skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that vulnerable populations would be hurt the worst. It's an ugly issue that will be hard to deal with, and I think we need to start looking at more widespread preparedness regulation as well as systems for moving people out of at-risk areas.
Eh, If they want, they can train Alpha zero in one day Leela can be trained in 10 years. In any case indeed Leela's progress is impressive.
An often unexamined possibility is that vitamins are harmful in the long term.

I recently dived into PubMed (and the hub) to see if there have been any studied deleterious effects of vitamins.

There are many studies correlating intake of B vitamins (specifically B6 and B12) with all cause mortality, increased cancer incidence and aggressiveness, even when taken over a short period of time (6 months).

D vitamin intake is also correlated with certain cancers after correcting for deficiencies.

Even seemingly innocuous C vitamin intake at excessive doses (over 500mg) is correlated with with kidney disease and lung cancer.

I'm just going by memory, but these were not single studies, but literature reviews.

My suggestion is not to listen to me, but read studies, preferably lit reviews, of ANYTHING that you're considering consuming chronically.

Another interesting tidbit: I found a study where individuals with certain vitamin or mineral deficiencies seemed to have lower mortality and lower cancer incidence. That one made me stop my vitamin intake definitely.

I'm sorry for not including references, I'm on mobile, and not close to my Mendeley library, but you should do your own research anyways.
Two to three Tbps aggregate won't change much except maybe for islands that are currently dependent on VSAT.
I don't. As sickening and distressing the words are above you, I don't. Most people want to be safe and when the absolute worst is happening, they want to survive it. I know you are insinuating/thinking the same, but I want to be explicit.

Can you, in all honesty, blame them?
Ouch. That's not at all what I'm trying to do. I have no shortage of passion, but passion alone does not make a viable business.

My hope is that my post will help others think about choosing an idea that fits with their goals, so that it will work out for the long haul.
I actually agree with you and edited my comment before reading your reply to soften that specific part (should be -> could be useful to consider)

I think the interesting thing which the statistic misses is that people are still choosing to light that stove with coal even though the PM it creates is damaging their health, because it’s the least worst option.

Outside PM is different because it can come from the factory down the road producing widgets for some other country, but the fact that inside PM contributes to nearly the same negative health impact, that is not a government intervention / negative externality! Starve with clean air or cook food for your family. This isn’t a fossil fuel problem, and isn’t something that can be switched out in any sense.

A makeshift stove can burn coal and cook a meal. You’ll never match that with any non-emitting technology because it will always require some investment where literally none is available.
They're trying to get rock samples from the earthquake zone to try to understand earthquake geology better, right?
When Jesus Found “Flow” (and Why That Matters)
The Guardian is weirdly patchy - runs the gamut from genuinely serious reporting to trashy etiquette, celebrity gossip and lifestyle columns (under which head I'd include this one).

Living in an area where mobile rollouts are objected to on the basis of the '4g death rays' they require, I'm very sure the mention of 'toxic chemicals' alone will garner clicks aplenty.
Not subscribing to plumbing magaxines just means the signal to noise ratio in them is bad.

For the value part: What if plumbers use Facebook (which they do) and when they see your FB ad, they buy your product. Wouldnt that indicate they do care about your app?
Oh, yeah of course sharing data with 3rd parties is even more "nope" than just storing it themselves.

The last app I looked at to consider purchasing, "Clear Todos", which was highly-reputed at some point? Their Privacy Policy link in App Store actually hits a 404 error page. To say the least, I almost never purchase anything from App Store these days. It's a pretty dire landscape, but I'm tired of "being the product", and I am willing to give up a lot of stuff to lessen how often my information is used/stored/profited from.
> impact on core features of a language platform, like package management

In this specific case (which is important to the discussion) there effectively was nothing you could call "management" in what the core tooling provided for resolving and fetching dependencies. I think the reason it wasn't there, was because that wasn't very important to Google which famously operates a company-wide mono repo. Dependency management wasn't a problem Google had, so an official solution was a very long time coming, and left the interim solution providers feeling quite raw.
I bet you do but aren't even realizing it. Every tech product review is a type one ad. WiRED, tech crunch, etc.
I'm hoping you're right and can show this in a couple of years as effectively a third way to build a world class chess engine.

I don't understand how anyone can tell you "AlphaZero beat Stockfish with a method that involves evaluating fewer positions, so any new engine should also evaluate fewer positions." Chess engine research is not finished: there are a lot of things still to try.
I was wondering when collapse-awareness would reach the tech community. Glad to hear about extinction rebellion. Email me: shaunewilliams@gmail.com
I don't know what you even do with that information. Are you supposed to ask your doctor to put you on medication? "Uhh, sir you don't even have that disease."
"There effectively was nothing you could call 'management'" is hyperbole. I know what you mean: you don't like the way they managed it. Ok. But this is a pretty good illustration of how there's no winning for the Go core team in responding to this stuff.
I flew an L-39 with inoperative ejection rockets. The bailout procedure was:

1. Roll inverted.

2. Trim full nose down. (Down = skyward at this point.)

3. Blow canopy.

4. Fall out.
How naive or arrogant do scientists have to be to think that we have “junk” DNA that doesn’t affect how we develop? Wouldn’t it be much more useful to classify things we don’t understand as “unknown purpose X” so that more people are inclined to study them?

/end venting
The truth behind Tiananmen Sq is one that tugs at my heart-strings. I still somehow refuse to believe it's true that soldiers could fire at the people. The tank-man video is the most humane display of the heroism, not just of the tank-man, but also the man inside the tank, who refused to mow his compatriot. I want to make it my life' work to uncover what is true. At least preserve enough evidence, so that future generations can study this and decide for themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_Japan_(2006_film)
Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database
If it's the plane equivalent of "Blind Man's Bluff" then I'm in.
The upvote is too small too.
This is the "capitalism doesn't work because of human nature" argument (which I agree with). It is impossible to train people to pursue profit and to value consumption without these horrendous side effects. Meanwhile, it is quite clearly possible to train people to do worthwhile things with their lives without requiring them to chase a profit motive. (Examples include the free software movement, academic research, etc.)
I'm interested also.
Interestingly (if somewhat unfortunately), this is already done for some radio telescopes. Some satellite down-links are strong enough to damage the receivers, so their visibility has to be taken into account when considering what frequencies to observe at what times.
I didn’t get that sense at all. His last bullet point is “The market should overlap with my existing audience”.
If the product is big enough I'll skim reddit. Nothing like hearing the hard facts from a pissed off anonymous hivemind that isn't going to let anyone off the hook. Even the apple subreddit has been crucifying the company as they keep falling down the stairs with every keyboard half-fix they silently release (I think we are at 'gen 4' now).
At home I block all Facebook with pihole. Not 100% protection but it’s a start.
Would you please edit the uncivil bits out of your comments here? Lines like "You keep on missing the point" and "You know very well" just add acid to the mix and are against the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can you point us where Guava library team made such claims?
How is that naive or arrogant?
This is just not true. Example: I was just hired to scale marketing for a particular app.

This app currently has over 100 real reviews online, averaging 4.9 stars out of 5. Retention is nuts - 98% of people who ever started using the product (which has a monthly fee) are still using it. The company is three years old.

Perfect to take off, right? But few industries are actually viral. We just doubled the number of new customers per month using FB ads in the first two months of scaling it out, and we'll scale much further over the next 3.

Anyone who works in start-up growth will tell you the same things I am.
Except the sneering condescension of the guys behind Go when we make reasonable requests and critiques.
ebay is getting more attractive again. But probably the stupidest company in the tech field.

They had skype, a kind of social network. They could have been facebook.

They had paypal they could have been the major payment processor on phones (see WeChat)

A lot of missed opportunities.
Use the exchange.
I don't use Go, I think rsc's module system is significantly better than the community version (although bad in its own way), and I find your broad dismissal... unappealing.

Can we keep the discussion substantive?
There are plenty of videos about this nowadays. Here's a series of videos of a Ukrainian youtuber from this winter, biking into the exclusion zone, etc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=199KDKgO1Uc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5knVD0AnTFw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DePsh2OFNVc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi9rhMn6qTU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY3jyNbbEHY
Thanks for the feedback, we did everything ourselves. Two of us on this with developer backgrounds.
I assume sending up a comsat is more expensive than sending up explosive to destroy it.
I'm going to second this. I've seen on more then one occasion that some people believe it's their job to do this on order to be most effective. I literally had PM tell me (as head of engineering) that they thought it was there job to set unrealistic expectations and adversarial environment in the hopes that it created an environment where the engineers worked longer.

I'm reality it creates a hostile work environment where burnout is high, morale is low, and projects take even longer to finish. It sacrifices all long term gains for short term results.
The bully label is something I worry about and I like that they address that here as I suspect most bullying happens with kids who aren't full time bullies and such.

I do think that any bullying mitigation approach's success is highly dependent on the personalities of the kids involved.
Flash in the pan revenues. No company wants to have this press:

Gilead Sciences Inc. will continue to feel the financial sting this year of declining revenues from its hepatitis C business, forecasting combined 2018 sales of the drugs reaching only a fifth of what the biotech recorded at the height of its commercial success three years ago.

https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/gilead-hepatitis-c-revenu...

Contrast a statin for Pfizer: $125 billion in sales over 14 years. Lipitor alone "provided up to a quarter of Pfizer Inc.'s annual revenue for years."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atorvastatin#History
The word refers to a belief fate or destiny; but the usage here implied negativity or pessimism of some kind.

A "pessimistic outlook" is probably closer to what they wanted to express.
I have. It does not contain sugar or any sugar-like ingredients.
I actually think a large number of societal issues today are stemming from people's inability to think rationally for themselves.

Is this any different from the free market arguments about how regulation is bad, and the customer must inform themselves about literally everything and every consequence, with convenient disregard for the fact that it's impossible for a person to learn everything, and that it turns into a way to assign blame rather than to make the world a better place to live?

Why should "you must think for yourself" become a justification for you to be allowed to show advertising to me continually?

taking bad deals like minimum wage etc.

The only reason there are minimum wages, is because people fought for them, and refused to take even worse deals.
Junk DNA means non coding and without benifit. Due to the random nature of mutation such sequences are expected. However, verifying any specific sequence is useless is difficult.

One important consideration is sequence length may have value even if the content is meaningless. Another is random sequences may aid long term adaptation even if they don’t currently do anything. So, if anything Junk is a fairly descriptive term as you may eventually use stuff from a Junk Drawer even if it’s not currently useful.
According to this page that's correct:
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/whats-in-this-mouthwash
How much is this about age vs generational differences?
CQL in Haskell
Ever been to the 'gear' section of WiRED?
Is the subject of the story still alive, or did officials sample his tissue/DNA at death? If so it may now be possible to track down his mother in Glasgow ... a Scottish nurse (?) working in pre-revolution Iran, I imagine, wouldn't be so hard to narrow down.
For every app that I install I check if the app activated background app refresh. Most of the time it does not make any sense why an app would even need that, other than tracking me. Also disabling it for most apps is one of the best things you can do to extend your battery life.

In Apple's defense it is a hard thing to ask the user whether or not they want to permit "background app refresh". Many users might not understand at all what this means. It is not as easy to understand as "allow app to send you notifications" or "allow app to use your location".

Maybe Apple could force apps to request for each specific use case why they wants to be active in the background. Is it to enable basic functionality of the app or is it to track you? Would be great if the user could choose in which case to allow access and in which case not. Right now it is a blank check you give to each app and it is hard to tell whether the app abuses its permissions or not.
A shout out for Firefox multi-account containers here. Set up google-specific containers for any google properties you do want to log into, leaving your main container uncontaminated with google cookies.
It seems I should be reading between these lines.

> The reality is, even if the U.S. succeeds in shutting out Huawei from 5G networks in major countries, the Chinese company could still thwart American efforts to maintain leadership in handling global data traffic.

> Security policymakers in the U.S., Japan and Australia have started working together to address this potential threat.

How is not maintaining leadership a threat? I would say it's a loss of market share and control to do as you please with the infrastructure. It's a threat in the same sense as citizens having encryption.
This was one of the big arguments I heard against a sugar tax too, I'm sure it's true for raising taxes on gas, consumables, etc. But it seems to me like every regressive tax could be offset with another progressive subsidy like a tax cut, as a potential solution.
What Is Processor Binning? (2018)
Eh, nuclear isn't that great. It's taken decades to start even getting close to truly safe, low-waste reactors, and that only due to the considerable public pressure involved after various high-profile accidents. It's pretty cheap in the long run, but the initial costs are extremely high. We can't trust every nation to stick to high standards in terms of safety, so we're running globally at the safety level of the least competent crew of the worst reactor.

At this point, we're rapidly approaching (or already past) the point where renewables are cheaper per kwh in the long term than nuclear, and much cheaper in the short term - without the dependence on the neoliberal hegemony of giant governments and giant corporations and giant finance.

At this point, I'm not too concerned about climate change, largely because there's not much we can do about it. Environmentalism and liberalism are unfortunately full of a bunch of hairshirted Puritan shaming over anyone doing anything that feels happy or successful - denial is a moral good, and allowing ourselves the benefits of abundant energy is a sin. I feel that's driving concerns about global warming more than the actual environmental damage - they finally have an excuse to deny people a good time.

More importantly, denialism won't work. If we cut our consumption by 50% right now (fat chance), it'd just take us 100 years rather than 50 to burn through the same amount of dinosaur. Same long-term damage. The only thing that will work is creating an energy framework (both production and consumption) that doesn't use fossil fuels, but has roughly the same cost (or less) and the same output.

Renewables are on their way to giving us more energy than dinosaurs ever did, at lower cost, without complex technical dependencies, high up-front costs, etc. It's the greatest weapon against the Corporate State since the internet. Why anyone would want nuclear and its dependency on the neoliberal hegemony (especially if they fear concentrated power at all) is beyond me.
Possibly. It's not like the military-industrial complex is known for it's cost-effective solutions though...

Given the manoeuvring requirements for the orbiting explosives, and the requirement to launch them with enough plausible deniability for it not to be obvious "there's a bunch of commercial satellite killers!" - I wonder if they could build and launch 60 of them for less than SpaceX paid to get the first 60 Starlink birds in orbit?
Because at an atomic level "cold" means "slow" and under the standard model you need to slam protons into each other fast if you want them to fuse.

Here is a true "Explain it like I'm five:"

Kid: I want candy!

Mom: There's candy inside the pinata.

Kid: How do I get it out?

Mom: Hit it with this stick. If you hit it hard enough, the pinata will break and candy will come out.

Kid: gently taps pinata with a stick Mom, it's not working.

Mom: well, you have to hit it hard enough to break it. Try swinging the stick faster.

Kid: But I don't want to swing it fast. I want to swing it slow!

Mom: Then you won't get any candy.

Kid: crying

Cold fusion is based on the belief that there is some way around this fundamental limitation. This would not be based on any of the known laws of physics (the standard model) and would be by definition new physics. If we discount certain discredited experiments which could not be reproduced, then there is no experimental evidence that this ever occurs, nor is there any unexplained phenomena that would require such new physics. Nevertheless, some people feel the search is still worthwhile.

I give a more detailed account (ELI22+) with and physics and numbers above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20034550
Senior machine learning developer salary $18k annually seriously?
Yes. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-12/vw-s-audi...

The real news here is that the EV revolution is finally starting to really take off. The auto companies that are not already pushing hard on developing EV's are going to be left behind and go bankrupt. Of the incumbent auto makers, VW is the most committed.
I think one interesting aspect is to think what would happen if Ken Thompson and Rob Pike and the other original creators and active maintainers left Google?

And say, they still wanted to lead the project? Even though they no longer work? Could they? Or would Google appoint new people, and maybe Go would lose its magic?

I guess that's the difference between run by one or a few BDFLs and run by Google?
Where is the blockchain explorer? Is it your own blockchain or are you just a dapp? And you are still leaking information.
> Ogilvy, Saatchi et al are the Goebbels' of our age.

Sorry, but that is waaay over the top. It makes you sound a bit nutty. A "Truther" of sorts, that dangerously believes too profoundly in his own ideology.
Why can't it be maintained forever?

If a house can be valued at $4,000 one year, and $40,000 a few decades later, and $200,0000 a few decades later, what's the reason that "value" can't keep increasing eternally? There's obviously no real substance to "the value" of a thing, only people's interpretation and desire for it, and there's plenty of "value" where there is no physical substance at all, like exclusivity, or emotional content of art, or novelty of experience. What math tells you there is anything which can be full or supplies run out?
Yeah, but you don't see the Chinese Community Healthcare Plan at 2 Embarcadero. It's just the vibe of the place, it's upscale.
That is, the services don't become cheaper in total, but their cost structure changes. A part of voluntary paying is replaced by a part of involuntary seeing, and the feeling that you are letting go some valuables is blunted.
Most likely a typo.
I was speaking from personal experience but I guess it's just that I haven't been "selected for enhanced screening" (yet). Most likely still in effect.

>Either way, barring a major outcry, the new opt-out rules are likely to stick.

If your enemy cannot be defeated in one stroke, bleed him to death by a thousand small cuts.
We have been working on a simplified container build system which does away with layers altogether. [1]

The use of layers at the build stage adds a lot of needless complexity with very little benefits and users
really need to step back and question the value they are getting from the use of layers. [2]

Words like 'immutability', 'declarative' and 'reproduciblity' are often used in ways that can lead to user misunderstanding and can be accomplished with simpler workflows. For instance immutability, reuse, composition do not require layers. There needs to be a lot more technical scrutiny to avoid confusion.

[1] https://www.flockport.com/docs/containers#builds

[2] https://www.flockport.com/guides/say-yes-to-containers.html
It's a tautology to state that "vulnerable populations would be hurt the worst" in any circumstance.
As far as I can tell, the preferred scientific term is "non-coding DNA," with "junk DNA" being a sensational term that gets more traction in the media.
Sorry, shouldn't have framed that as a question directed at you specifically. :)
I don't think anyone who knows anything about China believes "private company" means anything in that country. The founder was literally a PLA and a huge amount of private ventures have deep ties to both the CCP, either in funding, talent or both.

It's not a coincidence that APT steals IP and "somehow" Chinese companies have advanced 20 years in research.
>I find it especially offensive on paid services like Hulu. I'm paying for the thing, just let me watch it!

This is still better than what Netflix does, where they cram egregious product placement down your throat so you can't even just look away until it's over.
They should just tell Moms Against America that the Impossible Burger is also a homeopathic medicine :)
>any argument which assumes that our climate models are complete is flawed from the start.

Could you point me to such an argument? As I don't believe that anyone has made it here.