skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, Excavator was pretty poor compared to the Intel offerings that generation.

But 15% the last generation is definitely impressive, especially when compared to the 3-5% gains from 14++++ that Intel has been offering.
> To do this they just set the deposit rate under the "floor" to encourage banks to lend above that, but they didn't set a ceiling, assuming it would magically stay in target range?

Yes. The Fed had hoped that IOER would serve as a floor for controlling interest rates, when it ended up acting as a ceiling. They used repo transactions to try and counter this. Prior to ~2007, the Fed used open market operations to maintain a corridor system.
These are great ideas - I feel like the key is being conscientious and selfish (in an acceptable way) about yourself (your health and well-being), otherwise the cumulative effects of “efficiency” add up. I need to claw back this time and exercise that used to just be “play”. I personally incorporate my bicycle frequently.
As I mentioned earlier, my understanding is that as a corporation based in the US, Twitter is governed in part by Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act of 1996[1], which consists of the following:

"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

How a conflict between Section 230 and hypothetical anti-discrimination laws barring a social networking from imposing a blanket ban on right-wing content should be adjudicated is way above my pay grade since I'm not a judge, let alone a lawyer.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
It's Not News, It's Fark
The guys Twitter has.... graphing calculator creations?
These guys seem to have a viable approach to accelerated weathering, a form of carbon removal: https://projectvesta.org/
Solar powered planes are a feasible engineering challenge. The engineering challenge is making synthetic aviation fuels from electricity. Once that is solved, it's just a matter of installing production plants in areas were solar is most productive.
> The leading countries need to suck the shit back out, that is the only way forward

Its almost certainly for the leading countries to cut emissions and coerce the noncompliers into compliance.
They are loans. Money is given to the banks, and then repaid (with interest, but a low rate and short time makes this marginal).

The fact that the money is "created" and "destroyed" is the nature of the Fed. They don't need to have money in order to lend it. That's what the Fed is.

These loans are literally the same as printing money, loaning it, collecting the loans, and destroying the printed money. Except everything is just numbers on a balance sheet, so no physical money needs to be physically printed or shredded. The effect is still the same: The Fed decides that money should enter the money system, and also describes how that money will leave the money system.
Ahh. Is this also what makes a lot of high school art--and even adult art--look amateurish?
Are there any golang implantation a of high performance hash maps? Does the the standard lib do this?
I've used the method described here [0] of simply incrementing hue by the golden ratio. You can generate dozens of colors that go well together yet are quite distinguishable.

[0] https://martin.ankerl.com/2009/12/09/how-to-create-random-co...
Yes: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...

This is global data per sector. The rest of the page is fantastically insightful, too.
I'd rather choose really big caches per core than really big number of cores.
They are missing a trick with peer to peer piggy backs.
Does this have any connection to those Chinese scam calls where the scammer claims to have kidnapped your family?
Patagonia Text Message Spam
Anyone else get a text message?

From: 71333

Image says:
"Tell congress there is no room in government for climate deniers Answer with Action patagonia"

"The climate crisis is a human issue. Tell Congress there's no room in government for climate deniers. Take action for a livable future: https://p2a.co/81SGMSO"

I will never buy anything from this company. This is NOT how you get your message across. Do not text me, do not spam me.

Just got this text, very random. I did not sign up for anything, and have never purchased a patagonia product.

I got this from a chat reply:

"I'm sorry that they have come across as spam. We are putting our voice behind an effort we believe in and trying to make the movement hear as much as we can."
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML41g0hb7hM

nneonneo already posted some highlights. Another one (2m50s):

"[Public key crypto] depends on one simple math equation. It is prime_1 times prime_2 = composite number. This is what's called the discrete logarithm."
Car number plates have a consistent, mandated font with a set of regular formats on high-contrast backgrounds that makes it almost trivially easy for computer vision to extract a number plate from an image of a car.

Cars are licenced transport. You are required to a) tax and maintain your vehicle b) identify who was driving the vehicle if you are the registered owner and requested to do so by the police and c) not obscure or obfuscate your number plate.

Faces are not licenced, are uniquely identifiable personal data - ignoring the enormous false positive detection rate from current technology - and everyone has one. Consider the implications for a supposedly free society (of which the United Kingdom no longer is one) where the state can draw arbitrary inferences from the presence of someone with a face that matches pattern X in location Y on date Z.
Don't use Droplr with a custom domain
The eyes look really creepy somehow. It's like it is two different eyes.
that's actually pretty cool
I'd love to have even a 1st gen ryzen to know what it's like to be able to compile massively without feeling it.

Right now my poor x201 overheats to death if I use rustc carelessly.
Same, I think it accomplishes the same goal.
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No, nobody has to stop. Nobody has to listen to people who continually promote a variety of ad-hoc, ineffective, and annoying emissions mitigation measures.
"them"
Air travel is more important because of the water vapor far more than the carbon.

The week following 9/11 was dramatically different. NASA recorded the change in daily temperature range. Less significantly, we had crystal clear skys where I live - for a week!

Water vapor can also seed cloud formation. Air travel causes a daily cycle in this, which might just keep more heat in at night.

You can look at data and see the temperature rise along with energy use (CO2). But to compare it with the rise in air travel is also informative. IIRC there is even an uptick of both during WWII.

But y'all can keep screaming 'bout CO2 till the cows come home. It may be that we really need coal fired airplanes that dont emit water vapor, just more CO2.
I’m gonna trust the multitudes if studies than someone telling the rest of his peers to be better.
Show HN: Email Analytics Meets Machine Learning
and the Uighur in china.

I bet it's not.
"they're near impossible to monetize "... I would not say so. => Our UI (test) automation/RPA software consists of a totally free open-source extension for web automation plus a paid cross-platform binary file that adds additional desktop automation features. It communicates with the extension itself via native messaging.

The add-on module is available in a limited free and paid fully featured version. It is the classical freemium model, which works well for both, the extension creators and the users.

https://ui.vision/x/pricing
Yes.

Edit: Misunderstood the response, and I changed no to yes.
Like most things with climate change, it's not about banning X action. It's about discouraging it.

The more accurate question is how does everyone respond if the cost of flying doubles?

How many business trips can be handled by VC? How many personal trips provide similar value being taken closer to home?
Climate strikes sweep the globe as protesters demand urgent action
Plant trees
You don't need Hollywood for that. It's exactly what is happening in Hong Kong.
This is kind of only true if you're the sort of person who flies a lot.

If you're someone who never flies, or flies once every year or two, it's not really a big deal at all. On the rare occasion I travel transcontinental I would need to set aside 3 days each way for travel instead of one, which would be inconvenient but not really a huge problem. Even if my transoceanic freight exclusively went by boat, it wouldn't be a big difference in my life. I already don't care about having the latest electronic gadgets as soon as they can be delivered from their factories.

Even two weeks to cruise across the Atlantic and a month across the Pacific (if you ignore the emissions of cruise ships for a moment) isn't really a deal-breaker on your once-in-a-lifetime vacation to another continent, either as part of your elaborate honeymoon or as part of your retirement.
I tried cockpit and liked the UI. It's modern, simple and clean. However the features were limited (disk space, CPU graphs, but no management for wifi).

I aslo tried ajenti.org but same issue, I couldn't even manage wifi with it.

I will maybe make something myself. Maybe something that can take any linux tools in input and make a primitive web interface for it as output automatically.
Haha that's really good. In addition to my under desk treadmill, I also brought some resistant bands so my neighbors and I can occasionally do curls, shoulder presses, etc.
True. It's interesting to note that the ratio of the median to the mean for Germany is similar to the US, where France and other high-medians have smaller ratios. Why is wealth more naturally distributed in France, but less so in Germany and the US?
I understand your frustration, but using such loaded language makes it seem like you're judging other people for doing what is in their own personal, rational interest.

Doesn't it seem more effective to find ways to align people's self-interest (aka "sloth") with positive outcomes?
If you think 2.5% is too small to care, consider what would your company do for an extra +2.5% of annual net profit.
To see why wind can't get much bigger without a giant breakthrough in storage see these graphs of power production and consumption:

http://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
I think that is still the business model. The $7 /mo for enterprise is the "Stay Afloat until..." part of that business model
If it takes your therapist four hours for you to feel comfortable opening up, they are a bad therapist.
Last time you used a service backed by a service run likely by oracle? Multitudes of times this week.
>Regarding the job that football associations have, that’s more important than long-term health, “profit” is the answer. The football organization isn’t a benevolent charity, they exist so as to ensure their own continued existence. They also don’t represent the players, nor the fans.

I will put forth the argument that profit is not be the sole motive for any organization. That is a relatively new and immature [1] way of thinking about economic activity which ignores the context and environment in which economic activity takes place. Profit above all else should be considered the false narrative that it is [2]. Even if we did consider profit to be a primary motivation for an organization, that ignores that the organization is composed of people who should care about their fellow man and work to reduce the chances and effects of injuries in the people who labor for them. I will go further and propose that putting profit above the long term health of players is short-termism, a disease that affects far too many today. In fact, this disease of thinking is so bad that the executives of some of the largest corporations now need to explicitly tell people to stop thinking like that [3]. Ignoring the dangers of traumatic brain injury could have negative consequences for the long-term profit of the NFL - through lawsuits, negative publicity, and less productivity from the players.

1: See more here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250185983

2: https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/academics/clarke_business_...

3: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/business/business-roundta...
I like that idea. I could see it leading to people having to upgrade to pay for improved versions, whether that's to fix bugs or new features added - which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I do wonder what interplay will exist or evolve related to subscription models though.
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There's not enough limestone deposits for this to work - that aren't actually being currently mined.

You cannot use a an active mine for this technique, you have to let the stone lie and weather.
That's something I never put in word about why I like tracking. It does clear your mind of uncertainty. It also helps improving at times.

Thanks
But if you would think of the activity instead as a DDoS attack on your mental attention span would you come to a different conclusion?

I was downvoted before for suggesting that DDoS protection would constitute a limit on free speech, so clearly this community feels that DDoS protection is a "good" thing.

I think we can all agree that human attention span is a limited resource, much like network bandwidth.

If we make a simple analogy between network bandwidth and human attention span, then how is an automated bot (or army of humans) sending out mass propaganda to overload your attention any different than an automated bot transmitting junk data to overload your network bandwidth? Why would you control one but not the other?
I had a data visualization class as an "easy optional" in grad school. The professor told us "y'all are mathematicians and don't understand color. Pick some artwork you like and put it through Adobe Color instead of trying to make your own messes."
Interesting. Someone give them the DNA from a Floresian "hobbit" skeleton and see if they correctly predict a pygmy.
I bet any amount that side by side you could not reliably tell the difference between real and these generated faces
Certainly varies, there is a portable pull bar that someone brought into our office that some of us use. It's been there for at least two years
Amazon is a corporation. Corporations do not have inherent rights. They have powers defined by law[1]. Laws are enacted by governments instituted by the people (you and me) who are sovereign but delegate limited powers in order to live in a society.

Jeff Bezos, as a human being, has intrinsic and inalienable human rights recognized by the Constitution of the United States and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The ability to run his business under the aegis of a limited-liability corporation is not one of them.

1: A corporation's legally defined powers are generally described as "rights" because people tend to be sloppy in their use of language, do not appreciate correction, and often mistake precision for pedantry.
In the US you have a choice between insufficient/unaffordable urban housing, and suburban/rural living. In the former case a few people can take public transit, bike, walk, or work remotely, and yet urban congestion continues to worsen. In the latter case the vast majority need some form of private transportation to live. It's a big country, any solution is going to have a large technological component.
No this is right. If left-, right-politics have taught me anything, it is that your personal business, emails, and bedroom behavior are the concern of the federal government and its electorate--at least the 50% that agree with it.
You missed my question, what do you do in order to deploy your services?
Read their FAQ [1]. They're using olivine, not limestone, and there's a ton of olivine in the crust.

[1] https://projectvesta.org/frequently-asked-questions/
How is this related to tech news?
Thanks for pointing me to this. Wow. Looks like I can finish learning Rust.
Why would people stop flying...?

What, the "solution" is going to be blimp travel, boat travel, undersea super train travel...

Maybe we should make air travel so expensive that only the rich can use it!
Just stay home and let the elites fly around and scam your money.
All part of the climate conspiracy.
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Yeah, okay ace.
>The ultimate solution is to amend the 2nd amendment, but that would require substantial effort and consent of all states.

You're probably right, we can't have any serious gun control in the US as long as the 2nd Amendment remains as is, post Heller. But any state supporting the amending or repeal of the 2nd Amendment, despite that being a perfectly legal and Constitutionally approved process, will find itself turned into another Northern Ireland and any Senator or Congress person approving such a measure, should it pass, will spend the rest of their life avoiding sniper fire.

Which is why no serious attempt to touch the 2nd Amendment will ever happen. The best we can do is what we've been doing - regulate around it as much as possible, even if such attempts are doomed to be ineffective.
Maybe I'm hideously naive for believing the entire HN crowd might have been a little more straightforward and mature in explaining why putting emails in their profiles isn't something they choose to do, rather than pulling this kind of stuff. I mean, point proven but come on, does HN also have to become a space filled with opportunistic trolls?
> facts like that are boring as tar

More to the point, typical cable news viewers much prefer someone to tell them what to think.

There are plenty of people who watch C-SPAN, but watching C-SPAN lacks context and doesn’t give the full story anyway; maybe half of the politicians at any given hearing are spewing ignorant misunderstandings or deliberate misinformation, grandstanding, and hoping for soundbites that will please their supporters when replayed on the news. The folks on the other side of the hearing tend to be circumspect, to put it mildly, because there are serious risks to revealing too much publicly.

Others read transcripts of un-televised hearings, long investigative reports, government documents, independent statistical analyses, etc.

But most people don’t have the time or spare thinking space to figure out their own unique conclusions starting from primary sources about every possible topic.

> could just read the various Declarations of Causes

First, it’s not clear who you mean by “practically no one”, but I’m pretty sure that any undergraduate Civil War history course is going to involve reading these. Many high school students surely read them.

But if you take a few minutes to read them, they make it very clear that perpetuating slavery was the Confederate rebels’ primary concern. Which is the same thing most historians will tell you if you ask for a 1-sentence (or 1 page) summary of the war. Here’s the second sentence of the Wikipedia article about the Civil War: “The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people.”

But that’s not the whole story of a gigantic war involving millions of people.

It is true that in the US South, white elites have undertaken a century-long propaganda effort (with help from a few fringe revisionist historians) to minimize the public’s impression that the Civil War was about slavery and to rehabilitate the Confederacy. This has been largely ineffective at changing the minds of historians, but if you ask many modern-day “conservatives” who are caught up in that propaganda cloud, you may hear that the Civil War was about “states’ rights” and that slavery was a marginal consideration.
> a couple of years ago, clients were coming in mostly because of personal issues, but that now they were reporting anxiety about global trends, like climate change and the rise of dictatorships.

Yup. I'm increasingly considering doing the same. Climate change is really getting into my head these days. How do you deal with feeling there is no future?
This website had a paywall...
Why do Google claim to have reached quantum supremacy, can't they prove it?
My profile has been untouched for a long time. Suddenly I’m getting not just spam, but “thank you for signing up for XYZ mailing list” messages. It’s totally not a coincidence and yes it’s trolls.

Doesn’t bug me. I don’t get any notifications for emails. I select them all at once, mark spam, and continue on with my day. I won’t remove my email address because there are definitely times where I want people to be able to contact me if they’re interested in doing so.

It’s really just a bummer to see that there are so many angsty individuals out there who have no better outlet for their energy.
My spouse plans conferences. Her event planning team is mostly women. Most of the speakers at their conferences are men - the main reason why is because many women candidates refuse the opportunity. An attendee who loudly complained about diversity became more understanding after being invited to help recruit speakers.

The ego shouldn't be checked - it should be encouraged if you want more people to want to be conference speakers.
I'll bet $50 it's a Chinese student / new immigrant who put this on as a joke. It's like some American drivers got fake European plates for their Mercedes. Yeah, it's stupid, but hardly something one goes to jail for.

And some guy tried to pull over a police officer? Either he's dumb beyond belief, or more likely the officer mistook him for actual police.
>Goebells was just doing what was in his personal interest, even if he actually personally disapproved of such loaded language.

What you're saying is I should find ways to align my self-interest with his? Oh, but wait, but of course we are talking about "normal" people, and "normal" people would never become Nazis. Better downvote this for making you feel uncomfortable before you stopped and paused to really think about all of this here.
This just highlights the absurdity of the situation. The real Chinese police would know that attempting to operate this way is just going to get them shot.

100% this is a case of dumb kids decorating their cars.
> "The week following 9/11 was dramatically different. NASA recorded the change in daily temperature range. Less significantly, we had crystal clear skys where I live - for a week!"

Do you have links for this?
Looks interesting. Shell can be a good tool for this type of thing, as long as rigorous care is taken to maintain good quality. I view it kind of like PHP, Perl, or JavaScript... you can definitely write good code in these languages, but it requires more discipline than in other languages. Shell offers a number of benefits too, namely it's ubiquitous, most people that would be interested in this distro will know it already, and it makes it easy to drive around other tools and processes.

One concern I would have though is that it seems their package manager does not currently have any way to include patches to packages (or if it does, it's not mentioned in the documentation). This can make it hard to port things if they require even minor tweaks to build properly.
I haven’t used it, but my understanding was that is exactly what Brave does?
I think you almost hit the problem on the head but are slightly off mark. I believe you are close with, "But as soon as I work for myself..." But I question whether or not you are actually "working for yourself".

Is this code you're writing for yourself a product that is intended to become a full-time endeavor? If yes, then it makes sense that you'd find yourself frustrated, and it is likely that the quality isn't actually the problem. It's a frustration with not having the bandwidth to work on your own project 100% of your time. You're not financially independent and recognize that you don't have the time to actually deliver the quality and content you'd like to. It is a sense of futility working on something during odd hours that you'd rather spend decompressing from having to deliver quality all day long at a paying job.