skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From misunderstanding exponential growth, which it will jump start. They think people will continue to live as they do now, just with lower electric bills.

Norman Borlaug on receiving the Nobel Prize for the green revolution, said it well:

"The green revolution has won a temporary success in man's war against hunger and deprivation; it has given man a breathing space. If fully implemented, the revolution can provide sufficient food for sustenance during the next three decades. But the frightening power of human reproduction must also be curbed; otherwise the success of the green revolution will be ephemeral only.

Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the "Population Monster"...Since man is potentially a rational being, however, I am confident that within the next two decades he will recognize the self-destructive course he steers along the road of irresponsible population growth..."

We haven't steered away from that course. Fusion would accelerate us on it. If we have to come into balance at some point, why not now instead of when we exhaust fusion's potential? Why does this community think we can solve every technical problem from the moon to Mars to fusion, but we can't live in balance with nature?
>Additionally there is the very real risk that TikTok will be seen by governments as what it is: Chinese spyware. India has already banned it, I hope that the rest of the world follows suit.

Well that's why the investors are trying to take it over.

>Eternal September: what has happened to Instagram will also happen to TikTok.

Definitely agree this is always a concern, but the type of content that is rewarded on TikTok makes it less exploitable by people who build followings by posting low-effort content that looks good aesthetically.
His argument is basically "well, we still need some dark matter with MOND, just not as much". That seems like a weak argument.
RNC, Trump campaign told to stop using President Reagan to raise money
Apple pay/Google pay is too slow, requires internet and has too many gotchas. And the entire thing is controlled by Apple and Google there's no competition. It's basically back to same old Visa & MasterCard duopoly.
“RandomMacApp ƒ” stood for “RandomMacApp’s folder”.
Clj Exec
> You don't get to boss around anybody at any location.

Who's bossing around anyone? I responded to someone saying "you don't have to stay home" with "you should stay home". I'm just a random guy on the internet.

So, to clarify: will you please stay home?

> you are able to avoid the virus entirely by just taking your own advice.

I'm trying. But no, I can't avoid all interaction like this guy did. Some people can't avoid interaction at all (i.e. they have "essential" jobs they need to be at in person). All of us need to help.

Your attitude, frankly, is precisely why the US is, well, shitting the bed with this virus when almost literally everyone else in the developed world has it contained.
Well - glib repliers are still readers, so I can't complain :). I agree with what you say and sympathize with that struggle to maintain public spaces. I imagine COVID threatened the pubs' position as well.

The cultural/economic elite are, like you say, cushioned somewhat from this. For example, a membership to "The Wing" in NYC or other expensive social clubs provides that physical space based in a shared identity. In my town, an area that was once a thriving arts district with inexpensive warehouse spaces for galleries, co-ops, etc. has been replaced with numerous luxury hotels and housing/businesses that cater to well-off students.

I'm left wondering how we can create popular alternatives that provide the basis for social cohesion. Re: the mall, if people can't at least have a place to bump into each other in line or sit at the food court together, I worry we'll continue along a bad path. I work in parks and recreation so I gravitate to public parks as a solution. They're places where it's normal to strike up a conversation with a stranger, there's no pressure to spend money and so on. There's been a conflict here over a restaurant and apartment/business complex being built into our main downtown park, drawing criticism that the park is effectively being privatized.

Obviously I'm not a social scientist, these are things I'm exploring from my perspective while watching a city change over the years. But COVID especially has me thinking about how we will rebuild public life and avoid an existence where we are connected primarily by social media and understanding life through the superficial aesthetic/media categorizations it fosters.
They are: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/softbank-...

> As part of the sale process, SoftBank approached Apple to gauge its interest in acquiring Arm, according to people familiar with the matter. While the two firms had preliminary discussions, Apple isn’t planning to pursue a bid, the people said.
>> English is concise and prone to imagery, which means new concepts can often get accurate one-word descriptions which are more likely to stick than a three-word French equivalent.

English is English. Not everyobody is a native English speaker. For example, I'm a Greek speaker and very sorry that I've spoken mostly English in the last 15 years of my life while studying, living and working in the UK. I miss Greek. I like English, I speak it fluently (as I speak French fluently and Italian er, not fluently) but my language is Greek and there will never be a language that is mine, other than Greek.

So I want to speak about my work and about my studies and my interests in Greek to my Greek friends and my Greek family, when I go back home for the holidays etc. I hate it that everyone asks me what I do (I study for a PhD) and I have to struggle to translate the things I study from English to Greek, when there are no real Greek terms for what I'm trying to say and when all the translations feel wooden and artificial on my tongue.

While the list in the article is (mostly, apparently) a joke, while translating English terms of trade and science to other languages often yields ridiculous results, it is a slap in the face to be told that "English is a better language for this kind of thing than your languages". My language is mine, dammit. When I speak it, it sounds better than yours. But maybe English sounds better than Greek when you speak it? Well, I wouldn't take either observation as evidence that one language is better than the other- not for describing new concepts concisely, not for anything. That's just a misunderstanding of how human languages work.

And anyway, this bit: "English is concise and prone to imagery" is the hubris of someone who was never, as a child, subjected to the horror of reading Balzac. You want imagery? Try Le Rouge et Le Noir.

Or maybe don't try it. I'm not a fan. But don't say such extremely tone deaf things with such self-assurance, please.

Edit: Or do say them. I'm not trying to tell you what to say. I'm just protesting. Because this is the internets.
See also: https://thisissand.com/
It's no more insightful than using Markov Chains. Clever algorithms blend up pre-existing combinations of words and spits them out. Once in a while those words will make sense and might even apply to a useful idea previously unthought of. GPT-x increases the likelihood its output will at least make sense to a human reader.

It still requires a human to determine if its output is useful. The program itself has no practical way of determining if its output (an "idea") is meaningful or useful, let alone novel.
We say CIA as say-ee-ah, but we say FBI the American way as eff-bee-ay. I've also never heard anyone say peep-leen though.

Sent through my oui-fee.
Orbit is incredibly hard. It's only just possible. A few percent more gravity and we would be permanently earth-bound. Getting to orbit requires hundreds of thousands of components to function together perfectly. Failure requires one to go wrong.
You can bet there will be some company or government system still running COBOL.
Intellectual Curiosity
>The US legalized same sex marriage in 2003

This an extremely disengenous thing to say. As you well know, in most of the US, it was not possible for gay couples to get married in 2003. Nor, if they did, were their rights as married couples guaranteed or enforceable across the whole nation. You should also note that the UK introduced civil partnerships in 2004. So for most of the period from 2003-2015, a typical British gay couple had better legal protections available than their American counterparts. But all this is off topic, really.

>And of course, same sex-marriage is still against the adopted policy of the UK's official churches

It's also against the policy of many US churches, and they are similarly not required by law to perform same sex marriages.

Beyond that, you are reading much into my comment that clearly isn't there, and going off on a number of tangents. There's no "smugness", or suggestion that the UK is better than the US. I am merely talking about one specific feature of US society (extensive de facto racial segregation). Please take the time to actually read what I'm saying rather than responding to some imaginary caricature of a smug Brit.

In any case I'm at a loss to see what your overall point is. Suppose that the UK is worse than the US in every way. Does that somehow mean that segregation in the US is ok? Of course not.

>49 rainbow seats

Those are a memorial to the victims of the Pulse shooting. It's quite sick and weird to use that memorial as evidence of progress in LGBT rights.
Infrastructure as a Cervice.
We have very different experiences; I hear baladodiffusion (or balado) very often in Montreal.
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> What activity could possibly be less laggy on your phone?

Photos on my iPhone SE (2016) or 9.7" iPad Pro (2016) is significantly more performant than Photos on either of my MBPs (13" & 15", 2015).

Like massively so, to the point that I absolutely loathe having to use my Mac whenever I need to do anything with a photo or video.
> I understand many of the world's hard disks come from Thailand and Malaysia -- but from factories owned and run by Western Digital, Seagate, etc.

And the largest manufacturer of screens, ram, and SSDs is Samsung. When it comes to smartphones, again, Samsung is top, then Huawei, and Apple is third. Laptops? It's Lenovo, a Hong Kong company. HP is second. Game consoles? Sony and Nintendo are top there, MS is third.

(Edit: and CPUs, top is Arm, Japanese.)

Saying these companies don't impact the world market is just plain wrong.
> Ada, the fast type-safe compiled language (French)? Largely dead in the market.

Well, Ada was the language of choice of the US DoD from 1983 to about 1994. And it's only dead if you ignore the millions of code lines (old and new) produced in aerospace and defence.

> The Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon family, ... Largely dead.

Well, Pascal and it's decendants (Delphi, etc.) are still in wide use with good tool support; obviously not in the author's field of sight here either.

> Nokia's elegant, long-life, feature-rich devices ...

Sunk by an American u-boat in the prime of its life.

Asians or Europeans are also behind many so-called American inventions. Anyway, I don't understand what the author is trying to get at.
Duplicate of this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23898210
Your definition is a good one: the “voluntary exchange” in capitalism is narrow—it refers to exchange that is not “directly violently coerced.” Most people advocating capitalism would agree that this is what they mean by “voluntary exchange.” And you can make a perfectly good argument that this notion of what’s “voluntary” is inadequate.

But in mercantilism and slavery, transactions are “directly violently coerced.” So they’re not examples of capitalism even by your own definition of what constitutes “voluntary.

Put differently, when folks criticize capitalism for having an insufficient notion of “voluntary exchange” that only focuses on “violent coercion” (and there is a huge amount of literature on that) they’re acknowledging that capitalism excludes violent coercion. But then they turn around and apply the “capitalism” label to mercantilism and slavery, which are based on violent coercion!
Not to rain on the parade, but serious question: are bookmarks actually useful anymore?

It's funny, I'm trying to remember when I simply stopped using bookmarks. 5 years ago, maybe? 10? I'm not entirely sure. I used to have elaborate folder hierachies of bookmarks in my browser.

But at some point, I realized anytime I needed something, it was faster to just type a keyword or two in the address bar. Either it was there in my history, autosuggested, or my search engine would find it. So maybe it was when Chrome debuted the Omnibox?

I suppose it was around the same time I started primarily accessing files on my computer/drive with search (Drive, Spotlight) rather than navigating folders.

A few years later, I stopped organizing my 1000's of tracks into playlists by mood/theme, because now I can just think of a single track I'm in the mood for, and start a Spotify Radio based on that track.

In other words: I no longer extensively curate, because you just don't have to anymore, beyond a kind of bare minimum (a few project folders, a mega "favorite tracks" playlist).

So I guess I'm just curious: Delicious was wonderful when it existed. But even if it were brought back, is it a service people need anymore? Or have we moved on to a new paradigm?
You are correct, the enterprise Ampere A100 is on the TSMC 7nm process. I should have been clearer that I was referring to the consumer Ampere GeForce cards due later this year.

The 8nm rumors have been widely reported[1] but at this point are just that, rumours.

[1] https://www.tweaktown.com/news/73592/nvidias-ampere-geforce-...
Observed galaxy rotation curves (the speed of rotation of stars around the galaxy's center as a function of distance from the center) cannot be accounted for using GR and the observed distribution of visible matter in the galaxies. You need to postulate some extra matter that is not visible ("dark matter") to account for the observed rotation curves using GR. That is the discrepancy that originally prompted physicists to postulate dark matter. Since then the same postulate has also been used to improve the match between theory and observation in other areas, notably our model of how the early universe evolved.
About that “Google always builds everything from source every time” thing
In the context of this argument, does it matter? If you're doing the same tasks (ie. web browsing, as mentioned) and one is noticeably better or as good, the conclusion would be the ARM processor in the iPad Pro is at least as good as the processor in the 2017 Macbook at the task in question.
I think this depends on what your budget is and what tasks you want to use the laptop for.
really do you have any bleeding edge iOS installed. My iPhone hates me for wearing a mask
I love how they borrowed and repurposed that speech in Contact.
I've seen his explanation, but I don't follow the concept of data ownership being expressed. I can be in my friends' conversations, my company's management discussions, even the newspaper without consenting to it - why is Facebook different?
That's right: Europeans consider Dada "problematic" these days. It's too disrespectful.

I apologize.
There are no real barriers to blogging or using an RSS reader if you want to. (RSS feeds are less ubiquitous than they used to be but they're still common.) And, of course, for saving and sharing bookmarks, it's Pinboard that's buying del.icio.us.

I never really tried out Wave but Knol suffered from the problem you'd expect if everyone gets to write their own self-promotional competing article on a topic.
"generally speaking the idea is that more competition should address harms — and that increased regulation, in contrast, reduces competition"

I think this idea that regulation is the opposite of competition is not correct (or is too simplified to be meaningful).
It is obviously possible to enact regulation that would make competition less viable. It is also just as obvious that regulation which enables competition is possible.

For example, consider a regulation that standardizes a "social contacts list" and requires that ecosystems in which a use can maintain a list of contacts must be capable of import/export in this standard format.

Do you think this would help or hurt competition among social networks?
Would this be an overreach?
Is this an example of regulation performing "product design"?
:-D Alles klar!
This has been going to years. By chance I found an old link to it recently and was amazed it was still going. At least Bit Rot doesn't get everywhere (yet)
> fission rods will continue to produce heat & radiation in failure mode

Not all fission designs require solid fuel rods, e.g. LFTR, which coincidentally has a failure mode that is much safer than solid fuel fission reactors.
Same. But I figured it out in the second paragraph.
Trevor Noah Bags 6 Emmy Nominations, Celebrates on Social Media
> Listen. Try to ascertain what the person really wants. This requires listening at a whole new level. When they talk, notice what causes their eyes their eyes to light up.

This a hundred times. When you have pitched an idea long enough (30 times? depends on the idea evolving) the words just flow out of your mouth; and then you can start reading the eyebrows as the words then require no cognition.

Pitch a story with a digest/summary of your idea, and dive into specific content right there when the eyebrow is raised. The eyebrow will tell you what their value system is. The eyebrow will help you make an impact by letting them lead the conversation, and get follow up meetings.

This means structuring your pitch as a quick scan for them, with reaction-triggering items first. Looking up the background of the interlocutor will help with the order of items.

Also, don't try to say everything you wanted to say. Just let them integrate your item into the coherence of their mind, at their pace. At this point, listening to them is them hearing you.
In a lot of ways, this is the same principle of "ignorance is bliss".
> It's well understood that it refers to doxxing, intimidation, and attempts to injure the subject's livelihood by inducing their employer to terminate them without cause, none of which is legal.

All of them are legal, except some forms of “intimidation”. And, actually, it's “inducing their employer to terminate them with a cause ThrowawayR2 doesn't like” not “without cause”.
A Viral Epidemic Splintering into Deadly Pieces
No news is good news, unless you're talking about an RSS reader.
Interesting. I was literally clearing out my bookmark bar the other day and way at the end was a link to del.icio.us and it didn't work. Interesting to see it picked up again.
Siezed Replicas of Batmobile, Echo-1 and Time Travelling DeLorean Up for Auction
No, it means that anything within 1.0 won't change, but that 2.0.0 and above will include breaking changes from 1.0.0. That's the whole point. Semver versions don't imply general stability of the service, just stability of the interface within the major versions.

If you're depending on the software in your dependencies, you can mark >1.0.0,<2.0.0 and if people are correctly doing semver, your software won't break. When you need to move to another major version, you'll need to ensure your usage hasn't broken with the change.
I wholeheartedly agree. Even if it is not about "all this week's work has been finished", but "this week's work has taken a toll on me, thus I may not be productive until I get some rest".
How to Become Convincing

treat everyone like an idiot

disclaimer: only works on idiots

anti-disclaimer: that is 90% of the population, including "successful" people
I wish Scaleway hadn't discontinued ARM because I was thinking of migrating a project over to an ARM server just for fun but when I looked ARM was gone.
They do have a YouTube channel showing construction.
I use a bookmark service near daily. It's valuable when you have multiple machines and you prefer not to give Google all your bookmarks to sync through their servers.
Here's a statement from Jan 9th

https://web.archive.org/web/20200115194156/https://www.who.i...

"Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses with some causing less-severe disease, such as the common cold, and others more severe disease such as MERS and SARS. Some transmit easily from person to person, while others do not. According to Chinese authorities, the virus in question can cause severe illness in some patients and does not transmit readily between people"

That seems very responsible reporting given that only 10 days after being made aware of it, WHO wouldn't have been able to gather any independent evidence. They said it could transmit easily from person to person, but it might not.

Statement on Jan 13th

https://web.archive.org/web/20200115230651/https://www.who.i...

Certainly doesn't say anything along the lines of "there will be no human-human transmission", just calls (which were mostly unheeded in the west) for active monitoring and preparedness

Taiwan didn't get a first case until Jan 21st, which was someone who travelled from Wuhan. It wasn't until Jan 28th they had a domestic case which wasn't linked to Wuhan, so expecting the WHO to have independent evidence in mid January isn't realistic. They reported the evidence they had and pleaded with the world to take it seriously. Taiwan listened, Europe and America didn't.
The CPU implementation is done by Qualcomm, Apple, and the like. The CPU design is done by ARM, predominantly in the UK. The fact that Softbank (Japan) owns ARM has no bearing on where and who is doing the actual technical work.
Ask HN: How to get a SW engineering role during Covid-19
I'm a fairly decent engineer, and built two startups from the ground-up during my university days. I recently just graduated, and it's been so hard to find a job mostly because of the fact that all my positives are that I've built products for thousands of users, but I have terrible grades and a crappy GPA because of focusing on said startups during school.

How can I overcome this? Does anybody hire without looking at GPA?
Yeah, you definitely can.

1) Tesla driving fully autonomously from LA to NY by the end of 2017 [1][and many others]

2) Tesla producing 10,000 cars per week by the end of 2018 [2][3]

3) "Funding secured" [4]

4) All Teslas produced after Oct 2016 have all the hardware necessary for full self driving [5]. This was apparently before Tesla realized they needed/wanted to design a custom ASIC for full self driving.

Many more.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-two-years-car-20285...

[2] https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/tesla-ceo-musk-th...

[3] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1117526382563643392

[4] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776

[5] https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...
The Bullet Cluster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster) is a big reason why: it's a collision of two clusters of galaxies. We can see where the gas and stars are, but gravitational lensing indicates the bulk of the mass is elsewhere.
When people post GPT-3 written replies, I never consciously think that it's artificial, but I subconsciously decide it's not worth reading and I skip it. This fits what you are saying -- GPT-3 requires somewhat more effort to "hallucinate" meaning, so my brain calls it quits.
>The stable community is driven in part by their algorithms, which replace Instagram and Facebook's idea of a feed of those you follow. It gives more power to TikTok, in that you won't notice if some members of the community leave, and they can continue showing you content you'll enjoy from millions of other users.

The endurance of Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Twitter is the precisely because of the connect/subscribe/follow model.

Algorithmic content from random creators is not a model for creating an enduring user base. Users will eventually get desensitised to it and leave. There's a limit to how many memes you can consume.