skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos by Christian Davenport

* The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte

* Machine Platform Crowd: Harnessing the Digital Revolution Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson

* Kiss The Ground Josh Tickell

* The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by MichioKaku

* * * My other 95 Books I am going to continue re-read in 2020:

http://casualwalker.com/95-best-books-to-read-in-2019
I see Mr. Feyman has been woke from the dead, and still feels the need to demand an explanation. People piss on their hands sometimes, own up to that. Let he who has never had a stray pubic hair turn the urine stream into a spring rain shower cast the first stone.
Not sure if this is what GP is thinking of, but I think you're thinking of North Sense: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnpvb5/cyborg-implant-nor...
It's not meant to be Mark Zuckerberg, it's meant to be Data from Star Trek superimposed onto his face.
I switched to the Android Headspace app recently and the juxtaposition of what they're trying to achieve (meditation / mindfulness and being in the moment) with the onslaught of unasked-for notifications, sometimes when I was already asleep, was jarring. They should be a poster boy for Calm Technology, but Tech just can't seem to help itself.
Apples and oranges, Delphi != C++, and on top of that I don't think you really want to make the argument that the Delphi IDE can do all the things CLion can do for C++. I fondly remember my time writing Delphi, but I'm not jaded enough about the resource requirements of modern IDE's to pretend that you can compare these environments equally.

Anyway, I don't really see the point you trying to argue here. It appears you are principally opposed to software that uses more resources than what you consider necessary, which is fine and in the case of something like CLion or VS code justified to some extent, because they are far from lightweight. But if you remove these ideological objections from the discussion, none of this actually matters all that much considering typical workstation hardware. I honestly don't mind trading 4 or 8 of the 16 GB of RAM in my laptop for all the features I get from CLion compared to the alternatives. A full compile and run of the thing I'm building can easily get by with (much) less than 2 GB. And if I would be developing something that uses up 8+ GB by itself, I probably want a beefier workstation with 32 GB or more anyway. It's just not an issue, RAM is plentiful, and it's in there to be used.
Agreed. And what frustrates me to no-end is that they constantly move the last thing I watched away from a single click when I return to the app.
Use of Weapons or Excession, IMO.
As of 2009, estimates were that we have between 200-400 years of nuclear fuel remaining at current consumption rates.

If we can efficiently extract uranium from saltwater, that value jumps to 60,000 years.

If instead we switch all reactors over to breeder types instead of the current light-water reactors, our 200-400 year estimate then becomes more like 30,000 years
On the flip side, the counties containing Orlando and Tampa aren't in the top 31 by GDP although they're in the top 31 by population. Similarly for Nassau and Suffolk counties (Long Island) in New York, I think, although I'm just working from the map in the OP so it's hard to be sure - I guess the money made by people living in those counties gets attributed to jobs in the city.
What do you mean? I've always wanted to perch precariously on a machine that's statistically much more likely to leave me bruised and bleeding on the side of the road than the other "fresh air" alternatives, bicycling and walking, and be a hazard to others while I am at it. :)
The original studies didn't control for wealth. Wealthy people drink moderately, and live the longest. So technically it was never safe if you control for wealth.
I never said I wanted that; I don't. The point is that I'm not going to assume that in the future they're going to want to spend as much time with me as they do now.
Thats not my argument, if you listen carefully to all climatists, they are trying to reduce the scope of the issue down to CO2.

They are trying to use soft means like climate meetings and "targets of CO2", instead of spurring eco terrorism and beginning violence to save the planet. Thats a terrible path to take, to just "lets hold each others hands and sign really nice and come to a solution".

When the problem is caused by the same oppressive relationships now as it was 2000 years ago - slavery, and can only be solved with violence.
> That would at least put the 787 in the same class of "suit-designed" aircraft.

The 787 is a suit-designed aircraft. Composite materials are not ready for prime time. They are a gamble that Boeing suits have made against passenger lives. If the bet pays out, the planes save a miniscule amount of fuel compared to planes made of traditional materials. If the bet does not pay out, people die.

Only a few months ago, we discovered more 737 problems. These were unrelated to MCAS. Instead, they affected the part that holds the wing to the fuselage:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/29/boeing...
Those aren't scare quotes, they're just regular quotes. Here I assume they're taken from the police statement on the incident.

Edit to add quote in context:

> West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said the cause of the "dramatic" incident was "excessive" air freshener use.
That's the thing about Marxist critique, they don't really have any solutions than pointing out what sucks.
is this for real? an ad for a paid extension is #1 on hn? also with tons of comments missing articles? Come on..
Wow, 1 and 3 are things I've really been wanting but didn't realize hammerspoon could do, thanks!

I'm already using hammerspoon for making scrolling work with my trackball mouse and it works great.
Did they change it? That exact sentence is right there
My questions would be what oversight is there of the coroners' decisions and what ensures their qualifications?

A scientific discovery might have no gold or silver but be much more valuable at sale than shiny metals. A coroner who decides entirely based on his/her knowledge of the value of the find risks making incorrect decisions based on a lack of specialist knowledge.
Does this mean now we have to coin the phrase

"deepfake news"

I can just hear people saying it now. Joking aside, and not taking in ANY ethical/unethical misuse considerations this software is capable of, it is really cool tech.
Some TeamCity details are a bit odd, for example you are not allowed to run a development server and a production server with one license. Instead you should get an evaluation license, that is only valid two months at a time.

Conditional build steps have been requested by users for years and even though it's the most requested feature, nothing has happened for years.

But it's still way way ahead of the alternatives.
Scaling Scikit-Learn with Apache Beam and Cloud Dataflow
> But if the NYTimes does the same thing, it carries a lot more weight.

Sure, and that's part of the danger. Convincing deep fakes will be used to delegitimize mainstream news organizations, as with what happened with Dan Rather - a trusted source presented faked documents.
Apple 2019 Year in Review
I’ve been using this extension for a couple weeks and it does everything I want it to. My favorite/most-used feature is the customizable font and background colors. I’m glad you give your users granular control.

Btw, you’re on the front page of HN :)
But that has nothing to do with AI and in fact should be off topic
Are you speculating here, or is this something you’ve observed?
A cheap solution would be to buy a macropad or a separate numberpad and then remap the keys. Macropads can be remapped on the pad itself, numberpad usually would need to be remapped on OS-level, but is chaper than the macropad.

Numberpads go for around $10 dollar, while macropads are around $50 dollar.
> It depends on...

Yes, that was my point - it is not a certainty (and so any advice beginning "since your project is open source..." might be based on a misconception.)

>...whether the employee worked on it during company time, whether the employee was asked by the employer to work on it and how closely the work aligns with the employer's business.

It actually depends on the terms of OP's contract and whether the relevant clauses (if any) are enforcible in the appropriate jurisdiction. The factors you mention may be a factor in whether this is open source (and we already know, from OP, that it does align with the employer's business), but the "but if..." argument of your second paragraph is unlikely to carry much weight, legally. This is why OP should speak to a lawyer if she is dissatisfied with the employer's proposal.
No, my opinion does not benefit fossil fuel industry, my opinion is - we should burn the gas stations to the ground, stick a potato up every SUV you see, toss tyre-destructing spikes on every road.

Kidnap CEOs of the fossil fuel industry, and citizen-jail Monsanto managers, you know... disruption.
The only one on this list I disliked was the Wright book, mainly because it's not a scientific justification of Buddhism. It's really about how evolutionary psychology explains stuff like road-rage and dieting struggles and how insight meditation (Wright's brand of secularized Buddhism) helps us manage those emotions. Which is fine. Only he's not an evolutionary psychologist and almost all the evidence he puts forward for the effects of meditation is anecdotal. For me a pretty disappointing book.
Intel Acquires Habana Labs for $2B
Capitalism, fuck yeah! :-)
You're exactly right. Look at the work of someone who does a lot of these and it's pretty damn impressive. I like Ctrl+Alt+Face on YouTube.

ex - Bill Hader/Tom Cruise - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrhRBb-1Ig

I think one thing that could have helped the reporter is if they had reencoded the original Zuckerberg footage into something with a lower bitrate. The fine details/imperfections on his forehead contrasted with the lower fidelity of data's face provides a little too much contrast. It doesn't help that most of the source data for Data's face is lower quality, plus he has so much makeup pancaked on his face. I think if those factors were accounted for, the reporter's results would have been much more convincing even though he's a deepfake neophyte.
Sounded nice, but I couldn't add a twitter account I wanted to follow because of unspecified network issues, so I'll return to it whenever I come across it again.
The African farmers taking on big chocolate
I thought the wrist-based heart rate monitoring techniques were very flawed and inaccurate, and were not useful if you want exact heart rate data (but could be used for relative comparisons over time for example). This is why I've stuck with the uncomfortable and more fiddly chest strap based monitor. Has the technology improved in the last few years?
Perl 6 Becomes Raku – An Interview with Jonathan Worthington
“Urban” is a broadly defined term. According to the Census Bureau, Sibley Iowa (pop. 2,800) is an “urban” area. So are the suburbs and exurbs of Des Moines. Most Americans don’t live in what you’d usually think of as an “urban area.”

I also disagree with your characterization of our political narratives. There is probably a disproportionate focus on rural areas. (Although, that accounts for 20% of the population, which is pretty remarkable when you consider that the small towns in rural areas are classified as “urban.”) There is also a big media focus on rust belt cities and the like. (The famous “Cuyahoga County”). That encompasses secondary cities like Cleveland and their suburbs. That is where most Americans live.
Note, the title is no longer accurate. There's an update at the end of the article, along with a download link:

> Shortly before we published this article the BSI has allowed to publish the Truecrypt documents. They can be downloaded from the Frag den Staat web page. Update from December 16th 2019, 13:22
You're right, it would never fly, but probably not for the reason you think. A company like Boeing is good at writing off large losses, after all. However the problem is the customers. By the time they design and build an entirely new narrow body plane, the customers would have long since modernized their fleets with planes bought from other manufacturers like Airbus.
Vermont, Oklahoma and Now Topeka, Kansas, Want You and Are Willing to Pay
The premise is flawed. Law has been a problematic field for a long time now — anyone looking at being attorney as a stable path a decade ago was delusional.

Technology is eating the world, but it’s not a high security field at the same time. Whatever you do today is legacy is 5-10 years, and you can be easily rendered redundant if you’re not in the right place/skillset.
This feels under-described. Why are they implying that radiant heat (photons) don’t travel hundreds of nanometers? Is it an energy/wavelength mismatch issue?
Is there an option to justified-align the declutterred text?

If not, can you add one?

(Sorry, i don't have chrome to try it out. Justified alignment is what I miss in Firefox Reader mode.)
I think it's interesting that in your previous post you harp on East Coast PE firms and Amazon ('coastal elites') and then in this example Buffet is based in Nebraska and Clayton Homes is based in Tennessee.
This has been possible for quite awhile already, if you don't want your browser to make p2p connections, disable webrtc among things.
The idea that animals are not conscious comes from religion, not science.

The only conscious entity that I’m 100% positive exists is myself. If you reject solipsism, none of the traditional criteria that tell apart humans from animals (e.g. language or ethics) hold up to scientific scrutiny as far as consciousness is concerned.

The criteria that have been scientifically vetted (based on information theory among others) also hold for animals and other living beings (genes known as transcription factors form network that are isomorphic in form and function to neuronal circuits).
Have you really only been on HN for 25 days? The number of young accounts which don't appear as green in this thread is staggering.
I hilariously overestimate the number of books I can get through when I make these lists, but my current list for 2020 is as follows:

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

Book of Proof

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

We Make the Road by Walking: A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation

Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War (for a friend)

Master and Commander

Educated

Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark

Stretch goal: The Power Broker, as a warm-up for Caro's LBJ series

The Bible (perpetual, I don't get through it every year, but I get through much of it, often)

EDIT: I also hilariously underestimate the number of books I want to read. Here's one more I think is vital for my 2020:

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
No, they're scare quotes. Quoting the police statement would involve... quoting the police statement (or a portion of it, or multiple portions joined by elipsis), not quoting two separate words from the police statement.

Regarding your edit: yes, they use scare quotes in the article text as well as the headline. It's stupid.
> Solder has a distinct smell when used so something is getting in the air, let alone on my hands.

Guessing the smell is from the rosin core burning off?
I agree with you. Practitioners not knowing the history of their fields is a problem. In grad school, we learned the canon of managerial theory over the past century. Knowing the tradeoffs between different schools of thought makes me a better manager.
All these unsubstantial “I love it” comments are indeed very suspicious. Not to mention many browsers have this feature built in.

(I know this post is treading the line on insinuations about shilling. Sorry dang.)
This functionality has been baked in Firefox for a long time and I use it quite often. Not only makes the ads and other clutter disappear, but it also removes most of the "disable your adblock" unclosable popups.

It is definitely one of the super-nice things to have baked in straight in the browser, and probably one of the major differences I see between Chrome and Firefox in day-to-day usage. I just wish that somehow it was persistent for certain rules, but I can see how that is a slippery slope.
Long story short, I am an entrepreneur who sold a company and am transitioning into maximizing my engineering knowledge before diving back into entrepreneurship.

I've spent a considerable amount of time studying top performers and learned how to manage stress levels effectively. I do exercise, meditation, yoga, stretching, forest bathing, mindfulness, journaling, and other activities that battle against burnout.

I am much more worried about failing to meet my goals than I am burnout. Appreciate your concern though!
I've had many surgeries. I've been asking my anesthesiologists how many IQ points I'm losing every time I get general. Shrugs. Then I ask 1 point? 2 points? More? Ya, maybe.

--

Also, there's another subthread about falling, hip surgeries, etc.

My current understanding is that maintaining lean muscle mass and balance are crucial to preventing future falls.

To keep this short: I now believe everyone 40+ should get regular physical therapy assessments and tuneups. Then do all those core strengthening and balance exercises. (I was actively running, jogging, lifting, and pretty trim. I was shocked to learn how much function I had lost. Like balancing on one foot to put on a sock.)

Dr. Peter Attia (The Drive podcast) is giving similar (complimentary) advice for people who want to pace themselves to live to 100.

--

PS- I will now suggest to my care providers to begin tracking both IQ and balance. I'm surveyed and tested yearly for so many other things. I don't know why this has never occurred to me before. Duh.
I think that Amy Goodman on Democracy Now is about the furthest a person could be from a “wingnut.”

I agree that too many people are overly devoted to either Fox News or MSNBC. Just my opinion but these two “news” services seem to care most about fracturing US civil society. We need more acceptance that in fundamental ways most Democrats and Republicans want the same things: opportunity for their children and themselves, security of our country, etc. It does not make money to run news stories that bring people together.
A quick spray in a potato cannon has the explosive energy to propel a potato, it’s not unreasonable to think a the entire can can blow up a car.

https://youtu.be/fioP8cflUIA Hairspray can in bonfire
> our society deeply values competence

[citation needed]: we're well into the "public has had enough of experts" era.
With all the hyper scale providers building or launching their own inference chips, this seems untimely. If intel wants a return on that $2B, I think it will come down to how fast they can execute mass-production of these chips. Unless I have missed a distinct advantage here.
> And I'm guilty of this too. I used to work with a dude who did not brush his teeth and used to wear the same clothes for a week in a row -- and I don't think anybody ever said a word to him, they just edged away quietly.

Well, i guess such conversation would not have a rational background, it would be just a power struggle whether one side could enforce its cultural norms on the other side.

Using one's soft power to enforce specific goals or norms is risky and should be risky, not only because it could turn against the speaker, but also it could turn into oppression of those with less soft power.

So perhaps it is best to reserve that to important issues, while handling trivial ones with tolerance.
How is capitalism responsible for lousy actors? Plenty of propaganda came from communism as I recall.
Seems nice.

1. When I click on "not interested", the page jumps to the top

2. Vimium does not work on pages altered by the extension. Sadly, that's a dealbreaker for me.

3. Maybe the icon is too similar to outline.com.
> forest bathing

That sounds pretty awesome..
It is sad to see the state still making freedom of information requests so difficult and using copyright as a flimsy excuse to hinder citizens to share the information when they finally manage to get it out of them.

I find it especially sad to see something like this held back by an entity that claims to want to protect security in information technology and doubly so since this information would be relevant to the developers and many state entities that use the software and its successor.

The BSI is sadly often toothless when it comes to actually enforcing security standards on federal entities but to see them not even trying to educate on such matters, when they clearly know better, squanders a lot of trust one may have in them.
How to properly structure your SASS codebase
You’re right in the first point, but wrong on the second and then maybe right again on the third. There’s a specific federal law concerning the pitch force curve stability (https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/25.173) that the Max violated, meaning it was not going to be able to be certified as a 737 or as a new, clean sheet airplane, with the demonstrated stick force curve.

Now, if you’re going to make a clean sheet design and allow a new type rating, you can change the landing gear and wing design to achieve enough room to set the engines farther back and change the airfoil around them to design a plane that meets 25.173. Boeing already has such a plane: the 757.
I'm a J newbie, but I've been using J901 to do the Advent of Code challenge this year. I'm surprised at how pleasant it's been to work with. Some of the AoC solutions have been so straightforward that I wonder if the AoC author used an array language to design the puzzles in the first place. :)

It's not all roses! The error messages can be quite inscrutable sometimes, and I can't seem to get the J901 debugging tools working (except for old-fashioned print-debugging). But overall J is a charming (if quirky) language, and well suited for a bit of low-risk exploratory programming.
It boils down to incentives. When entire business models are built around hijacking your attention and keeping you "hooked" for as long as possible, you can't expect calm technology.

Vote with your wallet.
Present being defined as 1950 strikes me as exactly the sort of problem that GP was trying to avoid.
I don’t see what that has to do with my point. If poor people had more supply to choose from, they would be able to shop around and pay less.
But why is this the danger now in a way that it hasn't been previously? You could have presented fake documents for hundreds of years now, but it's not like we don't have any credible news organizations as a result.
Either they had to do that, or they had to be ready for the barrage of incoming requests for the documents.
I would like to see someone try and make money in Cairo, IL just because they have capital and “ seek returns”.
For posterity, here's what it looks like right now,

this post: http://archive.is/c3Mpu

front page: http://archive.ph/HKaBA (#4 now, it was #1 a few minutes ago)
Many years ago I was especially excited about how the author managed to circumvent Soviet censorship restrictions :-)
So, something like Yahoo?
You could probably get a long way with the APL character set. Many (not all) J verbs correspond pretty closely with APL verbs, at least in one of their modes: ⍋ = /: , ∊ = e. , etc.
Good thought! It looks like they updated the site and there are a lot of security talks listed now! whew