skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The cattle sector of the Brazilian Amazon, incentivized by the international beef and leather trades,[2] has been responsible for about 80% of all deforestation in the region,[3] or about 14% of the world's total annual deforestation, making it the world's largest single driver of deforestation.[4] By 1995, 70% of formerly forested land in the Amazon, and 91% of land deforested since 1970, had been converted to cattle ranching.[5][6] Much of the remaining deforestation within the Amazon has resulted from farmers clearing land for small-scale subsistence agriculture[7] or mechanized cropland producing soy, palm, and other crops.[8]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_ra...
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Absolutely amazing webiste. Incredibly well done, has a great community, and Ive had tons of fun playing on it.

If you want to play go - I highly recommend it!
Actually the rules are the rules whether you like them or not. Please follow them if you want to comment here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is why I like games with a beginning & end, and an actual story.

The first keeps you from sinking unbounded time with it, and the latter actually can be enlightening, informative (ie, bringing in mythologies or historical context), and ethically challenging. Stuff like endless PvP matches or MMO grinds never held much appeal to me.
If you use softethers own VPN, you can get at least 100Mbit even on a box this small. (tested on OVH smallest VPS)
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Imagine a bunch of different animals all working together to actually run the farm :-)

More seriously though your observation arises from speed and density, not activity. Consider chickens for example, which if you have a couple dozen chickens using a hectare (~2.5 acres) to live on their feeding and feces are completely supported in the existing cycles of that land (presuming non-desert, non-arctic). What gets it out of control is when you want 2000 hens laying in a single building on less than an acre. High density, imported feed, waste disposal becomes and issue, etc.
> "In terms of writ­ing for newspap­ers or doing press in­ter­views, the best in my ex­peri­ence are India, Italy, Ger­many, and Be­lgium"

The only reason she has such a media presence in India is because she is white. The stupidity of American academics on all matters Indian is almost too astonishing to believe - that goes for her pal Amartya Sen as well. Anyone who has any understanding of this cult (yes I use that word after due consideration) hates them with passion.
That is a very readable changelog. I particularly like the use of "Command X learned Y" to skirt some potentially awkward phrasing.
One of us misunderstands what happened.

> Chances are it wasn't a domain that was leaking information - though we don't know as there's no publicly accessible list and no way to tell if they had the buffer overrun features active.

As far as I my understanding goes domains that had the features on were leaking the data of other domains. So it's near impossible to tell who was affected.
For those who don't know, to read a greyed-out comment you can click on its timestamp to go to its page.
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I am not sure i understand what you are saying about guarantees.
If there is a FK, there is a relation. It's the user that is driving the relations by specifying what columns are FK, it's the same thing as defining relations in a GUI, only you do it at the database level
> Understanding infectious diseases and taking proper personal hygiene measures along with having clean drinking water and plumbing/sewage had much more to do with the decline in infectious diseases than vaccines ever did. The effectiveness of vaccines is highly overstated.

Clean water keeps you from getting bacterial dysentery. It doesn't do much to stop you from getting polio. Vaccination and herd immunity are what keep you from getting polio, and smallpox, and measles, and a couple dozen other diseases that used to regularly kill people. The effectiveness of vaccines is not overstated. It's clearly established and it's only because we're fortunate enough to have lived with widespread vaccinations for decades that we've lost sight of the impact they have.

> ...There is convincing evidence from scientists like a certain CDC whistleblower that there is indeed data showing that there are major problems with the current vaccine schedule...

You made a whole bunch of scary claims with zero evidence. This is not science. This is fear mongering.

> Asking questions like, why has the vaccine schedule for babies exploded to dozens of shots in rapid succession, when there's not been an equivalent explosion in those infectious diseases?

The reduction in infectious disease somehow indicates that vaccines are low-value to you? The widespread availability and use of vaccination is a huge part of why those infectious diseases aren't common now. How many people do you know who've died of smallpox or polio or tetanus?

Also babies don't get "dozens of shots in rapid succession". This is a fear-mongering lie. In the US, before 12 months a child should get a minimum of 14 vaccinations and a maximum of about 22 depending on if some vaccination are taken early, 3-shot vaccine series are chosen over 2-shot vaccine series, and whether the child is considered high risk for certain diseases. Less than two dozen spread across a full year and typically barely more than a dozen.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...

> Why should gigantic pharma companies, who every year make billions in profits, be not held liable for any harm that is caused

Essentially no one holds this position. You're making up strawmen.

> nor are they required to perform rigorous testing with double blind human trials for vaccines (like they are for other drugs

Citation? What vaccines are we giving our children that are not rigorously tested?
You already escaped reality. Your entire life is a video game, in which you erased your memory and went back to live in early twenty-first century earth, the peak of humanity's uncertainty about the future, near the end of scarcity. When you "die," you will wake up on the orbital platform where you were born six hundred years ago. You've already played this game four times.
As tempting as a purely generational hypothesis is, it's challenging to point the finger at such a huge population as "sociopaths". Many of the 60's radicals and celebrities were born a little bit too early to be categorically Boomers(post-1945) and many within the generation faced new, unprecedented forms of market competition and technology displacements - white-collar temping/freelancing rose with computerization and the end of the dedicated secretary, recorded music took over live music, multiple generations of automobile-only suburbs were built, and the onset of containerized shipping and the resulting new globalization spanned their entire lives. There're plenty more examples like that - and lots of room for errors and untested new ethics in all of it. Some of them were inherited from consequences of pre-Boomer policies, others arose because of the marketplace or political clime.

And in many ways, the experience of the rich Boomers is functionally different from the rest of the group. At all levels, it seems, one can find a terror over "losing what I have," but the elite group can leverage their finances and connections to vote themselves more, while the rest are political pawns in comparison, with a house and possibly some stocks as their only assets - too small to be a major voice, too big to be rolled over politically, so they mostly act to obstruct change. In that sense I find the Boomer dynamic kind of pitiful, because they really lost the idea of community in attempting to follow through on a world containing millions of tiny fiefdoms, even to the point where my own mom thinks appeals to "community" are basically "Communism".

The Millennials - sample size, myself and my friend group - are more focused on a combination of daily survival, and where they get the breathing room, lifestyle fit. There are no expectations for stability. Career scripts are exceptional and tend to require being on a government job track. There's a lot of fluidity, a lot of meeting different people and maybe only knowing them for a little while before things change again. You can fall out of touch with friends by accident - because they don't play the same video game as you, or they stayed off a social network, or a thousand little things. There's constant pressure to make it all work, but also a bountiful world of stuff to access - people, information, services - far more than was in the Yellow Pages, the local newspaper, or trade journals. There is no wise elder telling us how to navigate it, but it's nowhere near as cold and lonely as those suburban streets and highways.
If you let Fastmail control your DNS, you can use neat aliases like website@me.my.domain instead of me+website@my.domain. That gets around websites with "validation" that rejects addresses with "+" in them, and I think it's a bit more secure since the tagging is less obvious to spammers.
I agree.
But there is one difference between watching a crappy TV show and playing a crappy Video Game:
You are actively engaged in playing the game. No matter how trivial it is.

Of course, if you pick a more challenging game, like an RPG/Puzzle, then the difference grows greater.

I also agree that it is more fulfilling to create something.

Which is the reason why I myself like to create ...

...

video games! :)

Win-win: you get to create it, and play it.
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SHA-256 ;)
> One can even characterize the history of science as a timeline of refuting humanity's exceptionalism starting with Galileo's technical and metaphorical discovery that we are not the center of the universe.

Nonsense!

The history of science is one of the things that makes humanity exceptional on Earth.

As for the rest of the universe... The search for life is telling us that life may be abundant throughout the universe, but that animal life and intelligent life may be rare or even unique to Earth. Our solar system is a freak compared to what we've found out there so far: Our star isn't a red dwarf. Our solar system is arranged with gas giants as outer planets and small terrestrial planets as inner planets, and has exactly zero super-Earths. Our planet has an incredibly large satellite. We live inhabit a relatively peaceful, but still resourceful part of our galaxy. We're alive relatively early in the history of the universe in terms of the materials for life being available, and a huge amount of the universe still being in information contact with us...

> Lately, I've been wrestling with the issue and come to the conclusion that consciousness is either something that all life possesses or simply does not exist.

How can one come to the conclusion that consciousness does not exist? "I think, therefore I do not think."

My own personal view is that consciousness is either an emergent property of the brain, in which case only brained organisms could even hope to have consciousness, and depending on which part of the brain, not even all brained organisms might be conscious; or a fundamental property of the universe which the brain has evolved to take advantage of because it provides a selective advantage, in which case again, not all organisms will have consciousness.

It isn't clear to me why the distinction between conscious and unconscious would be between living and non-living. Why would an amoeba have consciousness and a volcano not have consciousness? I'd be willing to accept they BOTH have consciousness before I would be willing to accept only one of them does. The former implies something fundamental, the latter implies arbitrary distinctions among chemistries.

But consciousness, in my experience, at least, seems linked in some way to the state of my brain. If I am knocked out, my consciousness stops. In a sense, it disappears. By what mechanism does it get saved and reappear? My memory saves it, my brain restarts it when I wake up. If I sleep, I might dream, in which case my consciousness is altered as is my brain state. Consciousness seems localized in my brain, aware only of the things my brain can be aware of through the senses.
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Continuing the hypothetical :)

Let's say we need to drop packets from my lower tier. We'd prefer to keep a good experience for those customers if possible, so it would arguably be preferable to drop lower utility packets rather than grind everyone in that tier to a halt.

If 90% of the packets were coming from streaming video, the ISP could drop them all without affecting that tier's ability to access their bank accounts.

That is really the crux of the issue, because it is very close to reality.
> Cats, cows, turkeys, dogs, and horses, among many other animals, will always be around as long as humans are, simply because we'll ensure that they always have a healthy habitat. The same goes for trees, especially tropical trees.

historical counter example: easter island
You understand it right, but I think you get the conclusions wrong. If a site didn't have said features active, information from it could have leaked via other sites that had them on, and could be in archives of those other sites (= so it still should rotate secrets where necessary). But the archive of the page itself can be kept safely, since without the buggy features no leaked data from other sites has been included in it.
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This is not a violation of network neutrality. You are allowed both to treat different types of traffic and different groups of customers differently.

What you aren't allowed to do is treat traffic of the same variety differently depending on whether the endpoint paid you money.

The people being extorted aren't even your customers they are people who want to do business with your customers.
They support multiple kinds of 2FA tokens (Yubikey, U2F, Google Authenticator, and others). I was even able to disable the phone-based 2FA, which means my account can't be hijacked by someone who's stolen my mobile number [1]. That also means I could get locked out if I lose all my tokens, but I'm willing to take the risk since I have my own domain, which could be easily ported to a new account.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/12/20/hackers-ha...
Things that I would like to see in Airtable:

1) Being able to link tables in different bases
https://community.airtable.com/t/link-to-other-base/107/112

2) Being able to create linked records from form view
Hey, Michael. Thanks for posting. This is a more understandable claim than the one I read from Stanford News. That was I guess a misunderstanding on my part.

I'll take a look at the paper you linked, but I'm also curious, how does your technique make a distinction between rule-based grammar being fully learned vs mostly or partially learned? That is, how can you say that improved grammar over time is evidence against innate ability to understand/use grammar? It seems we have an innate ability to walk in that we seem to be "wired for it", but we are still terrible at it for a bit over a year on average. The fact that we get noticeably better over time doesn't seem to rule out innate ability. This of course assumes "innate ability" doesn't mean "completely unlearned".
So, there was (I hope not "is"... I am having a difficult time remembering the sequence of events involving this bug and what I might have done on the WebKit side) definitely a bug in the browser, but just to be explicit: there was also a bug in the JavaScript (the array returned as object with no length, causing the code to loop), and managing to deploy a change that managed to DoS tons of deployed browsers and somehow not noticing and then not really caring afterwards was extremely careless.
end winter 2014 1.2M, end winter 2015 1.5M, end winter 2016 2.0M. 'rose for the first time in 2015' fits those numbers.
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> While this would make it even cheaper to get into the market, there is no proof that a market wouldn't develop if the government wasn't already intervening to make it so difficult to build networks.

Local governments aren't completely undemocratic. If the local government is hesitant to let corporations start digging up the streets and yards, it's likely that the residents are similarly hesitant to invite that sort of disruption. How many people are actually eager to have a second gigabit-capable cable buried through their yard? Whether or not the federal government intervenes, there will always be barriers to an upstart ISP. Yes, with all local restrictions usurped, a company as large as Google can certainly deploy new infrastructure to select markets where there's sufficient demand for a more reasonable alternative to the incumbent ISP. But that's still a far cry from a functioning competitive market. Who would fund construction of a third set of cables, or the sixth? Even with local restrictions removed, how much capital does it take to build a competitive ISP from scratch (keeping in mind that Google wasn't quite starting from scratch)?

In the most pedantic sense, there's obviously no proof that a functioning competitive marketplace would develop, but we are talking about a real natural monopoly, and that means something. Building last-mile infrastructure is very expensive. Each new competitor faces much worse prospects for recouping their initial investment, much more resentment from their prospective customers, and the incumbent(s) can always undercut you at the drop of a hat. Given the choice, the customers would vastly prefer a local loop unbundling solution—it doesn't have the high costs of building redundant infrastructure, it doesn't make a mess of the town, and it leads to the same end result of diverse choices for services.
I have been exploring other email services. I was checking out protonmail recently as fast isn't my top priority. Anyone like protonmail? I'll have to give fastmail a spin soon.
If you aren't shaping based on which endpoints paid a bribe we don't have much of an issue do we.

Google network neutrality then come back.
I'd say it shouldn't be their responsibility to fix it at all - this is on CloudFlare. CloudFlare shouldn't be downplaying the issue to their customers.

They should be telling them to reset passwords and get users to do similar. And I say this as a generally very happy CloudFlare customer.

A few Bitcoin exchanges have realized the seriousness and have already contacted me and told me to just go ahead and enable 2fa, which I did even on empty accounts. One of which is going so far as to revoke and change their SSL certificates even though there's no reason to believe they were at risk.
I wanted to get into Python for this reason. The RStudio IDE is absolutely brilliant. When I tried to run Rodeo, it just kept crashing. Not very fun.
They have a total of 5 electoral votes. When split the only election where they could have made a difference was in 2000. But yes, in this case it those have a direct effect but a VERY minor effect that has never affected the outcome of an election.
Cloudflare shares a timeline on their blog post:

The three features implicated were rolled out as follows.
The earliest date memory could have leaked is 2016-09-22.

2016-09-22 Automatic HTTP Rewrites enabled
2017-01-30 Server-Side Excludes migrated to new parser
2017-02-13 Email Obfuscation partially migrated to new parser
2017-02-18 Google reports problem to Cloudflare and leak is stopped

The greatest potential impact occurred for four days starting
on February 13 because Automatic HTTP Rewrites wasn’t widely
used and Server-Side Excludes only activate for malicious
IP addresses.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-c...
Dude carry on, you were doing a good job! I for one want to understand this Cloudflare fustercluck all over HN. Unfortunately i don't understand much of what is written about it!
If you only sometimes forget, then that's not letting them have your location at all times, and you weren't called a fool.
Yeah, it's far better to leave them in the back of the stacks with others of the same kind, where no-one will ever see them or discuss them.

None of these items are unique, except perhaps Chuck's wedding cake.
A bit off topic but I love seeing projects like yours succeed because it shows that people will pay real money for what is essentially an art project. Long live art.
You can get any job you want
Using 'bro' non ironically might be more of a key off than describing an experience with a woman as 'amazing'.
Kadot: Unsupervised natural language processing
Curious if there's another who is compatible with you?
Why not send a pull request with corrections?
"Off-board" as in "off-board fare collection"? (A basic requirement of every BRT system.)
Damn, highly recommended to smoke.
Adventures in Siri failures: Reminders edition
The comment to whitch Linus respond reports that there are 40 constants in many places in the git code. The bit size of a SHA1 hash is 160 bits which holds in 20 bytes. In hexadecimal, the length is 40chars. So the problem reported in the initial comment was the text length, not the bit length.

Of course there is probably 20 hardcoded in many places too. So in this case the bit length is an issue too. You are right. Switching to base64 encoding would not solve the hardcoded bit length if any.

Using file hashes as file identifier doesn't look like a good idea as suggested here https://valerieaurora.org/hash.html because hash lifetime are short. The system should support changing the hash every year. The work required to compute hashes increases too.
Crispr is definitely not the first technology for manipulating the genome.
I recently ordered the Arancino at a local Italian restaurant, and was confused when I got only 1, then I remembered how Italian plurals work.
That one is easy if you're trying to get to Jesus :)
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It's just the first random object that came into my mind.

It just came to me. I'm glad you liked it. :-)
Cloudflare: "We've just saved you from Google's incompetence. You're welcome."
> If a hobby is something you really enjoy it will not feel like work.

Sorry, that's just not true. There are lots of interesting, rewarding hobbies that do feel like work, in the sense that they require a fresh mind capable of bearing a high cognitive load to engage in them. When my mind is fresh you're right, those hobbies are very satisfying to spend time on, but my "fresh" timeslots are mostly devoted to my actual job (phd) these days, which doesn't feel like work either much of the time.

Be careful, your attitude is a road straight to burnout.
>Having an executive cafeteria used to be a thing in companies.

Well, yeah. When you have 90% marginal tax rates and the IRS hasn't caught up with taxing non-cash compensation/perks, then you tend to look for every possible perk you can give such employees! Anything short of "okay, what would you spend your next $X of take-home pay on? Tada! That's a perk for you now!"
some services allow you to set the layout manually: Docparser
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Huh? The guy with the 10 year post history called Subverter a shill. Subverter has a 43 day post history, three anti-net neutrality comments, and two anti-net neutrality submissions. You can't see one, because it was flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565023
Can you explain the difference between a collision attack and a preimage attack? How can you get two PDFs with arbitrary contents having the same SHA1 without a preimage attack?