skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great initiative depending on where the money goes, but fundamentally the race to solve global emission is doomed to fail.

European countries like Sweden or Iceland have low footprint because of the population lifestyle and the energy coming from abundant renewable source.

If the fund go through « iterative » innovation I don’t see how this is supposed to solve anything ? There is countless studies on those topics.
The only reasons I haven't left GitHub is because:

1 - I'd lose all my stars

2 - I like the UI

3 - Other Git hosts don't look nice and I feel weird using them.

If GH was open source, we wouldn't be having these problems.
I would expect they do, and I'm not entirely against it depending on the circumstances around it and so forth.

To me a 'back door' could range from 'don't fix that bug for a week' to 'push this update to this user' to some absurd 'hey can you add this remote desktop client to your code, the password has to be 1234'.

By no means is it a light thing to do but I do believe there is a range of actions that would constitute a 'back door' to me.

Granted I'm all for more congressional oversight and I'd like to see MUCH more aggressive congressional action.
Use the Elon Musk's neuralink electrodes to hook up the brain to a computer. Then make an experiment to see if the brain can measure something, by reacting to stimuli.
If it can, then its an observer in the quantum mechanics sense, and therefore has consciousness...?
The Trump administration is burying dozens of studies about renewable energy
To argue the other perspective that it is amoral, the parents know their child will experience pain and that not creating that child will avoid that pain. It isn’t about intent, as the parent disregarding this because they want a child could just be selfishness - not considering others before themselves. Moreover, by still creating what you know will be injured and feel pain, are the parents not inherently violent?

Does the fact that the parents don’t, with intent and personally, inflict the pain allow them to abdicate that they are the root cause of the pain even being possible in the first place.
US-based meta-comment: I see lots of talk in this thread about the problem of customers just wanting to shout at customer support. Maybe I've got election brain, but does anyone else think this is a symptom of the frustration people feel under a political system that no longer responds to the legitimate grievances of people on the bottom of the social and economic order.
I am the author of this blog post. It’s a very detailed description of the issue, so feel free to read only the “Why you should care” section. Also, let me know if something needs clarifying, I’ll see your questions here.
It seems to be the scientific consensus. I personally don't think genetics carry any hereditary claim to a thousand years old culture but it always bothers me to see people go against state of the art scientific conclusions (unless they have good evidence of their own).

>Copts share the same main ancestral component than North African and Middle East populations (dark blue), supporting a common origin with Egypt (or other North African/Middle Eastern populations). They are known to be the most ancient population of Egypt and at k = 4 (Fig.3), they show their own component (dark green) different from the current Egyptian population which is closer to the Arabic population of Qatar.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4446898/
Antinatalism is an old position (see Al-Ma'arri), but it does seems like there have been a growth in texts about it lately.
I agree completely, but it is the people doing the exploiting that are responsible. Lots of people have benefited from all sorts of crimes through no fault of their own, nor any way to know what was happening or even any way to stop it even if they had. History is full of examples. You and I are probably included.
What Is a Data Lake?
why not eliminate geographic compensation zones worldwide?

It has many cons for employees, but 'at will' employment presents benefits to employers that can be reflected in salary, since if that employee is no longer needed or the salary is no longer viable for the business case, the employee can be let go easily.

If you're employing people in countries where you have to spend months of negotiation, legals, or may even be unable to lay someone off at all, you're not going to be paying as much, since you need to cover contingencies. If US people move to such countries, they can also be covered by such laws, or may also be subjected to double taxation which will affect their pay too.

I know people in Europe who've been "employed" by US companies as contractors to avoid having these local legal obligations, and that would certainly open up the option of global pay levels, but I know there are legal and regulatory issues around this approach too.
Show HN: Simple Highlight Tracker
Backstory: A few months ago there was a post[1] about quarantine side-projects on HN. This is one of mine. It is a short-and-sweet HTML highlighter with a client-side db (Indexeddb) and a cursor menu in the Chrome extension toolbar.

I wanted to make something my eight grade self could code if he was in 2020 and not 2000.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170881
flying cars and jet packs have VC funding.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of Rainbow's End!
Why We Memo All the Things
Microsoft Teams Meeting Recordings
Stuxnet is interesting. Apparently, the US and Israeli agents threw away a number of USB devices around target facilities. What do you do when you find a USB stick? Well, eventually someone working in an air gapped facility picked up one and used it inside.

The NSA apparently perfectly aligned 4 zeros days in Siemens and Microsoft products to spread the malware from USB into the Iranian LAN (shared printers, industrial PICs etc).

The fact that they could choose and align 4 zero days indicates that the NSA probably has a large list of zeros days.
So, like a human?
The Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) is a think tank based in Irving, Texas and founded in 1987 by Congressman Dick Armey to "research, develop and promote innovative and non-partisan solutions to today's public policy problems."[1]

IPI is an associate member of the State Policy Network (SPN), a network of right-wing "think tanks" and other non profits spanning 49 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico.[2]

The conservative Capital Research Center ranked IPI as amongst the most conservative groups in the US, scoring it as an "eight" on a scale of one to eight.[3] IPI has received funding from corporations like Exxon Mobil and organizations like the Kochs' Claude R. Lambe Foundation, Scaife Foundations, the Bradley Foundation and others....

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Po...
I don’t think Amazon customers posting here about their frustration are anywhere near the bottom of the social and economic order.
Quest 2 Jailbreak Effort Reports Success Bypassing Facebook Services
I always thought Blob stood for Binary Large OBject, so wouldn’t “Binary Blob” be like “PIN Number”?
It's certainly possible, but I suspect just traditional bugs and poor software is more likely the cause for such events.

Software / hardware industry is PLENTY good at paving the way all on its own.
According to the charts and descriptions in the article, it literally doesn't. The article shows Tesla firmly in the lead in capability/performance and ease of use and that Cadillac just nannies the driver more and turns itself off completely when not on pre-mapped divided highways with restricted access, which is antithetical to making the world safer because it's only active away from where people currently die by the thousands due to human negligence.

CR's idea of goodness is that autopiloting should only ever be allowed on pre-mapped divided highways with restricted access. Since Cadillac's only works on pre-mapped divided highways with restricted access, they get high marks. But that's not better performance. That's worse performance with a geofence to hide the details.

> “Active driving assistance systems should only be able to be activated in low-risk driving environments, void of pedestrians and tricky situations, such as intersections and complicated traffic patterns,” Funkhouser says.

But this ignores the fact that most traffic fatalities happen from human negligence in the places where Cadillac's Supercruise explicitly disables itself, rural roads + intersections. If Cadillac's system only ever activated while parked in your garage they could give it a 10/10 for safety, and it would not make the world safer.
Thank you for the link - I’ll make sure to read more on him and the critiques.
I remember Monaco , the actual Editor inside VS Code being developed while I was in my first year of Computing Software Bachelor.

3 years later they released VS Code Alpha.

They spent millions on it.
It's an interesting case of cognitive dissonance. Most will admit when pressed a bit that the CIA/NSA/FBI do not have our best interests at heart and are out of control. They have repeatedly lied under oath, lied to congress, lied to the public, run human experiments on unwitting citizens, collect data on all of us, etc with complete impunity.

However many people somehow simultaneously hold the belief that these agencies should continue to exist, are deserving of our taxpayer dollars, and are generally Good Guys who happen to do bad things sometimes. Perhaps it's just too exhausting to consider the extent of corruption in the USA.
Why is arbitration so bad exactly? The implication seems to be that Amazon has a better chance of winning, but I never see how that is backed up.
> There's not much difference between the way that brain tissue develops in fetal development and in current lab environments.

But wouldn't the sensory input be completely missing? A fetus at least has some of these inputs as the sensory organs are developing, which is part of getting sentience. A brain in a vat has no equivalent so it would lack a lot of additional input that usually goes into forming a human consciousness/sentience.
Reasons Your Digital Product Is Failing
I have a feeling I'll be down voted to hell for this, but self driving cars always felt like going the complete wrong direction for me. Aside from small personal satisfaction to the few that will be able to afford them, how is revolving our infrastructure and culture around them any better than simply investing in public transportation by making it a more feasible option for people?

I'm not in the US, and while the public transportation system here is far from perfect, I've managed to get by this far without a car and don't plan on buying one anytime soon. I much prefer a future where this is improved compared to one I have to fork tens of thousands of USD for a chromatic death machine.
Second that, it's beautiful.
What about the crippled survivors?
So we only believe people who claim something is happening with no proof ... because anyone who doesn't see it happening just isn't in the special circle of folks doing it?
"These are the kinds of things that prevent me from touching C++"

Please don't let boost stop you.

At my team we avoid boost like the plague and prefer terse and pragmatic code. IMO C++ is best approached like C but with convenient data structures in the standard library - and tons of patterns that _may_ be taken into use if they simplify the code.

That said, unless you are working in a specific setting where C++ is obviously the best tool, you probably should not use C++. Even at best of times C++ is complex and unproductive. But it offers an unbeatable combination of ecosystem maturity, robustness, close to the metal performance and high level concepts to fit few slots better than anything else.
That rate is on the order of 1000x worse than airliners which was the comparison as that's the level of reliability people are expecting from self-driving cars. A self-driving car that's 100x worse than the airliner standard would still save 90% of all road fatalities. And yet saving 30k lives might still not be enough for people to accept such a lower standard compared to an airliner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...
Deep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains
> deep down we still question whether or not God/gods is/are real.

Deep down? I'm happy to question it consciously and out loud, should anyone ask me about it directly.
Zoom is Electron isn't it? That's not native.
Amazon nowhere says that the invoices appear to be fake. Amazon’s reply is: “Illegible or didn't match records” - Illegible can mean anything, for example older as 365 days, as stated in the article. The second part about records not matching is just company speak to make it look like the vendor is to blame. It’s intentionally vague. My wife worked as a vendor manager at Amazon and she never checked any manufacturer receipts/had a way to check them.
I once ran an ecommerce site, and due to a bug every customer saw a fairly cryptic error message. It was something along the lines of "You must login to perform that action". Our site didn't have a login system.

By fixing that bug, conversions went down. We literally did an A/B test to prove that giving the user a stupid error increased revenue. We even played with the text of the error to maximize revenue.

We never figured out why, but my hypothesis is the user has to feel like that are making progress through the task they are trying to achieve. Getting a pointless error, and then getting past it, gives them a sense of achievement. They're then happier and more invested in your product when it comes to plugging in a credit card number...
Lambdas. They added it a while back.

[things-to-capture](params) -> return-type { function-body; }

The return type is optional [0] since it can be detected automatically. The things-to-capture have a couple variants:

[&foo]...

Captures variable foo by reference.

[foo]...

Makes a copy of foo.

You can also capture "everything" using [&] or [=]. Handy if you don't want to make an explicit list of captured variables. You can also mix it:

[&foo, bar]...

Captures foo by reference and a copy of bar.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda

[0] Additionally, lambdas may not have a return value. Like this one:

int n = 0;
auto counter = [&n] () { n++; }
counter();
// now n == 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline#Choice_of_the_GPL...
Alternative Investments: why the “new rich” aren't sticking to stocks and bonds
> Other parts are quite simple and well worth picking up, e.g. liberal use of typedefs

honest question, why do you think liberal use of typedefs is a good habit to pick up?
The main cost of search isn't crawling.

The main cost of search is developing incredibly sophisticated ML algorithms for parsing search queries, for ranking results, and parsing web pages to provide factual results (like Google's snippets and knowledge base items).

And this is orders of magnitude more expensive than it was two decades ago. Because you've got to compete with Google which has a 20-year head start in throwing the best engineers in the world at these problems.

Nobody's going to use a search engine that isn't at least 90% as good as Google in these things. See: Bing.
> NixOS now distributes an official GNOME ISO.

Nice to see!

Likewise, the OpenCL story is getting improved, and that's great!
Exactly, this was new until the moment it was publicized :)

Adding a bit of human-pulse oscillation to the color bitmap is likely trivial.

There is no way to solve deepfake entirely beyond cryptographic signing. Apple should obviously implement this on iOS at least.
I think it was the part about "deep down" questioning whether gods are real. Many people are happy to question it, nothing deep down about it. I assume that was what they meant by atheists do exist.

They way you wrote it made it sounds as if you were saying that everyone at the surface believes gods are real, but only deep down do they perhaps, maybe question it. It sounds as if you were taking it for granted that everyone obviously believes gods are real, which is of course not true, whether you meant that or not.
I don't think that's necessarily the case for sufficiently large installations unless the cells are really slow. For any grid-scale battery you're going to have many thousands of individual cells linked together. Even if each cell is individually only capable of relatively small charge/discharge rates, it shouldn't matter at the scale of the whole installation for normal supply/demand scenarios. I would only expect brown-out situations if something bad happens to the grid (like PG&E decides to shut down power distribution elsewhere because of fire risk...)
Not doing these tests would hold back progress even more. Do you have good examples of pointless experiments? Not bearing out "useful" results is hard to evaluate because rejecting a hypothesis can be important as well.

To me, it seems science is moving away from appropriate testing due to funding issues, etc. I don't think making it worse by making illegal certain tests would make it any better.
Haha. Can't tell if it's supposed to be sarcasm or not, but AFAIK it's the process of measurement that causes the collapse, not a consciousness.
You can also play with VMs, example [1].

Other than that its a reason you don't want an OS specific FDE but a platform agnostic one. You can, of course, swap to such.

[1] http://augustbonds.com/luks-encrypted-ext4-drive-in-windows-...
While I agree in principle with what you're putting forward, I think there are a couple of huge obstacles. One, good luck convincing politicians to sacrifice their projects to make room for #3. I understand the carbon tax would be more efficient, but in the short term there would a be a revenue loss, and most politicians would only care about that. Two, Without #3, the whole thing is a non-starter. It's a lofty academic idea that fits well into a forum like this; but without #3 happening, it boils down to "give me more of your money and I promise we'll fix it!", which is an unacceptable argument for lots of Americans (myself included, to be frank).

I personally hold that the best and most realistic solution is a headfirst, committed dive into nuclear energy.
You're absolutely right, it can be easily addressed with more information. So perhaps it would have been worth it to get that information first and level a more applicable criticism before posting valueless FUD.

https://teamtrees.org/
Linux package managers have no problem with multiple versions of a library: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/209712
Observational study shows low dose aspirin users had 47% lower Covid death rate
Canadian farm land real estate prices have also skyrocketed. In general, humanity is shifting to adapt to climate change.
The problem with your first and third examples is that it leaves it open and vulnerable to anyone other than the NSA. Like if a "backdoor" is left open for encryption, as soon as it's discovered then that door is open to anyone.

The problem with your second example, targeting a specific user, is that they're doing this without any kind of warrant.
I like your quiz! https://sheep.horse/2019/5/quiz_-_planet_from_doctor_who_or_...
All a matter of implementation: Trying to "upload our consciousness" into computers is just a slightly less macabre version of the very same brain in a vat idea.
You are assuming this would be operated at a loss. Apple could sell their own advertising. Or if it's good enough, just use it to make the iPhone experience better. Ad free search would be a pretty nice feature if results are top Q.

Also assumes the DOJ/ court systems/ legislation isn't going to block this kind of deal regardless.

(The press has been talking about an Apple search engine on and off for 5 years so I'm skeptical).
You don't think

def find_definition(word): # Listing 3
url = build_url(word)
data = requests.get(url).json() # I/O
return pluck_definition(data)

is more readable that the original code that inlines the definitions of both helper functions?
Linear's Superb User Experience
Arbitration is done by a company picked by Amazon, paid by Amazon, hoping to remain in business with Amazon, deciding about a conflict between Amazon and a random customer. In whose direction are they likely to err?
Sure, but:

> According to a 2011 study, 41.6% of adults in the US are deficient. This number goes up to 69.2% in Hispanics and 82.1% in African-Americans

That's not exactly "most people". That's for the US where a lot of states are very temperate and the sunlight is present during winter.

Imagine how bad it gets up north.

It's true that the body will produce vitamin D in the right conditions, but unless you get those conditions it won't. Taking supplements is the easy road, especially at prescription levels.

Vitamin D is not water soluble, so you won't urinate it out. This means that you can get prescribed an injection or a big pill and be fine for weeks.
" "This is a critical finding that needs to be confirmed through a randomized clinical trial," said study leader Jonathan Chow, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at UMSOM. "If our finding is confirmed, it would make aspirin the first widely available, over-the-counter medication to reduce mortality in COVID-19 patients." "
I completely agree on all points.
You dont need to slave them. Life will make them pay with suffering. I am for sure not suicidal but I really wish I had never been born.
Some of the IFP systems actually use a evolutionary algorithms, I believe- ADATE in particular, though I can't find an actual instance of it online, or any other information but a mistitled paper:

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.590...
There's a further separation here - let's call them "conscious" and "recognization" and they are processed by two different parts of the brain. I'm doing a lot of generalizing in this explanation and I'm not attempting to be 100% accurate in where things happen - I'm a programmer/architect, not a brain guy.

And it's not just memory, but the processing or "thinking" of that memory. Let's take just one sense, sight, for our example.

When you see something, eventually the signal gets to your "conscious" mind (also, there is a slight delay as your brain processes things). But at the same time that information is processed by the "recognization" part of your brain which will eventually store that information, also, in long term memory. There are a few interesting facts about this that I've seen:

1. there are people who are blind, but not because their eyes are damaged, but because the connection is severed to their "conscious". But their "recognization" connection is still intact. Because of this, even though they can't see, they can recognize faces and even stop before running into a wall. This is because the regognization happens even though you're not consciously aware of it. Something like face blindness is (probably) the opposite.
2. When you're in a parking lot looking for your car and you see your friend, you won't recognize them - this is because the "recognization" processing is only single threaded!
3. You can recognize someone you know from much further than you can make out their face consciously.
4. Recognization looks for very complex patterns - especially faces. Just ask yourself "how" you tell one face from another? That feeling of being being watched may be just that there's something face like in the environment.
5. The recognization will store its information and your conscious mind will look for it where its stored but they don't talk directedly!. So, again, when you see something, that information is sent to both places. But sometimes, especially if you have a chemical issue (e.g. serotonin) (even just a minor issue for that moment, not necessarily a big issue), the recognization process will be fast but the conscious process will be slow. So the recognization will store it, then the conscious brain will check to see if it's stored - and it's there! So your con