skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was about to snark that this was done by a polling firm who works for political parties whose main opposition are also faith based, but as a finding to say 2/3 of people can be appealed to based on their faith in something, that's an important and valuable number.

The people who believe nothing are indeed in a minority, and they are also in power, so the tone of the article was likely to make believers of any faith feel isolated instead of reminding them that they are a majority.
> Western countries need to do better

Yeah, I agree. The western nations which built their lead through brutal colonialism and presently maintain that lead with neo-colonialism structures where brutal governments (Saudi Arabia, Israel, UAE) do the dirty work which they (western countries) ostensibly condemn.

How about this: let’s have the western countries leave the world alone. Let’s have the western countries abandon their profit by misery business models (eg western arms industries which profiteer by instigating conflict and supplying aggressors).
The word list is indeed right in the JavaScript but what fun is that (find today's word and the next one in the list is tomorrow's word)
The state?
> Nix-style declaration to BSD.

This, a million times over please!

FreeBSD has nix the package manager. I too would love if all of FreeBSD was declarative.
I was quite young at the time the Macs my dad owned were running System 6 and System 7. I remember coming across across hand-written disk that said something like “System 4.0.2” and being dumbfounded because it had never occurred to me that there’d been a system 1-5.
Same here, not sure what happened. Maybe a corruption of the player state database, or maybe I hit reload after a game hung. Seeing the timer for the other player would be helpful, that way you know when to give up and reload.
I can't be the only person thinking, "sure… share my novel business ideas with Amazon… the company known for pushing vendors out of their store with 'own-brand' look-alikes—among many other undesirable behaviors in a business partner."
I don't WANT to redo my Xorg config, but I don't have much choice if I want Linux to behave like an OS from this century.
But did they do these things because they were atheist? In the name of atheist philosophy? No. There's no causal link there.

Contrast with say ISIS, where they do their evil because of (their interpretation of) their religion.
> Because computers are supposed to be practical first. We're still making significant enough improvements in the performance of them that they outweigh things such as aesthetics.

Sometimes aesthetics is part of practicality: how many doors does one run into with a "push" or "pull" sign because otherwise it's not possible to tell in which direction things work?
In software terms Christianity is a fork of Judaism and Islam is a fork of Christianity. Each fork has several distros.
The complexity isn't malice, it's special interest groups.

The level of complexity in US tax code isn't outrageous, but there are a lot of exemptions. And most European countries have them as well.

The stonewalling of tax authorities sending me the bill, however, is pure malice.
HGTV wasn’t a thing back in 1987
> gregiously bad choice of archaism because they created distinctions not made into the source material by using a distinction no longer currently in use in English, either

All the source languages for the Bible have a second person singular/plural distinction. Or did you mean something else?
Lithium hydroxide sales could fund restoration of the Salton Sea using the "perimeter lake" concept or one of the other plans for a partial freshwater lake that doesn't require a large diversion of fresh water from the Colorado. Center would be dry playa with some irrigated vegetation or dry salt crust to prevent dust problems, maybe even golf course(s). Southern end of the lake would have brine habitat mostly for birds and geothermal/lithium plants. Total cost is roughly $10B which Lithium extraction would cover easily.
There's strong evidence that some animals, at least, process visual stimuli similarly to humans, as illustrated by cats responding to the "rotating snakes" illusion:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CcXXQ6GCUb8

And if you pause to consider that emotions, particularly such core and foundational ones as love (maternal, partner, tribal) are all but certainly evolved, then existence of them or precursors in other species seems all but certain. That thought had occurred to Charles Darwin, who wrote a book on the question, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175687
Rc/Arc is usually the escape hatch. I presume you put raw pointers under the "no reasonable" caveat, but if the borrow checker is wrong and you're right, they can be the right tool too. They're not unreasonable if the alternative was to use a different language that couldn't guarantee this safety either.

I know dealing with the borrow checker can feel like a dead-end sometimes, but dealing with it is something that you can learn. Things that it can't handle fall into a handful of common patterns (like self-referential structs). Once you learn what not to do, you can recognize and avoid the issues even before you write the code.
Not sure if you'll consider this a more scientific source, but John Oliver also did a piece about PFAS: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9W74aeuqsiU.

The list of issues that the wiki article claims are "high certainty" is also quite concerning to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_sub...

At the very least, seems that the production is being ramped down - quick skim of the article yielded this quote: "Their [PFASs'] production has been regulated or phased out by manufacturers, such as 3M, DuPont, Daikin, and Miteni in the US, Japan, and Europe."
If nothing else, they'd enjoy slacking gain[1] by starting their computation with more advanced hardware.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9912202.pdf
Yeah, this ultimately probably winds up being owned by one or more cloud providers. It’s also the most common business model I see startups trying to do. It usually doesn’t work because you can’t put lipstick (flat pricing, self-service sales motion, open licensing) on a pig (janky and secretly manual integrations with misaligned data providers who view your success as a threat to their most lucrative contracts). More here: “Stop Building Satellite Imagery Platforms and Marketplaces” https://joemorrison.medium.com/stop-building-satellite-image...
https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2022/03/18134137/Steam...

The motherboard to the steam deck near the top middle in the picture above. If that can run on its own with usb power then it would just need a nice enclosure that provides some cooling. Was thinking about having someone CNC cut me something.

The GPD Micro PC looks interesting but is still a bit of the big side. Don't need the screen, battery, keyboard, or most of the ports.
Does it need to? It's hard to expect "concrete" reasons for "might"s and "may"s. Even without them, the information is still interesting.
Nationalist socialist ideology.

It held itself up as the "true" alternative to Christian religion in particular. No need for a God - we can do it all ourselves. Perhaps because it saw Christians who were loyal first to God and then to the state as a threat to its plans for totalitarianism.
I'm not in the AI field, but what does "synthetic data" really mean? I'm seeing different definitions in the comments.

If I were to add synthetic lens flare to an existing image, would that be synthetic? Change the white balance? Add dirt, scratches, replace paint colors, etc? Change someones skin tone? Add blemishes?

Knowing nothing, all of these seem like they would be very beneficial, but I always see people saying any synthetic data is bad data. With the probability of intercept being so incredibly low for some of this stuff, I can't see how that could be true.
The country that became a 'micronation capital'
By the way, PSI has the same shortcoming of not accounting the time of threads waiting for async I/O completion as I/O pressure.
Display stream compression. You can only do it with the ASD as the LG doesn't support DSC.
It’s a reminder that it takes all sorts to make a world. I think SV has an effect of homogenizing computing hobbiests into a single type of person.
Am I missing something? Isn’t a16z Andreesen Horowitz? How is Amazon involved?
Oh, wow! I'm currently working on a sort of BirdNET for pollinators, and am super excited by the possibility of gamification for amping up participation in these citizen science projects. Strava, Pokemon Go, etc. provide an excellent model that folks in conservation can draw on, & this sort of large-scale data is just radically empowering for sample-size constrained ecologists. I'll be looking for work in a few months, but really don't want to abandon the conservation space-- I'll be in touch!
Jews for Jesus was started in the 70s and maintains a $25M a year tax-free income through donations from Baptist and Evangelical sources. They make their rounds through the various churches every few years asking for money, and so Evangelicals have frowned upon the idea that the Jews have their own covenant with God. The Vatican, on the other hand, has stated in the past that Judaism and Christianity have incompatible beliefs and thus Catholics should not try to convert Jews.
Both are very hazardous under different risk models.

There's a concept in flying stuff that you always want to be "three mistakes high" (I think this is credited to Gene Gottschalk although I have no idea if he was the true origin - it's taken a life of its own in many communities). By that logic, the Christmas tree pilot is at a very sub-optimal altitude - 0.75+ mistakes high, but still high enough that they're unlikely to make it out in the event of a mistake or catastrophic failure.

The retrieval helicopter is presumably several mistakes higher and more likely to recover from simple mistakes or equipment failure, but runs the risk of being smacked by a flying object.

Neither are safe, but I think there are mitigating factors to the rocket collection that aren't present in the Christmas tree video. I think they're closer to even risk-wise. If I were a helicopter pilot, I'm not sure I would want either job!
2 hours before deadling I figure I'll post my experience. I tried to use TaxSlayer to file an extension but it was slow my sessions keeps ending...over and over (same complaints on their Twitter).

I had an account on TurboTax as well...tried to file an extension. Well, at least their system is up and running and responsive. They tried to sell me "Premium" in the middle of it. No, I don't want premium because I won't be able to finish my taxes in 2 hours. Just file my damn extension. Thanks!
They already have that on the website. You can search in your browser and it may say "none of your devices support this".
I'll never forget the time I walked into Cupertino wearing Google Glass when they were close to releasing the iPhone 6 (big screen one) and I was escorted off the property. Lol
First Thought: That headline seems wropng. People are probably gonna get burned just reading that.

Second Thought: I should really read the opinion before I make any comments.

Clicked through, skimmed around, looked for a link to the slip looking for the opinion link ... couldn't find it.

Thank you, sir.
It was completely implausible - the chip that was identified could not possibly carry enough processing ability to do anything useful as far as espionage goes, had no connectivity to networking, and there was never any evidence of communication from these devices to anything suspicious or unknown.
I’m not going to argue against repairability, but a replaceable failed SSD has exactly the same problem RE data loss.
What fraction of the day do you spend away from a networked electronic device of some kind? For me, it's not much. Even while I'm at work or reading a paper book, I usually listen to streamed music. Generally, I unplug only when I sleep.
>I thought the New Testament was a replacement for the Old

Nope. Otherwise why is the Old Testament still in the bible?
There's also ProtonAOSP, which allows you to choose between no Google services, microG, sandboxed Google Play Services, and bundled Google Play Services:

https://protonaosp.org/gapps

ProtonAOSP works with root, and the documentation explains how to use it with Magisk:

https://protonaosp.org/root

ProtonAOSP also passes SafetyNet by default, as of right now.

The developer of ProtonAOSP (kdrag0n) is also the GrapheneOS contributor who implemented the Google Play Services sandbox for that OS.

ProtonAOSP supports the Pixel 4/XL, 4a/5G, 5, and 6/Pro. It does not currently support the Pixel 5a.
Good comment, but- what is it with giraffes as an example of classification in machine learning? I thought it was just me but it seems everyone does it.
3M’s consumer abrasives are also remarkably good. Not only are they more effective during use, but they last longer as well, with a much later falloff in abrasion quality. In fact, they last so long that their price (nearly double the price per pad in my case) easily justifies itself.

I have no idea what kind of black magic makes it possible but I’m so glad I gave them a try.
> Looking back, it only ever seemed good because I was somehow blind to how much time I was losing, and I'd learned to work around or ignore a bunch of broken stuff on my systems.

I feel this way about macOS.

How much time have I lost because the Bluetooth was screwy? How much time have I lost because the WiFi did something strange? How much time have I lost trying to do USB development and the OS got in the way? How many times have I had to blow away and reinstall all my printers because macOS got confused. On macOS, I have to install special apps to keep my laptop awake or to set it to the native screen resolution. How much weirdness have I had to debug because of App Dislocation?

It finally got driven home when I was trying to configure someone else from scratch on macOS. After the sixth "Hey, how do you deal with misfeature <X>?" followed by "Well, you need to download an app that does <Y>." I realized that I'm diddling with my macOS system as much as I diddled with my Linux systems.

At that point, I might as well choose Linux so that my diddling actually helps the wider community rather than simply going into the black hole of Apple and adding to their profits.
At that point it's a stand in for talk radio. Some of my grandparents used to use that as white noise.
I wasn't familiar with the term hominin and though it might be a misspelling of hominid, but that's not the case: https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homi...

Hominid: the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is, modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans plus all their immediate ancestors).

Hominin: the group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Ardipithecus).
I asked myself this question, and I got an answer by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis - Write an Excellent Programming Blog - PyCon 2016[0]

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[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHXq-IzlGUE
You can have compilers on iOS with iSH which emulates an x86 processor and has a Linux syscall translation layer. https://iSH.app

On Android the situation is much better, you can use Termux and it runs things natively.

For Android file transfer is easy, except on a Mac where IIRC you need to install a separate transfer tool. On Windows and Linux the file explorers come with support for the protocol used. (It's MTP I think?)

For iOS with a non-Mac it's more complicated, IIRC for Windows you need iTunes and I never used my iOS device with Linux. You could mount the folder you want in iSH, start an SSH server, and tunnel it over USB to your computer with one of the usbmuxd tools (I don't remember what the specific command is) then copy the files with SFTP/SCP, but that's kinda overkill and would probably be slow.
The fact that civilisations tend to cluster near shorelines and waterways means that the impacts of sea level rise would likely be quite significant. Particularly at eliminating incidental traces of, say, groups or cultures migrating along such coastlines. I suspect virtually all of the early migrations of native Americans would be so affected, especially along the west coast of the Americas.
Digital EU ID card comes as a blockchain service
Terrific company and interesting technology. I see them as an application making it possible for non-technical people to automate basic workflows. I’m skeptical that’s a big audience but low code/no code solutions in other industries have enjoyed surprising success, so I look forward to being pleasantly surprised.
Surge XT – open-source Hybrid Synth (VST)
A Performance Evaluation on Rust Asynchronous Frameworks
Snark, I think, correlates positively with terseness, and terseness correlates positively with upvotes - it's much easier for someone to read a short comment and say "Yes, that's it" than a very long one. So there's both a prevalence of those comments higher on articles and an effective pressure to make those comments.

(There are other things that correlate positively with terseness, like outright insults, but also strongly correlate negatively with upvotes. Or there are things like pun threads, which are popular on Reddit etc. but are just culturally unpopular here, for some reason.)
A) It's anthropology. There is nothing concrete available; the entire field is an attempt to learn things by investigating human societies. In this case, the allegation is that a specific tribe have enough stories about human-like but non-human creatures in their region to be taken seriously (in conjunction with the established presence of non-human hominins in that region in the fossil record) as a record of recent history.

B) The article is promotion for a book, which I would hope would have a more cohesive presentation of evidence.
Institutional investors are the backbone of municipal bonds that help small towns borrow and build. They back all of the retirement vehicles in the U.S.

They give a financial stability to places that need them.

One of the reasons Twitter is stable is because of those types of investors and is not subject to the whims of individual shareholders.

No corporate leadership wants to be subject to the whims of the stock market if they can avoid it. Twitters board and its institutional investors the firewall against such things.
> It's about how the grid takes on the increased load of millions of electric cars.

In my condominium we have chargers which talk to each other, to limit the overall power draw for all our cars. Modern chargers also integrate with grid pricing, so they can charge when the price is low (and hence ample supply).

Couple that with EVs starting to be able to act as grid-connected batteries, and it seems the equation isn't as horrible as it might first appear.

Not saying upgrades won't be needed, more so in some countries than others.
You would still have to wait for each captcha to be solved, which might be more frustrating than doing it yourself.
Yeah, not like there's any sort of transparent way to audit a public chain of data blocks representing votes associated with an anonymous certificates that would allow end users (verified with registration cards and authorized with their mobile device biometrics) to check their votes were recorded correctly and for 3rd parties to easily audit the vote totals.

That's a problem that hasn't been solved at all by the current applications of cryptography.

Even if my computer gets hacked, as long as I can trivially search my "confirmation id" from another device to ensure it's what I cast, I'm going to see if it was or wasn't tampered with.

Having public records of votes on a per vote basis with multiple layers of cryptographic signatures at each stage of processing them would be a world of improvement over the current system, both client side and server side attacks considered.
>> However the idea that you could learn from synthetic data doesn't make sense, as you could just literally use the model that generates the data in the first place. If you're just learning known parameters, why waste the time training when you already have the answer?

Hey, that's a really good point. But the synthetic data generators in the article are not statistical models, but 3d models. Even if it were possible to create a 3d model that is a 100% faithful likeness of some arbitrary human being, we'd still need some way to compare the 3d model to a human.

Still, yeah, if we could simulate the real world with perfect fidelity we wouldn't need no machine learning.
It’s blurry. Can you take an action based on information presented to you from within the software? Probably a sign it’s an application at that point and not just a data feed.
Also from Buffalo, same experience- someone bringing up religion in conversation would be odd. Would be really weird if they start talking about their relationship with God, praying, etc. Not that there's any problem with this stuff, but for me (and how I was raised), it's a private matter.

I've been away from Buffalo for maybe 15 years now and everywhere I've been outside of the north east, people will somehow work church and God into conversations. And for them, there's nothing odd about it... they just kind of assume I'm on board and it's not weird at all. I'm used to it at this point, but it used to be uncomfortable.

My anecdotal conclusion is that the "religion is a private matter" mentality might just be local to the northeast US.
Is the factor just a 1000x? That would actually be an argument in favor of asteroids.

All you need for space habs for construction (well, maybe not all the organic matter) is in asteroids. Maybe all we need material-wise is probably in the larger asteroids that we are trying to track for collision detection.

Here, let's cut the difference: MOONs! Why bother with planets if their moons have all the resources and none of the lifting issues.

I guess our moon is pretty resource poor since it formed from Earth's crust. But then again, have we surveyed what's under the surface?
Only of you consider advertising a subspecies of navelgazing. Available in May 2022.
The people who actually point their camera at things are everyday people with smartphones. The majority of "news" content I've seen taken with a camera over the last few years was not been taken by a professional journalist.

The George Floyd story, maybe the story of the decade revolved around footage taken with a smartphone camera.
Perhaps not, but they can sell their crypto reserves to other actors who are in a position to exchange them, for stuff that's actually useful to them.
I don't wanna take any sides here, I just point out when someone reports their data in a questionable way.
I was an autopilot skeptic until I wasn’t. As a user of the system it’s 100% clear that it’s my responsibility to be able to take over at any time. Autopilot regularly restricts the places it will engage and speed it will operate at based on road conditions. The safety of autopilot concerns me a lot less than the safety of other drivers on the road, the majority of who seem to be using their phones any second they think they can steal while behind the wheel.

Autopilot also gets noticeably better every passing week or two that I’ve been using it. Just as one example it now alerts you and slows down when it sees an emergency vehicle on the side of the road. (To be clear I’m not commenting on the specific accidents pointed out in the article, only my experience using it and seeing the pace of improvement.)

On the other hand, Tesla’s history of how they have marketed autopilot to buyers seems downright misleading. It’s clear now that autopilot isn’t 100% autonomous, but I’d be pretty upset if I made a buying decision a couple of years ago based on the hyperbole coming from Elon Musk and on their website about what was supposedly right around the corner.