skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's just hope. How convenient not having to deal with the mess! To me, it sounds like a religion.

Er, no this is demonstrably false. France recycles >98% of its spent nuclear fuel in breeder reactors. This isn't fantasy, this is already existing technology. It's not as profitable at the moment which is why few countries recycle waste but it is absolutely something that could be done in the future.

It's not like rising CO2 levels, and this comparison is intellectually dishonest in the extreme. Rising CO2 in the atmosphere levels impact the environment, spent nuclear fuel buried underground does not. The possibility of contamination is either nullified by storing waste in areas already contaminated by nuclear testing, or by burying it miles underground.
Trash flows downstream. Not very surprising.
> "How is this much different from the culture I grew up where people made fun of you when you didn't have some nice fashion"

It's not much different. It's the same thing in a different, more pervasive jacket, but both attitudes are wrong and harmful. It's a shame those cultures haven't grown out of it.
Python is the go to language for multicloud automation. For Azure only Powershell is another go to language for it.
> twice the speed = twice less developers in a blunt way

I think you mean half fewer developers, not “twice less”, but...

No, twice the speed means twice the value produced per unit labor, which means at the same labor price level, more, not fewer, programmers will be hired (or, at constant employment level, pay should increase); the actual result is some increase in pay and some increase in employment.

Technology that provides output multipliers on a job are different than technology that replaces the function of workers at lower cost.
A journey through internet garbage
That's not how I remember it at all. Assange left Sweden because the allegations had been dismissed by prosecutors. He didn't run from Swedish justice, quite the opposite, he hung around longer than necessary until he was told there was no further business to be done.

It was only once he was in the UK that Sweden decided, for no obvious reason at all, that the allegations maybe weren't bogus after all.
Amazon offers employees $10,000 to quit jobs and deliver packages instead
Draw the lesson that Epic Games knew this and has cultivated this culture. As the old saying goes: Follow the money.
Is there an incident of a kiss on a sleeping lover being prosecuted?
for what? mortgages? car loans? what else?
For the record I live in Sweden, which has a per capita carbon foot print of around 4.5 ton vs 16.5 for the US. That's a massive difference. We are blessed with rivers which we can destroy for hydro and some rusting nuclear plants. US has a carbon intensity per kWh of ≈ 439 g, and Sweden ≈ 45 g.

I'm not sure about how that chart is constructed, but for me it's obvious that we need to lower the carbon intensity of electricity production right now. That would "eliminate" 32% of the chart, and I guess also have a dent in the other pies.

I don't see how stopping consuming or fundamentally changing society is a better or even faster way to achieving our goals.

I think it's absurd to talk about trying to radically change society before you stop burning fossil fules for electricity.

Cutting emissions dramatically and immediately is by deploying nuclear, and by electrifying your rail lines.
> I see no indication that this was “weaponized.”

Then you haven't been following this story very closely. A few brief examples: (1) The case was closed before he left Sweden. (2) They could have questioned him remotely, which they often do, but declined to. (3) The women didn't even want to charge him. (4) There is a USA extradition order in place. How can you doubt the USA wants to extradite him? (5) This isn't "rape" by any standard definition.
You can follow artists like Mario Klingemann to see people experimenting on the cutting edge of this stuff:

https://twitter.com/quasimondo/status/1127906469108756480
Reminds me of Chinese government's method of censorship by accusing people of "causing harm to state security"
The US Government spends more money than it takes in taxes. In order to finance the difference it takes out loans (in many ways just like you might take out a loan to buy something). These loans take the form of government bonds.

Various people/organizations buy these bonds and give the US government money. Later on these bonds "mature" and those people get their money back plus some interest.

This post is saying that about 9 trillion dollars worth of these bonds will mature in the next 4 years so the US government will need to come up with that much money to pay the bondholders. The way the government does this (for the most part) is by "rolling over" the debt. This means the government will issue new bonds that pay out at some point in the future.

In some ways this is actually great for the government because interest rates are at very low levels right now, which means the new bonds will (in most cases) have a lower interest rate than the old ones.
My theory? You can't automate the analysis of these reports (if they could, why didn't they catch it in the first place) so it basically goes into a "black hole" never to be addressed. I only base this wacky, baseless theory on Google's overall obsession with automation, which of course keeps staff low and profits high.
'trickle down' implies a watershed, where water/wealth collects in small tributaries that come together to form a main River where wealth/water is most concentrated.

Actual trickle down economics is trickle up economics, so no shit it doesn't work. Let's just dump a bunch of water here at the mouth of the Amazon and watch it flow up into the Andes.
> better spreading wealth

I grew up in a country where communism has won - I know for sure that it's an utopia. I really hate communists, socialists and other imbeciles who believe that people/business should give their money to lazy people just to make everybody "equal". No, people are not equal - somebody is smarter, somebody works more, somebody is a great artist, somebody is just a lazy alcoholic.

So no, we should not think about "spreading" wealth, we should think how to train people for new skills/professions, required by the market.
Ooh, choking an ettin should do double damage then!
I mean, maybe. But historically speaking that hasn't necessarily been the case.
All Chromebooks Will Support Linux Going Forward
The US per-capita power consumption is 10kw. That's 10kw of continuous draw every minute, every day. And that's not household use, that's per capital.. so a household of 4 is using about 1 megawatt-hours /day.

Where do you plan to find that in your non-lifestyle change world? Solar? That's 8000sqft of installed solar with the highest efficiency panels. That needs to be coupled with hundreds of kwh storage. Total cost : hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Good luck on that.
Another angle to what you're describing is that a huge percentage of programmers' jobs serve to eliminate other jobs. That's been the case for newer technologies since at least the beginning of the industrial revolution.

That said, the long term effect hasn't been to reduce jobs. Ultimately, not paying someone to do X ends up also creating jobs by freeing up money to pay someone to do Y.

Obviously that's small solace for someone who lost their job and isn't finding a new one. But we can frame the story in different ways that allow us to find different places to place the blame, and different ways to find alternative solutions. I personally don't like blaming technology because that implies that the best solution is to slow or halt the development of any technology that automates or eliminates the need for things that could be done by humans. As a human who enjoys eating out at restaurants and having access to high-quality medical care, and does not enjoy mowing wheat with a scythe and re-thatching his own roof, I'm not fond of that framing. As someone who dislikes memes that assume that learning is something that ends in your 20s, or that the world is teeming with people who have 6 years' experience in 3 year old technologies, I'm much more interested in looking for framings that look to improve everyone's access to new jobs instead of trying to preserve the old ones.
Grail Multi-Cancer Early Detection Progress and FDA Breakthrough Device
I'm from Chicago, have you been to one of our community colleges. They're not that great. I know, I went to one for a year before transferring to a more renowned college. Not to mention if you don't think the people around you in a community college setting are largely responsible adults optimizing their career/life paths, you are also wrong, these are well-known things that affect the quality and consumption of your education.
That is mostly irrelevant to this part of the case, which was about standing.
Your parent comment (which is getting downvoted) is correct.

Under previous precedent (Illinois Brick), only app developers would have standing to sue, and that is what apple argued should happen here.
> Why not go to the jury, repeat previous statements, answer any question she's comfortable with and go with the tried-and-tested "I don't recall" for everything else?

Because of being a principled person and doing the right thing? If anything Manning so far has shown to be pretty consistent in that respect.
It's not just zh / en problem. Probably it's every language problem.

Out of fun I compare some Russian vs English articles on controversial topics (e.g. Stalin / Nicholas II / etc). It's really interesting to see how it's different. In most cases it matches to the traditional point of view in native speaker community.
The building in Fortnite is not remotely comparable to that in Minecraft. You can build stuff, but it's mostly small fortifications quickly thrown together to hide behind.
>He would be sent to USA to respond of his alleged crimes in front of a public court of justice.

Haha, no. He'd be sent to a secret FISA Star Chamber. There's no way he'd be tried in public.

And if the Swedish authorities wanted Assange to answer for alleged crimes in Sweden, all they had to do was publicly declare that they wouldn't extradite Assange to the US. That was the sole requirement he had made of the Swedish authorities in exchange for his willingness to return to Sweden. The fact that the Swedish authorities refused even that is deeply suspicious.
“Games” are a ...

I think the terminology of games is a bit misleading. A better term would be program but in a (probabilistic) programming language that specifies interaction by message passing (such as process calculi).

CryptoVerif outputs what might be seen as program transformations:

P = Q

such that the probability that a polynomially bounded adversary can 'crack' P is only negligibly different from the probability for Q. This can be seen as a probabilistic generalisation of e.g. the program transformations that an optimising compiler does, except that in compilation you need that P and Q have exactly the same (observable) behaviour.

Verifying crypto protocols is essentially the production of a chain

P1 = P2 = ... = Pn

where P1 is the protocol in question, and Pn is some "obviously secure" protocol (e.g. existence of one-way functions). Note that Pn might be doing something different from P1. What's important is that the probabilities remain 'similar' (this can be made precise). This proves that P1 is as secure as Pn, so we can break the latter if we can break the former.

The reason for the "game" terminology is historical. Von Neumann's theory of economic games [1] preceeds the development of programming languages for interactive behaviour [2] by many decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Games_and_Economic_B...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_calculus
i'm 100% addicted , in some capacity, to gaming. I enjoy it too much as a hobby to stop. I dont even get into online games though. Honestly i've been playing soulsborne shit and offline action games for the past few years. My satisfaction in gaming comes from overcoming challenges.

In dark souls that means precise melee combat against boss for a good few minutes. One tiny slip up with a dodge/block/attack, and you typically get shreked. You can spend hours learning and practicing against a boss and then you finally kill that mutha fucka and DAMN it feels good. That is the dopamine rush I am chasing
Good, send this criminal to jail where he belongs
After my diagnosis with ADHD, we wondered if my wife might also have it, albeit milder than mine, as she struggled with a lot of the same things I do. She went for the full neuropsych eval, and was actually diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder, not ADHD. So I'm not surprised to see some overlap there.
Very helpful thanks.
Using blockchain to improve trust and transparency
It would be great if the automation were in the hands of individuals. you need to farm? Invest in an automated tractor, combine, whatever and it will take care of your crops. Now you have free time, food to eat, and can work a second job for anything else. Instead the automation goes in the hands of large corporations and there's no relationship between what the machines produce and what people need to live. An automated boxing machine doesn't build houses or farm food for individuals. There's no more abundance to go around. You could create the relationship by taxing machines or taxing the wealthy that own them and spending that money on food and housing, but maybe people don't want to live off food stamps in government housing. Then you have economics that come into play. Are people going to have more kids since they get more food and bigger houses? Will there be an increase in crime? Will prices increase now that everyone can afford food? I'm optimistic, but it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Worrying about keeping polyfills micro-optimized seems somewhat silly, when a typical website is pulling in megabytes of other scripts and trackers. Not to mention when just the headers and cookies on every request can balloon up into the tens or hundreds of kilobytes.
Stuff you should know, Stuff they don't want you to know, and WTF
As long as we keep setting the cost of housing to "everything you've got" and the cost of health care to "everything you're gonna have", it won't matter how much new productivity we create.
It's easier than learning vim, that's for sure. Try following the guide from the wiki at first. [0] After a while you'll be navigating the UI subconsciously. Don't be fooled by this though, the game itself is quite unforgiving if you don't know the mechanics and aren't thinking ahead.

[0] https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Standard_strategy
E-commerce doesn't work in Africa because of this web form
Wow. This is a really harsh assessment. I hope Cate never reads this thread.

But seriously, why did you read this article in the first place? What were you expecting? Rather than assessing this article as a how-to guide, which it seems the responses on this thread are doing, perhaps you should read this as a different genre. Cate clearly experienced some significant hardship relating to her work and she's attempting to share her discoveries on this journey with the sole purpose of trying to help others who are on the same path.

The story will be necessarily (and intentionally, as she spells out in the article) intertwined the take-aways in order to provide context for the learning.

As someone who has been through some rough experiences in life, I'm deeply appreciative of Cate's courage and vulnerability in writing this. Bad shit happens in life and when someone is willing to talk about their pain and how they're healing and what they've learned, I've found that it's best to just shut up and listen. This is not the time for critique.

Bravo, Cate.
It would be nice if people in this thread could stop expressing surprise that Justice Kavanaugh sided the way he did when these people presumably have no idea which way Kavanaugh has decided for similar cases in the past.
I see what you’re implying, but tweak one little thing and the answer seems vastly different:

Instead of an Apple device, say you’re using a Google-manufactured Android device (something-or-other), and have installed a third-party App Store on it. But that third-party App Store turns around and uses Google Pay as its payment processor.

All the same qualifications still apply: you essentially used a “Google POS device” (your phone), were routed through Google payment processing, and the results were deployed to a Google device (your phone again.)

But from the perspective of the seller, you were just using an arbitrary Android device to run their App Store on; and Google, to them, is just the payment-processor they chose to use (probably because it’s conveniently integrated on Android devices) but they could have just-as-well used PayPal or Stripe.

Is this third-party App Store—in this particular case—legally “Google?” Even though, in other cases, where people are using other non-Google Android devices to access the store, or maybe selecting a different payment-processor option at checkout, they definitely aren’t legally Google? I would say “obviously no.” Those apps were legally sold by the third-party App Store. Google was just a payment processor there. (Payment processors still also have legal responsibilities regarding the transaction, but they’re different than those of the seller.)

And if that’s true, then what’s the difference between a third-party App Store that you installed as its own app, and a “third-party App Store” that is a section of the Apple App Store app, e.g. a Microsoft section or Adobe section? Isn’t that the same as, say, buying from a physical Microsoft store in an Apple-owned shopping mall?

And if that’s true, then where’s the line between that and “each app you purchase is purchased from its own little stall in this digital mall, which is owned and operated by the software author”? Is there one?

I feel like this is something that’s unclear enough that you could spent eight years arguing the various precedents behind deciding either way.
BTW, has CryptoVerif been proven sound? I.e. has it been shown that the game transformations CryptoVerif produces really only amount to negligible probability transformations?
The computational notebook of the future (part 2)
Consumer Insolvencies in Canada Climb to Highest in 8 Years
A reasonable person would call such a world and it's 500 trillion dollars hit to the economy 'unpalletable'
That's an interesting rewriting of history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh_Supreme_Court_...
> As we've seen with Russian propaganda efforts, the firehose of falsehoods can be extremely effective at keeping people in the dark or convincing them of something not in their best interest. People demanding a shift requires education around the topic, and Exxon literally prevented research on the topic from coming out for decades.

We have the research now, but people aren't changing their behavior.

> I'm very confused what point you're trying to make here. That systems or not optimizing for environmental impact? Of course they aren't. They are optimizing based on the incentives they are following. People move to suburbs and drive SUVs to feel safer and more wealthy. People move to the sunbelt because the winter sucks. People buy disposable clothes and stuff is shipped from China because it's cheaper to do so. It's really expensive to grow produce in Maryland, so you ship it from California.

And that is what causes climate change. Exxon is just giving people what they want. The blame rests with people who want a lifestyle that's incompatible with avoiding climate change, not the companies that simply are feeding consumer demand.

> All they do is replace the power that powers the factory and the fuel that is used to ship it to you with sources that don't add carbon the carbon cycle. So that when you are living your life in your disposable shirt and eating your California avocados, you're not contributing to climate change anymore.

We don't have time to develop all that technology: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-the-ipcc-1-5c-repor.... According to new, revised estimates, having a 50/50 chance of limiting tempeature increaes to 1.5C leaves us with 14 years of carbon emissions at current levels. After which point the world economy has to hit zero carbon emissions. Meanwhile, carbon emissions are still going up: https://www.climatechangenews.com/files/2017/03/238eb46742db.... From 2000-2015, China added an amount of CO2 output that exceeds the entire US output. China continues to grow, while India is approaching where China was before 2000 and may have a similarly explosive growth in CO2 emissions in the next two decades.

Not only is there no solution that allows us to keep living the way we are living while averting climate change. There never was. Even if we had listened to the hippies and cut U.S. emissions by half starting in the 1960s, China's growth alone would have completely wiped out that savings multiple times over.
I think about it this way - the planet will survive, humans will not. Within a year of us being gone the planet will take over everything we ever owned. Weeds will break through the streets and house foundations, and in a decade or so (blink of an eye in Earth time) it'll be like we were never here.

Well except for all the garbage we left behind. But even that will become food for something.
Maybe it just boils down to people are really different haha.

Your experience is interesting because I played Diablo 3 when it first came out and shortly afterwards got bored because the loot wasn't interesting. Once I finished all of the difficulties in hardcore mode (before everything got nerfed beyond its initial release) I uninstalled. But, I somehow managed to put thousands of hours into Diablo 2 and Path of Exile, both of which have much more interesting items (at least to me). Maybe the reward aspect is more important to me in those types of games.

I get what you mean by the gaming tasks though. I used to play moba style games. Every second had something to think about, and really it's almost like you have to turn off your brain and just let your brain take over if that makes any sense. If you tried to explain the exact work flow of what you had to think about in 5 seconds it almost seems impossible, but somehow with enough practice it's effortless. Maybe when your brain is in that state, it's not possible to get distracted.
> I have a friend who does drag. It's a lot of work! I'm excited for technology like this, because it will make it easier for makeup & drag artists to experiment with new ideas and identities cheaply and quickly.

Similarly, I'm transgender and use those applications to come up with new ideas on how to make little changes to my appearance to feminize my features. Sometimes coming up with makeup ideas is hard since I lack in experience and equipment. I don't want to purchase a bunch products I'll end up never using. Technologies like this allows me to quickly test makeup ideas. For example, I have green eyes so they automatically add purple eye-shadow to make my eyes look brighter. I've since incorporated this color in my daily makeup. I've noticed that they overdraw the lipstick to make the lips look fuller, so I also do that when I want a more polished look.

However, this is a double edged sword.

Those filters raise expectation on what you might look like after a gender transition.

I've seen a lot of angry and disappointed people because of that. Those applications change a lot about your face, sometimes in subtle ways you won't notice. The curve of the jaw is slightly different, the eyes are a bit farther apart, your skull is more round, etc. Changes that are pretty much impossible even with facial feminization surgeries.

People strive to reach that "perfection" and end up being stuck in limbo, unable to reach it so unable to free themselves from their gender dysphoria. It's easy to spiral down from there.