skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking about very different time scales. Of course more mortally-urgent matters should be prioritized. But it's like the debate over people trying to set up backup planets when there's still so much that can be done to clean up Earth. I think all of those remedies need to be pursued simultaneously, rather than this simplistic "how could you possibly imagine colonizing another planet when we still have all of these issues???" argument. Colonization supporters are thinking about where (or if) we're going to be in centuries. It's not a fair comparison.

>We could stop world hunger and cure most diseases in developing countries right now if we didn't spend our money on useless things, but we don't. You're far too optimistic.

In theory there's enough money to solve almost every problem (homelessness, hunger, carbon emissions), but it's about the effective and efficient use of resources. That's why they haven't been solved. There's probably also a bit of a Mythical Man Month effect (more money/people/effort thrown into the same thing may have highly diminishing returns, in addition to all the higher potential for theft and corruption).

It's difficult to imagine universal anti-aging and near-biological immortality without universal healthcare, elimination of poverty and hunger, and no requirement for people to work much (the last one could turn out false, though working at 165 doesn't sound so awful if you have the mind and body of a 30-year-old and if you can still live comfortably if you aren't working). You need a basic good level of health if you want to prevent deterioration and death; it would be a total lie to proclaim you've cured death when there are people who are starving. I would agree those are basic prerequisites for a non-aging civilization.

I think it's all part of the same thing - each part is being worked on by the people with the most expertise to combat the respective problems, and they all have a common goal of improving the quality and quantity of life for all of humanity, now and indefinitely into the future. And hopefully it'll eventually apply to all conscious life we become aware of or create.

Yes, in terms of what would have the biggest impact in the next decade, universal healthcare for Americans would rank far higher than tripling the longevity budget. But it's a tricky calculation when you're dealing with very long time scales. If one were to hypothetically cut all longevity funding in order to implement universal healthcare, then over the next 100 years it would be a more than worthwhile investment, but over the next few thousand? Maybe not.

We should be fighting for all of those things. The question is to try to analyze as objectively as possible how to best allocate resources to achieve the most good for the most people over all time scales.
You're completely misunderstanding what this is about. Hardware video acceleration is not about rendering 3D graphics.

This is about being able to play web videos without causing you to lose CPU performance and battery life. This has not really been supported on Linux or X11, whereas it has been supported on Windows and Mac by almost all browsers for over a decade.

The fact that this will be officially supported by a major browser vendor on Wayland first should tell you something.
Mine smiled for the first time after about a week. It wasn't a long one, but was a typical joker-like full face smile that I can't even do myself.

They do display emotions in their face at ferocious pace, no filter like adults - and so far they correspond to overall situation pretty well.

As for smile-worthy - one of his personal gods just came to him to see up close (aka papa checking how is he). If that isn't a happy moment, I don't know what is.
Ask HN: CA Voting Issues?
California re-worked their elections this year. In particular, they mailed unsolicited mail-in ballots to everyone. They actually sent mine to an old address, but I got it anyway.

You need to have the mail in ballot in order to vote in person, or they give you a provisional ballot (which are less likely to be counted).

They also made it much harder to locate my polling place (there is a list of over 100 choices and no map).

This feels like voter suppression targeting people that recently moved, or that move frequently.

Has anyone else encountered issues?
Change the decimal point in the font to something distinctive before rasterizing.
Marx was wrong not about if, but about how the workers would take control of the means of production!
> So it sounds like we didn’t learn much from 2008. Will we learn from 2020?

I am busy, right now I am trying to learn that humans will never learn from history. I vaguely remember somebody mentioning that to me in the past, but I dismissed it as a nonsense.

(But I am not really that pessimistic. Somebody mentioned that the Spanish flu was a big impulse for providing national health care services. I think it can have a similar effect, somewhere.)
If the schools close and you have kids, you're not going to be working either way.

And wait, isn't Seattle hosting a 100k attendee international ComicCon in ten days? How can you argue that's more responsible than your employer is being?

Oh! Maybe your "they" refers to Seattle, not your employer in contrast to Seattle. Confused.
Why Lambda School should have a lower success rate than college
Lots of negativity in this thread and comments from people that either have not had children or have had them so long ago that they don't remember what is age-appropriate for a 3-year-old.

I'll just second some of the common recommendation:

- Magnatiles. There are a lot of manufacturers out there, some brand name, some not. The good thing is that at this point they have all standardized on the tile sizes, so they are usually compatible.

- LEGO Duplo. The standard LEGO sizes are too small for most toddlers. Duplos are perfect. Kids (and parents) quickly tire of the set themes, but the good news is that you can mix and match pieces and let the kids build whatever crooked houses they want to build.

- Trains and other vehicles that go on rails.

- Picture books that you can read to them while they can follow by looking at the pictures. This is tricky, because in my experience most children books are not great. The biggest problem is usually the lack of a story. Many books are supposedly educational or teach kids good values, but they are poor at story telling. If there is no good story, kids are not interested. Many books also don't have a good balance between text and pictures. Too little text and there's not much for you to read, they'll flip through the book in seconds. Or pictures that do not have enough detail to match the text.
Anyway, the only solution is trial and error.

Admittedly, none of these are exactly "STEM", but I think that's OK. What's more important to stimulate creativity and make learning fun.
Remember that SXSW is more than just tech. It is like three connected conferences: music, film, and "interactive" aka tech.
My kids loved that one. I was sad when they outgrew it.
1988–1995. https://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull18.html#SEC13
Yeah, sorta-kinda. If only AMD would be able to compete timely in the higher end GPU segment. It took AMD 2+ years to release Radeon RX 5700 XT (Jul 2019)† to match (with a very good stretch) Nvidia GTX 1080 TI (Mar 2017).

I support AMD and Intel for their open-source efforts, but still hold hopes for GTC 2020 announces.

† AMD Radeon VII was super overpriced and unavailable in my area, and it still released nearly two years later.
The 90s were definitely a time when people thought deeply about how to make computer applications more usable. Apple also had excellent guidelines. Problem was that back then the hardware and the operating systems sucked. Now it’s the opposite. Hardware and OS are very stable now but applications are getting worse.
Or algae and plankton.

Regards plant life generally, one rather stunning realisation for me is how recent many of the now-dominant forms are.

Grass is younger than the dinosaurs. Flowering plants evolved during their reign. The major crops of the world (wheat, maize, rice) are all largely human-engineered, through artificial selection over the past few thousand years.

There's a lot of competition in the primary-producer niche.
It's a shame it takes a viral outbreak to make convention-goers wash their hands...

(speaking as someone who's been on both the attendee and organiser side of the convention 'fence')
I think Argentina problems come from borrowing in dollars, not from "printing" his own currency.
“The market being in the red is a hoax perpetrated by the Democrats...”
I'm not sure I understand, it's a business logic bug, would have happen in any language.
May I make a guess? You can only get to that number if you ignore landuse changes due to the ethanol production?
The Fed is not under the President's authority and is probably not filled with Trump fans. The system for better or worse is designed to resist political motivations. (For better because "political," for worse because "political" is the low-valence word for "democratic.")
It really depends on what you edit. Sci/tech/math is pretty much un-monitored in my experience. The economics pages are full of weird pet theories. Meanwhile, as you say, current events, biographies, and a lot of other less technical pages (that don't require the deep background that the article refers to) are infested with deletionists.
That may double count some people, but it also under/fails to count the sheer number of people that just "come into town" for the parties, networking, and nonofficial events.
Not necessarily, you can design erlang systems with more coupling than you'd expect in traditional microservices. Microservices mean that your codebase is segmented along business concern lines.
Have you heard of the concept of a trade-off?
In all fairness to Tandy's 28 year run at Microsoft (Clippy aside) including his final stint with the Robotics group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Trower
Was the opposite for me. Having a warm newborn nap on my (unclothed) chest was really a special thing.

Yes, they're fickle and a lot of hard work. Even if you do things right, there's going to be a decent amount of screams you just have to endure. And the lack of communicative feedback, except for screams. They're little mysteries.
A special build of Windows 3.1 called "Windows for Pen Computing" was made in the early 90s for very early tablet PCs. I'm guessing they rolled that stuff into the mainline build of 95.
and gaming and comedy.
What about argv ?
> At university of course you’re warned not to use Wikipedia, it’s not acceptable as a reference

The reason for this is too often misconstrued as being that Wikipedia is somehow misleading. The reality is that you do you reference something that is not a primary source. When everything on Wikipedia ostensibly has to link to something, it is just lazy to cite "wikipedia" as source for something.

I mean, I imagine you couldn't just say "New York Library" as a source for a fact either in university. You'd cite the actual source.
What's irrational about the reaction to the virus?
> Server has to know what clients to accept in any VPN solution. I still don't see the point.

In OpenVPN and others, the server can just check the certificate presented by a client against a shared CA. The certificate can be signed/emitted by a totally different system.
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Java Ecosystem Survey 2020
It is a ports tree provided package, not an OS supplied package. Ports are not considered part of the OS.
Many times purely business folks don't take the time to understand tech as it has a higher initial learning curve and so its a black box domain for them.

Not that they need to achieve high mastery over it but a little understanding goes a long way.

I've seen it time and time again, since they don't get it they fear it and the seeming power it has over their company. They treat it like a force of nature -- something that just is instead of another business domain to learn something about and so when things break there is this weird abdication of self determination like there was no possible way to have prevented things from going down or reaching a point of no recovery.

This all in turn leads to the lower valuation of tech instead of say sales or marketing.
I could be wrong but I think freebsd allowed multiplexing connections per port before Linux? Please correct me I am mistaken about this.
> replacing them with a structured, typed, reflective API

Does this better alternative exist?
As of eight months ago, it was about $500-600:

> https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/climeworks-carbon-ca...
Robinhood did not consider the leap year in their code
I'm curious how this will perform vs AMD's Epyc line in terms of performance per Watt on different workloads.
> The incubation period is not 25-30 days. The mean incubation period is 5-6 days, range 1-14 days.

There are case reports of it being far longer than 14 days:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-incubation/c...

> A 70-year-old man in China’s Hubei Province was infected with coronavirus but did not show symptoms until 27 days later, the local government said on Saturday, meaning the virus’ incubation period could be much longer than the presumed 14 days.
It was worded as speculation. It's not illegal to speculate if its stated as such.
> just "take the money of the rich" is not a solution for this

I'm not suggesting taking money from the rich. I'm suggesting not giving it to them in the first place.

> What matters is that by attempting this "equal sharing of resources", each and every time it was tried, it resulted in a horrible dystopia.

I'm also not suggesting "equal sharing of resources". The idea that the only possible distributions of wealth are "everyone gets the same" and "unbounded in response to supply/demand" is silly. If all the billionaires in the world had $10million instead of $1 billion, and everyone with >$1million's wealth was scaled down in proportion, I'd be happy. There'd still be plenty to work for.

For me, the key issue with communism was too much concentrated power. That lead to inefficient resource distribution, because the people responsible for distributing had perverse incentives which lead to corruption, and even where the leadership was benevolent, they simply didn't have the mental resources to work out how best to distribute things.

Now, markets solve this problem, by allowing everyone to have input into what the economy produces, simply by spending their own share of our economic output. However, this mechanism relies on economic demand being somewhat evenly spread out amongst the population. Otherwise you end up with the same problem: those in control of demand have incentives to pursue their own self-interest, and even where they are benevolent, they don't have the means to determine efficient distribution.

Bill Gate's philanthropy is a good example of this: very well meaning, but hopelessly ineffective given the huge sums of money involved. Notably, this wealth is being distributed just like wealth in communist countries: in a planned way, by a central authority. Extreme wealth concentration circumvents the market mechanism, and should be avoided for just the same reasons as communism.
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It's almost like Democracy can't work, the masses are weak-minded and easily persuaded. The 51% only know how to take. Take rights, take property. As long as you're one of the cool kids, your ideas a infallible.
Maybe that is part of the problem. We imbue our leaders with a belief that their will alone is sufficient to stem the tide forgetting that they are only human.
I've seen very similar form letters from other conventions. Largely they all lean on each other -- "they don't offer refunds so neither will we" -- but the bigger factor is that the convention probably doesn't have the money to refund people.

Most fan-run conventions run on a barely-above-breakeven budget at the best of times.

I'm not intending this as an excuse, merely an explanation for people who may not have been involved in the organisation of a convention, or been close to people who have.

With that perspective in mind, I find it hard to blame them. A wave of panicked attendees demanding refunds could well render them insolvent.
It also has a third mandate, get republican presidents re-elected and this is where this boost comes in handy.
Well yeah, hence my statement. The word "observer" when used in physics usually refers to the instrumental measurement process, not to perception by a consciousness/human. There are of course outliers, scientists that will make the draw, but they are in a miniscule minority. There are also thought experiments that are common that will talk about this, but they almost always used in order to actually demonstrate the non-fitness of this line of reasoning for physical sciences.

The people who make these claims are usually woo-woo writers who make money by writing popular culture books related to a subset of quantum mechanics phenomena and to a limited understanding thereof.

This shouldn't be too hard to see either when you understand that consciousness is not well-defined yet by mainstream science, and so why would it study it using the well-defined methods like physics? That if anything would lead to unfalsifiable hypotheses, and mainstream physics luckily doesn't indulge in that so often.
Median and range really says fairly little about the distribution.
Also, 45 is a speaker at the conference; they usually get 42 or 43 for the keynote most years: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/president-donald-trump...
I don't think that it is at all difficult to suppose that we humans have a sort of "Boot ROM" to get us started in the world. This basic brain wiring pattern is then patched, if you will, over many decades to make us the person which we will eventually become.
Holy shit. 417K. That's crazy.
Outdoor ready vehicles, sticks or other outdoor objects, sand/dirt - have fun!

Focus on playing with your son, don't worry about the education bit so much at 3yrs. Focus on having fun, he will learn and not even realize it. Don't expect a 3 year old to spend a lot of time on a single activity, mix it up.
That's one heck of a broad church...!
How about you take his apology and move on?
Something similar occurs to crypto exchanges. They go down during days with extremely high volatility. During Q4 2017 most of the crypto exchanges were fighting hard to stay online, sometimes in precarious conditions, sometimes with execution delays of up to a few minutes.
Honeywell set to launch its quantum computer with quantum volume of 64
> Rust shouldn't have changed the default behavior

Agreed, didn't mean to imply otherwise.

> ...

Agreed

> Perhaps their problem was having a habit of Googling the usage for a core Unix API rather than using the freely available and eminently readable specs, which can be kept locally.

To the degree that it is their problem, it's an understandable one. Not everyone has $1k to drop on text documents, and those standards may not cover the bulk - or even a particularly significant fraction - of the APIs one is dealing with on a day to day basis, making their value as an investment rather limited.

And two decades ago, I was gobsmacked to learn that C++ had a standard library at all, with it's own string type - std::string - that I could use where Borland's AnsiString was unavailable. Things have admittedly improved slightly since then, but you can't buy a spec without knowing it even exists!

And I'll admit I frequently google instead of refering to the standards I have bought. They're useful for resolving language lawyer disputes (although the occasional defect report limits even the standard's usefulness for that), but I won't call them particularly amazing references. Their main advantage is in being authoratative. Of course, implementations may not always perfectly match the standard they're supposed to match as well... when I care about the details, I'm more likely to dive into the implementation's source code rather than the spec.
The 2nd was a Wednesday four years ago. That wouldn’t make any sense for a leap year error. Why wouldn’t it have gone down on the Monday two days prior?
Since when are sources required for basic observations on reality? Thanks to Republican opposition to providing first-world amenities to U.S. citizens (universal health care access, education access, childcare access, etc.) new generations of Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to start families. The evidence for this is multitudinous and moments away via any search engine...
Except one of the things a "permissive" license allows that the "restrictive" GPLv3 doesn't is locking code behind patents.

Companies like Apple prefer BSD specifically because they want the option of taking someone to court if they want to.
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There's a Greg Egan short story "Zero For Conduct" that's about this kind of site.
They ran FreeBSD because Jan came from Yahoo, and that's what Yahoo ran.
Works for me.

A very thought-provoking read, in fact.
TerraPass offers $10/ton

https://www.terrapass.com/product/productindividuals-familie...
The file name's position is not magical; it's linked to the -f flag.

tar -c [files...] -f archive.tar

The thing is, for both basic compressing and decompressing you don't actually have to memorize all that much:

tar xf archive.tar.gz # to uncompress
tar caf archive.tar.ext [files...] # to compress

(One could argue that for symmetry you might want to use xaf instead of xf.)
What’s the point of these wall of text without some hardware-porn?

;)
Argv in 'int main(int argc, char argv)'. CLI is a wrapper for this.
That's a huge question, but I think it happened in the 20th century during the academic boom.
> Or it will settle at 5.01% due to the fact that a middle eastern sovereign wealth fund or two will be bigger than all investors who sign up to this scheme put together.

Which did not sign up at 5%, but at 5.01% it is now totally worth it... . No, it is entirely unreasonable to expect that if the current large investors drop out they will be more than replaced.

It might be the case and even likely that Hohn does not achieve the first step, but if he can convince a few large investors the effect will be much bigger than 5.01%.

> If I'm wrong, it'll only be because a majority of investors who would have otherwise invested in coal (important distinction) jump on board this campaign, or close to a majority.

If "just", say, 10% jump on board, what then?
Ask HN: How do you get users to use software?
I develop ERP software for companies internal use. Sometimes the software makes the user's life easier and they quickly start using it and are happy.

Other times the software introduces more process, more accountability, less autonomy. In these cases, the users complain endlessly that the software is too complicated. The clients in turn blame us when the users refuse to use it or find work arounds.

I feel like this is a management problem and not a software problem. But I don't know what to tell these managers to incentivize their workers to use the software.

I need practical recommendations, but it would also be nice to have an authoritative source for recommendations.
So is the Fed's job to make sure everyone is employed? Unemployment is at an all time low. With a normal spike an unemployment from a normal recession, we would be at normal levels of unemployment.
What if the reaction to the coronavirus is worse than the virus itself?
BoJ is the biggest proof that the traditional notion that creating money generates inflation is incorrect. The issue is that inflation is narrowly defined, and will only happen when people buy daily commodities. Inflation in stocks is not considered to be inflation, although prices will go up the same way.