skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a crazy thought. It's also a crazy thought to extrapolate that process all the way to how current first world countries operate. You can kind of start to bridge the gap between the two and see that our society is just an extreme manifestation of that whole scenario you described. We know that in fact there was a direct set of events that got us here, but it's also easy to separate the way humans lived and how we live now, as if they are detached but you can see a lot of those early behaviors still operating in our industrialized society.
No, the reason is that you (and other people) don't know if it works. Trust in a brand can be a big factor in supportable price.
> That's not general POSIX, right? I seem to recall it's Bash-specific? (P.S. I think you forgot quotes?)

Wrong. (And no, I did not.)

POSIX, or rather SUS (I've never had an access to POSIX), mandates ${foo%...}
syntax and its three cousins. And assignment is not subject to word
splitting for variable expansion.
Why is "One" so popular? A lot new buildings in my city has this word as well.
I don't think Western-exported goods contribute massively to pollution in Asia. Local consumption drives most of it. You can't really blame disposable chopsticks or plastic bags in the Yellow River on Western consumers.

That being said, I disagree with the spirit of your comment. When ABC corp relocated to underdeveloped country so they can avoid regulatory burden (be it pollution, or labor laws), the end goal is to achieve competitive product pricing back home. A portion of the $$ they save in Asia is passed down to the Western consumer.

Whether you want to feel guilty about it ("they only make 50 cents an hour making my Nikes, outrageous!"), or proud ("they make a whole 50 cents thanks to me!") is up to you I guess, but the link is there.
The "right" way to handle this is as with email: get a domain name, and then use that for your JID. This means you can only use servers that support hosting a custom domain, but at least you can switch servers without changing your address.
But that is only true of things which do not come into existence, no? I can safely say I did not exist a thousand years ago, nor will I exist in a thousand years. Further, I can say that from my point of death on, I am non-existent. Similarly, before my birth, I was non-existent.

However, my state of non-existence ended at my birth. Just as my state of existence will end at my death.

In this regard, the future is not exactly like the past. In the past, there was never a time in which I came into existence. In the future, there was a time where I came into existence. Neither of those statements transfer between past and future.
Many people seem to love to look up to jerks. Look at the current resident of the White House for example. I've seen it in academia as well and I don't understand it. There was someone in the department I got my phd from that I saw be a total jerk to people for no reason and some people still worshiped him.
And doing so while ignoring several years of thoughtful iteration and design by the team at Puppet... This looks like Puppet language circa 0.24.
I enjoyed reading "Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer"[0]. At the end of the first half of the book, you wonder how anything can stop Xerox. In the second half, you learn how Xerox can stop Xerox.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/638812.Fumbling_the_Futu...
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If there were a way to pay $20/mo for access to ~5 publications/mo from a list of hundreds/thousands, that would be fantastic! Netflix for research. I'd pay for it. Would you?

It wouldn't be terribly challenging to build. The tricks are in making the deals with the content owners, and getting the word out to users.

The total market is 137 Billion/year ( https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-trends/market-research-re... ) Not bad.

Looks like half the market is the government. Might be enough there to build a business on. Hard to say. Requires more research.

Anyone think this could work?
Great point. The word "science" appears in the name of the field that I studied, yet I haven't seen any evidence that our current hiring processes in this field are better than random (i.e., the null hypothesis).

If I made a software company who openly declared that their hiring process was purely random, would it work as a company? Would it be legal? For that matter, is a standard tech interview legally valid[1]? What if there is no known valid method?

[1]: https://www.hiresuccess.com/blog/facts-about-validation
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No, it is much worse for homomorphic encryption than for conventional encryption. Homomorphic encryption systems are trying to push a computation to an untrusted server instead of just downloading the whole data set and doing the computation locally.

It is known that this doesn’t work if any one of these bullet points is true:

(a) the size of the results are correlated to facts contained in the answer and the attacker can get you to run queries (even if you don’t share the results)

(b) the computation on the server supports basic arithmetic

(c) the computation on the server supports equality tests

(d) it is computationally feasible for the server to perforn a computation over O(1) data by examining O(1) bytes.

Given those (and other, more subtle) constraints, the challenge is to design a practical HE service.

There aren’t any examples of people successfully building such a system so far.
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I think it’s only because they’re well known. "Amazon" could be a supermarket selling organic food; "WhatsApp" some site to recommand apps; "Facebook" another site to make books out of pictures of your family; "Uber" and "Bing" pretty much anything.
It's the existing paid extra Drive Storage that (despite the name) provided storage from Drive, Gmail, and Photos.

It's being rebranded to separate it from Drive.

And they have firm plans to make it family-shareable soon, and less firm plans to bundle other ancillary benefits with it down the line.
> They want you to use the web client.

I use the web app version exclusively -- based on that I don't agree.

Both the Twitter and Facebook Android/iOS web applications constantly push you to download the native client. They even get demanding sometimes. They want to be able to send you push notifications.
How often do you use voice+video with Facebook? Is it always voice+video or sometimes just voice?

I use Jitsi Meet links for now, for the rare time I need voice+video, because it works no matter what my contact has installed (more or less)
I wonder if it has something to do with stress and being highly involved in a subject.

Let's say I get involved in a pet project, put lots of bloody time on it, and get involved on it mentally. I can become a jerk when someone criticize it.

Taking critics is good. But it is very hard when you put lots of effort. Steve Jobs did put lots of work into Apple. That could made some of his reactions a backfire that people perceived badly.
I had an issue with one of the 7.x upgrades too. There was a weird efibootmgr upgrade as part of.. 7.3 i think it was? Maybe 7.2?

Anyway, here is a thread that I just found that seems to summarize the pain I went through at the time (alas, my path was far more circuitous)...

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2018-January/16786...
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It does exist, via libpurple. I think it was one of the first bridges. It is not currently maintained, AFAICT due to lack of general interest. Telegram, IRC, discord, slack, gitter etc. bridges are actively maintained, for comparison.
Pretty sure that until recently, the preferred mode of trash disposal in NY was to tug it into the ocean and let it loose.

edit: Yep, see [1]

> Through most of its history until the mid-1900s, New York’s primary method for disposing of its waste was simply to dump it into the ocean. At one point, as much as 80% of New York’s garbage ended up out at sea.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/oct/27/new-york-rubb...
I disagree. I used to be this gripe-y person, but the more experience I gained, the more I realized that everything is just the result of its trade-offs and started finding the griping both boring - who wants to complain constantly for years and years? - and less productive than maintaining more of an anthropologist's mindset.

So to me, constant griping is more of a not-that-much-experience signal.
Safe bash is what Perl was invented for. Don't downvote me.
How does viewing God and Christ as symbols for the greatest good make sense? If they existed and were anything remotely resembling what the Old and New Testaments describe they were incredibly immoral and psychopathic at various times.

I think we stand to learn quite a bit from reading the Christian bible, but I didn't walk away feeling like anyone should emulate the behavior on display.
I hope this is a joke…
Amazing story. Was I the only one who was disappointed that I cannot click the images to see a larger photos?? Surprisingly the internet doesn't seem to have a better resolution as well... :(
This discussion is in a topic about Orwell's "Notes on Nationalism." The first several paragraphs are spent defining what he is calling "nationalism." I had figured you had read it, or one of the various comments summing it up, or even questioned why I repeatedly mention "Orwell's definition of patriotism."
Is it a joke? Well, I'll bite. You do understand how cryptic and unbelievably this sounds to common folks? And even if, as a tech person, I could do such kind of magic I simply don't want to. I believe software must be dead simple to use. If it isn't, it means the designers screwed up their job.
For those too lazy to fetch everything to local (like me), the same shortcuts are available in the web interface as well. Pressing '?' pops up a full list of options.
This is how I turned photos into better experiences
I wonder if I'm missing something. Given 10 minutes of load for pre warming, I was getting 95th percentile times of 1.6 seconds with a bare minimum node lambda hello world function. I threw 1,000 concurrent requests at it across 4 threads, with a 1,000 concurrent execution limit configuration on aws.

I was really excited about lambda, but that is flat out terrible performance for a lot of users. Is this not an issue for others? Why not?
> try with Secure Boot turned off

I tried. I don't have the details, but no luck. Thanks.
I had not considered that, it makes sense. The brain does tend to take shortcuts whenever possible.
If by elective you mean that validators can easily ignore past blocks, that can be solved by a commit/reveal algorithm or multi party computation.
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"Illegally enslaved" isn't accurate. The slave trade was legal at the time. What wasn't legal was the ship (and/or captain), and the destination.
That seems like the other possibility, yeah. My eye sees what looks like a meaningfully different number or density of bacterial clusters on the "detergent" sample in that comparison, but I could pretty easily imagine it falling into a "close enough to be statistically indistinguishable" category. (I would have expected detergents to damage cell membranes enough to make some kind of difference, but I'll admit this is awfully far from my expertise in high-energy physics. :) )
The combined HI and LO are 64x64->128 on Mips64. You just have to use dmult instead of mult.
Tweetdeck is still offered as a desktop client. Though these days its is ony available as a webapp via https://tweetdeck.twitter.com or as a Chrome app.
Not the GP, but I shoot with an X-Pro2 when I'm using digital, but I prefer working with film and I'm still pissed that Acros is being discontinued.
This is why I initially hesitated to implement a streaming interface for my crypto library¹ (authenticated encryption and signatures). I eventually did it, but felt compelled to sprinkle the manual with warnings about how streaming interfaces encourage the processing of unauthenticated messages.

Now that we have a vulnerability with a name, I think I can make those warning even scarier. I'll update that manual.

[1]: https://monocypher.org/
I use Conversations for text and Jitsi Meet for voice/video (or jmp.chat for voice and SMS, but that's not XMPP on the voice side, only for SMS). Jitsi doesn't require an account to use which is especially nice.
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I am very much a layman here. Can someone in this space tell me what it means to shine light on a number?
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Allowing preconnects when remote resource loading is disabled would be a serious security fail, so I hope that's not what Thunderbird is doing. Suppose I initiated a connection to long-unique-identifier.mysite.com? At minimum this could be used for tracking beacons, possibly even to exfiltrate data.
A thing I often see is people pointing to specifications and saying "look it's all fixed".

But you can't chat using a piece of digital paper. What matters not is what the protocol can theoretically do, but the experience you can have if you open a client right now.
I'd like to see more specific & detailed examples.
so western countries throw our trash into the ocean using Chinese rivers because westerners are too cheap to pay for good recycling?

still seems like the west is responsible.
Your comment is completely untethered from any understanding of the Constitution and American federalist system. Authority and sovereignty in the U.S. flows upward from the people to the states and then to the federal government. The federal government likely cannot make it illegal to place a sports bet, which is why Congress was trying to commandeer the state governments to do it. Federal sovereignty is explicitly limited (particularly through the Bill of Rights) and not nearly as arbitrary and sweeping as you think it is. Even your sanctions example is wrong, the U.S. could not just make it illegal for Americans to gamble in Canada. Such a narrow provision would be unconstitutional, the federal government would have to demonstrate a national foreign policy reason (a legitimate function of the federal government) for it to pass such a law and have it survive court challenge.
Yeah, I was thinking it was that or my probably-unneccessary flippant attitude. (And btw, I truly do appreciate HN's habit of trying to explain downvotes.)

I just get triggered at low-effort skepticism. Tomsaga read the word "stable" and assumed it meant "absolutely stable", and didn't ask himself "huh, I wonder if the pop-sci article is masking a more complicated concept with an easy-to-digest concept".

To get more into the climate stability: What they're doing is measuring the difference in temperature and precipitation between the Last Glacial Max and the Last Interglacial. And the maps don't even have `0` in their range, they have a small number but not zero. So yes, climate wasn't stable, but they were able to measure "how stable" it was. (Pages 1-3 in the paper.)
Probably some primitive instinct that looks up to the alpha of the group.
If you're hacker looking to start your own micro-ISP using cool stuff, I think you should take a look at https://altheamesh.com/.
> This may be related to having an older machine that doesn't support EFI boot.

The machine is a Thinkpad from the last couple of years. It definitely supports UEFI. I'd think it would have to be a very old machine to not support it at this point, or am I misunderstanding something?
As opposed to what that doesn't lock you in? I'd be curious to see how they do it. With an XMPP compatible account you could at least host with your own domain (by running your own server or using a hosted service like https://account.conversations.im/domain/), and then moving isn't too bad. If you fall under GDPR regulations you can presumably ask for a copy of your data now too, and then hand that to whatever your new provider is if you move. That being said, people don't move servers that often, so it doesn't seem like a huge deal either way to me. It could certainly be easier though. Maybe someone should write a spec for that or update one of the older ones?
I also was a big fan of Windows Phone. It was a good OS and the live-tile interface was brilliant. Also agree the introduction of the hamburger menu was confusing and pointless in replacing something that worked.

I don't think MS had any confidence in anything they were doing over that time because they never seemed to properly commit to anything. Win Phone could have been bigger and competitive if they'd focused effort on it (marketing - and no not MS's standard marketing 'quality,' app dev funding, etc)
True. It should be in the TOS that exposed api keys are subject to being revoked to prevent abuse. At least for certain services, and certain types of tokens.
The article points out that 89% of sea plastic is the throwaway kind, e.g. cutlery and plastic bottles. It's relatively simple to cut down on these. Switch to using aluminium cans instead of plastic bottles, they're much more likely to be recycled. Then obviously put the can in the recycling. Better yet, use your own water bottle. If you want bottled water get it in crates of glass bottles. Shops will often take the crates back to be washed and reused.
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> currently doesn’t

Yeah, we should be gentle with POSIX, it’s only 30 years young :)
the last ice age peaked about 21k years ago and ended about 11.5k years ago. Humans have been around for about 200k years, so it probably took some time 'getting on its feet' and reaching critical mass with the ending of the ice age to cause a global impact.

i myself do think we played a larger role. Woolly mammoths actually survived till about 4000 years ago by being in the most remote islands possible. To me, its like something you would see if there was some sort of zombie apocalypse and the last humans only survived in some remote island, far far away from land. Eventually, humans did reach that island, to which the mammoth immediately died off. Though climate change probably played a role, and could have been the primary one, I don't feel it was.
I've used blender for about 14 odd years. I stream it from time to time, if you're interested in seeing how it looks with that much casual time behind it or you want a lesson or two, send me a PM and I'll demo for you. :)
Of course sex is a marketplace. There's a hierarchy with most attractive people at the top, least attractive people at the bottom. There's more agreement than disagreement about which people are "more attractive" and "less attractive"--but there is some disagreement. Maybe a woman I find very attractive, you don't find attractive at all (assuming you are attracted to women). Everyone is competing to find the most attractive/compatible mate. They bypass the less attractive/compatible and go after (or accept dates with) more attractive people. And due to the fact that more attractive people are a scarcer resource, there is a market competition. Yeah, you could say we live in a world where anyone has an equal shot at being with anyone, but we both know that's not true. Sex is a marketplace to some extent or another.
I think an appeal to authority is only fallacious when it's an appeal to an authority that has no relevant expertise. Something like "my dentist says that anthropogenic climate change isn't real, you don't think you're smarter than a doctor do you?"

In contrast, when it comes down to John Q. Internet vs a scientist with relevant expertise, I think it's a reasonable heuristic to think the scientist is more likely to be correct.

IMO the downvotes were more related to the delivery than the content.
I talked to a startup at Pycon that was trying to grow under the Medicare Advantage program. I asked how this would help in reigning in costs to the tax payer, and she kept repeating “oh we will save money because we are given a max $ amount per patient, and so it’s in our benefit to save money”.

Well, that is true only for the startup. The dollars they save are the profits they make up to a max of 15%. But there are no long run incentives to overall reduce the tax bill per client as they will always ride close to that allotted amount set by Congress.

The startup representative took offense when I pointed out that at no point would they ever return money back to Medicare. That they would always consume every allotted dollar allowed by law.

Just another rent seeker by a different name.
It's only easy if servers and clients support those specs; I'm not aware of any that do, but at least they exist. Maybe it's worth updating them and pushing for adoption.
I can attest to this, having spent a great deal of effort here and on a W3C list arguing against EME. I was aware of the "online argumentation is entertainment" rule but hadn't appreciated the rule's broadness until then.

A good rule of thumb is that a "consultative process" is a smokescreen unless the people being consulted have voting rights amongst those doing the consulting.
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After seriously kicking the tires on aws serverless, I still prefer running vm's as you do. Beanstalk is awesome, I like Heroku too. Other than the db, not too hard a move to beanstalk if it gets popular.

The cold starts are really bad for the 95th percentile latency, and you can't use a relational db with decent performance and throughput until aurora serverless rolls out.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but you're stating that there weren't primary sources directly involving the Angolans that you encountered? Just inference? Are there known records of their folkways concerning death?

Call me cynical, but any time a person near to power "commits suicide" or otherwise recuses themselves from the scene (present or historically), I generally take their volition in the matter with a very large grain of salt.
> It's fine if you don't do any of this or, for that matter, if you don't even care. But don't belittle the work when you don't understand the reasons for it.

Maybe don't over invest your emotions in something that isn't really important in the scheme of life? shrug. I don't think this is belittlement, but advice on how to manage stress.
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Madison, WI has Epic Systems, a EHR company, as well as several startups that create software that works with Epic.
Regarding POSIX: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3...
>Humans are amazingly resilient when it comes to persistent stress and develop culture-ways to cope.

QED.
> Quoting inhibits both word splitting and wildcard expansion, for variables and command substitutions.

The result of a variable substitution isn't subject to wilcard expansion, whether quoted or not.

If your only reason to quote "$foo" is because you think foo expands to a globbing pattern, and no other reason is justified, you can drop the quotes.
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"Shining light" on something is kind of a metaphor for figuratively illuminating something, or showing something more clearly (pretend someone shines light on something in the dark). More precisely, I believe this is saying that a chemist is providing more information about a prime number PATTERN.