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Ask HN: Are you tired of all negative stimulation on-line?
I find myself retreating to my safe place more and more these days. I wonder if other’s are also tired of all this flooding of negative stimulation on-line and on television? It seems no matter which venue you engage in now these days you are flooded with more and more negative garbage. I am just wondering why we can’t promote more positive content into our lives? Not only would this improve each individual‘s metal and physical health, it would improve out societies mental and physical health as well.
Here here, why require a raise if you're earning 250k+ a year? That's more than 99.9% of non-execs in most companies.
Privacy dies in darkness.
This has always fascinated me. We can actually build giant spaceships (space stations) inside asteroids and use them for interstellar travel. All the resources we need, including ice would be at our disposal. Like traveling with your own mini-planet.

Dirk Schulze had taken that as a subject into his sci-fiction book - Alien Encounter.
> You also have the problem where politicians/media have no idea what they're talking about, e.g. calling the Google+ issue a "data breach" when it was actually a vulnerability discovered internally with no evidence of anyone having ever used it.

When (1) there's no evidence of anyone ever having exploited the issue; and (2) the logs where that evidence would appear, if it existed, only go back two weeks...

...it seems fine to assume that people have exploited the issue, the evidence was there once, but it isn't now.
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I think you should write an abuse to Google :https://support.google.com/groups/answer/81275?hl=en. As it's illegal activity. I had almost same experience with my website https://my-custom-essays.com/, it took some time to configure out all problems but it solve!
it is a shame though because the soyuz rocket is probably the most reliable rocket ever so far. The huge amount of launches provides also a statistical significance on the failure rate.

Yes, some parts of it date back to the soviet union, but it is a very reliable rocket

http://www.starsem.com/soyuz/log.htm
unfortunately i cannot share without running afoul of all the laws out there.
but you can create your own here - https://app.digio.in/#/authenticate
The API and docs (on which the blog post built upon) were inspired from pandas and requests!
An interesting and useful list of Apple suppliers.
I searched many online stores and even this list of Apple suppliers but I also found some online deals and freebie like https://blastmydeals.com/ .
I agree with this whole heartedly, yet somehow I don't often practice it. I wonder why.
Regarding "in the refined thought process of us physicists...many problems and paradoxes...remain".

It seems to me that a true paradox in physics must mean a theory provides at least two different incompatible predictions for a given physical situation. Given the success of the Standard Model, that surprises me. Do you have an example?
Aha, found a partially-deobfuscated version: https://gist.github.com/slacka/8306176

The instruction decode mechanism is a chain of "e--||(expression), e--|| ..." expressions. At the point where e-- is zero the expression will be evaluated.

The program makes heavy use of the equivalence between "index[pointer]" and "pointer[index]", presumably to save brackets.
> There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute not common law. Neither individuals not corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

R. A. Heinlein, Life-Line (1939)
How it is now: "sell the chip first, find out how to make it later if you did."

Taken to its logical extreme you get Theranos. Will lessons be learned? I’m not holding my breath.
First, this analogy is broken, in that the MPEG LA is not the manufacturer of your camera.

Second, you may still use that footage in any commercial manner, royality free. At worst, you need to transcode it into any open standard. The footage is always yours, only the encoding might be encumbered.
I guess this is one of a few place to answer mu.

One of the twins is still considered to be born first and therefore older :-)
Would gravitational pull account for the acceleration? Meaning if it were made (or part of it) of some very dense element like Iridium, there would be an unexpected attraction to our sun?
When people start fighting for farmland is where I see the real threat. Much more afraid of war than water rising.
Let it burn.

I have zealously blocked all ads since the first adblockers became available (even before blocklists), I've used Privoxy and PiHole and various other tools to block as much advertising as I possibly can. I go out of my way to avoid prominent logos on clothing, although I do make an exception for band shirts for bands I personally like. I show up ~10 minutes "late" for movies, in order to avoid most of the pointless ads.

In general, I try to avoid advertising as much as I possibly can, because it's poisoning our decision making processes and influencing our behavior more than we realize.

So let the ad-supported leeches die. We did just fine before they invaded our internet.

Even if hypothetically a new "ethical" ad-serving standard arose, I would still block all of it.
The “animals can’t hold copyright in the US” principle was reaffirmed recently in the monkey selfie case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
NCCIC finds most threat actors use publicly available tools for cyber attacks
Let's say it takes us another 50 years to fund and prepare a mission, could we still catch up with it?
HN users asked for results of experiments that "tried but failed to contradict the null-hypothesis", not "tested something not related to null hypothesis and claimed that it contradicts it". That's what I think the OP meant, don't know much about QM either.
NCCIC, in collaboration with cybersecurity authorities of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States has released a joint ‘Activity Alert Report’. This report highlights five publicly available tools frequently observed in cyber attacks worldwide.
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It uses puppeteer so basically it's chrome under the hood.
Good point, though a bit unrelated?

MPEG LA won't get copyright on my material. It's just that the format used is patent encumbered. I guess I could just transcode it to a different format and be safe?
Ignoring the increased probability that twins are of the same gender, no. Regardless, the chance of having two children of different genders is twice that of having two boys. If you split the set into 'two boys, a boy and a girl, and two girls', you must accept that the 'a boy and a girl' case is twice as likely as the first and last options.
Most of the ad-supported media is trashy anyway, churning at the highest rate possible low quality content with click-bait titles. Because SEO and clicks. Even the well-respected media outlets have started jumping on the click-bait wagon.

The alternative is something like Medium - you pay a monthly fee and the money gets distributed between the authors based on your likes. Medium has a growing partnership with big media outlets that republish articles there. I tend to read there most of the time. Not only is the reading experience better and uniform but I directly vote with my wallet.

Is it that hard to have a privacy-respecting service whose only purpose is to collect a monthly fee and to allow me to distribute it to participating media sites via some kind of "Support" or "Like" button? The problem is that most Internet users do not value their privacy and hence do not care that a shady 3rd party is tracking them and filling their screen with obnoxious ads, just as long as they keep getting "content" for free. It will take a tremendous amount of effort for the privacy revolution to happen.
The extreme cases (where there is no/incorrect mapping between the glyph and the character they represent) are a real pain! This mapping is stored as a ToUnicode map inside the PDF. In the past I've used OCR to handle such cases but I'm planning to create an experimental interface where anyone can modify the ToUnicode map. The challenge would be to make the modifications automated/user friendly.
Hey, may I ask why you decided to leave the company eventually? My email is mail@konstantinschubert.com
Wasn't that implied?
There are stupid laws, but privacy protection is not one of them. People narrowly voted to bankrupt their economy, that's for sure.
--print-to-pdf is very limited.

As soon as you need to control anything, you have to use [Puppeteer](https://developers.google.com/web/tools/puppeteer/)
Is this a list of suppliers of hardware only? As in, it doesn't seem to contain things like marketing companies or software contractor suppliers?
The odds we expect depend on our detection ability. Maybe there are thousands of these objects but we saw this one only because it passed so close to Earth.
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I wonder if initial crudeness actually has a _strictly positive_ contribution to the likelihood of success.

Perhaps the form of the product has a role in setting expectations. If so this would have a role in attracting forgiving first customers (e.g. those most in need of your product) and repelling those customers expecting a more "complete" product.
Ah sorry I forgot about posting PII data online. Thanks for the link!
Because it is a basic need of today's society. You can't suddenly decide you won't use energy without significant side-effects. It's worse if someone else decides that for you by raising prices.
> Well, you can of course pay and use an ad-blocker.

But why pay if they're still being tracked? The value proposition here is off. Might as well not pay and use an ad blocker.
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that’s a really interesting point. A good example is cops patrolling streets. But if these cops force their way into your house to “protect” you without your consent it’s not protection anymore, so voluntary consent is neccesary to make it protection and not a regulation.
Absolutely should be regulated. We;ve seen so many breaches including the latest news about Google+ hiding info about their latest data breach that we need a layer on top to avoid this happening again.
Gravity doesn't work that way, I'm afraid, as Galileo demonstrated.
It depends :-)
Want to get to your files without being reliant on a toolchain? Go with a standard provider, I'm not sure what your objection is to google or dropbox, but there are a lot of fish in that sea like tresorit to cater to niche markets. If it's a security thing always question if the photos of your kitten are really that critical compared to the chosen solution. And as always if a government agency is your concern you're doing it wrong.....

If the toolchain doesn't bother you use cryptomator or something like that and just pick some storage where ever.
Yucca cane.
There was no other way.
There is fairly strong consensus in the astronomy community that possibly hundreds of Sednoid class objects exist, and those are in relatively normal orbits compared to things which are beyond solar escape velocity. But so far we've only found 3 or 4 Sednoids.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sednoid
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Assuming you're looking at paid services, I wouldn't recommend either of them as the first choice. Take a look at Posteo.de, Runbox, Mailfence and Mailbox.org before you decide. At least browse through their websites and see what they offer. All these services are a lot cheaper than Fastmail or Protonmail (more so if you need multiple mailboxes, not just aliases). All of them offer IMAP access on all platforms, which isn't available directly in ProtonMail and requires a "bridge" application to be installed and setup on computers.
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Yup. Hard to say what that chance is. You're probably right with your estimate. I simply don't worry about it much in the same way that I stopped worrying about crashing when riding with my friend on the autobahn going 240km/hr or more. One mistake in either situation and I won't even know there was a mistake. The end. Likewise I couldn't control either my friend or the world's desire and manufacturing of nukes. So I simply stopped thinking about it and accepted it. Life is dangerous. But I am glad that some people in power are working on the situation just like there are people who do put speed limits on the portion of the autobahn that needs them and police officers who, I assume, try to enforce them. There's simply a million other more important issues in my life which I can affect and change.
How Oumuamua inspired the Egpytians to use logs and slave labor to build stone pyramids, like any advanced ancient alien would.
I prefer a complementary theory -- that it's a spent stage of a multi-stage spacecraft. If the primary stage were decelerating for a rendezvous with Earth, then any stage that made it to full acceleration would reach us first, probably getting close and then flinging back out of the solar system, just like this did.

Easy enough to test -- we'll eventually see another object following the same trajectory, give or take, but that's decelerating.

(Cue the dramatic music.)
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But that's also what makes remote working less effective in many cases.
I think blaming those 100 companies is absolutely acceptable, however I'd still be conscious that thinking that it's all of those companies fault and I won't make a difference anyway isn't right too. You should take the bike/public transport if you can.

In the report someone posted in comments you can find that some of the pollutants are the countries and their coal industries. What I would love to have is an option to pay a higher energy bill for green energy. In that case I would imagine the company providing that would invest anything on top of regular energy prices into renewables.

Another idea that i really like is "taxing yourself". When I set up my company next month I want to join 1% For the Planet (http://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/index.php) and donate 1% of sales towards environmental non-profits.
Amazon doesn't control worker wages, for the most part.

If the politicians and employees were not complaining they would not have raised wages.
I just close tabs that don't load without JS. There is so much content on the Internet that I don't mind going elsewhere.
Hacker news is shit
piece of shit fuck you all libertarians fuckers fuck you
Naturally; the coastline was the location of major trade ports, and major trade ports are where business grows. It's no coincidence that the Chinese special economic zones all sit around the coast.
This is not an example of virtue signalling.

YC invest their own money and so it is their cost.

The applicants applied to a program where they knew the rules. Because it's their money they make the rules.

And I reckon, they believe their rules get the best results.

This is not virtue signalling, it's taking action.
The article went up in less than an hour after the accident. At that time it was only known that the crew landed and not much else. They updated the story later on with details on the crew condition, but the title you see is the original one.
As recently as 1999, we thought babies couldn't feel pain till they were 1yo
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> If you only have a few minutes to wait for your train and you want to get a large coffee for your journey then you know that there is no point 'shopping around'. You are not going to get a more competitive coffee by checking out the half dozen options, you might as well just get what is easiest and least stressful.

But the Starbucks coffee is a different size, different beans, different method of preparation, different price, different type of cup, than the Burger King coffee. There's a point shopping around between those two isn't there? One may be a more competitive offer than the other to you. Maybe you're price sensitive so you go with Burger King. Maybe you want a coffee prepared with espresso rather than filter so you go with Starbucks.

> On a deeper level the customer should care because they are being fleeced. None of that coffee is that good really

Well now we're just down to your personal opinion on different coffee brands and independence!
My point in that article was indeed about complexity and the difficulty of learning many concepts. How do you figure which concepts are actually "the same"? If they are indeed the same, why ask users to pay the cognitive cost of learning five concepts then figure out that they’re synonyms? But are they really the same, though? I gather that they must do a few things differently. In my experience when I renamed a `index.md` to `_index.md`, I lost access to one feature and got access to a new one (my issue was that I actually needed both!).

The section I wrote about Hugo, and indeed my whole article, is not purely about technical capabilities. It’s about user capabilities when using specific software, so there’s some focus on what the software can do, but also on the user’s perception of what the software can do and on the learning curve.

In my day-and-a-half with Hugo, I’ve read most of the docs twice, and have read some old issues and release notes. It looks like some of the complexity in Hugo’s design comes from adding features and redesigning some features over time. This process tends to accumulate cruft, and calls for compromise between conceptual clarity and backwards compatibility.

At one point I’ve read release note (for 0.20 I think) that said something like “from now on, everything is a Page”, but was surprised that different kinds of pages had access to different kind of data, somewhat arbitrarily. By contrast, if you start with a concept like “everything is a page and has a predictable feature set”, it’s easier to have this simpler design correctly implemented and correctly reflected in documentation.
Personally I'm most excited about PGStrom, because it means faster Postgres all the time, not just when it fits into memory, and not just for SQL.
Maybe I'm being dumb here, but with RAII in C++ at least, doesn't shutdown() and then close() have to be called on the socket by the programmer explicitly in the destructor for the class?
It's a logical and consistent outgrowth of the existence of *args, and having (finally) allowed parameters after that (which would be keyword-only). I'm sure you could make up other ways to do it, but not that they'd be any better.
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> Basing policy on subjective whims is bad.

True, but not enough for me. Though, I do not have the solution.
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Neither does javascript, "keyword expansion" only occurs for object literals (which is why it's unambiguous: objects can't be created from sequences and don't implement the iteration protocol, so expansion within an object context can easily be special-cased).
Do you know how to find such lists for Microsoft, Amazon or Google? I tried finding one for Google but quick Google search didn't find anything.
A well-trained crew and ground control navigated a rapidly evolving, very dangerous situation enough to try again another day. This launch failed its mission yet successfully navigated a scenario that human beings are ill-equipped to handle on their own. Aborting mission and returning the crew to safety was a great accomplishment.
It doesn't look like they put any thought into how to make this appeal to Windows devs. One would have expected support for using PowerShell for scripts. Instead, they use git bash (which is definitely less familiar to Windows devs than even cmd) and one has to use `pwsh -c` which adds tons of pitfalls around quoting, error handling, multi-line scripts etc. I also would have expected a way to specify choco packages to install like you can specify apt-get packages, instead you need to shell out. These are very obvious things (just look at AppVeyor and VSTS/Azure DevOps pipelines) that they could have easily done.

It just looks like second-class integration to me, something to appeal to cross-platform projects that want to easily run their tests on Windows, but nothing serious for pure Windows devs. This is nice for open source projects, but it means for them that they have to pay a lot more for resources, without having increased their target user base to get more revenue. They're missing an opportunity.
> is that it guarantees that writers of pre-1972 songs receive federal copyright protection

it is a sad day for the constution, and for the Public....

Nothing pre-1972 should have any copyright at all at this point, Copyright should be for 14 years + a single 14 year extension if the Human Creator is still alive to file for the extension.

28 years is the MAXIMUM anything should be copyrighted for, 14 years if the copyright is held by a company

The erosion of a vibrant Public Domain catalog is one of the greatest travesties of modern human civilization
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Hasn't this been tried before? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
Well, I'm not donning a black or white tie for dinner, but then, I'm not a billionaire or deal with them (particularly old money) on a regular basis. That's why I was asking.
It's a documentation-only (currently, I remember seeing posts on python-dev to add it as a python-level construct but I don't believe that's been implemented) to document positional-only parameters, a feature currently only available to "native" functions.

Basically, at the C level you can define positional-only parameters such that sorted can not be called as `sorted(iterable=xxx)`, and this was specified using a "/" in argument clinic (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0436/#special-syntax-for...) and now appears in some docstrings. This is pretty common in builtins e.g. you can't give a name to the first argument of `max`, it doesn't have one (except informally).

Anything before the / is positional-only (the name is informational but not definitional), between / and * it's both positional and keyword, and after * (or *args) it's keyword-only.
Very true || !false. The 3rd, 4th and 5th ways to encode a switch can be done using <disconnected>
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> The erosion of a vibrant Public Domain catalog is on of the greatest travesties of modern human civilization

Ok, well I was with you until that last point. This is not one of the “greatest” travesties compared to wars, genocides, concentration camps, torture, mass murders, pillage, etc. Some cultures were literally wiped from history, and it puts things in perspective.

We can hopefully fix copyright with future legislation, but it’s not like all the material was destroyed forever.
The messages for offline users are stored on their servers and delivered when they connect. Interesting that you list this as a problem because this worked for ages (given server support for offline messages).

Conversations can display a "tick" on the sender's side so you know that a message has been delivered to the user (not just stored on a server).

I guess it works well as I've never heard about a lost message.

You can check the server with compliance tester: https://compliance.conversations.im
f-strings are also unusable for i18n.