skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People never ever forget that all of this is not in anyway what so ever has slowed down the exponential increase in greenhouse gases. SF6 CH4 CO2 N2O all growing year over year near record levels.

Human consumption and population growth needs to level flatline. Now.

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/
Haha wow you have so much of this wrong. Not just confused wrong, but blatant misrepresentation that amounts to libel. The description of Bret Weinstein, what he did and did not say, and the sequence of events, is a straight up lie. Nothing he said even approached dishonesty, that study wasn’t ’foundational’ in the least, and hasn’t really changed the situation. Completely misrepresented Rogan and Lex as well. And you’re clearly wrong about nobody being censored. That’s not even in question. This whole post reads like you read some ideologically motivated hit piece and believed it was accurate.

And you finish off by advocating censorship. SMH.
Yeah I don’t know how anyone with even a passing knowledge of the history of the CIA could make a claim like that.
It's absolutely wild to compare Godot with UE4, they're just serving totally different purposes. If somebody chose the wrong option for their project, yeah that's a huge mistake.

2D games are hardly some sad niche for beginners though, it's an enormous fraction of non-AAA development, and there really aren't a ton of good 2D engines out there.
King's African Rifles
It's 2.96 MB large so about the size of a high quality photo. My webapp doesn't have many pages yet so I expect this to grow by a couple KB.
What am I factually wrong about? I agree with your reply. Yes it’s a difficult problem and google and FB have demonstrated that they’re hopeless to solve it. That doesn’t make their behavior ethical.

In fact even though they can’t solve this problem, their entire business model is still built on the fact that anyone can target ads to a specific group to influence their behavior. And if they’re not showing ads then they are showing personalized content based on engagement and virality, which is not a measure of quality or truth, but one of shock and outrage. So no your employers’ behaviors are not ethical and I think you’d have to be delusional to think so.
I didn't think digital files have higher quality than vinyl. Do they?
Where I lived in northern Minnesota has been getting greener, but mainly, I think, because the winter is shorter by 2-3 weeks on both sides versus 80 years ago.

Certainly green in Denver this year but it’s because we have received 50% more rain than usual.
Did you know that in the Aeropagetica, John Milton's 1644 pamphlet that is a landmark in the history of free speech, Milton literally said it was OK to censor Catholicism and superstition? [1]

Freedom of speech has always been subject to limitations, exceptions, and special pleadings. There is no absolute liberty, there is only freedom to the extent that society is indifferent to, or can at least tolerate.

"even opinions lose their immunity when the circumstances in which they are expressed are such as to constitute their expression a positive instigation to some mischievous act" [2]

[1] "Yet if all cannot be of one mind—as who looks they should be?—this doubtless is more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian, that many be tolerated, rather than all compelled. I mean not tolerated popery, and open superstition, which, as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate" https://www.gutenberg.org/files/608/608-h/608-h.htm

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1919/11/the-bas...
Founding a Non-Profit FOSS Company
One of the dreams that I have is to found a non-profit software company that develops and provides free, open-source software for the public good. I am passionate about personal computing and how it has empowered users for nearly 50 years. I am also increasingly concerned about market trends that serve to take power away from users and give it back to platform owners, such as subscription-based software, restrictive app stores and notarization requirements, adware, and surveillance. I believe that these market trends are not the result of malice, but are the result of market incentives; companies stand to make more money with today's business models than with the business models of the 1980s and 1990s. However, I feel that the notion of user empowerment has become not only an afterthought, but rather antithetical to today's business models, which encourage a sharp division between user (which is increasingly thought of as a consumer versus a producer) and programmer instead of some type of combination, such as the Smalltalk environment and Hypercard. I would love to found a non-profit company that is dedicated to the continued development of personal, desktop computing as an empowering tool rather than as a media consumption device that serves as a vehicle to serve ads and sell subscription services.

However, since I'm not wealthy, I need to consider how to procure funding to start such a company. Writing a competitive desktop and suite of applications is a major effort that will take many engineers. Assuming they are not volunteers, this is millions of dollars in salary alone. I'm also concerned about the viability of a non-profit FOSS company, given worries about the future of Firefox. I wonder if there are successful examples of non-profit FOSS companies, or if I would be breaking new ground by pursuing this idea?
This is off-topic, but I love that the title of the slides is "233_Advanced Touch Input on_iOS_04_Final_Final_VERY_Final_D_DF.key".
I should point that I studied a PhD in the application of Machine Learning to Neurosignal decoding back in 2017-2018 (dropped out after one year), so this isn't just criticism I've plucked out the air.

I spent a solid 6 months intimately learning the pros and cons of various existing BCI systems, as well as the exact methods researchers use to make their technology look like a breakthrough when it isn't.

Specifically, here, they've created a system that can decode one of 50 symbols - a mere 1 bit more than the English alphabet - and described the symbols as "words" so that the reader thinks each symbol carries much more information than it actually does.
They've also cherry-picked the patient that responded the best.

When you peel back the hype, this is about the same performance we've been getting since '08 for an invasive, subdural, non-penetrative array.
I’m shocked - shocked! - that the brilliant minds of HN have no commentary on this work.
Vibratory Roller. I think they ripped off Andrew Camarata : https://youtu.be/VMHYti9L3ss?t=1925
Correct. CFIUS swings long and low.

I am a bit interested in the relationship with Abu Dhabi.
There're certainly multiple places one could draw the line--the efficacy of a given position for these sorts of things varies by your objective or simply the severity one perceives.

Thanks a ton for providing the opportunity for some discussion on this!
You can look at it the other way too. They spent time writing their language and produced something that still makes them 5 figures in donations. They may not meet your priorities, but there's a few people they do make happy.
Funny thing is that the Metro games are based on books by the same name. I tried reading the first one expecting horror and survivalism and action. Instead I got mysticism and philosophy.

Half the book reads like Dante's Inferno. Like its not supposed to be taken literally, but I'm not the right audience to get the references.
That's absurd. Money is not virtual to me, it directly translates to goods and services I can purchase to improve my life. Doubling the national debt in a year will lead to either a) inflation, b) higher taxes, or c) both, all of which are extremely undesirable given that Canada already has a high cost of living and a top marginal income tax rate > 50%.

Politicians spent irresponsibly in 2020 and continue to do so now. A cursory examination of even recent history (see: the 90s) is enough to show that we are in for a world of financial hurt within the next decade as interest rates rise to combat inflation.
DangitBobby, hillposting in a natural gas thread. Amazing. Didn’t notice until after I had read several of your well informed comments. Bwahh!
Please don't do this.

Just my input, nothing more, nothing less.

I understand that YC is how HN supports itself, but this (as well as the YC company hiring posts) just feel like somewhat of a violation of the implicit contract between HN and its users. I would prefer that the YC posts rise or fall based on votes like (almost) everything else.
When the trump accounts were shut down, the political stance and attitude silenced the criticism. it's too late now. The social media accounts of the president of the usa have been closed. The account of a man who received half the votes from the USA has been closed. then the majority could not say it was wrong. now it's too late to talk and complain
Assange case: Key witness admits he lied
Basically all apps that collect fees as an intermediary could be turned into not for profits.
Short-Squeeze Watch List
Why are the poor in the America described in terms of "meth heads"? Being poor is not a moral failure.
Does anyone else remember an educational game that was based in the world of Alice in Wonderland?

I think was terminal or DOS and had like math and English problems with like the Cheshire Cat and such.

It was from around the time of The Oregon Trail and Kid Pix, most likely before?
CO2 near its record level? What do you figure the record is?
I might look at the Nile and the oases to its west as examples. They are areas with plenty of water in the middle of what is otherwise a hot, barren desert. Plants grow there just fine. We can rule out the Sahara as a place that's too hot for plants.

So do we have an example of a place that is?
They keep honest people from playing the game, unless you have clean install of windows with no blacklisted drivers or software installed. Not to mention how these things basically hook themselves to critical system APIs, acting more like a malware. Valorant is probably worst example of this. Community run servers are the best form of "anti-cheat".

The problem is that developers treat PC like a locked console. This is just a completely fruitless uphill battle. PC gives power to its users, while consoles give power to the developers. PCs are designed to not sandbox or lock you, you can do anything with them without having to break its sandbox first. The mindset with the developers that deploy intrusive anti-cheat is to have the users locked in so they can ship their centralized server model and hope they can deal with the hopefully lesser amount of cheaters themselves, instead of giving the moderation power to the users themselves.
Would devs do a more standard Sony/Playstation type agreement?

Something like maybe $10K per year base, and then extra to get an app certified etc? Similar cut in the end?

There are models that allow for better service- problem is they tend to be expensive for smaller devs
I have a friend who's gone off the deep end in the past year (like so many others).

He freely admits that he doesn't believe the vaccine is bad, and might even be good. His sole reason for not taking it is, and I quote, "because they want me to." In other words, simple spite.

We're not talking about a teenager here, but a successful man in his 60's who is probably the single most well-read person I know.
This is the problem, isn't it - until Canadians feel the pain acutely, they will accept absolute appalling mediocrity without so much as a peep of complaint.
Interesting, I always liked this approach. Let the tech company do the hard work of making a seamless UX (or one of the great open source alternatives) and then just syncing the subscriber list from them, instead of having to manually plug in and manage it all in a separate app.
It is a substantial change in how the intended word is selected. This new process lends itself to huge amounts of training and machine learning to vastly expand the vocabulary.
Gigantic Hangar in China Points to Exotic Airship Development
When they talked about time saved, were they referring to:

A) effort (aka 'man-hours'), or

B) duration (aka 'wall clock time')

?
I wonder if anyone has started selling face-masks printed with something akin to CV Dazzel.
Everyone here is right that you can sub for propane with little modification. Propane actually has higher energy density than methane, too, so it creates higher heat with less fuel. Seems like the best solution — allow restaurants to install propane tanks and even subsidize conversion. Could be challenging in dense cities though.
You are on the right side of the solution. The problem isn't people such as yourself, or people who do not believe in climate change, the problem is the people in the middle who do not care one way or another. They will not be convinced until their groceries are expensive and pick up trucks need $6 per gallon. The feedback is already starting. We will never see a "naive" planet Earth again, but already the environmental trouble we are causing is being slowly turned into political willpower and economic pain. There's still hope yet.
I love the concept; I've already created some lists of things I'd be embarrassed to show non-ADHD folks. Feature request: Rename existing lists and list items.
It would have to be closer to 200-300% in order to solve our problem. You can easily Google search for these numbers. And this would just get us to neutral on CO2. We would still have to deal with methane and water vapor, both of which are more potent greenhouse gases.
Nut. This is exciting in more ways than one and I hope it works out.
Actually, some proportion of LTCM's portfolio was actually selling volatility on equity options. If I recall this unit accounted for about ~20% of the losses. I think about another 15% came from linear equity arbitrage, mostly long-short positions on cross-listed stocks. Like you said, the bulk was fixed income arbitrage.

It was actually pretty internally controversial when LTCM started selling options in the last year or two before its cratering. The core thesis of the firm was pure arbitrage, where the risk was inherently capped. When the more aggressive faction started pursuing "statistical arbitrages", positions that could lose money but tended not to when repeated long enough, the old-school vanguard from Salomon revolted. Ironically both the pure arbitrage and statistical arbitrage positions got crushed in 1998.
Crypto Meets Aging Research
You’re face-ing it wrong!
I think graphical fidelity can also be part of usability. Artists always seem to complain about things like waiting for baking lights to finish, shadows having weird artifacts, lighting not appearing naturally and have to resort to using hacks, performance problems preventing the use of certain assets and effects, etc. An overall better renderer would remove lot of the pain from tweaking your art to fit the quirks of the engine. For example, things like SDF-based global illumination would be a godsend to those making outdoor scenes.
In addition to that I also use

https://github.com/exelban/stats
But is biomass a permanent sink or just a temporary buffer?

I mean every year we keep pumping more carbon into the atmosphere, but unless biomass turns into coal, it is just a temporary buffer for carbon, right?
This is what System76 engineers say. That their motherboards are made by an ODM (Clevo), and Clevo sells similar motherboards to customers other than System76 - but that most other OEMs (other than Apple) have their motherboards made by ODMs, who then go off to sell similar motherboards to other customers.

In other words, most OEMs are selling machines built around "repackaged" ODM motherboards, so it is not a trait unique to System76.
For many (most) small developers, they are not taking a "huge" amount of money.

One developer at apple is around 300K, or around $600K with overhead.

Many of these smaller apps pay maybe $100 + a tiny bit of sales which are small. You call this "huge" money. This is not. Apple will provide global distribution / accessibility etc for almost nothing (they also will give you xcode etc etc as part of your $100). Devs want gold plate expert service but don't want to pay for it.

Have you been involved in any tech to tech co deals? The amounts apple is taking here are tiny - to apple they are zero for small devs.
82nd, he was in Special Operations.
Thank you for suggestion.
There is no sound without heat.
Refactoring of Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (Masvs)
The project team of the OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-masvs) is right in the middle of completely refactoring the document and it's requirements for mobile apps! We were re-visiting this topic in the last few months and tried to identify the current pain points and how they could be removed.

In order to move forward we are looking for your feedback! If you would like to share any feedback or comments of what should be changed in the MASVS, please do so by participating in our Github Discussion:

https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-masvs/discussions/553
You can rename existing lists by tapping edit on the top left and then tapping the name :) Renaming items is coming soon.
EVs make artificial sound outside at low speed for that reason. I'm not sure but I would assume this is government mandated.

This is different though, this here is for the user to be able to judge how much the cpu/motor is working. And yes, not only do some EVs offer you fake indoor noises, a lot of gas cars also do it as engines get more silent/sound worse to meet modern regulation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lQPc9VXBzk
This is with in memory database and journaling disabled?
I'll give it two hours of that until "Show HN: browser extension to hide all Launch HN threads, forever".
If I understand the story correctly, they had the suspect in custody and yet failed to positively ID him, relying on an ID he had stolen from an innocent man named Ousmane Bah. The ID had no photo and was labeled "not to be used for identification". SIS filed a police report which said they had video evidence showing the perpetrator.

They then put out a "BOLO" with the innocent man's name, had him arrested, figured out they have the wrong guy, do nothing about it and had him arrested again.

When Bah appeared in court to answer charges and Apple was asked to present the video that would have cleared Bah, Apple claimed that the video had been deleted. The video was later found by Bah's attorney during discovery. This happened more than once. A warrant was issued for Bah’s arrest and contained the photo of the imposter. Bah was arrested even though the he doesn't resemble the imposter, other than being Black. Prosecution against Bah continued in multiple states through June 2019.

Hmmm, seems like a lot of people involved in this case should be fired, including the Apple Employees, SIS Employees and Police officers, reguardless of whatever other outcomes there are.
This this this. I talk about my good and bad emotions with my sons and they realize it’s ok to have emotions rather then outbursts or tantrums. My parents messed me up good, but I am smart enough to end that cycle.
>It is a substantial change in how the intended word is selected.

Detecting (in)activity in M1 during imagined movement tasks has been the standard decoding method for 30+ years.

>This new process lends itself to huge amounts of training and machine learning to vastly expand the vocabulary.

Not without degrading accuracy. The fundamental limit to these systems is the human operator; not the decoding algorithms. ML has advanced dramatically since the turn of the century but almost all BCI performance gains have been from new sensors.
This is at the very least a reasonable description of the actual events.

But even now that we have acknowledged "highly curable" to be relative to other types of cancer, pancreatic cancer being among the most sinister and deadly, I take great issue with the notion of highly curable pancreatic cancer.

By the time Jobs finally opted for surgery, the cancer had spread. He had an under-the-radar liver transplant and began putting a lot of energy into researching the most sophisticated experimental methods, making a complete about-face from how he began his treatment years before.
According to the New York Times, Jobs was one of the few people in the world to have his genome sequenced. Collaborating researchers at several institutions sequenced his DNA in order to develop a treatment that would target his specifically mutated cell pathways. He went for an experimental treatment in Switzerland in 2009, which involves using a radioactive isotope to attack the faulty hormone-producing cells of the body.[0]

This story is so much more about anger, denial, bargaining and the grieving process than it is about an (admittedly and certainly) aloof and incredibly powerful figure who was flagrant in the face of medical authority.

A previous romantic partner of mine's father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and made startlingly similar choices against the behest of his entire family and everyone he knew. He was surely not an aloof billionaire who ate nothing but fruit, he was a very pragmatic union carpenter who took great pains to manage his health.

I know you did not make a claim like this, but I personally don't find it at all unthinkable for a somebody to make this sort of choice when faced with this diagnosis.

[0] Same, https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-j...
> Almost every driver and layer (ORMs, etc) that connect to databases use transactions. Transparently or not, but it uses them. So actually they are using transactions all the time.

They're using them but they're not getting any useful effect out of them, since the database-level transactions don't actually align with business-level transactions. Fundamentally you can't actually use database-level transactions in a useful way in a web application because you can't share a transaction between multiple HTTP requests (without introducing much bigger problems).

> Either it means that you serialize everything in every active node (pointless)

Not pointless - you gain redundancy which is the whole point. Performance will be bad but for a low-traffic system it's often actually fine.

> Which in turn means either supporting distributed transactions (e.g. via Paxos or RAFT protocols) or doing conflict resolution (which essentially is a nice way of saying "data loss"). Both problems are much, much harder than the (usually harmless) consequences of using transactions on a "classical" RDBMS.

The consequence of using transactions on a classical RDBMS at scale without thinking carefully about it is deadlocks, which are just as bad as distributed transaction problems, and you still have to do conflict resolution in the case where a transaction gets aborted, which will happen sooner or later (most RDBMS fans just ignore it and lose data). If you want decent performance then eventually you'll have to model your data properly using CRDTs (this is true even in a classical RDBMS) and at that point you gain nothing from traditional RDBMS transactions.

> Therefore being RDBMSs like Postgres the best and safest, the default, approach that should be taken for data persistence layers.

RDBMSes are not safe. The way they achieve their integrity guarantees is by rejecting, and dropping, unexpected writes. This almost always loses data in practice.
Afaik they pulled those statements after two days of backlash and have yet to update their policy. I'd expect a more solid backtracking closer to release date.
Why not do batches for all startups and if there is sufficient interest for one then create its own Launch HN? I know you said don't use this as a signal, but I'd be hard pressed if that actually happened, not to mention the impact on the morale of the teams that are batched.
Thank you, I will forward this to him !
You don't want to use a tool because it's flexible and multi-purpose?