skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe because this just is actual propaganda. No where here is anyone saying the Western world did not produce propaganda. That's a straw man all in your puny brain.
Yet Github, Dropbox, Fog Creek, Atlassian, and thousands of others aren't shutting down.

Maybe it's time to raise the bar a little bit and stop funding these services that nobody really values but will use because they're "free".

Ad supported companies have a strong tendency to invade people's privacy, track people around the internet, provide almost no customer support, and refuse service (or shutdown) on a whim. Google, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, etc. do it all the time, and it's the same way all the way down to the smaller players. Generally they're just not very good companies.
Good one, thank you! I'll fix it as soon as my NAS has finished rebuilding (waiting for days :( ).
Somewhere between -$30,000 and -$60,000 I think. Even though they weren't successful (two) projects, it's always disappointing to see how few people are willing to spend their own money on something.
Other industries have a word for this: "common carrier" or "regulated utility".

Your electric utility can't kick you out just because they don't like you.
China Bitcoin Roundtable Votes for SegWit2x and New York Agreement
Interesting info, but I find it odd that none of the photo sources are credited.
I have an MBP and an iMac, both of which came with nvidia GPU's. The MBP is older, but I doubt either of these are atypical machines out there today.
Holy crap that looks like a very basic failure. This is exactly the sort of thing that keeps me up, getting into an accident because of some stupid software bug. Fortunately the car didn't spin or he'd have side swiped the vehicle in the next lane.

If you look across the roof of the Tesla it totally failed to imitate the car in front of it too, that's a double fault, it had more than one indication the lane was changing direction.

Here is an article with a bit more info about that crash:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/tesla-driver-error-autopi...

There's more like these:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/21/tesla-aut...
kind of curious, how did you find your volunteering experience in Lesvos ?
The guy fills the back seat with batteries making this far from practical.

If we are just talking about electric things with 4 wheels doing highway speeds then: By 2005, several teams were handicapped by the South Australian speed limit of 110 km/h (68 mph), as well as the difficulties of support crews keeping up with 130 km/h (81 mph) race vehicles. It was generally agreed that the challenge of building a solar vehicle capable of crossing Australia at vehicular speeds had been met and exceeded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Solar_Challenge
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> Simply put, about 400 dead birds (usually auk) are stuffed into a body of a dead seal and left under a rock to ferment for many months. Prepared this way, the seal’s fat tenderises and preserves it, which means that you can eat the entire bird raw, save the feathers. The innards turn into a liquid, and a popular way to consume it is by biting the head off and sucking out the juices inside.

Holy crap. Dying of paralysis sounds like a mercy.
So they are moving forward and trying to stay compatible. That might make Bitcoin even more expensive.
Not gp, but it worked well for me on iOS safari.
You could use the script command. (Which is also very helpful for running screen under su.)
One could also distinguish between "normal" SSH and SSH used as a tunnel by used bandwidth.
actually that exact demo took down my browser (chrome 59 on win 10)
Whole Foods rents their real estate.
There are many countermeasures to scraping (some of which I employ)

Google is your friend
If only people would work hard as my wife, be relentlessly passionate and marginally improve routinely...
http://libgen.io not bad either
Boiling for ten minutes will not kill spores, but will inactivate the toxin.
How about 60 bits/s:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/415041/new-measure-of-hum...
I don't think we know enough about how the human brain works yet to give a precise value, but just on caloric arguments I would say that the mean processing power of the brain is not significantly above what we have now in general purpose computing devices.
In order for him to prove this is a viable business model he has to prove that he can produce something people will actually buy at a price he makes a profit. Not just that you can throw a ton of batteries and electric motors in an old car.
Mcdonalds could really benefit from having robot delivery drivers.

If I could order a burger combo and have it dropped off at work or home, and be cheaper than an entire pizza plus tip, i'd order from it way more often than I should.
If your budget is that low, perhaps you just want to use wget. If you use a fairly recent version of wget (1.14 or newer), you can even produce a WARC file, which is great for archiving. (It captures your requests as well as the responses, with full headers).
Of course. The larger point is that it's nigh impossible to identify propaganda until the regime or at least public perception changes.

Propaganda is only easy to identify in retrospect. And then we think how could they be so dumb? We're just as dumb now, we just don't know it yet.

A rare opportunity in the Balkans and Eastern Europe is that a lot of us have access to both the pre- and post- truth and can see the difference.
That was harsh and unnecessary... Cut it with your superiority complex, dutchman, you're not special.
That's not quite right re. UK applications.

Countersignatures are mainly intended to confirm a person's name/identity. They certify the photo too, but an adult who hasn't had a passport before needs to attend an interview where the photo will be checked and applicants who do have a previous passport will have the new photo checked against the record.

I do think the countersignature system should be revisited, though.
So? It's safe and effective in that application. My wife used to get it administered in the brow, temples and neck for migraines. You're not going to wind up paralyzed.

See also: formaldehyde, which is both toxic and required by our bodies to create some critical amino acids.
I did disable sitewise around a year ago, but occasionally get reminded when browsing in incognito.
I wouldn't upgrade just yet if I were you, because part of the seq2seq code is still broken - more specifically, "there seems to be a problem with deepcopy of RNNCell"[1]. The bug is still open[2], and has been for a while.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/44594376

[2] https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/8191
eGates at UK airports do programmatically allow entry based solely on a facial recognition match between the person standing at the gate and the file on their passport's chip. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
I interacted with Shiva at MIT multiple times while he was pursuing his PhD. He was just a dick of a guy, arrogant , prickly etc. But the most telling was his neediness and need to have his ego massaged. Several of his colleagues at MIT and other spots all loathed the guy.
What's the best thing to build when starting TF? Like, the todo list of TF?
This isn't a true self-referential graph because k actually encodes the graph, the formula simply iterates over every possible bitmap with a certain height.

A truly self-referential graph would also include the coordinates of itself in the graph.
Keep on writing content where you can be good (it all starts with the passion). Healthy Desserts, Everyday 30-minute cooking, Asian cooking for Americans, etc. Learn from Google what the audience intent is, improve your content. Do this for four years; you’ll get 300K/month. Then there’s SEO, Pinterest optimization [1], better photography, Lightroom skills, video shooting & editing, etc. You’ll learn this along the way. After that, there’s a good chance traffic will compound.

But you have to show up at 5 AM every day (I can’t find that Kobe Bryant quote)

[1]: https://in.pinterest.com/janerosep/a-little-bit-of-spice-fro...
This looks like a death trap. Take out the engine that makes the front stable, as well as dashboard and airbags and put hundreds of pounds of batteries right behind the driver.
>You can't really rank or prioritise what cultural artefacts are going to be missed. It's such a subjective thing.

What people going to miss is subjective. What they should miss is objective.

Or rather, is a subjective decision they don't get to make for themselves.

In the end, everything, even morals, are subjective. But in the end, also, most societies agreed collectively in some prioritisation, despite what each individual (or even the majority) prefers. And unless something drastically changed in how we think about culture, old books and movies and films are more important than some abandoned 32-bit only iOS apps.

I guess it's a US thing to think it's all about the individual and its personal taste, but in other cultures at least, there is such a think as a canon, and while it's still fuzzy and subjective at the edges, it's not like spandex wearing superheroes or RPGs ever get as important as The Iliad or some philosophical work, just because the majority got in arrested development sometime in the 90s and prefer the former over the latter.
Of course, everyone that does not buy into the myth of the Star Trek future that surely awaits mankind has to be a religious fool.

Perhaps some of us have realised that, like many (now disappeared) past civilizations, our technological civilization is entering a state of decline caused by resource overuse and population overshoot, among other things. It is barely maintained by burning through hundreds of millions of years of solar energy stored as fossil fuels in the span of 200 - 300 years, a behavior that is also wrecking the climate that allowed us to prospere in the first place.

In the face of the severe ecological, energy, food and population crises that await us (and indeed are already here in many places around the world), the Mars fantasy sounds foolish to me. Even a seriously damaged earth biosphere will remain infinitely more hospitable to human life than Mars. Damaged biosphere ≫ no biosphere (aka. Mars, and all other planets of our solar system).
"In order for him to prove this is a viable business model he has to prove that he can produce something people will actually buy at a price he makes a profit."

A higher standard than Hacker News has for Elon Musk.
A friend of mine and his brothers once (allegedly) traveled around South America on a single driving license. They look sufficiently similar to the photo and I'm guessing they weren't checked often.
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The Beamer is a beauty! Totally overloaded with batteries and breaking down before emptying out.

I'd drive it.
And yet, I presume that most kids are not playing many (if any) of their childhood games, computer or real life, later on in life, except for the rare nostalgia-trip. And their kids will care even less.

Heck, most kids pack those and don't think twice about them when they hit puberty and get interest in the other (or, well, the same) sex.

But even so, that's an argument from personal interest (which I think is small), but I was going for an argument of cultural importance (which I think is even smaller).
"lundgren hopes that if nothing else, ‘the powers that be’ within electronic corporations will notice ITAP’s effort and will feel motivated to start practicing what he calls ‘hybrid-recycling’."

Good luck with that. Regulatory issues, safety, insurance issues, quality control, and not to mention issues with sourcing and the cost of upfitting to electric means that there is never going to be a sizable market of "recycled" old cars converted to electric and resold as new.
Fortunately that society is at least 100 years in the future and none of us here will see it. When I was a kid, we were promised flying cars and life of leisure. 30 years later: no flying cars and busting my ass at work like a hamster in the wheel.
Then that doesn't make sense for Instacart. One or the other will lose.
How often was it updated?

Then there’s SEO, Pinterest optimization [1], etc. You’ll learn this along the way.

Don't be so sure about that. People who are telling you "I can't imagine" are probably failing to get much traffic. I don't have that kind of traffic on anything and I boggle at the idea of getting it.

So, a bit more detail and resource links would be appreciated. If a few blurbs were going to do it, then people wouldn't be asking you.
His political affiliation isn't terribly relevant. The problem is that he wants to rewrite history and claim fame that's not his. He may want to run as a Republican now, but he's also convinced Noam Chomsky to support his claim. Politics isn't the point. Here's a guy who's very effective at scamming people into believing his lies and supporting his false claims.
Next: add animal languages to Google Translate?
You are right. We have around $3000 worth of lighting equipment, lens, etc. But we acquired them along the way.

Sponsored content is a good chunk of money (close to 30% every mom) but its nonscalable.
It is not only about being impossible being tampered with. It is about trusting the system. Since we trust the blockchain with 100 + billion dollars. trusting it for a time sheet system should not be that hard
Yes, he was talking about page content hierarchy. There are two kinds of content on a page: what I came there to read (like this comment), and everything else. Everything else is dedicated to helping me find my way to somewhere else. My point was that I don't read everything else, and so it doesn't help me (I know, it's a me-specific rant, but maybe I'm not the only one) no matter what page it's on; maybe it's not as important as what a particular page is about, and so the most important elements should be at the top (of all the pages).

> SMH

Sydney Morning Herald? G'day mate!
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I'm talking about the flash boiling of superheated (>100°C) water as "that particular risk".
McDonalds franchisees print money and don't really need to know much. I don't shed tears for them.

If they wanted to think, they should have kicked a different business.
Science is hard; let's go shopping.
Yeah the tricky part of Yugoslavia is that when our king announced alliance with Hitler, we executed a civil coup and forced the king to flee to the UK.

Hitler then invaded when the new government said they were not going to collaborate.

Then as part of fighting off axis powers, we also fought an internal civil war between the communists and the ... I don't know if they had a real name, we call them the whites. It's details of that civil war that communist propaganda liked to sweep under the rug and talk only about how they singlehandedly saved the country from the nazis.

What kind of history you were taught at home depended primarily on whether your parents were Red or White. My dad for example was told a lot about the bad things the Partisans did because of his family's alignment to the religious, white, side.
This is in line with Naur's "programming as theory building" essay [1].

Is the system "alive" or "dead"? The system is alive if the programmers that are maintaining it have the theory of the system in their heads, and can use it to inform change, and can teach that theory to others.

The system being alive is not a property of the system in isolation but a property of the relationship between the system and the programmers who work on it.

[1] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
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As far as work, I make sure to always finish my day with a thing or two half-started. I find the itch to finish these is far more powerful as a progress driver than a completed checklist that gives me mental permission to relax.

Granted, this is definitely not the ticket to work-life balance if that's what you're looking for.
> I mentioned that the toll of the “horrendous crime” of 9-11, committed with “wickedness and awesome cruelty” (quoting Robert Fisk), may be comparable to the consequences of Clinton’s bombing of the Al-Shifa plant in August 1998

There is still a moral difference: Al-Qaida tries to kill as many american civilians as they can. The US doesn't try to kill as many arab civilians as they can.

> The only inaccuracy in this brief account is that the numbers should be multiplied by 25 to yield per capita equivalents, the appropriate measure. I am, of course, referring to what in Latin America is often called “the first 9/11”: September 11, 1973, when the U.S. succeeded in its intensive efforts to overthrow the democratic government of Salvador Allende in Chile with a military coup that placed General Pinochet’s brutal regime in office.

I'm trying to imagine what Chomsky would have said if the US had supported a coup against Hitler, a democratically elected socialist leader in an alliance with russia, before the second world war.

There would have been a civil war in germany, and even the right side of it would have mistreated some prisoners, caused some collateral damage, like every side in every war.

Like Hitler, Salvador Allende was democratically elected, but he was turning Chile into a dictatorship. Chile's Parlament literally wrote a letter to Pinochet asking for the coup.
And here is your answer.

Most people (kids and adults alike) do not care about such questions as - how is it working and why is it working like this.
I've tried many tools and nothing sticks. And if it requires me to type on a phone or turn on my laptop, they are not effective. The stuff to do come to mind at any moment: while washing dishes, while working on other stuff, when I'm out and about.

The only thing that works for me is, when I wake up, brew a cup of coffee and sit with a paper notepad, and write down my tasks. During the day I'll think of something I need to do for tomorrow and I'll write it down.

Better yet, keep your notepad with you, especially when going to bed. At that time, you might have one of those "oh shit!" moments, when you forgot to do something important. Write it down. No need to fiddle about with any app.

Also, pro tip: accept the fact that you'll never finish all the tasks for the day. There'll always be something you forgot/didn't have the energy to do. It's OK.
Sure... saying it is expensive isn't much of an explanation as to why. But the why isn't that difficult to come up with.

I've made more detailed comments on the other Mars story (see my comment history).

But whatever my issues, I'm definitely getting downvoted for saying engineering reality is preferable to pipe dreams.

And the counter-arguments of "but people have dreamed for years!" or "no, YOU have to prove why it's unfeasible" are inappropriate.

Similarly, your attempt to call me out on a pedantic detail, but at the same time ignoring the illogical counter "arguments" really is the new HN. Illogic and group-think are becoming more important than reality-based discussions.
It looks like you are trying to suggest that she may have had reasons to wish him ill while I actually dare to question whether she wished him ill at all or just felt sorry for him. I read all the transcripts and the atmosphere somehow reminds me of those suicidal doomsday cults where they just know the world is fucked and there is no way out. Except in this case, only his life was fucked and he was convinced he has no way out and got her to believe that strengthening his will to die is all she can do for him. BBC says she was on antidepressants, so possibly depressed herself. May have been convincing to her, I think.
I like Сказка о Мальчише-Кибальчише, it's about a child soldier during an unspecified war against the Bourgeoisie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHmwsv4ZFso (a higher quality torrent exists)
Those were all real examples. These kinds of things happen in my area every day, and drivers are actively taught to look for signs like these before they are allowed to qualify and drive independently. Obviously not everyone gets the message, and the best anticipation skills only develop with more experience, but nothing I described was unusual or exceptional (other than the last one, which was quite a specific example of a more general idea).

On your second point, the important thing here is that you don't need to disperse much of this information to humans. Humans automatically recognise situations based on all of their experience, not just their driving experience. Of course sometimes external information sources like the news might be helpful, but much of it is just down to understanding context. See fresh horse crap on a country road? Someone's probably riding horses nearby. Horses scare easily. So, slow down and try to avoid anything noisy that could startle the animals. How many of today's self-driving algorithms take into account this kind of implied knowledge?
Pen, paper.

I have a legal pad, one day per sheet, taking notes throughout the day. Anything requiring follow up gets an asterisk.

End of the day, tear off the sheet, write out the asterisked things for the next day.
There's not a chance that he will get elected to represent MA. We are the bluest of the blue states.
You're being charitable. It's downright bad, even compared with various other franchises on an item by item basis. The last time I ate in one back in 2008 because nothing else was open that early, I had a breakfast that consisted of scrambled eggs, hash browns, pancakes, and sausage. Everything tasted almost identical - an oily salty mound - with only different chew textures. (Okay, maybe the sausage had a little extra zing from the spice mix, but that was definitely the only tip off). But McDs always was dirt cheap, and their calorie to dollar ratio for (reasonably freshly) prepared food has been tough to beat. If they can't hold the line on prices, I don't see what's left to keep them from losing market share. And I wouldn't miss it one bit.
God forbid we consider both sides of a situation. We must only condemn one unilaterally, and never put both (or more) in perspective.

Lest we fell pray to the modern day thought crime of whataboutism, of course.
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Building a startup in Wisconsin, the lowest-ranked startup state
I collect appointments from Outlook (sigh!) and set a theme for the day in my private journal, using my own https://knowfox.com for this.
In a vague sense only, and only if strictly necessary - eg. travel, meetings. I actually strongly seek to avoid any fixed time commitments any day of the week, or indeed to have to be aware of what day of the week or month of the year it is, because it create needless overhead through "unflowable time". The critical cause is service providers unavailable 24x7x365 where my preference is uncommon (eg. after waking up early in the morning, it is frequently impossible to swim or eat although I would like to). I avoid alarms. To do lists are a rarity. I try not to block others and prioritize giving them positively framed critical feedback or research output ASAP over my own work.
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Always makes me think of Worker and Parasite from the Simpsons [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_dhUv_CrI
I think they are thinking of getting the pay rise, then work a four day week (and getting paid 80% of his increased salary) until the company can afford to pay them five days a week at the increased salary again.
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