skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh absolutely. I'd also add in that if I type "jor" then your autocomplete shouldn't say "nobody by that name, there's a jörgen but they clearly can't be talking about them so I won't return that at all".
Sounds like a good moderation. Why would you want to shut down unpopular opinion.
fortunately producing the original cotton plants those tshirts are made from captures hundreds of times more CO2 from the air. you know, because they're plants.
First thing that jumped my mind was moneytron, they were predicting the market, turned out to be a fraud.
Too much corona quarantine and self intoxination?
By mass, 8 million tons of plastic garbage is estimated to be entering the oceans every year. The oceans, with their hundreds of thousands of miles of shoreline and reef breaks, are the world's broadest, most powerful erosive force. The oceans grind up our plastic garbage into micro and nanoplastics and clearly that is now being swept up into the hydro cycle and rained back on Earth. This is not that hard to grasp.

Yes, artificial fibers are bad. They cause lots of microplastic problems in local water sources. I agree we should stop wearing them. But this problem is huge and global.

The risk to human health from microplastics seems lower than some other types of pollution. But microplastics are persistent pollutants that don't go away after a year or two or five; they might survive centuries. They sicken and kill aquatic life, over and over. They are poison pills that never stop being poisonous.

It's truly bad shit. We need to think about whether we want to address this problem at a global scale or not. If not, then we are accepting a big loss of biological life due to our utter carelessness.
The Wisdom of Rationals
For many if not most turn-based (board) games (like Ludo, which I'm actually currently implementing for myself/my friends, or Reversi) the set of legal plays is small enough that the server can simply send them to the player along with the information about the last turn taken. Even chess can be implemented in such a way if you get a little creative with the move data format. I prefer to build board games this way because (ironically enough) it really decouples the client/rendering and the server/game logic, greatly simplifying building additional or even alternative clients.
Buying fewer of them will result in fewer being made, which should result in fewer being landfilled, surely?

I don't know what the state of plastic recycling is these days, but it used to be terrible but with promising prospects.
FWIW, the network uses the hyperprior probability estimation network (citation [6] in the paper), which already adapts the rate depending on the image region.
Really, someone just did that for them, for the bargain price of $1.4M. I'm guessing they saved at least that much by outsourcing their entire IT department a few years ago.
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A man who can't see numbers between 2 and 9
I find this fascinating. Without a degree in neurology, I like to imagine what is roughly happening in a coder fashion.

1. RFS (the person with the condition) perceives a digit, 8 for instance. Touching or seeing doesn't matter (article says nothing about hearing). Perception works fine, meaning that the input feed is still working.
2. Something in RFS brain inserts the perceived shape information into some sort of hash function, where the result is then used as key for an index map. The resulting value is the position of the neurons associated with the digit 8.
3. The neurons encoding 8 are still there, but their storage is corrupted (do we know how the brain / neurons store information?). Dutifully, those neurons forward the corrupted data to the mental processing unit.
4. The mental processing unit receives the corrupted data, runs an interpreter, tries to integrate the data with its conscious reality construct and comes to the following conclusion: This is some form of spaghetti. The spaghetti is never the same, as it's always influenced by the conscious reality construct.

If those neurons would have been destroyed, RFS might have relearned those digits. But as the neurons remain, their data stays and can't be updated. Although I still wonder, why exactly they can't be updated and how updating normally works. Maybe the data corruption makes the normal update process physically impossible. Or RFS brain doesn't register the corrupted data as faulty.

Anyway, does anyone know more about this case or the neurology behind it?
Certain types of mechanical shutters exhibit the same phenomenon at high speeds.

See: Jacques Henri Lartigue’s picture of the Grand Prix of the Automobile Club of France, taken in 1912. You may have seen the photo before. Notice how the car leans forward and the spectators lean backwards.

https://www.holdenluntz.com/artists/jacques-henri-lartigue/
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This, or maybe add an option for an encryption key. Secret gists are not private, just hidden.
There are stories of MSPs who got their offline backup from the same provider who they bought their cloud based RMM tool.

One day an account get's exploited and suddenly the backups are deleted and the systems are all encrypted remotely.

Cloud backups are not offline backups, if you want security use tapes or remote systems which turn on manually.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I found it interesting.

It's a shame, because realistically the last 20 years should have been a golden age for small music production. You can now produce professional quality music with nothing more than a PC. I remember going with my dad's band to a recording studio and them recording onto an 8 track tape.

You can take your recordings and publish them on the same platforms that the professionals do, all from the comfort of your own bedroom.

Funny enough, I remember by dad's friend produced an album and, in the early days of CD recordings, convinced the manager of HMV to let him sell it directly from the counter in the store. My dad burned every one of them on our 2x CD burner. Man that cut into my flightsim time.

If I wanted to listen to some of the music you where involved in what would I search for?
Interesting, I did not notice this before. This is likely due to the original having some color profile attached. Not sure why this only renders differently in Firefox.
If anyone looking for a particular brand - I swear by Icebreaker - mostly for underwear, base layers, hoodies and sweatpants, but others like tshirts. Allbirds is another one but they are unreliable and too warm for summer.
> Besides, in most countries just incorporating/registering our startup as a company would prevent anyone else from using the same name for their company.

So, the question is. Is it good/bad to incorporate using your product/service name as a corp. name? What are the pros and cons?

(Because even if you do, your product will probably end up being called something else in the end)
This _looks_ really nice. I'm a fan of smaller phones, I currently own a Pixel 2, and if it was a tiny bit smaller, I think it'd be perfect.

However, saying that I think the challenge with this phone might be the battery life. It comes with a free phone case with a battery pack(making the size waaay chunkier than without the case), and the specifications don't mention mAh, just 'battery life' (which from my experience is rarely accurate).

According to https://www.gsmarena.com/palm_palm-pictures-9290.php it's only 800mAh, and from the images it's clear that they're making the screen look much larger than it actually is. Hmm.

I really dig the concept though.
I've been a paying Dropbox customer for over a decade. But I'm also planning on moving away (likely to Tresorit).

One of the things that really piss me off is that they still do not have a (good) way to avoid files from being synced by pattern. This was one of the top-requested feature requests in the good old Votebox that has been discontinued years ago. The community has been suggesting something like .gitignore but for Dropbox. Yet, they only now have added a half-baked solution for that: https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/ignore... The problem with it is that it relies on xattrs and that obviously does not work for temporary, auto-generated files/directories in the first place. So instead of listening to their community they mainly add features that I cannot remember having seen in the Votebox at all. And they even manage to increase their prices.

PS: Tresorit has that feature and it works very well.
Moon landers.
Can you build modern Nethack releases on that?
so is TV, and radio, and foreign governments, and ... see where I'm going with this?
These guys also do popups - eg they come to your office once a month and set up in the canteen. The feedback I’ve heard is really good.

A similar business locally working with ex-offenders is redemption roasters (coffee).

Another really good example of how this can be successful helping people is Timpson’s.
People tend to downvote posts with opinions they don't like. So eventually there'll be only one opinion in a given community. I saw it happening more than once.
From OSX IDK, but from Next to GNUStep it may be straightforward with little change.
Then don't read this guy's post
I assure you that you can create an account without giving them any of your so precious data
In some countries you can get huge fines and even jail for animal abuse.
whatsApp is end-to-end encrypted and has better encryption than most secure messaging (cough telegram). So stop spreading FUD.

It's also not related to the Facebook app so it makes no sense.
Welcome to London / Brixton https://t.me/MyGPLANET/1555 . See why?

If we are not careful we would end up like Europe.
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I was hoping this was made py Palm, Inc (sold to HP?); but It is a different company:
Certificate by Letsencrypt, and the TOS say somethong about "Palm Ventures Group".
Because no one uses email anymore? How old are you?
It is interesting though I am not sure if it makes sense at all. Is a restaurant sector a significant vector for covid 19? I have not heard about people getting infected from food deliveries.

Health agencies showing that food preparation ain't a vector:

- https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/news/coronavirus-no-evidence-f...

- https://www.fda.gov/food/food-safety-during-emergencies/food... (section A worker in my food processing facility/farm has tested positive for COVID-19.)
Very cool -- looks like the dev (@thesephist) is using Torus, a minimalist front-end framework they themselves are also developing:

https://github.com/thesephist/torus

Nice showcase of the tech! Now I want to tinker with the Torus framework as well.
> Wechat/Line/Kakaotalk

not really, nobody use these apps outside of their respective countries
I'd put it on par with extraterrestrial life.
Sadly, still on Android 8.1. If anyone is looking for small Android device with a bit more recent Android version, check out upcoming Unihertz Jelly 2 https://www.ogadget.com/x/jelly-2
Seemingly everyone is talking about artifacts and lack thereof.

Maybe we should be looking for something else. Some different kinds of signs.

If -we- wanted something to outlast us, what would we build?

What can preserve information across literally millions, even billions for years?

Life.

The genomes, the bird songs, the designs some fish draw in the sea floor [0], that gland in octopuses that basically cause them to self-destruct within a short lifespan, but removing which allows them to continue living just fine?

Maybe even the growth rings of trees.

Could there be any clues encoded in those patterns? Is there no hint of genetic modification (I hesitate to say "intelligent design" because of its loaded implications related to religion) similar to what we ourselves are doing now?*

* (and have been doing for thousands of years, via selective breeding etc.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpdlQae5wP8
I guess you need friends to understand this
The article gives the impression of UBI as some sort of targetted scheme with the money of putting money in the hands of people who need it. At least in India, it is touted as an alternative to government subsidies. Seen that way, it's a system overhaul rather than a way to help all people at an individual level. Government subsidies will always be inefficient, no matter how well-intentioned a particular set of people are. Instead, a simple UBI scheme will dramatically reduce administration costs and plug all leakages.
Plastic bottles float. They float far and wide. There are billions of them in the oceans, right now, as we speak. Now imagine a plastic water bottle versus this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m9EyXLDlu0

A 15 meter wave breaking in 1-2 meter deep water above an absolutely razor-sharp reef. A plastic water bottle--or really anything at all, will be absolutely obliterated by this. The oceans are full of a microplastic soup that is the ground-up dust from our massive garbage problem. That is now raining back on us. It's not hoodies, dude.

I'd like you to explain how these microplastics are being turned into "dirt". Do you have a specific chemical process in mind? Because I don't. Microplastic is alien to the biosphere. Nothing, short of some lab experiments, nothing processes microplastics. It just gets ground up smaller and smaller and bleached and flaked by UV. It will be around for centuries. It's not biologically inert, either. It's been show to be an endocrine disruptor and kill microorganisms. It hits the bottom of the foodchain. It attracts other pollutants and concentrates them, filling a role as a kind of carrier of poisons that absolutely do kill life of all kinds. It's bad shit.

You have a lot of anger in your comment. It's not neurotic to study carefully what our massive carelessness is doing to this planet. Rather, it is depressing to see how flippant and dismissive some people are because they are uncomfortable seeing the cost our economies are exacting on our home planet.
This is excellent!
Now, if only you added support for https://news.ycombinator.com/classic :)
Weight from a full Year? Absolutely. Volume - probably not.

It won't take up even close to as much space as the flour. That diesel exhaust also weighs much more than the hydro(1)carbon(12) chains flour is made from, simply because things like N(14)O(16) and metals in the particulate matter are much, much heavier.
That link has a couple of sentences about “maximum entropy models” and no references. From a quick search it seems that this is a terminology used in some areas thought. It’s not yet completely clear to me what does it mean. (Seems to be about the Ising model which is selected from a large set of ‘similar” Ising models; I would think of “Ising model” as the general thing.)

Statistical mechanical entropy is information entropy (and related to thermodynamical entropy). From the link: “The principle was first expounded by E. T. Jaynes in two papers in 1957[1][2] where he emphasized a natural correspondence between statistical mechanics and information theory. In particular, Jaynes offered a new and very general rationale why the Gibbsian method of statistical mechanics works. He argued that the entropy of statistical mechanics and the information entropy of information theory are basically the same thing. Consequently, statistical mechanics should be seen just as a particular application of a general tool of logical inference and information theory.”

Simplicity is a relative thing, I guess. Let’s say the interestingness/complexity ratio is high.
Right, but organisms are small, get eaten, rot etc. Civilizations change their environment, build cities, manufacture tools with stronger materials. Advanced civilizations even more so.
This is big mistake, because being able to reason about past facts and making assumptions about the feature is a skill that sets man apart from the rest of nature. If you fall into a purely reactive mode you won't likely create great things and stability, because firemen are always too busy.
Dude, what fools these mortals be!
I think this is actually a little unfair. The internet has actually done all the things we hoped it would do. It has just also done some other things that we didn't anticipate. I'm still hopeful that these are basically just growing pains of novel technology and media, and as our relationship to it matures, we'll develop better patterns around it.
It can be unacceptable sometimes and other times just wasteful to block a whole host OS thread just because a read or a write on one socket out of 1000s is not ready.

We solve this problem with APIs for asynchronous or nonblocking IO.

But such APIs must be cleverly designed if they are to permit you to propagate backpressure from the downstream end of your program's dataflow to the upstream end. And handle errors in a sane way, etc.
You're not likely to have much evidence to show of a civilization a billion years ago if all you have is excess carbon dioxide that might be due to any number of natural phenomena: forest fires due to overgrowth followed by drought, asteroid strikes thawing the tundra or whatever. Good luck claiming ancient civilizations if all you have is "a lot of organic material returned the CO2 to the atmosphere" but with no artifacts or anything else to show.

Now, I'm just using a billion years as a huge stretch to make it harder to find the artifacts I'm talking about. Anything within a 100M would be leaving fossils of all sorts of junk. A fossilized piece of an obviously artificial concrete building or bridge would be solid evidence and clearly Plan A compared to arguments about the cause of ancient CO2 fluctuations if you are purely interested in evidence of ancient civ.
Despite knowing about them for a year or so, you made me think, and I realise that their name is really quite clever: you’ve cracked it - they can fix it. But ‘cracked it’ also means they have also solved the problem!
Don't forget that the principles of the LGPL (originally the "library GPL") were/are pretty much tied to the technical concept of a shared library object that an end-user can change, etc; IANAL so I can't say anything about the legal soundness of this interpretation.

Moreover, in a recent discussion about this topic on HN, someone said the introduction of shared libs into the Linux user space was mainly in support of porting X Windows to Linux (supposedly because of binary video drivers or to accomodate MIT-licensed code?), but I haven't found any supporting reference for that.

glibc's maintainer Ulrich Drepper also has pretty strong opinions on static linking [1]; no matter what you think about this technically, or Ulrich personally, his paper "How to write shared libraries" [2] is considered reference material on the subject.

Personally, I think that the over-use of shared libs in the Linux userland clearly serves no purpose if users flock to entire new layers of abstractions (eg Docker-like containers) to isolate their app delivery from the IMHO overengineered mechanisms in ELF and ld.so with their multiple RUNPATHs, configs, loader scripts, and versioned glibc symbols (on top of build-time libtool/autootols) that still doesn't seem to get to the point. While the LSB effort for more uniform Linux distros isn't dead, it doesn't seem to be taken seriously. Idk, but maybe the GNU folks also see the lack of binary compat for Linux apps as a desideratum, to frustrate any and all attempts to ship binary apps?

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20100527213559/http://people.red...

[2]: https://akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
Street gangs are a problem in former Soviet states.

Here's some reading on them in Russia: https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/articles/svetlana-stephenso...
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That was pretty slick.

Although those robots sure do look expensive. For now. But once you build out the software, the replication costs are minimal. And the robotic machinery will eventually get cheaper, when mass produced.

This video was released just before the virus hit. So it’s perfect for our solitary and isolated post-pandemic world.
The officer had worked in Queensland, but I don’t know what branch or department. I hadn’t considered the various branches that they have. I also wouldn’t be considering his views (via me) as anything other than a possibly interesting anecdote.
I think the article can be summarized as "A gravitational wave detector has found an object of 2.6 solar masses. Astronomers don't know whether it's an exotic type of neutron star or a light black hole".

It doesn't seem especially surprising that objects of 2.6 solar masses could exist. It would be more surprising to me if they could not.
There must be some stuff, because NixOS exists. Whether it can work in a more standalone way I don't know.
>it’s systemic poverty for poor people. it has nothing to do with blacks.

This is a good point imo. Are they poor because they're black or because their family was poor before them?

I agree people put too much emphasis on more visible bias (ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation) and blame a lot of things which arguably may have originated from these bias, but are furthered by other factors (e.g. slow social mobility - all bias accounted for).
Ah, I see. I’ll check.
I imagine archeologists digging up some ancient texts, written in a very sophisticated language,which eventually get translated and it turns out to be :" 101 social media tricks you can use to boost your business".
That is a kind way of putting it. I would say Windows lacks modularity and is a messy monolith with a lot of spooky crosstalk.
This tool supports large files, works completely browser-side and doesn't require any uploads. Respects your privacy and shows fancy hex preview of the input.

I made this tool during weekend. "Base64" and all those base-* family encodings produce lots of questions and search requests in the web. On the other side, the encoding algorithm is very straightforward. Wondered if someone find useful my online base64 encode tool.
The Planets is a later piece (beginning of XX) and may be inspired by sheet music industry, which worked the same way and has same limitations - it was too expensive to manufacture and distribute "singles". I beleive the term "album" itself was inherited from there.
If they got to the Moon, surely they left some space junk?
The Palm name has been sold time and time again. The original company and even the WebOS company are definitely not involved in the latest Palm phone:

> Yep, this phone, which is called "Palm" and from the company "Palm" (so the Palm Palm?) is a newly formed zombie brand made from the ashes of the legendary Palm Inc, the very same company that created the Palm Pilot, the Palm Treo, and WebOS. After bombing out in the smartphone market circa 2010 and selling to HP, Chinese firm TCL bought the rights to Palm back in 2014 and announced plans to resurrect the company in 2015. The corpse of Palm remained still for several years, but the right combination of a full moon, or lightning strike, or something roused the company back to life just last month.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/palm-phone-review-fu...
This is true. It's also true that far more than 99% of bullets fired in wars don't hit people.
Physical Review D is not a light weight journal. You don't get published there unless you are being taken seriously in the scientific community.
For an artifact, how about a mountain that's over 50% iron? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitogorsk
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Exactly same experience here, for 2 of their age brackets. Not impressed, like a lot of these "crates".
It's possible to provide stronger guarantees than the spec requires.

It wouldn't surprise me if server focused ARM chips ended up providing x86 style ordering to ensure compatibility with ported software.
The problem with Discord is a lot of people can't figure out how to use it. It also requires sign up