skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, and as often happens when a scam involves science or tech, many journalists helped out by promoting their ridiculous claims without due challenge or skepticism.
Actually, all modern CPUs have ECC protected caches and they have MCA events to report any problems with them too.
In 1999, I had an unlimited use email pager and one of the things I subscribed to was an aurora alert system you can read about here http://www.keteu.org/~mark/aurora/ ... I was in North central Ohio at the time, got a page, and went outside and saw the aurora. Not nearly as vivid as in photos... A green splotch that slowly developed an orange glow and then disappeared over the course of an hour. I feel very lucky to have seen it at such low latitudes and in a somewhat light polluted area. Googling has turned up some other similar and modern projects, and as the sun cycle starts up again, hopefully more people get a chance to catch it sometime.
> should I study something else in which I would actually learn something useful (as opposed to learning things I already know)?

Unless you did intensively study computer science while programming, it's not something you already know. At my university programming is less than 20% of the content of the computer science degree. You won't learn a lot of practical stuff in an (academic focused) university, but the theory and grand scheme behind how software works. From assembly, over automata theory and higher math, over operating system theory to the OSI network model. Additionally you will/can study the management and organisational side of software: designing, planning, managing. You usually don't use all that stuff directly in work, but it's a valuable background for reasoning.

Maybe you studied all that on your own, then it's probably only a piece of paper that might open doors for promotions or it might not. But you most certainly haven't learned most of it while programming.
I used to spend hours a week on Reddit, but I've consciously made the effort to avoid it. Unless it comes up in search results, in which case I'm using it as a tool.
While I'd like to believe this is true, doesn't China control content unfortunately effectively?
Sadly a lot of our forest eco-systems, especially in CA are at risk. Drought, poor forest management, bark beattle, over forestation, etc. Were forestry practices 100+ years ago good, not really - a lot of these ancient trees spawned eco-systems in themselves (evident in the Headwaters groves).

That said, modern "do nothing" approaches pushed by environmental "concerns" are the exact opposite of the over-logging. Sadly, no middle-ground was approched with towns that relied on sustainable logging and good forest management practices. I don't ever recall a conversation about such happening.

The recent debacles with PG&E? They are highly to blame for funneling "maintenance money" to their parent corporation for profits. However, in California, the National Forests vary greatly in their management practices as well. Plumas is pretty good at cleaning duff, downed trees, etc. Some of the others, not at all.

During the Detweiller and related fires, PG&E was offering to work with the NPS around Yosemite to clear dead trees due to bark beattle. NPS said no. Why? It would ruin the ambiance (of dead brown trees).

Drought, the beattle, etc. cause a number of issues for our forests in CA. However, management practices and hinderances due to some over reactions in environmental policy are jsut as bad.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-wi...

> Chinese commanders fear they may be forced into armed contest with an enemy that is better trained, better motivated, and better prepared for the rigors of warfare than troops the PLA could throw against them. A cross-strait war looks far less like an inevitable victory for China than it does a staggeringly risky gamble.

...

> Easton estimates that Taiwanese, American, and Japanese leaders will know that the PLA is preparing for a cross-strait war more than 60 days before hostilities begin. They will know for certain that an invasion will happen more than 30 days before the first missiles are fired. This will give the Taiwanese ample time to move much of their command and control infrastructure into hardened mountain tunnels, move their fleet out of vulnerable ports, detain suspected agents and intelligence operatives, litter the ocean with sea mines, disperse and camouflage army units across the country, put the economy on war footing, and distribute weapons to Taiwan’s 2.5 million reservists.

> There are only 13 beaches on Taiwan’s western coast that the PLA could possibly land at. Each of these has already been prepared for a potential conflict. Long underground tunnels—complete with hardened, subterranean supply depots—crisscross the landing sites. The berm of each beach has been covered with razor-leaf plants. Chemical treatment plants are common in many beach towns—meaning that invaders must prepare for the clouds of toxic gas any indiscriminate saturation bombing on their part will release. This is how things stand in times of peace.
Russia is trying to follow the Chinese model which doesn't have problem banning websites. Other than Instagram and Whatsapp, Russians don't seem to be interested in other services.
So basically, you are saying that radical feminist activists are right?
> I didn't think auroras were frequent or predictable enough to support tourism.

> It's been 20 years since I've seen one here in Minnesota (...)

Note that there's a big difference between the "hot" area close to the poles, and further south. For example Tromsø sits at 69 degrees northern latitude, Minnesota around 49.

Going for a weekend trip - you'd have to be lucky, going for a couple of weeks, you'd be virtually guaranteed.

Only downside is that you can't see the aurora in spring-summer due to the polar day/midnight sun (just like you can't see the stars during the day).

Surprisingly little mention of Tromsø, Norway in the article - there's been a building winter tourism trade here since the 80s,and it still seems to be growing.

Unfortunately there's quite a bit of light pollution from the city - but it's not far to drive to more rural areas with better viewing.
Citation needed! Consider, eg. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/655/the-not-so-great-unknow...
Boxed software, as in productivity software that you might well use for your job? Well yes.

Even looking at something like games though, deflation is reasonable. That game I bought in the 90s

A. Probably still works now, isn't reliant on external servers. So cost/year is still lower.

B. Was resalable if I didn't like it.

C. Faced a lot less competition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu
Yes, it was actuality circuit switching, every serial port has it's number assigned and each computer could "dial-up" each other, but there is also a "virtual" number that anyone could dial up to (even at the same time) that will connect to a PPP session to connect via IP/TCP to the outside word. This last part was the one that still need a bit of work since it doesn't always work as i expect.

So i, basically, do both. packet and circuit network according to need.

As far as circuit-switching...I know I've seen hardware devices that did this, but not in decades, so likely not easy to find any more

software based circuit switching seem to work fine for what i need, is really not that complicated, it also make me do cool thing like wiresharking!
If only every airline would stop flights into China... see how quickly they acknowledge Taiwan as a country.
We in the West should not tolerate this sort of behavior. I am sure if we wanted to we could force them not to do this by threatening them with sanctions on certain things.
My friend "applied," knowing full well it was a scam. He said that he regretted nothing, as it allowed him to fantasize about the journey more concretely. So perhaps it served the same function as pornography.
Is that a cultural fact about them?
Loans in the name of the child, duh. Interest free until 4th grade, at which point they'll learn how to transfer the balance to their first credit card.
I mean NSO, not Black Cube.
> It's hard to find, expensive and much slower which Zen is supposedly sensitive to.

Hard to find -- perhaps. Although these days, with internet and so many sellers, even hard to find things are quite easy to find.

Expensive -- just a little bit more than non-ECC RAM. Probably because of the couple more chips ECC RAM uses.

Much slower -- slower for sure, but again, I think it's not much slower.

Kingston, Samsung, Crucial / Micron all sell UDIMMs.
Should be their moto.

out: "SPACEX DESIGNS, MANUFACTURES AND LAUNCHES ADVANCED ROCKETS AND SPACECRAFT"

in: "SpaceX: We put things in space so you won't have to"
Not that much off a topic, and a great question.

Emacs seems to be probably the only one piece of software still in use that can be considered a software runtime for text-oriented applications and UIs. It gives building blocks that strongly favor function and efficiency over form (though one grows to like the minimal, text-based aesthetics). If you write your code correctly, you can get some pretty awesome features for free - like TRAMP, i.e. access to remote files as if they were local, across a variety of protocols and with ability to tunnel through networks.

But my absolute favorite right now is that, unless you purposefully screw it up, your Elisp program will look and work the same way on GUI Emacs frames as it will work on Terminal frames. That is, I get to use it from anywhere, by SSH-ing to my computer and running `emacsclient -t`. A capability I use extensively for programming on the go, and which alone gave my small laptop years of extra useful life.

I love Magit, and I'm excited for more software that's built on Emacs.
Yes, but more complicated.

Australian defamation law inherits the English defamation law, though with some differences introduced across time.

I'm not overly familiar with UK law, but some differences I'm aware of:

+ There is no difference between libel and slander.

+ If it can be proven that you acted with malice, any and all defences may instantly be ignored.

However, as harsh as all this is... We also have a ruling from '06 that means that "truth" is an accurate defence. It used to be "truth" is only a defence if it had public benefit, but that requirement was dropped.

If you said only "truth", and without malice aforethought, then you may escape unscathed, but the bar for proving that is very very very high.

The laws around it are also very complicated, and difficult to navigate.

It is easy to claim someone said something that caused damage to a reputation, and if that damage was to an individual, they can sue you, and they may well win.
Yeah.

A lot of times, you will see things like “this new technology can be built elevated/underground really cheaply so you don’t have to buy the land underneath!” Except that’s not how property rights work in Western countries at all, and at a practical level things like emergency walkways or fire ventilation or maintenance passageways end up eating whatever the miniscule difference in right-of-way width is.
>Under Saudi law, every woman has a legal "guardian" who can restrict her travel to specific airports and routes, and get automated alerts when they cross borders.

What neutral argument do you really wish to have? The fact that their legal system is messed up won't make me say "oh, but by law you are not allowed...".
Yea, very frustrating.
I have no doubt that it did - they are part of a very elite group of people doing something that literally no one else has ever done before and few could hope to do.

But when space travel is more commercialized and commonplace and anyone that can come up with $100K can buy a ticket for a trip around the moon and your instagram feed is full of people's snapshots from their moon trip, will it still have that mystique?

My grandmother was very proud of her first (and only) trip to Hawaii back in the late 1940's, she literally saved pennies over years to afford it, and said it felt like going to another world and she was a celebrity when she returned home to her small town. And even decades later she tells the stories from that trip (her only significant travel). But I've been to Hawaii about a dozen times, and while I enjoy it, it's not a profound experience that I'd save up for years and few people even care to hear about my trip when I come home, they just want to know if I brought them Macadamia nuts (the same ones I can buy at Costco!)
RSA implementation flaws
Server RAM would be RDIMMs or LRDIMMs while consumer processors mostly can support only UDIMMs.
Let's not forget the horrendous speed we are destroying Amazon's rainforsests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_ra...
LEO is about half way to Mars
> Retaliatory unprovoked

Contradiction in terms.
Forget newspapers. Here's an IRU study about combined rail/road freight transport accounting for costs and emissions.

"There is no such thing as a truly environment friendly means of transport. Combined transport is not inherently superior to pure road transport in terms of environmental impact, as measured by energy consumptionand CO2 emissions."

https://www.iru.org/apps/cms-filesystem-action?file=PPP/en_C...
620M accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites available for sale on the darkweb
I would much rather switch to a compiler-restricted memory safe unmanaged alternative such as Rust, before I throw out performance for safety completely.

A lot of applications, such as video games, don't require the type of security others do, but require performance to a much higher degree.

Rust is a good middle-ground, since it does have some compile-time issues at the moment still which are getting better. But it is incredibly stingy about anything unsafe. Even unsafe blocks of code are borrow-checked.

Considering how slowly things run these days on any OS, and OS's specifically having performance issues, I doubt the user experience will benefit from a completely managed OS either, but I'm no expert.
And at any time, you can just use "! !" to run an arbitrary git command on your repo, if you so choose. Since Magit depends on git for status tracking, you don't risk breaking anything.
If everyone didn't come to work tomorrow, <any political reform that you think is impossible> would happen overnight.

Good luck getting everyone on board.
The main purpose is create their own 'great firewall' (electronic curtain???)

Edit: The BBC article has a bit more detail.

"The test is also expected to involve ISPs demonstrating that they can direct data to government-controlled routing points. These will filter traffic so that data sent between Russians reaches its destination, but any destined for foreign computers is discarded."

Why else would you need to discard outbound traffic?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47198426?intlink_from_ur...
Ask HN: Can Open Source Help Healthcare?
My grandfather, who is in otherwise great health, recently got diagnosed with late stage cancer of the kidneys.
How feasible would it be to build an open source suite of diagnostic programs that people can use to build longer term, longitudinal health system?

The idea is that by building transparent, open source diagnostic models and looping it into a platform where you can track your health data, we could build a preventative system.

Am I being completely irrational, or missing something?
> people who really care about semicolons in JS are people who just don't write a lot of JS

I started JS in the mid 90's. I still use semi-colons. To me it's like using a period to end a sentence. It's a pause. It defines the end of a statement.

I feel that too much emphasis is placed on the desire to remove curlys and semi colons from JS. It's part of the language. There's always coffeescript or those other flavours that will suit you.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence; this is even more true when appealing to prehistoric times when indeed we have very little evidence for much of anything. What we do know is that in the eras since things have become somewhat more clearly recorded that slavery, war, rape, etc have been ubiquitous. Even Native Americans, sometimes pictured as peace pipe smoking peoples in tune with and peacefully coexisting with nature, were engaged in warfare, slavery, and so on long before Europeans arrived. And as people sometimes confuse these sort of statements - that is in no way mitigating what happened to them. But rather just an accurate reflection of history.

We can also see glimpses of prehistoric societies from looking at people who stayed isolated from modern society. The Sentinelese people are a group example as they are one of the only remaining uncontacted peoples. [1] They are a violent warfaring people whom have murdered numerous people who have gotten too close to them. And there's nothing to blame here except their, and 'our', own nature. And one annoying aspect of society is that we must adapt to the lowest common denominator in matters such as this. Groups that are unskilled in warfare are rapidly 'replaced' (to use quite the euphemism) by those that are!

And as somebody else mentioned you can even see similar behavior in other non-human primates species from which we share a common ancestor, such as chimps. They, to this day, gather into bands in large part to go kill other bands and expand their territory. They also have a habit of engaging in some rather sadistic behavior to the losers. The only reason this warfare is not expanded to tremendous numbers is but for a lack of higher intelligence required to develop the tools and structure necessary for such. And as group sizes increase, so does the probability of splintering of a group.

So to appeal to the noble savage requires that we go war driven -> tranquil -> war driven. And that tranquil period is, conveniently, only when we have insufficient evidence to say anything one way or the other. This is not logical.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese

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One final point should also be made since it's not commonly considered. Today live in what is almost certainly the safest period of human history - ever. Something few realize. Today there is less than 1 death per 100,000 caused by war - worldwide. The world population of 'humans' varies radically by era. But in the era's we're referencing, you'd be looking at a max population of some single digit millions. If they were comparably safe to today, you'd see some 10 or 20 people dying as a result of warfare per year - in total. I don't think it'd be be controversial to suggest that number was likely markedly higher.
Unity to go Public in 2020
There are things more important than money. Maybe the China market isn't worth sacrificing one's values for. It's not like they want to you to succeed in their market, anyway. And if the company is willing to sacrifice its values, then clearly those weren't its actual values.
Midori was a victim of the WinDev vs DevDiv political wars.

The most recent example is Kenny Kerr complaining that although they made a big effort to migrate from C++/CX into C++/WinRT, the large majority prefers to code in .NET nowadays.

https://kennykerr.ca/2019/01/25/the-state-of-cpp-on-windows/

However many of the Midori outcomes have landed in .NET, namely .NET Native, async/await, TPL, span, blittable structs, immutable data on Rosyln, so not everything was completly lost. As side note WP8 Bartok AOT compiler also comes up in Singularity.

So fortunely not everything gets lost.
Unity's work on HPC# (High Performance C#) seems like a good possibility of a middle ground:
Use C# where performance is not critical but you want safety, use HPC# when you absolutely need restrictions on performance.
I don't mean to be negative, but I hope they have some large sign outside the stores using this technology, so I can choose not to shop there.

All of our online activity is already tracked with great accuracy. Our phones are being used as beacons tracking our every move, listening in on conversations, basically invading our privacy in every way possible.

I'm absolutely not a fan of all this tracking / analytics to increase conversion rates hype. That is what got us the sites with a million popups and psychological tactics that trick us into hitting that buy or subscribe button.

This is a real life version of that. No no no no no! Just NO!
Do you have a link where I can read more?

I'm only finding info on a 2014 block to stop coup protests and a request in 2017 for Facebook to delete 309 items they claimed were illegal.

Nothing about the Thai people DDoSing government websites over a Facebook block.
Agile Isn’t New, It’s Just Common Sense Rebranded
What values are those? The value of treating China as the enemy simply because?

"The position of PRC is that the ROC and PRC are two different factions in the Chinese Civil War, which never legally ended. Therefore the PRC claims that both factions belong to the same sovereign country—China. Since, as per the PRC, Taiwan's sovereignty belongs to China, the PRC's government and supporters believe that the secession of Taiwan should be agreed upon by all 1.3 billion Chinese citizens instead of just the 23 million residents of Taiwan.[15] Furthermore, the position of PRC is that UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, which states "Recognizing that the representatives of the Government of the People's Republic of China are the only lawful representatives of China to the United Nations", means that the PRC is recognized as having the sovereignty of all of China, including Taiwan."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan

Basically a bunch of the wealthy class fled to Taiwan, claimed the land, also claimed all of China and Mongolia (to this day), yet denied citizenship to the billions of Chinese people on the mainland (only overseas/wealthy Chinese were allowed Republic of China citizenship).
I can share my anecdotal experience. I've used IntelliJ for about 7 years. For a long time I hesitated to switch to Emacs because IntelliJ has superb git integration. I thought Emacs simply cannot deliver same kind of experience. Oh boy - how wrong I was. Not only Magit turned out to be way more capable, but I also learned so much more about Git internals. I had no idea about so many things you can do with it. Most Git UIs are shallow and don't let you do extremely advanced stuff, like they're afraid users will be overwhelmed and perplexed. Magit doesn't lie to you, doesn't try to hide things.

I simply can't imagine my life without Magit, Org-mode and (EXWM on Linux).
Create Desktop Apps with HTML5 and Go
ECC logic is implemented in the memory controller (in the CPU these days).
The ECC DIMM just provides extra chips to store ECC bits.
And the motherboard, if it supports ECC, provides just extra data lanes that connect the extra DIMM chips to the appropriate pins on the CPU.
It's the same scenario that causes severe pushback against Huawei. No country wants their data to flow through other country's infrastructure, period.

It's just that many don't have any say in this and can't do much about it, but most realize this now. This is clearly a concern for both security and control reasons, which are two sides of the same coin. Any control can be abused. For every Roskomnadzor there's the US governement denying SWIFT to Iran and forcing EU to deploy a new system to work with the latter. So to me this looks more about power tugging at a country level with a freebie of a simpler censorship thrown in. Not the other way around.
They are completely different, but saying there is no comparison is disingenuous.