skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good example of how, when guided properly, this technology can obviously be of practical and positive use for children. Sure, if you still want to criticize you could say that the child should rather learn spelling with their parents/real humans, but hey... Get used to technology already.

Imo the biggest problem when introducing children to these devices is how to get them to understand that this is very different from an actual human. Even if you find proper wording that a 4yo would understand, these words are easily overwhelmed by the fact that you can talk to it like a normal person. It's already interesting to watch children slowly grasp the concept of (video) calls, but then taking the next step and understanding there isn't a person at the other end of the Alexa dot is yet another step, because if it isn't a human, what else is it?
I am the author of the CT vector CRDT, also the author of the Replicated Object Notation http://github.com/gritzko/ron.

I tried to look into the code, and I am not sure which way they implemented list and vector. The explanation is a bit confusing, especially the mention of "insertion index".

Definition and support for Schism's Convergent List type. The
convergent list is a simple timestamped log of entries with a vector
clock. Convergence places entries into the resultant list In
insertion order. The vector clock conveys that an item has been
removed from the list on another node."

Convergence places entries into the
resultant vector in insertion order, with insertions occurring by
replaying insertions operations in order.

CRDT is all about partial orders, so what does it all mean?
Orders are different for different replicas.

(Disclaimer. I am not a Clojurist.)
>classic narcissism behaviour ...

I've run out of fingers to count how many times over the last few months I've see keyboard psychiatrists apply 'narcissism' as a catch-all for any kind of outlier behaviours.

I'm no Musk fanboy, but the narcissism trope feels particularly way off in his case.
Can confirm, I use a NitroKey Start (which is a gnuk token) with that curve. I have used it for GPG signing/encryption and SSH authentication without any issues.
My personal revelation was Wolfenstein 3D. I remember playing it on my Dad's work PC with the PC speaker. I copied it to a friend's PC (using MSBACKUP if I recall correctly) and when we fired it up it sounded glorious. I remember my parents coming to pick me up from my friend's house and we just had to give my Dad a demo.

"Coincidentally" enough shortly afterwards we had a SB16 of our very own. ;)
> How are you powerless to change the situation?

At best, you're powerless regarding controlling the rate of change (and the changes required could take many, many decades). At worst there's people fighting against that change, preventing it from happening in the first place.
It's nearly double the work...

Most apps implementation (for example chrome) is to store all profile data in a local store, which then gets synced to the cloud, and to all other devices logged in as you.

If you switch off a privacy option, that simply switches off the saving of that data to the store. In turn, that means it doesn't get synced to the server.

An alternative implementation might be to still save the data to the store (so it's available for local use), but tag it in some way so it doesn't get synced. That proves very difficult though because then the store can become inconsistent, with some other contradictory data in the store in a part which does get synced, put there by the server or another device signed in as you.
The problem with the current social media age is that it is difficult to tell how serious a problem really is. Part of the outrage is attention seeking media entities. So if you asked me what was the greater problem, Musk or the gangsters terrorizing families and murdering anyone who stands up to them (this is the reality in parts of Cape Town). I would say Musk really isn't a problem. The media and politicians don't really want to tackle the "hard" problems where lives are at stake but there seems to be more willingness for example have a go at Musk and leave the gangsters alone.
Bank of England: Knowledge Bank
One positive thing about being born in a third-world country is that if you can manage to train yourself to become a good software developer (which I admit is probably much harder to achieve than in a first-world country), you can find remote work for a foreign (first-world) company and then you can live like a rich person in your own country (buy houses, etc...); this seems relatively attainable if you put your mind to it.
When you're from a first-world country, becoming rich is essentially unattainable; you wish you could move to a third-world country to live a better quality of life, but that's not really an option; often, the law of these countries forbid foreigners from owning property; also, you don't know the language or culture so you might end up getting ripped off when doing large transactions.
The Robert Sedgewick book. It is an excellent book. All the cool kids have a red one. Mine was blueish purple and in pascal. LOL, I'll never get a job at Google.
I see your point -- CNF as a modeling language leaves a lot to be desired. What I like about this article is that it uses CNF anyway and takes you through the hard work you'd have to do to express a problem that way. I didn't know about the Tseytin transformation, for instance, so I'd given up on using CNF because of the exponential blowup in my constraints. I probably still won't be using SAT solvers directly, but it's nice to learn how they work. It's like knowing an assembly language for constraint satisfaction.
Cloudgizer: An introduction to a new open source web development tool
A Python steganography module with sets (Eratosthenes, Fermat, Mersenne, etc.)
Ian Stewart's article in Scientific American was based on "Train Sets" by Adam Chalcraft and Michael Greene (Eureka 53, pp. 5–12), which also provides the basis of the Duplo constructions. (But note that Duplo has linked points as well as sprung and lazy points, which allows for more compact constructions.)

http://www.monochrom.at/turingtrainterminal/Chalcraft.pdf
Hey, Pext dev here :)

It is indeed very specific to lists now, but theoretically more things could be added. The standard deal though: full-time job and no other contributors.

Windows users don't need to have Python installed. Python (with pip) ships with the installers, so you can also use any module in pip by specifying it in requirements.txt file, with standard pip syntax. Check the pass module for example to see how that goes.
KDE Plasma is written mostly in QML, so JavaScript.
Time to rebuild the internet
You're right. It doesn't. That was reprehensible. Likewise, his pedophile tweet doesn't invalidate his remarkable accomplishments. People want to squeeze celebrities into boxes, as villains or heroes, all good or all bad. Musk is flawed. We all are. I think it's okay to call him out on his failings while celebrating his achievements.
> How are you powerless to change the situation?

If by "you" you mean a single person: To really affect the society (at the scale you can feel any echo of your deeds at least in a decade or so), you need to be an activist/to be heavily into politics. This is not for everyone. Most restrain even from engaging into discussions with the nearest circle to avoid being waived off as annoying.

If by "you" you mean the actual society: Society has the power when it has a realization of a problem and determination to resolve it. If it can't see the problem or doesn't understand the roots of it, it loses its power.
Please don't write "humanity" when you mean "capital". It's confusing.
Or worse, have to deal with viruses...

Oh, wait....
I'm a simple man. I see something promoting QML, I upvote.
Don't be so quick to jump to solutions where the problem is unbelievably complex. One word? Iran. Another word? Iraq. One other word? Afghanistan. Another one again? Palestine.

All those countries listed above, none had problems before foreign interests intervened. And most of this is true for any 3rd World country.

While you and I have the opportunity to make a change in our countries the same is not true for any country, you can't work by extrapolation. Especially when all you can do is struggle to survive.
Hft
Ask HN: What software should I use to write a textbook?
I will be delivering it as a PDF and thinking about printing a version in the future. What are the best software solutions for this?
In my experience the usefulness of audit tables diminishes as the table becomes more complex (more columns; composite and document columns, like arrays, json, xml), because it becomes difficult to find what exactly changed. Another problem is related rows; audit tables aren't very good to capture the context of changes. You can work around this with more complex triggers, but it quickly becomes a lot easier to do this from the application and not in the database, capturing semantics and not just data changes.

The issue with any application-based approach is of course that it can't provide total access mediation.
> At worst there's people fighting against that change, preventing it from happening in the first place.

Who exactly? People from the country of the passport holder? People from other countries?

I try to get to the root issue here. Yes, it will take time. Yes, it can take many, many years and maybe won't be relevant for you anymore (but maybe for your children), but that is not "powerless" - that is "it takes time" and "it is stressful". So, is powerless a shorthand for those things or is there something else?
Periodic table of devops tools
they only care if they can get sued for it: that's why for example anti-white hate speech is not actioned. people love to think it's a global conspiracy but the reality is much simpler, they don't define hate speech, laws do. unless they are at risk for litigation, they won't remove posts.
The wild world of British buses is on the brink of a major shake-up
Infineon to Deliver Chips for Chinese Retailer's IoT – EE Times
I'd wager that the main reason is that the concept of transit is completely foreign to US airports.

Even if travelling to a third country you need to go through immigration, customs, re-check your bags and go through security to get to your connecting flight.

You cannot check your luggae through. A process, which is possible if you fly through virtually any other country.

I wonder what this costs US carriers. For example: Flying from Zurich to Lima would be logical, connection wise, via Miami, Atlanta, or even New York. But I rather fly via Amsterdam or Madrid to save myself the hassle and the anxiety of missing my connecting flight due to innane, unnecessary procedures.
They're so special that they both completely revolutionized their respective industries. What makes them even more special, is that neither made any big technological breakthrough. All the technology has been available for years (decades?), just not productionized. Which tells you that the "major companies" in both industries were literally sitting on their asses, enjoying their oligopolistic/monopolistic profits and doing the minimal R&D necessary to maintain them. Shame on them.
I love how, from a technical perspective, Elon Musk is a startup founder's worst dream. You start up a company, some VC literally pushes the co-founders out of the company and takes over the reins. Is this really the person HN should be rooting for?
then this happened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna
Doesn't seem to work on Firefox 61.0.2 on Mac OS.

I can send message on Chromium but the chatroom seem empty.
EDIT: Work on Chromium :)
Hope you're doing better now. Panic attacks don't sound pleasant.
A few thoughts:

1. Nothing is more valuable in getting a visa than a passport that is full of visas already. Proof that you
a) always go back home
b) can afford to travel
c) have gone successfully through the process already

2. Hotel reservations. So annoying to show hotel reservations for every day of your trip. This gives your zero flexibility. Solution: Book a hotel and cancel it after you got the visa. Nobody is going to check when you arrive.

3. Proof of XYZ. Most letters etc. can be faked. Trust me, I've done it. :-)

4. "Getting Rejected" This is something that must never happen, since many visa applications ask "Have you been rejected before?" Trust me, you don't want to put a "Yes" here.
How to Make World Your Home: TIPS FOR SOLO TRAVLLERS
People from the country of the passport holder. If you're in North Korea and the like, maybe even people from other countries.

For you it's easy to say that it's not "powerless", but how many things have you personally sacrificed knowing that the outcome will be a few decades from when you started? And if you did sacrifice a ton, keep in mind and most people aren't like that and you're an outlier. So most people _will_ feel powerless when they try to change something and that thing doesn't budge for decades even.
On that note, I once saw it being (ab)used to visualize activity on a phpBB. I think they mapped threads to files and posts to commits or something like that. Interesting idea and I was wondering if you could apply it to other things as well.
Say what you want about the tenets of Musk, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
Polish society is still liberal. Please do not think our current government and their actions are representative of what Poles think and support. Majority is at the moment fighting our own government ...
I must say I'm surprised this drug is available in a multidose bottle because of the potential for contamination. I've only ever seen it — in many hospitals large and small, in both California and Virginia, over the past 40 years — in 1cc bottles and ampoules. That is and has long been the default adult SQ and IM dose. In STAT situations it's given IV or, as a last ditch measure attempting to reverse cardiac arrest, via direct intracardiac injection using a long needle.
These must be the most expensive logic-gates I've seen so far ...
natural language processing is like one of the hardest problems that's left to crack, don't be so dismissive about it

i.e:

"get rid of all black people"

"get rid of all black people unemployment problems"

"get rid of all black people unemployment problems sending them back to Africa"

this can be expanded almost infinitely in every direction, and we're not even beginning with the false positive problems.

"I hate black cars"

so no, it's not just a claim that it's an hard problem.
wait till you travel across europe without any border checks or passport, just an EU ID.
>Subscription-required link : https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v271/n3/pd....

Of course you can always access academic papers using sci-hub ;) https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/scientificamerican0994-104
Ha I remember one client, the only thing open after dark was a roadside strip club. Never got stranded at that airstrip fortunately!
Google CEO Tells Staff China Plans Are ‘Exploratory’
"All those countries listed above, none had problems before foreign interests intervened. And most of this is true for any 3rd World country."

This is not true at all.
The VC chose the best CEO (which happened to be himself) for the company, in the best interest of the company, its employees and its shareholders. History absolves him.

The real question is, were they adequately compensated for their contributions (I've no idea myself).
When China Rules the Web
Somehow majority choses such goverment during democratic voting.
You've managed to make a mountain out of a mole hill. I promise you you're way overthinking this.

And that's not how Chrome works at all. When you turn off sync, it just stops syncing up to Google, it's got nothing to do with local on-disk storage.
I never commented on the behavior of Microsoft because they have nothing to do with the topic at hand: Google being held to a standard that THEY established when they said they were getting out of China (at least partially) because of ongoing censorship.
Then your propaganda must be neo-communist.

Take a look at this graph (and read the article it comes from): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis#/...

1. After Greece entered Eurozone in 2001, their already large debt exploded. They had 4-14% yearly deficit - they clearly "lived way above their means".

2. In 2011 Greece themselves declared that they can no longer service their debt, e.g. they defaulted. In this sense they had "more debts than other countries in the EU zone" and they clearly would not "have been fine it it had not been forced to destroy its economy with an austerity program". If there was no bailout, they would default on their debts and their economy would totally collapse (think Venezuela style). This also goes against you claim that "[a county] can have too much debts. That wasn't the case here."

3. Greece government was until 2011 reporting fraudulent financial statistics in order to hide true extent of debt, also employing the help of international banks. Some actions were clearly fraudulent (cross currency swap at fictitious rates).

4. Greece asked other (mainly EU) countries to help her, the result was a massive reprogram of their debts (basically they got low interest rates and reprogrammed debts to 30-50 years, something you do not get at financial markets).

5. Greece negotiated a 50% "haircut" on debt owed to private banks in 2011, which amounted to a €100bn debt relief. Most affected were EU banks (Deutsche bank, BNP Paribas, etc..). So there were private entities that actually lost money on Greece. This pretty much dispels the claim that they were a victim of neoliberalists and/or capitalists.

6. Also, it's a totally false premise that a country can not "live above their means".

The leftist agenda has been to portray Greece as a victim of capitalism and/or neoliberalism. This was mostly dispelled by facts, and I rarely see this kind of propaganda in 2018.

The reality is that Greece put themselves in this situation and international community (especially EU) stepped way out of their way to help them, except offering them a massive write-off, which if happened, would be IMO a grave mistake.
At work we've recently moved from XP to Win7 and they seem to perform about the same for heavy office use.

I'm playing with a Win10 machine at home, the CPU and RAM is far in excess of our work machines but it is so slow to use. It seems to regularly become unresponsive, programs take ages to start, it seems to be continually working away in the background doing 'nothing'. It's a truly horrible experience.
There's a gofundme.com page [0], but I'd recommend reading this article (by a queensland lawyer) titled 'Fixated Folk' [1]

[0] https://www.gofundme.com/barrister-needed-for-fiona-wilson

[1] https://www.nystlegal.com.au/2017/05/26/fixated-folk/
It doesn't, but it makes the intent of the submarine construction a lot clearer - it takes it quite far away from a useless PR stunt to, at the very least generous interpretation, a requested PR stunt.
I like your sense of humor.
One of those things which sound so exciting. You make it, you play with it, tell to your coworkers about it then you forget about it after a week
Is there a comprehensive list of the programs (Tsa pre, global entry, nexus, whatever) with the list of costs, perks, and eligibility?

Even a part of this information?
If you think a Thai passport is bad, try travelling the world with a Syrian passport. it is extremely difficult to get through even when you have a valid visa (you could still be held for hours and eventually returned back).
USA has already blocked the whole nation on grounds of religion (Muslim Ban).

Life is extremely unfair, but thanks to the internet that empowered us, we can now create ideas, exchange them for money and then buy our way out of life disadvantages.
Renouncing U.S. Citizenship Is Extremely Tricky Business
Firefox is smart enough by now to manage it in almost 1 keystroke on average.

Even more fun, when I type "you", Firefox not only suggests youtube but also the github page for a small script that extracts the rss feed link from youtube channels and playlists. I use that maybe once every few months. It's amazing really.
No they couldn't. Look up the history of SpaceX they barely made it work this amount of work.
its not about opening the profile its about getting to enter your password from a locked screen - i love my w10 machine and its quite snappy when logged in but every unlock has this half-second or so lag until it lets me enter my password - i suspect the animation of the appearing login-form but who knows...
This can be applied across any job field. A good manager gets obstacles out of his teams' way so that they can do the best job that they can.
The dictionaries seem to attribute the words to Latin, while the -oo sound seems to come from Greek. The root word of both coming from a word for fold, "-plus" in Latin and "-plos" or "-ploos" in Greek.

Greek and Latin have been mixed up enough over the years that it should be acceptable to use either pronunciation regardless of the true origin of the word.
Pathway is the official them used
Didn't Roseanne also blame her tweet controversy on taking Ambien aswel?
D'Hondt method led to this outcome.
I wouldn't have read the article, if I wouldn't procrastinate right now.
Do you blame the edge, or the node?
Extra hot composition mixture 70 – Channel FunnYCubemix (2018)
The software, I would presume. The Snow Crash quote "America makes movies, music, and microcode" has never seemed more true.
Hdg
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll definitely give it a go :)
Ireland: Ownership by Religion : 17th century
I mean, don't you think they're trying to change the situation? And have been for decades?

Armenia has great desire to change its standing in the global passport rankings. However, it is under mounting military threat from neighbouring Azerbaijan. This forces Armenia to maintain very close ties to Russia, to have the assurance of their military protection. Being friends with Russia makes it difficult to also be friends with Western countries and improve one's passport rankings. Trying to sign an economic treaty with the EU can easily result in Russia withdrawing stationed troops.

Armenia requires protection, because it's a tiny landlocked mountainous country with no notable natural resources, surrounded by unfriendly and/or conflict-torn neighbours, i.e. with no reliable transport corridors. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan has oil and natural gas reserves, which it's used to build a formidable offensive military force and regularly declares its intent to attack.

Would you not feel powerless in that situation?

I used Armenia as my example, because I'm familiar with the situation there. But I'm pretty sure every other disadvantaged country has its own set of near-insurmountable obstacles. I say "near-insurmountable", because each country/society works hard to constantly chip away at those obstacles, and eventually, sometimes generations later, they succeed. But in the short-term, it's hard not to feel powerless.
why can you say like that?

Any feedback.....
Corruption is never culture.
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