skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is 2% of mostly completely needless carbon emissions which are produced exclusively by the richest 1% of Earths population. Considering the distribution of benefits for very few and costs for all, it is an entirely predatory technology.

If the airline industry goes completely bust, I am sorry for the people who worked there, and all in to give them another meaningful job, but at the same time it would be a very good thing for humanity as a whole.
I've been thinking of offering a patch to `fdupes` to turn duplicates into CoW copies. ZFS and BtrFS have them covered, but I'm not sure about APFS and I bet NTFS doesn't.

In any case, it's really hard to get a workstation with less than a terabyte of storage in it. I have 2.9 gigs under mine and that's for 53 environments. I'm not sure that's a huge issue.
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I don't even think toxicity is a problem for users without public persona. Those that are public have to play by the same rules that were already in place for classical PR.

We only got this problem with users trying to do house cleaning. Most communities are completely fine without authentication, so it certainly isn't necessary.
I'm a consultant, working remotely for clients all over the world.

I'd like to live in London (at least before the pandemic happened), no other reason.
Google Colab is an alternative to consider if you need to share Jupyter notebooks: https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/intro.ipynb.
Principles of ARM Memory Maps (2012) [pdf]
I can't answer for OP but I think Tridactyl's callback hint mode is more powerful than Qutebrowsers' spawn, as we provide the hinted element to the callback. That means you can do stuff like remove it from the page or make the font comic sans etc. Qutebrowsers' spawn hint mode seems to only let you use the URL of the hint.

In general we seem to have more hint modes - copy paragraph to clipboard, select text, etc. See https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/5e8f94ff06bd5f14... (and forgive the code ... we really need an argument parser).
Here in Norway I think that the kind of surveillance described would be of debatable legality. And would be regarded by pretty much everyone as a breach of trust and etiquette.

In particular such arrangements must be discussed between the employer and the representatives of the employees and the employer must choose the least invasive alternative.

Here is a document giving guidance on the subject, sorry it's only available in Norwegian: https://www.arbeidstilsynet.no/contentassets/04ec2eb566d4494...

Also this one on camera surveillance which is analogous to screenshots: https://www.datatilsynet.no/personvern-pa-ulike-omrader/over...

"For at en arbeidsgiver skal kunne kameraovervåke en arbeidsplass, krever loven at det må foreligge et særskilt behov dersom man skal overvåke områder der bare de ansatte ferdes."

in English (my translation): "In order for an employer to use video surveillance of a workplace, the law requires that there be a specific need if one is to monitor areas where only the employees go."

I imagine that the Datatilsyn (Data Protection Authority) would regard regular screenshotting as similar.
> Hopefully new libraries do not use 3.8/3.9 only features

Ideally, for production environments, you'll want to pin version numbers for everything you can, so new packages don't intrude. I also like to keep testing environments with minimal dependencies and no pinning (I built `pip-chill` for that). Wouldn't that work for you?
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Posits as defined in that article don't distinguish between +inf and -inf, so min/max operations cannot even be properly defined (since min(-+inf, 0) = {-inf, 0}).
> No. Another reason why the copyright protection not applying to purely automatic processes make sense. A machine could theoretically generate every potential expression understandable by the compiler or interpreter. You can't.

Sure I can, it'll just take a while.

> You will die at some point and your work will be released for public but same won't happen to machines.

I'm not arguing machine produced work should be copyright protected. This is about quite the opposite, about how copyright protection relates to the process of learning as exercised by machines vs. humans.

> 1. Unlike stackoverflow which every participant agrees on a license when they signup, common crawl is different. I believe everyone has right to the weights derived from their data unless they explicitly sell them or give permission.

The big disagreement here is that I think posting anything on the internet gives an implicit license for "brainlike consumption" - reading, understanding and learning. GPT isn't doing anything while training that I'm not doing while reading. It would be impossible for a human to read the text at all without engaging in these processes, and so it must likewise be permissible for GPT.

Consider the futuristic scenario of a brain implant extending your memory for Alzheimer's patients. GPT is not so dissimilar from such an implant operating in standalone mode. I don't see how screwing a brain onto it should change the ethical algebra to make it more permissible.
This is the Hawthorne effect - a cousin of the placebo effect. It's a v useful idea.

Per the Hawthorne effect, you modify your behaviour in response to the awareness of being observed.

(The placebo effect describes an change based on an inert intervention regardless of observation.)
> In all cases

Aren't you overgeneralizing a little? There is nothing wrong with using loops when execution time is known and constant (like an Arduino). It saves the effort of setting up interrupts, and they can be used with interrupts disabled.

They won't be so accurate: time spent in interrupts will not be counted, and loop setup/teardown won't as well, but it's rare to need such precision over short scales, e.g. when delaying a LED blink.

Never use those when execution time is not guaranteed though, like in emulation or binaries executing on different MCUs.
So, if only Apple didn't tie the ability to repair and extend the device you purchased from them to the security of your own data, you would be able to feel a more consistent emotion with regards to interest in a fix; that seems all on Apple being a bit evil :/.
Never heard of DI being the bottleneck. May I ask what that framework is, just so that I have another datapoint in my collection?
It's kinda interesting to see because the cryptocurrency space is surely one of the more political tech developments at the core - replacing fiat money, new financial instruments, self-governing contracts, ...?
No, it is not worse, emission by driving or shipping are far lower (emissions by fast ferries are still ridiculously high but not necessary).

> or are you asking people to sacrifice their quality of life

Get a grip. CO2 emissions are literally about to destroy the habitable planet, including problems with food, wars, wildfires, violent storms, flooding, and on. If you think this is really less important than going on a vacation on another continent, then you need to grow up a bit.
Not to be too mean about it, but I feel like this is an instance of brilliant marketing more than anything. The founder of Numenta knows how to communicate to Engineers in a convincing way. Neuroscientists (and Science in general) has a way of politely ignoring outsiders and in any case Computational neuroscience doesn’t have terribly high standards of rigor and quality anyways.
Postico is amazing. I recently moved out of MacOS, and I can honestly say that it's the only tool that keeps making me want to move back. pgAdmin is a right pain.
I'm not sure about this. I have read (not finished) many "bad" books about software engineering. Not all books are equal, and so not all authors.

> Hi, I wrote a book about X.

> Hi, I wrote a good book about X.

A the difference is abysmal.
We're all faced with a difficult challenge in how to balance personal expression and professional conduct. It's especially difficult as shelter-at-home mandates push our work lives into our private spaces.

It's a good thing to try to be so generous with supporting an exit over values alignment. It's unfortunate, though not surprising, for Armstrong to want Coinbase to be like other for-profit financial firms -- quietly amassing wealth and influence vs. noisily in the spotlight.
Incredible work.

> It's a pretty peppy chip, at times coming close to my 8th gen i7...yikes.

Have you got any benchmarks? It is passively cooled right? I am really surprised to hear a ~2016 arm64 CPU can can beat a 2019 Intel i7 in even synthetic benchmarks.
> Why do you think they don’t focus on those things too?

"Too" is the problem. I think they're not enough of one-trick ponies.

Coal. Let's just focus on eliminating the use of coal.
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You can find free open source Product Information Management (PIM) software here - https://www.openpim.org

It has more features than the free version of Akeneo and is much easier to use than Pimcore (it's 2 familiar free PIM system).

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It's a trusted site, without https it's e.g. easier to perform a mitm attack that could expose users to attacks.

Not only encryption is important, authentication too, you want to know to which party you are talking.
https://nationalmaglab.org/magnet-development/magnet-science...

Looks like they 'only' need to be at 4.2Kelvin as well to operate, which is a definite improvement
Also note that English speakers would pronounce the double-zed in "razzum" and "cazzum" as "z", whereas in Italian it's pronounced more as "ts" (i.e. "catso", not "cazo"). Additionally, the "u" in "cazzum" should be silent in an Englsh accent, but clearly spoken in Italian: "caz'm" as opposed to "cah-zoom".

(Speaking as a non-native speaker of both languages and having spent a lot more time in an English-speaking country than in Italy).
Brian should have said we don't mix politics and activism in our company, if you don't like it, leave. Which should have ended like that.

On the other hand, it's a good move because it keeps things neutral. These annoyed employees should just take it and leave.
The irritating thing about the stupid plastic bag ban, is that I often use the plastic bags for my small trash cans at home.

Before, the bags were thicker, and it would survive a trip home. So these were reusable. Then, they made the bags thinner, especially from the supermarkets, and the bag would fail, and get punctured, so you had to throw them away. Thus, these flimsy bags were non-reusable.

Now, I have to buy brand new plastic bags in bulk, just to fulfill my usage needs, when before the ban, we got them for free.
This would be great but how on earth would we get people to comply? We can't even get people to wear masks in stores right now without throwing a tantrum. People would like lie like crazy regarding their weight. Heck, my driver license is 25lbs lower than I currently am.

I guess you could alleviate the embarrassment factor by making it a total passenger + baggage max so people could weigh themselves AND their carryons at home before they arrive to confirm and offset anything.

Interesting idea though!
Chinese colleagues have told me that trust in others is very low in China, that family matters much more than society in general. It can make doing business more expensive and slower in China compared to say Scandinavia where levels of trust are generally very high.
that would be hilarious if downvoted comments became literally smaller font
The dev here commented that Firestore was used for the MVP and that they're planning on supporting other DBs in the future: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24636238

That's why I'm not taking it for a spin just yet.
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To be fair though, keeping politics completely out of any aspect of life becomes increasingly hard when things like science and the definition of "truth" are being politicized. A statement like "I believe the 99% of climate scientists that say climate change is man-made" shouldn't be considered a political statement, yet here we are.
Very different than campaigning for BLM or MAGA at work.
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The MANW in the United States is €4500 equivalent, the fourth highest in the world.

Since you could have derived this data from the same source as all the other numbers in your post, I'm not sure what the point of your little dig was.
You need to pass all of the feet leading up to 10'000 feet though.
Yes, it's worse.
Sorry, but the only rational consumer response to a device that actively works against you is not to purchase it, not hack it. Once millions of people pay to be imprisoned on their own devices, the long game is lost no matter how good the hackers are, the firm has the upper hand and the resources to prevail in the long run.

And I am perfectly happy to assert this as a political preference, and vote in office people that vow to protect consumers from this kind of racketeering. I understand this might not be your cup of tea, and that some people prefer unfettered capitalism, its your political right. However I fell that allowing this in our society limits my freedom and choices, because the things you buy affect me too.
Well, big tech hardly has a monopoly, the organisations that had most of the power before still exist, even though their power has diminished. For example, 20-30 years ago a major political event was never mentioned on TV or radio by the broadcasters in this city, even though it involved eleven-digit state expenses, seven-digit numbers of people, and lasted a decade. The same TV/radio channels exist today, and their boards still have some power, even though Facebook has diminished their power very much.

Since you're someone who is much more critical of big tech and I am, I'd love to hear your opinions about what "dealt with" means, particularly wrt. how the state was before in your opinion and whether you want reinstate that or get to some third state.
I am doing harvard 110 now (free lectures on youtube) and I am working through his book Introduction in probability.

Maybe it is too basic for you, but It is focused on the intuition part and I can recommend it!
Amazing. Thanks for sharing!
As a non-American, I find it truly bizarre (and sad) that's it's now controversial to publicly state that you're not taking sides.
Short answer, no. In the current political climate (pun intended), air travel is seen as an obscene luxury. But putting these moralities aside, it is easy to see, how efficient it is.

1. Air travel is point-to-point (for reasonably large points) practically for free. Open three airports, you have six connections. Open a fourth, you now have up to 12 connections. This kind of combinatorial growth cannot be done with road or rail (but partially with ports).

2. Air travel is quick. Flying between the US and Europe is the matter of a day. No need for intermediate accomodations, etc. On short distances, trains can compete here.

3. Air travel is relatively cheap. Not so much because of the energy used or the construction, but because of the utilization of aircraft. A modern aircraft can make multiple connections a day. This can be replicated by some fast trains, but not to that degree. It cannot be replicated by ship, except for the shortest of routes.

Conclusively, I would say that carbon-neutral or even just carbon-efficient air travel is here to stay, or traveling will become much more expensive.
> Is it reasonable to expect Facebook to do all those things, compared to other choices that are consistent, neutral, and inevitably result in various type I and type II errors with respect to the nature and purposes of posts related to violence?

It's reasonable to hold them accountable for the extent they're facilitating the problems. Even (especially) if it's an unavoidable by-product of FB's existence.
This must feel harsh for those on the receiving end, but is the right thing to do. It is not effective to try and turn every company into a rights activism group just because it is a group of people.

This may be a sign that it’s become increasingly hard to organize or take part in such activism outside of work. What happened?
What?! I had no idea this was going on. I still use ftp often - my yesterday's blog post includes an ftp URL, see http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2020/0... .

What's the replacement supposed to be? The article suggests one of "BitTorrent, SFTP, rsync, git, even modern variants of HTTP" - which means also changing the workflow, right?

For example, I download chemical data from PubChem (ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/Compound/CURRENT-Full/SDF/ ). That location a directory containing about 300 files of the form Compound_084500001_085000000.sdf.gz where each file contains records with that range of ids. The number of files increases over time, the number of records in the file also changed(it used to be 250000 records per file), and the content of each file changes (eg, if a record is withdrawn).

I use ncftp to "mget *" the files as a bulk download. What's the non-ftp way to organize and download this sort of data? That is, to discover what files are available and download all of them?

Of course, ncftp won't disappear, but the PubChem distribution also includes, for example, documentation in ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/data_spec/ . I use Firefox as graphical front-end to, well, browse the ftp site (ncftp would be a step back), and I expect I can use ftp-URLs to provide links to the relevant documentation.

I also provide links to just one file in the distribution, which I use for training and testing purposes. (As an example, see https://chemfp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using-tools.html#gen... ). I expect people to be able to use the browser to download those files. Now I'll have to provide information about alternative ways to get the data?
To be fair, this is not a "sleep" routine, but a delay routine. The purpose of the function is to give a slight delay until other part of the hardware is ready. This is actually the most deterministic (so it means great) way to do it.

More sophisticated does not always means better.
That could be an interesting concept for some social networks to try, maybe with some limitation of social circle? I.e. it's a stronger signal if "X of your friends/people you follow/... disapprove" than "X0,000 strangers disapprove", which is a problem with more typical downvote features? Doesn't help for people totally in an echo chamber, but at least for some?
Wow, this is like finding a glitch in one of knuth's books.
Climate change sure isn't going to be fun, whether we manage to stay under the 2 °C target or not. But I don't think we should spend too much time lamenting about it. Instead, we can find ways to lower our CO2 emissions, even if it means lowering our luxurious standards of living – flying is a luxury.
Here's a list of softwares that I'd like to see explained in detail:

#1 SQLITE

#2 ProseMirror

#3 V8

#4 WebKit

#5 Kubernetes
Beautiful. Our entire back-end is powered by FireStore and the admin UI is... lacking. We've been writing custom scripts and were even planning to build a bare-boned web app to easily let us perform certain actions without having to run a script.

Adding / editing in the Firebase admin UI is also time consuming.

The spreadsheet abstraction feels effective. I'm really looking forward to playing around with this.

(Also, seems like there's some confusion about the Firestore reference: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore).

I wouldn't quite compare this with Airtable because even thought the abstraction may look the same, the audience is very different: FireStore's audience is technical, while only a small fraction of Airtable's is technical, which leads to a different set of product priorites and likely a very different long-term roadmap.
I never even expected Amadeus to have that many employees at one single site. Well, if the GDS providers start failing then there's going to be an interesting mess to get out of.
I loved using Firebase & Firestore to build MVPs, but I would advise anyone tempted to use it, to avoid it. Every time I've embraced it, I ended up having to rewrite apps shortly thereafter. Your app becomes unavoidably coupled to it.
Correlation does not imply causation. Every authoritarian and totalitarian regime also agrees citizens should pay their taxes. As do most liberal democracies.
It isn't possible to not take sides. It's only possible to support the status quo, either explicitly or implicitly, or else oppose it.
Indeed, that is why reducing OOP to implementation inheritance is a very constrained view of the paradigm.

Just like placing ECS against OOP, when they are discussed across OOP SIGPLAN papers and are the genesis of language features like Objective-C, CLOS/Flavor protocols and Smalltalk categories.

I guess, as always, the blame lies in how we teach these subjects and many don't do it properly.
Insisting that Facebook / Twitter workplace should be apolitical, is as persuasive as Wernher Von Braun and his rocket engineer colleagues insisting that their workplace was also apolitical.
Perhaps, but "I did something interesting. This is what I found." style, which is the two-sentence style revealing nothing, seems to be a psychological bait.
CBLAS (and CLAPACK) can already be compiled. It is used for example in https://pidtuner.com
So the complaint is basically "Google isn't selling user data to us"? What is the intended end result, all user data should be free for purchase in order to maximize corporate profit?
What were the downsides of the coupling? Pricing? Lack of flexibility in the ways you could morph it?

Asking because we started off with FireStore, getting a bit of traction now, but I can't see any good reason for us to switch away any time soon.
Seems to be enabled, oh well there are enough Github issues related to search performance anyway. Thanks for the help.
Wonderful effort folks. You are definitely creating something that's going to last a long time and help a lot of people. Zerodha is a company I will adore from now on.
I think most English speakers know how to pronounce the Italian zz given the ubiquity of the word pizza (pitsa).
I wonder if he received any reply, and, if so, what it said.
> There is nothing humans can do which can store it again for the same time.

This is simply untrue.

Grow woody biomass, and combust it in a reducing environment, and you get carbon. It's biologically inert. Bury it.

It's not difficult, or impractical, and even if you mix it into soil, it will remain sequestered for centuries or millennia.

It's just... charcoal. Why would we have to make coal in the way it was made in the carboniferous? Your doom posting doesn't make any sense.
To understand your position, you're saying that if you take a job with a company, you must either take on the company's politics and ethics or leave?

There's no room for trying to improve a company from the inside?