skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more accurate statement would've been -

Solving fewer problems, better makes for a great product.

There are more ways to make a great product. This is just one of them.
I'm interested in this. does anyone know in general where the bottle necks are on a forward pass in pytorch?
Being logged in is not a stateless thing. Cookies are state.
I don't think that 'responsibly' is the correct term to use here. Legally, perhaps.

The distinction is huge. Consider 'responsible drug use'. Is a 20 year old in a bar being irresponsible because they're in the US and not the UK?

(ok, they probably are, but in a different way entirely...)
Universal basic services
The $1B Bitcoin Whale, a $243,000 Deepfake, and Pre-Mature Optimization
Ousterhout also co-invented raft distributed consensus.
Because now every repackaging works differently and you need N copies of the same product if one doesn't contain all features you need.
I actually thought the same thing. I thought this was a tool to compose Docker images transparently in some way.
Of course those synthetic environments will be defended. There are LiDAR sensors that scan 1-2 kilometers now, those are already being installed at the boarders of middle eastern countries. Connect those to some turrets that can fire, you have automated defence that works in the dark, rain, and fog. I've seen this technology first hand, heck I even helped build it. How are they going to raid if they cannot even get close to the defence walls?

Advances in automated warfare will keep the rich safe and they wont have to get their hands dirty.

They'll own the communication infrastructure so if things get bad first will be absolute surveillance then they can just pull the plug on communications if the outsiders get too rowdy.

Self sustaining means you cant use scorched earth tactics. Internal power generation so no blackouts. Internal food production so no attrition warfare.
I don't know, maybe the app is different, but if you go to:

https://kittyhawk.io/b4ufly/

with a browser this is pretty clear:

>State and Local Drone Rules

>B4UFLY shows airspace rules provided by FAA data sources.

>B4UFLY does not include local rules which may affect your planned operation – including your ability to land and take off your aircraft from certain areas.
>While the FAA is the sole regulator of the National Airspace System and governs aircraft operations once airborne, entities such as cities, states, parks, and private landowners may regulate your ability to land and take off your aircraft from certain locations. Please make yourself aware of any local rules prior to your planned operation.

So, I understand the frustration in not having a definite, single, authoritative source, but the critique about the tool being deceiving appears excessive.
Yes centralization of power is an issue, and our current system rewards corruption and listening to special interests.

Democracy Dollars and some of Yangs other policies directly address this.

His whole platform is about giving people more individual freedom and power.
tldr; universal basic services ..as always the devil is in the details. How good will the free food and shelter be? Better than nothing for those that decide not to do anything i guess
To play the devil's advocate, look at some species of trees such as eucalyptus [1]. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that these (and probably other) trees have evolved to include forest fires as a key part of their lifecycle. When there is a huge buildup of fuel in a forest, talking about who started a fire or what their motivation was is not seeing the forest for the trees.

The spark that starts a forest fire is only a proximate [2] cause. The ultimate cause is that these trees evolved to be highly flammable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus#Adaptation_to_fire

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_and_ultimate_causati...
Physics can explain human innovation and enlightenment (2018)
This article reads more like a paranoid manifesto. Immortal billionaires controlling a society that cannot revolt? Like vampires or something?

A UBI seems like it should be more like a social assistance program where the people receiving it get to decide how to allocate the funds instead of a bureaucratic institution.
BTW, I like Teslas, very much. We will probably purchase one, if not two of them by the end of the year. I'd simply prefer non-sensationalistic comparison rather than the opposite. Yes, they should include 0-to-60, of course, but they should include far more than that in order to reflect real-world usage. For the overwhelming majority of buyers, drag racing isn't a comparison vector --by far.
Can someone explain if knowing someone nowadays can mean a ruin career by modern day social witch hunt or is there a darker reason behind Joi Ito resigning?
Have you ever stopped and asked yourself: What is a conditional statement?
What Is Web-Scraping and How to Start
I concur that utilizing Spanish, English, and Spanglish in a similar code is definitely not an upbeat practice. The issue is I'm accustomed to coding in English, however, there were a few rules to pursue, (for example, remarking in Spanish or utilizing certain names for tokens) in the undertaking. Anyway, the fact of the matter was simply to give a thought on the calculation, not to give some full reference code.
https://www.sswaterproofing.in
Here's my take - it looked like their average concurrent players was around ~30 before this happened, which indicates it was nearly a dead game. It's free-to-play, and I can't say how much they made per player, but a decent amount would be $0.05 per DAU. Converting concurrents to DAU is difficult, but let's say they had 500-1000 DAU. That would be on the order of $25-50/day.

My guess is they could fix the problems, but it would cost an engineer a month? or a couple months? Considering the game was on the decline, it's hard to justify spending any effort to fix the issues.

Now the weird part. It was a F2P game - I don't know how much stuff people were buying in the game, but there's an implied contract that when you purchase a digital good, the digital good will continue to work for some reasonable amount of time. They are breaking that agreement by not restoring their servers and I am not sure what that means legally - there's potential for class action lawsuits, maybe?
Abstractly, yes. But in a non-unified manner.
Ask HN: Best tech communities you are part of
Could be facebook groups, slack, discord or IRC
You're absolutely correct. There are very few situations where the benefit of only using artificial light outweighs the cost of ignoring free sunlight. Most hydroponics will transition with supplemental lighting, not exclusive LED lighting.

EDIT:not only does sunlight provide energy for photosynthesis but it also provides free heat for the growing facility, and in many locations heat is not an insignificant expense. Even the choice of lighting (i.e. sodium vs LED) impacts the need for supplemental heating and/or cooling as traditional highouput bulbs are very hot, whereas LED is cool. In winter, that lack of heat must be augmented by supplementary sources. But, on the flip side, LEDs permit closer placement to the plants, offering additional lighting regime options and don't add to the temperature when the facility gets too hot.
Yes, regex engines that are designed to do so run in linear time on the size of the regex (as well as linear time with respect to the length of the input).

One such engine is rust's https://github.com/rust-lang/regex
The question is do you believe the government is better at providing services than a competitive marketplace?

Government: UBS

Marketplace: UBI
Will Your Electric Car Save the World or Wreck It? (2018)
Why not just renaming and relaunching the app?
pass is a single ~700 line shell script wrapping gpg and optionally git.

while long for a shell script, that's pretty easy reading for a password manager, and easy enough to understand.
Ditto, thought this was a guide to multi-stage Docker builds or something.
the old "can we use the back-up to really bring everything back up?" question.

in 2002 or so i pushed the sync button an a sony palm pilot (yes, they existed). first button push: whole crm database, strip out non supported fields.

second push: push database back to crm, 'null' all unsuported fields.

after it became clear what happened, to the IT and discuss how to bring the data back via crm backup which we paid alot of monye for (monthly, this was before cheap cloud storage).

.... 1 month later 30 people started refilling copy&paste the crm from their mails, adress books, ...

tl;dr: always test your back ups.
So not taking donations from a felon convicted of sex trafficking and not going to his dinner parties and showing concern for young women from poor countries he keeps around him is being a deranged mob now?
The number of times I’ve seen this sentiment end in a project being late or never ship is easily 10x more than the number of times a project became crippled later because of performance issues.
Ya I mean I'll probably pony up for the ad free version eventually, doesn't mean I can't be salty about it.

Up till now I've always found the ads to be perfectly reasonable, I'm just scared where it's heading. Don't cable tv my youtube.
Go ahead - show me wrong.
I think really plutocracy + anything is dystopia. There’s just no way a small group of wealthy elites can organize society to pursue their (the plutocrats’) interests without devolving to dystopia.

Some of the best things about society are that plutocrats can be brought to justice and market forces can bring financial empires down. These are extremely critical sorts of checks & balances on plutocracy, and we need to entrench them more and more, to make it harder and harder for plutocrats to hide from legal or financial consequences.
Ask HN: What Have You Learned at Google as a Software Engineer?
Hello Googlers (former and current ones),

What have you learned at Google, as a Software Engineer, that you think was interesting and helped you up your game as an engineer? Anything you can share with people outside of Google that can help them improve as engineers?
How do access your passwords from your phone?
This is exactly what Yang is proposing. A UBI by definition gives everyone the same economic floor, even the billionaires.

He is also for universal healthcare. We already have public schools and roads, but perhaps I'm missing a larger point you are making here.
Rich people (most which are smart) are smart enough to understand that this not how you would be able to create progress.
From the ‘About,’ I thought that it would use various images of different colors.
Would some one please enlighten me as to what on God's green earth is going on with vinyl? It's less dense, lower-quality, degrades with use, and is more expensive. It's probably less environmentally-friendly, too (though I'm not sure what it's target demographic is, so I don't know if that means much). Why is vinyl popular, all of a sudden? I had to rip all my grandmother's vinyl records, once, and it was a pain in the be-hind. I'm not sure why any one would willingly subject himself to that when better alternatives exist. I thought it was dead as of long ago.
Fossil fuels obviously have huge benefits that are not captured by the user. If everyone around me were banned from using fossil fuels but I was not, my lifestyle would crater.

Even if all the people supplying me with stuff were allowed to use fossil fuels, my lifestyle would still crater. I benefit hugely from being in a world where everyone around me has cheap access to energy.

My purchasing decisions are not responsible for the advanced and comfortable world I live in - which happens to be built on coal, oil and gas. I must be benefiting from externalities from fossil fuels.
Although it is the highest number of fires (for the year to 27 August) for almost a decade, it is actually lower than for most years in the period 2002 to 2010.

There is a similar pattern for other areas of Brazilian forestry that are not part of the Amazon basin.

Source: The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe)

If we look at satellite images for the overall area of burnt forest in Brazil's Amazon region each year, again we see very high levels in the early 2000s.

For 2019, we have data up to the end of August, and the overall area burnt for those eight months is 45,000 sq km. This has already surpassed all the area burnt in 2018, but appears unlikely to reach the peaks seen in the previous decade.
Some additional commentary from another law professor:

http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2019/09/the-electoral-college-is-ta...

Bullet points:

- The EC is a particularly bad form of indirect election. It does not have the democratic virtues of parliamentarianism. And as critics note, it leads to huge distortions in how candidates campaign.

- The EC does give small states a modest advantage, because a state's electoral votes get a boost from equal representation in the Senate. But that's also a disadvantage insofar as state laws (everywhere but Maine and Nebraska) giving the statewide winner all of a state's electoral votes incentivize campaigning in larger states. Meanwhile, small states are roughly evenly divided between blue and red. Counting DC as a state (because it has 3 electoral votes), here are the ten smallest states, along with their presidential lean: Wyoming (R); Vermont (D); DC (D); Alaska (R); North Dakota (R); South Dakota (R); Delaware (D); Rhode Island (D); Montana (R); Maine (D). That's a 5/5 partisan split. Moreover, contrary to the claim that the EC systematically favors rural over urban states, several of those jurisdictions (DC, Delaware, and Rhode Island) are among the most densely populated in the country. It's true that the EC currently gives a modest advantage to the Republicans, but ... that is not likely to be true over the long run. The EC is undemocratic but it is not systematically unDemocratic.

- Following the Reconstruction Amendments, there are no slave states and thus there is no slave state bonus. Thus, the one aspect of the EC that associated it with slavery was expressly repealed.
I bought some beef from Trader Joe's a few years ago, not thinking much of it - probably the first time I bought raw meet from them. Cooked some burgers... With my usual onion mix, absolutely horrid flavor threw them away. Turned the package over, sourced in Brazil. Holy hell Trader Joe's.
With a pushdown automaton [1] or something like a linear bounded automaton [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushdown_automaton

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_bounded_automaton

More specifically, a stack lets you keep track of nesting. See an opening tag, push something onto a stack. See a closing tag, pop the stack. If the stack is empty at the end, the tags match.

Parsing XHTML in real life is of course much more complicated than this, but this is the basic idea.
I don't think there will ever be a point where the tech you're describing is suddenly available and the world is also just as overpopulated as it is today. I think our approach to the end state you describe will be much more gradual.

Our holy books still recommend that we be fruitful and multiply. We still have systems in place (like social security) that will fall apart unless we can maintain unbounded growth. Our society is riddled will all of these leftovers from a time when having more people actually was a good idea. Those memes aren't serving us anymore, and evolution will prune them with time. It probably won't be a comfortable time.

Cultural attitudes towards population aside, the nightmare scenario you describe is unfolding in tiny little pockets all around us. There's no need to nuke the poor people all at once when you can just let them starve one at a time. Nobody needs to make the single big hugely unethical decision of genocide, they just need to repeatedly make the small mildly unethical decision of apathy.

I'm hoping that we can make the former into a stronger effect than the latter, but I'm not optimistic.
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Seeing Minecraft pixel art always makes me nostalgic
What’s the difference between flying and operating? If the drone is over a national park, isn’t it “operating” over it?

If you’re saying it’s permissible to stand outside the park and fly the drone in that sounds like the worst kind of hairsplitting to me and totally goes against the spirit of the rule.

As the purpose of the regulation is due to “this new use has the potential to cause unacceptable impacts such as harming visitors, interfering with rescue operations, causing excessive noise, impacting viewsheds, and disturbing wildlife.”

It seems like flying is what’s discouraged.

https://www.nps.gov/policy/PolMemos/PM_14-05.htm
I'm not sure why you were flagged. While the OP is responsible for a lack of version control, the distribution channel is very inflexible and something developers have to fight with.

Many other distribution channels provide multiple binaries or versions and let the customer choose which to install.

Apple and Google are very simple and primarily aimed at non-engineer consumers, so it makes sense that they wouldn't allow people to select a version. It doesn't mean that this doesn't suck.
This is common. Most places use their revision control system as backup for their source code and take backups of their database. This makes sense because the source code holds no state. Why would you back up the server? What would you do when you had 100 servers? You’d take backups of the running disk state of all of those? To what end?
Suppose they gave the resources to do either one of them but not both. If they rewrite the MP code for the current game but don’t write the new game, their company has no future and dies.
You're right, I misspelled the title! Still, an errant s should not foil the search!
An analogous problem for this representation would be detecting transitions to undefined states, or ambiguous (duplicate) transitions.
I agree. Though even if a fraction of the trees survive in a place of harsh conditions, further generations of the same seed can carry the same strength and spread.

That’s something I witnessed myself from my village years.
“It must’ve been a hard landing.”
Nostalgia and appearance. Old cars drive like crap and are unsafe, but popular for the same reason.
I think it's a mix of aesthetics, nostalgia, and some elements of the experience. Vinyl albums have big. often interesting art. Browsing a collection of vinyl has an element of serendipity as well, who knows what you may and on. Additionally, the listening experience is different because it's hard to skip around, songs bleed into one another.

It's a case of worse is better.
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That is not XHTML.
Uhh... wow. Would be interested in some background if you can share. Crazy world.
If anything, it seems like UBI would empower union workers with their strikes because they have something to fall back on while negotiating for better terms.
As long as the area doesn't get plained, in 40 years or less it will be the same as it was.

The funniest thing about the fires to me is: can anyone research if they are out?
If you you’re used to all American beef, nothing else will satisfy.
I designed and built a language (and interpreter) for something just like this many years ago. You'd tweet a program at it and it would render and tweet back the output.

https://github.com/mattbasta/graphicsbc

It was originally written in Python but ported to JavaScript for performance later on (though the bot was never ported)
This is what bothers me about organic farming:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogs...

> What makes organic farming different, then? It's not the use of pesticides, it's the origin of the pesticides used. Organic pesticides are those that are derived from natural sources and processed lightly if at all before use. This is different than the current pesticides used by conventional agriculture, which are generally synthetic. It has been assumed for years that pesticides that occur naturally (in certain plants, for example) are somehow better for us and the environment than those that have been created by man. As more research is done into their toxicity, however, this simply isn't true, either. Many natural pesticides have been found to be potential - or serious - health risks.2

> Not only are organic pesticides not safe, they might actually be worse than the ones used by the conventional agriculture industry. Canadian scientists pitted 'reduced-risk' organic and synthetic pesticides against each other in controlling a problematic pest, the soybean aphid. They found that not only were the synthetic pesticides more effective means of control, the organic pesticides were more ecologically damaging, including causing higher mortality in other, non-target species like the aphid's predators

This means organic farms cannot use a modern pesticide even when that pesticide is known to be safer, more efficient or more sustainable, purely on the grounds that it isn't a "natural" pesticide. That's pseudoscience.

Sustainable farming should be based on science and facts. Instead, farmers are following arbitrary organic farming rules so they can label their produce as "organic" and charge more. I want a system where the most sustainable farming approaches are encouraged (e.g. via taxes, better labelling) instead of being held back by the "organic" label.
Thanks. They look amazing.
If you are having trouble with Airspace issues, like here in San Diego, you can get automated LAANC approval for temporary operations using Kittyhawk. This now works for recreational operators as well. If it is confusing local rules, then I totally understand....
That really depends.

If you use cloud solutions, like aws, instance images are reliable backup units without having to test it. Managed resources like aws databases (rds, dynamo... ) have built in backups that just work.

You only need to proof test your backups if you are using untested or 100% handcrafted solutions, and in those cases you either know really well that you are doing or you should be using battle tested solutions
I'm all in favour of carbon tax to reduce emissions. They would result in pressure for electric vehicles of all sorts, improve the economics for renewable electricity, maybe increase funding availability for carbon capture research. Cargo ships would likely stay the same for a long time in the future (but might implement fuel reduction techniques that are at a lower TRL (thinking specifically of a long lead parasail/kite that I read about a couple years back)
An element requires a start and end tag, or a self-closing start tag.
N3 Cattle Ranch with 50,000 acres of land is on sale for $72m.

Proposition C will raise $300m per year.

Why not buy this cattle ranch and build all sorts of mental health, addiction treatment, job training, etc. facilities?

[0] https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/N3-Cattle-Company-...

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-Prop-C-homel...
Or the silent forest in Bohol Philippines. Visited and while it’s truly beautiful, there is no sound at all. No birds.
https://iamtravelinglight.com/2012/10/09/the-dark-side-of-bo...
No idea. Maybe they'd be interested in a Skoda Vision iV instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f1g9xl6W_E
The BBC radio show/podcast More or Less recently investigated whether this was a) possible and b) true.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz3rb
There's a ritual involved in playback. The format is conducive to browsing a collection like a library. They're easy to trade.

Most (new) physical records I buy come with a download code to get high quality drm-free recordings. It's like getting the physical book and the e-reader copy.
More information on the video here: https://www.indiatoday.in/science/chandrayaan-2-mission/vide...

It was located via thermal image which I find interesting for something that far away.
Vinyls are better objects to handle: they are bigger, they have better artworks and usually richer booklet. To play vinyl is like a beautiful ritual, full of little gestures.

It's not about technology, of course, it's about fun. Like analog photography.