skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But yes, of course I know Shiite military are active in the middle east. I mean, it is their region, right? I can sense militarism in your terminology. Shiite militia, sunni militia? How about state-sponsored violence in the name of oil? You would not call that ‘militia’ would you? Since you copy pasted some news articles as evidence, here is some articles that argue otherwise for you: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-irrationality-of-am...,

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/08/tehran...

https://www.mepc.org/nuclear-terrorism-iranian-perspective

But none of these articles would be enough for you either. I will dismiss arguments that talk about Iran one-sidedly, not the evidence. You can also see more scholarly articles that talk about the complexity of the military and political affairs in the middle east. Not from an over-militarized point of view, but also from a justice, social and anthropological perspective:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1035771060069611...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2968/065001004?src=r...

the point is, you throw Iran and nuclear and militia around like they are not connected to a people, and the best of you just reduce the situation to a state vs. people point of view. Iranians have the right, just like any other people, to defense and safety. The evidence to Iran being a terrorist state does not exist and what you sent me is a list of politically motivated accusations. The evidence for Iran meddling in the region, yes. I think there is plenty of that, and yes, that’s bad, as long as we don’t compare it to other countries around the world that do a million times worse but are left alone because they are western allies. I don’t think I have to convince anyone about the chaos Western intervention has created in the region. Iran is evil because it does not comply to bullying. O I hope you can also find the time for nuancing your view.
It’s by design. The default for all F9 rockets is to land off-shore in the water. Once all the checks are complete and the rocket is “happy” and all systems are performing nominally, it redirects to the landing zone (either a barge or on land).
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"Finally, of all the people who have contributed to the development of EMACS, and the TECO behind it, special mention and appreciation go to Richard M. Stallman. Henot only gave TECO the power and generality it has, but brought together the good ideas of many different Teco-function packages, added a tremendous amount of new ideas and environment, and created EMACS. Personally, one of the joys of my avocational life has been writing Teco/EMACS functions; what makes this fun and not painful is the rich set of tools to work with, all but a few of which have an "RMS" chiseled somewhere on them."
You could use the Bedtime as alarm clock. You can set it to specific days. Works well in my experience.
I always felt like RubyGems is mostly done right. And not just packaging itself, it's also easy to host your own gems and combine sources with upstream for example. What is that pipenv made better than RubyGems for you?
> “continued destabilizing countries”

Pot, kettle, black. The US are continuously destabilising countries they don’t like, Iran included; in fact, most poweful countries do, all the time, from Russia to France to Germany. That doesn’t justify breaking treaties on a whim, like Trump has done.

The US had built up a reputation as a violent and aggressive bully after 2003. Obama worked hard at correcting that, but the new guy has thrown it all away again. The US at the moment look seriously bipolar, from the outside.
and it looks like it just passed the senate unammended.

We are officially bad citizens of the internet and our contributions should be scrutinized as such.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-06/labor-backdown-federa...
It’s great to have a first-hand account of how this mess started.

Large parts of the tech community seem to not just be blind to the consequences of their work, but to openly embrace and nurture the destruction of the fabric of society.

This used to find voice in utopian visions of a sort of libertarian, meritocratic revival of democracy: bloggers replacing journalists, "makers", liquid democracy, etc.
There are two successful examples of this spirit I can think of: Wikipedia, and OSS.

Unfortunately, this movement also had/has a destructive streak. Partly because these new ideas had existing competitors that needed to be cut down to make room, and partly because they experienced opposition from existing players (sometimes only tangentially related) that quickly became branded as enemies.

Two sides of the same philosophy. Guess which one had more staying power? Just look at the fate of The Pirate Bay vs The Pirate Party to get an idea. Or take this quiz: (a) Name a website distributing scientific papers with no concern for copyright. (b) Name an Open Access journal.

With regard to the specific topic of the paper, namely information (and political news specifically) those ideas of the citizen-blogger have actually disappeared so thoroughly, you are likely to have no idea what I'm referencing if you are under 30 years of age. And while those ideas were initially coupled with a disdain for established institutions and the press because it was a storyline in need of a villain, the ideas died yet the rot feasting on our sources of shared truth survived.

The target of all this destructive energy is, as a first approximation, the very concept of trust. Trust cannot be trusted is a sort-of mantra, that not only gives sense to what would otherwise just be existential dread aimlessly seeking escape in vandalism (4chan). It also makes you appear cool & in the know: "I wonder who paid for this article", "everybody knows a study with n=20000 is underpowered", "<X> wouldn't do <Y> unless <convoluted way to reduce all human activity to a profit motive>".

On rare occasions, this destructive mindset still has the spark of creativity: Bitcoin, for all its flaws, is (was?) somewhat impressive. Yet it was always rooted in this sort of cynicism that distrusts institutions and the power of humans to have any positive impact with anything but the tools of physics and math: to wit, the endless conspiracy theories around the FED, the infatuation with Gold and land, etc.
In the realm of politics, the destruction is just about total. Nothing of value was created. Meanwhile, the community gleefully watches the destruction of the free press, fine-tuning their adblockers because "information wants to be free", or because that newspaper whose articles they desperately want to read nonetheless made the fateful error of using the wrong JS framework, or something, but in any case, it's their fault if they can't survive. Plus they are just part of Soros' campaign anyway. Everybody knows that.
Thanks for clearing that up - the times when loan words mess up your foreign language skills... ;)
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This is government-compelled labor, whose product is only of value to government, and which labors in direct opposition to the personal safety and well-being of the entire general population.

Australia, you fail at the very notion of free western civilization.
I believe PM is for Project Manager
If you'd told me you had a library of 3d action-adventure games and fighting games and hated shooters because they were plotless, mindless gorefests, I would recommend Portal, Half-Life 2, and Halo. They are dissimilar enough from genre's stereotypical dreck that I'd recommend them even assuming your statement was completely accurate, and good enough in absolute terms that I think you'd be likely to enjoy them. I agree that there are a ton of awful VNs out there, just like there are a ton of awful shooters, but I hate seeing people throwing the baby out with the bathwater based on sweeping generalizations that simply aren't correct.

If you want more specifics: You complained about VNs as being "anime" and then said that all anime was about high schoolers. I provided recommendations for high-quality VNs that were neither anime nor about high school.
arguably controversial, but: https://urbit.org/docs/

the deeper you look, the more the abyss stares back:

https://urbit.org/docs/hoon/syntax/

https://urbit.org/docs/hoon/examples/
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They’re Australian but have offices in other countries. I believe they would move for the right reasons. This seems like a pretty big reason, considering they’re targeted at enterprise. But move where? UK will have this next, America does this without any laws at much greater effect and scale.
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I think it doesn’t look to bad, at least from the river side.
I'm kind of surprised that recaptchas are 'training AI' at google.

I went through a phase of trying to use tor just for the principle of it. So I was hit with a lot of recaptchas. And I really couldn't see how they were testing AI directly.

Usually, its the 'pick pictures of road signs' and 'pick pictures of cars' and so on. Almost all images seem to be taken from streetview cars, or possibly waymo cars.

So, the human doing the recatcha has to parse an image to extract the implicit depth information to pick out cars etc.

Whereas google know the exact location of the image so know where the roads are etc, and probably have lidar scan so they know the depth information etc too.

Picking a road sign out of a picture is kinda hard for a 2D image. Picking it out from a 4D scene created from all the different sensors their cars have, on the other hand, is a piece of cake.
This. I've known a bunch of people who lost a large part of weight (without surgery) and kept it off and they basically turned into different people (more fun though). They restricted their eating, they worked out, often went for hikes etc. But their lifestyle was completely different before and after. They didn't bitch about turning down dessert or things like that. They seemed to actually just be a different person.
There are so many lovely subtle references to the Old Beijing warmth and quirks (such as bellowing into the phone in a fancy cafe).
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [0] is not a treaty. That's not a matter of technicality, but of fact. I don't state this intending to defend the actions of the Trump administration. But when you get the basic facts so patently wrong, you do not do your argument any favors.

The staggering amount of these untruthful statements I read on a daily basis here and elsewhere on the internet is extremely disconcerting and increasing at an alarming rate. Please do not try to criticize Trump unless you are able to do so effectively. Posts like yours only make Trump's deceit and dishonesty harder to challenge, by damaging the credibility of anti-Trump individuals. Worse yet, they do nothing to further the cause of promoting positive change. Because if you want to do good, you do have to get things right.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...
Seriously, who cares? I got this on my personal email because I'm using Firefox Sync and I don't subscribed to promotional communication campaign. Mozilla sucks.
Use cases for Unicode line separators?
I've seen localised strings in various languages using the Unicode line separator \u2028. Why might someone use this instead of more common ascii line-endings like \n or \r\n?

Off the top of my head, I can see how it could be used to differentiate breaks in the string from breaks in the file, but I've never had cause to do this as many file formats allow escaping of the break anyway.

Keen to hear from people who actually use this character and why?
The term is "win/win."

But I agree.
This article is a good summary of all the past and current attempts Google has made at messaging, for those like me who can't keep up. Outside of maybe Google employees, is there anyone who can at this point?

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-messaging-apps-86784...

It really just cements the impression that there's absolutely no consistent leadership vision over there.
Virtualenv tip: you can skip the Bash magic of calling "activate" by providing the path to the python executable.

/hello/venvs/myproject/bin/python myscript.py

will run myscript.py exactly as if the virtualenv was active, which is easier to configure for cron jobs and services.
>>>Meng, one of the vice chairs on the company’s board and the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested on Dec. 1 at the request of U.S. authorities and a court hearing has been set for Friday, a Canadian Justice Department spokesman said. Trump and Xi had dined in Argentina on Dec. 1 at the G20 summit.

She works for the company in question.
I am still waiting for a way to turn off wifi and bluetooth in the control center.

The decision on making those buttons just disconnect was something I have a very hard time comprehending.
This is a great behind the scenes view.

What is Social? Is that at major product vertical within Google? "Possibly" is a potential good answer here :).
Strongly agree! The United States was built by hard working immigrants.
Time and effort wasted. Work imposed on me by a hostile company with which I have no direct dealing and that financially doesn’t need this.
I guess that issuing new certificate requires some logging, for example certificate transparency log, also it requires domain verification, while stapling does not require anything, so it's a more lightweight operation.
> Project fi actually DEPENDS on hangouts.

No, it doesn't. In the beginning they strongly suggested that you use Hangouts for SMS on Fi, but they don't require it. I just use Messages on Fi.
The Department of Education of New South Wales, I assume.
Sounds a bit like Theranos and their use of off the shelf machines for analysing blood tests, instead of their magic one that didn't work yet.
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Why is the text so narrow on that site? It only takes up maybe 1/5th of the width of my monitor
GChat was great because it wasn't locking users into Google's ecosystem. People from other platforms could chat with you directly because it supported federation.

With Hangouts they dropped XMPP because supposedly it was preventing them to innovate and because Microsoft and Facebook weren't playing as nice.

GChat was actually successful and I enjoyed it for a long time. I couldn't be happier that all of their other attempts are failing.

The problem with Google is that they've lost what made them special back in the day. What made them great was openness. They were building on top of standards. And nobody complained that their web properties are optimized for their own browser.

Nowadays they just want to lock people into their walled garden. Guess that's what happens when you're no longer the underdog.
It is less than 9% of the desktop share, so around 5% if you take mobile into account.
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No, most countries don’t try to enforce their laws like that. If she has “committed” these acts while in China, obeying Chinese law, there is simply no crime.

This is not “robbed a bank in country X and then fled to Y”, which is what international law-enforcement cooperation was built for. This is like “copied Windows in a country where piracy is legal”. It’s a massive overreach by US and Canada, but then again, they are not new to this (see Kim Dotcom et al).
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Worth mentioning that Canada has its own history of concerns with Huawei due to the Nortel debacle: https://www.afr.com/technology/web/security/how-chinese-hack...
I think that's why they removed their motto of "Don't be evil". [https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-dont-be-evil/2540...]
Google is now what Microsoft use to be. And, Developers like me end up hating Microsoft for everything.
To be fair, in Slack I also miss important conversations when they happen in threads while I'm not looking.
That information would likely be useless because of survivorship bias.
> we are many years in a bull market

I agree. Having most of his capital in the stock market or real estate is a great opportunity to lose money in the next 5-10 years. Holding cash and investing it when the market is down is a good idea. Buffet currently does that because Berkshire thinks [1] that most of the stocks are overvalued (he waits for the next crash to buy them when they're cheap).

Other assets which are stable in value (e.g. gold, inelastic resources) are also a good idea.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.de/warren-buffett-berkshire-hath...

OT: I would get myself a New Zealand citizenship/permanent residency and buy real estate there ($500k-1m NZD). Many millionaires are currently heading to Australia and NZ because they expect that the inequality will get to the point where society will turn aggressive. A little bit paranoid, but they try to be better safe than sorry. Plus New Zealand is a wonderful place to live and the real estate price will rise in the next years because of growing fear. [2]

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doo...
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Is the note taker bored?
... captioning?

You mean, Speech-To-Text that gets forwarded to the NSA, otherwise used by Microsoft for who-knows-what while the transition to an ad company with Win10 ?

Sounds great, but I don't think that's going to be a good alternative for the people who are looking to dump Facebook/WhatsApp/Google over privacy concerns.
Actually below 9% is just desktop market. If you include also mobile market, it's already below 5%..
Ergonomics. Text that does not require much horizontal back-and-forward movement of the eyes is easier to read than super wide-set text. Gruber has long talked about typography so I’d guess it’s deliberate.
It's a stupid law passed by stupid politicians. The only thing to do now is to demand that ALP politicians reverse it in the next sitting of Parliament.
Well, since you accuse me of "throw[ing] nuclear . . . around" when I said no such thing, I hope you'll forgive me if I'm not convinced that it is I who should improve the nuance of my position. Particularly since none of the links you've posted support your position.

Enjoy the rest of your day.
Meng Wanzhou is a the CFO of Huawei[0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-huawei/huawei-f...
I don't believe this thread is about Saudi Arabia.
How do you see the car and traffic sign recognition AI being used to imprison and murder people?
sanctions always benefit the oppressor (read the dictator). While sanctions (in theory) make it harder for a regime to earn money - in practice it leads to more poverty and hardship among the poor people (who don't care about politics). Sanctions usually lead to more anti-foreign sentiments and a boost to the radical power-bases within the sanctioned country. Walking a country (society) back from the effects of sanctions is incredibly tricky and requires more than just undoing the sanction.
I almost didn't drive. It's a good thing I got the rental car though. The BART that I would have taken from the airport was down due to a strike. One of the days of my visit I tried to get around without the car, and that was a disaster:

MUNI stop locations above ground are not announced or lighted, and you can't just count because the vehicle only halts if a person asks it to do so. The bus routes are confusing; I went the wrong way and ended up in a terrifying neighborhood. When things got busy, there was no way to board the cable car. Due to holiday crowds (people who might want service!) most of the system (MUNI, buses, cable cars... everything in the northern half of the city) got shut down for the evening. Later I missed a bus because it stopped on the other corner instead of at the bus stop, and that was the last one so I had to walk several miles in a rather scary city.

I suppose SF is sending a signal: you probably shouldn't go there.
I live in Australia and this is the dumbest bill I have ever seen in parliament. Australian politicians have no clue what the fuck they have just done. Rushed through in less than four days so they can go on holidays. Bigots.
Yep, working in iOS/OS X for 9 years now. The primitives are queues not mutexes.
There's nothing interesting in the solution?

IT's just x >= min && x <=max

?

What am I missing?
Especially since the solution that fits everyone is so simple: Have the Control Center honor the settings that the user has set up in System Preferences. If the user has gone to the trouble to turn BT and Wi-Fi OFF, then the Control Center should fully turn them on and off.

Otherwise, they can do their dumb new half-assed temporary state.
Why do you use faint font like that.the article is unreadable.what did black font ever do to you ?
This isn't what 'Show HN' is for. Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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bill gates is political?? i d have to visit his wiki page to find out his political affiliation, let alone ambition
This argument reeks of "not my fault you were conned, you should have known I'm a conman"
You think THIS proves the US is not a trustworthy nation? Why choose to ignore the last 100+ years of the US's backstory and focus on this rather minor setback to make such a bold statement? I would imagine any amount of trust we had left was entirely exhausted more than 40 years ago, during the Nixon shock [0] and Exorbitant privilege [1].

Surely, you realize the US earns its status on the global stage via its violent & powerful military, and the PetroDollar? It is foolish to suggest that the US expects other nations to possess any pretense of trust.

You don't have to believe me, because after all I'm just some dumb American. But you may want to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself who is being the true "American" here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege
An update to all those watching, it just passed the Senate and has been signed into law (once it gains Royal Assent).
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> The claimed predictions from the 1970s and 1980s are not mentioned on that page.

They are mentioned, they just aren't elaborated: you have to do your own homework if you apparently "understand" the subject enough to claim your own opinion. A begin of that homework, however, as I've already written, you even have on the initial page that you chose to post, specifically:

"2013: ΛCDM provides an excellent fit to the improved CMB data"

As I've said, that's the "item 3" from the 5 item list, and it's ultimately confirmed by ESA's Planck satellite results in 2013. That is a strong confirmation.

Note: more details and the timeline are on the very page you've initially posted. Ad hominems don't change the facts.
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Suicide apparently https://www.chinamoneynetwork.com/2018/12/06/renowed-chinese...
nobody (especially not all the ultra capitalist pigs here) would like to admit this but in reality the reason this is the case is price fixing. There are very few companies that do manufacture and hold the necessary patents to do so. You can thank the free market for it.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/30/dram_vendors_sued_a...