skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From a non-human-centric perspective

But you're a human. The only possible reason for you to assume this perspective is if you let your empathy run amok without any checks on it - which is as idiotic with empathy as with any other instinct.
I'm not against 64-bit build, but it's too big effort. This feels like blackmail: "Either invest 40ish hours of your time to compile the framework and all dependencies to 64-bit, or you won't be able to update the app for existing users anymore"

I don't care about 64-bit devices. I'm fine with them not being able to install or run the app, if that's how it is. People with 64-bit devices can easily afford better products that my app tries to replace. I don't own device to test the 64-bit version, and I don't know anyone who does.

I care about existing users. I kept minimum SDK version as low as possible so that my app might reach all the cheap phones in poorer parts of world. It actually works today across many different devices, so what has changed?
Even those are not magically excluded from being harmed.
"Here we experimentally demonstrate the factorization of two bi-primes, 4088459 and 966887 using IBM's 5- and 16-qubit quantum processors, hence making those the largest numbers that have been factorized on a quantum device."[1]

It looks like some real progress has been made with qbit quality and stability in the last few years! I think that 21 figure held for quite a while. Maybe it still does hold and I'm misunderstanding some of the nuance.

1 - https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10478
AFAIU physics, there's no such thing as a rotating cluster of bodies in space that doesn't amount to just orbiting.
I thought it was wrong -- but looking back at Euclid's proof, Euclid doesn't specify that p_1...p_n be all the primes -- just all the known primes, so there could be gaps. He says that either

(1) -- p_1×p_2×p_3×…×p_n +1 is prime, or

(2) -- p_1×p_2×p_3×…×p_n +1 is not prime, but it's also not divisible by any of the pre-specified primes, so there must be another prime that divides into it aside from p_1...p_n.

See here: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookIX/propI...
I had a similar problem with my OP6T. My hike tracking app would constantly turn off randomly in the middle of a hike. Having used Android for years I went through all the typical battery optimization settings, but nothing worked. I contacted the app developer and they had no idea what was causing it.

Eventually I stumbled on the "Lock" feature, which as far as I know is specific to OP, and that solved everything. I'm pretty annoyed with OP about it to be honest. Android has app-specific battery optimization settings built in but they just completely ignored them.
Bloomberg's Recent Visit to Shenzhen – China's “Silicon Valley”
We order through a store and inexperienced shoppers are definitely a problem, not just produce but also picking the correct size of things ie cereal.
dashboards like that are a bit pointless without region filtering. what is your target? eu? usa? china?
It depends on how you use Twitter.

Using it to keep up with politics or news can quickly lead you to some of the most highly concentrated cesspools of humanity's worst thoughts. There will be abject ignorance or just plain noise among the top replies to pretty much any tweet by The Economist, the New York Times, Barack Obama (actually any politician), ...

However, I've found it healthy and helpful to tap into active communities built around certain computer science topics, like machine learning, or "ML Twitter."
Generally I think that we should manage animals in the most humane way possible (e.g. we likely cannot have lions roaming around cities but that doesn't mean we should just wipe them out).

However, it seems like rodents are a difficult case:
As I understand it the basic evolutionary strategy for most rodents is "breed prolifically in order to offset a very high mortality rate". In that case it seems like extermination is effectively the "natural" way to manage them. I don't think it would be possible to round up rats and put them in shelters the way that we do stray dogs.

What alternative method of managing rodent populations would you advocate?
Ask HN: Looking for users to beta test my product that helps you with marketing
I'm sending out invites to a handful of people within 48 hours or so, for a product I've been building. The product helps engineers who are having trouble finding ways to grow their business. If you're interested, please send me an email (in my bio) and I'll send you an invite 48hours max, from now.
Yes...

..and??

Putting myself in YouTube's shoes, I've no idea how I could easily stamp out these links/comments.

What's maybe more interesting to consider is that there's been no blocks linking a URL to a particular time in a video - so it can still be done, just not from a site with a google domain in the browser-bar.
As someone who is liable to fall into gumption traps[1] and try to make stuff perfect, I decided to change my perspective and just start shipping code. Here is one of the resulting projects:

https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftw...

It's simple, has a terrible ui, and I'm a little embarrassed by it. But it's launched. More importantly I had fun doing it, and had fun documenting my process and thoughts along the way.[2] I'm definitely using this as my approach for solo projects from now on. Now I am deciding whether to make improvements or go on to the next idea.

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

[2]https://medium.com/@JeffLombardJr/how-to-launch-an-app-in-a-...
Everything that Disney owns

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/chart-every-company-that-...
Live sports on ESPN are available on Sling TV and YouTube TV in the United States.
>The universe will collapse into a single black hole.

Basically no one believes the Big Crunch theory is likely to be accurate these days, which is what I imagine he is referring to here - but it's also inaccurately stated even for that theory, because the laws of physics are so different when the universe becomes that compact that the properties that allow black holes to exist are incredibly different. Not all singularities are black holes, and indeed, the universe would not condense into a single black hole if the Big Crunch were true. If he's not talking about the Big Crunch, I have no idea what he could mean, since there's no conceivable theory in which all of the matter ends up collected in one big black hole otherwise.

I know astrophysics and climate science are very different fields, but someone writing about how Thing X but not Thing Y is actually an existential crisis, some basic understanding about the ultimate fate of the universe would be nice.

>It turns out that planetary life is a downhill chemical process if you have sunlight and liquid water.

All evidence we have is that life, or at least intelligent life, is quite rare. We don't understand abiogenesis, either. Between these two things, acting like it's a given that we'll have life in short order if we have sunlight and liquid water is absolutely silly.

>I have a short story in an upcoming anthology inspired by this point. The third entry in the fantastic WASTELANDS series by John Joseph Adams will have a story by me about a place where our worst case scenario has already happened.
> (If you want to read my solution for how to wipe out all of humanity, check out WOOL and the Silo Saga. Spoiler: it ain’t pretty)

Oh. It's just a long form advertisement for his writing.

As others have pointed out, no one is really arguing about whether or not humanity might survive in some shape or form in these scenarios, but it wouldn't be anything like modern civilization. Our entire modern way of life ceasing to exist is plenty existential, and there's no guarantee that if we were reduced to a population of 2000 or so again that we would survive. See again the fact that as far as we can tell, intelligent life is incredibly rare - if intelligent life can keep hitting the 'restart' button when they fuck things up, we'd probably see evidence of life existing elsewhere in the galaxy.
A friend of mine who isn't young but not as old as my parents is a professor and couldn't tell between a system alert and a fake one on a web page and attempted to click it just before I stopped her. My parents recently received a phone call concerning a problem about their google account and how to "correct it" in which they were very obliged to "fix" the issue and it took some undoing to get them out of that mess.

The point being...

There are training videos and certification tests for this sort of thing that are required in government related PII jobs as social engineering is too easy to fool people but its naive to think these tools will be used unless it was tied to getting a retirement check etc. I guess just hand hold them on those issue until they get it or give up?
Interesting how bad twitter is at banning fake accounts. However, 200 russian bot accounts are not responsible for the populist shift in european politics, which is what a lot of people want to believe.
Wow, at first glance, that seems like a nightmare scenario, but then one must realize that the animation is not to scale. For it to end up seeming as crowded as that animation looks, each satellite would likely have to be the size of a small city.

The vastness of just the Earth is hard to comprehend sometimes. In comparison, if you put mountains, to scale, on a table top globe, Mount Everest would be about the height of a grain of sand.
I guess one of the articles is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014408 I think that articles for and against homeopathy are autokilled. Perhaps the OP can write to the mods.

The other article is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20016826 I'd blame also USA-centrism. A similar article about an election in USA would probably survive, and next year we will have an invasion of political articles. Probably it is a good idea to avoid posting all the election in all countries, but perhaps we can use a rule that says that we care about the countries that have nukes. (If it works in the UN, it can work in HN :).) (Hi from Argentina!)
They did. Sometimes they don’t have it on train stations but there’s either a dispenser outside of the stalls or a store selling tissues right next to the counter.
Biggest changes will be geopolitical driven by humanitarian catastrophes. It's very much in the interest of the Western World not to allow it to happen.
Y is not necessarily better than X, but perhaps you should look to see in case perhaps Y is actually better. (Or maybe in some ways it is better and other ways not so much better. Or maybe it is better for what they are doing but not you.)

Also, sometimes something is, although not perfect, can be improved without breaking or making it too messy, but, sometimes not.
Wolfram Alpha Search Engine Turns 10: Remains Independent, Private, and Free Of
It's easily googleable, man. In 5 minutes you could find my LinkedIn info, and then know exactly who I am and where I work.
1XBET: The Bizarre 'Cam' Brand That Movie Pirates Love to Hate
Can't that just put things in a circle? Where if you are self distancing then you must be doing whatever meditation is?
Thank God for free speech and God Bless President Trump.
It does restrict people from selling themselves into slavery.
I've found this to be more effective:

"I sent you this three days ago but haven't received a reply. Did you get it?"

It's very rare not to get a response to that. On those rare occasions I wait a week and then just say,

"Hello?"

(on top of a copy of all the previous correspondence of course).

I can't remember the last time that has failed to elicit some kind of response. Most of the time it's "Sorry for the long delay, I was out of town..."
Just a note: the author claims Huawei is the number 2 smartphone company ahead of Apple, but the cited story was regarding a 2 mo streak in 2017 before Apple released the iPhone 8. According to IDC [0], the rankings currently go Samsung, Apple, then Huawei in smartphone market share.

[0] https://www.gizmochina.com/2019/01/31/idc-xiaomi-is-fourth-l...
Agreed. This was what I was thinking too. I’m curious, how many businesses actually put their money in a money market fund as opposed to a checking or savings account?
OK, I understand. Strange that the non-successive primes are numbered with successive indices though.

PS: Well, actually not because they are not numbering all primes but numbering primes they know.
There's also walk, at least in 9front: http://man.9front.org/1/walk
I only just now understood that Euclid's method doesn't necessarily generate a prime number; it produces a number that you can't "get to" by multiplying the primes in your list of prime numbers; as such any list of primes is incomplete.
My accountant takes care of billing and collections. If it gets real late, they'll aske if I want to send it off to a third party collections agency.

Scale Factor
GraphQL Query Rewriter
The Vermont Communards: Remembering Roz Payne
Disney bought the rest of Hulu. They currently have full control and will have 100% ownership in a few years.

We're getting to the point where you don't spend 10 minutes flipping channels; you spend 10 minutes checking different streaming apps. And the monthly spend is approaching parity. I spend $75 on streaming services a month.
I don’t get it. How could the reserve already be met for an old laptop with some malware on it? Current bid is $1,200,750. Is the “artist” very famous or something?
My no. 1 thing is to always install and ad blocker in their browser. uBlock does a pretty good job of getting rid of all the fake download buttons and pop-ups.

And tell them explicitly that if their computer tells them they have a virus, they must not try to do anything about it and call you immediately.
99% of the time it's a fake pop-up and they don't want to look stupid so they follow its "friendly instructions" to "get rid of it" and end up making a mess.

Other than that, take away their admin privileges, set up 2AM auto-updates (or manual, if you're there often) and tell them to only store personal files in one specific directory, which is synced to something with CoW or daily backups (and then also sync the desktop just in case).

As for e-mail, I set up my grandparents with one e-mail for people they know and a gmail for everything else (like website registrations). That way, the personal address never* gets any spam.
* If it's a cold call, start by introducing yourself:

"Hi, my name is so-and-so. I am a [brief description of you, e.g. "student at X university", "resident of...", "software engineer working at..."]. I found you via ... I read your paper on ... and I had a question:

or something like that.

Never say, "I wonder if you could spare some time to answer a question?" Just ask it. If they can spare the time they'll answer, and if they can't, asking if they can won't change that.
It is tiresome when people use misleading statistics.

In the context of GitHub, MIT license is the most common license. The average number of contributor for a GitHub project is also 1, and the average number of downloads are also 1. A very large portion of all projects are empty except for a license file.

In the context of Debian and downstream distrubution like Ubuntu, GPL is the most common license. GPL family of licenses cover about 80% of all packages. The average debian package looks very different from that of a average github project, has significant more contributors and users.

So who is winning the intellectual marketplace? Debian and downstream of Debian is responsible for about 67% of all web servers. The wast majority of companies in the world has chosen to run servers which primarily has GPL licensed software inside. Operative system with primarily Permissive Open Source licensed packages are a small single digit percent of the web server market.
Relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/350/
Same here. I find myself going from series to series trying to find something that captivates me, and nothing sticks. I thought I was goingd to watch more Netflix now that Thrones is over but it is the opposite. I expect more and Netflix isnt delivering so I will cancel my subscription soo .

A 5-episode series of Black Mirror every year isnt going to cut it. I honestly dont know why they dont release an episode a week. Its pure laziness on their part, imo. Make the consumers happy. stop pushing out random junk that doesn’t stick and double down on what works.
Kubernetes Security – Benchmark and Exploits
Lol yup. very good link on how to do the actual sales call once you have a list. very Worth reading.
You can simulate cloze deletions very easily:

Q: Earth is the _____ planet from the Sun.
A: Earth is the third planet from the Sun.
Amiga Vampire 4 Standalone over 60 AGA Games Working
Thanks for the suggestion I'll give it a go!
Or it could be that a goatee physically influences the sound of the voice in a way that is perceptible to the algorithm. For example, damping transmission through the skin and attenuating reflections off the chin and upper pip.
Yes I'd like to know how he is getting over $1M for this. I have an old laptop that would likely hold at least 7 pieces of malware.
Losing control of the technosphere threatens environmental catastrophe
Would be cool if the ILOVEYOU worm author sues for copyright breach.
Yes, which is expected. Its the reality.
I dunno, I agreed with your comment even comprehending the syntax. Using a -a flag to a disk usage utility seems like an odd way to frame an essential building block. Plan 9 doesn’t have a recursive ls?
Sometimes it's a technical problem.

Right now, for some reason, I can't get transactional emails from Doordash, Fastrak, or EZFacility. If I ask any of those sites for a password reset, the email never shows up. I had to drop Doordash and switch to Grubhub.

My email goes to my web site, hosted by HostGator. There's no filtering there; it's just forwarded to my ISP, into an IMAP box. There's spam filtering at that point, which puts mail into different folders.

EZFacility uses Sendgrid, and the problem seems to involve Sendgrid. But they won't talk to me, because I'm not a direct Sendgrid customer.

Amusingly, I can get the same emails through my ancient Stanford alumni account. That just forwards to my main HostGator web site, so the mail goes through all the same steps, plus some aggressive spam filtering at Stanford.

So I dumped Doordash, signed up for a maker space via the Stanford account, put Fastrak on paper billing, and avoid all services that use Sendgrid.
Very few serious philosophers would disagree with Hume. However, I suspect that many non-philisophers are happy to appeal to reason as a source of normative beliefs, thus “facts don’t care about your feelings” (well quite—they are incapable of caring), complaints about the irrationality of populists, &c.
Art pricing is weird

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/20/705278696/epis...
After finding myself browsing through too many evenings in a row, I always cancel until something I know I want returns for a new season, then resubscribe for a month.

I find myself doing this with my Hulu subscription. They have a built-in hold function that pauses your account for up to 12 weeks. Since I typically watch shows in bulk (or binge), only having the subscription active one out of every four months works well.

The next step I'd like to take would be to only have a single streaming service active each month.
It isn't necessarily just a metaphor. The idea that the human population being reduced to a tiny fraction of what it once was is totally survivable isn't undisputed fact. Us surviving times where there has been a narrow amount of human life have all happened when we were hunter-gatherers or at the very beginning of things approaching civilization. The vast majority of humans today are dependent on each other and technology. The climate is also different - the sun is warmer than the last time the green house gasses on this planet rose to their highest concentrations, and we know that runaway global warming can turn a planet completely uninhabitable for human life - just look at Venus.

Yes, there are plenty of scenarios where a small amount of humanity lives on and repopulates the world over time. It certainly can happen. But there's also plenty where we don't. The author doesn't bring up any accurate science to back up his claims, or make any real arguments beyond 'We've survived population bottlenecks in the past', so I'd say that 54% of Briton's are right - climate change is a threat that could cause extinction. It isn't guaranteed to, even unchecked... but the question isn't whether or not it's a guarantee of extinction for humanity, or a threat possible of causing it. And it certainly is.
Can Data Be Human? The Work of Giorgia Lupi
> YouTube completely disabled all comments on videos featuring children, and deleted all existing comments.

This sounds like a good mitigation step to me, considering that we're talking about child predators. The incentives are aligned properly here.
Yes, those are the examples of quantum methods that don't scale to cryptographic levels. The only one that can scale is shor's and the answer is still 21. https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/59795/largest-int...
Someone who doesn't want to pay 6 subscriptions, I guess.
I think you are making a mistake here. You try to present the situation as if there were restrictions for doing business only in China, and no restrictions in developed countries. That is simply not true; US also has tariffs for importing goods, and also sets the rules on what foreign companies can or cannot do.

US also has much stronger negotiating power than China, and it makes international agreements that are mostly beneficial for them. China cannot do that.

For example, if you want to sell your goods in Western countries, your country is often required to join an organisation like WTO. But to do it, you have to comply with their rules. So basically, developed countries are setting the conditions for developing countries. Of course, it is their right, but then it is nothing like a "free" trade.

Also, disrupting Huawei's or Kaspersky's business in US without any international court case, without being able to defend itself, just because government suspects something, doesn't resemble free trade too. It resembles what China does though.
Read books from https://verdverm.com/a-bookworms-reading-list/ and https://postmake.io/books
Would this explain President Trump's tactics too?
Yeah Netflix isn't going anywhere, Disney is just going to justify its chunk of your entertainment spending. I am okay with $50 spend for a large catalog of stuff to watch with no commercials, that enough of the improvement. Cable was and continues to be a scam which charges a lot of money and delivers very little value. So good riddance to that garbage.
Millions of senior citizens can’t afford food – not all live in poverty
Ask HN: Should I Take Vitamins?
Most of the articles I've read suggest no proven link between taking vitamin supplements and longevity, disease prevention or just better overall health (even popular ones such as Vitamin D).

I've been taking a rather expensive "food based" multivitamin for the past 6 months or so. I do "feel good" about taking them but aside from that placebo effect I have not experienced a measurable improvement in health. I'd like to stop taking them, but before I do I thought I'd ask here for opinions.

Are vitamins a waste of time and money? (excluding doctor-prescribed cases where one has an inherent deficiency)

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/07/the-vitamin-myth-why-we-think-we-need-supplements/277947/

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dont-take-your-vitamins/