skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On [H]ardForum, a kind user worked out for me a year ago the Handbrake performance comparison of a dual X5670 with some of the fastest consumer CPUs at that time: https://hardforum.com/threads/replacing-dual-x5670.1963388/#... turned out the 2700X is 1.95 times as fast in Handbrake as a single X5670.
Penn & Teller would not have an interesting show if their experiment didn't support the claim they were making.
Sometimes you don't even really want your side projects or GitHub repos to become popular.

When you're the only user of your app it's fun, you can deploy easily, maybe prod is also your staging env ... You can afford to screw up your database etc. If you have users you now have to be careful, if your deployment fails the downtime becomes a mental burden, you have to manage backups etc.

Maintaining an open source project is also a lot of work. Issues piling on, Pull requests to review, which are not that more fun at home than at work. If you ignore them you start to feel guilty. If you lose interest or have no need for the project anymore you'll feel guilty as well.

Anecdotal evidence, my father have made an open ESP*-based webradio. Somehow it got popular (especially in Eastern Europe for some reason). It's fun, people sending you photos of their finished projects etc but then requests for features you don't care for start piling on, you have more bug to fix.

He has a donation button and he could monetize more but he's retired and doesn't really care about money, he just wants to have fun making something and the success is a double-edged sword in that regard.
“NULL” license plate earns hacker $12,000 in parking tickets
One difference between those two is the amount of energy available. Going from roughly 100 watts of usable energy per person to 2-3000 watts was massive. What am I going to do with 50,000 watts that would make my life better? Commute to Seattle every day on a hypersonic personal airplane? Nah.
I'm having trouble understanding how the site would have lost potential revenue.

They lost ad impressions.

I don't imagine anyone casual enough to use Google to answer that who would be willing to spend a lot of time trying to figure that out using an advertisement-laden "free" website.

Why not? It's not like that they had any other options than trying to extract that information from ad-laden websites. Most people read rather slowly, and by the time they either find out what they need or decide that they give up, lots of ad impressions have already had happened.
No, its really not compared to other places. What projects are you thinking of?

There aren't as many SV people here as there used to be, but the community is still skewed that way.
Would be nice if they narrowed the attack surface -

"A new (unneeded if devices sufficiently uniquely identifiable?) keyboard has been plugged in, please type <random char sequence> to confirm"
It's believable (if only obtained with a lot of BIOS tweaking), I run an older Dell 1u server as my router. It's got an E3-1220 V2 (2012 era, 69 watt TDP), one 2.5" SSD, 8gb of RAM and after a bit of tweaking it sits at around 30 watts.
My gran has no nose.

How does she smell?

Terrible.
Thanks! Would love to hear any thoughts if you give it a try. Critical feedback is most welcome.
We read this for my book club. I would never have read it by myself. The historical setting is also interesting.
I started taking probiotics about three months ago and I definitely have a different stink than I used to.
> Another aspect of older people (and again: Parkinsons and Alzheimers in particular) is a loss of the sense of smell. Which may mean that odors otherwise noticeable and addressed aren't.

I highly suspect you hit the nail on the head here from personal experience: My grandma no longer has any sense of smell (or taste, actually) at all. I recall at one point discovering a particularly pungent smell was caused actually by a cleaning solution, I think it was like an old can of Lysol that had no substance designed to improve it's scent, that of course, she wasn't aware smelled worse than death.

My biggest fear was things such as her potentially not noticing a natural gas leak, because the default indicator depends on a sense of smell. (I found out you can buy "explosive gas detectors", which are different than carbon monoxide detectors, if you want an audible alert for this.)
>the difference between a feature and a company

If the right investments were made, every software company's product could be a feature of Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft Windows could be a feature of Intel CPUs.
Danish bank launches world’s first negative interest rate mortgage
> Define why it is a problem: Biodiversity is an indicator for healthy ecologies. The extinction of endangered animals threatens the stability of ecology $Y which humans rely on for food, health, and resources.

I take huge issue with this kind of utilitarian argument since time and again it has proven not to be effective or we wouldn't have been in this mess in the first place. Do polar bears have much impact on our "food, health, and resources"? It reminds me of this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/1338/
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I am in business school and one of the course requires us to learn Python language. Any recommendation on books to get started?
According to [1] linked by uberman in another comment, that 'plenty' is only 20%. So not much compromise would be needed.

[1] https://www.hcn.org/articles/endangered-species-most-america...
Again, no, because the console market is competitive so intervention is unnecessary.

Potentially separately, I'd not object to requiring the ability for console makers to allow side-loaded apps people themselves make. I'm not suggesting forcing them to distribute anything via their own App Stores. You can side load onto Android phones and it's not an issue. You can download and run literally anything you want onto your PC or macOS devices, and it's not an issue. You can even side-load anything you want onto your iPhones via Xcode if you have the source and again, not an issue.
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I too would investigate an extremist site such as 4chan.
>is that something your church, friends or family might help out with?

Yes, but I don't like asking for help. Worst case (hopefully they take card) I can put it on a card and then balance transfer to another card to buy some interest free time.

What chaps me is I fund a 529 (10-15$ a month over the past few years, figuring if I ever have kids I could transfer it to them) which would cover the first semester BUT since the first year isn't accredited... it's a non-qualified expense which means if I take the money to pay it I get hit with tax and penalty.
> Why buy a car?

To get to my job.

> Why leave the house?

To get to my job.

> Why get a job?

So I can buy food and I won't starve.

> Why rent an apartment?

No clue, renting does not make sense to me, I bought.

> Anything can happen in 4 years.

Yes and you have to take that into account, make a risk analysis, think about the consequences and decided if it is worth it. Especially for long term investments. The chance my government will change the subsidy is certain (already announced), the consequences still unknown but they can turn out really bad. The chance they will turn out bad is large now that the two climate skeptic parties + the party that chooses economy over climate have a majority in the polls.

> Do you want to be part of the problem, or part of the solution?

Most people just don't have the money to spend on a problem which will not affect them for the next 10 years, unless it will benefit them.
You are correct, I didn't see that, thanks. I guess that is probably the same one but why did the FBI wait so long to raid? Risk of evidence being destroy even by accident is quite large. What if a painter accidentally broke the Mac to a point were the data could not be restored?
1950's? I'm not familiar with that; I mean, technically speaking, the scientific community has 'known' about the impact of CO2 on global temperatures since Svante Arrhenius published in 1896[1]. There's a bunch of provisos though to a claim that we 'knew' about global warming and it's impact in 1896. I'm curious though; what are you referring to with respect to the 1950s? What research were they doing then?

https://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf
I don't understand why you're being downvoted. This is a reasonable comment and a good question to ask.
If Automattic could transform Tumblr into a better alternative to Medium, that could be a good strategy to revive the platform
I don't think anybody's claiming it's illegal. Just questioning whether it's a smart move on Microsoft's part.
Yes, describe them in some way on the site. Maybe. But the superiority of mine is a surprise for me. I'm just a plain geek from Moscow who tries just do something useful for somebody. Thanks a lot for your input here!
But half-credit for the summary of Demore's views. It was surprisingly even handed about that other than saying he thought women were per se neurotic.

Tonally, it is telling that some personalities had descriptions of their emotional states (from what source?) while others only had their actions and opinions described.
You don't have an answer. How are you so confident about your shitposts?
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That article is from early 2017, with the data right after the Trump inauguration, when immigrants and traffickers were unsure what (if any) changes there would be in enforcement. More recent apprehension data from this year shows a ten year high [1].

Also, only 12% of asylum claims in the US are approved and about half of the rest do not show up to court [2].

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/border-apprehensions-2019-have-alre...
[2] https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1161001/download
A good comparison here is WolframAlpha, which can also answer all those queries (I was a bit surprised that the Texas Rangers example worked, but it does [1]). Most of their data comes from a curated list of primary sources, not Wikipedia or random websites.

1: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=texas+rangers+next+gam...
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And that's part of the question: If Google's getting all it's data from first party sources, say, scraping it from the team's website, it may not have harmed anyone there. But if it's scraping it from a site which aggregated and normalized the information into an easily parse-able format (hence, providing value, of which Google took advantage), then they must be compensated for it.
When issuing the EV cert, they don't actually validate any of that so it is of questionable utility.

I was surprised how easy it was to get an EV cert. The validators work from an offshore call-center and use sites like whitepages.com to lookup the business. They then call the number listed (you could have updated the listing just before). When they call you simply have to say "I am ... and my position is X at Y company. Then hand the phone to someone else who says something similar". There was no individual identity verification.
It's not really. Google will highly reward sites with AMP (even when you're not searching on mobile.)

So unless you can survive getting bumped off of the first page of results, not implementing AMP isn't optional.
Genius is a good resource for lyrics of all genres now. They used to be called RapGenius, if you remember :-)
> Define why it is a problem: Biodiversity is an indicator for healthy ecologies. The extinction of endangered animals threatens the stability of ecology $Y which humans rely on for food, health, and resources

So all we have to do is quantify what making changes will do to a highly complex biological system that we don't fully understand or have even observed? And that's just building something in a single field, now multiply by all the possible construction sites in the US and then add in how they interact with each other once multiple sites are changed in an area or downstream or upstream or upwind or on the same aquifer or...

It's so simple, why didn't we just do this from the start? :)
Blocking out the sun whether by a sunshade or light controlled nuclear winter/"artificial volcano" has the downside that it hurts agricultural production. And food production needs to increase anywhere by 25% to doubling by 2050, depending on which population growth hockey stick charts you look at.
>I though AMP was opt-in for publishers?

It is but Google will only put you in the carousel at the top of the search if you use AMP. That's a significant enough driver of traffic where publishers can't afford to lose it.
You cannot downvote replies to your own posts, so it was someone else's doing.
Have you thought about the potential harmful side effects this might cause, and what are your thoughts/strategies on it?

‘Controlling the environment to make things better’ has a spotty history (DDT, Monsanto, etc), and I would evaluate good biotech/agtech by how they are actively thinking about these issues.
the far-right in Europe is resurgent largely on the back of anti-migrant racism and hysteria, and that's with a crisis involving 5-6 million people. now imagine things with 25 million people, or more, and not just focused in Europe. it's going to be very bad.
To reply to my own question: I suppose it's also possible that the process of each investor choosing a property they want to live in for the fund to buy, and then occupying the house that they also have some equity stake in, will result in higher quality properties and better returns than a traditional reit.
Would love to see Vue version of it.
It's pretty easy to make the hassle worthwhile, if you are selling (particularly many) millions of things. Even saving a dime on BOM for a million units shipped will pay an engineer year, roughly.

I still remember a friend relating with a mixture of horror and fondness that in 15 years probably the biggest impact he ever had to the bottom line of [big computer manufacturer no longer in existence] was re-routing a PCB in a way that let them make it smaller with no functional change. The materials cost savings over product lifetime was in the 7-8 figures range, he claimed.
The author of "Where's the Next Shelter?" (Appalachian Trail through-hike memoir) talks about this condition. He had to get protein into his supplies ASAP to prevent further muscle loss.
What solutions do you propose? I don't really believe that we can solve tragedy of the commons style problems without governments, but I'm open to hear your arguments.
Well, the literal translation of res nullius is "thing empty" but it is true that phrase was used in Roman law for "unowned things". But the defining feature of res nullius was that it could be taken possession of by means of occupatio. For example, a tree in the forest would be res nullius until someone cut it down and made logs of it.

But it would be the act of cutting down - occupatio - that made the tree cutter the legal owner. It wouldn't be enough for him to just wander into a forest, see a lot of trees and declare "those trees are mine!" In a way he would be required to "fill the void" so to speak.

The relation between res nullius and terra nullius is dubious to say the least. During the Middle Ages "unowned things" disappeared as a legal concept. Instead most everything became the property of God or the monarch. It is questionable if the European colonizers ever actually used the terra nullius doctrine to justify conquest. For example, Manhattan was purchased from the Native Americans. Had terra nullius been applicable they could have just taken it.
Surly they are encrypted. But I invite you to check Blockstack authentication and how it works.
Entirely unsurprising. With all this complexity, HTTP2 is on par with a full TCP/IP stack. All major operating systems had decades to optimize and bulletproof these, and still to this day we find issues with them every now and then. What did people expect would happen when we start reinventing the wheel yet again, on top of what we already have?

And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Consider this a warm-up exercise.
I've heard of this strategy before, but it has never worked for me. Encrypted.google.com just redirects to google.com, and I still get AMP.

I now use https://github.com/bentasker/RemoveAMP, but that's only possible because I'm lucky enough to have a Jailbroken iPhone. :/
Why? Why minify everything? It all gets gzipped at the HTTP layer anyway! I truly cannot understand this need to minify everything (JS included)
Yes, but, they're not taking as much public heat for that as other companies, I would say.
This is great. Looking forward to giving it a spin! Would by nice if I could spin this up from the terminal
How do you boycott Monsanto/Bayer, which sell to farmers

You organize the farmers to boycott.

If you can raise $1mm from various environmental activist communities to lobby congress, you could just as easily raise the same million and organize a boycott that directly targets the revenue source of the bad actor.
Funny thing that usually "BUY THIS PRODUCT" is also a Google Product (Ad)
I actually found this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-26/great-barrier-reef-va... very compelling as a logical person. I think it helps to quantify the issue to people who are dealing with their pressing issues (employment etc).
For a friend of mine, different music has different colors. Some music has frightening colors. She can't listen to that music.
There are some obvious metrics that are likely to be very good: global energy use, global GDP, and economic efficiency from their quotient. It's the data we're missing (prior to 1970). It could be estimated, but almost no one has tried.

Another idea is to count the occurrences of strings representing years ("1974" etc) on wikipedia.... possibly weighted by the PageRanks of the containing articles...
Why Is Random Testing Effective for Partition Tolerance Bugs? (2018) [pdf]
I would argue that the struggles you mention, i.e. starvation and disease, are more prevalent as a result of industrial development. Large scale starvation is a result of centralized farming and disease stem for population density. Small scale tribes don't face these issues chronically, they either overcome them or they don't.

I would also argue that specifically global warming is a direct consequence of technological progress and the industrialization of society. Human pollution would not be a problem is it weren't for materialism.

Technology provides comfort, as some expense. Either reliance on a central supply for food, water, electricity. Or in the form of pollution and exploitation of other humans.

In your opinion what is the ultimate value of colonizing mars for example?

edit: I am also from a "developing" country where the struggle is clearly visible.
The only thing the article conspicuously omits is that the controversies were regularly hashed out on HN, Reddit, etc. A Martian reading the article might assume the controversy mostly stayed on Google internal platforms and right-wing corners of the internet. As you point out, that was clearly not the case.
Linux: The lockdown patches are now in the security next-testing tree
Unless you're saying I could be arrested for standing on the street and yelling "cow" a single time, I don't think you agree with yourself.
Hmm... Our office has a Kyocera M6235cidn (around 2k$ with extra trays and a little rolling cabinet).

The offcial linux driver for it is literally two PPDs (one for EU with duplex-as-standard, one "global" with no-duplex-as-standard ... i diffed them as they are textfiles, and that is the sole difference).

After setting a static ip on the printer on the panel, there is one command, guys and girls, and it runs..

One further command to set the default options and the printer is ready for prime-time. (Technically speaking you could also use the cups web gui, but why...)

I have never had such an easy printer in linux before (and I have tried for more than a decade)..

As it has scan to email (local email server standing a foot way) I haven't tried network scan from the computer, but printing is flawless and easy.

Our two earlier printers:
Brother MFPs have a bastardized cups/lpd blob thing, that works but are brittle. Samsungs (big ass x4300 A3-MFP) never could choose input tray from linux ever after throwing a weeks worth of work after it..
My quick thought was to have the OS display a random char sequence, which must be typed on the keyboard before input is accepted.

Usability could be optimized depending on how uniquely identifiable keyboards are (to reduce when trust prompts are shown).
This sounds a bit like the inter-city taxi system in Morocco. There's a central taxi park where you go and drivers call out their destination and number of seats remaining. When the taxi is full (or its getting close to the end of the day), it goes. They'll drop you at your specific destination in the other city.

They call these "Grand" taxis. There are also "little" taxis you can take within the city and hire on an individual basis (i.e. you don't need to wait for them to fill up).
It only takes a small percentage of people in the right places to start a revolution, and it feels like With UC getting on board with it, we're getting near a tipping point.

Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/2025
Kubernetes Gated Deployments
Microsoft tried that with Internet Explorer and another time with Bing, it didn't work out so well.
Maximum efficiency is at 50%
The whole "won't somebody think of the poor advocates" angle seems pretty thin to me, tossed in to gin up a little unearned outrage. Did all these advocates all take big pay cuts to leave Amazon, Oracle, Salesforce, etc... to go and preach the gospel of Azure? I doubt it.
Source-code in a text-editor has a shape.

Lisp source-code in a text-editor has a structure expressed with parentheses. 'icon' refers to “likeness, image, portrait”.

The structure of Lisp source-code is the same as the structure of the internal representation of the same program produced from that source-code which your Lisp program can see and manipulate. There is "likeness", meaning iconicity, between the two representations, because the two structures are "alike".
Why not a tenth?
Also, issues like CVE-2019-9517 ("Internal Data Buffering") provide strong motivation for integrating those layers, as HTTP/3 is doing.
It’s not about “difficulty”, it’s that those apps are mostly Windows-only. Until very recently, incentives to build enterprise/professional shrinkwrap applications on platforms that weren’t Windows, were basically non-existent. That’s billions of dollars in software that will never be ported.
I have synesthesia and I 'see' sounds, but see is a misnomer. There is a visual component to audio but it's not a hallucination in my visual field. It's definitely in my mind's eye, but it is consistent which leads me to believe it's more than just imagination. Some sounds are definitely 'purple'.
>>It isn't overlaid in my visual field, more like how you imaging or remember things in your head

So to be more exact you can "see" smells with your mind's eye but you do not actually see anything with your physical eyes when smelling something.
>just like "people that fly on planes" isn't a community, or "people who drink coffee from starbucks".

Both (or actual all three) examples seem like totally valid communities. There are groups of flying enthusiasts, starbucks-lovers, as there are coffee-lovers, star wars fans, FreeBSD users, etc.

And of course there are (existing) forums and online communities of people sharing the same issues, whether it's mental illness, the big C, abuse, trauma, and so on.

Isn't that the point of the board?

The lost in translation bits can be fixed of course, but in itself it's not a bad idea.