skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As usual, science has a more practical take on this. Occam's Razor says that if you see a cow shape and hear a cow sound coming from that direction, the most likely explanation is that you're seeing a cow. It retains the possibility this isn't true; the belief can be falsified in several ways: by examining the cow more closely, by the real cow walking out from being the fake one, etc.

I think it follows that we never absolutely "know" something. We asymptotically approach knowledge. The scientific method is a way of approaching truth.
Is it a misleading article since every thing happened in a contained simulated environment and NOT on the Moon? "The plants are in a sealed container on board the lander. The crops will try to form a mini biosphere - an artificial, self-sustaining environment." Only takeaway I can think of is the growth possible in a low-gravity environment
Monarchs have a multi-generation migration. That is beautiful and mysterious.
> I will not knock a company for wanting to maximize profits.

This statement only exists in a vacuum. The only way you can truthfully make this claim is if you can put absolutely anything inside the blank in the following sentence:

"I will not knock a company for wanting to maximize profits, even if they ______"

> If I owned a social media, or any product really, I would want to do everything I can to keep them coming back.

Again, you should be able to place absolutely anything in the blanks here and still believe in your statement:

"I would want to do everything I can to keep them coming back, even _______"

> I feel like as long as it isn't illegal

Slavery was legal for a very long time, and had its own "best practices".

> Should a competitor arise and do it better then That would be fantastic!

Yes, what this world needs is a cutthroat surveillance complex even more smart and ruthless than Facebook.

> But I have respect for them from strictly a business point of view for staying above water as long as they have.

Facebook hasn't even been around for two decades. My grandmother's small business has been around longer than that, and she doesn't have a board of advisors.

> I just wish there was a viable competitor.

This entire argument feels like a strawman. No one is saying Facebook needs a competitor. People are saying Facebook is too powerful. Any viable competitor would thus also be too powerful.
I don't understand how anyone could have ever thought "justified true belief" was a good definition of knowledge, since the question of "what constitutes justified belief?" is muddier than the question "what constitutes knowledge?" in the first place.
Further, even without considering such absurd situations as a real cow hiding behind a fake cow, if you see something that, based on its appearance, almost certainly is a cow, the near certainty doesn't change into absolute certainty just because what appears to be a cow is in fact a cow.
India's telecom authority released a consultation paper asking whether OTT (Over the top - a stupid term telecos came up with when VoIP & IM took away their profits) players should be regulated[0]

Jio telecom, owned by India's richest person with close affiliations to current ruling party & prime minister has a chat app of their own with questionable security [1]

Paytm, India's leading wallet is facing immense competition from WhatsApp's integrated payment features & uses the opportunity to
showcase encrypted platforms as being against national security. Paytm ran full front page news ads with Narendra Modi in it supporting the I'll conceived demonetisation when poor people of India were literally dying because of it.

Other chat apps mentioned in the article are just trying to advertise their lack of encryption as a policy for national security.

[0]: http://main.trai.gov.in/consultation-paper-regulatory-framew...

[1]: https://m.economictimes.com/tech/software/reliance-jio-chat-...
> The machine guns

Like most airports in the EU? I've seen prominent military style weapons throughout Heathrow, CDG, and Frankfurt.

> tv's with propaganda of 'how great the US is'

Really? Either the TVs are showing TSA notices what not to carry or they are on something like CNN. I guess CNN could be considered US propaganda hah.

> being yelled at by border security

I've never been yelled at by anyone at any border. My only immigration snag has been in Frankfurt when trying to leave the EU. My visa was stamped in Greece, but it had so little ink the German officer could not find the stamp. Then there was quite a bit of discussion with his partner in German that I didn't understand. Finally, I interjected that I entered the EU through Greece and they laughed and waved me through.
SCP-035 has breached containment.

Oh whoops wrong context.
The threat model SSHFP protects against from is some adversary that's in the middle of you and the server (not close to you or the server). It does nothing against an evil ISP or evil AP, which FTPS (with CA signed certificates) does protect you against.
For me, laziness is a symptom of burnout, and burnout indicates that I have been over indulging in my work, which, to me, happens only when I am really into it. So, over the years, whenever I encounter an interesting idea to pursue, instead of going at it with everything I have got all day long, I have learnt to force myself to take breaks. I have found that, just like the Judgement Day, I can't stop the burnout but only delay it. Burnouts typically lasts for many weeks, and if its severe I experience general ennui, which is the worst kind. During normal burnouts I engage in my other interests and allow the mind to recover at its own pace.

I never had depression in the medical sense, only a few days of feeling that I am worthless after failures. Oddly, I like this feeling. It keeps me grounded.
Legacy. The US designed air transportation and had an airport in every city before any thought was even given to the concept of transit. The airports are designed to get people to and from the United States, not for people on a hop between other countries.

Yes, this is a competitive disadvantage. I don't think there is a lot of money around to solve this problem. I'm sure if, say, the Port Authority wanted to have a sterile transit area in JFK, they could probably convince the federal government to allow it. But they don't care. Nobody with money cares. Therein lies the problem.
As a hacker news reader, I laughed out loud.
Human populations grow slower the more advanced they are. Most of the first world, including the US, is below replacement fertility rate of 2.1. Without immigration and the like, the US would start contracting. Bringing the third world up to first world is what is needed. That and the other things you said.

[EDIT] Links help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
On the other hand some weirdos try to claim that Python is “a Lisp”...
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You could also try the MIT SICP course with accompanying lecture notes, video lectures, exams, etc.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
Even in Western Europe, the list of stuff being meddled with isn't empty, it's not large but it does exist. And presumably everything is recorded to be used against you later.

All "normal" UK ISPs (I use a tiny boutique one that doesn't do this but anything advertising on TV is big enough to have agreed to participate) voluntarily filter DNS. Right now in theory they just try to filter out child pornography, "extreme" pornography, and whatever Hollywood told them was a copyright violation. In 2019, in the event they find time to do something other than bickering about their ludicrous "Brexit" the British government wants to upgrade this to let them filter out anything they want.

Their 2018 white paper about this supposes that DNS blocking will be effective against ordinary users, though it notes if you have Tor you aren't blocked. Coincidentally at the same time they were publishing that paper, there was an IETF in London discussing DPRIV which is a set of protocols like DNS over HTTPS designed to er... make such filtering impossible.
That preamble in his post was most likely drawing a a connection between "billionaire bankers" and the far-right triple parentheses anti-banker sentiment (to be a bit euphemistic).
!gm is shorter for Google Maps on duckduckgo (in case you didn't know about this shortcut)
For the Launch view we used Product Hunt as a starting point, and yes of course we're targeting it specifically to PH. Our platform is very flexible, so if enough people request particular integrations, we'll add it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magazine_(firearms)
You can become a "Certified ScrumMaster" after a few hours of training without active participation in developing software. That is a big part of the problem.
It's obviously for the client's benefit. But additional turns of the agreement aren't good for anyone. Clients typically have the leverage to get this. I've included a fairly contractor-leaning formulation, which requires the client to act.
> The legal implications of this hack are more interesting than the hack itself. Because the code of the DAO is a legally-binding contract, how can you argue so as to convince a judge that some behavior of the program is really a bug? The DAO provides nothing other than its own code to specify how it is supposed to work. For example, there is no specification in a formal language, or proofs as to its correctness. If the Ethereum team knew how to test software, they might have produced something like that, which also could have provided corroborating evidence that any bug was unintended.

You could say the same about many hacks that involve money and assets. Judge, the software let me in! That was the original intention of the programmers!

To get away with something like this you're going to have to convince a judge or jury that exploiting a bug in a software program entitles you to a huge payout. I suspect this might fall under unjust enrichment.
You could anonymously print it and stick it on the wall next to the coffee machine
It's more convenient than pagination for the user. At least up until they want to share a specific section
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The standard allows for both options (and that switchability has led to security holes in the past[1]). Nowadays I think most of them validate the PIN on the server side rather than on the chip, which is better in some ways.

[1] https://apenwarr.ca/log/20110222
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Brands#Wikitravel_and...
FYI, XUL is being kept alive by the Pale Moon/Basilisk team, who has created a next-generation platform based on XUL called UXP (Unified XUL Platform).

https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP
Has it really gotten to the point where we need to explicitly disavow anti-semitism when expressing anti-billionaire banker sentiment?
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It's not the corporations fault, it's our fault. Going after oil companies is the liberal version of supply side economics.
What demographic is that? (I plan to visit Dubai next month.)
Cool. Is anyone working on a graph layer?
Because of political correctness. All the airplane terrorism has been committed by Muslim males under 35, therefore the TSA has to search little old ladies.
Part of the point of this compression algorithm is for the designer to alter the image so that it can be better compressed.

So the amount of compression really depends on how much the designer is willing to compromise their vision.

I would guess that the average amount of compression might be better than 4:1. (That is less than a quarter of the uncompressed size)
> Still, I find no harm in asking "what is it about this species that makes them stand out?"

Because it's a symptom of a much larger problem. Namely, collapse of insects in general: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-c...

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, there've been multiple reported rapid declines across multiple species, not just "this species that for some reason stands out". Some species are naturally more studied than others (because of availability, accessibility, observability etc.), and when they collapse, it's can be immediately observed.
I got that number from here - tried to find a more 'official' source, but water isn't as well documented as energy.

Note that those numbers when I last looked into it typically include industrial and agricultural water use - residential water consumption is usually approximately 15% of total water use, so that fits reasonably.

One problem is that in many countries, water consumers (e.g. farmers) are able to withdraw water from their own soil, and so nobody really knows how much water that is, although it's possible to make educated guesses.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263156/water-consumption...
A nice seclusion room!
There's two parts to engineering: Making something good, and making something you can manufacture inexpensively. These two are in complete contradiction most of the time.

You can "engineer" the hell out of something and still do a terrible job as an engineer. Tesla's infatuation with novel, clever things often gets in the way of shipping. Their fiasco with the model X gull-wing doors is just one example of a billion.

It's easy to make your car better when you can charge vastly more and you've got tons of VC money you can blow through in pursuit of some distant goal. Established car companies have no such luxury.

This is not to say Tesla hasn't had some wins, but on the whole they're losing.

Arguably Tesla is the Juicero of cars.
This reminds me of how the switch to SSDs meant that we could no longer talk about our computers having a “Hard Drive” since that specifically referred to drives with spinning platters.
You can have better latency to more local edge server than distant cloud server.

If your clients are really thin on resources you can use edge server for rendering, converting your client-side rendering back to server-side. More usecases on https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...
> Years ago, it was common to simply suspend the infected website until the webmaster finished the cleanup by themselves.

Which is still how it should be done.
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I could see a future where DDG gets acquired by Apple.
Lots of Americans themselves go to Disneyland. I'm sure there's a degree of international visitors, but I used to live in Orlando, and found a lot of the tourists were from the USA.
For how to use CLOS there is always Sonya Keene's book.
I was about to implement 'Edge Servers' for my MMO game system. However, in that context, those have commonly been other cloud instances running somewhere like AWS, which act as an intermediary to the client. My own 'Edge Servers' would maintain Websocket and WebRTC connections, and perhaps authoritatively implement a 'Player State' state machine. They would have a security function somewhat like a firewall ro reduce attack surface, though they wouldn't replace a firewall, but rather work in conjunction with one and behind one.

The OpenEdge seems to be more of a traditional 'Edge' server for static assets, but combined with a lambda. I wonder if this concept could be extended for something like my 'Edge Servers' which require more stateful operation? Can stateful cloud assets be given more advantageous network placement, like other 'Edge' servers?
I'm not clear which way you are arguing here.

An upgrade is additonal work right? Like, an extra sprint. It turned out to be crazy expensive.

The F35 programme went wrong because they built an MVP (F35A) and then decided to derive 2 extra planes from that design (F35 B and C). Turned out that modifying an existing air frame to make it VTOL is really hard and they would have been better off designing a new plane from scratch.

As you say we weren't there, don't have the data, and judging the facts from a noteably freakishly unsuccesful programme isn't sensible but... I mean, I think it supports the idea we shouldn't do this.
Israel does the same thing.
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For your situation with your brother, I have two suggestions that may or may not be useful:

1. "Forgiveness is a gift. Trust is earned." If he no longer speaks to you, he likely doesn't trust you. Establishing trust is very hard work and often a very jagged little pill to swallow.

2. If you want to reach him, you need to try to understand his life from his perspective as sympathetically as possible. You probably also need to dig down into the family dynamic and try to figure out where things went wrong.

This is likely to not be comfortable. Maybe you adore mom, but mom was never good to him and made him out to be The Bad Child. He has every reason to not adore mom and this will be a serious bone of contention.

It's also fine if you don't reach out to him. It's fine if you try to sort this out in your mind for purposes of getting on with your own life.

I have a genetic disorder that wasn't diagnosed until I was nearly 36. I was a frustrating child to raise. I got called lazy and treated like I was a neurotic, whiny hypochondriac.

I'm sympathetic to why people saw it that way, but it was a terrible experience for me and it was a source of injustice in my life. But I am disinclined to try to harangue people into understanding me, doing right by me, etc.

Sometimes, life is just hard and we don't have all the answers. I think this is part of why religion was so popular for so much of human history: It's a way to make peace with such things. You shrug and admit you don't have all the answers.

In the modern world, we often want to believe we can have all the answers. And sometimes we can't.

I'm probably not going to write anything on my blog that would be of interest to you. But I thought I would take a few minutes to try to express myself in a way that hopefully will be a useful crumb for you.

And if that doesn't resonate for you, it's okay to ignore the opinions of this internet stranger who has never met you or your brother and doesn't actually know squat about the specifics of your situation.

Peace be with you.
Thanks for showing us this gem
An area of FPGA development and process that I generally don't full grasp is how to interact with FPGAs in a high bandwidth way with a computer. That is, say I want to use an FPGA to process output from a high bandwidth sensor, operate on it, then make that available to a process. What does that look like practically?
You can make it sound female by dragging the voicebox control to the right and down. It requires both higher pitch, and less power in the odd harmonics.
Set-Top Box Anti-Piracy Code Neutralized by Hack
I wish they were explaining why they moved away from Mapbox and OSM in general!
Chips are better than magstripes. PINs versus signatures is orthogonal. From the original article:

"Even ancient magstripe credit cards share most of these advantages. Their main weakness is that a physical attacker can clone rather than steal your card, which is much harder to detect. That's the only real advantage of chip cards: they can't be trivially copied."

When you think about it, having to physically possess a card (and being able to disable a card when you realize you've lost it) provides 99% of the security benefit.
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> It's honestly a smart thing for shared hosting providers to offer

Offering it as an opt-in service, yes. Doing it to websites that have not agreed to to it, no.
Probably depends on the reporting structure of the organization.
International tourists make up a bigger piece of the pie at Disney World, where they typically comprise between 18 percent and 22 percent of total attendance.

Foreign visitors spent an estimated $87.1 billion on U.S. travel and tourism-related goods and services between January and June. That includes spending on hotels, restaurants, entertainment, local transportation and airfares on U.S. airlines, though commerce doesn't break out how much of it was specifically spent on Magic Kingdom tickets or Disney Dining Plans.

International visitor spending in June alone rose 5 percent from a year ago to $14.6 billion.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-08-09/business/os-d...
I've got this 20GHz bazillion core CPU for a really good price. No warranty, no guarantees, stated or otherwise implied (May or may not work). Call me for price.
Forced an end to high roaming charges for within-EU mobile usage and forbade charging for receiving SMS while abroad.

Removed internal borders, so you can travel from Denmark to Spain without 5 border crossings.

Created a common market, so you can order an item from a German web shop as a Belgium citizen without hurdles.

Made war between European countries economically unattractive because economies are closely intertwined.
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I've seen quite a few of these and whilst I love the idea, they usually have a ton of problems in them.

As tptacek pointed out - there is no chance that this document would survive first contact with a sophisticated party and any qualified lawyer would likely rip this to shreds.

Firstly there is no regard to the potential jurisdiction that the user chooses. If I were to put in England then that would mean there are different contractual implications to choosing Scotland. Ditto for states in the USA. A layperson won't know this, and a lawyer would need to review the provisions.

There are also a ton of generalised terms in this document where things like 'intellectual property rights' aren't defined. These aren't generic terms and in the event of a dispute, language really matters. There is a reason why contracts are much longer when professionally written.

This isn't to attack the idea, I'm hugely in favour of open access to legal documentation, but people need to realise that most legal work is bespoke - even if law firms do it on a 'churn' basis. This is a great effort to further open law but it's dangerous for people to rely on this.

Source: I'm a software engineer and a qualified lawyer
Tesla has made an inconsequential dent in the automotive market. Their cars really don't exist in any statistical sense.

Volkswagen, post diesel fiasco, is best situated to hard-pivot to electric. Nissan is alreday succeeding. Others will follow suit as soon as it's economically viable, and mostly this depends on battery tech improving a little bit more.

Tesla is not the leader: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bertelschmitt/2017/05/01/who-is...
Some paint it as if the main reason to switch was privacy (https://www.imore.com/duckduckgo-switches-apple-maps-because... "DuckDuckGo switches to Apple Maps, because privacy"), but the previous map provider was mapbox (openstreetmap plus commercial sources) and I doubt mapbox collected more data than Apple is now.
Seems plausible within an order of magnitude. 1 pound of beef takes ~1,800 gallons of water.
Ringing the "bullshit" buzzer is a lot easier than believing in something, that's for sure.
If any of you are looking for a company (that is not Apple) that provides map tiles while respecting your customer's privacy, my company (link in profile) does not keep logs beyond debugging necessity and has plans to further improve our privacy profile. We also can make provision for proxy servers in the interest of privacy, if that is helpful for your use case.

(We currently use Analytics on our homepage, but have plans to replace that on our next iteration.)
"had to"
> Windows 10

There's your problem.