skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been inside Google's data centers I agree with you :-). I did a top level, high efficiency data center design for a multi-tenant hosting with Google scale economics as an exercise once, talked with some potential partners who were very enthusiastic. It would cost roughly double what the existing warehouse type data centers cost to build, but it would repay its costs faster than they did (given colocation cost structures at the time). It also leveraged some of the open compute designs to achieve better density.
Why is it so hard to find actual satellite images of the norther polar ice cap?
If Democrats held themselves to the same standards as they do Trump, US politics might actually stop being dysfunctional: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/462658-lets-get-real-de...
Ah right, it turns out I misunderstood the EveryMac page about the Mid-2014 [0], with the wording 'a "no button" glass "inertial" multi-touch trackpad'. Thought that was their wording for the non-moving trackpad! haha :) It's the 2015 that had the taptic engine trackpad first, I think.

[0] https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook...
"small town Deep South" would be a deal breaker. That's a "ha ha only serious" comment. I grew up in a small town in south GA and still live in Atlanta.
All your comments on this would be different if you got admitted to MIT. There are clearly sour grapes at play here.
What do you think of Climate Change and things like UBI?

Acceleration makes sense on the surface, but it seems like Capitalism always adapts, with the current adaption being UBI. You have capitalists like Musk and Yang really pushing it, because it's a way to overcome the problem of automation and keep capitalism going. As Zizek put it, capitalism is "an undead vampire … it returns stronger and stronger."

As for Climate Change, I suppose if we accelerate towards that we may come out on the other side without Capitalism, but there's no way to know, and it seems much of the damage done to the Earth will be irreversible. Seems like at this point accelerationism is a failed idea to me.

Edit: just to add, I do think accelerationism maybe can work in electoral politics. Say for example the general's come to Biden vs Trump. In that case, an accelerationist approach is to vote for Trump, and I see an argument for that as a Hail Mary. Biden would keep the status quo and that's not enough to deal with climate change in time, Trump is more likely to break things and mess with the status quo and there would likely be more push back from the people against him then against Biden. But maybe Biden would be more responsive to any movement by the people? Idk, that's an example of where it could still be applied, but still seems questionable.
World's most boring ideology.
Bit crudely put, but it hasn't been the case that the US military has easily trounced small guerilla forces in ground combat (e.g. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Somali, etc.), so I assume the idea was to suggest that cyberwarfare works better?
Resnicks Pledge $750M to Caltech for Environmental Sustainability Research
> Who said you can't use oil when bombing to enforce no-oil use, if you need to?

Who can say that you can't use oil that way? Whoever's going to bomb you for using oil. (Or did you assume that you were always going to be the enforcer, and never the enforced-upon?)

"We get to use oil for when we think we should, but we'll bomb you if you use it" sure smells like hypocrisy to me.
I spent four years in college for English literature. You can do that or you can just read the book 'Self-editing for Fiction Writers' and do the same thing in a tenth of the time.

The other thing you could do is to join a writers workshop, in person is always good but there's no reason why you couldn't join some remote thing. The caveat is that however big the workshop is you need to read everyone else's work and comment on it as well, which means if you have a workshop with four people you typically will need to read something for 4x for every one of your submissions.

The other thing to consider is whether you want to write fiction that is necessarily entertaining or literature that is compelling. Those are two entirely different disciplines.

Then simply write a single page every single day no matter what.
And the type of job. Some jobs require a lot of immediate/high-bandwidth cross-communication between team members. Not all do.
Humans Can Improve Technology Without Understanding It
Wi-Fi and LoRa alliance get together to better tackle IoT
Something that's a switch of gears from "deep, isolated knowledge work" to more action, people, managerial oriented work. Project management, realtor, small business owner, recruiter.

If I'm tasked with something, it may take me a day or it may take me a week depending on how well I can think my way to a solution. Maybe it never comes, maybe I'm spending days searching the same SO answers for a morsel of insight or inspiration from poorly written documentation to solve a problem. Drinking coffee, staying up late, maybe it bleeds into personal life, that urge to keep looking into it to finally put an end to the task and deep dizsatisfaction.

I'm often jealous of people in other jobs that aren't this way, that are more "just hustle and do it," where at the end if the day, you either did the work to progress your position/project/whatever, or you didn't. And if you just got up in the morning and physically and metaphorically "showed up" for the job, there was a far lesser chance you'd just stare a screen to no discernable result for 8 hours and feel a sense that no progress was made.
> Yes, but they have a government-approved license to do so, normal citizens do not.

I mean, so do hair dressers. That doesn't stop people from cutting their friend's hair. You just can't charge for it.

> Random civilians aren't allowed to just PI people.

In the US, it is legal to video record anyone where they don't have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" (audio recording laws vary much more by State). At a minimum this includes everywhere most people would consider "in public".

> it would be for the best if people had mandatory implants inserted at birth that automatically prevented brains from recording things about other people in public that haven't consented to your recording.

There is really nothing I can add to your statement.

I currently believe very few people would agree with you, but I could be incorrect in that belief.
Accelerationism is just nihilism masquerading as a social good. It gives you a false moral authority to say "fuck it" and try to break things, because, after all, humans will fix everything "the right way" after it's all broken, so you're really doing everyone a favor.
Intelligence isn’t normally distributed though.

E: And even if it was, and was capable of “shifting” left or right, which is a nonsensical notion about populations, a shift of a few IQ points wouldn’t have a dramatic many-fold increase in perfect scores.
Is it definitely 2015? Starting "Early 2015" they had the taptic trackpad https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook...
Obfuscation serves as a surprisingly effective spam filter though....
How else can you get validation?
I don't see such limitations as a bad thing. EU has made it clear -- you don't want to be on board -- fine, it's unenforceable. Just don't expect to be able to make a commerical presense in the largest trading bloc in the world.

This is acceptable/ignorable to little business across the world while giant corporations like Facebook or Google can't ignore it.
How are you sure that the data you are getting is valid and relative to your existence?
Ok, so can I install facial recognition software in my store and have it observe your every move and sell what I observe to third parties? That's the same exact thing.
Managers aren't hour bean counters or people you need permission from to do work. Of course, I'm not speaking of toxic environments.
Same for me, I currently sit in an open floor with a lot of space and people are considerate of others (i.e. not chatting much/loud).

And I actually like it a lot. I don't want to sit in a separate room all day, I enjoy being around people and to interact from time to time.
I also don’t particularly know if a restaurant pays tips to their wait staff when I pay a bill with a credit card.
Much as I hate open offices, I think Farhad overshot the premise. Open office culture didn't start with WeWork, neither will We's failure invalidate it.
The fact this was accidental is far worse than a virus.
https://learnxinyminutes.com
The working class should be the middle class. If they've diverged, then the answer why points to what kinds of problems need to be solved.
No Elastic among the examples while highly popular and nice :( Great article overall, though!
Would you recognize it without ice?
a prominent adherent to the theory recently noted (paraphrasing): Acceleration has little need for -ism and even less for -ists
Would they oppose a 5th luxury hotel being built next to 4 other luxury hotels?
Everybody seems to be reading over the fact that the logged in user must be able to write to /. Is this common for macOS users? If so there is a significant pebkac factor as well.
Seriously low. I'm impressed. Also it said in the article it only took half a decade to build, which is also pretty impressive for such a large instrument.
This is worst-case scenario, 2100, 4C based off of IPCC data which is conservative.

It's possible it won't happen but it's not going to be because we do nothing today and continue with current emissions trends.

https://choices.climatecentral.org/#6/25.760/-80.206?compare...
Oh, turns out I was one model off, the next model afterward ("Mid 2014"[0]) still had the physical trackpad click, while they introduced the taptic engine with the Early 2015 model[1]. I misunderstood the EveryMac description of the features!

[0] https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook...

[1] https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook...
Ask HN: Would you prefer reading or watching a video about any subject/topic?
I agree that is the most significant barrier. There are threads like [1], but like other much-wanted features like Syncthing being able to support untrusted nodes that hold the data, but don't have encryption keys a-la Resilio Sync, progress sometimes comes in spurts and starts.

[1] https://forum.syncthing.net/t/on-syncthing-ios-port-again/89...
What Is a Risk Matrix?
Reading this article Snowden seems like the textbook case of how to be a responsible whistleblower, with only pure intentions. I can hardly believe this is the case, but even if this isn't true it is hard to understate the response on these revelations. In effect, the only thing that seems to have changed is that a law was passed to make the activities legal.

The surveillance seems only to ramp up, with the whitehouse seemingly even wanting to ban encryption without backdoors outright [1] What do the ethics of whistleblowing matter if those in power aren't held accountable and aren't forced to change?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/tech-firms-can-a...
Ah, I see what you mean. I’ll grant that the “currently employed” requirement artificially inflates the starting salary figures, probably more so for history majors than engineers. The broader point remains, though, that history/social science degrees can lead to paths that, if pursued, end at higher salaries.

Also, I expect salaries are also higher for engineers/developers with a masters or PhD than just a BS, so there’s some of the same effect in that population too. (Although I suppose it’s more likely that engineering students seeking advanced degrees, especially PhDs, are also working full time).
You would want them to last right until then though, so you don't have to buy the same trend twice.
I really admire your effort, I've always been a slacker.
It's also a place of immense cultural significance to the native population.
Do you know if they said what would happen if the user just left the height portion blank?
The original question was is it space vs money. It's always money.

Unless there is literally no real estate within your location, it's always money.
My point is that there is absolutely no difference between:

- cameras that observe your every move and sell off facial recognition and other data to third parties

- brain indexing/dumping tech that turns people into living cameras that are capable of doing the above.

Thus, if we decide that it is illegal to automatically collect information on people using computers, it shouldn't matter if the computer is electronic or biological in nature, it's a violation of the law either way. If companies aren't allowed to store PII about people without their consent, neither should indexable brains be able to store PII about people without their consent. It's quite simple.
Personally, I'm also concerned with magnitudes of "low-level" waste, which I believe is not really burnable. Not that it would be reasonable to launch entire reactors and ancillaries.
There's a pretty wide gap between "numerous people on this page" and "a significant portion of the population".

Given actual productivity studies tend to show a big, big decrease in productivity among workers who have individual or small group offices replaced with open office plans, the "significant portion of the population" claim seems unlikely, since they're apparently not significant enough to move the needle in productivity studies.
There are many reasons. Mostly, cars make walking and cycling far worse or impossible. In the US, cars are the leading cause of dead children.
As far as I know, Chromium itself doesn't support automated updating. There are third party updating tools for most platforms, but the automatic updater from Google is not used for Chromium.
Inexpensive Managed Kubernetes Solutions
I wonder if anyone has managed to create some sort of sign language or writing or something to communicate with an Octopus.
Announcing plans is good because then you can actually get some satisfaction from it. You’re never going to accomplish anything anyway so you might as well take the happiness where you can get it.
When I updated to iOS 13, Shortcuts no longer listed actions for third-party apps. Has anyone else run into this?
But... isn't the entire point of White Christmas that this technology has horrifying social consequences?

Maybe I'm out of the loop, but do people really look at Black Mirror episodes and walk away thinking, "that might be a really good idea."?
How Sqreen handles 50k requests every minute in a write-heavy environment
Agreed, same with my current workplace. Big open office with enough space and its amazing. I wouldn't trade this to go sit in a grey cubicle for anything. But that picture from the article looks like a nightmare, so I get why people complain about that situation.

Open offices have a ton of variation and they can be nice, but can also suck. It's all about the implementation.
This is why I run Firefox. Because it's written in Rust, these things simply can't happen.
I wish they would target a real issues of http. For example adding a proper session support and getting rid of cookies.
Imagine you're selling a tool that lets players win every game.

Then imagine someone else starts selling another tool. Anyone who buys that other tool is now able to beat the players you promised a win to, AND they're not giving you any money for it. This damages your reputation, which in an underground market is probably your most valuable resource. So not only are they not paying you, but they're robbing you of future sales by damaging your rep.

Wouldn't you put in something to prevent users of your newest cheat from being cheated themselves?
there's no question people on this list have accomplished cool things. but it's lame that people are gaming their way into it, degrades the award imo
I wonder if this works with older non-carplay car audio systems. Definitely going to try it out!
Is Antifa accelerationist? I think if you asked them they'd say they were "confronting rising threats," not spurring them on. Am I mistaken?
General OP probably loves the feeling he gets watching porn not the actual porn itself, otherwise he wouldn't be seeking help for it.

Things that are generally seen as wholesome we don't seek cures for and while people are diverse enough that any good thing can still become an addiction, something like Bob Ross painting is not very likely to be something a person seeks rehab for.

And you are correct that there are some people who simply love porn for the sake of porn and revel in it. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
Free Apple ID's have a three app limit. How is this store working around that?
That's not the point of their question...
> enable people to listen to any article on the Internet

> ... all read by humans

This is great, but also sounds kinda pricey and hard to scale? What is the business model behind this?
Also, every drive is a missed opportunity for a bike ride, one of life's great pleasures (for me at least)
Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light was a fascinating novel about accelerationist ideas.
The colloquial usage obviously differs from the blogosphere usage, which is where the article's version of Accelerationism originates from.

The latter version of Accelerationism is that the current neoliberalism order will "naturally" progress to a next phase of society.

I'm not the best at understanding or explaining accelerationism, but I gather that left-accelerationists usually subscribe to the labor theory of value, and so automation's decrease of labor value to 0 will result in a collapse of capitalism that derives value of goods and services from the labor needed to produce them.

Right-accelerationism seeks to embrace the disruption of technology to a logical extreme for technologial progress. Neo-Reaction wants to revert back to pre-democratic ideals as they see democracy as being incompatible with their techno-libertarian ideals.

I haven't heard of xenoaccelerationism before but upon a cursory glance, it seems similar in that it embraces the disruption of culture and identity politics by technology's increasing encroachment and control on nature. It sounds like an overlap with transhumanism, but I am probably uninformed about the finer details.
Funny you should mention it -- my doctor [who earns something like $600k annually] and I discussed this very topic recently; I was talking about "working class" people in a context that obviously excluded individuals like him, and he was like "whoa there buddy, I work my butt off for a living! Just because my productivity is higher than most folks' doesn't mean my perspective as a working-class man should be disregarded."

At first I was incredulous, but then when I reflected on the fact my own [modest, developer] earnings likely seem to [for example] folks working in retail as disproportionately large as my doc's seem to me, and then considered the huge difference in lifeways between my doc and some of my other friends who live entirely on the interest / dividends from financial instruments [i.e., they don't have to go in to work in the morning] , I understood his perspective and now mainly agree with it.
or 3) They intended to remove a more specific symlink, with the address generated from variables, but due to bugs some/all of the variables were empty and the concatenation of the variables just produced /var instead.

Which is the cause of like 90% of accidental "rm -rf /"s in history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patchouli#Perfume
> do people really look at Black Mirror episodes and walk away thinking, "that might be a really good idea."?

Apparently at least one person did.
The accelerationist response could have been to offer to shoot her dog.
Interesting. Just out of curiosity, do you dry your jeans? I'll admit to ruining the fit by throwing them in the dryer.
I may not be understanding your ask, but they do make passive noise cancellation headphones.

https://www.amazon.com/slp/over-ear-active-and-passive-noise...

Also, there are earmuffs and earplugs - I'm not sure what need those don't meet that a construction work requires.
I believe so. The curve on the test, if that is the right word here, is a bit random. Sometimes one could miss 2 or 3 questions and still have an 800. My Math and Verbal Scores were 800 each. The one question I missed in Writing gave me a 790 out of 800, but in reality it was 590 out of the 600 allocated towards the multiple choice questions, with the "optional" writing section weighing in for the other 200 points. This is a gross oversimplification and could be totally wrong but that was what my score was.
I changed it to:

var regex = RegExp(w, 'g');
var s2 = s1.replace(regex, '');
There's a bio professor at my university, Michael Dickinson, who is one of the world's leading experts on flies, so much so that his email handle is "flyman". His group is trying to understand the relationship between the fruit fly's biological structure and it's behavior. They do all these zany experiments with motion tracking where they observe a bunch of flies interacting and try to figure out what's going on in their brains. Really cool stuff. I've always felt that if we could understand the genes -> cells -> systems -> behavior pathway much better then our understanding of the world might be completely transformed... I think octopuses would be an especially interesting model organism to study.
> An octopus, with its richly complex behavior and its large eyes filled with focused attention, is a far more compelling inkblot test, so to speak, triggering a strong social perception in us. Not only do we know, intellectually, that it gathers objective information about its world, but we can’t help feeling that it must have a subjective awareness as well emanating out of those soulful eyes.

But the truth is, we don’t know, and the sense we get of its conscious mind says more about us than about the octopus. The experts who study octopuses risk becoming the least reliable observers on this point, because they are the ones most likely to be entranced by these wonderful creatures.

Conciousness debates are so fundamental yet so moot: One can only attribute conciousness based on observing behavior. There really isn't a good "line on the sand" to distinguish who/what is conscious and who isn't for anything from humans to octopuses to microwaves to computer programs.
> But... isn't the entire point of White Christmas that this technology has horrifying social consequences?

Yes, and the point of my commentary is that privacy zealotry itself has horrifying social consequences when taken to its logical conclusions
They asked Israel for the login credentials?
That is a valid argument, but can be applied to any hush hush effort. But such "limited visibility" organizations often push to limit public control, after which their mission or methods may morph to support internal goals that may not be shared by the general public they were created to serve.

It would be naive to require that all government information is shared with the public, but we should maintain robust oversight on all clandestine activities and give that oversight teeth to correct problems when such activities to too far. My 2c.
You’re trolling, right?
Maybe she bought 20 packs because they were on sale and freezes them for later use?
This covers the entire career span of my age peers. It's no small part our own fault though. Congress became an arm of Corporate Industry on our watch and up until just a few years ago we didn't pay much or any attention (as a group).

But, over the past decade I've seen them getting active again, and so are the youngsters, so I have hope we can undo this.
I didn't downvote, but I will present a blog on the topic. (Like the rest of accelerationism, it's all on blogs)

https://therealmovement.wordpress.com
I tried to have it launch spotify when Airpods were connected, but found only Apple music supported. I’ve always wondered, is the lack of Spotify support in Siri, Shortcuts, due to Spotify or due to Apple blocking them?
I don't think this was intentional or malicious on Google's part. It's only not a defense for the QA team.