skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! That's a great list of refences to go through. I actually wanted to have objective references and not just bash the US command. I should have placed more emphasis on the stabilizing US actions and not just sheath them under the "UN mandate" phrase. A few comments:

1) & 2) The anti-piracy operations were a nice example of a stabilizing strategy.

3) Civil wars are generally considered internal matters

4) Businesses operating within the allied sphere had vested commercial interests in Russia, see for example http://www.branobelhistory.com/themes/the-branobel-company/T... - which the Bolshevik faction threatened

5) & 8) - Yeah, post Ottoman Middle East is a major fuck up. No idea who benefitted whom there.

6) I have no familiarity with the matter but supporting anti-communist forces within a country would fall under the "dominoes..." template if I had to be brash about forming a quick opinion

7) That's tiny. Yeah, probably under "stabilizing action" just like 1,2. But, no idea really.

9) That's US security more than anything, they were afraid Cuba and Soviet Union would hold Grenada as a forward base - I have to call "dominoes" on that

Of the uncounted:

Korean war - while I'm sure South Korean prefer the current situation, having an economy boosted by vested US interests - from the point of view of US was about holding Soviet Union at bay. Dominoes.

Gulf war. Oil. Oil. Oil oil oil. Street.

Somali civil war was an attempt at a stabilizing action.

Haiti - http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/haiti-us-occupation-... - given the history of US involvement in Haiti I'm sure the 90's intervention was among the most benevolent of them

Bosnia- it's the stabilizing action for which I have to commend the US the most (and am stupefied to this day of the European incompetence in military matters).

Libya - yeah, that did not go so well for anyone.
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They're being trained to think of themselves as soldiers. This will inevitably lead to them being soldiers, and that eventually ends in bog-standard straightforward war, indistinguishable from any waged by "real" soldiers.
I also live in the UK and I concur; complete apathy.
There are several different "why"s. You should first list and characterize them. Then you will see how each of them would fit into the algorithm of your AI.

But basically, why questions can be considered as (intermediate) goals that need to be generated to make progress toward the ultimate goal of the AI.
Shark also have rows of them.
Also "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" will churn the stomach almost as much as the stories of the rise of the Ottoman Empire by (sssh redacted religion) piles of heads or the accounts of the Armenian Genocide.
Great book and I would highly recommend reading it. I am still amazed to learn how difficult it is to get soldiers to kill.
I would add that Riseup don't claim to be the best on security or privacy.

> Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications.

This is what they claim on their homepage[1]. Tools built by people who believe in a certain philosophy for people working on "liberatory social change".

They try to operate and control their tools. They don't claim that they are "the-most-secure-email-provider".

They claim to work on what they call "Network Security"[2] (traffic encrypting and providing services outside of the tracking bubble), and define other fields of security ("Human Security", "Device Security", "Message Security"), that the user can improve himself by education. They provide means of education for this.

This is an alternative. Gmail is maybe more "secure", or maybe not, but don't claim these kind of social changes. Gmail is "free" and commercial. Riseup is not free and volunteer-run.

[1] https://riseup.net/

[2] https://riseup.net/en/security/#security-overview

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> Chomsky has been speaking about this for decades and
> his message seems to be fact based.

But Chomsky is a lefty subversive in an ivory tower. He couldn't possibly be right about anything. /s
Interesting (and scary) but frankly I don't have enough knowledge to assess this theory.
The Clinton example was shows the hypocrisy in the stated goals of American foreign policy. Also, you miss the part where Clintons administration mislead international bodies even when it had clear evidence that what was going on in Rwanda was genocide

>If you lose your self as a result of your actions then what do you have left even if you win?

Intervention in Rwanda would have resulted in nothing near an existential threat for America. Just like Saddam and Iraq didn't pose anything near an existential threat to America. After it was clear that Iraq possessed no so called "WMDs", the narrative quickly shifted to "we did it for humanitarian reasons". What I wanted to make clear was that the US never does anything for "humanitarian" reasons, but only when it's personal interests are in favour of doing said thing.

Also, you chose the weakest example of the lot, where US involvement was minimal. The rest of the examples make it clear that the US has no problem with evil of the highest order when it stands to gain.
I like using Google Keep for that
The more I read the more my belief is reinforced that the war on drugs has been a huge disservice to humanity in so many ways.

From the social problems caused by illegality and the restriction of decent pain relief for the dying to the brake put on valuable research like this.

All for what? Some sense of moral purity?

Humans societies fascinate and disgust me.
Can't say I've seen much on the BBC about such a big story - they seem to be doing their bit to keep the fuss minimal from the herd.
There are also many animals who are long living, and immune to cancer (to varying degrees). Naked mole rats live up to 30 years and almost never get cancer (only one case formally verified so far).

Elephants have many more cells than us, and live to almost the same age, but only have a 5% chance of getting cancer, vs 10%-25% in humans. Lions have a 2% chance of getting cancer.
This remember me the (paper) maps where you can scratch the places you've been.

I like the idea, and I think you can do a lot more of stuff than you can do now with "just" gamification.
Really helpful. Great list!!!!
When I looked for a small ANN library with little external dependencies and which could be statically linked I settled on FANN[0].

Worked reasonably, solved my problem as well as I hoped it would. It is rather limited in features though- no training on GPU, single-threaded by design, etc.

tiny-dnn appears to have a lot more choices regarding network architecture, parallelization options. Would definitely have tried tiny-dnn first if I had known about it.

[0]: http://leenissen.dk/fann/wp/
Thanks for the answers!

> Other than that, I'm not totally clear on the "standard library being too large"

IIRC their Rust kernel hit some size barrier (for the bootloader?). The author tried to build a smaller standard lib to overcome this, which was a bit of work.
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Uncontroversial and Vietnam (or indeed the Crusades) aren't words that you see together very often!
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> Print to PDF make you unable to search for content other than title right?

It shouldn't, since the PDFs should have the full text.
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I don't think you're wrong, but I think there can be a lot of unintended, bad consequences. Especially if we start doing germline editing, where results might manifest themselves generations later when it's far too late.
The concept of "Dark Energy" is as nebulous as "Dark Matter"
Because you have to move fast and break things and it is very hard to break OpenBSD :)
My kids have both German and Dutch passports but that's because their parents are from these countries.
They're SJH: Social Justice Hackers; minus the social, the justice or the hacking.

If that SJH TED guy actually depended on an ag livelihood which necessitated functioning equipment, maybe they'd been able to dogfood workable designs to be almost as good as commercial products, or at least not as terrible as solar roadways. Instead, they have a wiki for a Moller, which will stay unrealized... forever.
I'm happy this guy built something that's generating income, but the results of my attempt to use it just now were really underwhelming. Page after page of COMAPANY NAME on plain cards with different fonts didn't really demonstrate much AI.
My takeaway here is that this "story" is not yet a story. Maybe 1-2 years from now, after the product has really developed and evolved, it will be something.
What archive.org backs up is already public content ? not paid one.

Legally, that's irrelevant (except maybe for calculating damages). Publicly available content is just as copyrighted, and paid content may be in the public domain (e.g. printed copies of Oliver Twist).

Barring an explicit license, one can't copy any content on any website, except for simply displaying it (there's an implicit license). And you certainly can't re-distribute it.

There are exceptions (books and videos) but I assume they are negotiated with rights owners.

Why do you assume that, when anyone can upload them?

https://archive.org/details/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild_201...
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Sign me up too!

But to be honest, the problem with Android is not the Linux kernel but the fact that most phones were never designed to be continuously updated.
I originally intended to only do the visualisation part but the problem is that I somehow need to get a list of geocoordinates that a person previously visited...
Good point. Whenever I post about the snoopers charter, I even have friends jumping in arguing that it's a good idea and that it's necessary in order to protect us from terrorists and pedophiles. As hypocritical and intellectually lazy as it sounds, I delete their comments.
For saving links, I'm a hoarder on Facebook (saving) and Twitter (favourites). For articles, it's usually saving to PDF or using Pocket (https://getpocket.com). For articles that I will actually read/share (i.e. not a "ooo, looks interesting!") I use https://saved.io.

Suffice to say...huge mess. But it kind of works.
does he maintain them personally or are they LSTM bots? :)

And btw, I think his sense of humour - and brilliance - comes across best in person. I recommend attending one of his talks or watch a video. But just do it once, otherwise you'll hear the same jokes again.
Do you have any specific ideas in mind?
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> "There may be not much point using a VPN to conceal your web activities if it can be blown open by a technical capability notice."

If my computer makes a VPN connection with a machine outside of the UK, is the above claim still valid?
Have to say the evolution in LEDs has been pretty amazing.

First we had terrible yellow fragile maglites that requires several large C or D cells for anything approaching reasonable brightness and battery life. I had my small maglite die at the bottom of the grand canyon, and the top of MT shasta. After trying to replace a tiny incandescent bulb in the dark in challenging conditions I decided I was switching to LEDs, no matter what the compromise was.

Similar monitors had broad spectrum CFLs that generated UV, converted it to white light with a phosphor then threw away most of the light and filtered it down to approximately R, G, and B. The resulting color accuracy was terrible.

LEDs started out expensive, not very bright, and mostly red. Migrated to different colors, I think blue was the most expensive.

Finally white LEDs started showing up in tiny AA or AAA flashlights with 50-75 lumens. About as bright as the 2xAA maglite that were huge in comparison.

Color coverage got better, life got better, efficiency started ramping up.

100-200 lumen flashlights started to become more common. 18650s that have substantially more power and a more LED friendly 3.7V started to appear.

Year or two later 400-500 lumens were common, efficiency kept increasing. Started to appear as backlights, car dash boards, brake lights, etc.

CFLs switched from wasting 95% of the light to ditching the white phosphors for a mix of RGB phosphors. The savings were twofold and multiplicative. The first was generating UV -> RGB directly with mix of RGB phosphors in the CFL. Then additionally instead of narrow notch filters that didn't pass much light they switched to very wide spectrum filters that passed most of the light. So a red pixel didn't need to be within 1% of red, but instead just block 99% of G and B. Since the RGB phosphors emitted very close to the ideal frequencies the color accuracy increased. Monitor power requirements dropped significantly.... only to be killed off by more efficient LEDs.

Things doubled again, small ish flashlights much like the 2xAA maglites except fatter. 1000 lumens hitting $50-$100 points points. Now throwing a usable light 300 Meters isn't unusual from a small hand held light. Depending on your use recharging once a month isn't unusual. 4-or 5 light levels are common, and runtimes of 1.5 hours (max light) to 100 or more hours (on low) aren't uncommon.

So now macbook pros that are extremely thin (greatly helped by very tiny LEDs for backlights) get 10 hours of battery light with 500 nit screens with wonderful color accuracy. Similarly even 55" LED screens are crazy high resolution and crazy cheap. The cost per pixel doesn't seem on that crazy different than the cost per transistor.

Sadly like Moore's law, LEDs aren't getting much better anymore. For the first time I purchased a new flashlight after 2-3 years... and the best I could find was zero % brighter 8-(.

It's not just computers that have been improving like crazy.
I have a feeling that UK people have decided not to care about hypotheticals, and that includes laws that technically exist but aren't inconveniencing them right now. People basically assume that the law lets the government do as it damn well pleases, or lets it off for doing so with a totally ineffectual slap on the wrist. Therefore the content of the law is irrelevant.

If the government uses the law to do bad things, people might start to raise a ruckus.
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Note the first part is "economic regulation" and the second part is "social regulation".
BTW, why can't browsers try HTTPS first and then fallback to HTTP?

I agree with you.
or we could continue using device trees, which are much more expressive and were actually designed for this purpose.
Yeah I would agree that they're left of centre. But I would say that they have moved more to the right in the last few years.

I guess that probably says something about our politics too :-)
Well, that works :-)

Never heard of Smartisan, checking out their phones now.
Also, sometimes, some activists can deliberately use a mailing list as a public expression channel because it is important that these things can be eared by everybody.

I see it as sticking posters in the street. There is no reasons to use Facebook or Google Groups for most of the Riseup (public) Lists users, not because they want something secret and hidden, but because they don't want to play with some companies rules and appreciate to be a part of a network run by volunteers more than to use profitable fake-free services.

Because it makes sense, not because it is more or less secure.
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If you're serious, then how is open source software "free" if there is an expectation of donations?
> Physicists do not like magic; when other cosmological observations seemed far easier to explain with dark matter than with MOND, they left the approach for dead.

But how is "dark matter" not magic?

To my untrained and pretty ignorant eye, dark matter looks like filler: the observation does not match the theory, and so, instead of looking for a better theory, we decided the observation was wrong and couldn't see what was there (and not just a little bit, but the greatest part of it).

Isn't that the definition of superstition? Invisible forces that explain events, in mysterious ways?
Maybe the color calibration features in the display stack could be used to apply something like this globally to a system. They should allow quite powerful color transformations.
There is a graphic novel about this topic called "Addicted to war" which was pretty good:
http://www.addictedtowar.com/book.html
The usual suspects, ROR and JS/react. It's great fun.
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That's the nature of the beast. Pareto/power law distributions are very common in economic transactions. 80% of a lot of sales orgs revenue comes from 20% of deals, 80% of many freelancer's income of many freelancer's income comes from 20% of their clients, etc... Many people do sales or consulting anyway.
I imagine this was upvoted because of Indiehackers credibility, so people just assumed the achievement of $15k/mo was true.

Until mikejarema noticed in another comment that the product was launched 15 days ago and the title was BS, I believed too. Now I flagged the story because it is basically a lie. And IndieHackers lost a lot of its credibility for me by now.

Other people noticed the AI part is most likely BS too. But that is a less black and white lie than claiming that the creator "makes $15k/mo" when he hasn't made $15k total in the whole product lifetime.

Shame on you indiehackers for outright lying (maybe twice) in the title just to get clicks. You gamed HN for this one, but I have the impression that this will hurt you in the future.
"How the world works" is a pretty good anthology just in case anyone wants to revise their opinion :)
The frequency limit for bit banging is usually limited by the GPIO pins (well, their drivers) rather than the core clock. I use some ~250MHz PIC32MZ's with their GPIOs capping out at around 50MHz, and even the raspberry pi with a core clock of ~1GHz can only bit bang with its GPIOs up to ~60MHz without running into problems. As for LVDS, it takes up more area and power, and you usually need to license the IP block rather than it being available for free from the standard cell library provider.
To be fair, the new 64-bit ARMs are becoming "more
RISC-y" and have the same problems as MIPS.
While it's not been headline news, they did have this very good article yesterday:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38134560
Yeah, same experience here, there are other sites offering different fonts + 'clipart' to make a rand() logo. Don't see much AI here, still waiting for SkyNet...
What frighten me most is that Labour, supposedly the official opposition to the government, refused to try to stop or improve this bill. Instead they waved it through, abstaining on key votes, and not bothering to table amendments.

All of this is despite Labour being run by figures who have a long history of opposing government authoritarianism. For example, Jeremy Corbyn didn't vote against it. Shami Chakrabarti, who spent years running Liberty, an organisation dedicated to protecting individual liberties, abstained.

What the hell is going on behind the scenes when people like that have been successfully silenced?

When a law this far-reaching and repressive is passed with a conspiracy of silence and acquiescence from both the media and the political establishment, you have to conclude that UK democracy is basically non-functional. It's over.
Not op but here's a cool example in JS: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/demo/mnist....
Realistically, how they choose to divide their issue resolution is irrelevant except in terms of how much friction it causes with users and developers.

From a consumer perspective, if you can't docker pull then docker is ~useless, so being a key software feature within the docker binary it's not unrealistic to expect the average person to report directly to docker on github.

The fact we have to report fundamental issues that should never have passed basic testing in an extremely well funded company is the really amazing thing here.

Even if they wish to maintain a separate issue resolution process via email, a better resolution would be "I have forwarded this to the email support team, please expect an email" (since github IDs all have email associated anyway, this should be easy).

Right now they have ~maximum friction, and no response at all.

You will be pleased to note that email works fine in China (obviously - otherwise how do you think global trade operates?), unless you use NSA/Google as your provider.
No one's reputation is at stake with internet comments from anonymous posters.

The internet is protected from the forces that threaten physical forums where each voice is a real person. You cannot pay off the internet to talk nice about you, and you can't follow anon home and beat him up for speaking negatively. It sounds like Jurgen has accumulated some bad karma on the internet; this is not baseless accusation as much as it is keeping ourselves at a healthy level of skepticism regarding someone who has already lost our trust. The cowards with loud, strawman accusations are usually appropriately downvoted when their criticisms are out of place.
In Chrome, yes. They happen rather often with Firefox.

Shrug, I disagree. The fuss made here illustrates it: 0-days are rare enough that "rather often" is a serious mischaracterisation.

Their security features are identical. It's the same code.

You said: "And it being open source means that I can use without worrying about backdoors or data leakage." Which has nothing to do with security. Inspecting Chromium tells you nothing about what Chrome does, and using Chromium means you miss features that Chrome has (H264, Netflix, ...)
And this is why people in the UK are apathetic. Civilized protest is greeted by official jargon that basically says 'we do what we want'. Just like when we objected to the original RIPA.

The agencies and authorities that pressurise and cajole Governments into these actions are unelected and play the long-game. They can wait and ride-out any Paliament that is insufficiently malleable.

Which reminds me to update my collection of encryption program source code whilst I still can.
I expected Apple here, though I'm not sure what version of BSD they forked for OSX.
> It's not just computers that have been improving like crazy.

Personally I feel like advances in computers have been creeping along at best in the last ~five year period. Ever since Intel beat the shit out of AMD with the Bridge architectures and the x86 market became a de-facto monopoly.
One of its main architects (a Nixon aide( has admitted that the War on Drugs was made up to attack subversive elements in the US, like the Black Panthers and the hippies. The idea was never about drugs, just control.
From the article:

> "The UK government can certainly insist that a company not based in the UK carry out its orders – that situation is specifically included in the new law – but as to whether it can realistically impose such a requirement, well, that will come down to how far those companies are willing to push back and how much they are willing to walk away from the UK market."