skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not. Earth will be fine without humans, just as it was millions of years ago, before humans were even a thing.

If you believe that climate scientists enjoy preaching doom and gloom, you've honestly got a problem. Scientists have every incentive to publish and publicize good science. I suspect you didn't even read the article I linked, much less any of the papers linked within, did you?

Tell me: what does your salary depend on you not understanding that makes you unable to even consider the possibility that climate change is real, and it will likely destroy civilization?
You don’t need docker to develop web apps.
It's a perfectly normal name for someone around the age of 80, I know several.
Is it really that easy to install spyware on Android phones as the article seems to suggest?
Thanks for the help. Appreciate it.
Ask HN: Quantitative comparison of permaculture and industrial farming
I am new to permaculture but would like to get a better feeling for if and how mid- to large-scale commercial permaculture farms could feed the world (in a hopefully much more sustainable way). In particular, I am interested in quantitative studies of the following two questions:

* How does the biomass produced per unit area compares between permaculture and modern industrial farms?

* How does the cost structure of mid-scale permaculture farms compare to modern industrial farms?

If more general studies are hard to get, I am also fine with case studies. So far I have been unable to locate satisfactory studies on these rather central questions. Any pointers are highly appreciated.

PS: This is a cross-posting of a question I posted on the sustainability stackexchange (https://sustainability.stackexchange.com/questions/10420/quantitative-comparison-of-the-economics-and-output-of-permaculture-versus-indus).
Thanks for pointing out this series, here is an rss feed for those interested in never missing the next article:

https://www.universetoday.com/feed/?s=%22Beyond+%22Fermi%27s...

Or you can broaden the list with some additional articles tagged as related to the Fermi Paradox with:

https://www.universetoday.com/tag/fermi-paradox/feed/

It seems the author publishes every few weeks to months.
Contesting. See how many contacts you can make in a certain time. Compare your score with friends and rivals. Improve your station. Does it help your score improve?

Satellite grid chasing - using amateur satellites to contact every “grid square” in the country.

There are also awards. Some are easy to obtain (confirmed contact on any band with 100 countries), but can you work the world on just one band?

Don’t like talking? Digital modes eliminate pesky talking.

Want to learn to solder? Make your own antenna. Make it better. Make it bigger.

Have friends nearby with radios? Use your radios as direction finding equipment and have a “fox hunt”. Find the hidden transmitter!

Are you an insane conspiracy theorist who believes the covid vaccine will turn you gay, blind, and autistic? Boy do I have good news for you. 75m band is chock full of yokels, Magas, and covidiot gun nuts for you to trade insane rantings with.

Should I keep going?
I sent compelling evidence that Jesus wasn't actually born on December 25th to the mods, but I haven't heard back from them.

I feel validated now that I see I'm not the only person unable to read HN because of the theme change. I have worked very hard to optimize my HN experience and now that's out the window. This disregard of basic color harmony and contrast, and presenting a consistent user experience, shows how little some people know about UI/UX.
... And yet Apple refused flash support on iOS. It didn't hurt Apple, and only strengthened web development by forcing new solutions to appear. Flash, once a big chunk of the web, is now a little more than a footnote.
“Protecting the interests of foreign investors is very important for us.”
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Sars was 17 years ago, and East Asian countries responded much better to Covid as result of their lessons learned, with Taiwan being the star pupil. My expectation, though, is that the US will never reach such levels of life-saving, due to our cultural differences.
Got an alert from namecheap saying my `.pro` domain renewal will cost 16.98$ starting Jan 5, also price increases for 15 other that I don't really care about.

My first thought was, I should pre-pay for the next 9 years now to lock it in cheap... then I looked at the price I pay now, 15.88$ and I paid about 4$ initial registration.

Honestly there's no rush, it's a minor price increase, and I expect things to get more expensive as time flies anyway, that's what happens to literraly every subscription I pay (rent, watter, energy, council tax, internet, phone, email are all "subscriptions" I pay and all of them have increased in price, and will undoubtedly increase again). Not that there's anything you can do about it, it's the "cost of doing business".

I'll have to consider what's the lifetime of this domain, should I pay now, or am I going to throw it away in a few years/months for something else. I'll probably keep it as it's a good one, and I'll put an alarm for the 4th so I have enough time to think this through.

The `.io` price increase looks a bit bigger relatively speaking, but nothing earth shattering... so try following the same logic as I detailed above.

Now the question: how often do these increase?
> eg functions aren't first-class values.

Ruby doesn't have functions, but you can obtain a first class value for any method by calling the method `method` on any object.
So, no one expects the Art School and/or Venetian Inquisitions either?
A Frame-by-Frame Rebuttal to Xkcd's Pickup Artist Comic (2010)
If you get a true positive from amniocentesis, the positive ultrasound would have been a true positive too, though, right?
These people had experience with many other languages prior to Ruby. And they choose it for non-rails projects.

A lot of the love for Ruby seems to center around the widespread use of generators and the clean syntax for invoking them. And some people truly love duck typing.
Interview with PlanB on Bitcoin (English Subtitles)
The IAT is pseudoscience.

The Implicit Association Test at Age 21: No Evidence for Construct Validity [0]

> The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is 21 years old. Greenwald et al. (1998) proposed that the IAT measures individual differences in implicit social cognition. This claim requires evidence of construct validity. I review the evidence and show that there is insufficient evidence for this claim. Most important, I show that few studies were able to test discriminant validity of the IAT as a measure of implicit personality characteristics and that a single-construct model fits multi-method data as well or better than a dual-construct models. Thus, the IAT appears to be a measure of the same personality characteristics that are measured with explicit measures. I also show that the validity of the IAT varies across personality characteristics. It has low validity as a measure of self-esteem, moderate validity as a measure of racial bias, and high validity as a measure of political orientation. The existing evidence also suggests that the IAT measures stable characteristics rather than states and has low predictive validity of single behaviors. Based on these findings, it is important that users of the IAT clearly distinguish between implicit measures and implicit constructs. The IAT is an implicit measure, but there is no evidence that it measures implicit constructs.

The Creators of the Implicit Association Test Should Get Their Story Straight [1]

> The problem, as I showed in a lengthy rundown of the many, many problems with the test published this past January, is that there’s very little evidence to support that claim that the IAT meaningfully predicts anything. In fact, the test is riddled with statistical problems — problems severe enough that it’s fair to ask whether it is effectively “misdiagnosing” the millions of people who have taken it, the vast majority of whom are likely unaware of its very serious shortcomings. There’s now solid research published in a top journal strongly suggesting the test cannot even meaningfully predict individual behavior. And if the test can’t predict individual behavior, it’s unclear exactly what it does do or why it should be the center of so many conversations and programs geared at fighting racism.

Psychology’s Favorite Tool for Measuring Racism Isn’t Up to the Job [2]

[0] https://replicationindex.com/2019/02/15/iat21

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/12/iat-behavior-problem...

[2] https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/psychologys-racism-measuring-...
Thanks for posting. The Pareto principle (distribution of influence) and Benford’s law (distribution of leading digits) immediately came to mind, which are also very interesting and are linked to in the article.
I'd rather avoid the bridges you build then.
If one does not want the serial transmitted to Apple, a better solution is probably to switch to another OS.

I honestly see no problem with Apple knowing the IP address. It’s the same with Windows 10, since it will check for Windows updates frequently.

If you see these things as a problem it’s probably best to use Qubes OS instead.
It might not even be an issue of advocacy or engagement, it just might have been the right answer to the wrong problem. Or it requires new technology or it wouldn't really be useful

Prototyping is nice and thinking about solutions is cool but then comes reality
Ask HN: What free software do you prefer for image upscaling?
There are plenty of proprietary online resources for image upscaling, and they seem to do a decent job, especially for paintings or drawn content: examples include bigjpg.com, icons8.com etc.

I'm curious what these services are using as a back-end, are there any free alternatives that they might be using, or are most of them proprietary?
Does accounting regulation increase or decrease the difficulty of running a business?
You’re getting hammered because you are not contributing anything of value, troll. Didn’t your troll mother tell you if you don’t have anything nice to say, keep your filthy troll mouth shut?
Rust procedural macros vs. GCC plugins
Show HN: Apirocket – Publish your API in 5 minutes, no coding required
Protected disclosure is rather different than random blogging. The latter is often specifically called out in employment contracts as requiring comms sign off.
Rails has a flat structure, it has no knowledge how big your project will become. For many, many code bases this is good enough. Look at Gitlab, which is quite big.
If you need more structure there are many design patterns you can follow and introduce into your codebase.
I’m not sure about that. The media always like a bit of Apple bashing; I’m sure they would jump at any opportunity. We don’t even have many anonymous stories.
>>That sounds like a company making real strides and helping a shit tonne of it's employees exactly at a time it could just yawn and not do anything.

so Amazon is paying 400K employees even they don't need them or what?

How many jobs has Amazon cost, directly (driving competitors out of business) or indirectly (people buying online?) Amazon hires because it needs employees. And fires them the minute it doesn't. A few hundred dollars when your chance of getting Covid is increased by orders of magnitude doesn't look like much of a bonus, but people have no choice.
I'm baking an RSS/Atom feed generator into my little static site generator pet project that I use to power my blog. Back to work on the 28th anyway, we just have Christmas off.
On not all gibberish being created equal: it's been long enough since "What Languages Sound Like To Foreigners" that some people here may have missed have missed this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybcvlxivscw
Except any moron can get on IRC. It takes work, knowledge, (and some times a lot of money) to have a big, clear signal.
> Signaling desperation attracts predators far more often than it attracts real friends.

I think this can depend on your situation and the type of people who you have around you.

I'd be tempted to slightly nuance this as:

"Signaling desperation can attract predators more often than it attracts real friends."

This may not be the case for some, and personally I wouldn't want a universal message of "don't signal desperation" to be heard.

I do accept it will depend on whether those around you have your best interests at heart and will provide support, or whether you're in a situation where more caution needs to be taken (which I guess may reflect the situation you were in).

That said, I agree with many of your other points and I'm very happy for you that you seem to have moved past some of your struggles, to the point that you are now able to write this very thoughtful and valuable advice for others going through the same things!

Edit: typo
Park your sdr on 14.230 and load up an SSTV decoder, and let the sweet, sweet bikini pics roll in.
> 6) We’ve learned more about what works to fight poverty

Claiming 2020 involved lessons in fighting poverty is a lot like walking up to someone, breaking both their legs, giving them crutches and claiming we've made great leaps in walking.

"Fighting poverty" should involve creating large groups of people where it can't really be imagined how they could be impoverished because they are too resourceful and motivated.

2020 was in large part asking farmers, builders and the productive types of the world to support everyone else sitting around at home. That isn't fair and making it a long-term thing ... it might work, but it is going to lead to some pretty severe tensions.
That’s 22 years ago. Whole other era. Steve Jobs had just returned, so macs weren’t yet intel and they weren’t running OS X yet, using the NEXT architecture.

In other words, you and OP may both be right. Three absolutely massive transitions at apple between your era and theirs: hardware, software and management quality.
Dexpot still works fine even though it hasn't been updated for years. And I love being able to have 9 virtual desktops arranged in a 3x3 grid and a semi-permanent transparent "minimap" of what's on each desktop as well as my current location in the 3x3 grid. But it has an issue which makes it unusable for me, something which may or may not be a bug, i.e. on switching to a desktop, if that desktop contains more than one window, all of them are brought to the front one after another, causing considerable delay if there are >3 windows present. The native win10 virtual desktop feature doesn't seem to have that issue.
https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl/-/blob/master/lib/jxl/opsin_p... has the numbers for sRGB to XYB.

Basically the M1 matrix for linear sRGB [linearR, linearG, linearB, 1] to approximate cone responses:

(I think in this normalization 1 means 250 nits, but not completely sure at this stage of optimizations -- we changed normalizations on this recently.)

M1 = [
[0.300, 0.622, 0.078, 0.0038],
[0.240, 0.682, 0.078, 0.0038],
[0.243, 0.205, 0.552, 0.0038],
[0, 0, 0, 1]
]

then non-linearity by cubic root, in decoding cube, see: https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl/-/blob/master/lib/jxl/dec_xyb...

The LMS values after cubic root are coded by this matrix M2:

M2 = [[1, -1, 0], [1, 1, 0], [0, 0, 1]]

In practice Y->X and Y->B correlations are decorrelated, so M2 looks more like this:

M2 = [[1+a, -1+a, 0], [1, 1, 0], [b, b, 1]]

after decorrelations a is often around zero and b is around -0.5.

The first dimension in this formulation is X (red-green), second Y (luma), third B (blueness-yellowness).

For quantization, X, Y and B channels are multiplied by constants representing their psychovisual strength. X and B channels (the chromacity channels) are less important when quantization is low, and particularly X channel increases in strength when more quantization is done.

Cube is beautiful in the sense that it allows scaling the intensity without considerations, but it is quite awful in the near black psychovisual performance. That is why sRGB added a linear ramp, and I added biasing (homogeneous transform instead of 3x3).
It sadly doesn't get updates anymore, but still works for now at least
It would be perfectly possible to run the VST/AudioUnit in a separate x86 process and communicate with the host using shared memory. Thankfully the endianness is the same so data structures are compatible.

Doesn't Logic Pro already support this?

Admittedly it does mean the plugin runs in a separate process&thread, requiring IPC to render each chunk of audio through that plugin.
Sure I did : tipping points, Club of Rome, analogies with The Titanic ( that was a real tearjerker ), emergencies. Scary stuff.

One won't get funding for modelling non-catastrophic scenarios.

I studied CS, which was at least 50% mathematics, worked with mathematicians who were working on models and simulations :

1. They hardly know what they are doing.
2. Models show what you want them to show. If they don't, they will work and mould them until they do.
I see you use multiple monitors, does Sizer play well with them? I discarded it cause I thought it did not support multimonitor setups well. My main use case is setting up some complex layout (in multimonitor), and be able to save it, and restore it when needed.
I used to be a big fan of conemu back when Windows had no terminal support and "console emulation" was the best that could be done. But what advantages does this have over Windows Terminal these days?
>>Couldn't they pay their people more?

Sure. But what % of Brookings full time employees cannot feed /shelter /educate their kids to the point that taxpayers have to step in? Compare to Amazon.
Looks great, I love the UI and the whole native approach. I wish there was an option to use iCloud for storage or even full offline mode. I would also prefer the one-time payment, even if it is high (like https://culturedcode.com/things/ does). Also please copy "Daily Notes" from Roam :-)
Sure, you can have a great idea and do everything right with it, but not see it succeed. I'm asking more about the corporate culture at Apple and more generally – is this sort of advocacy encouraged or discouraged, does it improve the chances of a new idea, that sort of thing.

I mean Apple has to see a good bit of value in prototyping things and letting people come up with new stuff, or they wouldn't have job positions with the title "inventor", right? Or is that just part of its self-image, and not really encouraged in reality?
Thanks for the heads-up.

However, I do accept I am not almighty.
Time and again it was shown that people forget their user names. At least if you use the same email address (or a few), you will not get locked out.
Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux
Yes, fair points. It's always a judgement call - which is the lesser of two evils...
This could be the exemplar of HN complaints: simultaneously very specific and personal, concerning something trivial, humorless, and projected onto the world at large.
Yes, but they chose not to. That's what I'm objecting to. With a 52-48 referendum vote, it seems to me that the situation is so unclear that keeping the status quo is the only sensible option.
In short, Scoop installs all your apps in the user home dir. Apps are not installed through an installer, but through a .zip file. A pro is that you do not need to be admin on your PC for Scoop to function (handy for PCs that are not in your control). A con I've encountered is that Windows is not very friendly towards apps that are not installed through an installer. I've installed IrfanView through Scoop, but for some reason, Windows restores "Photos" as default app for opening pictures a few times a week, this was not the case when I installed IrfanView with an installer.
Virtual representation of a physical thing.
Garbage trucks should be possible. They are heavy but no heavier than a semi truck, with a tiny fraction of the range (150 miles vs 500+). Plus, low speed city driving is much more efficient than highway driving with an EV drivetrain.
Apple has rules regarding labor for their subcontractors with penalties if they break them. It is not anything goes by any means. That does not mean some assholes wont try. Placing the blame solely on the back of Apple is absurd. Those factories don't exist in lawless places.
I had to turn my monitor off, the alternating green/red numbers caused too much anxiety.
Apple Begins Lowering App Store Commission to 15% for Eligible Developers
Craft also supports easy bi-directional linking to blocks, which I assume Notion doesn’t support at this point.
The closer people are to actually attempt the suicide the harder it is to help them. I wouldn't consider a low rate of people openly admitting that they want to kill themselves to be a failure of the program.
I'd say less than 10 years ago, because many not-so-edge cases have been fixed, and the new sections of the framework (activestorage, active job) simplified the development of some features that were harder to integrate some time ago
Imagine Windows deciding to do a forced auto-update (or hard disk check) ten minutes before performance. Or breaking down because the system doesn’t work well after the update.

I set up a VR performance in a gallery once. It was supposed to run the same piece of a basic program for 3 months.

Since it was Windows we had to do additional steps to make sure that it wouldn’t try to update* and possibly break drivers. Because there wasn’t IT staff around to fix things if it broke down.

I never had such issues with MacOS.

* - additional steps like making sure the built-in wireless is disabled and it doesn’t remember any wifi passwords, so it doesn’t try to fetch any sort of update. Because even if you disable Windows updates, you have a bunch of other drivers that may ignore those settings.
And then, if we needed to put anything new on the computer, we had to either use usb-sticks or break the airgap and redo all the testing - so it had to be timed so that we would have at least half a day to fix it if broken.
If performance is really a problem, there were faster Intel Macs than a mini, as well.
Increases, obviously. If it made it cheaper and easier to run a business there wouldn't need to be a regulator, they would just do it on their own.

The argument in favour of accounting regulations is that the costs imposed are acceptable for the risks to the public of lax accounting practices, not that it reduces costs. Much like how the argument in favour of silly cheese regulations is that protecting the public from the wrong type of mouldy cheese is worth not having shafyy running a cheese operation in the UK.
It's funny; I would classify that article as "new" news because for me it's new, as in I never heard of it before.