skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from scientific literature
Seems slightly less rich than Doug Lenat's Automated Mathematician (which in turn led to Eurisko which was one of the earliest genuinely interesting AI systems):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Mathematician
Things to consider when choosing a third-party API
For accessibility?
He has shifted the Overton window in the direction of software freedom for a long time. That has made a huge difference in how all software developers work today. He's worth listening to as long as you don't treat him as an idol.
>They're successful at something, right? There's no need for them to beg like that, and they're presenting it as if they're doing you a favour while they do it.

Isn't that the very thing they're successful at? Getting deals and stuff for free in exchange of their pretty little faces promoting it to their fans.
If you have to ask, then the answer is no.

Ideally avoid news about India from CNN,BBC,...

Most of these journalists have never set foot outside of their hotels in Delhi or Mumbai.

Travel 5km outside of urban core and India remains the same as it always has been. It's a tropical country so of course its going to get warm.

What has happened is really awful urban planning with zero account on the laws of thermodynamics. So you have European style urban heat effect from concrete but worse since its India.

The solution is already in the pipeline with insane growth in solar power.

As climate change heats up ( pun intended ) India is not going to be the biggest loser here due to the monsoon. It gets more rainy and the weather stays stable overall.

The most destabilization of weather is going to happen in Russia, EU, Canada, Australia and North America. So please try to fix your own backyard first ( since you guys shat your pants in the first place anyway ).
Nest Is Joining Google
so use a different service?
Presumably every email gets sent a unique pixel name.
Stop using pesticides. Gardening uses more chemicals per area than farming by at least an order of magnitude, as people don’t care about cost. It’s not something that will solve everything, but it’s a thing you can do, now.
Standard and Streaming Response Comparison with Aiohttp Library
I read using the Android app, "Materialistic" (on f-droid), which doesn't display vote counts. I think it's great -- I pay much more attention to the contents of comments and judge them on merit rather than voted. You can do a similar thing on desktop with ublock origin's cosmetic filtering (right click > block element).
No? The content creators are not youtube's competition. If anything, they're pushing those creators off to competing platforms...
Only in this case, it actually works, as there are firms (even international brands) paying influencers top dollars for mentioning their products.

So more like "come play at Max's Kansas City without pay for the exposure" -- tons of bands would have jumped at the chance.

It's just that not all influencers have equal reach (and not all businesses need the extra promotion. Nike can always sell more shoes, but an ice cream stand might have to push people away if they have too many customers, as there's so many a person can serve).
Yes I believe the number of users on facebook would drop incredibly quickly
Depends where you are. What organic allows varies a fair bit around the world. UK's Soil Association is still stricter than the EU. I think US has one of the loosest. Not certain of how they all differ though.

I know Soil Assoc try to promote interculture (two crops at once), field margins and what not, but have know way to know how that translates to reality or just pretty words on a website entirely ignored by the farmers, though I can probably guess. Pesticide use does come with limits on what and how often so they can legally keep saying low pesticides.

I think that's about as low impact as it gets unless you have a decent sized garden as just about nowhere does it the old way any more.

Beyond that I just don't know, which is frustrating for all shopping - we're given no idea of the impact of choices so have to basically guess. It needs to be on labels, but producers would fight that tooth and nail.
Thanks a lot, love them.
Rise: The Psychology of Computer Programming
Unfortunately most meat does not come from grazing animals. And if we were to convert the whole meat industry into grazing we wouldn't be able to produce meat in the same quantity, which would mean exactly reduced meat intake for everyone.
I'd be surprised if they even care about that, but who knows, it's a possibility
The questions I asked served to highlight the ridicule of the criteria used to claim that something is wrong or right. So in essence, we agree.
>Your local auto parts store prices oil lower than a mechanic can get it for

Why doesn't the mechanic just buy their oil from the auto parts store?
If they take unpaid leave that means they are compensated well enough so they can afford to take unpaid leave. What is the difference between having paid vacation days or having a salary so high that you can afford unpaid leave?

Also, this is a nice indicator as well...
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/china/
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/japan/
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/india/

compared to this:
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/croatia/
Actually it’s the other way around. “If you let me, I’ll play at your bar for free beer”.
The influencers are selling advertisement for cheap.
And it’s the same deal as with musicians, it’s a good deal which is mutually beneficiary if the talent is there, if not, we’ll then you laugh at the offer and try to publicly humiliate the person trying to establish a place for themselves. “Can you believe this guy wanted to play at my bar, AND expected free beer? What a joke”.
> You have to give organizations the benefit of the doubt the same way you do individuals.

Why? I don't normally like being overly contrarian, but in this case this position is so naive that I just can't think of a good reason to do what you're proposing. Especially in the US (and certain other problematic countries) you really should know better than to trust an organisation with sensitive information.
Upgrades and errata have gotten much easier.

For example, running syspatch(8) automagically downloads and applies the errata patches.

To upgrade, just curl the new bsd.rd from a mirror, place it in /, reboot, and type `boot bsd.rd` at the boot prompt. Then follow the prompts. I do this on several VPSes via a VNC console. It doesn't take long at all.

Granted, for personal use, I've moved back to Debian as well.
I've been working for a few years for a large European trucks manufacturer. Two brands were co-developing a new range of models, one brand a bit more luxurious than the other. The "slightly lower end" brand were making a very fancy HMI with two large colour screens, lots of menus and the stuff. The top end stuff just had a huge bunch of well placed physical buttons and switches. When the prototypes came into drivers' hands, everybody liked the buttons, nobody liked the screens. It came as a bad slap to the people who had worked for years on it. "Those young drivers, the iPhone generation, think our screen based HMI is way too complicated and misleading."

I drive a Dacia and I love its simplicity... I fear the day when they try to make a Dacia look fancy.
Primary housing let’s everyday people use 5% down, plus the mortgage interest tax deduction, plus the desire to spend extra to be in a good school district (meaning surrounded by others earning as much or more), means people concentrate their wealth in their house.
to participate in public discourse even when the venue is privately held

So if I come to your house, to your birthday party, and I start teaching people (or just talking) about torture, scams, rape techniques, differences of classes/races/whatever, etc. or simply teaching kids how to hack an ATM, will you be OK with it? Would you ask me to leave?

Edit: saying all of that possibly while arguing that "it's just educational" even when it may or may not be the real reason.
There's probably nothing to revolt about yet, just a glint on some executives' eyes.
Seems fixed.
I've bought and sold a moderate amount on eBay - as a buyer I am protected for the most part. Every dispute I've filed as a buyer I've won, and every dispute I've had filed against me as a seller (2, in 10 years) I've lost. One was my fault (I made a mistake with the description) and the other was someone claiming I shipped the wrong item, (which I didn't, they just got a free game out of it). The weighting is heavily in favour of the buyer on eBay, and even after being scammed once I still think it's the right thing to do.

On the flip side for Amazon,it feels unfair that the seller has my contact details and can use it to send me emails asking for reviews and to market their other products even when I've opted out of marketing emails. I've had a few counterfeit products where the seller just hasn't responded and I've been refunded but left with the counterfeit item, which doesn't sit well with me. The comingling is an awful problem, and if there were another site that offered next day delivery on a variety of goods with guaranteed wualotythat was more expensive, id swap in a heartbeat.
Have you driven one of their current model lineup? It seems to me that they really improved things recently (and judging from what I see on the roads, especially the new 3008 seems to really resonate with buyers).
So, you consider a concrete example where Ethereum, a coin which was touted as a decentralizated and later exhibited centralization by trying to stop the Ethereum hack by changing the code as "hand wavy"?

So let me ask you directly without any hand waving - how will Facebook or anyone handle a big Libra hack without trying to centralize the power?

> Most ewallets are designed by extreme Libertarians that believe that we would be better off without government regulation, or that government collapse and somehow them having Bitcoin will make them safe.

What are you talking about? I have given examples of ewallets like Paytm and Wechat Pay which work without bank accounts and you start talking about Bitcoin. sigh I give up.
A reality check on NASA’s Artemis Moon landing program
What's "actual work"? How is writing more "actual" than shooting videos and doing photo shoots (which can be lots of hard work out in the field every day)? Influencers have built an audience, and are paid for ads and promotional deals. This sounds like professional work to me, especially since some are making 6+ figures.

And of course they also need to pay for "food and rent".

If it was about "actual" work, then those journalists in need of "support" could go do a job that actually pays, in a non declining industry.
lovely childhood memories of playing with this on paper before computers flooding back
a black box im not allowed to look at? sounds like a fun security research problem. :3
Is there any evidence of things like Defcon and Blackhat talks being pulled?
This is a joke right? Please explain if not. Why wouldn’t you just name the variable relationship (or CNRelationship to adhere to nonsensical globals) and abstract the method for getting there to other logic?
Who's they? There are hundreds, if not thousands of taxi (and "ride-sharing") companies across the world. Which ones do you know about?
A new fact I learned today and which doesn't make me any happier:

'Survivability was based on what is called "wet bulb temperature" -- a combined metric of humidity and the outside temperature.

When the wet bulb reaches 35°C it becomes impossible for humans to cool their bodies through sweating, hence it indicates the survival temperature for humans. A few hours of exposure to these wet bulb conditions leads to death, even for the fittest of humans'

More info : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
This worries me way more than warming itself.
Racism in technology: how our tools acquire bias
> That way when I would walk-away from an install

But a few minutes later you'd be back to swap in floppy number 18
If you're in the USA illegally and living in CA, beginning next year your health care is free regardless of income.
"Reveal" means to show something that was previously hidden from view - what has happened here is pretty much the textbook definition of the word.
It is, if you actually understand the nuance of the argument. The world can't be dumbed down to "more" or "less" government. It is ACTUALLY important HOW government works.

I could use my native Norway as an example, where corporation has not taken an increasing share of the economy and workers are better compensated.

We have been run for many years by Bernie style guys. However we tend to have much simpler regulation than the US, which has been run mostly pro business/capitalism types of people.

Size of government and regulation complexity is NOT the same thing. The amount a country taxes its citizens and the complexity of the tax code e.g. is not remotely related. But conservative rhetoric implies that it is. In Norway we have considerably higher taxes than the US, but our tax code is far simpler.

Likewise our health care system is mostly government controlled, but US health care system while mostly private is encased in far more complicated regulations. Our health care rules and regulations are far simpler. The bureaucracy surrounding US health care is mind boggling.

Although this is hard to impress on an American, a more powerful government often means LESS and SIMPLER regulations not more complexity. A more powerful government less influenced by special interests can simplify things by creating common standards for things.

We have a lot of that in Norway, where the US has lots of incompatible standards, because government is weak or heavily influence by business interests. E.g. there is a standard for electronic prescriptions, so I can get a prescription with any doctor and that will automatically be available in any pharmacy regardless of the company operating that pharmacy.

It isn't hard to explain why things are this way. US politicians can easily be bought, and companies pay them to create complicated regulations which benefit them by keeping competition out.

Why do you think the most complicated bureaucracies exist in developing countries? It is because government is so corrupt. Corruption drives complexity. If you want simpler rules you need cleaner government. Then you need to get money out of politics. Bernie Sanders is the guy to do that.
The board is probably powered by USB, because if the whole point is to emulate a keyboard and type in the numbers, then you're going to have USB anyways.
Volkswagen really knows how to design cars that are 100% intuitive. Big, easy to find buttons in a spot where you can easily reach them. Hyundai, in my opinion, is similarily easy to operate.
fuck influencers, right in their vapid little faces
I get that there are differences of degree, and I won't argue that backlash might be greater in some cultures than others. But jealousy of someone's fortune, and fear that someone else's success diminishes or threatens your own, are pretty universal.

Because I'm the smartest guy in the world, I've had a pretty good success rate at predicting success or failure of internal initiatives, including unofficial initiatives.[1] But when I'm wrong I always cycle between feeling like an idiot, an a-hole, and thinking that I was actually right and misrepresentations are being made. That makes things awkward even if you're not a malicious person. And if you're higher up the chain of command, it's easy to still think that someone's success is derailing your master plan (and sometimes it's even true). In the real world success is rarely unequivocal, free and clear of potential negative repercussions. This is especially true within large organizations. Part of the risk is taking the heat even when you succeed.

[1] /s
Single pass and aggressive buffering seems to cover what I remember, but it worked better than it I expected, even on high speed drives or SSD to high speed drive. They may have had other tricks, it's been a while now.

The other thing that I liked is it's non-blocking - you can continue doing copies while one is in progress, if it's to the same destination it gets added to the queue in progress. If different destination it goes in a new queue that waits for the first to finish.
Show HN: A Decentralized Chat Using JavaScript and Rust (WebAssembly)
It's not about downloading, it's about unzipping.

Most bots won't unzip a file they download.

But they will deflate a SSL packet.
If you run Linux, you won't have to install Python - it will be there by default in almost every distribution. It hink this is why GP chose this example - there's a multitude of other options to instantly start a web server.

Edit: Here are 16 for example: https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255
Build a Decentralized Chat Using JavaScript and Rust (WebAssembly)
> An hour of high-intensity cardio might only burn 200 calories.

The usual estimate for an average person is around 750 calories (https://www.livestrong.com/article/525798-how-many-calories-...)
It's a legal requirement in some parts of the world. Oh, and it means a bigger potential userbase for them. Plus it's just generally an all-round considerate thing to do.
Rendezvous With Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
Uniqlo's paper bags are quite nice and useful and you can see people reusing them quite a bit. For us at home, one of them certainly lasts several months at least, with all kinds of uses.

https://media.karousell.com/media/photos/products/2017/12/14...

Also :

> On September 1, stores in 12 markets worldwide will begin using eco-friendly paper bags made of FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified recycled paper...

https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/uniqlo-reusable-bags/

Several years ago, Uniqlo also introduced a program to collect used clothes in their stores, both for donation and recycling.

You could do worse than this company is doing.

We're already literally breathing, eating, drinking, and pooping plastic. Time to stop using it.
I don't see how boycotting ThinkPads sends a message that BIOS malware is unacceptable. ThinkPads never had that, and never would.

Anyway, I don't usually buy or not buy a computer to send a message. I buy one because it meets my business and personal needs. I've been using ThinkPads for over 20 years, and they have served me very well.

You may choose differently, and of course that's fine.
There's hope https://www.npr.org/2019/07/02/738131948/after-6-year-battle...
Bitcoin's price is going up again, however its many severe problems remain unsolved.

On the other hand, the climate crisis is more urgent than ever. Is a huge waste of precious resources by something as useless as today's bitcoin really tolerable by society?

My hope is that bitcoin is soon abandoned in favor of something more eco friendly, scalable, usable and with better privacy. With a low bitcoin value there will be fewer miners and less waste of resources.
I never said the hiring of lawyers is a good example :)

The practice of law and law school are two completely separate things.

This is something that I think Med School has done correctly. Once you finish school, you must do your residency and the school provides this. This is whete you actually learn how to practice your profession.

Law school, from what I understand, doesn’t provide this crucial step.

Software development does not either, and perhaps this is one of the problems. School teaches the fundamentals, but it doesn’t provide the necessary tradecraft training.

So the only metrics to go by are buzzword tests, or arbitrary algorithm tests divorced from the actual job.

It’s the rare interview where they test CS fundamentals—which most people should remember, unless they ask for implementation—and coding best (and worst) practices, which is currently lacking.
Why would you be surprised? They put in effort for their iOS apps to work properly (and the alt-text tags are used for Instagram in "blind mode" for example).

If you're a company that wants personal data from everyone, you want personal data from everyone.
> The net benefit of Bitcoin existing outweighs the energy consumption.

Says who? The laughable number of transactions and the huge energy required per transaction are saying quite the opposite.
>Even more strikingly clear - were there rights before peoples? Were there human rights before humans? Was there a right to live before life? Rights as an intrinsic part of the natural is impossible in this view.

It’s not that complicated. Might makes right. If an organism has the power to do something, then it can do it. Everything is subject to the forces of their environment. For humans, the societies that created somewhat formal systems of power management seem to have thrived and out survived those societies (or lack of societies) that didn’t.
While I'm not sure why Mad will cease publishing exactly, I'm wondering what we can do to keep weird and edgy stuff afloat. Millenials and up are really missing out badly, and I'm blaming WWW economics as they have developed, along with the monopolistic sales channels and our reluctance to buy any online publication at all. Mad is even pretty mild/mainstream compared to the stuff we had in the 90s (in Germany at least). What option does an author/artist have today to make a buck with his works? Wasn't the WWW supposed to enable easy publishing for everybody?