skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my observation, 90% of the pro-climate change press releases are meaningless fluff. Just companies putting out the equivalent of "Giant Energy Company, Inc. approves of bake sales by six-year-olds to fight climate change, aren't we great? Buy our stock."

Newsrooms get a flood of worthless masturbatory press releases each day where companies position themselves as being in faithful allegiance with whatever is trending on Twitter that day. It's no surprise that 99% of them end up in the round file.
ML researcher here -- many people do this already:

https://github.com/carlini/adv-eval-paper

Personally I try to put as much on GitHub as possible.
Murders are rare and newsworthy, but while they get news coverage, it's rare for a killer to get favourable news coverage. It's not rare for liar-liar-pants-on-fire level of climate denialism to get favourable news coverage.
You can't downvote replies to your own comments, so it's other people reading the insults and (correctly) downvoting them.
I like that the stretch for NFC is supposed to be high enough that it's off limits, but the pledges are rapidly making it look possible.
> 7 months

I think 17 would be more reasonable estimate. Do you think that when a first dose of the vaccine is made the global pandemic will be over?
July 2020 Web Server Survey
There is limited scientific evidence about turmeric and alzheimers.

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/risk-factors-an...

Despite this, quite a few people claim that Okinawa, Japan provides more than enough anecdotal examples of the effectiveness of turmeric in longevity. Additionally, the life expectancy of Okinawans has decreased as their diet has become more Westernized and similar to mainland Japan. Okinawans traditionally eat a lot of sweet potatoes, seaweed, soy, lean pork, fish, and a lot of turmeric, ginger, and green tea. The caveat is that each ingredient in isolation usually fails to show a measurable benefit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_diet
> The books exist, they're just behind closed doors now.

Every library I’ve used in the states (from rural Georgia to Seattle metro) already has a digital lending system.
> hunting riffles, even if there are extremely common in most countries, specially in rural areas, are hardly in the same class of weapon as a bolt action

Hunting rifles are almost always bolt actions.
India indeed does fairly well, though I’d love to see incidence rate by age and also incidence rate rather than death rate: https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/alzheimer...
Wait till you hear the guy was technically correct, but Apple "chooses not to enforce" the rule.
Role of FinTech Industry in Covid-19 Pandemic
What you're missing is that libraries have always been a thorn in the side of big publishers, and capitalism in general. Long before IA, they pushed to strip the power that libraries have and kinds of things they can keep, lobbied to cut funding. This is why you can't just take a book out of any library, you need a library card you got in person, even for digital lending.

Publishers have been kinda OK with libraries because copies are physically separate and inconvenient, the copies get dirty, and it's a status symbol to own your own copy. If those restrictions went away (digital copies are convenient and fast, they never get dirty, and it's the exact same as ownership), they'd definitely lobby against it.
Yes indeed, I have both the original and vegetarian versions, they are outstanding. I would also recommend the "Flavor Matrix" which leans more towards theory and technique, rather than just being a reference;
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0544809963
Ya, stick to twitter and facebook!
Looks neat, but it took a lot of skipping around to figure out exactly what it does. Some short front-page blurb that says "Like a form wizard driven terraform" or similar would help.
In fact, i think that is the entire point. Our media is built on clicks and eyeballs. Promoting the idea of legitimate "debate" in the science helps drive more clicks and eyeballs. It's the same things media does with politics.
Maybe he's goading his haters into insisting it's safe to vote and hence return to normalcy.
Economics is a science. You get an idea what's 'pseudo' or not by working in or familiarizing yourself with the field. Say, The New neoclassical synthesis is very much as standard as it gets, whereas Marxist or Austrian economics exist on the fringes.

In general something is pseudo-scientific if it operates outside of the formalisms or tools of that particular discipline, especially if it pretends that it does not.
Thanks, yeah for sure no deadlines is a good thing. Maybe too much of a good thing.
Safari 12 (latest). I didn't see any errors in console
Clickbait generates clicks, study finds.
I dont think you can eliminate the artificial scarcity, but I do support returning to the Orginal Copyright terms of the US

14 Years to the content creator, and 1 extension that has to be applied for by the creator personally (not a business, not an estate)

For Corporations the copyright term is 14 years, for an individual creator it would be at most 28 years.

none of this 100 years+ copyright monopoly we see today under current law
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/tiktok-and-53-other-...

This article further shows the point I was trying to make: not saying tiktok is in the right here but the media focus on tiktok for the entire article and then tag on the full list of 32 apps towards the end of the article in bullet points.
Interestingly on ARM64 such mappings are prohibited, since this breaks PAN (the spec requires it: https://siguza.github.io/PAN/).
I never say this, but I'd genuinely love to hear the rationale for people downvoting a comment whose only apparent crime is saying "I downvote comments I disagree with". (I don't deny there may be another reason to downvote this comment aside from simply disagreeing with it, but I don't see anything that sticks out).
The simple fact is that Zoom's connectivity is vastly better on low-performing internet, which is critical for students.

Where Facetime and G Suite (Meet) simply freeze, drop connectivity for 30 seconds at a time, etc... Zoom just chugs along at an extremely low bitrate but where you can still make out the audio and speak and be heard.

Other solutions are awesome when you've got dedicated bandwidth in your office. Zoom is awesome when your local ISP sucks, or the rest of your family is busy using the internet too and there's nothing you can do about it.
Without some kind of business model, no writer would be insane enough to write or publish a book because their audience would just read it for free.
I’ve seen a electric DPD truck in my town in NL for a couple of years at the least.

It is pretty small and only used in the inner city for supplying shop it seems. I live 50m from the center and DPD always shows up with a normal van here
Um, so a trampoline is some kind of redirect?
I'm glad I got this response. This is precisely what the programming course I am working through. CS61A offered by Berkeley. It's in Python though.
news organizations often mislead readers by giving equal weight to two sides of an argument, even when one side isn’t as widely believed or lacks scientific evidence.

News organizations used to filter out the cranks. Some still do, but more have buckled to the pressure to shove out metric assloads of low-quality content in order to satiate people who only get their news by scrolling. (It's called "feeding the beast.")

And those that still do filter out the low-quality garbage are attacked on social media for being left-wing or right-wing, or whatever wing the social media megaphones decide is bad at that particular nanosecond.
Only if it is in the big repos.
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

[0] - http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm
Yes of course, but most of the time my ideas are somewhat "on the edge" so it's very difficult fro anybody to accept, so it's tough to convince.

Example 1 : run free software, it's better. Example 2 : what about sharing a car ? Example 3 : what about not buying useless gifts ?

I usually want to convince people not to do things instead of doing more or better. So the odds are against me :-)
People are asked to work longer because pension systems were set up when people used to die less than ten years after retirement and now a lot fewer young people have to pay for retirees living 15+ years. The only way to avoid this is to drastically reform pension systems.
You’re missing the third: weather. Particularly in the NFL, some teams have high difficulty coping with foreign weather. The Patriots infamously are unable to play in the heat of Miami. Green Bay is extremely cold which often limits offenses used to warm weather. Seattle is routinely rainy and makes things easier on their secondary.
> The publishers need to prove the Lending Library loaned more [copies] of each claimed work than what was locked away in physical libraries that were closed.

The Internet Archive suddenly gets the right to distribute books owned by a public library simply because the public library is closed? Who struck up that deal?

The publishers need only show that the Lending Library loaned more copies of each claimed work than what the Internet Archive owned and had the right to lend. That is sufficient to establish they engaged in uncontrolled digital lending, which is indistinguishable from piracy for all practical purposes.
> However, the same amount of goods and services will be produced in this economy

It has often been shown that giving money to the poor generates more trade and consumption. Poor people have a restrained budget, so they naturally reduce their spending. If you you give them money, it easily generates a lot of economic activity.

So I have trouble understanding your argument.
Any suggestions for ebike-friendly bike directions? Less need to route around hills and more accurate journey time estimates would be useful.
One deficiency of using the native scrollbars visually here is that the arrows at the end of the scroll bars on some platforms (e.g. Windows, most Linux) will scroll by a predetermined number of pixels, more or less, whereas in such an application you would probably prefer it to scroll one column horizontally or one row (though maybe more than one) vertically. Of course, placing your own scrollbar visuals is a hazard too, most significantly because it doesn’t look native and may offer different functionality from the normal scrollbar. You can’t win, the web doesn’t give you the tools you need to get the experience perfect.

But yeah, your example in DataGridXL is a good example of the right approach to take for this if you want scrolling to be done in steps as is conventional in spreadsheets.
> generally complaining about downvotes (no, I don't want to hear why you think your post is being downvoted, if you can't take downvotes as what it is -- voice of multitude of people that may be right or wrong, stop posting)

I sort of agree, but I also dislike comments being downvoted without any replies; it becomes a blind "people dislike and/or disagree with your comment, but good luck figuring out why".
The list is decent, but not exactly original.

For people w/ a physics background, I would still recommend https://www.inference.org.uk/itprnn/book.pdf. Some of it is a bit obsolete, but then DL made a lot of stuff around generalization/overfitting somehow obsolete. It makes a lot of connection between different kind of approaches in ML, information theory, (Bayesian) statistics, and physics.

It is not a very good book if you only care about applications (in which case the Keras book, for beginner, or fastai/etc. are much more appropriate).
Exactly. I support what the IA does with web sites because they don't do it in a way that hurts the web sites. But this is a direct decision to turn into something that's indistinguishable from Pirate Bay. It's almost mocking to call this "controlled digital lending" because it's uncontrolled. There's no limit to the number of books being circulated.

As an author, this will be yet another reason not to write books. The only people who will be able to afford to write will be the independently wealthy and the hobbyists.

It's sad to watch the IA descend into such anti-artist hatred. Copyright is like a union for writers. To see them become a copyright denialist is so sad.
Thank you for your advice. Indeed, I often find myself being impatient.
Life expectancy in India is about 10 years shorter than e.g. the US and other developed countries. As such you'd expect to see far less Alzheimers for the simple reason that most people get diagnosed at an advanced age.

That's before taking into account potential differences in whether or not people are diagnosed.

That said, turmeric (and especially curcumin) is a subject of study. But these studies also suggest it is unlikely simply eating turmeric helps, as it's not absorbed well by the body and the amounts needed would be exceptionally high.
Launch HN: BaseDash (YC S20) – Edit your database with the ease of a spreadsheet
Hey everyone! I'm Max from BaseDash (https://www.basedash.io). BaseDash is an internal tool that lets you edit your production database with the ease of a spreadsheet. It's like being able to use Airtable to manage your company's internal operations.

I was working on a side project a few years ago that required a lot of manual data management. I was using Django Admin which was fine, but wished I could just set up a two-way sync between my SQL database and Airtable (without any crazy Zapier workflows).

After building a quick prototype as an internal tool, I realized that there was a space missing for a product somewhere between an admin panel and a database client. Something with an amazing interface that's usable by both engineers and non-technical users who need to access data within their company (e.g. customer support, operations).

From there, I built BaseDash with a strong focus on expanding upon existing tools I love, with extra care and polish. The resulting product is a polished, opinionated internal tool, with all the functionality most companies need out-of-the-box.

Being a web app, there are some great features that BaseDash enables for cross-functional teams. BaseDash keeps a full edit history of all changes made, makes it super easy to share access to teammates, and enables Google Sheets-like real-time collaboration for editing data.

We currently support most SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQL Server, MariaDB), with support for MongoDB and Firestore on the roadmap. We offer a hosted version, or you can host it yourself on-prem.

We're still in early access but happy to invite the Hacker News community to try the product out. We're currently focused on small-to-medium sized software companies, with a combination of engineers and non-technical users. Try it here: https://www.basedash.io and let me know what you think!
Soon to be also-available is bicycling directions in Apple Maps: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/cycling-directions-apple-ma...

(But not everywhere yet. I'm in the midwest, and the beta just says cycling directions aren't available in my area.)
If you are interested in Van Goghs life and his death, I highly recommend watching "Loving Vincent".

It is an animated movie using mostly hand drawn oil paintings, very beautiful and _very_ unique.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3262342/
> in fact, even SpaceX itself made this mistake

That was part of my point. They could be (re)making the mistake of making a promise of timelines before they understand the real difficulty of what they are trying to accomplish.
I knew it, “apple silicon” branding allows them to de-normalize ARM at will.
90% of press releases were pro-climate action, only 10% were anti-climate action. That’s makes it less newsworthy if an org is pro climate action.

"When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog
NASA's new Mars rover launches from Florida to seek signs of past life
In principle? Not sure what that means, but the incentives of a negative income tax vs. a UBI are different and that's why a UBI is preferable.
While I agree with you, I can't help but reference Hitchen's Razer: "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
Hyperglycemia associated with impaired muscle signaling&adaptation to exercise
CSS Scroll Snapping may have a place for image gallery sorts of widgets, but for broader layout matters I strongly recommend against it: it can work tolerably on mobile (though it’s not without problems), but on desktop it seriously messes with scrolling so that on many devices it’s almost entirely problems.

(That’s what I said at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23915285 which was dealing with much the same area.)

Instead, you’ll want to implement such snapping with absolute snapping as seen with robbiejs’s example.
Exactly. It's almost insulting to everyone to call it "controlled". It's like _1984_'s newspeak.
Have they been sued over digital lending in general or because they lent out more digital copies then they owned physically?

Either way, I think that there is no legal "digital lending". What makes people buy things is that they can not get them for free easily. Copyright is there to benefit the author. It puts a certain burdon on the consumer: They have to buy a copy. Or - if they want to breach the law - they have to find someone who illegally makes a copy for them.

"Digital lending" would allow the 3rd party to legally make a copy to the consumer. Because bits are not lended. They are copied. That is not how copyright sets the balance between author and consumer.

I would be surprised if the IA wins this.
What % of overall wealth is that? AFAIK most Americans do not have a lot in their pension pot and many don't have anything at all.
Property taxes are calculated on the value of the land and the value of the structures. So current land value taxes would be about $2000. If a state were to pass a land value tax, it would calibrate it so that it offsets a reduction in the tax on structures. The granny would probably pay $5000 in land tax and $5000 in improvements tax. Only in an extreme case would she pay something very different, like maybe she lives right next door to a train station. In which case, she could probably sell her property for $10mm. I’m sure policies could be designed such that she would not be forced out until she died and then some of that $10mm gain would be collected in back taxes.
Flight Simulator hands-on: Microsoft looks different 20k feet in the air
Better compromise:

“This is exactly the sort of behavior that made me leave. Do not contact me again. If you need something from me, have Steve call me instead.”

Let the people who actually gave a shit about you be your point of contact, not baby Napoleon.
Casio's fx-7000G was the first graphing calculator. I had one and in the late 80s and then the much nicer looking fx-7700g in the early 90s. FX-7000G had 422 bytes of RAM (one BASIC token used a byte) and the 7700 had about ten times as much. I was able to program it to draw decent fractals; Mandelbrot set took about 1/2 an hour, Martin Fractal, Sierpinski Triangle, etc. Much more fun than GCSE and A-Level Maths.

I managed a few simple games but there was no way to read keyboard input without pausing execution so they had to be turn based. The best game was probably a simple reaction timer which waited a random time then told you to press AC, and when re-run let you know your approximate time for the last run.

I also used the memory for storing my timetable for the week and and notes for tests, but I was always too nervous to use the stored test data. Also the laborious effort of entering in text had embedded the small amount of text into my memory well.
>> Volta Zero was specifically designed to deliver parcels and freight in inner city locations

Really? Setting aside the switch to electric motors, the thing is huge. The cab looks like the first 1/4 of a bus and it is 10-feet wide. Good luck with that on in the back alleys of London. How exactly is this designed for urban "parcel" delivery? It looks like any other flatbed meant only for work only at loading docks.
I know, but I'll be starting from zero if I do move.
If you don't want to change the name / worried about that, you should talk to a lawyer.

Either way without a lawyer whatever you read on the internet won't necessarily be true if the trademark holder chooses to take action themselves. You can't count on the legal system to make the right choice outright as the the trademark holder may claim a great deal more than what we're thinking here. In short your situation may not be 1:1 with what you read, even if what you read was true.
> (can't get rid of defence, so this is a non-starter)

Why is eliminating all government services an acceptable hypothetical but not cutting any of the imperial occupation budget? I call it as such rather than the Orwellian “defense” because this is what that money is actually used for.
Without paying customers there is no job. UBI allows people to become those customers.
DPD have plenty of Nissan NV200 electric vans doing the rounds. They make a lot of sense and not a lot of noise. These are the right vehicles for dropping off Amazon orders and other online purchases, even in hilly areas.

London has a lot of businesses sending stuff out and getting stuff in. Some are close to the M25 where pallets are the order of the day. Normally this needs something bigger than a Nissan van - a big lorry. Seems that DPD have the right tool for the job. I don't blame them for grumbling, routes near to their depots on the M25 need vehicles where you can pick up several pallets of small parcels from many warehouses. This far they have not been able to do that the EV way.
There may not be a right to a business model, but by the same token no one has a right to someone else's work for free. I submit that copyright has served society quite well. The pandemic hasn't been that onerous. Amazon has been shipping books. Powell's has stayed open. No one was denied access to materials.
The Japanese fiscal hole was way, way too deep a long time before it got as bad as it is now.
"Alleged" as in "the article claims this, but I personally haven't double-checked it so don't want to make my post sound as I myself were sure this was the case". "Alleged" doesn't mean "unfounded".

I've written enough comments on HN to know that if I don't word it this way, someone will inevitably start arguing with me as if the assertion was mine.
The "What is happening?" and "How is it happening?" sections of the article spend 900 words differentiating legal financial services from cryptocurrency scams.
Ubuntu 20.04 gives me as much information as CentOS 8.

No, in fact Ubuntu 20.04 gives me more information, as it includes the date!
Guys, this is a distraction.

GDP numbers fell off a cliff this morning [0], about 30 min after that tweet. Donny knows that any chance he had at the election was tied to the economy, which due largely to covid19, is in shambles. His scare tactics of brown people rioting near white suburbs are not working. His poll numbers haven't really moved for two weeks of a small bit of Portland's PTAs being teargassed. He continues to refuse to do much else but buck-passing and chloroquine for the pandemic. Joe hasn't ramped up campaigning yet. Donny is still ~8% down nationally and ~6% down in Florida [1]. He has troubles with ramps now.

Expect more of these kinds of things to occur as the days tick down to the election.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-30/u-s-econo...

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general...