skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's funny is that it's already getting dated. I remember it was ubiquitous online in the forums I frequented in 2010 just like Urban Dictionary's graph shows. And that is already a decade ago (yikes)!
A new algorithm enables more realistic sound effects in VR
This doesn't work for me. It seems depressing as hell that we have to put in earplugs and pipe distracting media into our brains just to make work tolerable. How is cutting off one of our senses from our environment a solution?
I mean, a single person's vote has pretty much the same weight as a single person boycotting Chinese goods. So I'm not sure what you. At least with a personal boycott, I keep my peace of mind and diminish the number of Chinese goods in my possession. Voting doesn't exactly have the same direct effect.
When I encountered FHE as a potential solution, it was in designing authentication and payment tokens.

Use case was you need to be able to verify that the output of a program was also a proof of the integrity of that program.

E.g. I receive a payment token from you, and I can verify that this token was produced by a program I could verify as being the "real," program, personalized to your identity, on a device also personalized to your identity, that you physically hold and verify yourself to.

Pretty good* with a chip/pin combination, but on a mobile general purpose computer with lots of other code on it, Hard problem. With some handwaving, FHE would ostensibly have enabled the secure personalization of the program and the signing of those token outputs. It was a variation on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Anonymous_Attestation
as well.

FHE was the DRM holy grail where suddenly you can "tokenize," information. Other applications are in selling and metering software use.

In the case of health information, the ability to open up data sets to researchers to query and analyze without the risk of losing control of the data is huge. We know that de-identification of data is (information theoretically) impossible, but an ideal FHE scheme would facilitate queries against data that would mitigate much of the risk associated with it.

The other use case is in highly regulated environments where there are legal firewalls between lines of business. Basically wherever there is a use case for de-identification, FHE is a potential solution in that domain.
In that regulatory case, it's sort of ironic that it's a solution for, "ok, we won't commit a crime, but we need the hypothetical output of that crime, so let's use cryptography to facilitate that outcome without explicitly breaking the law whose effect is to prevent this outcome."

Perhaps that's why people working in it seem so cagey.
I thought Bamboo was the fastest growing tree? I remember it grows more than an inch every hour. Since no one has done mass planting of Bamboo, there must be some down fall that wasn't well known?

Edit: Turns out Bamboo is classified as plant. But the question remains the same.
The FTC is looking into the Amazon and Apple deal that crushed small resellers
Easylist is not well maintained, and sometimes they have really petty arguments with website owners instead of just fixing rules that break actual content. For example, they have a specific list of sites that are not allowed to show Amazon affiliate links. They don't block all such links as a policy or anything, it just breaks specific websites. https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=37621623#p3762...
As it turns out, the vast majority of any plant is actually Carbon! That it got from the AIR!!!! I remember when my friends' brains were blown that all trees are essentially made out of "air" that got converted to wood.

Technically it's the 2xCO_2 -> 2xO_2+2C and the Carbon that sticks around becomes the wood. (also insert Water and energy into that equation. Photosynthesis is crazy).

And yes, if it gets burned or decomposed that carbon can get released back into the air (usually as CO2) but if you instead bury it you essentially lock it into solid form. And over years and years that becomes oil!
Wikipedia proposal to mask editor IP addresses
This is definitely a space that needs innovation! How do you plan to handle the case of survey takers being real people but just skimming through the survey?

In my experience running research studies, this was the main problem with MTurk. Things like bots and blatantly junk answers were relatively rare and easy enough to detect and filter. What was much harder to deal with was the fairly high volume of users who just want to finish the survey as fast as possible. It's not so bad for short surveys, but anything over 5 minutes starts to have issues with low quality responses.

We had to introduce several control questions to check for consistency in answers and measure time to find outliers. But, it was not an ideal setup and there were still many survey takers we suspected were not paying much attention. The breakdown for our studies was something like 60% good quality answers, 35% low quality answers that are hard to distinguish from high quality, and 5% total junk answers. We ended up doing an in-person study where we got much cleaner results, presumably because people pay better attention when they feel someone is watching them.

Wages don't seem to do much for this. We were paying a relatively generous $4 per HIT, estimating 30 minutes per HIT when in reality in reality the average time was under 20.

So I'm wondering, are you able to share with us how exactly the "unusual data patterns" and "technical and behavioral checks" can help ensure quality in an ecosystem where users are generally motivated to 1) finish surveys as fast as possible, and 2) appear as if they are giving high quality responses when they are not?
To Save the Internet, Silicon Valley Is Sending It to Space – The Crux
> Because they're breaking things without much regard to it.

This claim comes accross as disingenuous. These guys are trying to block ads accross the whole internet without ruining the user's core experience. Maintaining a hard-coded black/whitelist of URLs and elements simply wont cut it. Sometimes there will be false positives.

If this impacts enough of your users, then it's your responsibility as a web developer to test your site on environments that reflect your users' and make something that works on their environment. You can always choose not to support those users, but that's your problem.
Links to papers:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00207 - Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: a New Benchmark and Dataset

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01241 - Wizard of Wikipedia: Knowledge-Powered Conversational agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10665 - Engaging Image Captioning Via Personality

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08654 - What makes a good conversation? How controllable attributes affect human judgments

And a demo of a bot that they've produced:
https://www.facebook.com/Beat-The-Bot-212188996195556/
> "mainframe technology well into the mid-aughts and never thought about learning anything new" - today this is called the cloud
Sadly, offline dictation is a separate feature, it is not the speech-recognition used for Siri.

Quote directly from Apple:

"The recording of the user’s spoken words is sent to Apple’s voice recognition server. If the task involves dictation only, the recognized text is sent back to the device. "

Source:

Page 69 in https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....
Usually it boils down to consolidation of liquidity. For the same reason there are well over 20 ATS venues but only a few are successful, ultimately new venues have difficulty naturally drawing resting order flow.

Market fragmentation aside, adding more price levels to set orders to disaggregates liquidity in the book, usually resulting in lower execution quantity (which increases your overall transaction costs if you’re trying to space trades out).
As others have said the carbon is locked into the physical wood. When it rots or burns, that carbon is released back.

However, you can hijack the process a little and keep the carbon locked away by doing things. You could use the wood as lumber or you could burn the wood in a special way which produces biochar.
Quantum Computers to Clarify the Connection Between Quantum and Classical Worlds
AWS Backs $100k Competition to ‘Change the Face of Blockchain’
Oh, I wasn't. There are too many Q-Proofs that make it mathematically impossible to deny.
Apple has used most of it on share buybacks, while alphabet has most of it locked up in Gov't bonds
> web development stopped being fun when we seriously continued digging the hole we were into instead of climbing out of it.

well, at least we got docker and kubernetes to save the day and can scale infinitely with our superior CI which sadly breaks every built and needs a whole department to shepart into this brave new world
China != America
It's the idea that if you haven't done anything notable in your first 35 years, maybe you don't have what it takes. It's the "test of time".

If you look into the biographies of successful people, "winging it" is very much not an apt description.
why should an e-commerce focused site do anything at all to avoid the term 'advert' in the first place? anyone there is ostensibly interested in commerce/advertising..

list maintainers should be responsible regression test their lists for normal content and not do dumb things

this is also a problem with bad/unscrupulous spam listings which list domains based on unsubstantiated requests, etc
This should trigger a requirement for a new install to a new name the same as selling the extension to Crookco.
And what if we bury it? Can we do landfills with the trunks of these trees, like filling up old brown coal mines? This was something that I was thinking about while driving past a few former mines in Germany. Great places to fill up with decomposables. At a certain point the top layer will stop the bottom layers CO2 from leaking, I expect?
How can you reliably spot a fake smile? Ask a computer
200M devices–some mission-critical–vulnerable to remote takeover
This is straight out of 'Armageddon: The Musical' by Robert Rankin.

"On this particular morning, Rex sat in his homemade armchair, facing the flickering TV screen. His was the classic seated posture of the Active Viewer. Relaxed yet attentive, right thumb and forefinger about the remote controller, expression alert, eyes wide. But here all similarities ended. Rex Mundi was fast asleep.

His old Uncle Tony had taught him the technique when he was but a leprous lad, and there was no doubt that it did pay big dividends. It had already earned Rex sufficient rehousing credits to get him overground and he actually possessed a surplus of food and medico rations. His generosity with these made him quite popular and respected locally. But the greatest benefit to Rex was that it left him plenty of time to indulge in his own personal studies. These centred upon a book his Uncle Tony had bequeathed to him, a curious volume entitled The Suburban Book of the Dead. Uncle Tony had pressed-the crumbling tome upon Rex with the simple statement, 'Knowledge is power'.

Shortly after this, he had spontaneously combusted while watching his favourite game show. The way he would have wanted to go,’ Aunty Norma put it."
Also not a chemist, but here's my basic understanding.

The tree absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere and combines it with water (H2O) from the soil to produce more complex chemical compounds (such as carbohydrates). This process uses sunlight as the source of energy, and is better known as photosynthesis. The chemical compounds thus produced are used by the tree as structural material (the wood), or as stored energy (basically, reverting the photosynthesis reaction, aka "burning", releases the energy).

If the tree matter gets consumed by animals, those animals are going to use the stored energy, and ultimately re-release the stored carbon as CO2. If the tree just dies and is allowed to decompose, bacteria and other microorganisms will do the same: they'll eat the carbohydrates that the tree produced, and they'll breathe out the resulting CO2. If the tree is burned as fuel, the CO2 gets re-emitted directly.

So, to truly remove that CO2 from the atmosphere, the tree needs to be felled once it's stopped growing, and the resulting wood stored someplace where it can't be decomposed by microorganisms. Burying it is one solution to this (and this is what happened during the carboniferous era, when much of our coal and oil got created: dead trees fell in shallow swamps and were quickly buried under a layer of silt which prevented the decomposition).

Again, I'm no expert, so I'm happy to stand corrected if I've made any mistakes above.
Loon internet balloons have learned to tack like a sailor and move with the wind
> Executive and working memory decline is a real thing that happens with age

I thought that wasn't really supported by anything significant. Life, health getting in a way is not a decline of mental abilities.
Several years ago I worked on a monolithic website that used static files with no templating engine. The problem is they had so many contractors working on changes for specific ranges of content that there were a variety of ways that even a mundane meta tag with the same content value was written (is the tag self-closing, is the value placed before the property, are certain characters in the value encoded, etc.). Find & Replace can quickly end up becoming a bigger game of Trial & Error especially if there are no standards in place.
Russ Olsen on Functional Programming (2018)
Very cool!

I signed up and will be looking out for surveys. Looking at the demographics, I noticed the survey panel is similar to that of Hacker News: white English speaking 20-30 year olds many who are in school. I'd love to hear about your efforts to have a more nationally/globally representative sample?
Interesting tidbit about this. The reason we have so much fossil fuel in the first place is because of what happened during the Carboniferous era. Trees evolved the capability to produce lignin, the 'woody' material in trees. However, it took millions of more years for microorganisms to evolve the ability to decompose lignin.

So instead of what happens today when a tree dies and rots, the tree died and just piled up in the forest. I always think it's amazing to imagine what a forest must have looked like during the Carboniferous with all these dead trees just piled high. Trees were essentially like today's plastic: non-biodegradable refuse that stuck around for millennia. Eventually all those trees got buried and turned into fossil fuels (mostly coal).

And, interestingly, this process let to huge climate change back then, too - basically the reverse of what's happening now (and at a much slower pace). Trees sucked all this carbon out of the air and reduced global temperatures by about 8C.

Edit: One other note - there were of course still forest fires during the Carboniferous. It's believed they would have been incredible raging infernos with so much undecomposed combustible material.
That's probably not by coincidence. The cost required to fix a hardware/firmware defect vs a software defect is much more. I'd definitely want to put my best engineers on the product that can't be easily fixed once it's shipped vs software than can always be patched.

> I'm 67 and have been programming for 50 years.

Also, that's really impressive. You've probably forgotten more than I've ever learned!
The floppy disk drivers were no longer being maintained. They were orphaning the drivers and they would eventually rot as the rest of the kernel changed around it. Then someone else stepped up to take the position of maintaining the driver.

It's significant because a) some dude out there still has working floppy disk drives and feels that they might still be used, and b) this basically proves that Linux has the best legacy device support.

If they didn't maintain this you would be stuck keeping an old computer alive that had a floppy drive and a CD burner, to burn any data you needed to a CD, then another old computer that has a CD drive and a USB port to move the data off a CD (/s, but only kinda).
Should he decide to terminate the project, I expect that he'll find that he's wildly underestimated human capabilities for entitlement. The upside is that he won't feel obligated to those people.
Thanks! That's mostly me as well. The commentary here is very good generally. You've seen the bestComments section of the site before I assume? It's a good clearinghouse of HN's community: https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
No, thats a huge exaggeration, Trump is not sending to kill or throwing to jail anyone who disagrees with him, forcing schools to brainwash its students, etc etc, America may have many problems but its not China.
Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It
Isn't most furniture already made out of wood? I'd imagine if we made every single piece of furniture out of wood it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
We need to make things out of wood that are not already made of wood, like skyscrapers and large buildings. If that's not enough we need to cut down trees and bury them so they don't decompose and then plant more. I think you are vastly underestimating the amount of carbon in the atmosphere that needs to be removed.
Are these schemes theoretically resistant against quantum computing?
places floppy drive on desk "This. It runs this."
This is obviously a wild assumption, but you seem to have made up your mind. Good day.
And he's probably never even seen Logan's Run!
I suspect that the editor didn't actually read the text but nevertheless chose the most obnoxious title possible (as they often do)
I'm cleaning out my wife's 2008 Subaru in preparation to sell it.

In the door pockets, I have found a protractor, a 3.5" floppy disk, and a cassette tape.

All of these things were outdated when the car was new (well, except the protractor, but I still find it funny. She was well out of school when she got the car.)

The car came with a CD player.

I have no idea what's on the floppy.
Or just that they can buy more shares in the buyback for the same amount of cash. All of the per-share fundamentals will go up more in that case, because there are fewer shares outstanding. Eventually, if the stock is truly undervalued, the market will realize it as shares are taken off the market and ownership is concentrated among those who recognize the value of the business, and the stock price will pop upwards.
The article notes that this uses the same balloon technology that Google's project loon uses.
How to prioritize when everything is important
Grew up there. Live in Portland OR now. I'd like to be remote someday exactly so I can move back, though probably just to one of the quieter (cheaper) surrounding areas... Hard to beat actual seasons and interesting weather. You can drive for 20 minutes in any direction and find yourself alone in nature. Boston is just 2 hours south and the ocean is everywhere you look. Winters are long and harsh, though.
As a Somali, i am mostly aligned with the Shafi' madh-hab and yes, a woman can be married without consent from a male guardian. This happens in the case where the male guardian refuses to grant permission without any reason. The kadhi thus takes the responsibility. But, Saudi's money and so called Salafism, most Somalis are now only marginally Shafi'.
It wasn't my intention to exclude it, fat fingers.
It is true that my comment is an ad hom attack, but as it speaks to the motive (and potential hypocrisy) of the speaker, it is not fallacious. It also speaks to the question as to whether or not Thiel has a point, hence the idiom "take with a grain of salt".
Fake Graphics Cards and How to Fix Them
And I totally believe you /s
I think if you and I lived on the same street and everybody on our street decided to generate and distribute our own power, we would never create such dysfunctional rules.

And if we did, we would probably change it the day after it failed.

Centralization enables a lot of good thing but also some bad things. Lobbying thrives on centralization because it is easier for decision makers to scam people they don't know, more likely to happen with centralization.
If someone's life is so desperate that doing this is worth the time investment, I can't begrudge them it. Likewise with those poor souls who survive and are thankful to eat rotting refuse from dumpsters. Perhaps the income will help them lift themselves up to the point they can pursue a more satisfying life.
you maintain the save button ? thats awesome.
Habit Stacking: A Primer
My friends and I used to play VGA Planets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_Planets) by handing in floppy disks to the kid with the server program at school.

Each school day we would bring the disk with our turn and hand it in to him and he would hand back our disk from the previous turn. It was a blast and great fun given the limitations of tech at the time.
Modeling Bitcoin Value with Scarcity
Even hotter take: let's buy and warm up some nukes.

Australia is looking to buy nukes on public government TV atm, because the next 20-30years of china's future is looking uncertain.

If a China war kicks off, Australia is going to be the front line.
There’s three copies of the 1922 Cape edition listed for sale on abebooks right now, though you would have to cough up about $500 to get one.

Was the text revised for the US edition?
Not an expert in this... at 103 metric tons of CO2 per acre per year, how many acres of this do we need to plan to make an impact?

Look like according to this random Medium blog, we should aim to remove 10B metrics tons every year? So that's 970MM acres? https://medium.com/@friedmann2/going-negative-time-to-suck-i...
Backup Your Entire GitHub and This Is How to Do It
Solved Spf's “Too Many SPF Lookup” Issue Causing “Permerror”
Which is why I am sharing my workflow with HN. I didn’t build anything. TiddlyWiki exists for 10+ years and it is basically one HTML file.
I think you mean classified as a grass
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Imagine a company has 100 shares and for argument's sake let's assume that company is never going to turn a profit but break even forever.

What would you pay for one of those shares? Nothing, right? The company is worthless.

Now imagine that same company has a bank balance of $100. Each share now also owns a 1% share of the bank balance (because it owns 1% of the company itself). How much would you pay for such a share? Anything below a dollar seems pretty good to me!

In other words, the more valuable assets the company holds, the more we'd be willing to pay for shares of the company, all else equal. This is called the 'book value' of a company and is total assets - intangible assets (patents, goodwill) and liabilities.

Note that the real-life situation is slightly more complex because you can't always get at the assets, even if you buy the shares for cents on the dollar. But the general idea is that you can buy shares until you have enough voting rights to dole out the cash as dividends.