skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean, Israel does a lot of bad things

Definitely. It has settled 1/10th of its civilian population in an occupied territory, something that is for obvious reasons forbidden by the Geneva Convention. It declared undivided sovereignty on Jerusalem, has annexed the Golan Heights. It has closed almost 2 million people in a total embargo- nothing goes through the land and sea borders or the airspace of Gaza without the approval of Israel, be it people or goods- this means that the entire region is close to the collapse. In the recent border protest (which took place inside Gaza's border) Israel has fired live ammo on protesters day after day, killing 168, wounding 17 thousand! The UN General Assembly passed a condemnation resolution that was voted against only by Israel, the US, Australia, and a few tiny atolls of the Pacific. Every other nation in the world condemned Israel or (cowardly) abstained. Among those who voted to condemn Israel are Switzerland, Ireland, Japan, France, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Spain and Portugal.

> as do many countries

No other country that we consider civilised, no.

> this is literally what every country does though - US citizens have rights in the US, and everyone else doesn't.

Here I'm not sure whether you don't understand or just pretend not to. It's not that non-citizens don't have political rights inside Israel. It's that Israel is applying its law and jurisdiction outside its borders- so on Israeli and Palestinians alike- but only the former have political and civil rights. It's almost a clever technicality: Israel is not an apartheid state, it's just that, in the Occupied Territories, the State is wherever the Israelis are. The others, even if they happen to live only a few hundred metres away, have no rights.

> Hell, I'd rather live in a world in which the fact that I am Jewish doesn't mean that I have to protect myself from other people

The precondition to not have to protect yourself from other people is to be in peace with your neighbours. Tit-for-tats, or imposing your dominance, don't work (unless you want to just exterminate your enemy- which today is not an option). Israel was born with the original sin of seizing half of the country from their original inhabitants. We can't and don't want to go back on this, but Israel has to find a firm moral rule, define its own borders once and for all in agreement with what was established (at least the 1967 borders) and start building a cooperation with Palestinians. The issue with Israel is that it lives in a conflict of interest: on one hand, it wants not to be attacked; on the other hand, it's more than happy of acquiring new territory, which is only possible if the borders are ill-defined and through the cycles of provocation, violence and retaliation.
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume
I see the investor take on TSLA differently. People are tired of the same old Detroit and by voting with their money, have forced the auto industry to modernize.

I will probably get downvoted for it, but I can see a similar pattern in American politics.
Am I understanding correctly that this is a manual process and not currently automated?

(And can I cancel my request so you can move on to others for now?)
I don't think it's about leaving Facebook - it's just that their app is ridiculously bad. Some people I know eagerly switched to FaceSlim after I showed it to them, which is just a Facebook's web interface wrapped in a lightweight app with added notification features.
Logan Square in Chicago. Chicago is known for having an excellent library system. A couple examples; all the major museums have passes at each library that can be "checked out" for free entry [1], Harold Washington Library has a Maker Lab with 3D printers, design software and laser and electronic cutters [2], there is a program called YOUmedia where some libraries have full sound editing equipment (Chance the Rapper used this to make his first mixtape) [3]. I can also get any book delivered to my local library for pickup through the CPL phone app.

[1] https://chicagoonthecheap.com/free-museum-admission-chicago-...

[2] https://www.chipublib.org/maker-lab/

[3] https://www.chipublib.org/programs-and-partnerships/youmedia...
Too bad the students are not at the same frame of mind each day.
SMS will always be more reliable than data service because SMS runs over the GSM signalling side channel.
"It's frightening how politicians with such little knowledge and understanding of certain subjects have so much power to create legislation about those subjects"

But we've elected these politicians to ... create legislation!

Should leave it up to people like ... Zuckerberg? Jack?
Quora – the new Yahoo Answers
Show HN: Bravos.co is a replacement for Google Finance
#CSforALL Must Include Students W Disabilities, and It Needs to Happen Now
Seattle’s Sweetened Beverage Tax producing healthier than expected returns
Or maybe we should be electing more people who understand how to read clipboards?
> The reverse sugars circulating in the chiral organism's body would be indigestible as far as normal bacteria are concerned, so any bacterium entering a chiral organism would simply starve to death.

Interesting, this has been considered as a diet alternative but too expensive so far:

> L-Glucose was once proposed as a low-calorie sweetener and it is suitable for patients with diabetes mellitus, but it was never marketed due to excessive manufacturing costs. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Glucose
I could do that in a weekend
I'm excited to introduce Bravos.co, which is a replacement for the (now shut down) Google Finance. It features a clean interface for tracking public companies, cryptocurrencies, and private companies.

Video walkthrough: https://youtu.be/gpQpCK9Ydl0 (02:35)

Looking forward to your thoughts questions - thanks all.
Forestry is a good comparable service for Jekyll and Hugo.

https://forestry.io
Thanks for your question. That political ideology started the lynching trend using WhatsApp as a misinformation medium. India witnessed widespread lynchings of people, mainly minorities, who were simply transporting cows, an animal considered holy by Hindus. So this modus operandi was used before, until it percolated further.
So...it's all the same library. Again, in my big city people seem to get along just fine in our libraries. There is a kids section and I see plenty of parents, caretakers and nannies with kids there every day. Meanwhile, people in the other sections go about their business using the internet or studying.
Not to be insulting, but you sound like exactly the kind of person the GP was talking about. “Outsider who rejects the field’s orthodoxy” comes across more like a crank than anything else.
Never worked at a big company in the US I'm guessing. Because they are havens for bad programmers, who inevitably advance to some position of authority and can crush the spirit and productivity of whole departments. Now with 'agile' and code review hurdle on checkin etc, it can actually be impossible to improve the situation. Even Silicon Valley has become infected with this.
He's saying uneducated in the context of technology (pretty much in those exact words). This means they don't know that what they are seeing in WhatsApp is fake and/or taken out of context. They don't know about common scams, or which sources are trustworthy/reputable. They don't know where to look to find out this information, either.

Sure there are plenty of people like that everywhere you look, but the proportion of them in urban areas is much lower and as such the probability of them finding each other and banding together for acts like this are much lower too.
For me, it depends not on what the masses are doing, but what group I want to keep in contact with. Family, friends, locals, hobbyists, etc might all be at different locations on different platforms. For example, one of the communities I'm most active with uses an old PHP script.
Coming from Python I like Pelican a lot. It also looks like there is an active development going on: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

I am still wondering, why the last release was made over 18 month ago.
I cannot overstate how much I despise these “helpful” cloud agents. They are useful for experimentation to update user accounts (SSH keys, etc. — GCP uses for its web shell as well), but they are a nightmare for production use. They are a very straightforward path from cloud account compromise to instance takeover.

Azure pulls the same trick. AWS seems fine.
Introduction to Hacking
Bpfd: Container aware Framework for running BPF programs with rules as a daemon
Billionaire Sackler family owns second opioid drugmaker
"At least the same stature" as the Intelligencer (which had agreed to publish it originally and retracted due to reasons that were not scientific concerns). A paper that is, as you noted, "not serious".

I guess that doesn't apply to the NYJM, but I didn't ask for them to be the journal doing the publishing (just noted that their approach of dealing with the fallout of Rivin's machinations was unfortunate).

If push came to shove and I'd be on the board of editors of a publication of same or higher posture than an affected publication with overlapping audience, I hope I'd at least consider doing that (but as mentioned: not through subterfugue, but officially).

That's political, but in a way it's merely self-preservation: Niemöller's poem "First they came ..." and all that.
The Python script can be opened with PyCharm

This is going to be a bit pedantic, but for anyone that doesn't realize. Pycharm can already open ipynb files, and it will connect to a running notebook. I don't do it very often, usually just to quickly find my way around some library code.

This project looks great though. I will likely use it, as I tend to use Jupyter to work out code before copying it over to my main project.
The image that comes to mind when reading this comment is that of the Iraqi information minister proclaiming on television that the Americans have been defeated while M1 Abrams tanks roll by leisurely in the background of the shot. You're attempting to defend the powers that be, as is your habit, but in this instance, their conduct is indefensible, and consequently, absurdities have come out of your keyboard.

The article obviously was not "trolling". Sokal was trolling. Whatever the quality of the paper, it was made in earnest, as we can tell by both the done of its presentation and its iterative development.

Further, the paper wasn't "rejected". Instead, it was accepted twice and silently unpublished after shady back-channel pressure. Regardless of whether the paper should have been accepted in the first place, a public retraction was the correct next step.

The article to which this comment thread is attached is sophistry. Mathematical ability being connected to "raw brainpower" is a myth? The author must be a die-hard social constructionist. That school of thought is thoroughly discredited, and to use it to defend the censorship on display in this affair will only further shred the credibility of science as an enterprise.

I get the sense from your comment --- both its structure and diction --- that you want readers to think of this affair as responsible adult moderation of some internet forum (as if people are expected to accept heavy-handed moderation there), an exercise in containing a low quality shitpost that nobody would want to read anyway, and not think of this affair as what it actually is, a demonstration of the corruption of science by nepotistic political censorship.

It's unbelievable, really, and that explains why nobody's believing it. It's this post and its blatant PR damage control spin that ought to be flagged as intellectually unstimulating, not the Quillette exposé.
> They claim the kind of fiber (ZBLAN) fetches $1M/kg when manufactured on Earth.

Because supply is so low perhaps?

> If they can achieve $1M kg advantage in value that would be $3B. Wow, that's enough to get anyone's attention.

I suspect the value would drop significantly as supply increases. Gold would be $1M/kg too if it were extremely rare and difficult to extract from the earth. As soon as it's less rare it's a lot less valuable.
Alibaba gets a new no-nonsense chief as Jack Ma looks to retire
> Past Presidents don’t claim that NATO partners owe the US money based on a misunderstanding of how NATO works (they have complained about NATO partners not pulling their weight which is why all of them have set concrete targets for increasing involvement which are set to take place over a few more years, for which of course Trump will try to take credit ignoring that these were negotiated by Bush/Obama).

Can you explain your differentiation to me on how past presidents complaints about NATO members not meeting obligations is based on a proper understanding of how NATO works, but the current president's same complaints are based on a misunderstanding of how NATO works?
Satellite footage of a rocket launching from the Gobi Desert
Secrecy. Patent minefields. Alien ideas. It might be the cat's meow, but small wonder why its advancements are still obscure and inaccessible.

The things we DO know and use daily were developed in the clear, in a public, cooperative environment. Furthermore, implementations were often protected by GPL or other means to keep them from disappearing into an IP hole.

This might be the most important lesson of the project.
Display HERE Maps Within Your Angular Web Application
Man - to hell with this forum, I ask for evidence on a claim that other posters have pointed out is a misapplication of other research 'webscam algos != cash bail algos'

And I get downvoted!?

This is tech news, something the general public can get easily manipulated into...and for demanding a degree of reasonable discourse and reference, i get downvoted?

Bleh, this place is turning into a place i cant speak relatively freely in.
I get obnoxious multi-second lag when entering text into a comment box on my phone, even on a thread that only has a couple comments. It's... befuddling how this made it to production and remains. And no, I don't want to use your stupid app. I'm not a fan of loading 1000's of shitty apps on my phone when a simple web page is sufficient.
Up until now we were saddled with the extremely biased and unjust bond system. Calls to make the algorithms transparent are well taken -- but let's not go back.
Ironically we now know that regular cow milk isn't good for cats to drink.
I have thought of this for a while. But, why has there never been a fully covered 2 wheeler / single seater on the market ?

It seems like the kind of thing that can exploit the pros of a car, while mitigating atmospheric and safety related problems associated with bikes.

I am genuinely surprised that there hasn't even been a startup that has tried to dabble in this, let alone an established company.

My only guess focus groups might hate the idea of it.

On topic:

I welcome the push towards bikes as a primary method for transport. If the necessary traffic rule adjustments are made, then biking can be a very safe method for transportation on a daily basis
> You're advocating for breaking a country's laws. What makes Russia's laws worth less than any other country's? Whether you agree or not with them, you have to respect them.

No, you don't. Websites are international, and Google could always refuse to comply. They run the risk of being blocked, but that might be preferable to complying with an immoral or unjust law.

> They are a sovereign country and have the right to establish whatever laws they want within their territory.

No. Do you think "sovereign countries" have a right to establish laws implementing the genocide of a minority population? To use torture freely? To murder or imprison people for criticizing the government? To absolutely defer to sovereignty is to either stand by while injustices large and small are inflicted on others, or even worse join in and be complicit in the injustice.
Outsource Chipset production to TSMC. Not Chip / CPU, I would be surprised if they do. I wonder if this is planned or not, because TSMC just doesn't have spare 12nm capacity sitting there, at least not in the quantity Intel requires. They tried moving those chipset back to their own 22nm and it is obviously not working out for them well.

If not, it is another sign of Intel management failure.
I would choose not to do business with Nazi Germany. If I'm running a business and don't agree with their laws, I can choose not to do business there. If I'm choosing to do business there, I'm choosing to respect their laws. It's that simple - it's just like an individual immigrating to a country.

Doing business there, and breaking their laws, isn't right no matter what you think of them.
Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns
Yes. Think how you have to read "mobile.tasty.noodles.com/italian/fettuccine" to determine where it goes.

First start at the slash and work your way left: "com -> noodles -> tasty -> mobile" - then jump back to the slash and work your way right: "italian -> fettuccine".

This is counterintuitive and I doubt most users understand it. "com.noodles.tasty.mobile/italian/fettuccine" makes more sense to me.

Also, I think TLDs like "com" and "edu" and now "io" and "cool", etc, are misguided. I wish we had "country.language" as the only TLDs. For instance, "us.en.apple.www/mac". I see several advantages.

One, if "us.en.apple" and "uk.en.apple" were different entities, it would make legal sense, whereas "apple.com" and "apple.cool" being different entities makes no sense. Two, a use would likely notice if they ventured outside their usual TLD(s), and be less surprised by the different entity. Three, these TLDs could have rules about allowed characters; eg, only ASCII in "us.en". This would make homoglpyh attacks much more difficult.
Prosecutors Charge Russian Accused of Hacking JP Morgan, Dow Jones
Sick of it reading this kind of childish lines, nowadayds, even in New Yorker!

“For many years, it was, like, ‘Your LinkedIn thing is going to be crushed, so even though we’re friendly, I don’t want to get too close to you personally, because I’m going to crush you.’ Now, of course, that’s behind us and we’re good friends.”
Purdue is involved in sales of patent evergreening meds like OxyContin.

This other company, Rhodes Pharma, are involved in sales of generic opioid medication.
The population of the US is only 330 million. It's a net exporter of food, and Americans eat much more meat than most of the world, but even if you round up to the equivalent of feeding an extra billion people it looks like it's within the realm of possibility to replace all that agriculture:

https://www.livescience.com/16493-people-planet-earth-suppor...

And this article claims that the limiting factor is transportation infrastructure, not food production:

https://www.theguardian.com/preparing-for-9-billion/2017/sep...

If that's the case then it seems like it's definitely possible. The US has good transportation infrastructure.
Great post.
FWIW in discussing this topic I've heard and now adopted the term "(in)numerate" vs "STEM-(il)literate" -- though the latter might be intended to be broader in scope?
Yes Comcast is the definition of poor customer service. We were forced to have them when we lived in an apartment. I haven’t had any issues with the customer service I received from AT&T and before that Bellsouth. But I also use OTT providers for TV service.

AT&T Fiber in my experience is a lot more reliable than Comcast ever was. Even thier old DSL was reliable.

My mom has had DSL for years in the small town I grew up in. She got cable internet when I stayed there for the summer because I needed more speed to work remotely. But she decided to keep both. The cable for better speeds and she said after 50 years of dealing with the phone company and 40 years dealing with cable, she trusts the phone company’s reliability more.

If a smaller ISP could offer the reliability of the incumbents, I might switch just to support them, but they would have to do a lot to gain my trust.
Isn't 200 requests in an hour ... just three requests per minute? What is this service doing?
My main problem with the web usage is not blocking unwanted websites but rather
understanding which when and how I should or shouldn't block them.

For example, On one hand, I can't block Wikipedia Stack Overflow or GitHub because I need them for work. On the other, I find myself hours later browsing the source of a project unrelated to the task at hand.

By far, the only way I found to work is to introduce a delay between the need for information and the actual retrieval.

Like you write down queries to the Google and then do something else.
In ten minutes time, you do exactly what you wrote in your log file.
If you want to search for something else, you introduce it into the journal
again, and in ten minutes repeat it. So goes the cycle.

But then, because you have this lag you can't do research faster because your every step is now bound by drag and red tape that you introduced yourself.

TBH, this is a book material here, because working with internet but not
abusing the information hoarding instincts is a methodology question.

Not a technical one.
Saying "the differences between the races are undeniable" is a tautology; races are a construction based on observable differences, it could not be any other way. The ill-defined phenotypical traits that are used to group people into the various races only account for the minuscule fraction of their DNA that can be discerned with the naked eye.
That's still a choice.
I'm perfectly aware he's a nationalist, why do you think I'm forgetting it? I'm concerned principally with what he's doing because of it.

Trump's trade actions against the EU, including Britain, and other allies were on national security grounds. He's publicly sided with Putin against his own national security agencies. None of this is encouraging from a European perspective.

Nobody is anticipating military conflict between the EU and US, but hostile acts via security agencies? Especially targeting trade and economic activities? Operations on that front that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago cannot be discounted.
For anybody reading this after-the-fact, I was able to squeeze just shy of 6 hours out of my laptop with this change.
When I deleted FB from my phone, it was a solid statement of "I will not use FB on my phone". I do still use Messenger, because it's primary contact mechanism anymore for so many people, but I don't read the feed on my phone, period.
Even before that (in 1953) they seem to have been directly responsible for the trouble they're now getting from Iran, by deposing a democratically elected government and installing a friendly puppet (to whom they supplied the nuclear technology that is now frowned upon) that quickly got overturned by the current regime: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation_ajax
>> If you were regulated and you had to hire someone to help you understand what you are and aren't allowed to do by these regulations wouldn't the first person you look to hire be the person who actually wrote the rules?

That's just the kind of story that people tell themselves and others while they're making a ton of money by screwing over society; that way not only can people get rich doing horrible things, but they can also look their victims straight in the eyes and smile while they're doing it. It's a win-win! (in the sense that one side gets to win twice).
It's cheeply automated to handle 10 profile requests per day, which is more than what we got in the past few months. So now we're giving it some human help and we'll have to rethink the system.

What is your username? I'll cancel your request, thanks!
Сommon issues with DApps – and how they can be fixed
Yeah. we hire ex regulator employees cos we are trying to comply with regs, not beat them.

regulations and regulatory feedback can be hard to understand, use arcane language, and may be apparently inconsistent. having people who can interpret and advise is very useful.