skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost everyone I know outside the HN echo-chamber is more worried about terrorism (and dozens of other things) than they are about surveillance. In a nutshell, they saw "V for Vendetta" as a fun movie, but not any more of a plausible future outcome than any of those movies set in a post-nuclear winter.

I don't have any evidence that the government is doing anything other than what people want with regard to surveillance.

Keep in mind that the composite median voter is basically my mother: thinks the world would be chaos without authority; thinks drugs make people morally bankrupt; wants a big SUV; wants to ban guns; is nearing eligibility for Social Security and Medicare, etc. She loves Hilary Clinton. And of course, she's going to vote. I'm not.
I was indoctrinated (with the best intentions) with a little bit of "museum guilt" as a child - when I visit a place, I sure as hell better visit all the big museums, as I needed to be a "citizen of the world" and it would be such a shame if I went all the way to a place and didn't see the museums.

I started enjoying travel a lot more once I got out of this mindset.

For me, now, travel is about walking everywhere, soaking up and trying to temporarily become one with the culture, people-watching and thinking about what life is like in this place, trying the food, admiring the architecture, breathing the air and just being in another place. And visiting a museum or two, when it makes sense, especially if it provides some historical context to the place I'm in.

Sure, I'm not going to miss the Louvre or the National Gallery, but I'm not going to make myself spend more than a few hours there because it's "required viewing".

My 2 cents: By all means, visit museums. But don't make travel a negative experience for yourself or your kids "because we just have to get all these museums in".
>Instead, you first invest into a low-cost low-skill plant, make the workers' lives a bit better, they can afford better education, and so on, and very soon you'll have high-tech companies there as well.

This is confusing - if the goal is to have high-tech companies there, and it should be, why wait? If it's more expensive, spend the money - it's an investment. Why spend years and years crawling along on low-margin sales of labor? The workers lives will be "a bit" better, but this sort of accumulation will be extremely anemic. It's hard to get ahead sewing T-shirts.

Meanwhile, compare Korea or Japan, which built actual industries instead of pursuing their comparative advantage and became economic powerhouses.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10189259

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9955553

Other submissions, but without discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10046596

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10008432

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9991141

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9983828
Are there not issues of running into genetic defects from having such a small population to breed from?
>but you cannot be anonymous to your employer.

Why not? Why does your employer need all of your personal information?

If your employer can't even secure your basic info, maybe the relationship with the employer should be rethought?
"or have their own practice setup"

No, but they do form "associations". Small practices between 6-10 surgeons to share costs but otherwise be effectively a private practice.
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You can distribute unmodified versions of Ubuntu or the binaries, you just can't call Ubuntu + your binaries "Ubuntu", or call your distribution + Ubuntu binaries "Ubuntu".

It's basically just clarification concerning the GPL and trademark law. Software licenses are legal documents, they're binding as far as the interpretation of the laws of the jurisdiction.
This probably makes the most sense. I still see sending a human to Mars as a likely precursor though. If we prove it is possible, alongside the advancements that come from the missions, would hopefully dramatically increase NASA fandom and funding.
Access to unaffordable food isn't access.
Yeah, kind of weird.

IIRC there are foundries whose fonts are only available on Fontdeck. (I pay for some fonts on Fontdeck for that reason.)

Wouldn't that exclusivity have market value for someone like Adobe's TypeKit? But perhaps the contracts with the foundries have a termination clause that activates if Fontdeck were acquired, so the buyer would have to renegotiate.
It has many technical limitations that I'm aware of. Large TCB, less fault-tolerance, supports less COTS hardware than Linux, less automation software, less multicore, desktop as you mentioned, weaker in virtualization, no mandatory controls on apps, less integration with cutting-edge security tech (eg CheriBSD, SoftBound)... could be more but that's off top of head.

Harder to say whether it's easier to bring OpenBSD to where competition is on these or to bring competition's code to where OpenBSD is, esp as some safety/security tech makes that less relevant. Hard to say...

Regardless, it's a high-quality UNIX that's worth having around. I'm glad to see them improving in areas where it's weaker while not throwing away strengths like some projects would.
They abide by the beautiful monadic laws.
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What group was this? University project?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_minority
Some illegal activities of IC may happen. I consider it acceptable as long as it is really small scale. In order to fight terrorism efficiently, we may need some large scale monitoring of phones (and/ot car movements). These large scale monitoring should be unambigously regulated. The principle of separation of powers (I am french) should apply.
Except for the whole part about Lennart's project already having a prior non-public existence.

Discussing historical counterfactuals like this based on limited public testimony is a difficult matter, but my input here is that the ultimate breadth of changes envisioned by the systemd developers would have triggered a split anyway.

SJR's comments concern systemd-the-PID1.
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I'm going to venture a guess that you don't write much rendering code or fonts.

A polluted standard makes it more difficult to implement the standard. In practice this is passed on to the user in performance and monetary cost, not in something more visible. The fact that you don't understand the problem is due to you not working with Unicode at a low level.
You send me an invite. I choose to use it with my account that I set up while working at your competitor. Now your competitor potentially has access.

At least the way they do it now gives some control to the org as to who has access to their account. It's inconvenient but it biases towards making on boarding hard to make control and off boarding easier.

Also, GitHub wants to avoid the same person having multiple accounts. Their focus is the developer, not the org. So they want all your work to be associated with you.

I still have stuff on my account that is associated with Netflix and reddit. Because the account is tied to my personal account, those orgs can never "remove" my contribution.
What? I can receive an email warning me whenever key mobile metrics change, like declining mobile traffic or failing to convert?
> I also cant think of a single example of the NSA/CIA preventing a major terrorist attack in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_terrorist...
Coming from a custom Gitolite [0] setup where I was able to protect branches and reject commits and do other basic or complex stuff with ease, GitHub looks like a joke. Their "improved" permissioning made me laugh. It doesn't even show signed commits, tags, and branches! Simply put, I like the "Hub", I hate the "Git" in GitHub.

[0] https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
Reverse engineer the client code such that a little bot player runs around in game flipping levers and seeing if redstone torches are on/off. Then you would truly have a computer with a little guy running around inside it doing all the thinking.

The famous (is it?) minebot already implements about 99% of the required functionality and requires no server side mods. There are of course competitors to minebot some of which may be closer or further away from this goal.
Arch is fantastic, but you need to know a bit of what you're doing. It isn't as user friendly as Ubuntu or others, but it does allow you the most freedom via not getting in your way. Also, pacman/yaourt are the best package managers I have used.
I like how this page uses ASCII diagrams converted into fancy graphical ones on-the-fly!

Looks like it's done with Shaky, which has been on HN before: http://shaky.github.bushong.net/

Really neat tool.
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I think you're missing some supply and demand calculations here. Since many people can't afford $5 for the milk, don't have a car, can't walk the 2 miles back & forth with 4 kids because they don't have enough stroller space for 2 and can't carry the purchased food and the kid at the same time, they just don't buy the milk. They buy the Coke for $0.99 at the gas station.

If you're poor of course you want cheaper prices! "Let them eat cake..."
Roughly: social is hard and there is more content today than in the past so getting your 15 minutes is harder
The traditional general advice of eating a well-diversified diet (weighted towards plants and away from statistically less healthy foods) likely still holds. It's difficult to pick specific foods without a lot of testing and experience.

This is still a single study that requires replication and metaanalysis.
Can you run it from the outside?
Where can I find more on the free offering?

(Obviously asking for my former employer... the haven't understood or fixed the problem yet.)
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40% based on Republicans? Isn't the current person running this system a Democrat, elected twice while doing exactly this type of surveillance, and defending it as necessary? Don't a significant portion of Republicans lean libertarian? Blaming Republicans is the exact type of us/them sectarian politics that keeps the Obama's of the world in power.
There is no legal ambiguity. The license is a legal document. You comply with the terms of the license and trademark law.

> What do they consider trademarks, what do you need to remove?

They don't define trademarks, because it's a legal term that depends on the laws in your country, and not up to them to define.

Canonical's Q&A is merely clarification. At the end of the day, you're subject to whatever licenses you implicitly agree to, as interpreted by the laws in your jurisdiction (and maybe some international laws that your country recognizes).
Definitely not the Philips Hue bulbs. Those use a REST API on port 80 for network control, whereas these bulbs are using a proprietary binary protocol on port 5577.
Consider the media diet most people have. Movies made by Hollywood, popular shows, the evening news, and discussions with with people who are similar to them.

All of these media are going to inform them about recently past, near future, historical, or hypothetical terrorist attacks, and how bad they are. There are no popular pieces currently which emphasize the dangers of totalitarian surveillance or dystopian government, and if there were a few, they'd still be drowned out by the above.

As far as believing that the government isn't working for the people... it's much too long for a single comment to capture, which is also part of the problem. "Terrorists are bad and terrorist attacks are bad" fits in Twitter, but even a simple understanding of how the government prioritizes its own enrichment and power over that of the citizens is quite complicated and has many details, most of which require a historical complex and understanding of the underlying social and political theory.
I'm going to pivot the conversation a little...

So LED lights have come a long way. We've used them to replace our bulb lights 1:1 and to create flashlights that provide the same or slightly higher lumens at a fraction of the power utilisation.

That being said, I am quite disappointed we haven't seen ultra-bright LED flashlights used for search and rescue. If you've ever watched body-cam footage from firefighters, even in small residential properties, you'll know that the smoke reduces the visibility substantially and even their already bright flashlights do little through the thick smoke.

So my question is, why are firefighters still utilising sub-400 lumen flashlights when they could have equipment that outputs 3000+ lumens that might have a shot of cutting through that smoke? If you go look up fire fighting equipment right now, yes, it is heat, wet, and shock resistant which is highly important, but the actual performance is worse than a $3 LED flashlight from China that gives several hours on a single AAA battery.

It really does seem like they're missing a trick here. A brighter light won't magically remove the smoke, but the higher intensity does help cut through it, you can see that yourself just by utilising a super-bright LED in foggy conditions.
I hear you. But my kids would FLIP if they could control lights in our house from a Minecraft world :)
This looks like a fun self-educational attempt, but not something to compete with Lucene-based search-engines. Which the OP actually hints at (project to distract myself, not as powerful as Lucene).

What would be cool is to read about the lessons-learned in building this, as that would be useful whether or not people actually want to install Strus.
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>she's going to vote. I'm not

And thus you admit to being part of the problem.
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What always worries me with all WSD approaches is the performance tradeoff: How much more performance is gained from using more complex per-sense word vectors designs vs. "standard" word embeddings. Setup complexity can often increase significantly for these models and training times are much longer, while the gains from these approaches are not terribly clear to date.
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>It's just that simple.

No, it really isn't. There is no "them", there is no "us", there is no "you", there is no "we".

Believing it's "us" versus "them" is an extremely lazy way to way to describe an incredibly complex social system. Of course, those who describe the system this way are always on the "us" side, never with the "them".
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>I'm not sure why you think this is a bad thing. Canonical is a corollary to Apple in the Linux world. They set their own agenda with limited cooperation.

I'm not sure why would anyone think this is a good thing
"Rational" is not a property of ends, it is a property of means (and beliefs). All ends are arbitrary.

The robots sent to mars are not useful for any reasonable economic reason. Even insofar as you count speculative basic research as economically useful, there are vastly better ways to spend that money on speculative basic research on Earth.

So why go to Mars? Because either (1) you find the basic research being done about Martian geology particularly compelling or (2) you want to see it explored by humans for its own sake. If you really actually believe in (1), then by all means; send more robots. But I'll bet 100:1 that you personally have no appreciation for the basic science questions, which are mostly very technical and boring. (Hint: grand-seeming questions about life are promoted for publicity and funding reasons, but these are not the ones that actually drive the science, and we are not learning more about the origin of life from going to Mars.)

Rather, I think you'll have to admit we want to go to Mars because it is awesome. You may think sending metal under our control is just as awesome as sending flesh and blood humans, but ultimately this is an aesthetic judgement which is not grounded in rationality. Personally, I would like to see humans walk there, and I'm happy to pay my citizen-share of $100/year over the next decade to make it happen.
This structure looked familiar to me:

+-------+
| *---+-> hidden class (aka map)
+-------+
| *---+-> out-of-object properties storage
+-------+
| *---+-> elements storage
+-------+
| 1 +-+
+-------+ |
| 2 | |
+-------+ > N slots reserved for in-object properties
~~~~~~~~~ |
+-------+ |
| N +-+
+-------+

That's because it's very close to PHP 7's implementation of objects (PHP has "traditional" class-based OOP):

zend_object:
+-------------+-------------+------------+-----------------------------------------+
| gc_info | flags | IS_OBJECT | refcount (32-bit) |
+-------------+-------------+------------+-----------------------------------------+
| UNUSED (32-bit) | handle (32-bit) FIXME |
+----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
| ce - pointer to zend_class_entry (64-bit or 32-bit) |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| handlers - pointer to object handlers (64-bit or 32-bit) |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| properties - pointer to HashTable of dynamic properties (64-bit or 32-bit) |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| guards - pointer to HashTable used for recursion protection (64-bit or 32-bit) |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| properties_table[0] - embedded cell of the first declared property (128-bit) |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ... |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| properties_table[N] - embedded cell of the last declared property (128-bit) |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| optional user data of internal classes (variable size) |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
63 48 47 40 39 32 31 0

(source: https://wiki.php.net/phpng-int#is_object)

PHP 7 objects contain N slots for properties defined in the class, plus a hashtable for any additional properties, just like V8 objects.

I guess it's an obvious way to design it.
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I'd say somewhat impractical since one can scribble those diagrams in MSPaint much faster than making them in ASCII first. I'd actually find the opposite direction much more useful.

http://asciiflow.com/ might be helpful otherwise.
That's fine, they'll just upgrade to using Bald Eagles for extra freedom
That's a really cool idea. I've actually considered having a second "guest" network for everything I don't trust my ability to secure, like windows machines and cheap IOT stuff.
This is what I don't understand, can someone ELI5 it for me:

"Even nutrition, the report said, could be problematic, because any Mars vehicle will likely be significantly smaller than the International Space Station, and astronauts will be too far away to receive the regular resupply missions they now get on the station."

Why does that have to be the case? Why are we limiting the size of the spaceship to what can be launched from Earth? Wouldn't it be better to construct teh ship in space so it could be a behemoth that had ample supplies, etc. and in effect could be a semi-permanent space station in Mars orbit that could be launched from to the surface with smaller ships?
This is voted down, but my organization found the Github pricing system awkward as hell, and we were competent enough to use Git without a condom, so Gitolite was a great fit for us.
That could be true and manned mission can still be irrational choice.

All manned missions arguments I have seen are somewhat coy in this respect. Yes, geologist can make better choices on spot and take better samples than current drones, but that's not real comparison.

We should compare alternative strategies using opportunity cost.

The money used for manned mission could be used for massive fleet of of drones, satellites and technical development. Missions could be more incremental and cover more areas. Self driving cars are just taking off on earth. How does advance fleet of Mars robocars and satellites mapping Mars compare to manned mission?
> basic sniff test

Here's another whiff from a similar perspective.

Back in the day people were using open social media (e.g. Geocities) and posting everything on a public web that was searchable (if poorly) and generally laterally browsable by "web surfers". It was an ocean of content that we meandered in, finding all kinds of goodness and weirdness. Then came myspace, which was like geocities v2, also wildly customizable and completely devoid of any access control. The standard of the day was "put it on the web in the open."

Now, if we all were to go into the lovely walled garden of Facebook and keep our accounts private (AFAIK this is pretty standard), there will be no way for us to stumble into new things. We have to become vetted, to be friends, and then we can start to share. This can only reduce the relative amount of stuff on the open web, and in the extreme will completely destroy it. If we were all only on Facebook with our pages hidden then there would be 0 new things on the internet. From any perspective this would mean that there is less interesting content out there.

This is basically the direction things are going. Yes--- there is a lot more stuff on the net. Yes, this is a good thing. Probably we are overstating things if we say that the internet is shrinking and getting worse, but just imagine if all those people were happily posting in the open. We'd all be surfing on that sea of content.

EDIT: submitted my comment early by accident
You don't seriously think that a drug store suffices as a food source.
Something carefully avoided in the journalist article, yet relevant, is a vaguely four year mission would naturally have a fatality rate around mission length divided by average human lifespan so a death rate around 5% would be somewhat normal. You take a vacation of 1/20th your lifespan, 1/20th of you will die.

Before the screaming starts, I am well aware this off the cuff estimate is not the pinnacle of modern actuarial science, and there are a zillion mitigating factors likely to lead to lower fatality rates.

I would be kind of pissed off at having to spend 1/20th of my lifetime mostly on a commute to a vacation, I would better tolerate spending maybe 1/40th of my life immigrating permanently somewhere. Also roughly 1/2 the cancer risk would be nice.

How much stuff you'd have to send to make it permanent vs merely 1/20th of a lifespan is somewhat unclear.
Some of the lectures I've seen actually peg this as true, but for the wrong reason.

It is possible to put together automated missions at-scale. But not likely. Because auditors can trim back an automated mission's scope smoothly, no matter how expansive it is, in order to save money. A slightly lighter, cheaper camera, gives way to an even more slightly lighter, cheaper camera, ad infinitum. A hundred units give way to 99 units give way to 30 units give way to 1 unit. But if you try to do that with a manned mission, you start to jeopardize the public heroes you have sensationalized in order to fund the mission. You don't get to send half a human being to Mars.