skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The governments all across the world need to stop this cancer of misinformation and deception from spreading any further. We need to make them stop it."

The irony is, a good number of these govs persist because of misinformation and deception. Until a tool like FB actually undermines that status quo the odds of change are low.

Look at the alleged Russian interference in the USA. The USA's spin was on the order of "we would never do that." Obviously, we know, that's no true. The US has been "protecting American interests" for ages.
One of the http caches has a priority policy where you can prioritize small files over large ones under the presumption that for some workloads communication overhead (including setup tear down and connection pooling) dominates the cost. Storing ten small results may be less wear and tear on the system than one big one.

Which is essentially the same observation this policy is based on, but with gradations instead of a binary decision.
USSR lost about 2000 tanks at Dubno operation (1941) in one(!) battle, because of problems with engines, fuel, and lack of communication. Germans had no tanks at all at that time (according to USSR classification, Germans had light armored vehicles, with anti-riffle armor only). Tank is good only if it operational and under command.
Most financial firms have decent lockdown... Generally firewalls prevent file sharing sites, web mail, connecting to any external port that's not http or https. I've seen some places prevent direct IP connections (need a hostname to connect). USB and SD card slots are disabled... Not to say that there still aren't dozens of ways to get around all this if you really wanted to.
I am not sure what you are trying to say here in regards to the IRS sending a prefilled tax return bass in their knowledge and you then being able make corrections as you see fit.
"Economists will tell you that wages generally increase with productivity"

This is one of the biggest furphies/lies/trick..

humans can only do say 8hrs hard work every day.. that's it.. there is not, and never was a possibility of a "productivity increase" unless you were lazy.
Would not surprise me that if you replaced the Google blob with MiniG that battery life would improve on Android.

I keep seeing report after report that Play Services in particular can be a real drain.
This is not parallel construction, assuming their "other reasons" for suspecting these people are legitimate and disclosed. Parallel construction is when law enforcement receives information about a crime in an illegal way or a way that cannot be disclosed, and reconstructs a plausible way in which the crime might have been discovered.

This is just building enough evidence to convict someone based on matching a photograph of a partial finger to a suspect's hand. Which sounds perfectly reasonable and legitimate (as legitimate as fingerprints can be). Just because there's not enough in the photo to match a national database doesn't mean there's not enough to be statistically certain it's a match with the suspect.
One notable thing is that in Windows the behavior of taskbar changed around the time of Windows 98SE/2000 (I'm not sure in which version exactly). Originally the "orphaned" tray icons just were there and you could not cause them to go away, "new" behavior is that first event (ie. hover) causes them to be destroyed.
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Blame Facebook for poor name choice. ReactOS is much older than React, the JS library.
I would greatly appreciate any links to how tos. I looked into this 3+ yrs ago and came up empty.
I don't know what your point is, but you haven't provided any evidence that the United States is better than China on human rights.

And since it's on topic, just today I read an article about a state government trying to use eminent domain to kick people out of their own houses and build a FoxConn factory: http://beltmag.com/blighted-by-foxconn

I live in the United States, and love it here, but it doesn't do us any good to stick our heads in the sand and pretend that we don't have human rights problems of our own.
that's pretty much the only way to do it though.. if you go any higher-level then it's just pre-baked out of the box visualization. As low level as d3 seems to be, there is probably no more intuitive data visualization that is bound to web display technology.
This means that any time someone is unhappy with the decision, Google (or an other company) has to shell out tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees. Maybe Google can keep doing that for a few months but a normal startup would just grant every single request rather than having to fight it in European courts.

The decision should be made by some independent privacy committee which reviews all the facts, and right to be forgotten requests should go through that committee rather than directly to Google
Yeah, I've been confused too. The website itself doesn't help: no "About" or "What is ReactOS?" in the main nav. I ended up looking it up on Wikipedia to find out what it is: an open source OS that is intended to be binary compatible with Windows.

This does actually ring a bell for me - I seem to remember mention of it very early in the century. That perhaps cuts to the heart of the issue: it's been going as a project since 1996, yet it's still only considered alpha. In other words, I'm not so sure it's going anywhere fast, and I'm not sure what you'd really use it for.
Maybe. But I've heard a lot of movies are great (from classics like Citizen Kane to newer movies like Lady Bird), and normally it just makes me disappointed that I don't think they're as great as they've been built up to be. Casablanca really is a great movie, that stands even without context.
It’s right there in the name.
Brave browser has NoScript in settings.
data visualization that is interactive and works on a platform that is universal. python produces only static output right?
One example of a relatively popular YT personality pushing back is Philip DeFranco:

https://youtu.be/Gbph5or0NuM

The linked video is about 1 year old but he has made several comments about the demonitization process since then as well. I linked to the older one because the issues with YT accounts and income has been going on for quite some time.
"To criticize Ethereum as "an extremely slow computer" is the laziest, no-effort, no-thought attack you can make"

Sorry that the truth hurts. We've been doing this exact same thing since the late 70s and nothing has changed, at all. It's slow, its hugely wasteful, half of these 'contracts' I could execute on my phone faster than I could on the 'network.' And as shown, lots of room for basic-level stupidity to happen like lost Ether.
I wouldn’t count on Microsoft supporting XP era software 10 or 20 years from now, and I wouldn’t ask them to.
That's a terrifying thought. For example the DeepFakes scandal was based on convincingly plastering celebrity's faces onto other video. If you had good data on someone's fingerprints I imagine it's inevitable that at some point you could do the same to put their fingerprints onto a photo of a hand.
> Zillow has such reach that they can low-ball every offer so that 99% of people won't take it - but as long as 1% of people do

It'd be pretty inconsistent to put in a lowball offer when your company publishes an estimated value for every home in the market.
How is that possible? You either need to specify the types up front (like Go) or give up on static type safety (like Python). It's impossible to have both.
Well done, this is both comprehensive and interactive.
They do until Microsoft decides they don't. Unfortunately I don't know of any guarantees that MS has made about forever supporting XP comparability.
"the whole thing might as well be hosted on an Oracle database"

At least the performance difference would be negligibly minimal, given how bad my interactions with various OracleDBs were.
>This is logo of the car

It's not about the car. It's about a totally different product -- razor blades.
You can have functional platforms without the creepy and manipulative behavior that Facebook uses. Facebook would be a better Facebook if it were a service for users instead of advertisers.

The problem with Facebook is that it is owned and controlled by an individual whose personality, ethical standards and philosophy seems to be pretty static and problematic in many ways.
In fact, the one comment I've seen from Vitalik on this matter was pretty skeptical of any sort of bailout, expressing a desire for these sorts of actions to be increasingly difficult to achieve.
I wish all release notes were as detailed as these... Now a days you're lucky if you get anything aside from "Bug fixes and minor enhancements" with some releases... What changed??? It's useless to have a changelog if it doesn't document anything substantial.
A complete non sequitur.
I was surprised to find it has been going since 96.
There is some good info on this site: https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/83578.html
>All countries in the world was pre-industrial monarchies just 150 years ago

You'd be very surprised.

>in addition to their own soldiers at war.

All 20 of them?
I pay for a VPN, Cloud Storage, VPS hosting, and Encrypted Email; I'd probably pay for Maps if Open Street Map weren't sufficient.

The total comes to just over $300/yr. That's... really not that much, is it?
This is an honest answer that I think many people who are outraged about privacy and advertising would begrudgingly have to admit if forced to really answer. The only way to know whether the price of something is too high or not is to put up two options. A free version where privacy is lost, and a paid version where it's not. See how many people opt for the paid version. Now unfortunately many services that go the advertising route do not offer a paid version. I happen to be in the camp that does pay for several services I use online, and I run a service that charges customers too. Where I can I like to pay and be free of advertising.
I realise that now but did have to do some googling to find out about the history of the project.
Given the places where they (edit: were) thinking to deploy it, I suspect that awareness of the LCS's crazy-thin armour would result in a proliferation of local .50 cal imports.
Can anyone comment if I can install old Windows 2000 games on this, like C&C Red Alert? Would it work?
I think it's fair to say Western societies have at least one millennium of being easily roused by pretty crude propaganda and much more polarised when the economy's not going so good. It's not like good old fashioned paid-for newsprint had a reputation for not provoking hysteria on a mass scale, or like the most obnoxious political commentators on the internet don't have Patreon accounts. Nothing to do with the payment model and everything to do with people being willing to influence and others being easily influenced.
I think it doesn't work well for questions with simple answers; it's meant for more open-ended questions. I got much better responses for some random questions I just thought up: "What will AI enable in the future?" "Why are so many depressed?" etc.
Recently I had an issue activating XP on Eee PC after a RAM/SSD upgrade (setting it up as a retro-gaming console, better performance than RetroPie). I had to resort to registry hacks and msoobe to suppress activation forever, despite having product key at the back of the netbook - XP CD wasn't accepting it at all. One more situation where legal owners have to waste more time than pirates... If ReactOS makes it far enough to run on Eee PC, I'll get rid of XP.
Has there ever been a study on the efficacy of Vipassana on clinical depression. How do you think this would affect a depressed person? Would it exacerbate their suicidal ideation or will their depression melt away?
I didn't downvote you (seems a bit harsh), but just so you know ReactOS development has been going for over 20 years, which is a lot longer than ReactJS (which is approximately 7 years old).
This has to be willful ignorance designed to pretend its just about managing hardware while ignoring the elephant in the room of compromising your business's (and client's) privacy.

You might not like data center management, but the trade you are making is giving hypervisor control to a third party with 10s of thousands of employees outside of your oversight which also happens to be one of the most valuable targets for hackers in the world. You could easily have AWS employees (or hackers who have compromised the control network) dumping everything interesting from your HD images to the highest bidder and you have no means to detect this.

AWS is okay if you are only collecting relatively innocuous consumer account info, but it's completely unacceptable for any companies holding data/executing processes that can have a major impact on society when it leaks/fails.
They have a testnet, are working on a second testnet, will freeze the spec once that testnet is running, and have funded multiple teams to formally verify the design's properties. That effort is going well and should be finished within four months.

This is just for the initial hybrid design, but last I saw, that design reduces PoW reward by 80%, which necessarily decreases energy consumption by about the same amount. Recently I saw Vitalik claim that the finality provided in the hybrid design is the hard part, and going the rest of the way to full PoS is relatively easy.
It was tried before (remember Vessel[0]?) but never caught on, even with a massive amounts of money they raised and were willing to spend. Most competitors believe that YouTube's proposition is similar to Netflix. You get quality content and people will come. But that's not how YouTube gets its audience.

In minds of general population, YouTube is a search engine. The was majority believe that YouTube aggregates the content all around the Web. Why wouldn't they? The content shows up there minutes after it originates somewhere else. It's almost impossible to prevent it from gaining any traction on YouTube. Another company just tried to go against them. You can read how it went here https://vid.me

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vessel_(website)
Wouldn't semantic searching be far more application as an extension of google scholar or google patents?
I don't know the exact rules but in the UK, when calling 999 you're asked which service you require. Fire service will only get police involved when they need it or automatically when more than 2 Fire Engines are dispatched. Ambulance calls can result in an Ambulance with a crew of 2 or a single paramedic in a sensible estate car (station wagon) with a big engine, they'll call the Air Ambulance if they need one and it's free. Dispatchers will send who they think you need as they see fit. That includes Lifeboat Service or Mountain Rescue. Or Police, of course. Each service will obviously ask for backup as required.

The BIG difference with what you've described though is the layout of the UK is much denser than USA. The resources available and the nature and frequency of call outs will obviously be quite different.
I posted this article [1] Earlier today, but am linking here because I thought it showed how futile deleting an account actually is.

In short, your data doesn’t hardly matter. Facebook is capable of generating tons of meta-data that you have no control over.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16845031
I have to concur. I was confused for a moment about the staggering number of deaths caused by terrorism, until I realised what was going on.
Narcos will not attack the US Navy because it is not about a single battle. They would not risk retaliation from the US military.
"The central idea behind Remote Browser is that there's no need to reinvent the wheel when modern browsers already ship with an extremely powerful cross-browser compatible API that's suitable for automation tasks."

Thats already what the webdriver API accomplishes, and its a w3c standard. https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/

People still call it 'selenium' for whatever reason, but chromedriver/geckodriver/edgedriver are all implementations of the protocol for each existing browser (safari's might be built in?).

Granted the web extensions API would likely allow for some additional powerful options, but at the cost of some missing features.
I expected to be downvoted for not knowing this.
>USSR supplied most of the manpower, but without the American military-industrial complex, Germans would have rolled all the way to the Pacific with no problem.

That's revisionist history -- and not the way things went down, or even how people that lived it knew them to be.

https://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5814270/the-successful-70-year...

Or even how Hitler knew them to be:

https://www.feldgrau.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13647
What? No. Check out Jupyter, for example. Of course that's a totally different platform, but I wouldn't call that "static".
Let's not forget that YouTube is sponsoring and enabling unethical government psyops against American citizens:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-citizen-psychological-wa...
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EU country: My employer reports my salary and already paid my taxes for me, deducted from my pay check.
All banks report what I paid in interests on my loans and how much interest I got paid on my savings accounts. They also report what profits I made from funds and whether I sold any at a profit (in which case they deducted and paid the tax on those profits).

The rates are fixed for most kinds of income that entities other than employers are concerned with. So a bank can deduct the dividends tax easily. Tax brackets for salary taxes exist, but so long as you have one employer only, and don't suddenly get a massive pay hike/cut, they will know your yearly income and can deduct given the correct bracket. There is no decrease in take-home pay and no confusion (I honestly didn't quite understand where the confusion would arise?)

If too much or too little has been paid for the whole year, that's simply mentioned at the bottom line of your prefilled online tax return form.
The Ethereum devs have not chosen to mess with the block chain. This is a proposal written by the entity that lost the most money (and also caused the problem in the first place).

It's possible that the devs will choose to go along with this change, but they've previously rejected several other proposals to recover these funds.
> People want a competitor that offers what YouTube offers: a way to get paid for uploading videos.

The problem is actually bandwidth costs; unless you're at the scale of Google (where bandwidth and storage is really cheap for you), advertising alone wouldn't even pay for the service itself, let alone pay the uploaders.
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I'm wondering if the scooters are up to being used every day for months. The normal kind are made to last only as long as a person might use them - which might total a few hours or miles until they lose interest. Are these different?
... and these idealists have finally found a backer!

They've become preferred suppliers of the Russian and Chinese governments.

:-~
I've never heard this before. My edits certainly aren't rejected, and aside from a few top contributors I doubt anyone recognizes usernames (so I nor others would have such bias). It's extremely rare that I have to undo some of someone's work because there are real mistakes.

Could you link the changeset perhaps? I'm curious now.
Do we really think our world of venture backed startups is significant enough to directly impact inflation?
“What Did the Probe and the Whales Say to Each Other”?
During the last community meeting there was talk that the browser engine is getting updated, but no more details than that:

http://merproject.org/meetings/mer-meeting/2018/mer-meeting....
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The key factor is to learn the sound of each letter at speed, rather than counting dots and dashes. If you're to use Morse with any degree of fluency, you need to instinctively recognise the sound "dah-dit-dah-dit" as C, rather than counting "dash, dot, dash, dot" or mentally scanning through T, N, K and then C. It's helpful to think of Morse as a kind of music rather than a coding system.

Most successful learners use the Koch method, which transmits characters at 20wpm equivalent speed but with longer gaps between each character. You start by learning to distinguish two similar letters (A and N or K and R), then adding letters one by one. Learning at slower speeds or using a visual letter chart is actively harmful - it encourages you to count dots and dashes rather than listening to the sound of each letter as a complete rhythmic pattern. The order in which you learn the letters is largely unimportant.

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It took billions of years to evolve us. We have only been working on this seriously for less than 100 years and the progress is reminiscent of the Cambrian explosion.

Again humans evolved from dumb atoms why is that easier to believe?
Oops no, I'm in Iowa, USA and live in the boonies. I go into town for lunch most days, in a long-sleeved dress shirt, suit pants, a tie (but I wear a bolo), a jacket and decent shoes. Not terribly fancy but not 'casual' at all.
Subscription services are such a pain, because so many companies do their best to trick you with deceptive pricing models and service agreements.

I often don't want to haul out the credit card because it takes so much energy to evaluate a service.
I don't know which country you live in but I've talked to paramedics about this issue, and it's extremely rare (at least in my country). Once in a blue moon, an old woman living in isolation in a village or something will call an ambulance just to get in town. In that case, she could only do this once because the issue got talked about.

Nobody has infinite access because the access is limited by human intervention. It's limited based on need, not available cash.
There is no Taiwanese. Just Chinese.
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8210 Snapdragon 200

I don't think they're looking for Qualcomms.
This is corruption.
the number of people are irrelevant, 100 people making 4000+ calls to emergency services is outstanding regardless of the size of the population or the time period.
The structure of these projects is a long way from abstractions that deal with "Oh Shit, I'm lost and I'm late" well. The projects are largely inward focused and there's a lot of developers talking among themselves instead. The Open Street Maps page has no "Fix an Error" link. It has Help. Typing in an address and getting irrelevant data isn't a user error. It's a bug. Help is the wrong abstraction.

Gnome Maps is a layer of abstraction on top of that. Not only is there no "Fix an Error" link, there's no clear path for an end user reach the Beginner's page in the OSM Wiki explaining how to edit data.
Fair enough, it's not my area of expertise.
See eg:
https://github.com/reactos/reactos/blob/master/ntoskrnl/incl...
Have you tried asking people for directions?

I find talking to other people and asking for directions is better because you (sometimes get shortcuts and) meet new people, find out interesting facts, get updates like, "Yeah it's over there but it's closed due to flooding" or, "over there mate but if you go around the back you'll skip the queue." Aint no online system telling you those gems.

I've also found reading a static map and or remembering the directions given to me, or discovering them through exploration, solidifies the knowledge and I remember them long term.

We rely too much on GPS.
How would you know if the paid version is privacy respecting or not? If for example FB had a 5$/mo subscription that was ad free, how would you know that access to your database wasn't still being sold?

For me that kind of problem is the blocker, and "oh look nobody paid for for the premium version, therefore people don't value privacy" is a bit disingenuous.