skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that you mention it, I too remember the problems. To an extent I do consider them growing pains for a new medium, people trying to break the system in a childlike or hacker way. I also enjoyed the raw-ness of the new medium and accepted the "noise" as so many +5 rated comments were infinitely better than what you were able to read in a newspaper or magazine.

Trolling was in it's infancy and at least labeled as such. Today it's organizations successfully influencing elections through social media. And I do think the discussion of events was more nuanced and objective than today, the parody you've linked is actually a pretty good outline for a comment, better than most 140 character tweets.
Well, that wasn't my experience, my experience is that each new release seriously broke my project, that Android React-native was in a sad state for a long time, that scrolling list and image loading performance was bad and had to be replaced with custom versions, that the attempts to write the Navigator in JS were bad and janky, and you invariably had to resort to native platform dependent ones, and one and one. The migration tool frequently failed for me.

And I'm not even referencing the sorry state of third party components as well. Something as simple as a map component or bluetooth component would break on every release.

Oh, and then there's Babel choking on large complex projects in hard to debug ways.
I think it ultimately all boils down to launch cadence, which seems to be the driving force behind how things are done in space.

Launches are rare, which means you want to pack as much value generators into your payload as possible, which now means your payload is an expensive one-off workpiece (vs. a mass-produced item), which means extra risk, which means more safety requirements around integration and launch, which means more expensive launches, which means launching less often, ...

So if you're thinking of sending something to Mars for Science, people look attractive (mass produced, can do a lot per dollar spent on getting them qualified for mission), but life support requirements make this too expensive, so sophisticated one-off robots fly from time to time instead. Now if we could increase launch cadence and payload capacity, which is what SpaceX is working on, we could start sending people... or we could load the Starship with multiple cubesat launchers and a payload bay full of remote-operated or semi-automated rovers and drones. In few missions, we could blanket most areas of immediate scientific interest with robots. In this reality, higher payload capacity and launch cadence would drive demand, which means both the scientific robots could be mass-produced, and there would be more iterating on design, increasing the amount of missions that could be done by machines.

The way I see it, right now what SpaceX is doing to enable manned missions is pretty much aligned with what's needed to enable proper robotic missions.
I switched back to Firefox from Chrome with the introduction of Firefox Quantum after years of failed attempts at switching back prior to that. Firefox really is first class again. I echo your suggestion to give it a try again.
Five things your Business Degree will Not teach you about business
They are big in the grassroots aid movement running important projects in multiple countries, but they aren't the Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders big.

Hoping to get this resolved before they have to try and publicly call out Facebook, but you're right- that seems to be the only way to get tech orgs to take a minute to care about situations like these.
> No one is going to get Intel or AMD to allow open PSP/ME firmware -- AIUI even Google, with the truckloads of chips they buy

I can't understand why so few in the tech industry are troubled by this.

With two competing suppliers and Google's immense purchasing volumes it is completely bizzare that neither AMD nor Intel has offered Google PSP/ME-free processors.
I don’t think there’s copyright on a short, generic phrase like that.
Jeff Bezos’s End Game: What the Amazon CEO Wants For His Empire
Campus Recruitment Process: Here’s everything you need to know
You may be interested in "Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency" [1]:

> There is a widely held view in the astronomical community that unmanned robotic space vehicles are, and always will be, more efficient explorers of planetary surfaces than astronauts (e.g. Coates 2001, Clements 2009, Rees 2011). Partly this comes from a common assumption that robotic exploration is cheaper than human exploration (although this isn't necessarily true if like is compared with like) and partly from the expectation that developments in technology will relentlessly increase the capability and reduce the size and cost of robotic missions to the point that human exploration will not be able to compete. I argue below that the experience of human exploration during the Apollo missions, more recent field analogue studies and trends in robotic space exploration all point to exactly the opposite conclusion.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/53/2/2.22/212515
When Endeavour is lost - your talking to a the difference between savage and an endless computer.
Or even put through a system to dissipate heat and reused
The Actual Reason Meat Is Not Healthy
> This photograph depicts a classified “listening station” deep in the forests of West Virginia. The station is located at the center of the “National Radio Quiet Zone,” a region of approximately 34,000 square kilometres in West Virginia and parts of Maryland. Within the Quiet Zone, radio transmissions are severely restricted: omnidirectional and high-powered transmissions (such as wireless internet devices and FM radio stations) are not permitted.

> The listening station, which forms part of the global ECHELON system, was designed in part to take advantage of a phenomenon called “moonbounce.” Moonbounce involves capturing communications and telemetry signals from around the world as they escape into space, hit the moon, and are reflected back towards Earth.

> The photograph is a long exposure under the full moon light.
It's possible that your 6yo is a supertaster.
Lots of people call Apple out on all sorts of issues, several times a week. Figuratively "no one" believed "You're holding it wrong".
I'd expect warmed groundwater will have unintended consequences for the biodiversity there; lots of essential bacteria and other small organisms would suffer.

And that is assuming they keep the groundwater as-is, without adding any additives, neutralizing the water, etc.
I wish these articles would make a clear distinction between blueberries and bilberries (wild blueberries) which are so common in eastern European forests but almost unavailable on the shelves. They have very dark purple colour and are full of flavour. Interestingly, you can find them in most blueberry muffins.
I Improved My Eyesight with VR
Wow using ground water to cool down computers? Is there no other water supply available?

Ofc a Google rep says how they are environmentally committed. Obv they'd never say if they didn't give a shit. What a useless comment.

Clean unpolluted ground water is probably the most precious resource there is.
Of course. She is creating a lot of attention for the mismatch between scientists' (in particular IPCC) insights and recommendations and politicians (in)actions and failure to reach the goals they set themselves.

> what actions does she recommend

She recommends we listen to the science. Nothing more, nothing less.
I have zero qualifications on that, but warming up the ground water sounds like a really good way to encourage anything living down there to rapidly multiply.
And that is even if google's server cooling circulation was a sterile environment, which I highly doubt.
The Guide to Next.js Authentication with Auth0
This post has more votes than medium's ...
Me too, and they are. Anyone who receives garbage like this should report it to the sender’s email hosting service.
One big pain point for bazel is installation on Windows, it needs msys2 and need it on the default path. Just a pain to setup. I was thinking of proposing bazel in my org, but after my try on work laptop I abandoned the idea.
How is that even possible that bugs like that made it to production?

They do not write tests or something?
I hate this tendency of trying to reduce the behavior of conscious living things (such as whales, dolphins etc.), who are capable of emotions to simple "inadvertent" rules.

That's like saying: I believe Mr. Pittman, who is otherwise capable of complex behavior, did not consider the meaning of his words before uttering them. What he said was simply an inadvertent response to being asked a question.

You wouldn't even say that about a dog following orders.
You guys are awesome. Thanks for this extraordinary resource for the community of students getting up the curve.
Maven is simple, works extremely well and behaves pretty sane. IDE integration is amazing and unless you write a build/deploy pipeline you don't even need to call a single mvn command. What do you not like about it?
Human smugglers deserve peace prizes now? What a world we are living in.
The content of this article is paywalled.
Mexico will legalise cannabis this month
Results:

For the MANT, significantly quicker RTs were observed for WBB participants when compared to placebo participants on 120 ms trials, without cost to accuracy. Furthermore, WBB participants showed enhanced verbal memory performance on the AVLT, recalling more words than placebo participants on short delay and memory acquisition measures post-consumption. Despite these significant improvements in cognitive performance, no significant effects were observed for reading measures.

(Emphasis is mine)
Thanks for mentioning this! I'm going to try it out today.
Don't forget self maintainence, too!

Exercise, eating well, sleeping enough, socialising and having a little fun are often treated as luxuries in many cultures yet are essential to maintaining healthy living.
Solve JavaScript node requirements problem script collection
New insulin pill could end daily injections for diabetes patients
If it's such an easy fix, then fix it.

If it's a js/css/html/xul-only fix (and chances are good it is, when it's a usability issue, as the frontend/UI code js on a high level), then you do not even have to really build Firefox but can use artifacts mode[1], which takes a few minutes for the initial build and only a few seconds for subsequent builds.

Then find a reviewer. I usually look at the recent activity of files I touch (or related files, or related bugs), find functional changes and just add whoever reviewed those most recent changes. Even easier when it's regressions, then you can see who reviewed the regressed changeset and who wrote it and CC them as well.

If the person(s) you picked do not want to review it or cannot review it, they will tell you, and usually suggest who else to ask.
If this doesn't work, then you can always ask/nag on IRC.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...
My favourite is this one: https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/29cxi6/i_made_a_delt....
This water will be used in evaporative coolers. There won't be warmed water to return.

The water gets recycled 50-100 times, and each time a small percentage evaporates into a cloud.

The cloud really does make clouds.
i think what we can all agree on here is that you are morally superior to the funny patch slogan people
Narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths make up 10-15% of the population. It's normal for them.
Compared to other software of similar complexity I think standing up a Firefox build is actually pretty reasonable. The bootstrap instructions are not complicated (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...) and the build takes about an hour on my laptop. Chrome is certainly a lot harder and takes significantly longer (if you lack access to Google's internal build farm). Likewise the Linux kernel is also tricky and slow to build the first time.
-That they are, but by foreign powers (China is not the only one!), its independence is often cast in doubt. Doubly so as the Norwegian parliament elect members to the Nobel committee, and they tend to choose has-been politicians to put them out to pasture.

The result being that while the committee is nominally independent, its ties to government are strong enough for China, for instance, to put relations with Norway in the freezer for several years after Liu Xiaobo was awarded the prize in 2010.
>The difference is government entities can be made democratically accountable which means effective pressure can be brought to bear on them.

Or they can be shielded from accountability because government bureaucracy. Imagine if the MTA were a private entity. Their contract would not be getting renewed (to put it mildly).
I've been using the Dreem headband for a year and a half and there are enough factual errors about it in this piece to make me distrust the rest of it.

Firstly, it doesn't require leaving your smartphone on all night as she writes. Once started, it's autonomous (it even reportedly shuts down its onboard WiFi/BT, probably for power saving reasons but also to alleviate any fears about having an RF emitter so close to your head for 8 hours)

Secondly, getting an accurate hypnogram (detailed sleep phases) on a consumer EEG device is a huge deal in itself (she doesn't seem to understand the point), but this one goes even further by promising to actively enhance slow wave/deep sleep through precisely timed audio stimulations (white noise pulses). The research in this area is apparently the starting point of the company.

Thirdly, the app does include the kind of CBT program she praises at the end of the article. I find the combination of this with a device that provides an accurate sleep log to be a potentially more efficient combination than CBT alone.

One area where I do have reservations with this class of devices is privacy : not only do you have your exact sleep/wake times + hundreds of MBs of your EEG data uploaded to their servers every morning, the latest version apparently has a built-in microphone !

It's reserved for future use (an obvious application is snoring / sleep apnea detection) and reportedly not activated yet, but of course it's closed source firmware and you have to take their word for it, and even if you trust their intentions (I do, and there's always GDPR), you also have to trust their security as well.

Disclaimer : I have no stake or direct interest in Dreem, but I'm very familiar with their product and even interviewed with them at one point.
>> Incidentally, the popular book/film 300, which focuses heavily on the bravery and martial ethos of the Spartans, instead depicts the Persian fleet as being destroyed by a storm prior to the decisive battle.

The Persians did lose a lot of ships in two storms, before the battle at Artemision:

Simultaneous with the battle at Thermopylae, an Allied naval force of 271 triremes defended the Straits of Artemisium against the Persians.[126] Directly before Artemisium, the Persian fleet had been caught in a gale off the coast of Magnesia, losing many ships, but could still probably muster over 800 ships at the start of the battle.[127] On the first day (also the first of the Battle of Thermopylae), the Persians detached 200 seaworthy ships, which were sent to sail around the eastern coast of Euboea. These ships were to round Euboea and block the line of retreat for the Allied fleet.[127] Meanwhile, the Allies and the remaining Persians engaged in the late afternoon, the Allies having the better of the engagement and capturing 30 vessels.[127] That evening, another storm occurred, wrecking the majority of the Persian detachment which had been sent around Euboea.[128]
Was Heidi the Octopus Dreaming?
If an article gets published behind a paywall does it still exist?
This year's winner called for the Literature prize to be abolished a few years ago. I can't help but agree with him on that.
True that it is indeed the ghost of French game publisher Infogrames, although I doubt any of the original Infogrames is left. After going bankrupt in 2013 "Atari" is basically a hollow shell run by Fred Chesnais, who has zero connection to either company historically.

Totally agreed with your comments on consolidation, no good ever seems to come of it.
Who will win the streaming wars?
The Navy's Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor
The 100-200ms time I referred to was indeed a single search. The difference is, it's on a single core. Cython definitely makes the hamming distance function faster.
I'm sure that people who decided it were well compensated, who are you to disagree?
Quintillion CEO’s Promise to Wire the Arctic Was $1B Scam
> Those benchmarks are for hashing data in the billions of bytes range. Hash tables typically use data in the 1-20 byte range.

No, you misunderstood the purpose of the project. From the benchmarks, SipHash:

Small key speed test - 1-byte keys - 110.91 cycles/hash
Small key speed test - 2-byte keys - 110.32 cycles/hash
...
Small key speed test - 20-byte keys - 164.79 cycles/hash

wyhash:

Small key speed test - 1-byte keys - 18.00 cycles/hash
Small key speed test - 2-byte keys - 18.00 cycles/hash
...
Small key speed test - 20-byte keys - 21.00 cycles/hash

The whole purpose of smhasher is to help choose hash functions for hash tables and alike implementations.
Sewage (after treatment) can also be used to cool servers. Some big companies do this.

I'd guess groundwater was cheaper than sewage in this specific location.
It wasn't to me. Try clearing your cookies perhaps.
It evaporates in the chiller towers.

https://intra.ece.ucr.edu/~sren/project/water/img/water_cool...
Good joke. Sounds like you haven't used windows since ME.
I have found contributing to the linux kernel a significantly more pleasant experience than contributing to Firefox.

I have no trouble believing that contributing to Chrome is even harder, but then again I didn't hear someone from Google saying "If you think a bug is easy to fix, pleasez consider providing a patch."
How much will it cost to subscribe to the ever-expanding streaming universe?
Thanks for mentioning this! I did have a look at that software but couldn't get it to run on my Linux machine. To be fair, I didn't try very hard.

I also figured, since what I started was just a lightweight tree of plaintext markdown files, that it would be easy to integrate into another comparable system later on.
Are these the end times for binge culture?
Wow, that's a nice mapping of the Smalltalk code browser onto a regular text-based PL.

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/673
Sass to CSS Converter
As a target of bullying and a bully myself, teacher intervention or punishment rarely worked either. I was talking more therapy or something like that, or investigation into school environment/ classroom.
It's not really the life support. It's the lower risk tolerance, the need to bring people back and the tyranny of the rocket equation.

You can just abandon a robot on Mars. But if you want to send people to the Moon or Mars you will need to send them with a spacecraft and fuel that will allow them to return. The tyranny of the rocket equation then forces you to build extra large rockets like Saturn V, SLS or Super Heavy Starship. You need exponentially more fuel as you increase payload mass in order to have the same capability.

SpaceX solves that with refueling in low Earth orbit, that allows to scale rocket fuel needs linearly with regard to payload instead of exponentially. And with refueling at the destination in case of Mars. But the need to bring fuel with you is still a big limitation for the Moon missions.
They really _should_ make a clear distinction and give the scientific name of the species they were using in their research.

Here in Denmark, blueberry (“blåbær”) means Vaccinium myrtillus and is readily available pickled or frozen, whereas the "blueberries" with light flesh (e.g., Vaccinium uliginosum – "mosebølle") are not considered blueberries in the botanical sense.
What is broken is the pale grey font on white background. I can't read that without hurting my eyes. What is the point of this? Is it supposed to be pretty? I can hardly see it.
I have owned a Fitbit Alta for over 2 years. When I got it I wore it all the time, except when it was charging. The strap broke after 3 months, bought a replacement strap and that is now held together with twine. Now I only wear it when going for a long walk, i.e. over 100 minutes.

The sleep tracking function was OK, but I think it is not robust enough to be worn 24x7 (less the 5-6 hours it takes to recharge). From various tests, the step counter seems to be in error more than the claimed 5%. I still use the phone app to track my weight using a conventional (non-Fitbit) digital scale and entering the values manually most days.

It's one of those techy things. When you don't have one you think of all the benefits. After months of ownership the novelty wears off and it is all rather mheh. Fitbit keep sending me emails to upgrade to their latest and greatest. Seriously, you can buy a Seiko Kinetic watch for the price of a low end Fitbit and the Seiko will work for decades without even needing a new battery. Why keep buying ever more expensive smartwatches?
Are video games making the world a better place in 2020
Nitpick: Cliff left H20.ai more than 3 years ago – I agree that he's very worth while listening to.
Hear, hear! He's done a lot to promote a peaceful and democratic society and deserves the accolades.
Like this...

https://intra.ece.ucr.edu/~sren/project/water/img/water_cool...
SC = The state of South Carolina, for non-American readers.

It's a shame that the article doesn't define acronyms on first use.
Up front I just have to say that this comment is not meant as a criticism of the choice. These are just my loose thoughts on the particulars of this prize.

Without wanting to say anything about this year’s winner (if only because of a lack of my personal knowledge which, to be honest, is probably embarrasing): The prize has sometimes been awarded in a very aspirational way, i.e. not so much for past work, but more as an encouragement based on not so much past work. I view giving the award to Obama in that way, for example.

I do think that’s a valid and potentially valuable approach to giving out the prize. I’m not sure giving the prize to someone decades after they did something important is very useful, especially for such an overtly political prize. I do think that the Nobel Peace Prize has to dare to be brave and also dare to be wrong. It should not pick safe choices where a wide consensus has already formed.

Of course I also can see the other side, too: If you are wrong too often you risk becoming a joke and irrelevant, all encouragement is for nothing. So this is a hard problem to solve. But still: overall I think being daring is the right approach for a prize such as this. That the goal is to say with the prize: “We want to support the great work this person is doing right now, right in this moment!”

In that light I’m quite tolerant to some missteps if the Peace Prize is willing to be brave and get right into the fray, also of things that are still hotly contested.
Intelligence Gathering on U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Could you provide a link or resources how to run pytorch models from c++?
For now, like you say. If China decides to make one country one system, it's curtains for all the Western infrastructure and instances located there. Depending on how it goes down, it could be a big security/confidentiality issue for the data located or flowing through there.

I'm hopeful China would have a lot to lose by pulling the plug, since Hong Kong is a valuable interface to the West, but it might happen sooner or later with how unstable geopolitics is becoming.
So weird that there’s more tech news from a country that has an enormous tech industry than from countries where people have to spend their time dealing with famine, tribal wars and preventable diseases.
Thanks! I was unsure whether it stood for South Carolina or Santa Clara (close to where Google is based).
A party parrot meme mystery has been solved