skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems a little overblown when put into context...

Commercial fishing kills 300k cetaceans annually. [1] For contrast, at the peak of Japanese whaling, less than 40k were killed per annum[2]

China alone, in 2010, had 8.8 million metric tons of mismanaged plastic waste came from China with an estimated 3.53 million metric tons of it ending up in the ocean. [3] What happens when cetaceans lose their only environment to pollution?

I'm a conservationist, myself, but I feel so much energy of conservationists is misdirected at things of little consequence (banning plastic straws is an international debate among first world countries), whereas many of the big issues (unsustainable fossil fuel use and farming techniques) is ignored.

1. http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?281850/Bycatch-is-the-biggest...

2. https://www.organicauthority.com/energetic-health/commercial...

3. https://www.statista.com/chart/12211/the-countries-polluting...
Believe they are using it as a generic term for gun-to-head coding challenge fashion.
That's great and I'm glad you find joy in this. Me, I spent nights going to a show named "Nuit des Publivores" and loved it.

But like every pleasure in life, it needs to be consensual.
For some functions of 'best'.
Apple themselves doesn't really compare themselves to PC manufacturers any longer, so that's probably by journalists being edgy as always.

My experience with PC:s and Bluetooth has been very different from yours. One time I even remember buying a Bluetooth dongle even though the motherboard had it built in, just to make it connect. But to be honest it more than a decade ago.

I'm actually in process of upgrading from iPhone SE to LG V30 or Xiaomi Mi, though I really don't like switching from Apples ecosystem especially now when they are getting even more privacy-focused. I can understand why the iPhone XR and the likes are so expensive from the spec-sheet, but I really don't need those specs (especially if you factor in non-linearity of pricing, so a 10% "better" camera might mean a 40% more expensive camera chip). LG V30 has a lot of cool features so it's still a massive upgrade for me. End-to-end screen, good battery life and wireless charging.
> ... if we want it to mimic HN comments, we'd need to spend the same amount of GPU time ...

These models are often much more general than you seem to be thinking. There's a base model which is incredibly computationally expensive to create from scratch. It is trained on a very large, very general set of data. Then there are specialized versions which are much cheaper to create - you start from the base model that you already have, and you train (much more briefly) on a specific set of data in order to tailor the output.

https://www.tensorflow.org/hub/tutorials/image_retraining

> Modern image recognition models have millions of parameters. Training them from scratch requires a lot of labeled training data and a lot of computing power (hundreds of GPU-hours or more). Transfer learning is a technique that shortcuts much of this by taking a piece of a model that has already been trained on a related task and reusing it in a new model.
> Trying to impose a patent which prevents a farmer from replanting seeds [...] is morally wrong

Why is it morally wrong?

Crop plant patents have been part of US legislation from 1930, or from 1970. Depending on the type of crop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Patent_Act_of_1930

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Variety_Protection_Act_o...
What is some open source software that I can contribute to in order to make these easier? I'd prefer your recommendation for something actually used/promising, instead of simply searching github. Thanks
Companies don't eat food and don't starve if they go without it so their opinions as corporate entities are moot as far as I am concerned. If it is more profitable to let people die they will do so.
> I'm currently involved in some synthetic biology research

What is some open source software that I can contribute to in order to make these easier? I'd prefer your recommendation for something actually used/promising, instead of simply searching github. Thanks
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I am in a not too dissimilar position to yourself (role/team size). I am working 4 days one week, 5 days the next (90% hours). It work out to be a nice compromise. The cross functional does not take too much of a hit, but the boost in productivity (IMHO) is still present.

I have some push back about the arrangement from people two or three links away from me and my team output and I have not got metrics to prove that this is effective.

Do you have any push back about your devs - 4 days 8 hours and 30% ?
Do you have any other evidence/metrics for the benefits ?
Any idea if Chromium Embedded has the same memory footprint as Electron? (That seems to be the main complaint about Electron that I've seen).
I like the initiative, but the 'editor' on desktop is just an input field. Would have benefited from something like Ace Editor or CodeMirror.
Your comment states this as if russian version has nothing to do with 'invasion", if not a lie, than clearly an attempt to make people think that russian version is somehow different in this regard, which is a lie. As the 'march' part is only applicable to soviet historiography as stated on the wiki page and obviously should not be changed as this is a historical fact.
My experience is that the questions can be anything from multiple fields.
Honestly, I'm open about being anti-China. Google "China organ harvesting" and you'll come to learn they are systematically murdering political dissenters and selling their organs for transplant.
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In Estonia there is "vedel leib" (liquid bread), meaning beer. "Leib" means rye bread (dark bread), not white bread for additional nuance. White bread ("sai" in Estonian) was fancy and somewhat expansive food, if we talk about 19th or early 20th century.
Yes they should just because they can, it's easier, you don't need extra hardware when an RPi is already there and it's good to know how to do that when no SDR is around.
Don't have any specific figures, don't know. There isn't that much whale to deal with to begin with, it is highly regulated as already explained in another comment. We'll see if this whaling 'restart' brings changes to that -- or if it even lasts.

Seems like political nationalistic posturing from a government that's done a number of things in this regard, more than anything else. There are no real economic ( or gastronomical ) reasons to it that I can see.
Setup a coinbase account. Link you bank account and buy enough of whatever cryptocoin they accept.

Once you own the coin, go to the buy page on the VPN site. It will give you a long address. Use coinbase to send the correct amount of coin to that address. Depending on various factors, the transaction will process nearly immediately, or within an hour.
Instead of only finding the location of my stolen device, what I really would like is using this to remote wipe my device, before someone else can or will turn it on (if it has been turned off).

Because it is not like I will fly to some other country to catch the thief or new owner of my stolen device.
That link looks very familiar but I remember getting the idea from this article first:

https://makezine.com/projects/raspberry-pirate-radio/

Using this disk image for the RPi:

http://cdn.makezine.com/make/pifm/PiRadio.zip

(good times)

EDIT: That link was definitely part of what I was researching at the time (as it is linked in the project article I posted and I remember reading about the limitations regarding stereo output, as well as the line "Most radio receivers want a signal to be an odd multiple of 0.1 MHz to work properly").
Like keeping your unlocked filing cabinet on the front porch...
Engineer or developer is pretty accurate if you want to be nonspecific. Most of us have roles at any given time, as well as more long-term specializations, just like you don't have generic PhDs, scientists, etc, and it's usually better to identify those traits, than say something generic.

"Coding" irks me as well. Probably because it's used uniquely by outsiders, in my experience. I tried to ponder more about why the word might be inappropriate for what we do, but didn't get anywhere. There's that obvious difference with the word "to program", that "to program" identifies what we do, but "coding" identifies what we use. Another aspect, is that "code" is probably a leftover from the paper card programming days, where source code was very cryptic. Now we use programming languages, which are readable, so suddenly the meaning "something cryptic" of the word "code" isn't appropriate anymore. Of course, you could say that coding refers to the fact that all programming is conversion of intent into some form of messages, like processor instructions or ones and zeroes. In that sense a synonym for coder could be intent digitizer. A bit more sci-fi.
And that's not what they are trying to study:

[the] association between eleven programming languages and software defects in projects hosted on GitHub.

Nothing more, nothing less.

If they wanted a "x is better than y for business", it would not be a serious study at all, just a bunch of journalistic edgy writing.
AFAICT, you can still read today's news, but the major difference being not being able anymore to browse through magazines and newspapers, but their team and algorithms determining what will be highlighted. I feel this is a major step back on an Internet that is already redacted enough on multiple feeds/timelines.
These days it's the `debugger;` statment
Very interesting. I was wrong to assume they were adversarially trained.
Reproducability vs petty appearances. It's not a beauty contest.
Good spot, but be careful in the future in your approach. Some places will nail you for having not stopped at the point where you unpacked the apk resources and noticed the API keys. Downloading the credentials might not have been the smartest move.
Could you be more specific? What are you doing on a RISC-V board where emulated popcnt loses more than 10-20% of your performance?
As I’ve found out; people say they want to pay per article for content, but they much prefer free in reality.
for those interested in the much lower-level details on how spotify works, Librespot[1] and its Golang and Java forks for those who don't speak Rust should definitely be interesting. It can act as a Spotify Connect receiver and play songs, as well as access Spotify's metadata, control other devices etc.

[1] https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot
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> They could use this trick to sneak in a bug fix which has an unintended consequence.

They would have to have set up the hash collision beforehand. It's no longer an 'innocent file'. It's nothing something you can decide to do at a later point.
One of the big recent improvements was to use lasers to anneal foundry quality silicon to bring them up to par to use for PV.

Although to counter that point more of the cost is in the infrastructure to process the electricity.
I didn’t love the format, but I don’t think you can explain DDR and have people understand without a video.
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You never had a friend bring your iClicker in for you????
Have you turned off "battery optimazation" for it? Otherwise do that sthan it should work.

But ye, there should be a "grant location this once" option.
How about we add financial pressure to the mix that doesn't allow you to invest in anything so you're forced to add even more weirdness to the pile of crap instead.
What is currently stopping its adoption? Iirc there were several browsers based on Gecko engine. Is it drm?
Quite a few crop plants are actually sterile. Cavendish Bananas for example (the kind you get to buy everywhere). They don't have seeds. Sweet oranges are another example.
Because we have very little feedback on the long term effect of new bio techs. Because they have the potential to have a cascading effect on human healt and the entire ecosystem. Because the people selling them have no incentive to make sure they are safe on the long run since corporations almost never pay anything for their mistakes, and when they do it's a small percent of what they gained from them. Because the only decent thing we got out of them was the assurance, and a lie, that they can contain it.

It took 80 years from finding out asbestos killed people to banning it. Cigarets were sold as healthy, then opponents were fought to the bones. The pharmaceutical companies are making sure the US is becomming addict to opioid and prepare to sell people drugs to get out of addiction as well. Because we are talking about a country that had a president that lied about WMD to get to invade another country, and another one that govern using tweets, and they are in charge of keeping things in check. Because humans already have to face war, global warming and heavy pollution thanks to their careless nature.

It's not about morality. It's not about conviction. It's just not wanting to jump without a parachute. Powerful techs, all of them, be it AI, nanobots or GMO, should be under amazing scrutiny and people using them in a constant state of audit for the next 50 years.

That this is even questionable is beyond me.
> I guess I don't get it... What does this game have that SC2/Dota doesn't?

For starters, it doesn't require you to buy it and it won't bring Activision trademark lawyers with copyright claims down on your YouTube channel if you record it.
Strange thing to hear. Can you expand a bit?
Tesla could have made customers wait, cancel the product, and upsell them.... which would be quite unpopular.

Instead they told users, we can sell you a better car today, but then at some point it will behave just like the car you ordered.

Seems less than idea, but seems like Tesla made the best of the situation.

The problem is they brought out two cars at $35k and $40k and tried to predict how many people would take both options. Turns out way more people took the nav, traffic, streaming audio, better range/battery etc. So much so that it wasn't worth making a custom car for the few people that bought the $35k model.

So instead of cancelling orders they decided to software limit the $35k car, and people got what they ordered with a bonus till the software got updated.
This would only be true if there was a roughly fixed number of mutations per cell. There isn't. There's a roughly fixed chance of a mutation per base of DNA, so having more DNA just means you have proportionally more mutations.
Well, an enterprise would have to ask for the source code to Chrome, wouldn't they?
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I think a 10 euro subscription service is a lazy business model, only one worse is everything based on ad revenue. I loved the fact that you could buy articles instead of getting another subscription.

I tried to buy an article last year, I'm not 100% sure why, but I never succeed in reading the article that I wanted to read. I just wanted to pay like 10 euro's until i needed to pay the next 10. But they were already forcing you into a monthly subscription model.

Now they are just the dutch version of apple news, seems like a terrible spot to be in.

I didn't try the audio stuff yet, that might be interesting. I enjoyed the audio stuff from Audm, but I thought it was expensive to get a subscription. Also to much competition in the podcast space.

I think https://thecorrespondent.com/ is doing a better job at changing the world. It's clearer what you get for your money, and you actually feel like your supporting journalism. Not sure if I feel the same way about Blendle.

That said, i know some people who use it, but mostly because their jobs requires them to be up to date with most newspapers.
Why not have regulations that specify the duration of yellow?

In Poland local distrocts use all kinds of stuff to rip off drivers (mostly: low speed limits+radar), but yellow light duration was never an issue.
I'll second that. Code reviews -quite often- is a senseless sh_tshow of arrogance, pedantry and psychological issues that have nothing to do with the code.
His performance in the scene after the final failed vote during the papal conclave is one of my favorite film performances ever.

He also played the title role in Barabbas.
Wasn’t DFU reflash always available? Was there any example of Apple blocking a device from receiving updates or reinstalls? As far as I recall updates were not even authorised until a few years ago.
You have multiple options, this is how to choose one:

1. "software engineer" (might drop the "software" for specific roles like "front-end engineer" or "machine learning engineer" etc.) - use this for people who value their education/fancy-degree and/or who pride on code-quality, low bug/defects rate, reliability etc. and they'll love it!

2. "software developer" - use this for people priding on craftmanship and "ability to ship the right stuff on time" no-respect-for degrees etc. and they'll love it!

2b. feel free to mix up (1) and (2) and nothing bad will happen :) also using (1) or (2) instead of others will tend not offend, just show that the person using it is clueless a bit.

3. "programmer" - this is the most direct / no-bullshit term for people who hate fancy extra words and pride on practicality and getting stuff done (but it might offend ppl with fancy degrees or make them feel devalued - never use it for a PhD unless you know beforehand he/she would approve)

4. "software architect" (this is a dangerous one) - can be used to boost the self-confidence of smart but terribly insecure people (use it sparingly bc some might be pushed tot he other extreme and end up with over inflated egos bc of this... better add "senior" before "engineer", it's more honest, what we call "architecture" in software is closer to "structural engineering planning" or smth, very far off from what building architects do) ...also practical senior no-bullshit people might be offended if someone junior to them gets this title!

5. "code monkey" ...the '99 bubble is over man, like 20 years ago, forget about this, unless you're in SV or other hip place and some club/group uses it for nostalgic-value ...otherwise it's offensive, and God have mercy on your soul if you mistakenly use it in a place where ppl are unused to it and at the same time to refer to someone with non-white skin color!

6. "coder" - might be acceptable in some places, but it's also cunningly devaluing (see sister comment for details)... unless you have the malevolent intent of "placing a hint of their personal irrelevance in someone's mind while at the same time avoiding to offend them" please avoid it! (might be the worst of all actually, bc nobody can complain but at the same time you spray them with a depressing hint of their inferiority while mildly boosting your superiority and subtly lowering everyone's morale at the same time... and then as a manager you end up asking yourself in the end why it all turned to shit despite you being "such an awesome and nice guy")
A manager who engages in circular reasoning is a nightmare that never ends.
> It's well known in the telecom/internet infrastructure business that Huawei:

> a) bugged the hell out of Nortel's ottawa area offices, both physically, by rootkit, and by getting their own people hired to physically smuggle out documents and design data

The links you provide do not mention Huawei.

> b) Copied the entire DWDM / optical transport product line

> c) Released a nearly identical product a few years later, and sold it at a ridiculously low price, effectively killing Nortel.

Why is this two bullet points? It's the same issue, no? The links you provide are not related to this issue. Could you provide proof or evidence of some kind to back up your claims?

> Many years later the vacant ex-Nortel office buildings came up for lease. One of the candidate tenants for that large of an office space were parts of the Canadian federal government, ministry of defence, etc. Every serious tenant passed on the space because it's so riddled with bugs.

bugged the hell out, riddled with bugs

« But after the Citizen article was published, Julie Di Mambro, spokeswoman for then Conservative Defence Minister Rob Nicholson, noted in a statement that, “security officials have assured us that they have not discovered any bugs or listening devices.” »

« Again, a DND official dismissed concerns that listening devices could be hidden in the sprawling complex, noting that none had ever been found. »

« Five days later in another statement to the Citizen – and contrary to what Norman had said earlier – the DND was once again claiming that no bugs, surveillance equipment or listening devices had ever been found. »

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So to sum up … You have made two (though you made it look like three) claims of criminal activity by a specific Chinese company. You provide three links giving the appearance of supporting your claims. After following the links I discover that the links only address your first claim and direct quoutes from government officials counter the narrative of suspicions in the article. Not only that, the company your are making the claims against is not mentioned in any of the articles. When I Google huawei DWDM / optical transport product line to try to find proof or evidence for your second claim the only allegation I find is your post on HN. Your first claim makes three separate allegations: (1) bugged the hell out of Nortel's ottawa area offices, both physically, (2) by rootkit, (3) and by getting their own people hired to physically smuggle out documents and design data. The article only talks about the suspicion of "legacy bit and pieces" meaning (1) but no mention of rootkits (2) and nothing about planting moles (3).

Come to think of it you're really only making one claim – that Huawei engaged in industrial espionage against Nortel to such a degree that they put Nortel out of business. And nothing in the links you provide substantiate that claim.

Where is your proof or evidence that Huawei directly put Nortel out of business by engaging in industrial espionage?
I mentioned the facts and your observations about my personal opinions are incorrect. I want EVs too but the price conscious Indian market won't buy them at current prices/performance.

1. Even the top courts in India have questioned the government on it but the government has no answer. I am not sure what information you have that you can emphasise that it has to. There is no political/public pressure only a marketing one.

2. Exactly! But enforcing of shorter deadlines by government is not going to help anyone and result in a few outrages by the road by the drivers and forgotten by everyone by the next news cycle.
Maybe they should’ve done a token system so you can sub to some and/or use a fixed amount of tokens for individual articles. Plus you can stock up on tokens or buy them in bulk when you run out.

Then they could do a reward system for referrals and other interactions to get free tokens.
Is it my idea or Apple is aggressively betting more and more in providing privacy to end users? Also it seems that the other side of the party (Android and free services) is moving fast towards the other end of the spectrum.
Any chance for Google Research Rugby?
Could've been different if web devs listened when they got told "your ads get overbearing, no one can even try to concentrate on the content anymore" - but they were greedy and ad blocking came about as self defense.
>To be honest, I don't really know how I personally can fight oil and gas industry.

you could blow up a pipeline
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Hong kong is the least independent in a group of regions like mongolia or taiwan that China all lays claim to. It's an interesting lithmus test for their future behaviour in those regions. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/ROC_Admi...
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