skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well China is doing total surveillance, even the most dystopian sci-fi are now an everyday reality of China, some BlackMirror episode like the one on Social Credit which were meant to be sci-fi are now more of a documentary on China's Score system.

And now China announced they edited a baby's gene not to cure him but just to test if they can buit a new generation of more resistant humans.

Please tell me how this is not completely screwed up ?

(I'm not defending the US, they are in the top of the most mass surveillance countries too, I'm just defending some basic notion like "We should not use non-consenting people as guinea pig to build a stronger race of human" and this kind of stuff...)
These micro-satellites are not high enough up for them or any debris to remain in orbit for a significant amount of time without station-keeping. Cube-sats will usually only last a few years before de-orbiting due to the very slight atmospheric drag at the height they operate. This is a deliberate decision to avoid the issue you mention (and the various space agencies do co-ordinate on this: see https://www.iadc-online.org/). They also have rules which apply to larger satellites which mean that mean if it does not have a naturally decaying orbit there needs to be a plan to de-orbit it or put it into a 'safe' orbit at end-of-life.
Chinese AI/CS papers are definitely not going to be ignored. They are really strong on that front, for they have a huge domestic industry to sustain such level of researches and there is economical benefit to going after.
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Honestly an API for (everything Renaissance) would be fun to play with. I’m imagining influencer relations, student/teacher relations, etc.
For electronics try B&H or Adorama.
> CFTC subpoena was about a year ago, and it is hard to imagine that they would not have

These investigations take years, particularly when you have a non-bank regulator like the CFTC trying to get information from foreign banks.
0-confirmation seems to be just a placeholder, so I do not think it is comparable at all to a credit card verification.

I do not want to nitpick but credit cards validate, that is to say they verify the parts in a transaction and resolve instantly if it can or cannot take place, and then it does take place instantly. That you can "take it back" is a feature independent of the actual operation. The settlement period is not a technological imposition but a human one; it is in place because humans are not trustworthy.

On Bitcoin on the other hand, the limitation is inherently technical. The protocol verification methods are slow by design.
As someone working with scientific codes in (relatively) modern Fortran, I agree that Fortran is still very strong in its niche. I don’t know any other language that makes it as easy to write fast numerical codes, and it’s relatively hard to accidentally mess up the performance.

That said, I still find it very much feels outdated as soon as you veer off its core features. Handling strings is a major pain, writing short functions feels overly verbose, and proper testing is difficult. The language is full of arcane details that require reading up on best practices even for simple things such as defining the precision of your numbers.

So while Fortran still is strong in some areas, I do see it as an outdated language, just one that doesn’t really have a good replacement yet. Hopefully Julia can replace it for most use cases, or maybe Rust if they figure out their HPC story.
You're absolutely right that it depends on pricing, assuming what they offer has the technical capabilities to do what a customer needs. But how they calculate that 80% matters too, and if it's measured against a more "traditional" groundstation contract I'd say that's also being misleading.

I've seen new turn-key installations come with an equivalent UI and an API to match it. Plus a bunch of debugging/calibration/testing controls. And then (assuming licensing, real estate, and services availability) you get to drop that "anywhere" and optimize its geographical location to match up with your system requirements.

Turn-key systems will totally let you specialize it to maximize utility. Selection of RF feeds/hardware on the input side, and eg. hardware data modems and co-located command-and-control servers on the output side.
I mean, I suppose you're not wrong.
I'd be really curious how you feel about this after trying it.
> It should collapse to the fee to redeem Tethers, which is 3% for whales

This prices in no margin for Bitfinex delaying or failing to redeem Tether for hard currency.
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> You're discarding all of the other capabilities and suggesting that because it is ALSO mine resistant it must be bad.

Having driven and gunned on an MRAP... yes, the mine resistance makes it bad. You resist mines by 1. moving away from them and 2. presenting armor at an angle. On a truck like an MRAPs, you mount it very high above the ground and for the size and weight, the interior space is limited because the chassis is sloped upwards.
Drop in property value comes to mind if there's an adjacent stretch of untamed wild.
How does a shareholder prove that it's not just a short term loss in value, and that the decision won't actually benefit the company in the long run?
Re: the "go easy on yourself".

I think it's hugely important to set aside relaxation time and, though it may seem counterintuitive, be active during that time about being relaxed. To me, that's usually a visit to the zoo, a walk by the ocean, or sitting in a coffee shop reading. Having the mindset of "I'm going to disappear for a bit" lets you focus on unwinding.

At the same time, rather than beating myself up or getting depressed when I'm not doing as much on the side as I would like, I've found a "healthier" approach is a more heated, angry frustration, similar to when you keep dying on the same level in a game. That kind of stimulus brings out something competitive in me and as a result I become more determined to overcome and "beat it". It's similar to the restlessness other commenters have described on the 3rd week of vacation, except it also continues to build while I work 40 hour weeks.
Coincidentally i just see this tweeted by Objective-see...

https://twitter.com/thomasareed/status/1067527911798919172

...which sums up the issue i meant.
I spent about a year studying Italian on Duolingo and had a positive experience. But I also augmented Duolingo with Anki: I made flashcards for every single word I learned in Duolingo, and went over them every day. That really helped me memorize the vocabulary. I also got a workbook on verb conjugations to practice those (I didn't end up finishing that workbook and my verb conjugations are weak).

The real benefit of Duolingo is that I can do it while I'm waiting for my coffee order, or on the train. My only free time is spontaneous, and in short increments; e.g., 5 minutes here and there, unexpectedly. It's hard to learn anything in that context! I'm surprised I learned Italian as well as I did! Taking a class in Italian with a human teacher would no doubt be superior, but I unfortunately don't have time for that!
All browsers should care about security. All browsers can have vulnerabilities. It's not an excuse to ban competing browsers if users want to install them. That's the essence of the matter. Apple's behavior is anti-competitive in doing it.

In fact, I'd argue that it reduces security, since users can't install more secure browsers than Apple's own one (and no one would care to even make one since it won't be usable).
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> To liberals, diversity is equal outcome, not equal opportunity.

Opportunity today is largely outcome acheived through yesterday.
I have on occasion seen top notch dev teams start delivering demos of unasked for, but mind-blowingly good new features, such that Marketing and Sales were downright salivating.

Those dev teams get trusted! They eventually come to be seen as wizards and get amazing amounts of autonomy.

It requires an uncommon mix of exceptional technical talent and exceptional product vision.
Focusmate virtual coworking helps you get things done
It would be nice if the US adopted the Peelian principles/Nine principles of policing[0] written by Sir Robert Peel in 1829:

1) To deter crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.

2) To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.

3) To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.

4) To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.

5) To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.

6) To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.

7) To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

8) To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary, of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.

9) To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

Seems like US policing as a culture is slowly learning that these aren't optional, but required to effectively police a large diverse set of peoples.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
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Wow. This is one of the most comprehensive and eye-opening posts I’ve ever read on HN. Thank you
Survivor Bias at play, the ones do go back, go back. I think the mentality among Chinese research community had changed rapidly, especially in Computer Science field, where China is as practical a choice as US.

The problem with US is for foreign nationals, there is a preset role for us to fit in, while in China, it offers more potentials. I won't say certain it is black and white question at this moment, there is trade-off in between. Living in US is no longer the non-brainer
Why would a farmer own a combine? Aren't they owned by specialized harvest outfits? I don't have any experience in the business but when I was a kid and we needed the hay cut and baled we called the guy who brought in the hay baler on a low-boy. Nobody owned their own.
Recently, YC began planning a pilot project to test the feasibility of building its own experimental city. It would lie somewhere in America, or perhaps abroad, and would be optimized for technological solutions: it might, for instance, permit only self-driving cars. “It could be a college town built out of YC, the university of the future,” Altman said. “A hundred thousand acres, fifty to a hundred thousand residents. We crowdfund the infrastructure and establish a new and affordable way of living around concepts like ‘No one can ever make money off of real estate.’ ” He emphasized that it was just an idea—but he was already looking at potential sites.

I've been thinking about the feasibility of this as well recently. A good college town has a component of informality, collegiality that binds its residents together.

Munich may be the best example I can think of: a college town dating back to medieval times, scaled up to a city of 4M+ souls. TUM and ABDK seem much more intertwined with the real-world urban design and planning of infrastructure and public spaces, than say MIT and RISD. Not to mention the crafts of cheese, bread, beer making, etc!
Hoare also said "ALGOL 60 is alive and well and living in FORTRAN 90". I don't have the source of that, but I think it was the answer to someone asking him about it, reported in some Fortran forum.
You only do it when there is a liquidity event
Am a drummer, sort of, the rhythm part makes my arm extremely fast and efficient; yet at the same time music most often requires you to be in a calm-like state to stay on the groove/music.

If I was a physicist I'd say both are experiment teachings about time and space.

It's also striking how it teaches you complex limb chains efficiency, that's the only way to only use the minimal amount of energy per effort. It's all intertwined.
We like music because it's an abstraction of the different sounds, tones, and emotions in voice. Dogs might as well have "smell symphonies."
I'm Italian, AMA!

Jokes apart, this is what I think. If you want to learn conversational Italian to be able to spend some time in Italy, the best way to learn what you need is actually to go to Italy and practice there. Most Italians would love to practice some English with you, and to teach you Italian. You will have a great time. You will have fun. You will remember your holiday when you're older.
If I ever developed a chronic illness in old age and would be on the verge of bankruptcy because of it, I would seriously consider committing a white collar crime and get free treatment in prison over suffering through the financial strain it would otherwise cause me.
In my experience, government workers are either corrupt or no longer working for the government.
Route them to nowhere. In particular, route them not to servers controlled by the criminals.
It's defined in the second paragraph: "The FBI, working with private sector partners, redirected the internet traffic going to the domains (an action known as “sinkholing”) in order to disrupt and dismantle these botnets."
Why scrap scrappy?
Schwartz faced massively disproportionate criminal charges for copying publicly funded research. Criminal charges which still exist today, which no reasonable person would take on for fear of doing serious time in a federal prison.

Those disproportionate risks make it very difficult to do any kind of civil disobedience to protest these federal laws and the prosecutorial overreach associated with them.

Also, finding some way to protect the right to publish publicly funded research actually makes it possible for many people to read and redistribute the primary research related to Damore's memo. That is something most people can't currently do without risking criminal charges.

Given those difficulties and risks, I'd strongly suggest thinking a little more about the Schwartz object lesson rather than shifting to a different topic. (Esp. given we're also discussing MIT.)
I still hold a bit of the childish passion in even at forty. I just like moving a lot and doing things minimalistically (is that a term ?). Monk life is neat IMO to an extent.
Adderal, its everywhere, and not much in the way of side effects. Taking it while you are in the thick of a task is the way to do it; once it sets in you are working at 150% pace with undivided focus. This is the drug of the future. Much more sustained focus from caffeine, and no stomach discomfort or nausea that you might encounter with high caffeine doses. This drug, along with ritalin, are designed such that you can't get a high enough concentration of the drug in your blood to trigger any physical dependence or tolerance. Plenty of my friends have prescriptions, and doctors generally prescribe enough to be on the drug every waking hour for a month, whereas they might only need to take it a couple times a week for focusing on a specific task, so people whose ADD symptoms are milder tend to build up a surplus.
Did you take it?
It's OP's property - why must OP's property conform to your rhyme or reason?
moultano says>"There have been many subsequent studies in different regions all cited in the article and all finding a precipitous decline.".

Nope, wrong on both counts. All the article says is
that professional researchers are _looking_for_data_sets_! From the article [underscores mine]:

"Since the Krefeld study came out, researchers have begun searching for other forgotten repositories of information that might offer windows into the past. Some of the Radboud researchers have analyzed long-term data, belonging to Dutch entomological societies, about beetles and moths in certain reserves; they found significant drops (72 percent, 54 percent) that mirrored the Krefeld ones. Roel van Klink, ...is _looking_for_ historical data sets... So far he has found forgotten data from 140 old data sets for 1,500 locations that _could_be_resampled_.

In the United States, one of the few long-term data sets about insect abundance comes from the work of Arthur Shapiro, an entomologist at the University of California, Davis. In 1972, he began walking transects in the Central Valley and the Sierras, counting butterflies. He planned to do a study on how short-term weather variations affected butterfly populations. But the longer he sampled, the more valuable his data became, offering a signal through the noise of seasonal ups and downs. “And so here I am in Year 46,” he said, nearly half a century of spending five days a week, from late spring to the end of autumn, observing butterflies. In that time he has watched overall numbers decline and seen some species that used to be everywhere — even species that “everyone regarded as a junk species” only a few decades ago — all but disappear. Shapiro believes that Krefeld-level declines are likely to be happening all over the globe. “But, of course, I don’t cover the entire globe,” he added. “_I_cover_I-80_.”

... One is a pilot project in Germany similar to the Danish car study.
Laws passed by duly elected representatives (whether in the US, EU, or elsewhere) may not be perfect, but they certainly have more legitimacy than "laws" promulgated by an authoritarian regime that sends political and religious dissidents to "reeducation" camps.
> worse if the CNIL is warned or if someone steal the zip

This is the reason why you should report it immediately. It is no longer about your relationship with the CIO. At this point the company itself is at risk and that takes priority.

Depending on whether you can tell for sure if anyone downloaded the ZIP the company might still be required to raise this with the CNIL.
That sounds like the same excuse that companies and the government used in the 80s when people were trying to get the government to impose sanctions on South Africa over apartheid.

Signing a piece of paper knowing that it is of no personal risk to you is virtue signaling.

Why should that get a company to change? What will be the consequences if they go ahead with thier plan? A more harshly written letter?
Most strategy games, really. I occasionally played Civ, and others, and always had this "late game tiredness".
Migrating from Bazaar to Git on Launchpad just got easier
but yet, many are ideological marxists with massively capitalist lifestyles.. so perhaps these things aren't so at odds.. :b
> there is usually immense pleasure in creating and controlling a project

I think this is the part of a larger myth against which the writer rallies.

The joy is not in maintenance and control. The joy is in working with like-minded peers who share a vision, the joy is in designing and implementing an outcome that does what one wants it to do, the joy is in being able to share it.

The mundane activities associated with that are not joy. That's just work, not pleasure. Those aspects of project management are means to an end, not the actual end.

> I can't send a patch to ostensibly improve the hardware (or even software) of an iPhone. [...] developers presumably complaining about low patch acceptance and long wait times

Rich said that the sorts of patches people were submitting were of low quality and didn't fit the overall project vision. Then people were getting upset because their amazing patches weren't being accepted there and then. Frankly, that's not a community I'd want to foster nor be in charge of. Nobody should want that.

I don't see any conflict at all with a statement along the lines "I am the leader of this project, this is my baby, and I have sunk a lot of my time and resources into it" next to "I'm not accepting your pull requests and patches willy-nilly just because you complain a lot".
Apple will be restricted to only authorized sellers on Amazon very soon. For now, that particular offer looks to be geniune - if they weren't policing that against people selling knockoffs the price would be somewhere in the $10 range (compare eBay).

I'd prefer to buy a cheaper off brand cable from Anker or Amazon basics though, there's no reason to pay an extra $10-15 just because it's Apple branded. Some of the off brands are cheaper and higher quality than the Apple ones.

Edit: https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Original-OEM-Apple-Lightning-To... $8.99 in retail packaging on eBay, almost certainly fake.
It's regular-ish grammar helps. It has simple conguation rules and almost no declensions. Its irregular pronunciation rules do not, but in practice they only make the speaker sound foreign, and do not make them unintelligible.

If English isn't an easy language, what is? Is there any language that is universally easy?
and then be forever banned from properly entering the workforce.
Demanding? 2024 hours per year is 40 hours per week with two weeks off, or 41 hours with three weeks off. On average.
2.50 per cent, that born in Asia by 4.47 per cent, that aged less than 15 years by only
0.46 per cent. Interstate annual population growth rates currently (1999–2000) vary
between 1.7 per cent (Queensland) and –0.1 per cent (Tasmania), while massive differences
exist in the direction, scale and components of population change in
regions and communities.
This paper takes the approach not so much of predicting the future as of exploring
what will happen if demographic trends and tendencies evident in the mid- to
late 1990s continue to evolve in the directions they seem to be moving in. No startling
predictions are made of major reversals of trends. Instead the emphasis is
placed on what seems likely given current trends and patterns in other developed
societies. In many respects Australia’s current situation is in the middle among
OECD nations, and seems to have further to go in some areas, including population
distribution
Blockchains are literally the most inefficient way we've ever discovered to store and secure data.

Paper is by far the most distributed, understandable, efficient, and secure mechanism we have discovered for obtaining, securing, and tallying votes by humans. It can be practically tamper-proof given a modest amount of trust and scrutiny.

I don't know why, but Americans of every political leaning seem to think that elections are some incredibly hard brain surgery problem. They aren't.
Why wouldn't you recommend technology to black children? How is technology worse for them than say entertainment or nursing, medicine, law enforcement, teaching, etc.? What are the variables affecting the "prospects"?