skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to travel a lot in the 80s and 90s in what was then called the third world. I'm starting to recognize more and more of the "things fall apart here" elements of these countries in the United States, and it's upsetting.

I saw an armored car for the first time in Denver last week, the owner was happy that I recognized it was different and started bragging about it's capabilities, including electrified door handles and the ability to stop .308 rounds. He thought it was innovative and cool, but I had already seen similar cars in Brazil 30 years ago. All the rich people needed them to survive day to day down there.

We're not moving forward, we're moving towards where Brazil used to be.
I doubt that they care. In the period where I worked on Mac drivers and kept close track of the Darwin sources (roughly 2003->2013) I saw very little in the way of performance improvements.

AFAIK, they still don't support 15 year old technologies like MSI-X that permit efficient multi-queue network drivers.

Have you ever built a project by hand on MacOS and then on Linux (or FreeBSD)? Have you noticed how absurdly, painfully slow it is running autoconf on MacOSX? That's because MacOS system calls are horrifically slow compared to Linux / BSD.
That remote controlled car idea is stupid. So many things can go wrong. What if the connection gets interrupted?

And perhaps the most important thing - when there is a human driver, he is also responsible for his own life, so he will drive very carefully.

This is a shit idea and it will fail.
> Google broke records and made headlines by announcing an unprecedented $25 billion in buybacks for this quarter.

This sort of tax avoidance has been going on for decades.

As just one example see the link below to see how Google has been avoiding it's tax responsibility here in Australia:

https://www.smh.com.au/business/google-paying-a-fraction-of-...

If that same level of tax avoidance was perpetrated by an individual they would be facing decades in prison.
Can engineers? Even if we identified the ideal plan, it would still need funding.
Considering the Godel sentence is a purely syntactical construction, I think even Godel himself would have a very difficult time even imagining what an analog would be in some higher system (much less actually constructing one). This is why he was so critical of attempts by others (e.g. Wittgenstein) to knock down the theorem by discussing its philosophical implications.
Because sitting around and typing tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of lines of code is not super productive?

That was the whole sell of "gradual typing," was it not? That you could turn it on, type everything as `any` then add better types as you go with the goal of eventually having a fully typed code base.

Except in our experience you'll always be playing catch up and never get to the promised land.
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Because th long term survival of our species does not depend on gun control. Mass shootings kill few people relative to just about anything. All deaths by rifles and shotguns are still fewer than those by blunt object. We could allow hand grenades and rpgs and still survive as a species. We are harder to kill than roaches. All that said, I am in favor of limiting the number of gums per month that can be purchased to slow mule purhases. And expanding unrecorded background checks universally to the point I can/must do one on my phone if I want to do a private sale.
Sure you can.

I see it's already been addressed, but private citizens owned warships, cannon, artillery pieces, and even semi-automatic rifles at the time the second amendment was written.
If you want to figure out how to do something, you have to take pure selfishness as granted - that's how people and society works; huge parts of sociology, economics, political science, etc are about structures and processes that allow to get large scale coordination and results despite lots of pure selfishness involved.

If any proposed solution (to climate change or anything else) relies on huge numbers of people not exhibiting pure selfishness, then it's not a solution but wishful thinking disconnected from reality. We have a good idea on how large groups of homo sapiens function. Selfishness is unavoidable. There will be lots of great unselfish, heroic, altruistic exceptions, but the mass behavior will still be overwhelmingly selfish in aggregate.

People trying "to hold on tighter to their already disappearing lifestyle" is a very important factor that needs to be taken into account for any calls to action. This is what's happening already and this will be happening - and I'm not pointing out this as something that "needs" to change; it kind of does, but it doesn't matter if it "needs" to change because it will not change, I'm pointing it out as something that's inevitable, people will try to hold on tight to unsustainable lifestyles (and fight to gain unsustainable lifestyles that they never had but others did) and any proposed solution needs to work despite that trend in order to be plausible and feasible.
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They claim that their 7nm process with EUV litography is on track to launch in 2021.
That's how it successfully worked for a long time...
... until google search and facebook groups killed thematic sites and communities.

I'd love seeing this turned around though.
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And many people take issue with this on the principal that if you're safe enough to not be in prison you're safe enough to vote, have guns and enjoy every other freedom.
> many privacy issues would go away if devices were designed to operate without needing to regularly “phone home”

This is the sole reason why I do not buy IoT devices. I would love to have a resource which lists devices that do not try to contact the manufacturer over the internet
Do you have information showing that the FTC's ruling was unjust?

As far as the companies they go after, I think going after large brand-name ad networks and data mining companies like Google is at least as important as going after the no-name ones.
Restraining orders which have roughly the same level of of due process can limit your freedom of assembly and association granted by the first amendment.
Also those kind of symptoms sound similar to parasitic infections, I wonder if they tried this angle.
I think you're missing the point slightly.

We have pretty good evidence to suggest that "bad shit" will probably happen eventually as a result of anthropogenic climate change. How bad, and how far into the future? Depends on the model.

The problem was, as you point out, that setting arbitrary deadlines led to a "boy who cried wolf" scenario. That doesn't invalidate the science indicating that the bad shit will start to happen eventually.
Sorry, I don't buy it.

First, there are buses going to Long Island beaches (Jones Beach, specifically).

Second, a place becomes a ghetto not because there's no nice park nearby. A district becomes a ghetto because people who live there deface the walls and throw garbage on the streets.
>In a bid to maintain an intrigue, Intel did not disclose TDP of its new product.

They basically released all the details but TDP. Very likely this sucker is a steaming hot mess. Wonder what the stock cooler is like, or if it's even possible to sustain these clock speeds on their stock cooler.
There is a US patent for automatic generation of a UI from a database. You might get sued if you are successful.
Is it, though? I'm not saying I buy a lot of street drugs, but I know some people who know some people who do, and have literally never seen or heard mention of Bitcoin for this.

You know what I have seen being used, that surprised the hell out of me at first? Venmo.

Turns out people buy their friends a lot of sushi.
Oh boy I'd really like to see that, but considering the 10nm debacle I'm not too optimistic. If they actually manage to get EUV working well in 2021, we might never see widespread 10nm products at all.
All car sharing platforms* I have used in Amsterdam/The Netherlands/Europe have a key in the glove compartment that you can take out when you park the car. Why doesn't Zipcar do the same?

* i.e. Car2Go, ConnectCar, MyWheels, Fetch, SnappCar
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Right... I'm not sure how you end up going to a health check at a hospital "without realising it".

This is a case of a state providing exactly the sort of support to their citizens we could do with far more of.
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Ugh. I keep getting obnoxious recruit spam from the most entitled, self-important jerks. The latest was some idiot on LinkedIn who sent an invitation with a job offer in the text, so I didn't even need to accept their invitation for them to get their spam across.
> The solution to climate change is not governments and politicians and lawyers. It’s engineers. It’s always been engineers.

As long as politicians continue to play their games, engineers won't be able to accomplish anything. Solving this problem requires a widespread increase in enlightenment, and as far as I can tell a vast majority of the population thinks that only applies to people of the other political/religious persuasion, but it really applies to all of us.
Perhaps for STDs, any infection is more difficult during pregnancy - and an active infection of the birth canal can also complicate delivery.
And why not start with the source? Google and Facebook sell your data to the ad networks, maybe Google and Facebook receive more complaints against then some unknown ad networks that we did not know even existed before GDPR forced the sites to disclose them.
What? "Declared dead?" Here's a BBC report from a few days ago that says that it's in danger, but certainly "not dead yet".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49520949?SThisFB

Since the BBC is now officially a climate alarmist organization, I think one can be sure that this report is as alarmist as one can be without blatantly disregarding easily verifiable facts.
It’s not clear to me that those laws are constitutional either. Judge Amy Coney Barrett recently wrote an excellent dissent that addresses that issue: https://originalismblog.typepad.com/the-originalism-blog/201...

Of course the Second Amendment is not unlimited, just like the First. My point simply is that due process, by itself, is not enough to take away the right. You need to be able to point to an inherent limitation of the concept of “the right to keep and bear arms.” As Judge Barrett points out, while the concept of the right to bear arms was not unlimited, it doesn’t necessarily exclude felons (and, as her sources show, “dangerous people” either). The New Hampshire proposed amendment, for example, would have excluded only people who had engaged in rebellion.
7nm process is already in preparation, with the launch scheduled to 2021, and Intel says they are on track, actually very happy with their progress. They worked on both processes in parallel.
There is a whole book on the ill effects of too much light in modern times -- Lights Out (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lights-Out/T-S-Wiley/...)
Digital archives and privacy protection are pretty much at odds with one-another.

Have you looked in an old paper archive? Hundreds of personal letters from Isaac Newton or Benjamin Franklin. They talk about all kinds of private matters, yet are very important for historical research.

Would you be happy with a future digital archive to have all your private chat messages to other people?
I don't disagree. The validation process is hilariously outdated as are the compliance requirements for software vendors. But it's ambiguous enough in places that we can adapt some modern operations tooling and practices to it.
I wish it was a social norm that folks would expect to pay $10 for an app purchase rather than $0 or $1. The probability that small time guys can profit on small earnings is low.
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I don't know how you guys do it, but Netherlands keeps amazing me.

An absolutely fantastic country.
>If you would, that's fine; you wouldn't be objectively wrong.

I call the US a Constitutional Republic, where the representatives are elected through various implementations of the democratic process.

Otherwise, I'm just highlighting the fact that the "inventors" of democracy had slaves just the same as the US (among other limitations on who had voting rights) at the time of the Revolutionary War/Independence.

In some respects slavery was an inherited evil of the new US Constitutional Republic, an evil which the Constitutional Republic was unable to abolish through law/voting/representatives (as evidenced by half of the country attempting to secede rather than honor the law) and instead resulted in a war to maintain the Union and enforcement of the law through use of arms. Unfortunately, democracy/liberal democracy/Constitutional Republic whatever we call it, it was not effective an abolishing slavery with the stroke of a pen and instead threatened to breakup the very form of government which was only maintained through the most deadly war the Country has ever fought (in fact deadlier than every other US war combined).

It begins to become a slippery slope when laws at the end of a gun, whether or not those laws are morally correct.
It's the BBC. Who knows what their agenda is today.
I had that thought as well, but I would think that it would just prompt a quick second look by the TSA (or whoever).

They Check the box, then the screen agent takes a closer look, "Hmm, this nine year old indian girl named Charles Manson is probably not the 70+ year old dead man that we were worried about"
In 40 years the court speak will consist entirely of insults.
Maybe you have to try to hear it, but I spend a lot of time in large public parks and, without fail, hear drones flying overhead.

This just started in the last year or so, where virtually every time there's a drone off in the distance.

I don't have great hearing either (especially in one ear), after playing some musical instruments that you hold close to one ear to play. Those things are just loud and stand out when the other noises are the wind in the trees, birds, and the rustle of small animals in the underbrush.
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> I wonder if it would actually be better for software teams to build not the thing they want, but rather the thing that makes the thing they want.

Sounds so appealing to programmers, so much harder than it sounds. A dangerous fantasy many ships have broke upon.

The proposals of "yagni" and the "mvp" are in some sense a reaction to the danger.

On the other hand, when it works, it works. I'd say Rails is an example.
I think one of the best illustrations is the connecting pins [1], as the link shows people don't even always realize why they specifically distinguish them. But the black one has a fraction of a mm indentation that produces extra friction, and so makes structures connected with it more rigid, but they still fit in all the same holes.

Apart from the tolerances that also illustrates what their competitors rarely get right - Lego tends to opt for pieces that are generic enough to be reusable in as many contexts as possible where a lot of the competitors have sets full of pieces that are unmistakably one specific thing. That lets them not worry so much about the tolerances - if it works in that one context reliably, then it's fine. But the downside is it makes the sets even less flexible.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/4uv5tl/why_does_lego_...
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QNX, L4 and Minix 3 have solved it ages ago.

Even current macOS variants do plenty of message passing and sandboxing.

From the iOS games and real time audio apps, it appears fast enough to me.
It’s cause they know that most users are ok using the old stuff and want to force people to update. The iPhone 5 and 6 were fast enough for most needs
This is very much an extraordinary claim and IMO is entirely without merit.

For those who do not know anything about steganography, it is the science of hiding messages in the 'noise' of a carrier file. The carrier file is most commonly an image or a video. Since image and video files are so large, and the eye cannot detect minor differences in low level bits (think the difference between the hex color #ff6600 used in the HN title bar... if you changed it to #ff6601 one day, you would not be able to visually perceive that the color changed, yet you've now 'hidden' a 1 bit in your image)

NOW back to this... in the late 90's and early 2000's the steganography thing was HUGE. As in, tons of research and home-grown tools were developed during this time. "Outguess" was one of those tools, and it looks like the one referenced from the Twitter screenshot.

Remember, at its most basic level, steganography is nothing more than 'flipping' the least order bits of 'something' - whether it's color indices in a GIF file, or in this case, a JPEG file. There's no "marker" that says HEY, STEGANOGRAPHY HERE. After all, that would defeat the purpose, no?

Therefore, this is PERFECT fodder for conspiracy theorists to hook in ignorant (not using in a derogatory fashion, just folks who don't know) laypersons into thinking there is something "hidden" by waving their hands with jargon and pseudoscience. Try it for yourself- run 'outguess' in extraction mode against ANY jpeg file and you'll get random data back. Voila! Hidden messages everywhere! Better yet ENCRYPTED HIDDEN MESSAGES! OH NOES!

Now this is not all to say that steganography has never been used for high level statecraft. Read all about FBI Operation Ghost Stories - https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/operation-ghost-stories-ins....

TL;DR: a team of undeclared Russian spies (so-called 'illegals') lived inside the US for years, sending data back to Moscow. One of the ways they communicated with the "Center" was through - you guessed it - steganography. You can read all about how it worked in the criminal complaint here: https://vault.fbi.gov/ghost-stories-russian-foreign-intellig... - start at page 143.
Current state of AI is pattern recognition, kind of augmenting humans rather than replacing humans.

In order to render millions of people jobless, we have to achieve Artificial General Intelligence.
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It _is_ a political issue. The technology already exists--courtesy of the scientists/engineers of course. Whether that technology is deployed is a problem of politics.

For example, if the price of fossil fuels reflected its true cost to society--think climate change, extreme weather, stronger storms, droughts, ocean acidification, etc--then fossil fuels would be prohibitively expensive compared to renewable or nuclear energy. This is what a carbon tax is, and it's what many scientists and economists have been pushing for decades now. But they've been fighting a losing battle against the oil and gas lobby, and one party in particular that is wholly captured by them.

In fact, James Hansen, NASA scientist and head of the Goddard Institute, got out of the science to focus specifically on the politics. He urges people to join the Citizens Climate Lobby, which has lobbied for carbon pricing legislation for over a decade now: the Energy Innovation Act has bipartisan support in Congress right now (https://energyinnovationact.org/). Many other scientists are involved in the politics these day as well (Katherine Hayhoe [atmospheric scientist], Michael Mann [climatologist]).
The snark in the thread is just out of control, guys. This is supposed to be a technical forum.

In fact the part in question is shown at 8 cores, 5 GHz turbo, with a 95W TDP (at $488), which shows somewhat better power efficiency than the equivalent Ryzen 7 3800X (8/4.5GHz/105W/$399).

Now, that price differential may or may not be worth the moderate performance and power advantages to you, or you might be more enthused by the bigger Ryzen 9 and Threadripper parts instead which compete in different segments. But this certainly isn't an uncompetetive part from Intel.
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A couple of projections from the 70s failing has no bearing on the dire state of some environmental trends nowadays.
> All well intentioned.

You are more sympathetic than I. I considered at the time that the watch list and no fly list(s!) Were conceived in anger.

Thanks for giving me a chance to reconsider my assumptions.
We paid as much as the Duchess of Cambridge, who also gave birth to her first child around that time!
Somewhat related: I'm looking to buy a new under-desk DL 4 GPU DL box. An AMD CPU seems like the obvious choice at this point. I can't find a motherboard that fits in a desktop case and has 4 GPU slots though. Does this exist for AMD?
I've been using a weighted blanket for a couple of months now. It's no panacea, but I find it pleasant. One issue people might not be aware of: if you use any kind of body pillow, the extra weight can make turning over much trickier. I'm a side sleeper and I use a tubular pillow to reduce stress on my knees. That means repositioning the pillow every time I switch sides (few times a night) and with the weighted blanked this can be considerably more of a struggle. It's not the weight itself so much as the extra friction from the blanket pressing down more on a soft object. It's not a deal-killer, but maybe something for people to be aware of.
I was alive in the 1970s when folks like the Club of Rome declared we'll all be dead form overpopulation and Malthusian collapse by the year 2000. Those self-same folks told us this century the arctic will be completely ice free by 2013. In the 1980s, others predicted our total demise due to acid rain and ozone depletion.

Mean time, people are making good progress on both feeding the masses and curbing the exponential growth of humanity across the globe. At the same time, clear progress is happening on the reduction-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions front. Acid rain and ozone depletion have been curtailed.

We'll always have doomsayers, extremists, and prophets. They're so busy with themselves they rarely get in the way of people who actually get work done.
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Exxon predicted global warming in the 70s too.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18092015/exxon-confirmed-...
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Wow! Care to share what site this was?
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This sounds a lot like my own side project's goals, but I've made it work inside the browser using web-rtc. There's a (somewhat) usable prototype online.

https://www.hyperhyperspace.org
Seems like vaporware. The "built on GNUnet" in the subject line really should be "planned to be built on GNUnet" or maybe "imagined on GNUnet".