skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people moved there would be reason to save water and then I would be doing it

See, there is already a lot of stuff to worry about in life. If you can act on a hypothetical problem, why not redirect your effort to an actual one for some real world benefits?

Should I be insulating my house to save energy even if I lived in a warm country? See, this sound ridiculous but so is saving water when there is no benefit from it.
I generally agree that this is probably the fate for many American cities, but NYC seems to be in a league of its own compared to the other cities in North America. I feel like a better comparison is something like London, Rome, Mumbai, Beijing. These are cultural epicenters that are more resilient (but not immune) to economic downturns. Yes things might get tough for a bit but they're the place you want a multi bullion dollar investment to live when the goings get tough.
It's called SecureAuth Authenticate. Thanks for your time!
The downside of affiliate links that I'm aware of is that Amazon makes available the entirety of any orders credited to an affiliate, so if multiple items are ordered the affiliate is able to see the entire order.

Clicking through an affiliate link associates future orders for 24 hours, and once an order is placed no further orders are associated. (If an item is added to the cart while associated with an affiliate link it stays associated for 90 days, but it's not clear to me what information is provided to the associate regarding other items in the order if that item is eventually purchased.)

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/GPTZ495...
Related: the video "Why The Cops Won't Help You When You're Getting Stabbed" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAfUI_hETy0

TL;DW: In the US, the police owes you no protection. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzale...
Foundation: The 'unfilmable' sci-fi epic now on our screens – BBC Culture
Can't you run more than one runner per server? My understanding was you start one up, give it a directory to work in, and it'll register itself with the central server and start processing jobs. I thought you could just run more instances if you wanted parallelism.
"When I bring this up, people sometimes respond by saying that these kinds of strikes are illegal in the US. This is a true and worthwhile bit of information, but insofar as it is meant to imply that the different legal environment is what accounts for the labor radicalism, this obviously has things backwards. The laws aren’t driving the labor radicalism, but rather the labor radicalism is driving the laws."

So true.
Every kind of strikes was illegal before it became legal.
I'm not sure what you mean by "cheap". A lot of nonfiction is $15-50.

Also, when I buy physical books, I often buy used ones. At local used book stores, I can often get them for $5 or less.
Right - so in the UK the $12k a year also covers medicine etc.
That's fair. Though, after Amazon reached into people's Kindles and deleted 1984 (of all things), I just started seeing the extra hassle as cost of doing business.
One of the biggest issues right now is that we have to worry about what the future will look like? That's exactly what is meant with externalities as well, you profit from your behavior without having to compensate for or deal with the consequences. You're redefining the very definition of an externality.
Will South America’s Latest Oil Boom Spark a Military Clash?
> maybe Tesla gets a license that allows using Autopilot, but only on highways with a speed limit equal to or lower than 55 MPH, and only when it isn't raining or snowing.

This is in line with my thinking of the manufacturer taking responsibility. If they can guarantee that it is safe only in certain conditions they can enable self-driving only in those certain conditions. If they can guarantee that it is safe everywhere, they can enable it everywhere.

> It's really unappealing to sell a product where you're liable for what end-users do with it.

Yes, this is a serious problem that would need to be addressed before implementing a system like this. It would make third-party repairs and modifications difficult. (They would probably have to take responsibility or disable the self-driving features. Of course maybe that is the right model, the repair shop takes responsibility but if they show the problem wasn't their fault then they can turn around and demand damages from the original manufacturer. Unfortunately now there is a lot of annoying legal work generated.)

> On the tame side, what if they don't update it?

This would be the manufacturer to decide. Maybe it refuses to self-drive if not updated. Of course the reasons that the feature would be removed would need to be made clear to the consumer (or they could get a refund).

> I just wanted to bring up that that's probably the death knell for getting to own a self-driving car. Maybe it's still worthwhile.

I don't think it is the death-knell, but it definitely blurs the line further between who owns the car and will likely slow down the adoption of individual self-driving cars. This does have downsides but to me it looks like these are likely better than letting this dangerous combination of insufficiently "smart" vehicle and distracted driver zoom around the roads.
> The PS4 controller's range is VERY limited, even playing crouched on the sofa with your legs interrupting LOS between the console and the controller can cause connection issues.

Odd, I’ve never once experienced any sort of issue like this with my PS4 controllers.

Makes me wonder if there could be something else environmental going on, or if I’m just lucky…

EDIT: Just double checked and they use Bluetooth with no obvious need tor maintaining line of sight? (I should have remembered this as I’ve used my PS4 controllers with Raspberry Pis over Bluetooth before). So I guess localised radio interference will have the potential to affect range.
Ok, so the answer is clearly that you don't care.

For ten years now we've been watching non-Chromium browser engines die off while complaining about this, with no new one able to really compete because of the gigantic web API footprint Chrome has championed.

But yeah, go on telling me how some UI changes in Firefox are responsible for all that is wrong with Firefox. I'm sure all of the users still who still can't use Chrome-WebRTC apps in Firefox care about that more.
Covid Trash Isn't Always Dangerous. Not Everyone Got the Memo
Fair enough...maybe I should have done school when I lived in Dallas!

I don't disagree with your thesis, regardless. If you do something with the CUNY system, you're still on the hook for <$10/year (at least for tuition, rent+food is a different story). A total investment of ~$50-60k total cost is definitely worth it from an economic perspective. With the exception of eccentrics like me, generally speaking the high-paying jobs are gatekept behind academia, meaning that the tuition would pay for itself within 2-3 years, easily.
Navalny correctly predicted that the Trump ban gave authoritarian governments fair precedent. Hey, the US can ban the previous President. They paved the road.
One word of the title is not obvious. Here's how it is defined in the text:

> Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1938, is the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing,"

> Consistent with this theme, I believe the solution to scaling up generalist robotics is to push as much of the iteration loop into software as possible, so that the researcher is freed from the sheer slowness of having to iterate in the real world.

...

> The most obvious way to ephemeralize robot learning in software is to make simulations that resemble reality as closely as possible.
It's difficult in corporations, but not at home.
Well as someone who doesn't fit into that pigeon hole either, but spent a bunch of time on Gemini in the beginning of Gemini (and I might have written something you use on Gemini lol), I disagree with you. A lot of Gemini really is just culture in-group signaling. There's nothing "essentially white, male, American geek" in there but it does harken back to the cultural trappings of the early internet which was largely white, male, and American.

Moreover I don't see what's "objectively good" here, is it the gatekeeping of Gemini or is it the fact that Gemini is mostly just people writing about Gemini and digital minimalism?
I don't like this. To analogize this to a medical problem-- it would be severely unethical for a doctor to withhold proven treatment in order to study the course of a disease.

The FBI shouldn't continue to victimize for a (failed) chance at stopping the perpetrators.
Congratulations and best wishes! 2+ Million Docker downloads within 16 weeks into the launch is great validation of nocodb model.
It should be noted, for the author of the article, that Libby works really well with the Kobo reader. So, for instance, I will use Libby on my Android device (signed into my overdrive account), search and borrow books through there. Then, on my Kobo, I only need to press sync for the books to appear. Much better than using the Kobo to search for books.

I should also point out that signing into Libby and Kobo is somewhat annoying. You need to sign in to both using your overdrive in some specific way. I found the answer in some Reddit thread after some Google searching.
>We sanction Iran for aggressive behaviour in the region.

You're making their actions out to be equivalent. Iran is fomenting unrest in a whole region. Israel is trying to neutralize (not eliminate) an enemy that has vowed repeatedly to eliminate it from the planet.
For me, PH is reduced to alternative.to these days. I only use it to research alternative products for ones that I know
If that's true, then offshoring, or even satellite offices, are a hindrance to "proper" working relationships. I think it's very striking that the same corporations who didn't blink an eye at geographically distributing teams of people (so long as they were each physically located in an office that wasn't their home) are suddenly clutching their pearls at full remote work.
I don't seem to see anything on their website, but does it have any features for understanding where a book is located? I have many different locations in the house (or at the office even) where it may be located, so having a "where" would be quite handy.
Pine64 is a different model than your typical commercial operation. They are trying to get freedom respecting devices into the hands of hackers at the lowest price point possible. They even subsidized device costs for a run of their laptops after lcd panel prices increased. But, usually, they just suspend production until component prices improve.

They just began offering a more commercial (supported) experience on some devices if you pay a little more. But, historically, if you purchased a Pine64 device there was no expectation of support beyond a 15 day hardware warranty.

They also want to emphasize the difference between the part of the org that sells stuff, and the main org. All commerce takes place on pine64.com. Everything else (forums, wiki, etc.) is on pine64.org.

Basically freedom loving hobbyists building stuff and getting it into the hands of other freedom loving hobbyists. And, if it weren't for that second part, none of their devices would be usable. They rely on the community to develop the software for their devices.

Not for everyone. But, a worthwhile trade off for some of us.
Model confidence as reported by softmax probability scores is notoriously noisy and miscalibrated. With larger models and more data the confidence estimation gets more nuanced.
A completely useless use of silicon. The fastest way of copying memory block is to offload it to DMA or some other dedicated hardware. Using CPU to copy blocks is just a stall. And please, do not call ARM a RISC!
The new Paperwhite coming in october has USB-C
It seems like they have deprecated their OD branded app in favor of the "Libby" app, right? Which does have better UX. It is really gross how Amazon feels the need to control the means of delivery used by most library systems :facepalm:
For anyone looking for a more open experience, I have had only positive things to say about the Likebook P6. It's a 6inch android powered eink ereader that is around 120-140. It only has 1gb of ram and aggressive background task sleeping so it's not going to competing with any regular tablet, but it's a lot better than kindle in my opinion. You can run the kindle android app, libby, overdrive, scibd, and my favorite app for reading Moon+ Reader.

It's not going to be as simple as a Kindle but for anyone who understands what sideloading is (books or apps), I strongly recommend it. There's are larger screen p78 (7.8") and p10 (10") as well. And if you care about having stricter quality control and are willing to pay, Boox products also an option. Boox also run android.

After I jailbroke my kindle keyboard and then my kobo glo hd, there's no way I could ever go back to limited reading formats. The most useful app in each situation is KoReader.

KoReader runs on Android and so before you decide on a ereader, try our that software and see if it's something you want to live without. It supports "(PDF, DjVu, CBT, CBZ) and reflowable e-book formats (EPUB, FB2, Mobi, DOC, CHM, TXT)" and runs on Kindle with jailbreak, Kobo without Jailbreak, Remarkable, and android so Likebooks and Boox.

And Calibre is the useful regardless od what ereader you have, it's even great for iOS.

Kobo has dropbox sync and Android has a native app as well as apps like foldersync to do native syncing.

If you're okay spending a little time setting things up how you like them, Kindle is the least competitive device on the market in terms of features.
yet we still have tiktok /s. in all reality, what is the alternative to a free market?
Yeah, and that's a shame. Hindsight is 20/20.

At the end of the day though, they couldn't have known that would happen, and they made the right choice. The Kaseya hack was terrible - they were trying to stop that happening again.
There are some studies which reveal possible connections between wealth, compassion and how generous people are. [1] and [2] for articles about studies like [3]. I see some shortcomings in some of the studies (looking at drivers of luxury cars is not informative about all types of wealthy people, just the ones who care about spending it this way which self-selects a certain kind of person), but I think that the general direction could be informative for more research. There are also studies about cognitive costs of empathy [4] which may relate to this.

[1]: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/save/why-poor-pe...

[2]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduce...

[3]: https://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.short

[4]: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-xge0000595.pd...
Doesn't Win+L lock the screen?
> It's insanity to imagine that if I'm not tethered to a computer chip I'm not a valid member of society.

Is it? What's special about computer chips vs. id cards?
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> But because it's privately owned, it isn't.

This is sarcasm right ? I mean when the party in power directly issues fiat's to social media to ban something, it is OK ?
Intentions don't necessarily correspond very much to outcomes.
In the case of twitter, because it's documented along with all of the other shortcuts in the documentation: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-tweet

They have rather more docs than you'd expect, the big problem seems to be that nobody expects them to have useful documentation so it often doesn't occur to us to look - hence why I figured it was worth posting it for people who didn't know about it yet.
> Also, US gasoline is heavily subsidized

How so?
Scaling to $100M
Public universities in NYC are effectively free.
I don't think they make them anymore, according to this website[1], DigitalConvergence had an inventory of 3 million PS/2 CueCats and 1/2 million USB CueCats when they folded. I'm pretty sure LibraryThing bought some of them, they first started selling them in 2006 [2].

[1] http://www.cexx.org/cuecat.htm#usb

[2] https://blog.librarything.com/2006/10/librarything-does-cuec...
>Tell me again though, why did the local chinese food place's menu need to be in flash?

>The issue wasn't really the flash games. It was using it for everything that ruined it for the people using it for what it did well. Standards bodies not keeping up with what people needed/wanted wasn't helping either. We're just now getting things like grids being usable, and some projects still can't use it because they're targeting browsers (that are well past being unsupported) that don't implement it.

Why does this matter? It isn't related. The same argument can be made against JavaScript: Why does a static website need JavaScript to render text?

>Also, try picking up an open source game engine, godot or phaser or something, you might enjoy it.

This suggestion isn't at all similar to the Flash platform. Doesn't even come close within the context of a lay person being able to simply create and publish with little-to-no knowledge of the underlying engine/runtime and with the tools in order to do so.

>don't dismiss things because it's not what you know?

What precisely do you believe they do not know? Your arguments don't address the points the user laments in the comment to which you replied, making it difficult to determine what "things" you're referring to.
Yes I was shocked with the changes!

I didn't find one redeeming quality, and I'm one of ~those~ people who hate using icons, enjoying words better for interfaces that change so frequently.
> There is no model where a 3rd party is involved that isn't pre-compromised, either legally (the government and civil actors via the courts), financially (stop paying, lose access), operationally (so sorry, your key expired), logistically (oh, sorry, our server is down. Can't load your keyring), or technically (um... this device thingy stopped working). Every one of these problems is really a showstopper when it comes down to it. Why? Because without perfect performance of third parties and/or hardware, the risk is your data being locked away forever (or even for a few days).

This is what I'm saying about password managers. We *are already* in a situation where the best advice we can give each other is to get a 3rd party involved to store our passwords for us because we have to use passwords that we physically cannot remember as humans. Those same 3rd parties have the same complicated issues and responsibilities/trust legally, financially, operationally, logistically, and technically!

Even how many of use Keepass or one of its forks: we accept some technical trade-offs ("It's open source!") for some massive legal ones. I tried to describe Keepass to my father and as an attorney he shivered in horror at the thought that there was no legal entity to hold accountable (through the courts if need be, through the Better Business Bureau and the court of public opinion at the very least) should things go wrong. My father wasn't wrong about that, and I've thought about that additional perspective for years now without good answers.

That's also why I describe the above "choice" as an illusion of choice: our best security advice is that the safest passwords are already out of physical human memory (between minimum complexity requirements to avoid spray attacks and minimum uniqueness complexity to avoid reuse attacks) so remembering all of our passwords is just out. There are plenty of HN posts about algorithmic "passwords" that people can sort of memorize, but no algorithm can match the practical problem of the wide variety of different password policies across the web. The only real, practical option we have as a best practice is Password Managers. Which I want to make clear are already "3rd Party passwordless": and there we do have real choices right now between 3rd Party providers. I want to make it clear that just because I think passwords are broken I don't think choice is bad: I want us to understand as a group that the real fight isn't between "password managers" and "passwordless", because "password managers" are a workaround/hack towards "passwordless". The existing diversity in password managers is good, I don't know how we keep that in more "passwordless" systems, but I don't think we get there by championing for the "password" status quo. We can try to throw out the "password" bath water without throwing out the "password manager" baby, but mostly only if we start by agreeing that "passwords" are broken.
A New Model for a Real Warp Drive That Doesn’t Break the Laws of Physics
Is counting the number of solutions for a given n known to be NP-hard?

And is finding any solution for a given n known to be in P? I saw a paper that found solutions up to 500,000 using a probabilistic method but wasn't sure if it was definitively proven to be in P or not.
Use it for what? Scheduling meetings and such?

I don't really see how it would help. If someone tells me that the meeting will be at, say, 10:00 AM PDT, then I convert that to my own time zone so I know what time the meeting will take place in my time zone.

If instead they tell me that the meeting will take place at 17:00 UTC, then I would convert that to my own time zone so I know what time the meeting will take place in my time zone.

Either way, I have to convert what they tell me to my own time zone. Converting from UTC to my time zone isn't inherently easier than converting from any other time zone.
I think it's also important to point out that the 1918 pandemic, in contrast to the present one, overwhelmingly killed people in the prime of their lives. According to this study of deaths in Canada and the United States, mortality peaked at age 28:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/

A graph is included, which drives the point home:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/figure/...
I wonder if this app is trying to capitalise on exclusivity of a new social network that Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat once provided?
CUIDs are a good distributed (locally generated) solution.

https://github.com/ericelliott/cuid
Fair enough. My issue was you saying Islam doesn't consider other religions infidels. In a thread about a book which has 90% content ranting endlessly against infidels and cursing them (I'd know, I've read the entire 600 pages at least 10 times). But as you rightly say majority doesn't take that literally.

Your flamewar accusation is nonsense.
No one gave the answer that's worked for a decade: Calibre has a "Fetch News" option. You can customize it to any RSS feed. Calibre can then just download posts daily/weekly and make ebooks out of them.
If anyone is interested, Sonic Visualizer with it's vamp plugins is pretty state of the art when it comes to analyzing music. The Chordino NNLS Chroma plugin, for instance, can extract even jazz chords fairly accurately
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I always admire somebody who has the courage to side with the powerful. They are so downtrodden and really need our help!
Ubuntu Advantage is also free for personal use (for a few devices), so you can take advantage of that if you're not a business and are too lazy to update every couple of years.
Remarkable tablet cloud subscriptions may be coming soon
> From my understanding: gas in USA is heavily subsidized.

From my understanding, gas in the USA is not heavily subsidized. If it is, then everything is. It does not receive any special treatment.
This doesn't seem to explain how it would happen after plugging in a new keyboard, or trying to use the on-screen keyboard, though...
The F-91W is a remarkable little watch, and I wear it a lot. I did replace the resin strap with the thinnest (because the lugs only allow for an extremely thin strap) and cheapest NATO strap I could find on AliExpress. Whether it is my skin or the climate, I found the stock strap very irritating. NATO straps are made of nylon and are pretty much indestructible.
Cells and Circle do not work on iOS