skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surveillance capitalism? Capitalism as an economic system does not surveil, governments and corporations do. If you do not like a service, you can opt out by not using it, unlike the government. If you have an issue with something used by millions of people, then you should consider the possibility that it actually may be the people who keep the service alive.

I try to do my part. I do not buy access to games on Steam, movies and TV series on Netflix, books on Amazon, I do not use Google, I do not use Facebook nor am I in contact with anyone who does, and so on.

I am open to discussion. Why is it specifically capitalism's fault? What other economic systems would be favored, and why?
I once found a study from EASA, conducted in the early 2000s if I remember well, on reusing boosters. The result was, in a nutshell, technically feasible financially not so much due the low number of launches, costs to refurbish and such.

And now Arianne Space is having a serious look at it with Arianne 6.
If Tumblr with porn was a dumpster fire, now it’s just a dumpster with ashes.

Good luck with the sale.
35$/month to live in selfstudy-paradise is not cheap?
this article is a massive waste of time. most AI researchers acknowledge that neural networks don't match the way the brain works
Given the iffy translation it’s not clear if that it for the unit or the ICs hardened systems like this are usually thermally stabilized to ensure that all components operate within their temperature range and that there is no large temperature variance between redundancies.
Ask HN: How to handle major setbacks of life when you loose major opportunity?
I had us visa interview yesterday but my visa got refused. It was major opportunity for me.

I know I had little bit communication problem but It is major setback for me and I lost it.
I found it rather confusing that "local-first" is defined here roughly as "real-time collaboration software that doesn't rely on a central server". But with this definition it's close to saying "CRDTs can be useful for their purpose".

The examples (MS Office, Trello, Dropbox, etc) also seemed strange to me: I'd think that neither an average MS Office user would care about privacy, data ownership, etc, nor an average nerdy user who cares about those would want to use something like MS Office or Trello. Then there's plenty of easier to solve and related issues that aren't yet solved (e.g., plain offline usage of some software, more widespread asynchronous collaboration), and the article talking about privacy and data ownership ends with "We welcome your thoughts, questions, or critique: @inkandswitch or [email protected]". Looks like a nice summary, but maybe a bit otherworldly.
We're fully dependent on hydrocarbons and no one has any idea how to replace those in any foreseeable future.

https://www.ft.com/content/73650984-135a-11e9-a168-d45595ad0...

"...renewables (including biofuels, waste and hydro) are responsible for almost the same share of energy today (14 per cent) as supplied in 1971 "

We can shave of percentages by stopping eating meat and so on but fossil fuels are still the major culprit in carbon emissions.

From economical point of view it's catastrophe today (just stopping using fossil fuels cold turkey will destroy the economic structure of our civilization) versus catastrophe tomorrow.
Does Syncthing work reliably for you? I've been unable to make it work.

I've set it up to backup folders from my phone to a LAN storage drive (running it as a service on Windows, with the storage connected as a network drive), but it seems to "forget" the connection between the server and the phone. It says the folders are up to date, and won't pull the most recent files and photos from the phone.
> Charge is a property of matter which causes experiencing a force when placed in an electric field.

From Wikipedia [0]:

"A battery's capacity is the amount of electric charge it can deliver at the rated voltage."

Another way of saying this is that a battery can store potential electric charge which is discharged from the battery during use. The maximum potential electric charge a battery can store is its capacity.

Similarly, a rock raised above your head is not "storing gravity", but it still contains gravitational potential energy.

When we talk about batteries however, we tend to colloquially refer to this electrical potential as "charge" due to the way words like "charger" and "discharge" have entered the vernacular. Phrases like, "How much charge does your phone have left?" has become increasingly common.

This is distinct from the definition of electric charge that you lifted from Wikipedia's page on "electrical charge". It's just the way language has evolved.

> And charges arrange in some form under this field which wouldn't be so in absense of this field and how tight is that form depends on the strength of electric field. And this can be used to perform some work but this is not storing charge as the total charge before arrangement is same as total charge after arrangement there is no new charge added.

We are not measuring the total charge. We are measuring the electrical potential across a circuit. The total "charge" remains the same, but the electrical potential decreases when the battery discharges.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_battery#Capacity_and_...
https://www.paysa.com/salaries/netflix--senior-software-engi...

so, uh, if you think software engineers are engineers, half a megabuck is a lot more attainable than you think. I mean, I'm not saying it's easy, but it's not 'no more than a dozen worldwide" - a megabuck just isn't what it used to be. (I mean, to be clear, if you limit the field to people I'm personally close enough to share this sort of data with, you are looking at a quarter megabuck if you really are pretty good, but from what I see? paysa isn't lying; I punch in my title and job and location, and it's not far off.)

My own personal impression is that it's easier to be 60-somthing man at a faang company than it is to be a woman. mean, I'm not saying age discrimination doesn't exist, but I do work with a fair number of folks in their 60s.(Of course, not being a woman and not being 60 something, my impression here is somewhat suspect.) I'm pushing 40 myself, and on my current team there are more people who are obviously older than I am than there are people who are obviously younger than I am.

(Systems administration drifts older (I assume 'cause kids don't have to learn command line stuff to use computers anymore, and if you are gonna learn it, you might as well go for SRE or SWE and get a pretty good pay bump) and the last half-decade or so, I've been supporting server farms for folks doing electrical engineering, system verilog and the like or kernel-type/embedded work, which also tends attract older people.)

(Of course, your locational preferences and housing space requirements are yours, I'm just saying)
Walmart's gardening tools have been used to commit homicide.
Not if you are poor enough.
That’s not what “self-hosted” means.
Yeah, imagine if we could more or less losslessly transfer electricity over vast distances. Massive renewable energy farms could be built wherever there was sun/wind/rivers whether the energy consumers are close or not. Energy could be sent to pump water into reservoirs as huge centralized batteries. The problem with 'what happens when the sun isn't shining/the wind isn't blowing' could be sidestepped because it's always sunny/windy somewhere, so we just get the power from as far away as needed.
This post by Dan Luu is a good intro I think!

https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/
4 Years of EU Cookie Law: Results and Lessons Learned [pdf]
Yahoo is still most likely an advertising cash cow.. a cow that is probably shrinking though. Wouldnt be surprised if they keep laying off Yahoo staff to make it as profitable as possible.
My parents kept chickens when I was growing up and this is what I remember too, from all the times I was tasked with collecting eggs from the (elevated) boxes.
Well the war is already lost imo, customs gets to run roughshod over every right in the name of "national security". all we can do is protect ourselves at this point.

The tech big companies don't care to make an issue out of it and the issue is too complex(seemingly) for the every man so no progress is going to be made in the short term(5-10 years) until more tech literate people get elected. All we can do is campaign and mitigate
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Since you seem to know a bit of history, would you happen to know how the name "Jose" (pronounced 'jos', without the 'e') came to be so popular in Kerala? My last name is Jose. And people outside Kerala pronounce it like the Spanish 'José'. My best guess would be that it was adapted from the Portuguese.
I think it's 100% because the changes are so slow(in human terms). Vast majority of people don't yet see anything that would make them go into this full-on panic mode, so....they don't. Yeah the permafrost is melting, but I have bills to pay this month. What am I going to do? Go and protest all day? What is my kid going to eat in the meantime?

And I think this slowness of reaction is also what will make any sort of solution extremely difficult to implement - people will complain that they are feeling the impact of any solution right now(like, if plastics were banned tomorrow), while the climate won't improve for a long time - even if we stopped our emissions entirely the climate would keep getting worse for decades until any meaningful improvement would be observed.
Sorry, but you can't simplify autism into just two camps like that.

My personal example is I was diagnosed with autism in the early 1980s. And it really was warranted. I had serious difficulties with school – I had problems speaking, dressing myself and tying my shoes (amongst other things). I got into rages and fights. And my personal relationship skills with anyone outside of my family were zero. But I also had a pretty decent IQ, and I learned to manage the overstimulation and emotional tsunamis. Then I was able to survive.

There was also a high-IQ program in my school district, filled mostly with people 'on the spectrum' (not generally as disadvantaged as myself though), and the teachers involved with that helped me through school generally. But I couldn't go to college, it was just too much.

Life since hasn't been easy but I've been able to work as a technician and take care of myself. So I don't fit in either of your camps, and lots of other autistics don't either.
These aren't indicators of lack of trust, merely that things happen.

Even with testing, not all STD's show up on tests - this is why folks get tested regularly. Many folks won't know they have an STD (think HPV). Condoms break, get forgotten, and so on. People do stuff when they are drunk.

Rape happens (rape isn't a lack of trust but rather something else entirely).
Probably it's all stored in plain text on an unsecured S3 bucket.
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Yahoo didn’t do anything because of their lack of ability by that point, not a virtue.

In the same way that didn’t stop Verizon..
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It is the same as being currently practically impossible. Which may change in the future, of course, but doesn't help us particularly with the current situation.
I downloaded it, gave location access and tapped Generate. Nothing happened, tapped a few more times and a fullscreen ad popped up. No, thanks.
Is there a study about the effectiveness of the search of electronic devices?
Fair play for women is a notoriously anti trans organisation. I wouldn't go looking for trans related statistics there.
Seems like more bullshit propaganda to 'harvest' the remaining of the 'pagans'.

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See, Joshua project, and USAID, and the dying Christian churches in the West are being used together with statecraft to make India a bigger prostitute than she already is at the point (what with linguistic and cultural destruction over the past centuries).
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…which nobody does.
Water waves are perfect circles as waves move at same speed in every direction, so its points are always equidistant.
Let a soap bubble settle in the table and take some measurements with a ruler. They are almost always perfect circles.
You can deny they're circles, but you know it's not true.
I think the magnitude of the difference between the opposing parties is a lot greater when it comes to comparing humans to an alien civilization capable of projecting some force light years away from their home in a reasonable amount of time.

It's more like neolithic man meets nuclear submarine... but worse. We have 0 tools at our disposal to fight anything that's farther away than the edge of the atmosphere. "They" can take a few decades to accelerate a really massive "civilization ending" object and slam it into us. It's not like we can go anywhere to avoid it.
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Unless you have the financial and time resources to fight back, “they” can do whatever they want. Just like cops “can’t” abuse their power, the power dynamics are so asymmetrically against most people that you simply have to hope everything goes well. Or know a senator who will go to bat for you.
> What would happen if we instead simply just removed all borders and let anybody and everybody in?

OK, so in a US context (and that of several other colonial countries) this raises the question of how that used to be the case, why and when it was stopped, and at what date in history it became the right answer that the current set of Americans were the "right" ones and future arrivals weren't. For example, the Boston Irish are a distinct and not entirely integrated community who in the past have been sponsors of terrorism in the form of overt IRA fundraising. Should they have been allowed in?

(This is not my actual opinion of Bostonians, this is just me twisting historical fact to present the most hypothetical negative case)

Australia used to pay people to immigrate ("ten pound poms"). When and why did they stop?
Linux open source - you can contribute but on your own fork over there in the dark far away from us enlightened folk that actually make worthwhile contributions to this project. I only contribute on things that clearly have no "stewardship" or vested interests, lots of useful proposals shot down
> But nobody is going to. Because it makes no business sense to do so.

While your reasons make sense, they make sense from the supplier side. However, the ultimate decider of what makes "business sense" is not the supplier, it's the customer.

You can have all the supply-side advantages in the world, if your customers decide they want that other gal's product, you're toast.
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Hmm what about the Blender project, would that one count?

I admit it's difficult to come up with examples, though I don't know of any failures either. RethinkDB has been sort of a failure, but it was never very popular to begin with.
I am curious to how this would work if 2 twins travel together. If it would mismatch or demand both to verify with a manual check?
Anecdotal I guess but I currently it regularly takes more than 10 minutes to delete one VM from Azure.
2. $29 / month for something that costs $0.01 in terms of cloud compute.

The major cost for paid tiers is not infrastructure, but user support.
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> to stay in touch with your friends/relatives.

That's a mistake. One of your friends/relatives can say something inconvenient.
“Google”
I think the simplest strategy is to create "conflict documents" containing all conflicted data and present to the user for manual resolution.

This seems similar to what Evernote does
Building Up a Data Science Team from Scratch
I wrote about my experiences with building up a data science team here: https://medium.com/p/building-up-a-data-science-team-from-scratch-7a7b24ba9f2d

This comes mainly from my experience at an e-commerce software company in the last 3 years, so it is somewhat biased towards engineering teams and not analytics teams. I'm also planning to submit an abstract on this topic to some conferences, so I'm very interested to hear about other perspectives on this to get a better idea of the bigger picture.

What have your experiences in early-stage data science teams been like? What was important to make your team successful and what were the biggest learnings?
Often times, to get amazing or even great, you have to aim for impossible.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -- George Bernard Shaw
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I don't have much experience with the exact topic, but anyone throwing phrases like "100x more difficult" very quickly loses credence with people.

How do you measure 100x? How come it isn't 90x or 112x?

Does that mean what one engineer can do with a commercial database, you would need 100 people do the the same thing with OSS in the same time frame?

If you used a phrase like "difficulty on another level" or something descriptive like that instead, I'm sure people would be more interested to hear what you have to say.
That looks suspicious. You need to have at least some personal data on you for them to drool over.
> Substrate independence

If I recall my terms correctly, substrate independence is the idea that creating intelligence is not dependent on using neurons, but that if you could model the required functionality of neurons in another substrate, an intelligence could also be housed in that substrate.

> Neuromorphic computing
Is basically modelling neurological architectures in computers.
The first official warning by an expert panel to the US President was 1965. We did pretty much nothing since then to reduce our dependency on fossil fuel. We could have for example switched all electricity generation to nuclear with 1965 technology and changed building standards to require proper insulation and electric or district heating. That would have bought a lot of time that we don't have now. We could also have instituted a carbon tax and slowly (over the course of the last fifty years or so!) pinned it to the cost of extracting carbon from the atmosphere.
Thanks for pointing out to this guide which looks exhaustive.

I was a bit disappointed when I saw EFF's 1-page "pocket guide" which IMO does not provide real advice while at the border:
https://www.eff.org/document/eff-border-search-pocket-guide
Won't they just copy it and archive it for later?
And I suppose any American should have no trouble integrating into the religious deep south culture?
120hz screens - made by samsung,they also sold to razer for their phone and htc i think

Airpods - a proprietary bluetooth stack that only runs well with apple devices, wow much r&d. They run well but samsung mostly replicated the proprietary bluetooth stack for their own earpod/works with galaxy only pairing solution.They also die in a year with average use so imo it's just more electronic fad garbage.

AR- vaporware currently to the point where they're talking about the credit card as a selling point. also AR in general is garbage on current gen devices. it's fun but it's not useful.

vehicle- failed.
I would actually be more afraid doing something like this, since having no data on me could raise unwarranted suspicion from border security.
‘Patches don’t have gender’: What is not open in open source software
I’ve worked in the industry of SaaS vs. Enterprise long enough to see Google Cloud (with all its compute power) get turned down because it requires the corporation to share its data.
You avoided the question. Do you think members of the trans community who call for the harassment of private citizens should be banned from Facebook?
These aren't indicators
of lack of trust

I disagree. There are multiple levels of trust:

- Your partner that they don't lie about taking contraception, that they have taken it as required.

- The medical sciences and medical regulatory authorities that the contraception works as expected.

- Pharmacist that they don't sell counterfeit medicine

and many others. Society is largely based on trust.
If you want to go down that road then I suggest you start looking at injuries for spare-time daredevils without insurance first (and professional athletes, but I think most of those have private insurance anyway).
Neuro-morphic, having the form of neurons. Recently the buzz refers to circuits that perform neural network operations (the AI kind) using hardware properties directly, storing weights and performing inference or backprop with the computing substrate, which is potentially more efficient or faster than using SRAM and multipliers. It can also refer to hardware directly attempting to model biological neurons, which is more far-field research than the former.

Substrate independence denotes a property being separable from its physical implementation. One could say Alan Turing showed that computation is substrate independent, since many machines all do the same sort of computation. It's often debated whether consciousness is substrate independent, whether a piece of silicon just simulating a human brain will actually have an internal experience of its own thoughts. People who believe in souls, dualism, or panpsychism tend to think it isn't (to different degrees), people who believe in reductionism or emergentism tend to think it is. The authors of this piece go so far as to say the stuff the brain does might not even be reproducible outside of flesh-and-blood, regardless of whether such a reproduction would have internal experience.
I'm in full-on panic mode, but ... well, what can I do that I haven't been doing for 20 years? Nothing, as far as I can see
Emergency stop signs projected onto waterfalls at road tunnel entrances
The system is essentially three identical computers wrapped in a control system. Hardware majorization means the computers have to agree on the computed result, that is, each computes the output from the given inputs independently and the results are then compared. This mitigates errors stemming from any kind of hardware faults, except for the control system itself.
Probably a good time to mention the UK's coal-free generation timespans: https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/uk-breaks-coal-...

(Dark irony is that due to global warming the winter need for energy has gone down. Of course, in the summer, the AC need is going to go up...)
On the flipside, if a new update breaks something, the user can't hold of upgrading their software. You could come to work one day and learn that the obscure sorting option you use doesn't work today.

Obviously a new patch won't be far away, but there is a certain stability to controlling the upgrading process yourself.