skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given our extremely limited basic understanding of the interlinked systems that constitute this planet's ecosystem, any attempts at large scale geoengineering are as likely to be beneficial as a brainsurgeon going at it with a baseball bat.
Even with today's technology there's no real path to making earth literally inhospitable within the foreseeable future, sans an intentional act like somebody exploding a salted nuke in the atmosphere. But we can, and probably will, certainly make it less hospitable. More importantly though technology will continue to improve and, for events that happen on a slow time scale, we have a good chance of helping to mitigate the most catastrophic of effects. Even in the worst case though where we somehow remain stuck with 2020 tech for centuries, there's no species ending level scenario on the books.

The problem, by contrast, with the natural disasters is not only their effect but how incredibly rapid it happens. For instance we nearly caused a very gradual catastrophe with CFCs by gradually depleting the ozone layer over many decades. Something similar has been suggested as the cause for the Ordovician extinction. Except there what caused the destruction of the atmospheric layer was a gamma ray burst, and it only would have taken a few seconds. This is even more apparent with things like asteroid impacts. We've had an increasingly large number (or probably more accurately we can now actually 'see' them a bit more accurately) whiz by us at a tiny fraction of the distance to the moon. If a single one of these made impact you're looking at the equivalent of millions of WW2 scale nuclear weapons going off, at once. And of course it's not just the immediate impact, but then the massive cooling and darkening of Earth that would follow. If this happened over decades to centuries we could probably survive through technological means, but we wouldn't have that luxury. It would happen over a matter of seconds, and then days as the fallout embraced the Earth with its tainted touch.
I've always thought that macroeconomics should be studied with a realistic perspective, and that does somewhat seem to be the direction economists are going with agent based modeling. Though perhaps too much on the math side and not enough fundamental thinking.

This is how I've always done my analysis. Start with 1000 people. Group them into 500 households along an age curve. Give each person a money account and assets along a wealth curve. Set up 100 businesses and the government. Study the dynamic system and gradually increase the realism/complexity with central banking, credit cards, etc. This is the hard unsimplified way but you will uncover the absolute truth of our system.
Why do drones need visual aids when flying to the destination? I can imagine an autonomous car needing to "look" at things because humans and human-defined conventions are involved. Can the drone simply not position itself using GPS, mobile networks, wifi access points etc? The camera might be required only when it is time to slow down and drop the parcel.
While I agree with you it's my understanding that this was an ad-supported Kindle. Amazon offers them with a discount, which means the buyer explicitely accepted ads for a slightly lower purchase price.

I'm not saying it's ok to ignore flight mode options, but neither is the expectation to completely avoid ads when buying this very version of the Kindle.
> Every hack is illegal unless the NSA gets proper authorization beforehand

Wrong. I already told you that the authorization is granted to the NSA as part of its charter.

> and then does not accidentally acquire any US citizens data.

Also wrong. There is no law against accidental acquisition of Americans' data, and there is no reason to believe that merely obtaining access to computer systems magically results in acquisition of Americans'data.

> it hasn't appeared because these were all illegal,

This is the most obviously wrong of all your claims. Infiltrating Chinese computer systems was so clearly legal that nobody even bothered to file a lawsuit about it, not even Larry Klayman.
Hello and thanks! No I am not avoiding either of those due to cost. I’ve worked with ultrasonics on a robot before and I found them pretty unimpressive. I have seen a demo of some advanced ultrasonics but the guy also told me he patented the technology. Normal ping pong ultrasonics return such ambiguous information they aren’t very useful. Regarding intel realsense, they have two different technologies. Some realsense devices are stereo cameras, so they are “just cameras” in the sense of this discussion. But I’d rather run the algorithms myself and build a complete perception system than use the built in computation of for example the realsense tracking camera. The other technology they use is structured light, and such technology doesn’t work well or at all in sunny environments. I want to build a complete perception and navigation stack for outdoor robots, and aside from some sensors inside the robot, cameras are the technology I’m most interested in learning how to use. I just think cameras are the future. Passive vision is how most every living thing on earth perceives the world.
I'm not sure what the particulars are in this article, but if the suggestion is that Japanese is unusually expressive and English is unusually impoverished, that probably isn't true. In general, Language A and Language B, unless they're very closely related, will always lack some grammatical categories in common that will make translation from one to the other difficult.

Eastern Pomo, for instance, requires any well-formed verb to inflect based on how the speaker learned the information being reported, with four possible values: direct, reported, inferred, or non-visually sensed (smelled, felt, etc.) knowledge. Retaining this information would be awkward in English, and encoding it in an Eastern Pomo translation would often be impossible (in the context of translating a book).

Hindi lacks articles, while English has at least a and the, which encode (roughly) how identifiable the noun it is attached to is in the present situation. The rules governing when to use the, a, or neither are incredibly subtle and complex (I'm sure you've heard second language speakers getting it wrong but not in a way you could readily explain). Going from English to Hindi, the articles can mostly be safely disregarded, but going from Hindi to English, you need to think hard about how identifiable each noun is in discourse.

I'm probably taking all this a bit too seriously, but it's frustrating to see well-intentioned but wide-eyed writers like Iyer trying to evoke a sense of wonder propped up by pseudolinguistic claims.
It might have some teeth though. Maybe there's a point of maximum consumption, beyond which the average person would get overburdened by too much stuff. And maybe we're hitting that, and per capita people aren't wanting more stuff so much as they're wanting roughly the same amount of stuff but cheaper. So maybe we're approaching "peak stuff". This would fuel greater investments into making things more efficiently rather than making more things, which would allow the economy to continue growing until we actually hit "peak stuff", while raw material consumption would be reducing.
> Umm, energy use per capita [0] is going up

Your own linked data from the EIA says that you're wrong.

Peak energy consumption per capita 1979: 359m btu

Energy consumption per capita 2000: 350m btu

Energy consumption per capita 2007: 335m btu

Energy consumption per capita 2018: 309b btu

That's an extremely clear downtrend over time.
These are good questions and not sure I’ve seen good answers out there yet

The rate spiking is indeed reflective of someone needing collateral quickly and being willing to pay up for it.

Now the fact that it spiked doesn’t mean Armageddon, just check out Chinese interbank stats to get a sense of how much they can move.

That being said looks like a narrative has formed that it must mean reserves are “too low” and so, I guess we should print more.

Another perspective is we had a decent amount of monetary tightening, and tightening are designed to reduce liquidity, especially on the front end.

This is a sign that, that tightening, combined with regulatory pressure on banks to get out of this market, have indeed reduced liquidity.

Now, no one really wants to make levered entities go under because randomly repo liqidity dries up, so the answer is clearly to just print more money.

What’s being missed though is that this illiquidity is not a bug, it’s a lagged feature of monetary policy decisions from 2014-2018.
Al Jazeera Interview with Lamo:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-U-omBeZMxc

To me he looks very sedated or on something for sure
I got lost at part 1.4.1 on page 6.
I know python, but what would I need to learn to actually follow this pdf?
Digging into it, it was when applied in vitro at a concentration of 20uM, which you’d need to drink hundreds of milliliters to achieve.

Which apparently is a thing that is done, going by the bizarre link in geomark's post above.

People are weird.
Does HN actually shadowban people?
Afaik it is now well on its way towards a full-on techno-police state dystopia aimed at the uyghurs (ai, big data, facial recognition, ideological reeducation camps, politically reliable Han Chinese as forced live-ins in uyghur families tempting them to drink alcohol and reporting on them, forced installation of surveillance apps....)
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I've used SaltStack in a similar setup with some success, it's easy to keep all the servers in sync and prevent configuration drift.
Wow, lots to say about this article. Before reading it I thought they were going to make the point that all the best games are indie games and only cost $15-$30 anyhow. (I'm one of the developers of Void Bastards)

But yes, Game Pass and Apple Arcade could be game changers and it will be very interesting times for the games industry over the next few years.
It's not remotely that simple; (I think; IANAL) there's lots of exceptions to this rule:

if the courthouse receives resources from the state; it has statewide terminals; etc. access points where criminal records can be modified or updated then it's still the states responsibility to verify the physical security.

If Eve wants to issue an arrest warrant for bob and alice; or have them "SWATTED" and locked up; changing records in a court house is a straightforward way to do that.

If this was done as part of a statewide voting system and the courthouse is a polling place then the state should have type of imminent domain; or other statewide drill then it would be included. If they participate in any of those systems then depending on the nature of the agreement, they're consent maybe implicit.

Obviously; nobody loves the idea of breaking into a courthouse at night.

I'd wager that could even extend to adjacent buildings; and I know federal investigators who request (and then intimidate & insist) that a business owner let them do xyz type operation .. but in a lot of cases; if there is a chance of collusion then they don't even ask for that permission.

I suppose that requires a warrant; so perhaps #red_team warrants issued by a higher level judge; ultimately it's a future area of legislation.
Seriously my first and only airbnb experience was a luxury house in Spain. He left a negative review because we didn't clean? What? He had a cleaner meet us and we paid a cleaning fee. We dropped all the towels by the washing machine. We were given no clear instructions. Who pays all this money to then worry about cleaning an entire house on holiday? I can't stand Airbnb and would rather use a specialist holiday rental agency dedicated to the area I'm headed to.
> Not a bad day, just a pet peeve

Another commenter hinted that my "bad day" comment might come off as condescending. If so, please forgive the oversight.

> I mean, if you're going to pontificate about Japanese literature on the world stage, is it really too much to ask that you read some of it?

This feels like a low blow to me. There are some pretty amazing linguistic ideas that have come from linguists analyzing languages they don't personally speak.

More to the point, though, in my experience there is a tendency for Japanese ability to establish feelings of superiority and inferiority amongst Japanese learners. I certainly don't know your personal psychology, but your comments in this thread remind me a lot of the hierarchy-establishing social dynamics that happens all too often amongst expats here.

> But claiming that omou has 29 radically different meanings is wrong

Maybe? I use Japanese daily in personal and professional life, and I certainly am unable to completely write off that claim as wildly innacurate. Delineating between meanings is more of an art than anything else. How many meanings does the word "talk" have? Approaching your partner and solemnly pronouncing "I'd like to talk," seems to have a different meaning than approaching your partner and chirpily suggesting, "I'd like to talk." How does the meaning change if we declare the setting to be a funeral? What about at home? What if the conversants aren't romantic partners but parent-child? What if the statement is made alone in one's bedroom?

All of those feel like they "mean" something different to me, and I would likely render some of them in different Japanese. Similarly if we reverse the roles of English and Japanese.

Anyway, you've seem to hit on a topic that I enjoy discussing. Thanks for engaging. How long have you been studying Japanese?
Maintaining the 1.20 floor (not peg) is not hard when the CHF is weakening against the EUR, the SNB doesn’t need to do anything at all when the exchange rate is moving in the direction they want.

They abandoned the floor more that a year and a half later, in January 2015, when the exchange rate was back at 1.20 despite their efforts to keep CHF appreciation under control.
The chopped off head may not be the best, but it's clearly not the worst part of this logo...
Thanks! Yeah I’m essentially running OpenSfM exactly as described in their documentation usage example. Then on that page they also show how to export to OpenMVS, and from there I follow similar example usage documentation from OpenMVS. OpenSfM has a config file and the defaults are fine, but I’d recommend reading the description for each possible parameter so you know what to tweak if you don’t like the default results. Oh and OpenMVS uses a lot of memory if you use lots of photos, but remember you can use swap. At first I used GCE instances with huge amounts of physical ram and that was a silly waste of money in hindsight. I simply didn’t think of using swap at first.
Since I monitor that for https://projectpiglet.com/

Hacker News and Reddit are easily the most open platforms that have that have some of the best conversations.

Beyond "general" conversations, I'd actually recommend specific forums for more 'niche'
It would be a good idea to use better standards for noise pollution than helicopters and airplanes of today.

Perhaps like this - Life in the Spanish City that banned cars. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/sep/18/paradise-life...

This is about how much noise your aircraft are allowed to create. What you should be able to hear in the street are the tweeting of birds in the camellias, the tinkle of coffee spoons and the sound of human voices.
A faster way to clean up large s3 buckets
Microbe that got man drunk could help explain common liver disease
Baking soda:Cocaine::plastic pellets:???
I think you're trying to describe an elongated `≠`?
Because benchmarking these tools is difficult to do correctly, and is heavily workflow dependent. If your search space is small, them it doesn't really matter what tool you use for example, they are all probably going to be pretty quick.

I wrote more about this here: https://lobste.rs/s/0kaozs/don_t_underestimate_grep_based_co...
I really doubt any AI compute comes close to the kinds of resources directed at cryptocurrency.
Yip. It also contracts the '==', i.e. they are shown attached as one elongated '='.
We implemented stripe as an add-on a little more than 6 years ago and left it mostly untouched. After some recent TLC we now facilitate $100 million a year through Stripe. Our next hurdle is trying to integrate Stripe terminal for thousands of customers but $300 a pop is a tough sell.
Geeze, the internet is going all scorched Earth on this.
Same here. I doN't share msot people's outrage when it coems to redesigns, but this one only seems to have downsides.

Imagine redesigning Reddit with simple HTML, CSS and only the most necessary sprinkles of JavaScript. In my opinion it's clearly a document-based website that doesn't need to pretend being a one-page-app.
No but it's complicated. We shipped ARM64 clang built linux kernels with clang-4.0 in Google Pixel 2.

x86_64 was buildable up until ~4.20 Linux kernel release. (so we could build 4.4, 4.9, 4.14, and 4.19 LTS x86_64 kernels pre-clang-9). The x86_64 maintainers required the use of CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL/asm goto in the 4.20 kernel release IIRC.

Certain configs and drivers needed compiler fixes.

Pretty soon we'll be moving Android and ChromeOS' arm32 kernels over to Clang as well. CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER makes the compiler emit __gnu_mcount_nc calls with a non-standard calling convention just on arm32. You should have seen the Apple reviewer's reaction to the LLVM patch implementing support in LLVM for that!

There's also traces of code in the kernel that suggest it was once build-able with ICC at one point. The code looks broken to me and I suspect it doesn't work. That said, if anyone knows anyone compiling the Linux kernel with ICC, I'd love to get in touch.
from wikipedia you linked

> tragedy of the commons is a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according to their own self-interest, behave contrary to the common good of all users, by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action

The shared resource is the amount of money spent by consumers to watch content.

The individual users are content producers and aggregators.

It is in their self interest to own the last mile of content distribution, as they get more money this way than by licensing to others.

This action, collectively, spoils the shared resource by reducing the amount of money that consumers are willing to spend on watching content. They don't want to maintain multiple subscriptions to watch just one or two shows, or different series of the same show, and so maintain less subscriptions than if there was just one or two services with all the content.
Yes, it's a very thought-provoking article. I'm sure there are many competitions on Kaggle that were won due to the testing/training splits or other incidental choices rather than better machine learning.

But I don't think it's fair to complain about $30,000 prizes being awarded to first rather than second place in a specific competition without doing at least a little checking of whether that was actually the case. And the article kind of reads like cynicism that all machine learning is a waste, and all the algorithms are just producing random numbers that randomly happen to be right some of the time and win the competition by random chance.
Possibly because Swift being more of an application language, Swift codebases in general have very little use for overflowing operations?
Depressing. Plastics killing sea life. Pesticides killing bees. Now this? Canary in a coal mine.
Cheat sheet for moving from jQuery to vanilla JavaScript
If there is no engineering solution coming soon, that is the only peaceful one. Either that or our hand will be forced by mother nature like whole countries start to get wiped off the face of the earth. I assume we will adapt if the change is not fast enough though.

So no proposal, just a dim view of our possible outcome if the overpopulation is not solved. The problem lies in how we view the earth as a personal resource instead of a shared habitat.
looks like linear algebra
> ...now it seems like your judgment of our opinions is stemming from your judgment of our Japanese ability...

Yeah! Yeah! That's the exact kind of feeling I got from both of your comments.

Anyway, thanks for the back and forth. This subject apparently got me engaged too!
LG is the sane choice for regular TVs.

Meeting room displays you can buy from anyone, they're just basically really big monitors without any smart features. The only downside is that, they're a good 100-200% more expensive than the exact same panel with smart features =/
I'd like to discuss this further with you privately if you are so inclined. Email is in my profile. Send me something if you'd like to discuss further. cheers
Agreed, it's still relatively possible to invent stuff that is missing though. It will grow :)
Hi! I was the author of the original article, and I think your description here is extremely interesting. I have often called money a communication of social trust, but the information exchange on obligation is also an excellent conception (on top of a great run through the qualities of money). Would you mind if I repost your comment on the original blog?
Same here. Those two books seem to be ordered only as pairs. ;)
Some mathematics background would help. It is a book about quantitative economics after all.
Have you actually tried to use one of those networks on a decent real dataset? They're making common category errors.
ImageNet roulette is an interesting fun example of what happens if you feed an overfitted network with real images. Such as misclassifying children. :)
"guilty of many human rights violation"

the history excludes any other country but China..
is that what you meant?
we need accountability for this. it can't just be like "oops"
And Consolas with ligatures: https://github.com/somq/consolas-ligaturized
> Not everyone is entitled to live where they want

whilst that is true, society should band together in such a way as to make it possible to create cheap shelter for everybody (as an option, those who wants to live more luxuriousy should be able to if they have the means).

Rent control isn't really achieving it though, and only distorts the market.
For goodness sake. Casting pearls before swine.
This question depends heavily on whether the whole company is remote or not.

If it's not a "remote first" company, then you need to be prepared to be left out of a lot of conversations. Your opportunity to grow beyond engineering is extremely limited. You'll likely never be promoted past engineer. IMO this is the biggest issue you have to face as a remote engineer, the rest is in the noise.

If it IS a "remote first" company, then all the other issues presented are worth focussing on.
Thanks, I'll hit youtube over the weekend
And not other uses?
> LLVM devs don't really care about Rust.

[citation needed] (I have thousands of lines in both)

> They haven't fixed noalias in years,

I think you fail to understand the complexities of TBAA, which are and have been working on for a long time. It's a lot of work frankly.

> there isn't still a freeze intrinsic in the IR, the LLVM-IR semantics are often not documented enough for the Rust compiler to know whether it is generating IR that has UB or not...

It's important to have more languages target LLVM to flush these out. Things aren't intentionally undocumented; more like no one has really thought that hard about edge cases and interactions. And if there's only a few front ends generating similar IR, who will expose those dark corners?