skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False, the level of access which caused that scandal and others was the fact that the early versions of the Facebook API granted access to second degree nodes in the network once you approved an app. Cambridge did not manage to get hundreds of millions of people to take their survey, they got access to the hundreds of millions of friends of those who did.
Nice guide. Here is an older and simpler one from SmartBear: https://smartbear.com/blog/test-and-monitor/14-ways-to-contr....
Rotation and velocity hint that something is amiss but doesn't directly measure dark matter. Gravitational lensing is a direct measurement of matter but doesn't tell us much about its composition. If using the most general definition of "dark matter", lensing would be a direct measurement. But if "dark matter" implies non-baryonic matter, the leading hypothesis, then gravitational lensing is indirect because it is hinting something is amiss just like the rotation and velocity evidence. Now if there was a predictive theory of non-baryonic matter and that predicted gravitational lensing with specific characteristics, that would be direct evidence. Just like GR predicted black holes and we searched and found them.
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Isn't feasibility a function of the cost of alternative options? If our current methods dry up, what is considered nonviable today suddenly becomes normal.
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What a Software Engineer Needs to Know: 1. Program Vocabulary (1989) [pdf]
Problem is, nobody asks life advice from people whose failing was that they worked too little.
Would it do anything to boycott them
> Colocating in Russia comes with its own issues.

Enemy of my enemy...

If you are afraid of a bogey men called Five Eyes and NSL, then colocating in Russia makes perfect sense.

If you are a publisher of KavkazCenter, you should probably host it somewhere in the US.
You need to design new country.
Are you suggesting that a bunch of data centres will noticeably increase the temperature of Iceland?

That seems pretty unrealistic - think about the scale of energy that would require.
Very excited that this has been made open source. This was one of my favorite projects to follow back in 2015 or so when I was at MS.

It's a very neat idea. The way I think of the core idea is that you give instructions to all of your rows, and they arrange themselves in a way that high level patterns become visible. That way you can always see the forest and the trees. This is opposed to the current practice of generating new marks from functions on the data to then see high level patterns. In the current practice you can see the forest or the trees.

A very interesting thing happened to me though when I played with this pattern for a while (and this is anecdotal, so take with a grain of salt): it seemed to damage my eyes. I would click around changing the views and the dots would jump in all sorts of directions to the new layouts, and after a while I got headaches and visual aura. Now, it was probably just a coincidence because I was also a bit overworked at the time, but because it was so new, and in some ways so unnatural (to see so many patterns of movement so quickly that you don't generally see in nature), I decided not to take chances and moved away from animated visualizations. Anyone else ever had anything similar happen?
Where does the salt go when you desalinate? At a large enough scale, would we risk salting some area (or body of water) to death?
10% coupon, really? How much of this is Amazon's legal department. It's time to make an annual cancel Prime day
> first game a human has ever played

Like a human that never played a game, used a computer, used any physical buttons, learned a language, understands what a game is, knows what a sport like football is, etc...

There is lots of stuff that you'll need to feed your AI to be equivalent to a 6 year-old brain. That and a 6 year-old interaction with a game will be more random than logically driven.

If you are doing that you are already at the stage of AGI. It is not theoretically impossible but the impracticality of it right now is what makes scientist trying domain-specific AI.
How does that work? If I buy a 2080 Ti and then decide to use it in an internet-hosted box that I rent out to other people, the first-sale doctrine should tell Nvidia to piss off if they have a problem with it.
Vulkan Shading Language as it stands, is likely a non starter, you're right. That explains the lack of adoption.

That said, I wasn't advocating to try and beat that particular dead horse. I was advocating for OpenCL. I understand why the Metal Shading Language is superior, but OpenCL is still very good, and works across platforms to boot.

CUDA and MSL are really nice. I just wish both NVidia and Apple would add to OpenCL and let the industry move forward with that standard and the ability to use whatever hardware we wanted.

Now all that said, I also understand Apple's hesitancy with OpenCL as well. It's definitely one of those "fool me once, shame on you" kind of things.
is libc something that generally requires multiple releases every year?
Presumably such an API would be restricted to only accessing data generated by the person who approved the API. For example, it would prevent any kind of "news feed" functionality until your connected network also granted access. (This is distinct from what happened with CA)
There are various sites that calculate this.

Project Wren is one, I reckon they'd put you at about 10 tonnes per year or so, that's a very rough order of magnitude estimate by me though.

Regarding budget; that's something that would have to be decided in a vague sense in order to enact a carbon tax.

On a personal level you can just decide. Personally I donate and buy enough offset/capture that I go negative, because I can, and because my career means that I have enough money as long as I calibrate my lifestyle expectations appropriately.
Too short to draw reasonable conclusions from, but a primer:

1. Code of Conduct change was announced to moderators, mandating the use of preferred pronouns where known.

2. The extent of "mandating" was (and frankly remains) unclear. One point of contention being "is avoiding pronouns altogether allowed"?

3. A moderator was removed for allegedly repeatedly violating the existing code of conduct in the discussions surrounding this. There is disagreement over the justification, but it is unquestioned that the process (there was none), the lack of warnings or mediation attempts, the timing, and the subsequent communication by StackExchange were all ATROCIOUS.

4. This being yet another grave misstep of several over the past years led to about 10% of the moderators across all sites resigning over the past weeks.

More context: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-...
In C, you could do that with an array of pointers to functions, and just index into the array. (The functions would need to know their own number of arguments, though, and consume them from the byte stream. But I think I prefer that to the dispatcher knowing the number of arguments that each function consumes.)
Some interesting parallels to choices made in Pascal in the second level language, too.

I'm not convinced that this approach is the best - the first level language is a bit like "literal programming" machine code (not assembler) - but I think a level of simple substitution would help a bit (think m4 as an assembler) - allowing at least mnemonics. The insitence on numbers seem somewhat arbitrary as they still need to be translated from strings (letter sequences) to actual integers[e] - I don't think a table/variable look up would be too onerous.

On the whole this feels a bit more convoluted than building a Forth as level one - but no matter what I applaud the effort.

[e] assuming program source code is text, not binary?

If it's binary I suppose "filtering out" comments might be an approach as opposed to "translating" the source.
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> Anecdotally, based on my experience working with over 250 local businesses across the business spectrum, this doesn't reflect reality.

Have to chime in here. I run a small brick and motor business with a membership model (climbing gym).

FB/Insta are paramount to our marketing and communication. Like the parent comment said, people like to say they don't use Facebook/Insta but that doesn't seem to be true at all.

Our ad budget on FB is an easy choice and is the only method of adverts that have given us any sort of consistent return. Groupon can get people in the door as well, but then you need to convert them directly with strong sales. It's good, but hard.

Organic FB/Insta are also the best way for us to communicate with our members/community about events, specials and closures. People check these platforms all the time. I believe these work so well for us because of the visual aspect of our business. If we were more informational, perhaps email would be a better tool.

I fantasize about not using Facebook properties, but it would come at a tremendous cost to the business and our community.
You can read their comment history to contextualize their angle.
The major issue with desalination as far as I can tell is that it produces toxic brine that proves problematic as far as disposal.
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It's effectively doing the work like an entrepreneur with anywhere between too little to no upside, indeed.

I'd agree you shouldn't work at a startup unless you're personally vested in its success — the core team, with equity.
Git greps work if you're trying to search all the logs. I would think this detailed documentation would be most important when you're trying to understand a specific file or line of code. In that case, it's:

- git blame (who wrote this?)

- git show (look at the commit surfaced by blame)
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The video suggests that it's hosted on another website, but I haven't found it.
Currently it's just a Chrome extension. The Chrome windows API is pretty decent. I think this "window manager" will have plenty of limitations, but I also think it might just be good enough. In parallel I'm also poking at ash a little bit, but I doubt I'd be able to take on such a large project and actually succeed.

This extension is a window manager that mimics Amethyst for OSX: https://github.com/brockgr/chrometile

It can give an idea of what's possible with the chrome.windows API.
Don't be so cynical.
They seem to be using a fast moving rotor with holes in the backside of the blades that extract the steam from the cavity and then condense it.

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Links and related articles:

University:
http://www.sfu-kras.ru/en/news/22304

Related paper: http://research.sfu-kras.ru/publications/publication/5140807... (doi: 10.1007/s11431-014-5631-0)

List of articles of the mentioned researcher (Kulagin) is at
http://research.sfu-kras.ru/publications/author/24184408

(Nothing stands out on arXiv when searching for either desalination, cavitation or Siberian Federal University)
Respectfully disagree. such questions are relevant. No system is perfect and every system can be exploited to serve the prejudices of individuals. Everything from the super rich exploiting tax loop holes to putting innocent people on death row. Not only one must close the loop hole, but the exploiter must be punished as an example.

Part of ensuring things is to enforce consequences. The more extreme the crime the more extreme the consequence. The consequence serves two roles. One role is to help the criminal learn, but more importantly it's to help other people learn that you cannot commit such heinous acts without repercussions. Without consequences no system of enforcement will work.

What this article describes was never tolerated by society. It was a loop hole that when exploited had little consequence.
I think your example demonstrates pattern recognition imperfection.

Understanding will start with questions like "cat sitting on the chair".
Whenever I see claims of computers "understanding" I immediately think of the "Chinese Room" argument.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
I like the way the author use Quadrant Analysis (derived from Gartner's Magic Quadrants research methodology[1], well not exactly the same quardrants but similar way of thinking.) to explain the "right" way to do documentation.

[1]: https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/magic-quad...
I've come to prefer flexbox over grid, the main reason being that it gives much more sensible behavior on different screensizes. When you want to lay out for different sizes of screens, grid usually means a completely separate layout inside a media section, while flexbox's wrapping behavior seems to smoothly transition between wide and narrow screens with only a few margin/width adjustments. There may be a sane way to get the same behavior with grid auto-flow, but if there is, I haven't figured it out.

One thing I'd like to try, but have never had the budget for, is completely isolated grid layouts for different sizes. That is, all the layout is in mutually-exclusive media sections. This has a higher up-front cost, but I suspect in the long run, the higher up-front cost would be outweighed by having layouts more fine-tuned for the screen sizes, and more decoupled so you don't have to worry about changes in desktop-size layouts affecting mobile-size layouts.

Flexbox also has a significantly larger browser share than Grid on CanIUse.

Really though, I'm greatly relieved to see browsers start implementing some layout tools that corresponds to how people actually think about layouts. The float years were dark times.
I know a family where the father did die of a heart attack in his 50s, definitely due to work pressure, and they made a lot more than average money. That is in California, USA.. he and his wife were first-generation immigrants.. big house, not an ordinary house.. plus all that goes with that.. to be clearer.. no actually, two families.. now that I think of it..
> Meanwhile, people are led to believe that it does no harm to fly (or whatever), because they bought offsets.

The harm they are doing is substantially less than flying without offsets. You're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good-enough.
90% compared to heating. But at scale no one desalinates by heating, it's all membrane based.

I'd like to see an energy comparison to that.
What makes us happy? We analysed 200 years of written text to find the answer
That's the major issue with desalination. Dumping the brine byproduct back into the ocean is roughly equivalent of dumping other chemicals into the ocean, if not worse.
I agree. At first glance, they serve the same niche, but in reality there is a huge difference in credibility between AppleInsider and MacRumors.

(I don't have a relationship with either site.)
Pyramids and Cathedrals
I didn't say anything about git. I said the commit messages are eternal, and none of those changes will change the commit messages (except, perhaps, changing the VCS, but usually that will preserve commit messages too).
"Instead" refers to the exclusivity of eye candy. So I'd rather see additional features enabled instead of an exclusive focus on flaming or squigly windows. Both would be fine, but if I had to choose...
I love the SQLite source code, it has a good ratio of comments per line of code
"The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim."
I think it is a problem:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24241776

Maybe if the plant can spread the salt water further it could be less of an issue?
thanks for the tip! good to know it's possible
Typically the waste brine is pumped back out to sea. Its spread over a wide(ish) area to attempt to minimize the environmental impact. There are varying opinions about whether enough is done to avoid damaging the environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Environmental
Most people here (HN) overspend to a ridiculous degree and pretend that $200k/yr cash comp "isn't that much."

Most people in the US live paycheck to paycheck and make price-sensitive decisions on things like food and rent.
I don't think Electron apps count as "brows[ing] the web" in most cases. I also don't think this is meant for iOS.
The funny thing is that even the easiest games are surprisingly difficult, even insurmountable, for otherwise capable humans who have not been "trained" on what to expect and learned domain knowledge through trial and error. See [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7f3JZJHSw
If I remember correctly, dietlibc was part of a whole bunch of DJB-fanboy releases by fefe way back when dinosaurs and qmail ruled the earth. Not that much happening since then, I think he's mostly CCC-ish-blogging these days.
Membrane-based technology has already cut costs significantly over distilling, and it is already commercially mature. It would be more interesting to compare the costs of this to membranes.
I see his life as a warning more than anything else. A person spending his entire adult life working non-stop, climbing the corporate ladder, and then to die so young...
Metal and Vulkan's predecessor, Mantle, were under development at the same time, although Mantle was announced to the public several months sooner than Metal.
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> I will not believe this when a person is involved in violent acts, rape, murder, etc. which nobody "needs" to do to survive.

Agreed. There is a spectrum of individuals, and not everyone is good. However, if you break down the types of crime, non-violent crimes are very much the majority (0). Most people don't like hurting other people.

If you want an example of a working system with the mentality of "Rehabilitate over Punish", see many of the Nordic countries (1).

> in the past decade, the number of Swedish prisoners has dropped from 5,722 to 4,500 out of a population of 9.5 million. The country has closed a number of prisons, and the recidivism rate is around 40%, which is far less than in the U.S. and most European countries.

You can argue this is due to other factors such as overall wealth of the nation, but that further proves my point that crime is more often an act of desperation rather than one of sadism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States

[1] https://www.mic.com/articles/109138/sweden-has-done-for-its-...
Back into the ocean. If you just dump the saline in one place it's bad, but good practice is to dilute the saline with sea water, after which it's perfectly safe.

The ocean evaporates more fresh water from its surface than humans could ever possibly match by desalination, so that part is perfectly fine.

Just avoid dumping the saline in high concentration (which is easy to do).
Part of the monetization issue, at least in the United States, is that banks are under pressure to not do business with those involved with pornographic content, via those who want to stamp out such things. The banks seem to be the weak link; they'll disconnect from other payment gateways that do allow such content, etc.
Other countries, yes even in Europe, have better healthcare than us with multi-payer systems. Medicare for All is a joke.
Do Cows Have Friends?
Performance could be a reason. It’s highly likely that implementing a low level graphics API on top of another low-level graphics API will have some performance gotchas here and there.
Nitpicking butt Trident is the IE engine you were thinking of, not Triton.
Because nvidia's driver licensing terms require you not to be using the consumer stuff in a datacenter.
When is this slated to be available in the US?
That's a good point. All the salt and other solute needs to go someplace.

As that stuff comes from the ocean one might suggest it goes back into it at a controlled rate.

The biggest challenge I'd read about had been energy costs, so this headline appears to be great news.
Even better pro-tip: SIN has a rooftop hotel with an outdoor pool, spa, shower, restaurant & bar. $20SGD entry. They even had a deal with free meal & drink a while back.

It is AMAZING to get a longer layover and hang out, have a swim, shower & real meal!
>No, we need to get rid of private insurance

Insurance works well for rare events. Using insurance for an annual physical (or any other routine thing) is just pissing money away.

Cutting insurance out of routine and preventative care will require far less political capital and should have a massive impact on costs. No need to go all the way to eliminating private insurance. A government option would have benefits but there's no reason private insurance can't exist also.
It needs to keep up with underlying changes in the operating system from time to time.
This[1] paper does an excellent job gradually removing cultural priors from a simple videogame, and measuring the extent to which human and computer performance degrade. Their conclusion is that human ability to learn games fast depends on our ability to map them to real world concepts. Would it be permitted for entrants in your contest to pretrain on some other non-videogame task?

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.10217.pdf
> who cares? "I already have what I needed from you guys" is what execs are thinking.

To be clear, this (perceived) exec sentiment you describe is why moderators are resigning/suspending activities. And given that, this sentiment seems incredibly short-sighted.
I really like that commit message - though it'd be nice to link to any sort of issue/task tracking ID that's relevant to that piece of work.
Ok. Please stop posting flamebait to HN.

Yes, I know about creating new accounts, but I'd rather persuade you to simply follow the site guidelines. It's not hard to use HN as intended if you want to.
Sorry, I think I was misunderstood. Cell towers that work over starlink (i.e., use starlink as an uplink method) may be cheaper than cell towers that use a landline for an uplink.

So the ideal situation would be Starlink for remote areas, and in medium to higher density areas put up towers that talk to Starlink, then can speak to local receivers using terrestrial radio technologies.
Yes I’m sure. You’re implying that because the woman posed for Playboy she’s now “damaged goods” and less deserving of respect by society. A man dating one of these “low society women” should be looked down upon as well. If the roles were reversed, if Carly Fiorina started dating a backup dancer from Magic Mike XXL, should we judge her negatively for that?
I would say that "awareness" requires an entity to contain a detailed representation of the world around it that is updated over time as it interacts with the world.

Of course, there is a spectrum here, depending on the complexity and dynamicness of this internal representation of the world.

Perhaps it goes something like: absolutely zero awareness (e.g. a rock), to barely aware (a Venus fly trap), to highly aware (elephants, humans, etc). I'm sure the scale doesn't stop there, but we haven't had a chance to observe anything other than the highly aware animals here on Earth.

You could break this down further, looking at things like episodic memory, the different senses of self, and so on. But humanity has only scratched the surface when it comes to understanding these things.