skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, it's all a matter of perspective and understanding the circle of life. Having grown up in a rural area, most city-born people would have the vapors if they knew how the food they eat was produced. That includes even the vegans; agricultural pest animals need to be controlled in order to avoid damage and contamination of produce and grain.

Unless you're planning on living on veggies grown in a hermetically sealed greenhouse, yeah, a lot of creatures died in a way that's a lot nastier than a glue trap to ensure that you could have food on your plate at a reasonable price. That's just the way it is.
C++ is a trash language; somebody said it's object orientation is like trying to make an octopus by stapling four more legs on a puppy. It allows devs to abstract to the point of absurdity and obfuscates intention. C is much more hygenic, imo.
Borg is very different from k8s!
I recall reading a study describing cancerous/mutated cells very similarly. I don’t recall exactly but the study was in regards to diet (maybe specifically vitamins/minerals or antioxidants) that promoted detection (again I don’t recall but maybe by the immune system).

As I remeber the diet not only was supposed to improve detection but response and I think the improved response included the body releasing other cells (again I don’t remember but think fat cells, although that doesn’t sound right) to surround/isolate/starve the cancer cells, so in a best case the cancer cells would die and if they wouldn’t die then they would not be permitted to grow/replicate/freely travel.

Does this ring a bell to you vis-a-vis any diet?
I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project
I believe "With a system you understand you can find the cause and fix the issue for all" covers the first case. The second case is applicable to both NN and traditional control systems.
The crack is on the Reddit thread here https://www.reddit.com/r/Escape_Velocity/comments/9atyzj/ev_...

You'll also find a minimalist QuickTime no-installer
> There's also a story behind that project name. That is not the original project name. The original project name was force-removed by my SVP. Once my hands are free again, I can explain

https://mobile.twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/113663143751427...
I don’t see them now that I’ve moved to New Orleans but when I was in Seattle I saw a lot of people using Surfaces in cafes and regularly poking at their screens with a finger. I don’t think this was necessarily a dogfood thing either, I was rarely in Redmond.
Reducing consumptions works quite well, if you look at eg GDP / carbon released.

But so far without a carbon tax there hasn't been much incentive to reduce CO2 release in absolute levels.

A gram of carbon saved is equivalent to a gram of carbon captured.

> This problem could be avoided by limiting applicants to countries with the fossil fuel tax + import tariffs, and judging purely on carbon recovered.

I am not sure how that's avoiding the problem at all?

Btw, how would you judge the brilliant idea of growing trees?
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis
All the licensing overhead of a Spotify, all the market opportunities of "Bob's Gas Station and Deli".
How does it explain adversarial examples where changing a single pixel leads to class prediction change?
Wow, excellent article.

> We should be talking about cases like IBM and the Holocaust with our students and with ourselves. A majority of our students will go on to work for companies just like IBM. And if they aren’t taught that tragedies like the Holocaust happen because everyone was just doing their job, we are liable for the continued abuse of computer science.
Since the term has no real meaning, maybe desensitizing people to it by overusing it is the best outcome.

I'd honestly be surprised if people acted on these faux alerts. I think folks are pretty used to local stations claiming just about everything is urgent, breaking, and important.
Previous (brief) discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20074185
I'm glad we're labeling a large segment of the population psychopaths because they can't empathize.

I have observed people braking down in tears when a bug is stomped on and it's completely incomprehensible to me. I recognize that it's wrong and unnecessary but that's learned, I don't feel emotions toward the bug.

I would never use a glue trap because I understand that it's cruel and causes rodents to suffer and I have no emotions about it, it's a learned skill.

Am I a psychopath?
I also remember Heathkit -- although I can't remember which came first, Radio Shack or them.

Edit: wow, both were founded in the 1920s
I think that in the west, we have a different dynamic between tech and government - one that makes a huge difference.

In China, it would appear that the government is deeply involved with WeChat (which itself, is deeply entrenched in everybody's lives). This close co-operation gives them access and control to monitor their citizens - leaving the possibility of an Orwellian system.

In the west, instead, its a little bit more back and forth between tech and government. The big tech companies take advantage of opportunities they discover (for the purposes of profit) with the government subsequently cracking down on activity they deem abusive and harmful. Conversely, if the government itself seeks to spy on or inappropriately extend its reach into people's privacy, the tech companies are big enough to stand together and object to these types of intrusions. Cases such as those involving the government seeking to break into an iPhone and Apple refusing to help or with Facebook making WhatsApp E2E encrypted by default (and soon Messenger as well) are a few examples that come to mind.

With the current uproar and battle cry to break these big tech companies up, part of me feels that we might collaterally lose this balance of power between the two.
Bloop v1.3.0, a build server for Scala
Yeah,

I like our world isn't wonderful as is.

Imagine what a peasant from 300 years ago would think seeing what their work would be value at today.

Its peanuts in our perspective, but not starving is a start, eating meat would be a luxury, being able to see a doctor.

Hating ourselves is trending right now, sad.
FWIW Total Commander's EXE and DLLs are around 8MB (the installer is 4.2MB) and uses around 6MB of RAM right now (for comparison, the new UWP Calculator uses 18MB of RAM). It is not written in pure C/C++ nor uses Win32 directly but instead it is written in Object Pascal/Delphi or Free Pascal/Lazarus (depending on the version you use) and uses VCL or LCL (well, it probably does use some Win32 directly too). Also runs on any Windows PC from Win95 to Win10.

I mention this because Delphi and Lazarus are quite high level environments to work with with rich frameworks and libraries yet you can create very lightweight applications with them (the executables will be a bit fat compared to what you can do with pure C/C++ or even pure Free Pascal, especially with Lazarus, but resource consumption is still low).

You do not need to use C/C++ with pure Win32 API to create lightweight applications and even if you use those there are frameworks that allow for easier development (e.g. WTL, Win++ or libui to mention some).
The problem is when the species they spread diseases to are human.

And "being useless" doesn't mean mosquitoes don't have a place in the ecosystem. Everything does. What it means is that other species don't rely mosquitoes exclusively. For example, birds that feed on mosquitoes can also eat other insects, and these insects are likely to become more prolific to fill the void created by the destruction of mosquitoes.

In fact, the objections to eradicating mosquitoes are usually along the lines of:

- It is morally wrong. It is not a scientific argument but it is not without merit.

- The mosquito is really good at preventing humans from doing bad things. For example by making tropical rain forests inhospitable, or even by controlling human population through diseases.

I have an issue with the second argument. Saying that something is good because it makes the lives of some people miserable. It sounds a bit like an argument of the kind "it is a good thing that people are dying from malaria right now, it will make the world a better place for my children".

So for me, there is no scientific argument against eradicating mosquitoes, though I can be wrong. It is more about the moral argument about the importance of nature vs our well-being. In many cases, preserving nature is good for our long term well-being, but it appears not to be the case when it comes to mosquitoes.
>Nuitka (nuitka.net) does that for python, and is very robust and compatible. It works way better than py2exe, cx_freeze, etx, and is cross platform.
However, the result, even for small scripts, is not what I would qualify as "small" :)

How does Nuitka compare for generated executable sizes with PyInstaller? I've used the latter. For small Python scripts, CLI or wxPython, it created EXEs (Windows) in the range of 10 MB in size - with the all-code-in-one-file option.
XM has a hip-hop station concentrating on what's popular. Also a station concentrating on what's indie and up-and-coming. A station with nothing but rap from 1980-2000something. There's also a modern R&B station which has considerable crossover with the popular hip-hop station. And there's a 70s & 80s funk station which helps people discover the original songs that have been sampled to hell and back. As an added bonus, there's a Korean station which sometimes plays hip hop from there. I also sometimes hear French and Quebecois rap on one of the Canadian stations.

That's far more variety than what you'd get from a local radio station.

Youtube gives you almost every song ever made. Soundcloud gives you so many great unknown and indie artists. Bandcamp also gives you a huge & worldwide selection of independent rappers, and will help you discover them via their excellent blog.

And, for hip hop specifically, there's Datpiff and all the other sites hosting mixtapes.

I can understand being nostalgic for the stations of your youth, but it pales considerably compared to what's available now.
The entire open source software ecosystem?
Downs–Thomson paradox
I'm honestly so jealous of the husband's situation. 7-figure networth before hitting 30, a 4-bedroom home in a major tech hub, and a compulsively frugal wife who is obsessed with financial planning and amplifying your shared incomes/networths. The dream.

This article just feels like a vector to drive traffic towards her sites, though.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/113669152310428...
The title seems to imply an active disaster is underway. I was relieved to find out out that the reactor is currently switched off and to be decommissioned in 2023. A case is being made to switch it back on as some people (with a stake in the matter) believe that the risk is too low to justify a switch off. WTF are these people even thinking. Smallest risk with such disastrous outcome is scary as shit.
I use https://histre.com/ to take notes and tag.

I've been working on Histre and it aims to be your internet copilot, helping you with painless, seamless knowledge management and other things.

One example use-case is, vacation planning. My gf used to use a spreadsheet to research and shortlist AirBnBs. It was painful. We're off to Portugal in a few days and she used Histre to plan the whole thing. She took notes and tagged AirBnB listings right from their website and filtered it on Histre. She's ecstatic ;-)

I'd love to hear from you (k@histre.com) and I'll build any features that'll help you.
When electric scooters came out, I was pretty excited about them. A great last-mile option for public transport.

But when I was in Paris a few weeks ago, my enthusiasm was tampered. I didn’t see a single example of a scooter being used for “transportation”. Instead, they were typically rented by tourists looking to turn the streets of Paris into an amusement park. As a pedestrian, I was constantly looking over my shoulder, worried I was going to get plowed from behind by someone doing slalom through humans. And it was pretty clear many of these scooter operators were not very experienced.

I’m glad Paris is addressing it - one of the charms of that city is wandering around on foot and exploring. Spending the entire time making sure you don’t get run over by a scooter ruins that experience.
Towing an Iceberg: One Captain’s Plan to Bring Drinking Water to 4M People
Reminds me of the latest black mirror episode with guy trying to make a mouse stun device.
Answer: it's to support her parents' retirement.
I had a professor once who had been one of the earliest soldiers to reach the area near one of the concentration camps (I don't remember which one). Speaking to the local Germans, they said, "we had no idea what was going on." His response was that you could smell the camp from the town.
I prefer my cats, which are more cruel than any of the mouse trap styles sold here.
Not strictly true. Most software would probably require at least some modifications to run internally but as far as I know there’s no policy preventing open source software in production, quite the opposite.

For example, here’s some information about memcache: https://www.quora.com/Does-Google-use-memcached-or-does-it-u...

There’s more, but if I can’t find a reference to them on Google Search I’ll assume its not in my place to discuss it publicly.

Using protobufs as a base layer may seem like lock-in, but it very much is the opposite. Protobufs are surprisingly simple and maybe even elegant once you get past the ugly parts, but most importantly it decouples software from arbitrary protocols and makes it much easier to deal with changing implementations. (Not to mention the potential for rich backwards and forwards compatibility.)
Welp here’s the thing: that’s your political opinion. And you don’t run anything important.

No fealty or deference owed to it.

See, imo, we do need legislation. Because economically stingy attitudes are built into the species and repeated in society: countless narratives out there are repeating what you’re saying: don’t bother competing with Google. DRY and all that right?

The tech works great, but we hate the business aspects.

Society isn’t obliged to put up new competition to satisfy your US libertarian fetishism for game theory.

And to fix the business aspects of it, is going to require laws to change because LAWS PROTECT THAT BUSINESS INTEREST.

Look, repeat after me: no one is owed by any physical law of nature a free market and a big business. These are social norms. Not social obligations and they can and must change.

Thomas Jefferson wrote the same damn thing hundreds of years ago. To paraphrase, he wrote in plain English: Laws and Constitutions MUST change to keep up with the advances in human wisdom.

Google is a business propped up by laws. Sorry you’re so confused you think businesses just miraculously exist, and anything resembling real competition can just sprout from the ground. We’ll just leave it up to some rich VCs to fund a serious competitor and save us. This is ... you were raised traditional values weren’t you? Afflicted with “just world fallacy”? Cause you’re emotional position that some hero will do the work for us, despite the common social narrative of not bothering and how we mock people with delusions of grandeur about taking on the big guys, is laughable, and terribly out of touch with how society works.

But no we have to solve this within the framework the aristocracy tells us over and over, after very careful measure by their laid experts, is the only appropriate way for resolving this.

Basically we’re just gladiators in their ephemeral colosseum.
The best attack is of an alias of a popular crate. Duplicate the functionality/behavior/version number but include a subtle backdoor.
What nice things are with UWP? I haven't seen any UWP application i'd consider "nice" :-P.

And IMO WinAPI not being hardware accelerated (although i think some parts of it, like filling and blitting, are hardware accelerated) isn't really a big issue - if anything, requiring hardware acceleration from you UI might be a hint that you are making it a bit too flashy. But that might be me preferring plain and compact UIs like those made with Win32 as opposed to website/mobile-like stuff.
Aren't we moving the goalposts as technology advances?

For instance, your DNA used to be private in the past simply because no one could do anything with it even if they would get it. So you benefited from this privacy aspect by default. In the next 20 years your DNA will probably be in multiple databases somewhere even if you never offered it to companies.

Similarly, in the past you may have benefited from the privacy of your own home. You could say or do anything you wanted and that would be kept private (for the most part). Now, with all the "always-on" smartphones and smart home devices and surveillance cameras, everything you do or say in your home will be on someone else's server, which can be data mined, sold to third-parties, requested by various law enforcement agencies, and stolen by cybercriminals.

It seems to me that from your point of view and with enough technology advances we'll have 0% privacy in the future. Everything around us will listen to us and watch us, and then others, with who you may have never interacted, will also get to see and analyze all of that data.

So the technology could enable all of this -- but the question is should we let it? Privacy is a human right for a very good reason -- abuses against someone's private life can lead to all sorts of nefarious things against that person, whether it's something as "benign" as increasing your insurance rates to not offering your free/cheap healthcare because you "live too dangerously" or malicious actors and government agents using it to destroy your life for profit or personal vendettas.
"Pusher configurations - especially pusher turboprops like the Piaggio Avanti are noisy"

From a passenger perspective?

Why is this, Aerodynamics?

I would have thought that a pusher configuration would have been a net benefit from a passenger noise POV, and aerodynamics wouldn't make much difference on the ground, would they???
In fact, we should make sure all of the other natural predators of chipmunks such as owls, hawks, and cats stop ripping out the organs of chipmunks while they’re still alive and eating them.
I feel like "psychopath" is just a more provocative term for "sociopath". Which itself is kind of fuzzy. Psychiatry is an odd field to me, where they try to ascribe certainty and labels when they don't really know, and boundaries are vague.
Western values: freedom of speech, the ability to remove bad leaders, etc.

IMO, all of the historical innovations you mention in the Arabian peninsula, China and Japan happened during periods of relative openness in those cultures.
> The two reactors at Hunterston B nuclear power plant near Ardrossan are 43 years old - the oldest in Europe.

AFAIK, Beznau 1 in Switzerland is the oldest operating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors
كلمات اغنية جمالة محمد سيف
my girlfriend got a pair of these at the thrift store (texas)
It is a hint that the code sucks.
"if you knew the thing you didn't know then you'd know the reason"
Just to be clear, this is a story of a person who has been traumatised by a combination of the worse parts of US and Chinese poverty. It's not a nice story, at all...

Also, the two websites she runs, as linked at the bottom of the page - one of them is a blog/content site about living frugally, one is about making money any way you can. They're part of the same problem that the article (probably inadvertently?) illustrates.
Sometimes I wonder if our generation will be remembered as the people looking for the next thing to indignantly complain about.
She could buy her parents a condo in some nice retirement city for well under $200k, set them up with an annuity to pay for their food/clothing/etc, and easily have $1M left in the bank. But to each their own.
Wonder if a VPN adblocker (no root needed) will suffice in blocking the phoning home?
So which system would you personally prefer to rely on in life or death situation, the one that is well understood (accident rate 0.0001%), or poorly understood (accident rate 0.000001%)?
Is there a directory/collection of these? Simulations/visualizations/animations using the terminal.
Arguably, the advances we have now in modern day is because we have generally decided that everyone should be able to read, write, do arithmetic. Now we have a massive funnel (the entire generation) to do innovation. This is a much larger pool than was possible with a very narrow subset of the population capable of these things.

We also know that stress and poverty actually reduce the brain's capacity to think, and even moreso, a child who suffers from stress/hunger/general poverty has a stunted brain development due to exposure to stress in their formative years. So, naturally, we can say that not having systematic stressors like hunger, economic insecurity, health concerns, etc. would lead people to have greater capacity for wonderful things.
The best parts of the Internet.
Inclusive vs. Exclusive systems.
A good (and comprehensible/relatable) overview can be found in this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12158480-why-nations-fai...
Maybe HN isn't really the target audience. Americans and/or rich people, in my experience, tend to get very knee-jerkily nervous around anything that reeks of centralised, socialized income/benefits/healthcare.
A $65,000/year CS degree from Stanford is not a typical CS degree, and I find it misleading to compare that next to a coursera education or a “free” github readme full of links.
what stops a company that charges for it's services from also making even more money by selling your data

Their reputation. If a company develops the reputation for not doing that, then changing their minds will alienate people.

Notably, Apple has begun to develop a reputation for caring about privacy. It fits their hardware-driven business model. It has a nice side effect of creating a moat that would be difficult for ad driven businesses to cross.
What does it mean for a nation as a whole to "take care of" its children? Or specifically, what is it beyond public schools that we'd want to satisfy that?

Is it simply better public schools where they're doing poorly, or something else I am missing?
If the safety margin is 10mm-19mm and the crack is 2.9mm wide, I'd say the risk is non-existent.
They never had the same name, dehomag vs IBM, and with currency controls, money from Germany flowed to a trickle.

The Edwin Black book makes this clear, lays it all out in an interesting story.
It's not only about fuel costs, but also about parking space. The extra half a metter matters in many situations ;)
Shoot! Yes! My partner showed me a story about this recently where a person reconstructed potential faces from DNA collected from discarded cigarette butts, hair, and other items.

They used the faces in an art display.

I’ll see if I can find it but I’m not confident—

Edit: found it easier than I thought:

https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/tech/innovation/dna-face-scul...

This is a privacy matter, I think. It seems haphazard to allow this kind of thing wantonly...
You might not be alone but five nines is pretty good.

I seen many internal facing teams across many companies have SLOs of four nines or less. Five is pretty rare.
Likewise; honestly not sure why someone would have issue with the shape. Safety, cost, comfort, efficiency, sure - if it delivers on those, why would I care what shape it was?
The final heartbeats of our beloved www