skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The inherent value for a digital food also decreases over time. Top of the line graphics from ten years ago look bad in comparison to today. Story driven games get their stories spoilt over time, especially the popular ones. Compatibility with controllers and other such devices depend wildly on backwards compatibility (for example, the xbox one controller had loads of compatibility issues with games that only accepted xbox 360 controllers for a while).

I would have paid 60 euros for Skyrim back in 2011. These days, I wouldn't spend more than 10-15 bucks on it if it was new. This is reflected in the price on steam as well, with it currently being sold for 15 euros.

The mere passing of time decreases the value of the goods, just like using a game would.

I don't know what happened that people think that selling things you don't need anymore second hand is suddenly bad just because the goods are on a computer. The car industry would love a method to stop people from buying second hand cars but consumers would never accept such limitations.

Games sales aren't affected by anything past the opening quarter. A study done by the EU on piracy concluded that even piracy is barely affecting the price of games after the opening period. Reselling games will barely touch the games industry.

Adding arbitrary rules just because the game industry is unhealthy isn't a solution to the problem. If I have to give up rights so that people can make some shiny toys every now and then, I don't care about those toys anymore. I don't want to give up rights to keep game developers employed because their current ecosystem is unviable. And, in my opinion, neither should you.
They might be (a lot) less bad than other data centers, but unless these google data centers have a neutral carbon footprint, they are not clean, and unless they have a negative footprint they are not "environmentally friendly".
This isn’t just about applying some regexes, it’s about disabling utterly obnoxious “features” of web sites.

Until a content blocker can offer a right-click “block THIS element” feature, they won’t come close to the power of uBO. The UI alone for highlighting the exact offender in the document tree is brilliant. Every time a “newsletter” pops in my face, I can banish it forever. Every unnecessary floating space-stealing navigation bar, I can banish, returning the screen space that was stolen from me. Every scroll-with-the-article Facebook/Twitter gadget can be similarly removed.
Yes they are absolutely delusional when it comes to their competitiveness.
I do but nobody contacts to me :-(
I suspect that from Apple's (and Google's, and to some extent Mozilla's) point of view this is all about the computer doing what its user tells it to do — 'its user,' unfortunately, being Apple, Google or Mozilla. We the people using the computers aren't adults capable of making our own decisions and being responsible for the consequences, but rather livestock farmed either directly (Apple) or indirectly (Google & Mozilla( for money.
Is that smaller house still an asset?
I thought so too, but the version number was the only difference. If I find the link again, I can post it here.
The auction cleared at £45/MWh (1). This means that the bids referenced in the Bloomberg story have succeeded. Bloomberg have significantly updated their story to reflect the results.

In today’s good news story, we can change “may” to “will” in the headline to match the updated story :)

(1) https://twitter.com/mliebreich/status/1175080738116571136?s=...
As @mLuby says below, recipients of NSLs "can't reveal they've been gagged, or what type of data they were compelled to reveal."

Has evidence from an NSL ever been introduced into court by a prosecutor? It seems like this gag order serves to allow the FBI to pursue parallel construction and then keep their tracks covered in doing so.
It's so asymmetrical though. The amount of effort it takes to spam someone is vastly lower than a complaint.

What would be great is a third-party site where you can somehow document/log unsubscribe requests. Then, if the company still spams you, document that. A few hundred users is pretty good proof, and the company can't just argue a glitch. It'd pay for that.
It's worth noting that these are predatory lending apps, not microfinance loans from places like Kiva [0].

[0] https://www.kiva.org/about
We’ve mainly been focused on carbon sequestration directly aimed at capturing atmospheric CO2, but ton-for-ton, methane isn’t significantly worse for climate change. I’m not aware of any ongoing (research, even) efforts for sequestering methane, does anyone know?

(As opposed to research into reductions which is also An extremely worthy cause (better to prevent 1 ton of methane than to sequester anywhere from 20 to 80 tons of CO2), although it seems no one is interested in any follow through. We’ve pretty much definitively identified a fairly low cost path forward to significantly reduce worldwide methane outputs related to food production by simply tweaking bovine diets, but it seems no one cares to actually implement it.)
my thought too, but i'm still pretty impressed. Usually, the "uncanny valley" problem sticks out like a sore thumb but these, on average, are very good.
Tesla: „Anyone riding a UFO out of Area 51 today can recharge at our nearby “
It's a useful/pithy/concise reminder that "history" is not objective and very very often is a story told by people with an agenda.
There's so much wrong with what you've written here, are you okay? Did you mean to reply to a different comment, maybe?
at first, i thought you were concerned about Google accounts and the privacy of your data within Google's servers. i feel like i have not put enough consideration into this other kind of risk which you're describing. if it's any indication of general Google support quality, many users find Google's hardware support organization to be less than accommodating.

https://9to5google.com/2019/08/15/comment-reddit-requests-go...
This is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLTyX4zL2Fc

I think the similarity is that you start with a pool that you deplete with a random action.
Fear is created by the individual. It may be stimulated by the environment but it originates from the person.

Fearing seeking help because of possible consequences is the act of creating a personal hell.

There will always be consequences no matter the choice. The chance to live life without consuming fear is the missed opportunity for not seeking help.
The part where somehow that’s abnormal for warehouse workers.

Warehouse work is hard and low paid. Working for Amazon is working for one of the best warehouse jobs but that doesn’t make it easy work. I’ve seen article about long days and injuries and such and they never bring up industry hours or wages or injury rates. So I suspect they are negative PR.

So I don’t think they are fabricated, but they are misleading.
Koch changes strategy against Trump’s trade war after ad campaign falls short
I'm not overly familiar with TI's SOCs post-2010. Anyone out there with a good overview of what the Sitara AM5729 includes besides the bullet points in that piece?

And what about TIDL adoption? I've been working on the Intel/NVIDIA-grade part of the ML scale and have a few ESP32 boards to fiddle with OV2640 cameras, but very little in between except what Broadcom has been doing.
Not all of us get depressed enough that we can’t get out of bed. Socialization and camaraderie to see that other people have issues too helps keep things in perspective. Keeps me from slipping down a hole where I’d need professional help.
... we at least need to talk about how the government can be improved ...

I would amend that to "... we at least need to talk about how the government can be improved or eliminated ..."

One has to consider what the fundamental basis for government even is and how government can have any authority at all, and what the limits on that authority are.

I would encourage everybody reading this to go read The Law[1] by Bastiat, for a highly cogent analysis of these issues. The entire essay is a delight, but one point he makes stands out to me:

What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. <snip> Thus the principle of collective right — its reason for existing, its lawfulness — is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.

If you adhere to this viewpoint, the "government" (which we usually take as a proxy for "the law") is only an extension of existing individual rights, and cannot have any authority or right that an individual doesn't have. Of course one can also get into a different discussion of whether or not it is even correct to treat "the government" (or "The State") as the natural (or only) proxy for what we mean by "the law".

[1]: http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
Um, yes, there is a conversation here. It's the comments on this thread. And, until you hijacked it, the name of the prize was not what we were talking about.
Ask HN: Which developer tools do you use and need?
Hi HN,

Everyone uses different dev tools (programming languages, IDEs, workflows, etc).
Which ones do you use on a daily basis and which ones you need to boost your productivity?
While I agree what RMS said was incorrect, let's recast CPLX's arguments into the Middle Ages and see what happens:

> Our culture has made a very bright line decision that being an atheist is unacceptable. Expressing doubt about this cultural norm, or especially advocating against it, is considered unacceptable. Of course one can argue with the merits of those two facts, but they are plainly true and fairly widely accepted.... While I appreciate the efforts to make this into some kind of principled argument, I don't find "first they came for the people advocating for not believing in God" to be particularly compelling."

Does the problem become clear now? (Substitute abolitionism, suffragism, civil rights, etc. for atheism if you like.) Ironically, much like the conservatives they oppose, progressives are arguing that it is acceptable to crucify people who say something that is agains the status quo and tradition.
Last time they posted numbers, they were selling around 200 million iPhones a year, 45 million iPads and maybe 20 million Macs. The Mac market share is insignificant even to Apple in the grand scheme of things.

Any web standard is useless without Apple being on board. Developers either won’t implement it or create an app for iOS to use a feature they need.
Did Bezos buy WSJ in addition to the Post? I thought Fox owned WSJ.
> Running applications as restricted users has been standard practice for decades

...as a way of preventing users from interfering with the system or other users in multi user systems. Running applications as a user different from yourself is an ugly hack we've started doing because we don't have actual control over what our applications can access, so things like ransomware are possible despite not having system level access. Since Plan9 never took off, containerization of applications is the next best thing.

What I'm saying is, running in a restricted user account does absolutely nothing to protect the user running in the restricted account from malicious applciations. That's how the user/group model fails in personal computing.
From the NSA
It is scary how much more mechanized and automated its become and the reach via the smartphone interface terminals,

but at the meta level, I think most people growing up with the internet know to a fundamental level that they are being manipulated and tracked.

Alas they may be resigned to it as a reality, but people in the older generations are so gullible to frighteningly basic propaganda.
Who shrink-wraps pairs of apples and oranges on a piece of styrofoam? That struck me as particularly bizarre. Is this normal in other parts of the world?

edit: I know this is totally tangential... it just struck me as a faux-futuristic trope and not pragmatic at all. Hence: bizarre
They need to accept the ad as well. There is a lot of censorship in advertising more than you would expect.
You’re thinking of the Washington Post. WSJ is a Murdoch property.
if the law is immoral, yes.
Yeah, Twitter is really bad. Every discussion, no matter how trivial, devolves into a flame fest. I've told this story on HN before, but I was reading some minor controversy about Hearthstone esports and eventually the thread devolved into people threatening to kill each other. Over someone that made a dumb mistake in one of their games. It is crazy.

I think some of us use a lot of electronic communication for work, so we kind of get the idea that there is a human at the other end of these threads. The average Twitter user has not quite made that connection yet, and see it more of public performance art than person-to-person communication. The results are not good.

(There is also some cultural thing going on right now where it's no longer OK to compromise on anything. This results in extreme polarization everywhere.)
I don't have any insight but from just various anecdotes about kids getting smartphones I would say: they are now getting them in early primary school rather than late secondary school, exceptionally helicoptering parents have only become more obnoxious, and most kids are still pressed into many extracurriculars. If I was of the same mindset when I was child in this day's age being exposed to other children with completely obnoxious phone usage would be completely off-putting and I would not want any part of it. It might be that the observed negatives of having a smartphone as a child from peers and parents would be probably higher than any perceived benefit. Then with the way I see some parents help/press kids into after school activities many probably are crying for that separation to have a space away from their parents (which is one of the most valuable experiences schools provide), and so keeping that wall there is inevitably valuable.
Happiness is the only purpose of our existence. Please be nice to yourself.
I fear that previously, trying to use money to tell people what to think was ineffective or inefficient, but now the cents-to-sentiments exchange rate is tipping too far.

When communication was one-to-one, you could hire someone to visit a target in person and advocate your position, which made sense only if your revenue from the advocacy was greater than the cost of the employee. Most of the time you wouldn't even start to do this because it would be dumb.

But now communication is now one-to-thousands and it's even cheaper to publish an idea than it used to be. If you can spend $100 to influence 10,000 people to give you $0.10 on average, that will be stupidly profitable, and greedy/amoral corporations will spend that money until the ROI is down to break-even.
In my opinion, this is a good kind of hate, and any genuine activity of the type you're talking about has grown from it, not just in the last few decades but for millenia. Groups pressure us to feel comfortable with their version of reality and use that comfort as a means of control. The natural inclination might be to find other people offering different ideas that feel more genuine, and genuine connections certainly do have value, but if those people try to make you comfortable with their own version of things in the same way, they're probably not much different than the people that left you dissatisfied in the first place.
Do you mean WaPo? Bezos owns the Washington Post but WSJ is owned by Murdoch via NewsCorp[1] unless I’m mistaken.

[1] - https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/112615/wall-street-...
D-Tale open-sourced: a light-weight web-client for visualizing data-structures
QA Testers: Coding Is Your Must-Have Professional Skill
Was Ramesses II That Great?
Having the PRUs as supporting microcontrollers can be great where timing is critical. For example, it's possible to decode signals from an AM receiver and pass them to the host, or monitor sensors and have immediate responses (such as triggering a shut-off via GPIO).

There's nothing particularly difficult about wiring a microcontroller up to a single board computer to do these jobs, I've done exactly that for reading my weather station and heating oil tank level. But it's messy and I think the cohesion of being able to do it directly on one board is a worthwhile advantage.
Ah. Indeed. My error and feeling dumb for this mistake. Dunno why I always mix mean and median.. (clearly English is not my first language).
Or not raise the level and just let them die out. Is also an option. Not saying it's the best one, just saying that it is an option.
What is the point of this article other than to make the internet more dumb?

Say Bill Gates moves into a town of 10,000 people. Congrats! The average wealth of that town per person is now over 10 million. Everyone is a multi millionaire.
Being angry with those who exploit weak law is part of the process of campaigning to change the law.
So, Should We Recycle? – Planet Money Ep.926
I think it's brilliant, and applaud the child.

IMHO people spend far too much time on their phones, and other devices. My devices are for work, they're rarely for play (yes, the occasional video game), but there's an intense reality that I now have real conversations with people - and they're much more authentic, even about their time.

I meet people for meals, for drinks, for a walk. I find out about their lives, and share my own - as opposed to skulking them on InstaFaceTwitterGram. For me it works - for others it might not. Fair enough.
Was that a hypothetical..? If not, are you at liberty to share which chemical?
There's an election in 13 months. All of this goes away after that, just like swift boat captains and ACORN. Edit: To clarify, back to business-as-usual without wedge issues dividing Americans.
From what I can tell, methane has an atmospheric PPM of ~2 (compared to 400++ for CO2). The lower concentration, and the fact that methane generation is very diffuse presumably makes sequestration Hard.
Do you not enjoy greenfield projects? Many programmers prefer them. If you never get to do greenfield projects all the time and are instead stuck doing maintenance, that doesn't sound like a lot of fun right?

Maybe you are someone who enjoys maintenance. Glad you've found your niche. But don't insult people who are good at what they do, but don't enjoy the parts they don't enjoy.
I feel like this notion of tossing things that are unpleasant is pervasive in California, in a way that it wasn’t where I grew up, in Texas.

As you say, there is a lot of value in sticking with shit that can be really irritating, and hard.

In Texas, they go too far the other way, and tolerate things for longer than they sometimes should.

Funny how that tendency maps so well to the foundations of their politics (progress / conservation). As usual, the right way is somewhere in the middle.
> Once voters realize that this would take personal cost for benefits they won't see in their lifetime, I can't see them willfully voting for any substantial reversal.

Luckily renewable energy is getting to the point where it actually saves money over fossil fuel based energy. People might be loathe to move to electric or fuel cell vehicles, but costs are coming down there too, not to mention that many governments are banning ICE vehicles anyway. So the costs of shifting may not be that bad, and people will be able to realize some cost savings.

Right now we're at a point in history where shifting to a carbon neutral economy will be uncomfortable in some ways, but not horribly painful.

But the longer we wait, the more likely it is that we'll experience a lot of pain from climate change consequences. And the climate change will destroy a tremendous amount of wealth, cause massive refugee crises, and cause massive drops in food supplies. When those things happen it's going to much harder to make the shifts to clean energy because many will just be worried about surviving disruption in the short term.
But not if the law is moral. Good luck determining it.

This is how immoral laws get changed though and there’s great success. There also many failures.

I suppose we’ll see how many people think the law is moral vs immoral.
Is it immoral when other countries do it, or only when the U.S. does it?
Although it is priced competitively, ~ same as Nvidia Jetson Nano ($125) it seems underpowered when compared to Nano. Nano has 4GB RAM, 128 CUDA cores and can 4K encode/decode 30/60 FPS and also handle multiple streams when compared to 15/15? of BeagleBone.

Perhaps the Vision Engine is better for computer vision tasks, but having to use TIDL suite when compared to Jetson Nano's JetPack with tools which we use regularly on bigger GPUs is going be a hard compromise to make.

Jetpack includes CUDA 10, TensorRT, OpenCV 3.3.1 etc. by default and PyTorch is available separately for Jetson Nano. Besides the community is very active.
“Because it’s the law” is not a moral argument, it’s an excuse. All manner of immoral deeds can be justified by legal means. In the words of MLK: “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”. You could argue that the law is just, but falling back to “It’s the law” is intellectual laziness.
WSJ is owned by Dow Jones & Company / News Corporation

I think you're confusing WSJ and The Washington Post. The later is owned by Jeff Bezos.
The stoic principle described in the article is akin to "renounce the fruits of action" (karma-phala) in the Bhagavad Gita:

You have the right to work,
but never to the fruit of work.
You should never engage in action for the sake of reward,
nor should you long for inaction. (2.47)

Perform work in this world,
Arjuna as a man established within himself with-out selfish attachments,
and alike in success and defeat.
For yoga is perfect evenness of mind (2.48)
I never been to therapy or talked to a psychologist, but I want to. What I'm afraid of is that I might pick a wrong "brain and mind engineer" and it might take a while and a lot of money to realize it only to go back to square one.

I found one recently, but after my second email she just replied that she's overbooked. I have issues with rejection among other things :)
Does anyone here have any experience with the Psych On Demand-type services that promise professional therapy like LARKR or Talkspace and the like? $85 for 50 minutes seems quite reasonable and I have been wanting to try it but wanted to hear from other tech professionals before paying the money I barely have.

I know I could use use therapy, although the fabulous graduate-level textbook I once read that I believe nailed the root cause of my issues (deep neglect as an infant) basically said that the only "cure" to most of my issues would be to, and I paraphrase here, to constantly reinforce that I am no longer a helpless child and I need to take control of my decisions as an adult.

Also, the book postulated that deep early-childhood trauma is one of the most devastating things that can happen to person and could very well be the primary driver of addiction later in life, and I remember quite clearly that the author (a German lady from the 20's if I remember correctly) said that it would be better to be addicted to heroin then to be neglected as an infant.

I read the book while in prison, so I am unable, thankfully, to figure out the author or ISBN number, but I sure wish I could find it again.
therapy is worth it. Any problem affecting you is a real problem that needs addressing. The "first world problems" meme is just for funny quotes/pics, not real life.
Being from EU with decent contact to EU parliament... EU officials really don’t need much encouragement. The passion to regulate everything burns deeply.