skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an awful policy.

I don't care about the imaginary internet points, but it doesn't take many downvotes to bury/kill/whatever a post. If a few early responders "downvote disagree" then nobody will ever see it.

It's almost as if they thought, "How can we best encourage groupthink?" and this was the answer.
Regulation is the only thing that can work. The goodness of their heart is not something that can be relied on. Asking Google (and other advertisers) to just back off their biggest money-maker is a non-starter. The only solution is regulation. Insufficient regulation is what brought us to this point. The harm here is too distributed, too abstract, and not obvious to the people it's harming. The people it's harming are the product, the people buying the data are the customers. There is no way Google voluntarily makes those changes. It will have to be forced to via regulation, enforcement, imposition of fines or potentially even jailtime in order to get it to comply. Its business model demands nothing less.
You know, I was in complete agreement with the article and I was considering a 1440p monitor or something until I saw your comment and reflected on it. The most productive periods/jobs I can remember were on i3wm with a Goodwill 900p/19" monitor and a 20" iMac 10 years old at the time. But it's because I had access to good tools then like Neovim/Atom respectively. My work now requires an RDP Notepad.exe session so there's no monitor that will help me there. I guess software tools are way more important.
The ideological nature is sort of the point though: the article attempt is to make a fund for investing in smart young people to found companies look as ideological and radical as the Reformation. Which it isn't, obviously.

I'm sure they could write a better critique of higher education if they weren't going for the Luther schtick, but unless you're looking at starting a company/project that Peter Thiel might want to fund I'm not sure they necessarily have the alternatives to hand.
its physical edge storage, wasn't the use case clear? you can have the cloud right next to you! an entire node of a content distribution network, by itself in your rugged remote environment, but with you!

you can cloud compute separated from the cloud, but together, with your snowcone!
Saw a sasquatch yet?
https://money.cnn.com/2016/02/24/news/economy/trash-workers-...
You're missing the point. The claim in the headline states that fighting against poverty helps with deforestation. My argument is that this is not absolute. It helps fight against deforestation in (some) poor countries, because poor people there cut down forests for wood and farmland. This doesn't happen anywhere near as much in first world countries. The question about those countries was there to ask about the magnitude. I was trying to underline the point that there are more variables at play than just poverty.
I deleted my linkedin a few years ago.

I only ever got cold-calls for shitty jobs that I obviously wouldn't be interested in. Every interesting cold call I've gotten has come from elsewhere (e.g. my blog).

Not having a linkedin has, I think, never impeded my ability to get an interview or a job offer.

If your resume is otherwise very weak it might be somewhat useful, but honestly if someone is relying heavily on linkedin in their resume, I'd view that as a pretty bad sign.
I'm in the process of starting an ISP right now, so I've just been getting prices for dedicated fibre lines. So let's do some quick math.

A 1Gbps dedicated (uncontended) fibre line in Europe seems to be in the region of $/€/£600 per month. How much data can one push on that per day (assuming 1Gbit/s = 100Mb/s real world)?

In one day: 100 * 60 * 60 * 24 = 8.64Tb

So call it one snowcone per day. So you could in theory send 30 snowcones a month, a total snowcone value of $60*30 = $1800.

However, at $60/snowcone, you would have to send 10 snowcones per month before your own dedicated line breaks even.

So yeah, if you're sending 10 or more per month, every month, consider getting a dedicated line. But that seems like an unusual use case to me.

There's also a bunch of organisational reasons to use something like snowcone, I'm sure.
> Not anymore, after Apple started applying non-integer scaling by default on Macbooks

That is the first thing I fix on an Apple laptop - change it to 4x HiDPI scaling!! I was very annoyed when they changed the default.
Cache invalidation is a sub-problem of cache coherency. But the cache coherency is not the consistency model.

"seeing things in order" is a problem that arises even for uncached accesses.
If multiprocessor systems have trouble seeing things in order, it's due of the memory interconnect.
Even with an effective cache invalidation you might see things out of order. (e.g. between two data on different cache lines or with uncached accesses)
A major pain (literally) point for me with laptop screens is posture. My neck aches after a day of looking mostly down. I suppose an external keyboard and mouse would help but I would have to get a stand and blah blah.

Also for my particular workload real estate is very handy. I totally agree with there being some virtue to constraints but several times a day I really need the space.
Late in life chess learner here.

I broke through a plateau by studying openings more than memorizing them. Slowly working through the early possibilities to separate what works from what doesn't helped to reinforce basic principles.

So like hammering away at 30+ identical problems in high school math class, with some tedium it really did help me internalize the principles. I did not continue to memorize openings and common lines to any great depth. I remain a meager, but much more contented, chess student.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)

"The Democrat Party" is a linguistically awkward phrase (it misuses a noun as an adjective) which is only in common use amongst right-wingers who use it as a signal.

If you don't believe come you can check "Webster dictionary" [sic] regarding parts of speech, or the above link about the intent of the phrase.
Every time I hear about abandoned "improved" tech like this, I always wonder why the idea was shelved. The link kinda handwaves it away. Any good resources on why the idea didn't take off?
I was referring to facial-recognition in general - I could train a recognizer on my phone's contacts photos. I didn't mean getting a GG app that used a database trained on public Facebook and LinkedIn photos.
That’s a disingenuous characterization. SF job market and the Bay Area Technology “Scene” is what attracts a lot of “normal” people. One doesn’t have to be a career minded over achiever to want access to this job market.
> I have been closer to drugs/dealers and crime since I was about 12 than a PhD to books.

Then in my opinion you have been surrounded (and your views significantly influenced) by a vicious cycle which is fueled by prohibition.

The entire situation is directly analogous to the US prohibition of alcohol in the early 20th century. It should be incredibly obvious in hindsight how that directly caused harm and failed to solve any problems.

> there like cities worth who are just wired for a different ‘normal’ (re crime)

... ok, and? That's what we have law enforcement for. How is that related to chemical substances and addiction? (I don't agree with you by the way but I also don't see how such a claim is relevant to the topic at hand.)

> thanks to people smoking oxy, the gentle cool kid from the nicer end of town was stealing cars and punching his mom in the face for cig money

I'm arguing that such situations aren't at all simple - there's a lot more going on than just "addiction to a chemical". Importantly, I'm arguing that there's no reason to expect decriminalizing various chemicals to result in more of that. (In fact I'm arguing the exact opposite - that decriminalizing various chemicals would result in much less of that the world over.)
I've tried to split the bill this way too when I lived in Canada and didn't find it quick and easy at all.

First everyone needs to log in to internet banking, then they need to find out the email address of whoever is picking up the tab, then they need to wait for that person to receive their email notifications, then that person needs to log into their online banking to accept each transaction one by one... With Alipay or WeChat it is much more seamless, and the whole process can be completed in literally a few seconds.

It might not seem like much of a difference (a few minutes vs a few seconds), but once people get used to that convenience, I can't see them wanting to go back.
I'm on MacOS. I basically never maximize anything. I just resize the floating windows and put them where they make sense at the time. The dream would be doing this with the keyboard using something like i3. I have been tinkering with that on weekends but M-F I focus on paying work.
Java obfuscators exist too. I don't know how they compare in terms of complexity to reverse though.
A warning from South Korea: the ‘fantasy’ of returning to normal life
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, it's a good joke - this is one of the two standards (along with "necessary and proper") that courts have used to justify ~every federal law as constitutional.

Fun fact: the federal law that bans firearms in schools is based on "interstate commerce".

> the firearm in question "has moved in or otherwise affects interstate commerce."[3] As nearly all firearms have moved in interstate commerce at some point in their existence, critics assert this was merely a legislative tactic to circumvent the Supreme Court's ruling.[2]
Ask HN: How do you learn from mistake after you note it down?
I have a diary. When I make a mistake in life or at work, I note down what happened and what I should have done. I have been doing this for years.

But I found 2 things:
1. I do not regularly re-visit these notes. Even I added some reminder to myself, when it pops, I just click it off. It seems, writing things down is more of taking care of my emotion.

2. I make same mistakes again and again. Exactly same? hardly; but I do not see much improvement.

Most of the areas are about communication and interaction with others.

Any tip?
To clarify: no one is compelled to use the South African Post Office. There are dozens of courier companies that offer much better service (legally). The SAPO operating model is the same as many/most other legacy postal services around the world, but more incompetently executed.
I used non-antialiased bitmap fonts on a low-resolution display for terminal windows for the past 3 months, and it was great. Now I've switched back to 5K and it's fine, but there really was nothing wrong with bitmap fonts.

I also tried a vintage "mechanical" switch keyboard and mouse, just for fun. I think modern macOS doesn't work quite as well with a mouse because of the weird, narrow, disappearing scrollbars (though a mouse scroll wheel or scroll ball can help with that.)
>Facebook actively campaigns against privacy

Source? I know FB is pretty bad with the privacy of users of it's own services, but I'd be curious to see how they've campaigned against privacy.
That's not that strange or extra-ordinary. Sometimes radiation is used to sterilize food to increase shelf life. It doesn't make the food radioactive though. The sources of such radiation are similar to those used for medical purposes.

If I remember correctly, this is especially useful for spices. But probably other stuff, also.
Attempting to remove a word or phrase is exactly the kind of impractical behavior I expect from a virtue signaler. And with the annoyingly pedantic reasoning about how it's not technically signaling they way economists use the term is just the cherry on top. Virtue signaling is real, so is the misuse of the term, like every other, but so what.
The Plan to Make Post-Pandemic Flying Miserable
David has written about what's new, if anyone's interested: https://davidflanagan.com/2020/05/03/changes-in-the-seventh-...

I also (briefly) interviewed him about it here: https://superhighway.dev/david-flanagan-interview
If we only had some kind of technology that could be used to increase the number of housing units on a given parcel of land, we could increase the supply of housing in a given area until it matched the number of people who wanted to live there.
It's Musk Syndrome -- be successful at something, to whatever degree, so think that a bit of Googling makes you an expert at everything, and that the world needs to hear your take.

It's absolutely exhausting, and is easily the weakest element of sites like Hacker News. There is a certain sort of hubris in this industry that just foments this exaggerated sense of relevance to every topic.
Except that increased female longevity is a trend that carries through many different mammal species. [0] Not all mammals menstruate in the same manner as humans. They all have a menstrual cycle, but many have a thin menstrual lining that's simple reabsorbed by the body rather than being shed in the form of menses.

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[0]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/females-live-longe....
Any research saying how much and often you would need to "remove" (donate) blood to see a difference?
Maybe I should get some pet leeches.

I don't know if Google's search results are accurate but I watched The African Queen recently and when Bogart gets leeches I googled if they are harmful and the first results said "No"
> So any post that has "... a liberal amount..." or "... take the conservative approach ..." or "... replaced the right wing nut..." would be filtered.

This is pretty much a solved problem, and it actually is pretty simple: http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
The irony is that few highly successful companies have been as closely linked with universities as Thiel's Paypal and its many senior recruits from his alma mater or his big investment in the Harvard Facebook. Outside that particular bubble, it wouldn't occur to anyone that investing in the person who doesn't have the Ivy League degree is Reformation-level radicalism. I looked at the bio of one of the GPs and chuckled as I spotted 'lectured at Stanford' and 'started Oxford PhD' alongside working with Thiel in the career highlights.
I'm sure they're doing good work, but the names of those companies look like randomly generated parodies.
That's my point. For all the demonization of rifles and assault rifles, handguns are the bulk of the problem.
The social media walled garden - quite a few people I know rarely use a browser or don't even know how to use it. They get their news mostly from their social media apps, and they have a hard time spotting fake news. It is much easier to censor content in a social network than the open internet. People live in their bubble and are not exposed to different opinions and ideas.
I just got used to looking at dot matrix fonts. So my fonts are completely crisp even at low resolutions. In the end it is just patterns of dots.

Currently doing 6x10 fonts on a 21 inch 1920x1080 monitor. A higher rez monitor would actually end up being a nuisance.
I think the consolidation of the internet has made it a lot less fun. I really miss personal websites being a popular thing.
The ATL DA just charged the shooter with 1st degree murder. ATL police are resigning or standing down in droves. Nearby police have refused ATL's mayor request to help police ATL unless the call is an officer down call.

I guess the DA filed the charges before the GBI completed its investigation.

Interesting times.

(At least this is what twitter says.)
We are down pretty deep into pedantry at this point, but... Current definition is that someone who has committed a crime and been convicted is a criminal. If that crime is a felony, they are also a felon. Depending on the state of residence, felons may have voting rights suspended, may be disqualified from jobs, loans, educational grants, etc.

You are right to point out that we usually use the noun "criminal" more to refer to someone that makes a habit of crime or makes their living from crime.

And I'll also add that the word "criminal" is often used to imply someone is subhuman. Possibly subconsciously, but it's common to see people outraged by police brutality only if they think an innocent person is the victim. Things like "no innocent person should be treated that way." I think this is the primary objective of the ever-present ad-hominem attacks such as "well he was no angel."
More info here: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philly-protests-arrests-fbi-lo...

Philly Inquirer article has more on other cases where "alleged arsonists" are being caught via social media posts.
Ask HN: How do you manage multiple project commitments?
What methods have you developed to manage your commitments when they span multiple projects over several years? For instance, do you have any tool that helps you to see upcoming milestones or releases across 6 different products/efforts? I need to better manage my commitment level and am looking for help. The best I have done so far is put together a very self-oriented Gantt chart and maintain it, but it is not very ergonomic. Thanks HN!
PG&E pleads guilty to manslaughter: “Our equipment started the fire.”
> Some of the report key passages are:

> The people who die from Corona are essentially those who would statistically die this year, because they have reached the end of their lives and their weakened bodies can no longer cope with any random everyday stress (including the approximately 150 viruses currently in circulation).

> The report focuses on the “manifold and heavy consequences of the Corona measures” and warns that these are “grave”.

Makes sense, but can you come up with a link to the actual report. The links in the article ask me to authenticate with a username and password ...
Certificate pinning spoils that, no spoofing of certs with pinning.

Cert (or hash of) delivered with app. If server cert doesn't match expected value coded into app, someone is messing with something, terminate connection.
The registers are made of small repeated blocks, one per bit, so they form a grid. The adder (and ALU) is also repeated for each bit, but each unit is much larger and more complex. It also helps that the block diagrams and patent diagrams roughly match the die layout.
The only problem there is cost, upfront and ongoing. JSW is super expensive. We were very lucky Hubble wasn't a complete write off and even then the fix was very expensive.

All that vs. laying down some concrete and a telescope in a remote location.
The Underground Trade of Pirated OnlyFans Porn
https://www.zdnet.com/article/south-african-bank-to-replace-...
From custom-built to ready-made photonics
Search because web spam.

I've been trying to get a blackhat webspam site down (it has child porn and piracy on it, besides spam links). But no luck so far, they effectively fool Googlebot and ruin search rankings.
Would they use Jitsi if it was fully managed for them and free?
Senator Is Seemingly Obsessed with Threatening the Internet Archive
The iOS and Android apps are using React Native - not the Windows Desktop Skype app.
I wish it spoke more about framerate. I find the refresh rate affects eyestrain for me a lot, so I got a higher framerate display.

The difference between 1440p and 4k is barely noticeable I find. I'd rather have 1440p and high refresh over 4k and 60hz.
Unfortunately they don't give any details on what constitutes more frequent and less frequent. For example once a month vs once a year or once very 2 weeks vs once every 2 years, etc.
True, a financial penalty isn't enforceable if the criminal never again has income. That seems like it would be a fairly narrow niche case, though. Perhaps some form of community service could be useful in that situation.
This is a really silly question, but if you don't memorize openings how do you make sure you're avoiding the standard ones? Not a chess player.
What is Russia's geopolitical angle here?

The gulf between peaceful nuclear program and weapons-grade nuclear program is vast and easily detectable.

>A Plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, June 15, 2020, voted the law approving the ratification of the agreement between Rwanda and Russia, on cooperation in the construction of the Centre of Nuclear Science and Technology on the territory of Rwanda.

>The agreement was signed in the Russian city Sochi, on October 24, 2019.

>The Centre will develop integrated nuclear energy solutions which the Ministry of Infrastructure expects to be beneficial to the advancement of several sectors of the economy especially agriculture, healthy, education, sciences and industry.
LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks
i can imagine that in 15-25 years, consuming too much content esp. "AI" generated content will have guidelines around it. The possibilities with this stuff is just starting, it could 'overload' youtube and other hosting services once 'creators' begin to normalize its power (10 yrs from now thers an easy photoshp/adobe plugin to generate random video/image scenes with actors and generated voices/movement (animated rigs aka mixamo))
Big Tech Won’t Be the Same If Everyone Works from Home
Here is the symbol used in the US for food that has been irradiated the process called radurization. I'm not sure how common it is and I've never looked for the symbol. I do recall years ago how people were upset about "radioactive food" due to irradiation. It's done using gamma rays or x-rays not particles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radura
I just like 200+ PPI displays (24" 4K is the same pixel density as 27" 5K) because I have to spend a lot of time reading text and like not seeing pixels and/or anti-aliasing artifacts. Once you get used to it, going back is like going back from an iPhone 4 to some Windows Mobile 6.1 phone.

It should also be cheap enough now, and at some point fabbing a 200+ PPI display will cost the same as an older one, it won't make much sense to keep making the lower res displays anymore (like it doesn't make sense to fab 32MB DIMMs anymore).
“Living near a nuclear energy plant is like living near a nuclear bomb which can explode and cause more damages [said an MP]...”

This is typical of people who aren’t educated about nuclear power. To have a minimally functioning fission bomb you need enrichment north of 98% whereas nuclear power plants use fuel that is only enriched to 2%. It’s like comparing the hydrogen peroxide you but at the grocery store to the purified stuff that’s used in liquid rocket experiments. Yes, there is uranium in a nuclear power plant just as there is in a nuclear bomb but the type and enrichment is so different as to make them practically not the same thing.
Based on the metrics I have seen, police are not indiscriminately killing any particular race - deaths from police are not too far off of the crime rates by race. Police killings is a problem, but does not seem to be a problem targeted at any particular race.
In this study, 50% of a body's old plasma is replaced with saline & albumin.

In plasma donation – which can be done in return for cash compensation in the USA! – 20% of a body's plasma is replaced with saline solution (no albumin).

Plasma donation might plausibly approximate this study's effects, at a lesser level.

Generally plasma donation is allowed every 28 days, though in some cases 3 donations over 8 weeks (or about once every 12 days) is allowed.
How were you integrating them on your personal OSX system?
For a sense of the world, I went to Manila in 2018 to find out why there are several distributor can only sent their data weekly.

One of the distributor show me a 64 MB usb flashdisk that’s travelled every week with the delivery truck to get 4 MB of data from their branches (8 hours truck driving from the capital)

Went to Myanmar in 2017. The nation is just upgrading to 4G in 2016. But not every places have 4G coverage

2019 in eastern Indonesia (Seram island) you’re lucky if you can get a reliable 5 KB/s internet. It’s a remote area, but we still have a branch there :(