skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enough to not bankrupt Raptor just now, but not enough to make POWER actually popular, which would provide them much more customers in the future.
Article is behind a paywall...
That's a pretty bold condemnation to throw out there with nothing to back it up. He's nothing like Jones.
That's the whole point, isn't it? Google wants web sites to load more quickly without needing to reduce the size or number of resources they send. Consuming more bandwidth seems like the only way to square that circle.
I'm so sad to see Nowak involved given that his lab's research on evolutionary dynamics is outstanding.

It's depressing too to see how many people Epstein influenced and was associated with. It's impossible that none of them knew about his sex abuse "habit." I guess it's just like with Ponzi-like financial bubbles and cooked corporate finance (e.g. Enron and now apparently GE): when the money is flowing people go along and don't ask questions. It seems to be even deeper though. I wonder if humans have a cognitive bias where when we're getting money/resources from someone we "un-see" things that could damage that relationship?

There's a character I've read about over in the UK named Jimmy Saville that seemingly got away with serial sex abuse (of virtually all ages) for his entire life. Same explanation apparently: he raised and donated a lot of money and generally threw a lot of money around.
If that person has a reputation for unsubstantiated claims or vague fluffy headline grabbers, we do want to know, but we would like specific links to prior works or reviews so we can judge their actual trollativity level ourselves.
I'm not making a value judgment about anything, so that particular 'fallacy' doesn't apply. Good arguments don't just call things fallacies and leave it at that. Besides, the existence of a fallacy in an argument doesn't necessarily make it wrong; it's called the 'fallacy fallacy'.
Broken on Windows too.
Sounds like he was closer to him than just accepting his donations.
Biochemists discover new insights into what go awry in brains Alzheimer's
The Waymo Open Dataset
We Needed to Make a Completely New React Native Starter from Scratch
If it works anything like it does in Canada, the issue is nowhere near as cut and dry as you make it out to be. I'm going to draw comparison to the Canadian situation to illustrate my point.

First, the many native bands in Canada have had a variety of motivations for slowing/blocking the Trans Canada Pipeline project - some have been about environmental protection and preservation of heritage, sure, but a lot of it is political.

Band leaders are, rationally, trying to maximize funds flowing from federal coffers to their bands in the form of grants, subsidies, etc. Some use this funding to help their people, and some don't - it varies widely, just like municipalities do - but holding up infrastructure projects is a tried-and-true method of getting more funding.

While bands are rationally acting in their own self-interest, the government has to strongly consider the interests of the nation, state, region, etc. as a whole.

All of these native concerns, plus the potential environmental impact, have to be weighed against the benefits: fewer petroleum shipments via rail, which is much more dangerous than pipelines, tax revenue, jobs in the oil & gas sector, strategically vital energy security, etc.
Does the Amazon JDK binary distribution compete with this?
Apologies for negativity in my post. I did not realize that OP him/herself had made this website and might have been a first effort.

Still, I think my points are valid. Unless this is a personal hobby or tinkering effort, I would advise the OP to invest his/her time on something that is sustainable and not already covered at 10x the expertise by an existing service (in a relatively stable industry, more importantly).

The country content pages contain 6 lines that look like the OP wrote them personally. That is not something that smacks of reliability.
It disgusted me how places like reddit were absolutely, positively swarming with pro-pipeline accounts during that time, defending it as the more cost-effective and environmentally-friendly option.
Maybe we should shoot politicians into space then?
From the "Mozilla" link:

> To protect our users, Firefox, together with Chrome, will block the use of the Kazakhstan root CA certificate. This means that it will not be trusted by Firefox even if the user has installed it.

I don't like this (to be honest, I don't like the whole "certificate authority" thing to begin with).

I don't think my browser should meddle in my relationship with the state.

Why don't they also block every CA residing in the US? The US government coerces companies into giving away private data. How do we known that they don't share their private keys with the US government? Will Mozilla & Google take the blame when this happens? because they've declared themselves the guardians of certificate trust.

What if I legitimately need to install this certificate?
Asteroid Game for Vscode
Unless you have fixed width messages which you can directly map to a packed struct, json is waaayyy simpler to write and maintain.
You might have been using Linux wrong, but there are also better and worse hardware choices and distro choices. There are laptops with friendly hardware that you can run anything on; there are some that will fight anything but their original OS.

I have been running Linux daily at home because it's been rock solid for years on my home laptops. And that has involved plenty of media consumption.

I used to dual boot, but on the latest I couldn't untangle Windows from 100% disk usage and failed Windows Updates -- this on a laptop that was literally a few weeks old. So long, Windows.
More precisely: click on the sidebar and then use the arrow keys.
Ageism is great, it's the only thing that is guaranteed to come back to haunt people that make fun of you for being old.
and now youre back to using Chromium, and driving marketshare back towards a monosphere of Chromium influence on the web.
A lot of tools have safety measures which can't be circumvented by their users (e.g., you have to use both hands to start thems). The reason being that some dangers are easily underestimated, even by experienced users. Manufacturers do indeed much better about the inherent risks of their products than users.

If a knive could be built which allows to cut food, and protects you from cutting off your index finger, wouldn't that be great?
Yes, there was that too. I've seen quite a few regressions caused by this.
How exactly would you define work/life balance? You will typically travel 4/5 days a week. Even if you are lucky and only work 40 hours a week, you are still not home. If you have a family and you enjoy being with them, then every hour you are not home is work even if you sitting in a hotel.

When I was in consulting, for every trip to insert great city here I did 9 trips to some IT/Finance back office in the suburbs. At one place there was nothing for 15 miles other than a Hampton Inn, a Subway, and a 2 other local stores. So it's not like my off hours were fun either.

I think it's worth it to do it once. When I did it I gained a lot of experience with both technical and soft skills. The soft skills have helped me a lot in my career. You also learn a lot because you get to see how big companies really work and experience the variety of BS politics at every company. Everybody company you work in as a consultant will have a different type of BS. After a year or two you'll know if you can tolerate that lifestyle.
It is known that Epstein's main way of operating was blackmail, and it is baffling to think of what kind of motivation he had to blackmail academics. Media reports that at least some of the academics were involved in the sex crimes.

I know he had an interest in transhumanism, but I still fail to understand the logic.
That does seem likely, and is another reason the comparison isn't great. The nature and impact of the two situations are wildly different in various ways.
Is there a way to search airport codes? Would be interesting to pull up a specific airport with relevant runway analysis.

I think AeroData does this also.
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I don't know how it is in Europe, but those sorts of things are not typically covered by insurance in the US, except in cases where the reconstruction is related to a medical condition or accident (I got a nicer nose after breaking the original in a bicycling accident; the reconstruction was covered by health insurance). I assume those coming from EU to US for treatment would be self-pay for the treatment, yes?
I certainly don't disagree but the comparison just ends up begging the question, doesn't it?
More U.S. Towns Are Feeling the Pinch as Recycling Becomes Costlier
This is more a ShowHN than AskHN.

I like it, added myself to the list already.
Love the name, you can have great marketing with it.
Don't burnout, use burnout. Articles on burnout and mental context switching hell - burnout is the perfect solution.
Paraphrasing here...

>If you don't support antifa you are pro fascism

...seems like a very fascist thing to believe.
Yep, also OP's site doesn't seem to hold correct information. For example Belarus->Argentina visa is not required.
Users are people who have signed up to my app. As for active users I just use google analytics to show me how many site visitors I have each day. Im not sure how many of these people actually use the app instead of just visiting the landing page though. Also,I am going to do a show HN soon after I polish up my app a bit
Marvin Minsky is apparently another one.
No, they cannot deny essential treatment in the US due to financial issues. The type of treatment can be argued about and fiddled with (elective surgueries and whatnot, prisioners needing co-pay money they do not have, etc). But in a life-saving case like the one in the article, they cannot not deny treatment. As another example, if you need a C-section, you are getting a C-section.

That said, fiscally, it's a total gamble in the US these days. You may be saddled with a $20/mo debt that will likely never end ever, or you may be facing a bill for $1M that is due in 30 days. The range is essentially unbounded and unknowable in any real way.

US healthcare is shockingly cruel, financially speaking.
In order to take in those minerals you'd need to eat more, which equals more calories
> over 11 million gallons of condensate that leaked through a crack in a pipeline for over 3 years

These companies are making way too much money if they can survive for 3 years leaking that much oil.
Face Aging using Conditional GANs with Keras implementation
A bunch of celebrities posted a copyright hoax to Instagram
Generally OHIP does not cover medical care outside of Canada.[1] Apparently they'll cover $400 CDN per day of US hospital stay, so probably less than 4%.

I sure hope he had travel insurance. Likely did as most companies offer it for employment travel.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/medical-emergencies-i...
A Flood Washed Away a Crypto Mining Farm
> There really is a place for hearing someone lay out their views in a long, methodical way without being badgered every few minutes by an interviewer looking for a sound bite.

If you like that kind of style, Tilo Jung might be an interesting watch. He's doing quite long (45m-2hour) interviews. His style is not adversial, but he certainly asks tough questions. The interviews are uncut, and he gives his guests a long time to answer each question.

Most of his content is in german, but here is a playlist of his English content:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuQE_zb4awhXlktpo-3t4...
My argument is primarily that if somebody is looking to infect users, are they going to target the 86%, or the 13%? Macs have benefited for years by largely not being targeted by the majority of malware developers. If mobile devices open the walled garden, you get something similar to android's malware issues at best.
Chrome had the nifty break away title bar tabs before anyone else.

But the major improvement that made everyone switch was process separation for each tab. One tab could crash while the others stayed functional and a security vulnerability in one tab would have a more difficult time compromising the others.

It's also one of the reasons Chome uses so much memory, they failed to keep optimizing their copy-on-write paging behaviour so that tabs would share more memory among themselves.

Nowadays Firefox has process separation for tabs AND it's not written by an advertising company, so I like it better.
I gotta say, it’s great that someone is making this attempt, however it turns out. PNG has been in a uniquely bad position re: “monoculture”, with libpng being not just the “reference implementation”, but the only implementation anyone bothers to use.

But libpng was intended as only a reference implementation—a rigid adherent to the PNG standard, for the sake of having a “runnable version” of the PNG standard—and was never particularly optimized for production use-cases, or code readability/maintainability/low attack surface, or any other criteria you might like to have. Libpng is optimized for one thing only: allowing other PNG implementations to build spec-compatibility test suites by testing against libpng behaviour.

Because of this rigid adherence, libpng doesn’t implement—and will never implement—any features that aren’t in the base PNG spec, like APNG.

And since everyone uses libpng as their PNG implementation (for some reason), nobody ends up adopting these extra features. (Sure, all the major browsers except Edge support APNG, but does your image editor? Does your IoT thermostat whose OS uses PNG image assets? Does your game console? Nah. Because these all just compile in libpng. And this is what kills support for features like APNG in the crib.)

That was never the PNG Working Group’s intent, of course. They don’t want to restrict the development of extra PNG features (yes, even though they developed MNG and might see features like APNG as “competing” with MNG, they don’t really care.) They keep libpng the way it is, not for ideological reasons, but simply because they don’t care about doing anything with libpng that moves it away from “reference implementation of the base PNG spec” territory. (And why would they? Their job as the PNG Working Group is to produce the PNG base spec. It’s supposed to be everyone else’s job, in the ecosystem, to produce conformant implementations. They even gave you libpng to make that easier!)

So, like I said, I’m glad someone is finally writing an alternative implementation (in C), such that the projects that currently use libpng could reasonably choose to switch to libspng. It’s the same feeling I get from seeing LibreSSL and BoringSSL: that an ecosystem that was essentially “dead” and stuck in a set of bad choices due to everyone sticking with one unchanging reference impl, is now coming alive again.
Microsoft just bought jClarity the developers of AdoptOpenJDK
On a sidenote, I find it odd this story has a lot upvotes in such a short amount time, yet it's dropped from the top story to now the 15th result on the frontpage below stories that are older with fewer votes?
Very cool, might use it in my aero eng lectures! Regarding this topic, in 2011 I did a quick Mathematica script to calculate the historical wind rose for any given airport and display it together with the airport map: https://wechoosethemoon.es/2011/11/08/mathematica-rosa-de-lo... Sorry, it's in Spanish, the notebook itself is available here: http://wechoosethemoon.es/assets/files/RosaVientos.nb
I have recently returned to Firefox for my personal browsing after using Chrome since about 2014 and it works great. However...

In work I'm stuck using Chrome due to the amount of time I spend in Google Apps (Docs, Sheets, Google Analytics, Search Console & Data Studio) as they break certain functionality on Firefox, which makes me less productive.

Google has too much power. I work in Search Engine Marketing and it wasn't so long ago that we optimised sites for different search engines, now no-one cares about any search engine other than Google.
Oil shipments via rail are more dangerous when only measuring deaths caused (such as due to rail accidents). Oil shipped via pipeline is much more likely to spill than rail [1].

Also there's this "pretend that macroeconomics doesn't exist" notion among pro-pipeline hard-liners. By allowing crude oil to be transported in greater quantities without accounting for the permanent environmental costs, we're actively fighting against market forces that make green energy more feasible. If the supply of oil increases, then its prices drop, and the demand for alternatives to fossil fuels lessens.

[1]: Congressional Research Service - https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43390.pdf
I used SettleUp for a while, for writing down food expenses (small amounts, frequent, and different amounts per person)

It was such a hasslr that I decided to set up a transaction log (person A paid X for Person B for item Y) in Google sheets instead, which automatically tracks debts per combination of persons.

It's so much easier since I can parse and note down a receipt within one minute, compared to doing calculations in my head and writing the debts down in an App.

Edit:
After giving splitwise a quick look, it also doesn't solve my grocery debts problem.
A Scientific Breakthrough at the Florida Aquarium Could Save Great Barrier Reef
In spite of all that we're studying wrt abuse potential, I (and my team) generally support open-sourcing tech, and I hope that we can contribute not to "oh this is dangerous, don't release" but rather to "oh this is dangerous, it's already released, what are we going to do now?"
I entertain similar thoughts, though less out of lack of value for my own life than sheer stubborn spitefulness for the predatory health care industry in the US. Sure, i could exhaust all my money and I might live, but I think I might actually rather die just to keep it out of their grubby hands.
The Matrix is far beyond 'pop culture' at this point. It was made before my time and I still watched it specifically to get a perspective on modern social commentary. The impact of The Matrix on society has been monumental and it isn't something that should be so easily discarded.
I will probably be tarred and feathered for this comment as well but:

I think this whole thing has turned into a witch hunt / mob assault on anyone who has had any ties to Epstein. The attitude of many of the comments seem to essentially suggest that if one has been at the same party as epstein sometime in the past, such person must be a child molester.

Now people are falling over themselves trying to one up each other on who can display the most moral outrage.

It is an example of how public discourse has degenerated to the point where we are attacking people first and refusing to ask even some basic questions before branding someone as guilty by association.

(edited out "come on it is ridiculous" as it seemed unnecessarily inflammatory)
In the case of an article that lists 82 startups, their comment is essentially saying "Here's a startup I think is notable". Hence their opinion.
Somehow I believe that former is much larger, the reason being that poorest countries usually have enormous number of children per family, while richest countries usually struggle to have even 2 per family.
The builder concept is actually really appealing. Academia can tend towards the same problem as consulting, where tasks get sharply split between "credit-producing" and "not worth doing".

Answering questions about your past papers; looking over someone else's proposed methodology; or cleaning up an internal tool into one you can share are all great tasks for advancing the field, but none of them bolster a CV, earn grants, or help you get tenure. If you want credit for them, you usually have to commit lots more time to the task, like running a formal discussion, becoming an author, or polishing the tool into an OSS contribution. All too often, the result is siloed projects and work abandoned as soon as it's published. (How many papers offering some novel twist on priming or ego depletion could have been turned into replication-and-extension if past authors had been involved?)

Especially in astronomy, with large projects and lots of non-PhD team members, this makes so much sense. (I believe something similar may happen at LIGO - if not formally then at least in practice?) If work is going to be judged by authorship, it's only fair to recognize that at a certain point the groundwork and floating aid people give is comparably valuable to the act of writing up some chunk of the text.
Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate, research center says
"While their model is far from uncovering the full mystery of vision, it is a step in the right direction"

This penultimate paragraph directly contradicts the headline. I know that writers don't have much control over their headlines but this is endlessly frustrating as a reader.
Show HN: C++ Implementation of the Side Window Filtering(CVPR 2019)
Would you pay 100$ for a can of tomato sauce?
> the first model to try and decipher vision in a biologically plausible way.

> Their work is the first of its kind.

No and no.

Shapley has great work in this area -- other biologically-plausible models of visual cortex indeed cite his work -- but this article is making grandiose claims with little knowledge of a deep field of work.
I see I had completely misunderstood what you meant. When I last used NixOS, some 3 years ago I think, I didn't really use the channels. Since I wanted to make some modifications to some files in nixpkgs, I preferred to have the nixpkgs repo locally. Seems I forgot about them.

EDIT:

> The default way to consume nixpkgs is through channels which today does not involve git. And a nixpkgs git checkout is over 1GB (my .git dir is currently sitting at 1.4GB on this machine). So that's not great.

One could also add tags to the repo in the form of pname-version for every package. I wonder how well git can handle that many tags...

In any case, the advantage of being able to do this from the git repo is that you wouldn't depend on someone forever hosting every version of a channel. I would think one would discard old channels before they discard git history.
> I don't think my browser should meddle in my relationship with the state.

Mozilla doesn't think the state should meddle in your relationship with them, or the rest of the Internet.

> Why don't they also block every CA residing in the US?

Because there's no evidence they're controlled by the US government in the way Kazakhstan's cert clearly is.
VR ought to be a big application for that, no? A lot of games just leave your torso out of it completely, but some have to include it and it's disorienting to have it drag along like a ragdoll hanging off of your floating head.

Works fine when you're standing up, but when you lean sideways and see your body acting like you took a step to the side and are still standing up straight, that's a little unnerving.