skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've bought an original Apple LaserWriter that I'm going to restore to working order. The first problem I have is sourcing a toner cartridge for it.
Hahaha. you're so deluded that you've applied your own priors and beliefs there that everybody who has this experience must be lying. You've recklessly imposed your prior that all of this witness data has to be false because you simply personally disagree with it. But you don't think that's crazy at all then you do that. You are right now blind to that distortion. But you need to wake up to how crazy that is. this paper if you read it with an open mind is exactly the type of reasoning that you need to plug yourself into
If we cared about the environment we would just stop buying coffee, chocolate and bananas.
Clippers plan augmented reality ‘Kids Cast’ of playoff game
A general issue with HTML and CSS is that HTML is a tree and not a graph or relational structure.

It's maybe a weird comment but HTML feels clunky and rigid and you sometimes need JS to patch over that clunkyness. (CSS just reacts on HTML structure so it is not specifically at fault.

In other words you sometimes need to break out of the HTML tree and move things around so they display and behave as intended by web design.

Another thing that comes up often is breaking out of the default UI controls. Some designs are quite playful and interactive, so you end up zooming, moving, replacing and adding stuff based on user input etc. In short: as soon as you have to listen to more or other using events you are going to use JS.

Also more classic and conservative designs (example: HN) are essentially one dimensional with a bit of two dimensionality to them, AKA just text that flows through a simple layout. There, you typically can avoid using JS for these kind of things. But if your design is more two dimensional it becomes increasingly harder to avoid JS. Flexbox was an addition that provided some notion of two dimensionality and Grid is a feature that goes further into that direction.
You make a mistake in your argument. Some assumption being "more likely to be correct" has no meaning without a distribution that can be described as random. Without repeating the assumption multiple times the words "probability" or "likelihood" simply cannot be applied.
Where is Google web stories results gose
Not even that necessarily, control of downtime is also worth something. i.e. lots of downtime is tied to system changes/updates, especially in a conservative setup, which you can schedule as appropriate on a self-hosted setup.
Is the prospect that we might finally take meaningful action not a bright side? That it will be impossible to ignore? You are unimaginative if you interpret "bright" as "a good thing". Of course things are getting worse. But we are unfortunately in a situation where things may need to get worse before we take action to make it better. It is not unreasonable to hope that we have finally hit that point, it is the first step towards positive actions, and that is the brighter side if a descent into a deeper and deeper hole is to be avoided.

It's easy to post a pithy critical response to a comment. Deciding to take the time to understand the subtlety involved takes more time. Maybe next time you should keep in mind the community guidelines that set the tone for how to interpret comments and make substantive replies that are not simply low-effort one-liners. Especially on my comment that fully acknowledges the crap we're in but sees the latest development as a possible catalyst for change. It's easy to criticize, it's much harder, but more productive, to engage in an actual conversation. I'm sorry you chose the low road, many on HN are better than that.
I don't think the argument is sound. If I walk into a big room with the general assembly of humankind and shake hands with a random person, that person will probably be from China, Russia, US, India or some such because those few countries have more than 50% of Earth's population. However if I walk into the UN where each state has one seat no matter how small and I shake hands with a random person, that delegate will likely be from a small country because there are many more small countries than big ones.

Now if I were to resettle humankind to 250 or so exoplanets and gave each country its own planet, and each planetary civilization eventually brings forth a smart guy who reasons along the lines presented in the Big Alien piece, then I end up with 250 papers or so arguing that surely most exoplanets will have a much smaller population than their own. Almost all the papers will have guessed wrong.

Note that while one can always ruin likelihoods by tampering with the data, in this case the exoplanetary populations were modeled on a realistic sample that does follow a power (Zipf, Pareto) law.
Someone said the same thing to me more than a year ago [0] and here we are the same issues once again.

This is why it makes no sense to go 'all in' or try to "centralize everything to GitHub". At least (if you're a company or an organisation) have a self-hosted backup and don't jump into the 'goin all in' hype train.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406
I wonder if blimps or zeppelin is the future for "green" aviation
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You have numbers for the govt being the biggest? I mean, for biotech, total VC funding is larger than the entire NIH budget.
Node.js: why it is the best solution for Enterprise Software
Just posted a medium article on using this tool to execute terminal commands with your voice https://mitchellharle.medium.com/how-to-execute-terminal-com... it was surprisingly straight forward!
No problem at all. Take your time :)
Inequality does create diversity as it gives people a vastly different life experiences.
I'm from The Netherlands. I won't throw a fit to get anyone to stop drinking. But it's pretty obvious that drinking, even one beer per day, on a societal scale leads to more obesity, more sickness, more violence etc. And the accompanying healthcare, police etc. spending.

Again, drink if you want. It's allowed. But don't pretend that it is unproblematic/healthy/natural/without consequences.

Just admit (or at least do not deny) that by drinking, you're making an (indirect) withdrawal from the community fund. Just like people who drive a car, people who hunt for fun, people who smoke etc.
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I haven't seen in the comments just what a horrible, cruel disease alcoholism is.

An ex-girlfriend's father was an alcoholic. He went out one day on a binge and came back with Korsakoff syndrome. Korsakoff syndrome causes apathy: it removes your emotions. He no longer spoke, except in monosyllables if spoken to. He wouldn't or couldn't feed himself. He sat all day at the kitchen table. His family took care of him. That's his life now! His daughter wonders sometimes what he thinks about her, if he does think.
They don't matter. Duh.
It's not the hardware that make it expensive, its the beans. Really good coffee is expensive. There are gems at cheaper price points, but its hard to find, and they're usually temporary.
Your second paragraph is absolutely correct, yet it leads to a circular argument, because it does not tell you anything about how correct your paper is. In fact, in that experiment, the probability of your paper being among the correct ones is the same quantity as the actual population density. You cannot derive any meaningful information from assuming you are above,about,or below average.
You could use that downtime to learn about the variety of ways that git natively supports distributed workflows [1]

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Distributed-W...
The last one of those was a strike, not a boycott. (Also, I don’t think that Irish government altered their import policy because of eleven striking workers at one store.)

Concerning the other two, the Nestlé boycott does not seem to have had much, if any, impact, and it’s at least debatable if the Nike one did much, and if it did, then the impact is not due to informed individuals “speaking with their wallet”, but the wide publicity.

This is why I specified “consumer-level”; a boycott which includes continuous publicity from major media is no longer consumer-level.
Thanks! I'll update the tutorial.
SpaceX launching an Ethereum node to the ISS
And Donald Trump changed his position on LGBT rights in exactly the opposite direction, but HE was PRESIDENT and LEADER of the Republican Party (and still thinks he is), and his DE-EVOLUTION hurt many people.

Hillary IMPROVED. Trump GOT WORSE. There is no equivalence. They're OPPOSITES.

So no, the Republican Party doesn't get credit for being just the same as the Democratic Party, and it most certainly cuts much worse in one way than the other. So please spare us the false equivalences and revisionist whitewashing of institutionalized GOP bigotry.
As far as I know GitHub doesn't use Azure at all, I think it's still hosted by Carpathia. https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
But a hypothetical Mike Smith from LA County will be very representative for an average (or median to be more correct) user on this forum. I think that's the point of the article.
Can you give an example of such a <$500 system? I'm genuinely curious.
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Swarm was/is a bad bet due to looking like Docker gave up on it, esp. for deploying to our on-prem users where we can't just change our mind the next day, and wanting something we'd have some faith in for 2-3 years. Nomad was more appealing from the simplicity view, esp. as we'd need to do some rewriting either way.
For now you can only spectate if someone shares the game's url with you. I'm planning on adding spectating of top-rated games soon.
> Also, what if a company decides to ignore the GPL and pay up? The courts and law understand monetary damages. The FSF runs the risk of the judge deciding that the code is already out there, and the value the code is $X: therefore the infringer should reasonably buy a license for $X and doesn't have to give source code back. This would violate the spirit of the GPL, but would fit the letter of the law.

IANAL but I don't think it works that way. They could pay up $X for damages and even get their license revoked. They still don't buy a license to perpetually violate the GPL.
The corollary also shows the limitations: you can't actually come up with a real probability for being wrong without knowing other things about this distribution (you can't know how likely you are to be in the most populous time in the history of the human race without knowing the entire past and future history). So the whole argument from statistics holds no water: it depends entirely on other arguments that give a shape to the distribution, and those arguments have their own problems and ways that they can be attacked.
Load all resources with fetch(), store to cache by yourself, take the response, clone and transfer into anything that can be sent with postMessage()
France is currently a 1 party system.
I think electric airplanes are still the more probable future. My understanding of the current problem is that the weight to energy ratio in electric batteries is still too high for useful flights. But this ratio is improving year by year, and very soon we will be near the number where electric aircrafts will be competitive with fossil fuel ones on some types of flights.
Spark Prophecy 2021
https://github.com/SparkProphecy/SparkProphecy

Really interesting from a VC's sight, I like (IV) and (VI) most :)
EDIT: I can’t add to my answer above but the point is to ask about how in the Swiss direct democracy model something as complicated as Brexit would have been handled (same? different?). I’m well aware Switzerland is not part of the EU. Apologies this wasn’t clear!
You are the first to mention China going to war with the US. What was written was the US going to war with China because of China attacking Taiwan, not attacking the US. It's not that same thing. If you want to discuss China attacking the US that's fine, but this isn't about that.
I've done zero-downtime deployments with the same Docker compose file running on multiple nodes. I just had a Python script (~100 lines) that would take instances off the load balancer in turn, update the docker-compose file, add them back, wait for a warm-up period and move on to the next ones.
This is seriously skirting the issue. OP didn't complain about your use of robot detection. OP complained about your use of GOOGLE's robot detection, which is not privacy preserving. There are many other robot detection services out there, many of which are arguably more effective at detecting robots too.
Smoking could be still illegal, but vaping doesn't smell - at least the smell don't stay.

Cannabis can also be processed so that the smell is minimal (some medical varieties get such treatment)
> I see no fallacies

"I am more likely to have been born in a high population country than a low population country"

This is incorrect. If there is one country with one million people, and a hundred countries with a hundred thousand people, you are overwhelmingly more likely to have been born in a low population country.
Source: The Right to Read, a short story by RMS, 1997.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
This graph is a great reality check: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-primary-energy

Humanity has never displaced an existing energy source with a new one. Instead total energy usage grows. Our only success with fossil fuel usage reduction is that coal usage is no longer growing.

Growing wind, solar, and nuclear by 10x from the 2019 levels reported in that data set would put them (as a combination) on par with one of the three big existing fossil fuel sources. But this can only decrease fossil fuel usage if increased energy usage does not take up all those gains as it has always done in the past.

I do think though that reducing fossil fuel usage could be possible now only because of the shifting demographics of the world (most of the world is starting a population decline). The counter argument is that a large portion of the world will continue to grow economically (increases energy usage) and become wealthy enough to start air conditioning and otherwise dramatically increase energy usage.
I tried to do this with a webpage, but Safari wasn't stable enough on an old iPad. It would crash every few hours.

I'd suggest a native app instead, whether you write it or find someone else's.
In my field, labview has been mostly replaced by python for building experiment control systems. Some groups manage to run their labs on Linux with maybe one dedicated Windows machine for stubborn hardware. In my setups we use quite a lot of Windows-only hardware, to Linux is not really an option.
The only "Internet of things" I have in my home is my surveillance camera. Don't want to be a slave of this technology
They messed up and they should pay. In my eyes people who keep this going are the real criminals and in our interest should be that those people are held accountable for what they done.
If they don't pay, they should do time.
Like jldl805, I like my coffee too but my only investments are a £10 spice grinder and a Bialetti moka pot for hot coffee, and a muslin bag and a pitcher for cold brew using this[1] technique.

[1] https://boingboing.net/2013/07/20/cheap-easy-no-mess-cold-br...

Coffee definitely doesn't have to be a super-expensive hobby.
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I liked this syntax so much I now use XQuery for everything
But the problem here is that the paper is obviously concluding too much from too little data.

Their basic argument is right, but useless: it's true that, over all sentients in the universe, the sentients thinking they are on one of the most populous planets are more likely to be right; but there is no way to estimate what that likelihood is until you found out the actual distribution.

So basically, to have any predictive power whatsoever, the argument depends entirely on the other arguments about the possible distributions, which are all bogus given how little we understand about what other forms of life are possible, and the extremely little we understand about what forms of life can develop human-like intelligence .
Keep it as simple as possible, you can always complicate things later.
Ah, Sevenoaks. I got a very good set of separates from them in ’98 (Arcam, Myryad, and B&W speakers), but I did spend a lot more money than I’d originally planned as I was young and rather susceptible to hard-sell techniques. Ended up buying everything else from Richer, who were dramatically better in that regard.
Assessing Carbon Capture in Trees with Machine Learning
The EU Brainscales project built a wafer that runs 10k times faster than real-time,

https://electronicvisions.github.io/hbp-sp9-guidebook/pm/pm_...
A bit like the Bugatti Veyron. When it first came out it was explained that several companies had been trying to build this mythical car (1000HP, 400Km/h, trying to stick F1-like performance in an easy to drive "consumer" car) and all failed.

Then VW decided they'd buy the brand and do whatever it takes to make it work, result being that it's sold at a loss. Even at a million bucks. According to Wikipedia the production cost is 5 million and "Volkswagen designed the car merely as a technical exercise"
Can you elaborate on why that is misleading? You say it yourself, that entire industry runs 100 % on fossil fuels.
Making music is the livelyhood of musicians. Making edits on Wikipedia is for most a hobby, and they do not get paid for it and thus do not rely on it (I would know, I have made many edits on my language wiki and look at it mostly as something positive to give back). They have the option of stopping making edits and walk away without any hit to their income or professional growth.

That is not to say that those who make certain amount of quality edits shouldn't receive something for it, or even be hired in to be on staff editors (potentially there are these kinds of positions within Wikimedia and I just don't know about it).

Comparing the practice of asking consumers for an optional donation once in a while, without any access restriction to the content, versus being (legally) forced to buy the album (also taking into account streaming here) where the funds go mostly to the label doesn't make any sense.
This is fascinating to me. An anecdote as a frequent traveler: I often notice that when I travel to different cities around the world, it takes my gut a few weeks to fully adjust. When people don't travel often, they tend to blame "travelers diarrhea", etc on unsanitary conditions in the place they are visiting. But from my perspective, it seems that it has very little to do with how sanitary a place is, and much more to do with how different the local microbiome is from what you're used to.

I'd also be curious to have my own microbiome sequenced and analyzed, since I've been very nomadic for a decade, and my usual approach (apart from covid) is to dive right in and expose myself to local microbiomes by drinking tap water, eating street food, etc.

I suspect that humanity has a lot left to learn about how microbes interact with human life.
As the author of that "general SNN critique" I'd like to add that this was not a general critique, but a specific reply to the question why I think low-energy deep learning is a misguided promise for SNNs.

Personally I think SNNs are a very exciting research field, both from a neuroscience as from a computer science angle. The work we are discussing here is deeply impressing for its rigour, and it addresses an important problem in spiking network research.

Whether spiking networks will provide lower-energy deep learning is a totally different question.
iPadOS limits iPad Pro power: apps only able to use up to 5 GB RAM each
Elon Musk will be remembered for putting nuclear bombs in orbit.
Well, there are two sides to being into something. One of course is the "hedonistic treadmill" of not being able to put up with "bad" coffee/audio any longer but the other side of it is that you can come to really enjoy something that is small and specific and wholly within your own power and ingenuity.

I think the nature of internet forums (and this particularly applies to audiophile ones) is that they can bring out the most neurotic personally traits - people complaining and making nonsense, unverifiable claims. But there is also the silent majority of people who are thrilled to be able listen to some recording of classical music without having to go to a concert hall (assuming their local orchestra are playing whatever it is).

Also - I don't use a v60 coffee maker so perhaps I don't know but I was under the impression that it's actually a very approachable way to make coffee at home and not that expensive an accessory. (I am on Team Moka Pot, and those really are cheap and easy to operate :))
The wear patterns of your jeans aren’t good forensic evidence
A license is not (necessarily) a contract, so a license breach is (mainly) enforceable precisely because it _is_ a copyright violation.
This paper lends absolutely no credence to the various crackpots and deluded people who claim they have met aliens.

And the reasons why that is essentially impossible all stem very clearly from much more solid physical considerations, that have to do with the extreme amounts of energy necessary for interstellar travel at anything approaching a reasonable time frame (i.e. less then the age of most stars).
The problem is that there is no one on the other side of the bet. The self referential word play obscures the actual bet instance.

"There are more people who are not phs than who are phs. Therefore I am more likely to have been born not phs than to have been born phs."

"There are more people who are not imtringued than who are imtringued. Therefore I am more likely to have been born not imtringued than to have been born imtringued."

The problem becomes obvious, it's a different bet each time and each time all winners are excluded because they never enter into the bet in the first place.

E.g. I will never bet "Therefore I am more likely to have been born not phs than to have been born phs." even though it's a clear win for me.
That has to be the worst most intellectually vacuous justification I can imagine. Barring the possibility that it is sarcasm or satire, in which case I apologize and note the difficulty of of discerning that tone online.

If not though, this is the most facile definition of good and bad imaginable, echoing back to the history of might makes right and what I want is good and all who appose me are bad.