skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but how many RPis do you need to match the workload of a single x86 core? How much does it cost to cluster and maintain these systems? IMO you would probably have a better story all around if you based your cluster on low end AMD chips, or perhaps even old refurbished systems.

That's not to say this isn't cool engineering for engineering's sake. Just that if you are considering practical applications for this, maybe think twice.
I tend to save a lot of online articles I want to read as PDFs, but found that on many "modern" sites printing as PDF only saves the first page. What's your work process? Do you run into similar problems?
It might be better to change the link to the main README:

https://github.com/Gabriel439/simple-twitter
Scratch that, seems to be working now. Not showing up as "via messagingengine.com" anymore in spite of the fact that it still hasn't verified SPF. Looking forward to cleaning up my email by switching to FM!
> I doubt social scientists and economists are just a bunch of idiots or charlatans.

The vast majority are certainly not, however, idiocy or ill-intent are not required to fall prey to many common causes of inaccurate results. Smart people trying their best to do good work still frequently succumb to errors and this is especially true in the less 'hard' sciences.

That's why the push for increasing rigor with RCTs and other methods is important and necessary.
AMD launches ridiculously cheap overclockable $49 Athlon 3000G processor
On day zero, you can also tell GMail to start forwarding all mail to Fastmail.
I think both of these things are true, actually. It does seem that some on the left are fine with war as long as it's a Democrat doing it. For example, look at Hillary Clinton's complicity during the Honduran coup, and how little criticism she received for it. Or deportation and drone strikes under Obama, as another example.

However, it's also true that the anti-war movement died off partly due to failure essentially, as the Iraq War proceeded with essentially no resistance from elected officials, and no coverage from the mainstream media. I think this, more than partisanship, explains why it's basically dead in the water now. If the movement fails to achieve its goals, people will eventually go home. This all happened within W's term.

Protest altogether didn't die out under Obama, however, Occupy Wall Street started in 2011, and was heavily critical of Obama's coziness with the finance industry. Within left movements that exist now, many seem to see a through-line from Occupy Wall Street.

Overall, this speaks to the narrative about tribalism, because there's a tendency to see the opposing group as one mass, when in reality, there are different groups within each side that may disagree with each other as much as they do the nominally-opposed groups. This tendency is also exacerbated by the two-party system in the US that smushes what would really be 3-6 parties together into two.
Is there nothing between RCTs and "high-fives" to estimate causal effects? Economists seem to run awfully long journal articles if they all boil down to high fives.
The problem was that my bank couldn't send me the authentication SMS so I can't log in to Plaid, it wasn't about notifications. Thank you for the recommendation, though.
As is so often true, the headline is not substantiated by the body of the article.
The leverage you have is to expose some of their bad practices if they have.
A real CO2 tax would handle the calculation difficulties automatically, by allowing the market to propagate the cost of carbon through the supply network. A browser plugin would have to know everything about the supply chain in order to compute that number itself.
A room full of books sparks joy in me.
I think it is pretty obvious that this is their long-term plan. Funnel all computing activities that could be happening locally into their private little cloud.
Sure. It still takes time to unroll the inter-dependencies.

But if you don't have any and your code is nicely decoupled, then you've already done most of the hard work to break things out into microservices.
> ~ 2%.

2% of the human population are 154 million people. Sure, not everyone has a computer, so let's say 66 million people, this is the population of France.

> There are many, which one would they port to?

You don't actually need to support a specific desktop environment. Any UI program that you write will work just fine on KDE, GNOME, DWM, etc
privacy.com lets you create a unique credit card # for every retailer for free. You can put transaction limits on them too.
By that logic Half-Life 2 was an attempt to flog Steam... And we all know how that turned out.
Except most of the non urban places I have lived, you Do need a car, you Do need tools. Uber is beyond expensive, no public transport, but I should just live in the city? This is classist bullshit.
> objectively right and wrong answers in politics

I tend to think that sentiments like these are perfect arguments for a one-party authoritarian technocracy.

> policy cause and effect

Something that sounds so trivial yet notoriously difficult to establish.
Protonmail probably the most hyped, but personally I switched to Tutanota. I like their commitment to open source - you can build their webmail client yourself. They support full text search (unlike Protonmail) and also 4-5x cheaper than Protonmail/Fastmail, if you're fine with their cheapest 1GB storage plan.
Kubernetes Needs Ceph as Storage Solution
How could you demo that?
From a business perspective it makes total sense. I saw a GDC talk where they laid out the statistics:

- Most men don't mind playing a female character (think Lara Croft).

- Most women prefer to play a female character.

So the real question is why there aren't more game studios using female protagonists.
> Buy local.

That would be counter productive. Buy local would increase your CO2 emissions. Local might have other benefits, but Co2 is not one of them.

Shipping uses FAR less Co2 than you might imagine.
I especially enjoyed his book Sirens of Titan.

Rented a tent a tent a tent
Software consultants are one counterexample, because they are very expensive but also environmentally friendly. Human labor has the biggest difference between price and resource consumption that I can think of.
> If something is cheaper, doesn’t it mean it took less resources to make it and therefore is the greener option?

Yes, that is mostly correct, but only if you are comparing products made in the same country.
> Paying $5000 more for gas and electricity is no problem when you get the full $5000 back.

Then people stop buying fuel, and the tax income from fuels taxes dries out, and then the state no longer has the funds to pay those dividents. The state will need to stop paying dividents. Yes, emissions went down (a good thing), but also people's standard of living went down.
“The only thing that scales better than an Oracle database is their licensing cost! “

- heard years ago from a friend. Not sure of the origination of the quote.
>Fastmail is a pretty bare-bones service

This is a benefit, IMO. However, I do agree with the features you suggested sounding nice.
A note to those who might dismiss this without looking at it carefully because you assume it's just some SPA that mocks the Twitter UI: it's actually a NixOps file (with everything inlined) that deploys the entire stack, including a full backend and database.
SunRays didn't work out too hot for Sun.

Local processing will always be relevant for minimizing latency. An SoC that can comfortably manage the amount of compute that is needed for everyday office productivity costs pennies today. Outside of very specialized applications, there isn't a strong engineering argument for clients that much "thinner" than a web browser.

Whole-application streaming is a solution looking for a problem, and I'm extremely dubious of Stadia.
Could you describe your workflow with WSL?
As someone who is against both parties, I don't agree. Both parties are absolutely horrible but the Republicans are much worse.

While I don't know how we can propose an independent arbiter to nail this down, there is absolutely no reason to assume that these groups are equivalently moral. There need not be two equivalent sides in any debate, but there's no reason to even pretend that groups of humans behave equally morally. Like I'm not sure where that idea would even derive from.

We of course have plenty of evidence that Republicans are more Machievellian for example. That's not exactly a point up for debate. (More than happy to engage in that debate if you wish.)

We can use an extreme example to illustrate the point. Let's say we have two parties: a random moderate party and a Nazi party. They're both going to say very mean things about the other party and how much more unethical it is. One of these groups will be making these statements accurately. Only one.
errr... I would still export it as PDF first. I wouldn't trust something as important as a job application to work perfectly. (I'm a Libre Office user on Windows. )
Is there any REAL alternative to Firebase?
Yeah, sadly I think it's the body not walking for me. Guess I should try a wheelchair simulator :)
Data point: MS teams disables all of Teams' A/V features for Linux users based on browser user agent. If you use chromium and spoof your UA as if you were using Edge/Windows, said features work. [1]

Microsoft is what it is - a very large company with various business units with differing priorities. I do feel like they are much improved from the bad old days, where they seemed to enact a company-wide strategy aimed at actively sabotaging Linux. In the face of that, I suppose indifference is an improvement, and their "we love linux" marketing is at least an admission that Linux support is a consideration for some elements of their business.

[1] https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/issues/1095
Sorry if you already know this, but basic capitalism as practiced does not capture the full cost of things, if one believes that pollution or climate change or exhausting shared natural resources (something like government giving water away for free to corporate entities to resell in bottles) are things that should be accounted for in cost
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/basics/external.h...
Invisibility cloaks need to work from multiple points of view?
More accurate to say that there are five "original" ones and then one added in later. It seems that at this point it has equal standing, in that the Nobel foundation admins it, and it is presented in the same ceremony.
I'm also 24, and I can tell you I will absolutely be spending $1000 for the Valve VR headset (I've not previously owned VR) and any other PC upgrades to be able to play this game.
Man, I literally didn't even think to check because at this point I was conditioned that Valve=Linux support. That really sucks.
HL2 wasn't photorealistic, it was made in a photorealistic style.
Interesting observation, but a) events of the last 10 years are documented at an exponentially higher rate and resolution than events of the 17th century, and b) this list has lots of events which hardly raise to the level of the large scale revolutions of the 17th century, aaand c) none of these events are taking place in global centers of wealth and power. Today's elites are without a doubt more protected than the denizens of Versailles precisely because their power and wealth operate on a global scale.
They're obviously aware of it. The #1 contributor to the project, both by commits and by LoC, works at Slack.
Slavery is a really exceptional (in a bad way) example of a political disagreement. In that particular disagreement, one side was clearly (in retrospect) right, the other was wrong. Nowadays we’re all on the right side, the wrong side looks obviously wrong, and there’s no real room for doubt.

Most political disagreements are nothing like this. Most political disagreements come down to some combination of (a) a trade-off between two reasonable values or (b) differing predictions about the consequences of a particular policy in the future.

If “slavery vs not slavery” is your go-to example of what a political disagreement looks like, then you’re likely to fall victim to the sorts of bad thought habits (other side evil!) that lead to dumb polarisation and tribalism.
There's no real reason why given. It seems that HN's "No politics" policy flows over to their blog updates as well.
Catan is the latest game to make the jump to AR
Have you actually tried any of the many VR games which use IK, or is this just speculation? Because I have tried it, and it's not really confusing at all. True it's not perfect, but it's accurate enough that I'd say it's far less confusing than just not having arms at all.
His problem, as an executive, was not "trying to do what is best for Microsoft". His problem, as an executive, was failing to do what is best for Microsoft.
A lot of old-media organisations have found some success in selling "access", you might also be able to find subscription-paying patrons who get special privileges beyond the casual audience member: attending rehearsals, going backstage after shows, or even attending classes themselves to get closer to the action.

There's also good old-fashioned sponsorship — local brands or wealthy individuals who are happy to contribute to your mission in exchange for billing in your promotional materials and physical spaces.
Ask HN: Experiences with Kickofflabs or other viral pre-launch services?
I'm about to launch pre-registration and then limited release for a new web app and am looking at using viral marketing apps like Kickofflabs, Referralhero, etc.

The goal is to get people to sign up and then refer friends (and others), incentivizing them with discounts and free services.

Has anyone here used any of these services? Could you share your experiences and whether there are any you recommend or don't recommend?

I'd really appreciate any comments / feedback / advice.
You are exactly correct. RCTs are hard, not just for ethical reasons but also logistical ones. It's hard to get the money and authority to conduct an experiment in the first place, and it's often impossible to create a true control group.

"Hard" scientists like to pat themselves on the back for rigor, but they get that because they're studying comparatively simple things. Studying the lives of people is hard, but it's also important. It affects public policy, which in turn affects people's actual lives. That public policy gets created whether it's being studied or not -- the studies are hard, but they're better than guessing, and slowly they can build up a picture that makes them better. It's a bit like medicine: we're not going to stop treating people just because we don't understand the mechanism of action and can't guarantee that it will work.

This breakthrough is about finding ways to use the many villages found in poor countries to even attempt to do an RCT, and to come up with mathematical ways to account for the fact that the trials aren't really randomized. Aid had previously been given based on people's best guesses about what would work, which would maximize the value of the aid given if the guesses were correct, but it's hard to measure if it weren't. Aid has been beset by misguided theories and lack of measurement -- good intentions, but often ineffective.
Amazon actually keep their carbon footprint secret. They have a vague plan to have half their shipping and AWS be fully green by 2030, during which time AWS alone will net about another hundred billion dollars in profit. The secrecy and their laggard response despite immense profits does not make me optimistic about their carbon footprint today.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/05/25/amazon-carbon-f...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/19/amazon-...
I don’t think carbon footprint should be seen in isolation.

The agriculture export economy has large carbon footprints—for your favorite fruits such as avocados, apples and citrus—and an important factor is how these sales impact local economies.

Some countries and regions that would otherwise be stagnant rely on this.
On the other hand one very easy way to tell a wealthy household from a poor household is that the poor household will have a shed full of rarely-used tools, things bought cheap at a flea market with the idea that when they are needed they will already be paid for, and odds and ends leftover from some earlier project that might be useful later.
I wonder if it closes before it opens, and then the hours change at random? Maybe you even leave before you arrive while spending 3 hours seeing the whole thing? It should be unstuck in time, at least.
Synopsis: Secret keys are embedded in the device's e-fuses and are not readable by normal means because of a protection e-fuse. By measuring current draw during power up an interval is determined to be the time when the CPU is reading the e-fuses. At that time the power supplies are "glitched" from 3.3v to 6v using unspecified patterns from a signal generator. This causes errors in the e-fuse reading, one of which is to make a bank of read protected fuses readable. The read values have errors in them, but multiple runs and statistical error correction can retrieve the actual values.

Physical access to the device is required. Security compromise is permanent.
"Close your eyes, honey"
I have a subscription. The entire remainder of the article discusses it haha. Let see if I can paraphrase: 1) framing the economic experiment is difficult to prevent bias (my take: economics is not in a lab), 2) what works in Kenya might not work in Guatemala (my take: confounding factors are much greater), 3) ethics of withholding benefits to a group, 4) rich country researchers assuming they can and should intervene in poor country's problems, 5) rich country researchers don't have local context, 5) small experiments and small topics may not apply to or have an impact on a global scale which economics operates at.
A study at Dartmouth found that 45 percent of Democrats say they would be uncomfortable rooming with a Republican. Comparatively, only 12 percent of Republicans said rooming with a Democrat would make them uncomfortable.

My anecdotal evidence bears this out. Progressives tend to be far more intolerant of opposing viewpoints than conservatives.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/majority-of-democrats-at-...
> Human labor is very environmentally friendly

No it is not. For example a meat eating human produces more CO2 per mile than a regular car. (Although most people could use the exercise so don't use that info in isolation.)
>The Original Discovery of the Bug

>This bug was originally found and reported in November 2017 and patched in February 2018. Syzbot, a syzkaller system that continuously fuzzes the Linux kernel, originally reported the use-after-free bug to Linux kernel mailing lists and the syzkaller-bugs mailing list in November 2017. From this report, the bug was patched in the Linux 4.14, Android 3.18, Android 4.4, and Android 4.9 kernels in February 2018. However, this fix was never included in an Android monthly security bulletin and thus the bug was never patched in many already released devices, such as Pixel and Pixel 2.

Yea, that's a very large number of active devices, for a bug that's believed to be actively exploited. Roughly 75% going by this: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/51651/which-andr... plus https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards
When the default became breaking of screen, tmux, emacs --daemon, nohup, etc, I started disliking systemd. That the major distributions have overridden that default does not excuse systemd from having made that default.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11797075
> So the password iamahorsebatterystaple is about 30x harder to crack than correcthorsebatterystaple using this approach

You are massively underselling it. It’s n² harder with n being the number of words in your dictionary.

(except that "iam" is certainly not two random words)

But my point was that varying the number of words virtually doesn't add security — the security of this scheme is defined by the number of words in the dictionary, and the maximum number of words you’re willing to remember. Whether that maximum means "pick MAX words" or "pick at most MAX words" has no real impact.
_PDFs_ are BLURRY, on a Mac!
Twidere to Be Discontinued
The Life Changing Game
I use Linux on 3 of the 4 computers I interact with frequently and my experience is the exact opposite of yours. The linux ecosystem might be a mess but at least it is usable, unlike windows, where it is painful to do even the simplest task.
I'm not surprised. Most of them were just bitching about Apple, and not reviewing the product. Most of the reviews of the USB-C dongles were just complaining about USB-C, for example. Useless.
Right, something like this page is better evidence against that narrative:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?q=Produ...
Of course, you're not allowed to benchmark Oracle publicly, it's in the EULA :)
‘True carbon footprint’? It’s just another estimate.
Likes themselves (and ranking content using them) aren't the problem — it's their public nature that makes it feel as if our social value is determined by them.

If likes, followers, etc. were private (that is, you could see who liked your post but no one else could), you wouldn't worry about what others would think of you based on those numbers. But since they're public and prominently displayed, we equate those numbers to our social value and end up with undesirable effects like comparing ourselves to others and focusing on what would get approval rather than what's authentic.
It does, but major part of flash encryption is to protect your supply chain. Ie. to keep people from cloning your boards and just dumping your software on them. It's also a bit of security through obscurity (which despite the memes can be an important piece of defense in depth) to make the MCUs a bit more difficult to attack if you don't know the code that's running.
With the caveat that magic and mentalism don't actually work, but only appear to work. So a better analogy might be between magic/mentalism and those fake perpetual motion machines which appear to work but don't.
US will have a financial war with China soon. So it is wise to cut the tie early.
Good point! Google says there are 15k employees at WeWork, how about EVERYONE gets 50k.

750M given away, still have a billion dollars and a bunch of goodwill.
Except that highly-paid people have a right to resources, which they often invoke by buying lots of stuff.
Indeed. It's odd to see "Pwn" in the title, and then read the details and have to completely reverse the context. This situation is closer to the original sense of "own", as in "home ownership". If some squirrels get into your home and you evict them, you wouldn't say you "pwnt" your house.
“Real” Nobel prizes depends on what you think is the key property of a Nobel prize. If it is “was one originally Established by Alfred Nobel”, then you are meaningfully correct.

If the key properties are “Signals the same sort of contribution to human understanding. Administered by the same org as admins the other Nobel prizes. Has the same credibility.” Then you are merely technically correct.
Making something with less impact takes more effort.
Filters/knowledge you name it, does not come cheap.
It is not the amount of resources it is the process of turning resource into product.

A cotton sweater is cheap.
But if you want to make cotton sweater in a greener process, then you need water cleaning systems, maybe different paint (which is also more expensive).