skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well ... laws of physics are being broken by their ships. They use fusion drives (which don't quite exist yet), and in S1, transit between Ceres and Eros on a passenger ship doesn't require weeks/months. Transit from earth to Jupiter/Saturn systems are achievable in days.

Many assumptions are built into this.

First, that fusion drives don't need much reaction mass. This is part of the F =(d/dt) (m*v) needed for rocket thrust. The mass you throw away at high velocity (dm/dt) has to be sufficient for you to be able to accelerate a several million kg ship to 1-10g.

Second, and related to the first, they are not using energy efficient Hohmann transfer orbits. They are using fast transit orbits to get between sites. Which means that their engines are continuously operating, first accelerating away from the initial site, finally decelerating towards their destination site. You still want to orbitally match on the destination, so your delta V isn't measured in km/s orthogonal to the destination.

Third, a fusion reactor will be massive, if for no other reason, due to the shielding you need for the hard x-rays/gammas coming off. Massive in this case doesn't mean large, rather having lots of high Z mass (lead and other heavy nuclei elements that have a very high cross section to Xray/gammas). You likely will need several 10s of cm of such material. Which means you have to accelerate lots of "inert" mass as well as your reaction mass, as well as your ship.

I don't expect shows/movies to get all the physics/science right. I do expect them to at least make an effort to hint at why we should suspend our disbelief in this. There was a single episode with a side arc on the ships engines. They let that arc go unfinished, which is a shame, as that was potentially very interesting. The protagonist in that arc is assumed to be dead, though somehow, he narrated his experience. The arc was about drive efficiency, and by extension, specific impulse/thrust.

The other slight physical violation is in the instantaneous communication of the protomolecule infected individuals. Maybe they have their own EPR pairs they interact with to ensure instantaneous comms. But its rather hard to exceed C for information transmission as far as we know right now.

So ... yeah ... there are some violations that bug me.

[edit] fixed spelling errors
I would be very happy if everyone followed this example. Think of this as "modern" from now on. Return to the old, simple web that I know we all loved. Keep the lessons in usability and design learned in the last decade or two.
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Don't miss working example available on top of the readme. It works in all supported browsers (Yes, in IE11 too :)).
That would require a law system that perfectly captures all ways of being evil. In reality, the law can only play catch up at best. In campaign donation reality even this will not happen.
I always like how everyone points to someone else and says its someone else's problem. Last time I visited Amazon I found the area pretty disturbing, I mean the amount of homeless people you pass on the way to Amazon - sad. If you live or work their you are part of the problem and solution. Most likely you are in a much more privileged situation then others, so your help and involvement would be needed - some magic federal government will not solve this for you. So you should think how you can solve it, that includes corporations also.
> That's a local problem in Romania, not a GDPR problem

It's actually a human problem. The history of political bodies granted immense discretion to fine and punish is consistent and terrible.
Now we only need to find somebody to pay for that simple web....
Unless you have 100% precision in finding bad actors, this may end up zip-bombing some poor unlucky human.
That would be us. :)
Tried to open the twitter link. Asked me to agree to their terms to continue to use th service. Answered no.
No the link just says "Oops, something went wrong. Please try again later."
(the link is https://twitter.com/i/flow/consent_violation_flow)

Gotta love the GDPR, a nice way to get rid of all the "social media" crap and hundreds of ad trackers that has infested every corner of the internet.
Is there an opportunity here for a startup to develop, market and sell an opioid-urine recovery kit?
or just stop visting crap sites. Sites that do that are a signal that content is crap.
Yes, but hopefully you have a larger device and can scale the PDF but as others have pointed out, there are ePub versions about.

I sort of prefer PDFs though, when an ePub is allowed to reflow the content ... it often leaves some off widows and orphans. (Never mind the problems when there are also illustrations or drop caps.)
I found it to be the most overrated show of all time. It is incredibly average. I am not a fan of Joss Whedon's work so your mileage may vary.
Some numbers for latest gcc vs clang

gcc-5-O3:	MFLOPS(4) = 3607.9350
gcc-6-O3:	MFLOPS(4) = 3781.8053
gcc-6-Os:	MFLOPS(4) = 1655.9644
gcc-7-O3:	MFLOPS(4) = 3909.7981
gcc-7-Os:	MFLOPS(4) = 1700.6888
gcc-7-Os-native-align16:	MFLOPS(4) = 2911.5069
gcc-7-O3-native: MFLOPS(4) = 6305.7652
gcc-7-O3-native-align4: MFLOPS(4) = 6428.9799
gcc-7-O3-native-align8: MFLOPS(4) = 6253.1456
gcc-7-O3-native-align16: MFLOPS(4) = 6669.3797 (best)

clang-5-O3:	MFLOPS(4) = 3967.8234
clang-5-Os:	MFLOPS(4) = 4003.6235
clang-5-O3-native:	MFLOPS(4) = 4091.8200
clang-6-O3:	MFLOPS(4) = 3991.1970
clang-6-Os:	MFLOPS(4) = 3988.9485
clang-6-O3-native:	MFLOPS(4) = 4049.5218
clang-6-Os-native:	MFLOPS(4) = 4182.5567 (best)
clang-7-O3:	MFLOPS(4) = 3810.0356
clang-7-Os:	MFLOPS(4) = 3932.1634
clang-7-O3-native:	MFLOPS(4) = 4114.0933
clang-7-Os-native:	MFLOPS(4) = 3984.8512

gcc-native: -O3 -Wa,-q -march=native
gcc-native-alignN: -O3 -Wa,-q -falign-loops=N -falign-functions=N -march=native

Biggest impact: SSE over O3/Os over alignment, clang's -Os is sometimes faster than -O3.
Could not find clang's alignment tuning.
This is on an haswell optimized libc: darwin. linux glibc would be much slower.
The NPR version though ...

https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/1000000898289033216
How comes that this kind of information seems to only alerte US officials ? Is it targeted only on US soil ? I really doubt that.

Why does EU (for example) authorities not warning their citizens ?
This is great but I wish developers would get away from naming software based on the language it's coded in, in general. It's purely a public relations thing but I think the practice creates an impression of valuing process over product, and conceptually ties a product to a particular language ecosystem as a sort of implicit presumption.
Geniune question is anyone at liberty to comment on Google culture? Google has always been a sort of grass is always greener aspirational employer to me but lately I have to admit externally they don’t look as good.
This is a really really bad way of dealing with abuse. Many companies, universities, libraries etc. share outgoing IP's with many users.
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what is more scary to me is 2 different versions of the same website for 2 different locations!
Web languages seem to be the new web frameworks for JavaScript - in the sense that there seem to be more and more of them coming out all the time.
Exactly, market forces and the legal requirement to increase shareholder value on a quarterly basis ensures they are all in a race to be as evil as possible.
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There are articles on the internet going back many years claiming that they've quietly removed it. Perhaps they remove it occasionally to generate buzz or as part of some kind of A/B testing?

As I write this, it is currently included: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
Bezos is known to be a fan of the franchise. The text of the first book was actually shown in one of his Kindle demos some years back. There has been a consensus within The Expanse community for a couple weeks now that Bezos was personally invested in getting the show renewed and was working to make it happen.
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What's missing, as far as I've been able to determine, is a way to use Sweet.js or similar with typescript. What I really want is a language that provides me with static types but lets me have macros to generate the boilerplate that tends to result.
Is anyone concerned that we are starting to replicate real world boundaries on the internet.

Internet was supposed to free us from the limitations of the real world. World of internet was supposed to be the one where you can fluidly switch between your preceptions of self, become a new person whenever you felt like, leave your past behind. This was supposed to be a new world where people see themselves differently.

Now we have created countries on internet. Transferred our real world identity onto internet. Masses were rushed into the internet before they were ready, before they got the concept of what internet means psychologically. Now we vast bureaucracies ruling the internet, so depressing. Depressing to see ppl on HN saying "Good" to every GDPR news. Sad to see internet age squashed by beurocracies right when it was getting started.
Not sure it's always about money and media. Maybe instead popular video games (AKA, 1st person shooters) are getting a little ... repetitive?
Rusty Quill Gaming puts on an entertaining improv filled D&D podcast: http://rustyquill.com/rusty-quill-gaming/

I'm not affiliated with them, just good fun.
> at what point do you start rendering web pages remotely and simply send back the (ie 'png') image to the client

That point is never. Never do that.
Or got into it in the 80's — and now our kids are into it.
Yeah this was in 2002. I never heard anything since then about it.

I realized later how badly I fucked up that second interview because you're right, I shouldnt have said anything. It's embarrassing but I was more or less "good fed, bad fed"'d.

I've not had any major incidents of this nature since then, but rest assured, I know what to do now.

Were you a contractor too, or a state employee? How bad did it end up?
Why don't Europeans fluoridate?
> contrived example

There are actually some historic examples. A university once performed scientific research on a minority group. Then the Nazis acquired the list and murdered the participants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwiss...

Obviously that's at risk of happening again, but machine learning and AI are risk of learning to be discriminatory by training on data sets resulting from historic and modern discrimination.

When applying for jobs, it may be possible to enter somebody's info into a next generation background check software to get a % probability of the candidate voting for a specific political party, and declining to call/interview based on that alone.

Even when it's not intentionally discriminatory, this is leading to a future where the teller says "sorry, you were declined. I don't really know why, the computer just made the decision". Where's the accountability?

In credit reports, I can at least request my credit report and understand how to improve my score or dispute line items.
The competition is only selling at $150-$170M today because SpaceX pushed them into it. 10 years ago, F9-class payloads would've cost $400-500M (on Western launchers; Russia and China were always cheaper). Those prices had been pretty stable for decades; the key thing which has changed since then is the presence of a real competitor.

So 80%-90% has already happened.
>So under this system a user who doesn't mind personalized ads doesn't have the option to 'pay'. They have the ability to 'donate' their personal information but there would be no reason to do this.

If a web business can still remain profitable with personalized ads being optional, then the targeting behind those ads was never paying for that content to begin with, it was always a 'donation.'
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It is great that these books are available for download. However, the quality of a translation is hugely important. Even translations that were considered great at the time may be turgid and off-putting to a contemporary ear. And the problem is that you might try, for example, Dante from this list, hate it, and miss out on what may have been a life-altering reading experience. My advice, if you want to read some of the great classics, is to (a) look at reviews; and (b) compare paragraphs from different translations.
what would it take to turn this into a malicious tool?
Ask HN: GDPR Compliance
Should most frameworks (laravel, ruby on rails, etc) start to develop a GDPR compliant pseudo-anonymization & delete protocols (or addons) to make life easier for new users?
I good compromise is uMatrix, which by default only allows first-party JavaScript and cookies and makes it easy to quickly enable JavaScript/XDR/cookies when necessary using a point and click matrix:

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
Why is it unfortunate that people improve their tools with things like Elm and Mint?

And how is "just use Javascript" a response to that? Seems like yall should first try to understand why people use tools like Elm and Mint instead of assuming it's just some flippant aversion to Javascript?
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How much does a site earn from an average visit?
I mostly got the impression that 4e just drove people to Pathfinder. So even then the genre was likely still growing.
And then we have many websites that show news display a different version with different content to every user.
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That sounds like someone personally turned this on for you. Did you try to mask yourself and repeat?
I have several e-mail addresses, that I use in combination with several passwords across services. While there's some consistency in which pw I use where, it's not definite. This leads to situations where I have to soft-bruteforce my way through the different combinations of user:pw that are possible. Services that deny me (worse yet, permanently) after a few failed attempts are the bane of my existence.

I've since moved to a password manager, but before they were commonplace this was the only somewhat convenient way to give yourself some protection against password leaks.
There’s some weird Russian connection here isn’t there?
Agreed. The rules are there just to settle disputes or to corral players that want to test the limits of the DM's generosity.
It’s an inevitable consequence of our current economic policy.

Conglomerates are all about capital, not efficiency. We are paying more, not less, by eliminating market participants.
We haven't "created countries on the Internet". The Internet exists in the real world, and it exists in countries. Those countries have laws, and they always applied. Governments can take time to adopt to new technologies, but this was always going to happen.

And GDPR is an awesome thing, it's an example of governments doing the right thing.
I remember reading that arguments for fluoridation are rather weak and that fluorosis of the bones is common.
Why I prefer RSS for reading News
i like the idea of A/B testing that particular statement

i mean, what were the alternatives? did they test against "Be evil" or "Don't be good?" or "Remove the headphone jack" or something?
I wonder why sqlite? Isn't quite limiting for a client-server app?
Tesla predicated car crash through radar tech in the Netherlands
What about a factory reset? (by pressing on the pinhole button for a few secs)
While I'm no fan of Google, the premise of this article annoys me. Good and Evil are such a simple concept and have no place in reality. Good and Evil are always subjective to the viewport. I don't disagree with the facts of the article, just that its cast in the simplistic light of "Evil" for dramatic effect.

Maybe Google removed the Don't Be Evil because of articles like this pushing a Good vs. Evil narrative.
I'm more worried about the Disease Resistant Bacteria than a blanket claim from a grass-fed organic beef producer that it's causing obesity, etc.

Perhaps he figures that "causes obesity" would get more people concerned that about the risks of resistant infections.
At least as far as the "George Galloway" article is concerned, this is definitely not resolved and this article is plainly disputing that. The linked-to thread on WP:ANB shows that Guy referred this specific issue to the arbitration committee, which, as of May 26th, is still in the process of getting statements and proceeding forward.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...

& the aforementioned noticeboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Adminis...

Edit: I should add I only say this because the article concludes by saying that the issue is resolved and it isn't. ArbCom is supposed to be a process whereby outside intervention is requested, and unless that process does nothing, then it's not worth declaring this finished.
Also the fact that there's already fluoride in food, perhaps more than we get from swallowing toothpaste (and which is after all topically available to the teeth!) Also that food could be fortified with Vitamin D3 which might also reduce tooth decay, perhaps more effectively.

On the societal scale, a slight decrease in the average IQ due to fluoridation might correspond to a larger deficit at the genius end of the spectrum. Society disproportionately benefits from the work of geniuses & it should protect them more.
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> * there is clear signage indicating you are entering an area with surveillance cameras (i.e. you are giving informed consent)

So if I don't want to be filmed on the bus I take a taxi for 10 times the price? (Not sure whether they might have cameras, too. Haven't taken a taxi in Germany for many years.) Or I walk 2 hours?

That's not what I would call informed consent. It's information yes, but as long as there are no competing bus lines without cameras there is no choice really.
Not sure what 'can still function' means. If a business is unable to make enough of a profit from its new business model, it simply shuts down. It was certainly not always a 'donation'.
Surely the greatest innovators in Silicon Valley could focus on creating sustainable business models that don't rely on data harvesting? Necessity is the mother of invention.

Might be a little more lucrative than juice bag startups.
The Millennium Falcon is OK, but these pop culture ships make Ars hearts race
A factory reset, according to Cisco, will fix it.

Correction: according to the original report a reset will mitigate the stage 2 and 3 attack only

Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/05/VPNFilter.html?m=...
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I use Reddit and HN without JavaScript. Most sites work just fine or with minor annoyance, which the websites in many cases could fix if they wanted.
> If you're a garage-startup, you're unlikely to be slapped with fines under GDPR. Let's be honest- if you're a garage startup you're lucky to be noticed by anyone, much less European regulators.

You might be noticed by your competitor, who reports you to the regulator.

> The argument expressed here is sleight of hand: complaining about the supposed impact on "the little guy" when the regulations themselves are designed to target Facebook & Google (among others) specifically.

No, that is not how they are designed. They might have been motivated by the behavior of Facebook and Google (or not, who knows actually) but they have been designed to target the big and little guys equally. Many GDPR proponents here in comments espouse that as a good thing.
The definition of parole in this context https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole_(United_States_immigr...
$150k for a photo is ridiculous and its not "work"
Would this be a good set from which to gain some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies?
I would only consider something like Typescript mandatory, because static typing is just so hugely important for any maintainable project. But beyond that, it's a little more work to come up with a clean MVC pattern yourself, but also perfectly feasible to not use React/Angular/etc.

Depends on scope and number of developers I guess.
ctrl-f on site for "Russian": 0 results.
Same for russia, kremlin.
Don't spread FUD.
I was surprised (years ago) when I learned about SOUNDEX() in Microsoft SQL Server. I always wondered why SOUNDEX was in SQL Server (not that I thought it shouldn't be, was just curious).
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I wonder what the perfect diet ends up being once you consider things like antibiotics, heavy metals, pesticides, and other contaminants and not just macro/micro nutrition.
I can find some articles about Interpol/Europol taking down botnets.[1] The US and Russia are probably more advanced than the EU in this regard. I wouldn’t put the UK or China too far behind.

Maybe the FBI works closer to manufacturers or victims? I’ve had a freind who got some Wordpress he managed sites infected. He was able to trace it back to a professor in Turkey and call the FBI. The FBI came and interviewed him.

[1]https://www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News/2015/N2015-038
"There's no easy way to determine if a router has been infected. It's not yet clear if running the latest firmware and changing default passwords prevents infections in all cases."

Antivirus provider Symantec issued its own advisory Wednesday that identified the targeted devices as:

Linksys E1200

Linksys E2500

Linksys WRVS4400N

Netgear DGN2200

Netgear R6400

Netgear R7000

Netgear R8000

Netgear WNR1000

Netgear WNR2000

QNAP TS251

QNAP TS439 Pro

TP-Link R600VPN
> Not having to create explicit event names and 'action dispatchers' is a real boon to DRY.

What about an action creator / reducer isn't dry?
Happens all the time (besides the obvious i18n) , especially with stuff that has different regulations per country, like gambling.
They already know the answer to that: direct charges and subscriptions.
As the network grows it becomes increasingly harder to do so, especially since you need to add increasing amounts of resources (bandwidth, disk space, and some cpu, for the proof-of-resource) to your attack.

This is not too dissimilar to what happens with CPU-only PoW consensus networks. Easy to attack in the beginning but less so as the network grows.

It will be interesting to see how the SAFE network will be bootstrapped. I'm sure there will be a significant number of malicious players waiting in line to disrupt it early on.

If it works, and I believe it can, IMHO this network will be one of the most important developments in decentralised systems in the past decade.
The motto "don't be evil" forces every brain hearing it to process "be evil". This is made particularly ponient by research showing that people don't process negation well. This is why the transition, ignored by the article, to a positive statement of the desired outcome was adopted.
Regardless of whether Google attains the behavior it lasts out for itself, this is probably a good change.
I think that over time, big corporations like Google and Facebook tend to attract increasingly evil (greedy, financially motivated) people - It creates an environment where non-evil people feel uncomfortable and it causes them leave the company at a higher rate which makes the problem worse. Even the people at the top slowly become more evil (via osmosis) without realising it.