skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad to see that there's deliberate movement in this direction. However, it's a little dismaying that the headline is implying that we can address climate change by Consuming More Stuff; that's how we got into this mess in the first place.
It only takes 1.87 km/s to get from the moon's surface to LLO, and there's fuel and science and real estate at the bottom. The delta-V budget of, say, LLO to the nearest Earth-Moon Lagrangian point is about 1 km/s. So yeah, it's more expensive to go to the lunar surface, but it's not outrageous and there might be other benefits to round-trips to the surface.
Related: How the Atlanta Cyclorama Lost Its Confederate Overtone > https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/how-atlant...
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/more-using-bashs-built-... has a decent explanation.

I came here to say the exact same thing. This is my favourite thing most people don't know exists in Bash.
Good push against copyright maximalists.
There is more I didn't see and it doesn't look good for RMS.

On page 7 of the same email list documents released by vice. RMS wrote the following:
"I think it is moraily absurd to define "rape" in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17."
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...

RMS also wrote the following on his blog in 2006:
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."
https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#05%20June%20...
On a slight tangent (although it is mentioned in the linked article) I'm glad the IIHS started paying more attention to headlights.

For a while there certain vehicle manufacturers were putting design aesthetic above functional headlights, and even some that didn't had mediocre headlights.

Since IIHS started dinging vehicles for having bad headlights things seem to have genuinely improved in a noticeable way. As a driver that has to drive on the same road as these vehicles (glare/etc) I am happy.
Regular bitcode cannot do it. However Apple has naturally customized it for their own purposes.

Not everything that Apple does lands on upstream.
The roof strength test is performed "by pushing an angled metal plate down on one side of the roof" (https://www.iihs.org/ratings/about-our-tests#roof-strength-t...). So it is the metal body structure that is tested here, not the glass in the center of the roof.
The press is saying, "Let us help you. We're your only hope." To me, it is self-serving.
My blog uses many custom features not found in plain markdown so a simple markdown preview found in some editors isn't helpful for verifying the post will work correctly.
"it's just not an "original"."

So how does that work. If we sign a contract and I lose mine, it doesn't cease to be binding, but good luck trying to convince a court of it's contents.

Is it the same here? Could someone turn up with the 'true' Magna Carta and rewrite the law? Or does it exist as a kind of fossil in other laws?
Might is a big word. Climate change might cause the Earth to turn into Venus, or it might just involve nation's doubling thir seawall budgets.

Climate studies have wide error bars.
Of course, these photographs first show how good a photographer the author is :). But to get these results, the camera needs to be good enough, and they are stunning for smartphone pictures, especially in low light. Also, the comparisons with the XS show, how much progress has been made.
my mistake, the project is closer to 40,000 LOC, now that I count it...
Makes me think of that old anti-piracy commercial

> you wouldn't download a car

Made me and every person I know laugh every time; if I could, I definitely would
Both projects progressed to the point of running successful animal trials (n ~ 250), all of which were paid for by government grants

Obviously rats aren't people, but a company obvious be edits when a molecule is discovered, synthesis optimized, and method of action/LD50 is paid for by the public before every cent of profits are privatized

Even if they don't market it, they own something tthat the public paid for
The Lighting at the time is more important than the lens being used

The Lens being used is more important than the camera sensor being used

The camera sensor is more important than the camera body being used

Stick to this fundamental reality in that order and the novelty of “a pHoNE dID ThIs” wears off quick.

Now, I can say that the depth cameras and non-destructive software depth processing is getting some amazing effects and enhancements outside of this framework.
But it is tortured because the numbers are made up. Yes, there is very strong scientific consensus global warming is bad, and getting worse, but pinpointing an exact number and calling it a "subsidy" implies they know a lot more about the future than they actually do. It's untruthful and plays into the hands of those screaming "fake news!" who try to deny climate change.
I agree, sometimes a freemium model is not viable, like in your case. And paid users are definitely more involved so they usually ask better questions if they have any.

Nevertheless, I believe that for a paid app, one needs good media coverage to be successful. Since there are no trials, there is not much the users can do to test the app before purchasing. (I think many people actually don't know that they can get refunds)
>freaky eugenics project

I thought I was up to speed on Epstein, but this is news to me.
I never considered the camera when buying a phone, and in fact would love a price discount in higher phone models with a cheaper or even no cameras.

Question for professional photographers from someone that has no idea about photography: why would you use a phone when you can use your professional camera?
Solar and wind as you said are widely dependent on location; they have the courtesy of also being widely dependent on the time of the day, and the forecast that day.

The price angle is not the correct one to estimate quality of an energy source. When the wind blows and the sun shines, NG is cheap because we overproduce and we have to get rid of MWh. Germany even reaches negative prices quite regularly.
> Would it break Apple's heart to include a comparison of their "pro camera" with a real professional camera? Even a low-end one.

Why would they? That's not who they're competing against.
The high-frequency gravity wave revolution has been especially interesting. Keep an open mind.
Surely the tortured is creating externality, a reasonable sounding technical term, as a shorthand for "pft, someone else's problem" in economics.

The WTO are happy to include money not spent, or tax not received as valid when deciding if a subsidy is in place.
I'm not so sure. I have yet to meet someone that was really happy and didn't have any responsibility.

In fact all my friends who had depression or committed suicide didn't have any responsibility really. I didn't see this pattern for a while though.
I'd love to have something like that. As far as I'm aware, one big limiting factor is that there aren't currently any great ways to do an index for approximate nearest neighbor search that doesn't require you to keep the whole index in memory. A disk-friendly indexing method would make it just a PostgreSQL plugin away.
And, as of very recently, there is an Apple Music web-app (https://beta.music.apple.com).
Would love to home school.
Do you both work? Or only one of you?
I get why Tesla gets the flak from analysts, it being a public company; But I rarely see an analyst speak about Tesla's impressive record in building safe cars.

Especially when there are car manufacturers who try to hide flaws which can lead to catastrophic malfunction or had been caught with cheat devices for emissions test.

Also one more thing which is less talked about is Tesla's autopilot being useful for people with disabilities although Tesla hasn't added any specific features for people with disabilities AFAIK.
I don't think systematic fraud is within the scope of the free market. One of the few things I think government should provide is a low-overhead way (lower-overheard than what you can do in court today, but maybe that would be abused) to hold people accountable for their word, and I would include things like this in that. But not giving chronic liars my money is close, maybe that's what you meant.

But I think the prevalence of piracy is a "smell" about the business model. If people could materialize food in front of them for free without taking that food from someone else that would be amazing. That's literally a Star-Trek-level fantasy about ideal society. As long as the food companies stay in business. In this case, the "companies" are having no problem staying in business.

Most money paid for music goes to record companies. The most successful artists make the overwhelming majority of their money from live performance and physical merchandise. So what value are the record companies providing. Distribution? No, independent artists can do that online through SoundCloud or even Spotify. Spotting talent? I think their taste sucks more often than not. I don't get it. I think really the value they provide is with connections to help an artist make it big - so in the big picture I'd say the record companies' customer is actually the artist.
So?

Not everyone in the US is starved for upstream. Not everyone is going to lose their mind if their friend's Plex doesn't have Five 9s availability -- and let's be real, with all the things that can and do go wrong between a user and a service on the Internet, Three 9s is optimistic for anything.

And whose subscription service has Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? Saved by the Bell? Countless other shows and movies that aren't available with any of them?

Disney movies? Add a Trakt list to Radarr, done.
Why is it black vs white? What about all the other colors ...

It’s hard to say for one generation previously but for current generation of middle class suburban American teens I think differences in perceptions between races and genders are diminishing rapidly.

I just find it odd that it seems at almost every opportunity a commenter or poster will look to insert “white” like a dirty word in discussions. That strategy is backfiring terribly imho and I hope it can pass as some sociological fad in the next 10-15 years. I can say with certainty the teens growing up
today in “middle class” suburban america are likely to look down on injecting “white” whenever possible for minimal
or even irrelevant distinction.

Sorry if my view offends anyone.
Their dwindling catalog is the result of the other services thinking that removing their old content from Netflix will help them. But nobody is going to subscribe to a different service just so they can do a one-time watch of a series that has been on Pirate Bay for five years, so all those companies are really doing is depriving themselves of the money Netflix would have paid them to license that series.
No, it just expose the realities of that market, seasonal storage is not a solved problem. Why would it be pro fossil ?

Battery do not solve seasonal storage, for the USA it needs 8 to 16 weeks of it, and Tesla global battery output is just a few minutes of it per years.

Higher capacity factor still doesn't mean on demand.

Markets with very high % of renewables all benefits form big hydro or geothermal sources, it doesn't apply in every countries.
>why would you use a phone when you can use your professional camera?

Most don't. Having a great smartphone camera is mostly about convince for pros. It's always there, and sometimes your pro camera isn't.
Robert Kubica Loses F1 Ride
https://nypost.com/2019/07/31/jeffrey-epstein-wanted-to-turn...
An iPhone 6 has a dxomark score of 73, last years iPhone XS Max was 106.. the 11 pro will see an even higher score than last years model so comparing the current lineup to an iPhone 6 isn't a fair comparison anymore imho
Nonsense. You have hundreds of employees and a multi-billion dollar valuation, and you keep making the same excuses.

I have been watching you folks spam threads, over and over again, for years, with the same things: “we’re fixing performance!”, “making the UI better is a priority!”

The user complaints never change.

Instead of spamming threads with guerilla marketing, make your software better. What was cute when the company was four guys and a computer now just appears calculated and manipulative.
I on the other hand miss Delphi for Web, but thanks to WebAssembly that might be a thing.
With Usenet you get a direct line to the files, there's no seeding, and it's over SSL (you might have to specify a SSL server from your provider). The scripts to download take the binaries and take each part downloaded and put them together and extract all the files for you. I don't even think you need a VPN, but one does not hurt. Also like I said, you can automate the process with projects like SickBeard and CouchPotato. Specifically with SickBeard you can subscribe to shows, and it knows when new episodes come out, and it starts searching repeatedly.

The other thing is you can define the quality you want to download, it will find the best thing closest to that quality and download it, say it's 480p but you want 1080p, but only 480 is available at the time. An hour later 1080p is published, but you already have 480 and maybe you're watching it, no way for it to know, so what the software does is, download the 1080p version, and don't delete it till it's done downloading. You'll know it's downloading cause you can setup all sorts of alerts and notifications. Then you have Kodi setup to auto parse those directories and fetch previews and descriptions.

At one point I had a plugin for Kodi that takes all the content you have and makes "Channels" from the content, so you can feel like you're watching regular TV and browsing through channels.

People love Kodi for the streaming plugins, but Kodi + Usenet was amazing. Nowadays I just pay for Netflix and Hulu, but like I said, at this rate it's tempting to think about Usenet again.
No surprises in the top most dangerous software errors
Sure, there are bound to be edge cases.

If you're a big or tall 15 year old boy chances are your clothes are taxable because they're the same clothes as an adult and those are taxed. But if you're a petite woman you may rarely pay tax on clothes because you're fitting in stuff that was targeting a typical 15 year old girl.
There is a bit more to the story. Avastin and Lucentis have the same mechanism of action - inhibiting VEGF. However, they are not the same molecule, Avastin is an antibody and Lucentis is an Fc fragment.

Doctors thought to themselves “if the target is the same, why not use Avastin for AMD”? There was no clinical data to support it, so the docs had to do it themselves. There was a ton of use even before any conclusive data.

The company said “we do t recommend using Avastin in the eye as we didn’t manufacture it for that use”. Legally, they couldn’t support it other (off-label).

Eventually some large scale trials were run by doctors that showed they were basically equivalent, but there were also cases of blindness due to improper injections of Avastin.
Who are you kidding? The way modern bankruptcy works (largely a good thing, btw), no individual is _really_ liable for the company's losses.
Do you have a personal dislike for math too?
Aye it's hard to talk against your last point. Though did they choose it or were they marketed to vote that way? It's a remarkable success story that so many have voted against their own best interests over the last 30 or 40 years. Though there was a decided lack of alternative views, just degree.
> Eating only meat is a serious health risk

[citation needed]
I’d like to know how much recorded video sees human review. My impression is that cities don’t have the budget to manually review footage unless a crime is reported. I’d also be curious who has access to the recordings - if it were my decision, there’d be a nuclear missle-style buddy system and chain of custody, but I doubt it’s that secure in practice.
Sure. That is something else you have to learn.
Apparently one 8chan mirror is running on Zeronet, which doesn't mask/hide/route IP addresses unless you use TOR (https://zeronet.io/docs/faq/#how-to-use-zeronet-with-tor).
Just like Yelp. Quite tragic that this is the business model that seems to succeed.. if the law protected individuals over corporate greed, this tactic would be illegal.
For really popular stuff torrents are really fast and convenient.
I wanted to watch the last GoT season and had access to HBO Online (a family member pays for it). Torrenting it just took a few minutes, after unsuccessfully trying to make HBO work on my Linux desktop.
Not sure exactly how widely known this was but Epstein started telling people about it in the early 2000's according to https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/jeffrey-epstein-... Seems like he brought it up to investors and scientists for at least 5 years.
Tesla's followup on this: https://www.tesla.com/blog/model-3-earns-2019-iihs-top-safet...
> people have special lenses that they attach in front of the iPhone camera lens to get a macro / wide angle view

To be fair, one of the things highlighted in this review is that the new iPhone has this functionality built in. Everyone (with this phone) has a wide angle view now.
Cool Résumé Font Is Ruining Your Job Search
But Apple Music is streaming-only with DRM, not DRM-free downloads.
But what if so many cities have blanket "coverage", that you can't really differentiate. I mean, what if there is not enough separation between cities by that metric to make a meaningful list? I'd bet that not only the large cities, but the small cities as well would have almost blanket coverage. Small places like Key West, DC, Miami Beach, etc would all tie with the big cities for 1st. Just because the percentage of city blocks covered is so high in lots of places like that.
You should be able to do what you suggest, flash your own kernel/OS. Probably why the alibaba merchants don't want to handle that is because

A) it's a pretty decent undertaking to flash 1000+ devices.
B) It's going to incur a QA overhead
C) They don't know how to do that, a lot of these merchants will offer a product they don't actually produce or know too much about. They'll promise they're experts, in reality they will just go source what you want from someone else.

Are you sure that kiosk mode won't provide you with what you want to do? https://developer.android.com/work/dpc/dedicated-devices
> Meanwhile if off-peak usage were more discounted (say, $0.10/GB instead of $10/GB) many people would probably be able to give up their home internet service.

Grandparent comment suggests otherwise. Note that my personal preference would be for both wireless and landline services to meter data use fairly, and then ideally have such an off-peak mechanic to encourage scheduling high data use activities.
You could probably very easily make a list of the "evil" IP addresses if that happened
> so there may be something to the social thing

You have a point there. In regular school you are forced to be 'social' or risk punishment. I put 'social' in quotes because I think what is considered social is subjective and mostly made up. But watching how people are treating one another in this world I'm not sure if that social component is really working out good. Homeschooled kids are definitely not as slavishly as the 'socially' drilled kids from regular school.
What blind spots? Algorithms 101 etc?
I helped assemble this, the guy you would want to ask is https://twitter.com/chrisbensen
Whats the point of muddying the waters without having verifiable facts? The thing with speculation is .. anyone can speculate, on anything, for any reason. That doesn't make it true.

>I'm just saying it's naive to think that everyone is always highly committed to playing nice with the FTC rules.

Who exactly said that?
Actually I can't guess, go ahead and tell me which demographic do you think that is?
Yes I will. I’m a big fan of linode and have used them for years. I’m now looking for smarter hosts and will eventually move every single thing I control off linode.
Have you tried getting away from highly educated people?
Exactly. Which really isn’t so true anymore at all! So maybe instead of looking to always inject the dirty word “white” see if the point can be made without it or not.
I suspect (but cannot prove) that some peoples' brains work in a way where procedural programming makes sense, and some work in a way where functional programming makes sense. (Yeah, that's not language, but it affects which languages make sense.) I suspect that this is part of why the FP-vs-procedural discussions are such fruitless deserts most of the time - people on each side have a very hard time thinking in the other way, and therefore the other side of the debate's position seems almost literally unthinkable.
https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/blog/model-3-earns-2019-iihs-top...

Must have been moved from the Tesla press release to the institutes website press release.
The worker's cooperative who loaned the money to my worker's cooperative would be liable for the losses. I assume they would have to eat the loss then?
Strength and toughness are different properties in materials science. A ceramic mug is strong enough to support great amounts of weight, but it's not very tough. I would think toughness (and elastic modulus) plays more of a safety role in a roof than strength, because strength comes from the pillars.
If the surveillance leads to the prompt arrest of violent criminals, it may be a good thing. I expect privacy in my home, not while on the sidewalk.
Germany's sudden shift from nuclear without a plan for what to replace it with was just so frustrating to watch. So much coal :/
Have you seen vespa.ai ?
"Almost any language will look cryptic if you don’t know it."

Seems disingenuous to me. Java and Python are in a different class of readability than Bash or Perl.

Example: "abc" + "def" = "abcdef" vs "abc"."def" = "abcdef"
Linux powers most of the web servers on the internet. The Linux Foundation is not worth billions of dollars.

All of those servers run on Intel chips. Maybe some AMD. Even combined, companies like Google and Amazon, who would be nothing without those chips, are worth more than the companies that make their chips.

And electricity! Our electric companies aren't worth a penny compared to these huge tech companies. That's strange. They wouldn't even be able to see, let alone run their computers, without the electric company.
Stop! Stop! You're breathing my air!

That kind of thinking leads to a Logan's Run scenario. Instead, why not think of it as a part of life and work to find a solution that doesn't require the wholesale curtailment of liberties all in the name of the environment?
Sonos needs to be called out for the dramatic disparity between how they present their products and what those products actually do.

Their userbase is almost universally clueless as to what it is these devices are doing and what the goals of Sonos, as a company, must be.

They should have been one of the good ones - and I had such enthusiasm for their products - but they have proven to be very, very antagonistic towards their users.
I put to doubt the utility of crash safety ratings.

The survival rates for collisions on highway speeds are in single digits no matter what you do. It's just laws of physics.

Modern luxury sedans have 1m+ crumple zones, and those only make for few percents extra chance at speeds above 60km/h.

Extending crumple zones beyond that is self defeating, as it will only lead to further increase of average car mass, leading to even more violent collisions

Preventing crashes from happening in the first place is far more economically efficient. EU is just few years away from making some forms of ADAS mandatory, and China is realistically talking about centrally controlled "autopilot" being introduced.
Rivian is the best American EV maker out there.