skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I didn't mention it earlier, since you seemed upset by Customs in general. This certainly appears to be a false positive, and it will most likely get resolved in favor of the importer, unless there's some trademark action we're all unaware of. The shipment is still gonna be delayed though, and that delay is not likely to be compensated; it's a risk in the system (along with many other risks of loss or delay in international shipping)

It would probably be better for CBP not to publish their seizures like this until they had gone through the process.
I used Tika to build a search engine prototype, and it was fantastic for getting us up and running quickly.

It's a really easy to use generic parser for a bunch of document types. The downside of being so generic and easy to use is that you end up lacking document-specific context that could be useful. For example: Do you consider the header/footer text to be important, or just noise (Page 1, Page 2, etc.)? Is the text contained in the Table of Contents or section headers important, or just the actual content? You won't find any ways to tweak the result, which could be a good or bad thing depending on your use case.

We ended up using it as our "fallback" parser, writing more contextually aware ones for document types of greater importance to our use case (PDFs were high on the list).
It's good stuff, but I would also suggest tinkering with OpenBSD and its offerings. A bit simpler, but still fun. It's all good stuff and fun to play with.
I think it's available already:

https://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/375928581/locked-man
I love NPR’s “visit plain text” option and I wish more news sites would do that
Needs a little more work still. Maybe try using italics instead of caps?
Two things Windows excel compared to Linux: WiFi driver and sound driver. Even recent laptops come with Realtek WiFi that could be hit or miss with Linux.

Of course Windows excel in apps backward compatiblity better than Linux (it's not about hardware). You can't just run old Linux games CD. You would have a better time using Wine with Windows version of the game.
> Maybe just have sex instead?

And what should they do afterwards? They will still have a lot of time remaining.
How would one even begin to track that?
Göbekli Tepe was not a civilization. All the evidence indicates no one lived there.

Similarly, the other sites: elements that always accompany civilizations happened there, but without cities.
XPath is really useful and `xmlstarlet` is/was jq before jq existed. These days it's relatively rare to get data in XML instead of JSON, though.
Dr. Fauci was just one voice in many at the time. It's easy to pick out the most accurate voice in retrospect.

Take a look at this HN thread from 6 months ago. People in the comments were extrapolating CDC/WHO statements and predicting millions of Americans were going to die.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22552137

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22548715

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22548952
It might look like aluminium but the description says it's just tape.
Related: Online and Mobile sports betting is legal in Colorado now. Watching a few of the games this weekend, the ads for the mobile apps are everywhere. Like with the fantasy football craze a few years back, I have a feeling that this will also be dialed back a lot.

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/02/25/sports-betting-colorad...
The "decade" comes from the fact that there is currently no RISC-V silicon with performance anywhere near the current ARM Cortex A series.

And a realistic estimate how long it will take to develop something that would be on par with today's Snapdragon, Exynos or Apple's chips is at least those 10 years. You need quite a bit more to have a high performance processor than just the instruction set.

The "just worked" chips are microcontrollers, something you may want to put in your toaster or fridge but not a SoC at the level of e.g. Snapdragon 835 (which is an old design, at that).

Also the Sipeed chips are mostly just unoptimized reference designs, they have a fairly poor performance.

Most people who talk and hype RISC-V don't realize this.
> It seems to be rooted in the fact that these days people skim text, rather than read what is written. I don't know if it's because of general information overload, or a lack of attention to detail, or if the mindless scrolling of phone apps has trained us that visual impressions of words are good enough.

I think it is the former. I'm perfectly capable of reading a poem or code word-for-word, but as soon as I'm in my browser something "clicks" and I'm just skimming text. It is usually completely subconscious, but while reading your comment for example, I realized I was only reading half of each sentence.
> Microsoft’s Project Natick team deployed the Northern Isles datacenter 117 feet deep to the seafloor in June 2018. For the next two years, team members tested and monitored the performance of the datacenter’s servers. [1]

[1] https://natick.research.microsoft.com/
You've probably seen Jonathan Blow's talk on the subject: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

I'm super interested in the subject: https://github.com/akkartik/mu. In the framework of this thread I focus on 2 of the 3 layers: problem and software. Hardware is out of scope. For now. Recently I've started thinking about BIOS (inspired by https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0031). So perhaps it's only a matter of time.
Carbon taxes on imports only make sense if the emissions data from the exporting countries is readily available to make a quantified estimate. Otherwise they will be poorly quantified, resulting in over- or under- taxation.
Precisely, plus just consider the information that Nvidia will have on all its competitors who use Arm IP.

- It will know of their product plans (as they will need to buy licenses for new products).

- It will know their sales volumes by product (as they will need to pay fees for each Arm CPU sold).

- If they need technical help from Arm in designing a new SoC then the details of that engagement will be available to Nvidia.

How does this not give Nvidia an completely unfair advantage?
aspose can convert pdf to html
This is a non-argument, because it can be used on literally anything, up to lighting one match.
Why do you not use poudriere? And build automatically everything from ports then install the build-ed packages on you machine's?
I guess the outcome at Times Square depends how dark the skin colour happens to be.
Most of the UK also has similar statutory protections (6 years in England and Wales; 5 in Scotland), but after six months you have to prove the defect was present at the time of purchase too...
The potential US civil war that is unfolding before our eyes.
Phosphine gas found in Venus’ atmosphere may be ‘a possible sign of life’
It unfortunately does. And it's a vicious circle.

Linux has the most mindshare, so most things are built for Linux and don't run (or don't run as well) on FreeBSD. As a result, more people use Linux resulting in increased mindshare, and the process repeats.

It makes me sad because I really like FreeBSD.
(2015)

This got a lot of attention on release. If it sounds familiar, you probably already read it.
Ha, such a list is a great thing to argue about. But nevertheless, I am disappointed by the politics section.

The Big Question in politics is, as it has been for 2 centuries now, how do we deploy the brightest minds on the biggest problems.

Our biggest problem in politics is that decisions have to make sense to the median voter. If someone comes up with a process that can transcend that without the well understood failings of dictatorship, that would be game changing beyond game changing.

The world has too many problems with well known solutions. People keep reinventing square wheels instead of being honest about what worked and didn't in the past.
I can imagine people saying the same thing about Detroit 50 years ago.
I've heard about Orkney quite a lot, I think it must simply be an innovation hub.

That I can think off the top of my head:

- Orbital marine, making tidal turbine https://twitter.com/Orbitalmarine

- Their grid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXe1hBvlylw

- Their Hydrogen facilities, using extra renewable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rybpaqhg5Qg
DigitalOcean offering $100 in credits for 60 days, new accounts only
Normally it's $30 in credits for 30 days.

Get it while you can.

Disclaimer: That link is a referral link. My apologies, You cannot make use of the promotion without a referral. Otherwise I would have posted it.
Indeed not 100% pure science, but I like the fun side science too where I can just forget about the rigours and entertain ideas that are likely to be true.

I've just read the paper and all this is right. Before that I haven't seen these claims so we are now in maybe life territory again. Sigh.
Some IT companies considering new pay policies for remote workers
Was the load in the data center synthetic, or did it handle production traffic? Curious to see how they split it out.

I doubt there's a "Orkney-Underwater" region.
As I mentioned in the first sentence of my post; "For those who have seen the film on Netflix already; what are your thoughts?"

It is a movie / documentary[0] which raises questions about the combination of massive amounts of user-data and algorithms, and it does it in a way that is most people can understand. Recommended :)

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11464826/
The orders of magnitude are wildly different, even at large server farm scale. According to some estimates, capturing merely ~0.3% of the available energy from the Gulf Stream would be enough to supply all of Florida with electricity [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_current_power#Energy_po...
I run a small instance and I don't think this applies. New signups are closed on my instance, and the only way to get on is for you to ask me for an invitation, or for a friend of yours who's on the instance to ask for you.

If you look like someone who I'd be likely to kick off my instance, I won't let you on in the first place. It's a private garden that I let my friends hang out in, not a public park where I have to let some asshole who thinks me and my friends should all be dead come in and rant and rave all they like.

"Oh I am totally being de-platformed! Free Speech! Filter Bubble!", you cry.

And then you discover that the Fediverse is split into multiple parts, and that there are instances that are delighted to let you say anything and everything you want as long as it is not explicitly illegal. You can even run one yourself if you have a bit of spare change! You can say anything you like on your own instance, you can follow anyone your heart desires. And anyone on another instance can follow you if they like. But no other instance is obligated to listen to you.
The impact of cooling a building on the surface is definitely higher.
A free print and play game will help you learn strategic thinking
Misleading title as this is just a link to the case graph for France.

We’ve seen plenty of similar trend in the US already - the large waves of the summer were seemingly much less deadly than the first intense wave around New York.

However, there is a likely combination that explains this:

1. The initial wave in New York was vastly larger than our testing capacity, which means it was actually less deadly than the official statistics show.

2. Early waves of infection spread among the general populace, later waves have spread more among the young and healthy as those at higher risk are being more careful in avoiding social contact, while the young and healthy are being less cautious.

Taken together these two factors mean we don’t know much about whether COVID has changed. Because the real infections are larger by an unknown amount, it’s not possible to know whether it is merely being detected more now, or it is infecting less vulnerable people, or if anything else has changed.
The article is a transcription of the first two thirds of the 12 minute long podcast. Just skip to 8 minutes in to hear the rest.
This reads like you have not done any calculation to determine whether the entire ocean can be heated by any plausible number of datacenters or not.
> no X11

XQuartz if you want it

> completely non-POSIX low-level API

macOS has a POSIX layer.
Virtual Training Labs: Top Software Training Use Cases
Santa Fe Board Crushes George R.R. Martin’s Plan for ‘Medieval Castle’
Everyone needs to check just one small thing of their choice. It would be enough for a good coverage.
On the other hand, if people work from home then more people will focus on improving the "work-from-home experience" and making the business more suited for working from home.
In this sense, there's a variant of the Great Filter where the Filter isn't the existence of other civilizations, but over the probability mass they'll cross paths with another and each can mutually grok the other exists. Arguably this is a much more grounded way to view the Filter theory, since it's less assumption-laden. It also surfaces the assumptions of the usual Filter theory more starkly. We only recently even became intelligent enough for the concept of us recognizing another civilization to even make sense.
There is a difference between understanding of different fields of science. We understand temperature in large bodies pretty well - and we know that it's nearly impossible to sink that many servers to do anything.
What is that email not conforming to?
While yours are important questions they're somewhat outside of the scope of the topic. The submission is about a measurement of Britain's carbon footprint and the post you were replying to was talking about how that measurement may or may not be particularly helpful.

I don't think it's a particularly good argument that we should accept one method of accounting or another because we like or dislike its policy implications. What is an honest and clear method of accounting in your eyes?
Probably the most penetrating review I've ever seen, but only seen after we got somewhat burned by Mathematica early on.
That's a generous way of looking at it, imo. If you're working through stuff, you absolutely will get things wrong. That's true in languages, in programming, in learning anything.

Stopping when you make 5 mistakes is a very bad thing when you're trying to learn.
If they do it that directly, sure. But on a large enough (time)scale, incentives are the only thing that matters. And they'll certainly think hard about putting their fancy new research that would help a competitor into their openly licensed chips from now on.
The linked Wikipedia page already mentions the Risch-Bronstein-Trager algorithm, which is supposedly implemented most fully in Fricas (i.e. Fricas or Axiom should, modulo bugs, be able to find an elementary function integral for any function that has an elementary function integral). But note that even in Fricas, there are still unimplemented cases of the "Risch algorithm" (and bugs), as the problem is hard and requires a lot of work and knowledge.

You probably want something more concrete, so take a look at this effort to test symbolic integration software using a common testsuite: https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports...

Fricas scores quite a bit better than Maxima there, but note that there are big problems with the test, although there is a somewhat active effort to improve its accuracy. It is problematic (but understandable) that the test uses Sage, as the Sage interface to Fricas, at least, is imperfect. I.e., AFAIK some of the integration tests will fail simply because Sage fails to communicate with Fricas successfully.

Main page of the integration tests: https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/index.h...

Fricas (and Axiom) also has a more well thought out type system (with type checking at time of compilation) than other computer mathematics systems, so writing Fricas programs (the language is called Spad, which presumably comes from Scratchpad) is nice. (Fricas can be used both interactively and as a compiled language.)

This mailing list discussion may also be of interest: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fricas-devel/xVtvZ46...
Yes, academia is no better suited to handling a major internal crisis then any other institution. The intensives are just too skewed towards publishing. Every major player out there almost certainly has an un-reproducible paper they published under duress.
At the same time, that comment is based on someone, working in exoplanetary science, skimming the paper for at most two hours before commenting.

Just looking at figure 2[0], it doesn't look like the ALMA a detection is particularly weak and looks like a proper line. Of course, I don't know the full analysis chain, so I can't say how hard it is to make a line like this completely by accident, but I doubt you could tell just from this figure either way.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4/figures/2
Well they why not create artificial bodies of water and just keep our data centers there? How much water is sufficient for the cooling cycle to not require additional energy? How much water will need to be added to such pools to deal with evaporation?

I think on a smaller scale test with an artificial pool would provide some solid answers. We could even put solar panels across the surface to limit wind and solar evaporation effects
It's kind of galling that this isn't even the dumbest thing I've heard the US contemplate recently. We're living in really weird times.
I am familiar with that sentiment expressed through the phrase "nature abhors a vacuum"
> The spanish Flu killed about 600k Americans.

USA population was also only 100M in 1918. So 600k back then was .6% of the total population. So far covid has killed .06% of the total population, or one order of magnitude less.
It could be Nvidia just wants ARM's profits and leave them alone, but I don't understand why Nvidia would spend 40 billion dollars on that. They spend 40 billion on the control of a company, why would they do that if they just would leave them be? Surely they want to exercise that control in some way for their own goals. Especially a company like Nvidia which (in my linked comment) has a proven track record of not understanding how to collaborate with others.

EDIT: Let's be clear that ARM's incentive last week was to create and empower as many competitors for Nvidia as possible. They were good at that and was the root of the success of the ARM ecosystem. That incentive is completely gone now.

I'm guessing Samsung has a track record where I'd feel a little more confidence in the situation if they'd taken over ARM here, but in general ARM's sale to Softbank and thereby its exposure to lesser competitive interests has been terrible. They could have remained a private company.
I don't see articles from amnesty international going viral in western media. The last big China bad news story in HN was [1], which was literally funded and assisted by a CIA-funded organization. An article which uses a few blank spots in a map to make up just crazy conclusions?? And people in HN just seem to buy it without any of the usual skepticism you see HN show about the most boring science articles showing the most obvious results. It's like that in pretty much any western social media site. Makes you think you're living in some alternate reality.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24292962
As someone who also lives in a heavily polluted area, I agree, but I can also move.

Nobody can move away from the consequences of CO2 saturation. There's no second planet to move to.
No worries, no offense taken.

I still can't believe myself I fell for this, as said I have 2FA on all accounts and I'm normally very cautious. I guess it's a combination of all the factors here at play: Facebook allowing a fake TikTok Ads advertiser, the ad looking very legit (referring to an existing ad credit program), Google allowing a fake TikTok Ads app with fake reviews, and not getting any notifications until the amount was charged from my PayPal account.
Yeah they are just responsible for the butterfly effect that gave us ISIS.
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
I've always been bewildered by the west's push to 'de-industrialize' it seems to be a terrible strategy to combat climate change and serves only to enrich corporations while weakening a country's geo-political position. Nations need to be able to produce things or they become dependent on other actors who have a track record of acting in bad faith, see China and Covid 19 PPE shortage as one example.
Draw a drive time polygon on a Google Map – how far can you go in a time limit?
Incumbents are shaking up value chains to attract new ecosystem customers
“small” fee my ass. When the TSA confiscated a camping knife I kept in my backpack and forgot about, the agent said it’s about $20. Also, for someone who boards in 30 minutes with a TSA line just as long, they don’t really have a choice: it’s lose the item, or miss your flight. So I had to let them take it.
Did they prorate the AppleTV at least? If not, that sounds like outright theft.
Thanks. I recently took the decision to wait for another year before using in for a production app. Seems like i had a good intuition.
If curious, see HN discussion from the time of publication:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8864791

From a comment at the top of that thread:

Here's a link to the full transcript: http://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/375928124/dark-thoughts and http://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/375928581/locked-in-man

and,

There is video on YouTube where he is interviewed, he still can't speak though but other than that he appears fine. Well, maybe not great he is in a wheelchair too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBFntsxK-vc
This story is so encouraging & human compared to rest of the news we read/hear everyday. Thanks for sharing!
I just tried this out on a handful of PDFs, comparing it to Calibre's `ebook-convert`

They seem roughly equivalent, neither better than the other. Particularly, both fail the same dehyphenations, a category of error that's extremely frustrating for text-to-speech users. By default tika seems more aggressive when joining split lines, but without good dehyphenation that's not worth much, and some of the lines it joins shouldn't be joined.

Calibre's is also several times faster, but the difference between 1 second and 7 seconds isn't really a big deal for my purposes.
Potential sign of alien life detected on inhospitable Venus
You can only say the algorithm works when you know the precise aim of the algorithm. Perhaps the "recommendation" engine is designed to dislodge the user from engaging too much with their own assessment abilities and instead have users respond to less guarded social cues setup elsewhere in the sales funnel.

You can push a lot more pulp on unsuspecting people once it's familiar AND seen in a socially proofed popular list.
Gotta say, this argument that you aren't responsible for the illegal items in your shipment, and the sender isn't responsible for them either, really drives home to me the importance of these CBP inspections.
Given how low my prior would be that life currently exists on Venus compared to all the other possible explanations for this, I wouldn't count on it at this point

Surprised this comment has a negative score, I'd be willing to bet at 50/50 that life on Venus won't be found within the next 5 years, there are a lot of alternative explanations with reasonable priors
Hancock has at least one transcribed interview with Klaus. Look it up for yourself. They had an interesting relationship. Klaus definitely did not agree with many of Hancock's ideas. It's admirable, an open exchange of ideas with people you disagree with. Just like we're doing here! Good on us.
I wouldn't go quite that far, but the sense of schadenfreude on reading the article was through the roof.

Spam and web advertising have always been underhanded, and if a person with "15+ years in adtech" can't avoid an ad scam, what does that mean for everybody else?
Actually I am ;)