skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>TL;DR: Shit was complicated.

>Actual TL;DR: Rulers converted for economic, political, and personal reasons. Not much work has been done on popular conversion, but so far it seems that the government and Sufis both helped spread Islam on a popular level. The new religion was perceived as magic, provided solace in a changing world, and finally became just a part of life.
> Hell, antifa have a patreon account and they are classified a terrorist organisation by the US government

Source?
This is somewhat of a problem on mountain routes, where stack stones are sometimes used as navigational markers (cairns). The ethics of Leave No Trace say not to leave these cairns. Many times, people will put these up to aid others, but their route deviates from what could be a better/safe alternative. Or at least a different opinion on what one is. Then, you have two sets of cairns, each going off in its own way.

Until you get three sets.

This goes on, until no one can realistically understand what the cairns are trying to communicate.
The OP is just saying that, because of a not-too-far-in-time religion shift among people of a certain part of that country, there are conflicts. The rest is just your imagination.
Where 'can' of course expresses only the possibility of the technocrat (but that's the Graun for you).
If you take a look at the announcement post for the framework, you can see some discussion about that: https://code.fb.com/ml-applications/horizon/

One application that they mention related (at least loosely) to social connections is deciding whether or not to deliver a notification to a user.
I'm not being glib, I'm observing that the global system of passports and visa controls makes "moving" nearly impossible. I nearly pulled it off just over twenty years ago, but I failed, and now I'm permanently stuck back "home". Cryptocurrencies won't help, they're just another way to do capitalism.
Federal law protects sexuality and race from discriminatory business and employment practices.
Couldn't the error rate of the ECC system be monitored, to detect an attack in progress and raise an alarm?

Even if the attacker was able to get the flipping completely reliable, there would presumably be a learning/probing phase with a period of elevated ECC. Either this probe could be detected, or the attacker would be forced to remain below a threshold of detectability slowing the attack down enough to make it impractical?
Even Reddit subs for niche interests can suck now, precisely because of Instagram culture. I follow some subs for certain outdoor hobbies, and while in the past we would discuss gear or the specifics of various routes, now all most people want to do is post selfies in impressive locations. Reddit has killed off many of the old forum websites, so it is not as if one can just go back to those to get substantive conversation. Indeed, substantive conversation seems to be dying out overall, because just posting selfies gets one more social appreciation.
I always enjoyed, "Need to generate a pseudo-random key sequence quickly? Open up vim and ask a friend to close it for you."
> Oh please. This is so far from an actual concern that I struggle to summon the energy to even shrug about it.

I guess it should say, "locally". I don't disagree there's far worse things damaging the ecosystems of the world, but if there's a trail, and people keep hiking off trail to make rock stacks, that area will get damaged, locally.

It's like if someone built a path through your backyard. Great, there's a path you don't want, used by people you don't want in your back yard. But everyone likes it, as it provides a nice shortcut. Are the local authorities to shrug and say, "well, there's worse things", and cite its popularity, then point to your car? Or, should something be done?
What do we know about Zeta Reticuli?
I think the problem here is that nothing at a higher layer is mitigating the effect of the attack. It's not so much a choice to put the complexity where it is cheapest as it is a total ball-drop on overall composite system correctness (and thus security).

From a different angle: I think your point is fair but I also think that for it to apply to this situation, the memory vendors would have needed to loudly and openly say that they were invoking that tradeoff so the OS vendors could adjust. Presumably that would also result in a lot of benchmarking being done to see if the net effect of a physical-layer vulnerability and a software-layer mitigation was actually a net positive.
OK, I've added it, and a few others as well: Y-combinator and Man or Boy.
Make cities dysfunctional. Make things difficult, and hard to work out. Make the doors stuck , so that people have to ask strangers for help to open them . Write code with bad comments , so people have to ask each other what it means. Asking for small favors makes people more likeable to each other (Ben franklin effect). activities like cooking and tending and garden are great ways to engage with others fluidly, the problem is how you get people to do these activities in the first place without self-selection.
Thank you for posting this! Just got a new USB SSD stick and I'm gonna try it out. :-)
You ask good questions, and raise good points. Since one can't read all the primary sources, how can you decide who to trust? In this case, I don't think there is a simple and logically defensible answer. Normally, your best bet would be to trust that the recognized experts in the field probably have it right. But I think Climate Science is so politicized at this point that unless you can sit down and have a beer at a backyard BBQ with those experts, anything you read is more likely to be well-calculated propaganda than the experts' true beliefs. The data presented in the papers is largely true, but the ancillary spin is so strong that it's hard to know what to conclude without a close reading of the entire paper. And even then, the choice of which papers are published in which journals makes it hard to know how much weight to put on what.

So you ask why to trust Willis Eschenbach. For me, I trust him because I've been reading his comments on ClimateAudit.org for well over a decade, and I've never seen him attempt to mislead. He's occasionally wrong, and but readily owns up to his errors. My impression from reading him over many years is that he's a smart guy who believes what he's saying, knows a lot about the field, has no obvious conflicts of interest, and does his best to be accurate.

I don't feel like the SkepticalScience.com post you linked to treats him fairly. Since that post considers him together with McIntyre, the best answer I can provide is that you should read McIntyre's latest post (https://climateaudit.org/2018/10/24/pages2k-north-american-t...) and see if you think their criticisms actually apply. I realize this isn't anything approaching rock-solid logic, but personal testimonial is the best I can offer. As a fervent environmentalist who has been closely reading McIntyre since soon after MBH98 came out, I'm still firmly under his sway, and think his criticisms have still not been adequately addressed.
That was a temporary experiment to see if more people enabled Grant to produce more videos, but the Mythical Man-Month rang true again. It's just Grant now, like it was when it started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks's_law
Maybe pinch gestures are not the right way to put it. Maybe spread is better? Like with 3 or four fingers spreading from or converging to center. MacOS can handle it fine.
But sight probably triggers them more than just hearing someone's voice. I guess video calls are somewhat more common now though.
It's surely unconscionable to write about stone stacking with nary a mention of Andy Goldsworthy!
The Oxford English Dictionary lists octopuses, octopi and octopodes (in that order);
it labels octopodes "rare", and notes that octopi derives from the mistaken assumption that octōpūs is a second declension Latin noun, which it is not.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/270/what-is-the-...
Link to original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07372-3
I was referring to the comment, not the article itself. The article is fairly balanced..
Do you have a source for this? Or is this just personal experience?
When I was a kid (back in the 70s) we built hardware to do this - essentially it was:

- an old TV pulled apart so the tube could be driver directly
- horizontal sync detector that reset the horizontal beam on the TV and advanced the vertical
- an FSK->analog to drive the spot amplitude as it swept across the TV
- a VHF receiver
- someone with a homemade antenna pointing it at the sky, tracking manually by listening for the noise floor
- a camera in a dark room and an operator who would open the aperture and start taking a photo when the pass started and closed it when the beam hot the bottom of the TV

We did sat tracking on the local uni's mainframe so we knew where in the sky and when a pass would start. The satellites in those days made low passes and essentially took line by line of image as they moved thru their orbits. We could also get world wide images from a geostationary satellite that gave us 12 images made by stitching everything together (and whiting out all the communist countries).

In those days a ground station cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and were essentially (pre-commercial) faxes that printed on paper - our photos were higher quality
I didn't realize that happened. Kind of a shame. But he did get that interactive page for visualizing quaternions built with a collaborator.
How memories of old wars are used to create new hatreds, conflicts, and disputes
Hot dogs today may be higher quality due to improved food safety practices. And even if hot dogs are slightly more expensive, other things are relatively cheaper.
I saw this thread and made a youtube video about it:
https://youtu.be/GtqnQcDT9dQ
The latter, according to park personnel. Just because you don't see one doesn't mean someone hasn't already dismantled them all.

If you compulsively must make stack, then tear back it down and put the stones back before you leave.
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>>can cause erosion and damage ecosystems

>Oh please. This is so far from an actual concern that I struggle to summon the energy to even shrug about it.

It is causing noticeable impact though. I recently went to Iceland which has had rapid tourism growth since about 2008. There is a place along Ring Road (the road around the whole island) where long ago, a rock was placed on a stack for good luck in their travels. [1] There's essentially one place where it's "tolerated" on the island for a reason that goes back hundreds of years. Even driving 20+ miles beyond the location, there were stacks of rocks off ~100 feet off the road. It really ruined the natural look.

Iceland has moss covering large chunks of the island. It takes something like 30 years for the moss to grow back. Simply stepping on moss can kill it, justifying the MANY messages about staying on the paths. Someone walked over 100+ feet of mossy rocks to stack rocks.

The rocks slow down the water flow rate and prevent the dirt from getting scooped up.

I don't know how else to say it, but it is a big deal.

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/laufskalavarda
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox

Example of the sorites paradox.

One isn’t a problem. Two isn’t a problem. You can keep saying oh one more won’t be a problem until at some point it is.
It’s interesting to see Infinite Loop completely covered in short grass, instead of the drought-tolerant variety that now blankets the area by Infinite Loop 5 in the bottom right of the picture. I wonder when the landscaping was changed.
Yes. Yes they will. They will shrug. The local authorities will shrug at you. All the time.

They will tell you to deal with it, and pay for your own fence. In fact, they'd be more likely to intervene, if you build a fence that's too big. A fence made out of stones, even. Stacking too many stones to make an excessively large fence, to prevent people from stacking stones.

Imagine.
Well what this looks like is Google Groups, or a startup like groups.io.

I maintain an email networking group over at CTOLunches.com, and email is the only channel I allow. Several people have asked about Slack, but email is the tried & true async medium that won't be going away ever.

For a social network, I see it being a cross between a Google Group and a newsletter.

* List my profile somewhere with a sign up box to "subscribe to updates and conversation from Miles and his network."
* Every 3-6 weeks, I receive an email from the platform asking me what's been up with me, and I simply reply, which then gets sent to people who subscribed from updates from me.
* Calendar integration -- when I add an event to my calendar, I have the option of including it in my next update to my email network to let them know I'm doing it. (ex: I'm speaking next month at some conference)
* Community participation -- if anyone who subscribes to my email updates/network wants to email my network (ex: do you know anyone who...), I get an email saying my subscriber Bob wants to ask my network a connection, would you like to include it in your next email update to your network? If I respond yes, then it is also listed in my next email update to my network.

Something like that would be awesome.
New GPIO interface for linux user space [pdf]
Even better is to whitelist all SQL than runs on the database using prepared statements. Anything else is a hack.
What kind of profits?
The takeaway here is that each OS trains you in its own way to look down at all those morons using one of the other ones.
Don't exactly agree on that assertion. History shows that one can make that argument about a lot of religions. It is more so to do with the geopolitical ambitions of nation states at respective times.
In the modern era - many nation states have fallen behind on a lot of indicators - human development index, scientific innovation, education etc., and all of them directly / indirectly contribute to instability.
Some Chinese Google employees express support for censored search engine project
Cockroach treats the entire installation as one giant cluster, with optional 'locality' feature for each node to distribute data. Yugabyte has regional clusters, which can replicate from a single master write cluster. CRDB is working on ways to get fast local reads for different regions.

Other than that, Yugabyte also supports more protocols like Redis and Cassandra, and enhancements within them. It's really more of a distributed key/value store like FoundationDB but with protocol layers on top included out of the box.
On a spectrum of: private land, public land, national park;
stones stacking seems: reasonable, regrettable, deeply thoughtless. If one cannot visit a park without visibly
changing the landscape, one should simply not enter a park.

Examining this activity without considering the location
is simply false equivalence. Any vandalism in a national
park, or any nearly untrammeled area of similar protectable
value is not defendable. Also, get off our lawn.
It's speculation, but if you've been following the drama like I have (I'm not particularly interested in cryptocurrency per se, but I love reading about it like a sporting event), it's almost certainly Craig.

Craig Wright has been caught numerous times falsifying evidence that leads people to think he's Satoshi Nakamoto. It's such a ridiculous ruse, and I think the only reason he's still hanging around is he's backed by a billionaire named Calvin Ayre who has thrown his full weight behind Craig Wright. Ayre built a whole company around Craig that's constantly trying to promote him as being Satoshi.

A couple weeks ago, a new twitter user with the handle @satoshi emerged and tweeted a signature that validates with Satoshi's public key. The problem? A signature in ECDSA can easily be forged using only knowledge of the public key. It doesn't prove anything unless you're signing a non-gibberish message. This is also very similar to a trick Craig Wright already tried when he first tried to claim he was Satoshi in 2016.

The twitter user got suspended, so that got shut down without much of a fuss in the media, but if you follow this closely, you know that Craig was involved based on MO and because the public relations blitz of his company was very carefully coordinated almost exactly when @satoshi started tweeting. (Among other things, @satoshi and Craig's typical twitter posted extremely similar tweets within a few minutes of each other.)

Similarly, in this case, Craig and associated social media accounts started making thinly veiled oblique references to "light" and "nour" at the same time.
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
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You can easily take that to ad absurdum levels and every activity you do is destroying the world. There's a balance, and stone stacking happens to balance the line between posturing one's virtue and respecting an ecosystem.
> Which the publishers do. They don't send the article unless they think you're Googlebot.

I've never had trouble viewing an article in incognito mode, or sometimes even hitting stopping a load before javascript runs, so I've been under the impression that it's mainly javascript trickery. My argument here was with that assumption, so perhaps it's moot.

> Alice tells the cashier that her name is Bob and shows an (obviously) fake ID. The cashier isn't paid enough to care

I'd say that the proper example is that the cashier doesn't check ID and isn't even expected to by corporate. Companies aren't even strictly against this type of soft-fraud word-of-mouth trick, as it just further helps their price discrimination and customer mindshare. Whether you get one free birthday desert per year or five, you're still buying meals.

The elephant in the room is that Google could easily setup a system whereby Googlebot got secure access to the articles. I think they haven't done this because of an idea that the same pages should be served to users. So who is defrauding whom?

Philosophically I'd assert that the Internet philosophy is directly opposed to the very concept of fraud - "identity" does not scale, especially across jurisdictions. We've finally got a way to formalize and mechanically execute contracts purely between private parties, so why cling to a heavyweight idea of post-facto enforcement based on nebulous ambient natural-language rules, especially as an overarching foundation? When you put a quarter into a "claw game" and it drops your prize before the chute you don't sue for "fraud" - you just stop putting quarters in.
Could someone explain how is this different than a supermarket selling their own products, for example Walmart selling Colgate toothpaste and their own ‘equate’ brand?
This article seems to make the point that lightweight thin film photovoltaics are the future. I'll offer a counterpoint:

Massive economies of scale and automation are the future for PV. Using standard 60 and 72 cell polycrystalline and monocrystalline silicon cells. It's already not uncommon to see 5 to 10 megawatt sized ground mount PV systems.

Getting the $ per STC watt lower for panels is key. Having quick to build, low cost and efficient ground mount systems is an important part of it.

Things will be very different economically when a 360W, 72 cell panel I can buy now at $0.58/W is more like $0.22/W.

Battery storage is the other important part. The technological problem of generating enough watthours in one day is SOLVED. Storing and using it consistently 24x7 is now the hard part.
Very cool demonstration!

You might be interested in this interactive demo of social networks: https://ncase.me/crowds/. It explores how the connectivity structure of social networks impacts the spread of ideas.
Unfortunately it seems to be a fundamental tradeoff rather than anything easy to fix.

There is an easy fix. Stop micromanaging.

I'd love to get more people to understand that editing out the nasty bits from their comments (not that the GP was nasty) doesn't mean making everything bland.

In fact, HN members are forced by you to write blandly, because otherwise you penalize them. Sometimes harshly and with little warning.
Indeed, open pit mining does ruin the landscape, but we make a collective calculation that it's worth the cost in some locations‡, just as we designate other locations to be left as pristine as possible. In natural habitat let's make the impact as low as possible -- ideally leaving no trace.

‡ Almost nobody is at the extrema of "mine all the things!" or "do no mining at all" -- clearly some is needed -- so I consider that your position a straw man.
From the photos I've seen, no, they are not using triple junction GaAs cells. Boeing/spectrolab cells are incredibly expensive. They used high efficiency 156mm monocrystalline silicon cells. Just not in a glass + aluminum frame like you'd see on a roof.

edit: at least in 2013 they were using thin film amorphous silicon, or what appears to be CdTe thin film flexible, not rigid cells encapsulated in clear lightweight membrane.

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/business/2013/06/20130609...
What attack scenarios you are envisioning here? If the host is only running this software (e.g. a single purpose server, firewall, etc.), the security benefits of process isolation are reduced.

Clearly if you are trying to run hostile software from multiple vendors on the same box (e.g. a browser), you want more sandboxes.
More of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG1OZ69H_-o
Regarding Fish.

A lot of people seem to complain about loosing the ability to write scripts that work on other shells because Fish breaks compatibility.

Well, I’ve been using fish for a couple of years now and besides a couple of things that are very specific to my main computer, the rest of my scripts I build as POSIX as I can. I keep everything on a repo and I can then push/pull things on new machines and have everything available.

One can still execute a `/bin/sh script.sh`. Nothing prevents someone from doing that.
Meshworks, Hierarchies and Interfaces
Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott

Grit, Angela Duckworth

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, Mary Beard

Deep Work, Cal Newport
Betting on a new way to make concrete that doesn’t pollute
The family oriented people would go home and spend time with their families, but the non-family oriented people would go back to work -- that's where their friends are. Which would cause the family oriented people to go back to work because they don't want to miss out on the work opportunities. And you're back where you started.

Japanese culture is very different. All through their life Japanese people are part of a group and identify with that group. You are in a particular home room at school and they try not to mix change the home rooms all through junior high school and high school. You are a member of a single club all the way through junior high school and then a single club all the way through high school (and possibly a single club in University if you decide to join a club).

When Japanese people get a professional job, they all start on the same day -- The first Monday of April after they graduate from university. Professionals never change companies. They work for the same company for the rest of their life. They work with the same people for the rest of their life.

The western media portrays the Japanese salary man as being lonely, but I don't think this is generally the case. If you don't fit into your group you are going to be lonely because you won't get another one. That's why there are some super lonely people. However, the majority of people are not lonely and have lots and lots of friends at work. It's just completely different than how it works in the west.
No supermarket has had the scale and market share as Amazon.

That makes their business practices fall under increased scrutiny.