skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is precisely where the criticism that the USSR was "state capitalist" came from; it operated as a corporation owning its own means of production, not a dictatorship of the proletariat. "All power to the soviets" faded rather quickly even under Lenin.
Thanks for reminding me I had forgotten about that
Also "newgrp" can be used for join "new" groups without re-login.
> I doubt the web will ever be fully encrypted.

n-gate.com will make sure of that http://n-gate.com/software/
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>I'm sure the people in Eastern Europe who were conquered and enslaved by the Soviets wished that the Allies had kept rolling east.

Do you have a citation that this was the general feeling in those countries, or only among those people mistreated by the Soviets?
Would you mind sharing your clone that you have tried?? Thanks
Hmm, accelerating such probe to the speed of the fastest man-made object ever made, Voyager 1 (17km/s), and using a 1-kilometer buffer object with linear acceleration with the asteroid (26km/s) we get >4,000gs.

What about elastic bands 100s of kms long? Probably no material strong enough, elastic or not.
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I don't understand why this is being downvoted. Kamac's comment comes across as patronizing.

Phrases like "state of mind", "letting go" and "looking inward" don't actually mean a whole lot. Even "meditation" can be ambiguous. Unclear terminology is IMO always a symptom of snake-oil mumbo jumbo.

Funny that the SV tech elite seems to just suck that quackery up and plays along.
Maybe not all of them are valid when discussing "Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction".
What did you mean in the previous reply with "That may be true for multi-volume scenario"?

Did it mean multi volume is NOT hassle-free with UEFI?

Thanks
Gzthermal: pseudo thermal view of Gzip/Deflate compression efficiency (2014)
In your scenario, Microsoft is making a probabilistic statement ("a bet") that there will not be many future changes to the code.

That is, the binary patch path is more expensive than code patches, because it requires more specialized skills. At some point, with enough patches, it would have been worthwhile to update the source and rebuild than to modify the binary.
And even if all the dedicated IPMI ports are on a separate switch, if you have root on one box, you can attack another via the IPMI network. You have to put ACLs on the switch to prevent traffic except to the admin node.
> google.com never loads due to a HTTPS error, so at airports I usually use aoeu.com or some other non-encryted site to agree to the ToS-by-poisoning.

Use example.com. It's the domain that's required to be always available for this and other purposes.
Of course an asteroid, hollowed out somewhat, makes for a good spaceship. Especially if you're trying to be covert.

Perhaps someone has discovered warp drives (is gravitational wave detection the first step) and the Federation have sent a ship to observe us.
In order for it to be dismissed as prior art, it has to make it all the way to court. The business model of patent trolls like GEMSA is that they get a bunch of obviously overbroad and spurious patents, and then they sue a lot of companies for them, offering to settle for less than the cost of defense. If a company actually puts up a legal defense, they drop the lawsuit.
It showed a slight benefit in a small particular subgroup for one of the things they checked (only those with above median severity benefited a bit more).

For what is worth, the fact that any treatment has roughly the same effects (with some being slightly more or less effective in some subgroups in smallish samples) shows that the effects of all those treatments are likely placebo, or at minimum that there is nothing special about meditation (e.g. you can get the same benefit from talking to someone/listen to an audiobook or whatever).
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You error is in assuming that this is due to corruption,
rather than due to Republicans' philosophical belief that
minimal regulation and free markets are better [1].

I think people find this hard to believe, as it requires one of two things; either (a) they are aware of the impacts of giving monopolies expanded powers to extract economic rent without productive action, but they believe repealing net neutrality will be good for the country; or (b) they have somehow got elected to public office without knowledge of that impact, despite the fact I've seen it taught to first-year undergraduates in economics, politics and history courses; and they will have received briefs and letters informing them about it.
If it's a matter of life or death why didn't they have some sort of battery backup. It shouldn't need that much power. Or even additional generator.

As well as having moden version as a backup would be viable option. Article seems to make it more dramatic than it should be.
> Node was the only ecosystem where everything was written with concurrency in mind.

Yes, sure, if you ignore all the other programming languages, like Erlang,
which is older even than first hacked versions of JavaScript.
I disagree. Like most things in this world it is a skill question.

There's more information of all kind. Good, bad, devilish, spam. And with more comes the requirement that the consumer learns to filter and interact more meaningful with it.

The same applies for instance to food as well. We have so much food now that we need to learn to manage eating by willpower, discipline and habits. It also applies to other luxuries.

What I can say is that I'm way more educated, way more skilled and way more able to grab a certain subset of knowledge exactly at the time and location that I need it.
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Browser usage patterns are very different in South Korea due to the Korean laws requiring obsolete (and no-longer-supported by modern systems) encryption for all retail transactions. That may have something to do with it.
For those who just want to play around with Fourier transforms, it is worth noting that computers are fast enough nowadays that you can often get away with a slow Fourier transform instead of a fast Fourier transform. The former is O(N^2) as opposed to O(N log N), but is also much easier to understand. To wit, in C, here is a function that takes a pointer to an input array of complex numbers, and output array of complex numbers, and a count of how many numbers are in the input, and does a discrete slow Fourier transform from the input array to the output array:

#include <math.h>

typedef struct {
double r;
double i;
} complex;

void fourier(complex * x, complex * y, int np)
{
int n, k;

for (k = 0; k < np; ++k)
{
y[k].r = y[k].i = 0;
for (n = 0; n < np; ++n)
{
double c = cos(2*M_PI*k*n/np);
double s = sin(2*M_PI*k*n/np);
y[k].r += x[n].r * c + x[n].i * s;
y[k].i += -x[n].r * s + x[n].i * c;
}
}
}

This is a pretty direct implementation of the definition of a discrete Fourier transform as given in equation 1 from the Wikipedia article on DFT [1].

On my iMac (3.4 GHz Intel Core i5), compiled with "cc -Ofast", here are timings:

size time/FT FTs/sec
---- --------- -------
128 0.24 ms 4167
256 0.93 ms 1074
512 3.8 ms 263
1024 15.5 ms 65
2048 65.6 ms 15
4096 243 ms 4

That would plenty fast for many interesting learning projects, like a real time guitar tuner for example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discrete_Fourier_...
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The most chilling part is the casual way that data is discussed, because the consumer of the future will be okay with their refrigerator gathering data to drive advertising profit.

Dystopia.
Blackbody radiation emits photons in an uniform distribution, so the wavelength can be any real in the range.
In a log axis, still is effectively on the order of magnitude of "a billionaire".
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I thought it was mostly interesting because of the gzthermal tool really: https://encode.ru/threads/1889-gzthermal-pseudo-thermal-view...
It's not that easy. I mean the code is there but the infrastructure needs to be provisioned and it takes time to gain trust in the CA world, see CACert.
>To those that think this is not being driven by the Whitehouse...I have this bridge I am trying to sell....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
If the malicious JS is served over https, it could still be inserted into a static page served over http without the user knowing. The static page needs to be served over https to avoid tampering from MITM attacks.
Scots in “will capitalise on credulous foreigners” shocker.
GnuPG-like unix crypto tool that uses only quantum-computer-resistant algorithms
Nice tools, but using such a small example will give unrepresentative numbers since it's dominated by constant overhead.
Why are you linking twitter screenshots about something relating to buzzfeed?
It's not common sense to most people, that's precisely why it gets recommended so much. It's very easy for you to say it is, perhaps because that's all you know. For some people you can get stuck in a sort of auto pilot, moving from acting on one thought to the next, instead of realizing they're just thoughts and you can let some go.

I'm also a bit skeptical that you actually are mindful of yourself. When you actually do it and realize how it works, it's pretty amazing. I certainly didn't think "well, that's just common sense". When you actually do it, start observing your thoughts and feelings as separate from you instead of consuming them and getting caught up in them, it does bring calm and a feeling of refreshment.

The best thing I use mindfulness for is stopping a destructive cyclical worry. As an example from the past, say I'm worried about a client not having paid his bill yet, I know they're having cash flow problems and I worry I exposed myself to too much risk. What can happen is that thought can spiral and keep popping into my head, intruding into my day. It might create a cascade of thoughts, what my bank balance is like, how might I get a partial payment, is it too early to phone, should I look for another client, what will I do with the existing work, should I have asked for better payments terms, etc., etc., etc. But the worst part is, I would have that exact same chain multiple times a day. It intruded over and over, until the client would pay (predictably) late again.

But none of that helped when it was firing, it's not even that late yet. It just made me stressed and stopped me from getting what I needed to get done that day, sometimes I couldn't just place it aside.

Using mindfulness, instead of consuming that thought and worrying about it, I can just look on it as a thought.
And yet it still lacks the tab hiding API.
How does it work? What OS is there? Some kind of Windows for ARM? How does it work in parallel with Android? Or is it just Android but with resizable overlapping windows?
It might be unpopular on HN, but use the older iRobot generation that is not "smart" aka no WiFi, no spyware, just a "dump" little robot vacuum cleaner. Do you think Mark Zuckerberg, or Elon Musk let such devices roam their home? Nope. Mark wrote his own home assistant, security system ,etc with PHP and unix tools. These devices are for the noobs, the general public, that doesn't care.
~395 earth-moon distances away and 1/20th the size of the object that killed the dinosaurs
I love manually minifying SVG, JavaScript and HTML to shave off a few bytes here, a few bytes there. I’d really like a tool like gzthermal, but editable and showing compressed size, so that you can make changes and easily see immediately. Bonus points if it comes with a clever diffing technique so that you can minify parts separately and combine them in the most efficient way.

As it is, I just run something like `watchexec -f "*/the-filename" "gzip -c9 < x | wc -c"` in a terminal and it shows me the size whenever I save the file.
I'm from Udaipur, Rajasthan. @mhd, shoot up if you have any questions about it. :)
I think it makes sense to have something other than a pure universal basic income for redistribution of wealth. You want to design an incentive based system to encourage people to contribute to their community, pursue higher education and learning, as well as work.

Some kind of income supplement if you work at least 15 hours per week makes sense, along with a bonus for 'community contribution' of some kind. It makes sense to reduce the overall amount worked, but to still encourage work, and to improve the skillset of workers.

Pure universal basic income has dubious incentives. It's a solution, but I don't think it's close to the best one. Of course, any system, including the idea I'm proposing will be gamed, and have unfortunate side effects from its policies.
Wow, that is one magnificent picture. The dark rigid structures in the bottom left combined with the sheer force of the white water on the right. And then you look further and see all the interesting details. Well done.
The examples given are completely representative of the sorts of changes you can make to reduce size, and frankly fairly representative of the sorts of compression ratio improvements you’ll get (though for some types of things you can definitely do way better). When talking about optimisation for gzip, you are mostly talking about 1–2% over general uncompressed byte count minification. And in practice a lot of your minification is of small things, e.g. SVG icons in an app or site—they’re easier to minify because of their reduced scope.
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(Should you wish to follow along at home to the glorious process of Open Source you can read the related discussions here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1384515 )
I think even many Scots aren't aware that the three things mentioned - the tartans or beltane/up helly aa - are relatively recent revivals
Isn't providing a "Neutral" source of news basically impossible? Even if you could somehow address all sides of a story (e.g. besides actual scientists let's also interview some flat earthers to allow them to explain how the Earth is flat) the mere fact that there's too much to report and the channel invariably needs to choose what goes on air mean that it's no longer neutral.

Public channels are also funded by the government, so there can be institutional pressure to present the government actions in a good light. Even if there isn't, a change in public policy might mean less spending on the public channel, which might mean journalists lose their jobs, which is significant incentive to promote pro-status quo viewpoints on the channel.
About the profiles, check out the about:profiles site in FF. For sure not as handy as described for chromium, but maybe easier than scripts.
Now, what if it turns out to be an alien ship?
Just to clarify, do you want to give every one of those big hosters the keys to the internet, as in either a new root CA or one that's cross-signed by an existing CA?

If you're not giving them that, I'm not sure what they would do with just the CA server (which is indeed open source, by the way.) If you're giving them the keys ... well, do you really want to trust every single big hoster with the keys to the internet? They would still have to pass (very expensive) audits, apply for root inclusion, etc., so it wouldn't be as simple as running the Let's Encrypt server stack.

Amazon and Google run their own independent CAs already, with Amazon offering free issuance as part of some of their products (with non-extractable keys). I'd expect Google to offer something similar in the near future. I'm reasonably confident that these companies know how to run a CA, but I'm not sure I would trust many other hosters with something like that.
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My kids will tell you there are six colors in the rainbow, that's what they were taught in kindergarten. The three additive primary colors and their secondaries. (Although they'll give you the name)

Makes more sense than choosing the number for biblical reasons I guess. Secondary colors are dual frequency colors, but the rainbow is made solely of single frequency colors, so that's wrong too. And purple/violet is just weird, the eye thinks the bluest blue has some low frequency red in it due to its response curves.
I owned a Roomba for a while. It did an OK job of cleaning the kitchen floor but was noisy, slow and didn't do a good job of corners, or under cabinets that stick out a little, etc.

But worse I had to carry the thing from room to room because, of course, it can't climb stairs nor will it vacuum them. And in any room with wood floors and rugs it got stuck repeatedly.

The most labour intensive part of vacuuming my house is the stairs; Roomba 'solved' the easy part.
I love the new Firefox, but the fact that it killed my favourite tabtree plugin, and the alternative is less nice + plus you have to do weird css hacks to make it look seemless and hide the top tab bar is very disappointing. I'm guessing the new extension system is a lot less flexible than the old one?
I use this as a basic indicator of someone's Unix competency. Not as a straight binary thing, but if I'm talking to someone (interviewing or maybe debugging something) I've found that if you know about setgid/setuid you have probably been interested enough to know what you are doing.
BBC is public service, not a British state propaganda outlet.

RT/Sputnik etc are state sponsored channels. A public service outlet is critical of government, not its mouthpiece.

I think this should just be solved algorithmically. Google assigns importance to linked articles and if you assign massive negative importance to fake news outlets and articles then those who reference them or report the same things should drop in ranking.

Obviously you’ll need an army of people to decide what is fake news - but I think that’s unavoidable. I beyond the point where I think people can “see all the facts and decide for themselves what to believe in”. It’s unfortunate that we have to hope for some global megacorp to solve our news filtering so people don’t do stupid things.
If you get a chance to see his photos in print, I highly recommend it. They are usually big prints (A1 or twice A1) and leave a strong impression on the viewer.
As a person, who lived in Crimea and survived Russian invasion I'm very happy about that. RT is not a media news it is absolute propaganda which exists for only one reason - to help russia seize other countries
It also sucks for C and C++. You need to use a compiler flag to generate the header dependencies or risk subtle bugs happening during incremental compilation if you forgot to update them manually.
Thanks for posting it. Strangely both the T450s and 25 (anniversary edition) are not listed at all?!
Awesome library. @ahmeni is right include screenshots in Github as well & show the website link rather than writing the description with link in Markdown. Also, add link beside Github pages repo description too. Great job.
>For a long time only banking websites and retail checkout pages were encrypted.

For my experience, this still holds in Japan, and I've heard in Korea.
Do you consider yourself the healthiest role model for young people growing up? I know I don't. Why should she have to be?
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2016/10/25/postal-regu...
Usually when I post a quote from the article to shed light on what it's actually talking about it is appreciated. What's different about this time that causes a bunch of downvotes?
You're doing it wrong. You need a house with no carpets, all furniture at a clearance of min 15cm, no stairs, and to make sure there are no USB cables on the floor or thin slippers which might get "stolen" by the bot. Then it can do its magic unattended.

I observed that running the robot daily gets much better results than my best attempt at vacuuming. It's just more attentive to detail and goes methodically without missing a spot.
If you wanted to disguise a probe, it seems the ideal form would be a black body, not to disguise it as an asteroid, I would guess. Unless they're playing mind games.

Anyways, given all the EM radiation we're tossing out into the void, some species' probe out there is going to pick up our existence sooner or later.

And at ~395 earth-moon distances it's difficult to imagine how effective a 400-meter object, disguised as an asteroid, would be at seeing much detail on earth.

But it is tantalizing and fun to imagine--the appearance of a gravity boost... Flat surfaces... Near to earth... Lack of any ice or outgasing, a solid object, many characteristics not seen in other known-asteroids, rotating on its long axis... :)
Thank you for the informative footnote/correction!
I have a Xiaomi Mi robot vacuum and it is capable of mapping the whole house and showing me on the phone where it is and what was the cleaning trajectory. It's quite smart, it understands room layout, and can handle many rooms without attendance.

Example of house map: https://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/file...
The trillions hidden away in tax havens would be a start.
On bigger files, the biggest size saver is use of css to replace attribute styles.
Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are off
Would be interesting if it changed course.
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I believe concentration of power and the lack of transparency is what causes the problems in both systems. A "centralized" government that works for the people is possible, as long as we avoid those things. Make the democratic process as direct as possible, don't create any positions of great power. Have all decision-making be completely transparent, so the little power that people have, they are unable to abuse without getting caught. If no one has a lot of power (be it in the form of political power, or money), no one has the power to control people.
I think that's a bit harsh - I've been at the Beltane festival and it hardly seemed targeted at tourists (unlike the Edinburgh Military Tattoo) and Up Helly Aa is on Shetland in January - so hardly a natural destination for tourists.

There are also quite a few local customs that few people outside the immediate area will have heard of (e.g. Burning the Clavie at Burghead and the fireballs at Stonehaven) - which these probably do draw a few tourists I get the impression that they are local customs for local people.

Edit: Mind you there is plenty of daft stuff for tourists in Scotland.... :-)
The ones in China are probably not organized by the company directed by him.
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Since the article touches Huffman encoding, wouldn't "#f00" and "#00f" compress better, than "red" and "#00f"? Minimizing uncompressed size is not what you want to pursue.
Well, if so - they didn't find anything of interest as they are now leaving...

https://www.popsci.com/interstellar-object-solar-system#page...
> I'm guessing the new extension system is a lot less flexible than the old one?

For security reasons, yes.

For people who don't want to say bye to old extensions which are not (or cannot) be ported to 57+ there is the option to stick with 52 ESR version (Extended Support Release). According to Mozilla FAQ [1] this version gets obselete in march 8 by Firefox 59 ESR.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
> Does DNSSEC provide encrypted queries / answers?

No, it doesn't.
This was the best comment to that answer:

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