skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that workee out horribly for everyone involved - sex workers went back to pimps, sting operations got cut off, and because Backpage coopeated and got eliminated now they follow the standard "don't talk to the police no matter what you say". Even the evil bitch behind all of this knowing it wouldn't work lost re-eelection so I think we should learn from it instead of blindly repeating mistakes.

If someone blindly criticizes Section 230 hit them on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. I know it is hard - rolled up newspapers are hard to come by these days.
I have not found any issue with the software since the name change.
> If I was rich enough I'd host a competition to extend the life of rats: Each year, whoever could demonstrate a technique to reliably extend the lifespan of a rat by at least 10% over the previous year's record would win a million dollars.

Something quite close to this is being done for mice. The Methuselah Foundation awards cash prizes for (1) 'the longest-living mouse' and (2) the longest-living 'rejuvenated' mouse, i.e. you have to design a treatment that works for 'old' mice, extending their life as much as possible.
I really wish the best for both of you. You are completely right, your comment is really inspiring. Love to you from a random internet friend.
Market-maker can handle $150B in daily trading volume
We also probably have things that we forget/block/deny but are still there somewhere underneath, reachable only if we are put in the correct psychological conditions.

Like how deleting files doesn't properly wipe out the bits and with the right tools you can still recover deleted info.
Pheromones and social lives are a liability for insects in changing climates
Back of the napkin math. If we assume that a McDonalds is open 16 hours a day and they have an average of 4 people every hour.

16 hours x 4 people x 7 days x 52 weeks Equals about 2400 hours a year.

How much could they raise the hourly rate of their employees and raise prices before the demand went down and still be profitable if they are only making $150K now? At what point does it not make sense to invest $1 - $3 million a year to make meager returns?
Well recycling heavily used disk drives sounds more like waste disposal, I mean who can you sell that shit and get away with it? Maybe give em away if they work, idk.
Organize politically, at the state level, at the federal level, whatever you deem appropriate and achievable.

Push for privacy laws, push for laws around data ownership. Develop a theory of "what should people own" and "what kind of behaviors should be prohibited by companies" and "what kind of disclosures should be required."

Develop a message and start hammering your reps, and get like-minded techies and community members to do the same.

Spend a lot of time doing boring and tedious things like building a coalition, and make this an issue that can be fought for and that people will spend time advocating for.

California's privacy law didn't form in a vacuum, and neither did the EU's GDPR, and neither came into being because individuals were switching their personal browsing habits.

None of that's a technological solution so it's the sort of thing we techies overlook, but that's how you do it without merely voting with your feet and doing individual actions that, on their own, have zero impact.

When techies start organizing around issues like privacy, security disclosure, data ownership, and stuff like this, I think we'll stand to do some real good for the world.
Contributing the diversity of the web is an important action that all of us should be committed to.

Read Zeldman's "Browser diversity starts with us." http://www.zeldman.com/2018/12/07/browser-diversity-starts-w...
I would like to see an experiment to see how many responses a man would get on dating sites if he posted the same profile.
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I think you’re right that zeroing is effective with today’s densities but it lacks visual evidence that gives confidence a policy was executed properly.

Also with defective drives or S.M.A.R.T. failures it’s easier to meet the requirements by physically destroying the medium.
You've skipped a rather large period of time in which people would travel, and would bring a map with them or buy one when they got there. You think road trips only got to be a thing after Mapquest?
got any links about this? I'm not sure what the right search incantation is. Too much talk in Racket about new / experimental syntax. ;)
As others have noted: accounts are instance-bound.

Other Fediverse protocols -- I believe either Friendica or ... I think Hubzilla? -- have some level of account portability.

There's a fairly long-standing request for Mastodon to support this. For now, you can have accounts on other instances forwarded to your primary.

While you can export and import your own follows, followers of your account won't automatically redirect to the new home.

Masodon content however will syndicate across the Fediverse, and even some of my posts from a now-dead instance can (occasionally) be found.
Bill Gates is cherry picked. Also, billionaires aren't accountable to an electorate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21713382
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Not the OP but, I use puppeteer (and headless Chromium) as a PDF rendering service. I'd love to be able to try the same thing with a headless Gecko/Slimer.js type thing. My current build process is a major pain to keep updated (building an Alpine docker image with the right version of Chrome to match the right version of puppeteer with the right version of nodejs) And after all that, it's pretty slow.
It's really not useful for gauging potential. There are tradeoffs in how deeply you pipeline your architectures that'll tend to result in higher clock rates for shorter pipeline stages but higher IPC for longer pipeline stages, for instance. It's pretty easy to make a design with an IPC that'll blow everything else out of the water if it only needs to hit 100 MHz. For instance the slower a clock cycle is the larger you can make your caches and the less clock cycles it takes to read from them.

Also, on real world benchmarks that don't fit neatly in cache, for a given chip IPC will tend to increase as you underclock it because that will cause memory latency to go down.
Google pays Mozilla Corporation to be the default search engine in Firefox. I wouldn't classify that as a donation, though.
i think you may have just broken sourceforge with this link...

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Nice to see this paper framed as "Humanities and Social Sciences" and history of science rather than specifically computer science. Potentially a broader audience and applying a historical/social perspective rather than a more technical one.
> demonstrate a technique to reliably extend the lifespan of a rat by at least 10%

you'd get more from calorie restriction.
After using Clojure for awhile, I think the only syntax I would prefer it is Ruby’s.
This builds on a basic fallacy:

1. According to materialism, consciousness is purely a result of physical processes.

2. Our consciousness is complex.

3. Therefore, materialism says that any physical entity with a complexity comparable to us is probably conscious.

At best, going from the two premises to the conclusion involves a tendentious and useless definition of 'consciousness' that equivocates over the specific features of the consciousness of genus Homo that make it distinctly interesting. Tononi's IIT makes the same mistake.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1823
While it isn't 100% clear what sort of development you do (I assume nothing/little windows specific as you didn't mention Visual Studio "proper"), but I would suggest it's an entirely reasonable thing to do.

My only real advice would be hardware-wise, get as much memory as you can practically afford. The internal SSD can be augmented with a TB3 or USB-C external with equivalent speeds and/or lower speeds for greater GB/$ ratio, but the memory you buy it with is the memory it will die with.

I used a 2011 MBP as my main/sole machine almost every day for close to 7 years, in no small part due to an aftermarket upgrade to max out the memory at 16GB.
It's axiomatic. The universe exists because feeling exists. Physical matter is subjective experience. More complex matter up to and including the human brain represents more complex states of subjective experience. The processes in the brain feel like something because a process is a thing.
4th amendment, 2nd amendment. You really don’t see this?
That’s a common strategy to defend the status quo and scare people from making Any changes. I think only offering extreme options is especially popular in the US with its two party system. Happens in almost every political discussion.
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Also: how much just one asshole can screw things up for everyone.

Unfortunately, this is probabalistically likely as any community grows. Equivalent raging occured fairly early in the life of other social networks such as Usenet and The WELL.
I'm hoping this isn't the case as I spent a lot of years there. Most of us had little contact with the local government -- road tax was the only thing we were liable for to the local government.

Well anyway, the US Government has managed to export all my personal data multiple times anyway, this can't be worse than that. The most they'd ever be able to get out of the Kanagawa government is the address where I lived when I was there and probably the license plate to the car I had.
Many Tier 1 regional trauma centers now have the equipment to induce hypothermia on hand. Hopefully, this will become standard gear in all trauma departments
Does anyone use the Brave browser? I started a few days ago and it's a pretty interesting idea.
A week in the dark rewires brain cell networks and changes hearing in adult mice
How cold is the water? It has to be cold, right?
> go through gender transition

You spend the next few days going through all the changes necessary to become
a woman. You change your name, your mannerisms, your clothes, even your haircut.
You also learn how to use a toilet properly. Finally, you decide to go out in
public wearing women's clothing
A better analogy would be to the lower, mostly independent rungs of a feudal society like the English yeoman. Antebellum, the general attitude in the South was that even the poorest person was entitled to live his life as he saw fit on his land, and should be regarded as equal to a rich plantation owner with employees and slaves. There was generally no bureaucracy that could force a poor person to lose his land, make his children leave home for school, incur expenses, etc. Social customs somewhat enforced neighborly behavior in place of regulation. This is how slaveholding could persist; rights depended on having just a bit of land.

That is why the Reconstruction of the South was so painful; it was essentially a social and political revolution by top-down administration to add bureaucracy and consolidate the economy into larger farms and industrial owners/laborers.
I've never been in the business of wiping drives, but I had thought a strong magnet would do the trick for this? Or is the physical damage also relevant here? Curious if I've just been wrong this whole time...
Linux has 3 keybinding schemes among which you can choose: emacs, vim and cua (what IBM introduced some years later, ctrl+c etc.).

I don't see why introducing a fourth one would help?

The main reason you can't simply flick a global switch between those three but have to do it per app seems to be the license of GNU readline.
Some people do splurge for flowers and a casket, but the last 4 or 5 funerals i have been to stated "in lieu of flowers" donate to such and such. Some people dont do that and still buy flowers.

As for the casket, I believe the cheapest pine box is good enough for me (or cremation). Of course the metal vault around the casket is defiantly needed...you know in case of a zombie outbreak ;)
LOGO is already Lisp without parentheses and with infix notation. Recently, doing exercises in LOGO with my kid,he asked: can we put some parentheses around the functions for better clearness? I said: my son, you just discovered Lisp!
Ask HN: Web app for storing and annotating PDFs
I am extremely frustrated by the lack of a web app that will simply store PDFs and let you annotate them. For example, a simple navigation sidebar and a display to the right would be sufficient. I have tried googling for this to no avail. Are there any recommendations for something like this? As a sidenote, I currently use Dynalist for all of my notes and if there is something similar to this that can store and annotate PDFs, that would be ideal.
OP may be confusing Edge/Brave/Opera with Firefox here, so I can't really blame them for having had the impression that Firefox and Chrome share the same engine.

And in at least one regard it's entirely true: on iOS, everything uses WebKit.
> If Americans tried to reorganise their boundaries along the lines of the article's map, they would probably stop "coming together" and start "moving apart" in the course of a few generations. In the short term, though, it would probably ease a lot of the pressure currently felt.

Americans are "together"? Huh? Have you ever been there?

USA is a pretty bad system, it ensures that somehow the poorest, smallest states have disproportinate to large, richer states. This means people from Kentucky whose entire life is Tobacco somehow get more power over the government than California, who accounts for 20% of the GDP and 10% of the population.

USA would be far better off breaking into multiple countries then forming an EU like structure. As a Californian tired of subsidizing rednecks who would like to see the beautiful Bear Republic turned into strip clubs and endless highways,, I can say that the American experiment is a failure and it's time to try something new.
No, uBlock is not the same as uBlock Origin.

Quote:

In July 2018, uBlock.org was acquired by AdBlock,[19] and began allowing "Acceptable Ads",[20] a program run by Adblock Plus that allows some ads which are deemed "acceptable", and the publisher pays Adblock Plus.[21]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
The burden of proof is for the original statement ("it's literally the same engine"), not the counter.
This comment is interesting. We have all these guys trying to predict market moves using machine learning models and falling on their faces because in order to correctly simulate the market you need all the variables, iow, you need the whole market to "simulate" the market. There may be shortcuts, e.g. statistical approaches, but all attempts at long-term predictions based on such techniques have failed.

So much of our consciousness is our own bodies and the environment we live in. My knees ache, my head hurts because I slept lousy, it's freezing, I'm hungry, I'm preventing myself from freaking out about various things going on at my job, etc.
My first guess would be that the majority of keyboards that exist in the world do not have a CMD key.
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it's been a successful language because the web is effing amazing and it's literally your only choice if you want any functionality in a web page.

If the original Scheme-like plan for JS had of been used then you'd be saying exactly the same thing about a Scheme.

JS didn't succeed because it was "good" in _any_ way. It succeeded because it was not horrendous and it was/is _the only choice_.
Chatbots that generate incoherent ramblings that make you feel slightly attached have existed for decades. There is nothing special about these. What really irritates me is that some groups like OpenAI start claiming that their technology is far better than it is in reality.

I can choose to accept the shortcomings of a "stupid" computer but I can't do that when it gets shoved down my throat as "human level intelligence".
It is a standard question
If you play dirty with your friends you will lose them, this isn't naive its the cold reality of relationships, co-operation requires trust and thats a hard requirement.
My guess is “typing stuff into a website using chrome” which I guess elementary isn’t a terrible choice.
It might be because CRA does not have server side rendering and it is hard for some search engines to index pages if they are entirely rendered the client side.

Also CRA comes with tons of dependencies. If all we need is to display some texts and images, as most landing pages are wont to be, it makes little sense to utilize such complex technology stack.
This was a great book. I live in the pacific northwest and one thing that boggles my mind is just how cheap forest land is. Weyerhaeuser owns 12.4 million acres and only has a market cap of 21 billion. Crazy to me that for 0.5% of the national budget you could buy out this company and increase the size of the national forests in the lower 48 by nearly 10%.

Everyone wants to spend mental energy on being green and helping the environment, but nobody wants to allow wild places to recover. I would argue any politician proposing a green new deal is proposing a plan that would get less done than simply using eminent domain to form new national forests out of timberland. Much of this land was never proved and was simply granted to railroads, many of which no longer even exist.

If much of the most valuable timberland in North America is this cheap, then what about deserts with no energy prospects?

There are still places in the US that should even be national parks such as the Ruby Mountains in Nevada, which the book mentions briefly as having an island like effect due to how isolated they are from other high alpine mountains.
Honu's real trick is supporting Racket's syntax-case in an infix syntax.
Well since I saw in hn all the fuck-fest with fathom v2 and the founders talking down to legitimate users asking about the open source version, I'm glad you released it, will try in my new WP site, will work with woocommerce too?
the cruelty is, quite obvious by now, the point.
A computer cannot emulate itself, I can be programmed by humans to emulate itself. I.e., no introspection was involved in the part of the computer.
The last sentence sums it up: “if you simply rule in advance that the mind must be physical and assume that an understanding of consciousness must be a materialist understanding, because scientific materialism is obviously correct, you end up looking for your keys under the streetlamp because that’s where the light is.“
Author claims to "have been reading around in the field of consciousness studies for over two decades" + doesn't mention neither Giulio Tononi nor Karl Friston => comes of as kind of clueless ?
Being First to Market Doesn’t Guarantee Success
In what way do they suck? We have incredibly detailed logs available to our customers.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/logs/about/
As a web dev, I find the FF dev tools a good bit less performant, but I still try to use it always without reverting to Chrome.. The one feature I have not found in FF dev tools is Search, this is very handy for find random JavaScript on a JS heavy site.

Edit: This post prompted me to Google for it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger/How_...

Move along, nothing to see.. :-\
Solving the Millennial Work Shirt Problem
> So many jaded comments! This is incredibly cool.

I agree. You could use the process to power a desalination plant, and make even more freshwater!
Ford is recycling McDonald’s coffee waste into car parts
Ah yes the dreaded overqualified reasoning
The author hasn’t spent much time in Utah, if he didn’t split it out.
How to live with mega-fires? Portugal’s feral forests may hold the secret
Or hwidgen the free key they gave to all the windows 8 refugees. That’s what I do in my test VMs
Omar Bradley once said “Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.” I'd say that in CPU design amateurs talk about execution resources but professionals talk about cache hierarchies. But that's too awkward to make a good quip.
The old UX was fine. I really don’t get the push to build this.

I haven’t found any value added in the new design at all - has anyone else?

If they want to stay ahead of GitHub Actions, they need to make sure their feature set is ahead of the game. I wonder if this is part of a major refactor to enable more velocity, because otherwise I just can’t comprehend the rational to spend so much time on it.
"What options have you already looked through?"

If you were expecting sshd, and they mention it and rule it out because of reason X, you now have the start of a constructive conversation. "Oh wow, I didn't know that" or "Ah, hang on, I fixed something similar once, want me to see if I can dig out my notes?" are nice.

If you were expecting sshd and it doesn't show up, you could then offer "Had you considered sshd or ruled it out at all?".

Also, ask them for the problem they were trying to solve, and offer alternative takes on the problem, sympathise, and only go into alternative solutions after asking them to describe the solutions they've tried.

This is really hard, and I'm still trying to get better at it after 20+ years in industry.
This fire, as fire scientist Craig Clements would later conclude, had grown too hot. Instead of slowing the fire, the oncoming dew boiled off the flame front like water off the rocks of a sauna, sending a pulse of superheated steam almost to the borders of space. As it pillowed up against the frigid edge of the earth’s atmosphere, the steam condensed and fell as hail, pushing a mass of frigid air down on top of the wildfire.

In any combustion reaction, more compression means more heat and power: The downrushing front made the difference between wildfire and blast furnace. On the video feed from Pedrógão Grande, Castellnou watched the collapsing downburst depress the fire column horizontally toward the trees, now clogged with cars. At around nightfall they caught, and within minutes 8 square kilometers of woodland, packed with fleeing vacationers, burst into flame.

Terrifying.
Is the peer-reviewed paper available anywhere yet?

This article doesn't tell us anything about the Neurosymbolic AI approach except that it performs well and "essentially combines two existing techniques: neural attention Transformers...and tensor product representation".
There is no IO, and it is not memory intensive.
I've CSS-blocked the Suggestions and Comments sections, which is wonderful.

Of late, I mostly use https://invidio.us

DDG bang: !invidious

Not as short as !yt, but it's there and works.
Some notes:

- The headline is clickbait/false really. The six-hour cardiac arrest is pretty much made up/guessed. In fact, they don't know how long she was in cardiac arrest. The article actually goes on to state "how long her heart stopped for is not clear", so it's a bit odd to say she had a six-hour cardiac arrest.

- The six hours timeframe actually refers to the fact that a defibrillator was used 6 hours after the emergency services were called.

- It mentions that doctors are stating it's the longest cardiac arrest ever recorded in Spain. This is a very odd thing for a professional doctor to do, when they have no evidence to back that up. As a doctor, you can't just guess she was in cardiac arrest for 6 hours and record it down as being what happend. That's misleading information.
Deepak Chopra made a digital clone of himself
What were some reasons you found it unsustainable?
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A materialistic approach to explaining consciousness is necessary, since consciousness can be affected by physical changes to the brain, which implies that consciousness is fundamentally a physical process.
I had a Prof in college who wrote a book about the US being 4 sections since its founding, he called them folkways

https://www.amazon.com/Albions-Seed-British-Folkways-cultura...
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