skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hard problem is to provide processor performance scalability in a post-Moore world. We are tackling this by event based, near-memory, sparse computing. Traits that can be just as well attributed to the brain. The challenge here is that a whole new set of algorithms is required. A good illustration for that are DVS (Dynamic Vision Sensors). They produce a continuous stream of asynchronous events, just like our eyes, and algorithms like object detection have to work on this stream of events rather than a simple sequence of frames. The advantages are ultra-low latency, high energy efficient computing. Only what needs to be computed is computed, asynchronously. Since DVS is not a very widespread technology (yet) we do frame-to-event conversion to tap into the energy efficiency of sparse, near-memory compute. All of this processing can be done on the same architecture, since it can be explicitly programmed to do e.g. frame-to-event conversion, and trained to do inference on objects in the resulting stream.
North Korea is funding its weapons program with stolen cryptocurrency
I stopped clicking on titles containing "nightmare" and "horror". Halloween is just one day per year.
I know I need an end-of-life directive. So why can’t I bring myself to write it?
I was asking of curiosity – thank you for sating it!

I'm not familiar with spacetime, and was curious for a sense of scale here. A couple of minutes difference sounds quite significant to me (though I agree I'd conversationally call it "about the same").
The problem isn't waste -- plastic bags are really cheap. The only problem is pollution.
CutiePi: An all-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet
A ton of web frameworks are trying to reinvent WebForms using WebSockets e.g. Phoenix LiveView, the new Blazor components in ASP.NET CORE that uses WebAssembly alongside WebSockets to create a unified stack. Unfortunately the whole web builder concept is no longer popular other than for generic sites, those areas are dominated by companies like Webflow, Weebly, SquareSpace, Pinegrow etc.
You could look into functional reactive programming as in rxjs/rxjava etc (https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/reactive-programming-in-...) or command query responsibility segregation (https://microservices.io/patterns/data/cqrs.html).
‘Rockstar Games’ Will the New Game ‘GTA 6’?
I realize this is probably being excessively pessimistic, but couldn't this end up making the work of the skilled trades as soulless and boring as routine assembly line work?

That is to say, whenever there is a discussion of the skilled trades on Hacker News it is mentioned that they often take as much thinking and creativity as white collar jobs. It seems like this sort of technology could change that in at least some situations.
I personally wish that Disney's America park was built...

I wouldn't be shocked if a lot of reasons that failed to get off the ground are the same reasons holding back new parks in north america.
Maybe I misunderstand your comment, but @taviso was recalling a story that seems to be from 2010.
The water the plants use is of direct benefit to people

No it isn't, it only reaches them via commercial intermediaries.
Amazon (via third-party sellers), Uber, and Airbnb all have a similar thread: work around govt regulations in exchange for a lower price and wider selection.

With Uber, some of the regulations weren't really working for consumers. Taxis are terrible. And, though I dislike Uber as a company, they've done a surprisingly good job of providing the regulations and safeguards required to make their service as good and safe as taxis (perhaps more so in my city).

But Amazon and Airbnb make us forego some really vital, useful safety measures, e.g. requiring hotels to be responsible for keeping a room safe (with fire extinguishers, fire escapes, privacy, etc.) An individual Airbnb owner isn't afraid of your bed bug lawsuits, but Marriott is afraid for you to even tell someone about it. Which one is going to fix the problem sooner.

Amazon and Airbnb seemingly don't believe that bad sellers will harm their own brand that much, so they don't do much to stop these things. I don't think Airbnb could afford to. How can you prevent Airbnb owners from installing spy cams?

I personally have sampled the Silicon Valley way of doing things, and I've gone back to big-brand hotels and online shopping at Target/Best Buy. The prices aren't that different, and I have a lot more guarantees of quality, as well as a lot more recourse if something goes wrong.
> none of the students knew Poland was a real country.

The punchline is that Russians and Germans still don't believe that. :)
Stocking fish is common in much of the US. Presumably, the same basic strategy would work on any non polluted river.
I feel like going to Disney is something that the average middle class family might do once in a life time. At least that is how it was in my family growing up in the 80's and 90's we went to Disney World once and every other vacation was some variation on camping at a state park or going to the local Six Flags amusement park for the day. When you look at it that way 4k doesn't seem as outrageous.
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They also have been building a javascript version! A few years ago (as part of the GSOC program) I worked on parts of their webgl renderer, and ended up adding a feature to threejs as a result!
Sergey has done a great job with it.

Try it in your browser:

https://root.cern.ch/js/
You just described the USA also.
Not to mention it won't include third party repairs
No, you are doing it to feel good about yourself. You are doing it to feel like you are making the world better.

But you are not making the world better, you are forcing random laws on people as part of an empty performative ritual.

If you wanted to live in a cleaner world, you would focus on improving systems of sanitation rather than trying to force a very marginal reduction in waste going into these systems.

90% of the plastic in the ocean comes from 10 rivers in India and Asia. The plastic is in the ocean because of poor garbage pickup and disposal infrastructure, it's not there because some guy in San Francisco is using a single use plastic bag when he goes shopping. If you want to make the "world" cleaner, then improve the waste management infrastructure rather than trying to reduce plastic waste by 0.000000001%. The thin disposable bags are not gonna put you over the top.

These are all symbolic acts that have real world deleterious consequences in terms of personal liberty as well as increasing the number of food poisoning cases, emergency room visits, etc, due to people re-using bags without properly sterilizing them between each use.
> Because they didn't say "in the EU"

They also didn't say "in the US". From context you can only assume "in some jurisdiction google cares about"

> Copyright is about creative expression

That's not true, or at least a very US-centric view. The Berne Convention, the international standard for copyright, reads:

"[...] shall include every production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or form of its expression, such as books, [...] works expressed by a process analogous to photography; works of applied art; illustrations, maps, plans, sketches and three-dimensional works relative to geography, topography, architecture or science."

also

"Collections of literary or artistic works such as encyclopaedias and anthologies which, by reason of the selection and arrangement of their contents, constitute intellectual creations shall be protected as such"

That's lots of things that are not exactly "creative expression" (even though exceptions for pure statements of fact do exist).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/text/283698
Multi-use plastic bags and single-use plastic bags, in actual lifetime probably are close to equal in terms of energy use, carbon and pollution. Where multi-use wins is in aesthetics. You don’t get as many bags blowing and landing on the streets and roadways or finding themselves in waterways and estuaries.

So I see that as a positive. Straws now, I don’t see the logic in it beside trying to condition people into “plastic = bad”. It’s the the “broken windows theory” applied to (anti-) plastics environmentalism.
Huh?

It hasn't happened yet in reference frames around the Large Magellanic Cloud, right?
It would be great to see a taxonomy of the zero-click searches.
“Not a chance” what?

Looking at 2018 data Disneyland grew attendance 2% vs Universal Studios at 12%, and the source says almost all attributed to Harry Potter.

Both parks can be done in a day each...both are small relative to Orlando counterparts.

http://www.ocregister.com/disneyland-still-worlds-no-2-theme...
I'd be interested in an analysis of exactly how effectively they can make use of two billion dollars in cryptocurrency. The real-world value is going to be significantly less but I couldn't tell you how much less. They could convert it into a harder currency but that would put it back under the same global economic restrictions as everything else. They could pay hackers with it but I suspect there's not a lot you can do with 2 billion in crypto you couldn't also do with 100 million in crypto.

Any professionals want to chime in?

>North Korea is funding its weapons program with stolen cryptocurrency

Konami is gonna be pissed reality spoiled the plot of the next Metal Gear Solid game.
More than a bunch! The scale of it is astonishing and depressing.

See Inside the Fake Science Factory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ras_VYgA77Q
Clipping a video, reordering scenes, or reversing it, or just showing it in the wrong context can be enough to manipulate the viewer.

We should add integrity checks and digital signatures to videos.
The Arnold Schwarzenegger video from the same guys is arguably better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhUhypV27w
For a vacationing family of 4 coming to the park for three full days and staying in a Disney resort for 4 nights in the spring or summer, what might be the expected cost range including everything (except for flights and the rental car)?
Imagine you have 80k in student debt between your partner and yourself. This isn't even a crazy number. Imagine how much of an impact 4K has on that.
They do. Both myself and a few people are know very much lost interest in visiting the US for a while. Even ignoring the current politics, I'm keen to wait until the immigration becomes more civilised. (got tired of the extra wait in the special room)

This also makes the idea of visiting Canada much harder, since most flights stop over in the US, causing visa headaches.
I don't mean to get into the weeds here, but what part of EODAS can't be added by literally putting a thermal camera (from the F-35 program) in several places on the F-22 and running wiring to it?

I completely understand that it interfaces with the helmet. I also know that it took ages for the F-22 to get a simple FLIR built in, but if even a fraction of the F-35 resources were directed at the F-22, this would all be more than doable quickly.

As far as I am concerned, the selling pitch of the F-35 is the STOVL and EODAS. At that point the F-22 could be fitted for carrier operations, because no one uses VTOL (or plans to) on the F-35 anyway except for moving it around parking lots with no ordinance.

Again, this is ignoring all the political info.

Also, to get more specific, I don't know of any "sensors built into its skin" - EODAS is just a bunch of little pods with thermal cameras and fancy computing. Obviously don't tell me if it's something that's not public knowledge.
Yikes! Would never fly today, I don't think.
I mean good? I learned a lot by messing up stuff. School is a great place to make plenty of mistakes.
Everyone has heard the horror stories of people who accidentally run foul of US immigration - one big problem is that the US is one of the few countries without exit procedures, no exit stamp in your passport means no way to prove what date you left - if the US authorities screw up collecting that exit info from the airline you end up in the pokey next time you visit.

Also some countries are now issuing travel warnings about the US because of the mass shootings, especially those aimed at visitors.
Apologies for forgetting to answer this at the time, but there seem few if any obstacles toa smart 14 yo taking an uber ride and you seem to have overlooked the possibility that her parents already own one or more guns, which is extremely common in the US.
ROOT is my go-to example for peak Object Oriented in the 90s. Look at the inheritance for something like a 2D histogram of doubles[1].

Trying to find the documentation for how to draw an arrow on a plot was always fun, because searching for "TArrow ROOT" would inevitably get results for "taro root".

The XRootD[2] project is pretty interesting, though, and I feel like the software industry is going to have to start dealing with similar data problems before too long.

[1] https://root.cern.ch/doc/master/classTH2D.html
[2] http://www.xrootd.org/
Youtube didn't "ban" "anything people complain about", they just demonetized it and stopped recommending it as frequently. Still not great, but they're not taking your soapbox away, they're just not paying as much for it.

What would you suggest companies like Cloudflare do exactly? There have been talks of 8chan being accessory to literal terrorism; do you think that they really want to be hosting that stuff? Isn't it part of Cloudflare's free speech to say "we don't want to be party to this"? Isn't it a very liberal position to say "all these private companies can do business with people that they want to"?

Now, I'm actually totally willing to entertain the discussion that these corporations are so big that they should be either broken up and/or treated as utilities, but that seems to fight against classical liberalism.

EDIT:

Also, in the United States, it wasn't that long ago that marijuana possession was an enforceable crime in all fifty states, which is slowly going away. I wouldn't bring this up, except you mentioned drugs being illegal as some sort of evidence that we're becoming less liberal, despite the fact that cannabis legalization has been happening and expanding.

Not exactly sure how legal bestiality fits into liberalism; if you view the animal as a thinking entity, wouldn't having sex with something unable to provide consent be a violation of liberal principles?
Probably depends on where you are. As a California native, Disneyland trips were much more frequent.
I'm a pragmatist. I like plans that make sense. Wishful thinking based on impossible plans is not a useful path forward. Understanding trade-offs and making them is productive and useful. Discussing facts is an important step in this process. To decarbonize at scale we need large scale new installations of dams, nukes, wind, solar, and geothermal. Spoiler alert: many will protest against all of these for a wide variety of reasons. Still, we must find a way to proceed with low carbon energy.

We don't have the luxury of choosing which low carbon energy we like best. We need it all. For greens, start liking nukes more. For conservatives, start liking wind and solar more.
Ask HN: Flagging Guidelines
Are the guidelines for flagging posts published anywhere?

I ask because on many occasions I've tried to respond as politely and adequately as possible and yet some of my replies get flagged without any explanation. It seems rather arbitrary to me without seeing the guidelines.

Here is an example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20678048
But if you existed long ago wouldn't have time moved slower since you would have been closer to the SMBH and everything else (i.e., universe would be more dense). So according to general relativity wouldn't it also be right to say it happened less than 26,000 years ago from that reference frame?
Disneyland is in California of course. Your premise falls apart when you examine California's tourist numbers.

For California:

"In 2017, tourism recorded an eighth straight year of growth, setting records in travel spending, jobs and tax revenue."

"Sustained growth continued in Visit California’s 13 international markets, with 17.6 million international visitors (+1.7% YOY) spending $26.5 billion in the state (+5.1% YOY)"

"2018 Travel-Related Spend $140b, +5.4% year over year"

https://industry.visitcalifornia.com/
But when all those IO functions are rewritten to be async, their public names can be different. The sync versions needn't change names, so none of the callers would need to change. Nor would the sync versions need to duplicate code, because they can just be thin wrappers that call and wait on their async counterparts. (Note that this wouldn't be possible in JS.)
> The Kennebec hadn’t run free here since 1837.

Interestingly enough, it was Thoreau's inventory of species in these very streams and tributaries as documented in _The Maine Woods_, which can tell us how we're doing with the restoration of the waterways today. Thoreau's book was comprised of notes from three visits in 1846, 1853, and 1857, and he had a pretty early and close insight as to how bad the damage was from the get-go.

At the end of the book, in the appendix, he noted several introduced species. Since he often used "Indian" guides to help him navigate upstream, he also had the opportunity to learn a bit about what species were native and what were brought in by the newcomers. (Disclaimer: my mother was one-quarter indigenous to one of the tribes Thoreau mentions, so I've studied these texts pretty thoroughly).

Several interesting musings on the encroachment of the white man into these lands; this one especially:

> Tahmunt said that he traded at Quebec, my companion inquired the meaning of the word Quebec, about which there has been so much question. He did not know, but began to conjecture. He asked what those great ships were called . that carried soldiers. " Men-of-war," we answered. " Well," he said, " when the English ships came up the river, they could not go any farther, it was so narrow there ; they must go back, go-back, that 's Que-bec." I mention this to show the value of his authority in the other cases.

[146 THE MAINE WOODS: https://archive.org/stream/mainewoods00thorrich/mainewoods00...]
part of the problem is that airports in the US have no "transfer area" - international departure lounges are not set up to require passing through immigration if you want to leave them - many are connected directly to domestic departure lounges (SFO is an example)
It would be interesting to study how annoyance with different settings changes based on your typing style. I touch type and was trained to be able to type without looking at the screen and none of them seem super annoying. However, I could see a touchscreen keyboard quickly becoming difficult to use since you can't physically feel when you hit the wrong "key".
That's what I was thinking when I read "Four memory corruption vulnerabilities stemming from erroneous handling of TCP’s Urgent Pointer field" - the hardline on your desk is ringing, and the caller ID says 1996.
If you do decide that, it would be super cool to make a license like Unity where it's free until a certain project revenue amount, then you do a percentage or something.

That could really induce testing and user adoption.
Great book, and he narrates the audio version himself which made it really feel like he was sharing his story with me personally. He’s a Marine Corps vet and software engineer. I’d love to buy him a beer some day.
I’m naive here since I have not tried your app, but I’ll ask. Does it take people’s fashion sense into account? Or does it allow for an inventory of one’s wardrobe to recommend item types (not particularly every single item, but rather, do you have a raincoat or umbrella, etc).
That's an interesting idea; how would you go about suggesting we do that? Have some kind of hardware-signing thing that we put into video cameras, and sign every keyframe with it before its written to the SD card?
Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. I Ch. 22: Algebra
trout is my favorite fish to watch & to eat. i've also thrown back quite a few.

fun fact: in a pinch if all you have is a little bit of pringles shake them up into little crumbs, prepare the fish, sprinkle the pringles crumbles inside the fish, cook wrapped in tin foil near a fire's embers and you have some good eating with a bit of seasoning.
With how prominent the US is in the news cycles here overseas, it definitely does. Especially with huge influx of mass shootings, many people in my friend circles have stated that they simply don't feel safe visiting the USA.
Thank you for that link. As a kid growing up in the 90s, that is just pure gold. Cant believe it only has 3000 views...
A dictionary is a collection of short snippets. I find it hard to believe that showing those snippets for whatever word you search falls under fair use. The people doing the hard work of making a dictionary deserve to serve those definitions under their own terms. Or at least some combination of their terms and the user's terms, instead of just google's terms.
War and Pain- Billy Alsbrooks
5% is not trivial? Not exactly sure if you think it is or isn’t by your phrasing.
Ten years from now it will probably be more like 25$ per kilowatt hour. And don't forget that any capacity the old pack has means it can be sold for grid storage. But even if it is higher, you still will have saved a lot more in total operating cost.

An that is the basic point the OP was making. EV's are already a better deal, it's just that they are new and so most people don't realize it.

And one more point. Once the swing to EV's starts to happen in a few years, then the resale value of ICE's is going to plummet, and you would lose a lot more that way if you bought one than you would pay for a replacement battery.
support builder!
I work on a product with a large amount of tech debt, and that debt was almost universally created using the methodology in your first category. Most of it is extremely well documented. That doesn't magically make it not technical debt.
> However, the issue is the framing of the article, it posits that becoming hypersane essentially necessitates being divorced from society in it's entirety.

Yes, and it makes it clear it's necessarily so by definition. See, there is this gaussian distribution in nature. Most people are a bit insane, not much, but just enough. Of course the hypersane would be divorced from a society that believes in fairy tales, propagates myths, and is ready to kill or die for it.
That is what I was thinking... is this really a bad thing? Paying a little bit more and being able to go on more rides because it isn't as crowded seems like a fair trade off.

"Growing attendance" is not the end goal, for either Disney or park goers. Disney wants to maximize profit, and the article never addresses this; they talk about attendance being down, but what about gate revenue? Since they were raising prices, they could have still made more money on fewer attendees.

For park goers, fewer people going is going to be great. Less crowds to fight, fewer lines, easier parking, etc.

I am not exactly sure why this is supposed to be seen as a negative.