skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can replace an LGPL component with a changed version then you don't need to license any additional code under the LGPL. Shared libraries are just one mechanism for doing this.
> What a member of the elite class of legislators knows about pop culture is an awful barometer

No it's not. "Pop culture" (or "mainstream"-ness) must reach even "a member of the elite class", to be pop culture. The point at which something becomes "pop culture", is precisely the point at which it becomes equally likely that you've heard of it, no matter which demographics you're a part of. If there's even one demographic (like busy rich old white men) that can still be completely isolated from a thing's "reach", then that thing is not pop culture yet.

If all 20-year-olds know about something, but all 40-year-olds do not know about that thing, then that thing is not "pop culture" (or "mainstream", either-or.)

On the other hand, if 10% of ten-year-old boys and eighty-year-old women and plumbers and astrophysicists and farmers and investment bankers have all heard of the thing, then it is "pop culture."

Try that criterion out. It really does work:

• Beanie Babies? Pop culture.

• Pogs? Not really pop culture. They were a fad, but they died out before they reached universal intelligibility.

• The movie Titanic? Pop culture.

• The movie The Matrix? Not quite pop culture. My grandma hasn't seen it. Yours probably hasn't either.

• Pokemon in general? Not pop culture.

• Pikachu in particular? Pop culture. (Thus the recent movie.)

• Snoopy? Pop culture. Americana, even. ("Americana" being a word meaning "pop culture, but pretty much only in America, so we've latched onto it as a thing that reminds us of America.")

• Hello Kitty? Pop culture elsewhere, but not-so-much in America, despite what certain stylists like to think.

It is by this same criteria that I claim that "video games up to 2003" were not—as an abstract gestalt—part of pop culture, and that "video games starting in 2004"—as an abstract gestalt—were part of pop culture. They went from being "Hello Kitty" to being "Snoopy"; from being "The Matrix" to being "Titanic"; from being "Pogs" to being "Beanie Babies."
Indeed, you can program the browser in whatever you want, yet they insist on using JS.
And it's a mirror that subtends a tiny fraction of the sky, and a tiny fraction of the sun's blurred virtual image.
There is a very interesting image in the article. It shows a bunch of light coming into a block and emerging as a beam. It also has a caption saying this is impossible.

It struck me as very similar to the setup in this video.
https://youtu.be/awADEuv5vWY

At about 4 minutes in, a nearly identical setup is shown with a beam of light emerging from a block of opaque material using holographic techniques.

It seems plausible to me that a specially designed anti-moon hologram could allow reconstruction of the incident light from the sun, thus allowing a fire to be started without violating any law of thermodynamics.
The story of how we got Javascript in browsers has absolutely nothing to do with "adoption".
I'm still hoping they'll implement an SMS gateway. If Matrix could replace Google Voice too, that would rock my world.
On the other hand, many academic software packages have absolutely awfully restricted licenses and likely make use of MIT or BSD code. In most cases the licenses were written by the academic themselves. If the majority body of software was GPL then the license choice would've been made for them and academic research would be far more vibrant.
Yes, if you own the device, you can choose what to trust beyond valid cert requirements. To answer your question, yes, I do consider TLS end-to-end despite involvement of a 3rd party. I believe certificate transparency has removed a lot of the trust issues around CAs that previously existed. Trust is no longer required when there is public verifiable logs. Also, with the trend moving towards short cert lifespans, the risk of certs being stolen and used against you is more difficult- requiring regular updates. I hope to see the max cert validity periods become shorter and shorter
That tells me that their testing is either extremely excellent , or extremely nonexistent. Rumors seem to point towards the latter, which is concerning for security software.
Its actually pretty funny. US and others says that Russia forcibly occupy Crimea. But now all people of Crimea is under embargo, not Russia.
It like if its not enough, lets beat them harder.
When you look at broader market conditions, this is somewhat impressive. Picking a FAANG out of a hat, AMZN is down 12% in the same period. Granted, they're at different stages, but there have been some serious valuation headwinds in the past few months.
Personally I think it is more 'they ensure they will get attacked and bite off more than they can chew'. Since the fundamentals of totalitarianism just plain aren't sustainable. I mean Hitler's economy was a conquest dependent mess and the Soviet Union ended up collapsing under its own weight.

As for ending up attacking each other I think that is a general authoritarian thing with purging to take/secure power - it happens with communism and it happened with monarchies.

One interesting outlier along the lines was
Fascist Spain. It was caused by a chain of events caused by internal attack of fascists for their own cynical reasons. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Luis_Carrero_...]
Combined with a secret liberal king, Juan Carlos and the power was used to restore democracy.
>Reputable factories will test 100% of every product shipped.

Frankly, this just isn't true. It depends on your expected defect rate, how your defect rate drifts over time, the cost of doing 100% inspection, and effects of product failures. If you're making safety-critical gear, yes you will probably inspect 100%. If you're making injection molded clamshells for connected consumer products, you're probably only doing inspection in batches.
Patriotism and loyalty usually come at a price. I think the question was more about the price than the loyalty.
Just a note, chrome is removing HPKP (public key pinning) validation. So this is unfortunately not true. I’m not going to go into the details here, but they basically believe it does more harm then good and that cert transparency logs achieve the same goal of taking away trust from the CAs.
Humans are still very barbaric in large masses. Tribalism persists in our very psyche.
A Formal Apology for Metaphysics [pdf]
Play enough melee mode against humans and you can soundly beat the computer, even with insane matchups like playing the Slylandro Probe against the Ur-Quan Dreadnought.
Are the sanctions against doing business with Iran nationals or anyone with an Iran IP address? I would imagine the sanctions are in place to prevent trade with Iranian nationals.
Chinese scientists turn copper into ‘gold’
I guess it's more about the unpronounceable (in English) consonant cluster, somewhat like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prlwytzkofsky
Moral hazard. Their welfare system removes the incentive to have children. Could be fixed by giving parents a cut of the tax revenue of their future children.
Ewing != Princeton, despite the marketing efforts of "princeton south".
It's extremely hard to get e2e right and still have great UX when your product revolves around semipublic group chats.
Instead, the FB account is mostly used as a way to passively receive content.

Is that true? I would have thought it's mostly used for chatting with people they know, or commenting on things people have shared. But I'm just guessing.
In a sense, what is happening in China is unknowable. Their reported statistics are probably not so trustworthy and more governed by their political realities than their physical realities. I know that their country has the word "Communist" in the name and not much more.

How free are they? How do I compare that to another country? How much of my view is tinted by not speaking Chinese? I dunno. As a statement of principle, there is no evidence that the top-down economy nut has been cracked, so if they are trying to do that it will fall apart in messy fashion at some point. You can't take your best and brightest, tell them what to study & where to work, then expect a central planner to get the numbers right. There aren't enough geniuses for that to work. You have to let the smart ones figure out what the best use of their time is, like the West has been doing for the last few centuries.
Superbly put. I miss the days of wandering into unfamiliar lands in Ultima VII - you never knew who or what you'd run into (and they'd be colourful characters and enemies - not just variants on a theme). I've read good things about BotW, and I'm glad this sort of living, open world still appears now and then in gaming.
Senior woman manhandled by Trudeau’s security guards files lawsuit claiming $95K
The apology wasn't good just because it accepted responsibility, it was good because they acted responsibly. The incident lasted two days, and it was quickly corrected. Many other companies would ignore it for months, and a similar apology in that case would be feel far less sincere.

It's okay to mess up if you quickly correct the issue or at least quickly recognize it and try to correct it. The problems arise when incidents are buried or ignored. Late apologies are not apologies at all.
article points out that 62 companies are licensed to test self-driving cars in California currently. (testing is not the same as offering autonomous rides.)

so, if i judge by analogy to what's happened in the human-driven space (e.g. Uber, Lyft, and ? i don't even know who else), i'll go out on a limb and say that roughly 60 of these 62 will eventually just go away.
This SAAS bias is untenable. "Use a big target" they say. "Store them with a big company" they say. "Give your data to someone, let them worry about it" they say. Meanwhile, breach after breach tells us that regardless of security, the likelihood of successful attack comes closer and closer to 1 as the size and exposure increases.

It's likely that these services have already been zerodayed, and we're just waiting for the shell to drop on an upswing.
No. It's the exact opposite. The fact that Californian IP-s were not targeted makes it pretty clear that US nationals were not targeted. While other nationals were. And it also proves that Slack engineers are dumb as f@ck.
Not speaking for Google Fi at all, but one reason your port-in request might be delayed is because porting in (especially from non-major carriers that people aren't familiar with) can be tricky. I found this link a while back doing some research in porting: https://twigby.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115007464067-Wh... It gives you an idea just how many different ways different carriers can handle it (mostly with account/PIN numbers).
Please explain. In what way? Both men, both leaders at the top of revolutionary regimes. What else?
Apologies, I had certainly badly misremembered some basic facts...

From Wikipedia:
"In 1930 the Hertzog government worked to undermine the vote of Coloureds (South Africans of mixed white and non-white ancestry) by granting the right to vote to white women, thus doubling white political power. In 1934 Hertzog agreed to merge his National Party with the rival South African Party of Jan Smuts to form the United Party. A hardline faction of Afrikaner nationalists led by Daniel François Malan refused to accept the merger and maintained a rump National Party called the 'Gesuiwerde Nasionale Party' (Purified National Party). The Purified National Party used opposition to South African participation in World War II to stir up anti-British feelings amongst Afrikaners. This led to a reunification of the Purified Nationalists with the faction that had merged with the South African Party; together they formed the Herenigde Nasionale Party (Reunited National Party), which went on to defeat Smuts' United Party in 1948 in coalition with the much smaller Afrikaner Party. In 1951, the two amalgamated to once again become known simply as the National Party."

So the NP wasn't actually in power during ww2, but came to power fairly shortly afterwards, and enforced ethnic nationalism. Way back when I read Mandela's biography it struck me that this wasn't a historical coincidence, and that the leadership of the NP were very likely Nazi sympathizers, with a pretty long leash to carry out the white nationalist agenda that had been stopped on the global north.
Long shot, but any sources which accounts the "crazy shit" engineers used to do back then?
> The system of corporations we have today is a super-civilised way of wresting power and control from existing structures - if you can do something better and cheaper than the company currently in power, you can displace them quickly and with minimum fuss.

Which means that the avenues for practical freedoms are somewhat limited outside of the corporate/mercantile paths.
Trading the Trade War – Sentiment-Based Trading Using Google Trends
People who live in silicon valley can probably do it easily. I was there for an interview a few years ago and met 2 CEOs just at the local bar.
> but if we just stick to facts, MIT-alike licenses provide more freedom for the final user.

It depends what you think a user is. Is a user an end-user who has no intention of creating a proprietary fork? Or is it a developer who intends to create a proprietary fork?

"If we just stick to the facts", copyleft provides equal freedom to both classes. Neither can create proprietary forks. For permissive licenses, the latter class is given an additional freedom (creation of proprietary forks), but the former class gains no practical freedom. However, what if the latter class gives the former class their proprietary fork? Then the former class has less freedom (and there is a history of this happening with Windows, OS X, and Android using BSD code without providing it to the end-user).

This has always been the argument made by the GPL. Yes, proprietary software developers lose the freedom to reduce the freedom of other users. Instead it guarantees equal freedoms to all classes of users.

I get it, you don't agree with the GPL. That's fine. But clearly the "user" being protected the GPL is the end-user. That was always the point (and that protection comes in a form that allows developers to have the same freedom and nothing extra).
They used topographic data and visual imaging to create the "composite" image, that's accurately described as a composite in my book. Similar to zooming around a city in Google Earth.

Here's the top down view (still quite spectacular!):

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/12/Plan_view_of...
The market share of Android vs iOS in Singapore is interesting, I guess because iPhone Xs (max).
Brave jumped the shark when they chose to prioritize an ICO and "revolutionize ads" over core browser functionality. They are now ironically spinning their own flavor of making the user the product. Just say no. Uninstall.
Though with GPL + restriction, the license explicitly states that such restrictions can be removed. So it's less of an issue.
The article talks about how the problem is users don't know how to change the inputs to effect the outputs but I don't think this is really desirable. Users shouldn't be thinking "If I hover my mouse over this for too long then it will stuff up my suggestions" that ends up with users altering their behaviour to suit the AI when the AI should just give you correct suggestions without the user having to understand how it works.
I would focus more on learning the industry than learning the CEO. The CEO's choice of lunch or idiosyncratic work habits matter less than the ton of insider knowledge that you'll get in the specific area that they work in.
A couple of questions (some of them might be stupid :))

- It says they used a neural network to control illumination in different channels, so the total time complexity should consider neural network + amoeba system for calculations.

- When you put the amoeba in a environment with a vastly large number of channels, does it still behave the same? I mean, does it scale? Maybe amoeba becomes less averse to illumination with increase in number of channels and you get progressively worse solutions to TSP.
Ask HN: How to leave Facebook as a non-user?
I have a Facebook account that I setup in 2011 and never used. I made one friend, which was my wife and then disabled the account. No posts, no photos, no likes, nothing.

A few months ago I started receiving update notifications to the email account it was setup with that I've been ignoring. That was until I noticed I had received a suggestion to join a colon cancer support group a few weeks ago.

To send me that came across as highly invasive and instantly had me wondering what Facebook was silently compiling and inferring about me and my family.

I recovered my password and logged into my account, had a look at what details I had in there, changed my DOB wondering why I had added it (I normally enter a fake (correct year but Jan 1), who was being suggested as a friend, where it was suggesting I live, and then attempted to download the data dump that Facebook had on me before I delete the account permanently.

I'm now locked out unless I upload a driver's license or passport id to prove my identity.

Given that Facebook shouldn't know anything about me: no photos, no address or phone number (unless they have that from my now deleted WhatsApp account); they shouldn't be able to confirm my identity, unless they are storing information I have not given them or by inferring information via my wife.

So I'm stuck. Any suggestions other than going back to ignoring Facebook?
I love this part:

"The USGS said its estimates are for “continuous unconventional oil,” meaning it’s spread throughout the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring formations rather than concentrated in one place. It said the reserves are “undiscovered,” meaning they have yet to be produced, and that they’re “technically recoverable” with current technologies."

Key phrases:

* continuous unconventional

* undiscovered
"Still?" Always have been, always will be. Wishing and hoping are idealistic, utopian pipe-dreams.
How is it different when adults spend excess mental energy on video games instead of their career? Both are inherently meaningless and illusory.
Well China is building up its inefficiencies even as it makes other advances. They created quite a few time bombs for themselves.

1. They have set themselves up massive health time-bombs with their pollution and ineffective regulations. Not to mention prevalence of smoking.
2. China's Social Credit plan is creating a turn-key rebellion as the newly created lower caste has nothing to lose but their chains and the high social credit scores means they have a purge list for when bloody repression begets bloody revolution.
3. They have enough people laundering money for 'emergency escape hatches for when they fall out of favor' that they are blowing up real estate prices internationally in major cities. Optimistically it could just be fallacious beliefs that real estate is a foolproof investment but that doesn't make things much better.
4. The party leadership flat out know that they cannot survive a recession and try to prop things up constantly.

They may be the most viable example but they are still vulnerable to collapses - not a guarantee by any means but there is definite precedent.
Both these thermodynamic arguments look good, I don't see any contradiction though

(1) can't heat an object to a higher temperature than a source object using lenses - you can't transfer heat from a cooler object to a warmer object without work and lenses don't provide a mechanism for work. This still leaves room for reflected sunlight from moon albedo getting something hot enough to burn, at least from a thermodynamic perspective.

(2) you can get something arbitrarily hot using lunar panels, this is just a bad heat pump (max COP 1) where you feed work generated by the solar panels into a perfectly thermally isolated system with a resistive heater, and we could do this a bit more efficiently with a true heat pump.
People getting jailed for Facebook posts happen frequently in India. Looking at the arrests they have made so far, there are 3 categories of people whom you shouldn't criticize or make fun of in Facebook: politicians, religion and women.
Great news, climate!
The address of the building is literally Princeton within city limits (according to Google Maps). Ewing is a bit too far. You might be thinking of the data center, though to be quite honest I don't remember where it is.
Believe it or not, the same instinct deals with both situations. Look up trait conscientiousness and disease prevalence.
"If you look at the US for example for the first time in 30 years. They've been oil reserves. Oil they save for nation security to turn it into profit before it's worthless."

Huh? We've had reserves for practically a century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_the_United_Sta...
IIRC, they can't read message data but message metadata, sometimes that's enough for authorities.
I thought it was kind of expensive at first but then I saw the price of slack. ~$1.50/user/month seems very fair when you see what slack and email cost per user
Developing countries are strongly motivated to steal tech from established ones; it's self-righteous, moral panic furor to judge Chinese nationals as somehow acting differently than Americans did when their nation was young.
> Licenses like MIT give the most possible freedom, particularly with how derivative works are commercialized.

MIT gives the freedom to make proprietary derivatives. If you excuse the emotive tone, this is a bit like "the freedom to enslave someone". A freedom to do something that impacts another person's freedom is something that we generally don't allow in free societies.

The GPL's purpose has always been to guarantee certain freedoms to end-users. If developers cannot restrict end-users freedoms (through proprietary forks) then that is a success, and is a net benefit to society (from the perspective of free software).

I get the SaaSS problem, and I think there are many other problems with it aside from licensing. But I don't agree that weaker licensing will solve it (nor do I really think that stronger licensing would solve it).
That's correct. Because it's the FLOSS devs who need to learn to empathize with the ordinary user.

Disclaimer - A FLOSS dev here.
No they were neighbors. They lived 2 doors apart on the same street.
>Moon surface temperature argument is incorrect

To the extent that the moon acts as a greybody under sunlight, it is correct. And like most things, the moon will be close enough to a greybody that you could use the surface temperature as a first order approximation. It isn't necessary of course, since you can easily just directly estimate the amount of scattered / re-radiated energy from the amount of sunlight falling on it, without needing to use the temperature.

>Hence the question is now - can we concentrate moon light enough so that intensity at the concentration point is higher than thermal loss into environment (only then we will be able to raise temperature in the concentration area enough for combustion - remember that light is "hot" enough for this)?

No, because the body you're trying to heat up will act as an approximate greybody, so (neglecting conduction and convection which could further lower the temperature) its temperature has to max out at the Stefan-Boltzmann temperature represented by the total radiation.
Thank you! This is great. For all of Go’s warts, it lived up to every single hope and expectation I had for it in this last project. I’m looking forward to improving it with these suggestions.