skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The company declined to answer a series of written questions or to make a statement.

Clearly this is because they're being sued, and they want to minimize their losses. Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if we just said "that sucks" and required a full postmortem instead -- no legal liability, just a thorough public review that everyone could read and learn from. We see this in other fields, like aviation; the NTSB investigates and publishes their finding of facts. The field learns from the mistakes, and as a result it's incredibly safe. (Even if you account for random chance, like MH370 or the whole 787MAX debacle, we're still doing better than we were 10 years ago.)

Instead we just keep making the same mistakes again and again. Everyone pretty much expects to get on a plane and arrive at their destination alive. Everyone also expects their megaproject to be delayed and be finished over budget. When are we going to fix this?
> literally impossible

come on
We definitely would, but generally those who argue against a minimum wage also argue against that.

Friedman withstanding in the case of the negative income tax.
> But you can’t deny they made (and in many ways, still do) good UNIX machines.

If you mean the hardware, it's OK I guess. It still lacks basic computer features like PXE booting (unless you count the proprietary "netboot"). You can't really install much on it or use it for anything but MacOS, which really isn't that great, IMHO. For the same cost as a MacBook, I got a really nice PC laptop with double the specs that runs linux flawlessly. I can also update the CPU, GPU, and RAM, which I can't do with a macbook.
> The fitness functions that nature comes up with are pretty arbitrary, and don't necessarily align with cultural ideas about merit, fitness or attractiveness.

nature's fitness is not arbitrary. it's about survival. culturally accepted fitness is arbitrary or linked to a particular evolution era. nature is constantly evolving, so what's fit in this era is not fit in the next.

> the millions of children who don't pointlessly die of infant diarrhea each year would probably push back a bit

I didn't say I don't like medicine. I do and do visit doctors. My main point was about freedom restrictions and how people should have free will to decide.
If you have the ability to tell when you get somewhere in the region of 10-30% charge, you could always switch there and not deep discharge unless you really have to.
That must've been such an exciting moment to have someone say hello.

Chilling too.
Aerial Companion 1.0
You may be interested in Firefox Better Web, in which Firefox partnered with Scroll to support publishers

https://firstlook.firefox.com/betterweb/
Yes, I've found code signing on Window is a lot more hassle than on macos. You still need to pay for the certs as well. The only distinction is the scary warnings on Windows come slightly earlier.
It’s not like if you stop drinking or smoking you’ll magically become rich.

Except you kind of do though because "rich" is essentially shorthand for "being able to buy what you want". I know plenty of people who considered themselves poor (couldn't afford a car, vacations, etc), and as soon as they stopped smoking realised they actually could afford those things when they weren't setting about $10/day on fire.

Smoking is a choice that everyone is free to make, but let's not pretend it has no impact on your ability to buy other things. It definitely does.
But I bet they still have a reserve and a 3-way fuel knob ( closed, main, reserve ).
I wonder how much money this kind of outages can cost to all affected companies and institutions
I'm so used to Gmail/Gsuite working that i assumed the problem was with my internet and restarted the router a couple of times.
This article is about countries bordering on the Sahara using trees to help nurture back desert no good for growing anything back to healthy farm land. There's a notion there of too much sun light preventing growth because it dries out the land and kills off what remains of the soil turning all of it into desert unable to retain any water; UV radiation is not great for microbial life. Using trees to restore water balance and regulate temperatures, seems like it works.

We have similar processes going on in industrial farming in North America and Europe where we have been slowly depleting and giving up on what used to be healthy farm land. E.g. large parts of Spain are very arid but that wasn't always the case. Likewise parts of Italy and France are drying out because of intensive farming. It's less of an issue in more Northern parts of Europe but even there, decades of monoculture have created problems.

The message here is simple: it's a revertible process and it's a relatively quick process that doesn't necessarily involve much more than a bit of pruning, nurturing, and being mindful of the way nature works locally. It seems most of the complexity and cost is related to creating the right incentives, removing bureaucratic obstacles, and educating people a bit. Scaling this up seems like it's worthwhile. In most places where this could work, people have very little left to lose and a lot to gain.

If Africans in the middle of nowhere, far away from modern infrastructure can pull this off in some of the harshest environments in the world with little or no means, others can do that too. E.g. the Mid west and Texas come to mind in the US. Or the plains of Spain, which used to have forest and now looks more like the Sahara.
The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics (2017) [pdf]
So I should somehow believe that regular people, most of whom already have an excess of money after you deduct necessary survival expenses, will suddenly become artists and creators when given just a bit more money? This thread is laughable, and shows just how little semblance any opinions here have with reality
It definitely should work. What do you mean by "doesn't work"? Do you have more information about what happened?

I just tested and made a screen recording showing it definitely works here: https://github.com/dosyago/ProductMedia/blob/master/ISOlatio...
Well, other than precedent. We have never seen Intel suddenly surprise the market by using a different core type in a chip family's Xeon SKUs than was used in the mobile and desktop SKUs. And part of that (I conjecture, having been in the rodeo with them since 486 days) is that they like to use the consumer versions of the chips to suss out errata to be fixed before the Xeons are taped out and released. It is true that some features do differ, such as support for ECC RAM and perhaps activation of TSX or extra FMA unit, but these are really just variations on the same core family.
How Often to Blog and Post on Social Media Channels
Death rate is depended on level of D3 vitamin in blood. Wait for winter first.
They should start a Facebook group to protest...
Maven: Update Dependencies Automatically
Male CEOs with Daughters Treat Women Better
Gmail works but I can't send any emails - so frustrating.
Why do you assume it's me who doesn't understand. It's you who doesn't get it.

There is no difference between losing information during lossy compression and deleting information during lossy compression. Lossy compression means that data is literally lost aka deleted.

You can compress an entire memory into a single bit or into nothing. Lossy compression is a gradient where maximum space saving involves total deletion. Medium space spacing involves partial deletion and no space saving aka lossless compression involves no deletion.

Let me put it this way. A JPEG is lossy compression, there is literally deleted information when you compress a picture into a JPEG that cannot be retrieved. Do you understand this concept about the pictures you see on the internet? If you decrease the size when saving a jpeg in photoshop you actually lower the image quality to the point where you can lose a ton of information (aka deletion).

A png is an example of compression without loss. Same with zip, tar or rar file. The original file can completely be rebuilt from a a non lossy compressed file BUT NOT a JPG because a jpeg is a lossy compression. Get it?

Please thank me for teaching you. Or don't reply because you're too mad at being wrong and not appreciative of the fact that I didn't "give up" on a you.
The US had a concert with thousands of people just last week. I'm sure we can agree it shouldn't have, that it was a very dumb decision for Smash Mouth to do it - but I don't see much reason to believe that this Wuhan pool party was a smart decision.
Shodan meets tensorflow?
I paid $240 for a four year certificate in 2017. I think the maximum length is three years now though.

KSoftware has a really good reputation.

https://www.ksoftware.net/
What is the problem when you reward people for not contributing anything?
Yeah, that would be sad. Luckily, I'm not one of these people but at the same time, there's no denying that keyboard is the main modality most Emacs interactions are optimized for.

Your example of auto-completion is actually a good argument in favor of keyboard use since I cannot think of any other modality where a similar functionality could easily be implemented.

That said, I'm not arguing that keyboard-based interaction is per se superior to any other form of input. But to me, it's undeniable that Emacs is de facto a keyboard-centric editor. And let's not forget the history of the software: it was originally developed when terminal-based interaction was the norm, (wide-spread) use of mice came much later.
Someone immigrating to the US for a job paying $10 per hour cannot become a legal immigrant. The minimum wage creates an opportunity that only illegal immigrants can take advantage of.
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Isaac Chuang and Michael Nielsen. Prepare your linear algebra skills over complex numbers.
N95s are still quite difficult to find here in the US.

Yes. That's pathetic at this late date. Worse, many of the off-brand ones don't do much. Some tests found masks performing around the 20% level, instead of the 95% level. This problem should have been fixed months ago. Part of the problem is that manufacturers didn't want to invest in the equipment, because the epidemic was supposed to be over by now.

Good N95 masks use a clever technology.
The inner layer is a stretched film with holes. That layer can stop particles smaller than the holes - it's an electret, with a permanent static charge. Anything solid small enough to get through the holes gets pulled to the edge of a hole electrostatically and sticks. This has the interesting property that it works better on smaller particles; the static charge pulls them in more easily. So these can filter solids far below the hole size. Masks lacking that technology either don't work or obstruct breathing too much.

3M 8210 masks work that way. You can get them expensively on eBay, and cheaply if you're willing to wait 60 days for delivery. The "8210 Plus" model has a better elastic strap, which mostly matters for long-term use or storage. Aging of the elastic band is the weak point in the base 8210 model.

There's a vast supply of cheap "surgical" masks available. At least get a supply of those. Only ones with a bendable nose clip. Anything that leaks around the nose is worthless.

Machines for making N95 masks are available for sale, although some of them look like prototypes and are far too slow.
My browser (Safari, iOS 13.5.1) crashed when I clicked isolate.
I'm assuming some kind of workflow which uses email notifications, and only goes to the next step if the email notification succeeds..?
The experience of buying crypto on Coinbase (a review)
The customers of McDonalds are other poor people. The margins are already slim. If you raise prices to cover the minimum wage those poor customers won't eat at McDonalds.
Verizon Text “Message Info” & “View Details” Help
Any Verizon experts out there???

What do the acronyms in Verizon Text Message Info "View Details" for each text sent/delivered or not delivered stand for?

Some is self explanatory, the rest is not. I'm not a hacker nor an IT person.

Thanks!
No, they are not. Death rate is low everywhere in North hemisphere right now because of summer period. In winter, death rate will climb back to 4%, like in Brazil right now.
Like celery?
In Quantum computers, bits (called qubits) can be in a superposition, not just binary 0 or 1. IBM has a nice introduction: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/docs/iqx/guide/
The problem with finding jobs is that the work is far less translatable to other fields unless you take care to make things general which is not really encouraged in academia. As a Physics, Math, or computational PhD you can apply your skills to any domain with a few weeks of learning. You can't really apply PhD level mice work or yeast work to another domain that quickly.
I don't know anything about this, but that seems pedantic? Is a duoculture significantly better than a monoculture?
Sorry, but this sounds like unhealthy to me.
The day I need an external person to deal with the arguments in our relationship is the day I end that relationship.
There are many females on this planet. No need to bend over backwards to make one particular relationship work.
By modern you mean using "docker", have an "io domain", and use node-js/go/rust? That seems to be the pattern these days. Take existing items, rewrite/repackage and io-ify it, maybe make it a SAAS product while at it.
epigrammar works as sort of a nice play on words when you consider epigram. But epihub does not.

Teachify is much better. The only point against it is it isn't very euphonious but then neither is epihub.

Maybe edify, since it is already a word. But I think even so Teachify is better because everyone gets immediately sort of what your problem domain is.
We've been looking at doing managed because we use ES for some projects. But at they're always running on the same server as the application. And we have nobody with the knowledge or ambition to maintain it.

But reading these comments I get wary of doing it that way.
Youtube is also affected. You can upload files but they won't process.
"Manifestation" or "tangibility" are generally really big problems in terms of getting people to understand what they cannot immediately see, hear, touch, or smell. Or what their worldviews have not prepared rhem to see, or worse, trained them the specifically not see.

This turns up in many places in technology --- bugs, design flaws, architectural errors, implicit assumptions, security issues, unintended consequences, UI affordances, algorithmic biases, data corruption, ...

A typoogy of various forms of such cognitive biases would be interesting. Too small, far, distant in time, transparent, big, diffuse, etc., etc.

See also Robert K. Merton's Manifest and Latent Functions.
And... What do all the combination of numbers and letters stand for, in each line for each acronym?
Well, there is the problem that the reduction in farmland utilization is reliant upon cheap artificial fertilizer, which is currently produced using natural gas as an energy/chemical source, which causes pollution.
Sorry about that! Thanks for letting me know. I'll run some tests when I'm near a iOS. Do you have any more information?
Do you throw away 2% of the food you buy?
That's generally a good thing. If they don't know their way around the system then you probably don't want them installing software.
Unsure if it's just me not being able to find stuff on their website, but is there any mention of how accurate this is? The page isn't really making me confident that it is achieving all the things they say it does...
You'd need more than a regular 787, given that the circumference of the earth is 40.000 km so you'd have to fly roughly 1600 km/h or more than mach-1...
Then again, that is when flying at the equator. Taking off further north/south would reduce the speed required to stay in sync with the rising or setting sun...
How do you make people work under UBI system? I think most people underestimate how basic people needs are. Get me food, place to sleep and some videogames and I can live like that forever. I won't be seeking new ventures and constantly improving myself, and most people will do the same. Which might be ok in itself, but we don't have robots working for us so we can't switch to full UBI.
WSL, .Net Core?
Near monopoly power. We are talking about Macs still, right?

Oh I'm against this latest erosion of the ability to run whatever code you want on a Mac. This is one of the reasons I just got one of the new Intel iMacs, because I can see this coming on the ARM side. It's their product though, they legitimately get a monopoly on what features it has, and I don't have any right to tell them how to design it. That's histrionics.

There is a legitimate case to be made though as customers as to how we would like to see the product develop. I'm behind that effort 100%.
"Isn't this like saying that the invention of agriculture will mean society has to start feeding hunter gatherers for free?"

How did you make that connection? If you aren't hunting, you can do farm work. If you aren't doing that, you can produce tools. If you aren't doing that, you can go mine ores, make clothes, etc. Its not like agriculture was invented and suddenly anyone who wasnt farming was philosophizing, there is always something productive for you to do. Having a UBI without replacing the people who actually do the productive work is just rewarding those who don't work, you didn't suddenly remove the need for work, someone still has to do all that work that needs to get done, but now there is less incentive for them to do so when they can just kick back and worry about someone else doing it.

A UBI is a socialist fantasy that will only ever work if you have a slave force (read: AI) that does work for free.
I argue against minimum wages because people who like minimum wages don't like job guarantees. It's just hypocrisy.

Why does everyone talk about the stupid minimum wage? It's just a number invented by government. It does nothing.

A job guarantee works fine without minimum wages. Minimum wages don't work without a job guarantee so the minimum wage always loses.
You're just picking who to compare Sweden to. There's no reason why we should only compare it to neighboring countries.

Sweden had no lockdown and did about as bad as worst performers many of which had a heavy lockdown. This is absolutely a significant piece of information. If we had a no lockdown country getting the absolute worst result perhaps we could settle the debate. Would UK or some of the other bad performers be worse off without a lockdown? We don't know. There is no example to point to.

If UK could have had no lockdown and replicated Sweden's result then the lockdown was a huge waste.

I'm not saying that you cannot compare it to Norway, nor am I necessarily saying that Sweden couldn't get a better result with a lockdown. But even if that were to be true it doesn't mean Sweden isn't an interesting data point casting doubt on the effectiveness of lockdowns in some countries.
If only a country can have an economy, this would exclude global and local economies of the current system from the discussion of economic models. Check your assumptions. They are wrong.
> The California High-Speed Rail Authority has long wrestled with its dependence on consultants and outside experts, with a 2018 state audit faulting the agency for being overly reliant on these private interests.

So it's the same problem that plagues government and megacorp IT and construction worldwide: they depend on external entities for oversight, QA and controlling of the vendors instead of having the appropriate knowledge and staff in-house.

That's what happens when public sector employees get gutted to "save costs". The politicians who decided this decades ago are no longer there and cannot be held accountable for the consequences, and we are stuck with the fallout.
You are making way too many assumptions about me and life in general. It's ok for people to have different points of views.

About not being able to say if I'm better off having been born, I don't know/remember what it was like before being born or being dead, it might be amazing, I don't know, so I can't compare. Doesn't mean I want to be dead right now. I also never said there's no point in being alive.

Why does life need any "terminal values" at all to be meaningful? Do you think there needs to be an absolute truth to it? What if someone disagrees?
There's something called Servo, although from what I understand, it's not going to be presenting any mainstream competition to Chrome any time soon.

https://servo.org/
Google Services massive disruption and outage today
IIRC His LinkedIn is on public.
presumably this is why "make-up sex" is a thing - both parties know that if they argue and resolve the conflict they go to bed right after?
Incident says it's affecting anything that uses Cloud Storage, which I'm guessing is most things.

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20007

Edit: New incident number https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20008
Like all other legitimate software on MacOS; they get a developer account and distribute it via the app store.

For years, Windows got laughed at by EVERYONE because there was so much malware on it - in part because of its laissez-faire approach to letting the user install anything from anywhere.

Mac went for the closed garden approach and there's hardly any malware, adware, scareware or whatever -ware you can think of on the platform, which is one of the reasons why Mac is safer and considered to have a better user experience.

Curation is not a bad thing. And if an open source application wants to become popular for the masses - not the HN power user crowd, which represents only a small percentage of potential customers - they have to conform to its rules.

Likewise, they will want to be available through the Windows store as well.

Using the tools and platforms offered by the OS developers is the lowest friction option for installing software.

As for poorer people and countries, isn't this where the open source charities come in? Isn't this where the big FAANGs - including Apple - and the investors and everyone that earned billions off of software should come in? I mean come on, it's only $99.
I'd agree, but I'm not sure how much this is an inherent problem. To what degree does it just reduce to needing a good conceptual framework for a "makes no sense" category?
Probably wasn't meant to be a security boundary.
"application cannot be opened" is a false statement. It can be opened, and the user can open it, but they won't tell you how because they didn't get their bribe.
Thank you. Do these people not realize that centrist basically means stable and successful? Probably just sad sacks who want things to go sour.

And I want to be clear, in the U.S. Dems are a center-left party and GOP is a (increasingly) far-right party. You can see this objectively by the percent of the time each member flips. Approx. around 80% GOP never flips versus only 20% Dems.
Learning to read, write, basic arithmetics, communicate with others ... Glorified childcare?
Minimum wage doesn't guarantee you get any wage at all. It's a toothless tiger and can't fix poverty. Offer a job guarantee and then we'll talk.
Go was never thought of in that way. Search Google books for "Go chess artificial intelligence computer" and use the 20th century time filter.

It was only believed that Go was impervious to the brute-force search strategies employed by the most successful chess programs. The alternative was never "true understanding", but rather believed to be the application of knowledge engineering, expert systems, etc, none of which could be equivocated with "true understanding".

Regarding poetry, the counter argument is that a modern neural network can't generate poetry any more than a Xerox machine can generate poetry. IOW, it can only replicate styles, not invent new ones. Though, that's often good enough as far as the vast majority of readers are concerned.