skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if I even eat any food with sugar and refined carbs. Is that stuff in bread?
If you own your residence, and live somewhere with good air quality most of the year, forget about air filtering and go for air changeovers. Read about ERV/HRV.

Activated carbon filters are inexpensive and remove VOCs but in my experience not terribly quickly.
The elite have already accomplished this. They've convinced you guns in the hands of civilians are a menace and danger to society and that the police you thought were there to protect you are really hunting you. You are a victim, you are powerless comply or be killed by your fellow citizens.

AI has also been used in defense for at least a decade now...
While dictionaries are guidelines as to what is accepted use of a language, these accepted uses and dictionaries are no laws. A dictionary is only a snapshot of the rules which society agreed upon in the past and thus will certainly be changed in future.
That seems like a suboptimal implementation, when the info clearly exists:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3244512

Google can be disappointing, however, when you want to ask a question few people have thought of. It would be hard to get a clear answer to "which family had the most members in Harry Potter?" etc, whereas that's a query you can write pretty naturally with a graph database, RDF or otherwise.

I'd never say that I wish we just had massive triple stores and Google had never been invented, but I still maintain that linked data is exciting and expressive.
What problem does mandatory overtime solve (Cyberpunk 2077)?
Not really, since programmable machines predate real-world turing-complete computers by at least a century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series)

But no Sharks with Lasers...well he missed a opportunity.
Not all misinformation can equally be quarantined, and not all misinformation has a time sensitive effect as being near an election. So no, it is not reasonable to expect that all misinformation be treated the same before one can act on a specific instance.
If you don't put your database in a known state for tests they're not repeatable
The story can be both fabricated and true.

It's true and documented that Hunter Biden had a laughable no-work job, and that the Obama administration made Ukraine fire a prosecutor who was going after his employer.

This particular NY Post story surfaces... an email... saying Biden met with somebody. Whatever. Of course he met with lots of people, it's not really a story itself so much as an excuse to resurrect the actual story from a year ago. This isn't a court of law where we're establishing the quid pro quo for a judge/jury, it's the court of public opinion.
I agree they could, in theory, be the same entity but it would be near impossible to exist in such a form without accusations of bias in one way or another.

As a pure publisher, I think it's generally understood, there is inherent bias.
Why John McAfee Was Secretly a Social Media Innovator
In the same area of thoughts, I am reminded of a farmer my parents knew many years ago. He raised cattle. And he got tired and decided to be lazy.

You see, keeping cattle takes a lot of work. Constant vet bills for inoculations, treatments when they get sick. Corn-feeding, to maximize their size, means buying a lot of corn. Constant attention and work. And my parents' friend, well, he was tired of it.

So he put his cattle out into a field. And he did nothing. If one got sick, it went to the dog food place. They ate grass that grew in the field. They didn't get as big and he didn't make as much money, but he also got to take things a bit slower, easier.

Then, organic beef became a big deal. He did not give a shit about 'organic' or whatever these strange hippies were talking about. But he was more than happy if they wanted to pay him extra for his laziness.

(Note: I am paraphrasing a second-hand story and while I grew up rural, I didn't raise cattle- mistakes are being made here, forgive me.)
Are the downvoters perl programmers?
Yes, it is bioengineering. What Arnold brought to synthetic biology is an engineer's approach to iterative process. Rather than designing a new enzyme at the molecular level, Arnold constructed a process that would yield the design for her.
Contact tracing: EU interoperability gateway goes live
Alien Biospheres
An open letter to my friends with fuck you money
I think you're underestimating just how dominant the Apple II was in the late seventies to mid eighties, at least in the US.. Apple made the machine until 1993 (and the model I'm talking about isn't even the 16-bit IIgs, but the 8-bit IIe) because they were still selling profitably up until then. Every school had them and every parent who could afford one got one for their kids. Commodore 64s were cheaper, sure, but had a reputation as a game machine and couldn't run Apple software or even exchange files with Apples. Better to buy an Apple II clone if you couldn't afford a real one.

Not that there weren't games for the Apple II... there were plenty. Most of the biggest game publishers of the early micro era, including one or two that still exist today, developed for the Apple II first. Sierra On-Line, Broderbund, Electronic Arts. Programming an arcade game on the Apple II was so challenging, what with its bizarre screen memory layout, weird color scheme, and lack of hardware sprites, that many Apple II game programmers viewed programming for the C64 or Atari 400/800 (which used the same CPU but had actual graphics and sound hardware) as akin to cheating. Some of the most creative games of the era arose from these technical limitations. And hordes of young programmers cut their teeth learning how to remove the copy protection from these games so they could trade them for free games others had cracked. The guys who started id Software met at an Apple II publisher.

It was as dominant in business right up until the IBM PC took off and even for some time after, thanks to VisiCalc, the first killer app. When Apple released the integrated software package AppleWorks in 1984 it shot to the top of the sales charts. Not merely the Apple II charts, but the industry charts for all computers including the PC. It stayed there for months and served as a foundation of a healthy third-party development ecosystem for years.

The profits from the Apple II line paid for the development of the Lisa and then the Macintosh, and kept the company afloat until the Mac was profitable.

Yeah, the Apple II was a big deal. I got in a bit late myself (I stared my first job in the industry in 1990) but it was still the foundation of my technology career.
Another effect: your computer is on for the entire time you're writing the program. Picture it: you have a .csv file and a laptop with one hour of battery life, and you need to run some stats on it. Are you more likely to complete your task in Python, or in C?
Windows 10 is installing Office web apps without asking permission
For those confused without more context:

This is a fictional, theoretical depiction of what a drone based attack could look like, followed by a short statement by a professor.

My thoughts:

+ This did a poor job differentiating between AI and just drone warfare. You don't need an AI to launch a bunch of drones with payloads. My local middleschool can fly a bunch of drones, and they do it monthly in a nearby parking lot.

+ Neither the video nor the website dictates what, exactly the ban is of. "Lethal Autonomous Weapons", sure, but are we banning like drone motors or FPV cameras or what? How do we not ban "Drone carrying a camera" but do ban "drone carrying homemade explosive" in a way that's meaningful beyond making it extra-illegal to do a terrorism?

+ The website mostly seems concerned about human-in-the-killchain systems versus automated systems. That's a fair distinction to be concerned about, but doesn't appear to be related to the theoretical attack they show.
Or friends at all.
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I am highly skeptical of these claims. Corn is not new. Nor is wheat. Or rye or whatever. We have records of yields pre-green revolution, pre-GMO, pre-mechanization, pre-fertilizers, etc. And they aren't that great. Yes, modern agriculture is not sustainable and we should incorporate as many organic techniques as we can. But we also should be ready to take lower yields. And that's fine. We don't need that much corn. It doesn't go to human consumption, hardly any. It goes toward animal feed and high-fructose syrup production. We can survive with less Coke and less factory farmed poultry. But we should stop romantisizing our past and treat organic agriculture as something new or magical.
BleedingTooth vulnerability can be used to remotely execute code on Linux
It effectively is, a better definition though is a shared illusion of value
Show HN: Notion.so in Mac Menu Bar
Well, since then I got married and moved several states away. I haven't found a group of people to play with, or a park with a volleyball net yet. Life kinda got in the way of that.

It is worth it to be pain free.

I was pretty close to being pain free, but upping it would be harder due to work schedule and geographic distance. I had to travel 30-60 minutes just to be able to play, so it was easier on the weekends rather than the work days.
Reuters, Associated Press, NPR, New York Times, PBS, BBC, CBS, ABC. There are many more journalistic outlets with excellent reputations but a bias.
Python Booleans: Optimize Your Code with Truth Values
Good point.

It appears that both Voyagers are slated to have some experiments disabled soon (2020 and 2021) to best use remaining power from the RTGs, but since the RTGs are nuclear sources, the decay rate is independent of power draw (it's more an issue of switching off the experiments to avoid peak draw killing the ship).

Voy1's expected to lose too much wattage to turn on the radio by 2025; I can't find a quick number for Voy2.

EDIT: It appears Voy2's power package was expected to allow mission operation through 2020, so sayeth Wikipedia; no idea if that implies the radio was expected to die this year or this was the year the craft would need to be reconfigured for a scaled-back mission profile to maintain enough power for attitude control and radio transmission.
Is the Biden laptop story really fabricated? As far as I know, the Biden campaign has not denied the veracity of the emails, which it seems like they would immediately do if they were fake.
There's also the limitations of the nitrogen cycle.

Organic fertilizer is generally cow poop.
Cows are fed almost exclusively grain corn (and then are admittedly grass finished, but generally the manure you could get is from the grain feed period.)
That grain corn is... made with inorganic fertilizer.

To keep making more food, someone has to introduce nitrogen into the system. You can use bat guano (which we actually used to use before inorganic fertilizer) or you can use nitrogen fixing crops (great but typically fix much less nitrogen into the soil then people think!) or something that comes from inorganic fertilizer, whether it's been green washed through a cow's GI tract.

It's also a logistical nightmare as it's much less dense, but that's a separate problem. A huge fraction of the problems of soil health in rural places are logistical.
Keep in mind that bureaucracy creates (unionized) low skill white collar government jobs.

Doesn't matter the private sector is crippled by endless regulations if more and more jobs are created!
In my experience, IKEA furniture is a fantastic value, and has great durability, unless/until you disassemble it. If you never disassemble it then it'll stay solid for long past the point where you've gotten your money's worth. IME that's true even having exclusively used the tools that came with the pieces, and never using any additional steps (power tools, glue, loctite, etc.).

If you disassemble it, it immediately starts feeling like you got what you paid for.
IKEA is McDonald's in terms of global presence and consistency and catering towards budget spectrum
I think it’s interesting that people treat Islam as closer to an ethnicity than a religion. Nobody on the left is clamoring to fight against “Christophobia”, in fact most of them actively mock religion, unless it’s Islam. I honestly don’t think organized religion should be protected from criticism, because to be fair you have to treat all religions the same. Even Scientology.
It is, perhaps, the best option to assume that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. aren't neutral platforms.

Indeed, even when people assume they're neutral, that assumption doesn't extend to full laissez-faire. All these platforms have basic "censorship" in place for legal compliance (DMCA takedown processes, interactions with government anti-crime systems, a need to follow US law regarding dissemination of pedophilic content, etc.).
All this talk about the Streisand Effect really misses the point. This story was going viral regardless of anyone's actions. What Twitter did was ensure it went viral in the context of the warnings of it being disinformation and Twitters efforts at containing its spread. Disinformation is powerful when the information spreads farther and faster than the facts or mitigating context. Ensuring the information is presented with full context is a significant win. If the goal is to reduce this story's ability to influence the election, then Twitter's actions were successful.
Is Facebook too big to know?
> Mixing truth with lies is a critical component of disinformation.

Sure but that alone does not disprove any of the allegations.

It's as much a generic excuse as "Russians!".
Bank of America in Florida Foreclosed on by Angry Homeowner (2011)
Correct. x86-64 mandates “canonical” addresses where all the upper bits must be the same in order to dereference a pointer.[0] So on a processor with 48 physical address lines, the upper 16 must be either all set or all unset. This is obviously to prevent people using those upper bits to store extra data.

Of course, this doesn’t stop you from being able to[a], it just makes it harder.

[a]: The processor doesn’t know the “type” of a register’s value; It’s just bits. It could be a pointer, integer, floating point, etc. until you tell the processor to do something with it. So one could obviously use those extra bits to store data, then when a dereference is needed, store those bits in another register, dereference, then put the bits back. But that’s a lot of work to save a byte or two.

[0]: Intel SDM Volume 1 §3.3.7.1:

> In 64-bit mode, an address is considered to be in canonical form if address bits 63 through to the most-significant implemented bit by the microarchitecture are set to either all ones or all zeros.
The (income) tax base in India is about 5%; they have no voice in the politics of the country unless they are big corps.

In fact, in many ways India can already be said to have UPI. "Farmers" (verified or not, typically rural) have free electricity, fertilizer subsidy, regular loan waivers, ... which were instituted as compensation for a broken market that benefit political cronyism.

This also has the 'benefit' of laundering bribes, without taxes - indeed, a joke about the family of previous Chief Minister of Karnataka (capital: Bengaluru) was that they grew gold in their farms!
Nothing is going to get better until we understand that "yield" isn't just the produce harvested. Synthetic fertilizer yields the most pounds of produce, but the yields of nutrient-dense food, soil microbes, insects, atmospheric carbon sequestration, etc. are all abysmal. Farmers farm right up against waterways which they then pollute with fertilizer runoff because they have to maximize output at all costs. We're systematically killing our soils because capitalism allows for nothing else.
Show HN: Early UnoSys distributed OS for World Computer from 4.5 years ago
The World Computer is live (WorldComputer.org) but has been years in the making. Here is a video recording in April of 2016 showing what a "serverless" Internet might start to look like.
I am responding to people who make bonkers examples. Women goes for walk with baby and needs to know husband will retrieve her if she is late, for her peace of mind? Really? Absolutely no one is served by pretention that normal women are scared to take walk with babies unless someone is checking on them.

I would assume that if the location with your partner is not available for a bit, you wont turn into bundle of anxiety. Which is then, whatever.

But examples in this thread are different. People feeling unsafe because someone is late as usually. And that is neither normal nor healthy. And absolutely no one is served by trying to normalize that.
Some tasks are better done by tools now. I agree with that.
I believe that we still haven't figured out how much software we need. Or put another way: Every software breeds new software.
How did we get to low code platforms in the first place? Because of software. Who is using low code? Specialists. What can you build on top of platforms? More software. What established new ecosystems? Software.
Software is a tool. There is still virtual reality to come. And virtualization simply shows how much value software can generate.
Example: Virtual goods. Whoever thought that human beings need stuff that only exists in a game hosted in the cloud?
Excel? Coda, Notion, etc.
Maybe also the term developers itself changes. Remember the Frontend vs Backend discussion? This happens to Data Scientists and Python as well.
I believe that by 2030 there will be even more demand.
Great article, not many people write about this. The return is higher than I expected, though it wasn't clear about over which time period.
Manifestations of Technical Debt
Ah yes, I hadn't mentally added the Minority Report angle to my dystopian visions of the future, but you're completely right...
Clicked. Saw it was Lex Fridman. Closed.
Cruise will soon hit San Francisco with no hands on the wheel
We used to have free speech in the 1960s in Canada but we removed this. We created an opening to start policing speech.

Why are Canadian's so polite? Because you can go to prison for up to 2 years though more often than not it's just compensation. AKA "including compensation for injury to dignity, feelings and self-respect"

Hurting someone's feelings will send you to a non-judicial court where you do not have innocent until proven guilty. You must prove you didn't do it. Though it seems literally the only way to not be charged is to threaten taking it to the supreme court.

Worse yet, it has also created the 'you're a racist' thing. In order to silence your political opponents out of fear of being brought up on these charges. You get called a racist.

In BC they even teach kids in school to be right-wing is to be a racist: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/racism-a-right-wing-value-b-c-...

Then you can see why no right-wing parties are represented in their elections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_British_Columbia_general_...
Have they made hints of making a mobile version of sc? Are there any similar style games on mobile at the moment? It would seem pretty difficult to move this kind of game to mobile.
It would be much more useful if it were able to spot the quality of the work being done rather than how fast the work is getting completed.

It would be like an automated inspector that is up to date on the latest building codes at all time and is available 24/7
> If you think inclusive language is an attempt to shame people

It's not an attempt - it's used that way all the time, and the demonized are generally the ones who haven't had the privilege of attending college.

It's a great way to other-ize all the "uneducated" among us. The ones who don't live a comfortable sophisticated city existence with a service-sector job.
What the hell the passive voice is (2018)
> My experience (over decades) is I couldn't sustain my family for a year on a 1-acre garden plot even if I had the time to work it intensively and used nothing but recycled organic byproduct (compost and, uh, other stuff) as fertilizer.

I find this surprising. I help run an Atlanta-area non-profit that has a ~1 acre organic farm that donates everything it produces. For the year 2020 we have already donated 3120 lb / 1415 kg of food.

We're not trying to produce a nutritionally complete output on the farm, but that's still ~70 lb / 31.7 kg of food a week on average.
Food resilience can't be found in a few large farms, but many little ones.
Crowdsec: A Fail2Ban alternative written in Go
The oppressed outsider wiling to say the truth against all odds is a meme invented by hucksters like Weinstein so they can sell you their supplements/ads/patreon subscription. It has little basis in reality. (it's obviously true since these people usually have bigger platforms than any "establishment types" who criticize them)
What we need is the email metadata, specifically the headers including DKIM signatures. Then we can verify their content with Google’s public key.

Are they holding back the metadata in order to catch Biden in a trap denying the authenticity of the emails?

Here is a link to an interview with a surrogate for the Biden campaign, who says “I Don't Think Anybody Is Saying They Are Inauthentic.” [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOs22GI1rH0
It's not a strong indicator, it's an indicator there the story doesn't have enough credibility to warrant answering. Engaging with the story would give it life. Let the real journalists do the work to verify the claims and then the campaign would have to actually engage. A story from Rudy Giuliani who's working with known Russian agents and refuses to let anyone verify the metadata is not credible enough to warrant a response.
Oh my, attacking the source instead of the actual content is very sad, even by partisan leftist standards.

Here's a direct link to the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woGyMvqLV5o
Tell me of a single template language supported client-side without JS
Would be curious: this performance result includes training time? I guess I should read the paper...
This is huge, to be successful today you really need to be in the several thousand acres ranges, where only a few generations ago farmers made a living on 100-200 acres. If you can't afford the capital to expand via real estate niche farming is a more viable option for many folks. It's also often more risk than conventional grains, but with typical tradeoffs with higher reward.
Deconstructing Maxine, Nvidia’s AI-powered video-conferencing technology
Why are people so negative? I get that it is possible for people to dislike his style or find his voice triggering. What I don’t get is what those people get out of pointing this out. Especially when others have already done this.
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I have loved this,..
Weird Subtitles
What ?! Driving on undivided two-lane highways is one of scariest things one can do!
Sure it is, just serve it with Content-Type: 'plain/text'.
Ips4o: In-place parallel superscalar samplesort
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I'm not attempting to disprove the allegations, I'm pointing out that if you belief X because Y might be true then you are being played.
Historically, the higher taxes on petrol was used to subsidize diesel prices, because most of the agrarian sector and transport sector predominantly depends on diesel. Worldwide, diesel costs more than petrol (though by not that much). Some of the taxes also go towards subsidies for LPG, which is a major source of heating in many house holds in India.

However, taxes can come down. Geo-politically speaking though, it is in the interest of the govt. that the consumption of fuels is kept to a minimum, as we don't have any significant oil reserves.
Looking for strengths is not lowering the bar