skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would make some distinctions here: a lot of the laws in Saudi Arabia are repressive, but the government (read: the royal family) isn't especially religious. Rather, the government "outsources" some of the lawmaking to the clerics, whose fatwas may be enforced, not enforced, or partially enforced. The government has the final say.

Further, these kinds of rulings don't apply to non-Muslims, so nothing is violated by inviting people from around the world (non-Muslims) to play chess in Saudi Arabia (as long as they don't visit the Hejaz).

Another thing to note is that Saudis play video games and watch foreign (read: American) movies. It would be pretty outlandish if that was tolerated but chess was banned. So I highly, highly doubt that chess is banned.

Straying off topic a bit: the dynamic with Israel is interesting. The Saudi government is pretty much aligned with Israel (anti-Iran, close American ally, anti-Islamist uprisings, wish to maintain the status quo), but they have to keep up a facade of zero diplomatic contact because being anti-Israeli/pro-Palestine is part of the Arab-Muslim identity at this point. You can bet Israel and Saudi Arabia have contact, it's just not out in the open.

Finally, something interesting to note is that Israeli-Arabs can visit Saudi Arabia and often do (for the Hajj). They just have to do get a Cypress or Jordanian visa and cross through Jordan.
I'm reminded of a Black Mirror episode!
Social media is really paradoxical and interesting. I can tell the entire internet something, with just the click of a button. On the other hand, echo chambers are being created, and there's no easy solution to it.
Dang, could you please unban my account? Thanks.
My love of “green living” stems from a love of nature. I’ve always loved going on walks in the “non developed” places. For one, the air is always fresher. For two, the plants and wildlife are often beautiful. I don’t see how being able to appreciate what “is” should make someone less masculine. It’s like these people have never met a mountaineer capable of living off the land and his own two hands. Not much could be manlier. (It’s also faminine, too, according to the article.) What an utterly silly concept.

Last I knew, survival training was standard in the training of the armed forces across all countries. You’re welcome to call the Navy Seals feminine, but I wouldn’t.
I've thought the same thing. The basic income would be the new baseline, and I think we'd see the same poverty rates.

"Why do you need a raise? You get $xxx in basic income." - Boss
As a note, the latest AGESA for Ryzen seems to have the ability to turn off the PSP, it is showing up in some of the latest beta bios releases.

No official statement yet, but some info can be had here: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-PSP-...
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Are you aware of what forms of asymmetric crypto are broken by quantum computing?
> As an counter example, consider how the decipherment of the mayan written language was performed

That is no counterexample. The Mayan written language was related to a number of surviving languages, making decipherment easier.

> Another one is the hieroglyphs.

The Egyptian hieroglyphs could not be deciphered until the discovery of the Rosetta stone, where the hieroglyphic text was accompanied by translations into Demotic Egyptian and Greek. Before that, there had been attempts for many centuries to decipher the hieroglyphs but they proved fruitless.
One is usually an an inherent problem (e.g. with design, implementation) and the other implies a bad actor manipulating the thing in question.
A better summary of the information in the article would be: "Market to your audience."
But nuclear energy plants cheaper then coal plants. And can not even understand how decarbonization relate to nuclear.
I follow a podcast dedicated to his fallacies (contrakrugman). He may be an expert on some issues, but he fails in many others, some miserably. He was clueless about Bitcoin years ago perhaps he learnt some now but his credibility on the issue is rather low.
Yes, men are close [sic] minded idiots.

What a joyous, enlightened age we live in, where sexism is dead and there's peace and love for all.
> Men who feel secure in their manhood are more comfortable going green.

This is so obvious in retrospect I am ashamed for not noticing it sooner. Men's insecurity about their own masculinity/sexuality causes so many problems it's downright depressing.
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Expectations aren't about what you prefer, it's about what other people want you to do. There are definitely women encouraging their daughters to pick someone wealthier.
On the plus side, you can probably guarantee it would only ever happen once.
> This economy has gone nowhere but up

that's a subjective call encodes what things you care about. Look nobody's going to say the median standard of living hasn't increased (although it has stagnated of late), but we don't know what it could have been. How much of the increase in standard of living is due to the economic structure, and how much is due to technological improvement? People aren't starving in the streets when we have a depression-level economic displacement. The fed loves to argue that it's because of its stewardship, but let's be honest, it's because of Norman Borlaug (and the like).

Finally, you can't be sure that the 'systemic issues' that are 'holding down' those who are 'not going up' aren't the factors that causing the rest of the economy to go up.

If you don't think the game is 'rigged' show me where I can get one of those negative real interest rate loan I keep hearing are getting floated to 'keep our economy stable'.
> the project run by the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) was designed to direct resources to thousands of Syrian refugees by giving them cryptocurrency-based vouchers that could be redeemed in participating markets.

They're not really using the actual Etherium blockchain in any meaningful sense though. They just gave vouchers that could be spent at participating markets. It reeks of a marketing ploy by Parity Technologies for some press.
>Wow, so, because I can’t prove anything exists outside of my own mind, I’m completely ignorant for being a solipsist.

Can you prove that your mind exists?
That requires holding a balance of LTC on different exchanges which is great if you really like LTC but personally I don't since you can't really trade that much with it other than BTC and USDT/EUR. Ethereum on the other hand has a ton of trading pairs on many exchanges so I would consider your strategy with it. Only issue is, arbitrage opportunities with Ethereum come around a lot less often than with LTC so I'm unlikely to hold ETH just waiting for that. To make a long story short, my base currency for trading is BTC so that's what I like to hodl. When an opportunity for arbitrage comes up, I take my chances buying, transferring to another exchange, selling, then transferring the BTC back. Successful trading is predicated on the probabilities being in your favor and a >5% arbitrage spread, usually (not always) works out. At least it works out enough to make it worth your while.
Journalists and columnists don't always have control or final say about the printed titles of their work.
It's about society. I'm speaking about the majority of western civilization _currently_.

Men seem less concerned with improvements/collateral damage and more concerned with success/creating/succeeding. Women are raised more social and won't throw everyone under the bus to achieve their goals.

What is the first thing a man says to another? "What do you do for a living?" it's about success and ranks.

What's the first thing a woman says? "Hi! Where do you live/Hows your day" It's about community.

Both of these mindsets are firmly ingrained in us from childhood.
That's a completely different topic of argument. _You_ may not agree with Keynesian economics, and may have examples to cite for your reasoning, but it doesn't speak to Krugman's consistency.

Additionally, QE was only a piece of the recovery. Keynesian economics also advocates for direct investment in infrastructure and other government spending to get people working and money moving.
My take on Gruber is to not take him seriously. Don't take his recommendations, he'll flip on a dime. For example, when the Pebble was announced he was first in line on the Kickstarter. It shipped, he liked it. As soon as the Apple Watch came out, the Pebble was suddenly a piece of shit.

I'm also convinced that he recommends things that he's either never used, or took money to recommend. An outstanding example is a weather app he gushed about that I'm convinced he never used because it was horrible (as in, the forecasts weren't even close), and the visual design was something he'd typically tear into.

For me, Gruber is in the "Dvorak/Cringley" bucket: entertaining, sometimes on point, but for $DEITY's sake don't take it for gospel. But despite all that, I read every post.
WHATWG is now led by a Steering Group of the four major browser engine vendors, and for some time has had a rule that every new feature in HTML needs a test suite and implementation commitments from multiple vendors before it can go in. It’s definitely not right to claim it’s controlled by Google.
As the wealth gets more concentrated at the top, the wealth 'share' of poorer people declines even if their wealth nominally rises.
I wrote a blog post about this. tl;dr: no, not unless you were using PQ hard algorithms

https://tonyarcieri.com/imperfect-forward-secrecy-the-coming...
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This is interesting. I have been wondering about the viability and communuty interest in a service to enable subscription service for CI/CD systems at the project level.

OSS maintainers don't have a unified mechanism to alert packagers of updates.

In place of a dirty hack to power IFTTT and Jenkins from fetchmail scripts when there is an announcement, we could have intelligence and transparent automation at the distro-level.

Maintainer patches a 0-day, and there's a mad scramble for everyone to patch, test, package and publish.

I would rather not wait on Debian to release a distribution or be forced to cherry-pick from Sid.

OpenSolaris and OpenBSD could have feature parity with Cygwin and Alpine.

We could have concurrent versioning, automation and container and filesystem-based deployments become a little less risky.

Less focus on Vendor, more on Developer.
How do you differentiate between math and the "application of math"?
Buffet is well-known for this and I often hear tech people dismiss his views as a result, but I think some people misunderstand what he is saying.

Buffet is concerned with companies that will have a long term competitive advantage and thereby generate stable and growing cash returns over long periods. He doesn't generally invest in technology stocks because he says it is hard to determine which companies have a competitive advantage that will be durable enough to produce long-term returns.

Look at Netscape, MySpace, or Yahoo! for companies that looked valuable but ended up not having a competitive advantage. It doesn't have anything to do with "understanding" technology---the question is the ability to pick the winners in advance.
> These laws not only existed, they where far more stringent, prosecution far easier and the punishment far more severe. Try going back then and discussing the king/queen in a negative way.

True.

> And yet, his book was still published.

Because the subject of his book wasn't covered by these laws.

> And in any case, he didn't say it to be threatening or abusive, so that's moot.

Neither did Damore. He still got fired.

> The HR policies of an American company (a country where in a lot of states you can be fired for any/no reason at all) is neither here nor there in a discussion about the UK's definition of hate crime, where that definition needs to be proven in a court of law to a jury of your peers at a trial.

These HR policies are a sign of the times. The fashion of suppressing rational speech & thought in a misguided attempt to "protect" the minority-du-jour will eventually creep upwards into the laws of countries, as has already happened in Canada:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Act_to_amend_the_Canadian_H...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_103
Move back home from US to India. Build a small ginger beer plant, build a company around a half-ass data product, build a house!

There is a never-ending supply of things I'm looking forward to do on any given day :)
>What if I have no clear idea of how to do this, and the standard advice for that problem starts with stuff I don't know how to do (e.g. talk to people like a normal human who craves face-to-face social validation)?

"Act natural". That means check out. De-intellectualize and see yourself and everyone else as an organic entity governed by subconscious organic automata; the concept that there are normal people who "crave face-to-face social validation" and a separate set of non-normal people must be discarded. There are only humans that have virtually identical biological behaviors and interactions.

Separate your conscious self, and especially your self-critical running narrative, from everything else that is happening. Experience events as a floater, not doing any self-analysis or introspection, and just being there. Once you're used to this state, start trying to nudge yourself into interacting with others without re-engaging active control or analysis. Keep floating, act without analyzing what's going on -- act impulsively. Practice this state.

Don't overcommit. There are billions and billions of people out there. Burning your chance with Person Y is very likely not as important as finding Person X, with whom you have better natural resonance. There is certainly a Person X who possesses any special features that you believe are possessed by Person Y (close enough, anyway). If you piss off Warren Buffet, you haven't pissed off Bill Gates, Carl Icahn, or the Koch Brothers. So there is no point in overanalyzing or seizing up, and the truth is, people care far less about anything you do than you think they do.

In all of this, keep the standard failsafes and overrides. Don't do smack, act violently, or otherwise engage in self-destructive or clearly-hostile social behaviors. Re-engage to suppress these impulses as necessary. Maintain basic social standards and decorum. Just fence that in as the extent of any self-checking you do during an interaction.

Master these states because they are the baseline that people expect human interaction to occur from. You have to be able to manage that to employ more involved and specific likability techniques, but those are mostly only useful as elements of conscious social engineering like being a manager. All you'll need to be socially successful on a personal basis is to unplug your self-conscious psyche.

Disclaimers: I am ugly, fat, and dumb. I am not a licensed psychologist, clinician, advisor, or any other thing that should be listened to. Everything I say is wrong and no positive results should be expected to flow from any of it.
You can do something similar with bash. If you set PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a', it'll append to the history file right after the command completes (because the prompt command is run as the prompt is printed).
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> Wow, there is so much space around Berlin

And how do you expect to move people from that empty space into Berlin? People aren't happy to be flown 50 miles outside the city. When that happens, all those flights coming and going into that enpty space end up addin an extra couple of hours to the travel time.

To make matters worse, that empty space tends to be connected with city centers by.... Train.
The thing is with modern journalism, anyone can publish anything, how do you know it's worth digesting? There's no guarantee of quality other than the author's credential and history. If an author repeatedly makes incorrect and outlandish claim, why would you give his future articles the benefit of the doubt?
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A system can be rigged even when everyone thinks they're doing the right thing. For example, the system for academic promotion at universities is a very much 'rigged' game, there are the 'real rules' and the 'rules they say are the rules', but nobody is manipulating it, it's just an emergent phenomenon from a series of well-intentioned processes.

probably obtaining VC funding in the valley is the same way.
WHATWG Living Standards are now licensed under CC-BY 4.0,so if the W3C continues to copy, it needs to provid appropriate acknowledgement. The lic mes does allow copying by design though.
Those questions are totally orthogonal situations, unless a woman would literally meet someone for the first time and ask how they've been.
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I observed this unscientifically in the 90s and marketers have known this for equally as long. Surprised it hasn't been studied before now.

I would say it extends to certain types of men equating responsibility with feminism. It was an unfortunate social construct and one that I see fading.
For sure. It's not a mystery why people would rather live in Toronto than Yellowknife. But it does mean that low population density is in some sense mostly on paper.
multiple services per team are trickier. also depends on their complexity. sometimes you can't get around it.

it also depends on your infrastructure to manage services. if setting up, managing, deploying and monitoring a service is cheap it can make sense.
They don't care at all if we hate them, because we're still buying their chips en masse.
I was hyperventilating as I read this as ESP8266 runs for months on a charge but still ePaper is a great move on a path to finding self sustainable internet connected (w/ extending wifi possibly falling back on 3g) devices in the wild.

Has anybody done experiments to see if you can power esp8266 with solar cells with portable battery? We are in for some truly exciting applications.
I wish we’d stop defining people based on their being part of a statistical group. Judge, but judge people individually, based on evidence.
Most of the "green behavior" in the article is more about class signaling than about actually preserving the environment. Recycling[1], bag reuse[2], and similar behaviors in general don't actually make a significant difference. They might even be more hurtful than helpful.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/the-reign-...

2: https://www.opb.org/news/blog/ecotrope/reusable-bags-only-su...
But everyone, including me, is a flesh robot.
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In the US "poverty" now includes access to netflix. Poverty has absolutely gotten better in the US over the years.
The thing is with modern journalism, anyone can publish anything, how do you know it's worth digesting? It's impossible for you to fact check everything in an article, nor is it possible for you know the future. Therefore trust is essential to reading and accepting an idea.

There's no guarantee of quality other than the author's credential and history. If an author repeatedly makes incorrect and outlandish claim, why would you give his future articles the benefit of the doubt?
That's nice, but it would seem more useful at 915 mhz...
Wondering if he'd feel the same way had the opposition candidate not used the internet and social media to help overcome the biases of the establishment mainstream media and defeat the candidate Obama endorsed and campaigned for?

Suddenly now, probably not coincidentally because of that result, the trend seems to be "social media is really bad guys" among people in the establishment - both government and the media. It's kind of ironic.

I find his statements somewhat hypocritical given that the media, and government, has had the monopoly on irresponsibility, bias, putting forth alternative realities, and the Balkanisation of society, until just recently now that people are able to combat it and freely spread information among tens of millions of people instantly and so easily, instead of only getting their information from approved sources without citizens being able to freely discuss, disprove, etc. - e.g., directly from the White House, and a couple of privileged mainstream media organizations that are very in-bed with the government.
Except for variable length patent terms (duration), everything you suggest is true already.

The applicant has to prove to the examiner that their invention overcomes the prior art discovered by the examiner (or anyone). Also, inventors (and their attorneys) have to disclose to the USPTO all relevant public references (potential prior art) they know of.

Further, during patent prosecution, US examiners are allowed (required) to broadly interpret claims and prior art. Giving them more latitude than courts to declare something is prior art for a given invention.
Thanks. I’ll get reading.

Edit: completely agree with calling out corporate doublespeak
Web-site a little bit out of date :)

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Marketing problem. They're not doing anything wrong by resisting the message; we're not selling the message correctly.
You're right, there is no easy solution to it. It will require cultural changes to 'solve' the problem. People will have to be somewhat receptive of differing opinions and to question their own. Maybe I'm just ridiculously cynical, but I don't see that ever happening at the scale required address the echo chamber problem.
I’m hoping to keep learning more about parallel computing and Deep Learning both from day job and some side projects.
Planning to take a stab at a crypto currency algo implementation like Equihash as a fun side project.
I can't speak for littering or recycling, but it seems quite obvious to me that men will leave a larger carbon footprint. If nothing else, men are physically larger. They consume more food, they wear larger clothing, etc.

Women may be content to drive that Prius themselves, but they tend to want to sleep with men whose cars measure their mileage in gallons per mile rather than miles per gallon. Further, men are often the ones with the kinds of jobs or household tasks which require carrying heavy loads, so they're the ones who drive the trucks. The article talks about green marketing towards men. That's wholly unnecessary and probably wasteful. Somehow you gotta convince women that they want to fuck guys who drive pre-owned Civic hybrids.
As you already have a working dipole (which you have in this case), the primary thing to consider is the element lengths and spacings. If you don't have one of those routers with massive (and empty!) plastic antennas, there's probably a good chance that you can use the authors design parameters.

Otherwise, there's plenty of 3-element Yagi-Uda calculators online where you can stuff in various amounts of parameters and get the unknowns—the author used fancy antenna simulation software, but you don't need that.

A few links:

http://www.rfwireless-world.com/calculators/3-element-Yagi-A...

http://www.changpuak.ch/electronics/yagi_uda_antenna_DL6WU.p...
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It's n^2 across all devices. You don't use the same key between two different pairs of parties.
How can investing 20-30 billion euros into a massively unprofitable project serve a commercial purpose? How did it here?
Daily Mail? FFS.
How can taking responsibility for the protection of your surroundings be considered unmanly?
> And [website notifications] shouldn't be ever shown on mobile.

They are not shown on iOS.
I remain thoroughly convinced that social media is bad for society, and for the self. It is optimized to bring out the worst in people, and rarely offers anything of value.
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