skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did specifically note that it's okay if your country doesn't have a military, as long as your country has an ally with a military. I guess I should add if there's absolutely no threat then you also don't need a military - but that's a rare situation.

"Countries Without Militaries" by Kathy Gilsinan (Nov 11, 2014) at https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/co... specifically discusses the case of Costa Rica: "After 7,000 U.S. servicemembers deployed to the country in 2010 to assist in counter-narcotics efforts, Bolivian President Evo Morales said Costa Rica did have an army: the United States military." Indeed, that articles notes a lot of the complexities when you dive in. The vast majority of countries have obvious militaries, and of the rest, "Virtually all the countries the CIA lists as having no formal militaries have some form of security service, and the degree to which they focus exclusively on internal threats varies". If there's absolutely no threat then you don't need a military, but for the vast majority of countries, that is not reality.
steven pinker convinced me some time ago.
Dynamic pinning (HPKP header) is being rolled back from browsers because of the reasons you mention. Only a small set of static pins will remain (in Chrome, Google sites for example).
Do you lock your doors at night? Use curtains or shades on your windows?

Even if you do nothing wrong, would allow streaming cameras and hot mics in your house? How about leaving the door open to allow anyone on Earth to freely enter/exit your property?
Yes indeed. There era of entitlement is upon us - "unless CBS gives away all their free content without tracking and monetizing me, I'll illegally pirate their content - because in 2018 I'm entitled to CBS content without frills"
I write a media literacy guide, and this is the key takeaway. Engagement is king, and social media seems to exacerbate this effect.

https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media
So fixing bitcoins energy consumption problem by shifting it to solar?? Hmm.. I mean probably 80% of people on HN were programming at age 10.. so “tech prodigy” sounds like a rather strong description?
Even then, "twisting" is a stretch (especially the connoted maleficence). I think most people would realize these are unrelated and there seems to be a quite of precedence for talking about daemon-less as "serverless" [1].

[1] https://sqlite.org/serverless.html
This is also true in places in the US
I think a lot of our political ideologies are incompatable with biological determinism.
Does DDG have an equivalent of filetype:pdf?
Another dying legacy network that few people will remeber.
Charging for a 'production build' is certainly unusual.

I'm reminded of when OpenBSD used to sell CDs.
Microcosmographia Academica – Guide for the Young Academic Politician (1908)
I was basing myself mostly on things like mass shootings such as during a recent eSports competition or the school shootings.

But, my previous message might have indicated an idea of random shootings everywhere every day, which is not what I meant.

As mentioned, it is not that I feel unsafe in either country and I realise most parts are safe.

Thank you for the interesting link though!
So is TechCrunch going to write an article each time Facebook’s spam algorithms block some random URL?
It doesn't directly falsify the fact that Costa Rica lacks a military, but shows that their solution does not scale in a useful manner.

Edit: It directly contradicts the usage of the claim that small countries do not need a military. Essentially borrowing deterrence from another doesn't result in the world being military free.
Capital punishment is a very bad example, because it operates on people already arrested and neutralized as active threats.

An active terrorist who is planning the next attack is not.
I consider Apple to be the only respectable bigtech left, that said, I can't avoid to make the following reasoning:

- Apple is US-based, therefore subject to PRISM (and any other surveillance program we don't know about)

- There's a long record of companies going rogue on users for legal reasons

- Apple makes macOS

- macOS is not fully open-source

This means that there's the possibility of macOS turning it's back on users, and that would make me refuse macOS if I were the target of someone with enough money and time.

On why OpenBSD, it's because of it's excellent track of security vulnerabilities (only 2 in 20+ years).
Tails and Qubes are also great, but they haven't been out there for as long as OpenBSD has and I think the BSDs deserve some more love.

Edit: CoreOS has some great security features too, such as a read-only /usr. I also believe ChromeOS has some similar features.
Is it not sensible, though? People are trying to argue that light from a backlight is inherently more dangerous than reflected light. The easiest way to dispel this notion is to establish that the light from a backlight is just light like any other, which it is. At most, it varies in spectrum and intensity. Polarization is affected by filters outside of the light source. The phase that's hitting your retina varies entirely based on irrelevant things like when the light source was turned on and how far away it is.

Starting by pointing out that intensity and wavelength are the only intrinsic properties is a great starting place.

You still haven't pointed out any additional properties that have any bearing on how your retina is affected. I was wrong the say that there were no other properties, since we can endlessly discuss the quantum nature of light or how it experiences no flow of time since it travels at the speed of light or all sorts of other properties...

but none of these things change based on the light source. Light is light, except for the intensity and wavelength. Unless we're willing to consider things which could affect reflected light just as much as they could affect emitted light, since they're the same thing. Light.
> Okay, why there are using cannabis as an example and not other substances that react with those receptors, like chocolate?

Because these substances are obviously and explicitly marketed as substitutes for cannabis. Cannabis is the relevant comparison. There's no agenda, just reality. You're being very dramatic calling this a "disgrace" when it's really very mundane.
I once talked to a retired general who had been in Afganistan. In his view the purpose of a military is to reach a truce. Once you have a truce, politicians have the job to reach peace. Breaking things and harming people might sometimes be the most efficient way to reach a truce, but if it is not then a good military will avoid it.

This view might be a german peculiarity though. After WW2 they had to distinguish the new "Bundeswehr" from the previous Nazi "Reichswehr". They developed the concept of "Staatsbürger in Uniform" [0] (citizen in uniform).

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatsb%C3%BCrger_in_Uniform
It is easy to take prime number 2 (from the famous treatise A Short Table of Even Primes) and "divide it into" 6. And it is easy to take 6 and factor it into primes 2 and 3.

Where the OP wrote

> Those numbers you can’t divide into other numbers, except when you divide them by themselves or 1?

would have read better with

"Those numbers you can't factor into ..."

I.e., it is easy to take 2 and "divide it into 6" but can't factor 2 into a product of other numbers except itself and 1.
Self-defence, preemptively, on foreign soil on the other side of the world?

With definitions like that, who needs a lawful order to legitimise anything?

> Department of Defense (remember, its very name is "Defense")

Like the Ministry of Truth (remember, its very name is "Truth").
Solid appears to use TLS client certificates for authentication. (Granted, they're working on some kind of OAuth integration too.) WebID-TLS appears to have the same severe drawback that HTTP authentication does: the UI is provided by the browser, and so can't be customized, branded, or tweaked in any meaningful way by authentication providers. The TLS certificate dialog my browser presented just now attempting to use the "hello world" live demo also appeared to be extremely intimidating for non-technical users: for example, it presented long strings of hex numbers.

I don't think Solid is going to get any meaningful adoption until the signup and authentication flows resemble those of major current social platforms, which have enjoyed years of usability optimization.
> Legally speaking then, you don't own information about yourself like your address or past actions

...and of this: clearly you want just some information to be impermanent or undo-able. I wouldn't want all information about myself to be delete-able. Just pick a class of infos, like "tweets" or "tv interviews" etc. And delete-able shouldn't mean modifiable. If I'd delete a year of my "certified resume" I'd still end up with a "blank year" that wouldn't look good.

There's room for forgettable channels of communication and publishing, from which information can be permanently deleted, and these should also have legal protections ensuring that if someone retains copies of that infos then they are inadmissible in any court, even if they were public at some point. A fully networked society needs such safe-spaces too...
> height is mostly genetic

And yet until the industrial revolution, environmental factors were the dominant effect. Anyone could have been taller with enough nutrition.

Genes are only ever expressed under certain environmntal conditions. The minimal condition for all of them is being alive. Malnourishment, or perhaps too much caffeine, amongst a hundred other things, all determine how our genes for height express themselves.

Which is all to say, people are wrong when they say height is mostly genetic. It may be true enough under current social conditions though. I think the same problem applies to calling intelligence "largely" genetic.
YOU are not killed or enslaved because OTHERS are willing to kill to defend themselves. You happen to be collateral benefit.
The title, even if faithful to the original, is misleading. As the post states, he doesn't know and it is not clear why. He does take the liberty of guessing:

> I can also see how my tweet might have triggered a very, very naive rule that saw “gender,” “STEM,” and “natural” in close proximity, or interpreted the text on the screenshot (which now shows up as a grey box) as denigrating women as a class, when the substance of the message was doing the opposite.

> any system that (apparently) flags feminist academic research about the social construction of scientific privilege as being abusive of women as a class

An interesting guess. However, the text on the screenshot contains facts. That the author feels the need to specify the facts are "doing the opposite [of denigrating women as a class]" as something of note, rather than just worry that facts are being policed, just smells bad. Were they the wrong facts, would it be ok to ban?

Furthermore, the ban has been lifted: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/29/platform-censorship.html
Yes, I know what electromagnetic waves are. I found your response very off-putting.

The question is whether the intensity is discussed in the link. My point was that the discussion is more to do with the frequency of light than with intensity.
You're not parsing it correctly. The OP was clearly using "failing" as a noun (synonymous to "weakness" or "flaw"), not as an adjective (something that's in the process of becoming a failure).
Curious how much data they are covering and what kind of stack is powering DuckDuckGo? Anyone knows in-depth except highscalability article.
Most of the paper was quite good and the results seem promising. One of the simpler ideas is to represent the set of offsets as a bitvector with a select structure which I didn’t think of and I think it’s a nice idea. It works under the assumption that the difference between offsets is typically less than the size in bits of an offset but I think this could reasonably be true in many cases.

Other approaches involve permuting vertex ids (which can potentially be quite slow) which makes me a bit sad although I’m not really sure why.

The mathematical notation is ugly and mangled in some places and in a few places wrong but this is sadly common with computer science papers so I can’t really complain much about it.

The diagram on page 2 is completely bonkers. I sympathise a bit in that it can be amusing to create crazy graphics in TIKZ but this one doesn’t really serve its purpose (of explaining what the sections of the paper are) at all.
This is important and the library in use here doesn't support this[1]. I'd stick to something more mature e.g. Tornado.

[1]: https://github.com/Pithikos/python-websocket-server/issues/1...
https://www.w3.org/community/rww/wiki/SoLiD
Tried it this summer with 13'' Onyx Boox 2 as hdmi display and standalone. Both worked as expected, but somehow getting things done didn't really work well.
A lot places in N. Texas is like that. I see lots of unused commercial space in Tarrant County. I've seen places built with in the last 10 years that it's hard to get someone to occupy it in the first place, or for more than 6 months. With all the available commercial space in some of these cities, it amazes me to see new spaces still being built.
Some countries overuse conscripts as a measure of population planning in additional to its intended purpose. This is an example of deliberate inefficiency in a military.
Agreed. I actually spent the early part of my 20s thinking money wasn't so important, but I started to regret it when I realize I wanted to become independent, eventually start a family, and it all required money to achieve those means. I also used to despise the idea of having to get married, playing life by a to-do list of checkboxes (that society forces upon you in some sense), but I realize you can always have your cake and eat it too. Besides, higher levels of income usually require you to be reaching some level of competency and proficiency in a hierarchy of other people speaking the same language (productivity, logic, etc.) Also, it also serves as a very pragmatic and quantitative metric, something to continually strive towards. Sure, I can grow my own vegetables, read/write a bunch of books, go travel the world, and be a really interesting person, and that would be great, but where are you getting the roof over your head and the meal every night? Good news is, you can have your cake and eat it too.
Most of these features available in any 10+ years old Linux distribution. sigh
This may be a controversial answer but my opinion, in a nutshell, is because of business decisions that prevented or discouraged it from being supported by platforms beyond Microsoft's.

As a developer I had no interest in tying myself down to a technology that didn't work on all the devices my users loved. There was some effort to port it to Linux, but it was too little, too late. We really needed Microsoft to not only release the whole shebang into the wild, but make it attractive for Mozilla, Apple, eventually Google, and the whole ecosystem to adopt.

Flash was dying and there was a great opportunity give the world a platform to enable more rich web applications than were possible on the standards-based frameworks of the time.

Thankfully WebAssembly does not repeat this mistake.
Funny how you let Amazon & Netflix track the fuck out of you, while paying them a prime membership or shopping on their website.
But mostly the language picked for a system is a well-used legacy language (e.g. Java / C / Befunge / Cobol ) chosen by a business manager.
I love that the marketing text is presented inside the editor itself! Show, not tell.
Is there a clear line between 'respecting complexity' and 'premature optimisation'?
I think I'm going to add this approach to https://forwardemail.net when I implement the DNSBL.
I really don't understand what your point really has to do with the original discussion.

Ok, light can be described by its intensity and wavelength. So what? Can you tie this to the original parent post?

You can break it down further - intensity is just the "number" of packets (photons). So, really, light is just frequency and travels at max speed (C) because photons are massless.

Where are we going with this discussion?

Edit: I am not able to respond to you below so I am responding here. You're right on this one - it doesn't matter what the originating source is, light is light whether it is reflected or emitted.
I can't say I like the grandparents "robotic" tone, but I have to disagree with you here on what all is required for coordinated efforts. People disagree locally on norms and etiquette all the time precisely because we are not robots. In fact the simple mechanism of agreeing on a price allows us to coordinate our activities despite disagreeing on so much else. Our differences play a role in making us human. So does our ability to coordinate without all being of the same mind.

On a larger scale, trade persists across legal divides - with much of this facilitated via contracts, which are actually not excluded by the grandparent comment. Here what I am really claiming that contracts are a form of generalized price. So trade, coordinated work, productive efforts large and small, are basically all facilitated by people coming to agreement on price, one way or another (unless the type of coordination involves a group of friends coordinating via friendship - or maybe some generalized version of that). The "price" agreement itself may be long winded (e.g. a contract with many conditions) but it is the basic mechanism of price that coordinates so much. Even world peace. Nations that trade together are less inclined to go to war with one another. (Absent a coercive situation that is. Without coercion, trade is mutually beneficial, by the standards of the parties willfully involved, and nobody wars with their benefactor)

Therefore, I would argue that we only need generalized prices (and a lack of coercion) in order to coordinate peaceably. We do not need to agree on norms and etiquette. Of course, if one party decides to spoil things and coerce another into a bad deal, or into conforming to its norms, etc., law becomes more important. (Of course in reality somebody always tries to spoil things so law is important from the very beginning, especially locally. I might argue that law becomes weaker anyway as we scale up towards nation state scale coordination where laws differ on both sides and contracts sort of blend into treaties). I am making broad statements about large scale action and I don't like that. Maybe better to sum up the position by saying given basic conditions - 1. property rights that try to be consistent, 2. dependable and consistent legal protection, and 3. a functioning price system (the less manipulated the better), we can coordinate imperfectly, but better than expected given the vast swaths of differences of opinion, taste, and preferences, that make us so human.
Apple refuses to replace my dying laptop battery
I have a 5 year old MacBook Pro that’s been power cycled over 1000 times. The battery dies within an hour of use. I made an appointment at the Apple store, and they ran a battery diagnostic and insisted to me that my battery is actually perfectly healthy. The technician said she can’t change the battery unless it fails the test, regardless of what I offer to pay. I’m now stuck with an almost unusable laptop battery that I can’t get replaced. What the hell Apple?
Masturbation
Indeed. People need to understand that blocking ads will harm the industry and doom the economy. I’d go as far as banning ad-block users completely from my website.
"Cheap"? Housing pricing in most of Texas have gone crazy in the last couple years. I'm paying 2x more in property tax than I was 2 years ago because of the "boom".
I'll just mention fzf then.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
What do you mean by 'visualization of sports and other areas'?
Are you talking about the projection of images for mass consumption which leads to emulation, or realisation of said images?
Interesting stuff. I know myself that my biggest limit is my ability to imagine my own future, and how that vision is constantly cropped by my peers, and culture.
What are you doing on hn may I ask? Sounds like an interesting life.
Fair enough, the "classic serverless" vs "neo-serverless" distinction directly addresses my point. I have added this clarification in my original point.
Sure, but bogofilter has no pre-made rules, so it makes a bad first impression, and it’s tricky (as in, I wouldn’t know offhand how to do it) to implement site-wide. Rspamd wins on both these points (in fact, its pre-made rules are subjectively better than those of SpamAssassin), and it still has bayesian learning.
This kind of advice puts lay people at risk (if they see it).

Proliferation of such poor advice — which may just be copied and pasted by other sites as-is — could make lay people vulnerable to tracking outside of CBS properties too, since they may forget to turn it back on (or may not be even understand the need to have it on in the first place).
LOL @ using Python for anything serious. What’s next, Haskell?
But at the end of the day, somebody still needs to spend money on a military. Being put under the umbrella of the US/Russia/China/etc just alters where it is based out of, and makes you vulnerable to the demands of those that provide it.
The quote actually addresses the rest of your points pertaining to calisthenics (correct progression, with good form, is important; those who "rush" are likely to get injured regardless of weights).
it doesn't directly rebut the post, but the poster you are responding to is emphasizing that costa rica is only able to maintain their military-free status by allying with one of the most powerful militaries in the world.

it's probably a good thing that not every country in the world needs to maintain a full-scale military, but this only works if you have a powerful ally whom you can trust to defend you. the fact that costa rica is able to exist without a military doesn't imply that the US could also disband their military.
I don't see this as a "don't help the military" post. This is a post about needing a profession of software engineering.

There are, clearly, ethical lines. Leaving aside where the line and the military cross, it is important to think how we will build such a profession - and enforce membership (which is the whole point)

Also worth noting is a common medical ethics quiz: You are a ER doctor, and a college football player comes in, RTA, spine shattered, internal bleeding, conscious and not in pain but needs operation to stem the bleeding.

He clearly and openly states that as he will never walk again, he does not wish to live.

Do you operate?

Most doctors it seems operate, and oddly that is a violation of most ethical board recommendations.
This is "have you tried turning it off and on again" not a conspiracy.

These extremely generic troubleshooting instructions have nothing to do with anything CBS all-access is or isn't doing.

Further down the page they tell you to clear your cache and history!