skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or Coda https://coda.io/welcome

But I think the idea is to learn by coding; for anyone wanting a pretty competent spreadsheet on their web page, I've bookmarked the following for possible use:

* Mesh Spreadsheet: http://mesh-spreadsheet.com
* jExcel: https://bossanova.uk/jexcel/v3/
That's not exactly a fair comparison, since Russia hasn't had the funding to make any large-scale invasions since then. However they were more than happy to cut off oil to Europe just a few years ago, invade Ukraine, and generally act in a belligerent way toward several different countries in an effort to destabilize their neighbors.
The problem with this approach, which I was trying to highlight, is that as long as "doing better by climate change" implies "economic disadvantage" there will be major polluters who do not get on board. What will you do with them? If you really believe this is an existential crisis for humanity, you must be willing to destroy these countries. Choose your poison: bomb them to oblivion or sanction/starve them to death. That is why this is a failed approach.
Please don't be a jerk in HN comments. If you have correct information, it's enough to provide that without crossing into personal attack. These threads are flamewar prone enough as it is.
500 million animals wiped out in the blink of an eye and we look the other way. When humans start dying, I think we will continue to look the other way.
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Thank you. “Conservativeness” is an inductive bias that is simple, often helpful, and more often used, but not fundamental.
This is a design question. One way: frame it mathematically; map products into a space and use distance as a proxy for difference.

Another way: think of common human categorizations. Opposites are usually defined in terms of these categories.
This is a problem from the perspective of the customer. Company X delivered a substandard product based on a fix bid. The customer then had to turn around and pay 10 weeks of hourly fees to this guy to finish it.

Presumably, if magic of value pricing was realized X would be incentivized to finish it.

Pretty unprofessional on X's part I'd say, so I understand why the OP nearly lost it.
lmao you belong on this list.
I looked seriously at the first Light Phone. The main problem I found was that it's explicitly designed to be a second phone. You still needed to have a primary smartphone, and it would pair with that (and use the same number, somehow). It was just a phone for "I'm going out to dinner and I don't want to potentially be distracted by the internet, but I still want to be reachable". That seems to me like the intersection of two Venn circles that barely touch.

I might pay $350 for a phone that does only what I need, but I'm definitely not going to pay $350 extra for a second phone that only does what I need on top of a modern smartphone to leave at home that does lots of crap I don't.

The second Light Phone looks like it started moving towards being feasible as an only phone, but also piling on a strange set of features, for a phone designed to limit distractions. There's still SMS messaging but no encrypted messaging or email (and they brag it will never have these), but there is now music and ride hailing and so on.

So close, and yet so far! Any telco entrepreneurs out there: make me a little box that's only about communication with individuals I know (talk, text, popular encrypted chat, email), with modern interfaces (LTE, Wifi, USB-C), and I'll buy one. I bet my parents would, too.

$350 is not the problem -- service will still be the biggest cost in the long run. It's just not a useful device even for people looking to slim down and avoid distractions.
Lots of them all over Scotland, too.
How to design in large and complex organizations
> They call you. Your acquisition costs are close to zero. The million-dollar question is: How do you make potential customers contact you?
>...a strong brand makes finding new projects so much easier: New projects find you! Be aware that building up your brand easily costs you 60 hours per month.

Not sure how this is a compelling argument. 40% of your time seems like a lot more than close to zero
> The company in June 2019 removed 4,779 accounts it said we linked to the Iranian government. Most of those accounts tweeted international news stories with an angle that portrayed the government in a positive light, while others were focused on engaging in conversations about Israel, and another subset used false identities to target global conversations about Iran, Twitter said at the time.

Also, I can't find a recent source, but Iran censors their people's internet, including Twitter and Facebook. This article from 2013 says they lifted the ban, but then shortly after re-banned it. So it's not even clear to me if legitimate users can even use Twitter. https://mashable.com/2013/09/16/twitter-facebook-iran/
> Probably this means that

Ok, so "serverless" is just a buzzword that doesn't really have a good meaning. That's doesn't really matter. To me it's just easier and actually meaningful and objective to refer to services like AWS lambda as "Function as a Service".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_as_a_service
With just a few big markets making the changes the rest of the world could be steered in the correct direction surely? If the US/EU etc. required that products coming in from China (or other countries where we offload our carbon use to) were created with less than X carbon released (differing per product) and with independent verification then they'd make the changes I'd imagine. Prices would go up of course which is likely why the political will isn't there, but I think it's disingenuous to say that the only way is war.

You could take that further too, say a 10% tariff on products coming from countries that buy beef from other countries who are cutting down the rainforest. I realise it would quickly become legislatively complicated, but isn't this the kind of hard problem we elect representatives for?
It isn't a great name, but: it doesn't bare a contradiction in itself (contrary to "serverless"), there was already a tradition of drawing unspecified networks or internet as a cloud in diagrams. So "running in the cloud" as running "somewhere in the network we used to draw as a cloud" has an explanation.
Also note, I didn't state that there are only two types of names. I commented on what "bug" and "serverless" is.
One thing I'd like to add to this.

Software Developers will often be tempted to automate the yak shaving away so they don't really have to deal with it all. This is a good attitude to have, but when combined with automation it can also be dangerous. I've seen many automated solutions run off on their own doing entirely the wrong thing. It's very often safer to slow down, build tools to assist, but have a human there to push the go button. It's not as sexy, and if you're scale is large enough you're also building tools to help with analysis. But in the long run you'll avoid problems.
This isn’t a perfect observation but 25% of Beverly Hills is Persian. Of course, these were a lot of wealthy families who left Iran in the 70s and then helped build one of the best cities in the United States. With a fairly high percentage of Orthodox people.

Is it the systems involved, the religions, the wealth applied to a free society or just luck that created these two outcomes?
Oculus Quest Hand Tracking Support in Godot
Unfortunately, to a large group of people, a tyranny (or a non-tyranny for that matter) that doesn’t kowtow to the U.S. is a “tyranny”, whereas one that does is a friend, ally and “democracy”.
I remember my friends and I spent far more time showing it off to people than actually playing it properly.

Which fits, as people involved basically later described the original Shadow of the Beast pretty much as a graphics showcase with "no thought whatsoever" going into more than showing more parallax scrolling and more monsters in.

It's hard to show it to people now and have them understand just how jaw-dropping it looked to people at the time, both to Amiga users, but especially to PC users where most people still did not have graphics cards capable of lots of colours and smooth scrolling with even a single parallax layer, much less the dozen or so in Shadow of the Beast...

I also just realised the intro I remembered showing friends is the intro for Shadow of the Beast II, a game I never bothered playing - but where "everyone" had seen the couple of minutes of animation of the intro, at a time when having a long animated intro like that was in itself a big deal.
How do you game it apart from stealing a phone? It may be easy to get another identity but that's a feature.

If somebody commits a serious crime, the joined location of the phones will reveal the true identity unless somebody invests an amount of effort that's equal to buying a new passport.
That's from AR4, not the most recent AR5 report. In AR5, the IPCC is back to a range of 1.5C to 4.5C for climate sensitivity (very unlikely to be below 1C or above 6C), which is pretty much what the uncertainty in estimating climate sensitivity has been for the last 50 years. A rather remarkable lack of progress...
Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks
Russia's conventional forces are not on par with the United States and they can't project that power globally.

But Putin's Russia has shown willingness and ability to achieve their geopolitical goals using espionage, propaganda, and direct military aid to bad actors, particularly in the Middle East. Putin has assassinated people in multiple countries in Europe, and had a hand in disinformation/propaganda campaigns aimed at weakening NATO and weakening international rule of law. Putin is actively attempting to sow discord in Western governments for the benefit of his government.

The United States' military action has caused far more death and destruction to be sure. And with American politics getting more and more volatile, partisan, and irrational, it seems likely we'll see more unnecessary conflicts and foreign policy crises in the future. Not to mention all of the damage to the international order done by Trump.

But just because Russia is no longer a traditional military superpower, make no mistake, they are working actively to undermine Western hegemony using asymmetrical means.
TikTok and the Coming of Infinite Media
Horseshit.

I’d assume that any business, porn or not, is not fraudulently deceiving me about the nature of my transaction.
I would love to have a phone like this, but with Whatsapp.
People I communicate with don’t use their phone/sms functions anymore. It has all moved to Whatsapp.
When my iPhone broke down, and I had to wait for it to be repaired, that was the only functionality I really needed (and maybe Google Maps) but it more or less stopped there.
If you want to see an example of what you are yearning for, I'd suggest reading about the history of coffeehouses in England.
My question is why does their ad-blocking code work with one protocol and not another? Is their ad blocker running within Chrome's TCP/TLS stack instead of something higher-level like WebRequest (or maybe Chrome makes it impossible to do that)?
If you really want to kick off another civil war/world war, something like this seems like the perfect way to do so. If people tried to enforce environmentalism via a dictatorship, the rest of the population would like fight back hard, and they'd end up in a very awkward situation very quickly. Remember, the people who would want to limit other people's consumption for environmentalism sakes are significantly outnumbered and outgunned by those who don't.

It would also likely inspire an awful lot of anti intellectualism and anti 'ivory tower' resentment, which could have terrible consequences for the future.

Basically, any attempt would go about as well as someone walking into the middle east and trying to set up a secular dictatorship in the style of the USSR.

Of course, a cynic may say that's the only way to deal with climate change and they may be right. It's just that trying to fix things via force would probably go even more poorly than trying to persuade people to live less comfortably would.

Unfortunately, the most likely fixes right now are probably:

A: Some sort of miraculous new technology is invented that can cheaply do carbon capture and provide enough clean energy that fossil fuels are made completely obsolete.

B: Somehow, a huge push is made for mastering space travel, and people are incentivised to leave Earth. A sentient species with an advanced civilisation may simply be incompatible with other life on a planet.

C: Society gets wrecked enough that humanity somehow ends back in a pre industrial revolution state, perhaps due to the side effects of climate change.

D: Humanity simply decides they can't fix Earth, doesn't try and edits themselves/civilisation to deal with rampant temperature increases/disasters/whatever.
But having a garbage site makes me think it's a garbage phone. These things matter.
Yes, we worked for (or at least were paid primarily by) mostly old-line enterprise IT companies. We talked to plenty of startups. But they mostly couldn't/wouldn't afford us even when we had good personal relationships with the execs. ADDED: I do know at least one firm that does mostly value-based advisory work for small companies; their approach is to have a fair number of low dollar small clients in addition to some larger ones.

As I said, even with the big cos, a good chunk of what we did was at least roughly day-based. At one point, for example, we experimented with trying to price more strategic advisory work higher than make-your-product-launch-deck-better type of work and it never really flew.
The article is light on details about those AI chips.
How many anti-Soleimani messages have been posted from within the US? Are those all going to be investigated as propaganda assets too?

Any rational person knows Soleimani was a dangerous person whose orders caused significant instability and death throughout a large swath of Asia (minor and major). Any rational person also knows that that alone does not make his assassination legal. (It also does not make that assassination prudent or effective, but that's a different discussion.) When a senior leader within a nation is murdered by agents of a foreign government without even the decency of declaring war first, of course there will be calls for revenge. I'd expect no different from my fellow Americans if Pence or Esper or Milley had been targeted in a similar way. Heck, I'd expect worse. One cannot conclude that there's an organized propaganda effort until the "natural" level of such sentiment is accounted for.
SAR Imagery Reveals Presence of Concealed Sub at North Korea’s Sinpo Naval Base
Heliogen, backed by Gates, says it has achieved a solar breakthrough
Oh jesus

https://ago.vermont.gov/blog/category/security-breaches/

There's 63 pages.
Apparently you are right. I was mistakenly under the impression that it was still under review.

I would call that claim first and foremost convoluted, more than specific and detailed, but that is a rather normal practice in patents (IFAIK).

From what I've read (so far), I didn't see anything particularly innovative; not within the field of crypto at least. I'm quite confident that this is nothing particularly new to a crypto expert. I'd say it's all rather well known. Maybe not to Joe next door, but that's irrelevant.

I'd say that this patent should never have been granted, but I can't say that I'm surprised that it did. However, those who filed for this patent must have known what they were doing. Unless my current view on this radically changes, I sincerely hope that it will (somehow, eventually) cost the people involved dearly. I have no sympathy for anyone who would game a broken system like that, as it so far appears they did. Even if not criminal, legally speaking, I still consider it moral corruption to a high degree.
> Is this the problem where we've shot ourselves in the foot securing communication

Isn't that the goal? Everyone seems to think Google's innovations are gifts to the world. They are and always have been solutions to problems Google faces. The only reasons they're opensourced or community shared are to benefit Google. Anything beyond that is collateral benefit.
> Half of us are still in denial.

One half is in denial about climate change itself, and the other half is in denial about the solution to the problem. Almost everyone is guilty.
Modern tech has powered our favorite superheroes through the years
Author pinpoints racism in science: Naive scientists plus strategic racists
There are countless journalists and academics in the UK who believe this as surely as they believe the sun will rise tomorrow.
This is a very happy path engineering design. What will you do with countries who refuse to comply? Will you bomb them? Will you sanction/starve them to death? Is this really an existential crisis for our species? I want to know what cards you're willing to put on the table.
> If there was another referendum today, and the people were given an option today, what do you think they would vote for?

Depends on how you define “the people”. Are you going to ask Russians who moved to Crimea after the annexation? Are you going to ask Ukrainians who were unhappy with the shenanigans, and fled their homeland?

> You never hear from Crimeans complaining about the referendum result in any way.

Lack of complains can’t be interpreted as a sign as support, because many people were imprisoned, tortured, and/or killed for such complains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Ru...
Ask HN: Are books worth it?
I have read less than 50 books in my life and probably less than 5 books in the past 10 years.

Growing up with the Internet, I always assumed that everything could be found for free online.

I spend most of my day reading online articles/conversations, watching videos, and listening to podcasts. I have thousands of non-fiction (mostly self-improvement) books in my reading list on GoodReads, but almost never bother to read any. I assume that the best part of the best books will surface in daily conversations, YouTube videos, CliffsNotes, podcasts, Reddit posts/comments, blog articles, etc. I even find myself reading the comments and not reading the article most of the time. I'm fine with bullet point style summaries and don't care much about the fluff that fills most books I've read in the past.

Up until recently, I didn't think I was missing out. I thought that online content was roughly equivalent to 80% of what I'd get from reading actual books for 20% of the effort. I also thought that most books probably don't age very well and that most of the bleeding edge stuff could only be found online. But I'm starting to wonder if that's true. I'm starting to see people online mention that books are infinitely better than online content. I read that millionaires and billionaires read tons of books. I wonder if I'm missing out?

One issue for me is that books are a very big time investment. I read very slowly and I don't remember everything I read either. The last few books I read were mostly filled with fluff, anecdotes, stories, jokes, and trivialities. Even if I wanted to read books, I just don't know which ones I should start with, out of the 1000 "must-read" books in my reading list.

Are books worth it? Is it more true for some fields than others? Is it more true for older books? Isn't most of the information from books freely available online? Am I missing out?
Excerpt:
A secretive startup backed by Bill Gates has achieved a solar breakthrough aimed at saving the planet.

Heliogen, a clean energy company that emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday, said it has discovered a way to use artificial intelligence and a field of mirrors to reflect so much sunlight that it generates extreme heat above 1,000 degrees Celsius.

=====

The article describes a bit about the role the AI is playing, and Heliogen didn't seem to me to have used "AI" as a buzzword
Physicist Proposes Turning the Sun into a Gigantic Engine
Maybe simple is a better word, it is just glueing a few blocks of known cryptography together to achieve this particular task.
As if the time to manage servers is free. But lambda is far from expensive. If you’re spending even $100 a month on lambda, you probably have a successful business.

And everything is “complex” if you don’t know how to do it optimally.
Wanggongchang is estimated to have been about 10 kilotons, roughly the equivalent of the Hiroshima nuke. Tunguska was at least 10 megatons. In comparison, the three explosions at Tianjin add up to a measly 360 tons of TNT [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tianjin_explosions
Touché. (Though lets be clear it's profitable for the individual in those situations to tow the line.)
Redis pub/sub is ephemeral. Send to a topic and any active listeners will receive.

If you need persistence then Redis v5 has a new data type called Streams which is similar to Kafka/Pulsar. Push messages to a stream and read with multiple consumers (using consumer groups) that can ack each msg to track read state.
For what it's worth, he disavows this list, which was in the appendix of his book [1]

Bloom: But can we make an agreement? Let’s forget that damned list.

Interviewer: Ha. Do you mean the appendix in the back of the book that lists all the canonical works?

Bloom: The list was not my idea. It was the idea of the publisher, the editor, and my agents. I fought it. I finally gave up. I hated it. I did it off the top of my head. I left out a lot of things that should be there and I probably put in a couple of things that I now would like to kick out. I kept it out of the Italian and the Swedish translations, but it’s in all the other translations—about 15 or 18 of them. I’m sick of the whole thing. All over the world, including here, people reviewed and attacked the list and didn’t read the book. So let’s agree right now, my dear. We will not mention the list.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w4dk3/harold-bloom-431-v...
> more gray-area correlations that force us to confront broader systematic prejudice in an uncomfortable way

Or, perhaps we discover that correlations don't necessarily point to systematic prejudice, and continue to argue over which correlations are more indicative of prejudice than others.

Some point at the proportion of women in top software engineering job and claim prejudice in hiring. Others point at the hiring pool for top software engineering job and disagree. And around and around we go. Machine learning won't solve that.
An abstraction where "positive" and "negative" mean the same just for safety so they can't be confused with each other.
Hmm ic, thanks.
Why don't you register all services with one SIM and use a Dual-SIM phone to get cheap rates on another card?

Since we are talking about introducing a new identity system, isn't it easier to resolve the problems you mentioned than to introduce something new?