skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2020
Ah! That makes much more sense.
Ask HN: As a technologist what can I do to have an impact on Climate Change?
I am very good with programming, electronics, embedded systems, etc. I have very little knowledge in Chemistry and don’t have billions of dollars to do some mega project. What can I do? I feel I have a purpose here but am not seeing it now.
I imagine they haven't seen the various videos and news articles about escalator failures where people get pulled into the machinery and shredded alive.

Particularly in China, there was a rash of news about it after that video came out where the woman narrowly managed to push her child to safety before being dragged feet first into the machinery when the safety grate failed. You essentially get turned into (raw) human pulled pork. Very unpleasant.
>From that perspective, the headline reads "Signs of health and longevity determine whether men romantically desire or dismiss high status women", which sounds like a common mating strategy throughout the animal kingdom.

No, read the abstract.

>As predicted, a meta-analysis across all three experiments revealed that higher (vs. lower) status decreased men's attraction to moderately-attractive women (d = -0.20), whereas higher (vs. lower) status increased men's attraction to highly-attractive women (d = 0.47).

"Men like beautiful women because they want healthy offsprings" doesn't explain why the response is different depending on status.
> It was absolute and perpetual. The rights holders have all rights, forever, and the public has none.

Current situation is not much better to be honest.
The Worst Tech Gifts We Give (and How to Do Better)
Wouldn't it be ironic if the county somehow ...lost the file
Electric Vehicles to Watch
Exactly this. This is where I see AI possibly going: To be a complimentary tool or second pair of eyes to speed up the work for the professionals rather than replacing them. I also see this research as a very positive step forward for using AI for good and especially bringing highly accurate results that can used as a aid for health professionals.

However, given that this research used a deep learning (DL) based AI system in the medical industry, there are still questions around this AI system explaining itself and its internal decision process for the sake of transparency, which will almost be ignored in other news reporting sites and will focus only on the accuracy. DL-based AI systems will still be a concern towards both patients and clinicians and I would expect this to be a focus point in the future, despite the welcoming results which is still very interesting anyways.

Other than the transparency issues behind the AI system, I'd say this is a great start into the new decade for AI.
I see that you are convinced that Gordon Moore was an idiot who cared only for counting transistors, and had no interest in how they are used.

I also see that you have confused "much smaller increase", which is observed by everyone, with "no increase", which literally no one has said.
New Year, New Job? Let's Make a Grid-Powered Resume
What if I write a program that does that translation agnostically of the specific work being translated?

And what if my program is parametrized by an ML model of unknown training data?
Google probably wants the usage data, so they take additional load to handle more requests.
That’s funny; I’m always debating my brother, talking about how earbuds sound much better than even high-end monitors, largely because of the surrounding environment (or lack thereof, when earbuds are in).

When I make music I have to do the opposite; take my earbuds out and listen to the music over my car stereo or via my MacBook Pro speakers, to make sure it doesn’t sound good only through earbuds.
Well. Grow your entire system by 60%. Even with 128GB it will be non negligeable.
> 6/ Plant based diets will dominate the world by the end of the decade. Eating meat will become a delicacy, much like eating caviar is today. Much of the world’s food production will move from farms to laboratories.

In this decade? Not a chance. Maybe in 50 years this is more likely.
I spent a week into the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola.
I'm in doubt on most of this.

China won't become the dominate superpower this decade.

Plant based diets won't replace meat.

Youngsters won't replace oldsters in power (unless at that point they are the oldsters).

A decentralized internet won't be the norm.

There won't be a WWII level of effort against man made climate change and in fact after "nothing much happens" (again) the noise will die down.

Here's my prediction for the next decade: Some unexpected stuff happens but mostly incremental changes. I do agree with #10.
I think the OP is taking about beef and pork for making his point.

Does raising chickens even have the same impact as raising cattle on the climate?
> Linux kills random processes by design. And yet it’s the most popular server-side OS

There's no reference for this in the article, and it caught my attention - anyone have any idea what the author is talking about here? Never heard of this before
Implying culture as we have it may be a stretch too big for other species. Who may form single integral units like a zerg swarm. Yeah, it is a game fiction, but you got the idea. Why do cells split and grow with no complaints about their life? Because it is the way they are, and if they were not, they simply didn’t. What is their strategic goal? A counterargument to this is that swarm may be not intelligent enough to make it, but my point is that our lifeform’s culture is not the only one possible, and the culture as we have it may be not a requirement. (Not that it is any sort of beauty anyway. Apart from particular individuals, it is mostly disgusting and ineffective.)

Also, a neighbor idea of the scientific progression in thousand years from now on doesn’t account for an artificial biology progression, like the same humans in 1k years would do unimaginable things. Would they be still individual humans? Personally I don’t think it is more than juvenile civilization’s tunnel vision illusions.
Mapped: The world’s largest CO2 importers and exporters
https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-largest-co2-import...

"Despite the large total of CO2 imports and exports, US emissions are only 6% higher and Chinese emissions are 13% lower when CO2 transfers are taken into account."
Energy related carbon dioxide emissions peaked in 2007 in the United States [1]. They didn't just get hidden by imports replacing domestic manufacturing. Even incorporating imports into the national balance, US emissions are down from the peak. This is largely due to efficient combined cycle gas turbines replacing coal plants and -- to a lesser but growing extent -- a larger proportion of renewable electricity in the national electricity mix.
Chinese carbon dioxide emissions have not peaked yet.

As of 2017 (referenced above), 87% of Chinese emissions are attributable to domestic consumption. That should moderate hopes that Chinese emission trends could be reversed by CO2 tariffs. It should also moderate anxiety that Chinese emissions are "really" the offshored emissions of Western consumers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_th...

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Yet another Electron hit-piece... curious, how do other cross-platform frameworks compare in both build time and live-reload time? For comparison, VS Code clean builds in about a minute, and a change-build-reload dev cycle is about a second or two.
I have sometimes questioned whether I should be spending my personal time developing an open source tool so tied to a single companies services.

My reasons for continuing include:

- I prefer to use command line over ClickOps

- Using Bash-My-AWS makes me more effective at work

- The emergent UX is equally applicable to other services (e.g. bash-my-github, bash-my-spotify)

- The intrinsic satisfaction from creating

- Helping improve the experience for others
Yes, but...

Some things you want as a signal and some things you don’t. Paying rent on time should be a signal, but often is not. Going to a cancer clinic may not be a signal you want, but already is exploited.

Nuance is needed. Lots of small but important decisions to be made. Sounds like a product to me.
I dunno, depends on your perspective. If you approach a lot of potential partners, you broaden your pool.
At least you can get some musical instruments / synthesizers and make your own recording.
> A lot of the new functionality is needed for a increasing amount of apps.

Could you make a few examples?

> It uses a lot of javascript making many requests because we have to and the customers requires it.

Why couldn't the requests be done by the back-end?

> But I think even "simple" apps today often include some part of complexity that would be hard(er) to do in a "old style" multi page app.

Absolutely, but isn't that exactly the point of the article? Working with a framework can make development massively easier - however, the benefits of this only go to developers, while users have to bear the costs.
>But in your example, your only describing one specific task (n=1).

That's to maintain parity with the example TFA gives. I'm not saying it's never worth it... Of course you'll optimize often repeated tasks, loops, etc.

Here's what TFA quotes as bad reasoning, because it makes fun of optimization effort in some cases:

"@tveastman: I have a Python program I run every day, it takes 1.5 seconds. I spent six hours re-writing it in rust, now it takes 0.06 seconds. That efficiency improvement means I’ll make my time back in 41 years, 24 days :-)"

Unlike TFA I agree with the twitting guy above that the efficiency improvement here wasn't worth it.
The top trend is that BCH is now Bitcoin and BTC is a hobby project for statists and billionaires.
Visually, I'm reminded of this project. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/02/drinking-straw-camera...

I know CCDs for astrophotography have large photosites to increase the signal/noise ratio. It seems like this array would have the same qualities.

Do you know what the dynamic range is, how many stops the sensor can capture?

This is really interesting, so I'd really like to see a write-up instead of just a video.
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Vim-macrobatics: Vim plugin to help with macros
A Recap of Front End Development in 2019
> But the vast majority of software is one-off stuff.

Is it now? I can't think of any example, except a few tools we use internally in a project. Everything else I use, or I see anyone else using, has an userbase of many thousands to millions, and a lot of that is used in context of work - which means a good chunk of the userbase is sitting in front of that software day in, day out.
Any recommended learning resources for Godot?
Would love an option in HN to filter out this kind of subject, they are magnets for silly comments and the iron in my blood is enough to pull me in :D
I'm sorry, here are some articles that supports me when I say that plant-based diet are not good for your health:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1331544/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26493452/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223...

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/90/4/943/4597049

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15072869/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30061399/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3466124/

I'm not a huge fan of nutrition, so that's why I take too long post these, anyway don't believe me or in any article, test on yourself and tell me.

Plant-based diet might be good for environment, but for sure are not good for your health.
Has me wondering, too. What?
This is a good idea. On AmazonSmile I currently support National Park Foundation but can think of supporting this one too in the future (maybe rotating basis quarterly). I am curious which other similar nonprofits HNers think are available on AmazonSmile to think of donating to?
I’m sorry but this is hogwash. You make it sound like men just have to settle. So not true.
Nowadays, the shittiness of software doesn't come from lack of performance, but from ads and tracking.
More charitably, AWS provides a CLI for most resources and commands and (in large measure) either provides backwards compatibility or a long depreciation window. This allows hackers to build syntactic sugar on top of their infrastructure.

I love that a community has an option to build components and share the same. It has made my work much more productive.

But we certainly agree on that last point: it’s an incredible business model.
Playing Plato Games in 2020
Another title might be "The Last Journalist".
Not to mention it completely ignores Gen X.
> tl;dr : Reiser is just a name. It was recently the name of a 'bad guy', but it hasn't always been, and won't always be.

It's a filesystem created by and named after a murderer. Just because you're fine with it does not mean everybody is.
Why would they rename it? In terms of getting their project attention, it's been a very successful marketing strategy so far.
It could be referring to the out of memory (OOM) killer https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand...
It seems his kids are named Reiser too, so presumably they encounter the name quite often? (https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/07/17/jury-awards-hans-reis...)
The Berne convention doesn't go beyond lifetime + 50 years.
The fact that every single thread here, possibly every single comment, is so far referring to the name of the filesystem, speaks louder to me than your anecdote. (It's very hard, for me at least, to say that in a way that does not come across as snarky, which I don't intend to be.)
He can't explain it. AFAIK none of the Human Calendars can, there have been studies.

I reckon it's memory related, he has an incredible memory and can tell you everything he did on a specific day in the past!

Maybe at some point he just scanned the Windows calendar or something!? We (and his teachers) can't work it out.
That's a good observation on many levels.

For instance, I started noticing that a lot of the code I've written or worked with in many projects have a particular flavor to it. Pieces that take some data, repackage it, and pass it on to different code that does essentially the same - all arranged in a structure that's supposed to reflect some shared, abstract understanding of the problem. I've started to call this type of code "bureaucracy", and I see it as something to be kept in check.
Even on a piano, two notes that are played independently, then later mixed, sound different than if those same two notes are played together on the piano. Something to do with the sound from one note affecting the string vibrations on the second note, and vice versa.
Tuberculosis vaccine finds an improved route
Because we now have several decades of evidence of how C and C++ syntax make compiling difficult.

If you look at Rust in the context of other languages, you see that most of the languages designed in the last 10-15 years have made similar syntax choices.
How can you avoid signing ‘an incomplete form’ when so much problems can be caused by marking a checkbox? How can you avoid someone doing that after the fact?
No the study is saying for moderately attractive women, the higher the status, the less attractive they become for men. "experiments revealed that higher (vs. lower) status decreased men's attraction to moderately-attractive women (d = -0.20)"

But for highly attractive women, the higher the status, the more attractive they become for men. "whereas higher (vs. lower) status increased men's attraction to highly-attractive women (d = 0.47)."

In other words, if you are a highly attractive women, you increase your desirability by increasing your status. If you are "moderately attractive women", you decrease your desirability by increasing your status.
I mean... considering the fact that in contains the probabilities of typing every single word in the English language versus every other, at every stage of typing, including potentially the probabilities of all the ways you might mistype each word while swiping without precise accuracy...

...maybe?

I don't know if that's 150 MB' worth of data... but it's certainly a lot.
There may be some mechanism, but I don't want to speculate even more without access to the methods they use.
Capitalism Dramatically Reduced Global Poverty
Thanks.

I wonder what percentage of the sky those larger SETI telescopes have looked at so far. I tried searching the SETI site, but had no luck.

But anyway, that's a small enough volume that it could plausibly be temporarily dead or quiet, as TFA argues.
I find this development incredibly sad. Originally, SPAs looked promising from a technical perspective because they could potentially eliminate lots of redundant server-side HTML rendering and duplicate transmission of data (because templates, code and data items could be cached on the client and assembled as needed).

Today, we somehow seem to have gotten the worst of both worlds: We got the additional overhead of client-side rendering but we can still not reliably cache data, so not a lot of processing or bandwidth can be saved.
The Analog January Challenge
Udemy has some really good courses, and Youtube.
The California Consumer Privacy Act Officially Takes Effect Today
> Even worse, try using an OS running in a VM for an extended period of time...

I do that for most of my hobbyist Linux dev work. It's fine. It can do 4k and everything. It's surely not optimal but it's better than managing dual boot.
Has Amazon triggered a logistics race to the bottom?
This remark is really intriguing me. It sounds like a business opportunity. I'm very interested to discuss about what real estate agents are waiting from Airtable.
Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon
So, I have a problem with a large number of these points. Each point alone requires a long rebuttal that no one would read. I think Fred is way off here. The bullet points:

1. There will be no global change in human behaviour and activity that is against the short term interests of those people. Period. The way to replace fossil fuels with renewables is by them being a cheaper source of power. We're well on the way here for solar.

2. Until someone can devise a safe way to processor nuclear fuel, transport the fuel and waste and process and store the nuclear waste nuclear power is just not making any kind of resurgence. It just isn't. Believing otherwise is a pipe dream that ignores the significant externalities of nuclear power (as in the waste products from the reactor and refinement processes).

3. Why Fred thinks China won't have the same short term self-interest that every other country does seems fanciful at best.

4. Crypto currency doesn't solve any problems that most people care about. Bitcoin surged in value for two reasons:

- So wealthy Chinese people could escape their country's capital controls and move their wealth out of China. Mine Bitcoin in China, sell overseas for USD, profit.

- For illegal activity.

Traditional currencies have reversible transactions (which most people actually want) and aren't subject to 51% attacks. Nor do they require technical proficiency to safely use.

5. Decentralized Internet is a pipe dream.

6. Plant-based diets by the end of the decade? Not a chance.

I look forward to having a chuckle at this list in 2030.
Mind Hacking: Using Technology to Rewire Your Brain Like a Monk
Introducing Toilet Prank. Fart Louder with New Android App
For anyone who needs a performant "JavaScript for embedded" runtime that also fully supports ECMAScript 2018, Moddable's XS is a great choice.[1]

Moddable is the only embedded engine provider in the Ecma TC39 JavaScript language committee, so they tend to be really aggressive in supporting new JavaScript features.

[1] https://www.moddable.com/faq.php#comparison
Created a quick test note, seems to work pretty well.

One annoying and repeating issue is that the GUI doesn't seem to keep up with my typing, effectively resulting in erased or partial (aka incorrectly formed) words.

I'm running Android 10 on an original Pixel XL with the Grammarly keyboard. It could be something with my setup, but I've never noticed it elsewhere.
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Lutron Caseta smart switches (and a few others) don't require neutral wires

(I assume "null" is the same as "neutral")
Pretty much. Best thing would be or current entrepreneurs can do is vote for Sanders.

Until there exists medicare/pharmacare/dentalcare/etc for all the big and wealthy entrenched corporations have a massive hiring and retention advantage over everyone else.
> Who's to say that - say - Maxwell's law are valid a million light-year away from here?

Astrophysicists, that's who.

Astrophysicists are constantly trying to cross-check both theories and constants with observed astronomical data to look for such violations.

Any such violations found would be a Big Deal(tm).
If I understand correctly:

- if the woman is already attractive, then the higher status will make her even more attractive => beauty & mind (or trophy)

- if the woman is not so attractive, then the higher status will make her even LESS attractive => men don't like moderately attractive woman when they're smart (but it's ok if they're not so smart)

Is it really what the article says?

Conversaly, the higher the status of a women, the more her attractiveness is important for men: they can accept that a low status is more or less desirable, but a high status woman MUST be highly attractive too if she wants to get a man.

Simplistic explanation proposal: high status is still a man thing. They can accept that a "perfect" woman has it (they can't fight), but a moderatly attractive woman will be considered more like a lucky rival, so less attractive.

Just an idea... if I understand correctly the article summary
Google Home is basically the text parser of an early Sierra adventure game with voice recognition in front of it and the internet in back of it.
Ellison will buy another yacht regardless of polio eradication status. He'll either want the yacht or want to be charitable. And if polio is gone, he can fight malaria, dengue,etc.
We keep getting ads for the thing we bought yesterday

This does not demonstrate that the machine learning algorithms are doing a bad job. Quite the opposite really. See:

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/875629380105416705
I tried the corporate rat race, was not for me. Neither was the startup lottery ticket grind.

I work remote 3 days a week (for 75% salary) and it’s the perfect balance for me. 4 days off is enough to recharge and work on personal projects yet keep some structure.
I agree with your point of developers being responsible for the performance.

But I have a different experience (probably because we work in different areas):

Most the performance problems of the products I ever worked were purely systemic.

They boiled down to technologies and architectures having been chosen for "organizational" rather than technological reasons.

And "organizational" is in quotes because sometimes it was just blackmail: I worked with two developers who quit in protest after the prototype they wrote in Scala was deemed not good enough and dropped for... being too slow, ironically.
That's why tricle down carbon tax is a right answer.
A good way to remove bloat is to find and remove needless abstractions. Even a C compiler will produce huge executables and it takes a lot of work to reduce a program to the smallest amount of code:

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...
The copyright in this case is a joke anyway because Gershwin died very young and childless, so the right people didn't benefit from it anyway. Now we can at least perform the work without stuffing any publishers and collecting societies with unearned money.
I meant to ask, is each note world-writeable? aka if I send a URL of notably note to {anyone}, can {anyone} edit the original content?