skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can drop some of that out easily to reduce the mess. It doesn't matter whether something is biological or not, that isn't a valid defining qualification for natural vs artificial.

Once the robots are self-sustaining and self-determining, away from their creator, any reproduction on their part is natural. Once their existence is governed of their own processes, fully independent of eg intentional, controlled human inputs.

This is conceptually absolutely no different than a bug or animal creating a new plant/virus/bacteria/whatever through some behavior (in that case typically inadvertently; however intentional or non-intentional has no bearing on the outcome re natural vs artificial, it doesn't matter whether it's intentional or not).

People get comically high-minded about humans. Whether we create a new virus by accident or an independent robot, once the thing is independent of us, released into the wild so to speak, it's into a natural process that governs it (where in this case natural means, basically, not especially tightly controlled by human dictation). There is a gradient element to all of this, which makes it seem more complex or difficult to figure than it really is; at the edges it's obvious, near the switch-over it's murky.

The important defining factor is the process that the thing is being governed by, not the process under which it was created (or its ancestors & heirs were created). It doesn't matter how a thing is created, that doesn't determine natural vs artificial, it matters what its attributes and capabilities are post creation.

Obviously it's easy to go so far as to claim that all things are natural, since everything is of nature and nothing can exist outside of nature. However the definition is meant to be more precise here, as I think is understood.
American here. The problem I see with laws against hate speech is that "hate speech" is not defined concretely. While the intentions are certainly good, and I agree with the intentions, I disagree with the law because it leaves the definition of "hate speech" as a subjective term that is left up to the courts/prosecutors to define.
There's a proposal to add a decimal type to the spec, too.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decimal

Seems like it's a long ways away from being available, though.
Sorry, is that GM link supposed to be “tenderloin”? Im not from SF, so I dont know
Albeit, it's not that obvious, you can create an offline account without failing to sign in. Maybe it's different with anything below Windows 10 Pro but that was my experience.
> a steak is a steak is a steak

would lab-grown steak be remotely similar to a good cut of steak? I'd guess for sausage (and other processes meat) lab-grown won't be different, but I don't think lab-grown will be able to reach real-steak level anytime soon
So “scores” means two now. Cool.
Long term average weather. But yes, IIRC, climate change is causing more extreme variability, and that variability itself is a problem.

Though I do disagree with @airhead969, as the literally exponential growth of PV by itself looks to me to be enough to make us net zero in a decade or two (probably two, given exponentials are often sigmoids in disguise).
> Interestingly, Python does the same thing as JS in this case, even though it is typically quite strongly typed. [...]
> Python outputs 0, it doesn't complain like the other two.

yep, this is one of those Python weird bits. in Python, booleans are ints, True is 1 and 0 is False. and i don't mean it in a JS-ish way like "they can be converted to...". no, True is the integer value 1. in fact, the type bool is a subtype of int. if you think of types as sets of values, and subtypes as subsets of their parent set, that `book < int` relation suddenly makes a lot of sense ;)

>>> +(not not [])
0
>>> (not not [])
False
>>> 0 == False
True
>>> 1 == True
True
>>> True + True
2
>>> True - False + True * 0.5
1.5
>>> isinstance(False, bool)
True
>>> isinstance(False, int)
True
>>> bool < int
True

so, if you accept that the operation `not []` makes sense to be defined as True (because `bool([])` is False), and that it makes sense for False to be the integer 0, then `+(not not [])` being 0 is just a logical consequence of that :)

for the record, i do think it's weird for Python to define bools as ints, and to make all values define a boolean semantics via __bool__().
Despite? Because!

The US has a different flavor culture than SE Asia (though Huy Fong did get its start selling to SE Asian immigrants in the US).

I've tried more "authentic" Srirachas and don't like them at all (taste like cheap sweet ketchup to me). I eat Huy Fong almost daily (I have no Asian heritage).
"There is only so much law enforcement can do"

Drug abuse should not be a law enforcement issue, but a medical issue.

The problems on that street are a failure of the mental health system, lack of social safety nets, and the abject failure of the war on drugs which forces people to use unsafe drugs in unsafe ways instead of making sure that safe drugs can be used safely (which is what legalization or at least decriminalization would help ensure).
The conditions might be different than 20th century factory work, but the dynamic between wage labor and capital isn't much different.
The price of other crypto is essentially pegged to the stability and value of Bitcoin either directly or indirectly.
Regulators have far broader scope for regulation than just to ensure that people are not taken advantage of or scammed.

They don't stop innovative financial products from being built, they might stop them from being used for a particular purpose or even at all depending on how a particular development impinges on the list of items for which they regulate.

Amongst others, and depending on where you live your local regulators may add or subtract from this list considerably:

- fairness

- transparency

- stability

- anti money laundering

- anti terrorism financing

- tracking of ultimate beneficiary owners
> zero sum re-allocation games for which intermediaries get a cut

If intermediaries get a cut, wouldn't that make the games negative-sum?
Perhaps, but suggesting that processed foods (which factory produced meats essentially are) tend to contain less (potentially important - we have no idea) micronutrients is not, and is a very reasonable concern to have.
They aren’t afraid of those legal issues any more. They basically say Firefox is malware if you try to install it and you have to click that you are okay with insecure software to continue
Is this an asto-turfing effort putting this article on hackernews?
the post above is a question, not a statement
That's pretty odd, I doubt it has anything to do with the architecture and more to do with weather or not you're logged into a Google account.

I don't have a google account and use a desktop Linux-based OS on my phone. I have to solve the same captchas there as on my desktop.
Is it wise to shock someone who is driving? I can see some people having erratic actions in response.
We used to not understand how steam engines worked either, even once we got them working. At least not past the most macro level. Understanding at the micro level came later.
It's frustrating for sure but the reason that they want a phone number is because it's an excellent key to join lots of independent records about you. The companies who ask for your phone number don't care if the phone company knows where you live. They don't even need to ask the phone company, all they have to do is join up with a vendor who you did disclose your address to.

You can at least do yourself a mild favor and don't tell your phone number to all those brick n mortar companies who ask for it. "we'll never call you" -- of course they don't, they just want your individual identity to track you.
Has the Riemann hypothesis, finally been solved? (2018)
My username is "fucky" after I used an name to describe my feelings of having to create/use a Microsoft account. Exercise to the reader to guess the unshortened name
Fattest Animals in the World in Hindi Fat Animals
It tickles me that even the smallest operator on this list could launch me (in a suitable person-shaped container) into space, and some operators could also even recover me before I hit the ground.

Is there a market for this?!
El Salvador is more or less adopting the Lightning Network as a way to enable Bitcoin as legal tender in its borders.
Principles of Fair Software Licensing for Cloud Customers
I do some generative evolutionary art as an ongoing side project, and sometimes take my art to art shows, galleries, and conferences, and also publish academically on the techniques. It has happened on multiple occasions that someone either said directly to me or loudly to a friend nearby “Oh, well, this was just made by a computer”, as if my contribution was nothing more than turning it on and pressing a button. More or less the same as suggesting a painting was created by the paintbrush.

I don’t mind that some people don’t understand digital art, and I think it’s true that it’s harder to determine what an artist actually does when looking at digital art. But jumping to conclusions about it without understanding the first thing about it is pretty funny.
I love "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian". It's a fantastic cookbook, especially if you don't have a lot of cooking experience.
It is rich nations that are the problem.

For any given limit we wish to hold on warming, there is a total acceptable amount of CO2 emissions we can allow for the world.

Once emitted, CO2 stays in the atmosphere for a few hundred to a thousand years. Rich nations have emitted more than their fair share for a couple hundred years--that's a large part of how they got rich. Of the CO2 now in the atmosphere, over 60% came from North America and Europe and 47% from the US and the EU+UK.

Emitting more than your fair share to get rich is fine, if:

1. Once rich you use part of that wealth to switch to low or zero emissions, and

2. Either do something to take the CO2 you emitted out of the atmosphere so that there is room in the global CO2 budget for someone else to become rich the same way, or help them become rich by subsidizing them so they can skip the high emissions stage and go straight to the low/zero emissions rich stage.

The current rich nations aren't doing well on either of these.
What Is Ethereum 2.0 and What Does It Mean for DeFi?
> a part of cows emissions are methane related that dissipates fast while majority of emissions for lab grown meat is CO2 that stays in the atmosphere for long.

Methane "dissipates" into CO2. It's strictly worse in terms of its affect on the climate.
Oh no! The U.S. really needs to step up its game if it wants to stay competitive. (Honestly I couldn’t care less, but if a new space race injects further investment into science/space, I’m happy to be an instigator.)
Why are we always so dogmatic?

Struct of Arrays is a great pattern if you need the speed and have enough items to make it worth it. Otherwise just use OOP. Are you going to make an array of singleton data? No, of course not.

>How many places in the code did you have only one of something?

One socket, one host, one pool, and assuming a single player game, there are a lot of ones...

Just relax and use the strengths of both patterns.
That's not a bad list and for regulatory purposes maybe it makes sense to use it, but it has its own limitations.

- Users should be prevented from using sequential (ex. “1234”) or repeated (ex. “aaaa”) characters

This one can be counterproductive for the same reasons as the complexity requirements that this list prohibits. It reduces the space of available passwords and might block a strong but memorable password that coincidentally has an invalid subsequence somewhere in it.

- Two-factor authentication (2FA) should not use SMS for codes

This has its problems but depending on the situation you might have few alternatives available and some form of 2FA might still be much better than none. Apparently my government, my bank, and several well-known online services all share this view.
Regarding the weasel-worded "less land usage", most of the land that livestock use for grazing is unsuitable for conventional farming anyway. Only ruminants can properly utilize it.
Do you think USDC is also a fraud? They're eating into USDT's market share at an alarming rate... If USDT is really insolvent, the collapse should happen pretty soon.
This is spot on. (I'm a long time vegetarian, so I've thought a lot about this.) Hunting, fishing, and even specialty slaughterhouses will likely continue. The economics will cause mass meat production to go out of business, though. Beef first, probably. Engineering can evolve much faster than cows and chickens and fish can.

No politician, at least in the U.S. mainstream, is going to commit political self-destruction by going after farmers and making animal meat illegal. What will likely happen though is once the big restaurant chains and grocery stores start selling lab-grown meat that is better quality and cheaper than animal meat, the market for cheap animal meat will dry up. We'll have politicians trying to "save beef jobs" just like they are trying to save coal jobs today, due to more efficient and environmentally-friendly alternatives taking over the market. But unlike coal, consumers can still choose animal meat (you can't exactly choose your power plant), so it might be a long transition due to that market demand. Expect the Arby's and ilk to continue to tout how they use "real meat" with hypermasculine advertising for a long time to come.
Madoff started his business in the early 60s and it operated until 2008. How long do you think something should hold its value til we can, with certainty, say that it is not a Ponzi scheme?
I'm over in Mac-land so a bit unclear on the state of things, but it seems like the problem must be marketing by now, right? I can't think of any use cases for mainstream users where Windows is a requirement.

Graphic designers, digital art types, and musicians are all fringe and mostly on Mac anyway. PC gamers are a fringe crowd. Practically all productivity software has migrated to the cloud. Desktop Linux usability seemed to meet the standard of Windows XP and Windows 7 years ago.

Is the problem really that you still have to grapple with graphics drivers on the CLI? Or is it just that Best Buy and CostCo still don't have motivation to put shiny Linux machines on the shelves?

and yeah I know all about the various shady Gates/Ballmer-era OEM deals… I just can't believe that not one OEM has snapped by now.
Especially with cows, sheep and chickens, I suspect the market for their non-meat goods (milk, wool, eggs) will persist (perhaps in a progressively more artisanal market) for far longer than the killing-animals version of the meat industry.
Have you found a place for good Hainanese Chicken Rice in the US? Or good Taiwanese?
I feel like most qualities are immeasurable. Physical performance is measurable, so is intellect to a degree.

How can one objectively track performance in an immeasurable property?
Mary Two-Axe Earley
I couldn't figure how does the emoji image hashing works. Would somebody elucidate me?
> A formal apprenticeship model would be great for programming

It exists since 1997-1999, varying on the country. An apprenticeship takes nominally between 3 and 3½ years, concludes with a level 4 EQR and the rules and by-laws are determined by the chamber of commerce, who also holds the examinations. It is treated as a trade, similar to blue collar professions like heating installer, lathe operator etc.
People using everywhere as their bathroom certainly decreases quality of life for everyone else but it's not even a blip on the radar when you lose a couple packages a month and your car gets broken into once a year.

Solve the most impactful problems first.
Yeah, let's just forget about the fact that every BTC up move was preceded by a fat Tether print since mid 2016. It's not Tether pumping, it's the people choosing bitcoin! derp
Linux needs killer app equivalents. Many of the foss versions of windows programs have pretty painful UX or are missing key features (eg, smart select in gimp is really frustrating to use vs photoshop or affinity). Foss really needs to start tempting designers to participate more
Coming in Windows 12 - monthly subscription.
> on one machine I'm getting "GPU lost" error messages every once in a while during a long computation, and I have no other option than to reboot my machine.

If that’s your computer, just change the registry setting disabling the TDR. By default, Windows uses 2 seconds to limit max.pipeline latency. When exceeded, the OS resets the GPU, restarts the driver, and logs that “device lost” in the event log.

If that’s your customer’s computer you have to be more creative and fix your compute shaders. When you have a lot of things to compute and/or you detect underpowered hardware, split your Dispatch() calls into a series of smaller ones. As a nice side effect, this minimizes effect of your application on 3D rendering things running on the same GPU by other programs.

Don’t submit them all at once. Submit two initially then one at a time using ID3D11Query to track completion of these compute shaders. ID3D11Fence can do that better (can sleep on WaitForSingleObject saving electricity) but fences are less compatible unfortunately. That’s an optional feature introduced in Win10 post-release in some update, and e.g. VMWare SVGA 3D doesn’t support fences.

> the form factor sucks. Every card comes with 4 or more DVI connectors which I don't need.

Some datacenter GPUs, and newer mining GPUs come without connectors. The mainstream commodity cards to have connectors because the primary market for them is supposed to be gamers.

> something that fits on the mainboard directly

Unlikely to happen because thermals. Modern high-end GPUs consume more electricity than comparable CPUs, e.g. RTX 3090 needs 350W, similarly priced EPYC 7453 needs 225W.
I think at the end of the day, they are happier with an illegitimate Windows user, than a non-Windows user. They'll nag, push, try everything to annoy, but they won't lock you out completely, because that could mean losing you for good.

Of course, I can only infer this from their past behavior.
I've found the Enneagram's 9 personalities to me more useful. It is easier to apply when communicating with someone it you know their type you can rearrange your conversation flow to be more effective.

Myers-Briggs hasn't really been useful for me. I fall very close to the middle on 2 of the axes.
This reminds me of Kubernetes, where all cluster state is neatly structured and placed in a replicated data store (etcd) that is the source of truth for operation, with the right parts immutable (e.g. volumes).

The first thing people do is check in textual representations of those things in version control and operate on that instead.
Happened to me a few months ago too when setting up a new machine. The language was also so convoluted and strange that I didn't quite catch that this was creating an online account at the time.

I found a way to revert it and make the account an offline account afterwards, but I was so furious about this crap.

That being said, I don't see the banner you mention.
Actually it fixes exactly that. A more efficient way to get food allows for a larger population with less strain on the Earth's resources.
I feel this. I just upgraded MacOS 11 Big Sur and to XCode 12.5 (from 12.4). Both updates were 12 GB.
The Magnificent Neptunian System
In my experience it totally works, but you are left with an undesirable bitter taste introduced by the baking soda.
the commenter you're replying to is arguing that the article is referring to a single street instead of the larger tenderloin area, because racism/xenophobia has caused them to irrationally believe that a single street has "scores" of drug dealers, as opposed to the entire Tenderloin area, which makes much more sense.
They could have just said "distributed systems". It's not like the Node kids suddenly invented "microservices".
As other's have said, this is like awarding the Nobel physics prize to the LHC.

Until AI is sentient, the award should go to the tool designers, or those who use it to achieve whatever results are nobel-worthy.
Is Energy Conserved in General Relativity? (2017)
from a general survey point of view, there are confounding aspects to a single number like that. Since Java is an enterprise language by design, the difference between 'moving versions due to management declaration' and 'our major ecosystem component supports THIS' also factor in to the overall picture.

As an outsider who does follow this for editorial reasons from time to time, most recent info (last year) was yes, projects surveyed are staying on (open) version 8.
> An estimated 65% of global Bitcoin mining takes place in China, which requires huge amounts of electricity and has strained China’s State Grid.
> While China has been transitioning to renewable energy, the vast majority of power generation still comes from dirty coal.
> Bitcoin has become a direct challenger to China’s 2060 carbon neutrality pledge.

This actually makes China sound like a good guy, not a bad guy.
WTF is a chatbot vs. WTF is conversational AI
If the good lord had wanted us to interact with transistors based on mnemonics, not electrical currents, he'd have implemented our brains in mnemonics, not electrical currents.
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/global.html Here you can view a globally distributed average. Or click “animation”. This is not “cherry picked”

Ironically your anecdote at the end is a great example of irreverent cherry picking.
I know it's rendering to HTML/SVG whatever, but I still think that belongs client-side.

It's better to do it on the client because it's generally better to send less information over the wire, as well as send information in its most unprocessed form.

This applies, for example, to charts as well -- far better to send the raw data series values to the client and render it on the client-side with a charting library.

Both of these cases have the huge advantage that if you want to use the equation or data yourself, you can just "view source" or "inspect" and grab the equation or data directly to copy.

I don't think we need to be too concerned about the fact there's a slight delay in rendering equations. People are pretty used to browsers loading everything gradually, whether waiting for images to be the last thing to appear, or even lazy loading of images. There's nothing wrong with that.
my man, you're bragging about being one of those social issues
The root of the problem is the original intent of Javascript. Javascript was intended to be a small layer of dynamism added to web pages that were mostly defined via HTML which were presented to a human for interpretation. When your user agent is a human trying to look up an address for a restaurant, they can look at a garbled piece of crap where the JS crashed and still maybe find what they were looking for in the rendered text. Limp along the best you can is a great failure strategy for Javascript's original use-case. Only now that we've turned Javascript into a general purpose programming language is this a failure.

Even Javascript's weak typing makes sense in this case. Why automatically convert everything? Becausethe expectation was that inputs to your Javascript would be HTML attributes which are all strings. Automating type conversions from strings made sense. But once you move to larger scale programing, Javascript's weak typing is awful
Click the “global” or “animation” tab then.
ISO 8601 says January is 1. We have a standard.
Yes, I was prompted to plan turning off AMP for next month, even given CWV weirdness in GSC...

http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-49.html#2021...
The ban on travel from Europe once made sense. Now it’s only causing hardship
Don't make the mistake thinking that this happened without "lots of investment". The Chinese space program is massive and has been running for decades.