skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is "what is efficient?" The quickest reference for emissions is Wiki [0] saying

> Maritime transport accounts for 3.5% to 4% of all climate change emissions, primarily carbon dioxide.

Aviation is about half that, but there is a lot less aviation, so we need to consider that. If we are saying "efficient" as a comparison, yes ships are. But that's not really the issue about climate change. The issue is that we have too much green house gasses in our atmosphere and are not slowing down (side bar: with sequestration the argument is that greenhouse gasses aren't inherently bad, but the levels are. So as long as net is zero or negative, who cares -- there is more nuance to this than suggested here). The issue is that we have to transport stuff. Sorry, but we can't live our current life unless we transport stuff globally. Doing otherwise would require drastic shift, which is needed, but come at a great cost. So do we solve it technologically or socially (I for one don't have faith in the social solution, but would love to be surprised). So the three ways we have of getting stuff across oceans (if we include Musk for entertainment value) are (in order of emissions): Shipping, Aviation, big fucking rockets (this isn't a linear scale and one of these dwarfs all the others).

The issue is that we need to be at 0 or negative emissions (i.e. sequestering carbon). The short end of that argument is that US and EU combined is about 25% of global emissions and I don't know if we can trust other countries to be as aggressive as we are. (So obviously in favor of sequestration. What's the worst that can happen? We go too far and have to operate a few coal plants to balance out? LOL)

The conversation is frequently a distracting one. We talk about energy, cars, and plastic straws. That accounts for <50% of a first world's carbon emissions, which energy needs are growing btw (keeping current levels of emissions is a difficult challenge alone!). Unless we have a serious conversation about this, we're never going to get to 0 emissions by 2100 (forget 2050, we've already given up on that. We're not willing to have a nuanced discussion about the issues and instead pretending paper vs plastic straws are an actual issue).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shippi...
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I feel like your comments on accessibility kind of speak for themselves, and I don't want to rehash the same technical arguments over again. You're not advocating for a bold, artistic world when you talk about engineering things to pointlessly exclude people. You're just advocating for a smaller world with fewer people in it.

I do want to mention very quickly that on the subject of books and movies, literally every Hollywood movie you can buy ships with subtitles for the deaf, and since ~2015 US law has required that new theaters also include equipment that provides audio descriptions for blind viewers[0]. And I don't know anyone who would seriously claim that the Godfather is lessened as an artistic expression just because deaf people can turn on subtitles.

[0]: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2016-12-02/html/2016-...
Show HN: Let Machine Learning Pick Colors for Your Designs
How is that Bad? Any Activity you have need to have proper lifecycle.

Every UI Toolkit has something similar.

Same events for IOS: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/app_and_envi...
A long-lived code base will end up containing different conventions for doing things based on the era the code was written in. I’m OK with that, the later code will (should) have, per screenful, higher clarity, more functionality and fewer bugs.

I feel like there’s probably a good analogy with evolution of human languages and cultures around them. How many of us can read Beowulf in the original?
Think like a bronze medalist, not silver (2017)
I think we'd all rather burn cheaper / more prevalent gas than a leaded fuel that is the output of specialty refining. We're not allowed to by regulation, though, and furthermore present solutions would also endanger safety in a big slice of aircraft. The fleet of general aviation aircraft is really old, after all.
Founder here. Happy to answer any questions you people might have. We built this tool for developers and designers who want to find great gradient colors from a single color. A random forest algorithm is used to find the best possible colors for you based on thousands of candidates. We'd love for everyone to give it a try.
Also probably selection bias. And also people who are employed there live nearby.
It's not ignoring. It's FIFO. How is that unfair? Just seems like an HNer's ego trip that someone ordered something before him and, gosh darnit, he can't even see them!
No, it’s not.
Hololens was 30 x 17.5 degrees, Magic Leap one is 40 x 30.
Ignoring the solid angles and just naively multiplying the two dimensions we have 525 vs 1200.
Two me the FOV area seems well above the double.
I'm an engineer-turned-marketing-consultant for enterprise software startups. I help them attract and convert more enterprise customers in a repeatable way.
Pluck and hard work, or luck of birth? Two stories, one man
The concern here is people using Chinese websites abroad. The Great Cannon rewrites javascript for a subset of remote users visiting Chinese sites, causing the users' browsers to participate in a DDoS against a target.
For me it's first and foremost freedom to do what I want. I work on what I want, take time off when I want, set my schedule how I want.

Also variety. Lots of different projects for businesses in different industries. It's definitely not boring.
I'd pay a subscription fee given that none of my digital fingerprints is being logged.
For all its faults, we can't argue with the fact that thanks to the popularity of this app many people have engaged with another language, even if it fails to deliver. Overall, on a global level, this increases compassion and global understanding through cultural exposure. I can't possibly be against it for that.
If you knew anything about HFT, you'd know that speed got arbitraged out more than a decade ago. Everyone is fast now. In order to make money, you need true alpha and predictive ability. It's sad to see you disparage their impressive achievements when what they've done is incredibly difficult to accomplish, especially as such a latecomer. I know because I tried it myself ten years ago when it was even less competitive and couldn't make it work.
They sold their aero derivatives to Siemens and now they see nuclear dying and their stocks falling. Time for some marketing.
No. It's to protect users outside China visiting Chinese sites from being coopted to participate in DDoS.
Neuroprosthetics as a field has a fairly long history. It's fascinating. However, it moves slowly, like most everything else human body related.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprosthetics#History
They've made multiple attempts to do this.

Manufactures really hate the lack of flexibility and there is a small amount of justification: new hardware often does need new controls.

And of course many people like the flexibility of Android.
I think a big part is that many (most?) children find school – i.e. lectures, textbooks, homework exercises, exams – unmotivating/boring at best, and often extremely stressful/frightening, which means that they aren’t fully focused on it and can easily miss important details. Beyond that, schools often fail to provide meaningful feedback or support when people suffer serious misconceptions or are missing fundamental prerequisite knowledge/skills, which makes it easy for students to fall behind and have great difficulty recovering. Someone who spends the exact same amount of time on academic work but for whatever reason (external help outside school, internal motivation, some insightful introspection, ...) manages to pay closer attention, stay more relaxed, think about things ahead of where the class is expected to be, connect new learning to material learned before and build a better-connected mental map, etc. can end up pulling far ahead.

A whole lot of this has to do with level of preparation before ever arriving at school. Some kids read with their parents for hours every day from age 1–5+, learn to play a variety of strategic games (and games involving basic arithmetic practice), build structures or mechanisms or electronics, practice making art, work through books of logic puzzles, etc. Other kids are left alone and bored without learning materials at a reasonable level, plonked down in front of developmentally inappropriate or just badly produced TV, or handed over to unthoughtful video games.

Then consider how many kids and parents have serious problems at home, with confrontational or even abusive relationships. Pile on work stress, financial stress, poor diet or even hunger, poor sleep, environmental toxins, illness, etc.
I have many of the applications packaged in Void Linux.

The shell is difficult due to dependencies on old versions of gnome libraries like libmutter that nobody is maintaining.
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Happy to see Lunanode rated Really Good. My exact experience during more than three years as a completely happy customer. They don't stock any Alpine Linux, but fetching the install image and setting up is a breeze, and not once, ever, have I had an issue with any of my instances. And highly appreciated: I can clone an instance, download the qcow2 image, fiddle with it locally, upload, and put it back in production. Flexible, easy, clean, no nonsense, reliable, cheap, and absolutely recommended.
Don't know about support, though, since so far I have had no cause to call them.
In India, the exchange was bribed to have the servers within the exchange for algo trading by some high profile institutional traders!

[1]https://wikipedia.org/wiki/NSE_co-location_scam
Ah yes, so trivial. That must explain why millions of people are doing it and we have perfect privacy online. Who knew perfect privacy was one hackathon away the whole time?
I’m not saying they have access to a single magical data source. Rather, they’re very good at identifying when a source of data is valuable to them, and milking it until it runs dry.
Are you kidding me, "Anon"? You're the one with that chip, just projecting.

Who's triggered and trying to throw out insults that don't stick: stupid, narcissistic, can't take, crawl in a hole. And then you fake claim that you're not attacking, and hiding behind an "anon"? You're talking about yourself there, bud.

So you wanna attack but you don't want to be seen to be doing it? Why? Why you so angry in your life that you're looking for a victim to take it out on, and try to get away with it? Whatever it is, it won't work and I'm sorry for you that you got this problem, but it's got nothing to do with me, please understand.

Can't you take a "no", pal? I said I wasn't going to answer a question that didn't provide any specifics. I didn't mention anything about downvotes, and I don't think it's stupid to say what I want, I understand if you think other people saying what they want is stupid, tho.

Seems like because I didn't do what you expected, you have flipped out. Calm down, instead of trying to blame me, analyze what your emotion is about. Don't blame others, that's weak and pathetic.

Because sorry, I'm not your victim pal. You're gonna take all that anger, that you try to push onto me, back. Cause it's yours not mine. Your reaction is your responsibility pal, thanks. If you're unhappy with my response that's your problem not mine. Do you get it? Thank you, pal.
Pimsleur is what you want and you can get it free form your library. You can play the audio tracks from your phone if you burn the CDs. It could well be a native app, and I wish it was, but there must not be a lot of tech product vision at the Simon&Shuster.
If you’re interested in exploring this, the university network shouldn’t be a problem if you create a private network between your laptop and phone and connect the phone to the internet using NAT on the laptop. The Internet Sharing feature in macOS makes this pretty easy.
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> The majority of climate scientists are pro nuclear.

Do you have any credible sources on that?
>Redhat employs all the systemd/kernel folks

That is not true -- IBM/Redhat is a minority kernel contributor (most are from the IBM group), and Fedora is not an IBM product or project. Fedora is independent and often considered an alpha/beta/canary version of RHEL (the latter is IBM's priority, without a doubt).
<speculation>

Android is going the way of Google Reader. Kotlin is just to keep developers happy in the meantime before explicit deprecation. Fuchsia + Flutter is the new platform. Android Runtime will be emulated to allow backward compatible Android apps at a performance penalty, but Fuchsia will only have first class support for native compiled languages like Dart, Go, C++, Swift, similar to iOS.

</speculation>
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no UI toolkit I've used has anything nearly as complicated or error prone

it was designed for phones with 4mb of memory that need to serialise their entire state everytime a form (activity) disappears because they don't have enough memory and google were too lazy to implement it in the OS

as a result you need to implement masses of error prone boilerplate crap for each and every activity, and nearly everyone gets it wrong in subtle ways

rotate your screen? better implement that serialisation perfectly else the user will lose state when they rotate their device

a lot of apps just disable features like rotation, because they're too time consuming to implement (and a nightmare to test)
They should not even get to invest in Treasury notes. Greenspan famously only invested in Treasury notes. (Un)surprisingly t-bills did quite well during his time.
This kind of behavior in single celled organisms leads me to believe that there is a fair amount of complex logic handled by individual neurons in the brain, that is currently not being modeled in the state of the art neural networks

A highschool biology textbook could have told you the same. Each neuron is an incredibly complex systems of pumps, channels, and pathways. There are many kinds of inhibition and excitation, both chemical and electrical. There's reuptake, active gene regulation causing dynamic protein synthesis, etc etc etc. Individual neurons can be multiple feet long.

Every cell in your body is much, much more complex than we could ever imagine.

our understanding of biological intelligence has a long way to go and correspondingly AI also has a long way to go before it can hope to simulate intelligence.

That seems to assume mimicking the specifics of biology is necessary for progress. It's an open question, but that idea seems a bit silly to me.
I wish they'd dump Dart and replace it with basically anything else (Typescript? Swift? Kotlin?).

I'm not going to learn a new language which isn't used anywhere else AND a new UI toolkit just because Google's internal team structure has put them in a position to keep Dart going.

Back when Dart came out, it made sense. But Typescript came along, filled basically the same niche and got significant mindshare.
Seems like it's possible: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-05/apple-buy...
I work out of a kitchen that uses TFC and frankly everyone finds it difficult to use. Sorry!
me too because people were raving about it. I wonder how much influence was peddled, given the billions invested.
For B2C, get 100% upfront. For B2B, 50%. I am willing to walk away from all business when my payment terms are not met. Life is so much less problematic.
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Non paywalled article: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bipartisan-bill-defines-insid...
> If you're building on marsh (and I think Berlin largely is?)

Yep:

The name Berlin has its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and may be related to the Old Polabian stem berl-/birl- ("swamp").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin
Last month China actually started up a district heating system that uses the waste heat from a nuclear reactor.
Cheaper than Uber’s Ride Pass https://www.uber.com/us/en/ride/how-it-works/uber-pass/
> In my opinion, everyone in Congress should be required to invest in a blind trust, if they want to invest at all.

We already have TSP[1]. That seems sufficient.

___

1. https://www.tsp.gov/index.html
We do value fairness, as I mentioned. Equality of outcomes is not fairness, and it seems obvious that we don't naturally tend to value it as much or at all (see also actual results as discussed in the article, and more generally in countries that attempted to setup socialism). In fact equality of outcomes is fundamentally unfair.

Social welfare is not the same as socialism at all. That's a common misrepresentation.
yes that's a typo
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The hard part is that we don't know the order of the problem.

We know a neuron and synapse count for humans, but we don't know if that's minimal for intelligence.

We don't know how complicated of a model of a neuron we need to get by with an equivalent number of neurons/synapses. Or what the tradeoff is-- how many more neurons we need for a simpler model, if that's even possible. Can we run smaller numbers of neurons to have a "slow" AGI? Does the fact that computers can operate the connections and weightings quicker earn us anything?

And then you have the people like Penrose who argue there must be some quantum magic somehow being used by the neurons to perform quantum consciousness computation stuff.

I mean, I suspect what you imply is right: we can get by with something much less than an exhaustive model of the human brain. But I can't make a rigorous argument for it, let alone how much less.

P.S. There's a certain irony to be replying to someone named "solipsism" advancing this argument ;)
Which Interventions Can Be Paid For: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law”
I agree that the web is heading in a direction where it'll be easier to build cool websites. I think a possibly unintentional side effect of HTML as a base was that everything was hackable. It's like everything was open source and DRM free, whether you like it or not. I think this was probably a driver of the web becoming what it did. Imagine building pagerank when you can't scrape text or hyperlinks.
Giving contracts and giving tax breaks are very different things.
The title for this submission is taken from the bottom of the post itself. The original title is "Which Interventions Can Be Paid For: The Explanatory Power of Prasad’s Law'", which doesn't seem to adequately convey that the blog post is about health care interventions, and how US healthcare happily pays for marginally-effective interventions (ex: chemotherapy) before providing things that people actually need (home assistance, meal delivery, rides, etc).

This blog makes points that seem to get to the heart of my own observations of the United States' health system problems. Some months ago I responded here to say "IMHO, health care in the United States is used as a job project, to provide jobs for all the people who used to build stuff" [1].

I think 'wealth transfer' is a better explanation than 'job project' to explain why the US health system is dysfunctional.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20313720
I heard that. Not solved, but in the process.
And while it is a grotesque example, it further supports the idea that the younger the child the higher chance of surviving hypothermia.
So why display the cookie warning? I assume it’s an attempt to obtain “consent” to something that would otherwise be prohibited by the GDPR, and in relation to consent the GDPR says:

“Consent should not be regarded as freely given if the data subject has no genuine or free choice or is unable to refuse or withdraw consent without detriment ... Consent is presumed not to be freely given if it does not allow separate consent to be given to different personal data processing operations despite it being appropriate in the individual case, or if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance.”

I agree with the grandparent that many cookie warnings seem at odds with the GDPR in this respect.
This is interesting because a cookie with a uuid is probably a better tracker, specially with shared computers.
I know cookies can be deleted but expect the majority of their users wouldn’t be deleting cookies or using ad blockers
I think the Java Language Specification is very readable (and up-to-date and without useless narrative glue that's in regular books).
In Firefox, setting privacy.resistFingerprinting = true in about:config fixes the canvas leak and possibly the audio leak. It's part of a push to bring into Firefox privacy features from the TOR project.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting
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If you go to their website you'll see coatings for sale. Maybe they're not perfect, but the reporters in the segment said it tasted fine .
I feel that the definition of "monkey patching" doesn't (or shouldn't) cover what Rails does in AR. Monkey patch suggests a change of behaviour over what was initially intended, however dynamic method generation in AR is very-much part of the intended API.

That said, there are plenty of Rails apps that do monkey patch Rails internals, for better or worse.
> Presumably, without an allow the API doesn't function at all

An incorrect presumption. The API works perfectly fine without the need for permissions.

This is not a new technique. There's a decent write up here [0].

Permissions are only required to play to the actual device, or record from the actual device. Recording from nothing and not playing is allowed.

[0] https://iq.opengenus.org/audio-fingerprinting/
$35/hr was writing post-processors for CNC machines. Went up to $75/hr for interactive media work (Flash/Flex). Went up to $150/hr for business systems integration (Netsuite, Salesforce, etc.) Eventually got that up to $300/hr. The astute observer will notice that the rate was inversely proportional to the actual difficulty of the work. This was mostly 10-15 years ago.

$350/hr+ was distributed database related consulting, and then started going North from there for increasingly niche and specialized consulting services. Though only on very rare occasion these days. The highest rate I've ever been able to negotiate was $1,000/hr. But, it was also for a very short engagement (~10 hours) for some especially weird knowledge I have about replacing critical mainframe infrastructure with commodity systems.

Point being, you might be surprised how much you can charge for the right services to the right customers who have a clear sense of need and appropriately value a solution.
That's also certainly part of it. I think it's a good thing that people who work there generally feel very safe. Interestingly, the nuclear industry has one of the best occupational health records. Mostly because you have to take a damned training before you operate a ladder.
TOR makes the most usability compromising security choices of any browser and even they don't have a fixed window size to avoid any fingerprinting here.

They do prevent manually resizing the window because the exact width could be used to rack you across sites in the same windows.
A small hobby cyclotron that produces some alpha radiation is that uncommon of a project, and would be consistent with many words he said ("particle accelerator" and "alpha waves").

I mean, probably a crackpot, but it's not impossible that someone who got some electrical burns from a slightly exotic experiment gave 911 too much information and made them freak out.
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I’ve been working on a MacOS app with Swift UI and I can say it has never felt easier. I love it.