skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not saying that the message isn’t secure in an encryption sense. It’s just that embedding it in an image has no advantage in an encryption sense, and if the advantage is not secrecy about the presence of a message at all, what is it?

Sure, stegonagraphy has a capacity for information that based on the image format utilized. But the real upper capacity is dependent upon the other layers.

The way to make it user friendly is to make it transparent. I don’t see how this would do that.
So coal will outlast nuclear by ~15 years...
That's very cool. Great to have this!
"Germany have been build coal plants in the past decade as they were phasing out nuclear."

Note that no coal plants have started construction since the events at Fukushima. (But perhaps you're referring to the original phase-out agreement from 2000.)

> After 2011, when Germany decided once and for all to phase out nuclear power, a total of 6.7 GW came into service while coal plants with a capacity of some 3.8 GW were retired. Since planning and construction of a coal-fired power station takes at least three years, capacity added after 2011 had been planned before the accident in Fukushima, Japan – the event that led to Germany’s final nuclear phase-out policy.

> As of 2017, no new lignite-powered stations are planned, according to the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur). The possibly last new hard coal unit ever built in Germany is envisaged to come online in 2018: Uniper’s Datteln 4, with a capacity of 1,055 MW, after years of legal struggle with local environmental organisations.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/coal-germany
In general, I don't think so. It's one thing if you parse a well understood grammar like C. But many people who use recursive descent from the start for a new language or DSL just don't bother about the grammar, and when someone takes a look it is suddenly LL(4) and relies on whatever the hand-written parser does.
I think they're suggesting that the Green Party doesn't know how electricity networks work, ergo aren't likely to be very good stewards of industry.
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Re. 1, this is a common misunderstanding. The FaunaDB sequencer is not physically centralized: it is logically centralized, but physically partitioned. Transactions find the nearest sequencer and commit to the closest majority set of logs for that sequencer, which usually is equivalent to the nearest majority set of datacenters (specialized topologies can do a little bit better). This gives predictable, moderate latency for all read-write transactions regardless of data layout or transaction complexity.

Re. 2, I understand your perspective, but I disagree that the worse-is-better argument is valid. Google Spanner offers exact-staleness and bounded-staleness snapshot reads, almost identical to FaunaDB. The reason is that the 10ms clock ambiguity window is still too long for many users to wait for serializability. Like FaunaDB, Spanner users must use the consistency levels correctly or anomalies will result, but these anomalies typically only occur in read-modify-write scenarios that are not wrapped in a transaction. Doing that in any database (including in CockroachDB) creates anomalies at any isolation level, because it defeats conflict detection.

But it turns out that waiting out the clock ambiguity window in the public cloud is actually worse than routing to every partition leader all the time. So CockroachDB offers neither snapshot isolation reads, nor serializable follower reads, nor strict serializability for writes. It is not equivalent to Spanner. As you explain, CockroachDB applications have no choice but to avoid creating transactions that read or write data partitioned in other datacenters. Transactions that do are much higher latency than Spanner and FaunaDB both. This mandatory partitioning is a non-relational experience—the data must be laid out in the way it will be queried—and it is harder than understanding an additional consistency level and taking advantage of it when appropriate.

Like you say, FaunaDB has "given the application the tools" to manage global latency.
China's social credit system
It's absurd that such an economic powerhouse still relies on coal so much. If Germany, with all its wealth, is still dragging coal power out to 2038, how are we supposed to expect timely movement from poorer countries?
Does that mean goods produced by coal on the other side of the border are still okay to be imported?
(pointing finger at Poland, or even China)
That FAQ is super interesting, but this line made me even more confused about the woman with the 500 condoms.

> About the only thing the dispensary ever dispenses is advice. Drinking is officially sanctioned, condoms are freely distributed and sledding is against the rules, which gives you some idea of the managing philosophy.

Also, this line made me giggle:

> Just don't come down here expecting a good love life (unless you're a woman, in which case the odds are good but the goods are odd).
Yes, it's good to work with people who give a shit. It's not so good to work with people who are constantly in the throes of passion, or carrying their cross to Golgotha (the passion of the Christ).
Can someone explain why this is a big deal? It makes sense to me that EU agencies wouldn't be stationed outside of the EU, so the fact that they're moving doesn't seem like it's a big deal in the grander Brexit scheme of things. Is this because this is a very prestigious agency?
Any target that exceeds a term of government needs to be viewed with suspicion. This smells like kicking the can down the road to where it's no longer Angela's problem.
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Some of those features are not features.
Many Western folks do support communism unfortunately. The people who are actually within living memory of a communist state know better (and yes this includes the Chinese - the "socialism with Chinese characteristics" of today is something different which expressly disclaims the idea of communism being directly achievable via central planning alone). It's not stupidity, it's wishful thinking. To be sure, a very foolish sort of wishful thinking, which betrays deep ignorance about how the real world works -- but one that's often nonetheless found in association with skin-deep intellectualism and faux-"smarts".
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Wow! I hope his fusion push works out. I think he was working with that tokamak design from MIT last I checked. The design used a magnetic tape that was a new breakthrough, there is a youtube video explaining the details.
You get what E2E encryption is, right?
"Many of those kinds of monopolies are not natural but enforced by violence" example?
Not if the meaning comes from God. Which, to a theist, it does.
What I find even more absurd is the United States, despite producing a huge amount of natural gas, consumes more coal per-capita than Germany.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/604946/per-capita-coal-c...

Edit: sorry that link got pay walled. Try this one.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-per-capi...

This is 2015 data - and the US has narrowed the gap since.
You'll be fine.

The problem is that our culture in general, and some parts of the tech industry in particular, have a habit of pampering and infantilizing adult professionals. And, just as you would expect, these infantilized adults get spoiled and throw temper tantrums from time to time.

If you act like an adult, be a professional, do your job, don't pick stupid political fights you can't win, and hone your skills, you'll be fine. This is true at any company that has at least an adequate level of sanity, even though most of these companies engage in hypocrisy and mock displays of insanity to appease their more childish employees.
There seems to be two different units being used. Supposedly the border zone is 100 "air miles" which is later implied to be a factor 1.14 larger than regular miles.

So the 100 air miles mean 114 miles, and those extra 12 nautical miles ends up not mattering for both west and east coasts. You are right about Chicago though.
Steganography+encryption has a number of use cases. The one I think is most interesting is being able to store encrypted data locally with ease. Right now if I want to encrypt some text I have a number of options.

I can encrypt the hard drive. I can encrypt a text file to a binary encrypted file. I can encrypt a text file to a text file with something like pgp. But none of those are what I would call user friendly. But through the magic of steganography you could do all that and save it to an image file. Now we have something that people might be comfortable using.

As for secure chat idk. I wouldn't trust Windows, iOS, Android, my ISP, my VPN, the NSA (and whoever else), the spyware my mom has installed on her computer that neither of us know about, etc. I'd probably just google for something but I wouldn't be under any illusion that it's totally secure.
You’re obviously trolling, but to explain it to those possibly baffled by your professed ignorance: a large grid is indeed a commonly-accepted mechanism to store local maxima of wind or solar production. As you connect more regions, father apart, simple statistics lead to averaging out of individual spikes.
That system (MCAS) operates by driving the stabilizer trim. There is, in all models of 737, a QRH checklist exists that, when/if correctly followed, would have stopped the trim runaway that started the apparent chain of events leading to the loss of Lion Air 610.

NNC 9.1 in this document: http://jira.icesoft.org/secure/attachment/21680/qrh%20rev36%...

Note that items above the dashed line are "memory items" (critical items that the crew memorizes and executes before referencing the checklists). Note also that this is the only non-normal-checklist for flight controls that includes memory items. It's not like we're asking the crew to memorize and react to thousands of things from memory. Stabilizer trim is important on aircraft of nearly every size.

To get a 737 type rating, you had to have been familiar with that checklist and very likely to have demonstrated it in training. I know the media is trying to hang LA610 on Boeing. As a pilot, I think a substantial amount of the blame [probably the majority of it] is going to land in the cockpit, particularly if it turns out they didn't follow that checklist. (It's not important why the stabilizer is being driven in an uncommanded and undesirable fashion, just that the crew stops it.)
Ashkenazi complete recordings box set owner: he might have been a bit antisemitic and a bloody mess at the end, but I love my chopin.
If you make a request without a token (or with an insufficient token), the resource can respond with the required scopes. As in:

WWW-Authenticate: Bearer realm="example", error="insufficient_scope", scope="view_topic"

In terms of a map of what scopes are required for all resources on a site - unfortunately just like other non-RESTful things that is conveyed outside of the interactions today via something like OpenAPI descriptors and documentation.

The AS can convey a list of requestable scopes in its metadata. There were specs like host_meta which could have been easily leveraged to do the same for a resource server, but I am not sure host_meta actually went anywhere.
I don’t think the distinction is in whether or not the bread is free, it’s in whether or not that the data collection is disclosed as a non-monetary cost to the bread.
> The boss then gets to laugh all the way to the bank.

I don’t know whether it is true that such bosses expertly manipulate passionate workers into slavery. Based on experience, I have an alternative theory: those kinds of bosses have an “ambitious” personality (for the lack of a better word). They are never happy no matter how much they achieve, and so they demand more and more from others. It may very well be that in the end they end up with a lot of wealth, but in their minds they failed because they’re comparing themselves with even more successful people. So it’s more a case of “crying all the way to the bank even thiugh the account is filled”.
He should do it without begging for public handouts. He's wealthy enough.
Well, I'm not talking about American culture, I'm talking about any country taking in immigrants, and general reasons to object to it. It certainly isn't economics-only. (America has already undergone this process in many waves, e.g. when non-Quakers took over Pennsylvania, or when Californians move to Idaho.)
>Passion per se not necessarily implicates becoming a better developer. Passion or obsession have their own side effects such as NIH, rock star syndrome, lack of social life, arrogance and blaming others on own errors, being overly competitive and jealous, application of tools and skills just because I can.

Sure, it is not guaranteed and there are risks as you say. Especially the tool part where people want to implement something new just because they read about it recently.

>Reading Hacker News while eating lunch implicates reading StackOverflow in bathroom hour later. Better off relax and chew properly.

I should have been clearer. Where I work we usually have 1 hour lunches and eat in about 30 min and then take a coffee and chat or browse some. But to be honest no one would bat an eye if you read an article like that during work hours either. Sometimes you need a break or you need to read things to keep up and that is fine as well.
That’a fine if you know that’s what this free baker is doing.
If the line was say 5 miles you might have a point. But, 100 miles is long enough to basicly be meaningless.
I don't consider it abusive. Or at least I'm perfectly ok being an "abusive" customer to an abusive company.

Bit of a tangent but you know I always really hate telemarketing calls or just people I don't know phoning me generally because sometimes it's very hard to tell spam calls from the 1 out of 10 times it's a legit call you actually need to take. So I figured out a trick that works ok-ish. I answer the call and I say nothing. I wait for the other side to speak. Often it's a confused "hello???". If I don't recognize your voice and/or you don't introduce yourself and state your business I effectively screen you without giving you license to launch into your sales pitch. So far it has been a good compromise.

Sales people on the street trying to heckle me often get incredulous, well a minority but it happens, when I walk by completely ignoring their existence. It's like... I know it's in the social contract that if someone addresses you you are supposed to respond, but I crossed that clause out before signing because I knew it would be abused like this.

People that don't know you that approach you out of the blue either want your time, your money, or your body. I don't owe them shit and especially not the time of day. The exception to this rule is that some people are tourists that are a little stuck and need help. It's pretty easy to delineate those cases and I almost always help.

I dunno. I find the world abusive fullstop. So I just give it the fewest possible avenues through which to abuse me and don't go down the ones that I can see lead to abuse. I feel no need to feel badly about the way I behave in this regard and am ok with people thinking I'm an asshole for doing it.
Imagine a scenario when 99% of kids would fail and 1% would be extremely successful.

Personally, I do not think that children deserve that kind of mess when they have to learn and spend their time developing relationships.

Of course, you may want to send your kid to that kind of school, so YMMV.
The Russian intelligence offers traveling on fake passports involved in the recent Skripal poisoning case didn't care one whit about the UK's customs face recognition, or omnipresent camera systems, and they were up to something far more nefarious than this.
I want clean, linear history in my upstreams. Always. You can leave pointers to your work branch(es), and even use a second parent commit in commits for this, but no actual merging, always rebasing, and always preserving clean, well-broken-up commit history.
If you have an important or arbitrary milestone coming up in the next two weeks, don't give your two weeks notice until after that milestone. It sounds paranoid but it's better to be paranoid than to be screwed on something like this.
Might be some regulatory fast tracking if the government also buys in.
Curious where you get that statistic from? I would hesitate to trust a 28 year old engineering manager in most circumstances short of being an extreme outlier in terms of abilities and career. At 28 that would mean they have around 6 (at best) years experience assuming they have just a bachelors level education.
The phase-out plan was designed and signed off by a committee which involves unions, environmental organisations, and power/mining companies. Future governments can use this fact to hold the power companies to account.
The other option is to realize that in the world of people, your people skills can be even more valuable than your technical skills. I think that L5 is the tipping point where people skills start to dominate.
I don't care about how many typos you made while developing a thing. I only care about your upstream's history not getting re-written, but I don't care to see your dev history -- it's a distraction at best.
This used to be true, when material ingredients cost significant money, and one baker could only make so many loaves a day.

However, computers mean that the analogy breaks down. The data is selling for more than the cost of the service.
I think they mean supported maybe? I can definitely see a typical economist giving arguments why women going into the workforce and away from the family 'workforce' is a good thing, this being encouraged by the fed which leads to policy changes by congress people.

I think what people argue is multifold:

- Households tend to pay for things in terms of budget percentages vs something more rational. Ex: People tend to semiconciously target 30% of their income towards housing, and will upgrade and downgrade their housing accordingly as incomes go up and down. A dual income household will therefore pay approx double the normal price if single family households are the norm.

- The cost of things in some markets, especially NIMBY housing markets, are demand sensitive at the margins since the supply isn't responding properly due to rent seeking structures. So if a new more competitive creature called the dual income household lands on the scene, the price norm will adjust to assume a dual income household vs a single income household as the market price

- Employers consider cost of living in pay to make a competitive offer to employees. If the typical household is dual income, the pressure to pay more to cover this norm is reduced. People quickly figure out that you need to be dual income to pay your rent and have a 'family sized' lifestyle.

- Iterate this kind of model several times over a lot of stuff and you need to be a dual income household in many cases to tread water.

So what you are saying and what others say can both be true at the same time. Dual income norms increase total economic output, but also make it very hard to compete as a single income household on the market, which have other knock on effects such as decreased fertility since all of the 'free' household labor has now disappeared.

Go watch "F is for Family" for a 1970s time capsule of how family life was back then. You have a suburban white single family household living in a house on a single lower-middle class income, with 2 cars, the conflicts that arises as the wife starts working and her previous 'free' household labor disappears and more.
Google could let half its managers go tomorrow and things would only improve. And you know it, even if you are a manager. :-)
People get scared of purely physical interfaces like old aircraft cockpits mixing desks ad pro SLR cameras because they can see every control at once but once you figured the layout it becomes very intuitive quickly unlike touch screen based systems where it looks simply at first but some controls are buried several levels down in the menus.
So are Vine reviews trustworthy ?

And do you use them when shopping at Amazon ?
How did this somewhat laudable practice emerge? Was there some internal ethics review that created this solution?
2038? Does this have to do with Epoch time ending somehow?
How does the "only A players, adequate performance gets a big severance package" idea play out in reality? That seems like it would be a constant source of stress unless you were clearly in the top 10% even at Netflix.
Interesting, but not sure how useful. Inevitable that this kind of information becomes out of date as far as what car is worth keeping that you now own.
Your own link says that even that has fallen from 71.8% in 1990 to 58.1% in 2013.
Why do you feel the need to phrase your talking point in the form of a thinly veiled rhetorical question?

In any case: yes, obviously. Although Germany works both within the EU and the UN climate process to find collective solutions allowing other nations to also reduce emissions. China is actually becoming a positive example these days, installing vast amounts of renewable energy.

Phasing out coal in Germany obviously makes for a good argument in such talks. But even if it doesn’t, not burning coal and buying from China is still strictly better than burning coal and buying from China.

It’s sort of like smoking and getting regular exercise is better than just smoking.
I think it would sit better with me as an atheist if you'd said first priority was family and then God, but perhaps the athiest doesn't understand.

Molotov put his adherence to communism ahead of his love of his wife. They got back together when she was released from the camps but I can't but wonder about that relationship.
The good news is that coal is now more expensive than gas, and even more the solar and wind in high insolation/windy areas. Unfortunately, since coal is no longer competitive, the Trump administration has been talking about subsidizing it.
Have they shut down?

A few years ago I frequently traveled through Yuma and San Diego, and twice through New Mexico, and those checkpoints were always open.
How? If a publisher was ready to pay X amount of dollars to gain that level of exposure on amazon.com, and Amazon chose to forfeit that revenue, the “cost” to them was exactly X dollars.
RSS feed would be great! Even better would be to pull the paper’s content out into the content body of the feed, so I could read it directly in an RSS reader. Probably no easy task, but I can dream.
Yeah but fb didn't install spyware on my phone. I intentionally give data to fb so that they can share it for me...
Yeah, coal-powered computers can only handle 32-bit integers ;)
Speaking of layers that's how I want to answer the first part. Encryption makes it secure but steganography makes it portable. Steganography is the sugar that makes the medicine go down. That's how I think it could work anyways, I'm not saying that is what would happen.
Heh.

Slightly more sufficiently advanced civilization might encode information of themselves and their civilization into hawking points that are patterns left after even the biggest black holes have evaporated and the universe is timelike. We could see evidence of those civilizations in the CMB Sky.
The article shared is from 2010. Here is some more recent info: You can see what an outlier this makes America seem by self-reported religiosity:

http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/20...

But comparing to other countries ranked by income inequality, the U.S. seems to fall right in line:

http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/20...

Source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/31/americans-ar...
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