skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. She's really good at making a complex topic approachable and bringing a lot of excitement as she shows you around. It reminds me how incredibly cool I thought these tools were when I first learned them.
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In normal world this should be equal to declaring a war, right?
Google is the one I’ve used recently, so I’ll talk about that.

There is no way to turn off images in the main display, that I
can find. There is a “Ken Burns” pan-zoom effect added to the
images. Some of them are in a carousel, with superimposed
text: as you’re reading it it is replaced with the next item.
All this combines to make the home display sandpaper to my
corneas. Newshound uses the browser, so it already works the
way I want it to. For example, I have images turned off while
using mobile data.

If I click on an item in Google News, it opens in its own
browser, regardless of the settings. I need to select a menu
item to open the story in my default browser. Newshound’s
approach of keeping everything in the browser makes sense,
since we’re just using the web after all.

Google tries to figure out what I want to see, and does a bad
job, despite allowing me to vote on news items. One good feature
they have is to hide all stories from particular sources - you
may think about adding this. But using algorithms to divine my
interests is unlikely to work for me, although it might be useful
for other people. My writing work causes me to frequently change
the topics that I’m tracking.

Those are the main things I can think of right now. Thanks for
developing this and making it available. I will certainly make
a donation.
I would agree that the VLC interface is kinda terrible. They do hide most of the settings that exist behind basic, intermediate, advanced filters though. I know first hand that it is a lot of frigging work to expose more knobs to twiddle on software, so I really appreciate when somebody does let me change things to my liking, even if I'm kind of stumbling into "here be dragons" territory.
Op doesnt understand what free speech is.
> The experiment was designed to test the performance of the HPE Spaceborne Computer, which is comprised of 32 separate cores that work together and can run operations 30 to 100 times faster than a standard iPhone or tablet

That doesn't sound that super to me! "100 times faster than a phone" just doesn't have an impressive ring to it.
The real mystery is this:

> However the Belgian government and security services were kept in the dark, something which the federal prosecutor’s report described as “exceptional between EU states, and something that could lead to a diplomatic incident.”

If this operation was ONLY meant to target a subsidiary working mostly inside the middle-east with legitimate terrorist ties, I'd imagine they would have included the Belgians.

One could speculate that GCHQ decided to go it alone, just to see "what else we can get" in terms of potentially spying within Belgian/on Belgian's citizens.

It isn't even the first time GCHQ has been caught spying on other European countries[0]. But I guess the City of London needs to get their financial "tips" somehow...

[0] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/gchq-and-nsa-tar...
What makes you think it was a single extension? If I were doing this I'd probably create many extensions (with various ostensible purposes packaged along with the spyware) to cast a wider net.
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Did we read the same article?

"...it’s a dramatically different map from before, with a staggering amount of vegetation detail"

"...what’s really remarkable about this new vegetation detail it how deep it all goes—all the way down to the strips of grass and vegetation between roads"

"...some of these upgraded buildings are spectacularly detailed"

"...Apple is filling its map with so many of them that Google now looks empty in comparison"

"...Apple hasn’t just closed the gap with Google—but has, in many ways, exceeded it"
> A tensor is a n-dimensional array with n>2

This is just one example of why it is usually better to learn stuff from more authoritative sources. (On the other hand, I can’t help but recommend this amazing video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CliW7kSxxWU.)
Aldous Huxley did however, cf Brave new world
Is gravity actually a problem if the colony is underground and the asteroid is spinning?
The point of pointer authentication is to make it impossible to actually user gadgets because you would be hard-pressed to find a signed pointer that is necessary to actually jump to a arbitrary location, since you’d be missing the one that was handed out to you in the prologue had you gone the correct way through the function. I guess in a way it’s a type of CFI check.

With regards to actually stopping buffer overflows or double frees, it’s not going to help much. But we have other mitigation techniques, such as stack cookies, to help in these cases.
It only seems large because there's lots of repetition based on the various screen sizes, colors, and states (hover, focus, etc). In production it's just a few kilobytes in size.
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This argument is broken. An ISP engineer debugging need only look at IP packet drops in their part of the network. If their end clients are asking them to debug an issue then they should debug it at the end points, not in the middle. This attitude is what lead them to stick more e and more buffers in the middle and do other shaping devices in the name of problem solving or adding value and ended up ossifying protocols. I think endpoints will evolve to better protocols to solve their own problems if the ISPs stopped putting hacks (like deep buffers) in their networks.
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> And has never shown a profit.

Twitter has had profitable quarters.

https://www.recode.net/2018/2/8/16989834/twitter-q4-2018-ear...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/27/twitter-posts-record-100m-...
In what context is this "an awful amount of characters" an issue? GZip compression is fairly standard these days, and languages based on plain english (or similar languages) has a better level of compression than random text because of repetitive nature of sequences of characters.

I can't believe that mnemonic based languages are easier and more readable than something closer to a natural language. And with the assumption that code is written for humans first, computers second, what is the point of inventing a language that's less readable than the one it's trying to replace? CSS compresses particularly well, as every Atomic CSS based framework tends to point out on it's landing page!
Sounds to me like the author should simply use SASS + a good autocomplete feature in their IDE.

When I write CSS, I use a lot of shortcuts. I simply write "mt5" and then press tab, it then auto completes to "margin-top: 5px;". If I write "tdu"+tab and then it goes "text-decoration: underline;". The IDE also shows me in a drop down all the options that can be used after writing "text-decoration".

Changing standards because you do not want to learn or remember something is the perfect example of programmer "laziness". Why remember this super common language when instead I can develop and remember a new obscure abstraction instead?
Did you read the article? There's a header titled "why is this different from inline styles?" that addresses your specific question.
Thus missing the point.
How do people manage access control for videos? Self-hosting for patrons then public on youtube?
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It is compared to the 386 processors on the main command computers. :)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/spacex-is-launching-...
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Thank goodness it is not likely to trigger war. Flanders' fields have seen enough blood.
As a conventional farmer, it is not unheard of to have chemicals fail due to factors such as the weather. The crop survives just fine, you just lose out on maximum yield potential.

As for seed, even certified organic growers rely on the seed industry, so I'm not sure that fits either.
Yep, good points. Like I said, I think the issues are more to do with cross-platform compatibility (which admittedly can be done in some cases with wrapper libs that feature detect for the Windows and Android libraries), and arbitrary native libraries, especially ones from the Node ecosystem (which admittedly in some cases can be handled with Web Assembly at least).
The main purpose of newspapers used to be exactly an opposite. You choose the particular newspaper, by editorial board views closest to yours, and just get an information. You don't have to cross-check everything - that's what you pay for subscribing to newspaper. You outsource the job to the editors.
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Why aren't Facebook saying which extension caused this, and why aren't people being notified if their messages are leaked?
The problem is that badly developed SPAs are a lot worse, heavier, slower, and more irritating than badly developed request-response "webapps". And God help you if you need accessibility.

They also have the same sort of problems that Flash used to have. And there, too, you can say, that it was possible to write better apps in flash than the best you can write in HTML. It really was. There were a few really nice examples.

But ... it wasn't happening. Vast majority of flash apps sucked beyond belief. Same is true for SPAs.

> Absolutely not. When done right, the performance is on-par with a regular backend-framework-served website.

Nope. It very much is not. Because an SPA doesn't start working until it's done 5-10 server round trips, the slowest part of any website interaction. Regular-backend-framework-served websites are functional after 1 server round trip.

This is the big problem I have with SPA developers. In order to save on server round trips you make more of them. Logic at the client side. That's the theory. But they actually need more roundtrips in almost all cases, and many more during startup. So they start slower, they run slower.

So I have 2 very big problems with SPAs:

1) the "flash problem": the website owners have "more control". And they invariably use it to create heavy, slow "beautiful" monstrosities that border on unusable.

2) even if written well, they are a lot slower. First at startup, and also once running. Server round trip are the overriding cost and SPAs actually do more of them. The actual amount of data in a request, as long as it's less than, say 20kb or so, doesn't actually matter.
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I'm late, but if you're interested in the legal landscape around that issue, Stephen Bainbridge and Todd Henderson published "Outsourcing the Board: How Board Service Providers Can Improve Corporate Governance" earlier this year.

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/outsourcing-the-board/6...
> the investigation revealed that spy software had been installed remotely on Belgacom computers from three IP addresses in the UK thought to be registered to front companies.

Installed spyware from government offices without bothering to proxy through any other systems?
Better not leave your phone in your pocket while you cook breakfast, though.
You have to stop the human intervention at the right moment though. In my country there are maybe 10 apple varieties that are grown commercially and they are surely tastier than their wild ancestors.

However, taste is just one of many criteria when deciding which apples to grow. For example there are 50 years old apple trees in my neighbour's garden that are oh-my-god out of this world tasty. They are also small, do not produce regular quantities each year and prone to diseases. So they are not viable for commercial use but still the best apple you have ever tasted if you manage to find one.

So perhaps organic could also mean focusing on other criteria than growing fruit that is most viable to grow in huge quantities, that is more resistant to various diseases and other chemicals that kill insects/fungi, that look beautiful and have a long shelf life and taste good enough.
Basically all of humanity was in extreme poverty until a rapid uptick in living standards started coincident with the industrial revolution that has exploded in the last 40 years. The uptick was because worker productivity aided by machines is vastly greater than in subsistence farming, and industrial production is far more efficient than pre-industrial. This combination has lead to a miracle in the rising of human living standards. To suggest that capitalism put people into extreme poverty is pure ideological distortion.
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As I understand it, Oumuamua spectra is very similar to that of a D-type asteroid. It appears to be covered by a dull red organic gunk (tholins), which would make a very inefficient solar sail.
If you use a Cortex-M0 (v6M) then there are only 60 or so instructions total...
Spinning would only result in a ring inside the asteroid having the desired gravity. Still might be pretty good though. Not sure what the cost would be to create the desired spin for a reasonably sized candidate asteroid.
> Only the stuff that is required per-route (or whatever state) is "rendered" server-side

Yes, the whole page, which includes the header, footer, menus etc.. What's your point here? I don't get it.
> Provided by: Harvard University

This seems similar to the non-peer reviewed articles you get in university magazines promoting the research of some lab.
Browser user agent. Mine is unique for example. With sufficiently vast DBs they can match you or anyone with anything.

Also some 3rd party software may request to spy on you in the browser, e.g. Red Shell so called "analytics" used by many legitimate big video games on PC. It will spy on you in the browser and you agree to it in a kilometer long user agreement they shove in your face upon first launch.
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Phones and tablets are becoming as powerful as laptops and desktops. They're cheap, portable, and always with us. Why do we treat them as consuming devices, and not as productive devices? What if we could be as productive on a phone as we are on a computer?

What's preventing this from happening? What's the bottleneck?

- Performance?

- Small display?

- Lack of tools?

- Design of programming languages?

- Design of IDEs?

- Slow input?

I can obviously tell that Xcode doesn't run on my iPad, and that Visual Studio wouldn't be very usable on my smartphone. I've played with some mobile IDEs, and they're not great, whether I'm writing Java or JavaScript. I'm also aware of the lack of tools for debugging and what not.

My question is whether or not we can expect professional software development to be performed on a mobile device in the future, or if we'll always rely on larger devices for some reasons.
I'm pretty sure that the new license does not "maintain the four freedoms".

I don't know if the FSF will approve of this new license, however by the Free Software definition it should be even more damning, first of all because it violates Freedom 0. The corresponding rule in OSI's definition is less strict ;-)

The "spirit of the GPL" has nothing to do with this license. The GPL is just a "copyright license", meaning that it's concerned only with distribution and with derived works, where distribution and "derived works" are defined by the copyright law.

The GPL is in fact very business friendly and that was by design.
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Less transparent comparing to MSNBC or FoxNews?
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Another example - Git. It's decentralized in principle, but in reality, people either centralize around GitHub and alternatives, and even when self-hosted, there is usually a notion of master repo.
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“It’s certainly pre-Empire,” said Seldon, “but not entirely so. Have you ever seen a print-book?”

“Considering that I’m a historian? Of course, Hari.”

“Ah, but like this one?”

He handed over the Book and Dors, smiling, opened it–then turned to another page–then flipped the pages. “Its blank,” she said.

“It appears to be blank. The Mycogenians are stubbornly primitivistic, but not entirely so. They will keep to the essence of the primitive, but have no objection to using modern technology to modify it for convenience’s sake. Who knows?”

“Maybe so, Hari, but I don’t understand what you’re saying.”

“The pages aren’t blank, they’re covered with microprint. Here, give it back. If I press this little nubbin on the inner edge of the cover–Look!”

The page to which the book lay open was suddenly covered with lines of print that rolled slowly upward.

Seldon said, “You can adjust the rate of upward movement to match your reading speed by slightly twisting the nubbin one way or the other. When the lines of print reach their upward limit when you reach the bottom line, that is–they snap downward and turn off. You turn to the next page and continue.”

“Where does the energy come from that does all this?”

“It has an enclosed microfusion battery that lasts the life of the
book.”

“Then when it runs down–”

“You discard the book, which you may be required to do even before it runs down, given wear and tear, and get another copy. You never replace the battery.”
Oh no, laziness! Someone is doing something in an easy and convenient way that somehow doesn't match up with other people's ideals of conceptual purity! :'(
I guess I mean the principle that a percentage is taken - why should apple take more of a higher price transaction when there are no material differences in cost to them?
It's a decision to optimize write-ability, not readability. Not sure why this is so puzzling.
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Hardly. This is more of a "stiffly worded letter" or, at the very worst, expulsion of diplomats situation. A certain amount of intra-EU spying goes on all the time and is difficult to stop.

The real risk is that the UK needs Belgium's approval for any Brexit deal ...

> The information is contained in a confidential report produced by the federal prosecutor for Belgium’s National Security Council, a copy of which was leaked to De Standaard.

"Leaked". That provides an excellent pretext for arguing that e.g. British telecoms and IT providers should be excluded from the EU market as they're potentially fronts for British intelligence (a variation on the argument that people make about China all the time)
Probably not, since The quality of the material likely isn't very high and you'd end up with pretty sick walls which result in lots of mass to accelerate. Maybe that's not true for all asteroids and it might differ between solar systems.
I once wrote on this topic, numeric IP addresses:

https://raymii.org/s/articles/IPv4_Address_Conversion_Tricks...

This "feature" is documented in the inet_aton(3) manpage.
Here is the full story

https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-insid...

Great article from 2014 ... Apparently todays news is a follow up on it.
All 10 of them?
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To address the author's “oh, another bootstrap site” line, Bootstrap offers a "css grid only" option. Which, I've found to be great when you don't want the Bootstrap look, but want a grid system in place to build with.
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I'm still a little conflicted over link rot. On the one hand it seems fun and cool and even amazing to be able to dive back into so much history 'live' as it was/has always been.

It's maybe even culturally important to try and maintain it.

But then some is just a bit crap, a bit like there used to be a bit of a crap building and then a new one got built that was better and did better things for more people more cheaply and environmentally friendly than before. Why save the old building? Just 'because'? Hmm, not sure about that.

So is it really worth saving everything? Is it actually irresponsible to save everything, given the power costs (something has to physically hold the data and be powered)?

I'm not really sure but it seems certain it's not an obvious black and white, good/bad, one way or the other type matter.