skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: much that is touted as waterproof tends to have smallprint saying "applicable in dry water only" (yup, had major warranty hassles on supposedly IP68-certified equipment, how could you tell?), and had to replace car fob batteries (unrelated incident; also needed to resync the token generator in the fobs, who knew there even was one?).

"I'm lucky" is not quite the same as "that's a nonexistent problem".
Who says leaving the EU is a right-wing thing? The current leader of the Labour Party is far more anti-EU than the current leader of the Tories! Some things just don’t fit the classic left/right model.
I'd kill for a way to use iMessage on my Windows desktop, so Apple is doing a great, albeit frustrating, job selling the Apple ecosystem.

Wish I could at least use icloud.com. Even went as far as to look into how hard it would be to use VMWare to get a OS X desktop going. 4 GB and a processor core would be worth it, but unfortunately it looks difficult.
>Indeed, color probably wasn't important until decoration and desirable possessions became noteworthy.

The prime mover for these things is probably sexual selection, and we can see that they are foundational all throughout nature, let alone animals, in plants and fungi which do not even have brains or move. I guess that they are more central than you are giving them credit for.
disclaimer: IANAP.

as far as I understand, the space-time curvature is just an interpretation of the math. Another perfectly acceptable interpretation is as a relativistic classical field that couples with the stress-energy tensor field (thus, indirectly, with any other field).

In fact I think it is possible to come up with a space-time curvature interpretation of the EM field, for a toy universe where everything has a EM charge.

Now, given that the gravitational field couples with other fundamental fields and those are quantized, the gravitational field must necessarily also be quantized. The math straight forward quantization works fine for low energies, thus the spin-2 boson described elsethread. The issue is that at low energy, the gravitational effects are so small that it is impossible to come up with an experiment that would detect the difference between a classical field and a quantized field.

At high energy the straightforward derivation breaks down because of infinities (other quantum fields had similar issues, but the math tricks used to resolve them do not work with the gravitational field). There are multiple theories (string theory, loop gravity, etc) that try to resolve this problems, but the experimental apparatus required to distinguish between them are colossal (as in particle accelerators with radii measured in AU).
I'm not very partial to any of the big, prestigious buildings (by any architect), but I think that apartment building on NY 520 West 28th is a thing of beauty. The all-glass facade also gives a lot of options for playing with natural lighting inside.
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Yes.

How The Paper And Writing Is Fueling the French Populist Rage

How The Ability To Speak Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
>Ads are a fundamentally less evil way of satisfying that necessity than taxes.

Strongly disagree. Advertising is obtrusive, distracting, ugly. It defaces our public infrastructure and crowds our minds. It lets companies into our brains nearly everywhere, companies who generally are working hard to make the world a worse place by overharvesting the earths' natural resources in order to make junk to sell to us, or to enrich a select few by selling an experience to the rest of us.

I don't watch television partly to avoid sitting through ads. Raise my taxes to pay for ad-free streets, subways, and everything else that isn't so optional for me.
Not being deeply into signals geekery, I had to lookup SDR. I believe the article is referring to a Software-Defined Radio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio
This may be my reading only, but "populist" seeems to carry a negative connotation. I wonder, what is the opposite of populist? Is it "elitist?"
It's very complicated to explain because it's not a "traditional" movement run by a leader/political party/union. Protesters are all over the political spectrum.

It's the combination of (real and/or perceived):

- rise of inequalities

- new taxes (including the carbon tax)

- removal of taxes impacting only the rich

- sentiment of neglect of the rural areas by the government

- disdain for lower classes by Macron

- lower purchasing power for low/middle class

and probably some other stuff. It's really an aggregation of all that. Add the fact that there is no leader, no precise demands, this makes a nightmare for the government to fix or contain.
Paid propagandists? I genuinely find this hard to believe. Maybe I'm naive
Facebook apparently :)
Overtly. With opt-in. Big difference.
Making a good search facilities like Sci-Hub or even steps further is also very important. Not only paywalling is a problem - even if you have a subscription number of clicks to reach the article is usually more than one, not to speak about awful, unintuitive interfaces depending on publisher/journal.
It's ironic, because FB, Twitter are famous for censoring conservatives for years and promoting liberal worldviews. Suddenly they are the biggest enemy of liberals in the US.
Well if you're gonna go that route then you might as well toss in CNN, NBC, ABC, etc, etc.

CSPAN and arguably PBS are probably the only TV "news" networks that don't use every trick in the book to try and keep you watching so they can make more money by showing you more ads.
This legislation has support from both major parties, it's set to pass either this week or next. I don't know why Google, Facebook, Tesla, Microsoft, Atlassian and other big tech companies with investments in Australia don't push back. Nothing pressures Australian politicians more than an advertising campaign. The mineral resources industry spent just $8m on advertising to prevent a new mining tax that would have cost them several billion dollars. Better yet, as the Government is currently being held together by a few minority seats just spend a few hundred thousand in the most at risk seats. That alone would be enough to completely abandon or water down this legislation.
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According to Sect 317C, a "designated communications provider" includes:

A person is a designated communications provider if ...

6. the person develops, supplies or updates software used, for use, or likely to be used, in connection with:

(a) a listed carriage service; or
(b) an electronic service that has one or more end-users in Australia

... and the eligible activities of the person are ...

(a) the development by the person of any such software; or
(b) the supply by the person of any such software; or
(c) the updating by the person of any such software

So individuals can definitely be targeted -- it's specifically in the bill. In your parlance, all individuals that "develop, supply, or update software that is likely to be used by an electronic service that has one or more end-users in Australia" are entities and not agents. They are defined to be a "designated communications provider" and the same rules apply to them as any other "designated communications provider".
When journalists fail to adhere to journalistic standards they should be criticized for that. What's your point?
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The negative campaign started when the media learned of Facebook selling data to Trump's presidential campaign via Cambridge Analytica.

It was more or less the same [edit: data / service] Facebook provided to Obama's both campaigns, except selling to Obama was seen as "supporting progressive cause" and "modern way of reaching out to the young voters", while selling to Trump was deemed a "terrible betrayal" and "hacking the democracy"; the press' opinion on Facebook turned from "that dependably progressive company we can get mutual support from" to "that unpredictable hired gun that's willing to work with anybody bad".

Think of it; nothing else has changed. The press, and people in general, were well aware for years that Facebook is collecting, processing, and selling reams upon reams of user data. It was all glossed over as long as it was supporting the good cause. Now it's bemoaned to no end.

It doesn't help that the press has natural adversarial relationship with Facebook just as much as with Google and other similar, due to the platforms being both major news channel (direct competitor), while at the same time the major source of web traffic to the news' websites, thus ad revenue.
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Just add another if man
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Brazil had such an outburst in 2013, also seemingly spontaneous and enabled by social networks.

Fast forward a few years and the president-elect is a far-right idiot who ran on a platform of conspiracy theories and attacks on the press, supported by a huge disinformation campaign on anonymous, encrypted and widely popular messengers, completely bypassing all forms of campaign accountability.

Ignore the symptoms at your peril.
I'm pretty sure Venezuela was (and still is) a democracy.

I think people tend to conflate liberalism (in the classical sense), and democracy. You can have undemocratic liberal states (the Austro-Hungarian empire was a good example).
Just saying "Hint;" before posting your opinion doesn't actually invalidate other opinions. Just because what most people consider far left you consider to be moderate, doesn't make your opinion fact and everyone else's wrong.
Macron isn't Hitler or Pol Pot or George III. He wants to put the price of diesel up to reduce environmental damage. He wants to reduce taxes on the rich to spur the economy. You can disagree with those aims, but he's not destroying the French system of government. For that, look to Venezuela.
> Hasn't the majority of the criticism of Facebook been about enabling communication?

Enabling horizontal communication, not controlled by the Mainstream Mass Media.
Yes, they are consistent. In fact, they are the result of the following line of thinking: given that we are observing unexpected results once we account for (using the GR paradigm) all the clearly apparent mass and energy, what else could we change so that GR doesn't have to change? In other words, the consistency with GR is already baked in. That's not to say that the approach doesn't have huge merit.

One model for dark energy is indeed the cosmological constant, but there are other approaches, most notably quintessence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintessence_(physics)).
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I'm flagging this for accusing George Soros of genocide. Accusing people of (the worst of) crimes without even an attempt to show any evidence can only serve to poison any rational debate.

In addition, "genocide" as it's commonly understood, i. e. the physical homicide of a people, is so obviously wrong not even a fascist troll account would go there. The user therefore seems to be referring to some perceived harm to Hungary they equate to "genocide".

I believe they are referring to the European migrant crisis. To equate immigration with genocide reveals a thoroughly racist worldview.
Exactly, they'd be decrying the use of “chemicals weapons” by police (i.e. tear gas/pepper spray) and ask if it violates treaties against its use on civilians, etc. It’s all so blatantly political and partisan by a group which sets itself up as paragon of impartiality, truth, etc., but it’s all about world view, power and exerting that power to project that world view.

Now of course editorials and editorializing _is_ understandably different but unfortunately that wall has been completely breached and demolished.
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I guess the fact that we have to separate independent journalists from the ones working for privately owned outlets is problematic in itself.
The non-generic super-interface pattern isn’t completely deprecated. It’s still advocated as a workaround for the lack of existential types in the language.
> A million users downloaded the Obama 2012 app on Facebook.

I'm pretty sure that the friends of those 1 million people that had opted-in were not consulted about anything, though, but I may be wrong of that. And I'm pretty sure that those friends were the real target of said campaign.
That isn't unprecedented sadly, Wallace Carothers [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Carothers], the inventor of nylon committed suicide despite becoming head researcher of DuPont. Despite admitting serious red flags that could harm his ability to work the CEO came out to personally persuade him. In the great depression no less.

Of course neither is murdering the turbulent.
Threads are a terrible feature they should never have added to Slack. Threads take one conversation and fork into multiple, which is just awful.
The bad kind of populism is when an elite says they speak for the masses without actually consulting them. The public at large in such populism is a passive entity. The masses become a strawman used to pretend a majority support the autocrat's actions even if you cant find any particular person who does.

The sort of "populism" without a leader discussed in this article is nothing like that. But there are political powers that wish to ignore that a lot of people can be legitimately angry at the same time.
That would include climate change as well, wouldn't it?
If you agree with decision taken by the majority then it's "democratic". If you disagree, it's "populist".

I'm from India where we have a similar term in the political lexicon - "vote-bank politics". It's means a policy that a plurality of voters (the "bank") like and want, but you don't. If you're within the vote bank, then it's no longer vote-bank politics, it's democracy in action.
>Populism on the Right is instead via a more democratic method of building a strong market that lifts all ships.

...also at the point of a gun.

You're being disingenuous in evoking the monopoly of force but only applying it to "the left", in order to imply that, "socialist" governance is more coercive (and thus less legitimate) than any other.

If you live in a state that collects taxes or regulates the market, or any system other than anarchy, then you live under a regime that distributes wealth at the point of a gun.

And with anarchy, you're just trading the monopoly on violence for a free market of violence.
I'm still really unconvinced by this whole "Russians influenced the election" narrative. I doubt a few articles written in poor English about how Hillary runs pedophile sex rings would have had a greater influence on the electorate than Hillary being actively endorsed by nearly every respectable establishment media outlet.
It's an extreme/desperate-wing thing (left or right, doesn't matter).

Because that's the only way they know they can grab power: by making their people miserable, blaming the centrists or moderates, and triggering a revolt.

That's the playbook for Brexit and so far, it worked.
That's the playbook running in France right now as well - although they're trying to piggyback the still popular, uncoordinated movement.

They're not even shy about it.
Slate, an openly pro-communist tabloid, can't even manage to construe that as despotic behavior. How is "an anti-Hungary EU propaganda firm left the country" despotic behavior from Orban?
This is the exact conversation I have had with myself and others multiple times. If I'm going to pay a lot of money, I'll just stick with my iPhone.

The Google Nexus line really could have changed things. It was inexpensive, a great phone, and ran vanilla Android. I moved from an iPhone to the Nexus 5. It had some quirks, but for the price it was great. Then Google started chasing the iPhone money, and pushed me back to iOS.
Far left has a reasonably accepted meaning. You could argue around the edges, but ultimately you're not going to plausibly extend it to cover the center-left and center-right parties who actually rule most of Europe.
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I think it is fair to criticize unedited internet communication in general, as we have just recently learned that this form of communication did not result in the improvement of public discourse that everyone might have hoped. Facebook just happens to be the largest platform offering that.

I don't think it is fair to consider large-scale censorship as the only other alternative. Having some kind of neutral editorial process to filter out the unsubstantiated, hateful opinions and leave room for a more nuanced discussion raises the level of discourse, and is the model that have been offered by traditional media for a long time.
You're entirely correct. I have not, however, seen anything so critical that the world would suffer if it did not come to fruition. We're no worse off if that smart water bottle never gets made. The environment might even be better for it.
It really isn't trivial. Rate limiting is great, but not enough. If you lock people out after a certain number of failed login attempts, you allow an adversary to DOS your users by constantly trying to log in as them.
If you ever plan on entering politics don't read it. Today's politicians seem to think it's a manual, not a warning.
Statistically the average selling price of an Android phone is $200. Even Samsung’s ASP is $250.

An “overarching generalization” doesn’t mean there aren’t outliers. But most people aren’t buying Android phones so they can flash ROMs and run Termux.

On the other hand, the “slowing down phones” meme is outdated - it was a choice between slowing them down and then shutting off completely. All batteries degrade over time.
> except selling to Obama was seen as "supporting progressive cause"

I'm pretty sure Obama didn't use a Russian troll farm during his campaigns.
It sounds interesting. Beyond controlling RC vehicles, what would be some applications of software defined radios (SDRs)?

By the way, it looks like a USB-VGA dongle can be manipulated in a similar way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16907260
These particular carbon taxes are not revenue neutral and as a result are perceived as greenwashed regular taxes. If you are trying to change public behaviour it is best to just change the balance of taxes otherwise the general tax increase becomes a distraction from the ultimate goal.
Nothing in the rules suggests I have to post evidence of every statement I make, this is a discussion forum not a term paper. Do you know what genocide means?

... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily harm, or harm to mental health, to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
And maybe interesting, or dangerous depending on the point of view, amongst the rioters you got both far-left and far-right movements on the same side, which is something that does not happen that often.
Are there any devices that have five years worth of OS upgrades?
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I would argue that sticking to 1990's sql is good anyway as it means the business can switch to a different engine. There are several great databases out there with support, if you limit yourself to standard sql you can throw our your current vendor if they don't give you enough value (which could be support, speed, or even the salesman beats you in golf)

I understand sometimes the extensions are worth using, but good engineering is to limit those uses to where it actually is significant.
Amazing read! Very insightful and open at the same time. I've literally highlighted every other sentence in it. Thank you, Ferdy!

I basically went through the same thinking process myself. I'm a moderate idealist and would like Firefox to succeed because it's important for the web that there's no monopoly. However, my realist soul tells me that Firefox is losing badly and it's hard to tell where it's going to end. It's a pity that Microsoft didn't choose Gecko – I wonder if they even seriously considered it.

With Microsoft joining Chromium, we're slowly entering a duopoly of WebKit and Chromium. It's still a much better situation than the dark IE6 times. However, it's hard to tell whether WebKit (AFAIU, supported mainly by Apple and Samsung) will keep up with Chromium (Google and Microsoft) in a long term. I'm afraid that it will look like a Cold War's arms race – one of the parties will invest so much that the other will just lose economically (not being able to afford that many developers). Such economical wars make developers happy, because the web progresses very fast, but I think it actually leads to a monopoly.

Anyway, I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for Gecko. They do a great job there and perhaps will be able to partner with a big enough company to keep its pace and market share.
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Is there any decent alternatives to reCaptcha?
People shouldn't encourage their friends to vote?
Same here in Brazil. WhatsApp is the main communication platform by far.
Someone with a phd in math have shown themselves to be a smart in a particular way.

That doesn't mean that they have good judgement, wisdom, empathy or all kinds of other traits which might be considered "smart".
I'm with you. I haven't used Facebook for years because I think it's unhealthy and disagree with their business practices. I believe that that is the correct response when you have a problem with a service that isn't necessary.

I'm of the view point that censorship is exactly the point of articles like this. They want Facebook to enforce a very bias view of what is acceptable speech, and intentionally conflate being a communication platform with being responsible for the outcomes of that communication.
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Not to make light of the subject, but reminds me of the movie "Sicario: Day of the Soldado" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario:_Day_of_the_Soldado) where an agent provocateur recommends to the US Government: "You want to start a war? the fastest way is to kidnap a prince"
Unfortunately, you pretty much have to sue the US government every time you're looking for real transparency from the government and to make FOIA work as intended these days.