skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Vatican applied for and the US granted 0 R-1 visas in 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014.

I can go back further if you wish. Do you wish me to research and list more years? The data is available from the State Department, going back to 1997.

It doesn't really matter though does it? If the number is 0 back to 1997, will the argument suddenly be that 1996 and before were the huge years when lots of Vatican R-1 visas were issued? It is clear from the statistics that the claims being made about the US being racist, biased and unfair to Indian citizens are not only completely false but the assertions are the exact opposite of reality where Indian citizens are more privileged and favored than any other nationality. These are the facts. But facts don't matter these days. All that matters is race baiting and fabricated claims of hate incidents. It doesn't matter that Justin Smolley and others lied and the lies have damaged the US and create an environment in which people are terrorized by people making false claims. All that matters is the false narrative of chanting racism and denouncing America. Incite that mob. Create division. Truth and reality are unimportant when the violent revolution must be had by those who benefit from it.
>I see no justification unless you absolutely have to.

That's an extremely broad qualifier for a pretty particular topic. I think that the vast majority of people either absolutely have to use a car, or can pretty easily not (or in fact would be inconvenienced by using a car). I think it is a very small percentage of people who are somewhere in between those two cases, for whom there is a realistic choice to be made one way or the other.
It sounds like you didn't actually read the article tho.
I feel your pain although I haven't ever implemented type provider to be precise. You have no reason to feel guilty! It's out and it's runs without any major bugs(!). Hopefully community will carry it and at very least it's one nice show case for compile time computing of F# (and maybe add motivation to develop that side of language further).
I think Roblox is the nearest clone. It is also very popular.
Isn't all their software support done by the community still?

PINE's hardware has always been amazing. But their software support has always been terrible.
I mean, you would also have millions of people spending 5 hours riding between bus stops every day.

Cars are a bare necessity due to how badly we fucked up urban planning. And we fucked it up because we planned around cars.
Apologies for poorly wording things. My point wasn't on the feature, but the culture that allowed the feature to be created.

That's why I started by saying the disregard for privacy troubles me, and provided an example of a feature that was created out of that disregard, in my opinion.

Maybe I shouldn't have said it's absurd that they would find people liking the feature, but that it's absurd they consider it ethical to scrape private financial information and then present it as a nifty notification, and even more absurd that users don't see an issue with it.
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CICO is only true in a useless sense. Do you know how much energy you are putting in? Paper (cellulose) is carbohydrates, but not used by the body; gasoline is more energy dense than fat (at 12kcal/gr) and still unusable by the body....

So, it obviously isn’t just “carbs time 4k/cal”. Ok, let’s assume we can tell which carbs are useful and which aren’t. It takes energy to extract that energy. How much? IIRC there is over 50% variation between people (and even same person at different time) of the amount of energy actually extracted - yet almost everyone uses 100year old Atwater factors as if they were a fundamental physical constant.

Glucose storage is supply based. But gluconeogenesis (conversion of protein to glycogen) is demand based, so you must be at a deficit for the 4kcal/gr protein measure to be used.

How about body temp? A person at 35.6C uses a few tens or hundred calories less per day than a standard 36.7C person. Yes, these exist. Did you take this into the CO equation?

Did you consider the liter of ice cold water you drank? Takes 37kcal to warm it up to body temp.

CICO as usually practiced has 20-30 margin of error, which makes it much less useful than people assume. Unsurprisingly, it does work for e.g. 70% of the people, who assume the rest are not properly counting.
Mass adoption soon, yeah?
Yes, but the expected value of harm from my backyard pool leaking is, well, I can't swim and I need to resurface the pool liner. Multiply this issue by the probablity that it'll happen at all, and you get, well, a filled pool to swim in.

But the expected harm from a SNR like this having a leak is decidely not the same. Yes, the leaks may be rare, but the outcomes from such a leak occuring have Chernobyl-like outcomes in their failure trees. The probability calculus still may return that this design is quite fine, given the risk tables, but you MUST run the numbers. Hand waving is not ok here.
Well, if there's nobody with the responsibility/authority and sufficient time to do the kind of work we're talking about (and who is evaluated and promoted based on doing it well), it sounds like the tradeoff was not the right one if the goal is producing a good product. Because that work needs to be done, to produce a quality product (whatever you are producing).

Over my career, I have increasingly tended to believe that at the majority of organizations the goals decision-makers are acting upon are not in fact about producing a good product, for whatever that product is. That is certainly one explanation. It's not that they are obtuse about what it takes to create a good product, they just have other priorities.
What Industry Has the Fastest Growing Revenue per Employee?
Maybe IRC should have a standard way to send an email to a user wherein the irc client knows the users email but don't reveal the users email. It could also use its intermediary status to filter obvious spam, individual channels/users could also set policy as to who is allowed to mail users for example registered accounts only.
They get the most elementary thing wrong in their “mission.” The very first search link should be the most relevant, right? Now the entire first PAGE is often bought and paid for.
Fine. They are at the point where they can eventually record a video on a fairly easy, almost empty, perfect condition, predefined suburban track. Noone knows how many attempts that video took.

This is the point that Waymo reached in 2012 if I remember correctly.
I think this is more a case of design-by-committee going haywire. It's orthogonal to whether the protocol itself is open or closed, though.
Increasing city density is a crucial part of progressive city planning
You think Apple is less evil than Google?

Remember that Apple has been cracked by the FBI, has proprietary connectors, and charges more than anyone.

I couldn't disagree more. Apple is horrible to customers and developers.
As far as I can tell, the recommended way to run several processes in an Ubuntu container is under supervisord. The default Ubuntu containers don't even include an init system.
An engineer with strong critical thinking skills is what I imagine he can bring to the table.
I remember preferring lighter alternatives to LibreOffice (OpenOffice, in fact, at the time) on Linux back in the early and mid 2000s because that suite was such a sluggish resource hog, only firing it up if I needed a decent chance at MS Office compatibility, for which purpose it was merely a disk space hog, because so rarely used but necessary. Ditto KDE, for that matter, on the resource hog front. Guessing my main laptop back then (single-core 900Mhz Celeron IBM Thinkpad with 384MB RAM) was weaker than most of these single-board computers, though.
Please don't conflate roads with single-occupancy driving. Roads have many uses, including the facilitation of buses, the delivery of pizza and the distribution of firefighting equipment.

The subject being discussed here is the use of single-occupancy automobiles, which not only create all this unproductive time, but also clog the roads for other uses.

Cars make roads worse, not better.
https://www.minetest.net/ is excellent
This word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

> should we ignore that gas leak in the kitchen because it hasn't killed anyone yet?

No, but it's hard to see how using personal data to sell ads is going to cause a harm anywhere near as bad as a person dying.
There is Mine Test which is pretty much an open source clone. But competing with a behemoth is hard especially in Minecraft's target demographic.

https://www.minetest.net
Its more abjectly a moral failing of society that institutions have not aligned to enable free software proliferation.

Software, and information in general, have been a prisoners dilemma for time immemorial. The optimization of utility is total freedom of information - but such a state of affairs means benefactors reap the labors of others and have no obligation to give anything in return.

Copyright was fabricated to solve 18th century problems with an 18th century bureaucratic solution. The whole free software movement in general emerged as a counterculture to how intensely harmful to society that policy influenced the natural state of affairs to become.

If anything, the fact free software enthusiasts have lost sight of what the ultimate goal has to be - the abolition of copyright and institution of basic standards of living for all citizens derived from the productive gains of the extraordinary multiplicative effects technology, itself derived substantially from free software, produces - is what really needs to shift. Anything less keeps the movement in an atrophying limbo where fresh minds join, put in their best effort, and fall out from the captured value innovation produces in our society.

We need to move towards a state of affairs where enthusiasts can produce freedom respecting code because they want to, that don't go hungry or homeless for their efforts, and where all of society can reap the benefits of theirs (and billions others) generosity and compounding efficiency produced through technological innovation. And where everyone has access to the fruits of those labors regardless of means as a way to improve the collective knowledge of mankind for all the rest of us.

Just think for a moment of the bizarre world where the brightest need not toil to manipulate tired and depressed minds psychologically to siphon scarce money from them to line the pockets of robber barons masquerading as productive members of society, but instead could comfortably collaborate towards actually making the world a better place.
>> Why have users chosen those environments?

> Because they don't give a rat's ass about the freedom aspect of free software. If software A requires four clicks to do something, but B has a way to do it in 3, they are on B without a second thought.

Convenience always wins. Always. Users do care about free (as in beer) and they care if the product or service will disappear without warning (hello Google!). But the definitions of FOSS are so strict that they harm developers, and thus products, and thus convenience for users.

OP is describing the symptoms of this phenomena.
> The company that bends over backwards, much farther than the law requires, to enable the surveillance state.

This is the key point. Google came of age during the GWB administration, when the folly of trusting government was more clear than it had been for decades, and under Schmidt's leadership Google became a major defense contractor.

It's impossible to know how much unlawful surveillance has already been done thanks to Google's collaboration/complicity.

How can Google earn back some trust? Implement warrant canaries at the google account level, decline to do business with the Pentagon, and come forward and reveal all of the shady and unethical things the firm has done, and simply ask the public for forgiveness.
It's absolutely not a bad thing, indeed I think it's a good thing to use binaries from Debian. I just think the name of the project is strongly misleading. "distroless" is built from the Debian distribution, not something new made from scratch.
Works fine in Firefox ESR on Debian.
Yes, there would. It would be traffic jams full of buses.
Yeah, it's no surprise this isn't taught in the US...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19861725
Driving is increasingly affordable which will drive a new wave of taxes to capture the surplus.

A high utilization Tesla Model 3 has costs per mile, including electricity, of around $0.10-$0.15/mile.

For comparison, the gas tax alone on the average vehicle was about $0.01-$0.02/mile 10 years ago. (Depends on your state and your MPG)

When that vehicle can drive itself from most Point As to most Point Bs on most days, public transit doesn’t have prayer of competing.

So new regimes will be needed to fund the roads, but roads are one of the few good things government does for me. I really like roads. Make more and make them better, make them smooth and make them smart. Make them safe and make them fast. And then we will all use them to go out every day and make money.

The good news is we won’t need a lot of new parking spaces in this rapidly approaching future. But we will need some new forms of taxing driving, and I’m mostly afraid of the privacy implications.
Probably pretty common, I did/do.
I know several other C-Level/Directors that do, but probably only in the tech/internet space.
They also forward personal data to government agencies when asked, like it or not.
So according to the CPB welfare spending as a percentage of GDP in the Netherlands increased significantly from ~20% (1930) to ~40% (1970) up to ~60% (1980).

https://www.cpb.nl/sites/default/files/publicaties/download/...

As welfare spending increased we started losing our ability to innovate. We lost DAF cars (1972), Fokker (1996) and Philips has become a shadow of what it used to be.

So take a company like Philips. Before they brought technical innovations like color television, the VCR and Compact Disc. I believe product development has since shifted from hardcore engineering design (technical) towards industrial design (art). Philips now believes it's all about "consumer lifestyle" as opposed to developing the next technological breakthroughs. Since then the consumer divisions pretty much died and all that remains are the consumer-less engineering divisions (ASML and Philips healthcare).

How did this happen? I believe the welfare attitude plays a big role. People have gotten too comfortable. The education system is part to blame as well. Colleges and universities trying to lure students with sexy programs and the promises of sexy careers (that no company needs). Engineering usually isn't on that list of sexy jobs.

In the US people seem to better understand you need to work hard to move forward. A job is more about the value you can provide as opposed to the value you receive. It seems we understood that better in Europe a couple of decades ago.
You can still be a CXX/Director and contribute, but I'll agree its more rare.
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There's a new game like that coming soon: Hytale. It's from the team behind Hypixel, which is one of the biggest Minecraft servers.
There are actually many, many games that are quite similar, some of which are quite successful:
Roblox,
Survivalcraft,
Creativerse
... to name just three
I have used 3M Filtrete room-air purifiers as white noise generators for my kids since they were born > 7 years ago. It’s amazing how much is in the air...

I believe growing up in a dusty environment contributed to my asthma...
I believe the ever-declining affordability of driving is going to decimate real estate in the US. We have upwards of 80 years worth of home construction designed almost exclusively around the ability to drive. With the assumption that cars and fuel would forever be cheap and that the Federal government would continue to heavily subsidize road construction.

I'm curious to see how people solve this problem. Wealthy people can afford to move into urban centers to save money on commuting costs, but relatively poor people will be stuck in the old suburbs. I suspect motorcycle-class vehicles will begin appearing from upstart manufactures which are effectively single- or dual-seater three wheelers with closed cabins that are cheap to purchase and operate.
Another reason, as I have a moment to write... vulnerability to terrorist/military action. It's not enough to safeguard a plant against accidents. It needs to be safeguarded from malice as well - including inside jobs (a knowledgeable operator manipulating the controls, with full authorization) and brute violence, which could be crashing a fully fueled airliner into it or attacking with a bunker-busting military drone. What happens if your nuclear plant is hit with a weapon designed to destroy a modern military bunker complex? (Which could be a state actor, or an act of terrorism that somehow takes over a drone.)

Now, what happens when you blow up a windmill?
i3 for Windows please!
As far as I'm aware chain was introduced to allow for light weight while keeping vibration resistance.

Can't this pulley system be trimmed down even further to one bar transmission?
Nah, it's already more affordable than taxi (through carsharing, at least in my city), and will be even more affordable when autonomous cars get deployed (even for people without driving license). Car ownership will be a luxury, but there will always be a demand for moving from point A to point B alone.
Well, I don't know what you are referring to as "it", but the stock price movement wasn't the same under Ballmer...which might be a bit unfair to him since he came in after
the .com boom. https://imgur.com/a/46fnc4P

>He also did pretty much the same — doubling down on milking plumpy corporate clients while streamlining the business in overall

I take it you think that this is a bad thing?
A Woman Who Persuaded McAfee to Not Sell His Company to Symantec
Read upthread, but lots of control appears to be lost - some estimated 90% of programatic control. Grab your pitchfork :)
These aren't the same chinese they are dealing with. This generation has money and could easily leave. Those chinese now run the CCP
> making everything closed source.

Except the JDK is now fully open source. Even previously closed source JDK projects are now open source.
Absolutely agreed. The doublespeak and lack of transparency leaves a really bad taste in one's mouth.

It would be one thing if they were very straightforward the 'with whom' and the 'for what' of the data they harvest. Users could weigh the pros and cons, make an informed decision, and move on.

But instead they choose to masquerade as a forward-thinking philanthropic organization, burying their ulterior motives behind pages of fine print and intentionally vague 'disclosures' about what they do with your data.

Wearing a disguise makes one appear guilty. I would be wary of any individual or group intentionally presenting a false image in order to mask their true intentions.
Harvard laser research could make WiFi hundreds of times faster
https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/07/09/minimal-ubuntu-released

Apologies, it's actually 29mb.
Gas tax is a usage tax to fund transit cost, they _should_ be taxing electrics. Delaying a few years to accelerate the transition is fine but it will ultimately have to happen. What isn't so easy is taxing based on actual usage which a gas tax does fairly well. Resisting a government GPS tracker to tax you appropriately will be important in the coming years.
So a quick look at Linus Tech tips tells me far more about the video creator than the hardware.

This is a combination of gurning and cheap shots. This seems to be a repeated methodology. Ordinarily I would consider reviews like this completely worthless, but I think I might have overestimated their value.

The fact that people are repeating attitudes conveyed by these videos elsewhere would suggest to me that they simply make the world a worse place.

Normally I try to maintain a more positive air in comments, but this is simply terrible.
>If you want to hack your home, there are many open source alternatives.

Nest used to be one of those alternatives, and everyone who bought into it is screwed. I did not buy into it because I figured it would happen. It does not make it any less horrible that it did happen.
I think there is a bit of a fundamental difference between "we'll start a trade war if you treat this disease in your country" and "we'll start a trade war if you steal the product of tens of billions of dollars of R&D (to treat this disease in your country)". Namely, with one you can still treat the disease - just not by ignoring US patents, paying a trivial royalty, and manufacturing the drugs yourselves. (Which I'm also not confident would have actually halted the epidemic - South Africa is not particularly well known for their pharmaceutical industry, and that stuff's harder than you'd expect)

And IMO "AIDS is an epidemic, we're declaring an emergency" is about as credible as "Global Warming is a catastrophe, we're declaring an emergency" or "Illegal Immigration is huge, we're declaring an emergency".
I accidentally clicked and noticed it. Must agree this is pretty amazing, too.
Why are you condescending me? I studied applications of GAN nets for dozens of hours (still an amateur beginner of course). I didn't even know it was such a buzzword when I got started as I don't follow twitter etc.

Here is a paper that talks about exactly what I am proposing, using GANs, minus evolved antennas: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01875 (it is no secret that this paper has inspired me to write this question - my thoughts were about improving it with evolved antennas).

About the clean data requirement, it is common practice to record as much as possible once doctors open somebody's skull because such opportunity is scarce. So people are working on it.
The last free press of Novaya Gazeta received plenty and published plenty. Their journalists have been murdered left and right, often leading back to Kreml.

Why do people keep saying they haven't published anything on Russia? It's simply not truth and I see that being said over and over again.
Somehow, among weight loss subreddits, /r/keto (and more specialized cousins) and /r/fasting stand out with a lot more success by average people who aren’t trying to sell anything.

Keto and fasting are fighting an up-hill battle: the only thing you can sell is guidance, and that is freely available. The keto bar/additive industry is minuscule.
This is why people should not serve mashed cauliflower at Thanksgiving without advance notice. (Like 30 seconds, as it's being served, it's fine)
I still cannot believe that we live in a world were:

- A website with a silly name like 'Facebook' is worth half a trillion dollars and is extremely profitable.

- A website with a silly name like 'Twitter' which only lets you post 140 characters at a time is worth 30 billion dollars.

- An app with a silly name like 'Snapchat' which loses billions of dollars per year is worth almost $15 billion.

- An international taxi service with a silly name like 'Uber' which is losing billions of dollars per year is worth almost $100 billion.

- That software developers don't see anything wrong with building apps on top of proprietary cloud APIs (e.g. Amazon Lambda) - The closest real-world analogy that I can think of is that it's like building a house with your own bare hands for years and then, once you finally finish it, you start paying a corporation rent (at whatever rate they ask for) so that you can live in your own house! Meanwhile, the whole time, there was an even better plot of land right next door which was 100% free but you ignored it because the signposts on the corporate land were flashing with bright neon lights.

The economy makes so little sense that there is no incentive left to create value.
The best you can do is just look for the next financial scheme to take advantage of. I bet it will be something completely random and useless.