skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this the same as development of classical computers? We are still in the phase that classical computer were in in the 20's to 40's. Once you crack the lid and make something mass-producible, exponential advancement will take over for as long as physics allows it (which in QC is an extremely deep well).
Correct, "of the same kind". The birds didn't become another species say "bird -> bat".
Why the hack do you assume it's abandoned? It can be full of lifeforms even and we are just not able to see them, talk to them, etc. Imo at this point any assumption is closing in too much. We don't have a definiton of "life" that for sure would include extraterrestrial lifeforms that are not actors with masks in star trek, right?
Building a network outward from a local web server rather than trying to hold back the ocean is a logically possible option. It's practical possibility depends on the degree of locality, the use case, and budget.

In the case of a well established local community, creating accounts based on real world identity verification may be a viable alternative to handling the problem of the internet at the network level.

Essentially, if holding back the internet matters the adversaries are well funded, automated, technically sophisticated, and legion. The best defense is probably social or network partitioning if the budget is not huge.
Even if it doesn't fill any gap at the moment, words that start out as synonyms have a habit of diverging in meaning to fill different gaps.
One of my all-time favorite xkcd’s.
HN is not 4chan.

(But it's getting there pretty quickly)
Yeah, you could do that. Dvorak has the advantage of being comparatively mainstream, it even comes with random Windows computers.

Also by now I have a keyboard that speaks dvorak natively. The Kinesis Advantage. Of course, that keyboard is programmable enough that I could make it speak custom layouts too, or just fix it in the OS.
Ten Reasons to Work at Google in 1999
Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share?
I've taken the SAGE test on several occasions, but I remember it having a section where you have to memorize 4 words early in the test and then recall them later. There was also a section where you had to name as many objects of a class that started with a particular letter as possible in a limited time (as many animals that start with the letter S as possible in 30 seconds). These two sections were the hardest by far, and seem to be removed from this version. Why is that? This version of SAGE is so easy, it seems that you would have to suffer from severe dementia to score anything less than perfect.
No, but unrestrained capitalism without adequate regulation is a problem.

The trick is to balance capitalism and socialism, as in a social democracy.
At least in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the United States of America, and Canada, knowing that the property was stolen or otherwise obtained by crime is an essential element of the crime.
CardIO: a library for data science research of heart signals
I'm from a small town in rural Pennsylvania ("conservative territory"), subsequently lived in NYC, LA, SF, and other cities scattered around the country ("liberal territory"), and now live in Europe. I'd say I have an accurate opinion of the general lay of the land.

But yes, in general you are right. There is no "America." NYC is as different to rural Oklahoma as Paris is to Odessa (Ukraine.)
When talking about breaking compatibility in Bitcoin you should recognize two district classes of compatibility.

1. Consensus compatibility i.e. that a node running the new software and a node running the old software will, when given the same blockchain, will always agree on which blocks are valid and which blocks are invalid.

2. Everything else.

Breaking consensus compatibility is viewed as very risky and should only happen under extreme circumstances or under extreme agreement. Breaking backwards compatibility at the network level should be carefully thought through but it is much more likely to happen.

>an attacker could simply masquerade as an older client and perform an effective downgrade attack

BIP-151 is only designed to defeat a passive attacker since it does not include a way of attaching a long term identity to a node. Thus, even without a downgrade attack you can just MITM a connection and substitute your own keys. As BIP-151 says:

"The encryption does not include an identity authentication scheme. This BIP does not cover a proposal to avoid MITM attacks during the encryption initialization."

BIP-150 is the identity mechanism for BIP-151 however establishing the pubkey to node mapping requires out of band communication.

"The identity-public-key(s) can be shared over a different channel with other node-operators (or non-validating clients) to grant authorized access."
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I think most civilized countries would recognize a theft committed in another country as rendering the property stolen property, unless they had some important relationship with the criminal or their heirs. Some countries might be easier to pay off, though (but as a result, also more dangerous places to store valuable goods).
And? These companies are exploiting psychology in all humans (at least on average). To put ownership on the consumers only is very silly. It's like excusing the behavior of sugar, alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceutical, etc. and saying "If you consume it's your fault" and ignoring the manipulative practices of these organizations.
A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm
Yes, because I should be unable to communicate (potentially loosing opportunities such as jobs) with anyone because of a bad automatic judgment I can't appeal.
I was cajoled to join APC, says Atiku Abubakar – ANKAURSPEAKS
Underwhelming feedback so far for what should've been Apple's defining epic
Whether or not the speciation is "complete" is not really the point - the title of the article says they are "...caught in the act of becoming new species" - in fact the article highlights the difficulty in stating what determines something to be a separate species.
I certainly didn't mean to be rude...? I was trying to help OP identify and fix the problem they were having.
You'll provide evidence for your claims if people down downvote you for making claims without evidence?

I'm not terribly impressed by that approach.
The beautiful thing about Life (and it's complexities) is how fluid and continuous (as opposed to stratified and segregated) it is.

Depending at what scale (in size and time) you observe, we are all one species.

Even in biology there are multiple definition of species. It shows how hard it is to pigeon-hole Life.
Well, it's tumbling end-over-end which suggests that if it's a spaceship, it's no longer in control.

The discussion around the possibility of it being a spaceship rests on the idea that long thin cigar-shaped objects are the most efficient way to travel in space because it minimizes your need for ablative protection from interstellar dust/etc. But if you're tumbling end-over-end you've thrown that advantage away, so presumably that's not a thing you would intentionally do. And if you are assuming that this spaceship has shields or whatever, then there is no reason they would be restricted to a cylindrical shape.

It could be a discarded booster stage or fuel tank, of course. Maybe they were trying to drop it into the sun and missed. Or a a mass-driver shot (maybe they finally took care of that pesky Russell's Teapot for us...)

The presumptive conclusion is of course that it's a natural phenomenon, but it sure is a weird object, and unless we can find a way to catch it (or any future objects) we will never know. Maybe a starshot probe could catch it?
Does anyone use it to type in languages that require an IME or specialized keyboard usage? I tried Emacs a while ago, but I was disappointed I couldn't use my normal OS functionality for typing Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.
$3B. OK. So how much did HSBC launder for druglords? The fine alone was $1.9B. Yet another NYT/Washington Post China hitpiece.
> On the one hand, students need a lot of CS in order to become mildly proficient

Most of the CS students learn in school will be obsolete in a few years, and they probably won’t be using it in their job anyway.

But the humanities they learn will be useful their whole lives.
Since before the steam engine even:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_bed-stove
This does very small amount to enhance your privacy. Whatever exchange you use will track those trades. If the exchange is not tracking you then making multiple trades will not help very much.
Are there yet any credible theories for why we see so few of these? AIUI, if we're correct about how planets form, there should be far more of these than we're seeing. Is it that we're probably wrong about how planets form, or there's something strange about our part of the galaxy, something else or do we just have no clue?
“I fell down a bit of a ruins research rabbit-hole”
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A true mobile theater experience may be the future
I recently finished her “Close to the Machine”, and I loved it.
Depends on what your goals are, if it's the quality of life, US might not be the best choice, otherwise, how would you explain that with all that hostility towards skilled immigrants, there are still plenty of people applying for US jobs?
"while the FURBY CONNECT toy is in a "woke" state"
I couldn't help but chuckle at this.
"The benefits, risks, burdens, and effectiveness of the new methods should be tested against those of the best current prophylactic, diagnostic, and therapeutic methods. This does not exclude the use of placebo or no treatment in studies where no proven prophylactic, or therapeutic methods exist." World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Helsinki.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2647647/ for more.
FSM’s are a good way to think about any problem you’d like to address lock-free, since they map so well to CAS.
I think this is my favorite pixel art rendition of that painting:

http://tokyopixel.jp/?pid=107779066
The general consensus amongst astronomers is that these objects are far too faint to be seen. As more sensitive instruments are developed/deployed, we should begin seeing more of them.
Yes, I too thought the same that's why I listed it a #1 I guess. Kind of the best strategy by govt for anything. Instead of saying No and facing a backlash, just keep delaying it (which makes people think they've won at least at that time) but then keep bringing it up over and over.

I think people get bored and run out of steam by 2nd or 3rd time.
Why don't they just enable basic Bluetooth security features instead of saying that it's too hard to exploit and leaving it at that?

Excellent write-up though.
How did you come up with 19%?
Estimate is that there might be about ~10 of these object passing through every year, so it's not a lot to start with. In addition asteroids are relatively small and hard to spot since they are inert. We managed to spot this one because we were lucky it came so close to earth.
Why do you say it didn't work out well for the germans?
Are you familiar with c diff? Placebo's don't work. It's dangerous to have placebo controlled trials with this disease. The current standard of care is a course of very strong antibiotics which still leave > 25% chance of recurrence. These antibiotics are most often used as a control group in c diff infections.

In general, placebo controlled trials are usually conducted for diseases which don't have an effective standard of care, or for conditions which aren't serious enough to be considered life threatening. For more serious diseases where a standard of care exists (standard of care is usually scientifically discovered but validated by placebo controlled trials), you conduct trials and compare the performance of the new drug/therapy with the existing standard of care as the control group.
Do you have a recommendation for the best way to synch files which may be all over my computer?
Are there any data centers up that way, by chance?
Not a great solution tbh. I do want to see events I haven't responded to in almost all circumstances - colleagues etc
That's actually not true, criteria for O-1 are pretty liberal (at least they were until Trump reforms).
If this person is buying art from the unlisted web, if they're not going to be able to prove provenance... what do you think they're going to be able to say? "Oh gee, I knew it was stolen when I went to the "dark web" to buy it, and it's a well-known stolen piece, but I had no idea that I was receiving stolen property!"

It's not like buying something from e-bay, and it turns out the seller boosted it from a van; that is not your fault.
> "We tend not to argue about what defines a species anymore, because that doesn't get you anywhere," said Prof Butlin.

So that's how they ended up calling this new hybrid a "species"?
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For the no-ad and no-internet-connection requirements: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxi... -- You can also install it from F-Droid because it's open-source: https://github.com/zxing/zxing

I suppose you can use that to compile your own APK that does not request any permissions (besides, obviously, "Use camera").
We built the entirety of the Give to Lincoln day giving day website using AWS lambda and DynamoDB. This includes tracking nonprofit registration, handling donations, and an admin area for managing the giving day.

https://www.givetolincoln.com/
All it takes is a single goatse to appear on one child's furby's eyes or on a demo unit in a shop and the brand is ruined. I think they need to reconsider that response.
For those interested: This is what my wall looks like. https://imgur.com/a/anSU4
> If this person is buying art from the unlisted web, if they're not going to be able to prove provenance.

I think you may have lost track of the thread here. I was addressing this question posed by gtsteve.

> And perhaps in a few generations, the heirs of that wealthy person could sell it on. I don't really know how it works if you discover you've inherited property that was stolen a hundred years ago for example. At what point does it become yours?

It is obviously unlawful to traffick knowingly in stolen goods. It is as serious a crime as the theft itself (sans aggravating factors like use of force or intimidation, especially with a deadly weapon).
My grandma used grated carrots to offset bitter/sour flavors in tomato sauce. There was a time before industrial white sucrose was as cheap as flour.
Is this the post you're referring to?

"There have been a total of 2 placebo-controlled trials into fecal transplants for C.Diff AFAIK. One showed some benefit over placebo, and the other showed no difference."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10679823#10680173
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Their are no "three-acre farms," at best it's a garden. My old boss operated a 80 acre micro farm while holding down a full time job. It was a hobby that at best broke even, but he had fun.

PS: They might say be operating a stall at a locally grown market, but it's the stall not the farm that's generating income.
If all one gains from a CS degree is knowing a few programming languages, they either weren't paying attention or their school's program was less than stellar.
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Rye bread even has sugar in it.
I would just straight up ask for money if I were the developer.
There's a remarkable amount of entitlement in that article.

Spoiler alert: lots and lots of hard-working, promising startups don't become unicorns. Lots just die, many just slowly stagnate, a few achieve a decent niche and are perfectly happy with it. There's no automatic entitlement to be a Buzzfeed just because you worked hard and were there at the start.
I don't get why this was downvoted. Maybe not enough old people here to remember when this was an actively used slur?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=guinea&defid...
I don't think ascribing humility to a piece of code makes any kind of sense.
> You can verify that your implementation is capable of performing lock-free atomic operations on double-machine-word primitives with assert(data_ptr.is_lock_free()).

This may be true when compiling for a 32bit process and running on a 64 bit machine, but is not true for the more common 64 bit program on x86_64 (since pointers are 64 bit.)
Reading about the west from a Chinese perspective is a breath of fresh air. Similar in background to the author, I have come to the same conclusion; that everything in life is based on a bit of luck and achievement. He also absorbed, which is somewhat unusual in my opinion the differences between U.S. and the U.K. I think he has a much more nuanced view of all three societies that he has written.
That's easily complicated by the fact that the roots of the rivalry between France and England was in large part stoked by French-speaking Norman conquerors. Few native English speakers will read this paragraph and identify all these French-derived words as being 'French', since they have become such a plainly integral part of English:

complicate, fact, rivalry, part, conqueror, native, paragraph, identify, derive

TL;DR can't speak English without also speaking a bunch of French in the process, especially since French words represent all the elite, cultured words (e.g. 'cow' vs. 'beef')
I have to say I'm happy Mashable failed. I used to visit Mashable regularly. 95% of my visits would originate from Facebook; mainly memes, click bait and other time wasters but it got me through the boring times at work or on the toilet. They always had ads but never enough to annoy me or get in the way.

The years went on and then I started to notice the ad technique of displaying lists as a slideshow on multiple "pages". Followed by the modal popups "Sign up to our newsletter" on every visit. Followed by the site simply not functioning on a mobile. I even tweeted about that one, [0] which incidentally was my last tweet about them (and probably the last time I visited them).

[0] https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Am4tthumphrey%20mashable&...
Count the isles in your supermarket, how many of them are nearly 100% dedicated to sugar and sugary products? Think back 30 years, is this the way you remember it? Saying diabetes and sugar aren't related while in America there is a massive influx of diabetes diagnoses is like saying your dog ate your homework.
So why exactly can we not get a better look at it as it is leaving? With all our earth- and spacebound telescopes [1] (some are sitting at Earth-Sun Lagrange points) I would imagine we could. Being too far away behind the sun seems an unlikely argument to me.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_telescopes
iCloud and rsync would be nice options to have.
Living on the plateau
EU Study: Blockchain a Solution to Prevent Odometer Tampering
I did indeed lose track, thanks for pointing that out so gently.
> relying on random numbers being both fair and not being tampered with

You can easily validate that a block is valid and has the correct PoW. For this to work an attacker needs to be mining valid blocks (expensive) and partition the bitcoin network in a way that nodes can't talk to each other (mission impossible). Then the attacker needs to make use of this split chain so that a double spend can occur. I wouldn't be that worried.
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And they don't collect any sort of personal data. Hasbro did a pretty solid job here minimizing risk surface area.
"10 reasons why..."

That's why they failed.
I automatically assume any new technology will be used for evil because we are all humans. Individual morality breaks down over large groups with separation of knowledge.
rude? I thought he was being helpful
The README doesn't mention which browsers it supports (presumably at least the Chrome/Firefox/Edge evergreens?). I would add that, and perhaps a comparison of sizes between this and Normalize.css.
These five words in the constitution of the CCP describe the five aspects of policies in China: economy(富强), politics(民主), culture(文明), society(和谐), and ecological civilization(美丽).

美丽 is used to describe a China that has clear water, clear sky, green fields ...

It is not that abstract as described in the article.
What I thought. The absence of a priori knowledge prohibits the application of Occam's Razor in this case.
That is, indeed, an apt comparison. Constitutions are a strange beast, because they are not subject to majority rule, but require supermajorities far beyond 50%.

That appears undemocratic. Part of the solution to this tension is to point out that democracy is more than just majority rule, nicely enshrined in the saying "Democracy isn't two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner".

Another part is the custom that constitutions are mostly concerned with the process of democracy, not the contents. It's somewhat tenuous in light of the the US constitution's amendments, some of which seem to deal with subjects that don't directly relate to the political process. But I think a case can be made that, for example, religion is constitutionally protected because it plays an important role in society's deliberations.

I once saw the late Justice Scalia, for whom I usually have nothing but disdain, at a talk, and he had a relevant point: Too often, people call for a constitutional amendment to enshrine their ideology, removing it from being a subject of the usual political process. That is, I believe, valid for attempts to elevate animal rights, or restrictions on abortions, to the constitution, among other things.

I think this discussion mostly serves to show that politics is almost never about easy decisions. Because easy decisions are made silently, never to appear in the news and the subject of partisan strive. But the tech community has a tendency to believe in oh-but-thats-so-obvious, and the result of that believe is, for example, the idea that "smart contracts" could replace the ambiguity and complexity of law in capturing the myriad circumstances of life that may make an appearance in a contract, or a dispute.
I'm doing this right now; in the summer I just run the AC and the rigs still outcompete my power bill by about 2x
I like the calendar integration. Reminders integration would be nice too.

This is a nice app but it has lots of potential as well. Integration with Workflow could open up other possibilities as well.
Netgate / pfSense acts in bad faith
How do small companies map their business process?
Farming is no way to make a living. I'm glad that these people are finding success, but I come from a farming community and family and for decades farming has only been affordable if you also had another full-time job. Although microfarms for trendy produce might not be so bad.
I was also disappointed by the interjection of simplistic judgments in the middle. It didn't fit with the language analysis at all.
Stardew Valley?