skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The apt-packaged version of OpenSCAD was broken for the current LTS version of ubuntu and hasn't been fixed yet. You'll need to download it from an alternative source if you want it on 18.04. Works well on 16.04 though!
Maybe he does and it's a right thing to do. Taleb is briefly mentioning the gaping problems of lacking reproducibility of social sciences research.
>The city’s goal: To be what it calls a living lab.

Sure reminds me of Foucault:

>But the Panopticon was also a laboratory; it could be used as a machine to carry out experiments, to alter behaviour, to train or correct individuals. To experiment with medicines and monitor their effects. To try out different punishments on prisoners, according to their crimes and character, and to seek the most effective ones.
That depends very much on how you define government. If you are a band of hunter gatherers does the "Chief" or "Shaman" that your band looks up to for leadership count as your goverment? If the answer is yes then there were way more governments in the past than there are in modern day.

If the answer is no then your point stands. However I tend to think that the answer is in fact yes and the trend does indeed seem to be toward centralized world government given a long enough time period.
This was actually a surprisingly actionable list of suggestions... thanks!
SPECIAL ACCESSORIES FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON
You can also craft as load as four lanyards by using this kit. It can be used to secure the keys or the ID cards and laminated badges.
https://usingsimplethings.weebly.com/blog/special-accessories-for-the-holiday-season
That's like saying anyone could open their own Facebook, and therefore Facebook is not centralized.

The DNS is centralized, even if domain names are used in conjunction with decentralized protocols like TCP/IP, and even if anyone is free to create their own instance of a DNS.

The only sense in which it's decentralized is in relation to the legal right to operate one. It is a free market institution, instead of government-instituted monopoly.
Hey, so first, I might be reading your post wrong, but... it seems like you might want to check out intentional communities; like I think visiting one might be what you are looking for in that sustainable agricultural lifestyle you want?

I just think it's really important to know that there are other people in the world like you, that you fit in somewhere; even if you don't end up living in that place, I personally find it hugely comforting to know there's a place where I fit in. (for me, that place is Silicon Valley. I totally understand that not everyone feels welcome here, but I feel welcome here in a way that I've never felt welcome anywhere else. I think the place like that is different for everyone, and that it's important to find it.) and from reading your post, I think you might find something like that feeling at one of these communes.

I was born here: https://www.eastwindblog.co -

they do a bunch of agriculture related stuff, and have a culture that is also very concerned about sustainability, but that also is interested in automation; they have several agriculture-adjacent businesses, and they grow most of their own food. (I don't know how much food they grow to sell; they certainly process and sell a lot of nut-butters, with a focus on nutbutters for people who need careful separation of types of nuts: https://www.eastwindnutbutters.com ) and, in fact, some of their alumini have gone on to start serious companies: NASDAQ: AGNC

Cat Kincade was involved (though she was more involved with Twin Oaks, a similar commune in Canada) - I mention this because she's a pretty good author, and wrote a lot about her experiences at the commune, so if you want to read up on it before giving it a visit, I'd start with her.

I also know of a bunch of smaller communes that do agriculture on a more hobbyish basis (though still with a focus on sustainability) - I generally think you should check out the big ones, first, but if you are more comfortable with a smaller, more 'large family' sized group, my email should be in my profile and I can do a few introductions, or at least one I can certify as not crazy, who often will take in strangers who have agricultural interests. (I still think a major community like East Wind or Twin Oaks is probably better for long term living...)
Death is no leveller if some live much longer than others
As someone who has lived under a dictatorship, there is a difference. Laws in "democratic" countries and dictatorships don't differ so much. The difference is how they are enforced and what recourse you as a citizen have. In a dictatorship, the government rules that a show/film/song violates the law. No one not willing to go to jail challenges it. In a democracy, you are free to post a rant or picket because you disagree with the ruling. You are probably allowed to appeal the ruling and you wont disappear if you do appeal the ruling. It may look like both the UK and Saudi are censoring the media but I can definitely tell you it is not the same thing.
Thx for checking it out -- consider it a beta...
... As for CSS classes, I think that clean-css does some of that. (Honestly, that's way outside my area of expertise... it's a good idea though.)
Those are important issues for progressives. The right and middle share common most important issues: jobs, border, security. Progressives make up only about 8% of the population, and they're overwhelmingly white and wealthy. Here's a video discussing the relevant study.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1TrY-t0ng
Interesting tidbit:

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in an order late on Monday that it would grant Google a waiver to operate the Soli sensors at higher power levels than currently allowed.
Could a water cannon take down a drone?
I walked away from the university research world. I think about the projects I left behind nearly every day. My key project took 5 years and I felt that everything had happened too slowly to be worthwhile. How wrong I was: I finally had the work published in 2017 after it had sat in a drawer for 17 years. But now I am too long away from the research community to attract grants. The best thing I could have done at the crisis point would have been to have gotten help from others in the field. My advice is, "Don't quit. Ask for help."
How to build a brain interface – and why we should connect our minds
Do you know this for a fact? Where can I learn more about how they occupy their time?
Ah fuck, I think I missed the fact it was dead, and thought you initially replied to:

> While I don’t think you should fire someone just to set an example, the scarcity of developers is precisely why you should fire those who are negatively impacting the teams and are unwilling to change.

Oh well. Yeah, I completely agree with your post given the original. Hard to think that it wasn’t a joke.
Your thoughts about Brave haven't considered its model of collecting payments for people without their consent. See this recent discussion [1] and contemplate whether Brave is really significantly better than Firefox for the points you mention. I'm not condoning this experiment by Firefox, but just stating that Brave is not run by great thinkers either.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
Imagine the fanfiction renaissance that is about to be birthed.
It shouldn't. In fact it should be more since there is interest. I'm guessing there are some fees involved.
Enough do though, in order for the Pirate Party to become big enough in Europe.
I have a feeling that their foolish desire to go for a panoption will be what kills future potential good ideas like say having automated systems to provide road traffic maps to both navigation apps and perhaps everyday postings. Because they think first how to exploit and how to actually serve as a complete afterthought while working on marketing.

Really I can see smart systems doing potential for good but they would have to follow a few rules.
- Don't gather what data you don't need not just because 'it might be useful'. There is literally no /good/ use for such needlessly personalized data, only evil.
- Don't gather or control what you can't secure.
- If you must gather data from everyone make it transparent to all both in that 'yes this is being gathered' and 'everyone can see the listings'.

There would be far less objection to say roads that just mapped the traffic level and displayed it on maps and forwarded it to mapping services along with train delays and other things. A smart transit system could improve traffic routing wonderfully going ahead and telling people to take the other highway because there is a backup ahead or advertising the fact that the subway/municipal rail has a far faster arrival time for <district> and plenty of available parking right now.

You don't need to track every damn car by the license plate.
didn't the very first paragraph fta make things sufficiently clear?

"Since the beginning, screenplays have been written in Courier. Its uniformity allows filmmakers to make handy comparisons and estimates, such as 1 page = 1 minute of screen time."
I think you've killed less people working on literal sniper rifles for the military than working on the addictive feed dynamics of Facebook, given the Rohingya massacre and other social ills they've supported.

I think a lot of people in tech work on really questionable projects that create huge social ills, then talk about "Well, at least we don't build weapons!" -- ignoring that when measuring human suffering, their unrestrained manipulation and exploitation causes much more than weapons of war do, in practice.

So when unqualified, I tend to hear your argument as simply trying to hide the messiness of what you do, rather than than it's inherently more ethical than building weapons would be.

tl;dr: I don't believe the military is less ethical, I think they're just more honest about what they do.
Children Are Using Emoji for Digital-Age Language Learning
The author maybe being dishonesty, but his dishonesty would be, in contrary to what your comment appears to imply, Beneficial for the U.S. reputation, because creating a damn nice human-leg's unnecessary amputation machine is not something to be proud of, last time I checked. But then, you know...humans...
That is really a worthless statement compared to threats of legal action against the various open-source implementation out there, which would definitely raise attention --- if they actually happened, that is; I haven't found anything to suggest so.

A search for "UEFI royalties" also does not yield anything.

We get it, you hate UEFI as much as anyone else, but this is not really a valid issue to complain about.
Well, I’m not sure. I used to do a lot of drawing when I was a kid, but now I do more programming and teaching.

I think the exercise is really just to distract me from thinking “go to sleep go to sleep” over and over lol.
I keep hoping content-addressed hashes will take off but even IPFS had to invent IPNS so we're probably not collectively ready as a species to move away from name->technical_ID mappings.
As far as your article that says just the opposite of what you intended.

I read the article, and realize it's not entirely pro-immigrant. I meant what I said --- that I was surprised by how welcoming some of the town was. I was less surprised that there was also resistance. It's also worth noting that in the continuation of that quote, the speaker claims that he's not against immigrants in general, just against those who don't intend to integrate. I found that part to be positive: “Don’t get me wrong,” says Heaton, who’ll retire from the legislature in 2019. “The only thing that upsets me is if they’re coming, they need to blend. I don’t need ‘barrios.’ I don’t need these certain sectors where everything is still the way it was where they came from. If you’re going to meld, then meld.”

How will a non Christian “integrate” into rural America and “share their values”, by converting to Christianity?

It's tough. I think (I'm white but not Christian) that it can often be done by practicing shared values, independent of belief. If you are working on the same food drive or Habitat-for-Humanity house, a majority of Christians are willing to (at least temporarily) overlook the error of your religious beliefs (or lack thereof). If you simply don't share their values, well, that's where I think the real problems are.

I do wonder if being black in America might actually be worse for integration than being Hispanic or Asian. Even in small towns, I'm frequently surprised by how fully integrated and accepted by the community the second and subsequent generations are. In some ways, this seems more complete than in larger cities where there is a sizeable enough immigrant community to avoid integration. I haven't seen that as frequently for black Americans. Thoughts?
Wow. Thanks so much for sharing your story. I'm only around six months behind the point when I feel I should have been able to publish a draft, so hearing about a 17-year delay puts things in perspective.
> So we say by shifting everything to a single-payer system, with the government being the Medicare equivalent for everybody, we’re going to get about 9 percent savings for the whole system. Then we say, well, in Europe, on average they pay 50 percent less for drugs than we do. And we say, OK, well, we’ll take a more conservative number. We’ll say 40 percent less as opposed to 50 percent less.

Cutting reimbursements for drugs by 40% is going to have impacts on everything from R&D to what drugs are available. Drug companies median profit margin varies widely but its about on average 12-14% [0]. I don't think you can just wave a magic wand and say now you get 40% less and you'll just deal with it. It's also naive to believe you can just export some reimbursement model from another country to the US and just plug and play.

> That gives us 6 percent total savings in the system. Then we say Medicare rates for all providers, all doctors, hospitals, dentists. Everybody gets the Medicare rate. And that saves about 7 percent savings for the system cost.

Same problem here. Paying doctors and hospitals 7% less will have an impact. Prices aren't just some arbitrary number you can change on a whim and have no effect.

> And then finally we have high levels of inefficiency with so-called doctor-induced demand, where there’s too many procedures using high tech when you don’t need it, because they can charge more.

This is just a change from bottom up (doctor) to top down (some medicare committee). I agree that there is a problem with over-treatment but I'm skeptical that a rule based system would be the ideal way to address this problem.

> And there’s fraud. And so there’s a lot of estimates at very high levels of fraud and excessive costs. We took that service delivery savings as modest, maybe 1 to 2 percent. Add them all up, you get 19 percent savings.

Traditionally government services are more susceptible to fraud as there is less of an incentive to address fraud. I'm not sure why a single federal agency would be more effective at rooting out fraud than smaller private insurers.

Overall I'm skeptical of a top down approach primarily because they mainly address the problem by lowering prices by fiat rather than addressing the systematic issues of high costs.

[0] https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/average-profit-margin-pha...
This is actually a common problem with digitisations of metal fonts, not specific to Courier. Many (although not all; Adobe's been pretty good about avoiding this particular failing, for example) of them are too anemic for screen use at body text size, presumably (although I have no hard evidence) because of not taking account of ink bleed. Victims include Bembo (the first one, not Bembo Book, which partially fixes this), several Caslons, Sabon, Janson, (an extreme example) Simoncini Garamond, and even Computer Modern (where the problem wasn't so much a transition from metal to digital, since Computer Modern was designed digitally, but from METAFONT - which can be parameterized, allowing "blackness" to be adjusted for ink spread - to Type 1 - which isn't).

Speculating a bit, one of the problems that digitisers may have encountered is that ink bleed affects fonts differently at different sizes. At small point sizes, ink bleed is proportionally large relative to the stroke width; at large point sizes, ink bleed has negligible effect. This is actually exactly what you want for readability's sake: at small sizes, you want to avoid thin strokes, and ink bleed does exactly that. At large size, "thin" strokes aren't actually thin any more. But a perfectly scalable digital font does not capture this beneficial effect of ink spread.
Don't be inner-solar-system-centric :) Once the frontier has been pushed back to the outer solar system, volatile KBO and Oort Cloud objects become the new frontier. We can imagine a distant future where humanity planet-hops from object to object, transforming these volatile rocks into vibrant cities each with their own culture.
It seems like you've made an reasonable explanation but it doesn't follow the timeline of how things happened. Flat design has been coming about recently after significant increases in hardware and network capabilities. Current web apps that use flat designs are just as heavy as any other.
I'm trying to understand gowld's opinion. Is the USA reference to the treatment of Native Americans? If so, why call them a "faction"? That's kind of weird.

Is the Europe reference to Germany? I could kind of see that (genocide, yes, and also a "faction"), but tarring all of Europe with it is rather a stretch. The claim seems to be that European nations achieved ethnic unity via genocide, which seems to me to be rather a stretch historically.

gowld seems to be taking behavior that has occurred at times, to the shame of both the US and Europe, and making it the defining element of their history. But I'm trying not to accuse gowld of selectively reading history before I'm sure that's what he/she is trying to say. I'm trying to find out what that opaque little paragraph actually was supposed to say, so that I then can accurately criticize it, if it needs criticism.
Flowable's REST API – Part 2
Because raising the cost of uni for everyone including poor folks to provide a bundled service they don’t need is not fair to them.
Huawei Sends New Year Wishes Using an iPhone
>There are always outliers who buck the mold, but on the whole incomes are not rising even for those with education. And why would they? It does not follow from any realistic economic model that incomes should increase.

My model is that technology has allowed us to produce more per unit effort; Even in my field, I can manage a whole lot more computers than I could when I started in the mid to late '90s.

For that matter, even if I was still fixing desktop computers, if I'm fixing desktop computers for EEs this year who are massively more productive than they would have been in the late '90s because of improved technology, it's natural that I'd still get paid more, because even if I'm only saving those people the same number of work hours, those work hours produce more and thus there's more surplus to pay me.

It seems totally reasonable that increased productivity could lead to increased wages. (I mean, there are a bunch of failure modes where it wouldn't, to... but I'm just saying, anyone who is even slightly ideologically capitalist or market oriented is going to argue that increased productivity drives increased income)
Bill Gates' nuclear venture hits snag amid new U.S. restrictions on China deals
If you're the only customer for their businesses, yes you can waive a magic wand and say now you'll get 40% less and deal with it. Especially if you're the government and it's a law. It's like Walmart with their suppliers. If you're the biggest baddest around you can kinda do what you want.

Certainly it will have impacts on R&D but are you suggesting that new drugs won't get created anymore? Don't drugs get created all throughout the EU?
API is kinda here: https://acoustid.org/webservice#submit
"The AcoustID web service currently supports only two operations, searching in the fingerprint database and submitting new fingerprints into the database."
But I believe you can just reach out to whoever is behind MusicBrainz or Acoutstid and get some information to make a better decision.
OK, gotta jump in here and ask the dumb question. What's the deal with this thing:

lazy_static! {
static ref msg_break : TwoWaySearcher<'static> = {
TwoWaySearcher::new("\r\n\r\n".as_bytes())
};
}

AFAICT all the code is doing is parsing the input on a double newline (e.g. the equivalent of strstr(input, "\r\n")). And this five-line expression is defining the equivalent of the "\r\n" literal.

What is it that requires that mess? I mean, I get that sometimes typesafety requires some loss of concision, but...
That's fair context, here is some more:

In 2017, there were 14 recorded casualties from mines/unexploded remnants of war (ERW) in Vietnam, while in 2016 there were 1,943 in Afghanistan. However since 1975 there have been 105,073 casualties from mines/ERW in Vietnam, while there have been 29,662 casualties from mines/ERW in Afghanistan since 1978.

http://www.the-monitor.org/en-gb/reports/2018/afghanistan/ca...

http://www.the-monitor.org/en-gb/reports/2018/vietnam/casual...

The Soviet-Afghan War was started in 1979 when Alfa Group (the KGB's 'spetsnaz') dressed in Afghani uniforms stormed the Queens Palace in Kabul and murdered the Afghani president Hafizullah Amin. Amin had been in office only three months, and came to power by deposing and ordering the murder of his predecessor Nur Muhammad Taraki. Taraki was a communist and before his demise, had plead with the Soviets for military intervention. Before Taraki's demise he and Amin had worked together and together both are known for murdering thousands of civilians and political opponents.

The Vietnam War was sold to the American public in 1964 after two separate attacks on USN ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. However in 2003 Robert McNarmara (who was the Secretary of Defense when this happened) publicly admitted the second attack had never happened. The American public was told there were two distinct attacks on two separate nights, but that wasn't true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HODxnUrFX6k

I suppose my point is that both wars were huge unpopular clusterfucks that were started on false pretexts, that neither Afghanistan nor Vietnam were placid before foreign intervention, and that excessive mining caused staggering civilian casualties in both countries for many years after the war. Despite what all the above may suggest, I don't really like historic analogies or equivalencies. However given that the BLU-43 and PFM-1 are nearly identical mines, a comparison seems warranted. The mines in Afghanistan are an ongoing issue while in Vietnam it seems to have petered out, probably because it was that many years earlier. In this context the focus on Afghanistan instead of Vietnam is justifiable.
I think it is both helpful and wise with the benefit of hindsight to understand the banality of mass murder. It was not just the Germans who were doing it. Sociopathy describes very well (outwardly at least, it is a cultural term not a psychological term) the necessities of lack of empathy, and use of cruelty for personal gain, required for such pursuits. I never said crazy.

I do not say such a thing lightly, i don't say it merely because i don't like them (although seriously, how could you like someone responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of children?) nor do i say it because i do not understand them. I say this because i do understand.

What i don't know is if they were never faced with the visceral effects of their life's work. Or if they were, and they simply don't care. What i do know is mostly they never publicly denounce it or try to atone for their bastardry.
This only indicates that the hole was made from one side or the other-- we can't say for sure that just because the hole was drilled from the inside that it was done in orbit.