skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corn doesn't need internet, but the kids whose parents grow corn can, do, and will seriously benefit from the knowledge available via the Internet (also known as the information superhighway). Not building out infrastructure now means that as the population grows we will be chronically behind on it.

Given most farmland is owned by wealthy individuals and large
companies, there are better ways to help the marginal farmer
than paying for multi-million dollar lines to
millionaires’ remote villas.

So the workers who work for those millionaires and who live out in the middle of nowhere don't matter? That is not a very nice world outlook. Where would you be without your StackOverflow, Reddit help, or wikiHow? I started learning my way around UNIX command lines on the family Mac when I was about eight- had it not been for the internet, I probably would have given up a long time ago.

Truth be told, the internet in cities would be better if it weren't for the monopolies that companies have been granted over large geographical areas. There's a lot of issues to fix here- marginalizing one group to help another is not cool.
All these systems annoy me with their dependencies... the only one that i kinda do not mind much is premake because it consists of a single self-contained executable. However even with that you need to have premake available. I'd prefer it if these programs took a page out of Autotools and created configuration scripts that only relied on whatever the target OS has available (plus the compiler) without having the need to install a separate build system since after a while you end up with a bunch of different build systems since everyone prefers theirs.
It definitely matters.

'Fake reviews' or 'modifying display' in an uncsrupulous manner are essentially unethical and breach the nature of the system.

But in the end the real issue is I think that reviews by random people don't help that much at all.

We only need basic review by some competent person and more than anything: map, address, phone number!
I hadn't considered the ramifications to extension distribution. If Google's Chrome extension store chooses to not host extensions that use the webRequest API, other Chromium-based browsers will need to maintain their own extension stores or users will start installing unvetted extensions from shady third-party websites.
In my experience SCons has the right design, but the implementation is incredibly slow. Buck and Bazel are superior options.
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Sure, but would you agree that open source tools and being able to choose the tools we want is better? We should have that same freedom when it comes to building authentication into our applications
It really depends. In Sweden speed limits are low and nobody respect them. In France they are higher and slightly more respected. In the mountains /hills they are actually way too high and nearly unreachable. Most roads are technically still limited to 80/90km/h but doing more than 70 requires some serious sport driving style.
Yes it is, if someone doesn't care about creating bloated applications they wont care about creating good applications either - which includes said polishing.
Much deep learning focuses on image classification (the first topic of the fast.ai course) and natural language processing.

What is a good course that focuses on "tabular data", in particular predicting continuous outputs from continuous inputs, aka regression?
They could be taken to court and found guilty (I doubt they'd have the time to build up a fake clone with an entirely different codebase that produces the same results). It would become quite apparent to the contractor they're using their software. The contractors terms could include them paying for money lost in the whole process AND lawyer fees covered.
Maybe it would make more sense to show overdue promises first.
Meson is very different to SCons. Meson is more like a better CMake.
Memory usage used to be a lot better than chrome, but I'm under linux, maybe on macos it's different, also I stopped caring about it so maybe it got worse.
> France invested a lot into nuclear energy and no government since then would dare to throw such a huge industry (2500 companies, 222 000 jobs) into the trash. I don't think it was the case with other European countries.

Germany all but killed off an industry of 80000 jobs (at the time) in the blink of an eye: photovoltaics.

One other main difference is that having your own nuclear industry is also important for countries aiming for (or having) nuclear deterrence power, like France (and unlike Germany which merely hosts US nukes).
Nuclear waste is neatly contained to a portion of the continent where it's buried, and can be easily avoided by a significant part of the civilization. CO2 blankets the entire planet, and from that there is no escape.
It actually does, if you get a chance to use it (I have). Nothing uncanny about it whatsoever.

Keeping the person's eyes roughly around the camera area is achieved by moving/zooming the video on your screen to the appropriate spot. People don't usually move their heads that much, and when they do you can manually or automatically readjust as required.
What if there's a third possibility?
> the workers who work for those millionaires and who live out in the middle of nowhere don't matter?

I’m not saying they shouldn’t get internet. I’m saying that shouldn’t be paid for by the public. These are costs most properly allocated to rural employers.

(The current regime is, in effect, a wealth transfer from the public to the employer’s owners. It incentivises plonking things in the middle of nowhere and throwing the costs on everyone else while a minority profits extravagantly.)

If the problem is rural poverty, fix that directly. This is an inefficient way to help the rural poor in that most of its benefit goes to the rural rich.
I actually enjoyed reading this (even if it is obviously made by people with a strong dislike of Musk, while I am a fan of his as long as he is not calling people names and suggesting creating "alternative" news sources).

It would be great to also see all of his "completed with a delay" promises, as he has some entertainingly outlandish successful ones.
We’re building a graph of this same underlying data at https://alma.app (with a lot of enrichments) to help people discover and donate to nonprofits.

E.g. here’s Stanford: https://alma.app/charities/941156365-the-board-of-trustees-o...

Would love to know what types of analysis people would like to see about organizations and their relationships?
Buck and Bazel both work using hashes, if you are looking for a more modern build system with this feature.
I am skeptical of anything McAfee has to say by default, although I'd look at any evidence he presents.

As a general matter, it seems like saying "if anything happens to me I'll release 31tb of data" is highly risky. If you persuade any anti-American actors that you're telling the truth they might decide they could hurt America by killing you. Could some Russian or jihadist not just waste him to see what he has?
No, it's not. This is ridiculous.

Sugar is bad in large quantities, but there's no such thing as second hand sugar consumption, which is the main reason why anybody wanted to regulate smoking, since nobody wants to get lung cancer from working in a place where everyone else is doing something harmful.

What we need to do with regard to sugar is get people to have some got dang self control, which starts with proper education K-12 and decent menus for school lunches.
I think it's time to treat porn like smoking. The increasingly harmful effects [1] on society are becoming more apparent.

[1]: http://endsexualexploitation.org/wp-content/uploads/NCOSE_Po...
This feels so misguided to me. This is going to cost ~$35k/household and the govt is generally terrible at spending money.

It also dodges the real issue in the bay area, which is housing. Commutes are long because most people can't afford to live next to their jobs. If we stopped restricting new housing and taller building, then the number of cars on the road would decrease.

Furthermore, there are innovations coming that might shorten commuting (e.g. things like Hyperloop, although I have no idea if that's viable) and self-driving cars (which let you read/work/etc while commuting). The government is not going to be able to deploy $100b better over the next few decades than the private market.

Finally, the rise of remote work might mean a lot of professions commute less in the future. My prediction is this just going to be an exercise in setting $100b on fire.
They are still there today. Source I bought my paper yesterday.
Maybe they can change that? Politics is a complicated, multifaceted thing- if the Dems can even get into a few rural districts, that, along with the generally-Left-swinging urban areas, might be enough to swing the balance of the state.
Ad blocking capabilities are limited and there's no API to implement advanced rules like media size limiting. For example manifest v3 has no way to implement the full EasyList.
I have spent most of my life living in rural communities, and many years of it fighting for rural broadband. The USF is probably the least useful and most wasteful of all government programs for rural broadband. The incumbent telecos play so many games with the system that it is a miracle that any of it actually helps anyone.

The USDA has some imperfect programs, which while flawed, are much more effective than the USF.
Most of these cost more than $4,000 to make:
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/cta?min_price=200&max_pr...

Some design or manufacturing flaws can lead to auto makers paying someone to dispose of an otherwise brand new car. Sometimes, such as when they've poorly forecast demand, selling their inventory at a loss is a smaller loss than paying for disposal. Other times they will destroy functioning, new vehicles if that's what's necessary to maximize total revenue.
Edge Chromium maybe? I've been using it and have no complaints...
The first thing that caught my eye was the gap in the middle of the bridge. A rather rare sight in reality, so the presentation of such a rendering comes across as a form of lying.

I completely missed the curved train cars! Thanks for pointing it out.
Nuclear power is almost always used only to provide baseload power to the grid. In Sweden's case, it looks like you're using biofuel power plants [1] for demand following uses when solar + wind can't keep up.

[1] https://sweden.se/society/energy-use-in-sweden/
Replace "digital object" with "a PDF of your checking account transactions for 2018". You want to control who can do what with that PDF. Your privacy is at stake.
Well, just add a hint when hovering on the symbol. I think we to make better use of our tools.
You say that would be silly, but there are undoubtedly correlations between diet and overall athleticism. Whether beef-eating is positively or negatively correlated with bicycle commuting is difficult to guess, but it would be surprising if there were no correlation.
Advertising redistributes demand.
Mainly whole foods. Almost entirely vegan. Quinoa, beans, fresh vegetables, whole wheat bread, whole wheat pasta, avocados, olive oil, are my staples.

But I think the specific diet isn't that important. Cutting out the processed foods and high glycemic index sugars is the most important part.
I’m an AWS true believer, but in that case if I were on a budget, I would scrounge up enough cheap used hardware, setup my own home network and host everything myself just to learn.
I really enjoyed this style of writing. It respectfully expressed why he disagreed with someone else, but acknowledged that both he and said person achieved their results and had tests which covered that fact. Nothing inflammatory or overly partisan, thanks :)
I recently used the webRequest API in Firefox and it is already more robust than the Chrome equivalent. For example, you can write stream filters to process request responses. No so in Chrome, where you have no such capability.
Many Godot users are unhappy with SCons https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/16014
> Is [not testing nil/invalid inputs] a risk? Sure, but only if some other part of the system was written without tests. If you call this function from a module that you wrote with tests, using something as effective as the TDD discipline, you won’t be passing nil or negative numbers, or any other form of invalid arguments. So I’m not going to worry about that. It’s on you.

The problem with this way of thinking is that it makes tracking down a bug much harder, and even if all software is correct at the end it will still make development slower.

Imagine a bunch of functions A, B, ... and Z where A depends on B and so on. If every one of those doesn't test what happens on incorrect inputs, then an incorrect input to A may cause an exception in Z. You would have to track all the way back up to find the cause of the issue.

For the given simple example, not testing negative of nil inputs may be fine because just looking at the code is enough to document it, but on a larger scale, failure conditions can be very obscure.

Simply put in a long chain of software, you will want to define on what values your function is valid and only accept those (so users don't think something works because only one case does). And to keep your code correct to that specification, you need to make sure it errors.
There's still laws like this in Utah. I was at a brewery that required you to buy food before they could fill your growler up. IIRC they had toast for 25¢
That's true on both counts, but less of a concern than you might be thinking. EasyList can be slimmed down significantly without losing any blocking. Media size limiting is a more interesting use case, but probably not why most installed adblockers in the first place.
Isn't it the role of State Security/Defense Services to conduct these sort of scans, and notify companies of their vulnerability?
In my younger, smoking years, when the anti-smoking lobby grew stronger and managed to land more and more restrictions on smoking, to the degree that you almost felt like a leper...

I remember telling my anti-smoking, chocolate-eating friends “you know one day they will come for you too, right?”

That sure didn’t take long. Let’s see how they feel about it this time around.
Get ready for tens of millions of climate refugees
> "Please consider this a commitment that I will fund fixing the water in any house in Flint that has water contamination above FDA levels. No kidding."

Apparently his foundation donated a $480,350 so that all 12 of the city’s school buildings could have a new ultraviolet filtration systems. Unfortunately UV filters don't remove heavy metals like lead :(

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/elon-musk-keeps-his-promise-...

https://www.cnet.com/news/elon-musk-keeps-his-word-pays-for-...
Look at AWS Lightsail. It’s a simple VPS provider without all of the complexity of AWS.
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> The fact that it needs a splash screen in the first place is because it takes too long to start because of bloat, so in a way it's a negative feedback cycle.

no, had to build a few apps where this was requested only for branding purposes.
It's in the numbers. A penny increase doesn't sound so bad. So you'd have to break it down to how much cost it would add to the average person.
> I'm not saying this is a bad thing

Why not? It's deliberately misleading, no?
Forget the battery, I'm now cursed with knowledge that I've chosen colors clownishly wrong and did the lights horribly wrong on my last bike. Especially compared to those VanMoofs.
I wouldn’t trust any of those to run a business on.
Damn Google! This is so short sighted. People/everyone just installed Chrome on whatever systems they could find and that's how Chrome become so prevalent. Not because it was a superior product, not because of technology but because everyone was anti IE. Google is painting Chrome into similar corner. In a way, this is a good indicator of decline of Google. Revenue not through innovation but by coercion
Buy a second hand machine. I just grabbed a 3rd gen thinkpad x1 carbon for a neighbor and the thing is a ferrari compared to any laptop I have. 390$. Probably less than 300$ for a less thin model (x250~)
As well as to expose a stable extension API (no more XUL extensions breaking randomly on every browser update) and to enforce any sort of security boundary/permissions system.
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RISC-V is an ISA. However, Berkeley BOOM is a microarchitecture, an out-of-order superscalar RISC-V core. It is synthesizable and parameterizable. While BOOM is primarily ASIC optimized, it is also usable on FPGAs.

https://boom-core.org/

But what I'm really interested in is which adder modern microarchitectures use.
I've made the exact same rule, as well. I've spent more money because of it, but my life has been much better. Sometimes, a trade-off is necessary. It also makes life much more interesting, and it's really made me grow as a person.
Yes, but the dirty secret is the earning potential of a college student is bimodal - yet people often use averages to discuss the benefits of a college degree. The $30,000 in additional earnings figure is propped up heavily by those making six+ figure salaries. Those who just barely scraped by do not earn more on average than those who only went to high school.

If you have the aptitude college will absolutely help. But for those who do not pushing them into college is just saddling them with debt for little benefit.
Elon is one of those public figures that confirm we’re full of bias. He talks, thinks and acts like a majority of tech workers so he gets a pass.

Folks excuse his outlandish statements as excitement and exuberance when in anyone else they’d call them lies.
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I don't see how Chrome's new anti-ad blocking isn't seen as anti-competitive, considering Google basically runs the ad business on non-Google sites, etc. Sure, Facebook and Amazon also serve up ads...but Google is by far the company that is hurt the most by ad blocking. Then at the same time Chrome is essentially blocking "intrusive" ads by default...and by intrusive they basically mean non-Google ads that have the same CPC and CPM model Google has.
I'm not sure what to think:

"The combination of Python, PyTorch, and fastai is working really well for us, and for our community. We have many ongoing projects using fastai for PyTorch [...] This stack will remain the main focus of our teaching and development.

It is very early days for Swift for TensorFlow. We definitely don’t recommend anyone tries to switch all their deep learning projects [...]"
I've spent a lot of time now writing code in both Haskell and Elixir. Where I have found that static typing really shines is when you do large scale refactoring. Especially in a large code base it is much, much faster to fix compiler errors after refactoring, than to run the tests and figure out why each one is failing. In Haskell by the time my tests all compile after a refactor, they are already passing.
I've been trying to learn SolidWorks, coming from Autodesm Inventor, and I can confirm- it's really hard to switch- SolidWorks is more powerful, even, and is better at what I want to do- and I've only been using Inventor off and on for around 4 years.

I can only imagine what it would be like to switch from something that you've used a flavor of for your whole career to something entirely new, and 3D modelling for animations is way more complex than what I've ever dealt with.
The Three Mile island accident mostly teaches us that we got lucky. Here‘s a quote from that Wikipedia article:

On the third day following the accident, a hydrogen bubble was discovered in the dome of the pressure vessel, and became the focus of concern. A hydrogen explosion might not only breach the pressure vessel, but, depending on its magnitude, might compromise the integrity of the containment vessel leading to large-scale release of radioactive material.
Since Firefox support WebExtensions now (or will soon get it) which are very close to Chrome extensions, it wouldn't be unthinkable for all non-Chrome browsers to use Firefox store instead of the Chrome one. I think Mozilla could even be convinced to open it up as an "open web extensions" store or collaborate with others to build a new one. They certainly have the infrastructure and experience to run one.
> a better indication of whether a government represents its people is whether the government acts according to the people's wishes

How do you measure the latter? That’s the essence of democracy.

There are many democratic systems. Constitutional republics are democratic because the monarch must answer to the public. Dictatorships featuring leaders for life with limited options for sidelining or recalling are not democratic. The latter describes North Korea, China and certain African and central Asian states.
Here in Sweden I've noted that some sellers have started adding a Swish-number for payments. Swish is a Swedish payment service where you basically send money to a phone number.
This is great since the only risk for the seller now is the produce. The cash can not be stolen.
Yes, I'm aware of that. Sorry, bad wording. I choose btrfs because it's simpler to setup. It is also lighter on memory for uses on personal machines. I know ZFS can work with less memory but at a performance disadvantage.
I've lived in countries with extremely liberal alcohol laws: low taxes, liberal advertising, 24/7 availability, drinking allowed on the street.

I've lived in others where Alcohol advertising is banned, availability is limited to Government-run stores at certain times, and the taxes are very high.

Binge drinking and general abuse seemed to be much higher in the latter. Particularly people seemed to get drunk before leaving the house, or used drugs, since both were cheaper than buying alcohol at a venue.

If anything is going to be restricted in the form of tax or advertising, hard spirits should bear the brunt instead of beer and wine. It might also make sense to loosen up taxes at licensed venues, which are controlled environments with trained bartenders and security.
Jails are run by the local municipal or regional governments and generally speaking only house inmates for sentences of less than a year. San Diego appears to be an outlier with that 6+ year figure.

A prison is run by the state and is geared towards those with much longer sentences.
Just use yadm, it's far less effort than trying to do it manually with git.

https://yadm.io/
>Sure at a certain population density this becomes economical, but many urban areas don't meet this standard

can you point me to any data behind this claim?
Fantastic work! This is so impressive engineering wise.

This is so exciting for Open Source. All the technology is there. I would love to see something so I could easily play games and then mirror my save games locally. I spend a lot of time on different computers and setting up Wine to play AoE2 drives me crazy everytime.

I just really want a Stadia that respects the users freedom :)