skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you drilling for water in Illinois? I saw a lot of these round artificial rain plants when I once travelled the midwestern states. For me it was always counter-intuitive that you have to do this in an area that is considered the bread-basket of the world.
Awesome for the company, but not so much for the customer.

As a customer who values his time I have to manage one more recurring payment, I have to interact with (up)sales-people disguised as customer service and I have to keep records of canceling the service n years (depending on jurisdiction) because I don't know yet who will buy the leftovers of a company once it's not profitable so they can massmail "due payment notices" to all former customers, making a profit from those who fail to object in time.
Thanks. What is the advantage of using Swift over implementing a custom TF op in C++, and using its generated Python wrapper in Jupyter? Just not having to deal with C++?
I have a Vive and might go for the Index at some point down the line when I have a better PC, and there was one thing about this article that annoyed me (otherwise great though). I see lighthouses as possibly the best way to do spatial tracking, and have had much better success with them than visual tracking.

Basically, they completely avoid the visual tracking problem that can have issues in plain environments, dark rooms, and when the controllers are out of view. They're definitely expensive and I'll be keeping my v1 lighthouses from my Vive for a while, but I think they're worth it for the better VR experience.
The success of intelligence and code breaking during WW II apparently convinced the elites that a small elite intelligence and criminal investigation force could effectively control terrorism, criminality and excessive dissent in society. Thus, the emphasis on electronic surveillance for national security and law enforcement.

It doesn't actually work very well, since terrorists can hide, gangs can organize, drug cartels can flourish, and society is becoming more disorderly.

Weak or broken encryption privacy in order to continue a failed approach is not the answer. More physical security, more local law enforcement, and more local human intelligence to prevent terrorism and crime is a better alternative. It is better to be physically protected from bad actors than to have a technologically sophisticated process for apprehending perpetrators.
People with clearance have to undergo regular lie detectors. Wouldn't be surprised if a loyalty chip is the next step on that path.

I'm not convinced a very dark future is preventable
Trust me, I'm an equal opportunity critic when it comes to human rights. In the same breath that I condemn the Chinese government for it's actions in Xianjiang I condemn the current administration for locking up children at our border.

Life is too grey to silence yourself on issues you care strongly about.
Yes, physicists are bad at physics because they don't engage in enough woo and wishful thinking. And all of their theories and understandings will become invalid any moment now... just wait...
We will do so if people show up and vote for candidates that care about that.

People like to claim both parties are the same, but look at how often Democratic politicians try to increase voting access and how often Republicans try to limit it. Their actions are telling you something.
So a Hacker's Holding Your City's Data for Ransom
Democracy doesn’t work. If this doesn’t prove it nothing will.
http://archive.is/Ix3rO
Yes, it should be the case. No one should be forced to testify. That's violating free speech. Giving up information that only exists in your head (location of keys, or a passphrase) is testifying.

And the entire concept is backed by State violence. People are only compelled to testify under threat of violence in some form. This form used to be open torture, but we've found ways of outsourcing the torture to other criminals in order to wash the State's hands clean of blood.

Sometimes we need to catch a bomber. If you ask me, that problem is only getting worse and "sometimes" may turn into "often". However, we can't risk a journalist or political activist being caught in the jaws of the system while attempting to expose the State's secret crimes. And less severely, the State doesn't have the right to know what your shopping list was last week.

The entire crux of this argument revolves around the fact that at one time it was easier to do this stuff thanks to wiretapping laws and banned encryption, but now it's harder. However, the wild west of the 70-90's isn't the base line for sensible policies when it comes to digital intrusion of your life by the State without reasonable cause.
Killing people isn't right though. You shouldn't do that or even threaten that.
My work has a 1000+ person channel for ad-hoc support questions that aren't critical and could be answered by anyone. If it's critical, our support team has an SLA, but Slack doesn't.

There was one specific person who would ask a question, expect an immediate response, and if they didn't get the response they would @here. They were instructed not to do that because it pings over 1000 people, so the next time they asked twice in an hour and when they didn't get a response they said "I hate to do this but I really need a response @here". They were kicked from the channel. Really unfortunate since it's a very useful channel to be in, but @here and @channel is just so disruptive in big channels.
That’s something that can be solved by law.
"Concentration camps" predate the Nazis by centuries, and post-date them as well.

You're mistaking concentration camps in general with the smaller subset of industrialized death camps in specific that we associate with the Holocaust.
Yeah, and still the fact is that if US GHG emissions drop to 0, it won't do much for global warming. It was good that Biden brought up in last night's debate that the US produces 15% of global GHG emissions. Which is disproportionate to their population, but also small enough that unilateral actions by the US will not solve the problem.
Not sure if you need a formal workflow but you could probably use just about any note-taking app that has labels and just fiter to that labe.
OneNote does have a web clipper:

https://www.onenote.com/clipper
Correctness Anomalies Under Serializable Isolation
oh give me a fucking break you know what it means, stop being obtuse. “how to live entirely in a terminal”. the author is talking about using terminal-only applications (which of course have interfaces and “graphical” components)
I'm not too sure about a subscription model. How many of your users are that committed to pay the money, and then have the time within the month to spend learning, and will get full value out of it?

It makes more sense to me to create PDF/ebooks, similar to pyimagesearch.com
Is there a way to semi accurately calculate wet bulb temperature based only on temperature and humidity? I tried searching this before, and it gave kinda vague formulas with dewpoints...
Well but that would stand in conflict with the greenhouse-effect, or does the C02 go away in winters?
> Cities have high property prices because they are extremely desirable.

There is scarcity which mean those selling can reduce the set of candidates by pumping up the prices. Its a simple mechanic, not a very sophisticated approach...

> There must be a way of determining who has the right to occupy the scarce resource..

yes! exactly! We haven't attempted to examine the question let alone attempt to answer it.

Lets say we have:

1) renters serving small numbers of customers.

2) renters serving large numbers of people.

3) renters rarely serving the same customers.

4) renters regularly serving the same customers.

Lets say (for sake of simplicity) people spend half their income on rent, lets say we can infinitely increase rent as the bill is (inevitably) forwarded to the customer they serve (everything involving labor becomes more expensive) and lets assume perfect scaling.

Then you can (and we do) have a city where wages are low and everything ("produced" locally) is cheap OR you can have a city where everything ("produced" locally) is very expensive and wages are high.

You somewhat increase productivity by forcing out people who can only do manual labor but it doesn't scale nicely. Eventually the buildings only serve as investment vehicles rather than nurturing the cities productivity.

We should wonder where the money goes really. I have a mental picture where eggs are cheap but if you want a fried egg with a slice of bread it is going to cost you 100 times the price of an egg because the fried egg is mostly made up out of rent.

I think it would make much more sense to have government do the wealth extraction and to configure rent to have the proverbial eggs fried cheaply.

Cities not just import stuff produced elsewhere (because they cant do it themselves) but they also export a lot of valuable services. Those would be a lot more attractive if they didn't scale with rent prices 1:1.

I'm not claiming this is the holy grail, its a rather raw train of thought. It seems to me to have as much economic activity as possible one could force the price of the raw resources down by a whole lot. Forcing people to fry the egg at home doesn't make much economic sense, we can have professionals do it for you at scale.

It could be interesting to run the numbers on room service vs having your own kitchen? Why do we need a million kitchens in our city? They are just sitting there taking up space not being used? It seems as bad as having the empty buildings increasing their own value by making the resource more scarce.

One more thought:

Do we want university graduates or do we want land lords? Why would we want land lords to enrich themselves with money the students don't really have? The student automatically becomes an expensive employee. Education turns into a scarce resource. If it was a game (and it is) the "let the market figure it out" approach is easily defeated.
>The way you would actually implement this is not by putting a "loophole" in or "watering down" the encryption between the parties. You'd do it by adding the government as another party. E.g., two party end-to-end encrypted messaging channels become three party end-to-end encrypted chats.

Adding the government as a passive 3rd party to an e2e encrypted messaging service is pretty hard to do technically

... and it wouldn't necessarily give the government access to the messages. To read the traffic the government would need to recognize that a targeted party is communicating and have the right infrastructure in the right parts of the internet to intercept the traffic.

1. What happens if the government starts recording after the session has started. Do you build the crypto so that the government can join at any moment or only during session establishment.

2. All this intercept equipment would be expensive and unreliable. ASes may use encrypted tunnels between POPs or change which ASes it routes the messages around.

Using China as an example the way this would proibably work is that the company that offers the messaging service would have all messages pass through their servers and then they would read messages in plaintext and save them in a database (think gmail). The government would be given API access to the database of all messages. Of course these datasets would then also be shared for marketing purposes, employees would read or steal the messages and hackers/foreign governments would also get access.
But computers were different in the 80s when X was designed (to talk about one example). We don't use networked terminals to a mainframe, the graphics stack (hardware and software) works completely differently now, user expectation on compositon and visual fidelity has increased, and the security threat model has changed (in that it exists now and never used to).

There has been no one paradigm shift, merely 40 years of incremental advance leading to a different landscape with different requirements.
A Brand Name Becomes Generic
Why only half the population experiences chills while listening to Music
They do have stuff inside them though, so I'm not suggesting they make it heavier but having the required electronics does take up space that can be otherwise utilised.
In my work on grammatically sophisticated natural language parsing, I thought about this pattern extensively.
The basic observation is true: English allows you to stack nouns on top of one another, apparently without limit.

However, you're not really allowed to do this in any way you please. The almost-required interpretation is type specification: when you refer to N1 N2, you almost always means an N2 of type N1. So a "police officer" is an officer of type "police". An "oak tree" is a tree of type "oak".

I disagree with the grammaticality of some of the author's examples, and also some of his claims about the flexibility of the pattern. The type specification is almost always singular, and I've never seen punctuation included in the pattern. So "thrones game" should really be "throne game", and "night darkness, storminess" is not grammatical to me.

Interestingly, other languages do not permit this pattern, and so objects that can be expressed succinctly using the pattern in English become unwieldy in translation. In subways you sometimes a sign for "Passenger Emergency Intercom System" which is translated as something like "Sistema de comunicación para pasajeros en caso de emergencia" in Spanish.
Totally agree with you, this was my own doing. Though I would have been more than willing to pay extra for data recovery if it were an option.
There is no country on the planet that pays more blind unthinking lip-service to the concept of freedom I'll give you that but if you think the average US citizen has more freedom by any objective international standard measure than the average Canadian citizen you may want to put down that KoolAid you've been drinking and reconsider because you would find few knowledgeable people who would agree with your assertion.
That's one of the reasons I've been looking into aquaponics a lot recently. It's a really cool (almost) closed-loop system where fish waste feeds the vegetables. The only inputs are fish food and replacing water lost by evaporation. You get fish and vegetables as outputs.

Insect farming is also another area I'm interested in - you can eat the insects (super nutritious!) and use them as fish food too.

I think our globalized food network is very vulnerable, say to a bad year globally, and the best way to mitigate the risk is to produce as much of your own food as you can.
OneNote works great on every platform. Really!
I've on three separate occasions had to run to an Apple store to buy the SD card reader dongle AGAIN because I left one of them at home while travelling. On each occasion the only option was the expensive 50 dollar SanDisk one, so i'm 150 dollars out of pocket due to this questionable choice already.

My wife has had similar experiences with the HDMI adapter.

This was of course never a problem during the years in which Apple provided a sensible choice of ports, built right into the machine.
A Generative Model for Punctuation in Dependency Trees
It's difficult to see how any restrictions on encryption can be deemed constitutional, especially by a conservative majority court. In my view the 1st and 4th amendments deem encryption constitutional, "corporate personhood" reaffirms this.
Maybe I'm not understanding the problem they hit, but couldn't they just modify conv2d that calls cuDNN to do what they want it to do? In Julia even CUDA kernals could be written in Julia. I realize that CUDA & CuDNN programming is not easy, but perhaps given Julia's powerful macro system and compiler tools this could be automated to some extent?
Ignoring that encryption is also irreversible if you throw away or forget your key, is the distinction between fire and encryption that, "we could get at the encrypted data, so therefore it's different and we should be able to"?

That doesn't make sense to me. If your argument is that every warrant should be executable, no matter what, then both fire and encryption block warrants.

If anything, fire is worse, because at least encryption is reversible. If you burn something, we can never get it back -- that makes fire way more risky and dangerous to law enforcement investigations, so I would expect it to be much more highly regulated.
Argentina says Mercosur bloc clinches 'strategic association' trade deal with EU
That was a really long way of not explaining what the US steals, in terms of IP, from other countries.

It was also a pretty lengthy way to mascarade the damning false equivalence. China is, undoubtely, worse, in terms of human rights and development. No, the US is not the best. China is far worse.
Wooo productivity!!
That makes sense. With import tariffs in both countries aimed at goods from the other a firm may find it economically viable to shift production (like Apple) to another country with costs lower than tax paid to customs.

That will force US firms to move production out of China and/or the US to cut costs long term, which makes sense. It takes a lot to build a steel mill or DRAM plant and those projects will probably try to weather the storm but other countries can make shirts and plastic toys easily enough. For Micron, they already have manufacturing capacity outside the US but not in China. Defending their legal argument of being a US company that doesn't make US goods is probably hugely cheaper than tariffs.

Tariffs probably shouldn't be used like they are here anyway. They can be an incredibly powerful negotiation tactics when applied surgically to industries where production can't shift or is specialized to the target country. Like sanctions they can push a deal from on or off the table but they work best when the countries/economies are mismatched like Iran vs the US+EU.

When applied like a blanket you just end up taxing imports without a plan and hurting everyone. There was no obvious need to do so here especially as the lopsided trade deficit (which is not explicitly bad) lends so much leverage to China who does have cash on hand to invest in industry to offset losses while the US has a spiking deficit once again like with the last few GOP administrations.
quick answers from my personal experience:

- keyboard-only workflow is fast and comfortable for me. less friction, no “aiming”, scriptable actions

- typically faster and smaller apps

- easily organizable and navigable (again entirely keyboard) with a multiplexer like tmux

- usually very scriptable and customizable
Yesterday, I had to analyze some tabular data. Basically, I was given some CSVs and I had to return different CSVs derived from them. It was a lot of data, and what I had to do was a little complex. Took me a third to half a day.

Turns out the CSV files they gave me were wrong and pretty much unfixable. They'll have to create them again and I'll have to redo the work. Having done it in the terminal instead of a GUI allows me to simply re-execute my actions from my shell history, and do the same work in a few minutes.

Had I done this work in a GUI spreadsheet program, for example, ignoring the fact that it would probably freeze a lot on this amount of data, it would have basically meant redoing the same work by hand and take around the same amount of time. There is no history for GUI actions. I can't tell the computer to redo an arbitrary set of clicks and opening menus and dialogs and typing in fields that I did yesterday.

As another example, right now I'm monitoring the logs of a type of system running on all company branches, and I'm doing it with a simple:

for ip in "${ips[@]}"; do
ssh "$ip" 'tail -F path/to/log' | sed -u "s/^/$ip: /" &
done | tee combined.log
wait

Every time something new happens in any branch, I get a line about it, telling me what's up and where it happened. I can resize the terminal to any size; the whole of the screen realstate it occupies has only the information I need. I'm also simultaneously saving these log entries I'm monitoring for now.

The GUI version of this would be to install a graphics server on these servers and logging in with some remote desktop protocol to all of them at the same time. That's a lot of video feed streaming to my machine at once, in comparison to plain text. I guess I could set up the remote desktop windows in a grid and open some specialized file monitor GUI program (I don't know of any such equivalent to `tail -F`), and look at them separately. To save the logs, I guess I would have to record my desktop, producing a video file. Too bad I can't do much with it. I can't search the text that appears in it, like I could with the combined.log by grepping it.

GUIs rock when playing 3D games, editing images, watching video, etc, but they suck at pretty much everything that doesn't imply graphics. In my case, most things I do don't imply graphics, so living entirely in a terminal is a huge win for me.
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I can’t honestly give you that comparison because I’ve never used a thinkpad long enough to get to know it. I’ve been Mac-only for 8 years now, but I’m looking around to see if the community decides on a solid MBP replacement of my old MBP dies.
So now everybody can get back to $WORK
It should be noted that it seems to have had a remarkably short lifespan between hitting the mainstream and being widely used to mock the people who use it unironically. For context to this observation, my bias is that I think its straightforward meaning is mainly for confrontational moral grandstanders to signal their blue-tribe affiliation.
> I believe we are mortgaging our future.

Who is "we"? I thought the Hacker News community was international?

> with a nation that has imprisoned thousands of religious minorities in re-education camps

Right now the US has children, separated from their parents at the border, caged up in chain link fences like animals. I agree the US does win over China when it comes to human rights overall, but I don't think Americans are in a good position to be talking about human rights abuses at this exact point in history.

I am not personally attacking you. You made some reasonable points. I am suggesting that if you view the US from afar, like you are viewing China from afar, there might be some useful information there.
Furthermore, there was a falsehood of security to begin with. You shouldn't legally be able to say the data is safe when it isn't safe to anyone with a couple photographs.
> There was no U.S. investor willing to make a $300 million investment in a company that held key CPU and GPU technology and world-class engineering expertise. Apple, Google, Microsoft could have benefited from AMD's CPU/GPU tech but they would rather make multi-billion dollar offers for companies like Groupon and Snapchat or Dr Dre's Beats.

Or the US government. Given the national security implications, and investment may have been a wise thing to do.
Gentoo tends to maintain out of tree patches (possibly to remove upstream changes), or complete replacements (like eudev/elogind).
Wow, this thread makes me want to delete my account. People of the US are way too scary for my liking, makes me never want to land in your country. For me, if US doesnt stop playing the world cop position the worse this world will get.
Being productive in an ssh session?
I think the headline is accurate. The fact that the pregnant woman may have started the argument or threatened the person who shot her are certainly important details to how this situation arose. The fact is that the pregnant woman was shot, and was arrested for endangering her fetus. This has a chilling effect on other pregnant women. Sometimes people argue and have heated disagreements. The idea that as a pregnant person you can now be arrested specifically because it endangers the unborn is frightening.
Taking a Spin on WireGuard-Windows Pre-Alpha
What TTS engine does it use?, the voice is really good compared to others i have used. Also the voice breaks when the speed is changed(on mobile).