skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you totally missed striking's point. It's at least as much a matter of educating the ignorant liberals that reside on the coasts.
The incompatibility of QFT and GR is a theoretical incompatibility. Practically, however, GR is perfectly compatible with quantum mechanics right to the limit of strong gravity, which can only find inside black hole event horizons (and in particular at and very near the singularity), and in the very early universe.

In GR terms, strong gravity is where the uncertainty in position of field quanta sources an impossible gravitational field; this is only measurable when the energy-density is non-negligible and that requires enormous quantum numbers. In quantum field theory terms, the (general, not just electromagnetic) charge of a particle and its energy are separate quantities except for the gravitational charge of a particle, which is its energy. Because the gravitational interaction is so weak, this only matters when particle energies are very high (on Feynman diagrams, this means more than one loop of gravitons; while gravitons are massless they do carry momentum, and thus have energy, and thus gravitational charge).

The clocks in GPS satellites all rely on quantum effects, and those effects that run faster further from the Earth than they did closer to the Earth prior to launch. GNSS applications, as well as atomic clocks on spacecraft scattered around the solar system, are ongoing tests of the validity of this prediction of GR.

It is precisely because General Relativity is an effective field theory (in the Kenneth G Wilson sense of effective) in all presently accessible regimes, and has so far survived every test -- direct and indirect -- that it is extremely hard to arrive at an explanation for the effects of gravity pointing the wrong way other than non-luminous, transparent matter rather than a different theory of gravity.
I only heard of this site just now. Having been suffering from lack of high-quality music recently, I wish I had known what.cd earlier...
Here's the UK section: https://archive.is/aMowv

and the Technology section: https://archive.fo/MbI7Q

Not a single word.

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Datapoint for the massive conversation about news reliability that the world is having right now?
I don't think it's fair to be upset when editing those files breaks things, either. To be surprised? Yes, definitely. It is fair to expect software labeled "beta" to break in surprising ways, so I hope they're not giving permission to use WSL in production where you come from.
5 hours and almost 100 comments later no one has pointed out that Zcash and Keybase share the same investors.

I am relieved that 'Keybase chose Zcash' purely on merit after an exhaustive and objective selection process, and that this potential conflict of interest is transparently disclosed in the linked adverticle - wait, they did no such thing.

Does it concern no one that this security-focused company is shilling for other (fundamentally questionable) products?
Yeah; it's frustrating. Perviously, I only opened the app to turn it off if a website was broken. Now I have to tap another button before I can toggle the settings.

Some Google AMP sites don't load with all the privacy toggles on.
Prepare three envelopes...
> Help me out.

Where's my incentive to "help you out"? You ask, but you don't really want to know. You've already made up your mind. That much is obvious in how you phrased your question.
I do. At any rate, I do in the case of world leaders and the actions of states over the last decades. Or at any rate I'd like to believe I do.

Virtually everything has been consistent with preparing for the worst case climate disaster. You might think that if we knew it was unavoidable it might comprise protecting populations in cities and so-forth by building huge coastal works, or moving populations, or other such huge projects, but were you to do something so overt you would instill mass panic and bring about a preemptive disaster. No. You would play a very subtle hand.

You would tighten border security, and normalise surveillance and the idea of searches, scans, and armed police.

You would instill a fear of refugees and migrants - this makes it far easier down the line when we hear how many hundreds of millions are in "temporary accommodation". They're far off. They're different to us. Callousness is a survival attribute, if the suddenly popular zombie horror and post apocalyptic genres tell us anything.

You'd saturate popular media with programmes in favour of securitised states, and which deal with unmanageable mindless hordes that need mowing down for the greater good.

You'd engage in wars which build a security apparatus and provide a distraction, while simultaneously feeding your black budgets for the preservation of the, hm, economically and socially valuable sectors of society and technology.

You hold hope around the idea of escape to another world to keep those whom might act problematically mollified until it's too late.

In your end game you start moving your population. Again, you don't want it done in chaotic panic, so you do it piecemeal. A move to the political right, you send your liberal elite scarpering to new climes, and while they're at it they pick places that they think will be mitigated against climate change because they think it might be a problem in their lives. A bit of civil unrest, more leave. Start a war. People flee. People die. Those without the means to flee get left behind - remember that desensitisation bit, and the whole concentrating upwards of wealth - if you wanted to design a system that would leave the majority of humanity unempowered and in the lurch if it all gets climatic, but give the "economically productive elite" a fire escape, you'd build it like what we have today.

I don't actually believe this either (although it would almost be comforting to, as it provides an explanation of sorts for the world), but I do wonder what home truths made Obama want to jump after his security briefings eight years ago - and that DoD report from a while back about the defence (civil and national) implications of climate change revealed a sobering level of thought has already gone into some rather dire possibilities.

It's a fairly crap hypothesis as one can't readily prove or disprove it.
I guess the question is what qualifies as presence in your view. LinkedIn has a presence in Russia due to it's Russian clientele, that's why Kremlin is going after them in the first place.

This is only party relevant, but in the past few years the US started going after people solely based on the fact that they have some money in a US bank (and no other ties, i.e. 'presence'). So now you have the US Federal court in Brooklyn prosecuting the FIFA corruption scandal.

The original point stands, I think. If a state actor has interest in your affairs, they will find legal ways to spy on you, or create new laws so they can. Honestly, the NSA scandal, and the gross violation of personal privacy in the US after 9/11 should have taught people that. And the US is the bastion of modern democracy (saying this w/o sarcasm) to boot.
> automize addition of some configuration to the dconf system

You mean like "dconf dump" and "dconf load"?

I use it for exactly that (importing my hotkeys config).

What you describe (compiled files in /etc) are system-global default values. You only need those for multi-user environments.

> I doubt anybody can measure the parsing advantage of a binary format, but the drawbacks are

The performance advantages are massive. The dconf database is just a hashtable which can be directly mmap'ed, so no parsing happens at all. This does matter for settings which are read hundreds of times (your current desktop theme, for example).
Lotus Notes.
"Why would a JSON file be GBs in size?"

Maps. [0] Geo-cordinate data can consist of tens of thousands of data points. For example, think of a two dimensional space with a co-ordinate grid at regular intervals representing a 20km x 20km city. Then imagine creating an outline of a city road network. Each point a LAT/LON co-ordinate. Then imagine placing thematic data such as known traffic hot spots.

Lots of data.

[0] The author has this post in his blog ~ https://peteris.rocks/blog/openstreetmap-city-blocks-as-geoj...
I also recommend it. Given two copies to people this year.
The sites are closed to preserve the communities rather than for security. Any determined party can easily get access.
Curious what features a plain-text file doesn't have that a registry would?
Funny Videos 2016 – Cute girl on a Beach but she didn't expect that
I have a feeling we're all trying to imitate China. For at least a decade now a dominant rhetoric has been, 'China spends all their time and effort focused on their own country, as opposed to being involved in human rights, foreign aid and foreign wars, and look at how much GDP growth they're getting!

At the same time however, I feel that there has also been a 'push back' effect in terms between local and global culture. With every move we make trying to stitch together the world with a unified, global ideals system, the value of local culture and traditions gets magnified, especially among conservatives and nationalists.

In a world under economic stress, it is easy for nationalists to win when all they have to do is point to China's growth story.
I'm glad to see new solutions to the problem "I don't know this city, what neighbourhoods should I check out/stay in?"
I'm one of the holdouts (but I had to special order the car). It's just more fun to drive.

Hoping to skip the automatic gearbox and go straight to electric in a few years.
Luckily there was some efforts by the Internet Archive to archive content from WCD. I wonder how those went.

If someone had all the torrent data saved it wouldn't be much of an issue to spin up a new tracker and continue operations.

Edit: you'd only need the torrents for indexing, you could spin up a tracker without them.
Big Hex Machine
| many people are tired of being called racists, bigots, misogynists, etc., for simply opposing nationalism

Now I'm completely confused. Is this really happening?
If they don't follow the CAN-SPAM regulations, they're illegal in the US as well.
I cannot comment about the content, but for music metadata there is nothing as good a http://musicbrainz.org .

Incredible amount of data, versioned and CC0 licensed, great and diverse community of music lovers, strong ties with archive.org.
You got a friend in me: Building a React front end “friend” for a .NET Core app
That was a very "upscale" tracker. You couldn't just go in and register. You had to go through a vetting process. They didn't serve a shitloads of ads (or at all, I think). You are not even supposed to know about the site.

How did it get on the authorities' radar?
It's true; the members of sites like what and waffles were dedicated to quality. People would go to great lengths to ensure quality was upheld: from keeping detailed logs of the ripping and transcoding processes, to generate spectrograms to weed out sub-par webrips and fake encodes.

It's really a shame...
What made what.cd unique was the way everything was organized with tags and correct information about every release. It's going to take quite a lot of time getting all that right again.
Why not a simple revenue-neutral modest carbon tax? And for countries who do not have a similar paradigm, an import tariff equal to the equivalent embedded CO2.

It appears much of the world (other than the US) is now headed in this direction.
The wikipedia entry[1] is even worse. It literally lists the associated platforms as including: "white supremacism, Islamophobia, antifeminism, homophobia, antisemitism, ethno-nationalism". You'd swear these people, whoever they are, are the American ISIS.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right
The media was covering fake news well before the election.

I suspect that, had Hillary won, we'd have seen the same amount of coverage, but with a tone of "it was a close call".

It has been clear for a long time that large-scale trolling and fake news operations were underway for a long time, and needed to be addressed.

Indeed, I expect that the MSM is being somewhat restrained here, because they don't want to seem like sore losers.
No, I don't have experience with the UK justice system, so perhaps my comment isn't as relevant for this specific article.

That said, even if this specific scenario isn't realistic, discussions about the problems with surveillance state don't have to be grounded in "what happens right now" because the information stored today is available to future regimes and the specific technology involved is continuously changing.

> But what about the people who don't support racism/xenophobia, read a mix of news sources, aren't male (and so don't match with crime profiling). Are you saying their argument for not needing strong encryption is valid?"

Not at all, and I'm surprised that's what you would conclude from my statement. Obviously not every crime ever has that specific profile. The point was that when you have tons and tons of information about everyone, that is all categorized and geotagged and searchable and machine-learnable, it's a LOT easier for a completely innocent person to become a suspect.
> The Ka/Ku links are only for the initial uplink and downlink.

Then there's a huge bottleneck, if the links from the satellite constellation as a whole to the trunk earth stations (not the CPEs) are high capacity Ka-band, there's RF issues with capacity...

It's like if you have a network that's composed of a whole lot of 10GbE backbone links from router to router and your IP transit connection to upstream ISPs/the global v4/v6 routing table goes through one 1000BaseLX link.
If it is truely a big problem, it will be more strengthful to let the denying end to fully deploy their defense. The hope may the system resilient enough not on an irreversable track which has a penalty not bailable.
I also own a 2015 Fiesta ST as my daily driver. It's the most fun I've ever had in a car.
Who is they? I see some elites that like the results and some that don't. The "elite" seems just as divided as the rest of the people. Trump is elite. It's true that democrats generally got more support amongst college educated people but those guys aren't really elite in any sense and plenty of them still voted for Republicans.

There are absolutely no parallels to the french revolution. So yeah, progress for sure.
There has got to be a hedge fund who buys up domains
>How did it get on the authorities' radar?

Same way you know about it, I guess. An open secret really isn't a secret.
Docker build of Apollo-11 sources
Gordon Food Service storefronts all sell to the general public as of a recent rebranding. They're actually very accessible - though like Costco or Sams Club, more applicable to feeding a large group. Some prices are up at https://ads.gfsstore.com/.
Yeah, I think that probably a huge chunk of the difference is just that actually a lot of alcohol purchased is disposed of unconsumed.

Tie that with a modest increase in the lower-end reporters, and perhaps a modest decrease in the highest-end reporters (are there people who said they average 5 drinks a night who really average 4 because in fact their drinking is variable per night and averaging across a week is more mental record keeping + math than they bothered with when answering a survey?), and you get something that strikes me as more congruent with basically all other facts that I've observed about the world.

Now, that probably does still mean that the top decile accounts for an astonishing percentage of overall alcohol consumption, on a relative basis -- just the absolute amount is less incredible.
Hey. The support button on the sidebar doesn't go anywhere. How do I ping you?
You're falling victim to the bubble again, thinking that the only difference is that they thing "gay people should be in jail".

You'd be far better off thinking about questions like, how come when places are run under the policies that Democrats seem to favor, African Americans aren't making any economic progress? Why does my 25 year old child have to still live with me? Why am I paying for a college that seems more interested in indoctrinating my child than educating them? Why are several demographics seeing significant rises in suicide rates? Why does the government count me as no longer unemployed because I haven't been able to find a job in some number of years? Why did my mandatory health care cut its benefits and go up in price by 50% this year?

Why is it when I raise these concerns people just mock me for wanting to put gay people in jail? Why is it that the response to my every concern is to be called racist?

Something I think the HN crowd needs to remember is that while we are not really in the "elite", we are at least in the low elite. We make money and stock options. When someone comes into our industry making $60K a year we ask them what they're doing wrong to make merely 50% over the median wage. Thinking that all this cultural conflict is over whether gay people are sent to prison is just another way of distancing yourself from the real problems, and ensuring that this electoral result keeps happening. Many of these people are making less in a year than I keep in my bank account as my rainy day fund. Many things matter to them that you or I would just spend our way around.

I'll also suggest that it doesn't do much good to say something like "Well, sure, the people I elected may be in charge but I don't actually agree with what they're doing" or some dodge like that. I said "policies that Democrats seem to favor" up above carefully, because it may be the case that you don't favor them yourself, but it doesn't matter, because you (collectively) are voting for people who do. I see HN frequently disagreeing with what you might call the establishment liberal consensus on things like surveillance, but that's not terribly relevant to understanding what's actually going on out there in the world because the SV liberal deviations are not electorally significant.
What is the difference between populism and nationalism?

Niall Fergusson seems to think that it is populism we are facing around the world specifically in the northern hemisphere. The experiment seems to have failed in other countries.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/28/having-populi...
Hi, I was wondering if any peeps who have read any of TSLA or SCTY research reports by any Street analysts (not that those people can be trusted) or have done due diligence as a investor care to share about,

(1) Projection of what exactly is TSLA's market share for the next five years with the introduction of Chevy Bolt on the lower-end; and potential new competitors like GOOGL and self-driving/electric cars of traditional auto makers on the higher-end.

(2) Profit margin of TSLA cars without the green credits from gov't and tax breaks from any US gov't alternative energy research incentives; any risk from regulatory landscape due to the most recent US regime change.

(3) The trajectory/projection of household solar panel adoption pegged to the trajectory of traditional energy cost trends (e.g., natural gas and oil commodity price due to recently supply glut); the break-even number of new households growth for SCTY division or a number that Crude/Gas need to stay above.

(4) Cash flow projection for TSLA/SCTY as far as I understand it, combined entity relies heavily on fundraising via gov't grant, issuing new bonds and occasional issuing of new equity shares. What percentage of TSLA net revenue goes to meeting bond payments, and what percentage of net income comes from financial engineering vs. sales of cars?

These questions I think could shed critical (both positive and negative) light to otherwise generally very positive but shallow coverage of TSLA on HN? Thanks in advance for any inputs by more informed peeps!
I wasn't aware it was invalidated. Of course, once each member state implemented this directive into national law and I don't believe the national laws immediately became void.

For example, a quick google shows that just last month the Constitutional Court in Romania declared the Big Brother law doesn't infringe on the constitutional rights so data retention continues. All data is kept for 3 years.
Gun control, for example. Nobody hurt the completely sane idea of controlling/restricting guns than leftist gun-control activists.
WSL is a great feature that could really improve the development workflow on windows. The WSL would benefit from a blogpost with a different perspective, describing how to do web development, mounting into Windows filesystem, -how to setup and use tmux/vim etc.
It's getting to the point even liberals are worried that other liberals have gone too far

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wo...
Hi Mike! Here's my two cents:

1. I would try to find a technical co-founder. If you want to do a technical startup, there's often a lot more involved than just programming (including configuration and architecture). Of course, that's easier said than done. Let no one stop you from learning programming, if that's interesting to you, but it will definitely increase your odds of success if you have a co-founder who knows their stuff.

2. Would you recommend starting a startup in the Valley? No. Not if it's your first startup. My feeling is that nearly anywhere else is going to be cheaper. You'll be able to raise funding much more easily here when the time comes, but that's probably not going to happen right away. It's not as easy to raise investment as it might seem. That said, if you love it here, and it won't bankrupt you, go for it. But I would be wary.

3. What opportunities in the startup space are there with a BS in chemistry + MS in biology? There's always space for a good idea/execution, no matter the background. But -- the easy areas are crowded, the hard areas tend to fail because, well, they're hard. Looking at your domain, say Biology, are there areas that are under-served or poorly executed? But be careful, an easy answer to that might be hiding the devil in the details. It's a place to start, though.

4. What places should I visit while I’m here? If it was me, I would hang out on University Avenue in Palo Alto; find someone at Google to invite you to lunch; check out event sites, like meetup.com, for things going on.

I don't know if that's good advice but it's my advice. Hope you have a great time on your trip, Mike!
I disagree with both of you.

helpfulanon: I think there are more people than you expected here who are willing to state that they lean right. (That's not the same as "closeted alt-right" by any means.) Some of those people are a bit strident right now. But there are a bunch of people who lean left who are pretty bitter, too. And I think that the only thing that changed was that we had an election. Those people who lean right, leaned right before the election. They didn't just come here in the past week to triumphantly throw their weight around.

newswriter99: According to your definition. I don't think that's the right definition, though. Wikipedia's definition seems pretty accurate: "The alt-right is a loose group of people with far right ideologies who reject mainstream conservatism in the United States." That's why they're "alt" - they reject the normal, mainstream right. So not everyone who voted Republican is alt-right. Trump, however, is certainly not a candidate who embraced normal conservatism, so it might be fair to call him an alt-right candidate.