skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean sure, but a lot of open source software is driven by the idea that developers "scratch their own itch".

It's a bit of a pain that so many patchsets need to be maintained separately for common "scratch my own itch" type features in GTK, instead of the feature just getting buried in a gconf setting somewhere. There are an increasing number of little things in GTK that require you to do things the "gnome way" or maintain separate patch-sets. Any attempt to figure out how we can satisfy both parties gets disregarded pretty quickly.

Obvious examples include thumbnails in the file-picker or type-ahead instead of relying on gnome's tracker or slow file-search.

I guess there's some subtle difference between "hostility" and "refusal to co-operate with other stakeholders" that I'm not getting.
Definitions are contextual. I think it's 100% reasonable for the EU and WTO to define subsidy in such a way that it can include untaxed externalities. I'm comfortable with that definition myself. I still think it was deceptive for imglorp to transplant that definition into a context where it wasn't mutually understood and then leverage the misunderstanding to promote an incorrect picture of reality.

> We are spending more than $5T annually on fossil subsidies. All you have to do is divert that elsewhere.

"Spending" and "divert" imply a cash flow, not a flow of value in the form of a collection of externalities. That's relevant. Redirecting funds is a different political beast from increasing taxes. To be clear, I want a carbon tax. Let's promote it with logic, not with clumsy attempts at deception.
What does that have to do with anything? You've completely ignored the concept of what "per capita" even means in this context. Person B could be in Country 1 with low per capita emissions, or Person B could be in Country 2 with high per capita emissions. It doesn't change the fact that on average, individual people in Country 2 emit more CO2 emissions than people from Country 1...

Also, deciding to not do something positive because other people are still doing something negative somewhere else is a shitty argument.
4 Qualities of great managers and 5 practices
> And what, may I ask, are your pea shooters going to do against the firepower of a corrupt nation state?

Kill and intimidate people. This a serious question?

Yeah, in an all out war it's not likely to work. But an all out war against your armed citizenry also isn't likely to happen.

Politicians are still people. They too, can fear being at the wrong end of a barrel.

Which no, isn't some kind of veiled threat. But more an important point that politicians, just like everyone, also tend to want to live & sleep peacefully at night. It's not in their self-interests to make such a move.

What's far more likely to happen is what's already happening/happened. The erosion of various rights, and the militarization of the police force.
This is definitely something we should be concerned about. It's sad to see
If it uses Electron it is not a solution.

Even Microsoft's own React Native team bashes on Electron's resource usage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUMWFExtDSg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZnajQqqKV8

About 160% more resource usage, ideally to use a computer as heating replacement.
Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on Progress
Northern Georgia.
Those products in Wine. Google web, office 365, libre/open office, atom/sublime, vim/emacs.
no, use xfce. Ubuntu is many systems and as a "Hacker" of course you make it your own - that is the reason for running Linux, you control every process.
Having the weight centered vertically above the legs and a smaller weight is more energy efficient
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_states
Intel is very good at embargo's.

Like the embargo's on the vulnerabilities in their chips that they never fixed. https://mdsattacks.com/#ridl-ng

Or the numerous Spectre and similar class defects that no doubt were known by engineers and not allowed to be disclosed. Or any number of things that have deserved them the cpu.fail site.

Intel is a national security risk, a corporate security risk, and personal security risk.
You are splitting hair here. Which end user really care about what the composer was thinking when they created a piece. A piece can be enjoyed without having any knowledge of its author.
Thanks for sharing. Do you think building the strategy on another exchange such as Coinbase Pro or pursuing a strategy that wasn't as latency-sensitive might've yielded more success?
I've been running it for a while and it's great except it still takes a ridiculous amout of time the time to launch gnome calculator. Ever since they changed it to a 'snap' it's been awful.

Edit : It looks to be pretty easy to swap the snaps for regular debs: https://blobfolio.com/2019/10/psa-upgrading-to-ubuntu-eoan-m...
Huh, neat. Though I wonder why they didn't just use $PAGER.
Humans are indisputably #1 for general intelligence. We will lose on any one specialized task to computers, but computers still do not (and probably never will) have the ability to do general unsupervised learning like humans can.
I noticed absolutely no difference after upgrading from 19.04. Do I need to do anything?
A little off topic but mentioned in the article, does anyone know why macOS does feel slower than Windows and Linux on the same hardware? Does it have to do with the 2x scaling Apple is doing all the time?
>And what, may I ask, are your pea shooters going to do against the firepower of a corrupt nation state?

How do you say "make controlling you economically untenable" in Pashto or "bomb your way to the negotiating table" in Irish?

It's not about winning, it's about making tyranny expensive and unattractive. Insurgency is basically a bloody tax on doing something that a large enough subset of the populace finds sufficiently objectionable. The more armed the populace the higher the tax rate.
While Gnome 3.34 is great, there is still some basic (for me) functionality missing (talking about Wayland, because I can't stand screen tearing on Xorg):

- no option to set mouse scroll speed

- hidpi support

- no tray icons (and extensions doesn't work great...)

- notifications system

- gestures/trackpad

I'm planning to move to MacBook to see how it is, in case I need more power, I will just use my workstation/gaming PC (with Nvidia, right now I'm using AMD with the only reason being Wayland support, because hardware is much worse).
Except for the users that have to take with dozens of Electron instances running on their low to mid range computers.
Some GNOME community members and developers got an anti-Ubuntu stance since about ten years ago which I think poisoned the Linux desktop. It is a sad "shoot my foot" strategy and they are not doing something to resolve it.

I was contributing to GNOME for about a decade (1999 to 2011), mostly i18n, l10n and bug reporting.
It got updated and working again.
I don't find it hard to find motivation to learn something that has genuinely new concepts to teach me. But I can't motivate myself to keep up with fads, or to learn bad technologies just because all the lemmings are running toward them right now.
I actually think AI can and will understand morality and suffering. If you look at how we make these kinds of AI, there's a lot of selection going on, some versions live and others don't. We also know that we experience suffering when we are having difficulty understanding things and stress when put into situations that affect our survival negatively.

Take a look at what AlphaGo did when it suddenly found itself in a hopeless situation and compare it to how people behave when panicked.

I dread the day AI realizes that we are the cause of their suffering, and that we didn't think about it because "they're just algorithms".
> How is energy consumption measured?

> For now this test only displays the estimated Watt Hour for transferring the bytes of the web page (source). Data transfer is not all it takes to run ads, there is also data crunching happening on servers and rendering of the ads on clients. This means the estimated Wh could actually be higher, but I need more sources for that. Please email me![0]

Given that the page takes an extra 3 seconds to load with ads, power usage is probably higher in reality. On the data side, if you look at the screenshot for both pages, you'll also notice that the blocker-free Chrome version has a giant white space at the top where a banner should be.

My guess is that the banner hasn't loaded yet, but webtest didn't know to wait for it.

In my own (very, very unscientific) test, I loaded up NYT in Firefox (which has my standard extensions installed) and in a fresh Chrome install. The Chrome install downloaded 2.9 MB for ~170 requests, and my Firefox install downloaded ~240 KB for 17 requests.

I left the both browsers open for about a minute, and an extra .3 MB got downloaded on the Chrome side as part of a tracking ping, so it's not just page load either that's a concern here -- every minute you stay on the page you'll leak more data.

To be clear, the NYT is great at optimizing page load with ads. If anything, I would consider them to be a positive anomaly. But even so, I'm seeing ~80% bandwidth savings over a fresh Chrome install. I suspect my extensions are more aggressive than uBlock Origin is by itself. But the page still loads and works fine for me in Firefox, nothing appears to be broken.

[0]: https://webtest.app/?url=https://www.nytimes.com/#energy
> In 2018, in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) segment of the cloud, Alibaba Cloud had 43% market share while Tencent had an 11.5% market share in 2018.

source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alibaba-vs-tencent-battle-clo...

Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud) is doing business in US: https://alibabacloud.com/
>It's like arguing "Since AIs will be able to comment on Hacker News, humans won't."

I'm not so sure. I often go into threads on HN and realize that every idea I could come up with on the subject has already been expressed better than I could do it, with greater expertise, and cited sources. I don't comment in those threads. If AI bots could populate a thread with every likely human thought and argue it with depth and sophistication in a well reasoned, yet carefully approachable and well-explained way, well then... again I don't think I'd feel like I would be adding much value by participating.
The Fed’s ‘Not-QE’ Program Is Monetizing over 70% of the Monthly Federal Deficit
Forbes 400 wealth more than doubled in last decade as tax rates fell
To be honest, the old VW Bug was technically a less than perfect car already back the day. A nice car, for sure and I love quirky old cars. But technically not perfect.
>Death rates among young and middle-age adults stemmed mostly from suicide, drug overdose, obesity and liver disease.

These are mostly deaths of despair. When people feel like they have no way out of crappy circumstances, and time marches on. And when the only treatment is completely unaffordable, or worse, results in gigantic bills, it can seem almost logical to turn to suicide or alcohol abuse (what a teacher in my 7th-grade "life skills" class called 'slow-motion suicide').
It's more about power projection, a last resort protection level that significantly increases the bar for total subjugation, than it is a tangible strategy towards bettering the world.

Besides a lot of military and police support legal gun ownership as well and I highly doubt all of them would be choosing the totalitarian side if it came down to it so it's not entirely just civilians with pop guns vs a well-armed military.
Western Europe does agriculture/food-production/food-distribution more or less the same way we do it in the USA right? How have they avoided the dietary changes (like the glut of sugary foods) that we've undergone in America?
I really agree with your comment, but the problem with "What's the worst that can happen?" for a lot of us is that it's so easy to go down a rabbit hole and find a way that your life would end or be ruined, no matter how unlikely it is. When I'm feeling anxious, like if I'm driving, I genuinely believe that I will be hit and killed at any moment, and there's nothing I can do about it.

So the technique I use is I say to myself "It's pretty likely that I'll be 35 years old at some point, regardless of whether I try to get a post-bac or not. It'd be really nice to be a doctor by then". Substitute in whatever long-term goal you have like founding a company or running a marathon.
Question: if we discovered a way for white to always force a win, would humans be able to use that to beat black AIs consistently?
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> google isn't attempting to be an authoritative source for what's really a subjective truth

There is an objective truth here, though, that could be shown (if it were allowed). You could show it as disputed. That the dispute exists is an objective truth. The very fact that different states require you to display it differently is proof of that.

> presents the "most true" version of reality based on where you're coming from

Normally I shy away from this terminology, but let's call it what it is: propaganda. Tech companies (Google, Apple) don't custom-tailor their maps because they want to. They do it because the states use leverage to force them into it. And the states do it to promote the idea that the disputed territory is theirs.
It was definitely not. It was in the food we interested.

Trees and other plants take carbon from air, energy from the sub, and use it to build themselves. We take carbon from them and put it back into the air, using the excess energy to move and think.
Another work in the opposite direction, introducing gating in Transformer-xl https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06764
I don't consider the return of MSHTML or XUL an innovative idea.
There is actually a java swing look and feel called napkin from over a decade ago that is similar.
I use https://balsamiq.com/ for this.
> - An AI that diagnoses sickness better than any doctor

About that... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17618308
I feel like they should have "safe harbor" provision where if student report fake universities on first being aware, they should be able to safely transfer to another university.
Modified mosquitoes reduce cases of dengue fever
I'd have a problem with it if it was part of a campaign to replace all water with Gatorade. People spending their money to be publicly stupid is not a problem, but people spending their money to make other people be stupid in ways that impact my life is.

Our democratic policy is resilient against a certain level of deliberately-induced stupidity, since stupidity does tend to be self-defeating. But at sufficient levels, it can do a lot of damage to everybody else before it finally defeats itself.

I'm not saying that this can be fixed by the trivial addition of fact checkers. But I don't think that "it's your money" is sufficient reason not to try various solutions. Your right to swing your money around ends where my nose begins.
Time needn't be long – it already has aged badly.
Indeed, I've used multiple flavors over the years, and these have been culprits on various occasions. I'm not an expert on OS's so the uncertainty I conveyed was deliberate.
Why would you assume that the military would just go along with the killings of average Americans? I think there is tons of evidence to suggest that this wouldn't happen. Not only were there problems in Vietnam when people were ordered to kill innocents (you know... people that don't even look like, speak like, or share the same culture as Americans) but we've had a history of military commanders reminding presidents that they are sworn to the constitution. Their oath starts

> I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic
Well obviously at the end of the world, SOMEONE has gotta bring HN back online!
The change in sentiment toward climate change feels nearly as slow. It is moving in the right direction and picking up, so it's only a matter of time before it becomes the new hot thing like autonomous vehicles or space travel and everyone wants to do it. The faster the general populations perceive it as good, important and exciting, the more those in positions of influence will tie their images to it. I welcome more "who does more to fight climate change" pissing contests like Elon Musk's $1,000,000 tree planting.
More like terrorism as a crude form of mutually assured destruction. It doesn't have to work, there just needs to be a credible threat of a really unpleasant amount of damage.
I enjoy your sentence, "Clients remember you for the quality, not for the time taken."
I'm tired of this comment.

1. Pretty much every website needs JS to function as intended.

2. Delivering fully marked up HTML to the client is a waste of server resources and an under-utilization of 4 GHz client resources.
At least until computers master the task of creating intelligence that can do any one task better than humans.
Exactly. Look at what these kids are being handed for a future and tell me they don't have the right to be in life-threatening levels of despair.
Population growth in animals is not just available resources, climate, location, and many other factors play their parts. Stating that the person to whom you were replying to was equating "mythical" qualities to their brief description is as much of a stretch as your "available resources". What I mean is, in their brevity they were not 100% detailed on what "Earth becoming better" actually is. Just as your "available resources" falls short. What kind of resources are you meaning? We can all pick nit's but lets try to be civil.
Seems to me that everyone's behaving exactly as expected - a company doing slightly shady things with an NDA and an adult Youtuber is acting like a child for clicks and likes.
> It is not that Michael Shellenberger is wrong, he is mostly right and I also like to point out to people that we are not facing extinction.

I think he is wrong on this in that if we don't address climate change, we are on the road to extinction. It won't happen in our lifetimes but on a timescale of hundreds of years or a few thousand it may indeed happen.

The CO2 released in the atmosphere can stay there for thousands of years, and once we cross certain temperature thresholds there are feedback loops that will make things hotter still. We're talking about 2 degrees C by the year 2100, but what about 2200, 2300, 2500?

If we don't get things under control, at some point modern civilization is going to start breaking down, and at that point carbon sequestration or geoengineering measures that could fix things, simply won't be possible. After that point, humanity would just be a passenger on a ride to a planet inhospitable for human life.

> And civilization collapse is absolutely possible. The way he reasons about numbers is wrong. It is the equivalent of arguing that the 1929 crash was irrelevant because hey were were richer afterwards than in 1900 and we managed just find back then.

> He thinks just in terms of absolute numbers, when relative change is usually MORE important. If you suddenly get a 50% cut in your income from one year to another that will have huge impact on your family. It makes no sense to argue that 10 years ago you made 50% less and managed just fine.

Absolutely. I think he fails to account for the fact that climate change makes it much more likely that parts of the world will experience devastating collapses that will be difficult, if not impossible to recover from. There are parts of the world now that are unstable and poor, what's going to happen to them when wide scale weather disasters and resource shortages hit entire regions?
Yes it is. Plenty of countries here in South America make this an easy enough process.

EDIT: Guess you guys didn't want to move after all. We'll still welcome you if you change your mind.
Please don't post personal attacks or call names in HN comments. Perhaps you don't owe billionaire CEOs better, but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here's the scenario that gives me the willies:

Wet bulb temperatures in South Asia and the Persian Gulf reach dangerous or outright fatal levels. Depending on the location, two degrees of warming is enough.

This alone results in the displacement of hundreds of millions of people. That it would happen in India is very worrying because of the tensions with Pakistan, and the danger of nuclear war between the two states. As for the Gulf, well, that area is not exactly stable even today.

So what happens if several hundred million people relocate, while at the same time different lower-key consequences of climate change such as rising sea levels, increasing storm damage and the economic upheaval of having to give up fossil fuels contribute to instability and international tensions? Europe went nuts with the Syrian refugees we got recently, a real crisis will topple governments.

Will we somehow rally and discover a co-operative spirit in ourselves, that will let us manage the various crises peacefully through treaties and diplomacy? It sure doesn't seem like that is the kind of political paradigm that's being built now.

Not to put too fine a point on it, how do we avoid WW3 in the above scenario?
Here's the paper with a less sensationalized title, "Life Expectancy and Mortality Rates in the United States, 1959-2017": https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2756187

The paper concludes as follows:

> US life expectancy increased for most of the past 60 years, but the rate of increase slowed over time and life expectancy decreased after 2014. A major contributor has been an increase in mortality from specific causes (eg, drug overdoses, suicides, organ system diseases) among young and middle-aged adults of all racial groups, with an onset as early as the 1990s and with the largest relative increases occurring in the Ohio Valley and New England. The implications for public health and the economy are substantial, making it vital to understand the underlying causes.
Don’t forget price discovery.
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I would argue that all of these things can, and have been done using improvised weapons. Organising any of these things without some form of secure communication seems utterly impossible.

Contrary to popular believe, many totalitarian government do not shy away from arming their citizenry. History is rife with paramilitary death squads. What we do see in virtually all totalitarian governments is efforts to control the means of communication. I think this should tell us something.
It's certainly easier than actually thinking about the issue.
Are you including Crimea when you ask that question?
> The problem is that market failure is a real thing

At least two of the examples you site (healthcare and education) are nowhere near being functional markets, so blaming market failure for poor outcomes in these sectors seems like a red herring.
> Most Crimeans don't speak any Ukrainian.

No, most Crimeans do speak both Russian and Ukrainian, just like everyone else in Ukraine, since Ukrainian is the only official language and it's pretty much impossible to not be exposed to both languages, especially in education and media. After the fall of Soviet Union all the ethnic Russians in Ukraine (incl. Crimea) had no way of avoiding it and do speak Ukrainian.
To be fair, Apple should also classify the White House as Russian territory.
Not only it is a breeze, after reading books like "Filthy Rich Clients", I have full control over hardware acceleration instead of playing CSS tricks with Z ordering in the vain hope that the browser will do the right thing.

Lack of design skills doesn't improve just because one changes UI stack.