skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your question is obviously irrelevant. Whether or not they have flagrantly abused the power is irrelevant.

What is relevant is whether or not they could, how easy it would be to do so, how damaging it could be, and what protections we would have once they have done so. This is the threat presented by internet monopolies and their fetish for violating our privacy.

Also consider that no company has managed to stay on top indefinitely. Once their growth slows, and they become desperate to appease shareholders, what won't they do to make that happen?

Long after fads have changed, supposed benevolent coding wunderkinds have moved on, the troves of data will still be there, ripe for the MBA's, the lawyers, the mitt romney's, god knows who, to leverage.

The argument "they've been nice about it so far, so why shouldn't we keep doing it?" is a fucking joke.
> How about showing me a sound final (100k yr) storage for nuclear waste, built and ready, before you operate any more nuclear reactors?

This isn't a complete solution, but reprocessing the nuclear fuel gives you a significantly smaller amount of waste to deal with and also removes some of the most problematic elements - meaning you don't have to worry about 100k years of protection.[0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
DeepSpeech and Vosk can accept audio files, although each wants them formatted in a slightly different mono WAV format.

See my other comment for a comparison of the two: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24248238
>complete lack of visual feedback you've actually launched FS... It's at least 30 seconds on a fast SSD

Eh, splash screen wouldn't hurt but I'm surprised that anybody is strongly bothered by that. Maybe even it is caused by some DRM-silliness.

>One major issue is that sitting in the menu seems to use 100% GPU.

Without vsync? I guess its shifts from being more GPU-bound to more CPU-bound when running simulation proper, thus changing load percentages.

>Turning on vsync tanks frame rate by about 6 or 7 fps for me. "Popping out" a navigation window and putting it onto my second screen also causes around a 4 to 6 FPS drop.

Vsync delays game loop to next screen refresh, so excluding these newfangled Freesync/Gsync monitors framerate reduction is expected. Also managing multiple windows/contexts from single applications is quite inconvinient, might clash with system compositor, etc, so I wouldn't hold that against them.

Note that I didn't actually play the game and cannot comment on game performance itself. Certainly omission of DX12/Vulkan rendering backend is rather disappointing.
The use of the unsafe keyword is how Rust's "absolutist" view is made practical... the obligation to write an extra seven to nine characters is pretty minimal compared to the burden of an actual proof. "Some automated build script probably don't respect that" isn't a great argument against that standard, I think, especially with the push to sandbox build scripts and procedural macros showing that people are still quite concerned about safety in those areas (I know you're referring to the code they generate and not the scripts themselves, but I see these as related issues of trust).
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Here’s an analogy I like to use for people who don’t care about privacy; Its similar to not caring about free speech just because you have nothing to say. It’s not just about you the regular joe who is of no particular interest to companies/governments but about those people who absolutely need it.

You not caring about what they do with your data is totally fine but in my opinion you should care that they (in this case Google) have not only yours but everyone’s data. It’s astonishing what you can do with just some metadata. You can influence groups of people like never before. Swing Elections & change governments. Influence public opinion about literally everything to no small degree.

You’re not just giving them your uninteresting data you’re also giving them an enormous amount of power.
Having lived in a couple of developing Asian countries, there’s a few obvious reasons that the services would be cheaper. For starters, everything about doing business is cheaper, especially salaries. Unreliable service is completely normal. There’s also additional income streams for service providers. Getting spam SMS tailored to your nearest cell tower (like special offers for nearby restaurants) is completely normal. HTTP content is much more common place, and it all has ISP injected advertisements. Service coverage is also much worse, tourist areas have the best coverage, followed by business districts.
We use armored cars and people licensed to carry firearms for the transport of "just about everything else"?

Also, most currency transfer being digital is a non-sequitor Businesses still need to move the money from their location to the bank regardless of the volume of transfers done digitally.
They're not right about the waste. High level radioactive waste will fit in a space about 7 meters high and the area of a football field. That's all nuclear waste since we started operating nuclear reactors... worldwide.
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I can't vouch for it personally, since I have no expertise there, but this Quora answer sounds credible: https://www.quora.com/How-did-they-minimize-the-radiation-of...

Basically lead instead of uranium tampers. Makes for more fusion, less fission.
I need what Walmart sells. I don't need anything Tesla sells.
The internet world has been overrun by marketing people. But know that all marketing is a subset of the work by Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, and creator of Propaganda/ Public Relations. I'm not a fan of it.

Personally, I feel there's a lot to dislike about in the modern world. The 'advances' in technology also come with an increased speed at which things are done. I presume many, if not most would use the word "efficiency" to describe it.

But in the days before wireless phones, you would arrange places and times, and it would or wouldn't happen to the schedule, and you had to accept it.

So, although you label the people looking elsewhere a snowflake (made me laugh btw), I find the opposite is actually happening. Because people aren't being forced to learn the lesson of acceptance and that things are out of their control, we've created a binary world figuratively and literally where woke arguments clash with others at the speed of light. Everyday I discover there another group of people hating another... And use tech to do it: publically.

So, instead I see this push to decouple from goog, as desire for more autonomy and control in one's life. Everything these days is right at our fingertips, and goog was the first to bring this to us. Ironically, I see the snowflakes as those in this hyper connected world, where outrage exists under every tech interaction, because they've never had to learn acceptance. I find myself aligning myself with farmers, because they have to deal with acceptance a lot: from fixing machines in the middle of a field to burying animals. Everything is hard for a farmer, and tech solutions ultimately break at an inconvenient time.

If it weren't for people depending on me to provide some modicum of alternate communication and interaction using tech, I'd have left all it long ago. (But I accept this)

My friends have heard me talking of the desire for two tin cans and a piece of string. I think it's the way to go.

So, the short answer for me is no vpn, no goog, no ddg, no fastmail is better. Self host, only. I don't care for twits or public selfies.
So this falls into the category of the solution of "X" is more "X".

I'm usually skeptical of arguments like these especially when "X" is complex, potentially harmful, or offered as a magic bullet.

In your case in order to validate claims, I have to be a nuclear scientist to understand the potential ramifications of your argument before I can fully understand the pros/cons.

If as an engineer, I cannot afford the time to do it, how our are politicians supposed to?
> It's a well known, documented fact that Apple hardware is hostile towards the environment.

Source? Apple is 100% green in some areas and they have good EPA ratings.

https://www.apple.com/environment/
My solution is to put my eggs in different baskets as much as possible. Using Chrome on iPhone, backups on Dropbox, etc. Although to be fair, not a lot of baskets has remained these days.
Cool. Racket's a great option, and it's really a multi-lingual environment. Technically not Scheme anymore, but compatible with it in most ways. So any learning material for Scheme will still apply, and you can select different Scheme versions within Racket if the Racket language itself is incompatible with whatever book or similar you're using.
> the next time you come back

This is imagining that space exploration is done by human-like entities that have discrete physical bodies and slow reproduction rates. They come to a place, check it out, and move on.

AI-driven Von Neumann probes would operate very differently. They arrive, and they settle and replicate. Eventually they send out new probes. But they don't leave once they have arrived. There's never any reason to leave.
Yogyakarta, Malang, and Bandung (all on Java).
A lot of it is that people pay $15 for the 1 GB in the US.

(and $80-100 for the big bucket)
Ah, this reminds me of Turbo Pascal days :)
I learned from this guide (well the PyQt4 version). It starts off small and works up to the kitchen sink if that's what you need:

http://zetcode.com/gui/pyqt5/

There are a few others here:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt/Tutorials

The 2020 one there may be what you're looking for, more than hello world but doesn't quite all the way get to the kitchen sink, just maybe the silverware drawer.
O2 in the UK offers 2GB for £12 a month as its lowest plan, but it's a really dumb plan to be on since you can get 100GB for only £20 a month.
I'm Swedish. Have family in Berlin, so I have some exposure to that reality too.

Trying to figure out how things got kinda right here and kinda wrong there. The 90s was a while ago. The way I heard and remember it: it started with someone really, really prescient in the Stockholm water/sewage department figuring out that it would be kinda smart to lay some dark fiber when they were digging up the streets for maintenance, anyway. This would probably be like 1994-1996 or so. Then this continues to happen in smaller cities, etc etc.

I'm probably missing some critical steps.

It was a weird bottom-up-thing happening. Would love to get a deeper understanding from someone who was there.
Purchasing power parity. Median incomes in the US are far more than 15x what they are in countries like India, Pakistan, or Indonesia.

Median income India - $2k

Median income USA - $60k
The Weimar Republic didn't experience deflation during that period.
Waste was never really a problem and has been definitively solved. You bury it in a deep unmarked hole. [1]

Go ahead and keep arguing about whether or not nuclear is a good idea. Earth doesn't care. The water will be lapping at your feet soon. How's that for externalizing a cost to future generations?

I am, and will continue to be blown away that the world found out how to make rocks so spicy they can power our civilizations for thousands of years with no carbon 50+ years ago....... and decided to keep burning dead dinosaurs. Fuck big oil, fuck greenpeace, and fuck anyone who is STILL anti-nuclear energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
This is a pretty open question. Who is learning and what do you want to program?

If your an adult starting out, I would go for popularity over easiest. Python or C, as you most likely have the ability to work through one of the many tutorials without needing immediate gratification.

If you are asking for a kid that is completely new to programming. I would suggest buying them a spirograph. When they get bored with that hit them with LOGO and follow that with scratch.

If your trying to learn how to run a 3d printer, laser cutter or CNC machine. It would be far better to jump into the Arduino C environment.

In the late 70s early 80s there was an awesome toy called Big Trak that got kids thinking with a programming mindset maybe there is a new modern version available these days.

If you want to kearn how to program in ML or AI, i would suggest learning graph theory....
You know, I just checked, and they seem to have been removed those references. But from what I recall the reference was explicitly IRC. I remember thinking, "Why IRC?"
First ever double hurricane could hit the Gulf of Mexico
Then there’s things like this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hondamobile/id1455573927

Which is an app specifically for Honda internal employees and it still passed review.
Exceptions are worse than go-to, they're a comes-from statement. At least with a go-to you know where you're going when you look at it -- with exceptions you could be coming from literally anywhere. All sorts of different control flows all filter into this one weird spot.

Exceptions are probably the worst thing in computer science.

This is a hill I'm happy to join AprilArcus on.
Can't speak for you, but I think a lot of that comes from experience, e.g. put out fires caused by whatever stupid reason, and eventually build up awareness of what could go wrong. Therefore, without reading too much into the code, simply being aware of their existence becomes largely helpful.
I totally support this strategy, as I think it's a great way to learn new things, but...I think that's not what most people would call lazy :)
There are a lot of reports of certificate issues (on Cloudflare) in Pakistan as well as Iran, with most of them likely because of censorship.

https://community.cloudflare.com/search?q=Pakistan

https://community.cloudflare.com/search?q=Iran
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In the US, there are different state, county, and local taxes depending on your location. There is no way to memorize a single number and have it be correct everywhere.
Well clean is relative. Hydrogen bombs still have a traditional fission stage and that is going to produce fallout. However the bomb was detonated several kilometers above ground which means that fallout would generally be dispersed widely downwind from the source of the explosion.

I'm not a 100% sure but it certainly might have been possible that the location wasn't very radioactive afterwards.
Im not really into congress defining how apps get reviewed. I’d rather see it just get broken up in some way. Either you can’t have a phone and an app store (like the studio/movie model) or they at least have to support other app stores.

Side note: my iPhone autocorrected app store to App Store, which I think is another example of overreach.
The PC is still a viable alternative for gaming that doesn't have such restrictions. I wouldn't mind if Google and Apple didn't have a virtual monopoly on mobile devices. Users don't really have another option
I've I've parsed this properly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon

A hydrogen bomb is triggered by a smaller plutonium/depleted uranium device. It's the moral equivalent of a detonator for C4, with a sprinkle of X-Rays and plasma on the side.

The punchline is about a third of the way down:

> The fission reactions though, especially the last fission reactions, release a tremendous amount of fission products and fallout. If the last fission stage is omitted, by replacing the uranium tamper with one made of lead, for example, the overall explosive force is reduced by approximately half but the amount of fallout is relatively low. The neutron bomb is a hydrogen bomb with an intentionally thin tamper, allowing most of the fast fusion neutrons as possible to escape.
> Asked if there is a clear leading candidate explanation for 'Oumuamua's acceleration, Loeb referred Live Science to a not-yet-released book he authored called "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth," due for publication in January.

Oh this is an article without substance just to promote a book?
This seems a bit arbitrary. All our fossil fuel use is effectively non-renewable; so we've effectively exceeded the sustainable capacity of the earth to support us some time on 1 January.

This 'biocapacity' that has been identified isn't going to be a limit as long as we have cheap energy. The earth can't provide anywhere close to the amount of food we use; we need artificial fertiliser and machines which is, practically, non-renewable after accounting for how we source energy for transport and powering farm equipment.

Synthetic fertiliser alone means I'm not sure I care about 'biocapacity'. See https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-with-and...
It's not necessarily the amount of waste that is the problem, it's the incredibly long duration of its radioactivity. At some point we will need super long term storage, and it's true that there is no viable solution out there yet. Even the most sophisticated facilities can not guarantee that no leakage will contaminate the surroundings at some point.
But as I said, I think finding a solution for this should not be our main priority.
Momentum: Open-source foolproof and good looking pomodoro timer
Students are only one group of people who use a campus...people are less concerned about kids doing dumb shit that hurts them, and more worried about kids doing dumb shit that jeopardizes the safety of faculty, administrators, facilities staff, poor students who get a decent meal when they’re on campus bc of financial aid...part of the entire problem here is the narrow perspective that ‘students’ are the only ones worth considering when making public health decisions around universities.
I don't think most Uber/Lyft drivers look at this as a career; at least, none of the ones I've met do. It's a way of making a few bucks without a lot of commitment while they prepare to do something else.

You want to help these people out? Get rid of most occupational licensing.
I agree 100%. I've been bearish on the price since $400, but I wouldn't touch a short with a ten foot pole even today.
Based on the testing I just did with Vosk, Mozilla DeepSpeech, Google Speech to Text and Microsoft Azure, I disagree with your arugment that SaaS has the best quality results.

Mozilla DeepSpeech was definitely trailing the bleeding edge, but Vosk using the vosk-model-en-us-daanzu-20200328 model produces very accurate results even on uncommon words, similar in performance to Google & Microsoft (which has generally better formatting than Google's STT)

Try it yourself:

Google: https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/ See "Put Speech-to-Text into action" header

Microsoft: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service... See "Upload File"

Vosk: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/

Had Mozilla provided 4x to 8x more GPU resources and more staff, then their STT would likely be competitive. Other small STT developers can iterate and test much faster due to having more hardware at their disposal.
I put the speed of sound purely as a comparison. The local speed of sound is irrelevant because the dust was moving with the medium and not relative to the medium.
Love Startpage, and get decent signals from them, but their ownership should be observed closely.
For me the hardest part of avoiding Google is AMP, especially on mobile, where apps like Twitter redirect all links to their AMP equivalent by default.

Does anyone know a good way to avoid AMP reliably on mobile? What I currently do is pretty convoluted (see below).

On my iPhone, I use a DNS-based ad-blocker[2] and I just associate amp.* to 0.0.0.0 so most amp pages will fail. When the page fails to load, in the address bar I edit the URL manually and remove the "amp" portion, and finally I'm redirected to my news article.

Needless to say, sometimes this gets annoying so when I'm in a hurry I might disable this DNS rule temporarily.

On desktop, on the other hand, it's much easier because I use an extension that blocks AMP automatically[1]

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/

[2] the app AdBlock for iPhone/iPad can import "PiHole compatible" lists (such as the ones at https://firebog.net/ ) and it does dns-level content blocking (in addition to that, it also works as a standard ad-blocker within Safari) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adblock/id691121579
We have several engineering positions open at onXmaps. We’re a mapping app for the outdoors with a good offline experience. Our first app was for hunters, and now we have an offroad app too. Check us out https://www.onxmaps.com/careers

We hire remote, but don’t target expensive areas in our recruiting. However, we won’t turn down a good candidate based on location (as long as you’re in the US). If your resume looks good, a short call with our recruiter will get us on the same page regarding comp. We are competitive, but not with FAANG.
Does every teenager these days know how to plan and carry out a 50 megaton nuclear test by reading Wikipedia?

Not quite but closer than you might have thought, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment
Important point. I was talking to my brother in India. Last month internet service was down in their building for 4 days. Unlike folks who go apoplectic over this, he understands that 3rd world prices do not come with first world service quality in practice.

Most people do not have an option to move across continents just because somethings are cheaper there. And internet service is one small part of overall things one has do deal with in their daily lives.

Another way to cheaper price is that most jobs done in first world is to be outsourced to much cheaper places, which is happening. Or push lot of middle class jobs to subsistence level jobs, which is also happening.
Global warming is pretty much fact verified by science.

The 1984 scenario claimed by some people on the other hand is a hypothetical, with some more confident than others that it’s going to happen.
> You can influence groups of people like never before. Swing Elections & change governments. Influence public opinion about literally everything to no small degree.

Right, so, has Google done this? Asking because from what I remember the answer has been largely no, but I remember FB selling data to Cambridge Analytica in 2016.
> I could claim that being able to invoke “return” at any arbitrary point in the function is evidence that return is a complicated feature.

Not really, because a return statement (like a go-to) only has one place to go. An exception has an unlimited number of places to come from. That put it into its own special circle of hell.
Can't they just ban you from making connections to known Bitcoin nodes at the network level, or use a Honeypot to detect when you access Bitcoin specific services?
Eliza (seemingly) implements a rudimentary conversational model of psychotherapy that facilitates transference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversational_model

This model differs from goal orientated transactional conversational models e.g. phone robots in so far as the objective is not to direct behaviour, but rather to facilitate self-expression, a task which can be performed with sparse requirements for real-world logical semantic modelling.

Eliza could always keep within the bounds of transference by deflecting back to interlocutor e.g.

You said earlier that ____________

Are you worried about __________

Tell me why not?

Do you like talking about __________

Anything specific?

Let's talk about something more interesting.

- - -

Well, not always. Eliza was easily derailed into revealing its logical semantic paucity, thus breaking the spell of transference.

GPT-3 has reached a significantly higher plateau of semantic pseudo-competency, but what if it were applied simply to the application of transference conversation? So long as it allows lonely people to chat away without breaking the spell, that might be enough for GPT-3 to earn $3 a month.

Could there be a market for friendertainment?

https://phys.org/news/2018-12-americans-lonely.html