skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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...and the leaded gas in 1921 smelled so much better
So what is the answer?
I agree with the benefits of crop subsidization, however the subsidies on corn are way beyond national security. Corn is a very robust crop that grows in nearly any conditions and has limited nutritional value, subsidies need to be spread out among more varied and vulnerable crops. We should also be focusing them on more sustainable farming techniques that don't deplete the topsoil.
Oh, thought all the banks supported that :)
> you would have to stop and think "I can't allocate _my_ byte type! I must allocate u8

No, this is premature optimization. Rather, you would write the code in the most obvious way, and then profile it to figure out which optimizations are worth doing. At that point you can comment your code explaining why it looks all wonky :)
I don't think I've ever had more than 10 tabs. Why on earth would anyone have more than a few open at the same time?
CPVR: An alternative to patents on plant varieties in Europe
>This invasive capability on the device level...

As the article points out, the capability to scan things on devices is already deployed on huge swathes of devices in the from of virus scanners and content search indexing. All the photos on iPhones and many Android devices get scanned for text recognition now anyway. I'm sorry, but 'OMG scanning things" is a genie that got out of the bottle decades ago. So no, scanning content is not a dangerous new capability, it's an extensions of existing capabilities to a new use case.

Now arguably this is a further slip down that slope of on-device scanning, but it is not some new watershed moment where scanning is happening for the first time. Also we can see that the trend is not to repurpose existing scanning systems for new purposes. Virus scanning, search indexing, text recognition and now this are all separate mechanisms implemented and operating independently in task specific ways. The prediction that these mechanisms will be subverted for other purposes has not panned out.

The real issue is what is being scanned and why, and the implementation of this system. That's the topic we need to focus on.
Non-Apple solution: An ESP8266 which opens Wifi-station "STOLEN_BICYCLE_owner@hotmail". But only for few minutes everyday at 9:11 . Should last for years with small battery.

You can go hunting yourself or hope somebody else sees it. If you manage to connect to this network, you can connect to 192.168.1.11 and turn it permanently on/off and also turn audible beep on, for final pinpointin.

And now that the ESP wakes up everyday, it could also look for public Wifis and send and receive emails. From the Wifi-providers name you can get a rough idea of the location.
Hold on a second. I want my kids to be good at math. I pay taxes too. Why do you think you are subsidizing me, or my kids?
Possible by Default
What's solar rapture? Sounds like a Scientology ritual.
Espressif hires full-time employee to support Rust on ESP32
-I know next to nothing of airships, but I believe your problem would be controlled flight; a huge airship has huge drag and once winds pick up, you'll soon run out of engine power to counter that drag - and all of a sudden you find yourself going the way the wind blows, which may or may not be where you intended to go...

(Presumably that same drag will cause problems for the structural integrity of the airship, too.)
Can you share any positive stories about a US-led outrage about human rights, followed by regime change, followed by prosperity?

There are plenty of examples of the first two conditions, but I don't recall any that meet the third one.

Medical interventions are judged by their track record. It's high time military and political ones got the same treatment.

Note that this does not make me a pro-Lukashenka bot. One can not be a fan of mental illness and still oppose lobotomy. Same principle.
The point is to give an example for my original tenet, that privacy often is valued as a theoretical concept but that people are apparently willing to give it up rather quickly for something else in return. Or, from a different point of view, how much convenience are you willing to give up for your privacy?

For example, I used to be on the extreme "pro privacy" end of the spectrum. But it is clear that philosophically speaking, privacy for everyone is not a completely positive ideal in all contexts. And that naturally raises the question about what other values privacy competes with, and how they should be balanced.

Intuitively, "convenience" should perhaps be considered less important than "privacy", but interestingly that's not what we observe actually happening in the real world.
I agree about the battery powered lawn devices. I started with a lawn mower and a string trimmer, graduated to a chainsaw, and finally ended up with a leaf blower. I love them all!

You don't realize how much time and attention you give these small gasoline motors over the years. It's soooo much easier to slap the battery in for the first cut of the season and just go. No more winterizing. No more checking/changing spark plugs. No more pulling starter cords until my arm falls off. No more loud stinky exhaust.

These are by far the best purchase I've made in a long time.
It does get disproportionate subsidies. But part of it could be simple risk aversion, corn is a very robust crop. Wheat can be destroyed in conditions where corn will prosper and much of the US can get fairly extreme weather.
Here is what it looks like: https://youtu.be/zX3UJO4paxk?t=15

iOS visuals have changed since 2012, but the process is the same in 2021: 1. full-screen message 2. another full-screen message with a numpad and buttons.

I'm surprised that this feature is not massively used to scam people. Is it because sending service SMS is restricted to certain parties?
Ah yes, because insects have nothing to do with leaves... And glyphosate is the only chemical in it.

Wait, neither of those are actually true, are they?

Let's have a goo at the top three search results for "round up effect on insects"...

> "The chemical compound glyphosate, the world's most widely used herbicide, can weaken the immune systems of insects, suggests a study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health"

> "The active ingredient in Roundup, glyphosate, does not affect insects in the same way it impacts plants, but it does kill insects, either directly -- as in the case of a small number of honeybees in Monsanto's research -- or as a consequence of killing weeds."

> "Glyphosate—the most widely used herbicide globally—inhibits melanin production, which could have wide-ranging implications in the health of many organisms, including insects. ... Glyphosate also increased the burden of the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum in A"

This doesn't seem like such an "unlikely" candidate to be playing a role to me.
Extreme political views tend to produce similar results, regardless of their justification.
The not-so-nice thing about climate change is that both things can be true.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/6/19/eaaw18...

> Humans’ ability to efficiently shed heat has enabled us to range over every continent, but a wet-bulb temperature (TW) of 35°C marks our upper physiological limit, and much lower values have serious health and productivity impacts. Climate models project the first 35°C TW occurrences by the mid-21st century. However, a comprehensive evaluation of weather station data shows that some coastal subtropical locations have already reported a TW of 35°C and that extreme humid heat overall has more than doubled in frequency since 1979. Recent exceedances of 35°C in global maximum sea surface temperature provide further support for the validity of these dangerously high TW values. We find the most extreme humid heat is highly localized in both space and time and is correspondingly substantially underestimated in reanalysis products. Our findings thus underscore the serious challenge posed by humid heat that is more intense than previously reported and increasingly severe.
Is that not a photoshop? The teeth look like they blur into the mouth
Yes, a good bookmarking/archiving/... solution would likely solve this for many people.
Their main products are centered on fast GPS tracking solutions, which works really well with maps and mapping out maps, but at the end of the day are "just" coordinates. Selling maps in and of themselves is not their core product.
Ask HN: Why is Apple doing the CSAM scanning/privacy invasion?
I would push for 2% of net sale value. But my experience is limited to India where costs are lower.
You must be using the new BankID app which sends push notifications, but I don't think it's supported by every site which uses BankID.
Well, speaking broadly: that’s not how politics works.

If you go for a thing directly you show your hand and get a lot of backlash.

Case in point: the British NHS (because we can see it happening in real time).

Add the capability to do something for a good reason (NHS spending should be more efficient; we need approved suppliers // do it for the children) in order to make the further move of what you really want without much resistance (privatise parts of the NHS; eventually much of the NHS // back door every terrorist, dissident, detractor)
Not goals - incentives. I'm from Czechia and for me math education changed dramatically for the last year of high-school. All of a sudden it was crunch time to get the best result at the standardized tests that are part of government's examination.

Up until that point the math classes were very much Soviet-style understanding-first, daily hour-long homeworks that are described in the article.

Final year was about technique memorization.

Once you're gaming a system, education quality tanks.
yes, you can use usbmuxd with macOS, but it means you have to purchase a Mac, and who wants to run macOS as a server OS.
The problem is that the government tells you to produce a limited selection of crops. Then subsidy farmers will try to optimize the crap out of the subsidies. It's ok for food security but now all the food processing companies will try to use the subsidized crops everywhere because they are much cheaper.
When learning ML at university one assumes that the data you have well represents the environment. We do the famous train/validation/test split and train our model.

However, in practice we see that it is very hard to collect a good dataset.
There is a great twitter thread from Abubakar(CEO Gradio) about this topic:
https://twitter.com/abidlabs/status/1423067498862219267
You can use an app to do this as well. f.lux was the first app in this category I think and is still a great choice. I run it on a Macbook. There are similar apps for phones as well. Some phones now include built-in functionality to do this as well.
I think this is a massively important point that needs further consideration.

If a person can generate images on demand any system based on recognising known images is immediately bypassed.

AI image classification will be your only option but the false positive volumes have the potential to be massive, swamping any follow up investigation.
PISA ranking? China and Singapore are at the very top. If you think what's described is brutality, you should watch tiger moms push their children.

I've also went through what could be considered a "brutal" system, very similar to whats described, although i wouldn't use that specific term.

We had ~40 problem sets to solve every evening for homework, hours of work. I don't think anyone ever got an A+ in anything. If the student was better/stronger at something - they'd only get harder and harder questions thrown at them during oral exams until they crumble, and harder and harder sets added to their homework.

As for the "stupid" Americans? STEM classes are full of foreign kids in top US schools.
Predictive analytics a lazy mans way to riches
I guess its kind of obvious now that practice always helps, but for a while, mostly during high school, I used to think that being good at math because you've seen similar problems hundreds of before was kind of "cheating" and you weren't really that smart. Instead, you were smart if you managed to do a test/competition really well without doing tons of practice questions.

Consequently during math classes I used to sit at the back of the class and play counter strike all day on my laptop. Nobody seemed to care since I'd ace all the tests and still compete for my school in math competitions and stuff. However I completely wrecked my math education, and come university (I skipped last year of high school for uni, there's a standard program for it in my country) I had completely forgotten how to prepare for a math exam and was systematically left further behind with every year Lol.

Looking back I still kind of regret my perspective on doing practice problems. In hindsight it was kind of stupid but it was mostly because I thought it was kind of lame that I did well sometimes because I practiced more than other people, whereas some other students seemed to do pretty good without (seemingly) having practiced at all. On the plus side I do feel I learn things a lot faster than much people and am pretty descent at a wider variety of things
It looks like Flash SMS is handled differently.

Here’s a post from 2020 on the differences within Android to handle flash SMS: https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms/issues/1536#issuecomment...

Here’s an app, pre-4.3, for sending Flash SMS: https://github.com/romankh/gat-app

There appear to be a couple online services that will let you send Flash SMS (Type 0) but Twilio is not one of them.

Edit: The terminology is confusing! I wrote “type 0” above when in fact it’s a “class 0” sms. Type 0 means a silent SMS, Class 0 means an SMS that’s display-only and not stored. See also https://www.contextis.com/en/blog/binary-sms-the-old-backdoo... for a brief overview, though I’m sure there are other, better sources.
> Right. The problem I've seen way too much is modularizing code too early in its lifecycle. This mistake seems to happen a lot by smart programmers who are inexperienced.

I don't see this as bad. Modularization protects against an uncertain future. Most code that's modularized is only used once and this Looks bad only because you haven't seen the alternative of what could have happened if code wasn't modularized.

Non modularized code is often designed wrong because of an uncertain future. Once the project is too far down the line, people just keep piling technical debt on top of the design flaw. Code is rarely rewritten until it's at a point where it's horrible than it takes a massive engineering effort to rewrite and even this rewrite could be wrong.

The alternative is code littered with modules that are used once. Which is better? Obviously the more modular code.
I'm assuming the native app makes each user worth 5x a web user. There's prob a number out there somewhere.

So, if a web user is worth $1/user/month in profit, an app user is worth $5/user/month in profit.
I immediately looked past the header section to the body content snd textbook section and say that the textbook was “Algorithmic Game Theory” by Tim Roughgarden, who I recognize from his Coursera classes on algorithms at Stanford.

https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~768

After finally looking at the top to see who the instructor was I was shocked to that it’s Tim — although I should have guessed that, professors often recommend books they wrote. It’s surprising that he moved to Columbia from Stanford. I don’t know anything about computer science academics but I would think Stanford would be a more prestigious snd opportunistic place than Columbia.
Less cynically it could also result in damage to due process. We shouldn't give up that lightly.
The article touches on this, but one of the things that pretty much every computer game gets wrong is making diamonds super strong and rare in the natural world, when in the real world they’re neither.

De Beers must be laughing down their sleeves.
Maybe you are right, but I don't think you and the publisher did justice to your book.

It's clearly a course - 99 lessons, wow! First look at the index may confuse potential reader. It's about signals and copy and paste at the same time. Copy and paste actually CAN be tricky and is mostly not well understood for people not raised on a Linux desktop. But the headline itself confuses me and my first though was that it's more of a beginner course like those RedHat has at the begging of the certification path, before tests start. - what is console, what is Gnome, files, users, groups etc..

What usually made me interested in such products was a clear, full chapter that I can read. Even better if it's an actual chapter that can be used individually, without the context of the rest of the book. Not the introduction. It is usable on it's own, so it's linked by people - that is some good publicity. It worked on me and some of my friends!

Also how does it compare to other books, like https://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/Bash-Beginners-Gui...? Yours looks like for beginners but it's just targeted towards devs that don't know bash and linux terminal well. The linked one is titles "for beginners" but it's not really :)

I hope this gives you some insight that you can use in future. I really didn't wanted to just complain in vain. Some of my friends wrote large IT books and I know how weird experience it is to work with a publisher. Good look!
grade 12 is usually 18yo, grade 11 is 17yo, etc
While this is partly true, and a point of national pride (I'm Romanian), it's also important to realize that this is the positive end of a very unequal system. If you have the good luck of having a good teacher, and enough material conditions to focus on learning, school will leave you with quite a good array of knowledge, especially in Maths and sciences.

However, the majority of people don't have this luck, and they get seriously left behind. I don't know as much about Bulgaria, but Romania has the largest percentage of functional illiteracy in the EU - almost half of Romanian high-school children can only theoretically read (they recognize the letter symbols, but can't actually read a text and understand what it meant, at the most basic level). A good percentage of people go through the mandatory K-10 education system through cheating, corruption, and basic knowledge.

Romania is very focused on national exams, one obligatory one in 8th grade and another one in 12th grade. There was a push about 10 years ago to implement some stringent anti cheating controls (cameras in each exam room, nothing fancier or more oppressive), and the pass rate plummeted from over 95% to 50% in that one year. There were entire high schools that had had straight As (10s) the year before and where no one passed the year after. This was the level of cheating and corruption.

I will also note that the stuff about having luck with your teachers is also not an exaggeration. I attended the second best high school in the country by admission grade (there is a national exam in 8th grade, and students choose their preferred high-school in a ranked vote style, and then every student is assigned to a high-school in order of exam grade + preference). This is also a high-school in the capital, and a wealthy area. I had some really good teachers in a few things, and a few really abysmal teachers in others. Even in CS, which was the high-school's specialty, I had teachers who seemed to barely know the basics (but also others who were pretty decent).

It's also important to note that there is widespread, normalized abuse in the teaching system, especially towards children with poor grades, or who are just poor. Things like yelling, demeaning, even spanking and hair cutting (for male students with longer hair, especially) are relatively common, and still considered normal in some areas (though, thankfully, fewer and fewer).
> If I am really interested in the theoretical performance of a language, I'd use microbenchmarks for standard library functions. How much time does it take to sort an array? Reverse a list? Split a string? Etc.

The standard library may not be implemented in the language you're evaluating. Especially for scripting languages, and things like regular expressions and bignums.
There will be companies exempt, banks making "carbon tax loans", the rich will be paying it easily, while the poor, and small companies, as always, will have to make the most concessions.

Why give even more money to the people that lead the world here
Oregon governor Kate Brown has signed a law that allows students to graduate without proving they can read, write or do math. The law had overwhelming Democrat support & is justified on the basis that it will benefit non-white students.

https://thepostmillennial.com/oregon-governor-signs-new-law-...
Continual Learning ML Systems
Does anyone know if recordings of the lectures are available?
Niftycase – Embed NFT Collection
Sony's robot dog, Aibo
Not sure which way around you're suggesting, but at my first job out of university I had a colleague at the other end of his career; we each (without either influencing the other) had hundreds of tabs open at a time. I don't think it's generational.

I have four Sidebery 'panels' assigned to FF containers; I try to keep each down to ~30, but one or more of them will frequently go well over 100 when I'm in the middle of looking into something, spanning months.

For example, a few weeks ago I hacked together a WiFi-serial adapter for my Prusa Mini, so that I coule use it with Octoprint et al. remotely. I thought I'd like to write it up into a blog post, on the blog I haven't got around to setting up, so until I do - or until I admit I won't - all the tabs from me stumbling through forum threads, the printer firmware, reminding myself how to do embedded anything, ... are all still open as both a reminder to write it, and an aid when/if I do.
Interesting choice to use some sort of proprietary OS scripting language instead of just writing a standard WebExtension, I thought. Presumably chrome.tabs.query would have returned all tabs and a native manifest would've allowed comms with the outside world to build a HTTP server. Still, I suppose the approach taken by the author worked at the end of the day - just not very portable.
once it gets to the thousands it breaks down, but in my experience spatial memory + pattern matching on favicons works surprisingly well to navigate a large number of tabs.
I love how outraged people get when a company responds to a court order like in the fantasy world they live in Apples lawyers are running into court, screaming 'Objection Your Honor' while Tim Cook is furioulsy shredding your papers for you.

Court orders are part of basic auditing of a service. Seeing what they have to hand over on request (they will hand over everything) tells you exactly what information they have.
Thanks for that feedback, Brad! There definitely is a level of novelty at first around who sits where, etc. but we find that it wears off after the first few chats. Instead, teams settle into just being comfortable in the space and the collaborative tools become the focus. The slight animation around a user was also designed to provide just enough movement to keep people engaged, sort of like a visual fidget spinner.

Of course everyone is different, though, and some people may choose to not watch the screen during a conversation, as you say.
It’s real, but not sure why it’s news. It’s weird, but a known fish. There are a lot of photos if you Google sheepshead fish.
This article is making it sound like this is some new amazing find. These fish are well known… there’s even a town named after them!

Yes, the teeth look human. Convergent evolution:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
Thanks for your answer. I'm seeing a tweet, but not a thread. Is it expected?