skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you happy with surveillance by US gov everyday with Apple, Google, Amazon right?
We feel happy when accuse others but never think about ourselves and the ‘ethical’ gov.
For the moment their paywall can be bypassed by using private browsing, it might still present you with a nag screen but after that’s closed it should display the article.
"A fertility rate of 1.7 isn't the same as 'not reproducing' and doesn't imply 'going extinct'. You can't just extrapolate a trend at any given moment indefinitely."

Apart from that, if you speak of group A going extinct and group B not, you are implicitly defining them as separate species. I don't think that's an accurate description of the present nor a plausible description of the future.
> Facebook was Facebook on that budget not long ago.

Facebook was Facebook, but it wasn't Facebook+Whatsapp+Instagram, and "mergers and acquisitions that substantially reduce market competition" have been impermissible under the US anti-trust law for over 100 years, since the Clayton Act, and I'm not sure you need more than that.
I don't know, that they actually implement them, instead of doing proposal after proposal?!?

Even the ideas that eventually die on the Web, C++, Java and .NET happen to have preview implementations available to try out at one point, instead of dead paper.
Or the massive investments which have been driving down the cost of solar, wind and battery technology will cross a threshold where it's cheaper than mining coal.

If the technology keeps getting cheaper, the markets will do the migration.

Note. The technology is getting better/cheaper because of investments, some of which is publicly funded.
Weren't the original balloons animal bladders, which seem gross but certainly biodegradable?
K-Meleon was a great option for Windows computers with not much RAM, since it used native GUI widgets instead of XUL.

(It might still be, but I haven't touched it in over a decade.)
Yeah, you're right about the decimal point.
This is such a glorious project. I wonder if intersecting shapes could be detected and automatically decomposed into a set of non-intersecting shapes that render separately...
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The trouble is if we reach a tipping point where warming causes big releases of methane then there is nothing we can do. We will be carried along for the ride at that point.
Yes, most people open their doors in that case for better or worse.
> the idea that technology is limited by physics will be absurd

What I find absurd is that one could think that physical limits on technology are absurd. Physical limits are exactly the limits on technology, no more no less. The question is what those limits really are and in some cases we do not yet know them but for the most part we have a pretty good idea of what is and is not possible technology wise. It is simply up to us to try to maximize our potential within those limits.
I believe ecological collapse will be avoided, but we definitely need people who push forward the idea that it won't, just to keep us on our tip-toes.

E.g. a recent piece of news:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/02/28/nasa-says...
I broadly agree with your point but careful when saying “no obvious phenotype”. As my former boss likes to say about work in C. elegans: “Worms can’t talk. They seem healthy but maybe they’re extremely unhappy.” Less flippantly, we know that biological systems in general have huge plasticity to buffer environmental changes. The environment is controlled under lab conditions, so loss of robustness due to genetic changes will almost never be detected. We have no good estimate — not even a ballpark! — of how many of these 95 “no obvious phenotype” cases actually have no phenotype, and beliefs widely vary.
I thought all vegetable oils were bad when heated (and also provide few nutrients, unlike animal-based grease/fat).
Similarly it's the same feeling I have towards cards. Birthday cards, get-well cards, mother/father day cards, valentine cards. All thrown out in a matter of days if not the same day, yet the older generations still think they are important to get piece of card often with a generic salutation. To reject this tradition is akin to aversion of showing good will. There needs to be a acceptable token of appreciation that's not thrown away.
Thanks for that, I have just been thoroughly massacred by aliens.
I mean, I didn't give Polish police as a random example without ever being to Poland you know. I'm Polish and based on my several interactions with the police I wouldn't hesitate at all. I would definitely describe them as friends and they do generally want to help.
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Big Brother A.I is quite scary, like an evil santa, as in: "He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when yr awake, he knows if you've been bad or good; so be good! for goodness sake"
It's very likely that those people know both python and awk, and this their attitude of superiority is not unwarranted.

It's much faster to type out the awk line then to write the same in python.
>Why would I want to learn about new services or products?

I think you missed the context of gp's comment. His example of ads was from a hobby enthusiast's magazine such as Model Railroader.[1]

Many readers buy hobby magazines in part for the ads. Yes, there are feature stories but the ads themselves are also informative of new products the readers want to learn about.

So to directly answer your question of "why would I want to learn about new services or products?" -- it's because that desire for ads was implicit in your decision to buy a hobby-oriented magazine. (The "I" and "you" is not you specifically but a rhetorical placeholder for the generalized magazine buyer.)

Another example of some people expressing a desire for ads is buying the Sunday edition of their local newspaper. (Many readers won't buy the Monday-to-Saturday editions but they'll go out of their way to buy the Sunday copy that's has the ad inserts.) They didn't buy it for the news articles written by journalists; they bought it for the stores' ads to see what's on sale and for the coupons.

An opposite example of buying a magazine because it does not have ads would be something like Consumer Reports.

[1] https://mrr.trains.com/magazine
There is no limit to complexity.

There are still many many mysteries to solve about life, intelligence, and more generally about complex chemical processes.

Energy efficiency has a limit that we are very far from reaching (how to harvest all of the sun energy productively? without ruining life?)

Human systems: how to reduce waste, make transit faster, make people happier, avoid violence, etc.

I can't think of it all, but no we will not run out of things to discover/invent.
By that standard science fiction should qualify as science. It doesn't. Simulated worlds physical reality is about as relevant as what your average 70's sci-fi writer could cook up. As long as those ideas are feasible (say: communications satellites) we may end up with some progress but only where it connects to the real world.
Interesting! And quite ingenious to hide critique in praise.
Isn‘t a quick glance at the article enough to decide whether or not to read the article? It‘s not like you are forced to read the article after all.
Well that just cries out for some snarky user-agent-sniffing "upgrade your browser" overlay.
So does pretty much every single 3D engine that renders to a flat surface, like a monitor.

I think it is just a misconception stemming from the 90s (notice the influence of this engine) when anything non-polygonal (and sometimes, non-GPU accelerated, depending on who you asked and how misinformed they were) was considered as "pseudo 3D".

But there is nothing pseudo here, if your scene data structures use three dimensions, you are doing 3D.
You could broaden your definition of gene to include proximal regulatory elements. If you take that unit and translocate it the answer is much less obvious.
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We are humans, as soon as we understand how something works, we think we can modify to make it better. So we will always be busy.
There is strong case that innovation peaked 50s and has been slowing down since https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601199/tech-slowdown-thre... .
I am lucky that I have not joined the IEEE as a member. In the future, I will refuse to be a journal article reviewer. I will not do free work for such an organization anymore.
This is actually a common misunderstanding. The example of ice-cream vendors on a beach or, in this case, gas stations, are toy examples.

The model is not really about location. It is about product differentiation in SOME dimension. By extension, it is also about the number of market participants with differentiated products.
Distance or location stands for this differentiation of products.

This is typical of econ models. They are not trying to be realistic, but show a certain mechanism.

By the way, the model can be extended with different pricing mechanisms and many actors (for example on a circle, not a line, to show that generally too many firms enter a market than can be supported).

As for your points:

1) Pricing depends on demand and maket configuration. Usually, one would work with what is called the "inverse demand", where the company has basically solved price as a function of the the amount of goods it WANTS to sell, given other market participants.
Note how pricing is implicit in this. While these functions are of course usually assumed to be well behaved, you could do what you want here. So it doesn't miss pricing, it just abstracts from it

In particular, that you can jack up prices depending on location is _explicitly_ in this model.

2) Note how the locations depend on the distribution of demand along the "line". Your intuition depends on this as well. If demand is concentrated somewhere in the middle, you will get a different result...
> They started the war, killed millions of people in the process (including many millions of civilians in Asia), and then had the gall to try to bargain for decent surrender terms after all that horror they caused?

Applying that standard, there would not be a single American left alive for the constant war they wage since the end of WW2.
I don't believe that - how does it spill to disk? TMP directory? You can still sort if you don't have any disk space (until you run out of swap?) from what I recall.
>signing into a Google site from Chrome also signs you into the browser

They eventually created an option to disable that behaviour after a lot of user complaints:

"While we think sign-in consistency will help many of our users, we’re adding a control that allows users to turn off linking web-based sign-in with browser-based sign-in—that way users have more control over their experience. For users that disable this feature, signing into a Google website will not sign them into Chrome."

https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/product-updates-base...
Virtual reality is also limited by physics, because it requires hardware, energy and transmission which are least limited by thermodynamics, quantum effects and the speed of light. In the case of a simulated reality, physics becomes metaphysics, but it still always applies.
Was it Chrome that came up with tabs? i cant seem to remember if FF had it. If FF didnt have tabs, that is enough for me to say Chrome wiped out the competition.
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Some nice graphs on the subject here.
https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth
It would be more appropriate to send it to your government agencies... Oh wait, they exempted themselves from GDPR, how typical and how despicable.
Think of a tree as a plant that comes from a seed. Plant 30 acorns, the forestry employees will weed out the other 29 over a few years. The ratio is probably higher if you start early, lower if you start with the type of 2 year old trees you can buy in a shop.

Outside of forestry, nature ensures that the majority of trees dont make it.

Another factor is that for fast growing trees used in pulp, they get felled in massive amounts every year. Planted trees are not left alone.
I didn't do a very good job here, and my last line really should have been omitted.

I agree with your original post, and this one too (will upvote both) but I am really wary of the potential for abuse that trying to help people become 'better' people can become.

A really ugly actual example from about 1969:

"Because homosexuality has been considered an endemic and deep-rooted
condition since times of antiquity, hopes for its alleviation, until
very recent times, have been faint. But lately, since other resistant
mental aberrations have been overcome by new methods, somewhat drastic
treatments are being used and advocated for the homosexual in some
quarters."

And I emphasis, this is just one example, I could produce others in other fields.

All I'm saying is be very careful about the meaning of 'better'. Anyway, I do actually agree with you overall.
> some types of diets seem to help with autism

Sorry, the actual evidence for this is essential nil. The anecdotes are all explainable by confirmation bias. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/43957/82
Yes. Examples like the one linked make it appear that awk is write-only language, which it really isn't.

'awk' is really a very beautiful little language. It's concise enough to solve many tasks in a single line, making it easy to use interactively while still being able to grow to moderately-sized scripts. It's not supposed to replace a full-blown scripting language like Python, but for processing files line-by-line it's superb.
Summarized :

They spent a ton of money on promoting Chrome
But essentially defending them on that specific issue doesn't make it a nice, or admirable company in my book.

Edit, to clarify some more: I was "defending" them on some accusations that they promoted Chrome with dirty tricks and dark patterns. Initially, I'd wager, they didn't.

Does that clarify it?
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Wireguard is a great solution for a secure, high-performance data pipe. However, it only supports layer 3 static routing by itself, which by itself fits none of my typical use cases.

If you're willing to think of it as a secure control plane where the cryptographic identities of peers are mapped to IP addresses, you can run other tried-and-tested but insecure tunnels over it.
I wouldn't really see it like that. The limits of physics are with us every day. That is why cars are impractical at speed and why there is latency to other continents. For all the development in technology, it is mostly the same since the 80s. "Just" more of it.
I can not agree with you more!
Can you still buy MRM beef patties in the US? From what I can find the process has been banned since 2004
For anyone wanting to get WireGuard up and running in a few minutes with zero hassle, I usually use this excellent bash script [0] as my goto.

Can be edited for DNS/subnet config, generates .conf files as needed and also handles QR code generation for adding mobile devices. Pair this with a $5 DO droplet and you're all set.

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When the police come to your door, you're going to answer.

Agree with the program or not, this is not spam.
By the way, think about what would happen if you could differentiate in two dimensions? You'd be on a plane or a circle on which a demand distribution exists... etc.

That's the idea.
Firefox had tabs before Chrome existed.
There are many more success non-popular stories around DSLs. Last year, in the Community event of JetBrains MPS, a bunch of big companies (Siemens, Bosch, Workday, etc.) showcased their DSLs built with MPS technology. Here are the videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=102hoaAdctk&list=PLQ176FUIyI...
he's being sarcastic
15B+ at 2100 is not the main-stream prediction anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
Politics over academics. Such a dark day of human academic history!
"there is absolutely no upside "

The part where you're a drug addict and they've come to see if you want to go to rehab is a big potential upside.

"The police are not your friends"

Yes, the absolutely are. Despite the potential downsides.

I live in a shifty neighbourhood and visibly recognize the police staffers (I see them often, they come into the cafe etc.), there's a clinic across the street from me that deals with 'all kinds' ... in my view, a lot of policing is basically social work. That said I live in Canada.
In my experience it is usually the test.
> Would this mean gene-therapy could potentially undo autism?

One of the "autisms", possibly - but it's a long long way before that happens.

> Also, since I believe it's now actually agreed upon that autism rates actually ARE increasing

[citation needed]
I was wondering how awk work internally. Does it compile the script then run it ? Is it bytecode or lower level ? A finite state machine ?
that sounds like a problem with our economic system more than with our reproductive trends. At a certain point population growth would have had to plateau, it couldn't have continued growing forever.
It depends on the implementation, but typically hash tables are used to store the elements and values of associative arrays:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Array-Int...

I suspect that it's designed so that hash collisions are impossible until you get to an unrealistic number of characters per line.
This is the sort of logic that is used everywhere, whether by police or social services, but it doesn't work in practice the way it does in theory.

Providing help to people before there is a crisis sounds so nice and helpful, but due to the inherent drastic negative consequences of entering into the system, it ends up merely moving the punishment for not fitting in forward of the crisis. Thus, trying to be pro-active ends up harming people and/or reinforcing the mentality that you try to cope at all costs without help until you reach a breaking point.

For example, we all want to help people who are suicidal, right? But if someone's behavior triggers a response to such apparent potential, then very traumatic and non-helpful things can take place, including the temporary and/or permanent loss of freedoms.
Wow. And I suppose they managed to eroticise Netflix itself via "Netflix and chill". Pretty brazen stuff when you think about it.
More relevant: better embedding story. Gecko is not exactly great to embed.
'Biodegradable plastic' is great I'm sure but it promotes bizarre thinking like this. How about we just decide not to have mass-pollution parties for no reason, rather than trying to reduce their impact with expensive new materials?
Perhaps, he could be honest and say, yeah, it's true. We don't think it's a problem because ... but it's something you'll have to live with if you are to use Go.

There's precedence, for instance, C# is Microsoft's turf.

Seems to me to be a basic human thing - if people are worried, downplaying their worries backfires.
This is an awesome idea and would love this paired with a 'fluff' counter telling how much unnecessary fluff is around a key message of an article. In this case it's low.
Ah, makes sense now. Eating out usually is more expensive than getting a takeaway delivered - maybe not a like for like on the main but it’s usually once you add a couple of alcoholic drinks. You’ll get charged for a glass of wine what you’d pay for the bottle at home.
This theory doesn't stand in face of science. However: some autistic people have food allergies and comorbid metabolic problems; addressing those will usually alleviate suffering-caused problematic behaviors, and thus make communication easier. This doesn't mean it was "autism treatment" or "autism diet"; you'd get the same effect if you treated a toothache in a nonverbal autistic child.
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I wonder if that explains Amazon Prime's dubbed shows? I thought it was unusual (along with Netflix's 3%); in the UK I'm used to foreign programmes only being subtitled.
"police, health care professionals, and social workers participating in the Hub" - I think it probably (hopefully) mostly is.
Those are exactly the types of questions that I think we have outdated laws regarding.

Outdated laws and outdated economic theory embedded in them. There is only so far that you can extend a railroads, mining and foundries analogy.

I'm sure we could have lively back-and-forth about the impact of these monopolies, but the only legal and legislatively pertinent parts of that discussion are those that can be massaged into an analogy to the late industrial examples that the current legal framework (including, legislation, legal precedents and regulatory bodies) was designed around.
IE was by far the worst browser. i was working as a front end dev durinh those days and got excited when google finally launched chrome, more-so than firefox. the hours and the energy spent on debugging IE is something we will never get back.

on your second point, monopolies create the setting for massive disruption.
Ask HN: What's HN community opinion on 5G health issues?
Wired and many other news outlets are writing about health concerns, opinions are different, so I'm interested to hear the opinion of HN community.
Except that they admitted that they didn't really look beyond C++ and Java implementations. Their aversions to modern language design and type theory are pretty obvious.

Also, lots of code can be written in a bad language. And a language can be practical without being good from a language design perspective, the difference is in the richness of the ecosystem, the stdlib, and 'meeting programmers where they are'.
It's using Google Custom Search https://developers.google.com/custom-search/. I thought about hooking it up to all the APIs and decided to do a quick prototype first this way first.
because we were not wasting enough money with GDPR already...
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Explanation on how to use it? Maybe I'll link the youtube video I made on the site to show how it works.
it’s much easier to deal with the current 30% than it has been at any point in history with IE.
If memory serves Opera was the first browser that had tabs but they were also in Firefox by the time Chrome released.
Also note that most of these are spontaneous mutations, and that this paper doesn’t distinguish between correlation and causation.

My take, this shoes that something is broken it the very mechanism of DNA replication, expression, DNA repair and cell differentiation, but somehow we fail to detect those aberrant genes on late stage. So their regulation in the early development stages is when we need to look, but that’s very tough to do.
From Wikipedia (I first saw it using Galeon. I'm probably messing up history here but I think Epiphany was also early with tabs):

The tabbed interface approach was then followed by the Internet Explorer shell NetCaptor in 1997. These were followed by a number of others like IBrowse in 1999, and Opera in 2000 (with the release of version 4 - although a MDI interface was supported before then), MultiViews October 2000, which changed its name into MultiZilla on 1 April 2001 (an extension for the Mozilla Application Suite[8]), Galeon in early 2001, Mozilla 0.9.5 in October 2001, Phoenix 0.1 (now Mozilla Firefox) in October 2002, Konqueror 3.1 in January 2003, and Safari in 2003. With the release of Internet Explorer 7 in 2006, all major web browsers featured a tabbed interface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(interface)
I don't really believe Chinese gov will play the same card to obtain leverages for the trade war, or maybe the last card
That might be because everything isn't one line for myself. It's a bit of a hack, because HTML usually thinks it's fine to break a text cell on a space, and this prevents it.

There's probably better solutions, like maybe converting spaces in title links to nbsp.

It was just a quick hack that seemed to work for me. I obviously didn't test it on bigger screens. Whoops.