skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps not the plan, per se, but when your entire ideology relies on falsehoods (like trickle-down economics, and the genetic superiority of white men over everyone else), when you take that to its logical conclusion you must employ authoritarian methods to suppress the reality that proves you're full of bullshit.
One of my favourite things about working with Vala¹ was being able to use Genie² with the off-side rule syntax where it felt appropriate. Some chunks of code feel better to me when structured in certain ways.

I often find myself wondering why other languages haven't implemented support for an alternative syntax. I suspect the answer is that simply no one cares enough to put the work in, but perhaps there is a better reason.

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_programming_language

² https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(programming_language)
> Shame can only be seen as useful by someone completely preoccupied with it.

I don't think that's accurate at all! You can easily realize there are other filters and motivators while also recognizing the usefulness of shame. They are variables, and you can apply them in different measures depending on the needs of a scenario. As you said "all these emotions shape our participation in society."

I also don't believe the parent comment said "some single emotion is human's only motivator." What they said was that it was working as the last or final limitation of behaviors for a large portion of (implied: American) people and that it was removed by high profile person acting without shame. Without it, obviously they are motivated by fear (of The Other), desire (to feel superior and unfettered), pride (of being in the superior group, whether it be political party, race, gender, religion, etc.), caring (in this case, only for their own but not other humans) and so forth. These emotions can be applied in small and large amounts, and for good or evil, depending on your perspective. Are you a patriot because you believe your country is a force for good, or because you believe being a part of it entitles you to the highest standard of living in the world?
Was there a Viking Age in Norway – 2000 years before the Vikings?
So much effort to do UDP over HTTP

UDP on mobile networks is a royal pain because of symmetric NATs [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation#...
I'd say about 90% of the time I get the dreaded "However, we were unable to create a copy of all your files" message in the takeout email.

After multiple retries, it eventually succeeds but it's a manual process and using this for regular backups is extremely time consuming and frustrating.

Going through the process just once is definitely doable though :)
What market force do you see driving the use of excess energy to sequester carbon? What force is going to ensure enough carbon is sequestered?

Climate change is a kind of prototypical example of a tragedy of the commons. Capitalism has not been particularly noteworthy for solving these sorts of problems. I can certainly see it helping to make renewables more affordable, but that's simply not enough at this point.
Does seem like the title could be corrected.
When your leaders have spent the last 40 years in an active campaign to discredit science and debate in order to silence anyone who would question their questionable policies you shouldn't be surprised to get to this point.

The solutions are some though...

Education and Socialism
Yeah Flash animate is really not targeted at proper web development. It’s more of a tiny bonus to export to html and is generally terrible.

It needs to be feature parity including the ‘runs anywhere’ of an swf. I don’t even think it’s too late if they could really deliver this.

Just look at the community surrounding Instagram filter development because they made really easy-to-use software (Spark AR studio) that kids and artists can use.
Or geography. Island countries should be easier regardless of the policies. We don't know the definitive reason but winter spread COVID-19, as well as influenza and other virus well so countries with warm climate should be easier, again, regardless of the policies.
Indeed, I read the following:

“systemd contains a lot of unnecessary attack surface; it attempts to do far more things than necessary and goes beyond what an init system should do.”

I’d want the author to explain this further. Perhaps they could tell the admin of the system how to reduce the attack surface, detail what services it should not be providing (and why), what services it provides that are worse than the alternative, and how to turn them off or harden them.

“An init system should not need many lines of code to function properly.”

That’s a ridiculous statement. Lines of code is an absurd measurement to determine the security of anything.
Spent a huge amount of time (more than a year) working alone in a face detection API. The hardest parts were 1) marketing, how to make business know it existed and 2) keep up with the state of the art research implementations. The 2) was not difficult if I had had at least one client to pay/motivate me to keep up with the development. It is still on at www.rosto.io but I am not actively developing anymore. At least I have learnt some stuff tech-wise.
The point seems to be that users usually don't control the servers. If the app is entirely local then users may have full control.
I ran one of the large flash game portals. We had 100,000 Flash games. It matters because of distribution. One distribution mechanism was through MochiMedia and MochiAds. You'd upload an SWF to MochiMedia's site and they would aggregate it out to thousands of other sites. Without a playable package format you would have had millions and millions of files. Game creators liked the "copy protection" that the SWF package provided and game sites liked the "sandboxed" game files. If a browser could host a ZIP file and load all the assets out of it as if it was a sandboxed local directory that would be the equivalent.
A description of the Coasting system at Park Tool, https://www.parktool.com/blog/calvins-corner/shimano-coastin...
The pursuit of continuous growth has an effect on our physical world.
I often edit comments within the first few minutes to change wording or add clarifying statements. I'd rather do that than create an entirely new post.

I got a downvote almost immediately after posting, unedited, and they proceeded to follow until I was -3 or so.

It felt entirely neutral, but you're right.
Apple removes 39,000 game apps from China store to meet deadline
IMO the idea of red states and blue states doesn't make a lot of sense. Remove the state boundaries and the real defining characteristic for red/blue is urban/rural. It need not be any more complicated than that.
And 3 days later, on the 23rd, they put the entire region of Wuhan, 60 million people, under the strictest lockdown seen anywhere. This is 30 days after the very first sample was sent to a laboratory for a suspect case of pneumonia, and 23 days after the authorities worldwide had been informed of a suspected pneumonia epidemics in Wuhan, when the total cases where still below 300. Agreed, the response wasn't quick enough and this is self-evident; but it seems quicker and more decisive than than anything we've seen in the West.
Apparently not. The US is a young country but an old government. Most other governments have been totally overhauled well after ours was formed.

The way the electoral college, Senate and impeachment work mean a minority elects a king every four years. It’s not a good system.
I agree that using SAM can be convenient for standalone lambda functions. However, in the context of a larger AWS configuration, where your integration points are already in defined in terraform, the cost of using SAM for these is breaking the invariant that "all our AWS resources are defined in _TOOL_ (in this case, _TOOL_ is terraform).

The verbosity is frustrating, but largely ignorable. Having to go back to string references of AWS references defined in different sources of truth is a maintenance nightmare, IMO
"drain the swamp" was one of his main platforms.
Unfortunately no, JITs in other communities get much more love than PyPy does.
Well said.

> Anyone whose been in Dallas in August when it's been 110 degrees with humidity at 80 percent 3 days in a row knows why Texas cannot become ... anything but Texas.

I am a native Texan and spent most of my life in different cities throughout the state. However, this alone is the primary reason I may never move back. It’s too damn hot and only going to get hotter. I now live somewhere that has 4 seasons and where I can turn off the air conditioning for weeks or months at a time. It turns out pleasant weather is a pretty important factor for me and, I imagine, many other people as well.
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The situation was definitely not clear at the beginning:

- there was a cluster of pneumonia cases

- there was a detected case of SARS

- there was a new coronavirus

The fact that the SARS test didn't detect SARS, but actually SARS-CoV-2 wasn't clear at the beginning. Was it the same coronavirus that was detected on the 27th? Was the cluster of pneumonia cases definitely caused by that same virus or was it a coincidence? (Nowadays lots of people like to claim that Covid19 is not killing people, but rather it's the pre-existing conditions. Imagine how much push back you would've got before the pathogen was even properly recognized!)

The pneumonia outbreak was conclusively linked to the Coronavirus only on January 7th. 2 days before the first death. If it took a week or two after that for mobilizing the whole region against a previously unknown pathogen, it's not so bad after all.

In Europe we struggled to find face masks for MONTHS after that! :/

Also, I don't think that Taiwan ever closed their borders with China: they were simply screening incoming flights from there, and they were still allowing their citizens to come back from China (compare with Europe in December 2020, where italians cannot even go back to see family in the country, even if they are italian citizens :/ (unless they are also residents... Or someone in their family is passing away, or similar serious reasons)
"I think the really AI winter will come once everyone will realize that self driving cars are not coming anytime soon."

And yet : https://blog.waymo.com/2020/10/waymo-is-opening-its-fully-dr...

I guess "the really (sic) AI winter" may have to wait! I commend the power of reading (and grammar) to people who write blogs...
Also NAL. You can certainly be barred from serving as an officer of a publicly-traded company.

I doubt you can be barred from running a small company (absent being incarcerated which may indirectly/practically bar that).
Facial recognition systems are image classifiers where the classes are persons, represented as sets of images of their faces. Each person is assigned a numerical id as a class label and classification means that the system matches an image to a label.

Such systems are used in one of two modes, verification or identification.

Verificatiom means that the system is given as input an image and a class label and outputs positive if the input matches the label, and negative otherwise.

Identification means that the system is given as input an image and outputs a class label.

In either case, the system may not directly return a single label, but a set of labels each associated to a real-valued number, interpreted (by the operators of the system) as a likelihood. However, in that case the system has a threshold delimiting positive from negative identifications. That is, if the likelihood that the system assigns to a classification is above the threshold, that is considered a "positive identificetion", etc.

In other words, yes, a system that outputs a continuous distribution over classes representing sets of images of peoples' faces can still be "wrong".

Think about it this way: if a system could only ever signal uncertainty, how could we use it to make decisions?
Should the URL be updated to the source article?

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/ticketmaster-pays-10-mi...
I'll just repeat that I'm hoping that you are as cautious about pangolin and secret lab stories as you are with this...

I'm puzzled by your attitude and unclear about your aim but you do what you want.
Probably the same reason that Adobe let flash die on the vine-making a robust flash like authoring tool and targeting broke teenagers as your market isn't profitable.
I got an error as well (but I do have a facebook account, so I lied on the form. Shh, don't tell Facebook.)
Would you be willing to share the list with us?
I think that was the point. For all the stereotypes of Texas (I'm originally from Norway - we use Texas as a general synonym for "crazy" [1]), there are significant areas that are a lot more progressive, so to assume moving to Texas means moving to some creationist hellhole is excessive.

[1] https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/yall-norwegians-...
Dell is Austin or more accurately now, Round Rock — pretty sure he was a Texas student.
What do you mean by detaching the fork?
Possible Trump Pardon Overshadows Assange Extradition Ruling
Definitely the right approach, don't censor yourself over some imaginary internet points.
> Do you truly believe it is a realistic scenario that a virus this infectious could traverse from northern Italy to Wuhan, Hubei, without creating multiple infection hotspots along the way?

Sure - I'm not quite sure what the issue is.

A single person X becomes infected mid-week in Europe. Monday they leave for China. The next Thursday, they have a business meeting in China where they are symptomatic but have suppressed obvious symptoms with OTC cold medication - who wouldn't if you flew thousands of miles for a meeting?

A dozen people sit in a room in Wuhan with some infected person for several hours.

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> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

An "extraordinary claim" is along the lines of UFOs, ghosts and goblins.

There are hundreds of millions of international passengers a year. That an unknown infectious disease could travel from Europe to Asia undetected is hardly an "extraordinary claim".

Pending any hard evidence at all, it can only be described as a hypothesis.
Killing efforts like PyPy is what creates the Julias and Chapels of the future.
It's pretty incredible that people are actually considering using Apple's new architecture given that it can't actually run anything that exists natively except apple's OS and core applications.
I find video of someone else playing an existing game to be a poor replacement for someone going and making a new game.
When I considered a real time communication protocol for our app I remember ruling out zeromq but I don't remember why...
Maybe they don't offer an API as clean/expressive?
https://github.com/rsocket/rsocket/blob/master/Motivations.m...
Or was it backpressure?
I wonder what are the pros of zeromq vs rsocket
M62 Song by Doves is a good one
Probably renting a cheap room near ski resorts and snowboarding because my job became full remote for foreseeable future. There is not much point living in a city when we can't enjoy meeting the people.
It's probably lemon juice, olive oil, and salt.
Yes, but in context of talking about steel, the title is certainly confusing.
DJI make a point of saying on the mini 2 home page that it’s <249g. Probably for this reason!
It's okay to downvote if you do not want a bit of humor on this board, but not seeing the :) and actually thinking the comment about carbon content in steel was meant seriously is quite disappointing.
Not writing GUIs in Rust are we?
Even though it is a disgusting issue, it is a real issue, pretty much on topic.

And despite zillions of dollars wenting into it, if it would be just the smell, I believe it is possible someone just would have said, deal with it, there are bigger concerns in space, like keeping people alive.

(but charcoal filters work, like someone else pointed out)

And since you cannot really shower in space, I doubt the smell is the nicest up there.
> This whataboutism and false equivalency is extremely toxic.

It's not whataboutism, I never excused Trump nor the Republicans. They should be called out on their bullshit. If anything, responding to a comment solely about things the media has done with Senate election results is whataboutism.

False equivalency... Eh, maybe. The eye-for-an-eye tallying of sins never goes well and I'm not ready to try at the moment. But I will agree that Fox News has its reputation as a cesspool for a reason.

> Are dems perfect? Lord no. Does the MSM make mistakes? Absolutely. Is one side actively engaged in a war on truth? Yeah, kinda.

This helped me realize the problem. You come just short of saying MSM == Democrats, other news == Republicans. Not a single line of my previous post criticized any Dem politicians, only the MSM. The previous post has at least one example of the MSM working against progressive values. They are not the same thing. If you consider them the same thing, I think that's strange, because I don't think they should be. If there's some evidence that they are the same thing, do share, you'll probably be adding CNN's rap sheet of corruption.
Hilarious. My kids (3 & 5) would love this book. What is it with kids being so obsessed with Fart and Poop jokes (the word joke being very loose)?
Also, what a great a way to crowdsource the research for a small book. Nice work.
We even had comprehensive sex education, and were forced to care for a robot baby for a week.
Does the midwest have a strong union culture or something? I'm in the southeast and whenever I look at data for pay on most trades people, you still are unlikely to come anywhere near the salary for a software engineer unless you have 10-20 years of experience, and even that is dependent on the trades. Checking various trades on Glassdoor around my location shows the low end being mid-20 to low-30s with the high end capping in the 50s or 60s, which doesn't sound bound till you see that amount for years that people want for that pay.
They are using "boomer" similarly to how the word is used in "baby boomer," as in a sudden growth. Netscape was the hot new browser. Probably one of those words on its way out, but they aren't being ageist.
Jokes about the [Birth and Death of JavaScript](https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...) aside, I love the concept of WASM and that we're making the web a more robust compile target.

One of the big limitations in my mind is that I still don't know of that many people using it in production at scale. Is there a list, or well known set of examples (other than Figma), who are using WASM in prod?
Actually it feels more like a Python flavoured Object Pascal.
We're talking about industries emitting co2 weren't we ?

in case it was confusing phrasing on my side, my question was neutral. I was trying to remember which industries were the most co2 producers, nothing more.
I think most of the critics here has to come from people not understanding that GPT-3 was not and will not be trained more than a few times.

If even then you still want to argue, aluminum consumes 17,000kWh per ton ton which is 11 BERTs. I don't see weird criticism about mining consuming energy. Doing stuff takes energy and while the sentiment against ML seems to be "it's snake oil", it is still very real research with actual real-world impacts.

Finally, we are in a transition phase where ML is done on GPUs which consume more energy than dedicated ASICs. We already have Google TPUs and Amazon Inferentia which can be used today. Power consumption will go down as dedicated hardware gets better and better.
Infact Nucor the largest steel producer in the US, uses arc furnaces to produce most of the steel.
Expressiveness Benchmark: implementing tabular data analytics tasks
Truly my own ignorance... help me out! Is this port strictly for Apple silicon, ~ARM64, or is that the same thing? Where would this leave support for say, AWS Graviton instances?
Flash and HTML5 never were the same thing. Flash always seemed to be an easier and more approachable way to do applets than Java. As it aged, it also became a kind of universal functionality plug-in that let people build experiences that you just couldn't do with HTML and JavaScript at the time. The spiritual successor to Flash (and Java applets) is probably more WebAssembly than HTML5 - although many parts of HTML5 do things that a Flash piece would have been used for 15-20 years ago.
Those same email services blocked SWF files too because they were dangerous. This is no different.

As for size, browsers really should allow gzip encoding for html files from your desktop. Would pack all the inlined crap down to a reasonable size and then you could transfer things around better.
5 times the electoral college has opposed the popular vote, sometimes by very tiny margins. Out of about 60. So maybe an exaggeration.
This is why universal programs are better. If you have gatekeepers you incentivize corruption. If you have tests you incentivize cheating. There's just too many knobs and dials (programs).

Something like UBI is much simpler and therefor has far fewer attack vectors. The only test is to verify citizenship. A process to handle claims of non-receipt would be easy if a cheque can be expired and a new one sent.

Who cares if wealthy citizens also get a pittance (to them)? It's more fair that they do anyway! Expire the cheques after like a year, so people can simply opt out by not cashing them before they expire.
Depends on the shipping costs I guess...
Literally insane truth.

edit: nobody gets me
Multi-Year Database of Daily Ranked HN Front Page Posts
Yes, it was exactly that irresponsible.
Possibly people, or biological goods depending on the state of development of synthetic biology and in vitro tech.
Rust 1.49.0
That one Android text editor that does not require excess permissions
Not quite, there are always a bunch of edge cases that inevitably make "exactly once" actually "almost always exactly once, but always at least once."
It wasn't my goal, don't read negativity in my comments, it very very rarely happen (and I spend time to explain that this is subjective viewpoint when I do most of the time).

Actually, and it's very harming, I was trying to list the most polluting industries we rely on blindly.. in order to keep that in mind on a daily basis. ..
Capitalism is not the pursuit of continuous growth, either.
We got the Electoral Count Act back in 1887 as a result of misbehavior, perhaps 2020 will be a catalyst for a new round of legislation to add additional checks on power. Though as long as 50% of the voting population thinks this strategy is completely okay, that might be just a dream.