skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Individuals reducing their carbon footprint by reducing consumption is all good, but it is really a drop in the bucket in the big picture. I would be worried that focusing on that could be counter-productive with a higher chance of making people either feel that they have "done their part" (if they have personally done these minor reductions) or induce general apathy over the fact that the only way forward is to reduce your quality of living while knowing that it won't make any real difference anyway.

If we really want to make a change we have to focus on big picture solutions. Instead of being against, we need to focus on what we want to move towards.

The only way to reduce our dependency on carbon fuels within a realistic timeframe is an aggressive rollout of renevable energy like wind and solar, _and_ nuclear. If we were really serious about this, we would do massive investments in nuclear, building lots of new plants and also stepping up the research in technologies like molten salt and thorium based reactors.

If we should take to the street and demonstrate, it should be _for_ actual solutions like that, rather than _against_ minor things that don't make much of a difference anyways.
I think this is right, plus its not that profitable ( Reddit, snap chat etc)
What I wish the Russian speaking HN readers would provide some history or documentation on is:

- Setun, a ternary (as opposed to binary) computer

- DSSP, a Forth like language that users seem to gush about in the same manner Lispers gush about LISP.

Info/history on both those systems are increadibly difficult to obtain in English!
Indeed, it's like people completely forget about such attempts in the form of the Berlin-wall or the border between the two Koreas.

Heavily militarized borders with everything technically possible defending them, regardless of inhumane it was/is, yet didn't stop people from attempting to cross and actually crossing.

Even the great wall of China isn't a good example because afaik that wasn't built to stop immigration, it was built to stop raiding parties.
To be fair, Tumblr was one of the more well known and probably more valuable bits that they got as part of that package. I believe e.g. Flickr was sold separately. As I understand it, Verizon has pretty much devalued the entire package already a few months ago: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/verizon-signals-its-y...
Hazelcast Responds to Redis Labs’ Benchmark
Well a nuclear sub might have the power needed. Still insane though. :) Probably you would need several lasers too, intersecting where you want to have the plasma ball.
But ... why should the Beeb be the one owning the streaming app on my phone. I (re)watch Doctor Who episodes on Netflix (or amazon or whatever). I dont care what device I watch on, I just want to watch content I want.

Which is kind of the point. (Keep) making great content. Worry less about the streaming client.
Personally I kind of agree. Other than storage and traffic considerations I cannot see why the entire BBC archive is not available online. It seems stupid to me that we have literally 50+ years of content, documentaries, panel shows, etc. Which could all easily be put online as they are the BBC's content and have been paid for by the British people already.

I understand that this might be overkill but I definitely find myself wanting to watch older episodes of things like would I lie to you or Rhod Gilbert's work experience or HIGNFY or some other show which disappeared long ago for no real reason. Netflix, Amazon, are all ok but there really is a market for some service which has an entire plethora of shows with permanent storage. I'm also fed up of nextflix getting some show I like only to have it disappeared in a month, or only season 3 of 5 be available. If the BBC can solve that they have my business and I'm sure a lot of overseas business too.
Attack of the clones as Star Wars fans design own lightsabers
Entering a country illegally is a crime in every country, not only in the US.
You can trust your deploy process and still deploy bad code because sometimes something gets missed in design, review, or testing. Why buy that headache for what is probably a marginal gain? (no matter how much we want to think we're changing the world.... that deploy is probably marginal gain that can wait until Monday)
Graphene nanoparticle toxicity is under active study. It seems to depend on the form and size of the graphene structure.

* Carbon nanotubes may be as dangerous as asbestos for similar reasons. They act like spikes that stick into cells.

* Graphene nanoplatelets are shown to trigger the inflammatory response (in vivo and in vitro) in lung cells. Something that normal carbon black don't do.
I expect that data to grow quickly over the next decade, assuming things like the 3D selfie camera on iPhones end up on the main camera too. (I expect they will end up on all the cameras, just for the value they’d add to AR).
Sadly, he don't understand what LaTeX is and what TeX is. And $$ is a TeX macro, should not be used in LaTeX, the are much better math display environments.
I'm not 100% sure that the ethics of the free software movement have a single solitary thing to do with, say, objecting to the sorts of things Palantir's clients get up to. Speaking from experience, F/OSS provides very little control over end user behavior; you can turn down a 'evil' client if you are proprietary but not if you are F/OSS. Not a dig against F/OSS, just a statement that their ethics don't really address these concerns (I'm sure they would have arguments that a greater good is served, etc.)
Right, and these are state-backed efforts. But these efforts mean literally next to nothing if companies like Amazon, Microsoft, etc. do not get off their asses and do something. The biggest cause of climate change is not something that state actors can do anything about unless they are willing to enact and enforce strict, massive, unprecendented restrictions on coal, gas, and oil companies. Something that no government outside of the top ten richest countries in Europe, is willing to do.

Currently Amazon, the richest company in the tech sector, is dedicated to putting only 6% of it's datacenters on renewable power. By 2020. It also services a couple of hundred coal, oil, and gas companies that are deeply harmful to the environment.

See, this public letter, which has not been acted on: https://medium.com/@amazonemployeesclimatejustice/public-let...

[Amazon] recently ordered 20,000 diesel vans whose emissions
will need to be offset with carbon credits [13]. Offsets
can entail forest management policies that displace
Indigenous communities, and they do nothing to reduce our
diesel pollution which disproportionately harms
communities of color

and

[Amazon] donated to 68 members of congress in 2018 who voted
against climate legislation 100% of the time [20,21].

and

[Amazon has] set a goal of at least 50 solar installations
in warehouse facilities by 2020. This represents only 6% of
buildings in [it's] global fulfillment network and a fraction
of our overall carbon footprint [22].
BBC is a joke of a governmental corporation that makes revenues from tv licenses even if you dont own a tv. Essentially they can still make money if you have iPlayer on your computer which requires a license. I live in the UK and every year they send letter to warn all residents even if they dont own a TV (which I dont) they might still need to pay due to iPlayer being on your computer.
Blaming Netflix is not enough. Their business model is ludicrous.
It's good that we are surprised. The total surveillance system is being normalized far too quickly.

At this rate, in 10 years we will see even more "conveniences" like for example automatic face id in shops and on websites that pull your payment information and can authorize payments from your card/account - with no setup.

People will say "Kinda spooky how they can just take my money automatically but it's convenient" and you'll be there to say "It's kind of surprising that we're still surprised by this." ;-) I hope!

That will be underpinned by even larger surveillance and data collections on people, that can do a lot of harm when/if data is leaked or the systems are breached.
What about smallpox? Wasn't it eradicated completely in the 80s?
Is that true for all such companies?

IME cloud _can_ easily be more expensive and more work than bare metal, in house or colocated. If course it depends upon the workload and the tools/resources available to manage it. Even with clouds there is still server management to do.
Ok, many of these cloud platforms charge more if you have things duplicated across regions/zones. EG. AWS has multiAZ. Why pay for this? When AWS has a major issue - all zones/regions are fucked in some way.
you could try property dualism or hylomorphism or eliminative materialism
> 80% of people with autism have intellectual disabilities(low iq) and as many as 50% are non-verbal.

That's because diagnosis is geared to those people. Adults who cope relatively well in most situations don't know they have autism, don't seek a diagnosis, and there isn't a dx service available to them if they do know what to ask for.
That is called "making false statements", a serious federal felony. 18 U.S.C. § 1001.
Actually "life" isn't going to be just fine - we're going to lose a lot of biodiversity along the way too, and the less we do to prevent warming, the more we'll lose. But my question wasn't about the big picture - it was about the specifics of permafrost thawing.
So your argument against determinism or non existing free will is that you don't like it if one of them were true? I find that very weak.

How does chance add anything to free will? If something is random, how does that add free will?
Was it the most deployed mobile computer?
I believe this raises the issue of short-term solutions (such as filtering on 'click') for which spammers will eventually find turnarounds vs long-term solutions. But do we need really need long-term solutions if an update of filtering terms every year is enough to keep the pace? Also, does a long-term solution against spamming even exist? Since the Graham solution from 2002 doesn't seem to have been implemented yet, the answer is no?

Another issue is the carbon/energetic cost of spamming. I'm no expert, but given the probably high figures, should this issue be escalated to a higher level, e.g. an international agreement along with heavy penalty if caught running a larger spamming farm? Compared to the difficult issues of drug trafficking etc. I don't see how there could not be a consensus for spam.
The fact that an artificial neural network (which very roughly mimics human brain) is probabilistic in nature does not have any implication for Science as a whole.

Science can make predictions that are extremely accurate (think ten significant digits) and the uncertainty on that prediction (i.e. the eleventh significant digit) does not have anything to do with neural networks or us being "probabilistic creatures", whatever that means.
Companies/Content producers that do not want to depend on a single vendor, or want to avoid the lock-in, and went on to support an open alternative?

Makes perfect business sense.
A Tribute to Joe Armstrong, the Principal Inventor of Erlang
Quantum computing is a marathon not a sprint
I can't work out the politics that wont let the BBC let us keep watching what we've already paid for, but will let them charge for it again via Britbox.

Surely Britbox is still going to be competing with ITV and Channel 4?

The contortions trying to marry up public service broadcasting and on demand are getting increasingly strained. A rethink is unfortunately becoming necessary.
The moment it is split into the "safe" and "unsafe" it becomes immediately obvious that "unsafe" loses gobs of money while "safe" makes a tiny bit of money, which is exactly why the non-safe content gets purged ( in case of Tumblr, badly -- there's still lots of porn on it ).
Rats have brains as well
Building a Silicon Brain
Flippa.com
The question you should be asking is: what's so important that we need to rush on a Friday? Can it wait to Monday?

Now, I agree with the premise of "trust your process" but if you've been into this field for a while, you know things will break.

Once a QA guy I worked with, came back from his weekend with a new test case/scenario that resulted in a critical issue right before we were ready to deploy. Not even CI/CD can help you with that.
I suggest that people not do this.

Were there a perception by someone that you were possibly giving a false statement or violating some other rule (or just disrespecting them), consider how much misery and expenses you might incur, long before lawyers finished debating the question.

Minimize travel through problematic places, minimize sensitive data and access that you expose when traveling through problematic places, minimize being clever.
Movie Sonic will be redesigned due to bad criticism over the internet
But the BBC don't actually own the rights to most of their old output. They were made in an era too where streaming rights weren't a thing.assume it's different with newer stuff but...
Regardless, this is a very common way of writing mathematics in LaTeX, and so will need to be addressed in any solution to this problem.
You only need a licence if you watch live tv as it's broadcast, or watch catch up tv on iPlayer.

If you have iPlayer "installed" but never use it, and you do not watch live tv as it's broadcast, you do not need a licence.

And even that isn't quite correct is it, you can watch iPlayer on your laptop if you're in someone else's home and they have a licence.
so those researchers can skip reading the article, the rest of us may like it
The human is only a second-level control in case the confidence level is too low, or the system can't match the face with the passport photo. Also, the face is matched against the photo stored in the electronic passport, not against a central database.
With respect to resolution etc., there are specifications in place about the quality of the passport photo. If your photo doesn't meet them, you will be asked to submit another photo for your passport application.
I think those days are sadly long past. As long as the idea pervades that opinions we don't agree with are "dangerous", I can't see platform providers not being held to task to remove undesirables.
Can it provide a speedometer for a Model 3?
You need a licence if you use iPlayer; having iPlayer installed on your devices does not mean you require a licence.
Would that be Sydney (Australia)?
I too will break this down into little chunks.

1) The context of this discussion is immigration.
2) Native Americans are not non-citizen immigrants. They are US citizens.
3) Native Americans should not be deported for failing to support the core ideals of the US.

This seems to me entirely obvious, but I'm happy to make it explicit. You have already alluded to the solution to Native American populations who do not support the US's core ideals: sovereign reservations.
Ditto with 3D printed flesh robots of each of the above. Bonus question: what about an adult engaging in self-insert roleplay of any of the above by remote controlling an avatar (virtual or physical) with a 3D headset? I think this question will stop being theoretical before 2030.

I think Denmark briefly allowed “all” pornography. Zoo was legal there until a few years ago, even had commercial production.
How is the software being used to manage the system of national border enforcement NOT interesting?
We're always losing a lot of biodiversity, and we're always gaining more through evolution. That's how it works.

I'm not trivialising the current mass extinction event. It's not great. But pinch points like these have a way of producing some of the best performing creatures we've ever seen.
You may very well be true, but then it's a pity that a 2019 article on a 2002 method didn't mention it?
When did deportation become a dirty word?

> an operation in 2017 in which immigrants crossing the border were arrested for deportation

Because it is illegal to enter the United States except for at controlled points of entry. This is true of every nation in the world. The power to control borders is part of the definition of sovereignty.

If you don't think it should be illegal to enter the United States at any location, call your Representative and get the law changed.
This post seems written assuming that engineers are calling all the shots. If you work at a company like that, great, I envy you.

However in a company where engineering's desire for a stable deploy pipeline with excellent visibility is matched up against business' insistence that all dev hours go into features and SEO improvements and every sprint issue regarding non-user-facing-improvements has to be fought for tooth and nail, "don't deploy on Friday" is a very reasonable compromise for avoiding weekend fires.
Combine that with the fact that government can't go bankrupt. If some department blows through way more money than it should either it just doesn't get it's job done or it gets more money. Pretty painless compared to what happens to a company that blows through a bunch of money without delivering results.
If it is in the publics best interest for the BBC to own the rights then that can be arranged
When to cut off financial help to adult children
Google could stop distributing pirated apps after complaints. It should be pretty clear who published the app first.
No. Because lying is a serious federal felony.
“Oh no, someone is attempting to teach, how dare they!” is what this reads like. Writing articles like this is good for the author, in terms of finding new ways to explain things, and clarify knowledge they already had. The writing style of this author in particular is quite engaging for myself and (I would assume) many others.
Presumably you understand what I'm saying ("he's 'just a vain postdoc on an ego trip'"). Of course I know what his professional status is, it's the most prominent information on his website.

It's a shame that rather than actually considering the very evident pathology here (i.e. the production of mediocre vanity blog content that serves primarily to improve the author's profile) everyone is either downvoting or nitpicking.
Still better than highly organized misinformation campaigns that you must agree with or go to jail, forced labour camps or death
Ask HN: What blog post or essay have you read that has changed you?
I read "I have died many times" by CGPGrey back in 2016 and it completely changed me and my outlook on myself and other people
They also used software from Google, Microsoft, and every other big company. If there's an issue with the agency and government then that's where the attention should be, not with some corporation.
That's actually exactly the reason why it's unstable: clean code from scratch that doesn't cover all the edge cases yet.

We SE keep whining about legacy code but forget that they made it to legacy for a reason...
I think that is the direction that German manufactures are headed to.
Apparently! https://www.slush.org/news/the-winner-of-slush-100-is-meeshk...
They weren't kidding when they said it "took a few twists and turns before coming into fruition"...
Current government would be strongly against that. They want to BBC to use private production companies who'll make the content that BBC then transmits.

This is seen across a wide range of government departments: moving away from big central (often previously state) providers to smaller local private providers.
Here's to hoping my phone has enough milliamps to stay alive for more than 8 hours and that this happens in my lifetime. #firstworldproblems for sure but come on it would be really cool.
I did not read his comment as entitled. He is complaining about the status quo.
The worth of a large collection of shady pirated porn blogs is marginal. You can only host very cheap ads next to it and it devalues the rest of the site.
I'd be a lot happier if the governments of the world willingly gave up the capability to pull stunts like that. Bit of privacy for the people and all that.

That being said, if governments are going to use large data sifting operations, applying it to deportations (pretty much by definition non-citizens) first is the logical way to do it.

I think it would be nice if this was going to trigger a bipartisan call for small government - but that seems unlikely. I bet any organised opposition decides the real problem is the people who currently run the government rather than the capability of the government.
If by "this" you mean the 83-digit prime in the question, then no. There's no indication that there are no other 83-digit bitruncatable primes - that's just the only one the author had found.

If you mean the sole 97-digit solution given in the comments, the implication that all the bitruncatable primes have been found and enumerated by your method, and the assertion that there are no such 99-digit primes - then yes, that looks pretty legit, though I'd want to see an independent verification before accepting it as a proof, since computer programs have bugs.
Most, if not all, distros have no vendor-level restrictions on repository choice, you can make your own.
Well, I prefer to give my data to my country not some foreign one.
Yes, but that was done by vaccinating everyone and thus breaking the cycle of transmission. Smallpox has no animal hosts (lots of mammalian species have their own version instead), so after no humans were able to get it, the disease died out. If you got it today somehow, they'd pump you full of antiviral drugs and hope for the best, but they wouldn't be able to actually end the infection, as the word "cure" would suggest.
They are checked by the foreign country though, not by the country you're leaving.

I have not crossed that many non-Schengen land borders, but as far as I remember it was the same every time, when going from France to England through the channel, Belgium to England by train, France to Switzerland (before Switzerland joined Schengen) and Canada to the US.
Couldn't the same argument be made about why it made no sense to create the Linux operating system, since there was no business case to do so?

This may be a scenario where it's possible to create a communal good (for personal data ownership and control) which doesn't require businesses to lead the way.

In addition, it is feasible to distribute some-or-all of an application's software via the cloud while still keeping application data locally; we can be more nuanced here and keep a lot of the business benefits while caring more for users.
"A second reason is that we believe Kubernetes is the future".

Can someone please link some articles that underline why this is the case? Thanks
You need it if you use it to watch tv. Not for radio.
It doesn't need to be perfect. Nobody is arguing for it to be impenetrable, just better secured than it is.
The university never made such claim. What evidence do you have? You should not throw "racist", "pseudoscience" around like this.
> makes revenues from tv licenses even if you dont own a tv

This is just plain wrong. You can own a TV (e.g. for a console) but not pay for a TV licence if you say you don't watch broadcasts. You can even have the software installed on your computer and not pay, as long as you don't actually watch iPlayer with it.

This is different from e.g. Germany where every household must pay for a licence regardless of whether you watch it or not.
They found world's biggest fish
Even you can't believe how big fish is this
That's unbelievable
http://bit.ly/2FHl4pM

Even some goats are better than humans
See that she did and they made her as mayor of city
http://bit.ly/2UjTcS5
See the video a dog shopping and lots of other acts like humans
http://bit.ly/2DCpo9I
or more sinister ssl and other privacy key/certs for other shaddy actions..ie instead of their powers assigned under US Congress law expansion into NSa things
Lagrange Optimizer are in his LinAlg Book? Isn't it in his Calculus book?
80,000 would be better than 80.000 if your audience is American, or you could tailor it to locale. Or just say 80000 or 80k