skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't even bother with stuff like this on HN. A majority of folk are utterly impervious to or unaware of the actuality of those '30 years of bunk predictions'. And those that are not, don't bother commenting because they know what happens.
Similar experience with the Portuguese classics, I only got to enjoy the ones I have read before reaching the school level where they were compulsory.
I get the feeling that the winds are shifting, less and less it's being considered extremist thinking.
In the US they generally have both if issued in the last few years, but many places still accept magnetic strips. I don't use an ATM often anymore, maybe once or twice a year at most, but I've yet to see an ATM that only demands the chip instead of forcing you to insert the whole card, so chip-only debit and credit cards can't come soon enough.

Curious if there's an easy way to make my stripe unreadable with my most used credit card, especially for dining where your card can disappear for several minutes at a time.
You should submit a GitHub issue here: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues

I'm wondering whether the http://hn.algolia.com/opensearch.xml configuration could help here, might need to tweak it a bit.
I can't tell if you mean 'rich people' or 'poor people' by that, because depending on how you look at it, I could argue both. But doesn't that mean that everyone is at fault?
This is arguably more doable than cables. I've been told that it's completely possible to build steel structures several miles tall (and the main reason we don't is b/c elevators become a problem).
My comment was in the context of having used Golang. It maybe a personal experience as I primarily come from dynamic, weakly typed languages, and TypeScript and Golang are my first serious foray into typed languages.
The church hides behind the garb of being a minority
representing about 3 percent in India, while actual
numbers are estimated to be much higher. It is not always
money, it can also be career. The church is extremely
well organised and way too powerful, no politician is
ready to face reality and deal with it.

It would be helpful to cite sources for the observations you make.
Amit Shah, right hand man of Indian PM Modi, was the director of the bank who got significant cash deposits after this ill thought out demonetization move. And worse, the news articles highlighting this have disappeared or have edited out Amit Shah’s name from all the major English newspapers. So much for media partiality in today’s India. Co-op banks were exempted, quite conveniently.

https://m.huffingtonpost.in/2018/06/22/amit-shahs-directorsh...
Revolut lets you disable the magnetic strip and other functions (e.g. contactless) of your physical card via the App.
Unintended side effects.

There is no way to censored a collection as large as YouTube manually.
And there are no high accuracy automated filter.
But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. I was agreeing with GP (u/amelius) because I had the same idea when reading the post, but the parent of your comment (u/simonsarris) makes a good point: we might not know deep learning as well as we might like to know it, given that it is being used in applications that have the potential to kill, but we also don't know our own brains that well.

Even if we don't understand deep learning to the degree that we would like, we can observe its safety record and compare it to humans'.
Not to mention that this project brings additional attention to the problem. The more attention there is the more likely it is that politicians will take up the matter and strive for a political solution to the source problem.

And even if that doesn't happen, getting rid of even a small amount of pollutants from the ocean can't be a bad thing, can it?
Related: The Octavo systems system-on-package: https://octavosystems.com/

It's a TI AMxx series linux computer in a package on package module like a raspberry PI is.

It comes in two variants, a regular pitch BGA and an ultra wide BGA so that it is actually possible to hand solder it! (or with hot air or a toaster.)

It is what is used on the Pocket Beagle.

It saves you the need to to most high speed signals and really the hard parts of building a higher-performance board.
Comparing OSS on GitHub
Ideally there would be something like premake but with a smaller and more focused DSL.
How to print legal size paper on hp officejet pro 8710
I mean that's what we developed DMARC for though.
All parties have to file Income Tax returns which also includes sources of income. Had BJP been the only party with enormous cash, they would've been flagged by the IT department.
this is my feeling to.

the 10s or 100s of millions of people that die will mostly be from A) children not being born that otherwise would have been B) indirect deaths - a few years off life expectancy
I truly think that we are losing privacy when we give up NAT.

I really don't think it matters too much for client devices anyways, we've found plenty of workarounds by now where it matters. Maybe the best case is NAT-optional.
So n=1 and it's not even the same technology.
> The metal detectors and bag inspections are everywhere; supermarkets, malls, hotels and every time you enter even if it is the hotel you stay in all the time for months. Most businesses have guards with guns (rifles often) outside the entrance as well as bag scanners and bag checkers/friskers.

The metal detectors are just security theater in almost every single place except at airports. When the person doing the checks is asked what it is they hope to find or detect, the answer usually is that they've been told to wave it around. It's just an inconvenience to people than anything to do with security as such.
Taming the Lizard Brain
This is part of a project to provide better aircraft location information in mountainous areas.[1] Radar visibility in mountainous areas is poor. So a system was deployed that pings aircraft transponders, like a full radar, but doesn't have a directional antenna. Instead, there are small transmitters and receivers in multiple locations, and from relative receive times, position can be computed.

So the airport camera system is just the airport component of a larger control area.

[1] https://www.codot.gov/news/2010news/12-2010/innovative-color...
DMARC is a better solution for sure, but it's harder to implement and not as many receivers support it.
>If demo was any good you would see such exercises all over the world on a regular basis.

I wonder if it's mostly a logistics reason they don't do it often. To do it smoothly, you've got to produce and safeguard a mountain of currency, with a high degree of secrecy, and deploy it in short order when the demonetization is activated.

It reminds me a lot of the 1962 replacement of the Hwan with the Won in South Korea. I get the impression this was a complete shock change (new Hwan notes were introduced less than a month prior to demonetization, and the replacements were produced abroad).

They pulled it off only with a fair bit of challenge-- old coins got forced back into circulation, and several type of the new notes were replaced almost immediately, and this was in a country which had a tiny population and economy compared to India.
In my case, not exactly nihilism, but est/Landmark. Basically, there is no innate meaning or purpose, only whatever you say that there is. As a biologist, of course, I'd add that there's selection for reproductive fitness. But that's readily ignorable, if you're paying attention.
Not really. Some people dabbled during the last boom, but the baseline for BTC looks like it's well above $5K. Like previous baselines, BTC looks to grow another order of magnitude from here over the next few years. Lightning network is a solid scalability solution that makes retail applications of BTC practical, ETFs are looking more and more likely, NYSE owner launching Bakkt for 401K deposits, etc.

The tech is maturing quite rapidly. Meanwhile, the chain itself is highly available, highly resilient, and keeps on chugging along at 100% availability.

Retail will come back to BTC, and then some. ETH will continue to advance the idea of a world computer (as will other chains) and what that implies. What we saw last year was a single season of a decades-long shift to crypto currency.

Central authorities, by the time they make a move into this space, may be obsolete.
Lots of veggies. Spinach, green beans, courgettes, cauliflower...
You should read the article The Uninhabitable Earth[1] by David Wallace-Wells on NyMag. It's a good primer on the current information and predictions.

[1]: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-...
I remember seeing Boeing's simulator at their factory in the early 2000's that was powered by a room filled with SGI machines running the graphics, controlling the hydraulics, and lying to the avionics. It totally blew me away.
But then again, methane has a short half life in the atmosphere.
The first paragraph in the article says “…aim to launch two small (10 sq cm) satellites connected by a 10m steel cable from the International Space Station.”

The part you quoted refers to the material that might be used for a 96,000 kilometer cable.
In case you get fired for discussing salary? It's generally illegal to fire you for that.
Might as well get a cheap Chinese android phone as the USB 4G is going to cost more than the device.
The money quote for me is

This represents a great challenge for those who believe that individuals left to their own devices are most likely to make rational choices.

I think that Thaler views on Linertarian Paternalism are looking more sensible. Handling instant gratification for the good of individualas and society seems important
Write to your state and federal representatives, plant a veggie garden, self-host what you can, offer whatever self-hosting services you can to family members, discourage those you can influence from using as many of the 'big' service providers, create a personal VPN, block ads, opt out, write about your experiences doing all of these things to help and encourage others to do the same.

And also realize it's not as bad as all of that... yet.

Also, there's likely an election coming up soon, so writing to your government representatives should be a priority. I've never done it before, but it's high on my list now.
Which is why this kind of censorship is a bad idea
Part of the reason this happens is people say things like that and don't chose to be the change they want to see in the world. Voat had plenty of friendly, decent spaces run by decent people (and plenty of horrible ones). The difference is that it allowed everything. It was just a place to talk. Not a place that decided what could be talked about.

That said, if you're the type of person that cannot stand to see people saying things that you find distasteful then yeah, you better stick to Facebook.
I’d love to have a mini version of this that is just the size of a credit card and could fit in my wallet.
So use libreoffice.

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/3214688?hl=en-G... says gmail, calendar, keep, docs, sheets, slides and drive work offline, plus there's a filter for offline apps.

However I was referring to MS Office Online
Selenium sets up the browser profile for you, so you can disable images, videos, css, javascript, embeds, all to your heart's content.

I've recently started using Selenium with the privoxy proxy, exactly because browser headless modes are still fairly new tech. They don't all necessarily support all the standard profile features (addons, settings, etc), or behave the same way. It's really neat seeing where they're going, but they sometimes need a bit of help MITM-ing traffic, so that's where a good filter comes in handy.

In the user-facing web world, 'slow' is kind of a relative term. Even with a barebone system, you're nearly always going faster than most servers will put out. I just take my chances bringing in bigger tools, because the personal cost of maintaining an under-equipped tool is usually a greater time-waster to keep up to date as your target site evolves, than the personal cost of waiting for variably-optimized background work to perform its duties.
Why would there be no no high accuracy automated filter? We have those in a multitude of different technologies, and it is somehow here is supposed to be impossible to balance false positive and false negatives?

People who use youtube filtering has no negative impact of false positives and thus you get filters that reflect that. I would call that an intentional design.
The planes will stop running pretty soon after we stop taking them. Running them isn't cheap!
How does the author of the article know that the pieces he is uploading are free from Copyright globally ? There could be a distributor somewhere outside of the US who still has publication rights on those recordings. With classical music the arrangement, performance and even who conducted it can be copyrighted regardless if the original composition is in the 'public domain' or not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17884215
Fully automated UV unwrapping for arbitrary meshes. (Siggraph 2018)
It's different in that I am the customer, I literally give them money to host my stuff. They can of course stop hosting my stuff at any time, but then I will also stop giving them money.

I'm not 100% sure since I'm a developer and not an entrepreneur, but I think they prefer to receive money rather than not receive money.
Thank you, and i think that leads to a new trailer for the Bionic Man - "he can hear a resistor whine 20 feet away"
Just because something is currently "perfectly normal" doesn't mean it should remain that way. People should be incentivized to do good work, not to be good negotiators (unless their job involves negotiation).
The Giant Space Wheel (of Seveneves) is so much more attractive than space elevator. That is a large mass on geostationary orbit having smaller pods rotating at the end of ropes. Those pods can be lowered to atmosphere and synchronized with earth rotation. Elevator pod comes down and can stay down maybe couple of hours and then jerked back to heavens. All energy comes from the sun - collected at the center station. Safe because pods can be quickly reeled back to space and stay out of atmosphere until conditions are optimal.
You could do some mind tricks with the use of nihilism to care less about their suffering but I think I agree with you.

Optimism helps more with that. Just be sure that they'll figure something out eventually.
Some dart ramblings.
Seems to me, that the Chrome team is responsible for Dart demise and its later flutter inspired resurgent.

Flutter was started by people in the chrome team, as an experimental project called sky.

With regards to making it possible to include the dart vm the oilpan project was started.

Oilpan, the replacement of reference counting in Blink, with a tracing garbage collector, this would have made it possible for dart vm to sit along side v8 in chrome.

Oilpan was started in 2013 and instead of taking months, it took years, I think it finally arrived in 2016.
Here is a dart video from io 2013 announcing oilpan.
https://youtu.be/huawCRlo9H4
Wouldn't a magnet destroy whatever's written on the card's strip?
I’m just reading it now and I must say it’s a rarely honest book and has actionable models and tactics for the sales non-“naturals”. It has opened my eyes.
"That [rocketry pioneer] Professor Goddard, with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react -- to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."

That's a colorful quote from a NYT editorial in the 1920s arguing that getting rockets into space would not only be impossible, but obviously so. When Musk announced his intentions to autonomously land and rapidly reuse rockets it was mostly dismissed. Certainly companies, full of world class engineers, that had been launching rockets since before he was born probably knew a bit more about what is or not possible than some programmer with an undergrad in physics and negligible real life aerospace experience, right? Then it became, 'We've looked into it already, of course. It's perhaps theoretically possible, but it's a complete waste of money and in way economical.' Then it became, 'Shit we're a decade behind technologically!'

There are a practically infinite number of ways for why any given nontrivial thing might not be possible, and quite a bit fewer ways that it can be possible. So it's generally quite easy to formulate compelling and intelligent arguments against the viability of something (not that my little paraphrasings above were intended to be intelligent). But these arguments are not necessarily as meaningful, or productive, as they might seem. Think of how much of our technology today would have seemed impossible, or extreme long-term future tech, not that long ago -- even to those most qualified to make such judgement. This of course does not mean anything is possible, but it does mean we'd likely be a much more backwards civilization if not for the headstrong visionaries among us doing what conventional knowledge told us ought not be able to be done.
http://archive.is/PYB4g
>>The actual intent of Demonetization was not the removal of Black Money.

This is one of those 80's era misconceptions that continues to exist today.

No one, not even beggars on Indian streets keep their cash beneath their mattress these days. Money is invested in businesses, where the unorganized sectors works. In short if you pull the plug on this kind of economy you ruin the livelihood of people working in unorganized sector. Which is basically most of the Indian economy.

The remainder of your post is basically the hilarity I have to deal with day-in-and-out from people and their round-corner-barber-shop level discussions on how their random hacks and their political heroes will go around fixing everything. Urban centers are full of these idiots. Who think their barely held together theories, which won't survive 5 why questions in a stretch, should be forced implemented and others be made to suffer through it as a test of patriotism.

Demonetization was a devastating failure for one simple reason. Tax accountability is one thing. Capital is a totally different concept. Capital has always been invested in productive businesses. If you destroy that you destroy the economy. In essence the question is how to fix tax accountability without destroying the economy along the way.

Nobody gets applauded for burning down a city to eradicate rats.
What isn't? Your line that its 'alarming' that Russia is getting away with it? Also propaganda.

Follow the money - who stands to benefit from this newfound hatred of Russia?
Where Do People Get Money to Buy California Homes These Days? Often, Mom and Dad
True. A friend of my relative who is a Sales-tax officer had tons of cash(most of it illegal) in his home. His entire night was spent calling his friends and requesting them to take a part of his cash for some time.
As a bit of an extension to the experience thing. I recently changed jobs and they hired somebody else, to the same team, for the same work as me at the same time.

I had 0 experience with this software stack/language but I am an extremely fast learner. The other guy boasted 30 years of software experience and 8/9 in this specific tech stack.

After ~2 months he was let go in his probation period and people had told me that I had already picked up, was doing more work and knew more than what he was showing in the same role.

He was on just under double my salary - my salary did not change. I believe people should be evaluated and have salary adjusted based on merit and value over time

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As an extension to the merit thing, I changed to this new job because my old one had the directors of the company, who didn't really have a huge understanding of individuals roles across the 150-200 person software section employees, telling us they pay on merit.

Yet I had joined and quickly become one of the more knowledgeable people on the team, so much so that people would often come to me. I did a lot of the software releases, worked (unpaid) overtime a lot, especially around said releases, worked to improve processes and in my spare time worked on tooling. No recognition other than from the team and one of the principal developers. All while someone who had half my throughput with daily work but had worked there for 30 years, had about 1.8* my salary.

What was it more, loyalty, that they meant?

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Overall, me knowing other peoples salaries in similar/the same position just demotivates me (partly due to my mindset at the moment) in that some people can have such well paid positions while blagging, or doing little in comparison. Why do I even bother trying? At the same time, I am always at home teaching myself something new, learning something to better myself for my career, but that is more my nature than to do with knowing salaries.
That's about government. As I said, you can turn off all the tracking and lie about all the questions they ask, you can use guest mode, whatever you want, it's not really a problem if you care.

And your DOB isn't massively personal information, get a grip. Not like they're asking if you believe in the state religion, who you voted for, are you loyal to the party, which of your friends you have suspicions about, do you have more than 1 child, do you love someone of a different religion, have you seen anyone with more resources than they should have, is there anyone hiding in your attic, etc etc
Ironically, this kind of smug attitude just adds to the problem.
Also it's a public holiday in the US on Monday 3rd so maybe it will be delayed another day?
On the other hand, if you have them scattered all over the place, you're more likely to lose them bit by bit as they get lost, forgotten, or broken.

The other reply to your comment mentioned the Library of Alexandria. If the library wasn't there to store all the books/scrolls, and they were instead scattered around, how many of them would've survived to the modern day?

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. The obvious answer is to ensure that we have as many backups as possible, in various locations. One of my tasks for the next few months is to backup all my important files (mostly photos), so that I have a copy at my house and a copy on the cloud. Then I'm also going to burn them to archival DVDs and send the DVDs to my parents' house, which is in another country. That way, if I somehow lose all my different backups, I've got much bigger problems (e.g. global disaster, nuclear war, etc).
Compensation isn't the sole motivator. Government work tends to be less stressful, more secure, and more fulfilling for a lot of people. Seems like there's a new article on HN every other day about work-life balance - you're not really going to find threats to work-life balance coming from up the hierarchy in government engineering work.

Compensation does matter, but it's not the be-all-end-all.
We can build massive steel towers (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Seed_4000 would be 4km tall), but they would still be nowhere near space (one common definition of reaching space is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line which is at 100km).

A space elevator would reach at least 36,000km to hit geostationary orbit ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit ). Most designs are even longer, to provide a counterweight.

No known material could support a tower that tall (towers need compressive strength; elevators need tensile strength). It would need to rely on 'active support' or 'dynamic structures', like a space fountain ( http://www.orbitalvector.com/Orbital%20Travel/Space%20Founta... )
If you're strongly moved, you could commit your life to doing something about it. But it's also important to keep in mind that none of this likely matters long term, on the scale of millenia. Future historians will likely consider these times as far more tragic than the fall of Rome. But that's how it goes.