skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to and it feels like i'm sitting here waiting for everyone to stand up letting all the shit stay and start changing the world.

I started this by talking to people, changing my lifestyle etc. just to get more and more depressed about this topic.

Politics are not fast enough, there are enough people who really don't care and it doesn't feel anyone is starting it.

Im jumping between "saving the planet together" vs. "buying a small plot of land, building a small house on it, putting solar panels and solar thermy on the roof, buying/building a water reserva, building a storehouse and doing indoor farming and living my life until i'm dead".

My mental image of 'men eat meat' has changed the last 10 years for eating less etc. but then you talk to someone else and its the same simple/stupid talk as usual.
As more of a graphics guy than a HTTP guy, I immediately though of the Utah Teapot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
Self referencing table and join query with ModelAlias in Vapor
While I sort-of recognize the emotion you describe in myself, it cannot be ignored that these ignoramuses are simply blowing "traditional" research out of the water in terms of results. That's true across the board, from NLP to image data to computational biology.

It's also a bit simplified to consider it a bifurcation between "traditional" linguists and AI experts entirely ignorant of the discipline. Long before the current wave of AI started, Google liked to hire linguists and computational scientists. These teams probably do have plenty of subject matter experts, but for now they are reaping the low-hanging fruits of the suddenly-improved generic methods. As the marginal improvements are inevitably diminished, subject matter will become more salient again.

I'm a computational biologist by training, and have great appreciation for the often beautiful algorithms, many created in the 70s or 80s and allowing then-spectacular feats of tackling large datasets. Unfortunately, it isn't always obvious how to transfer that knowledge to the new way of doing things.
If you invent anything related to cell phone standards and it gets adopted by whatever committee sets the standard, you can become a part of the patent pool, agree to license under FRAND and make money from your research.
Malware targeting macOS developers: infecting Xcode projects to steal data [pdf]
The ruling was in favor of Pokemon Go.

I kinda see the argument of the city. But only if organizing an event in the park would normally have cost a fee. Because then pokemon go organized an event in the park, but because the organizers did not have a physical presence, they didn't need to pay.
Scala does, thanks to Ammonite:

https://ammonite.io/#import$ivy
Google launches Kormo app in India to help people find entry-level jobs
Because Netflix & Co. are financially stronger than most cities, or even a small collection of cities (those not named NYC or Los Angeles etc). They can push back against this abusive tax chase if they do it early. You have to break the move in its infancy, otherwise you'll have a tag team of hundreds of cities demanding you pay a tax merely for the right to deliver bytes to the citizens that the cities claim ownership over (which is what this de facto is, they're saying: we own those bodies and a toll must be paid for any bytes flowing to and from those bodies).

Followed to its proper logical conclusion, Wikipedia must pay a tax, Reddit must pay a tax, Imgur must pay a tax, and so on. This is extremely authoritarian in its nature.
But so much can be automated to a point. For example, garbage collection: Cities have already been saving money by putting in 'smart' cans/compactors (that are solar powered). No one needs to check every can, they just go along and get the ones that are full enough. Cities have also done things like standardize trash can so the machine takes care of the dumping. So many places now only have 2 people per truck instead of the 3 when I was younger.

We use sensors for water treatment plants (and possibly for water delivery), software for some public transport when they do such a thing, devices to measure road traffic, and machines that automate much of road building. I'm going to guess that there are lots of these sorts of small things these.

You can also simply start doing more of it as a city instead of contracting it out, but I suppose this isn't really technological.
The Critique of Pure Prediction Markets by Immanuel Köd (1781):

> "That all our knowledge begins with bounties there can be no doubt. For how is it possible that the faculty of cognition should be awakened into exercise otherwise than by means of payouts which validate our judgements, and partly of themselves produce rationales, partly rouse our powers of understanding into activity, to compare to connect, or to separate these, and so to convert the raw material of our sensuous impressions into a knowledge of objects, which is called experience?"

Edit: wow, what is SFW Rule 34 called? this is a thing. http://kenfeinstein.blogspot.com/2011/01/kant-on-betting-and...
Why do you say its the hardest part? Hand gesture tracking is quite hard, but tracking IR LEDs on a controller is much easier than tracking head motion as long as you have the camera setup to keep them in view.
Not wasting your only life on standing with a piece of plastic on your head? Seems pretty viable to me.
Nice explanation, this made more sense to me than most of the explanations I have heard about this before.
But, wouldn't this just constrain the possible features of a wormhole? The issue is fixed if traveling/observing through the wormhole has the same time dilation:

Both through telescope as through the wormhole, the clocks can be observed to go slower. After 20 years at A, both the telescope as observation through the wormhole show 10 years have passed at B.

If we don't stop B from spinning:
The regular space traveler takes 5 years, as observed from A, to reach B, so reaches B at A:25 years, B:12,5 years. If they leave immediately after arrival, they'll end up again at A at A:30y, B:15y.
Otoh, the wormhole travel leaves at A:20y ends up at B at 10y and gets back to A immediately: A still at 20y and B at 10y.
Mixed travel:regular travel starts at A:20, B:10y, reaches B at A:25y, B:12,5 and jumps back through the wormhole at the same time as seen from A and B.
Ts-Migrate: A Tool for Migrating to TypeScript at Scale
>This is just another misguided attempt to adhere to the letter of the law while going against its spirit.

It's easy to say this and hard to draw a line between PII and what I can store without consent. "yesterday I sold 5 products on my website" is not PII (I hope). If I store the timestamps for each purchase I'm already in the grey area. One could combine the timestamps with other data to identify my customers.
Rust RwLock and Mutex Performance Oddities (2018)
And while not exactly what the parent asked for, the recently released "JuliaMono" font has ligatures for several common combos - including the right arrow - which amounts to practically the same thing:

https://juliamono.netlify.app/
Guide to Conversational Copywriting
Is obtaining optimal solutions a requirement in motion planning for robotics?
I agree with you in general, but I don’t think any of the 5 big tech companies are only concerned about short term profits. Two are run by founders (Facebook, Amazon), two are run by hand picked successors of founders (Apple, Microsoft) and I can never tell what Google is doing. It has been rudderless for over a decade.
You should black hole smart TVs in general anyway for security.

This relates to Vizio[1] but it seems most manufactures are snooping on their customers.

1. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/02/vizio...
The same is true for solar that is not easily recyclable.
The most deadly sin with Haskell is introducing unnecessary redundant abstractions to impress other people.

Imagine aircraft engineers will do that.

Up to (but not including) NonEmpty lists everything was fine.
Ah yes, all the performance optimizations only in Enterprise, as is tradition.

I've lost all interest in Graal. Oracle is steadily moving all the features devs care about to the Enterprise version. When they try to replace C2 in OpenJDK with Graal there's going to be a revolt.
Well we have multiple IP coffee/tea/choc machines and they definitely return 418 codes. Sounds like IANA need to sort out their backwardness and fix things by grandfathering it in for clarity.
"Probability of becoming rich" is a weird thing to optimize for. If a rich person being rich costs you a fixed and relatively small amount - say $1,000 - every year, that wouldn't materially affect your chances of becoming rich, but it would still be reasonable to be unhappy about it.

Lots of government spending creates value in proportion to wealth. The military is a good example of this - if the US had no military, Americans would likely buy insurance against acts of war, and the premium for that insurance would be proportional to wealth (or, more precisely, to the value of real assets owned directly plus real assets supporting the value of directly owned financial assets). So the financial value that the military creates is allocated roughly in proportion to wealth - but it's mostly paid for by taxes on income, so the net effect is to create a transfer from labor to capital.
But it is one more search away. Computer science has more often than not enough inherent complexity to keep one busy. I don't think we need this extra layer of incidental obscurity.
That is still the case in Ireland. It’s called a TV license. It’s an annual fee, that you have to pay as long as you have a TV, regardless of whether you use it for watching terrestrial TV or not. They even have a crew of inspectors who go around randomly knocking on doors to check if people are paying it.
I guess it all comes down to the intention behind the action, and then what opportunities are offered as a result of the action down the track. Do you trust them now? Can you trust them in the future? Are they more or less likely to screw you than the big comms mono/duo-poly?

Municipality A may have initiated ISP infrastructure contract for the actual benefit of it's constituents against the comms mono/duo-poly. Hurrah for Municipality A sticking it to the man and looking out for the constituency.

X years down the track, Municipality A needs funding for corrupt members yacht or office chesterfield reupholstering. Hey, we're practically giving away broadband compared to the comms mono/duo-poly and prices have increased way below CPI the last few years, let's bump it up to (artificial) market-competitive, woo!
This is the point of a registering a world trademark with WIPO.
Its only a good deal if it produce profits. I rather have the government take a billion dollar cost in the energy sector that later turn a profit than a millions dollar cost that don't.

If neither can make a profit then that says something about the energy market. Turn off the fossil fueled alternative (or incrementally add a carbon tax until fossil fueled become commercial nonviable) and let see if the market price adjust to the point where the profitability of either goes into the green.
> it creates some other kind of mental load

Agree with raytracer, that it works contrary to this. Writing things down in a system that you can reliably go back and check, tells your brain to calm down about this thought. If required, you can always reference it later.

You will need to classify points as either tasks or general information you want to store for later.

The cool part of tools like Roam, Obsidian, is that you can create bi-directional links. So if you are intentional about this and if you're referencing something related later, you will come across this point and it may be useful then.
Saving grace here might be that most mailboxes will be bigger than what can be sent in an email...
But what makes this a paradox/time traveling?

We are talking about observers seeing wrong order (leaving the wormhole at point B before entering at point A), but that's because they are observing everything at a delay or something like that, but I don't see any time travel happening in this example or any order of flying through wormholes that I can come up with.
> Netflix routes over existing common-carriage infrastructure, and so does not impose any costs on people who don't use Netflix

I don’t think that’s strictly true, since the available bandwidth on that infrastructure is not infinite.

That’s why Netflix supplies CDN appliances free of charge to ISPs - both to improve customer speeds, but also reduce bandwidth across the entire network.
The only discussion if current laws /FCC guidelines allow this taxation. There's no logic in a lot of taxes, they just add them cause they need revenue. If one day we all move away from home internet, they'll tax mobile internet to make up for the loss.
This reminds me of Hurds EIEIO

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq/eieio.html
My guess is elevated application running on the PC. If they could push a desktop facebook client with admin permissions, they would in a heartbeat
500 000 000 requests per month is just about 200 request per second. Why there should be any problem for any DB?

As for question - I saw a lot of great reviews on ClickHouse DB
You just need to make sure that they have a vulnerable firmware version. Once you've jaikbroken a machine once, you're done.
Thanks for sharing. Just checked out TaskWarrior; looks like a tool from my dreams.
Good for them - but a browser which only cater to them is not going to be successful.
Phantom types can be useful when modelling currency: the "implementation" stays the same but you want to avoid summing two different currencies by mistake.

https://ren.zone/articles/safe-money
No, naive is closer to absentmindedness or just not having been exposed to something.

Palmer was suffering from confident ignorance.
Phone camera-based vital signs monitoring
This has been my theory on why in some countries the extreme-right is doing very well (Belgium for example, with Vlaams Belang and NVA). These parties seem to understand that one vote doesn't change much in the grand scheme of things and that the key is to be able to convince a mass amount of voters at the same time. Hence why they are playing the modern media game and spending massive amounts of money into social media campaigns to reach a maximum amount of people. While other parties are not doing that (because they don't realize the game that is being played?) and it shows in election results.
I dunno, to be honest. If the Bay Area remained the same, modulo any wealth tax, then he'd probably still have come there for the talent.

It's not like he believed he was gonna end up a billionaire when he moved FB to California.
VR adult games is a growing genre. These are real time games and as the tech gets better they can be much more engaging than a static video.

If Apple's device can't run them will that be significant in their adoption?

On topic, it's a reason not to own an FB VR device as I really don't want FB knowing which apps I run (nor do I want Apple knowing which apps I run for that matter)
The more corrupt your environment, the more corrupt you will want to be. From the outside, the US looks like a state, where big money is running the show, will benefit from every crisis, etc. What do you expect, when all the elite cares about is their turf?

I'm not advocating paternalism, but what you have in the US is capitalism without much "control" and does it lead to prosperity for all? Does not look like it.
Most young people don't watch iPlayer either. It heavily tilted towards older people.

It will only be an issue for people who watch it...

I'm heavily against the license fee, as the majority of content could be delivered commercially. I absolutely hate that i'm paying money towards soaps, cake shows, misses brown boys etc which I will never have an interest watching and get zero value from.

The small amount of state or non commercial stuff it produces could be paid for by tax or a much smaller license fee.

The money i save could be spent a couple of books or rentals instead which I would get value from.
> The Netherlands just brought the first thorium powered plant online since the fifties.

Just to be clear, because one might get the wrong impression from how that was formulated (at least I know I did): what they have is a small test reactor, not a commercial electricity generating plant.
Came here to praise disc detainer locks.

It's the only major type of lock I haven't been able to pick within a reasonable timeframe.

Normally once you learn how to pick a certain model of lock, another lock of the same model will fall within 10 min, broadly speaking, and most cheap locks in just seconds.

Disc detainer lock's design just prevents you from freely accessing each of the discs except with specialized tools, and there's no feedback from any spring, so there's no "touch" or "feeling" you can learn.

That leaves to brute force all "combinations" from the innermost to the outermost disc as the only way to pick it.

In a 8 disc, 4 "angle" lock like the one I have to practice, that means 4096 combinations. With a very optimistic 1 sec per combination, on average you need 34 minutes per lock.

At that point it's less suspicious to use a drill or an angle grinder to open what you want to open.
this guy writes some of the BEST publishing related articles

love that he is discussing this

Amazon used to have a sliding royalty scales going all the way up to 90% for audiobooks

Then 4/5 years back they made some excuses and changed to 40%

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People keep targeting Amazon for anti trust in areas like retail where it is hard to prove because Amazon keeps using defence of 'cheaper for customer'

why not target them for anti trust in areas they have domination to a larger extent and where they actually do blatant anti trust which leads to higher prices for readers i.e.

Audiobooks - giving creators only 40% cut instead of earlier up to 90%

ebooks - forcing exclusivity. How is it not anti trust if the largest ebook company in the US (60% market share) says to self published authors - give us exclusivity and get 65% of book sales. OR don't give us exclusivity and get only 35%
Dear God, grant us mere mortals DPI powers to block this and similar things, 'cause devs are often do not know what they are doing.
Robotics founder here.

Popular conceptions of "robots" are unrealistically general.

In industry, we do not build robots, we build automation systems.

Given the choice, would you prefer an automation system with some environmental assumptions, high speed and perfect repeatability (ie. entire industrial automation world), or no environmental assumptions, crushingly high cost, slow speed and poor reliability (eg. walking robot that accesses your fridge because cute or novel)?

It seems both the lay population and academia assumes the latter, but industry demands the former.

This is perhaps why there are so many "open problems" - because they're not actually real world problems: they're just academic nice-to-haves.
Vim-mergetool: Nicer Git merge workflows with vim (plugin)
This vim plugin provides a smooth merge workflow in vim. It shows the files that are to be merged without conflict markers and the workflow becomes much more like what I was used to from GUI tools like Beyond Compare, but you stay in vim.
If we're speaking of reality as opposed to theory, "renewables" was coined by environmentalists, and their exclusion of nuclear power has simply become part of the commonly-understood definition of term, except in the State of Utah.

And even though I get why one would believe that nuclear power should be included among Solar/Hydro/etc., it's slightly funny that proponents of nuclear power start start their pitch with "technically, nuclear is also..." when, technically, it clearly isn't.
"I guarantee...."
Time to pay up
We use it in our product https://punterz.club/ just for fun :)
Show HN: Skeleton Reactjs
Google translation of that link: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3...
> Unsavory Use-cases

> Tunshell could also be used as an exploitation tool to gain unauthorized access to remote hosts. Personally, I hope that this tool is not misused for nefarious purposes. If it becomes apparent that tunshell is helping malicious actors go about their activities, the free service will be discontinued.

It seems the author already though about that. Well, don't we all here have the Security Mindset (TM)? [1]

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...
yeah, I did that for a while, but it was never the same, it had some problems I can't remember right now. I've been using an old stable version of debian for a while, maybe it's was a compatibility issue
> 500 000 000 requests per month is just about 200 request per second

Not if you assume that some hours will have more web traffic than others.
15 kW is 7x more than anything that can be (legally) powered from a standard European 230 V, 10 A outlet. With a 2.3 kW wall outlet, you can already power a Bitcoin miner unit or a small IBM mainframe computer. It's indeed impressive.

Which brings us to the next topic: What does the power supply look like, and how does power delivery work? Given the huge amount of power, the PSU for the chip alone is an interesting piece of electronics. Assuming its power supply is similar to a PC or server... First, the mains power is converted to a system DC voltage such as 12 V. For a typical modern cheap and boring switched-mode power supply, the standard efficiency requirement is 80%. But in this case, it means the PSU itself will waste 3 kW of energy, this is unacceptable both from an environmental and thermal perspective. A really good supply can achieve an efficiency of 95%-98%, and this is when things get interesting, at least you'll see some expensive controller chips and high-power, high-frequency transistors in such a PSU, terms like SiC, GaN or IGBT come to mind, switching 1,250 amps on and off. And it doesn't end here, the next step is converting the 12 V system voltage to the chip's core voltage, say 1.0 V, by a Voltage Regulator Module near or on the motherboard. Now, don't even mention the technical challenge of designing a VRM. I can't even imagine how they run the huge current on the motherboard, it's 15,000 amps!

Unfortunately, there's no information about power supply and power delivery.
If you have a vision system that "just works" and produces high-quality pointclouds in an actual kitchen environment, with reflective appliances, silverware, shiny countertops, shiny ceramic dishware, and glasses, we would absolutely use it.

We have in-house research work on both learned monocular depth (so-so for robotics tasks) and learned stereo disparity (much more promising), so progress here isn't impossible, but none of the off-the-shelf products really solve the problem.
Uh, no, that's a good way to get fined, at least in Portugal/Spain.

People will often circumvent rules when they can (e.g. add a second story without a permit, but avoid putting regular windows to claim it's just a storage attic), but if you want to make more profound changes, you better be prepared to fight the bureaucracy.