skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting that you choose to go into fine detail, again, about the facts of life and social problems in the Northern Territory as you understand them and to share your own personal anecdotes, as if these have some impact on the cartoon been grotesquely racist (or not).

Please understand that even as a johnny-foreigner I'm perfectly well aware of the state of affairs in the NT. You'll note that your not the only Australian that reacts to this cartoon by earnestly explaining their understanding of the social problems of indigenous communities (though the other responding to me is also perfectly comfortable stating the cartoon is racist, but strangely chooses to respond to me, rather than any of the comments claiming the cartoon is not racist, go figure).

I'll posit that everything you mention, to some degree, is common knowledge in Australia. I don't accept that Bill Leak was genuinely trying to play an informative role here. We are also plainly ignoring the fact that this cartoon came in response to reports of aboriginal children being tear-gassed in Don Dale, so it's obviously an attempt to re-apportion blame, no?

If you'll humour me one more time. Imagine that the police-officer is out of frame, just a hand. Can you suggest anything that would make the cartoon of the two remaining aboriginal men racist? Let me help you, perhaps you could exaggerate some physical features, or include some negative stereotype? Has the author missed anything? What would you add to change their representation to be a racist one? It's fascinating that your only suggestion to turn the original cartoon from "not racist" to "blatantly racist" is the ethnicity of one character. Is it true (and it's hard I guess not to deliver this without the tone of an insult, so apologies) that you're perfectly aware that the caricature of the two remaining characters is deeply, deeply racist, it's just that you're comfortable with all the stereotypes they contain? It is racist, but it's ok, in short.

In case you're considering explaining further fine details about aboriginal life, let's say the cartoon was of three greedy hook-nosed sinister jew bankers. I've put literally every trope in I can, exaggerated every physical characteristic, every negative stereotype. Would that cartoon become not-racist because there's some element of truth the idea that Jewish people are a merchant class? And would your time be spent well explaining that to me in fine detail?

Thanks again for the conversation, this has been a fine example in my experience of discussing racial issues with Australians.
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That makes sense...

So "If encryption had a backdoor" is meaningless. It's really "If a given encryption implementation had a back door" and no one is making the criminals use certain algorithms.

thanks
Back in 2005, researchers found soft tissues in a T-rex fossil (hollow blood vessels retaining their original flexibility, elasticity, and resilience): http://www.rpgroup.caltech.edu/~natsirt/stuff/Schweitzer%20S... IIRC they were cutting the large fossil to transport it, and it is while cutting it that they unexpectedly stumbled upon these soft tissues inside. This discovery was so mind-boggling at the time.

What research has been conducted on this specific 2005 T-rex specimen? The scientific community seemed ecstatic after finding it, but I do not remember any significant discovery made from the tissue.
>It is possible to build and deploy secure software.

By secure, you don't mean 100% secure, do you?
But how can it be that old if the world is only a few thousand years old? (According to some USA education)
My eyes glazed over as they usually do when trying to grok Haskell, but is that somehow related to partial computation and partial functions?
I agree. A mission critical MRI machine should not be running an off the shelf OS (Win, Mac, Linux). If you're paying $5 million for a machine, it better have its own real time operating system that had been independently audited.

Now the machine that you pull up the images on is most likely going to be a general purpose PC/Mac. You still need to patch that. Your IT dept needs to have patch cycles that deploy in sets, so all mission critical equipment can be tested before everything gets patched. It takes diligence, and planning. If you prepare at a very large hospital with two MRI machines, then a bad patch can leave you degraded, but not totally offline.
Nice resource - thanks!
> That's well known for a long time.

But the implications of it are not. Otherwise, no one (including heads of TLAs) could continue to claim that gov't backdoors are a good idea without being widely perceived as an idiot.
Maybe you really think it's just as simple as mandating exactly what you wrote here. But I'd imagine you'd agree that even doing this would have real and significant costs, which means tradeoffs are going to have to be made, e.g. some people won't receive medical care they otherwise would.
Not sure about this law but in my experience at least, in Sweden (where I live), talking critical about religion in public conversations is way more the rule than (in my experience) elsewhere (I can compare with Germany and the U.S.). Most Swedes are either not practicing religion or are atheists.
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> Android phones and Linux distributions don't have a single update channel for all of them

This is pretty much saying that, because an OS is open source, that means anyone can put it on almost anything and sell it, so the fact that the original developer can't control all possible distributions of the software that said software is untenable.

In practice, that is not how it works. You don't approach broad deployments of Android or, say, RHEL while getting supplied by a half dozen different OEMs. You pick one and stick to it. In much the same way Windows shops work - you normally either go with just Dell or just HP.

Hell, you can't lump Linux and Android in the same boat either. Vendors never guarantee perpetual phone OS updates on Android, because they always abandon their devices. The exception might be Google, maybe, with one of their device series from the last 5 years since the Nexus 4 which did get dropped, but you might be able to get a perpetual update contract with them for an extended support period. I have no idea.

But for something at Government scale, adopting Android is actually really trivial. At least it used to be - you could have just approached Cyanogen to support all devices with a guaranteed support period. Now I'm not sure if there is a corporate entity to barter with backing Lineage, but the same principal applies. There are ways around Android's horrible update model.

For desktop Linux, though, its no competition. You will always be going to one vendor, using that one vendor, and getting consistent updates from that singular vendor. Be it Dell or Red Hat or Canonical or whomever you plan to contract with. They aren't going to be throwing Gentoo randomly on a couple of your thousand Ubuntu boxes, and if you want they will certainly preconfigure the images to point the update servers to your own self hosted ones to control updates if you really want to.
Google Launches Fuchsia OS That Might Replace Android
Reminds me of:

- Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908462]

- Going Deep [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739]
What's so puzzling about that?
Just fyi my Android phone has icons with text underneath them for the equivalent menu (like a parc style OS also)

http://oi65.tinypic.com/339jeh3.jpg

Seems like a good solution.

Also interesting they recently updated all the icons / art for Android. I really dont like the new ones compared to the old ones. Its a jarring change. They are all line drawings now, rather than filled shapes.

Also, awesome little job u did there !
it also shows that an icon has to be iconic to work. play, fast forward and rewind, the camera and the calculator, i knew. airplane mode, wifi and bluetooth, i knew but could easily imagine people confused by. the crescent moon, the lock with the arrow around it, the flashlight and the dial i honestly didn't know, and would've had to tap them to try to figure out what they did.

you can't just make any picture iconic, it's not something an app can force.
If you don't mind me asking, what steps did you take?
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Beyond just getting it running on phones, C++ is the industry standard for cross-platform games.
Data centers are dwarfed in size by the consumer and business markets, while also being much less vulnerable due to their more specialised nature and therefore ease of update. Case in point: there are plenty of windows data centres out there, but its not likely any of them were effected by this incident.
I've had significant experience performing IT Audit for SOX 404 from both an Internal and External perspective.
Hit the books? That's what I do, I'm reading this one for fun now: https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/...

It's awesome. I have a library stacked full of software and CS books. Maybe try to get your bachelors at night? I got my master's at night while working.

This is a craft. If you want to be an expert, train like an expert. Realize 3 months of a bootcamp isn't going to cut it, not at least until you've been working for 4, 6, 8 years.

If you can't tell me what inter process communication is, what it's used for, pipes, signals, etc. then I think you have some pretty big gaps in knowledge that preclude you from being an expert at this point.
iPhone was built by one of the richest corporations on Earth do not sure if even counts.
Agreed. Updating the phone being easier won't solve the problem. The problem is a mismatch in incentives.

Manufacturers don't have an incentive to update older devices because (1) they don't want to put any resources into last year's phone and (2) they want their customers to upgrade to their newly released phone.
I mean secure as in, when the last of that product line's devices have retired or died of old age, there have been no successful exploits against that product.
As always, single cases really don't say anything about how widespread a phenomenon is statistically, and they don't allow for comparisons with other countries.
Hmmm, that's a fair point. And now I'm wondering what my primary care last security report turned up. There's also some things that I still haven't told me doctors-- because I really don't believe in their ability to not disclose it somehow. And I want to remind everyone that you will pay for computer security no matter what--- you can either pay for it upfront, or you can pay ransoms in the future.
That's really awesome - thanks for making me go back and actually look at it.

Upvoted the grandparent, just to keep it high in the list so that your comment would stay near the top of the page...
Energy, time and space.

Distance is effort, both in energy and time.

Space is already constrained by historical distributional of 'valuable' lands, and restrictions on new ones. There's nowhere left to go out and just settle that someone else doesn't already claim somehow. (Yes, if you go out of the solar system you might claim that... but that's literally how bad the issue is.)

The real solution is increasing supply. Yes, UBI will help individuals, but society must actively balance to ensure that there is enough supply in the markets to maintain liquidity. Otherwise (as we see with housing) flow seizes and prices dramatically rise.
Hmm my edtech aims for global literacy; so a reading programme for ESL kids who may be disadvantaged enough to only have access to a smartphone.

So that at least frees me from that glum thought of IQ vs Nurture tug-o-war.

While I'm at it, I might as well advertise:

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If anyone is interested to join my adventure please feel free to contact me via my profile.
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Someone with good tech skills will especially be welcomed, as I'm a bit rusty, and plus it's more enjoyable to make pictures and courses. I'm based in the UK but I'm not fussy about having an online collaborator :)
And in the latest press freedom index ranking, 8 out of 10 countries are in Europe. The U.S. is #43. https://rsf.org/en/ranking
When You Picture Someone with Mental Illness, Picture Me in a Nice Tailored Suit
>To ensure the entire network is discovered, we should start the crawler off with multiple supernode IPs and store all IPs found into a database, then each time we restart the crawler we seed it with the list of IPs found during the previous crawler; repeating this process for a couple of hours ensure all online nodes are found.

This would just discover supernodes though right? Or any node at some point broadcasts as a supernode?
I'm less certain than you are that good online education resources for K-12 would also mean the end of teacher jobs.

The anecdote about bank teller jobs and ATMs comes to mind - https://www.aei.org/publication/what-atms-bank-tellers-rise-...

Not saying that teacher jobs are likely to increase, just that I'm not sure they'd go away altogether, either.
Or in fact, German kennen/wissen - it's not Germanic languages per se, but English, which developed from a simplified creole spoken by the Saxon conquerors of the Angles (they never bothered with all that conjugation stuff, and it stuck).
I use per_process_gpu_memory_fraction extensively [1], but when you are writing code that runs on different GPUs (Titan vs 1080 vs 1070 vs K80) due to change in the total memory available you run risk of under allocating or over allocating GPU memory.

[1] https://github.com/AKSHAYUBHAT/DeepVideoAnalytics/blob/maste...
> So if I lose my gun on the street and someone (18+) picks it up and shoots somebody, the blame belongs to me?

I would say this is closer to having your guns stolen from your home while you're asleep and then used in a crime.
Hi cheers for the feedback.

The thinking behind that was that when you on first start it says:
'1 - conjugate this verb'
'2 - for this person'
etc. Which I think is the most logical order.

However I wanted to keep the verb close to the input box so that you can see it close by as you type your answer. That's why the numbers don't follow the order on the page.

I might do this differently in the future - I could maybe get rid of the numbers when you put your mouse over them, but keep them for the initial intro.
Lol. I'm sure most everyone on the planet would be happy to settle for the 8 figure range. It's humorous that anyone would suggest 8 figures isn't "fantastically wealthy" when only a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of people ever reach that level.
Germany Smashed an Energy Record, Generating 85% Electricity from Renewables
Had anyone read The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski ?
A book in a book in a book. I feel some similarities with this one.
The basis of my comment was civil, and I only used profanity to illustrate my argument; as it was written it is not an attack on the OP, to which I apologize if I offended.

It's actually a quote/reference from the movie "The Score" during the hacking scene. I forgot to quote it and provide the reference, my bad..

And if you ban my account, I'll just make another one.
Some ransomware (e.g. Hitler [1]) deletes files rather than encrypting them, making ecovery impossible.

[1]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/development-v...
I'm generally a fan of redistribution strategies, but, it's worth noting that motivation is not just a binary function of "is the marginal value > 0".

Say I could spend 30 hrs/week running a small business at moderate efficiency, and make $100k/year in profits, or 60 hrs/week running a much larger, more efficient business for $10m/year in profits.

My motivation to put in the extra 30 hrs/week is going to depend greatly on the absolute value of the difference, after taxes. If taxes are such that I take home $90k vs $7million, I'm probably going to work the 60-hour strategy. If taxes are such that I take home $89k vs $500k, I may or may not consider that worth the extra hours.
You'd like that wouldn't you.
As someone with a great deal of first hand familiarity with the Sprint network - in the western region, the last network upgrade was a forklift upgrade - out went the ALU (alcatel-lucent) hardware, and in went brand new shiny Samsung hardware, with brand new shiny tower top radios, and brand new shiny antennas, all connected over a fiber backhaul.

In my market, even the 1x network is hugely improved (as well as EV-DO) - I also take issue with you using 1x fallback to imply that on the sprint network there is another way to make phone calls other than 1x - there is no VoLTE footprint on the sprint network.
I don't see how any of this makes sense given the very real possibility of not using either standard or endemic pesticides, the long term ecological (and public health) consequences of which we still have very little idea. Yes organic ag uses some techniques whose sustainability is highly dubious. There are, however, plenty of models like silvopasture, agroecology, and permaculture-informed production out there that can produce better, regionally appropriate food in ways that enhance and adapt to--rather than violently work against--the native parameters of the environment. This is the only legitimate and reasonable way forward in my eyes, and it creates so many side benefits like community, beauty, health, carbon sequestration in the soil, etc.

Most high-tech industrial/corporate approaches I've seen are really just more filigree on an outdated barbaric WW2-era approach of using highly carbon intensive machinery to burn out soil and grow monocrops, kept on life support by high-"tech", low-wisdom approaches which are at their core incredibly lazy, mediocre, and destructive. My secret wish (I'm a land designer who uses GIS for this purpose) is for people like the ones on this board realizing it and flocking to the field to create data-driven approaches to true agroecology to solve hunger and climate change.

P.S. for just one example of an alternative model, see Mark Shepard, a mechanical engineer and ecologist who started a hundred acre farm in Wisconsin 20 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRhvrHeleoI
> I'm reading it as 'Container' passed 'r' and 'a' performs 'a' to 'r' which returns 'r'. (I'm guessing on verbs here).

This is an equation; it's a relating/defining one thing in terms of other things. In particular, there's no concept of "performing" (e.g. there's no time, state, etc. here)

In this case "Cont" is just a name; we can tell that, since the equation tells us that "Cont r a" is equal to some other thing involving "r" and "a", so we could just as well use that other thing (that's what it means for two things to be equal!). Hence, "Cont r a" is just a shorthand for "(a -> r) -> r".

So what is "(a -> r) -> r"? In general, for any types "x" and "y", the type "x -> y" is the type of functions which take an "x" as input and return a "y".

So "a -> r" is a function which takes an "a" and returns an "r".

So "(a -> r) -> r" is a function which takes a function from "a" to "r", and returns an "r".
we're so sophisticated now that we abstract the idea of work away from the idea of making a living (as in being able to be alive, as opposed to dead) and come up with concepts like UBI where we can simply not work, without realizing that not working correlates with not living.

work is not some thing apart from ourselves. work is not something apart from play or recreation or relaxation or any such things. we move and create and change and destroy all the same. we value these things as part of our social fabric of keeping a community of us humans alive. money lets us abstract away the need to trade immediate goods for that purpose, but it also lets us abstract out the fairness of it all. those who seem to contribute more to the general welfare might deserve a little more in return, whether it be in goods or esteem or respect. but we're all expected to put in along with taking out.

UBI would tear up that implicit social contract and unmoor us from our democratic underpinnings. while well-intended, UBI suffers from the same idealism as libertarianism by failing to grasp even a basic modicum of the human condition.

despite automation, people will create ways to make a living. lives are literally depending on it. that's not to advocate long-term suffering, but our social responsibility should be focused on using our natural craftiness to help others help themselves (and leveling the playing field), not providing handouts.
I agree this could help a little, but the "nice" places are still where people will /want/ to live. Where you see a city now is either a nice place, or someplace that has strategic value of some kind. (real cities, not suburb towns)

Markets work best when lightly regulated, when there's corrective action to smooth out the ups and downs of overshoot and collapse tendencies. Something I see lacking is the will to ensure sufficient supply so that demand can have choice, instead of captivity and vulnerability.
The courts are quite good sorting out those issues.
50+% of the articles they found are the self-published like noise around fundraising and launch. Throws those obvious​ fluff out
The only solution that worked for me was to scroll down a page and reload.
First let me say that I am not trying to defend universal basic income schemes, I think they are not a great idea. With that out of the way, the point you are mentioning is a fundamental problem of universal basic income schemes. You can not promise to provide goods and services for basic needs to everyone unconditionally unless you have some magic black box providing the required goods and services.

You can try to tweak the incentive structure here and there to make it unlikely that you will end up in the worst case scenario but you can not really get rid of it. Unless you advance technology and automation to the point where you can provide for basic needs without any labor at all, a universal basic income scheme is a promise you can not keep unconditionally.
I didn't believe it so I timed it. Took 15s for me, which is still absurd given the fact that civ 5 takes about the same time to generate a new game. Fancy or not it's just a website. I'm not an expert on the subject (web dev) so could someone explain why more and more websites have significant load times when all they do is load a few images and text?
Is it a server issue, a dev issue or a browser issue?(pretty sure it's not a bandwidth issue)

On the subject, the whole concept reminds me of House of Leaves, only the later is definitely more weird
How much does the DNA degrade (i.e., what does half life mean)? Would it be possible to align any preserved short sequences back together?
I've recently started exploring the world of Unity and the weirdest thing about it is that it's 90%/10% in favour of video tutorials - even for the purely code-based aspects.

Even Unity's own official tutorials are all in video form.
and Poland of course, got a piece of Czechoslovakia from the Munich pact...
That's just not how businesses work. Companies that sell Android phones want to have control over their platform, and above everything "differentiate" themselves from other android-selling companies.

Also note that each company has different hardware, custom drivers, etc. ; those are often not compatible with new updates and they need to do additional work to make things work correctly, work which they might just refuse to do.

No hardware company is going to refuse to update Android "just because". With this modular base, they have no reason to not update.
Thanks for the advice, figured Protobuf would speak to a broader audience.
You're missing the point. It isn't about "bad" UX, but consistent UX that omits implementation details. With the exception of Win8, both osx and windows have huge consistency points.
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