skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is excellent. I originally saw just the water effect (probably mentioned on HN) but after reading through it again it seems he also described much more - fire animation, link's facial expression. The tricks used by the developers are (to me) very neat and the overall effect is impressive given the console was out in 2001
If you have “little hope of changing the actual status quo” why would you even bother trying to affect change? Therefore you’re maintaining the status quo through cycnicism.

Your “truthful model” is another person’s abandonment of any hope of improving the world.
Not sure which other nano robots you're referring to, but this is more like a custom-built protein that falls apart when it's near specific types of molecules.
I'm not sure if democracy is necessarily dying everywhere, I—hopefully not too naïvely—think there's a little more diversity in worldwide politics than that.

Reading the article though, this seems to be US-centric. Perhaps the title could be changed to "Is US democracy dying?", in which case, at least to an outsider looking in, it seems that death happened quite a long time ago. I'm not sure if Buckley v. Valeo was as big a turning point as some make out, or if it was really that different before that, but certainly modern US political decision-making seems quite disconnected from constituent concerns.
> Are you saying that https://developers.google.com/cast/ is insufficient to allow Prime Video to work with Chromecast?

Correct. That SDK requires proprietary Google Play Services to be present on a device to allow Chromecast to work.

As the same Prime Video app has to work on Kindle devices, LineageOS/CopperheadOS/other third party ROMs, and on Google Play Android devices, it can’t require Google Play Services.

Regarding Roku:

Roku can not receive Chromecast streams, instead Roku, Twitch and several other companies have cooperated to work on a protocol competing with Chromecast, and Roku can receive those (as can a few of Amazon’s devices, and Amazon’s apps can send those streams as well).

You can learn more here: https://www.howtogeek.com/214943/how-to-use-your-roku-like-a...
This Is Why We Need to Talk About Diversity
Go programmers are called gophers. Nothing to do with the gopher protocol.
China slipped from Autocracy to Dictatorship last weekend:

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21737517-it-bet-china...
> The following post describes how we migrated a large NoSql database from one vendor to another in production without any downtime or data loss.

Are there any good write-ups where a migration went really wrong and how it was fixed?
"2. We could reasonably travel more than 10 miles from home in a day."

No, this is not the reason. Plenty of societies had very strong norms against cousin marriage centuries ago -- from memory below 1 percent in colonial new england?

Others did not. Sometimes because they were just far from the enforcers of such norms. But often for deliberate reasons of keeping family and property together. Saddam Hussein wasn't short of private jets, but was very concerned about losing power, and blood relatives are more reliable. And about 50 percent of his countrymen feel the same way.
My paternal grandfather had 12 surviving children, by two wives. The first, my grandmother, died in childbirth. The second was the nanny. Me, I've had no children that I know of.
We should be careful, or the United States will too. https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/970090357441613824
>USA threatened Canada and Mexico

I dunno. When was the last time Canada and Mexico threatened to impound a US naval base? When was the last time Canada tried to ally with the US' principle military opponent and have its military assets installed on its territory?

>Did terrorists based in the Ukraine fly hijacked airplanes into Moscow's skyscrapers? Because that's why the USA invaded Afghanistan.

This is laughable. Those were Saudi terrorists, funded by the Saudi kingdom. By your (admittedly dubious American) logic, Russia should have invaded Hungary and destroyed its infrastructure entirely, just because Georgia sent some terrorists to Russian territory.
So, not only did the go programming language overshadow the other go programming language, their gophers are also overshadowing the other gophers? This is a bit annoying.
Can confirm that LaTeX has floats. They can be a bit finicky to work with but they are there.
Another small business complains of counterfeiters on Amazon
> But consider the implications. Firms hosting content from a particular country would be subject to court orders from every country. That would not end well.

They already are if they target users in a given country. Lack of international enforcement just means that they might escape enforcement. See also GDPR, the US case against Mega, a company run by a NZ resident and incorporated in Hongkong IIRC. See also how Twitter blocks certain tweets in certain countries lest they’re blocked completely. Same holds true for Facebook. Google censors certain autocomplete and searches in some countries. They also adhere to the EU “right to be forgotten” regulations - despite being an US company.
Self-driving cars may win out there because they have full circle sensing and can track many objects at once. They may be better at getting into a hole than humans delayed by head-turning time.
That seems like a pretty simple fix for Microsoft to make on behalf of every Windows Phone user... Google can't compel MS to identify its phones for Google's benefit.
seems to follow lockstep with the US on completely irrational copyright policy like "75 years after the author dies, only then can anyone else reproduce this work".

No, the US followed the EU on that one. The Berne Convention first set that policy¹ in 1886, and amongst the original signatories were multiple European countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Others followed soon after, like Luxembourg (1888), Denmark (1903), Austria and Greece (1920), Hungary (1922), Ireland (1927), Finland (1928), etc.

The US was a holdout; they kept the policy based only on date of publication, which led to a much shorter duration, and only joined Berne a century after its creation.

Which is why the books in question in this lawsuit are in the public domain in the US but not in Germany.

¹ Berne only said life + 50, but it was already life + 80 in Germany before the US ever joined. The EU then harmonized at life + 70 in Directive 93/98/EEC.
2022.
Only in the legal sense, not in the economical sense.
> I wonder when Alibaba US and EU will open.

Already open. https://www.aliexpress.com/
I like to use wrk[1] for quick/spot testing:

* It allows me to focus on latency versus throughput independently

* It has tools for testing performance on pipelined requests (very important in my space)

* It supports scripting complex authentication processes (like magic headers and oauth2)

* It supports scripting fuzzing (random values) for URLs and POST requests

[1]: https://github.com/wg/wrk

For wide-area load testing, I simply buy some advertising since that gives me cheap access to millions of simultaneous users.
Ukraines' civil unrest put Russia's not-insignificant Crimean and eastern-Ukraine military assets at risk.

Crimeans voted to join the Russian Federation - or is voting only "pure" when America does it (lol)?

Is the USA the only country who is "allowed" to protect its sovereign citizens?
> copyright laws are a fucking joke.

Fixed that for you :-)
Maybe someone gave you water as a newly made up excuse for China taking Tibet?

But make no mistake about it, on October 7, 1950, the Chinese were not thinking about water. I'm fairly certain most historians would agree on that point.
The original plan was to run it to the "city centre" at People's Square and then on to the other airport in town Hongqiao. The problem was expense, and for money to be a problem for the infrastructure-happy Chinese, you know its not economically viable for the majority of countries on earth.
The same UI is shown in the Pheonix promotional video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaOB-ErYq6Y

It seems like the it's the real UI currently used.
Do we really have to discuss this every single week? It's the same thing over and over.
What were they thinking about?
In the FP community there is often griping about obtuse mathematical terminology. APL seems like an alternative answer that embraces the unsuitability of human language to capture the nuances of composability space and just presents an alien language instead.

It's not about the code, it's about transforming between different shapes of information. I suspect this requires a degree of kinesthetic thinking that most people do not have, similar to the phenomenon of aphantasia. Linear, word based thinking is not the best for everyone, and for those averse to it, there's APL.
Yep, that specific point is irrelevant as it appears in almost any social media and communication app. The part about the CEO specifically is more alarming though.
If no one ever references the counter, and its known to be pure, then shouldn't the compiler just remove it entirely?
If you use education as a proxy for salary, more education for the man predicts slightly fewer children, but more education for the woman predicts _significantly_ fewer children. https://anepigone.blogspot.com/2011/01/educational-attainmen...
>Are you saying they just stand by and passively let the military-industrial lobby get what it wants?

Are you really ignoring the acounting for $Trillion defence debt that gets lost by your Pentagon masters on a regular basis?

>Putin and Russia are basically peace-loving.

Tell me again, how many foreign nations has Russia invaded, destroyed their infrastructure, militarily occupied in the last .. lets just say 30 years? Now, how many has the USA invaded? By comparison, Russia is most definitely more peaceful than the US.

>And Putin was for decades a dedicated communist who believed world peace could come about only through either revolution or conquest. And Russians are highly ethnicist and nationalist, not at all peaceful universalists.

We're not even going to go into the Death Cult to which a significant majority of American military-industrial puppets belong, eh?
Hey if y'all don't mind ill use this thread to ask for a recommendation. I'm using a 2009 macbook (a1342) that I upgraded with SSD, extra RAM etc.

When it passes, I planning on replacing it with another old macbook. Are following models as reliable? What about macbook air ?

I'm worried because the white macbook was easy to repair and upgrade, the others seem much harder to take apart.
>Profit-driven and hatred-based are almost opposite things.

Not really, no. Not when you profit directly from peoples hatred, and its sub-product, fear. Hatred of others, fear of others.

America has commercialized hatred and weaponized fear. How else can you explain the invasion of Afghanistan when it should have had KSA in its sights?
Can someone explain to me why project Gutenberg has decided to block the COMPLETE site for German IPs instead of just blocking the books in question?

Is this just a dick move to enrage people and get attention?

And they could have blocked just the pages with the books in question directly after receiving the copyright violation notification...
If you have German on your website their courts have jurisdiction.

Nope:

"In order to determine whether such a controller or processor is offering goods or services to data subjects who are in the Union, it should be ascertained whether it is apparent that the controller or processor envisages offering services to data subjects in one or more Member States in the Union. (...) the mere accessibility of the controller’s, processor’s or an intermediary’s website in the Union, of an email address or of other contact details, or the use of a language generally used in the third country where the controller is established, is insufficient to ascertain such intention" (emphasis mine)

As long as German is used in the country where PG is located - and it is - then it's not enough to show that they're targeting German citizens.

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/
More pragmatically, it will be a way to leapfrog gridlock. The traffic in Indonesia, the Philippines, China, India, Vietnam make the American traffic look like a joke.

I agree with most of your post, but I can't agree with this:

> the regulatory issues are probably about the same

The issue is, flying cars are by far more dangerous than road vehicles.

Sadly, transportation advances come at a cost of human lives.

Today we take road fatalities for granted. Think of the dangers of crossing the road 150 years ago vs now.

But even today getting injured or killed by a motor vehicle requires being near a road or a thoroughfare where it can pass. Imagine taking it to a whole new level: even if you're standing on your balcony or even inside your apartment, you can get killed by an idiot flying his mini-plane on ecstasy. Tiny drones with toy functions and limited traffic are already dangerous. Imagine super-powered flying machines that can lift a ton.
For sure. This is a pro-teacher statement because teachers always carry the brunt of criticism when kids fail. It's not reasonable to expect teachers to raise kids. Obviously there are bad actors, but by and large teachers in America are good.
>blame the USA

Which country regularly destroys, utterly, the infrastructure and society of other foreign nations, through both covert and overt means, in its quest for global military domination? (Hint: its not Russia.)
> What amazes me is that the USA can swing from one side of the political spectrum to the other and the country holds together and happily repeats the process every few years.

This is actually an interesting observation/fact. My assumption is that the sort of political life which hits the media is a thing of the (US) cities while daily life in rural areas remains largely unaffected and is defined by long-term evolved social relationships.

And in the US there are many more people living in rural areas than cities (although if agglomerations or "urban areas" are counted in, it's very concentrated)

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2012/03/us-urban-population-w...

http://www.theusaonline.com/people/urbanization.htm
Changing lanes is a normal and necessary part of driving. I'm continuously amazed by people on the internet who talk about "cutting in front" like it's something only other people do, or who are apparently proud of preventing others from getting into the lanes they need to be in.
Feel Like a Fraud?  You're Not Alone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16460023
Sure, but at the same time, Google ranking shopping comparison sites lower didn't stop anyone from using them either, yet they got hit with $2.7B from the EU.
I'm not the OP, but they did say "often" not "always" - i would agree with that. Blind hope is of little use just like uninformed cynicism. Seeing a tough fight does not preclude one from fighting.
Suddenly realized why the disconnect. You're talking physics (high school physics at that), while I'm only talking about English.

We don't say an airplane is air resistant. We say it experiences air resistance. Case closed. You need to relax, I'm not trolling.
Like the drones?
Brudgers may be overstating the point, but there are some truths to it:

1. Annual aircraft sales are absolutely tiny. Only about 1000 piston engine airplanes are sold annually globally [1].

2. Thanks to very small production numbers and demanding certification requirements, almost anything is super expensive in aviation.
For example, to add air conditioning to your Diamond DA 40 will cost you 27,500 USD. An aviation headset will cost you 400 to 1000 USD. And so on.

So, while I don’t believe that there’s a conspiracy to keep airplane numbers down, the fact remains that very few small aircraft are out there (and outside the USA it looks even grimmer), and only a small fraction of what was produced in the 60s is produced now.

[1] https://gama.aero/news-and-events/press-releases/gama-presen...
I do lightweight web automation via Chromiums "Snippets". It is super nice to work that way because you see on screen what happens and can check everything realtime in the console. Only problem is that they dont survive page loads. So when my snippet navigates to a new url I have to trigger it again manually. What would be a good way to progress from here so I can automate across pages?
I downloaded and looked around the app a few days ago, it seems really consumer media focused. Where Twitter allows you to post just text and later added photos, links and videos Vero seems to be taking the opposite and forces you to pick a category for the post.

It also encourages sharing movies and music but that's not what I go to social networks for.
>There is no Nazi in Ukraine.

Absolute nonsense. Neo-Nazi'sm has established itself in all of the Balkan and Eastern-European states, and fascism is on the rise. None are immune to its effects, because its growth is a tool of the military-industrial complex in its effort to derive yet more profit from fear, hatred, inhumanity.

Yesterday, it was terrorists. Tomorrow its neo-Nazi's and fascists. Either way, we're gonna need weapons to defeat them all, aren't we kids ...

https://www.quora.com/Is-Russia-justified-in-its-annexation-...

https://charlierose.com/videos/15573
> As the same Prime Video app has to work on Kindle devices, LineageOS/CopperheadOS/other third party ROMs, and on Google Play Android devices, it can’t require Google Play Services.

It can have additional functionality that only works when Google Play Services is available. Plenty of media apps run on Kindle devices as well as branded Android, and support Chromecast on Android but not Kindle.

Now, Amazon probably doesn't want to make an app that has features that work on branded Android but not Kindle, but that is a choice.
Dubai is planning a trial with Volocopter, but there is nothing in production yet AFAIK.
Amazon flaw costs nearly $100k as counterfeiter takes over legitimate listing
Democracy is dying because the progressive left is attacking free speech, refusing to accept the results of legitimate elections, calling for impeachment of democratically elected leaders since day 1, and when in power, subverting the democratic process through re-interpreting statutes instead of going through the legislative branch (clean power plan).

Conservatism is the best defense we have of democracy. Respect for the constitution, respect of the legislative process, and maintaining freedom of speech and federalism are key.
Even boy and girl _monkeys_ display the same truck vs doll preference that human boys and girls display. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13596-male-monkeys-pr...
If the evidence is so damning, and alternatives are available, I don't see why at least the EU can't legislate - surely it's not party to the same kind of lobbying that allows big business to rule the roost in the US?
The US does have .us - it was actually the first ccTLD - and a complex hierarchy under it, it's just not commonly used for historical reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us
The most important thing must be that most people and especially the poorest are getting a better way of life and all the numbers show that they do. The number of people who live on under 1.9$ a day have decreased a lot the last 30 years, https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/tag/global-poverty/

100% equality usually means most people have nothing. Inequality seems to follow The Pareto Principle,
https://www.pragcap.com/the-pareto-principle-and-wealth-ineq...

I myself had trouble understanding it, but if one make the thought experiment that all wealth in the world would be distributed evenly. After 10-20 years most likely a Pareto distribution would occur one again but of course with some different winners and loosers.
I guess since Amazon can use it's monopoly position to hurt Google it would be fair for Google to punish Amazon by restricting who can find products through their search engine?

All that will do is push people to search Amazon first cutting Google out of the loop altogether.
Moral outrage is hiding the fact that it's not the kids doing it. There is an entire network of activist organizations researching these issues, so that when tragedy strikes, a campaign can be astroturfed within a day, and pressure can be exercised on large corporate and public targets.

This takes time, and effort, and willing megaphones in media. The biggest illusion of the social media era is that any of this is "organic" rather than instigated top-down, using human networks built slowly over time rather than spontaneously willed into being using the magic of Twitter.

The media does not report, they shape the agenda, decide what is important and what isn't, and who gets to be heard under what sort of light.

Even this article pulls the same scam: it sneaks the question by you of whether the "kids" will succeed, thus painting them as the only real people with agency. You don't need to believe in conspiracy or crisis actors to see this is bunk.
Also a woman in tech. A while back I checked my profile. It thought I we was a man.
How to Troubleshoot Unreliable or Malfunctioning Hardware
But we're not talking about the rendered source here. We're talking about "view source", which afaik always matches what is returned by the server.

The post replied to claims that Nokogiri doesn't see this however so I'm puzzled.
I think that Rex Conn and I could give it a fair go. (-:
A long time ago I would go to the street drags on S. Eubanks in Albuquerque. This guy rolls up in a beater Corvair. Starts powerbraking it, burning up the stock 14” wheels on the back, egging anyone on to race him. Everybody is ridiculing him. One of the regulars with I’d guess about a 12 second muscle car (quarter mile in 1977, pretty fast) takes his challenge.

The Corvair totally smokes the muscle car. I only recall a couple of seriously built cars being that fast. Corvair guy dies his victory lap, comes back to the starting line, stops and turns on his dome light. He’s got a Pontiac 428 where the back seat used to be, a 2 speed automatic is hooked up to a static rear axle via chain drive. Absolutely brilliant in its simplicity and ROI.
Deep cycle lead-acid batteries have fine cycle lives, and indeed were (and are) used for driving golf carts. However, they trade off for lower specific power, which makes them unsuitable for a full-sized, highway-speed-reaching car.
But it should be the same as "view source" right? The post replied to claims otherwise.
Now this is how you deal with government censorship. Take note, Github, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter et. al.
Yes but why represent data this way when HTTP can already handle binary? Does base64 actually compress binary data enough to make these optimized requests? I'm genuinely asking because I have not googled it yet.
didn't work for me at all. all stats were blank and it said my username wasn't valid the first couple of times..
I'm ignorant of the details, but WASM is an assembly language that's designed from the ground up for running untrusted code. It will also have multiple independent open source implementations, which has some nice properties.
I'm colour-blind, and I've never given even a seconds thought to the colour of bacon - the only things I look for is that it's smoked and has a nice amount of fat.

Now that I do think about it, the colour of bacon (well, as far as my broken eyes can tell!) is a bit... 'weird' for cured meat - I actually find the colour of parma ham more pleasing.

I just checked online at the local supermarket (Tesco in the UK), and it seems they don't even stock bacon made without nitrites, which is quite disappointing.
> It's kind of sad. There are jobs I'd rather do, but I've consciously chosen one that I like less because it has more status and pays more, in significant part because it has improved my dating prospects.

How is that sad. You've actively decided to trade more of your effort to get more of other people's effort. Its a win win.

And you can stop at any time.