skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That might be true, but bringing it up in a conversation about a different solution to a different problem in a tone that suggests that people shouldn't be trying to use less plastic straws (especially when most of them have no connection to the fishing industry) isn't helpful.

If you care about it, talk about it in the context of fishing, don't just bring it up as a way to snarkily shut down people doing something good, no matter how small.

This is exactly the kind of "plausible deniability" tactics that people who actively push to disregard all environmental concerns use.
You're always free to say no.
It doesn't mention the all important dosage, very often studies that show "has been linked to kidney and thyroid cancers in rodents" have the mice eating their own body weight of the substance in order to have a noticeable effect.
So you're saying human-induced climate change isn't increasing the probability of an anomalous (extreme) weather event? I've often seen researchers describe the effect in terms of statistical frequency, e.g. 'once in a hundred years' event becomes 'once in a decade'.
That's pretty harsh and really incorrect. Some people didn't have great role models growing up to teach them these things and have to learn them themselves later on.
This is a great article. Grounded in experience, detailed, actionable. Nicely done.
This looks very promising. A more robust lidar based on some pretty simple scientific principles.
>dude, can you read 4 sentences...

Ad Hominem.

We are done here.
The narrative that "HTML5 looked at what browsers do, rather than following ivory tower SGML" is simply a myth and not backed up by facts. Ian Hickson introduced sectioning elements, the whole flawed outlining algorithm idea, and the aside element (presumably to make it easier to tell ads from content for Google's crawler), with lots of controversities at the time. The HTML spec is also chock full of inconsistencies of that time and mindset (for example, the allowed characters in ID attributes or general lexical rules for elements not matching CSS selectors' idea of an ID or element name) not actually supported by any browser.

Please don't tell me SGML comments were the problem - SGML commenting syntax is straightforward, eg. anything in double-hyphens within a markup declaration is treated as a comment, and there can be multiple comments in a markup declaration (unlike XML). The only problem I see is that there is an interaction with an ancient form of JavaScript comment taking the form of double-hyphens, presumably to make JavaScript commenting uniform with HTML syntax. Now the rules for terminating the content of a script element are dangerously bogus in ancient HTML, but HTML5 has done nothing to fix the situation.

In any case, WHATWG has driven almost all web browsers out of existence already; appealing to what "browser vendors" (Google) actually do is not the solution, but part of the problem, obviously.
I just introduced 1Password in our company, to our mostly non-technical staff and being a long time 1Password user myself it was indeed surprisingly complicated and involved more friction than most of us here would expect.

One of the major barriers was explaining that the actual process of moving to secure, unique passwords requires changing them manually at every service in a repeated sequence of back and forth between the service' configuration and 1Password. Users expected the changes made in 1Password to apply and automatically sync to whatever service they were changing at the moment, which is of course not possible.

Another issue were domains, which are basically the only way to connect a 1Password entry to a website. Naturally I had to explain to keep the website/domain attribute as short as possible to avoid problems like 1Password not recognizing that the current website at foo.ebay.com does in fact belong to the entry with the attribute bar.ebay.com. This isn't helped by the fact that 1Password automatically suggest creating entries it recognizes as new, which often include specific login domains and urls. Setting ebay.com as website attribute is the right way to do it, but of course this is rather confusing for most people.

I'd argue that most people might be better off without the browser extension and should instead start with the simplified copy and paste process of manually opening 1Password whenever a sign in is required.
The Major League Baseball app is a good example. It has a widget that can show scores. It can only do this if background refresh is on though so that it can keep the scores current when the app is not being actively used.

For most apps and use cases, background refresh isn’t necessary because when you want see data in an app, you open the app and it can refresh it then.

Personally, I have background refresh off for everything. It helps save battery too.
it looks like code, what do you mean?
Yet other language communities managed to do it since the mid-70's.
Thanks for the docs, very helpful! I'm following Wireguard project and trying to gather all the bits sometimes takes time.

I'm also making a simple program for myself and friend that is able to talk to hosting providers via API, spawn a vps and just installs prebuild image with Wireguard, Pihole and Cloudflared installed and configured + UI to add / remove clients.
Looks like an interesting new product. I will test it out!
Chilling and sad. This is often the final outcome with capitalism. Would prefer to see a system which incentivizes and promotes the common good rather than self-interested empire building.

Sigh. Star Trek.
Compromised due to Streisand being vulnerable or what?
My strategy is no background refresh and judicious application of “no cellular data” for each app.
We've been working on a Windows version for the past few years, same idea - instant connection/disconnection, crazy fast, modern encryption. Uses only 10% of a single server cpu at gigabit speed. Almost finished, just adding in encryption for TCP (UDP and DNS already done). Shameless self promotion: https://www.firetrust.com/products/hideaway-secure-unlimited...
Right, sounds like a fascinating place. Thanks for the article.

I'm interest to learn more about the security of the place (ie, how effective is it, the possible repercussions when caught, etc). Something I plan to read more into one day.
> ...repetitive requests from folks who don't have the full context of what's going on in the project

Write some FAQ's, so that people are made aware of that context. An openly-developed project can actually be very successful at dealing with this, because pointing folks to the centralized discussion in which the pros and cons of commonly-requested feature X are dealt with becomes second nature after a while. We saw an example of this very recently with the surprisingly-mild brouhaha about Rust's choice of a postfix .await syntax.
Hey everyone. We built this thing over the past few years after realizing that we could not really understand from traditional analytics how our visitors truly behave and convert. We wanted to measure the AIDA funnel (awareness -> interest -> desire -> action) that all the marketing books and growth essayist talk about, but not truly applied to analytics. We have implemented this together with a couple of customers and it is now ready for the public eye.

Happy to hear your professional feedback.

Thanks!
If you offered me $X, I could accept today
The Future of Sports: Giant Fighting Robots
> you should immediately reject the code

Which code? When you randomly run into the flakey test, in most cases it's not coming from the change which was just tested. You'd reject some random, unrelated PR
Do you mean that your product is built on wireguard?
Running pip with sudo doesn't seem a great idea either...
Wow, nice term, I hadn't heard of it yet.

Too many people in the EU don't know that our many decades of peace (longer than ever before!) is due to how the EU effectively did some reverse securitization. Basically, after WWII, any discussion of foreign countries was heavily securitized. "Germany" wasn't considered a major indutrial competitor, but a threat. And who knows, maybe France would be the next aggressor? Better be prepared.

The creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (the EU's predecessor) transformed the language in which politicians discussed neighbouring countries. Right now, it is unimaginable to have war within the EU.

When people (rightfully) complain about how, say, Germany abuses their position of power, or how the EU is un-democratic, or how too many MEPs are corrupt fucks, then it always strikes me how ridiculously successful the EU has been at preventing war among its member states. I mean, if there was any grounded reason to fear war, the last thing people would worry about is some MEP spending public funds in a strip club.
There's also freezing to death on the sidewalk. Sadly, it happens to some people every winter.
America's Millennial Baby Bust
It looks fine to me.
Incidentally, after the second atomic bombing the, officers from the Staff Office of the Ministry of War of Japan and many members of the Imperial Guard staged an attempted coup aimed at preventing the emperor from delivering his surrender. During this 'Kyūjō incident' the rebels managed to seize control of the Tokyo Imperial Palace, but of course ultimately failed, with their leaders committing suicide.

To these incredible[ly misguided] men, both atomic bombings and the impending Soviet invasion were insufficient motivation for surrender. It's an incredible incident that few have ever heard of.
Direct Selling Industry – The Rise of Technology and Its Impact
"If I could find a souvenir,
Just to prove the world was here
And here it is, a red balloon,
I think of you and let it go"
A good way to immunize yourself against something is to have weaponized it yourself in the past. Then you can recognize it when it appears, and you know its strengths and weaknesses.

The human vulnerabilities that advertising leverages are coded deep in the genome; building antibodies instead of avoiding the virus entirely could be wise indeed.
Discovery channel where every single documentary is staged, exaggerated and filled with useless emotions. Even the department of information in the Soviet Union is more reliable than that.
I've been thinking about this and it would be good if there was a 3rd party that provided standard sized, good quality re-usable containers to restaurants. If you want to buy food from the restaurant you need an account with this new container company. When you buy food from a restaurant, if you don't have enough credit with the container company, the cost of a container is added to your order (something like $10 so that de-incentivises people to bin it after use). There would need to be a lot of drop off locations for used containers, if they were standard sized they could probably be washed automatically by machines to be returned to restaurants. Each container would be uniquely identifiable and your account would be credited a drop-off.

This would only work if a local government put restrictions in place banning single use plastics at restaurants. I don't think cutlery is necessary in most cases, especially for home delivery.. you can use your own cutlery people.
China ready to hit back at U.S. with rare earths
I wonder if one can read the response via the time side-channel attack.
On the other hand a pescatarian diet exposes you to lots of delicious heavy metals and mercury, which also have their downsides.
Andrew Yang's Outsider Campaign
TL;DR: life expectancy is longer now than ever before, so more women in the reproductive bracket, and this basically cancels out a falling fertility rate.
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It is safe to travel to Georgia after having read and downloaded this?
What can one expect Apple to do, disallow apps that do extensive tracking, causing their users to not be able to use any social media whatsoever?

They don't have any feasible option in that space. It is nice that they do something rather than nothing.
Very clean and fast. The API also looks good, I like hierarchical translation and scaling. Is there anything preventing animation?
No, it's not, it's our own implementation (except for the encryption part of course). We did a version similar to how Wireguard does it (UDP only) a few years back, but ran in to issues, so we ended up re-doing it with some different optimizations and UDP and TCP.
At least in iOS you can set one or multiple Password Managers which will provide login info whenever required. It works well.
I should have explained my comment. It's about a strain called IR8 that yields more rice per hectare. This saved so many lives in India and elsewhere. And yes I am thinking of Norman Borlaug.
China imported half the worlds plastic waste until 2017. No one in the west who sells it to them has any illusions about where it goes.. since China placed an import ban on it, undoubtedly they will sell it to someone else who does the same thing or pollute the water themselves. Its awfully convenient to pay someone else to do the dirty work and then turn your nose up at them.
Are trucks best selling because people need vehicles to move big or heavy things and when all you are moving is people and luggage you just get an uber, bus, train, plane?

I am a remote worker and have an f150 I drive about once a week.
Like building out of an airplane, while building another airplane
Sounds like negative behavior, doesn't it?
The original title on HN used the word "rebuttal". It appears to have been changed.
I wish there was good documentation/a tutorial which shows one how to use systemd-networkd and nftables to manage wireguard interfaces. The Arch Wiki has some documentation[0], but I've never been able to get it past the initial handshake (which always succeeds) and no one on the IRC channel was able to help me out.

I don't want to ask for hand-holding, but some more comprehensive and accessible documentation might help me troubleshoot it better.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WireGuard#Using_systemd...
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You don’t have to just spitball this, people have already put effort into studying it and have found that it is true even when controlling for other health factors https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/well/live/having-friends-...
Wow. That is crazy.
They describe a linear correlation because they fitted linear correlation. All kinds of interesting effects could be hidden in the residuals, but they don't show them.
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> in a specific case, Go did not behave as a community driven project

Why are people saying this? What is your reply when folks point out that the "community-driven" modules solution did not meet the needs of anyone managing a sufficiently-large project with independently-developed (i.e. 'community'!) dependencies? Rust does the right thing there, this is a fact.
Low quality ingredients will always be cheaper than high quality ingredients, regardless of subsidies and taxes. That's an unfortunate fact of life, not a government decision.

And there's nothing to stop people buying diet soda.
Yup. But enforcement isn't easy.

Consider this: in the US and UK, sales tax (or VAT) is mostly enforced via the threat of a random audit. In China, official receipts can only be issued on government-issued stationery, printed using computers that are connected to the tax bureau. The threat of random audits is too weak, and open to corruption and uneven enforcement.
"No one's quite sure where they went but at least they are both longer posing a threat to fish and wildlife."

Goodie, I guess they went outside the environment then. /s

It's like no one of those who collaborated thought of the consequences past the first ten minutes of release and even days later people still fail to see past what's immediately perceptible.
Pokemon Co developing an app that tracks users’ sleep and turns it into gameplay
This is really nifty. Bonus points for suggesting tau rather than pi across the whole set of examples. Use cases like this make it entirely obvious pi is Just Bad
Do you have a source for that claim? The article doesn't give me enough information to judge but I might have missed something.
The chemistry of the battery. They just don't package them
Someone will come up with something. I'm starting to see Bamboo straws in AZ because CA outlawed plastic straws. The companies that are making these alternative products are having a boon because of the new laws. If we required take out packaging to not include styrofoam or plastic in a couple years I bet there would be some incredible innovations.
> What attributes do all pets share?

Pets have owner, feeding time, outdoor time etc.

> What attributes are unique to dogs?

Type, Height, Medical record, Sex, Barking pitch etc.

> What attributes are unique to cats?

Type, Colour, Weight, Medical record, Sex etc.
Many of them, but it is like 10x more expensive than regular one used today. Biodegradable plastic is an old thing, just too expensive for us. It’s cheaper to dump European garbage in Asia with explanation “they bought it from us”. I am just shaking my head when reading article about German apple bags from the Asian beaches. We are even forced here to sort our waste. Funny thing is that bio waste goes to these expensive biodegradable bags. And then German apple bags and all other clean(!) plastic waste go to separate bag that apparently is recycled.
Amazon’s slowing sales growth signals a supply shift
Not sure if this kind of meta-comment is appropriate, but I find it difficult to follow a link like this because of the lack of human readable information contained in the URL.

If the story was hosted on a personal blog I recognised (like Julia Evans to take a random example), then perhaps the domain would be enough for me to choose to read the article to see if the content is interesting.

If the link was to a broader domain that hosts many writers, I might use the parts after the domain to filter my interest: example.com/news-opinion vs example.com/science-blog gives me more information that might not be clear from the post title.

With a site like Facebook, which hosts so much different value levels of content, it is harder for me to visit facebook.com/233555323 rather than facebook.com/ffmpeg-interest-group/post6665443. For whatever reason, the URL remains something I use to filter my internet consumption.

Perhaps it has something to do with the amount of scams or other general reasons not to trust non-human readable URLs, or perhaps it is more due to my distrust of article titles (sensationalism) and seeking a second source to verify my interest. Perhaps I simply bias against Facebook - I don't know.

Regardless, I visited the story after thinking about this, and was very surprised to see it was an article by John Carmack - an author I certainly respect. It is a shame for me that both the URL and the title don't reflect that.
Kasparov complained that Deep Blue had access to a myriad of his historical games, so it could prepare purposely just against one opponent. At the same time, Kasparov hadn't any access to train against Deep Blue's way of playing.

Stockfish had a similar disadvantage against Alphazero. With LC0 being more openly available, it can start improving its heuristics against this type of opponents.
slides
https://codingthematrix.com/

code
http://resources.codingthematrix.com/
That is actually addressed in czr's video link above, specifically the one minute or so from here:

https://youtu.be/Z_1PiixPX3o?t=881

The key points being:

- Low intensity tornados are not included in the statistics

- rural population in the relevant areas has actually decreased, not increased, over the time period.

- it's hard to explain the variation in metrics as being due to different reporting rates (better explanation in video)
ieee should transfer its registration to Switzerland.
Awesome work you guys been doing past few years! I hit the trial button already!
Author here in case anyone wants detail, to throw rocks, mock my limited understanding of Galois Field arithmetic, etc.
TIL!

A bit buried, but yes.

Thanks
yeah, i'm going for easy. and also, easily explainable. i like to leave some of the details up to whoever tries it. which is also why i generally don't include code anymore. i guess i could have had more references though.

sphere sampling has the appearance i want. but sampling inside discs with a probability over the disc radius would also work, probably. i didn't try it here.
So, I think the intent is to roll inverted, and pull up, pointing the nose at the ground. The forward momentum means that when you fall out, you'll separate from the plane as it shoots ahead of you, and you'll be sent down and behind.
Recently I was testing a client-side algorithm that pulled a lot of data from the server and I thought my http server might have been the bottleneck, and so I spun up a few copies of the server but had to enable cors to get the client talking to them all. Newbs like me don't realise that localhost+cors = exposed to the www, so this article was very surprising and useful. This app is only used internally and so your deployment justification doesn't make sense for this case, but I will definitely make sure only specific domains are exempted in the future, thanks to this article.
> some amount of sugar is almost always required for leavened bread

You don't need added sugar. Flour contains amylases which break down some of the starch in the dough to maltose and glucose, which is more than enough for the yeast.

The bread we eat only contains flour, yeast, salt and water. It's delicious in the first day and still nice on the second; after that, we toast it.
This comment would be more interesting with some kind of source or explanation for your thought.
Did you watch _any_ of the visualization videos? The ecosystems shift from today's climate to Eocene (+15deg) over 100 years decimating most of the world.

At that time, the Pliocene (+5deg) areas are quite small and sparse. If there are thriving human populations left, they're going to be in those pockets. They're going to be doing agriculture in domes - greenhouses, because evaporation will be a major impediment to growing food in the open air.

Germination is highly sensitive to temperature - we need to focus genetics research on high-temperature stress-resistant crops, not designer babies for the well-to-do. Primate populations weren't dependent on rice, but it provides 1/5th of the calories consumed by humans.

High-Temperature Effects on Rice Growth, Yield, and Grain Quality
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012387...
One week with the Valve Index: A VR game-changer with a few question marks
I would make a bet. Randomly generate 100 spots in the mouse genome, let's say maybe not in centromeric locations. Don't correct for being inside an ORF or a promoter. Pick 100 random translocations swapping these spots. 95 of them will be viable with no obvious phenotype.
Thank you. I’m surprised it’s not off by default. It’s off now!
Higher Rank Polymorphism and Existentials
This is one of the projects out of Jonathan Aldrich's (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/) group at CMU ...

"The Penrose team is based at Carnegie Mellon University, comprising Katherine Ye, Nimo Ni, Dor Ma'ayan, Max Krieger, Rain Du, Josh Sunshine, Jonathan Aldrich, and Keenan Crane. (Emeritus: Jenna Wise and Lily Shellhammer.)"

http://www.penrose.ink
> In a dynamical system "anomalies" are normal.

This is true, but over time we should expect fewer and fewer records being broken as the expected ranges slowly expand for extreme outliers. What we actually see is the opposite with records anomalies happening more and more frequently.