skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The font I always fall back to in Visual Studio after trying others. It's so clear.
> You don't see a problem with that?

in this case, NOPE
"Dematerialization" is a term that is not very commonly used.

Economists usually talk the resource intensity of production and consumption. You can divide the concept into material intensity and energy intensity. If you use them as a start of your search you find more Resource productivity is also more commonly used term.

There is evidence of a relative decoupling in resource extraction from global economic growth. In developed economies this is clearly happening.

Resource Productivity in the G8 and the OECD
https://www.oecd.org/env/waste/47944428.pdf

>Global extraction of material resources continues to grow, but there are signs of decoupling from global economic growth. G8 countries‘ resource productivity has been improving , their material intensity decreased by more than 47% between 1980 and 2008 and their annual per capita material consumption declined from nearly 20 tonnes to less than 18 tonnes. Over the same period, OECD economies have reduced their material intensity by 42% and their per capita
consumption declined by 1.5% to 17.6 t.

OECD library has "Green Growth Indicators 2017" https://www.oecd.org/environment/green-growth-indicators-201...

OECD "Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060" https://www.oecd.org/environment/waste/highlights-global-mat...

There is negative relation between total factor productivity and material and energy intensity per unit of GDP. When productivity increases, most of the value is created buy other means than using materials and energy.

The catch is "per GDP". Per capita material consumption in OECD countries remains unsustainable. Developed nations produce their high living standard more efficiently but the living standard is so high that resource usage in absolute terms per capita extremely high.
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Welcome to exactly what's wrong with the system! We view somewhere to live as something you have to save for, work for, invest in when it should be a fundamental right.

What's wrong with the housing market is that a housing market actually exists. We should be working to provide food, housing and comfort for all people as a matter of course, not to make rich capitalists who already own most of the wealth on the planet even richer.
Wow. There is so much stuff here on the borderline of dystopian nightmare, e.g. how he describes how http://work.facebook.com get's used as a popularity contest for decision making. It's almost exactly what David Eggers was describing in The Circle. Suddenly all those boring corporate workplaces pushing stuff in and out of an RDBMS look a lot more attractive...
This shows the Netherlands having the same homeless ratio as the US at 0.17%

I can't believe this is true. They must have different definitions for homeless.
Afghanistan never attacked the US. repeat that to yourself a couple times. Invading them isn’t defense or war it’s fucking murder you idiot.
Will credit card companies fall under this law so I can opt out of them selling my purchase history?
pine nuts, opium, same difference. :3
The article is not about models being indistinguishable from random classifiers, the difference there should be very significant even on the tasks it discussed. Instead, the problem originates from the small differences in test set performance between the top N models. While that difference may very well increase when moving from binary classification to a more technically involved regression task, that is by no means guaranteed, and the main points of the article still apply.
This post is wrong for obvious reasons, but it's a good point that it goes both ways: drone strikes create anti-western sentiment, and Muslim terrorist attacks create anti-Muslim sentiment.
What about the KoolAid that HN drinks against anything Facebook, Google ? Biased takes without even reading the article.
He's almost as good at selling advertisements as Facebook.
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The GDPR requirements are not that hard to follow. Yes, it takes time to audit your tech stack and website, but small companies can certainly get it to work without paying thousands of dollars. Tools like this one (It was just $49 bucks) help you get started. https://appsumo.com/gdpr-tracker/
Students pay $200 for a single textbook. That they wouldn’t be able to afford some internet service is ridiculous. They could abstain from beer if necessary.
Bullshit. "Respect users data" means different, incompatible things to different people and in different circumstances. You can't "respect" all of them at the same time.

Take the data deletion requirement. I know of many instances where users have permanently lost absolutely critical data because of that provision (already found in other privacy laws). When a user (accidentally) indicates they want you to delete their content, the provider has to permanently delete it within a reasonable timeframe, including purge from all backups.

Most users don't give a flying f'ck about all this privacy BS, but they care very much about what happened to their Master's thesis. They want a company who will be able to rescue them from their own mistakes. They want dependability. But they get "privacy" instead, and their accidentally wishes that you purge all their stuff gets obeyed.

Maybe you call that progress. But it really sucks when you purchase vague hypothetical benefit at the cost of real-world misery.
You seem to actually believe that and I think that deserves a serious answer, because the terror attacks are changing European society. It’s given us some of our only mass shootings from politically motivated right-wingers like Breviek and the recent would be mosque shooter.

What’s worse though is that it’s given us a general apathy toward the bureaucratic abuse of immigrants that happens everywhere. I live in Denmark, we have a place called Sjælsmark, which is an internment camp for immigrants who weren’t granted asylum but refused to leave. I understand why some people would go “well they could just leave”, but there are children in that camp who’ve been there for years. That would have caused a public outcry throughout danish society 25 years ago. I know because that’s exactly what happened during the Balkan wars where society as a whole cake together and did what the government failed to do, and actually integrated the “unwanted” as the decent thing to do.

After 18 years of anti-Islamic sentiment, however, we instead talked about putting the “unwanted” on a prison island to isolate them even further.

That’s what 9/11, Charlie Hebdo, Batavian and so on has done to Europe.
On the internet to promote herself with a photo of them at the end. I felt a strong sense of irony at the end of the story.
Which in turn means that more and more of the benefit gets accumulated at the top.
I work at a place that pushes stuff in and out of an RDBMS, life is good here.
Thank you so much.

I mailed your comment to myself in order to dig deepeer into the subject.

Android with Google services is just dead in the water for me (I'll be damned before hooking the arguably most private device into the Google spy machine) and so Apple seemed the only viable alternative.

But if I can run a Google free alternative without too much headache (and at a reasonable price) I'm all for it.
As mentioned already a couple of times with online discussions with Dan and AMA on Reddit, from me and others:

An NDK version of Android JetPack/AndroidX, for starters proper C++ API, instead of forcing everyone to code 90's style, each re-creating their own C++ wrappers for the Android C++ APIs exposed as C function calls.

Which by the way, given the whole security theme on Android, means more insecure code than if we had those C++ APIs to start with.

Have one shot libraries like Oboe actually be part of NDK and not in another github repo with uncertain future versus the Android platform.

For basic stuff like reading files (using the platform codecs e.g. BitmapFactory, now SAF as well), asking permissions, calling Java from C++, it would be nice if all NDK users wouldn't be force to keep writing those from scratch as rite of passage.

Actually provide build infrastructure to create NDK libraries that can be shared across Android projects, instead of forcing us to somehow cram library and header files into AAR packages while having build scripts extract them for correct placement where cmake and ndk-build expect to find them. cdep never went anywhere, while conan and vcpkg aren't the right answer when many NDK libraries need Java code to come along due to JNI wrappers for like 90% of Android APIs.

Android Studio networking debugger support, currently only supported for networking calls done in Java/Kotlin code.

Easier CMake support for multiple libraries on our projects, which is found lacking versus how easy it is on ndk-build.

As mentioned, these are just a couple of issues that we keep mentioning, always getting some kind of "thanks for the feedback, we will look into it". Just like the NDK status talk at Google IO 2019.

From the outside it doesn't look like NDK is that staffed with engineers, more like a 20% project where a little bit is done every year, like how long it took to fix the header files, adding minimal C++ support to Android Studio, or settling into CMake as the future build system.

EDIT: Almost forgot this one, fix the regressions regarding missing GCC features in clang (Android NDK tracker used to have a couple of them listed).
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"Kid who has eschewed the internet gets exploited by mom for vogue.com clicks"
The main benefit of example 2 IMO is that some variables got readable names. E.g. n became maxLineLength and x became line.

But bad naming practices have nothing to do with FP per se. Although it does seem to be fashionable in part of the FP community to have everything as terse as possible including variable names.
I just wanted to piggy-back onto the parent’s comment with a concrete example.

I’ve always been told that it’s good practice to take periodic backups. In the absolute worst cases, you can simply restore directly from these.

If a customer requests that their data are deleted, in addition to my production instance, does that mean that I have to remove their data from my backups? If so, I’m uncertain of the best way to do this. I’m uncertain if many managed services will allow me to mutate backups. And even if I were managing my database and backups directly, it seems painful to load each backed up database, remove the data, and rewrite the backup.

Note: I’m not saying that any of this is impossible. However, it does require a lot of ancillary engineering work difficult for a small company that’s just trying to get to product market fit.
Sorry in advance for the shameless plug.

If anyone is looking for such a get-started-right-now post, I've written one with a sample build-and-upload-to-s3 workflow [0].

It is indeed simple to get started, and I'm personally quite optimistic for Actions in the future!

[0] https://tpaschalis.github.io/gh-actions-go-s3/
Why would they do that? They re not required to charge according to their costs
This font looks great on Emacs, going to move away from Inconsolata!
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> 'ideal state'

There may not be an ideal state, but maybe parent is talking about reverting the damage we are producing.

> Without us, the planet would just go on changing

That's true, but at the same time it is not a valid excuse to keep making damage. Someone could argue that killing you today is OK since you'll eventually die.

> Saving the environment is simply saving ourselves. Nothing more, nothing less.

You can also word it as 'destroying the environment is killing ourselves', that is more or less the same we hear every day.
How many "error's" does the US make? Far too many for them to be called "error's" anymore. How many kids were radicalised by the US going into Iraq and killing millions of their people? Tens of thousands of orphans, with an evil imperial army coming into their home, bombing their farms, raiding their homes, murdering civilians. Enough to create ISIS and radicalise thousands upon thousands more.

How many families were put out by 9/11? About 3000. And you call that an excuse to invade Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan etc etc etc. So 3000 American lives, taken by Saudi Arabian citizens, cost the lives of millions across the world so that the American people can feel good about their hegemony?

Al-Qaeda won that war before the US even left their own soil. They had one aim, bring about the end of the USA, and they did it by getting your own government to strip away civil liberties overnight, and you didn't even care.
> There is absolutely zero insights in these patents that is not already published.

The general procedure for many about to publish a research paper in a growing field is to get a patent application on file first. There wouldn't be nearly as many publications if there were no patent protection.
> , but I don't think hackernews is the right venue for this

I would think the same, but then you’ve got things like project Maven which is very closely related to things like US drone strikes and which definitely deserves its place on HN. For example in this particular case, I’d be interested to know how the initial identification has been made from aerial views alone (I suppose they were based on aerial views) that those nut pickers were the bad guys (when in fact they weren’t): was it a manual recognition task? An automatic one? (i.e. image recognition).

Again, this pretty much looks like a false positive issue with great “chances” of having been caused by an automatic process, so it definitely has its place on HN.
Just what we need, another Linux distribution. Spread the effort even more thinly.

No thanks
If you want more than the PDF- here's the site: https://lectures.quantecon.org
I know two of the three ex-public toilet bars mentioned: The Attendant in Fitzrovia is two mins walk from my office, and WC in Clapham is a few mins from home.

Both are well worth a visit for anyone visiting London!
It was just a gas leak! Nothing to see here, move along citizen!
No you are reading to much into it. Adharma is the cause. Varnasankara is the effect and Hell for the Pitrs is a further consequence of that. Arjuna (this is his view remember) thinks fratricide is adharmic and the resulting destruction of the family will lead to bad consequences for everyone not just the women.

As for 9:32 no the Gita is not egalitarian (that’s W.E.I.R.D again) but Krishna Bhagavans’ formulation while upholding the old hierarchy, creates a new hierarchy on a different axis with a different set of winners and losers.

Incidentally, you are aware I hope that according to the Ashokavadana, a Buddha can only be born in a Brahmans or Kshatriya family.
For GDPR it's sufficient to inform about the backups and when they are expected to be deleted. If you restore them you must have procedures in place to delete the requested data. I don't think this is any different.
> most AI research is completely out in the open, so this seems redundant at best.

It wouldn't be as open if there were no patents. When researchers working for a big company are about to file a research paper, their corporate sponsors get the patent application containing their work on file first.
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So without the insurance, then the house would be similar to the neurosurgeon? A natural disaster could wipe it out.

And can't a Neurosurgeon take out equivalent insurance to cover the worst case scenarios that you described? I am sure I have heard of famous singers insuring their voices.
Xubuntu.

While regular Ubuntu switched back and forth between Gnome→Unity→Gnome, my Xubuntu install looks and works pretty much the same, except with less bugs than before, and even some new features that don't get in your way (e.g. better hidpi/color management support). At the same time you have first-class access to Debian packages, so you don't have to feel left out in that way.
Isn't it a funny coincidence that the invasion of Afghanistan coincided with the sharp increase in opioid addiction across the USA? I think not, and it wouldn't be the first time that the US government has caused drug addiction epidemics in it's own country. Just look at how the CIA caused the crack-cocaine problem in the African American community.
If it ends with a destroyed environment and billions affected it's not.

Hand wave about that all you want.

Plus "quality of life" is subjective. Some people (or some countries/cultures) can think about all kind of crap as essential to their "quality of life".

Hand wave about that all you want too.
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Regarding point #2, have you checked external triggers [0] in the documentation? When starting off, it was easier for me to just push an empty/pointless commit to get the whole process running, but setting up the webhook should also be easy.

[0] https://help.github.com/en/articles/events-that-trigger-work...
I know it’s not a Linux distro, but I find that OpenBSD is so essential that it’s easy to understand everything that is going on with your system at all times. Everything you need to know is in man pages, each daemon does one thing and one thing only, and there is basically no risk of leaving stuff running or open without your knowledge.

It’s not a great choice for desktops, but as a server it’s pretty cool.
I think that distributions patching software is especially problematic -- whether you consider it a symptom or a cause of fragmentation.
Now we’re talking: NLP is the key to seamless customer engagement
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> 4G is plenty fast enough.

It's fast, but it's not cheap compared to landline. Unless you use a absurdly high frequency that probably won't work in most of Australia, 5G won't be much faster for the individual user. However MIMO does up the cell capacity, so it will probably be cheaper. That's not a small thing.
Following one's desires is baked into our biology, and economic system is just the consequence. Kittens don't know about capitalism but they follow their desires.

Capitalism is just a mental framework which helps to satisfy one's desires in a big way without the need to kill people.

Full socialism, while very interesting to many here, especially when it comes to the final happy picture, unfortunately involves killing lots and lots of people, as history shows us.
Airplane tickets. Car rental rates. Hotel rates. Buying a car. Loans: if I want to borrow $100k for 10 years, I will pay a different price than my next door neighbor asking for the same terms.
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Sorry for the dumb question, I'm not an expert on startup finance, but what is a " pre emptive offer"?

The article assumes the reader knows( which is fine, but I don't know, hence the question here, thanks in advance )
Can you PLEASE go fuck yourself?
Basing on his milion videos that use "ex googler/facebook" in title to lure people, how he ain't just programming celebrity?

Why should I care about his opinion?
Fun fact - they do work fine... under FreeBSD :-)
> Do people tend to learn things from patent filings, or from other sources?

When you file for a patent, it usually does not get published to the public for 18 months. In those 18 months, the inventors usually publicly announce themselves (they have patent protection, so there's little harm doing so). If they didn't have patent protection, there would be much more resistance to publishing your work.
Thank you for the serious and interesting reply.

You actually got my point, that these wars and terror attacks have a large effect on feelings and behaviours in Europe as well.
> but for the most part what I've seen is dark patterns, non compliance or wriggling to avoid any real change.

I fully expect this part to be just as relevant over here
> The average person is unaware. That does not make it ok.

Any actual data other than anecdotes?
> They use this stuff as proof that the USA is anti-muslim or to prove that there is a war against muslims going on.

And the worst thing is: from a policy perspective (obviously not arguing about every single US citizen) that's really hard to argue with, given which countries the US has entered into armed conflicts with, which groups of people are most picked upon by politicians, etc.
The problem with that downtrend is it considers one nation alone, and completely ignores that the vast majority of manufacturing went elsewhere. The energy intensive activities became someone else's.

If that is all the energy saved by moving all the heavy industry and manufacturing to the developing world, the overall up trend must be enormous.
Maybe in pure dollar amount. As a German that lived in the US for a long enough time, I'd rather be poor in the Germany than in the US. As least I have good worker rights, healthcare, and all the other benefits.
I don't think it's underutilisation by homeless people, but the prevalence of businesses with them is a good point.

It's required of places serving food/drinks and having seating, which now you say it seems obviously motivated by solving the problem at source rather than leave it to the borough councils to subsidise.
Depends on what you mean by "scalable". Given that Haskell can track the use of effects and mutable state in its type system, might suggest that it allows such techniques to scale beyond a language that does not. Haskell also has syntactic and compiler support for imperative code, no encoding is necessary, so I don't think your analogy of writing FP in assembly is fair. Writing imperative code in Haskell is much the same as in Java.
Any recommended brands/preparations of this silicon-rich mineral water?
Both the Taliban and the US are killing innocent civillian bystanders. This is more and more common with drone strikes. It was konwn that it's pine nut picking season and the governor of the province was informed. There was wither miscomunication or the US forces simply ignored the fact and launched the strike anyway.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack-drones...

The Taliban were all too coward to plant a car bomb in the proximity of the government intelligence department building, so what they did was to plant it next to a nearby hospital.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/killed-car-bomb-attac...
Charlatan-in-Chief is putting spacecraft into orbit and yet here you are in an internet forum posting a barely-reasoned critique of his work?
I cannot imagine how it can be a good idea to reject the internet. Avoid social media all you want, but choosing not to have a search engine, dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps and so on at your fingertips is just bonkers. Also, smartphone is great at being a digital watch with alarm clock, a audiobook reader, a radio set, etc. You can rebel against the mindless social media generation to your heart's content and still benefit greatly from this piece of technology.
They work well side-by-side. If recycling made the overall per-item cost lower, businesses would have been implementing it by themselves a long time ago; paying for the recycling of every piece of plastic is more expensive than creating a new piece and then dumping it, which is why they haven't. So you can get a reduction by mandating full recycling for all plastic (new or previously recycled, of course). The important thing is making sure the producers are paying, rather than getting subsided.
Most of my friends left as they were done with the low pay and on call.
Are we reading the same?

"The high consumption of America’s “poor” doesn’t mean they live better than average people in the nations they outpace, like Spain, Denmark, Japan, Greece, and New Zealand. "