skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OP was joking about the plot twist but as it turns out we actually did the plot twist! We released one of the first free to try deep-learning powered photo to painting service shortly after the paper was published in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10162121. The initial version was a general one that took 1 day to train each image uploaded, and worked on arbitrary images.

That being said I think your belief somehow these comments shouldn't be used to promote competitors—at the expense of hiding potentially relevant comments from the community—is misguided. Ultimately HN, and even Show HN, are here to serve the interests of the community first—not the poster. I personally always appreciate when reading "launch HN" when someone summarizes the competitive landscape because this information helps me, the community member, and so that HN doesn't simply become a PR channel for every startup. It would make sense if this were an actual advertisement (say, on Facebook) that you'd get rid of comments mentioning competitors, but this isn't an ad platform, and I think mentioning competitors contributes to the discussion around what is being launched. Comments and discussion should benefit the community first, and not the poster of the story.
Maybe part of the trade war retaliations?
You're making a big assumption that simply doesn't hold: it's not a matter of "let's switch to renewables and keep everything else the same". Fossil fues have an energy density that's unparalleled anywhere else in nature and most renewables are simply riding off of that (the machines, factories, trucks and ships producing and transporting wind towers and solar cells are not and won't be running on electricity). Read up on EROEI (energy returned on energy invested) if you're interested in the topic.

I just read a calculation how automatic milking machines will turn a tidy profit on milk into a loss with energy costs per kwh just 10 cents higher. Milking by hand will be _more_ profitable with that small a difference.

So it's controversial because doing something about climate change involves massive changes to our way of life. Not simply switching your SUV for a Tesla, we're talking up to and including economic collapse and deindustrialization.
Just want to point out that "Christians" in this context refers to some sects of Christianity in America and these beliefs are not the norm amongst Christians worldwide. Actually I hazard, not even the norm amongst Christians in the US.
There is a relatively small group of companies/people who know better, but would lose billions if this problem is addressed, they have an army of lobbyists and media companies to push the hoax/not-our-problem-narrative, and finally you have a huge undereducated part of the population who are already skeptical of 'elitist' scientists even before the manipulation begins. This problem also seems to be more extreme in the US compared to other western countries due to e.g. the prevalence of Fox News and decades of creationism leading the anti-science crusade. All in all, you can't really count on having a shared definition of 'reality' any more, as this has now been politisized.
I have a similar situation, but it's a daydream. If I lie down and think about it and let my mind wander I usually find myself waking up many hours later.
An unlimited growth in a finite environment isn't possible

Even limited 'growth' has not actually happened. It's a fiction. The physical reality is that complex sustainable evolved systems have been broken down to feed simpler crude unsustainable techological ones. There's no 'growth' to be seen - just an increase in planetary entropy. This is somewhat masked on a short-term & local scale because of the remarkable resilience of the evolved systems. But as those systems collapse, which now seems inevitable, the fictional nature of 'economic growth' will become very evident indeed.
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Ha, yes I meant tooling. But what if you want to scale your design to a different platform, would the open source tools still work?
They do say in that article that 0-day came from warez scene citing Wikipedia.
Here's some text from an Amiga demo dated early 1992 that uses the term "0-day warez" : http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/file.php?id=94232
It hasn't been merged into Linux 5.0 (4.20), so it's not available as part of the kernel without installing additional software. That said, there are several user-land implementations of Rust written in Go & Rust, one of which was written by the author of Wireguard and one by Cloudflare.
Yes, but we weren't there as a civilization then. And the next one could wipe us all out.

In which case it will be little consolation that amoebas or even cockroaches and squirrels might survive...
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See that's exactly what I'm talking about.

We have a very real thing happening right now on earth with extreme consequences: major species extinction, air pollution, water pollution, soon to be ecological refugees, &c. But the answer is mining asteroid and having a moon base.

Why would we care about asteroid gold and the few (<100) people that might go to the moon and live an extremely strenuous life. It's not like we'll all go to the moon, crack open a cold one and watch the moon superbowl.
we just continue burning coal then.
GDB 8.3, just released [1], introduced support for syntax highlighting.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-05/msg00007...
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>That knowledge is probably our biggest advantage as a species

And if you take this knowledge out of a person, they are little more than a wild animal.
Whole village in South America or Africa will produce less pollution than one businessman with a private jet.
To block a non-profit website? I don't think so.

BTW: It been blocked days ago. The with no obvious reason, but the time is a (loose) match, weird.
Shutting down access to knowledge is not going to help them much, I suppose.
The "HashLink in-depth" blog post talks about this, an excerpt:

> [...] Neko is very slow. The main reason for this is that it's dynamically typed. So every "value" in the VM can be either an Int, a Float, a Bool, some Bytes, an Array, a Function or Object, etc. And because this value needs to be recognized at run-time, its type together with its data need to be stored in the memory. [...]

https://haxe.org/blog/hashlink-indepth/
I don't feel green energy is the main issue here. Regular people I know or see around me all seem to think that "green is cool, if they build it and it works that's nice", but that's about the extent of their opinion. The main contention points with individuals seem to be about changes necessary. For instance, I've been criticized and called names (usually related to communism) by people just for mentioning that maybe taxing carbon emissions isn't a bad idea at this point. There are few things that get people so angry so fast than suggestion that gasoline should cost more, and that maybe we should drive less, so that half of this gasoline isn't burned down in traffic jams.
For the foreseeable future those involve a handful of people getting there as a novelty (in the same way people having been on the ISS for decades), not 8 billion needing to survive.

Not to mention they're still vaporware... Brochures are easy.

In 30 years Miami might be under the waters, and we'd still be extremely lucky if we have a 200 sq ft base on the moon.

(On which a man haven't even set foot for the last 48 years).
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> Why won't it?

The problem is that many people (who express that conviction) treat "Science" just like the God in the famous anecdote: http://epistle.us/inspiration/godwillsaveme.html

It is important to understand the limits of science. It won't save you universally from everything, no matter what you do. Your own action (or inaction, in case of waste) determines what can be done.
Yes, but short-term high-radioactivity material is easy to do with, as is the super-long term low radioactivity material. The problem is the stuff in the middle which has a long enough half life that it's hard to store safely for that long but enough radioactivity to be dangerous. So if you can turn that stuff into either of the previous two catagories it's a win.
10 years before I finally got my ASD diagnosis I did not get an official AD(H)D diagnosis, but I did get Ritalin prescribed off the record. And it helped (though the coming down and instability between the high's was awful).
Exactly.

And there’s a path dependence too, first movers to accept the pending disruption can be at a considerable advantage.
I don't understand how growth is not a problem. The earth is a finite world, sustainable or not you won't be able to grow indefinitely.

Also we already consume more than we should, if we go back that would impact the GDP.
A similar comment of mine got downvoted, but I can at least upvote yours.
Population growth is IMO a big part of the issue. I do not believe we can become so efficient and consume so little that adding more billions to the population can be compensated for. People need to be fed, at the least. Think habitat destruction.

People will still produce CO2 in various ways. So reduce CO2 footprint per person by, say, 50% while increasing population by 50% will bring us no benefits with regard to CO2.
I admire and applaud people of XR who are willing to get arrested for the cause, and wide-scale government action is an absolute requirement, but while we are waiting for it, let's not use it as an excuse to not adjust our lifestyles today.
There are no 'diets' on a dead planet. Good luck with choosing your diet then.
They had me at Cedric Villani

"For Cedric Villani, a French lawmaker and the winner of the Fields Medal—the Nobel Prize equivalent for mathematics—that’s no reason to give up. “What Mourou is really after is the accelerator that the laser creates,” he said. “It’s far-off, but why not?” "
OP asked if double jeopardy applies. It clearly doesn't. Your conviction, which I share, that Manning was treated exceedingly bad (apart from the commutation) has nothing to with double jeopardy.

If grand juries have become problematic, or if prison conditions are terrible, or if police forces are institutionally racists one needs to argue for specific remedies for these problems.

A wholesale rejection of the rule of law for these weaknesses will not lead to a magical place of justice, but to further decline. Especially when it's facilitated by a healthy dose of motivated reasoning.
> Why would we care about asteroid gold and the few (<100) people that might go to the moon and live an extremely strenuous life.

scientific progress.
It doesn't matter. There is no legal distinction here.

Do you still say it's fine practice, because it's warcrimes? Who then would decide what topic is worthy of jailing people for refusal of cooperation?

This is the problem. You can't base this on an opinion, you'd easily find people thinking war crimes are less harmful than exposing army secrets.

I'd like to be judged in a setting that does not make me afraid of judges political views. The law should leave as little wiggle room for interpretarion as possible while maintaining sensibility.
For some reason both Google and Amazon folks dislike Ruby. So I guess it will never be a top priority.

At least there is Cloud Run, and personally I think that is a better option than FaaS.
I guess we're talking WWW or Web 2.0 or HTTP(S) or whatever (ie. bloat). Cu2 was a Dutch predecessor of Hyves which were both a very popular social network in The Netherlands before the existence of MySpace and Facebook. Eventually, "everyone" went to Facebook though.

Both were colorful (think: IRC on DALnet, or MySpace). It was awful.

The thing is, social networks existed before the term was ever coined. They were just called your "network". Getting to know people was called "networking". And most people get a job through their "network". It is nothing new. Something like Usenet or IRC or a MUD just as well fits.
How a simple comment on HN motivated me to launch Freshdesk (2011)
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Might be!
You're arguing against every law on the matter in any number of countries generally considered democratic, so I do believe that it isn't quite as easy, ethically, as you assert.
My mom was diagnosed with adhd when she was an adult. She grew up in a strict southern household, and grew up before smartphones or the internet. She has always struggled with attention problems and distractions. Environment may make someone more likely to develop adhd, but there are people who have adhd just because of genetics.
Restricting access to information will help the Chinese government retain power over the Chinese people. That's the point..
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People keep repeating to avoid air travel... but that's not what's going to make an impact.

People need to rank their daily activities and make changes in their daily lives where the impact is biggest.

Most people fly once a year at most.

In the US I'm thinking that daily transportation and daily use of energy in electricity/heating/air con are at the top of the list.
The main issue is where we get our energy from.

No, that's just the most currently newsworthy of literally hundreds of causes of the global ecological collapse. Ecologists have been mapping many of these causes for decades. The overarching cause of all the component causelets (eg. emissions, habitat destruction, soil & water degradation, etc) has been the expansion of a crude global civilisation based on selective ignorance of science. We pretend to respect science when it produces stuff we like ("technology"), but ignore the inconvenient understandings revealed by science as it relates to the complex living systems that sustain us.
The very big difference is that we are, at least partially, causing it, aware of it, aware it's going to be bad, and we know how to improve it. So we're making the decision, as a specie, not to care.

But sure in the big scheme of things it's not changing much, it's more of a personal / moral position.
We had StajlPleijs/Lunarstorm founded in 1996 https://www.internetmuseum.se/tidslinjen/lunarstorm/
The advice already given is good, but a few other points I'd like to add:

* I also have a degree in Computer Science, but with 18 months of professional development experience I'd still consider you a junior-level developer. In terms of skill level, you're absolutely fine, so don't worry too much about whether you should be better at certain things than others.

* I wouldn't expect a junior developer to fully understand an existing code base without significant time workng on it. I'd also say that the only remedy for being good at this is to spend time working on large projects. CS degree or not, this is a new skill for you, so don't feel stupid for struggling with this. The only way you'll improve is to get a system set up locally, and to debug your way through the system until you understand what individual parts are doing. Some systems make more sense than others.

* I'd agree with the other users on going to see a GP, but I'd also add that you're not the first developer to have their mind wander in a meeting, and you certainly won't be the last. It sounds obvious, but have you considered writing notes during these meetings? I'm sure your PM's and lead developers would be grateful for the notes, and if it helps you to retain knowledge in those meetings then it's a win-win.
If you own and actually live in the house, why would it matter? Property tax and HOI also drop...that's a net win IMHO.
Machine and factories producing solar cells don't run on electricity? What do they run on?
I wouldn’t dismiss conservative, Bible-believing Christians as merely a sect.

Also, I shouldn’t single out Christianity. I just happen to know it well because it was a big part of my childhood. A lot of other religions also have a general disregard for science.
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IANAL, are you? This sounds like something you'd need to plaster with a LOT of disclaimers, especially if you're straying away from standard t&c/tos documentation.

Discreet industries have quite specific legal terminology (in my experience) and machine learning is probably better suited to weeding out mistakes in documents rather than interpreting the contents within them. It's the interpretation that earns the big money. The example you've given is useful - but useful to an audience with specific prior knowledge and an existing familiarity with the licence landscape. Expanding beyond this is probably going to be an exercise in unintended consequences.

The idea has a lot of merit and would be truly disruptive it it could be achieved, but if lawyer jokes have taught us anything, there is no shortage of motivation to reduce the worlds reliance on lawyers, but nobody has yet come up with a good solution (to my knowledge).
> I'm firmly in the "only science will save us" camp.

The problem is that just saying that, allows policy makers and public to sit back and wait for the problem to be saved - without funding the science to do, or take other necessary policy steps.

In a sense you can argue that science has saved us - we have solar and wind, nuclear and excellent battery tech.

So why aren't we "saved"?
> Thanks for the unsubstantial comment.

Given that for decades a primary draw for vi was that it was simple, the fact that people keep adding features to it until it's approaching where Emacs was a few decades ago is noteworthy. Noting that Emacs has had a certain feature for decades, and that the feature has been receiving bug fixes and adding still more sub-features is substantial.

Given that users of vim no longer seem to care about simplicity, one has to wonder: why stick with vim? Emacs has a far better extension language (elisp is to vimscript as a thermonuclear weapon is to a sharp stick), evil-mode can accurately replicate the vim editing experience, and Emacs has far more features and packages now than does vim.

It's a bit like preferring a race car to a van because you want speed, but then deciding you want to haul packages for a living and bolting on a 2-ton flatbed to the back of your race car. You end up wasting fuel and still not carrying as many packages as you could with a good van — and not running as quickly, either.
Yeah, this seems like it's done for domestic reasons, and the timing might well be dominated by simple administrative delays.
Experts have studied this and came to the opposite conclusion:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
WhatsApp still cannot transfer message backups between Android phones and iPhones. I switch between both with new devices every 1 or 2 years and it always a pain losing the messages.
I know it's an obvious suggestion, but 'GitHub' folder of browser bookmarks? Not clear to me what value it would add as a GH feature, just interface clutter IMO.
Nuclear has the lowest death/Wh ratio.
I've just look at some stats (a few first google results, no idea if they are correct) and it seems that in developed countries meat production has about 3% impact on CO2 the whole emission. It is also not clear how this number was calculated, as "deforestation" is mentioned as a factor that increases CO2 emission, I don't know how much it contributes to those 3% - maybe it would be enough to stop deforestation. The most harmful is beef production, pork or chickens seems to be much less important. So yes, maybe beef consumption will help, but only very little.
This doesn't make sense. Nobody is expecting Qatar (with the highest per capita emissions) to make the largest contribution to fixing the problem.

What's important is the actual reduction in emissions, and the jurisdiction with control over the largest quantity is most capable of reducing the total.
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Culture fans: These are not the knife missiles you were thinking about.

The topic of kinetic drone launched hellfire missiles seems highly problematic. Usage scenarios are when there'd just be too much collateral damage from explosive munitions, but where do you draw the line to something that would do vastly more damage than a sniper rifle hit?

I guess it could help protect local intelligence assets who might be armed with nothing but a cell phone.

(I have no real qualifications on this topic, but I do like to read about military ops. And Iain Banks).
More probably for the impending 30th anniversary of 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
Really interesting overview. Thanks for publishing. You should probably submit this somewhere into https://docs.docker.com
The Problem of Thinking Too Much (2003) [pdf]
Wondering what you can do? Especially for liberals? My idea of where to start: shame your company into phasing out business trips. I know we all like to travel but it needs to stop being seen as a work perk and start being seen as a liability. We put internet cables across the oceans and continents for a reason -- so we travel less, not more. Find a way to reward those who refuse to go -- maybe have a fun local hangout or whatever. Get your supervisor chain to stop making someone fly every month/week/whatever. Because every cross-continental/trans-atlantic flight (very roughly) emits around 20% [1] and 100% [2] of your entire year's worth of driving.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/climate/airplane-pollutio...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/sep/09/car...
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Hi,

The last time I tried to install insiders it mandated that I sign into Windows with a real Microsoft Live account, which requires an email address sign up.

Where as the stable version of Windows allows you to create an offline account.

If I sign in with a Microsoft Live account, now you can associate my email address to my OS usage stats. Isn't that the definition of personally identifiable data?

Also, you may have linked to the wrong sub-link. The page that lists what's tracked for insiders is this one I think? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/windows-dia...

It mentions "User ID -- a unique identifier associated with the user's Microsoft Account (if one is used)". It also mentions collecting a bunch of low level network data that look questionable, such as IP addresses flowing through network devices. Isn't that saying "logs every website you visit"?

Then it mentions it logs every app I open and how long it was opened for, and even what I search for in those apps. I didn't go through the whole list in detail but that was what I saw in a 60 second scan of the page.

But on the topic of WSL, are you saying if we run Windows stable we'll be able to get and continuously update WSL v2 from the store? That would be neat.