skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now there is only the "small" problem of constituting a dictatorship that is selfless, humanistic, and relentlessly benevolent. If you say that, in the face of existential threats such as climate change we don't need it to have these properties, I'll argue that such a construct will likely not provide any survival benefits or even modest improvements over the status quo. There is ample precedent that all dictatorships pretty much exist(ed) only to further the status of the ruling elite, and to the degree they differ(ed) from each other at all, it was mostly only a difference in the flavor and scope of the atrocities they committed.

I get the desire for a single unified initiative that drags us out of this mess, even against our wills. But no entity capable of doing that exists. And the bigger ethical question is indeed whether it should exist to begin with. If we can't solve these relatively simple problems of ensuring our survival and provide a reasonably fulfilling existence for our fellow humans, why does our species deserve to exist?
Guide to Production-Ready Docker Images for Python
Is that going to provide bi-directional communication between main and subprocesses while they are running? If it does, disregard what I wrote.
It's google that's blocking gitlab users/servers. Gitlab's mistake is using Google.
This particular example appears to be an implementation of a 'Computer algebra system', which seems to be a type of symbolic computing rather than numerical computing.
Yes.

> The wetbulb temperature includes the cooling effect of water evaporating from the thermometer, and so is normally much lower than the normal (“drybulb”) temperature reported in weather forecasts.

With 100% humidity, the air temp and the wetbulb temp are the same. At lower humidity levels, they diverge.
Use hugin for deskewing?

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/perspective/en.shtml
Improved seam carving with forward energy
> Information feather

I'm not familiar with that term. What is an "information feather"? Google doesn't help. Also english isn't my native language, so I may miss some context here.
I mean, you could just make a folder with a text file in it for each issues. People can write comments in it. Move them into a "complete" folder when done. Write down who it's assigned to at the top. You wouldn't get some of the more complex features of course, but I'm not sure a git built in issue tracker could do most of that anyway. Not clear how it could send email notifications?
Explicit recycling is not necessarily the best option depending on the resources (e.g. energy) needed.

Burning plastics is an option especially if plant-based (to be carbon neutral) but it then raises the issue of land use.

Biodegradability/compostability is another option with new types of plastics and/or GMO bacteria.

The point is to look at the full picture instead of claiming that all plastics should be get rid of without considering if the alternatives are any better.
It's a fun thought experiment to consider what you would be able to rediscover or reinvent from scratch millennia years ago.

Perhaps the easiest and most likely to promote scientific progress would be the telescope and microscope: though I don't know how to grind lenses, it seems there were several centuries where people knew how to make good spectacles, but hadn't figured out that putting two lenses in front of each other is really useful.
As the saying goes, ask people what they want and they'll ask for a faster horse.

It isn't obvious to me people are asking for vehicles to last a million miles, people aren't clamouring for current vehicles that have done a million miles or are old enough to have done. That million mile car is also going to be a 20+ year old car, with 20 year old safety features, and 20 year old phone integration, and its also going to take 20 years for Tesla to establish that reputation.

That's not to say you're wrong, but it will take a fundamental change in peoples understanding of car ownership closer to how they own houses, that will take time, longer than Tesla has.
"Like Connecticut Yankee except that none of us actually know enough to do much with the knowledge back in Ye Olden Times, so it wouldn't work out quite like that" has been done. Doubt this is the only example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_Whose_Bright_Eyes
The underlying point is that any fix needs to be (as) insensitive (as possible) to population levels, since they will rise and wipe out any emissions cuts achieved by 'hairshirt' lifestyle changes. (I read somewhere that a westerner becoming vegetarian actually has very little impact on their CO2 emissions anyway).

A bigger deal than population increase is that energy use is going to rise massively with just the population we have, as people move out of energy poverty.

We need to make the energy zero-carbon.
> We _need_ to start pricing in externalities, whether people moan about it or not. Seriously - this is putting the seat belt on in a car level stuff. Deal with it.

Hmm, no it's not on the same level. Perhaps you can deal with it because you can afford to spend more on goods, but people in poverty will rightly moan.
> Your source seems to support my conclusion pretty well.

Not quite. You said „which people don‘t buy most of the time“ (referring to efficient cars), which could not be more wrong judging by both of my sources. But sure, people by SUVs, which I never denied. In fact, I also think that‘s a bad thing.
Chinese Boy Accidentally Finds 66M-Year-Old Dinosaur Eggs
Beamed energy always has attenuation problems that make it inefficient.
I've seen wrong hands doing terrible things with combinations of `interface{}` and reflections!
For the last 20 years, C++ standard library uses `operator <` for std::sort, and for building red black trees like std::map and std::set; `operator >` is not used.

Making this a warning would probably break too much existing code.
Although the micro-operations are dispatched to many parallel execution units, so it's really better described as VLIW.
You mean, what's a good book for somebody who wants to learn programming with C++ as a language of choice?

I'd vote for "Beginning Game Programming in C++" as a self-study book, and "Programming: Principles and Practices Using C++" if you have somebody more experienced that can help you set your environment.
Is anyone else struggling with the format of the article?

It starts with the name, age, and appearance of the darkroom? As if it's a character? And then all of a sudden it's a dialogue with no introduction whatsoever, where the bold text is one character and the normal text is another?

This doesn't explain why anything at all. It's just a weirdly formatted snarky dialog. With a strange do and don't at the end.
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

It's hard not to break that rule when one sees something posted on topic and in good faith turning gray.
Over the last 9 years, only girls have been born in Miejsce Odrzańskie
I really don't think generics (or contracts) will benefit the language. Most people who miss it are just missing the collection frameworks from Java/C#, and there are solutions to this anyway. (go:generate being one of them if you really need collections for X types).

I did miss generics when I first started writing Go, but after doing so for about a year at work and 2 years before that, I don't find me missing them at all.
https://www.hk01.com/%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E/34...
Dude we had a perfectly reasonable nuclear deal with Iran that the idiot who shall not be named chose to break.

It’s not Iran that’s the greatest threat to the security and growth of the US - currently our greatest threat is “homegrown” and tomato-faced.
Ah, it's the darkroom. From the headline I thought there'd been a reference to the Red Room from Twin Peaks in Stranger Things S2 that'd slipped by me. Which would be kinda weird since the show takes place before Twin Peaks was made, but people love referencing that show, so who knows.
This was basically Kosovo, Transnistria and probably a few more.
Sites using Facebook 'like' button liable, ECJ rules
I am not sure "false" is enough to understand your position. The paper you point to supports my point. Is that what you intended?
I'm very much agreed generally, but in the case of somebody hustling by renting out their council flat, I'm not sure that the worst punishment is useful. This is probably not a wealthy person, and the damage done is theoretical and marginal. Making them pay it back entirely actually might be an onerous burden, it's probably mostly spent. I might reduce the amount by some token per night rented representing having to find somewhere else to sleep or having to share your space with a stranger.

Punishing financial crimes to a degree that could have a deterrent effect should start at the top, not at the bottom. Also, IMO, if the UK actually started doing this, its economy might collapse.
This proposal is so hilariously complex relative to everything else in Go, I have to wonder if the Go team has already decided that they aren't adding Generics; they release a galaxy brain generics proposal which even the strongest proponents of the feature have to admit is way too much, it inevitably gets struck down, and now they can say "look team, we tried and you said you didn't want generics."

Genius level play from Ian and Robert.
No civilization has ever voluntarily reduced resource consumption. The incentives and coordination issues make it impossible.

There is only one way to get what you want: build what is effectively a world government and coerce everyone to reduce their consumption. That includes people in countries such as India, China, and Indonesia. They'll need to be told by rich westerners that they can't do the things that we did to get rich. Good luck with that.

A far more practical solution is to innovate our way out of the problem. That means more cost-effective green technologies, geoengineering, and adaptive technologies (such as air conditioning, building underground, heat sinks, etc). Those would allow us to keep growing economically, maintain people's quality of life, and it doesn't fail if China or India continue on their current path.
I guess that's a good question for Moodi
I've been heads down in PDF for about 6 months and looking at all the various and supported libraries.

Within Polar (https://getpolarized.io) we support pdf.js which is rather nice but ONLY supports viewing of the PDF and text extraction.

You can't create NEW PDFs.

Our plan is to use something like OpenPDF to get the best of both worlds. Editing PDFs for doing things like exporting could be done on the server and the rest done on the client.
Something that would help the risk of power outages killing air conditioning, would be to power air conditioning directly by solar panels installed alongside.

There is a high correlation between solar generation and air-con demand, although it's not perfect, as e.g. heat can persist into the evening, so you could have a grid connection to allow the air con to continue working in the evenings, and to absorb any excess power but in the event of grid failure, the air-con power should just follow the solar generation directly. I don't know if such a system exists commercially at the moment.

Even in the event of wide scale power outages, it would not lead to wide scale deaths as most people would have air conditioning that still worked. Air conditioning failures would be a very serious issue, though, requiring evacuation to another building.
Letter to the World After the Apollo Astronauts Died on the Moon
Whoa, small world.

1st of all - thanks for being a customer. Just so you know - we are terrified to lose you since we're not VC-backed.

2nd of all - you're totally right. Pricing has to be A/B-tested like crazy. But it's much more exciting to play with a Postfix server in your backyard, aye? Evading the businessy/salesy part for as long as you can #sarcasm
There are several photographic processes that are UV-sensitive, most notably cyanotypy, so you can work inside with the curtains closed with hardly any fogging, and then make photograms or contact prints outside. I've never tried taking photographs with it, but it could be fun too: exposure times in a pinhole camera are probably on the order of an hour, though.
Great response, I really like chicken when working on Mac or Linux, but it's windows (where I do most of my development) that it struggles.

Some eggs just don't install and the error messages are really bad at that point. Trying to install awful to develop a web api I had to give up, couldn't find a way of getting it installed on windows (no problem on OSX or Ubuntu 18.04)

Installed Portacle and (ql:quickload "hunchentoot") and was up and running in a few minutes.

A lot of lisp-languages could do with an equivalent to Portacle, an opinionated dev environment that you can install and just start coding, an area that Racket is excellent in.
I think non-US companies have to comply with the sanctions too. Your alternative will be the pool of sanctioned countries and friends. Which don’t have the infrastructure most people need.
Well.. brexit means brexit
Question: Write the command that you use to move into the parent directory of the current directory.

Your answer:
..

Correct answer:
cd ..

Nope.
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I think this conflates problems we have with measuring reality with how we should deal with it.

If we know for sure that there is a 3 legged dog then we can say for sure a claim that all dogs have 4 legs is not valid.

Sure, we cannot know if we measured correctly or if some treachery is afoot - but if we could know for sure - then we we would know for sure the claim is not valid.

I don't think popper ever claimed the first time we got an exception to a claim on indefinite sets it should be thrown out.

I guess I left this out of my earlier post, but he also made some other point that if there is no test of our reality we can make that could invalidate it given a specific outcome of the test then our test is not scientific. Does not mean it is wrong, or should be discarded, but it just is not science. Also maybe some things where we can falsify it with test is not science, but definitely if we cannot falsify it - it is not science.
The Millennial Men Whose Moms Still Clean Their Rooms
"These sanctions are entirely non-violent." Their effect on the rich in these countries mostly is. What about children dying because of a lack of medication?

One could avoid a lot of collateral damage by targeting sanctions at specific powerful individuals. Think of the way some Russian oligarchs from Putin's inner circle got restricted by western sanctions.
Whenever you try and legislate something into existence the consumer is the one who ends up paying the cost.

I think a better method would be to incentivize using a more environmentally responsible product ( glass? ) where applicable. Perhaps a tax break for companies that start taking new initiatives to promote this.

A good example would be soda: being able to fill up a glass container of even your own reusable plastic bottle. Just like many do with water at the grocery. I've often wondered why we don't do this as a society and it ( like many things...) boils down to cost.

Incentivize this cost and it will start happening.

Starbucks has done this with straws, and even their hot and cold cups. It would be great to start seeing others do the same in more areas.
A spreadsheet (and stored on something you can access away from your main computer e.g. Dropbox). Seriously, keep it simple you'll probably have to pass information to people frequently and you don't want to waste extra time formatting it for them because they don't know how to use what you sent already.
From the article:

“When I watched someone on TV using a quill, I didn’t go on the internet and write: “What is the purpose of the information feather?””

(Once upon a time, before pens were manufactured, people would write by taking a large feather, cutting the hollow tube at its center to a point, and dipping it in ink.)
Get your fiber from a well-balanced diet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill
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Do you not understand the meaning of "need"?

Moaning does not change the outcome.

Again, we either reduce consumption, stop emitting (and likely have to capture) CO2, etc, or we kill ourselves.

It does not matter how much the child wails, if it is time to leave the arcade, one must go.

> can afford to spend more on goods

We must all use less. This is not a matter of bits of coloured paper; externalities must be priced in to force the market in the correct direction.

To take an example: if plastic bottles were banned worldwide tomorrow, or suddenly cost 10 USD per, this would have approximately zero effect on those in poverty other than shuffling some jobs around a bit.
My father in law has a number of pinhole cameras he built at home. Every iteration becomes fancier and closer to that of a real camera. The development process is not difficult to take on it home. The results are fun, but the art, craft, and process are even more so.
Now that I remember, the last time I had photographic film developed was in 2003 or 2004. I was a bit late to the digital photography game.

Today my phone (far from a top of the line model) takes better pictures (both in pixel size and sensitivity) than my first digital camera (which I think had a whopping 128MB memory card)

(Having read about it a long time ago I'm a bit familiar with how film is developed - note the red light is only useful for some types of B&W film, your regular color film will get exposed even with a dim red light)
Nuster, a cache server based on HAProxy, now supports disk persistence
What happens most of the time with the big companies (Boeing, Cessna, Bombardier...) is that it is cheaper to have an in-house DER (Designated Engineering Representative) for the part of the aircraft that they are certifying. DERs themselves

You have Mechanical DERs, Electrical DERs, Software DERs, and others.

A good example for the HN crowd, the Software DER. Per regulations, the software standard is the DO-178B. The DER isn't actually spinning up the dev environment, or building the piece of software used; just checking to make sure the process was followed. (the dev environment was documented, what dependancies...) These people are a step up from code reviewers and just check paperwork more than software.

The FAA itself isn't concerned with safety; it is just there to make sure there is a papertrail to follow in the event of a safety issue.
I don't particularly disagree. My point was more that given what the authors wrote in the quoted sentence, I thought that - rightly or wrongly - was likely the reasoning behind the naming decision.
> For example, whenever the pro-choice side hears someone from the other side propose regulations about requiring permits for clinics that perform abortions (something that in principle they might agree to), they fear that the person proposing the regulations isn't really pro-choice but only says that because outright banning abortion would not be politically feasible

To be fair, when speaking freely, the pro-life side admits that this is their goal. That is, most pro-life advocates proudly admit that outlawing abortion is their goal. The pro-choice side is so wary of these additional regulations because (as they are currently proposed) (a) their only possible outcome is to close lots of clinics, and (b) the argument that these regulations improve patient care is laughable.

Contrast that with the gun-control debate, where the mainstream gun-control "side" is not advocating for a ban of all guns. Yes, they are in favor of banning some forms of guns (i.e. guns which were banned in the late 90s in the US) and things like mental health and better background checks, but a complete banning of guns is not something that they are arguing for.
Show HN: Lagukan, a highly personalized music service
Humans have survived thousands of volcano eruptions, but I suspect we'd be in worse shape if thousands of volcanoes erupted all at once.
A Maddening Sound
> It has to be dark, because too much light will destroy the negatives.

The author of this piece doesn’t seem to understand the process either. The light will expose the photographic paper, which will render it useless. The developed negative film is relatively safe from light-induced damage.

The author also fails to mention that one begins developing film (at least, the way I did it years ago) by transferring it to a lightproof container in a completely black room. They tend to not show this part in Hollywood, I suppose, since black rooms don’t really translate well to the screen. (Unless there is an alternative process I’m unaware of... I was very much a noob B&W photographer.)
That sounds a bit dismissive.

Deferred loads do have a massive advantage; your compiler knows best when loads are needed, so it can, for example, run the load for the next array value while still processing the current one, allowing the CPU to not stall at all at highest efficiency (because the compiler can know instruction latencies and counts out when to start the load).

Prefetching is an optimization of caching, it still doesn't beat the speed of signal in a silicon CPU, nor does it solve the scalability issues mentioned in the article.
So we are near the limits of human heat tolerance and the solution is less AC? Does lowering quality of life actually help increase quality of life?

The simple solution is to build more nuclear. When energy generation doesn’t require burning things, this solves itself. A carbon neutral grid means we can use as much air conditioning as we want. I was in Rome and France last week and “less AC” would have meant vulnerable people potentially dying in the heat.
If your company operates in the US and uses a provider, who does not implement sanctions, does it have to enforce them on its own?

I mean, something like selling a product, maybe based on open source tech in the US and cooperating with devs in sanctioned countries via a workaround provider..
The first time you quit your job just to not be working is pretty liberating. I do this all the time; I work for 2-3 years and take a year or so off. I'm in the middle of a year off right now. Of course, I'd love to be rich enough to come and go as I please, or have a passive source of income, but instead I save money and take off when I have enough. I've been referring to it as "retiring one year at a time".

There are downsides, of course. It's a lot harder to do if you've got family to support and a mortgage to pay, but I don't have either. And I'm absolutely sacrificing a "real" retirement in the process; I don't have anywhere near the retirement savings that I'd have if I'd worked straight through. But I also simply couldn't have worked straight through; I'd have gone insane by now.

I'm already jealous of my friends who've managed to retire in their 40s and 50s. But they've been jealous of me for decades of travel and freedom.
These are very good points. Especially the one about the major payment providers.

Re: countries that have withdrawn from the Iran deal. Even those who haven't (AFAIK, Brazil) are still in grey waters because local companies with business in the US are afraid to do business with Iranian companies. For example, two ships weren't allowed to be refilled in Brazil for 50 days while a legal battle at the supreme court was ongoing to decide if the Brazilian oil company could even refill them, because it was afraid to be sanctioned by the US govt (while doing business in the US or with US companies in the future).
If you need to use the term "sniveling digital trendoids", then your argument probably isn't as good as you think it is. (The author, not you.)