skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the issue with the current Tumblr is the removal of adult content - and everything else that went with it. Pornhub has experience with this sort of thing. Lots of it. The challenges of managing such a place are a bit less, I think.

Not only that, but pornhub (for the most part) has a somewhat different sort of reputation than Yahoo and Verizon. Yahoo has been dying for eons and verizon is, well, verizon. Tumblr is likely to get some traffic simply for being owned by Pornhub as well.
That's why it's now "if you don't wish to receive these emails, click here".
The solution is a carbon tax that is tied to the cost of extracting carbon from the atmosphere and storing it for geological time periods. The sooner we start, the gentler we can ramp it up.
Every false action, they are forced to follow through with, is a win.
The Mosquito Coast novel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito_Coast_(novel)
I love it!

Could one adapt it to smoothlife to get rid of the low-res look? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I
Maybe they changed the link, but now it's definitely there:

1、政治敏感话题不发 don't post on politically sensitive topics

2、不信谣不传谣 don't believe rumors, don't spread rumors

3、所谓的内部资料不发 don't post so-called internal information

4、涉黄、涉毒、涉爆等不发 don't post content involving pornography, illegal drugs or explosives etc.

5、有关港澳台新闻在官方网站未发布前不发 don't post news about Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan before it has been reported by official websites

6、军事资料不发 don't post military information

7、有关涉及国家机密文件不发 don't post state secrets

8、来源不明的疑似伪造的黑警辱警的小视频不发 don't post suspected fake videos of unclear origin that smear the police (search 南应 on YouTube for a recent example of what's probably meant by this)

9、其他违反相关法律法规的信息不发 don't post other information that violates related laws or regulations
If we use the reverse of your logic, then being a national of X country means you should be able to integrate within any subcultures within that nation entirely seamlessly.

For example, you should be able to walk into any Native American tribe and be able to seamlessly integrate yourself into their culture despite having zero background.
quiz -> quit -> suit recycles q and z.
I hope you get some good answers, but just consider that you'll never achieve satisfaction by having infinite goals (in any part of life). All the tips and self-discipline in the world might only take you from X to 10X, and somewhere down the line you'll have to learn to be okay with that. The alternative is to have the health of your life & the lives of those around you be consumed by ambition and its pursuit.
> Our hero, a mathematician, is writing notes in LaTeX and needs to convert it to a format that her blog platform accepts. She’s used to using dollar sign delimiters for math mode, but her blog requires \( \) and \[ \].

Unless our hero mathematician is writing, like, several blog posts a day, using tools like parser generators and writing your grammar in BNF and the like is WAY overkill. Just use search/replace and manually fix it up. Or, like, maybe some kind of editor macro/multiple cursor nonsense in your fully-featured text editor. If she really wants to go nuts, she should write a four-line python script to do the search/replace a tiny bit smarter. Fixing it up with some manual oversight takes like three minutes per blog post at most, it's not worth trying to automate fully.

This is one of them "killing an ant with a nuclear bomb" situations.
Ask HN: What's your favorite SDK for testing 3rd party integrations? Here's mine
Another major 'environmental' impact that may be very nefarious is the health effect of such nano-materials.

We don't want to re-create all the mess that we have today form asbestos -- which was also a wonder-material at the time.
Wow, this is so wrong in so many ways.

Buffering and application level caching mean you're wasting memory, and also wasting code space and CPU time because you're duplicating work that the OS already does.
> you would have passport control if you exited the country through some other non conventional ways.

From the US? I can't think of any outgoing passport control at all; not by land in a private vehicle, nor by boat.
Techcrunch has another article about why pornhub shouldn't buy tumblr , which brings up some good points https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/porns-secret-monopoly/
Especially the US as a country of immigrants

It is a country of immigrants with a diverse array of cultures. But culture and nation are not independent. There is a core set of principles and institutions that make the US a nation: the constitution, the bill of rights, representative democracy, separation of church and state, and so on. They are part of the culture of the US.

However diverse the communities that live in the US are, they have to support the core ideas that make the US a nation. There are people in the world who do not support those ideas. It would be foolish to have too many of them within US borders.
I would question your assertion that we all know there is a problem. I imagine the vast majority of people don't. They may be vaguely aware of climate change, but most people just think surely it can't be serious and it'll be ok, we'll work it out when it does become a problem.

Just the other day the UK courts have dismissed any attempt at blocking an extra runway at Heathrow airport. We need this runway to increase the number of flights out of the UK. Good for the economy etc.. If that isn't a symptom of the vast majority of people being in complete denial I don't know what is.

Actionable solution no. 1.. don't build more runways.
Chinese restaurants used opium poppies as seasoning (2016)
World wide tax on fossil fuels that starts out painful and increases gradually to unaffordable.
This also applies to meeting one's neighbors when moving houses.
To me that sounds like fun, but maybe I’m weird. But I doubt the consultant does it. They probably draw some architecture diagrams and get a team to do it.
Both Azure and AWS's managed Kubernetes offerings launched in mid-2018, while GCP has been running it since at least 2014. So there's no denying that Google has more experience, but that gap is only going to close as time goes on.
Kiss3d is great. It has some rendering issues on mac, but a great level of abstraction.
> I'm pretty sure the Tumblr acquisition by Verizon was just part of some bigger deal that involved bailing out some of the investors with an 'exit'.

The "bigger deal" was the sale of all of Yahoo's business to Verizon, which was an all-or-nothing-deal.
Cambridge University Fires a Young Scholar for 'Problematic Research'
BGP 768K day, and whether it will cause internet outages
Ask HN: Have search engines become hard of hearing?
Maybe my judgement is clouded, but it seems Google and other search engines have started to reinterpret search queries to a really annoying degree. More often than ever I have to put things in quotes to get what I am looking for. I often use quotes even with foresight that it will show nonsense otherwise. Is this a result of forcing "AI" methods to be a main ranking signal? I wished search engines would return to give simple full-text search precedence, or at least allow users to configure their own weights for different ranking signals.
I can attest to that - on an hour commute I often listen to 45 min worth of podcasts until hitting material that prompts self-reflection. Then the voice memo comes out.
Show HN: Universal Robots RTDE C++ Interface
"Mirrors" in a store display that shows the clothes on "you". And conveniently adjusts your figure...
Trump cannot be the problem, since these controls were already implemented. Blaming dickhead absolves the people responsible.
In particular when one could just call them "false acceptance of null" and "false rejection of null", and abbreviate it to FAN and FRN, or so. How hard is that.
The fact that not even the largest and most compute-intensive software companies manage their own servers now should really end the cloud computing cost argument at his point.
Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?
This really kind, eccentric guy in my neighbourhood is stockpiling books and has been doing so for years. He has an enourmous barn that he is obsessively filling with whatever reasonable quality books he can get his hands on but he is completely overwhelmed in terms of cataloging/indexing them so customers have to go through his barn sifting through cartons full of books. He charges $1 or $2 for whatever book you dig out.

He buys bulk lots from deceased estates and bookstores that are closing down. Entire shipping containers are being gifted to him and showing up at his barn. The barn is full and he is now storing in shipping containers outside.

There is great quality books among this quagmire but it takes hours of searching to find them. I figured HN might be able to point me to a solution where I could quickly photograph the front cover and have a script/google images compare the image to online info to index the title and author and then perhaps list them online...

I dunno, it just seems like such a treasure trove of books that he will sell for practically nothing because he loves books and hopes that they will find their way to people who want them - the barrier is allowing customers to find what they are looking for.

Thoughts?
Why you're getting downvotes I have no idea.

What's to stop a hospital charging 1000s for a treatment they have no reason to think will work.

"Hey lets do a study to see if cheese prevents cancer. We'll do a thorough 20 year study involving 10,000 participants each paying $100,000pa. Obviously double blind to keep it fair." A Hospital administrator.
> Thus they determined that the brain does not operate like a set of switches, as we used to think

Nobody thinks that. Not even in neuroscience. Karl Lashley's experiments with cats happened well before the 50s and he concluded that there is no specific place where memories and learning are formed. We know that some areas specialize in mainly doing one thing or another
Note the sneaky non sequitur at the end, which of course this being the Discovery Institute was the whole point of the article:

>Maybe it’s worse than they fear. Perhaps the brain doesn’t and can’t operate like a piece of machinery at all. And vice-versa.

Just because the brain may not work like an 'ideal' neural network running in a computer simulation, that doesn't in any way say that it couldn't be duplicated using a non-'ideal' neural network simulation.

It may just mean we need to adjust the form of the simulation.
He's not a postdoc, though?
How, exactly, do Native American reservations and tribal sovereignty fit into your argument? Should they be 'deported' because they don't adhere to all of the core principles of the US?
Everyone here is focusing on the voice assistant and IoT piece, but the thing that's really missing is the idea of a contextually rich personal API and some POSSE mechanism to selectively share that API with others and vice versa.

Quantified Self movement is maybe 30% of the way.

Until this space matures we're kind of a standstill. Commercial options have to be generic or face the wraith of GDPR, data breaches, and privacy advocates.

The only way to square the circle is let people own their data completely and then incentivize them to share with your service for the benefits you provide.

I think the killer app is an Alexa/JARVIS clone that "spies on you 24/7" but keeps your digital twin 100% offline and owned by you. It's the learning and the "personal schema" that's compelling.

When it knows why you want to turn on the lights we're getting somewhere.
Ask HN: If you have project making 13kUSD passively, how to value and sell it?
I have a 3 years old app (freeyourmusic.com), that nets 13 500 USD a month. This is after all the costs, with almost no human interaction. There are ocasional bug fixes, but to grew revenue the main piority would be to focus on SEO and marketing.

I was recently thinking about selling it, but I have no idea where to look for buyer or how to value it.

The reason to sell? I want to put 100% focus on my other project that finally after years of work started getting traction and should be making 10x than this one in near future :)
I was thinking development costs. It's basically free to run a computer program. And the hardware is relative cheap too, compared to developing the software. I think it's really weird that the price of software is a race to the bottom, which affects the quality of the software, and kills innovation. "Software as a service" sure have artificial costs, like two orders of magnitude higher price running it in the "cloud" compared to hosting it on a service provider of your choice. But how else are we supposed to pay for the developing costs? Via advertising!?
It is an actionable solution. Riots got the poll tax repealed. Civil disobedience achieved independence in India, and civil rights in the US. A march from A to B highlights something - and is always easy to ignore. They always are.

The aim of XR is not to tell about climate change. Everyone should know about that. The science was settled decades ago. Just about everyone knows what needs to be done, too. Yet governments do nothing but bleat on about an opportunity from shale oil, or some new coal contract. Then bring a little green washing with far future targets, long after they have retired, or outlawing plastic bags.

Civil disobedience and intentional law breaking does not aim to tell anyone the problem, it's bloody obvious. It aims to become a permanent and ongoing drain upon resources. Like a tax or a labour strike. To cause actual costs to the system and state, their people and potentially companies. Costs of policing, of removing chained up protesters, of flooding the courts with formerly law-abiding citizens.

At some point government must react.
LMDB is orders of magnitude faster than SQLite, partly because it doesn't need to do fancy ser/deserialization.

The alternatives are not better. In fact, SQLite with its B+tree engine replaced by LMDB is still far better than vanilla SQLite - smaller, faster, and more reliable (SQLightning).

In a read-only workload, complex deserialization will become your limiting bottleneck, after you've eliminted all other bottlenecks from your code. Our profiling runs of OpenLDAP demonstrated this already, which is why LMDB was written, to allow structs to be persisted in in-memory format and used on read with no deserialization.
I can see the point, but I don't think it's a problem as long as the concept is well-defined.
It's only a matter of getting used to don't assume, for example, "open" and "closed" to be mutually exclusive.
There are other fields that don't have the privilege of this formal setting: I expect the concept of "species" to be very important in biology, but there isn't a clear definition of that (yet) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species#Definition
Why not become a travelling æmbassador?
I feel like those posted uptime/reliability numbers are far lower than either GCP or azure is capable of providing. I suspect the majority of the errors/failed requests are probably code bugs or deployment issues in gitlab...

Perhaps they haven't been doing enough chaosmonkey testing?
Kiwi TCMS v6.8 now on GitHub Marketplace – open-source test case management
When I'm looking for a new job I quite like to ask "Do you deploy on Fridays?" when it comes to the "any questions?" part of the interview process.

Obviously it doesn't really work for companies that do continuous deployment, but for those that don't it provides great insight. Often you'll here an interviewer praise the fact the company doesn't do Friday deploys "because if it goes wrong that could eat in to our developer's weekends, and we like our developers so we'd never do that". That's the wrong answer. The right answer is "Of course, we trust our deploy process."
Couple this with the work in neural 3d rendering and we will probably have a new generation of 3d technology in a few years.

https://deepmind.com/blog/neural-scene-representation-and-re...
Surveillance capitalism is a variant of that economic system, much like industrial capitalism or financial capitalism. It's characterized by specific business models, which have particular consequences in society.

> If you do not like a service, you can opt out by not using it

This is a simplistic objection, that doesn't stand to cursory scrutiny. These systems invade everything, and give you no real way of consenting. When you visit some random site, you will be informed upon to dozens of services, with no way of even knowing which. You might not use Google, but can you avoid sending an email to anyone using Gmail - particularly those who use it with their own domain?

And this is getting impossible to escape even in real life, with companies employing many mechanisms to surveil you on the public street, without you even entering their private property. How do you opt out of that? Stay at home 24/7? No, that doesn't work either.

> 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.

People are driven by incentives. We can criticize a system, government or company for incentivizing behavior we consider harmful.

> 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.

And yet, the last site you submitted to HN loads stuff from Facebook's servers. Even if you have enough know-how to block them, you've helped them surveil other people.

> Why is it specifically capitalism's fault?

It's capitalism's fault insofar as it promotes these business models.

> What other economic systems would be favored, and why?

Criticizing a system doesn't mean one advocates its replacement.
Keep in mind that it's possible to develop Software as a Service by selling software that the user has to install - we have done it with our accounting software Solar Accounts. This approach is probably more painful to develop than the traditional web app, but it does give our users features such as (a) end-to-end security and (b) storing data locally
- which are selling points for some users.
Unpopular opinion: The third reason why GitLab decided on the Google Cloud Platform: political correctness, not only that GitLab doesn't want to nurture their enemy GitHub, which in turns is acquired by Microsoft causing a political exodus, and GitLab also fears the ties with Azure will make people give up to BitBucket or such again. Therefore it’s a pretty good PR stunt pulled to polarize the situation.
Then it must have been my error, and the correction happened in my head upon re-reading :)
Two aspects of addiction keep people hooked on cigarettes
"There are two kinds of people in this world:

Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and

those that enter a room and turn the television set off."

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

http://www.moviequotes.com/fullquote.cgi?qnum=82397
Same here, and some definitions named by people's names. I totally understand the need to attribute and respect people's work, but a more descriptive name is almost always easier to remember and talk about.
IT is full of jargon as well. Where else would it make sense to cherry-pick commits into a branch and then ask others to pull that branch into their repository? :)

My German team has a running gag where, when a sentence turns out especially jargon-riddled, we translate all the jargon words into German, as literally as possible. The result is always hilarious.
Male and female voices activate distinct regions in the male brain
psychological + physical dependence conspire to make addiction hard to shake off for many people
I'm gonna say "no". This is only relevant in that it might lead to better understanding of superconductivity. When the models can predict this, they will have made progress.
> Change is not difficult really, but the majority do not want to make deep sacrifices and would rather be a happy fat cat.

The 90s dotcom boom took some vaguely 'smart' people, then gave them enough money that they are the richest people in the world. These people now sit on their asses and donate pitiful amounts of their money away (Bezos donating 30,000 to a couple of children is the equivalent of an investment banker tossing a spare 5p coin at a homeless person. Sure, it's better than nothing, but it's less than the bare minimum that we should expect. For comparison, if less than two thirds of the 1.1bn raised for the Notre Dame were donated to Flint, Michighan, then the people there could be drinking clean water by now...) to keep people appeased while the people working for them (in the case of, say, Amazon) literally starve and faint from exhaustion, and get less than minimum wage for it.

I do not think you mean 'the majority'. I think you mean, the three bus-loads of ~90 CEOs and middle executives that, if they happened to crash/explode, would literally solve climate change overnight.

The report found that more than half of global industrial
emissions since 1988 – the year the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change was established – can be traced to just 25
corporate and state-owned entities. The scale of historical
emissions associated with these fossil fuel producers is
large enough to have contributed significantly to climate
change, according to the report.

and

A Carbon Tracker study in 2015 found that fossil fuel
companies risked wasting more than $2tn over the coming
decade by pursuing coal, oil and gas projects that could be
worthless in the face of international action on climate
change and advances in renewables – in turn posing
substantial threats to investor returns.
I mostly agree, but with two caveats. We do actually know that ‘neural networks’ are poor models for the brain. Backpropagation is unphysical and brains aren't acyclic graphs, for example. What there's uncertainty about is the degree by which they share principles. A glider and an eagle are pretty darn different, and a glider is a terrible model of an eagle, but they do at least utilize the same laws of fluid dynamics to fly. So the question holds for neural networks.

As to neuropreservation, it's important to note that we don't need to understand the brain in order for it to be a good idea. What we care about is whether there will be a future wherein someone does, and whether the technique preserves enough mental structure to allow the brain to be recovered by that somebody.
iBorderCtrl Technical Framework
No catch. A 2015 base model with fast charger option. Bought it in 2017. A ton of these 2015 were coming off 2 year leases in 2017, and I bought it off a guy who re-sells then from auctions.

So I wonder what he got it for at auction?
In the future we are going to have neural fashion. People will use the knobs of an autoencoder to generate the clothes they like, preview them on artificial models , and then order them for manufacturing.
Am I overlooking something, or is it obvious that if this is the single largest bi-truncatable prime known so far, that any larger one has to contain this prime in its middle?

So finding a new largest bi-truncatable prime is just a matter of trying to add each single digit at both sides of this prime; if any of them is again a prime, we have a new largest and if none of them is (which I guess is the case because the author must have tried this out already), then there exists no larger bi-truncatable prime.
Numerium Challenge
> The point is to get rich people elected. Xenophobia is one means to this end, and deportation is one manifestation.

And... so is the opposite? Easing immigration laws and enforcement = more democratic votes. So clearly these are both _points_, but they aren't the only point; we are having a national immigration debate for many other reasons than votes.