skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people in general are less informed about finances. Just because you discovered https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php isn't evidence otherwise.
correction: NOT allowing any app is a violation
It’s interesting how they did the shot of the bomb on the parachute. It’s either not the real bomb (test drop of a dummy?), or camera operator should have been in the kill zone.
Bingo. The Green Revolution massively increased Earth's carrying capacity, but at the cost of total dependence on artificial fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and machinery, with the alternative being "half of the human population on Earth starves to death".

Fertilizers we can make without fossil fuels -- the Haber process could likely use hydrogen sourced via electrolysis. I don't know about limits on phosphate or potassium (the "PK" in "NPK").

Equipment and farming practices are improving in terms of energy and material efficiency, and I suspect we'll get to the point where we can run everything off of electricity in the next decade, but we still need to generate a lot of that -- which means nuclear, because I don't see renewables getting there any time soon.
Might that be one of the reasons Apple keeps that strict rule? Other than the disallowing of W+X of course.
Imagine being sentenced to house arrest in 2020 of all years.
And not available when sideloading
What exactly are you arguing against here? So a $2k car is not affordable by the 10% of the population below the federal poverty line... therefore it's an upper middle-class luxury?
Bias.

It affects everything.

Science, religion, politics, public policy, company policy, policing, the judiciary, journalism, and (any)one's decision-making regarding 'facts'.

Not sure how we're going to solve it on a platform like Facebook.

The systems governing over it - government and politics - are not going so well in the bias department themselves.

As for 'the people', they're just as biased. In fact, that's where it comes from. The problem is humans, not the technology.

Even though I have low regard for them, sometimes I realise Facebook is doing the hardest job in the world.
Thanks for sharing this. Looks like a sophisticated solution, although might be too complex and enterprise-y for what I needed as a sleepy developer, but is definitely worth having a look :)
If you have a multi-monitor setup, make a slight gap between two of them and put the camera behind the gap. Then position the video window so the camera is central to it.
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Google sounds like Microsoft 20 years ago, but perhaps without falling into Microsoft's specific mistake of shoddy software.
> Search -> Use Bing, then DuckDuck Go, and if still not good results, then Google

Why not use DDG first? I switched to it in the beginning of 2020, have almost never had to fallback to Google.
We need a SETI@home approach to open source AI models.

Only then we can break our dependency on Google and Facebook - and Mozilla for that matter.
For a single day, I think there are a few days of the Indonesian anti-communist purges that would qualify. Overall, about ½-1 million were killed, over a period of a few months, but a lot of the deaths happened over a period of just a few days when the army rolled up into central and eastern Java.
Reminder: Southern California's wildfire regime is not Northern California's. In NorCal, fire suppression makes fuel build up and forest fires burn too hot. In SoCal, chaparral wildland burns two to three times more often than it did pre-contact.

The main reason for the increase was that the old primary ignition source was lightning, while now there are lots of sources: catalytic converters getting too hot, discarded cigarettes, farming machine activity, and arsonists are a few. And of course, lightning implies higher humidity, unlike the offshore wind-driven fires we get now, so the intensity is worse now. Our recent lightning-sparked fires now seem like something of a departure from normal.

Controlled burns could help in SoCal, but I'm guessing only to reduce fuel load and create a temporary firebreak.
Competition didn't do it. For years. Regulation did, and in something like 2 months.

The coolest part? All those threats about "companies will leave a highly regulated market" never materialized.
Why do you want to "beat Andromeda"? You have your Von Neumann probes, they have their own. Maybe theirs are better. Why do you want yours to beat theirs?
I believe the upcoming version of Safari will have WebExtension support, so at least there's that.
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The general public somehow knows two myths:

1. Galileo performed experiments related to gravity by dropping objects from a certain tower in Pisa.

2. Newton "discovered gravity" with the apocryphal Apple story.

Interesting, isn't it, that Galileo died in 1642, while Newton wasn't born until 1643? Sir Isaac would have had to have been a time traveller.
FWIW, Uniqlo does indeed resize for the North American market; a large on Asia is not the same as a large in America. At least, that was the case for some of the items I've encountered.
All good points. Plum Mail is B2C and HN is a well-informed technical audience it's probably fair to say. We felt we needed something less abstract than just a fruit in the name to explain what you do in this application - i.e. you write to people and they write back like when you send and receive mail (distinct from 'e'mail).

We toyed with using the word 'messenger' but that's much less representative of the longform way in which Plum Mail nudges you to write. Messengers are synchronous, one liner, emojis etc.

At least with the word mail in the name, anyone hearing about it for the first time can have a pretty good guess at what it does. The technicality of using the email address as the identifier and passwordless authentication etc is important (but probably only really interesting to a technical audience).

Thoughts?
To be fair, the detonation had to be synchronized with the recording equipment start. They were proudly describe analog control system which start recorders at correct time.
>Jump cuts refer to when the filmmaker uses roughly the same frame size and jumps forward in time.

I believe I was referring to that. YouTube content is notorious for them, and jump cuts are part of the lexicon in that space as a result. There's even a YC company with the namesake.

Fast cutting or quick cutting doesn't have the same-frame restriction as far as I'm aware.
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Have you also tried JMP SHORT +0 as an alternative NOP?
Or the whaling industry charged with bringing in an absolutely meaningless required quota of whale carcasses with tragic results. It’s almost like a runaway AI chasing an arbitrary goal.
What’s a strong alternative for admin.google.com? Most importantly, making an org with a custom domain and managing users with email addresses on that domain.
Is this is just a more mathematical convention?

You write a_b where in english you'd say "b a". eg. Graph_users -- the user graph.

In mathematics the data element (noun) comes first and is differentiated by some property (graph_user, graph_product, etc.).
For the sake of easily tracking what's going on.

So it makes complete sense to have VerseFake, VerseReal, etc.
Me too. I felt like she was looking more into my eyes than he was.

Maybe I've just gotten too used to video calls...
How do websites get the “Add Search Engine” button? For instance, I noticed I can do it with Gandi but not with Name or Namecheap.
Micro-Outsourcing for Developers
On the problems with automated contact tracing
They won’t bring it back. They don’t want the SALT deduction either. They just didn’t want to piss off their voters.

To be fair, getting rid of SALT was a good move. It makes the tax code more fair. There is no reason for the federal government to subsidize someone who lives in California or New York.
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Weird, I never had any problem with this part. And over the years I must have created bootable Windows 10 thumb drives at least 10 times
Its crappy but I don't see how a crappy review process is anti-competitive or how improving this aspect would make the situation less monopolistic.
It's almost as if allowing unaccountable private enterprise which act purely on self interest to have this much power is NOT a great idea...
That's why individial self-hosting isn't a good defense - it only works if it's widespread. If half the population uses GenericPrivateITservice then the government can't crack down on those users.

People "opting in" to privacy systems can't work, that's why it needs to be solved politically.
Yes, thats definitely right. But you could also switch to a paid service, that is caring about you and your data. Then you still need to trust that service and the people behind it, but it may be better than Google and co. I use Protonmail with a custom domain (my name) for example. I pay a few dollars every year, but in return I get state-of-the-art encryption for all my mails, data protection, more privacy and I also trust the people behind it.
I think that you need to find out what their expectations of your role are... How much outward-facing forward-looking 30,000' stuff vs how much nitty-gritty engineering tech detail they expect you to pay attention to.
You're so right. They would get hugely annoyed. Plum Mail isn't a messenger really, I mean sure you could use it as such but then you could use email like that too and cause just as many notifications.

We're planning daily digest emails to group together multiple messages with individual reply buttons.

Showed it and explained it to my gran and she seemed to get it just fine. This is a woman that couldn't understand why her iPad wasn't charging until I explained it did actually need plugging into the wall. lol.

I think anyone would get confused and irritated by some weird confusion over email and Plum Mail. I think the next step is to ship v1 and see how users get on with it. I'll try to remember to report back what we learn.
We aren't trying to create messages at the frequency of chat. Features like pinning and others aim to encourage more productive, and also less frequent messaging.
Mutually assured destruction sounds like a viable approach on paper except for the fact that accidents happen even in the best designed systems. And there has been a number of close calls already.
So, Windows only? At least for now? Any idea how long it will be before a Linux or Mac client will be released?
> They are not common and you don't lose any money, if they are stolen from banks.
if someone obtains access to your bank account and withdraws your money, then YOU have to prove that it wasn't you.

Also, about how common some scenarios are in the UK: https://www.statista.com/statistics/586715/share-of-cyber-se...

> You are not an average user then

any statistics to back up your claim?

> You debit card cannot easily be used to steal money from you even if someone steals it physically
right, because especially since covid-19 you are less and less asked for your PIN when purchasing with debit / credit card
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It really depends on the company and developers preferences. For our company's case we do have a "dev" AWS environment for a couple of reasons:

1) To avoid having a side-IaC for your dev env (e.g. using docker-compose/local k8s/localstack) which could take same time as your prod-IaC (terraform/CloudFormation) to prepare. Instead of hours preparing/debugging local dev we can work on great features or refactoring some tech-debt in the real code.

2) Since we have many other teams and upstream dependencies it's much easier to deploy on a AWS when testing complicated features. In an ideal world you shouldn't need it but unfortunately it's never ideal world.

3) Local dev solutions could easily end up with "but it worked on my laptop" due to various reasons from Docker host configs, to localstack deviations from real AWS resources, etc.

But at the end of the day you should see what makes more sense for you :) I guess for many people spending time on preparing a great local dev using docker-compose/k8s/swarm/localstack is cheaper than using AWS for dev anyway.
We can definitely do this.
Facebook has repeatedly overridden fact-checker evaluations in its two biggest markets, India and the United States.

Facebook India:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-hate-speech-india-poli...

Facebook in the United States:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/sensitive-claims-bias...
Thanks so much :-) The pins will definitely do this. I didn't quite manage to get it to work ahead of the video but the idea is each pin is a link back to the message from where it was pinned.

I'd like the same to be true for the quote. So much easier than writing 'I'll reply in line' and the copy/pasting all the time.
One need not imagine this. Round about the same time as the ElsaGate phenomenon (and often lumped in with it) was a series of unusual YouTube videos that featured adults unwrapping Kinder Surprise and other such small toys, over and over. Kids were supposedly transfixed and would stare slack-jawed at the screen, waiting for the next toy to be revealed seconds after the last one was. Presumably, LOL Surprise capitalizes on this phenomenon as well. To be honest, I don't see the appeal and find the naked attempt to capture children's eyeballs worrisome.

Now if you will excuse me, I'm going to go watch LGR unpack a new-old-stock 286 and attempt to boot Commander Keen on it...
Why not use an iPad. IPad on a flat surface and a webcam or any other camera behind the mirror. You can even build a custom mirror-camera using a raspberry-pi, a rip webcam and a small lcd screen. Sounds like a nice DIY project.
I live on Finland and I've got unlimited everything for 16,9€/month. This includes calls, sms and 200mbps LTE data. There is no data caps (not even throttling, since that would be against the law) and I've had months with 400+gb data transferred, no issues.
Posted an answer to another similar question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24250329 hope it helps when developing with your IDE :)
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They've been trialing this on a remote island on the GBR for a couple of years now. They don't produce a lot of water, in the tens of litres per day I think, but they work (and are fully solar powered). Agree it's a fairly edge use case.
https://ladyelliot.com.au/sustainability/water-conservation/
There’s a few problems with forking out:

1. Do those programs exist and what happened if they don’t? That behaviour is already understood in Bash, less so in random 3rd party Rust libraries.

2. Is ‘tar’ calling ./tar, /bin/tar or some other instance of tar? And how do you find out? (eg easy to check $PATH in Bash but does this library honour that? Easy to ‘which tar’ but is that going to be the same tar that this library forks?)

3. Are the people using this software even aware what external programs are being executed? How do they validate this? A .sh file clearly signals that there are external dependencies that need to be audited. A .rs file does not. This problem becomes magnified if you then start shipping compiled binaries rather than source.

I get people who like Rust are unlikely to be people who like writing shell scripts but the better way to think of this is like an MVC-like design where you have separate concerns that should be clearly separated in source.
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Circumsision is genital mutation accepted to a child on birth or childhood. Disgusting. Yet accepted in the US. Bizarre.
I've always thought there was something poetic about that.

The ancient Greeks gave us the name "atom," the indivisible unit. The alchemists chased the goal of breaking down base metals (splitting the atom) and transmuting the components into gold. Then in the 20th century, the physics were finally mapped out. The atom was split, unveiling the subatomic world, and we know full well that atoms can be fused. The term "transmutation" is even used.

It's like an ancient quest finally reached a conclusion, albeit not in the convenient way they would have hoped.
Two-stage nuclear weapons get cleaner as they get bigger, because the excess neutrons from the second stage will destroy any long-lived fission products from the first stage. On top of that, all you need is a tamper that doesn't get activated by neutrons and you can push the fallout down to insignificance. This is why "atoms for peace" and such initiatives were not quite as stupid as they sound at the outset, as it would have been possible to build bombs that don't cause much fallout for them.

However, since you can roughly double the power of any two-stage bomb by replacing the tamper with uranium, at minimal expense and with no added mass, but at the cost of producing massive amounts of fallout, real bombs deployed for war generally would have made a lot of fallout.
Huh I guess I assumed that was only for businesses and not personal use. Thanks I'll take a look!
cory doctorow doesn't think so...
I tried to use searx for a while, but gave up due to the lack of decent instance.

Ended up using startpage.com - it might be a tad worst for privacy but a lot better for usability IMHO. If anyone is aware of a better alternative, I'd love to know about it.
Is your current data public? Do you have sufficient amount of untranscribed data (1000+ hours)? We could help you.
They were not culture where this was considered "good". Earlier centuries their ethics were not ours, but especially these interpersonal competite issues were considered ethical issues by them. Hence people pissed off be these.

It is completely absurd to make up imaginary past ethical systems. I am all for looking at past standards, but make them actual past standards. The way you do it makes all involved sound dumb.

Moreover offtopic: sometimes genius 'misunderstood' by group of people is actually group of people having healthy boundaries and acting rationally. And the while conflict starts to make sense instead of comming accross as "people in past were ridiculous".
> They should create legislation to control access to all app stores to prevent this rent seeking

I assume by "they" you mean "each of the 175+ countries that the app stores operate in, most with slightly different rules that a software developer would need to understand?"
> This type of framing of this problem is alarmist, but it can then backfire due to seeming unrealistic and out of touch with reality, making science's reputation even worse.

That damage was done long ago. Read the "other side"[1] of the "climate debate". I am old enough to remember some of those headlines.

Even though I look at climate change as an existential threat to humanity, I also readily acknowledge that the people beating that drum have mostly done it to make themselves richer.

Nobody wants to pay a carbon tax when they think it's just driven by massive corporate interests, and going into the pocket of a bunch of corrupt politicians.

You might laugh, but I think the off-the-grid homesteaders are on the right track. There's a lot of focus on sustainable living in that community -- agriculture, home-building technologies, water, energy, food storage, the lot.

That provides fertile ground for small-scale innovation in those spaces.

We also need to stop packing people into massive cities. Low-rise buildings are, to my knowledge, much more sustainable, both to build and maintain. A larger number of smaller cities -- bikeable and totally mixed-use -- plus well-supported outlying rural areas, seems like a much better mix than the MegaCityOne approach we've been taking.

With improved battery technology, I could see those as being connected with semi-autonomous electric cars, busses and trains as appropriate.

Although I worry about how sustainable that is, but biofuels (likely alcohol) are also a carbon-neutral option.

I'm hoping that remote work helps drive this, and coupled with tariffs against countries that don't have strong environmental protections, will both open up opportunities for younger people, and help us get our act together from a sustainability perspective.

[1] https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/09/20/nolte-clima...
It’s possible that the least bad though still horrific scenario is an obvious accident that instead of leading to a war results in a universal backlash against these weapons.
Here in Italy lots of plans actually stopped offering unlimited SMS because nobody uses them anymore. I think I must have sent less than 10 SMS in the last 5 years or so.
In this case the terms are effectively synonymous.

This world won't support 7.8 billions of souls, even in the short term without the collective activity we call "the economy", here a stand-in for all productive capacity worldwide.

In the long term, even that is likely not viable, which raises some interesting questions.

My point wasn't that we need to sustain some monetary/financial engine. It's that the institutions and organisations which make our world possible will cease to exist absent some means of addressing operational requirements. The situation is analogous to a person who is sick and requires assistance to survice; nfood, water, medical treatment, but also support for bills, rent, and essentials, while they cannot work.

Small-business failures in the US are approaching 50% for 2020. A third of tenants, residential and commercial, have stopped paying rent. Colleges are part of this same system, and face similar hurdles. Many were already in precarious shape, and it's likely that many will close.

Regardless of your sympathies, this will have profound effects.
Non technical books about programming/computer science
I am looking for books related to computer science but not technical ones. Something like memoirs of computer scientists etc, any suggestion?
Russian Siberia here ;) Mobile LTE 50Gb data + 300 minutes coutrywide calls is just $3/month. Proxies and VPNs work ok.
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It worked well for me even without MicroG. The only proprietaty app that I need and use is Whatsapp, and it doesn't require Google Play Services.
I am sorry I offended you by saying you are friends with them, obviously you take money for this shady stuff so it's business in the end not about making favors. Best of luck.
So, the CDC currently believes well over 200k people have died in the USA as a result of COVID-19. That's with the lock-downs and all the other measures we have taken.

What are the current projections on how many deaths would have occurred if we did nothing?
Similar concept, lot more stars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bourtange
It also autocorrects Xerox, Siri, Microsoft, etc. as they are all formal names in its dictionary (in this case, registered trademarks).
I would suspect genuine regulated competition is the correct answer here (as you spell out). This is in contrast to the monopolies and corruption seen elsewhere. The customer service is still horrible, and NBN remains a disaster.
Article:

> The Forest Service now admits that suppression backfired; excluding fire created an unnatural build-up of dry brush and overcrowding of trees that’s partly fueling today’s mega-fires.

In a fantasy book from 1998, the third book in the Circle of Magic quartet [0], a green mage gets extremely pissed off at a fire mage who between him and his father had been preventing forest fires for decades. By the end of the book, just such a "mega-fire" formed in the built-up dry material on the forest floor.

It kinda seems to me like this is a decently well-known effect that the government has been just been slow to acknowledge...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_Magic
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