skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused. The title of this article isn't at all supported by its content. The entire thing can be summarized as:

> Google rolled out a new feature that allows AMP to use server-side rendering (SSR), boosting performance for sites that adopt the technology across their entire domain.

Followed by a dozen paragraphs arguing why AMP is bad, with no further mention of server side rendering or why it "shows how [AMP] can infiltrate every corner of the internet". Is there anything new here, or is this just another rehash of the same arguments we've been having about AMP since the day it was released?
I wish Hollywood studios would create more new original stuff.

One the other hand there are now more Not-Hollywood studios releasing more original stuff than ever before and it's easier than ever before to actually see those films (although perhaps not at the cinema).
I actually think that it's not a broken clock.

Innovation during war is expedited because while the government and public agencies are massively inefficient during peace time. In war the brightest resource are drawn/forced to align with the government, increasing its capability. Whatever redtape that used to exist are now ditched for more efficiency, while if you keep being a massively inefficient government, you risk losing the war and everything. All of these factors proceed to make innovation pace much faster on matters that are somewhat related to military.
> wasn't the answer always going to be they simply out competed the other amino acids

This is a tautological statement: the ones that still exist by definition are the ones which outcompeted the alternatives, because that's what outcompeting means.

The question being addressed by the study is roughly "by what selection criterion did the survivors outcompete the others?"
Thanks! Seems very useful and clean enough to inform stake holders and the entire team.
Calibre has a feature to convert file formats (ePub, PDF, etc). I haven't used it much as I tend to just go for ePub as source. Does K2pdfopt work better than Calibre?
Agreed. It gets very tiring. Every post related to Apple or Google devolves into the same exact conversations, regardless of the content of the article.
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Ah, that makes sense! Thanks for the clarification, I should have visited their website before posting my comment.
Yeah, generally if the PNG file is RGBA, then I want to load as RGBA, and if it's RGB, I want to load as RGB.
Am I the only person who read "SQL-powered operating system"?

It is just plausible enough to be imaginable. Everything is a table! Write applications using only SQL statements!
Because there is no such thing as impartially presenting a guest's ideas?

Because figuring out what is BS can be hard? (Look at all the people who believe in the BS that is Young Earth Creationism.)

Because it's not a thought-crime to decide to not cover certain topics?

Consider a discussion about the need for forced participation in human experimentation, like deliberately freezing unwilling prisoners in experiments with the goal of discovering new means to prevent and treat hypothermia.

If someone wants to present that, and is denied, is that denial an enforcement of thought-crime? Is it possible to present that impartially, and what would that look like? Is it meaningful to present those ideas without also bringing up the history of unethical human experimentation, and the reasons for deciding what is ethical? Can it not be that the 'mainstream viewpoint' is actually the ethical one, and strongly opposed ones deeply unethical?
He probably meant having the same internal interface, it would still be doable to have various aliased commands that call the same interface.

As for UNIX philosophy of stringing together lots of general purpose commands to get the desired result - the nice thing about that is you don't need to know programming, and it's very convenient for one off scripting.
He still is involved with the UFC and is their primary commentator, although he now only calls fights that happen in the US.
Not sure if I agree with this. They used to be a major player in the browser area, remember IE?

The somehow lost the market share, possibly because they focused on something else instead of innovation and solving the problems of the users.

I think it is naive to expect them to suddenly change, especially given the recent history of clearly going against user's interests in introducing mandatory telemetry. Case in point: win10 still overwrites user's default application preferences and fonts pretty much on every update.
yes, DB is local on app server. Sqlite is good for my uses. My DB is about 20 MBs. I like to download the sqlite file to my PC to do analysis as the data changes. Postgres seems like overkill and more complicated
You're hitting on something interesting, let me take you to its logical conclusion. Essentially what you're arguing for is redeploying all these smart people to work on non-military work. However, in the absence of large, well-funded and long running programs, its hard for people to make such innovations. Most startups fail, most big corporations don't really care about R&D (with a few notable exceptions). So the only place where you can have the job stability and funding to pursue such innovation is either in Academia or military research.

This is where I like the approach the US has taken. Instead of spending all the military dollars in building more armaments or having more boots on ground, the US military recognized the importance of technology to military superiority and invested tons of money in it. And it has payed off very handsomely for the US economy, even in peace time.
Surprising !!! Is it the right causality ?

I would have been less surprised if 72% of followers of a brand are already customers of that brand. And that's why they follow it: they already liked at least one product so are interested by news about the company.

But I guess that - if that explanation is true - then there's no need for rawshorts services... ;-)
"Cannot afford" is usually a moral decision not an economic one. Nobody managed to stop the Iraq war by saying we "couldn't afford it".

Besides, pensioners aren't even in the same category as unemployed people who you can attempt to shame or starve back into the workforce. Setting pension levels is effectively setting a standard of living for pensioners. What are they supposed to do if it's cut below acceptable levels?
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Can you run qemu fast enough to be competitive with Intel? And I mean full emulation, not something that requires running on x86.
Maybe because:

> You've completed your member preview for this month, but when you sign up for a free Medium account, you get one more story.

Not gonna happen.
> Why can't he impartially present his guests ideas and let his audience decide for themselves what is BS and what is not?

Because at that point it's just an infomercial.
Ah that brings back fond memories. I built one of those as a kid (from a kit). You had to wind your own coil and everything. It was thrilling to get it working.
Intel Unveils Comet Lake Processors, 14nm Chips Join 10nm in 10th-Gen Lineup
> this is not a principled or careful method, in my opinion

This is what surprised me. I expected work from Google AI to be based on some sound and novel theory, but this is literally just "we tweaked it until it looked okay on our monitor at the time".
That is a disingenuous statement; silence is not consent.
I have to believe that spam filtering is a solved problem that could be cheaply self-hosted. Is that not true?
Interesting that the top stories are related to a former cabinet minister being jailed for perverting the course of justice.

Part of me says that there's a public good argument for a search engine consisting solely of news stories which have been removed from Google.
> What most amazes me is how blatant this is. Late-Stage Capitalism in it's death throes?

Retirement age used to be the point where people were physically unable to work, with justifications being that past 65 workers were completely unable to do anything useful [0]. If jobs have changed enough that a 70 year old can be productive (and they can) this represents a reversion to an anachronistic mean rather than death throes.

If you want death throws of capitalism, look to whatever [1, 2] changed in the 1970s that delinked wage growth and productivity; the pressure that forced the US to abandon the gold standard is probably also the pressure responsible for a lot of other ills that are building with time. It isn't a fast process.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_retirement

[1] https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
>Apple's Safari actually has better standing in terms of alignment of user and developer incentives.

Apple gets credit for being aligned with users and developers?

Out of any of the tech companies, I see Apple the most detached from their users and developers.

Forcing proprietary software, hardware, and accessories is not "for users and developers".

That's Apple's way of generating additional sales and data for Apple.

If they had users and developers as their primary goal, it would be easier to be an Apple customer.
You missed one out: redirect money from other welfare schemes towards pensions.
Although I agree that raising pension age disadvantages the poor, not for that reason. Life expectancy is not the same as age most people live to.

If you compare the percentage mortality between the ages 65-75 it's pretty equal (about 1%) both for the UK [1] and Glasgow [2]. Lower life expectancy looks to me due to much greater death rates in the 25-40 range.

Raising the pension age hurts the poor, not because the poor won't experience pension, but because they have no hope of an earlier retirement, and so you are forcing people to work when they are potentially unable to effectively do so.

[1] https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-kingdom/2019/

[2] https://www.understandingglasgow.com/indicators/population/t...
2) Log as much as possible and do something with the logs. Log everything and continue to improve your SIEM or security stack based on new threat intel.

This is a good one. If you have a SIEM + Log Aggregation setup and you don't have robust logging and/or aren't feeding those logs into it, you should have saved yourself some time and burned the money you spent on it.
Intel Launches 10th Gen “Comet Lake” Laptop CPUs for Laptops and 2-in-1s
I'm not sure it's that they're "unworthy in their own eyes" as much as a belief (a) their current worth depends on property rights existing; and (b) that their other skills, while they may be vital to a developed economy, aren't that valuable in one based on subsistence agriculture.

Everyone knows in zombie movies every band of survivors is riven with conflict and factions who end up fighting, after all!
It's pretty hard to say if it will or not, but I don't think there's any question that it could. What's even harder to guess is when that might happen if it did.

All of that said, there are enough people working on AGI on a day-in / day-out basis who would probably recognize the incipient stages of a real AGI, that I don't worry a tremendous amount about being surprised by the emergence of AGI. But on the flip-side, some "kid in a garage" operating outside of the mainstream of industry and academia could be the one who makes The Big Breakthrough, so there's no way to be totally sure...
Did I describe this wrong? Not sure why it got moderates down.

Basically, my professor was one of the first female physicists trying to make it in a clearly male-dominated field nearly 60+ years ago.

She was not offered jobs, or jobs at reduced salary vs male colleagues, being told her research was not as productive.

She literally invented the concept of considering number of citations as a proof of impact, relevancy, and productivity, and showed that her work was better than most of her male colleagues.

Only after she jumped through this hoop herself was she able to get a faculty position. Damn impressive of her.
yaaaaas! This is awesome!
Volocopter reveals its first commercial aircraft, the VoloCity air taxi
Per Apple Support (US page):
United Kingdom
You might not be able to use Apple Pay for purchases over 30 GBP.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207435

I've almost exclusively just tried to use it in the UK and this has been my experience at convenience stores.
Sure, my point is the fact that others are still capable of competing can always be assumed in a competitive environment. So in that context, where the question is inherently going to be why did these 20 amino acids out-compete the others, why bring up the fact others exist as a counter-point if the they aren't as dominant as the 20 primary ones? What's interesting is their dominance, not that they can play the game.

I guess it's just nitpicking the headline and is not particularly relevant to the article or the research question (as the OP admitted).
WASM: Doing More Than Just Heating Up Your Computer
That argument kind of breaks down when you have a monopoly on the market like Apple and Google do. If there isn't a viable option to their product then i'm not free to choose.

We shouldn't be talking about Apple like a government, but the government should probably be regulating this a bit better;
I've seen people praise him for changing his mind about the moon landing being a hoax, but the fact that he accepted that idea at all to me is just totally indefensible. I can't take anyone seriously that could even countenance that for a second.
>There are more than 2000 billionaires in the world right now. If only the richest elite of those got together tomorrow and decided to put an end to industrial pollution, they could do it.

This is naive. It might be possible that they could put a dent into it or maybe incite an apocalyptic war that could end it, but without something like that they can't change it. Industries make things for people. If you suddenly double the price of food and other goods, then what do you think people will do? They'll either just compete or riot.

>Halting pollution would ruin the economy. Factories would have to be shut down, entire categories of products could no longer be produced

And who do you think buys these products? Do you really think that the general population would just accept it when their entire life comes tumbling down? I don't think any country could survive something like that.
No, you're correct. That should be your first thought :) Newsradio was amazing. I still rewatch episodes of it from time to time.
i definitely like to see companies open-source contributions ahead of applying to a new role
If you do find it could you let me know about it? I'd love to see it.
It's worse than that:

https://lobste.rs/s/noed0h/day_2_keynote_openpower_blows_doo...

You can't trust any modern computer to not be subverted. So, you have to change how you use them. True secrets should be kept out of computers or rooms with technology. Go old school.
Super great!!
If it had happened in Canada the cost is zero. We don’t have deductibles or anything like that for these sorts of surgeries. Drugs yes, operations no.
Surprised? Let me give you my perspective on this whole thing.

I was almost sold on sharpscript for handling our email templating needs until I realized how obfuscated the licensing and overall project structure is. I've been reading through threads about it on HN for 2 days now, and still don't have a clear understanding of what the real intentions are here.

If I just follow the rabbit hole from the #script nuget.org page:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/ServiceStack.Common

I wind up at the following license URL:

https://servicestack.net/terms

Which has the following:

"Use of the Software and Documentation is subject to the restrictions contained in this Agreement. ServiceStack, Inc. grants you a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, freely revocable license to use the Software. ServiceStack, Inc. reserves all rights not expressly granted herein in the Software and the Content and may terminate this license at any time for any reason or no reason."

I will not be using this software. If anyone wants to change my mind, pull sharpscript into its own repository, give it its own nuget, and post crystal clear license terms alongside each which do not contain any sort of legal backdoors where you get to rip the rug out from under me at some arbitrary point in the future. If you want money for this, just ask for it up front and be honest with your intentions. I may actually consider purchasing a license if the terms aren't trashy like in the current license above.
I have toyed tough about some kind text-to-speech bot that would automatically keep searchable memos from every meeting. But I am not sure is the current text-to-speech models there yet.
If you are willing to give up S-Expressions, you might try Nim [0]. Its compile time macro system allows this fancy stuff easily, even with access to the type system.

[0] https://nim-lang.org
> Common descent is a core tenet

but that doesn't mean it's been proven through experimentation, does it? isn't it just an assumption?

what if there's something akin to mathematical uniqueness in the mechanics of the core machinery?

I mean it in the sense that it's either the way it is, or it's not really viable over a long enough period of time? such that it could have multiple origins which all nontheless converge into the same core mechanism?
Regarding tabbed browers: they are ancient. I remember the first time I used tabs with a wrapper for IE 4 or 5 back in the mid-90s. I think it was called NetCaptor or NetRaptor or something. It was magical. Of course, back then, no one knew anything about the privacy implications of something like that.
I think we solve this problems not through finding a universal approach, but through heterogeneity.

We fund academic work because we see value in it. But there are many kinds of value, and many different sorts of value. So I think it's appropriate that we have many different universities which have many different departments. Many different funding agencies and many different foundations. Each group has their own heuristics for picking the seed experts.

There are still systemic biases, of course, but that's true of any approach. And distributed power is much more robust to that then centralized power or a single homogeneous system.
It's not really a bug though taken in context of how the file systems work with copy on write. You need somewhere to write, so if you low free space and have the drive heads seeking...
Distilling water takes tremendous amounts of energy.

Filtering with bacterial (or if necessary, viral) grade filters, and additional chemical treatment (chlorine or iodine) is vastly more efficient.

A backpack filter does double-duty (have a few spare filters and can treat a litre or so of water in a couple of minutes without too much effort. Larger filters can be used (foot-pumped) for larger quantities.

Keep in mind that if the water's out, power may well be too.
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> There's an argument that it's actually not noble to let bullshit go unchallenged.

I like that he leaves it up to me to challenge the bullshit in my own mind. Sometimes I need to parse information with only one set of external biases influencing my cognitive process, instead of factoring in the interviewer's biases as well. They are likely both full of shit to some degree.

> That it's a tacit endorsement.

This is like thinking everyone should stand up for everything all the time. It's just silly.
Cascade Lake-X CPUs Might Use 10000-Series Branding, More RAM and PCIe 3.0 Lanes
"Don't want to spark a healthcare debate..." but you do want to get in your jabs under the pretense of "not starting a debate".

How do I respond to this comment without "starting a debate"?
I have to politely disagree about Reader, it was already proven and working well, what they did was a bit of a scorched earth tactic, other companies couldn't compete with free and died. Then they pulled out and left a vacuum which has lead to a significant decline in in the usage of RSS in the modern web.
Apparently InternetWorks and Netcaptor came before Opera. I shouldnt be so cocky.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-history-of-tabbed-browsing
Debian Guts Support for Old MIPS CPUs
Why are you so defensive about all of this?
Is it really an "open" dataset when you have to "Sign in with Google" to see it?

It's also not "open" in the way we think of "open source", because it's only usable for non-commercial purposes.

And, in addition to not being able to use it commercially, you also explicitly according to the license cannot use it to train a self-driving car.
I have no doubt you're right. And I'm sure GS wants to be in early on whatever change in payment mechanisms happen in the US over time as well. But it doesn't change the fact that it's not too useful for me today. Sticking a card in a chip reader may not be as high tech as NFC using a phone or watch (or even using a contactless card) but in practice it's pretty convenient.
Interesting i was just thinking about this yesterday. I should ditch chrome. yet here i am typing more shit for google to harvest from me and sell to the highest bidder.
Nope. I'm in Australia and enduring a living hell due to not being able to afford medical (dental) treatment. Affordable healthcare is not a problem that is exclusive to the US.
Ideas:

"Type the following words on the newly connected keyboard."

"Move the newly connected mouse in the following directions, in order."
It’s not about you. It’s about how should Microsoft move forward, and how long should they support older tech because companies don’t prioritize migrations from older technology.

One of the major issues with Windows has always been that they have hack on top of hack to keep backwards compatibility. You can read Raymond Chen’s MSDN blog to get an idea of how bad it is.

The answer has to be somewhere between Apple - not long enough to be appropriate for the Enterprise - and too long in the case of Microsoft where it slows down development, causes an increase security vulnerability surface, and causes Windows to be a resource hog compared to other operating systems.
i live for thisssss!
I am not a fan of Rogan, but I struggle to see how he is comparable to Alex Jones.
Love the constant updates and innovations as they never fail to surprise me within online interface!

Keep up the good work!
Why not Arpeggio Bio or Asher Bio?
Haha, yes osquery works a little bit like this, but is read only on virtual tables backed by the OS.
I don't think that's so bad, makes the developer's job easier when there is just one version of your target. Nothing worse than entitled tinkerers.
Your link is to the patent application. If you check PAIR, you’ll see that only a small subset of the claims, amended, have received NOA. I would tend to disagree about the strength of their IP portfolio based on a cursory glance at the publicly available info, but I’d be curious to hear why you think differently.
I suppose this is true as well. Would just be a nice to have.
Intel Launches New Comet Lake 10th Gen Mobile Processors W More Cores, LPDDR4X
Good idea. Though that can also be bypassed rather easily by including a small battery in the malicious device and only drawing the expected amount of power from the USB connection itself.

The real solution needs to be some sort of standardized auth system, where devices are identified by a public key rather than a static serial number. In the absence of that though, I think whitelisting serial numbers is the next best thing. It'll slow down attacks at least, and open the door for future improvements to the system.
I missed out on this era of Sci-fi. Thanks for sharing! If anyone else has any other suggestions other than the ones linked in this thread, please share :)