skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GIFs will be around for a simple reason: memes

It's the only format that works pretty much everywhere on every platform
We always had climate change. Not having climate change is the exception. Is it man made? Is it caused by CO2? Ist it getting warmer? Is this a good or a bad thing? Can we and should we do something about it? This are many questions and climate change is one of the most complex phenomenons. I have a STEM PhD and would not be able to make a quick judgement.

"Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think"

Given that all the statements are true, something that is seldom discussed, who is "We"? People with real estate in NYC, Amsterdam and Miami? Maybe. People in super hot climates? Probably.

How about people in Greenland? Russia? Canada?
Strange. You seem to have posted a link to a source discredited on the subject of climate. The fact that we are seeing the same headlines for many years now should have been an obvious giveaway to you before you posted it.

https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

>June 30, 1989

> A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
well sure, when we had little bandwidth to even download a photo.
This would be a showstopper for me. Turning off the notifications addresses only part of the issue, I would never trust them again.

Why not use Firefox?
Fractal Fantasy – WebGL and Three.js demos
> The latter do more to mitigate it than the former.

Electing leaders who ignore the problem does way more harm than the lifestyles of average people.
> mean let's say we forked the Web before social media and simply had unified accounts for the variety of small sites we participated in. That seems like progress to me.

That wouldn't stop the network effect of social media, or centralization. Facebook, Twitter, etc. would still be built and people would still congregate to them, just using whatever their "unified accounts" were.

And remember, Google tried unifying accounts with G+, albeit just within their network. One day everyone on Youtube found their G+ comments merged with their Youtube comments because Google decided Youtube was just the video-sharing part of G+, and a lot of real names and data were exposed, because the two platforms were designed around completely different social paradigms. The obvious questions with something like a unified account is who controls them and defines the standard, and how do you make the rest of the web comply with using them?

All of the potential problems of centralization are still there, anywhere you have an attempt at a common standard.
According to the Onyx website, the Boox Note Pro is also based on Android 6.

https://onyxboox.com/boox_notepro
This was one of the most insightful articles I’ve read on HN in a while, and I’d love to see more of this content or even pay a premium to some publisher who has this category of technical deep dives.

My unsolicited feedback to you - it doesn’t hurt to practice empathy. The fact that you assumed the authors primary language is English (and even if it really is - it doesn’t matter) and hold them to that bar - and you point out the data structure is something you already knew - is this the same way you provide feedback in a work environment? Don’t take this as an attack, but I guarantee you would be a short timer in my org.
Pleco: Chess Engine and Library Derived from Stockfish, Written Entirely in Rust
The problem with hydro is that it doesn't scale. You can build it where there is a suitable location, but most of the suitable locations already have it.
Do you think people can live without production of food, housing, medicine, clothing and other goods? Do you think those things get delivered without transportation and communication infrastructure? Economic cost is not abstract at all - its a reduction of things people need to live. It measures other things as well but there is virtually no harm from climate change that can’t be measured in economic terms. That’s practically a tautology.
I suppose it's too late to ask for a deeper explanation. I must admit I'm puzzled on this one; these are principles that were taught to me very early on and never questioned since. I can remember by physics teacher along the lines of "physics is exact, if your experiment fails it's not the theory that's wrong, it's you!" and students were expected to make the experiment work for a good grade. If education grades can be subornated to the certainty that carefully designed experimental protocols should work within margins of error, this goes to show how confident we are that valid theory is valid... I don't know.

As for the scientific theory it was taught to me even in History class, it's just a set of principles.

Astrophysics, as far as I know, do not contradict existing theory? However it very much shows the limits thereof — but what's beyond this limit is not part of our undertanding of physics, of our theory, yet or ever. Maybe you can solve gravitation at the quantum level, maybe not, either way our accepted current theory work and keep being confirmed afaik.

Genuinely curious to know why the downvotes to GP.
TRS-80 Model 1 and Byte magazine for me. Thanks for bringing back good memories.

Fantasized getting an Amiga, but a colleague recommended this new "Mac" computer that seems geared to designers. And so it went...
The collapse of observing entangled particles can be non-local and isn’t controversial.

So why would hidden state matter? In fact, Bell’s Theorem allows this.
I'm much more in favor of sequestering CO2 naturally (planting trees everywhere possible, it also has huge benefits in well-being, air quality, ..), and forcing people to reduce their excessive consumerism
There is a difference between programming a robot to kill, compared to a human that had events happen (without will over them) and where the events almost led to a murder. The human isn't programmed to kill by those events but they almost led to the act. You have to acknowledge absolute vs uncertainty in the problem.
People love to get outraged when economists talk about human tragedy in monetary terms because they assume the sub text of discussing things in terms of money is that that's what they think is really important about the situation. This entirely misses the point.

The economists want something they can measure. They are using dollar losses as a proxy for the gravity of the situation and as a proxy for relative value that people place on things.

If you want someone to analyze people's feelings about the tragedy get a psychologist but there's a reason that economists are more likely to get invited to a climate summit than psychologists.
The core of the climateAction.tech at the moment is in a Slack, where different projects are moved forward by the community. There are a bunch of different things happening but recently some of our members where behind the https://digital.globalclimatestrike.net. A couple of things I know are being worked on include putting more pressure on AWS to switch to renewables faster and an idea for a green open-source license
Still using pinboard; one of the best investment I made in my entire life.
Yet another case in which William Gibson proved eerily prescient. While not quite the same, this exhibit evokes a lot of the themes of his 2007 novel Spook Country (the whole trilogy of which it was second is fantastic!), which was written before AR/VR tech was anywhere near as advanced as it is today.
Perhaps you can help shed some light on my apparent misunderstanding? See this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21365183
Scientists forced to take out loan to pay for eagles' foreign text messages
You can draft whatever you want on your own machine.
Encryptable, portable home directories is one of the goals of systemd. I can’t wait until one day when I just ssh in and it’s all there
Earliest Uses of Symbols of Set Theory and Logic
It always amuses me how the HN collective tears apart whatever rachelbythebay writes. Maybe they should change their online identity to rossbythebay.

The tale they've shared should be obvious: When a deploy is causing problems, stop. And here are some generic techniques that could have been used to avoid ending up in a situation where one might choose to plow ahead instead of rolling back.

How is this controversial to anyone? This is Formalized Change Process 101.
It’s not clear whether their strategy was a success or a failure. If it succeeded, the old bromides of “don’t rush pushes” doesn’t actually apply. I mean it worked didn’t it? The reality of production software is that it’s always pushed in somewhat of a rush, to meet a myriad of internal and external deadlines.

I would counter the “don’t rush” bromide with “anything worth doing is worth doing adequately.”
If the climate were a linear system then that might be answerable with certainty, but it is not.
The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)
He obviously wanted to say Latin American but didn't have the courage. There aren't many teams of Finnish roofers running around America. The 7-11 bit is odd; construction laborers aren't usually known to congregate around convenience stores when looking for work. Usually it's a hardware store. I suppose he wanted to distance himself from that cliche by making himself seem unfamiliar with the finer details.
My advice to Craig Federighi - start by abolishing the annual tax that is the Apple Developer Program fee.

There’s more, but let’s start with that.
Marx’s transformation problem and Pasinetti’s vertically integrated subsystems
WATER: Traditional municipal water pipes aren't perfect either. They're expensive to install and maintain, and it takes energy to pump all that water around and maintain pressure. Think about Flint [1], think about the upcoming shortage of groundwater in India. The cost of traditional water infrastructure is higher than estimated. There is real need for air capture of water.

Here's an interesting project to follow, perhaps you have seen it already: "The winner of the Water Abundance XPrize creates enough water for 100 people every day by making an artificial cloud inside a shipping container." [2]

FARMS: That's exactly right, agriculture uses much of our land today. Most of that is livestock. "Livestock is the world’s largest user of land resources, with grazing land and cropland dedicated to the production of feed representing almost 80 % of all agricultural land." [2] So much of meat production will be made using cellular agriculture. Livestock is way too resource intensive, cattle will go extinct. And the rest of it, well 2-dimensional farming seems inefficient so let's see what building up looks like. A single shipping container can hold many acres worth of short crops that can be grown on top of eachother.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

[2]
https://www.fastcompany.com/90253718/a-device-that-can-pull-...

[3] http://www.fao.org/animal-production/en/
That reminds me of when (around the same time) I discovered Composer 669 that on a i386 running in DOS flat (32-bit mode) could in real-time, mix 8 channels of sampled audio pitch shifted to each note.
If I understand correctly, currently anthropogenically accumulated extra CO2 takes some hundreds of thousands of years to return to geological circulation, while the faster biological circulation won't withhold it all, and seas are getting saturated (and will acidify beyond supporting current lifeforms in the process). [see eg. Hot Earth Dreams]

Also, if I understood correctly a single article I'll try to dig up a link to later, the kickback effect of stopping a temporary cooling measure and returning to the warming trend caused by the CO2 still in air will have stronger harmful effects. If these hold, it might prove tricky to keep up a moderate, safe cooling effect long enough, even if some technical measure to cause volcanic winter was found. [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0431-0?utm_source... via https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/devi...]

I would hope this or some other measure would prove successful. but I'm not yet able to put all my faith on any of them.
Maybe by a strict/legal definition of scam, but you can easily imagine taxes that fit colloquial usage. Anything where the government is dishonest about the motivations behind the tax or how it will be used.
The problem I have with this. Quantization must be a factor of wavelength and perhaps width of one slit. Yet the interference pattern produced by the double slit experiment depends on the distance between two slits. Diffraction pattern is not the same as an interference pattern, something the original researchers were well aware of.
Yes they are. A Kindle maybe is for people who just need to display certain formats / information but it can't display PDF properly, you can't write on it and I think it's a little too small (if I am still correct and they haven't released version with an increased screen size in the meantime).

I've jailbroken a lot of devices and in my opinion it's too time consuming and tiresome to do it very often / on a regular base.

It's okay if people have fun with tinkering and it's a great way to learn.
But nowadays I'm really glad when something just works and I can do the things I originally intended to do with them ;-p

In terms of an e-reader/writer it means reading, annotating and sketching instead of trying to get SSH, unlocking the bootloader and flashing unsupported firmware.

Too often I did this and ended up with a (partly) broken, sometimes working but for sure not very safe device that could barely do what it just wasn't intended to do.

BTW that Debian on Kindle looks like a nice POC just like some guy who put Ubuntu on it but it's not really useful if you can't use all the apps etc.

The list of apps which have been compiled so far is not long enough and I could not imagine doing much useful stuff with it I'm afraid. Nice work though.
1. Site is compromised.

2. When a search engine crawler goes to the site it displays the attackers content.

3 When a ‘normal’ users visits the site it will display the original site or a generic marketing site.

It’s a tactic to prevent the original owner from knowing their site was hacked.
It doesn’t seem like especially insightful advice to me. Most of these are slogans you can find printed on a coffee mug or throw pillow at Target. And “follow your heart” vs analytical decision-making in the end is usually catastrophically terrible advice.
In this case, the new version is meant to replace all instances of the old version. As an upgrade strategy, a kill switch, deliberate or otherwise, is rather effective. Whether it’s a good idea or not really depends on the situation.
Exists yes, but is it ubiquitous? Do you find it everywhere you find fries?
Exactly. Prisons are just like hotels: keep them constantly full and money will keep coming, no matter from where.
Yes that's very unfortunate.
Why would you spend the time to write a comment that takes longer to write than to debunk?
https://mobile.twitter.com/encrier
Why? I mean, "study a lot in school", "work with great people", "follow your heart" - what's new here?

I in no way fault Federighi for this advice - it is (standard) good advice. I just think the fact that it's on the front page of HN highlights how people are more likely to elevate standard stuff when it comes from famous people.
I would also assume they are scanning links in zip files and (if anyone is crazy enough to do this) links visible in images
OT: look at the chairs in the back area of the court in the second photo, where spectators would sit.

That is way fancier than I've seen in US courts. In US courts, it is usually just plain benches. I have seen pictures of US courts with chairs, but the kind of chairs you'd expect to find in a doctor or dentist waiting room--adequate but not something you'd want to sit in for a long time.

Those chairs in the Chinese court actually look comfortable. Is this normal in Chinese courts?
Most meme "gifs" are actually being delivered as video data these days.
Sounds like a good way to train an adversial network
An image, of a tweet, to basically hallmark card level advice...
not sure generated static sites fit the bill.
You can come up with a probablistic notion of accuracy, but I'm not sure proving guaranteed accuracy on a deep ANN is possible even in principle. Am I misunderstanding the question?
This, pretty much. Nearly everything written about Docker basically treats it as synonymous with containers. This is also incredibly annoying if you're already familiar with the general concepts of containers and actually want to read something about Docker in particular.
Chrome, Firefox. Safari, Edge. Ol' IE doesn't though.
+ Keep in mind that one of the oldest project management lessons we know, the Tower of Babel, is the one we keep repeating:

- Find the principles and patterns behind the constructions that support the building,

- Don't take it too seriously when the constructions collapse for the the same old daft reasons.
I too revere this man as far as design goes. It is my understanding that he's not the best at managing whole products the likes of what Apple sells; my intuition is that he should have joined Google —a true engineering temple of software-first, imho.

But apparently he's taking a (probably much-deserved) time off from tech, so more power to him.
HN has never had any particular quality or accuracy filter for content, and people rarely click through links before voting.
Hitler's final solution is also a solution to climate change. Carbon pricing will cause certain individuals not to be able to afford the necessities of life. If the free market cannot come up with a cheaper solution than our current CO2 emitting solution, then it is not a solution. Lets not destroy the quality of life in the now when in the possible near term a new technology will be created that will make the CO2 emissions an easily solvable problem. The best approach may be to keep the current standard of living going so more minds will be able to tackle the problem in the right way.
I meant exactly this. A common saying among the establishment is that Chinese cities "got too big," when in reality the issue is the opposite.

At least in Shenzhen, the officials are split in 2 camps. One is all about importing more workers to keep the industry going, another is for turning Shenzhen more into a Dubai for rich kids.
Does anyone want to build this [Progile] as open-source?
It's the combination of Product Roadmap + Waterfall + Agile

So will solve the majority of problems you face in your projects

[Progile] https://github.com/EAzari/Progile
I think when you remove ingroup and outgroup and just keep the argument for the attitude toward yourself/others it becomes more obvious what I mean. Otherwise it really depends on where you draw the boundary for the ingroup (e.g. your close family)/outgroup (e.g. your neighbors) which leaves a lot of room for interpretation.
That tax is one of things keeping app quality high, and they have to pay people to screen your apps. They can offer an educational scholarship.
Great list.
Some of the journals cites are subscription-based such as the New Yorker. Yet the identified articles don't have paywalls. How does this work? Do some of these publications have paid-for as well as free publications? If so, how do they lure people to subscribe to their paid materials when the free materials are just as appetizing? Are the identified articles older, hence the reason they are free?
> which will require an increase in taxes against those with money: the rich

Unfortunately they will do what they always do and make the poor and middle class carry the bulk of the tax burden while just throwing a sail or two on their super yachts after the biofuel conversion.
I would do

alias ls "exa"
alias ll "exa -ll"

That way you get the nice shorter output which comes in handy for piping ls things like:

ls -d | xargs ls

Lists the files in subdirectories.
Sorry yes, that's correct. Thanks.
But they are popular...

Jails and chroots are used heavily in iOS and Android. I would say its one of the fundamental differences between mobile apps and desktop apps.

Its not enough though. You need docker to handle the DNS, routing, port forwarding etc. if you want to emulate a pocket cloud on a dev machine. I suppose the networking aspect could be done for jails as well but docker and docker-compose just seem more polished in this regard.
> If downtime has consequences then you have every incentive to make rollbacks happen at the touch of a button.

Not all rollbacks are the same. Even in a theoretical scenario where you can roll back the code to a previous version with a push of a button, it's not always possible due to many factors.

Sometimes new code creates and persists state that the old code can't handle and rolling back would just make the old version blow up because of it. Sometimes clients can't talk to the old code after talking to new code and expecting new protocol.

The point is, there's a lot of factors that could make one or another remediation strategy more or less viable, and sometimes rolling forward is the best way to proceed.

The article tries to advocate that rolling back is ALWAYS the correct thing to do, which is demonstrably not true for certain circumstances.
Not all animated pixel art was for lack of video, just like not all ascii art was and is for lack of images. Recording a video is a wholly different process to animating a 16x16 smiley. If anything, at least by now, I think more people record video because they can't draw, than people draw because they can't afford the equipment or bandwith for video.
I interpreted the above comment to be about general purpose computers, not mobile.
To actually prevent further global warming we need active planetary scale solutions.

You paint far too rosy a picture here. A carbon tax is preventative, not active. There is no viable path to scale current sequestration techniques to global scale.

What we're talking about with a carbon tax is not 'solving climate change'. It is limiting the change to approximately what current models predict.
Then that's quite a mature company we're talking about (Apple was founded on April 1, 1976)...

(I disagree with the whole thesis though - I think Apple suffers greatly from Steve not being here now.)
Vision systems in controlled environments like factories that need to be fast and stupidly reliable are often based on "classical" (non-ML) computer vision techniques.

The ML hype train has led to a frustrating amount of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, where people who should know better decide to use ML for more things than is reasonable (something something "end-to-end").

Ideally, ML should be used for a few very specific tasks, and then classical machine vision / geometric analysis / plain old logic should be doing the rest. If you don't do it this way, you eventually end up with the problems described in this paper, where performance is inconsistent and impossible to debug, and nobody can tell you what's going on or why.
I pretty much agree on all points. This is a tragedy of the commons on a global scale. I’m not sure what the answer is.

Subsidies are woefully inaccurate, but can be applied locally on most political climates. Carbon emission taxes would be better, but global competition makes that difficult.
>Climate change will create the first trillionaire.

I was cheering for those canucks a few years back, hoping they'd score an easy trillion with their groundbreaking product.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-pollutio...

Bring on the fad diet pills to fix CC and watch all of the lesser talented fraudsters pile behind. If economies cause CC, economies will uncause CC.

- that gives them enough room for plausible deniability
Our legal system seems to be like that a lot. Someone can nearly run you over, or nearly shoot you, and you survive only because you manage to escape or dodge- you're going to have a hard time sticking them with anything. (Unless you are an officer)

As a bicycle commuter it's on my mind a lot.