skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually think this applies to all CEOs that compromise integrity and ethics for maximization of profits. Mark Zuckerberg is mentioned because I am responding to the GP about Facebook.

Let's not pretend Facebook is an impartial processor of information... They are absolutely not. They're arbitrators of information. They sell information for a profit at the expense of privacy. At the expense of societal good. Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Viocom, etc. not just Facebook.

Regarding the hyperbole - yep, I realize that. I am here to express my opinions, emotions and speak freely; not to tread political correctness and wimp out on calling things as they are.
Apple is strongly anti-GPL. And they’re pretty open about that.

Most companies that are anti-GPL aren’t so open about it.
The whole evil genie thing is pretty unlikely imo. You're postulating an AI that is too stupid to not understand that it shouldn't take your wishes in some dead literal sense (make my home eco friendly => bulldoze it and plant some trees) but also do intelligent that it can summon the resources and make those idle wishes come true in a terrible grandiose way. There are many dangers around AI but this particular popular fantasy is not well thought out.
I can juggle three balls with my eyes closed all day. I did have to work at it though. The epiphany came when I realized that my throws were much more critical than my catches. For several months I practiced keeping my catching hand completely stationary and landing my throws directly into it. This way I trained the muscle memory of the throwing hand to deliver an almost perfectly repeatable result. It's interesting that I can't reliably do 4 balls with my eyes closed because that's a different throw that I haven't specifically worked on. I can do 5 balls with my eyes closed about as well* as with them open (same throw as 3, but faster)

Obviously sight plays a more critical role when passing, but I still posit it's the throw that counts. There was one clown I used to pass with who delivered perfect passes like every single time and I could always get away with crazier stuff while passing with him than I could do with other people.

* Not that well
SARS is important, I know someone who bought 300 face masks for their family and is trying to get more.

For anyone who hasn't visited, years after SARS they still had (or still have? It's been a few years) signs in public places detailing how often the escalator railings and lift buttons are wiped down with disinfectant (every hour usually). They take that stuff seriously.
Right. But I was on my phone and was being lazy.
>The claim was that people in China live in a state of fear, and I refuted it

That wasn't the claim, so you refuted a strawman. The claim was that China governs through fear, not that Chinese live in fear. When people disappear and are "re-educated" against their will for speaking out about the government, as an official policy of your government, you are governing through fear. Refute that.
One more thing: things seems cheaper when priced over smaller intervals. For some reason, 50 cents per day sounds cheaper than $15 per month which sounds cheaper than $180 per year.

I don't know why. It's a bit like how everything ends in .99. even when you know it's being used on you, it still works.
Yes, but with the levees, the cost is massive. It's one thing to say 'there will be a big earthquake' and put together operational plans, do some practice runs. With the levees it might be many billions in upgrades for a 'risk', meaning, it gets postponed until it gets politically untenable to do nothing.
Meta: 185 top comment replies, 278 comments total. The redditfication of this place continues. China articles are essentially broken and there's no point trying to advance the discussion or have healthy debate.

Someone should make an extension that collapses all replies and only shows top level comments, think it might be a lot healthier for online discourse.
To clarify, you can listen without a license. You just cannot broadcast.
That is a very charitable portrait of the anti-vaccination movement. No, they aren't parents of vaccine-allergic children banding together "to cope with their problems". They are people spreading serious misinformation about vaccines, advocating that they are risky and best forgone, and causing real damage by doing so. I think silencing these people is wrong, but that doesn't change the fact that their speech is clearly making the world a worse place.
It has nothing to do with the crap preprint. There are journal articles about HIV medication treating SARS-CoV from over a decade ago.
Depends on the period. I only remember the 80s in Poland, and money were almost useless. If you wanted to buy a car or a flat in big city - you signed onto a waiting list, paid part of the money, and waited for 5-20 years. No amount of money could speed that up.

If you bought a car, drove home, and sold it immediately - you would earn more than 100% on that transaction. But nobody did that, because everybody had money and only about half of the families had cars.

Each year you had the right to by 2 pairs of "winter shoes" shoes per person. You bought them no matter if it was the correct size of style, because you later bartered them for the stuff you need. Same with other "rare" stuff like coats or exotic fruits. Most people in Poland seen oranges and bananas once a year on christmas.

Lowest level manual workers earned half or 1/3rd of what a chairman of a big state company would earn. But the low level manual worker knew nobody important, so he waited for 20 years to buy a shitty socialist car, while the state company chairman got a western-made car after a few weeks of waiting.

It wasn't because of the price - it was because he knew people and could give them favors.

I have asthma, during communism my parents got the modern drugs for it mailed every few months from the family in Canada, because no amount of money could buy them in Poland in 80s. They only had outdated drugs for asthma that had awful side effects.

Fiat 126p (which was outdated in 70s in Italy) was produced in Poland till 2000. It took 26 seconds to accelerate to 100 km/h, and in case you had an accident in it going over 50 km/h everybody inside died. It was awful, awful car. But it was what was available, so people took it.

My parents build a house in 80s, and money weren't an issue. They took 30 years mortgage and paid it all off in 1991 thanks to my father going for 4 months to Austria to work on a farm. But the availaibility of materials in 80s was the real bottleneck. We had roof made from asbestos (it was called "eternit"), and while people knew it wasn't the best thing to use - nobody cared because that was what you could get. People stockpiled it on their backyards in case they will want to build a house for their children.

So yeah - the important currency wasn't the money, it was favors and coupons allowing you to buy stuff for your money.
> This is the future of food — or at least one fast, cheap and dystopian future

When did everything new originating from tech (or tech adjacent) companies become “dystopian”?

I think there’s a lot of room for innovation between full service restaurants and home cooked meals, and this is one of them. I think it makes a lot of sense that some restauranteurs want to specialize in the food prep side of things and not have to deal with the hospitality side at all.

I’d really like to see drive-thru only restaurant explored more. Let me order my dinner on an app (maybe even a few days in advance if that will help) and then I come pick it up on my way home from work without having to wait for it to be prepared.

Or how about restaurants the assemble food kits that are cheaper and easy to go pick up?

I’ve never thought the delivery aspect of companies like GrubHub or DoorDash were its strength—I think people just don’t want to go to the grocery store, cook (especially for 1) and clean up. But cost has always limited the growth of those companies, so giving people cheaper options to eat, even without delivery, could be a big deal.
Hi there! Could you please give us his call sign and a link to the project. Sounds very interesting.
I’m above the age limit for your club, and have done plenty with GNU Radio.

https://github.com/madengr
Yes it works in Google Maps. But only for moderately short drives (say, an hour or so).
How to end traffic: European cities offer a roadmap for life with fewer cars
Show HN: Built an ATL side-project/startup launching community
It's not factually correct to say that communist currency was "as good as US dollar" and you could freely "accumulate or spend" it.

Due to shortages many basic products were rationed and you simply couldn't buy them with cash. Having more money didn't make a difference unless you had the right rationing stamps (or connections to a high-ranking party official). This lead to a whole secondary market of people trading stamps with each other (e.g. cigarette stamps for meat stamps). When it comes to accumulation, periods of hyper-inflation and lack of investment opportunities made this much harder. Moreover, currency exchange rate was controlled by the government, which led to illegal underground currency trading.

This is based on experiences from Poland, but I'm sure many other communist countries had similar issues.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction

Still need to generate the hydrogen but you don’t need to store it.
Yeah, it's because on Twitter they don't perceive the _irony_ of someone chopping a book in half. It's always a firestorm for those guys, always holistically disparaging books, articles of clothing etc.

I say: long live the two separate parts of a divided book, and long may we laugh when the halves meet up -- fleeting though that opportunity may be.
"About 8500 years ago, a massive freshwater lake in North America called Lake Agassiz, formed by melting glaciers, drained suddenly into the sea. What had been gradual sea-level rise accelerated, and seas rose a few meters within decades." Pretty crazy!
Ask HN: What utility function are you maximizing in your life?
I’ve had a lot of trouble thinking deeply what I’m looking for in my life. I try to be very rigorous on most topics but on this one I can’t seem to find a logical conclusion or even a consistent one. Sometimes I’m optimizing for my happiness in the moment, other times I sacrifice instantaneous pleasure for long-term happiness (or so I think). Is there any conclusion/function that describes what you optimize for with your decisions?
Would love what other HNers who have thought about this have concluded.
I think you can still be idle and rest but the point is that you're mindful that you're doing it for a purpose and that time is important. Don't sit idle because you're forced to. Because you've got nothing better to do. Sit idle because you choose to. Because you believe it is important.
Also, about half of the comments are "(China/America/government in general) is evil, because (some superficial observation already known by 99% of visitors here and not directly relevant to the current situation)", or some form of generic refutation.

I'm also frequently guilty of the same thing, but this is getting out of hand...
On arch we haven't yet. We use Cargo.lock files to get reproducible builds, but trying to get rust to follow normal practices has been difficult.
The right to use radio frequencies are auctioned by the government. If Apple bought the rights to use the frequencies it could do whatever it wanted with them.

For instance, Sprint had WiMAX for 4G before they had LTE, two carriers have GSM and two have CDMA. The government didn’t mandate the protocols nor did they force the carriers to use the same protocol or the phone makers to support both.

You also had the proprietary Nextel push to talk.
Saw/read somewhere same.
The Queen does not run the Royal Mail.
Pjmlp's post was directly responding to this part:

>People who understand these essential basics, e.g. by starting with Asm, are going to be far less likely to make these sorts of mistakes and write less buggy code in general.

Userbinator's post continues and seems to paint the ecosystem as getting worse over time, as if it were much better in this area in the past. Pjmlp's point was that even the original C users who came from assembly, who were presumably more familiar with the essential basics of assembly and memory management, still pumped out vulnerable code as we see today. It doesn't seem like having a userbase made up of experienced assembly programmers is enough for C to be predictably safe.
Even outside Mile End? I think the large Orthodox Jewish community there has had some influence on the prevalence of Bagel shops in the area.

Don't recall downtown, or even other areas of the plateau as having such popular bagel shops.
Theres still a conditional branch in that statement
My understanding is that there's still VM, but it uses a separate buffer (on-chip memory map) containing a list of segments that map each part of the process' memory to a physical address (virt->physical offset + length), rather than a multi-tiered paging structure. The advantage is quick virtual -> physical address translation and less space used for them vs page tables, but the downside, as you point out, is what to do when a process exceeds it's initial heap or stack segment.

In this case, I think the Forwardcom solution is to add another entry in the memory map for the next 2*n bytes of heap space.
$ sudo softwareupdate --reset-ignored

That will clear all ignored updates. From the CLI docs it doesn't look like there's a way to do it individually but there's probably a plist somewhere you could modify.
You can measure peak acceleration--cars accelerate much faster than buses or trains--or whether you're connected to headphones (not a head-unit). Use of headphones by drivers is illegal in most places.

As for express vs. regular lanes, express-lane cars will have much different distributions than regular-lane cars. Use something like KNN where the distance metric is a weighted sum of Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance between speed distributions and K-S between acceleration distributions (each vehicle is one unit with a distribution of speeds and accelerations).
We hacked Google's maps to make a web-based "GPS" system, like the navigation on the phone. It's not perfect, but it allows us to do things like have the driver share their geolocation in the Web browser, without putting it in the background, and without downloading any native apps.

I'd say very little in the Qbix Platform is hacked together, but this is one of those things. It's not in the core, we have it in the Travel plugin. You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Q7IzVv1VU

Here's a list of all the features: https://qbix.com/features.pdf

Here is the overview of the whole open source platform in case you're curious: https://qbix.com/platform
Because it was taken in Poland in 1939.
Here's where I have to chime-in with a reality that people have yet to experience and most don't know about: The unintended negative consequences of RoHS.

I have over a dozen instruments and several tools that are, in some cases, over 30 years old. I think all of my scopes, signal generators, DVM's, logic analyzers, DSO's, probes, lab power supplies, etc. are pre-RoHS and, in most cases, significantly so.

The transition to RoHS, while, in principle, well-intentioned, is likely to prove to have been a massive mistake.

Lead-free solder has one major problem: Tin whiskers.

One way to think about this is that all RoHS electronics has a stochastic failure rate. I have devoted more time than I care to admit studying tin whiskers in the context of my work in aerospace. I have, in that process, consulted with NASA scientists who were are the forefront of long term research on the subject. The most salient take-away was that we had no way to predict or truly mitigate tin whiskers. The only mitigation in aerospace is to, quite literally, send chips to services that remove all lead-free solder from the pins (or remove balls from BGA's) and replace them with conventional lead solder.

If this plays out as it could, landfills are going to be piled sky-high with broken electronics. From phones to laptops, TV's, ovens, clocks...anything really. And cars, yes, cars!

Lead-free RoHS solder is a ticking time bomb and, in my opinion, one of the most misplaced decisions made in the name of protecting the environment.

I have HP-41 calculators I bought in the early '80's that still work as new today. That's to say they are nearly 40 years old. There is no way a RoHS compliant calculator will survive 40 years. That is nearly impossible. And so, millions of them will end-up in landfills. Well done European Union, you really helped the planet with that one!

For those not familiar with RoHS issues (a deep and wide topic), here's a starting point:

https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/reference/tech_papers/2006-Lei...

This is very real.
> but then you have to deal with the rare cases

For HN readers, this is an example of "don't make perfect the enemy of good."

If even 10% of the bottles were nasty, there are machines that can handle that.

Just like Europe's progress in standardizing chargers, we need to go back to standard bottle sizes.

One of the best examples is the Beer Store in Ontario, Canada. All brewers have to use stubby brown bottles, and achieved 99% reuse in modern times:

"Between 2013-2014, the Beer Store achieved a system-wide recovery and re-use rate of 99 per cent for the industry standard bottles, which are reused 12 to 15 times."

They accomplished such phenomenal reuse that the bottles wore out. So much for excuses, eh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beer_Store
Ah, the all important potlatch analog aspect, AKA bragging rights, show photos, hula skirts etc etc.- when I meet one of those idiots I tell them I go home every Thursday to my Swiss Villa for the long weekend...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch
Pfand (deposit) for bottles is widespread in Germany.
A nuclear bomb shot a manhole into space before Sputnik
These videos are very good. Thanks for the suggestion.
https://tisgoud.nl/automount-nfs-on-macos/ may help.
I have an active google login also.

I wonder if it was the fact that I'm running firefox on FreeBSD.
This is one of my favorite hn comments ever.
> It has nothing to do with the crap preprint.

I am glad you are here to tell us exactly how it went down in Thailand.

Those same papers were also available for the last month of treatments being attempted and yet we see this news from Thailand of 'recovery in 48 hours' about 48-72 hours following widespread sharing of that (crap) preprint. It may be coincidence, it may be serendipity.

I don't think either of us knows what happened here, but one of us certainly thinks they do.

Presumably you are right, but in my own experience, a recent headline on social media is as likely to prompt an idea as a journal article published 10 years ago.

Which is why we are all here on hacker news looking for ideas, instead of all busily reading issues of journals published in 2010. Am I wrong?

Interesting comment here btw:

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/extdrc/thailand_...

"Although 2019-nCoV is NOT an influenza virus, but a coronavirus strain, it contains hemagglutinin-esterase proteins on its surface, which unlike Influenza A and B's HA that binds sialic acid, binds 9-O-acetylsialic acid instead. I assume that the similarities between these two receptor molecules are what lead doctors to use this influenza drug, in hopes that it also inhibits coronavirus HA-esterase to some degree."
I dunno, I think a really elegant algorithm is poetry.
I agree with you that purpose in life is very important. However, your assumption above about Denmark is not supported by The World Happiness Report (https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019): both in 2019 and 2018, Denmark was at the very top (the 2nd place, after Finland). One could argue that many, if not the most, people, not having to work or having to work less at a normal job, might very well express themselves (and contribute significant societal value) by participating in entrepreneurship, innovation, part-time employment, creative arts & crafts, caring for their kids and/or senior family members, volunteering and much more.
Well I lived in countryside near Lublin and trash was everywhere. In 90s it became much cleaner.
Yeah...but I assumed banks are not part of E911
I wrote a similar piece of code called MagicCodec back in 2008, including a zhpy codec(Chinese Python) and a Lua codec, which translates Lua source code to Python.
(Blog content in Mandarin Chinese, with sample code
http://weijr-note.blogspot.com/2008/02/python-magiccodec-01....)
There was a time that I am slightly interested in Chinese Python for education purpose. Another interesting approach is using ctypes to replace keywords in CPython implementation, http://weijr-note.blogspot.com/2011/06/python-32-keyword.htm...
(Also a blog post in Mandarin Chinese with sample code, which is also in Mandarin Chinese)
My father read this article to us as in the hospital before his hart surgery. I write the TLDR of what I told him.

This is an entirely expected and boring result, dressed up as novel to mislead the public about the meaning of neuroplasticity.
Not cost. Profits!

Externalizing these is so much cheaper to the companies involved that they do it that way. Setting up a bottle recycling plant is expensive, and that cost is not passed on to the consumer but absorbed by the company. So the profits go down.
In this case you really do have to get the system absolutely perfect, not just good. It is unacceptable for someone to receive a bottle that contains any amount of dirt or other contaminant.

I'm not an expert in this so idk how difficult it is to ensure this but unless the system is perfect it can't be used.
And C pre-89 is rather different than C11. The language changes, so comparing that which wasn't even specified against what we have to do isn't an argument one way or the other.

Some pre-89 code won't even compile today without putting in considerable effort.
> semi-fascist US consensus under GW Bush

Could you please explain that incredibly inflammatory point and provide some evidence please?
These stats are quite misleading. Solar + storage can deliver cheap energy, but still somewhat intermittently. Usually it would be something like a 10MW solar array paired with 10MWh of batteries. This only gives you 1 extra hour of runtime at 10MW. If you were to match nuclear's 24/7 output you'd need something like 100MWh of storage connected to a 10MW array. This becomes cripplingly expensive.

I'm aware the grid can balance some of this load, perhaps with wind or solar arrays further away. But solar itself has externality costs of intermittency which the grid has to pick up.
VPS Showdown – February 2020
Please add /s ?
Combining outputs would be awesome.

Given comments on the Good Judgement Project, a lot of people are using the wrong reference class, so have bad base rates. The work could easily be split, defining the right reference class, while having others refine the rates for each.

I'd also like to have easy ways to make conditional forecasts. One of the questions I got much better than the average on the GJP concerned the likelihood of a US-China deal on emissions. Many forecasters assumed China would never agree to such a deal, because of how much they need to emit.

I knew China had been working on renewables, and would be likely to agree to a deal. I just didn't know about the diplomatic world. A way to tell those that know diplomacy that the economic and technology landscape had changed would have changed the calculus.

Averaging is great and all, but platforms should make collaboration easier.
> My last 2 phones (Pixels) have died right around the 2 year mark.

See my post on this thread about the "mutually assured destruction" (as I sometimes call it) brought to us by those who pushed for a transition to lead-free solder. This is a real and massive problem that might come home to roost in a major way within the next ten to twenty years. Here's the link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22220799