skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you check millions of insects for actually being sterile? Considering it cost 100M$, I assume they established a non-lethal dose of radiation and then just blasted the insects. Could easily be that one develops beneficial mutations.
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> instead of spending 10x on (taxpaying) staff and employees within the UK, in order to create a new technology that may be useful and solve other problems, they are spending 1x on Amazon.

You imply that Amazon/AWS doesn't employ any staff in the UK, which is wrong.

> Amazon will not pay any tax within the UK

Amazon must certainly pay taxes in the UK, or at least the tax ends up being paid on Amazon share price increases from employees share vesting.
Organic farmer here: I haven't seen country that allow herbicides for use in organic farming. Speaking of different pesticides you are basically left with nonsystematic fungicides (a lot of them as sulfur or copper based) and biological control against living pest.
Hi CEO of GitHub.

You "hacked" yourself. A majority of commits are not "verified", and a majority of users don't know to "look for" the verified label. Why didn't you make signing mandatory if you recommend it?

As for repercussions to your mismanagement, I will certainly stay tuned.

In summary: you're fucked.
You can use dGPU for rendering and mirror frame buffer content over to iGPU mostly fine these days, as NVIDIA Optimus laptops do.

That you can’t do multi-GPU means you can’t combine GPUs to make them into a NUMA GPU cluster that is better performing than any of its nodes.
Nice work! How can I call the insert/select/update APIs in JS?
I wish hn would just ban submission to site without ssl in 2020.
> the invariant that c<motion> is equivalent to d<motion>i

Nit: that invariant also doesn’t work when the motion takes you to the end of the line because of how the cursor is one character wide in normal mode and zero characters wide in insert mode. On a buffer “asdf jkl” with the cursor on the letter f, c$x gets you “asd|” (| representing the cursor location), whereas d$ix gets you “as|d”.
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AMD sells these older designs on generation behind nodes (eg: 14nm) as they need to be on time and under budget to get OEM design wins.

If they miss the timeline to get laptop chips out the door for back to school season, Dell, HP, Asus, etc will just go with Intel as the vat majority of laptop sales happen in one short period of the year.

TSMC 7nm production is at capacity, Apple has the bulk of the wafers and AMD has to share the remainder with other customers on that 7nm process. Nvidia literally got no wafers allocated by TSMC, hence why they have been forced to use Samsung's half baked 8nm process that performs much worse.
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> That's what Gelman's post is about. There's something wrong with polling methodology and statisticians' models, and it's time to see what.

The problem is that it's very hard without more data than can be gathered, and it may be a moving target.

This same fact (or, rather, highly likely conclusion of substantial, correlated polling error indicating a systemic error) was, remember, widely observed in the wake of 2016 and the common hypothesis (for which fixes were implemented in 2020) was that the problem was pollsters not weighting samples for education.
As folks like Richard Perkins, Moreno, and others have made clear, you don't have to choose between those two options. Nothing wrong with having a small side income that generates interest in your farm and opens up a broader market to which to sell your products. Self-sufficient subsistence farming is unrealistic, but selling your vegetables and eggs to Yippies at retail prices is potentially a decent living.
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Critical RCE Vulnerability on Git- Large File System Extension
Because the vast majority of their users don't want (or need, really) to bother with setting up GPG, making a key, adding their key to their account, etc.

Also, if users don't know the very basics of how Git works, they probably shouldn't be using it, and certainly not trusting it.
Yes, but to put the money on the OpenDime device requires an on-network transaction.
I'm generally a big fan of these programs but I really feel like they should just wait until 2020 is done. The way everything else has gone, it's not worth the risk.
I've read that thru a few times and I can't see it as other than a glob of generalizations.

Perhaps you could plug some of the topics of the study into it (eg: the mistreatment/violence cycle). That could help me see how it relates.
Not going to try it as long as it is called "plant based". I want to know what it is. "Plant based" is too fuzzy.
1. Various insects have limitations on how often they reproduce or the female always lays eggs after fertilization, regardless of if the male was fertile at all, causing infertile or inviable eggs to form.

2. Insects have chromosomes specific to their sex, similar to the XY System in Humans but the X0 System (ie, lack of an X chromosome is a male) is a bit more popular in this kingdom (IIRC).

3) Radiation can be very targeted, you just need a method of aiming, a computer can probably do it. Or you can abuse feeding habits. Ie, you make it so that the insect can only feed in a specific position, then beam radiation at a fixed spot which will be close enough.
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I love the simplicity of this. If it had a proper editor, I could totally see using this for small prototype webapps.
The weird thing is, ads from the same domain already would be a lot harder to track. For some reason very few sites switched to this approach.
I think the biggest tragedy of prestige is that many of us use it to automatically assign certain attributes to a person, e.g. if someone is rich then they must be smart or if they have a university degree then they must be intelligent and someone that attends an Ivy league is going to be thought of as more intelligent than someone who attends any other university. I think prestige has began to overshadow too many other important traits people poses like moral values, personal history and accomplishments. It’s a shame it’s the way we seem to gage people now.
So much great in that game. The rocket noise, the alien chatter and multiplayer game was excellently.
The author has a point. Cool car are faster but that's not where coolness comes from.

The same is with houses, computers and stuff. The cool computers have an indescribable 'thing' that you can notice and like when it's there and miss it when it's not.

I'm sure I've heard people talk about it before. 'The art of motorcycle maintenance' talks about 'quality'. Richard P. Gabriel talks about the 'quality without a name' in one of his books.
Not very convincing. Addresses cannot be handled by humans?

The same is true for all modern computing. Intels CPU has several prefetch queues, some with more than 200 entries. Who can handle this? Well, not even Intel's engineers as Meltdown and the later discoveries have shown. Have you looked how a GPU works? Recently there has been discussion that Kubernetes depends on 200 libraries. The list goes on and on.

That said, he might or might not have some point in the address translation section. But not being an expert in IPv6, he has wasted his trust by useless complaining before he gets to the possible beef.
Exactly. Meat is meat and happens to taste good. But vegetables can taste good too. I can appreciate them for what they are, and do not need or want them to taste "like meat".
How is Nate Silver not utterly discredited after yet another disaster? He repeatedly claimed the polls were not like 2016 and made some utterly useless predictions as a result.

His entire job is poll analysis and he fails to see how they're fundamentally flawed when some of them were off by more than double the margin of error.

Why is he still relevant?
Anecdotally, I would actually attribute it more to lying than shyness, though I've heard and seen examples of both. For myself, I dislike pollsters and mainstream media, so I will say that my vote is not information I share. For my friends and family, they'll blatantly lie in an (probably vein) attempt to throw off the numbers.

There is a huge distrust of media in the US, and pollsters are seen as part of that. I do think there is some component to bias influencing the election and how polls can be either manipulated or withheld to manipulate that.

Personally, I think we'd be better off politically without pollsters and less polarized without the media complex.
Neither. It is better to plant forests.

https://www.ted.com/talks/shubhendu_sharma_how_to_grow_a_for...

https://www.afforestt.com/
Again, as you yourself mentioned, very, very, very few projects/people sign their commits. Even fewer actually verify them. That has nothing to do with how easy Git makes it to impersonate commits. In fact, whether you sign or not, you can still easily impersonate commits with any Git tool unless the person on the other end actively verifies the signature. (Which GitHub makes much easier than git, since they also maintain & automatically check a verified mapping of email -> GPG key, instead of you having to somehow get the key and then make sure it's the right one and then explicitly tell git to verify the signature)

I am well aware that you can sign commits with Git. I do, personally and professionally, and my coworkers and I are required to, by policy that I wrote. That has absolutely no bearing on the topic at hand even tangentially.
For a lot of those things, competitors have a viable path to profitability if they make a better alternative. With Youtube, even if you make a better alternative, you're still loosing a ton of money due to costs of serving video and scaling (especially if you want to let people watch and upload for free).
And participated in the Gumball.
Yes but is it matter if entire computer is 2x expensive?

Anecdote: In Japan, SanDisk sells "genuine" SD cards extremely expensive (about x3-x7 for US price). Importing SD cards from US (or buy from local importer, it's common) is makes sense even though it has no warranty.
I've used these icons quite a bit. If you use the SVGs they are made in such a way that you can color them quite a bit just using CSS. I haven't used any of them in the default colors.
You're right... the vast majority of users should certainly no longer trust github.
Their UI is far better at it than the git tool itself. You have to explicitly tell git to check signatures (not to mention needing to go get people's keys and verify that they're correct, which GitHub does for you).
What does this have to do with Linux? If he compiled it on windows it would have been a similar size.

As eatingCake already mentioned this is not optimized for release, but for debugging.
Minor nitpick: "Taking a value by self Drops the original value" is wrong, moving a value does not call Drop on it.
Please let me know when you figure out how your complaint is in any way specific to GitHub, as opposed to git in general.
If an entire UI (content plus ads) is drawn with wasm onto a canvas (the way Qt WebAssembly does it), it will be impossible to use CSS to hide ads, and possibly more difficult to modify the script to disable the ad-loading functions.
I'd keep it offline but allow for online lookups to make sure your vote is cast.

For example, at the end of the process the election counters release a file called "results.txt".

Inside that file is a data structure like:
{ huid: "123-456-789-ABC", vote: "Biden" }

Then you grep for the secret huid that you wrote on your paper ballot and that make sure that your vote was counted correctly.

This is a simplified concept without eg. PK crypto. Microsoft's ElectionGuard is an actual cutting edge implementation of how to do it well: https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard
NPT does that if your default firewall rule is "allow all incoming". Atleast on my router, if I setup NPT it also automatically creates a firewall rule to drop all non-relevant traffic unless I allow it.

I feel like I should point out that in IPv4 NAT you also still have a firewall to drop incoming traffic unrelated to anything.
Are they being closed permanently, actually? Yes, this would be a good opportunity to shut down that entire abhorrent industry, but I wouldn't be surprised if the government instead gives a fat handout to the fur farmers to restart their businesses.
First of all kudos for sharing your wonderful experience. I must say geography also helped you a lot with your experience. Your experience would've been much different if your farm was in Bidar or Anantpur. I would love to hear more about your journey and keep sharing your tales with us!
I won't say it's insane but now lack of Threadripper or EPYC is serious lineup defect. I'm exciting how Apple make competitive chip.
"When you're rich, they think you really know." -- Fiddler on the Roof

People have a hard time understanding randomness, so of course they can't distinguish luck from skill. If you ask the average person to put dots on a page randomly, they'll generally create some kind of pattern in order to cover the page thoroughly. If you show someone a random distribution of dots, they'll be convinced there's a pattern. Faces in clouds.

I used to play poker semi-professionally. I wondered why the same people came, day after day, to give me money. Sure, sometimes they'd win. It's the randomness of it that confused them. They'd see skill where there was luck, and luck where there was skill.
There are complexities and nuances in our country that aren't well represented by the majority. Such as the food, farming, and ranching industries. Such as rural or sub-rural areas, forestry management, national parks, mining, etc. Entire industries exist that are better served by local politics than national politics, and for which a popular vote would under-represent.

That's why the system was designed with an electoral college. So that rural farmers could be represented as equally and strongly as city business people. Should they be? Probably, if we want to eat.

Even in the current system, the election is largely chosen by people living in large cities that are completely disconnected from the rest of the 95% of the country. There is almost a city limits split between red and blue. Maintaining balance in the complex system is more important than making each voice heard.
Can confirm - I tried growing all sorts of things in an awful north-facing garden with varied success but am now mostly focusing on two things - leaf vegetables and small fruit. Chard and raspberries are my primary outputs, and being able to go out and pick a handful of raspberries for dessert is a way superior experience to buying them - better taste, more varieties, better quality, and they store longer than store-bought. Same thing with leaf vegetables - unless I buy frozen (which I still do in winter) you can't get decent spinach or chard outside the peak of the season. They store for months on the plant though unless temperatures get too hot, so I can just pick as much as I need for a meal and not worry about spoilage.
Likewise, the typical alarm clock icon depicting an analogue clock with physical bells on top is also laughably out of date. But it's recognizable!
The sweet spot is when you have passions about products, expensive things or impractical crops to scale... We have a homestead with acreage in Hawaii. Chickens and eggs are zero effort. We don't even need to feed them, just collect the eggs. We grow heirloom tomatoes in the greenhouse because they are crazy expensive to ship from the mainland and we love them. Likewise, we also grow a lot of white pineapples because they are amazing, but not commercially viable to ship... There are lots of small scale / high margin areas to work in, you just need to explore and find them. You won't build a business empire, but you can find a lot of satisfaction.
You've been misimpressed :) Clojure/ClojureScript, Elm, Erlang/Elixir are examples of pragmatic communities and cultures.
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I saw his interview on justin murphy's podcast - he seems like a super interesting guy! Glad to hear the book is doing well
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How much land does one need to become self sufficient? Let's assume that means producing enough biomass to generate the resources necessary to have a surplus of food or money.
There are humans that are being kept alive by medical machines, this doesn't mean humans can't live without machines.
Denmark plans to cull up to 17M mink to stop mutated coronavirus
That's what I do. I'm clearly wrong about the fingering charts though (I learned from an ancient DOS program, so I can't check that one). I have a picture of a symmetrical one in my head; C is the equivalent of M, so it seems like they should use the same finger.
Chart polls vs results: https://twitter.com/thomasjwood/status/1324171829007757316
That was their argument, but I strongly doubt it would have held up had they been sued (particularly in the US). Also, a major point they raised was that they did not distribute LAME in executable form.
From my experience in Clojure projects and watching Erlang/Elixir projects, it's not like this at all in those cultures.
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“Trump has the largest amount of data ever collected by a politician”
This is stated several times in the article without much further information. It raises some questions about the data, among which... Is it true? Can it be verified? What consequences could it have?
I once tried Vim with the expectation that it would reduce keystroke count, but found that to be largely exagerated. As an example:

save in Vim:

[esc] : w enter

3 or 4 keystrokes involving two hands.

save in emacs:

C-x-s

one 3 fingered chord with the left hand.

And then I missed all the depth provided by emacs modes, perforce integration, org mode etc etc.
If you force to vote the many people that wouldn't vote otherwise, you will likely have results that are not representative of what the citizens want, due to skewed data. Don't expect forced voters to represent a normal vote.
I can't watch "The Office" because I've worked in corporate America and that show is just too real and hits too close to home. However, I would watch the shit out of "The Office Tech".
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There's also the added benefit of being able to list the github.io domain on the Public Suffix List [1], which means that no cookies can be set for the top level domain, only the *.github.io subdomains. This prevents the platform users from accidentally revealing their cookies to every other app under the top level domain.

EDIT: to ellaborate for the interested, the Public Suffix List is used by browser vendors to decide what part of the URL is considered the TLD for display and cookie security purposes (and I imagine others).

[1] https://publicsuffix.org/
SPARCprinter was way more than 15 years ago. Try 30…
>Assuming the takedown notice is sufficiently detailed according to the statutory requirements (as explained in the how-to guide), we will post the notice to our public repository and pass the link along to the affected user.

I think many would argue that the takedown notice wasn't "sufficiently detailed", especially when you consider the 1201 vs 512 issue.
It's permissionless, as in no reporting transactions over $10k to the government, no ID checks to create an account, no names and addresses in the "global transaction log" etc.

That sounds a lot like freedom to me.
> In New Zealand's last election, the National Party won the popular vote but their opponent the Labour Party actually won the election and is now in power.

Incorrect. In the last election, a couple of weeks ago, Labour easily won the popular vote and is also in power.
What's the penalty for failing to comply with a takedown that does turn out to be legal? That's the risk that Github has to consider.
It's somewhat incompetent to feed production data to the test environments (or did they run tests on the production?). And it's unclear if Starbucks Sg fixed this hole or not.
they face 40 years of verification on every transection, its a waiting game. pretty sure they want to cash out fully at first sight when time allows it.
While I am a fan of go and like it's simplicity it does sadden me the degree to which it is a 100% google project on any significant change like this. It is not an open source project in the sense of most major open source projects and if you don't work at Google on the go team you are highly unlikely to be involved in any significant changes.

I worked on the compiler in 2011 as an open source contributor and firmly got this impression back then which seriously put me off and the absolute farce of how modules were handled (community heavily involved put a ton of work in then out of nowhere Russ Cox just did his own thing anyway) suggests to me nothing has changed.

Generics have been heavily discussed and desired from the beginning of the language and many have contributed thoughts and concepts. At first the designers said more or less 'nope not needed' which changed to 'if somebody suggests a good implementation we will do it'. But would they really? If this design document had come from outside the go team would they even give it a glance?

I like the language and the team are clearly talented but it is a pity that the project is quite so proprietary.
Nitpicking brigade here, sorry:
In my understanding a dog whistle is something else, it's a code phrase used to refer to some opinion that's unsavoury and know transgressive to communicate out-of-band to your supporters that you share that opinion. An actual dog whistle for calling dogs produces ultrasound, that humans cannot hear...
None of those have the network effect and an existing community. Maybe MySpace would be a better counter example.
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You should see what people say about tax evader Al Capone.
It's not about permissions. It's about decoding video using WebAssembly and rendering it on canvas. Browser can't prevent it. Now I'm not sure that it wasn't possible before WebAssembly... Decoding some tiny video should not be that resource-intensive. Also you could just utilize GIF.
I'm imagining a lab where how effectively mosquitos are humping in measured after blasting their naughty bits with radiation. That is amazing.

"What do you do for a living?"

"Have you ever heard of PornHub? Well, I'm a contributor to MosquitoHub. It sucks less and less everyday!"
You could also make the argument that farmers should use some of their profits to buy insurance against such things. For example, I remember this story about the UK government and insurance provisions from earlier in the pandemic[1], and there were definitely experts on the radio at the time who said that it's possible to purchase cover against epidemics and other rare events - why not for government deciding to eliminate your herd? Or legal insurance so you can sue for compensation?

Additionally, if mink farmers are aware that their animals can be a vector for disease - and shouldn't they be? - then should they not also take steps to protect their own finances from foreseeable events, regardless of their likelihood?

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51730412
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The Windows is still a near monopoly (Mac at 8-10%, Linux at 1-3%) in the desktop globally. On mobile, they never had a stronghold.

As for SEGA, AOL, and IE, they never had any real stronghold (like a lock-in), they just had the users - those are easier to switch to something new. Games for example go stale, and you don't care that much for your older played games - you want the new shiny. A browser, you switch over, and you have everything you did before, including your bookmarks. AOL, had it's stronghold when the internet was 1/100 of what it is now.

I can see the internet going 100x larger now (except if it goes to 80 billion people out of the 8 billion on Earth).
You don't get to care for your kids in the parents scenario though.