skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the increase in allergies is due to children not being exposed to allergens. It used to be the advice to not feed your child foods that are commonly allergenic but now the advice is reversed.

https://www.livescience.com/57383-peanut-allergy-prevention-...
General apolitical point:

Phrases like "6th leading cause" contain no information.

Is that 5% or 0.01%?

There is no way of knowing, and depends entirely on how deaths are categorized in some unknown underlying classification system.
If we want to implement a human-like intelligence, I think it’s very likely that we’ll have to emulate a lot of the environment we inhabit. To me, human culture and parts of our brain is like software which is instantiated in the individual. To run it on a machine instead means that the machine will have to emulate the “machine” that the software runs on, which is the whole brain, body and its environment.

We could of course try to make a non-human type of intelligence. But it’s not at all clear what that would be, or if it’s at all
possible. The only intelligence we know for sure can exist is animal/human style intelligence. And I don’t think there’s anyone who is actually trying to construct a non-human intelligence. To do that it’s very likely that you’d have to set up a computer environment where programs evolve naturally and fight for computing resources over a long time. It could take anywhere from decades to millions of years.

Where most of our efforts are going, is to create augmented intelligence. We’re creating programs that expand on human intelligence. Interface with it. Cater to it.

If you imagine AI programs as individuals in an evolutionary environment. What is it that they’re competing for? They’re competing for which program can most satisfy humans. Those that satisfy us live. Those that don’t die. Just as our evolutionary environment creates drives for gathering resources, cooperating with others when possible, hurting/killing others when necessary... programs are almost exclusively driven to satisfy humans.

That’s why I think the “paperclip maximizer” example is so ridiculous. First it assumes that general intelligence is just some magical algorithm we just haven’t discovered yet. Then it assumes that such an AI can make catastrophic decisions without complex motivations. Whether to kill humans or not is more efficient for making paper clips is an undecidable problem. A human might kill someone to achieve its goal because that’s something our evolutionary environment has trained us for. We have motivations like pride, ego, anger, envy, etc. that overrides the problem of figuring out “is killing this human optimal for my goals”

It’s far more likely that an AI catastrophe will be far harder to predict and much stranger. It could be that specialized (and relatively dumb in the genera sense) AIs become so good at satisfying our desires that we become completely incapacitated. There’s already signs of this.

Just to be clear, I’m not saying we shouldn’t be worried about AI. But the alarmists seems to be too focused on various imagined future scenarios, all of which are likely to be wrong. We should keep a very keen eye on the consequences of AI right now in the present moment, and talk about problems that actually arise. Perhaps with a little bit of extrapolation.. thinking about how present day small problems could develop into bigger problems.
Seriously. How about our (humanity's) project becomes: make our modern lives the best easiest most awesome imaginable?
Cant you order a free replacement card if you care so much about scuff and marks?
Honestly that sounds like an excuse to do nothing, that you are not truly serious about it.

The last best time was yestrday. The next best one is now.
Pretty much every animal that we consider intelligent is social - orcas, elephants, primates, dogs, cats, etc.

Human language developed as a way for humans to communicate with one another. I think you're severely underestimating the importance of emotional intelligence.
Not OP but I have a similar workstyle: I work half-time for one client (remotely), 4 hours a week for another (also remotely) and occasionally take side gigs like teaching or something. The remote work is mostly in Norway, I live in Poland, so the pay cut is not noticable – the fact that "I could be making twice as much if I worked “normally”" is something that always is in the back of my head, but is somewhat dimished by the fact that I still make more than a typical fulltime salary would net me here in Poland.

Being a contractor in a niche technology (in my case it's Perl) is great for this, because the companies involved can't really say "work more or we'll find someone else" – we both know that they won't ;) Also, beyond 4-5 hours a day my (and afaik everyone else's) productivity is diminishing anyway, so it's not like they're losing much because of it.
This thread is big enough for the both of us!
> He's implying you either have shoddy graphics, or spend big money on AAA graphics.

He really is not. The article goes into the details of the nuance of where his games are graphically.

Not to mention he specifically addresses what you're talking about.

The next step up in art quality is to add one person to his permanent team, which roughly doubles each game's budget and roughly doubles the sales needed to support that budget. That's a big step and he's not willing to take that risk. Not sure who would be in a better position than him and his wife to assess the risk for that, so it's very hard to argue with that judgement.
Oh really? How did that work out the last go around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests
Ask HN: How to find work fighting climate breakdown?
I've been worried about global heating for most of my life. I've changed my own life massively in an attempt to reduce my footprint, but it's clear that individual action is essentially meaningless in terms of effecting desired outcomes.

Is there a way to find jobs/companies _specifically_ filtered for "what you do will fight climate breakdown", that would be accessible to someone in tech?

The closest I can come to are things like tools to improve the experience of using public transport or cycling, etc. but a green "Who's Hiring?" would be really useful. I've done what I can in my unpaid time but it just isn't as much as I could be.

We need a global response on the scale of WWII's mobilisation. There's a giant asteroid headed for Earth and we spend our days on meaningless fripperies hoping someone else will deal with it.
What's the point of having "cross regional appeal" if you are appealing to virtually no one?

This isn't some discrimination thing. Those people can still vote. They just aren't given more representation than they deserve. That's the con of the electoral college.
I'm not a parent so my knowledge here is pretty scarce, but what I've understood from friends that have kids, is that when a baby wakes up, both parents wake up due to instinct (i.e. is the baby ok?).

So I wonder if what you suggest would require some accomodation. E.g. have the 'on-call' parent sleep in the same room as the baby, and the other one can sleep in another room with the door closed.

Is this what you mean by saying that both parent need not be waken up? or are there some other methods that would help out with this?
Almost certainly in the sense of physical hardship -- but perhaps not in terms of total working hours. Here's another more sprightly essay on the topic:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/medieval-peasants-vacation-m...

"Consider a typical working day in the medieval period,” said Schor. “It stretched from dawn to dusk (sixteen hours in summer and eight in winter), but, as Bishop Pilkington has noted, work was intermittent — called to halt for breakfast, lunch, the customary afternoon nap, and dinner. Depending on time and place, there were also mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks."

Additionally, the medieval calendar was also one of many official Church-going holidays which were always considered mandatory. In total, leisure time in medieval England took up probably about one-third of the year.
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” -Elon Musk

If nobody ever tries, nothing will ever change. Change inspires change. Someone seeing you plant a tree might very well decide to plant one themselves.
Well, true, all the big players are from USA. But as far digital innovation inside of a nation go, and for the nation, USA needs to do a lot of catching up. Because while true that USA made a thing called "instagram influencers", it has done very little for its people.

If by Nordic you mean Northern European, then Estonia is Nordic, all tho' often misrepresented as Eastern European.
Ditto. It this new gig doesn’t work out, then you will be unemployed. Unemployment is a strong negative bias for future employers.
Why should you need any form of identification to buy a train ticket? Say, for domestic-only travel.
I breathed a real sigh of relief when I realized this initiative is about privacy, rather than privatizing the web.
You're off by an order of magnitude. Trump received 62.98 m votes while Clinton received 65.85 m. That's a difference of 2.87 m votes not 13 million. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia...)
Huh. I kind of get that. I guess a depleted uranium CC is close on the horizon?
I want to find a way to spend the majority of my time fighting this. That means paid work, unfortunately, because I'm not rich enough to retire.

Do you have any idea how I, or anyone else, can do this?
The claim that current technology is insufficient to replicate it isn't subjective.

Perhaps the point should be that we lost sense for a particular aesthetic during the transition to 3d graphics techniques.
im pretty sure scandanavia leads the world in quality of life
Darpa Media Forensics Overview
All of those managed service providers do the same thing. 4 full time employees and an outside sales guy just answer phones and regurgitate what they read on CNET while outsourced Indian contractors manage all their systems with minimal security, minimal oversight, and like 2 passwords between all of their clients.

Any "automation" they claim to have behind their "help desk" suite is literally 14 Indians working odd hours to install Windows Updates via RDP.

I had one of these places chide me for not having a WISP (Written Information Security Program) a couple years ago. When I found evidence that their outsourced Indian labor was accessing export controlled data I asked them to provide me a copy of their WISP. Guess who didn't have one either.
Every modern conflict has pretty clearly demonstrated that military might is not nearly enough to control a country.
It's not the 'tracks' per se, as in the lumps of metal on the ground, but more frequently it's the design of the segment of the route.

A piece of route might have been designed in the 1800s, possibly to a speed limit of 20 or 30mph, then been rationalised and 'upgraded' over the years to a higher speed, but that section of track will still carry limitations that are implied by the way it was initially designed to be, signalling may be too close together, or too far apart, junctions that are rarely used but remain for whatever reason add complexity and potential failure sites, tracks.

There are of course some physical aspects of physically old track - shorter (~100m) sections of rail joined together have a higher risk of failure than the newer techniques of long (0.5km to 1km or more) single track pieces welded together, old wooden sleepers allow track movement that can result in delays and maintenance issues, whereas relative-new concrete sleepers, and really-new split-concrete sleepers are more reliable and permit faster and more reliable train operation.

Tearing routes apart and redesigning the sections from scratch is difficult politically, so the UK's railway network tends to suffer from the fact that 99% of it was designed and built before 1880.
I think it's great that they are able to be profitable in a great niche (25 years!).

As an ex - videogame developer I've shipped several titles from simple 'kids' games to AAA titles. Here's my take:

You CAN make good looking games on an indie budget. Plenty of indie developers do it. However this requires an Artistic Director which oversees the visual style and coherence for the game.

Some programmers (very few I know) have both technical talent and have a very good 'eye' artistically. They are able to make games and make them look good. It's once again still about style and visual coherence.

Obviously the writer of the post is not an artist so he might not necessarily have the time or inclination to dwell on such visual coherence and direction. That's fine, he accepts that.

But I can't agree with the fact that being and indie makes it harder to have a pleasing visual aesthetic. That is simply a question of choice, which you can rationalize with any type of arguments.

That being said I'm really impressed with their success and hope them all the best for the next 25 years!
The Surprising Surge of Andrew Yang
"I want to sponsor planting trees"

... why aren't you, then? Taking personal steps towards improving things is by far the best thing you can do for your personal feelings of guilt. It won't solve the bigger issues. But collective behavior is built on lots of independent individual action.
Re. the nuclear thing: so you're saying you need govt funding to solve a problem created by the govt?

Also, you are overestimating my desire to pay for foreign military adventures. Your point about the police is actually great: the quality of customer service is so bad, racist and ineffective, that if they were a private enterprise, they'd have gone bankrupt.

Generally, I'm not saying the govt should have no role in things, I'm just in favor of reducing its current involvement by about 80%, along with the productivity it robs from workers and business.
Thanks! I have been trying it out and it seems to work well.
Let me guess, everything about "Privacy Sandbox" is meaningless when the company that proposes it also holds a major stronghold on the web thanks to Google Analytics, Google SSO, etc. Google themselves will likely barely be impacted (and why should we expect otherwise, google is not going to shoot themselves in the foot)

Makes me think of this quote from the webkit policy https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention-policy/ :

> When faced with a tradeoff, we will typically prioritize user benefits over preserving current website practices. We believe that that is the role of a web browser, also known as the user agent.

Google clearly does not believe that.
> Family has a bunch of photo albums laying around, that I'd like to digitize for better accessibility and durability.

Don't do this for durability, unless you've already got a robust backup solution. Hard drives tend to fail predictably.

> I assume most top-feeding scanners will have problems with the thick paper and the glued-on photos.

The majority of page feeders (like in MFCs) have a tight 180° turn to flip the page down to the scanner plate. You may find a straight-through paper feeder, but also make sure thick media can be handled.

> So do I need to do it page by page manually?

Yup.

> What resolution and what file format should I use?

Continuous tone images (like portraits) are fine at 150-200dpi. High contrast line art is better at 300dpi, and depending on the printer, you can see up to 800dpi with your eyes (without a loupe). Standard line art film can be rendered at 1500dpi.

So, take the largest you want to print out at, multiply by ~300, then multiply by 1.5 (ish) to allow for cropping, and you know how many pixels you want. For example, for an 8×10, you want (8×300×1.5): 3600×4500.

You can save as TIFF to be lossless and allow for higher bit depths for more exposure adjustment headroom, but if you aren't mucking with levels, you really won't see JPEG artifacts, especially if you save at 90-95% quality. JPEG file sizes will be dramatically smaller than TIFF.

> Any experiences?

Like my Grandma told me, put dates on everything.

Consider adding a date (maybe with a label maker?) to each page before you scan it.
Better question: are we willing to risk it just because some who-know-how-much-p-hacked study said so?
I find this rich, coming from Google.
Seems quite interesting to me that he's speaking up about the issue of automation.
I think it is partially a skill set issue. I can appreciate good pixel art but I am at a total loss for how to create it, which has been a major reason I haven't making my own game (and pixel art packs are each too small and feel too distinct to be able to mix). Some people just go with the graphics they can do, don't care about looks, and focus on making the games good in other ways. It probably prevents them from being as massive a hit, but that is likely a better place to be than where I am, still too unsure to get off the ground level and actually make something.
Hmm I wonder how much the decision to arrive was influenced by the decline as orders of priority. Say in a simplified gamey heuristic:

1. If there are boats or coastal settlements around the island and decent canidates attempt trade to fulfill needs - it is lower risk and where the greatest speed and cargo volume may be obtained.
1a. If trading won't be sufficient and they appear weak enough to gamble raid - it might get you killed but greater riches. If you would starve anyway what do you have to lose? (That infamous practice while it may have saved them from harsh winters got their civilization effectivly after the profession of raiders - it would be sort of like calling all of England and their descendants pirates.)
2. If the land is decent and under or unsettled land to fulfill needs - it is slower than boats and has lower cargo capacity. Also less likely to find undefended farmland or similar assets.

Essentially if the population didn't decline they never would have bothered heading inland more as either boats and coast fulfilled their needs better or if in bad relations scared off as the type of place that would rob or kill them on sight.
Same, my first thought was:

WalledGarden - phase 2 - initialize
it's nice to see something like this. im personally of the mind that graphics really don't matter in video games; they are certainly nice, but you don't need state of the art, AAA high def rendering to make a video game compelling. i think ultimately the hallmark of an enjoyable game is how engaging and immersive it is, and how fluidly it exposes its mechanics to you and allows you a playground to exploit those mechanics.
In contrast, if USA is not performing better then why are most of the digital innovations of US origin? Why do like half of the world's tech billionaires live in Silicon Valley? While Finland has maybe 1?

The Scandinavian countries focus on leveling the playing field for everyone. It allows the less privileged to build a good life, but it also hinders the most ambitious ones. Whereas USA is happy to focus on the extremes, allowing places like Silicon Valley to flourish.

We can argue endlessly whichever is better for the society, but professionals often choose the place to live based on what is best for them, not what political model some place runs on.
It was a simple solution, really. They made the phones more expensive, as well.

That way, people took better care of the screens. As it should be.

Steve was wrong.
The merger was 7/8/08, years after character transfer from mid 2006.

[4] “The precursors to modern-day heirlooms were introduced in Vanilla/Classic World of Warcraft. Heirlooms up to the Wrath of the Lich King expansion were items that were sold by a specific battleground vendor. There were Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin and Alterac Valley heirlooms.”

[2] This depends on how you mark an expansion. IMO, after the initial bug fixes are put that’s the expansion. Everything after that like 3.3.0 is it’s own separate patch.
I wonder if sentencing like these still happen today.
> Recently, some other browsers have attempted to address this problem, but without an agreed upon set of standards, attempts to improve user privacy are having unintended consequences.

Notice how arrogant Google sounds on this sentence here. This is like saying: "Hey, you guys can create whatever adblocking technology you want, without Google's blessing, that shit will never take off. We own the web."
>Where can i read more about this assertion?

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_movement
I'm of the belief that the only thing that will accomplish the goals set out by those who care at the level of the author is actual, literal, worldwide fascism. And I also believe that climate-agnostic entities (who don't care one way or another) will be waiting in the wings opportunistically as people start to call for that fascism.
A Day to Remember: https://vimeo.com/44078865
From “Climate Change: How Do We Know” from NASA, mentioned in this article, there is a carbon level rise and fall graph which looks almost periodic. Perhaps the previous cases of cause and effect help us to be aware of the present situation?

For example- Do we know what took the carbon dioxide level high during 400000 and 320000 years ago, aftermath and things that brought the level down eventually in next few thousand years before the rise (again)?

[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
So you choose the totally literal reading. Not what I’d choose, but also an understandable choice given that this is a technology and programming-oriented website.

I won’t say that the allegorical reading is more “correct,” but if you’d like some clues leading to it, look for the breadcrumbs like this: “And, even though Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are ideologically similar, I refuse to let my son believe in Bentham’s very-slightly-different version of ethics.”
I would rather have a Happy Fun Ball Card, than this ..
Why did you make life so difficult for yourself? I can't imagine having a wife or kids on top of my job...
Any update on the whole adblock thing that was popular here a little bit ago, with them deprecating the ability to drop web requests? Seems kinda paramount to this initiative.