skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We cannot fix everything everywhere, but we can move the needle. Maybe a youth living near one of those 10 rivers, reading about Canada doing it, will become a member of parliament or a minister and will do something about it.

This kind of attitude only makes sense if it doesn't cost anything. Doubling our CO2 usage (assuming we switched to paper bags)[1], just so we can virtue signal to kids in third world countries is asinine.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I doubt this exists for insurance reasons.

(Also gets us almost 360 degrees back to the way the Taxi industry functions).
The media and even the scientists started it.

We knew everything in January, but both the media and scientific community ignored every issue as it came up.

Back then it wasn't even on Congress's radar.

This isn't the politicians. Fix the Fourth Estate. Fix the University's. Fixing the politicians is a dead end.
I've always wondered how independent µarchs are from ISAs. I mean people do say that Ryzen shares a lot of elements from AMD's ARM K12 project.
Ceasing Development on MicroG
Dismissing everything as fearmongering is a coping mechanism, in this case I would call it denial.

I think a highly iterative process of understanding the effects of COVID are an interesting thing to learn and it might also help people and lead to a breakthrough if others are inspired to entertain the hypothesis.
The UK (obviously Scotland in particular) has many populated islands that are not far from one another but that nonetheless require a helicopter or boat trip to reach.

Drones could be extremely useful for urgent deliveries and I think there are several trials under way. I remember one to delivery medical supplies to the Isle of Wight (140k inhabitants only 1.2 miles from Great Britain) a few weeks ago. Could probably have a drone fly straight from Portsmouth in a matter of minutes in that case.
There's already an awk-to-C compiler [1], even if it seems to be unmaintained. Python has a couple of them, more or less constrained, including Nuitka [2].

[1] http://awka.sourceforge.net/index.html

[2] https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka
> "they have no function". They limit and control the amount of smoke.

I edited my comment so be more precise. They don't seem to have a function to reduce health risks.

> #5 Most cigarettes butts are not brown at least in my megacity. White is more popular.

Well, the color change is about the change in color when used (not the initial color).
Wow, he’s chairman of Virgin Galactic. Now that’s a short target.
> if you follow Charlie's reasoning, that simpler parts, can't lead to a highly advanced intelligence, you come to conclusion intelligence is derived from a divine soul.

Thats an absolutely ridiculous interpretation. Asserting that our current "simple parts" are still very far from AGI is nowhere even close to asserting that intelligence is immaterial.

Its very, very obvious that there are myriad possible leaps we might need to get closer to intelligence. You can't build an attention network from a perceptron. Its totally reasonable to say that we need a few more fundamental discoveries first. Obvious, even, given the insane amount of processing required to teach a network a language. Brains are clearly wired in a way that is simply more efficient than how we currently know how to build stuff.
Here in Iowa, the evening meal is almost universally called supper. The noon meal is called lunch. Dinner is mostly a less-used alternate for supper. I can't remember anyone ever calling lunch "dinner".
gcc can still be bootstraped from just an assembler and linker[1] with very few binaries you have to trust and it is possible on comoddity hardware. Bootstrapping Rust is so difficult that adding it to Linux would for all purposes eliminate this feature (being able to be built completely from source) from Linux, probably leading to a fork of Linux without Rust for those that care about it.

[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Reduced-Binary-Seed...
It will happen, just further down the line.

I watched the same thing happen to Japan way back.
I was surprised by this since it excludes billions of people, but then I saw it's explicitly an English-only forum
Usually the team does, HR reviews and makes corrections and then the recruiter gets it.

HR is where things can go very wrong.
Millions of iOS developers develop on x86 and deploy to ARM devices every day. The iOS simulator compiles apps to x86 and they run on top of an x86 version of the iOS frameworks.
California failed mass coronavirus testing
You should do the cost/benefit analysis of war over IP theft. I don't think a lot of people have because we're trending towards war.
Wonder how their supply chain worked for all that variety back then. Without reliable refrigeration I'm curious to see how food was preserved.
This could be the reason for me. I started washing my hands a lot In winter when the virus was spreading and my office hadn't allowed work from home.
They just aren't as good[0].

[0]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...
A call center is a much worse job.
Getting Artificial Neural Networks Closer to Animal Brains
Good question. But the issue of kicking the can about insolvency played a huge role in the Great Depression. At that time, and having had one major global conflict behind the largest sovereign states in the world, I have no clue why people in power continued placing the same bets with even higher amounts attached.

I do think the safety net of shared consequences has made it safer for them to get away with it. Companies will take huge risks because, while the equity holders stand to lose everything, so too do the workers. And they know the downward pressure on those workers forces them into choosing between their needs and their time. I mean, look at gaming companies like Bethesda and Rockstar Games. The downward pressure on having to deliver a billion-selling title because they deliberately limit staff and new IP opportunities, contract more and more labor. It's a framework of continuous stress and instability. Companies optimize for stress all the time. I've seen it firsthand across meetings with Inc. 5000 and Fortune 500 logos.
You answered your own question.

When the “business side” can claim a N% increase in conversion/daily usage/whatever having FB login, a developer will be tasked with implementing it uncritically, because if they speak up, they’ll be punished.

The “business side” doesn’t give a crap about privacy or performance or any of that stuff. They just see the numbers, especially their potential bonuses.

Late-stage capitalism, Baby.
It is precisely the opposite. The rejection of Western colonial ideas, like the Enlightenment and the Protestant work ethic led to the results you see today.

That is why China will still be behind the West. The culture does not have integrity. Without integrity, you can never have innovation. You just end up building a society of poor imitators. I see this any time I visit such places. Sadly the United States is becoming like this as well.
> I will say that Googlers have a far better understanding ...it's far less scary.

I've heard variations on this theme from a lot of Googlers, and it always seems like "just trust us!" but then they can't or won't publicly disclose any reasons why we should.

Do you remember this pledge? http://neveragain.tech/

> We refuse to build a database of people based on their Constitutionally-protected religious beliefs. We refuse to facilitate mass deportations of people the government believes to be undesirable.

A bunch of Googlers signed that, but I'd wager Google has _already_ built that database. Maybe not explicitly, but I bet Google has a decent estimate of their users' religious beliefs, race, immigration status, etc. Those are valuable categories for marketers to target!
> The math is not hard but is really important with these jobs.

Don't worry, the company offering the jobs has already done the math and is ensuring you're going to get screwed.
A huge portion of the "Herbert never explain/explores X" issues that the author of this post has are addressed in the subsequent books... It's like going "Well, we're only going to watch A New Hope for this review of Star Wars, and Lucas never explains who Darth Vader is!"
>More people want to work for Google than Google current needs to hire.

That's just a factually wrong statement. But it also don't apply here. Google restricts the number of people it hires, Uber/Target do not restrict the number of people that register to drive for them ... yet.

>The delivery costs are being artificially lowered by Target taking advantage of workers with low financial acumen.

Yes. I agree with that, but fixing this is harder than you think. Let's say Target (or Government) decides to raise the rates from, equivalent of $10/hr to $15/hr, to properly account for delivery costs (and let's assume this has no impact on demand, which it will to the detriment of the drivers). At that point, you're going to attract the delivery drivers who weren't willing to drive for $10/hr but are willing to drive for $11/hr or $12/hr or..etc. Meanwhile demand hasn't changed, which means there is less work for individual drivers, and their wages do not go up, or go up much less than you would expect.

The only way to mitigate this is for Uber/Target to become a gatekeeper, and control the supply of drivers. This means that this gig-economy business goes out the door. Not everybody would be able to just start driving for Uber.
Well, there's some variation in various approaches to routing, but routing like we do with IP wouldn't work with a key-based scheme, so you'd need some other mechanism for that.
Why shouldn't someone working full-time be able to have a family?
Unlike clothing, bags touch a lot more things, and being textile means that contaminants are easily absorbed and more difficult to remove. That's the argument I've heard, in any case.
10 years maximum.

https://uhs.berkeley.edu/tobaccofacts

Which is reasonanable.
Styrofoam cup's are not.

How quick do other things take to breakdown?

Vegetables

5 days –1 month

Paper

2–5 months

Cotton T-shirt

6 months

Orange peels

6 months

Tree leaves

1 year

Wool socks

1–5 years

Plastic-coated paper milk cartons

5 years

Leather shoes

25–40 years

Nylon fabric

30–40 years

Tin cans

50–100 years

Aluminium cans

80–100 years

Glass bottles

1 million years

Styrofoam cup

500 years to forever

Plastic bags

500 years to forever
I wish people would take the cases of people like Richard Rose seriously and as a warning sign for when you flaunt the virus. Because the coronavirus is not political and does not care about how you feel about masks; it'll try to kill you nonetheless.

Unfortunately people will likely just shrug and go 'never gonna happen to me' until it does.
Working for Uber rarely beats vehicle depreciation at ~$0.50 a mile.
Apple first shipped an ARM device in 1993, the Newton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton
And the best thing is Cyril Bonté’s configuration.txt to HTML converter: http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/
The story is very good and I would recommend everyone to read it because it is eye opening. However, I don't agree with the example given.

* Spoilers *

It is not defnitely the same to say "Kill 10 people so I can keep my earnings" than "I will kill 10 people so I can steal theirs". It is definitely not. I am not saying capitalism is fair, but in the first case I (or whoever is that person) earn their stuff working, while in the second case the outcome may be the same but the path isn't.
Perhaps we need to redo the physical world, as it seems to be promoting racism. /s
Because everything is a tradeoff, and often having a good conversion rate is higher on your priority list than a lot of other things...
Some pension funds are "angry" that they have to compete with banks that are creating money out of thin air.
Considering the SDK is setup to run, and crash, with just being linked in and not even a single call, FB should be responding.

Their app is clearly phoning home during the self-initialization. For a period of time it was breaking massively, then suddenly not. That means some orders from the home server were bad and causing the SDK to crash the app out. All during a secret self-initialization the developer can't temporarily take out.
It's disgusting that we've allowed violation of copyright to be a criminal offense. It should be a civil offense at most, with no possibility of jail time. No wasting money extraditing Kim Dotcom from NZ, no ruining kids' lives for downloading music from the internet.

I'm appalled at Disney, Comcast, and any other media giant that has successfully lobbied for the expansion of the monstrous copyright regime in the USA.

Did you know the FBI wastes time looking into this kind of stuff? Shameful.
A lot of people seem to equate people without great financial options with "stupid." I'm sure a lot of gig economy workers are pretty aware they're borrowing from their future selves or at least they're choosing just not to think about it.

I'm sure some don't understand the real costs. But most are doing what they think they need to do in the here and now and, to be honest, if people are really trying to minimize car costs, they're probably at least a bit less than IRS allowances.
> Why would any company include this SDK
> Is implementing a user authentication system really so complicated

"Login with Facebook" isn't popular because it saves developer time. It's popular because it massively reduces signup friction which results in higher conversion rates. These things are super important. We offer Google login with our only consumer facing app[1] and we see a solid 40% of accounts use that method vs. email. I would venture a guess that a sizable minority, bordering on majority, of those accounts would simply never sign up in the first place without some sort of SSO.

I agree with your sentiments and frustrations, but whenever something seems to be too ridiculous to be true (as this might seem to some devs) there's often something else at play.

[1] Squawk - Walkie Talkie for Teams https://www.squawk.to
I'm pretty sure it's not about it being hard to implement, but also about reducing friction to sign up/in.

I'd personally never use sign in with Facebook, but for nearly all dev related services I prefer sign in with GitHub over creating another account somewhere.

It also reduces the burden on security, you no longer have to think about where to store the usernames and passwords, how to hash them, how to compare the hashes to the plaintext password in constant time, how to prevent brute force attacks, how to prevent csrf and more. There is a reason that the sign in with X sign up flow is so popular!
I've been advocating online ~anonymity for many years, and exploring relevant methods. But I also can't ignore the downsides, particularly the role of authentication.

I'll have more to say here. But for now, I'll just invite any who are interested in further discussion to a Podaero group: https://podaero.com/dashboard with invite code "44e5576d".
I remember a time when people used to believe and be worried that the government was watching you through your TV or listening to you on your phone.

Today these things are apparently coveted features. Funny how some things and belief can change so quickly while others are immovable.
Gassée actually significantly understates the power consumption difference between the Intel chip in his MBP and an iPad Pro. MBP 13s sustain around 35 watts of power indefinitely. An 12X sustains only around 10 watts.
I think AS (Artificial Stupidity) will get us first.
Or the President of the United States, people who work on his campaign and high profile supporters.
But aren't they worse than reusable bags?
Creating randomness Without Math.random
I wrote a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008...

I wonder what happens to Google shorts if Google filed
bankruptcy at the whims of Larry/Sergey back in 2007-2008.
> So it's not "just benchmarks", people actually want to do stuff with it

IIRC when bulldozer was released and Intel's propaganda machine started spewing stories about how AMD core count was fake because two cores shared a FP unit, there was a flurry of scientific papers on the subject.

IIRC, it was determined that even the hot path of FP-intensive code only executed a single FP ops for each 7 non-FP operations. To put it differently, between each FP op all code has to execute ops to move data around.

Consequently, bulldozer's FP benchmarks scaled linearly wrt cores because even when multiple cores had to share a FP unit to run FP operations, they were so relatively scarce even in number-crunching applications that cores didn't blocked, thus overall performance was not affected.

That's the relevance of FP in real-world benchmarks.
A post on decentralized identity without talking about the Decentralized Identity Foundation (https://identity.foundation/), right there on the first page when you type "decentralized" and "identity" in Google?
There's even hermaphrodite/hermaphroditic connectors. And gender changers.
>simply in order to have a slightly easier login flow?

Apparently you also need it if you want correct attribution for facebook ads, so the marketing dept might want it as well.
Besides the various mentions of iOS being on ARM, it's also worth mentioning iOS is a fork of macOS (née Mac OS X), and was explicitly branded as the same OS when the iPhone launched. In other words, macOS has been capable of running on ARM—at least internally at Apple—for 13 years.

It's highly likely that Apple has maintained internal macOS ARM builds for every successive release since, if not since before the Intel transition. They had similarly maintained x86 builds of macOS from the time they began its development after the NeXT acquisition.
The buzzwordhood of "AI" has reached a new peaked. If any complex system can just be labelled as AI, then the term is essentially meaningless.
Knowing how Apple had OS X running on Intel for years before they announced the switch, it wouldn’t surprise me if macOS has been running on ARM since Apple started making 64-bit chips all the way back to the A8.
Never heard of AHDBSCAN, thank you for sharing!
Login with Apple is coming for them, don't worry. Only a matter of time before Apple makes that even stricter and more dominant. I doubt Facebook's argument to the antitrust board will be compelling as Apple masks login data for the app and data broker, while Facebook only wants to aggregate it.
> in Albania foreigners are treat as 'guests' of the house, and treated well. (even during protests). Sounds weird, but that's how it is. It is like the whole nation has the 'responsibility' that the foreign guests have a good time when they visit.

Unless they are serbs.
> There are 10 rivers that cause 90% of plastic pollution

Except, that's not true. The study you're referring to found that those 10 rivers account for 90% of plastic waste going into the ocean from rivers, not all sources[1]. Rivers contribute only 10% or so of the plastic found in the ocean. So not nothing, but far from 90% of all plastic pollution.

Also, probably worth pointing out that quite a bit of that plastic probably originated in the west and was shipped to developing nations to be processed cheaply[2]. Often that amounts to little more than having it burned or dumped into those rivers mentioned.

I personally agree that plastic, when properly stored in a well managed landfill is harmless. But the fact is, that's not happening for far too much waste. Even waste that's used and properly disposed of in developed countries.

[1] https://factcheck.afp.com/widely-cited-study-did-not-show-95...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/uk-plastic-polluti...
The GC/MC trace is an immutable record of the exact molecular composition (up to the capabilities of the GC/MS, some compounds may fall outside of its analysis range, but the Agilent 5975C shown in the images paired with the matching 7980A can measure pretty much anything you can smell), the trouble that these perfumers have is that you can no longer easily source the chemical compounds.

Furthermore, from what I understand, only a few microliters were removed from the bottle and it was resealed, so it is not like the sample is lost to time, and it is probably better preserved now that it is being stored in a museum than sitting on the seafloor.

I will be honest I am not thrilled that the contents are being kept a secret and used to sell overpriced perfume, but in general I am all for people reproducing relics if it means more people can be experience them!
As I've said a thousand times: the sorts of MBA types you are describing here are the US equivalent to Soviet "apparatchiks."
Also: setbacks. I think it’s essential for young players who still have to learn what a game is that they have zero influence on drawing cards that move them backwards, as the disappointments will, over time, be equally shared between all players.
Identitfier systems will always be distributed in that even in a world where it is entirely centralized, someone can create another one. Now it's distributed. The power is in your hands.
Such numbers, absent context, are meaningless. To say I have a 1:1,000,000,000 chance of being eaten by a shark is ridiculous if I never go near an ocean. And that number conversely means nothing to someone floating in the water looking at a shark. Go for an ocean swim every morning? Your shark-attack risk is several orders of magnitude greater than average.

I think your chance of being killed by lightning while golfing in summer, in florida, with a pacemaker installed, using metal clubs, during a rainstorm ... then it gets a little more dangerous than weather-death statistics would suggest.
“ First, we need to enforce antitrust laws. Our meat supply chain is brittle because there are limited numbers of massive meatpacking plants“

It’s interesting when engineered skilled in one subject matter believe that expertise applies elsewhere.
I hardly ever use any OAuth logins. I use my GH login in a couple of places, but I usually create an email/site-specific ID. 1Password is a nice tool.

That said, the last couple of years, I have gone to great lengths to create a "digital personal brand," which is deliberately designed to help people find me, and tie all of my digital artifacts together.

I think that OAuth logins actually work against that. I want to leave "pointers" all over the place, that point to each other in a public manner. OAuth logins "bury" these pointers, so only "gatekeepers" can see the information.

It definitely means that I have to be a lot more careful, these days, than I used to be, in choosing what I write or expose online, but I don't feel it's too difficult. I like to think that I live a lifestyle that has very little to hide.

I was reading about that Fox writer that just committed career seppuku. I think that is a visceral example, showing that we can't trust the old cloak of anonymity to hide our trail, so it might not be a bad idea to, as Twain said, "live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry."

It's part of a strategy that seems to be working.

Works for me. YMMV
A few thoughts about Signal’s Secure Value Recovery
>No, you're not. Nobody is claiming that suicide was a reasonable response to the situation he was in;

They claimed suicide was a "reasonably foreseeable outcome". My point is that the decision was not reasonable and therefore the outcome isn't to be expected.

>People do "unreasonable" things all the time, and it is quite ordinary in many circumstances to expect other people to account for that possibility.

Ok, if we are going to hold people legally liable for the most extreme response to their actions, let's build a similar hypothetical. Imagine a similar situation in which a prosecutor is unjustly but legally railroading a person (reminder Aaron was guilty of a crime and no one argues against that, we just argue that the law he broke is unjust). If the person being prosecuted murders the person who pressed charges, does the prosecutor have culpability?