skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Each side must maintain standards, rather than just choosing the cheapest options.

People don't have infinite money. In fact 4.5 billion people don't make enough money not to be in qualitative extreme poverty[1] let alone enough money to be able to freely choose options that are not cheapest. Extremely small portion of total people have any actual freedom to choose options other than cheapest.

> Consumers must verify that production is sustainable

Such verification is impossible as it requires infinite time and perfect information. It is always cheaper and more profitable to lie about sustainability than to actually be sustainable. When one hole is fixed 10 more holes appear.

1. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/07/5-myths-about-global-...
Is that even actually possible, carbon-neutral beef? I mean the deforestation implied for producing the crops that yield cattle feed, plus the methane emissions produced by the animal during it's lifetime, not to mention the water consumption that both the animal and the crops take, plus the huge amounts of excrements involved.
Promises you know you'll never have to keep are the best kind!
waves same here. I'm slightly annoyed though, wouldn't mind travelling on the other side of the earth once without hearing that silly joke. Not sure why the city-PR felt the need to further solidify that.
Tom Scott did a video [0] on Bielefeld a few years back which was how I found out about this.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvHcZciihJw
Their page was done in 114ms.

Where are the PBs of javascript, the YBs of uncompressed images in 128x320 res?

Clearly they've messed up their CDN and we're missing content.
Yes, this is exactly how GUI should be done today. Remote access is an added benefit.
Yeah, you'll have to agree to one another popup. Probably I'll start looking soon for autogdpr+autocookie extension, I got so tired from those popups (especially when they have nothing with my country laws).
Got bumped from cattle class to royal class (sic) on a flight when I was a kid. Got to taste real caviar. Black, salty, fishy and rather fatty. Bit gross really.

Also got asked for a drink (alcoholic, I guess I was old enough). Cattle class you got the drink. Royal class you got a saucer with a coaster with a doily with a smaller coaster on that finally with the drink parked atop, and a tiny fork next to it to pull out the olive in the drink, which it didn't actually have because it was baileys. Hmm.
Dental Over-Treatments, an Overlooked Epidemic
People are long-lived apex predators, wouldn't this have a heavy metal problem? Tuna and other apex predators tend to be dangerous to eat due to the buildup of pollutants inside them, and they don't live nearly as long or eat nearly as much as a human.
I have always heard that the rainforest is “carbon neutral” because a mature forest will emit just as much carbon as it absorbs. With that in mind, why does the fact that the rainforest produces 20% of the worlds oxygen matter? When I read the above claim I felt like it was trying to push the “rainforests save the atmosphere” angle and I do not know how accurate this sentiment is.

It goes without saying that cutting down the rainforest would release a lot of CO2 and should not be done for many reasons. I am just curious what the significance of producing “20% of the world’s oxygen” is. Or, what does the rainforest do for the atmosphere besides act as a huge carbon bank?
Yeah in the second half, and that would have made a fine blog post. He also said a lot of other things, which didn't.
Even at a small-scale legitimate level, Amazon's useful as a sort of pseudo-cash/petty change bank. They're often a good way to cash out reward points of various types or as a "bank" to convert things like Visa gift cards so you don't need to keep track of them.

I have noticed though that Amazon seems to have recognized that people like them for this sort of thing and their point conversion rates often carry a bit of a premium and certainly aren't as good as you can get from some more niche retailers.
> The article seems to consider this hacky and insecure

I hadn't considered the security part yet, to be honest. I'm open to suggestions for methods to make sure the application is secure.
I saw scratched ones in /r/applecard days ago already. Titanium isn't some wundermetal

Here's a recent one from 8 hours ago, scratched https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleCard/comments/cu88gh/sctaches_...

They're basically saying don't use leather because the dyes can bleed onto the metal and to avoid stuff like denim (which is generally rather abrasive and can pick up and hold random debris which can further scratch). People are acting like it's some conspiracy or that they need to buy some otter box style case Apple is just saying "stop doing this and this or you're going to call us freaking out wanting a new card" (people are already requesting new cards because theirs is scratched...).
Also, what about disposing the battery when it reaches its end of life.
It was an autocorrect typo and by the time I noticed it was too late to edit the comment.
Honestly, it seems like cases cost more money than they save people.

I have used iPhones for a decade without cases. I has one 50$ screen repair for dropping a phone on concrete. That’s less than some cases cost. On top of that you need to buy a new case for each phone generation, so even average cases would have been a net loss.

PS: I get into the habit of keeping keys and phone in different pockets pre iPhone which probably helps.
It’s possible the author really does believe it is a replacement, having only personally used ODBC in a very limited way himself
I didn’t know that. More details please.

I briefly used Autonomy software almost twenty years ago so I followed the big bucks acquisition with some interest.
1. Size of the Particle teleported?

2. Displacement distance & velocity?

3. Energy consumed?

Edit:

4. Is it really a teleportation?
Best Linux Distro for 2020
Perhaps one could use greasemonkey to inject Google analytics into arbitrary sites. (And load some font, and perhaps have a 20 second timeout somewhere.)
The money came from Google: "We would like to thank Google (TensorFlow Research Cloud) for providing the compute for this".
It does, called "Views". There's some documentation on it in the Chromium codebase. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
What are they negotiating against though? Wouldn't the BATNA be to not accept credit cards which be suicide for a retail company?
Personally, I'm an organ donor and donating my body to science. I don't care what happens to it when I'm gone.
Pet peeve: converting currencies from the original makes for awkward headlines, as well as making the article future-incompatible (because of exchange rate fluctuations).

They should keep the original €1M in the title. It is what they offered.
Bought all of his games and have to say I respect his decision. In small business you have to find the local maximum and stay there until it's drain dried and change course then.
Aurora+Mattress+Savings+Brooklyn+Bedding
Children live to watch the same shows multiple times.
Everything from Atlassian is slow. Tried Confluence lately?
OpenAI is run by people who believe and spread horror stories about how AI can totally change society, for better or worse.

I think this is reflective of a substantial disconnect and polarisation in society, because OpenAI's position here was driven by a very fundamental intuition about human nature which is not universally shared.

Namely, their rationale was something like this: the world is dominated by people whose opinions are fundamentally shaped by what others are saying, and moreover, by how frequently other people seem to be saying it. They don't really think about things or rely on their own experience: they're just mimics.

In such a world being able to auto-generate fake messages of support for some political position or another at scale would give you immense power, because the population would automatically swing behind you based merely on the perception that everyone was swinging behind you.

So that's their fear. But is it realistic?

Well, this is where we get into the polarisation. "You aren't smart enough to have an opinion" is the sort of viewpoint that leads to an elitist vs populist conflict. There have been reams of analysis about this and it's not really AI specific - e.g. did people vote for Brexit because of Twitter, or because of things they saw in the press, or did they vote based on their own experiences, or what their close friends/family thought, or what mix of "all of the above" is the truest mix?

When they refused to release GPT-2 the OpenAI researchers took an extreme on that spectrum, asserting that essentially they had built a mind control device. But of course which didn't work on themselves, only on lesser minds. Not surprisingly this was very controversial, albeit I think the Valley/Hacker News set would be surprised at just how controversial it would have been if anyone outside the AI world had really noticed. You can't tell most of the world their opinions aren't really their own and not expect pushback.

Personally I don't share those intuitions at all. The controversy over DeepFakes is similar. Photoshop has existed for decades and hasn't led to a dystopia, but suddenly DeepFakes is going to create fundamental social change? I don't think so.

AI researchers, especially in academia, need big narratives to keep up the funding and suggest they're on a mission to save the world vs e.g. making slightly better playlist recommendations. GPT-2 seems like a classic case of this being taken to absurdity.
It's not. It's not an art style, it's the lack of one. And then he compares it to retro games with an actual art style and says this is "good enough for him". Calling it an art style is an affront to people who DO spend the time and effort on these things. So he explains it makes business sense for him to not care about art direction. Okay fine. But then don't drag other games into it.
No downvotes from me because they're at least ideas to discuss, but in any story about multi-level farming, there is criticism based on cost/scale. Drive through farmland sometime and think about the cost of building a second storey on an area that size. That might've pushed some to downvote?
Conservative billionaire David Koch dead at 79
Interesting pick from one of the links in the article:

"SQLite has fantastic write performance as well. By default SQLite uses database-level locking (minimal concurrency), and there is an “out of the box” option to enable WAL mode to get fantastic read concurrency — as shown by this test. But lesser known is that there is a branch of SQLite that has page locking, which enables for fantastic concurrent write performance."

https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-q...
The Median Line in the Taiwan Strait: A Dangerous Loophole
I imagine an alternative history where browsers simply never had the feature of cookies and similar tracking mechanisms available to servers or domains other than the primary one in the URL bar. Or even more severely, where all assets and scripts had to be loaded from the same domain. That would have various downsides but would also have created a much less tracking prone web.
Just look at what happened to SUV sales when gas prices went up in the 2000s. https://www.cbtnews.com/the-correlation-between-fuel-prices-...
HN is often accused of being humorless but it's not true. The community simply has higher standards. Deadpan is your baseline, build from there.
I also like the Win95 aesthetics, though last time i checked Gtk+ does support Windows' theme engine (not 100% perfect but 99.9% is there). At least Gtk+ 2 does, did that change with Gtk+ 3?
Not a direct answer but it's certainly the most used, which correlates highly with getting a lot of dev attention :)

https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
Probably just have to watch flat earth theorists how they do it.
Reverse-reader view! Isn't there a bookmarklet that Geocities-ifies pages somewhere, same idea.
BioUrban robotic tree fights pollution by performing the work of 368 real trees
I have a waterproof case, and there's nothing comparable to washing my phone with soap and water every time I wash my hands.
Bayesian statistics quantifies fuzzy knowledge of absolute statements, fuzzy logic quantifies absolute knowledge of fuzzy statements.
Background: How pure functional programs deal with input and output
What's the alternative? Prison wallet?
The idea that company directors have a fiduciary duty to maximise shareholder value is mostly a myth: it is one of those ideas that many economists like that seem to simplify things but actually can't be made to work. James Kwak has a nice article (Medium, sorry) on this

https://medium.com/bull-market/there-is-no-effective-fiducia...

> The specific fiduciary duties of corporate directors...are common law: legal principles that have been established by courts in the process of adjudicating cases over the years. As it turns out, in Delaware, which is the state that matters—not only because most large corporations are incorporated there, but because courts in other states tend to look to Delaware law when dealing with new issues of corporate law—there are exactly two fiduciary duties: the duty of loyalty and the duty of care.

> They duty of care is basically the duty to pay attention to your job: in essence, to make decisions on the basis of reasonably adequate information. There is an academic controversy—fueled by careless uses of language by the courts—about whether the standard of conduct is negligence or gross negligence. But the point here is that the duty of care isn’t a duty to do any particular thing, such as maximize profits.

> The duty of loyalty is marginally more complicated. This duty (like the duty of care) existed in agency law—the law governing the relationship between agents, such as employees, and principals, such as companies—before corporations became widespread in the nineteenth century. There, the duty of loyalty essentially meant that you couldn’t use your position as an agent to make a personal profit—by stealing directly from the principal, via a transaction with the principal, or, in the famous case of Reading v. Regem, by using your British Army uniform to help smugglers during your off hours.
I dunno, it tastes pretty good to me. But if one is used to spicy food and strong flavours, most of seafood doesn't taste much.
I meant UI...copy paste text on left side and output on right side. Of course there’s been innovation underneath. My comment wouldn't be two sentences if I had any knowledge about how alta vista or google translate work(ed) underneath.
Before people downvote Clarkevans, please consider that this itself might be sarcasm and this is some new form of meta humor.
Yes, the economy would be impacted, but the problem of the climate would be solved. A real solution. Why not start there and work backwards towards a solution that will be acceptable?

How would people feel about saving the entire human race? Maybe that's the problem, it's "feelings", not real solutions.

> Yet again, absolutely nobody is saying this.

They actually are, it's just subtle so maybe you aren't noticing it. There's an attempted shift in the discussion away from very, very real solutions to emotional manipulation.
Checkout the YT/Twitch streamer "quill18": he does a lot of Civ and other 4X games (EU IV, HOI IV, Urban Empire, Stellaris).
I just had a look at the article, Privacy Badger told me there was 14 trackers on the page.
My experience with Gitpod Cloud IDE. I think it's worth to try
This looks like a dead project that just bundles together the built-in sqlite3 And another wrapper library APSW which itself is more active than this project. Why is this on hn?
Not exactly my point. Are you comparing managing bare metal VMs with using a managed Kubernetes cluster? That's hardly a fair comparison.
7’s and after can be fully submerged in a sink without issues. I would regularly rinse off old iPhones.

Unless you do underwater photography or your phone regularly ends up in the washing machine, water proof cases are probably overkill.
Serious questions...

What does mercurial offer that git doesn’t? Is the transition to git difficult for projects currently housed in a mercurial repository?
The Reconquerors of Hong Kong? A Primer on China’s People’s Armed Police
"I'll just use my Apple card to pay for that" - me
"Use?" - Jony Ive sweating profusely
Dyson is setting up an EV plant in Singapore.
Meanwhile, misuses of ML are proliferating without limits

Are they? Where?

For all the hype I haven't seen any obvious abuses of AI. I've seen better speech recognition and a few other useful things. I've seen stuff that's wrong but ultimately kind of trivial like auto-generated porn with celebrity faces, but that's the worst stuff so far.

I haven't seen clear, unambiguous cases of abuse beyond that. I've seen a lot of allegations that AI is being abused e.g. "Russian bots" but on investigation these stories usually evaporate.

If anything I've been kind of disappointed by AI so far. Amazing demo videos abound, but I'd guess 90% of the impact of AI in my life has been Google improving their already quite good services. Better translations, better search results etc. All very welcome but not really life changing.
Cultures don't change. New cultures form. Old cultures die.

The judgement is attached to the significance of the person. The right casket, right dress, right ceremony. But ritual comes from religion.

A new religion around sustainable life will adopt this method. The others who adopt will be the fringe individuals.
Are there any reasonable, self-hosted alternatives that can provide me with information on how visitors use my website without submitting them to cross-site tracking?
Titanium, among the strongest consumer metals for a credit card expected to be used on a daily basis...whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute! Hold up a sec! You're not thinking of putting that delicate-of-a-flower card in your pocket are you? Are you mad!?! No, no, no sir/madam, this credit card isn't meant for your pocket...It is meant for you to constantly walk around with it being held in your hand in order to clearly signal to the world that your are not some meager peasant - just like every other over-priced Apple product. /s
I enjoy beluga caviar - very expensive for what it is though. A much cheaper alternatve is (homemade) black olive tapenade - almost as good for similar usages, and far more sustainable. But I suspect the consumption of caviar is more about signalling than actual taste anyway.
Vinta's Software Development Playbook
Are you sure? Looks like static pre-generated page to me:

$ curl -s https://sourcehut.org/|egrep 'meta.*gen'
<meta name="generator" content="Hugo 0.57.2" />

[0] https://gohugo.io/
The 10s at MIT ran a homegrown o/s (as had the 6 before them...there was no pdp-6 os available the first was delivered) until the OZ KL-20 was delivered. Allegedly arpa wanted security though I think that was an excuse. I believe ultcmd was written by ai lab graduate Warren Teitelman, inventor of DWIM, among other UI innovations.
> I thought the Wireless Emergency Alerts protocol was completely separate from SMS though

They are entirely separate from SMS, you are correct. WEA messages are sent inside System Information Blocks (SIB12 specifically). Other SIB blocks are how your phone learns of authorization to use the tower, what frequency channels to use, neighbors of the tower, and other control related info.
Agile was never a thing, it was always a how.
The term I mentioned comes from Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) so it's probably very regional...
Serge Faguet on Biohacking
Matomo (previously Piwik) is a decent alternative
Here is a BBC dramatization of Lady Grace Drummond's 1929 sensationalized first-person account (sponsored by Hearst) of an around the world trip on the Graf Zeppelin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4jq7oRxw-g
Active composting isn't. However most graves seem to already be efficient enough at it that you can bury a new corpse in one every few years without being blocked by the remains of the previous inhabitant.
> management and the journalists are different people

That's clear and not being disputed. When people mention workers calling out management, it's sort of in a praising way. They're commending management for at least allowing workers to call them out.

Many institutions would not allow that to happen, so it's good to point out the Times when they do.
Neural Based Embedding: Neural Networks (NNs) have been widely used to learn over data represented in the form of vectors. NNs can be used to learn over symbolic connected data (e.g., KG). They can be used to learn knowledge graph representation and provide a mapping between symbolic KG space and the corresponding vector space. In other words, the NNs embeds a symbolic KG to a vector space by preserving the underlying structure.
I was about to suggest that maybe what you meant was "around your neck", and not in it...But then, I thought about it for a second more, and realized that your original statement is far funnier. Cheers! :-)
A lot of 4X games take a larger view of running things than just building units. Good recent examples are Civ 6, EU IV, Stellaris.

HOI IV leans more towards combat (being set around WW2), but one still have to manage logistics and directing R&D a lot.
I wish there were a way to enforce this client side.
Text Summarization with Pretrained Encoders
OT: Are there any Web-based (or other) tools which will ingest Flash and emit video?

Because that format is so beyond dead to me.
How is that incompatible with what I said?
I agree. Add on a system tray icon like SyncTrayzor if you are on Windows and it feels totally native.
Sadly, I can't see that happening anytime soon. The organizations who have a vested interest in all this are just too powerful and can afford to pay for better lobbyists.

EDIT: If anything I can see publishers and advertisers trying to lobby for DMCA style laws that will make it an offence to circumvent tracking and profiling. They can spin such techniques as just an attempt to generate revenue and to circumvent them is as bad as music or software piracy.
The metal AmEx Platinum actually rusted.
Science is simple, if something works, you can prove it.

I am not idealizing anything, it's an indisputable fact that repeatable scientific results are repeatable by anyone.

There are real solutions to climate change, they can be implemented today, right now. And the followers in society have nothing to do with it, it's the leader responsibility to implement.

“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”

― Carl Sandburg
Cooling a house without air conditioning
Not sure about that figure but there's https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3CBVRVZEWYB30Q..... Looks like their monthly expenses were around $1,200 going in to Q2.
For one thing it offers a far cleaner user experience than Git does.
If it's open source then surely you, or someone, could modify it for other services.

Moaning when someone gave you free apples because you want apple pie; maybe make your own pastry.
It works pretty well for me but that’s because we refuse to engage in bullshit.

No estimates. No sprints. No Jira. No bullshit!

What we do? Retro, grooming and planning. Standup everyday in front of a Kanban board with post-its. And we help each other. That’s it!

Seriously, how hard can it be? Building software is not the same as a Ford model T assembly line
The body being sewn into canvas for the burial at sea was related to the people having canvas hammocks. You were buried in your hammock after they sewed it up - the last stitch went through your nose.