skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All popular treatments I've found assume belief in anthropogenic climate change as given. So far I've found not one accessible source that lays out the evidence in a way that non-experts can follow. Something that uses scientific facts to build a case that ordinary people can follow like what we see in works like 1491, Sapiens, or Oxygen.

What I find inexcusable is climate activists who assume that people who are skeptical of the link between human activity and climate change are idiots. Those claiming the link have the burden of proof, and they've done a pitiful job of presenting the actual evidence.

Your dad is completely justified in his skepticism.

For example, New York was under a kilometer of ice a mere 20,000 years ago. Ditto with many other places in the world. The fact that we see glaciers in retreat and overall warming is entirely consistent with a warming trend that ended the Pleistocene Era and paved the way for civilization as we know it.

Those making extraordinary claims (humans are warming the planet) must provide extraordinary evidence. And that has never been done.
It's hard to imagine what it would even mean to get experimental evidence against the Landauer limit. You'd have to throw out basic thermodynamics. (It would about the same as getting experimental evidence for a perpetual motion machine; possible, but basically requiring a revolution in fundamental physics.) The disputes over the Landauer limit were conceptual and definitional disputes, not disagreements over well-formed predictions.
thanks! could you share the make/model you have or share a link? There are tons on there and want to get a specific recommendation that I know worked for at least one person.
Argentina's economy is going down the drain atm. Labor cost is a big factor in transportation so keeping two drivers might be making the things too expensive. Independent of this, buses are safer than cars, so safety wise the argument could be made if it gets people out of the car it's worth it. I don't think I've ever had two drivers for long distance buses in Europe. I don't think we're very unsafe.
I wonder how this can easily backfire. Eg if someone repeats something repeatedly you can learn to believe it, but if you ever prove it wrong you never trust them again.
In other news, HSBC plans to re-brand as the Hong Kong and Shanghai Blockchain Company. [1] Stock skyrockets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp.
An assemblage approach to liquid warfare: AFRICOM and the ‘hunt’ for Joseph Kony [pdf]
> If the accusation is just "eating orc-flesh", the only cannibalistic taboo that would be violated by that unqualified act would be eating those who aren't members of your group.

No. For example, it may be unacceptable if the groups aren't at war.

> A practice of eating your own kind -- but not other people -- would be consistent with everything mentioned above, but would be incredibly bizarre for humans. We are much more likely to eat other groups while never eating our own.

Then humans are incredibly bizarre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocannibalism
We have the most people ever, with the smallest percentage ever in extreme hunger. So I’m guessing you don’t mean suffering from starvation. Who is suffering and why are they suffering much much more?
I mean what I say: I don't think he can possibly be as naive as this piece suggests, and I don't think any of the plausible alternatives interpretations (e.g., incredibly negligent, corrupt, a fool) is better than this babe-in-the-woods confection.

If you'd like to assert that he's really this naive, feel free to make a case for it. Or if you have some interpretation that's better, I'd be glad to read that as well.
Given that over half a million families file medical bankruptcies in the United States annually, I find the Economist to lack credibility on the issue.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most...
Do you really need a single mega-light? Seems to me for a lot of situations having more dispersed lamps would work better and light a room more evenly and allows more fine tuning of light levels.
Can we please stop writing html inside Javascript or Ruby in this case?
> I think "everyone must pay" is even more politically infeasible than setting the tax at 5%, sadly.

This surfaces how little say individuals have in our public policy. I specifically added a clause that would more than offset this tax for a modest one bedroom unit for each individual over the age of eighteen. However, I suspect you are right. However, there will be massive lobbying to kill this proposal before it can even gain any traction. Huge data centers, ware houses, grocery chains, malls, sports stadiums and all these things don't actually pay that much in property taxes and claim that they operate on such razor thin margins that they simply can't exist without a zero percent property tax. These institutions threaten to pull out from our communities if we don't give them rebates on property taxes. Well I'd like to see where they move to when we have a federal property tax!
I'm building an open-source equivalent with those exact goals (also using this as an excuse to learn Flutter): https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/family

Just pushed a chat-screen UI and FireStore integration (all content will be encrypted and keys will only stay on device). Could explore making it as just a Matrix.org client (to get voice/video calls): https://twitter.com/nileshtrivedi/status/1200480301480169472

Eventually, I think someone like FSF or EFF should own it.
And this might be the very problem. Noise is a very well defined term in information theory. If political forecasting is throwing around the term without applying it correctly they’re gonna have a bad time.

At the end of the day though, any time you have time series data you can apply filters to smooth and shape your data. I don’t understanding how they’re modeling their data. There’s a good chance they’re doing some kind of frequency modeling where they’re counting correct predictions. It definitely sounds like they’re doing some stochastic modeling when they start talking about percentage predictions. You can definitely shape frequency domain as well with filters, though I havn’t quite thought through how the stochastic aspects might interact.

Keep in mind, filters are very basic, and even something as common as averaging data is a low-pass filter. As is fitting to a curve. This all acts to attenuate the signal we care about without also attenuating the noise. Though, again, if someone isn’t being rigorous about what constitutes noise, then no amount of filtering will actually help...

I’m also sorry if this thread isn’t very insightful. I’ve been having my nose rubbed in signal processing at work for the last 2 months, and it’s all I can see everywhere I look. I see parrallels everywhere that may not be there.

You’re also very correct about the simplicity of physical models versus social sciences. It may just be that trying too hard to apply basic information theory at models that are almost impossible to create in the first place is a fools errand.
If you have some evidence that this is the case, feel free to give it. But they've already outsourced the running of the registry to somebody else, so any obvious efficiency gains have presumably already been taken. And if they haven't, there's no reason to think a fresh-minted PE company would do any better than hiring a competent manager.
Thanks... even though you suggested it for my friend, I think I'll just read it myself.

He's extremely intelligent (which makes his irrational tendencies more annoying hahaha), but he simply doesn't read anything I give him. Oh, well :P
Most data scientists plan exit in 2020
I believe that document.write prevent a lot of parallelism.
Also as always, SIMD are underutilized.
There is also transactional memory, heterogeneous computing, SYCL, etc...
No, not in my case. I have very specific cravings.
Intellij allows switching of theme with a keycombo, just clone your regular theme and edit it for focusing on comments. Same goes for other editors like vim where changing colours can be done fast.
I really like "The Art of Action" by Stephen Bungay, who's a military historian/management consultant.

It's interesting to compare the Taylor vs. Drucker view on management against the Bülow vs. Clausewitz view on war.
I don't mean to knock it. It's a cool project and obvious you've done some good work on it. But, I wouldn't expect it to lead anywhere beyond a couple sample POC apps. It's been tried before and never quite seems to work out (I did something similar with VB6 forms way back when. It didn't work out. Meteor.js is one that probably came the closest to real-world success. It didn't work out.). There was a bit more interest in this approach back when SPAs were just coming onto the scene, but in the time since, the programming community seems to have converged around the idea of well-defined boundaries and interfaces, allowing use of the best tool for the job in each individual service, and abstracting out the distributed communication layer with a metaprogramming tunneling approach has somewhat fallen out of favor.

If your goal is just a brain workout then by all means keep going with it. But if you're looking to do something that gets some larger adoption, then I'd probably wrap this up and move on to the next thing.

(Not that you asked my advice, or that I'm in any way qualified to give it)
Coinbase patent to monitor account compliance gets USPTO approval
I agree! Great design. Looks like their using Vue.js
Well, I mean, the fact that cryptocurrencies are helping North Korea is pretty much undisputed. They've been stockpiling it to run their ballistic missile program. [1] According to the United Nations Security Council, they had almost $700MM back in May. [2]

The system is designed to skirt sanctions after all, it's kinda the raison d'être.

[1] https://bitcoinist.com/un-north-korea-accumulating-cryptocur...

[2] https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/N-Korea-at-crossroads/Nort...
I'm curious how you setup "automatically unlock before we reach the door"
From my experience when I was teaching yoga classes there were different kinds of obese people. Some were super flexible and very good at moving their large body around in a world that didn't accommodate them whereas others had zero body awareness, were stiff and could barely move. There are different reasons why somebody is of a certain body type. Some skinny people are anorexic, weak and have no understanding of their body. Others are skinny because they are super fit. Superficially they look the same but are actually totally different.
You're still using technology, just one that addresses the whole person instead of a localized illness.
Lepin doesn't have a webstore. There are a lot of webstores that claim that they're Lepin, but afaik they're all 3rd party resellers.
Hearing Intel complain about anti-competitive tactics is a good one. Says an intel rep told the court, "[Intel] built innovative world-class products" ... from all I've heard that's straight up perjury, innit?
What a come back; AMD was in the red for years and now this. Went with AMD + Nvidia in my current setup, and could as well go full AMD 5 or so years from now; My last AMD machine was with AMD K6-2 500mhz way back in 1999;
The latter. The tools in question (Tamarin and ProVerif) use a model of signatures that goes back to 2000/2001 which is around when these key substitution properties were discovered. Consequently, they were missed from the models and because the properties themselves aren't that well known, it took a while before it was noticed.
> Assistant Attorney General John Demers said: “Despite receiving warnings not to go, Griffith allegedly traveled to one of the United States’ foremost adversaries, North Korea, where he taught his audience how to use blockchain technology to evade sanctions. By this complaint, we begin the process of seeking justice for such conduct.”

Wow, that seems like an incredibly dumb thing to do. Isn't all that information readily available on the internet anyway? I'm sure the NK govt. has access to the web.
Workers. As more demands are pressured to be met, efforts to crush unions are getting stronger, and wages are not increasing, workers are suffering more than ever.
"Doesn't work without a connection" is not bricking, and even actual bricking through shutdown of related cloud services happens all the time and doesn't seem to cause that much trouble for companies.
It affects the discussion of the situation and, by extension, the politics surrounding it, and thereby ultimately the one force that might actually effect the necessary change.
Ha ha.. The title should read Jack Dorsey plans a 6 month visit to Africa. 6 months does not make a move.
> ... announced today the unsealing of a criminal complaint charging VIRGIL GRIFFITH, a United States citizen, with violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) by traveling to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (“DPRK” or “North Korea”) in order deliver a presentation and technical advice on using cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to evade sanctions.

And he thought he’d get away with this how? Jeez..
>The typical "history repeats itself, so we do not need to care about it"...

I'd like to think of it more as the typical:

"Yeah, our country did those things back in the day to develop/get rich, but yours should not do them. History shouldn't repeat itself in your country's case, only my country should be allowed that privilege"

Countries must pass through certain stages to develop.

Countries that were once at stage 0 and now, after centuries , managed to be on stage N, are hypocritical (if not self-serving and used for diplomatic/political reasons) to point fingers at countries earlier in those stages. Especially if those countries are much older and larger (and thus slower to change) and despite that go through those stages much faster...
When you have traveled to the DPRK despite warnings of the Department of State, visiting the US is not the best decision to take.
How about the end of apartheid in South Africa?
I'd like to go way beyond that: I'd like an editor that supports HTML in specially formatted comments, or better yet SVG, so I can embed comments in table format, diagrams, relationship flow charts, etc.

Ideally the editor would allow me to modify the graphics. Being vector, they would check into version control.

Also, I would like all function name definitions to be in bold, in a larger font.
At first I was concerned that the US was overstepping it's bounds a bit with cryptocurrency. But then I read the charge, and he apparently literally traveled to North Korea to advise them how to evade sanctions -- pretty stupid if you ask me.
Show HN: Travel app without a new tech-a dead end?
This is the exact sort of ridiculously contrarian article that made me stop caring for The Economist.

>If you argue that income has shrunk you also have to claim that four decades’ worth of innovation in goods and services, from mobile phones and video streaming to cholesterol-lowering statins, have not improved middle-earners’ lives.

I don’t see how the availability of better per dollar technology is an argument that income hasn’t shrunk. Technology, for the consumer class, comes out of disposable income. Businesses (and their wealthy owners) are the biggest financial winners of tech. By a landslide.

What about the lack of(available) durable goods. I live around things that are older than me, but things made in the last ~30 years haven’t withstood the test of time so well. That seems like a huge cost I’ve never seen accounted for.

I don’t see them addressing the rising cost relative to inflation (as best I can tell) on necessities like food and shelter.

Maybe I’m just dumb and full of myself, but this reads like propaganda. The argument about pensions is decent but I think most people who care about economics were already aware of that, and even that is kinda sketch because the pensions are often managed by ultra-wealthy hedge fund managers who line their pockets.
I like this trend of moving back toward component based architecture. This has many similarities to Flutter, which for me has been a major breath of fresh air.

What still gets me: HTML/CSS/JS honestly just sucks for building complex apps. We have shoehorned tools that were meant for simple document display into doing our bidding, but at what cost? Hours and hours of developer agony. It doesn't need to be this hard. I like looking at one file written in one language to see both the look and behavior of an app. There has just been too much mental overhead. I like the way things are going and this framework is step forward.
Even with async await it’s not hard to run into it. The moment you end up wanting to box a future you run into pin.
I have an LG smart TV I got when I got an LG G5. I do exactly this. I dont connect it to the internet. I did at first but then I changed the wifi password / reset the damn thing. It is just a dumb TV for my MiBox (Android TV) which I prefer since if that component dies I can replace it. Though I am likely going to buy an Apple TV instead in the future if I see any decent offers on one.
CMU 15-721: In-Memory Databases / Advanced Database Systems [video]
Hit the High Notes Singing Game
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Facebook have a large office in Singapore where they employ many people. There is no question they are operating there.
I'm amazed you managed to find that, 8 minutes into a block of random TV commercials.
Some British official. Probably best known as a namesake for the current eastern border of Poland (known as Curzon's line), of which he wasn't an architect or proponent.
Reasons for the Popularity of PHP Scripting Language
Susan Sontag's Political Indifference
From comments here, it sounds like this tech is too expensive and unreliable to consider such a thing right now, but:

I wonder if some day, it would be a good idea to just put these in all cars? Drunk driving is a common enough (and deadly enough) crime that it would probably make everyone safer. And driving, of course, is a privilege, not a right.
Science-based methods to improve your memory
Certainly not after they made US passports not valid for travel to the DPRK in the wake of the Warmbier... situation.
> it'll call mmap (probably), which will then find 1GB(+ overhead) of contiguous address space

It does. Last time I dug into that I think there was a 128KB threshold. Smaller allocations would use sbrk while larger once would use mmap.
What are you using for the watering? I’ve got a deep distrust of automation combined with mains pressure water which I’m trying to overcome.
On a related note, I found that when rendering “Caption: Value” pairs like “Color: Red” I prefer the caption to be bold and value normal. Intuitively I wanted to do it the other way, but that never looked good in the end. Still puzzled.
There is a setting in Plex that will allow it to work without authentication for any devices connecting from a defined subnet. So I just set this to my home network's setup and can use it without issue whether I have an Internet connection or not.

I confirmed this when I tested my Plex server on a Raspberry Pi out in a cabin in the middle of nowhere and it streamed fine without an Internet connection.
He is also the author of WikiScanner, the project revealed FBI and CIA computers used for editing Wikipedia pages.
There's some NLP involved since the latest version got released (0.102), so you can just type some simple automation like "turn off lights when I leave home".

Powered by Stanford's Almond, which you can install yourself, as an Hassio addon, or use the cloud version: https://almond.stanford.edu/
Thanks, I hadn't thought about that =)
In the future we won't need a head, because we'll have matter teleportation.
Of course a topic critical of the economy would cause a site called "The Economist" to give a biased viewpoint. That's why it reads like propaganda.
Thanks for the link. There goes my evening ...
I know Virgil. I was at the lunch in Palo Alto where he suggested "GAS" should be the name of the internal accounting unit for smart contracts. As with many of the early Ethereum adopters he was quite gifted, a bit eccentric, and leaned a bit in an ideological direction.

Offhand I can't see any reason why he would go out of his way to N. Koreans advice on how to evade sanctions, so I will look forward to some statement on his part. 20 years is a long time.

I know he was working for the Ethereum foundation recently but doubt that the foundation would go out of the way to anger the US government (although they reportedly have a lot of Chinese government involvement).

Here is his twitter:
https://twitter.com/virgilgr?lang=en
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Wow Tesla have big brass balls. Charging exorbitant fees for designed-in flaws and intentionally bricking it if you fix it yourself? The next time Elon's house gets vandalized we won't have to wonder why...
Ouch, this move and the plan to abandon the OSS part (discussed in the comments here) makes me uncomfortable about using Fathom.

The option to run my own instance if wanted was the main point for paying for their service. Because I don't want to maintain an instance of Fathom myself now, but maybe later. Now potentially giving up the OSS version makes me reconsider alternatives to Fathom.

All these changes lately make me feel bad about their future and their grand promises on my users' privacy.
This is ridiculous.

Both that this US Citizen ignored direct warnings from the US Federal Government not to attend and teach at the Pyongyang Blockchain Conference, and then volunteered to travel back the United States.

And that the US Federal Government is worried about North Korea getting their hands on the WMD-level technology that are Ethereum Tokens.

I suppose they'll be rounding up the people who built https://ethereum.org/developers/#getting-started next?
This was similar to the earlier Battle of Bach Dang River over 300 years prior https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B%E1%BA%A1ch_%C4%9...
Hacker arrested for sharing information.
The solutions proposed don't understand what can and cannot be verified. You can verify if a statement is actually from the source subject to the messy details of distribution. You can't verify the actual truth cryptographically. Ans ot encounters the same messy problems as computer security - no matter how good your technology you can't have both power to the user and protect from absolute idiots - see phishing.

An authority signing it only tells you that it was approved by one and not that it is actually valid. Transparency enabled by the internet and sousveillance (for instance every camera phone capture of police brutality) makes it clear that the idea you can trust and rely upon authorities is a flat out lie.
First of all, it’s not actually valid syntax because I believe Rust doesn’t have negative trait bounds. But it’s a trait bound, so it’s (part) of a type signature. The type here is generic over both lifetimes and types (I think). My vague understanding is that for<‘a, T: ?Sized> means “in any lifetime, any type that is a member of ‘?Sized’”. And then the rest of the signature goes on to say (in made-up syntax) “does not implement DerefMut”. I think ?Sized means “size not known at compile time.”
https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...
Money laundering, ransoms and fraud are pretty much the only actual use cases other than speculation— which is essentially just people extracting profits from criminals in a way that makes them feel distanced from engaging in a criminal conspiracy.
I had an obese yoga teacher. She was just as good at the moves as any other yoga teacher I've had. Was pretty surprising.