skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just before the Russian elections and the World Cup we have the first Novichok "attack". UK gov demands boycott of the world cup and all the news focus on Vlad "the Killer" Putin.

Russia starts doing well on the world cup, Sweden changes its mind and won't boycott it, trump-putin meeting scheduled and.... Novichok again.

It should be easy to see the BS of this narrative but the most amazing thing is that it works. People believe in it, demonize Russia and lose focus that the UK is miserably failing in the Brexit negotiations.

I hope Russia does not win the World Cup because I'm sure we would see another "attack" directly ordered by Vlad The Terrible.
A High Schooler Helped Reunite Twins 74 Years After Their World War II Deaths
Pebble was the best. Was fun while it lasted. [*]. I'm counting days until my Pebble Time dies and then I'll be off the smartwatch game until something else pops up that's not just a toy or a fitness tracker.
> In what way?

Suppressing the drug trade is evidently something that society puts a high value on, given how much society spends on it.

> Do you have a source for this, or is this just what you believe?

Just looking at the whole blockchain ecosystem as a black box: any profit has to eventually come from outside, the rest is just moving that around. Speculators can move value around but aren't creating it. So who are the people getting something actually valuable in the real world from blockchain? I mean sure there's a bit of money laundering and evading capital controls, but the big one is drug dealing.
I find it somewhat amusing (but understandable) that you thought Tcl was too complicated for "script programmers", but fine as the standard interface to get anything done with (raw) redis ;)

It's a shame, Redis could've become the storage back-end for the next AOL server! ;)

Well, I suppose it probably is used with aolserver anyway.

For those confused by this comment, see:

http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/

And/or:

https://openacs.org/

NaviServer appears to be the "new" aolserver:

http://wiki.tcl.tk/2090

While aolserver still exists, I'm maintainence mode:
http://aolserver.github.io/
Yeah, the backend not being available is certainly a showstopper, thanks. GCC being ported to every silicon-based system under the sun does blind one to the fact that that isn't necessarily true for its rivals.
That sounds like a recipe for “idoacracy”.

What happens when there is an emergency and the system is unavailable?

You are literally training people to be button pushers that’s a horrible horrible idea especially when so many innovations come out from the work place when people are faced with challenges.
> The future is probably riscv style open hardware but that will need to be combined with local fabrication facilities.

The big question is whether RISC-V is open enough for such purposes.
> Loved ones should honestly be our number 1 priority. That work is so demanding of the majority of our free time while we are alive is a travesty.

Different people have different priorities and tastes in life. When I tried working 3 day workweek (I could afford a 40% salary hit), I became really bored really fast, and spending so much time with my spouse quickly got me to a divorce.

Having people that you love in your life is nice, but I personally don't love that much to spend majority of life with them. I'd rather do something interesting and productive, like work, instead.
Indeed. To rework the whole ecosystem to enable bounds-checking would be quite a task. External native code that allocates, alloca... not easily done. Not as 'tidy' as Java/.Net where arrays are just somewhat special objects.
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Trump's Ever More Powerful Weapons Against Journalism
Similar to Tibia, which is one of the death systems I hated the most, but becomes a major driving force within the game.

If you died, you'd lose 10% of your experience points(which amounts to multiple levels the higher you are), your inventory and there was a chance you could lose a piece of equipment.

It makes you work on your survival skills both in PvE and PvP, this in turn makes PvP combat and PK an extra challenge which awarded skill, awareness and creativity. Even before Twitch or even YouTube were hits there was already a thriving community recording videos of their PvP gameplay.

Premium players could use in-game currency to buy bonuses to reduce the effects of death(plus an item that would prevent you from losing any inventory), which made upgrading to a Premium account a must for anyone who plays enough of the game.

And in the end it shapes the community and the ecosystem, people would separate in groups and wage wars for dominance, these were wars of attrition as getting big kills means creating major setbacks until one group has to surrender.

In hindsight, it's amazing how some simple mechanics enabled people to emulate real life systems.
If the emperor were ever naked, this would be it.

I don't know if that analogy holds, since the emperor made a habit of writing amicus briefs to the Supreme Court arguing (metaphorically) "I'm nude and that's OK! Though it would be awfully inconvenient for you to say I were naked. I just prefer a holistic fashion policy which includes nude among a range of options such as deshabille, birthday suit, unclothed, etc."

Verbatim quotes:

Brown University, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University submit this brief as amici curiae in support of respondents. Amici have long used admissions policies similar to the Harvard Plan that Justice Powell approved in Regents of University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978), and the University of Michigan Law School plan this Court upheld in Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003). Amici accordingly have substantial experience with admissions policies that consider all aspects of an applicant’s background and experience, including in some circumstances the applicant’s racial or ethnic background.

...

Amici accordingly urge the Court to interpret the Constitution, consistent with Bakke and Grutter, to continue to allow educational institutions to structure admissions programs that take account of race and ethnicity as single factors within a highly individualized, holistic review process.
Yes, many of my problems could have been at least partly solved by spending more money on a helmet with bluetooth, more money on a bike with a better battery and a phone power supply, more money on better gloves with special finger coating, more money on a phone with a better battery and better handlebar mounts available, and so on.

Sadly, as a student on a £300 motorbike, I didn't have the money for such luxuries :)
I imagine it is just easier to balance that way. "Death" in these games really just means teleporting you to a predetermined position and restarting the encounter (in the souls games also adding a chance to permanently lose some of your gathered resources, which based on the non-linear stat leveling don't actually matter all that much). I would also add that in the souls games the dodging is very lenient, if you spend the first couple of minutes of a boss fight simply not getting hit you can usually see most of the bosses attack animations and beat it on the first try if you don't mess up.

Based on the alternatives that actually exist the cure may be worse than the disease. In many modern AAA games you never really have to learn anything, the game just lets you progress regardless. Unless you play on the extremely hard difficulty modes that just completely break the balance of the game (the hardest difficulty mode on the Uncharted remastered is a good example of this).
Back of a napkin calculations have California with around 25% of all immigrants in the US.

It's a pretty big chunk of EC votes - more than Wyoming gets in total!

The senate is meant to represent the states - not the people - so it's not really a fair comparison.
Yeah. It's possible to use energy badly, so human value is something more subtle and detailed than energy usage. I do think it works as a crude proxy though.
You'll see. They will come to some arrangement with the publishers and regulators. Facebook will not lose a quarter of its revenues and profits over this.

The problem is that not many have the clout of Facebook and Google to work out arrangements that won't kill them or fight the whole thing effectively.
I'm reminded of https://singularityhub.com/2012/02/19/canadian-man-excavates...

Every winter he's been using small remote controlled vehicles to dig out his basement.
I used to be anti affirmative action. Then, I met a lot of students at a similar tier school who were basically shoved there by their parents. Little original thought or unique qualities, just sent to an expensive private school and drilled on the SAT like monkeys.

So now I am in support of affirmative action, maybe out of disappointment in my traditional upbringing classmates.
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Thats why this method has the "back and forth". After a choose, the cake gets magically "re-cut" by the previous chooser and so on and so forth until all the pieces are taken.
Thanks for the feedback. We've started investing heavily on RN and I was starting to get worried seeing big companies jumping ship.
> Though I'd disagree with the whole if it, if they went 'strictly SAT' or something, and suppose 50% of every class was Asian-American, whereupon Asian-Americans only make up 5% of the overall population of the US thereby meaning a 10x overrepresentation ... well - that's a problem by any social measure.

The "I don't see colors" part of me is cringing at what this implies. Aren't Asian-Americans supposed to be more than their race?
> Is it really wise to build a publish-subscribe delivery system on top of HTTP? This seems to be a huge overhead.

I'm only just learning about WebSub tonight, but it looks like a lean, efficient, and fairly minimal protocol to me. What gives you the impression that there will be huge overhead - could you be more specific?

When new content is published to a topic in WebSub, it's delivered with an HTTP POST that will look something like this:

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: foo.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 13
Link: <https://hub.example.com/>; rel="hub"
Link: <http://example.com/feed>; rel="self"

say=Hi&to=Mom

If content is being published to a topic at high volume, then the HTTP connection for each subscription will remain open persistently, meaning that you pay the cost to establish it only once when receiving the first message. (If there aren't enough messages to take advantage of a persistent connection, then efficiency probably doesn't matter that much for the use-case.)

Furthermore, it looks like these messages can be sent using HTTP/2, if client & service support it (which is something that you'd prioritize for cases where efficiency matters). HTTP/2 is a binary protocol and takes advantage of HPACK header compression (RFC 7541). This means that if the same header appears in multiple requests, it will be transmitted very efficiently. Thus WebSub headers that are likely to be the same for all requests across a connection (like Host, Content-Type, and Link) will be transmitted virtually for free.

Even the vanilla HTTP/1.1 request described above seems reasonable though -- certainly not something that strikes me as a cost or efficiency problem -- and the HTTP/2 framing of the content is probably going to be not much longer than the content payload.

Now let's compare to XMPP PubSub. From looking at XEP-0060, an item published over that protocol looks like the following - based on Example 101 in: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html#publisher-publish

<message from='pubsub.shakespeare.lit'
to='francisco@denmark.lit' id='foo'>
<event xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub#event'>
<items node='princely_musings'>
<item id='ae890ac52d0df67ed7cfdf51b644e901'>
<entry xmlns='...'>
say hi to mom ...
</entry>
</item>
</items>
</event>
</message>

[Edit: changed from example 99 to 101, and elided the part of the content that was Atom-specific to more fairly compare the framings.]

Based on this naive comparison, I don't see a reason to conclude that WebSub will have more overhead than XMPP PubSub. When implemented over HTTP/2 it may be more efficient.
Don’t overestimate the effect of mentality, and the fact that startups in the EU pay less, much less and offer basically no equity even to single digit employees.
a problem by any social measure.

Why is this a problem at all?

Elite universities should admit the best students. Science / truth is and should be epistocratic, rather than democratic, fair or equal.

If other ethnies cannot educate their children up to Asian standards, then that's a failure of the other ethnies. Punishing Asians for consistently raising better children is victim blaming. All the more, so since it's very easy to raise successful children: study hard & consistently, value education and do lots of maths.

We should celebrate the Asian focus of intellectual excellence rather than punish them.
What is "the N.R.A. for the Left"?

If they mean "an important organization for loosely-grouped together political factions" then they didn't have to annoyingly namedrop the odious N.R.A. as if the two should ever favorably be compared as equals.
Yes, that's what I am saying, or rather: it's not "central to it", it is the thing itself.

"Reactive" is really just a re-branding of (synchronous) dataflow programming, and a fairly bad one at that because it just jumbles up and confuses so many things.

"Reactive" is/was really a type of system: one where you have continuous interaction with the outside world and the world generally cannot wait (similar but not identical to real-time). Contrasting with "transformational", where you just get some inputs turn them into outputs and are done, and "interactive", where you interact with the outside world but the world can wait.

It turned out that the synchronous dataflow languages (like Esterel, which is imperative, and Lustre, which is functional) had some fairly nice properties when it came to building reactive systems. As far as I know, Esterel is used for Airbus avionics...so the outside world really, really cannot wait :-)

How people somehow managed to mix up the style of system with the technology and then somehow also put in a claim that "functional" was an essential part of it is a little beyond me.
> If you want to ensure something is not inlined, you're free to do so.

Not really. The compiler is permitted to inline or 'outline' as it sees fit, courtesy of the 'as if' rule. C doesn't let you tell the compiler what code to generate.
All Netflix-exclusive shows are available up to 4K on torrent networks:

https://thepiratebay.org/search/house%20of%20cards%202160p/0...

https://thepiratebay.org/search/orange%20is%20the%20new%20bl...

https://1337x.to/search/ozark+2160p/1/

What’s left to steal?

Meanwhile the majority of Netflix customers is limited to 720p video like it’s 2001. [1]

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/55763
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You can calculate the field of view from the focal length, but you need to also know the film/sensor size.

However the Wiki article you linked to said the FOV of the framing camera is 5.5° x 5.5°.

So at 21 miles, the photos would be about (5.5°/360° ⋅ 2𝛑 ⋅ 21 miles) = 2.0 miles across.
Something that has always puzzled me about scrapers is how they avoid scraper traps.

For example, what if you have a web site that generates a thousand random links on a page, which all load pages that generate another thousand random links, to infinity?
Good point, looks like relative time for recent dates. Could very well be server time for old threads.

Might be viable and is arguably a more user friendly approach. Thanks!
Oh!

I love Clojure and from what little tried, I like Elm...

I had no idea I could do clojure > react nactive to get an app! I'll look into this, thanks!
Web crawling is necessary, but not sufficient. You won't be able to build a better Google just because you can crawl the web, but you won't be able to build a better Google if you can't crawl the web.
> Having a new HTTP verb for subscribing and publishing would seem like unnecessary complexity to me.

Complexity for who?

Introducing a secondary "hub" resource here is just accidental complexity. If I want to subscribe to resource A why am I talking to a different resource B? And once you introduce a secondary resource now you need yet another service discovery mechanism to support discovery of these pseudo-resource hubs. (Heaven forbid using an existing service discovery mechanism like RDDL.)

Honestly stuff like this is just so poorly thought out it's difficult to understand why W3C stamps approval on this crap. There's no consideration given to alternate protocols like WebSockets or XMPP and there's no attempt to layer on top of existing standards in a meaningful way (hub.secret -- really???). Worst of all there's no real understanding here of what it means for a resource to change. The entire Content-Distribution model is geared towards just one very narrow use case.

It's clear the W3C is all about being "inclusive" and "moving fast" there's real fear of "overthinking" things -- but seriously if this is the result we'd probably better off with better standards once a decade then this.
I bet most would start doing it with screen capture software/cards. I think many already are.
>> that's a problem by any social measure.

It is? Why? And is it Harvard's to fix to the detriment of Asian-Americans?
You're right, it might just be a matter of perspective.
Copy/paste content to my coworkers, like paste-bin. but without server-side storing on the paste site. It's amazing.
Well, there are certainly specialized brain regions for some tasks - e.g., we know certain structures in the visual cortex are responsible for extracting low-level image features (edges, lines, shapes, etc as well as attributes such as speed and direction). We even have a pretty good idea how they do that - good enough that early neural network research was inspired by it.

I'm highly skeptical as well though that this works for high-level cognitive tasks.

I'm also a bit confused by the way the article describes the task. They describe it as "the link between seeing and doing" as if that were some low-level, easily predictable reflex. But if you put it that broadly, wouldn't that entail almost all cognitive decision making?
Just have a maximum traversal depth
Well Netflix's content is pirated just as much as any other content, so I guess it was cracked in some way?
Ah yes, I forget C# has those low-level features. Have never had need to use them.

Microsoft copied many of the mistakes of Java when they made C# (all objects are locks, covariant array types, plenty else besides), but they were right to leave out the 'purity' silliness.
Sometimes the ads can be very inapropiate for a 4 year old. I ended up installing Adblock just for that.
Royal Society mandates publication of peer review reports for articles
Nice advertisement for the Pentagon, I bet they're looking left and right for people with the right qualifications.
Update: http://articles.os2voice.org/category/voice/17-new-web-brows...

They've raised $12,650 and think it will take around 18 months.
Similar to my wife, she's from Shantou and speaks her local dialect Teochew (pretty much used by everyone in her hometown), Mandarin and also Cantonese fluently.

According to her though, everyone in her city speaks the local dialect, and they only speak Mandarin if needed.
It's helpful to use

-i, --ignore-errors

When doing that. By default, if a playlist contains a single video that's no longer available, youtube-dl will stop downloading the playlist when it hits that video.

When playing a youtube playlist in mpv with youtube-dl, sometimes --load-unsafe-playlists is needed. This is rare however.
> In my own experience, organic fruits and vegetables at least taste much better.

Have you done blind taste testing? We already know that e.g. more expensive things taste better.
> ... were about.

are about.
That argument is probably correct.

Here in Israel, which is often considered one of the closest "startup capitals" to Silicon Valley, what almost any new company will do is just lunch in the US, since it's an easy market. Most wouldn't launch in Israel, since it's such a small market (8 million people).

A few will launch in Europe, but because of all the issues mentioned above (different laws, languages, cultures, etc), the US is a much more attractive first target.

Once they get big, they might then move to Europe.
So as with webhooks, this will require you to have a permanently reachable server sitting on the internet. Couldn't they at least have defined an alternative transport using websockets or SSE?
Here you are comparing publishing an Atom post to XMPP and publishing a simple message. It will more look like something like that (even if it's not valid).

<iq type='set'
to='pubsub.shakespeare.lit'
id='publish1'>
<pubsub xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub'>
<publish node='mom'>
<item id='bnd81g37d61f49fgn581'>
<body>say hi to mom</body>
</item>
</publish>
</pubsub>
</iq>

But indeed if you want to start to put a bit more metadata in your first example (publication, edition date, id, summary, alternate link) well you'll quickly reach a similar structure (with the XML around).

That is also the power of Pubsub. It is that it gives you the freedom to put what you want in it (it can be Atom posts like in your example, but also stock market tickets that are pushed each 5 sec, some server monitoring logs...). You define your own namespace, write a little parser for it and use the thing into your XMPP Pubsub library :)
Dark matter measurably gravitates and is not a “massive material object.”
A cool fact is that mpv can hook into youtube-dl to play videos by youtube url. I use this a lot for music and 4k videos (mpv unlike browsers has good gpu decoding support on linux).
The dull science lecture approach may be suited to a mature teenage who is just about to sit their physics, maths and computer science exams.

However, it is important to give younger children stories such as Father Christmas, the Tooth Fairy and the like to stimulate their creativity and play. Not one single book in a primary school library is fact based. Children do not seem to be damaged by this. Nobody grows up mentally scarred because they learn that Santa is not real, with chips on their shoulders because they have been betrayed by their lying parents.

Fun is allowed and it does not have to be boring, mandatory, tedious lectures that daddy thinks are more 'educational'. Some people don't move on from playing games, some people will instinctively want to hack games and write their own. Furby style toys are okay, bags of resistors with instructions to build your own are not for all age groups.
Shadows are cast at the speed of light and so is gravity.
I'm chiming in here since my employer has a few web archives from the IA and some other organizations.

That 10x average seems to be a bit off considering our data, which is of course spotty since it's crawled by a third party.

But to give some numbers, in one of our experiments we filtered web sites from the archive for known entities and got 307,426,990 unique URLs that contained at least two of those entities (625,830,566 non unique) and in there were only 5,331,272 unique hosts. That archive contains roughly 3 billion crawled files (containing not only HTML, but also other MIME types) and covers mostly the German web over a few years.

There are a lot of hosts that have millions of pages. To name a few: Amazon, Wordpress, Ebay, all kinds of forums, banks even. For instance, www.postbank.de has over a million pages and they were not re-crawled nearly that often.