skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone is sufficiently uncooperative that you've (foolishly) decided you're going to torture the information out of them, then the information is pretty important. So important they're probably already willing to die to protect it.

That's the stakes here when you're at that point: fear of death is not enough motivation, fear of not dying quickly is.

In this situation there's no reason the person isn't going to lie for an extended period of time about A, B, C and D. So why wouldn't they then lie about E? Because you think you're going to have broken them by that time? Gotten them suitably fearful of what you'll do next that they don't also just start lying about E? Are you so sure that after whatever horrors you've inflicted their psyche will be intact enough to even give a coherent answer? Keeping in mind, that sleep deprivation and extended interrogation has been shown - repeatedly - to be enough to make otherwise innocent people confess to brutal crimes they did not commit.

EDIT: People keep thinking torture is effective because if I broke your fingers with a hammer, you'd give me your car keys. What's actually happening is I'm breaking your fingers one by one with a hammer, and saying I'll stop if you tell me where your family is so I can go murder them all.
Of course, you have seen things :)
I think it's already too late - US is withdrawing from the Paris agreement. Australia is in complete denial it seems

We need to reduce emissions yesterday and reduce our plastic output considerably. We're not doing anything on a scale big/quick enough to matter.

We don't have until 2050 or the targets some governments have set.

We need it done by next year, 2021, but that's unlikely to happen. We need new laws enacting tomorrow and to give everyone a big kick up the ass to get their acts together.

That's not going to happen, no matter how desperate Greta, Attenborough make it seem.
The end of handshakes
I think you forget gen X, which are the kids of the boomers.
Same age as the author and his timeline is a lot like mine, albeit with advanced degrees I don’t have. I used to have all of those social media accounts and found that in my case I’m happier not having them. By all means try it out and see if it works for you, but you may prefer actually seeing things.
The Linux Kernel (2003)
> People can encourage filmmakers being responsible while not encouraging turning the government on them.

Responsible art? Give me a break. Leave art alone. Overly sensitive people have already ruined so much of internet already. I'd hate to see art destroyed as well. If you don't like the art, then don't consume it. Simple as that.

> criticism is a necessary part of the equation that allows free speech to work.

There is a difference between critiquing an art and trying to shame artists from abandoning their art.

Are you going to encourage libraries to be "responsible" and remove huckleberry finn or mein kampf? What I really worry about are the sneaky backhanded method of pushing censorship that I see online now. They are worse than the "won't you think of the children" types.
In case somebody is wondering about the significance of a temperature record

https://books.google.com/books?id=N0FLSOmeFPsC&pg=PT59

Bottom line: records are extremely rare if events occur at random. If new records become far more common than the harmonic series predicts, then this is telling us that annual climatic events are no longer independent annual events but are beginning to form part of a systematic non-random trend.
To make your argument convincing, you should explain the difference between the coronavirus and the seasonal flu, and why is it invalid to compare the mortality rates of the two.
If you’re in US yes.
HashCash Plans to Invest USD 10M in the Indian Crypto Economy in 2020
>Lets NOT quickly forget how Mr. Joe Biden's presidential campaign has been financed through credit card companies.

[citation needed]
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/World_fo...

EU stands out as the one line that has been trending down.
No it won't. Anonymous SIMs were already wiped out in large areas of the world. The way KYC works is you need to know the "beneficial owner" i.e. ultimate owner of an asset. The bazillions of 5G sims we're promised will all be tied to a strongly verified corporate identity and to get on a network will require you to present ID if an individual, or do corp KYC if a firm (which will in turn require the heads of the company to do personal KYC to establish beneficial ownership information).

Remember, this isn't even new for many countries.
Awesome! Thanks!

However it does not seem possible to set this as default for all searches :-(
Not Zello – the real walkie-talkie on smartphone
I made an application for communication with everyone who is nearby (~ 10-15 km). The Internet is used for communication, users nearby are determined by their coordinates.

The goal is to provide a new (old) way of communication that does not require the exchange of contact information

This is a MVP. When the technology is debugged, I will propose using software to organize the work of volunteers near the scene of the incident - for example, next to the scene of an accident
https://salute.tech/about
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.salute.an...
The most important thing not addressed here is demand. Last I checked (granted, this was a while ago) it simply wasnt there- Meaning if you built this rig you might only be able to rent out a small part of it.

If this has changed I would be interested in hearing about it-

One other thing I am not understanding is how this makes financial sense, even if the demand is there. If I am buying a rig for 4500 bucks to get 200TB, making "570 a year in profit" is nowhere near exciting enough. Practically any other use pays more. Renting a dedicated server for a game, web hosting, hell even GPU mining makes more.

(a single 1080ti can do about 1$ a day in gross revenue on grin/eth/etc - which can be had used for ~400 bucks- Or you can get a p102 which is the mining card version with no display output for 250 bucks) - Payback with power costs/etc.. well below the 10 year threshold of siacoin)

Now where it might be interesting (IF there is demand), is just adding harddrives to an existing infrastructure already in place. So if you are a GPU miner and have 1000 rigs already in place, just adding a single 4TB harddrive to each machine might not be too bad- They go for about $50 each used and according to this, will pay back $8 a month with minimal extra costs
This is from seven weeks ago and was covered at the time.
that'd need trust that they won't run off with your drives, their basement won't get flooded, there aren't power outages often, they have good protections against surges and whatnot...
which at ANY datacenter, is automatically included ;)
They did just switch from ERA-Interim to ERA5 data source, April 2019.

https://climate.copernicus.eu/era5-new-dataset-monthly-clima...
Fx mobile has umatrix?!?! /Runs to download
The reasonable idea is of course is for any parent to be able to afford staying at home and raising their children, it need not be the mother. If living standards were higher I believe this would normally happen. The current divorce rate complicates matters, though, when it comes to deciding who stays home and who gets to advance their career.
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Followup post on SimCLR: https://amitness.com/2020/03/illustrated-simclr/
have you ever heard of backups and archiving? ;)
there are lots of scenarios when you'd want to write some amount, but not read it back for a while, if ever...
The Baby Boomer generation is for those born from 1946 to 1964.

The author of this article was born the year the Apple I was launched he's not old!
This is so frustrating.

Coronavirus is as transmissible as the flu, possibly more so, but with more subtle symptoms. That means just about everybody will come into contact with it eventually. It’s going to happen. According to health experts it’s only a matter of when, not if.

Avoiding public gatherings and/or travel will delay the spread of the virus some. It’s important to understand that due to a long incubation period and benign symptoms it’s just about everywhere already.

The only benefit to slowing the spread of the virus or delaying contraction is to reduce overwhelming demand on the medical industry in the near term. There isn’t a significant personal safety advantage.

Medical experts suggest practicing good personal hygiene, self quarantine once symptoms manifest, and testing for the virus. They are not suggesting anything different compared to handling the flu. People don’t behave like this during a bad flu season, which suggests a disproportionate change of behavior.

As the stock market bottoms out some people are going to make huge money by wisely shifting their investments.
This is definitely a VC attractor
So what are we to do about this?
1. Is it a bad thing that it is warmer where I live? - my answer is "no"

2. Your question includes presupposition that we should somehow "fight" global warming. I don't think this phenomena is dominantly anthropogenic. From what I read long time ago (before the global warming histeria) this is cyclic - periods of warmer climate intertwined with ice ages.

3. I would like less pollution and I'm in for reducing burning of fossil fuel. But I'm not in for hysterical/religious part of anti-global-warming movement.
They can't deduplicate properly encrypted data, that will have to happen client-side. So while they can deduplicate your data (if you have a copy of a picture in multiple places or maybe even a game installed on multiple machines), it won't work across users.
The comments on Quillette are just a mirror of recent comments posted to their forum. If you click through you can see them all there.
It's odd, I'm in the Alps. It snowed twice in all of February. Since the beginning of March, we've averaged more than a foot of snow fall a day.

The article only counts to the end of February. Feels like winter is back.
Those terminal matrix rain animations are always super slow for me at higher resolution. Using two cores 100%.

Maybe because I run through WSL?
Why Are We Talking About CSS4?
Austria might change so, now that the green party is part of the government coalition. Could very well be too little too late, so.

Germany is different matter, we are still building new coal plants while making wind more or less impossible in Bavaria. Hope that changes as well, if nobody seriously starts nothing will ever get done.
If you're from the USA, perhaps just ×2 any price you read if that helps you get through the article. Work that needs doing doesn't always need to be done in high-income/high CoL places.

I earn about €26/h before taxes in western Europe, an income which lets me live in relative luxury (not "private jet" luxury, but I literally do anything I want and still save more than a third of my income with a 36-hour work week), and that's for security consultancy which is way more specialised than the job you're talking about. I think it's also above the national average, but I don't have the statistics on hand. Not sure what the cost to the company is, I think they put in another hundred a month for health insurance or pension or something (they pay 50% and I pay 50%, though I don't see why keeping 50% off my payslip helps anyone, an employer will just deduct that from the salary they can offer) plus some overhead for accounting and whatever, but it's probably not that far off.
> There are a million Hacker News clients, but only one for Slack.

There’s also emacs-slack, which is exactly what it says on the tin. It means that I control my Slack experience.
> Even if torture worked it still is immoral.

You write that as if it is an indisputable law of nature. It's been debated in philosophy/ethics forever. Like most controversial ethical issues, it's unsettled at best.

> It really doesn’t matter how effective it is.

Many would disagree. If proven effective, you could easily argue it is moral to torture an evil-doer to save the lives of many.

Life isn't black and white. It's a lot of gray. You are free to believe what you want, but I just don't like the absolute moralizing - especially when it comes to controversial topics.
The speed of light as a limit applies to matter like these cogs as well.
> I regard India as having archaic, sexist modalities.

Unlike USA?
It’s not only the factor that police raids cost money; raids are also very visible, and there aren’t enough police to conduct very many raids all the time, so there’s an inherent limiting factor. Both these factors make it impractical to conduct blanket raids on everyone all the time.
Not sure why that should be surprise. Skin does not go light or dark randomly, it depends on the amount of melanin and other things body produces. If her natural skin is light, the skin of new hands lost all additional pigmentation over time and went to the body average levels.
> I am afraid that we as a species wont be able to act together quickly enough

Let me just point out that we the species also include you. And me. It's up to us.
Two Intel Xeon CPUs Beat a Tesla V100 GPU in Deep Learning Tasks
Reminds me of the differences between `cp` and `install` for putting .so files in place.

`install` basically results in a new inode allowing for processes to keep a handle on the old version of the .so

`cp` copies the content over the old content, keeping the same inode. Now applications that had that .so open won't be happy.
5. Company who hired boneheaded lawyer, gets sick of them. Apologises for their lawyer and gets rid of the lawyer
Novel Coronavirus Covid-19 (2019-NCoV) Dataset
Totally off-topic but I really liked the CSS/design for this site. Simple layout, nice choice of fonts, and a sensible and easy-to-read colour combination for this "wall of text" style presentation. Nice one.
Scientists all over the world, not having any other agenda than the well-being of earth all agree. Biomass is decreasing. Temperatures are increasing.

Comparing scientific evidence as religious makes me believe your view is the hysterical / religious one, not based on facts, but on ignorance.
> rom what I read long time ago (before the global warming histeria) this is cyclic - periods of warmer climate intertwined with ice ages.

For a bit of perspective, see https://xkcd.com/1732/
Anyone here using this in production (even for a side project)?

What are some of the challenges you've faced as opposed to just using ScrapingHub's Scrapy Cloud service?
That might just be the most uninformed comment I've ever read on HN.
Wanted to comment the same. When I first learned about memory mapping I went "mmap() all the things!!" since it's so much easier than reads and writes all the time, checking for short reads, aligning the pointer and calling read again, handling EINTR, you name it.

But at least you do get proper error codes that you can handle in a somewhat sane way.

A read our write error for an mmapped file? SIGBUS, game over. Want to handle it? Use a signal handler for SIGBUS, use setjmp before every access to your mmapped region and longmp back from your signal handler. And you thought handling all the failure modes of read/write was ugly.

Use mmap if you absolutely need the performance. Otherwise just don't.
This could be considered a flaw in those products as well.
At that point, wouldn't it be simpler to run mysql or postgresql on their own bare metal VM with a specialized uni-kernel that only runs the db process very efficiently (without notion of kernel space and user space and without context switching) ?
While there may not be much value in stereotypes like that, with generations at least we are all somewhat interconnected by historical events. WWII defined one generation, and their kids. 911 defined another. Those things that change us as a society do have some impact.
Are you quoting RationalWiki to back up his complaint about it in his article? That paragraph matches his summary of what it claims about him, i.e. not exactly 'rational' writing.

This is just one more story in a steady stream of such stories. It's pretty clear by now that academia is basically the opposite of what it claims to be. Not sure this new story really adds anything: the world outside of academia already got the message that "academic freedom" is a fiction, if it ever existed at all, and the supposed superiority of academic research is a lie - so much of it doesn't replicate or is just outright buggy. I used to be shocked by this sort of event but now I just wonder what these academics were thinking? Why would anyone stay in academia if they want to explore topics the hard-left ideologically rejects? It's obvious how that ends, now.

Also: his mistake was apologising. He shouldn't have agreed that his tweets were badly worded or that he'd be more "strategic". If you're the victim of this sort of attack the right strategy is to attack back, strongly. You don't try and compromise with anonymous complainants, ever.
> That's not going to happen, no matter how desperate Greta, Attenborough make it seem.

True. Greta alone won't save the climate for us. We need to get afk and go help her.
It's ironic to me that the post starts with a twitter poll, because I don't get twitter either, and I've tried. And I'm even a bit younger than the poster.
Gary Kildall (creator of CP/M) went out in a similarly sad fashion unfortunately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall#Death

http://techrights.org/2020/01/05/history-canceled/
Farmers say their cows can solve the climate crisis
If you think identity theft is bad now, wait until this gets passed! Not to mention embezzlement, corporate espionage, etc. They'll need to set up a recovery fund in addition.
Yup, me too. Email in profile
It has been for a while. I occasionally need to do !g when I'm searching for obscure errors, but it doesn't happen often.
One of the problems with BAT is that ERC20 doesn't scale so as they get more users, they will need to cut back on the frequency of payments. Also, a lot of that value is absorbed by the Ethereum network as transaction fees (GAS).
Also medical rated masks that are actually any good against COVID-19 or just dust masks? Medical certification, unless it is sped up considerably, will most likely take longer than the shortage itself.
Oh Sonos, you have caused me so much joy and pain.

I have multiple wifi access points in my (solid brick) house, because nothing seems to be able to penetrate these walls.

When Sonos works it's great. When it doesn't, I end up spending half an hour having to reset everything to get my randomly disappearing speakers back.

Some are wired, some are wifi, some are on powerline adapters. It's quite a hodge-podge, but none of my other devices have any issues with the setup, so why does Sonos decide to die randomly from time to time?

I've gone through the trouble of switching wifi channels, trialling different ones, just to see if anything improves the situation, but there is no regularity in the failures. It either happens, or it doesn't.

I also do not appreciate that Sonos is seemingly all about streaming services. I wish local NAS playback wasn't treated as second-class citizen...it's the only way I use Sonos.
I got hue bulbs and a 3rd party zwave/zigbee USB stick, hue works really well with it via Node-RED and Home Assistant :) I understand that for most users hue bridge seemed like the easiest way to connect but hopefully they will find that it's not that difficult to connect them via other means.

Comparing TP Link (wifi connected) bulb with Hue - the former reacts a lot quicker than tp link after boot (if you are using the normal switch).
Snow forms in the upper atmosphere at about 15,000 feet before it falls to the ground. Temperatures are always about 25C less there than on the ground. It's not strictly true that cold air holds less water vapor. Water vapor is more likely to condense at cooler temps. The likelihood that water will condense to form rain and snow droplets is impacted by the dew point and the amount of particles in the atmosphere to formulate liquid or ice.
I'd say it's important for the reason you mentioned: Many programming constructs and metaphors are either derived from mathematical concepts or a direct implementation of these concepts.

Good programmers without a formal maths education by and large probably just have a good intuitive grasp of these ideas.

That said, a lot of the maths commonly taught at university isn't all that relevant for programming from a pragmatic point of view (and it isn't meant to be, given that computer science is about much more than just programming).

Interestingly, the rather theoretical formal methods courses from my linguistics studies covered quite a few concepts that are relevant or useful for programming in general (first- and second-order logic, set theory, lambda calculus).
See Google's statistics. Denmark has a low adoption rate in Europe, but that can change fairly quickly if a large ISP implemented IPv6.

The world is at 26% adoption.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Isn't that a temporary problem though? With ETH 2 launching probably by the end of the year?
Fill your Boots with credential stuffing protections
xkcd comic strip convinently goes only to 20k bc

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Ice_Age_...
Heck, I love Facebook, but I still don't understand the point of "Facebook stories". It seems to be a series of pictures that you can't control when it moves forward? Why don't you just give me a photo album, so I can look through them at my own pace?
> What’s the point of these labels?

To dehumanise those they're applied to so you can say bad things about them without feeling guilty.
I was thinking the same way, but once a client explained that at least for them it is the same - they periodically roll out the major version update which is paid, and users pay upfront a lump sum the amount they had to pay anyway if it was a monthly subscription during that period.
Yes, and it's snow mass. If you do manual snow removal in your yard at 0°C or -5°C you feel a huge difference. And even if the mass is there, it melts earlier.
> Just know the general themes, be able to tell some jokes and create metaphors and illusions.

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Free market under true emergency situations won't work. As we see with masks right now and we are nowhere near a true global crisis. Why do you think governments went to rationing during war time?
The first rule of Gen X is that you don't talk about Gen X. Not because it's forbidden or anything (or because they all watched Fight Club), but because everybody just forgets Gen X.

The second rule is whatever, man.
I have gotten away with cheap PCIex1 2xSATA2 adapter cards, for roughly 10-15USD at the time of purchase. They did work, but this assumes a motherboard with room for lots of PCIe cards.

Edit: to clarify on the CPU usage, could a potential build also get away with a cheap AMD Athlon 3000G?
They come up consistently whenever climate change is discussed. Not sure what's the best way to handle them.
> as none of the sources i found do not support your statement in carbon emissions.

Because carbon emissions are measured at their output. So if european shoe/clothing manufacturers move to china, pollute in china and sell the products back in europe, that pollution would be credited to china when in actuality, the pollution was created for european consumption.

The easiest way to tell is by how large the consumer market is. Europe is the largest consumer market in the world. EU + the non-EU european states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_marke...

Europe is an 800+ million people market with first world living standards. In the US, we probably slightly out-pollute europe on a per capita basis since our standard of living is slightly higher than europe overall, but since europe has 500 million more people than the US, I can safely say that collectively, europe outpollutes every major country/bloc in the world.

Do you think the clothes europeans wear, the electronics europeans use, etc all were created by a green energy fairy?