skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The VC, Taliban and everything that followed also heavily leveraged explosives against an underarmored opponent in their fights-- it wasn't just a matter of small arms. It should be telling that you can currently keep your toy guns, but god help you if you try to buy fertilizer and blasting caps in America without a damn good reason.

Waco and Ruby Ridge had an endless arsenal of small arms. It didn't help them.
Minimum gap size for the gap at the top and bottom, right? A minimum gap size for between the different wall pieces and the door would be crazy.
One can recognise an engineer to how long one can watch, fascinated, "how it's made"! It's a great show.
That might be true now. What happens should Apple go bankrupt? Will those who buy the assets uphold the culture?
Specs where?

I couldn't figure out what SoC it has, how much RAM, or even whether it's any better than their existing Omnia.
> Many other major powers have heavily invested in AI across all fronts (including military applications), and it would be stupid for the US to not have one of its' largest strategic assets to not be part of the process.

I'd say it's stupid for people to fuel those "powers" that use real, threatened or imagined conflict with each other to exploit and control mostly them.

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/from...

> WALLACE: Of course, our, our main concern as human beings, certainly in this part of the world, is to survive, and to stay free, and to realize ourselves. How does all that you've said affect our ability to survive, and to stay free, in this world that is now in crisis?

> FROMM: Well, I think you touch upon a very important point here: namely, we must make a decision of values...If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?" If these are supreme values, then they are there, and whether we live or we die, we shall not change these values. But if we begin to say, "Well, maybe we can cope better with the Russians if we also transform ourselves into a managed society......if we, as somebody put it the other day, train our soldiers to be like the Turks, who have fought so bravely in Korea...if we are willing to change our whole way of life for the sake of so-called "survival," then I think we do exactly that which threatens our survival. Because our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces. I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.

Generally, whenever I hear people talk about inevitability, while ignoring how much of our world "is" because of the things we repeatedly decide to do, I have to think of Richard Stallman:

> Somebody is saying this is inevitable - and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.

As for China and how we must not allow a mineshaft gap, there's this Chinese proverb:

> He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.

If you don't have corpses in your basement, there's a lot of people scared shitless of you, and they'd love nothing more than for you to get onboard. Don't get onboard.
Because Facebook is theoretically not a news media channel, with hired content creation promoting something as factual reporting. Certainly if an individual posts libelous content, they should be legally responsible for that content. But it's ostensibly not Facebook's content, as a social media provider, and international users make legal enforcement near impossible. Propaganda has always existed in opinion pieces, reporting on "rumors" to disclaim themselves, flyers outside official media channels, etc. Facebook doesn't affect any of that whether it's social media or becomes news media.

Again, it's 4chan with more rules. Anybody can post anything. It's not a place of fact or truth. It's of people sharing their lives, thoughts, hobbies, opinions, notices, likes & dislikes, etc. Some extremist $SIDE-wing Facebook channel is simply posting such things. It's not an official channel for trustworthy news, it's users being social, whether that user is Aunt Flo or CNN.

The core problem is that people think it's a "trustworthy" information platform (and Zuckerberg wants that trust for more customer buy-in). It's not. And it won't be, unless you remove the core personal family & friends social aspect of it.
I suppose the same could be said about the occasional "hole in the floor" I've encountered in europe, with footprints on either side so you know where to squat. WTF.
(ysnippet) an emacs yasnippet-like plugin for the vim-like editor in python
Seconded, Normal Accidents is one of the best books I've ever read. In addition to the maritime accidents, there are chapters on nuclear plants, chemical plants, and dams. It is a great discussion of how modern industrial accidents rarely have a single cause but instead are cascade failures of systems whose complexity has evolved beyond what we can handle, and presaged many of the messes we've got into with hyper-scale software projects before those ever existed.

Is there a "sequel" to Normal Accidents about software? Because I'd buy that in a heartbeat.
“This data is from the 1990s and is based on people’s subjective views of what would have happened if they did not use a gun.”

These are not hard stats, they’re self reports from people who had occasions where they felt safer carrying. Peak confirmation bias. Of course we can find 100k people whose guns made them feel safer once.

But that’s not the question we are trying to answer. We want to know if you are actually protected by owning a firearm. The evidence suggests it has quite the opposite effect.
I've also read somewhere and it send true for me that users typically engage with only a small number of non-OS apps regularly (maybe 3-5?). I know when considering launching a business, apps seem more like swinging for a home run.
OpenSSH 7.7 has just been released
The degree to which something interferes in someone’s life, their ability to function, etc. If you’re suicidally depressed, or psychotic, it’s a clear distinction for obvious reasons. It’s not about comparing to some standard, you can believe strange things, be unhappy, and so on, but if it starts to make you unable to live your life, it might be a problem.
I use a library so have about 10+ on rotation every 2 weeks covering every topic. graphic novels, reference books, programming books, science books. with membership to 3 libraries it's much better than owning them and letting the get dusty on a shelf. I admit this came as a result of moving country and having to sell all my books. I will never go back to owning books I have so much variety now. public libraries are the greatest institution to exist.
Do you think the US should stop developing military technology? I doubt it, and I doubt many Google employees do, either. I doubt they would be happy to live in a world where the U.S. has a weaker military than countries like China or Russia. I also doubt they would approve of throwing out our advanced targeting technology in favor of Vietnam-style carpet bombing.

They are uncomfortable with killing people even though a technologically-advanced military is probably a good thing. They are comfortable with tracking and manipulating millions of people even though it's definitely a bad thing. This is squeamishness, not morality.
Thinking about this some more: it would be very straightforward to implement a leveldown API on top of fly.cache. That, paired with something like PouchDB, would give you an edge database. You could have one big centralized CouchDB server with a bunch of PouchDB clients at the edges.

Hmmm...
The appropriate email address seems to be abuse@telegram.org. Other channels (i.e. in app support) in contrast are being run by volunteers not affiliated with Telegram.
>I just hope people, including a lot of people reading this, remember this for longer than two or three news cycles.

Name one thing that people remember for more than 2 news cycles.
That could be interpreted as "will it cause a schedule problem", or "is there another option I should consider" or "might this make it worse". Ultimately he never actually asks a question, just says what he's thinking about doing. To me it reads like the captain is keeping his superiors in the loop, but still has controll.

The problem with the response is that it has clearly been treated as a request ("diversion request heads up through Old Bahama Channel understood and authorized") that could have been denied.

It's obviously not an admission of guilt, but a red flag that's worth investigating.
About time they cleaned it up a bit. I find the app store a bit of a mess and finding a good quality app for a particular task is rather difficult at times. The best app is rarely the most "discoverable" so the more noise they remove the better.
> The other question is whether there actually is a reason that it will eventually do so. I personally have my doubts. C has found that perfect sweet spot between not getting in the way of doing things and running on almost any platform.

That is the question. The way I see it, Rust's attractiveness to C developers goes up considerably the more accountable they are for the code they ship. If IoT and embedded devices start having repercussions for out of date, exploitable firmware/services, either through public opinion, legal or legislative means, making a switch to a language that provides more guarantees starts to look a lot more feasible and attractive to a lot of C die-hards.
It would be nice to know what this does without having to sign up (confirmation email takes forever) and fill out the questionnaire. The users all have stock photo profile pictures. And to do literally anything (message or view profile) I have to pay.
Maybe the skin around the anus is more resilient to bacteria?
There is something beautiful about randomly generated maps, especially in RTS games. 0AD has quite a few that are stunning.
This is an interesting argument, but the article doesn’t say this at all. The complaint isn’t that affirmative action helps recipients, but that it hurts Asian Americans.

I suppose there are some people arguing against you, but it may be more productive to argue the point at hand.

Or at least we can all nod and agree that the net gain to recipients of affirmative action outweighs any negatives. And move on to the lawsuit’s question of “Why should Asian Americans suffer?”

I completely agree with your point about wealth being very important. But it’s not a good analogy to affirmative action based on some races. I’ve spent a bit of time in Ivy League schools and it’s still wealthy minorities who are the main benificiary of affirmative action. So wealth is a given for admission regardless of if you’re pro-AA or anti-.
> Just as much so as comparing a local watershed-impacting factory to a state's usage.

Well, since you ask, here's the watershed comparison:

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/deq/deq-dwmad-eh-swpu-Fina...

4) The supply potential of the water source, considering quantity, quality, and reliability and safe yield of hydrologically interconnected water sources;

Application materials, extensive evaluation and consideration by staff, along with experience with the aquifer in the area, lead staff to conclude that the aquifer can sustain the proposed withdrawal without deleterious
effects to the dependent resources.
66M: The Early Bird Gets the Puma (2015)
This is not old news and the examples you provided are not proof that they were doing it prior.

It is perfectly possible to crawl pages to get titles and FavIcons client side or using a web service that don't necessarily keep a log of these requests.

Same thing for censoring links. You can have a static list of disallowed domains and do all the filtering client side or have a web service that given a link returns true or false if it should be censored. It doesn't necessarily means it needs to be logged, kept, associated with a user or manually analyzed.

What we're seeing now is that facebook is actively looking at whole messages, that's a step up from the previous instances. It's still unclear if this is all automated or if some are manually reviewed. It's also unclear if these are associated with a user, or anonymized when analyzing them. Are these logged? How long are they kept for? Facebook should be more clear on how this all works. Otherwise we're just left guessing.
They haven't any custom driver, CRDB is binary compatible with postgresql drivers, are marked as beta because "maybe" there is feature they haven't implemented. So far using pqxx (C++ driver) I haven't seen any issue.
If you're using a dedicated IP, then yes, they are being lazy. Or they have some vendetta with sendgrid maybe.

There's always the possibility that your dedicated IP isn't as clean as you would hope. You can check here: https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
Show HN: All work and no Tetris
I already knew RISC-V was/is faster in benchmarks. But does that translate to transparently emulating x86_64 for the majority of use cases?
Mmm... I'm not sure I'm reading this correctly, but it seems that these portfolios only win against BTC. So if you just invested in ETH, you'd have done much better.

I guess what I'm saying is that you're not reducing risk by keeping the same expected return (well, unless you arbitrarily claim that all cryptocurrencies have the same expected return, for which there's no data evidence). You're just averaging your returns.
I don't know specifically about this Nestle plant -- although they are shits for going after limited water resources in the Shasta watershed in California.

But as to various forms of high-capacity wells in general, in neighboring Wisconsin, not only are other pre-existing wells at risk from this -- which the Republican state government continues to seek to reduce regulation of and control over, meaning planning and effective and fair management of a limited resource. New high-capacity wells are also threatening and impacting lakes. A lot of those wells are for agri-business, such as very large capacity commercial animal husbandry/farming.

In those cases, the other risk is resulting animal waste; disposal often leaves it contaminating the aquifer.

Quite arguably, this isn't "conservative" at all. They aren't conserving resources -- nor existing property rights and businesses. It is "Conservative", an ideology that places money and individual short-term gain before all else.
>or puritanical reasons (make sure people aren't having sex?)

Nope, many of our airports have stall walls that go to the floor to discourage cruising.
You seem incredulous that anyone can have a good faith argument against the "right to be forgotten."

One person's right to be forgotten conflicts with the public's interest in knowing things. For example, if a given doctor has botched several surgeries, and I am considering to become his patient, the doctor's right to have those incidents forgotten conflicts with my interest in knowing his track record. This is one example, but such cases are myriad.

Of course the laws surrounding the right to be forgotten in Europe are not boundless (though they are, to my mind, quite vague) and I'm sure supporters will be quick to point out the the case of the doctor above may not be covered by the right to be forgotten. And that is a nice point in theory, but in practice is moot. Europe has put the burden of correctly determining what is in the public interest squarely on the shoulders of online aggregators. If an aggregator's interpretation of a broad set of laws is later found to not be in keeping with the opinion of European courts, the aggregators are the ones that will be footing the fines.

Forcing search engines to all become court systems which adjudicate millions of cases is extremely onerous. Companies are not going to spend billions doing that. They are just going to remove whatever requests they get, DMCA style. The end result is that Europe has given everyone a more or less unrestricted delete button. Google has already delisted more than a million URLs (including for a doctor that botched several surgeries).

Further, until the the whole world gets on board, I imagine there will always be access to search engines that do not delist results. So not only are companies forced to rubber stamp millions of delist requests, it's also completely pointless!

Personally, if society believes the right to be forgotten is worth enshrining, instead of shirking responsibility of actually enforcing it onto tech giants, we should have the courts adjudicate the requests so that the public interest will be appropriately weighed. Of course this will be much more expensive, but like health, education, and so on, doing the right thing is often expensive.
> That's completely incorrect because the state is run by politically elected leadership who ultimately answer to the people.

This isn't being voted by elected officials, this is being approved by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality following the standard procedure set in law by elected officials.

> If the people hated Nestle because its factories were painted green, they have the right to complain and ultimately vote for leadership that would disallow Nestle to paint their factories green.

Yes, and they should do so at the ballot or at their elected officials.

Or are you suggesting that any laws and regulations are legally void when 80k people comment against it?
I wonder if the numbers change if you filter out the applications that don't have an equivalent app on a different platform
That a tech worker on a tech website knows some people at a major tech company? Guess what I know people that work at almost every tech company you've heard of, that's what happens when you get old.

Try just going to eat at the Pho place across the street from Google in Boulder sometime, you'll hear people openly complaining about Sundar and Susan and chatting about their latest projects at full volume without a care in the world.
SHA-256 operates almost entirely on 32-bit values, because it's designed to be efficient to compute on general-purpose CPUs without special hardware support. The SHA-256 state consists of 8 32-bit integers, of which 2 are updated each round. (SHA-512 uses 64-bit integers instead for some reason.)
I wonder what Geoff Hinton's position on this is. He seems somewhat anti-military from some side comments in his Neural Networks course.
There is a great deal of societal value in empowering minority communities. And creating a diverse campus is a major starting point to developing a diverse and prosperous community.

We know from hard data that students from some communities are at an inherent disadvantage in the education system. From family environments to poverty to the mental strain of everyday racism to school funding to parental involvement, some students are at a severe disadvantage. Even when of equal intelligence, maturity and potential.

What universities do is account for these disadvantages in the mix. Is the system perfect? No. But it's good for our collective society, even if a few overachievers have to settle for Yale.
For those of us living in the service-development stone ages, is the idea that a secret-manager service replaces any number of ad-hoc local secret-storage and configuration mechanisms with a single robust mechanism that takes only a single root credential to retrieve all the individual secrets that your service needs?

You do still have to figure out a way to securely provide the root credential to your service so that it can fetch the secrets from the secret manager, correct? Otherwise this would be magic of a kind I think is impossible.

If my questions aren't too far off in the weeds, then this service sounds like a personal password manager but for a service rather than a person, though I'm sure AWS's service has finer-grained controls than just the all-or-nothing master passphrase. Similar risks apply: an attacker obtaining the master passphrase is a major issue, losing the master passphrase is devastating (though recoverable here because you probably didn't lose your personal AWS login credentials), and unavailability of the password database is catastrophic. But the usability benefits of having everything in one secure place, behind a service managed by experts, should outweigh those risks.

I have more questions about the credential-rotation feature, but this is enough for now.
absolutely - but they do not have to ensure that data they process is properly consented - that is the role of the data collector.
If I have taken only one thing away from living in Japan for near-on a decade, it is that the washlet (aka the cyber-bidet) is, quite possibly, mankind's greatest invention.

The predecessor to the above were small squeeze bottles full of water, and you can still buy various versions of these today, which are heaven-on-earth as a wilderness backpacker.

I picked up a travel bidet[1] for backpacking, and it has proven to be one of the best uses of six bucks that I can remember. Weighs in at 50g (~2oz), and not only cuts down on the amount of TP I need to pack in (and out), but it's also been a general lifesaver when traveling.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B007ZLB3NA
Does anyone have any good tools or processes for generating the kind of performance counters and information needed by this tool with a running python application?

I'd love to be able to generate a flamegraph for a django app, for example, and visualise it with flame scope.

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-November/1... discusses the problems with python and the `perf` tool. There may have been some patches applied recently to help, but it doesn't look like there was a full resolution.
Is it really debatable on whether or not discriminating against individuals/groups makes things fair for other individuals/groups? At best, you've made things fair for one group, unfair for another group. Meanwhile you've re-enforced the idea that it's institutionally acceptable to discriminate against groups of people for physical attributes they have no control over.... an idea I thought we were all supposed to be moving away from.
Your story is one I identify with 100% as of this writing. Differing circumstances but same core feelings.

Best way I can describe it is a mix of decision fatigue (all the problems roll up to a decision maker) and a need to feel like you’ve got the future figured out because those around you expect you to have it figured out.

Have you talked about it with your partners/investors? For me, the most powerful shift and action I’m taking is to chunck down our general direction for the next 2 years into specific tangible goals. It doesn’t really relieve the pressure but these goals give you an actionable framework to talk with the people you need support from to make them happen.

The talking and getting other people stoked about the future is what is helping to relieve the pressure in my situation.

Ping me if you want to chat.
It's almost as if they shouldn't have made with with OLED
The number of college aged Asian Americans has been growing much faster than the number of Asian Americans admitted to Ivy League schools, which is quite suggestive of discrimination.
Most of the spam that hits my work email is people offering to sell email lists...
Announcing the Coinbase Commerce API
This sums up the entire event in one sentence. Deflecting the question and continue to live in some inconsistent bubble.