skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another step in the right direction, but satellites will continue to be the bottleneck to unlocking the full value of maps.
The other 20% have come into contact with the ridiculous kabuki of environmental reviews.
People in the Middle East did exactly that, only to lose everything they had before.

Doesn't look like China will fall for this again after the West has gone out of its way setting up examples around the world to convince them it doesn't work.
>with seemingly no opt out (on the consumer or publisher side)

I though AMP was opt-in for publishers? As in you have to write the front-end spec and pick a CDN to cache with.
In this context, the term is just used to tell you to think in terms of pitch classes — where all notes that are separated by an integer multiple of an octave belong to the same class — and not expect actual Shepard tone trickery related to absolute pitch.

However, the relationship between absolute pitch and frequency isn't always trivial. The latter is a physical phenomenon, but the former is psycho-acoustic. When you have sounds with a normal set of overtones that align with a harmonic series, the perceived pitch matches the fundamental frequency. But that frequency doesn't actually need to be audible. By weighting the amplitudes of the partials in a certain way, you can also construct a sound that will be perceived as different pitches by different listeners, or by the same listener under different circumstances.

With sounds whose frequencies aren't all harmonic, assigning a pitch can get more complicated.
Are you saying no recent music contains "descriptive yet metaphorical" lyrics?
Bison is a much healthier meat. It has less fat, and is loaded with protein. Also, ALL bison is organic due to regulations.
Maybe compare this with only reading the headline on Hacker News?

We often prefer non-clickbait headlines for good reason. The answer to a question may be simple enough to fit into the headline, but the site will withhold it to get a click.

Paywalls also encourage people to skip reading the article. I find I'm a bit annoyed at first, but it fades quickly and I realize the news probably isn't that important anyway.
Silicon Valley is one of the major hubs of blockchain development. And not everyone on HN is from SV.
Developer’s Toolbox: Factory Method Design Pattern
This is a common argument that Chinese/East-Asian culture makes democracy extremely difficult. The prime counter examples are Taiwan, South Korea, and even Japan. Similar cultural background, but all are able to operate in a liberal democracy in a relatively short amount of time.
I'm not sure how this classifies as tech debt, but in my experience the worst type of tech debt is found in parts of a system that is relied upon and whose business logic has become unmaintainable, is too complex/poorly understood and is not possible to throw away as too many things depend on it. Also usually whose initial creator is long gone, the documentation is conflicting with the code implementation. This kind of debt causes eternal confusion and constantly lowers the productivity of the team. In cases like these, workarounds are created and more tech debt accrues on top of it that is even harder to reason about. Nobody sane can fix a mess like this and the only hope is death of the system or complete overhaul.
Another factor is snippets. They grab a sentence or two from the web pages that are your search result, and display that inline. Sometimes that gives me all I need to know. It's debatable whether previews of a web site are really a walled garden. (If I like what I see, it drives me toward the external web site.)

However, while I agree that there are other factors (and we shouldn't make assumptions), I do think the walled garden effect is real. I find it particularly annoying on Android when I ask Assistant for something and instead of showing me search engine results and a Google inline app, it shows me just Google's answer and has a button to do a search. Adding an extra step to see non-Google information feels like they're trying very hard to steer me toward their stuff.
That’s a nice compromise, I like that as a default
You said Climate Science is a "totally model-driven field" and I provided facts correcting that sweeping claim.

It's not uncommon to hear this kind of claim on HN - sometimes people seem to not really have on-the-ground information about how climate science works, and are instead going by how they might imagine it works -- a bunch of modelers working in isolation.

That's not how climate science is done. For more on the relationship of climate models to observations, see an old comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15613090#15620293

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Your reply says that you meant to say that Climate Science "cannot be experimental". This, it turns out, is also not true. There are cases where nature runs the experiment for us.

For instance, the large methane leak recently in the LA area allowed us to understand the effectiveness of the inversion algorithms that are used to turn observations of concentrations into observations of the emissions that caused those concentrations. For instance, to understand the correctness of wind models.

Wildfires, volcanic eruptions, and ENSO onsets often serve as nature-given checks on climate science predictions. They basically provide a "step function" input that is a tool to characterize the system response to a shock. For instance, we got a lot of science out of the varying climate-system responses to different volcanic eruptions.

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You said that "no one knew" about a possible future crisis in the 1980s. I supplied links showing that this is not the case -- the science establishment, the Congress, and the readers of the front page of major newspapers knew.

Your reply counters with "what should we have done". That's another question, isn't it?
I agree for the most part.

If the time travelers go on public transportation in NYC or Boston, they see perhaps worse technology than they had 70 years ago.

Airports work less well than 70 years ago, though air travel prices have decreased.

Our diets work less well than 70 years ago. Agricultural and nutrition science have not materialized any benefits for the public w.r.t. obesity or diabetes. Though we have more life-saving tech. Diabetics live much better, but we have vastly more of them. (~10% of the USA is diabetic. CDC report in 2017: More than 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes)

Building a new house is more complicated and expensive per foot than 70 years ago. Though insulation is better.

High trust societies work less well than 70 years ago. Trust is a resource, slowly renewable, and many places seem to have squandered it. There are a lot of such social technologies that have been working less well over time, I imagine. We may(?) now have fewer pleasant, human-scale built environments than existed in the 1950's. A huge obstacle in the US is that walkability invites social problems. So to have good cities, you must not tolerate social dysfunction. If you tolerate it, people will use car-dependent development to insulate themselves from it. At least, that seems to be what's happened.
Project Euphonia’s Personalized Speech Recognition for Non-Standard Speech
Maybe one of these?

https://www.emmicroelectronic.com/catalog?title=&term_node_t...

EM Microelectronics is actually not so obscure. They belong to the Swatch group and are specialized in ultra lower power analog and mixed signal circuit. Obviously, first for watches.
Iran has been hijacking merchant ships and shooting down American drones. And it’s not like the world actually needs Iran for anything the way we need China for steel and electronics.
What year is this again?
> only if ECC is necessary

If your workloads require 128GB of RAM then you probably want ECC. You'd be skimping in the wrong place.
Consumers win in this scenario.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/friedman-w... and particulary last chapter of Why Nations Fail.
ISIS conquering land in Iraq and Syria

Taliban taking over cities in Afghanistan

More "police" actions:

China pacifying Uighur and Tibet regions.

El-Sisi pacifying Muslim brotherhood in Egypt.

Basically, intense indiscriminate violence "solves" some problems.
>Therefore there is no way for it to be in their economic interests.

I would certainly pay a bit more in rent for a place where my energy use was subsidized by panels.
If you are poor, should you really be going to Venice?

A reasonably priced lottery would give middle income people access and an even playing field against wealthy people.

This system, combined with a limit on tourist infrastructure would cut down on excessive visitors and make it sustainable.
Well that's used stuff, so Moore's laws ghost still in effect.

The biggest problem I have with a used server is the inability to incorporate a GPU into the architecture. But I guess that really depend on what you want to do with it, serving a website will absolutely not require a GPU.
It also won’t have iLO, etc.

Even for a homelab these are useful features to have, I don’t want to go hooking up my monitor and keyboard every time I need to troubleshoot some boot issue or install a new OS. I can also get used DDR3 ECC memory for a hell of a lot cheaper than DDR4 right now.

Unfortunately the person who wrote this article is in the EU who has much slimmer picking in the second-hand market. I can buy a Dell R620 for $200-300, two 10-core Xeons for another $300 if it doesn’t come with enough cores, and 128GB of 16GB DDR RDIMMs for $200 - total price is under $1000USD, and that’s excluding any components that come with the server I may opt NOT to replace.
And don't worry there's even more mandatory meetings than before.
It would be better to say it's a cross-platform app then I think. For me native app means it's a native Mac or Windows app.
The problem with urban insurgencies is the people who don't carry firearms, not the ones that do. If you can identify the combatants, it is much easier to kill them.
Ask HN: GitHub Repo SEO
I am looking for tips on how to help my project rank higher on Google and other search engines. From what I can tell it should be ranked similarly to other projects in the same space, but that isn't true.

Specific Context:

I am the author of RARS [0] and unless you search the name RARS, the github repo only shows up on the 3rd page or farther back on Google. The Google Summer of Code page [1] for the project and an HN submission [2] are generally higher ranked (especially when the keyword education is used).

What confuses me is that other simulators Ripes [3] and Jupiter [4] (as of the HN post last week) routinely rank as 1st and 2nd spots for my test queries. In terms of stars, active users, and other such statistics, RARS appears to be superior. Venus [5] is used for CS61c at Berkeley and has probably the best educational material, but is equally low ranked. On bing however it is the first result.

[0]:https://github.com/TheThirdOne/rars
[1]:https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/projects/6309390843904000/
[2]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19457842
[3]:https://github.com/mortbopet/Ripes
[4]:https://github.com/andrescv/Jupiter
[5]:https://github.com/kvakil/venus
The government knew about it, as did most of the population. Al Gore sponsored the first congressional hearings on climate change in 1976, and I remember putting on a play about environmental issues (including global warming) in 4th grade (1990).

It's very difficult to rally people around a problem until they see tangible evidence of it in their own lives. Global warming was an abstraction in the 80s; we knew it was happening, we knew it would have a big impact, but we were too busy trying not to get nuked by the Soviets (or rather, trying to make them think we were gonna nuke them so they bankrupted themselves). In a democracy you can't get political support for policies until a majority of people agree with you. When it comes to giant systems like the environment, that's too late.

There are probably a number of other problems that can see right now that we are doing nothing about - trust pollution (where you have no idea what's true anymore), mass migration (which I guess we're doing something about, but that "something" is putting kids in cages), erosion of the rule of law, potential infectious diseases, a looming demographic crisis, etc. But all of these are too big to wrap our head around a solution until they become a crisis - we're too busy dealing with climate change - and so they'll just blow up society and we'll be left to pick up the pieces.
HTTP/2 Denial of Service Advisory
JSLint made up its own license, which was essentially the MIT license with a sentence about "use this software for good; do not use this software for evil". FWIW that was enough for lots of people to make the determination that it wasn't really open source software since evil is often in the eye of the beholder and there was a gray area for "lawful neutral" type use.
What matters is where the high-impact papers go. If they go, so too does the prestige.

There will be no shortage of manuscripts, but that's really not the point.
Is it overlaid on your visual field, or more of a parallel mental construct?

Also, are there any particularly noteworthy smells in terms of representation?

I have to admit, the idea of a visual artifact for smells is amazing!
I wonder, if Microsoft did decided to increase the costs of it's product and services what's the best way to that?

To me, that's all that's happening here. And the licenses purchase buy customer in the past weren't intended for Cloud Workloads. Sure, it didn't outline that you CANT use on AWS, GCP, etc. but that wasn't the intent.
Try a local news site with Firefox's Reader Mode. If it's still garbage then the local news site isn't worth any more time whatsoever. Keep a running mental list of what sites not to click on. They're typically in the top 1-10 links of search results.
Boxed in: life inside the 'coffin cubicles' of Hong Kong – in pictures
I didn't see it defined on the page, so I'm wondering, do zero click searches count frustrated users giving up because the first two pages are entirely full of SEO optimized commercial websites when searches are made for informational content?

Try searching anything related to researching foundation repair. You get pages upon pages of foundation repair services and biased one pager summaries about certain procedures.

Long gone are the days when search queries retrieved educational content - when was the last time you saw results for engineering toolbox, or hyperphysics, or anything other than ads, commercial services, and stack overflow for software related questions?

SEO killed search and Google is complicit. I think this has massive ramifications for society - the sources of information are shallower, and people are increasingly unable to notice differentiate objective knowledge sources from commercial websites. The people who are interested in generating and curating true knowledge repositories are probably not interested in paying for SEO, so their efforts are effectively hidden from what amounts to the gateway to the internet.
Many examples on reddit.com/r/homelab - including even more hungry (or several of them in a rack(s)) systems.

The short answer is Yes, servers built to be servers are designed to get the heat out and keep internal temp. down - so noisy fans and as much heat as you generate outside of the box.

Of course, nothing stops you replacing fans with quieter ones (at least one of more expensive or air movement) or putting consumer hardware (which has different design goals that you might prefer in the home) in a rack-mount chassis.
And we can't change crops? Or change methods? I'm not buying that. Humans grow crops everywhere, from equatorial deserts to the arctic circle. And the changes that make a given crop totally unworkable (as opposed to not quite as efficient as before) are generation-scale, not the flip of a switch.

Water will still exist. Soil will still exist. Short of postulating worst-case scenarios (which are possible), this is all stuff we can handle with existing technology, much less the technology of a century from now.
In the biological community, biodiversity is seen as the mark of a stable ecosystem. There is little debate whether it should be protected because lack of biodiversity is repeatedly being shown to reduce the fitness of the other species in that ecosystem. It's the same rationale for using a permaculture versus a monoculture in agriculture.

It's "politicized" almost entirely because of misinformation campaigns that have torn down the search for truth and the trust of science. Instead, government leaders (especially in the current whitehouse administration in the USA) are actively destroying scientific communities, running them out of non-partisan offices, destroying scientific research, defunding other research, and restricting access to publications.

It's not that there isn't a universal agreement, there actually is a bipartisan appreciation of the endangered species act (https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/8/12/20802132/en...) and it seems most people appreciate what it brings.

So yes, it's definitely being "politicized" as the objective science behind it is being destroyed.
The signing up process is simple and free and will not get any unnecessary info, give it a try ;)
I use USBGuard on Linux to this effect.
Muse: A fluid workspace, for your best ideas
Af19 – What do you think will come out of Africa’s Davos?
So??

A customer is buying X features for Y dollars. It doesn't matter if certain other features are there and disabled, because that's not what the customer paid for.

Software does this all the time as well. Say you get the first three levels of a game for free. You have to pay to get an unlock code for all ten levels. Is it unfair that you really got the whole game for free and that you are being kept from accessing it unless you pay?

If you get the features you pay for, then the transaction was legitimate. Fin.
> I can see this being a nice alternative to a few browser options for checking the latest across multiple site

It's just another walled garden approach
Why are you storing a private key on a blockchain, where the primary purpose of a blockchain is universal visibility?
I bought an HP Proliant DL380 G7 with Dual Xeon Hex-Core X5660 at 2.8GHz, 76GB DDR3 RAM, and about 1TB of 15K HDD for $370.
Tech Debt is never good, but it can be acceptable in exchange for a greater gain.

So, just like this article's opening:

> Financial debt isn’t universally reviled in the same way. Your friend takes out a mortgage to buy a house and what do you say? Congratulations!

Except it is universally reviled, no one wants debt - they just accept debt in reasonable quantities as a way to efficiently get things done.

I think, in particular, the success of not-quite-agile-but-similar business practices has confirmed this, plan carefully and evaluate business needs, then get it done in a way that's fast and leaves you relatively free of debt - don't plan for everything. So don't get stuck in analysis paralysis trying to build the perfect things - and don't just code with no thought of the future... it's a difficult road to follow.
Ask HN: Does anyone outside of Google use Dart?
I remember when Dart came out it was painted as a JavaScript-killer. To put it lightly, that hasn't happened. Aside from Flutter I can't personally name any Dart projects, and aside from Google I don't know of any companies using it.

Does anyone here use it for something other than Flutter and/or know someone who does? Is it a dying language assuming Flutter doesn't hugely take off?
Just remove your microdata and other site-specific metadata. HTML was fine to begin with, its not our problem if facebook or google can't read a <meta description> tag properly. Everyone forgives the transgressions that google does because "it's Google", but when Elsevier does the same thing (appropriating and locking other people's IP for huge profits), they 're starting riots.
It's okay at chat, but the big deal is that it's Microsoft's best client for SharePoint. It finally makes a lot of SharePoint features make sense and puts them in a way that is easy to use without paying a consultant design firm an arm and a leg on customizing the widgets on team SharePoint portals in such a way that mere mortals can find the important stuff like the team's document libraries, Wiki, or OneNote Notebook.

(It really is amazing how much Teams has lit up "we have the ability to do that now" for SharePoint features that have existed almost forever. I was particularly amused when someone asked me why so many Teams features have SharePoint URLs when SharePoint didn't support them and then showing them the three or four step process to do it on SharePoint that has been there all along.)
When you have a monopoly on Y, it is not fair to offer a discount on a bundle of X and Y. The problem is not the general idea of a discount bundle, it's leveraging a monopoly to get more business in a different market.
Hooked on the Internet, South Korean Teens Go into Digital Detox
And I like Dave Ramsey's mortgage calculator: https://www.daveramsey.com/mortgage-calculator

Or retirement calculator: https://www.daveramsey.com/smartvestor/investment-calculator
It's hilarious that the continued existence of all species presently on Earth at this very moment has become some sort of moral imperative in the minds of activists.

Let's flip the situation on its head: by not allowing species to go extinct today, we prevent new and better adapted species from evolving tomorrow.
WP, NYT, BBC etc – mostly negative articles. It's like nothing outside of a few contention points exists over there. It's ridiculous.
That thesis is not well supported by the article, and I didn't see it referencing better-quality material. And it grossly overestimates the speed of changes.

My father farmed with a mule in the 1950s.
This example proves his point exactly.

I'd rather just type CAD to USD.. or BTC to USD, or any other combination in my address bar than type xe.com, load a bunch of libraries, including Facebook connect.
Ghostly reports 6 trackers blocked.

Furthermore, it took 3.45 seconds to load xe.com in Incognito, while google only took 1.1
True, though the odor persists for days.

Technically, althlete odors generally are foreign substances / interactions, at least in part.
Could Editing the epigenome produce the ‘fountain of youth’?
No. Humans will be extinct long before we can overcome our greed and fear. We live in a world of abundance and the only thing holding us back is the concentration of power and wealth.
"Hunting bans don't stop poaching. In fact, bans create more crime," If we go by that line of reasoning, then we should eliminate murder laws, since they don't completely stop murders and we could reduce crime since murders would no longer be illegal.
So following that logic Intel's fab has no competitors. : /
It's interesting that you chose a report more than a decade out of date rather than one of the more recent reports they have published.
The actual hardware is not bad, its just the perf per $ ratio is not great when you compare it to zen 2.

Kudos to AMD
Oh weird, you're right. I had the clearest memory of where I was and the blog posts I wrote at the time about it. But actually it was Iran I was thinking of - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_presidential_elec...
Yep, it's opt in for publishers. For users, the only way to opt out currently is to view in desktop mode.