than having a better OS. If you check out Windows Phone reviews, it was also a very good OS. Windows was more cross-platform than Meego as well. It was ready for phones as well as tablets and wearables. And it is already the most popular OS on desktop. It was backed by the giant Microsoft with enormous resources as well as Nokia's resources. There were a lot of developers who were familiar with Windows development (C# + XAML)

...And despite all these advantages, even Windows couldn't become the 3rd ecosystem and thrown the towel after years. And the problem was not the OS itself, it was the lack of apps. Big names simply didn't bring their apps to a third platform.

So I think Meego would have gone nowhere even if Nokia chose it over Windows. Of course we can't know for sure...
New York’s mass face recognition trial on drivers has been a spectacular failure
Apologies for my pet peeve, but it's CO, not CO2....
The problem with these efforts is that the FBI often does not consult with technical experts before indicting Chinese nationals and have resulted in a number of false cases that have damaged the reputation of regular Chinese Americans. The rate at which Asians are falsely accused are twice those of other races[1]

[1]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/study-suggests-as...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/us/politics/us-drops-char...

https://qz.com/1116990/the-aclu-says-the-fbi-is-accusing-chi...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/aug99/sp...

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/arti...
As a citizen, it is your responsibility to make sure you have enough money to support yourself, without relying on society if things go wrong.

Unfortunately, things go wrong. Sometimes you lose your job without warning and your house burns down at the same time. Sometimes, things go wrong no matter how hard you try.

The same is true of companies. Sometimes, you just can't plan your way around things going wrong.
It's much easier to say that once you've done it.
Megvii Introduces Single-Path, One-Shot Method for NAS Design
The second is far more "edgy"

Believe people (individuals, groups) when they tell you who they are.
I doubt it'll be GIMP, but i'd like to see a program that follows the UX of Paint Shop Pro (especially PSP7, the last good version IMO before they rewrote the UI and then sold it to Corel that gutted it out) which i always found much easier and more intuitive to use than both Photoshop and GIMP.

For a little while i thought Krita would be it, but i quickly realized that they just copied Photoshop for the most part.
I don't disagree with your assessment of HL7 historically, but FHIR documentation is outstanding:

https://www.hl7.org/fhir/resourcelist.html

Documents both the REST API and JSON and XML formats for every type of resource, with lots of examples, and sufficient detail for anyone to create a compliant implementation. Documentation for all of the datatypes like dates and times, terminologies, identifiers, references, numeric values, and how to serialize and parse them. Cross links everywhere.

It's legitimately one of the best documented and well thought out APIs I have worked with. I think they took all the mistakes made and legacy baggage of the old HL7 specs to heart, and did a great job of replacing them with something much better with very high quality documentation.
> This creates something that we in Debian call a "FrankenDebian" which results in system updates becoming unpredictable [2].

I believe this comment shows how a condescending communication style in FLOSS hurts goodwill and clogs the virtuous cycle of enthusiasm that fuels FLOSS.

Here's something that's true:

Debian Jessie ships a LTS Firefox for which it grants an exception to its strict package security update policy. That LTS Firefox version has its own support schedule, and its own arch support policy. Both of those skew from Debian's own policy and timeline.

This means that one of the two most popular browsers on Debian doesn't provide the same ARM support that Debian claims to support on its website. It also means that Debian updates Firefox on stable (as well as Chromium on stable) whole cloth. It doesn't backport security updates because Debian does not have the resources to take on such a difficult project.

That means for every Debian box set up as a user desktop, the two most popular packages cannot follow the package security guidelines that the quoted Debian fan/dev would hold up as one of Debian's strengths.

To be clear: when Firefox LTS released an update that worked perfectly fine on all of their supported archs, that release broke Firefox completely on Debian Jessie on ARM. In other words, you can install a Debian called "stable" on an arch they call "supported" and end up upgrading yourself into a state where an official Debian package no longer works.

In short-- all Debian stable packages are potentially "FrankenDebian" for this reason, and-- worse-- for really popular and important desktop packages.

Elementary logic and social skills dictate that the person I quoted should be finding common ground with Linux Mint devs. Say package maintenance is hard. Say security backports don't really scale anymore. Say random number generators are tricky to get right. Pointing out one's own failures and citing sources for the rare successes seems like a winning strategy to me. Or at least one that doesn't threaten to zap all the energy of the people one communicates with/about.

You'd think a project like Debian with its myriad guidelines and processes would have at least one sentence in there like, "Don't treat others like they're teenagers loitering outside your fast-food restaurant," or, "Don't be self-righteous." Or more pointed, "Don't talk down to other distros."

Is there a Debian dev here who agrees with my upshot? There's apparently this whole inculcation process to become a member, so maybe one of those sentences could be part of it.
If history teaches us anything, it's more likely that the US would intervene against Norway to privatize its oil market with the "help" of US companies. But being a quasi-EU country and NATO member that's still a very unlikely scenario.
I wonder what percentage of Amiga games were designed for 60Hz first! My bet is that it was not high...

(This is also probably not the sort of game where it's a big deal.)
> If you want to pirate movies and chat on facebook at the same time, you're probably gonna have a bad time.

Not really. There's not a single documented case of a major VPN user ever receiving a copyright infringement notice. Despite the fact that millions use this exact same use case.

In security it's always important to understand the threat model. If I know I'm being personally targeted by Mossad, that's a very different story than if I'm trying to avoid getting identified in a mass copyright notice from the MPAA.

Facebook would never ever ever in a million years voluntarily give the MPAA unrestricted root access to their IP level user tracking data. If they tried to subpoena it, Facebook can afford much much better lawyers than Warner Brothers.

And I guarantee that at least in the American judicial system, any judge is going to be extremely skeptical against such a sweeping request.
Most linux users could probably install bind if they were worried about dns privacy. There are lots of tutorials on it.
Smart Guys Push to Make Biggest Oilfield Even Bigger