skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't doubt regulation would help Facebook in some respects, but (in usual Bloomberg fashion) this article is also stretching some things a bit. For example:

> Start with harmful content, which Zuckerberg defines as “terrorist propaganda, hate speech and more.” Facebook would prefer that someone else decide what constitutes such content and should thus be taken down.

I agree with this. Having a private corporation that's invested in engagement, which is also headquartered in the US (very far geographically and culturally from some of the places it moderates) be in charge of defining what's right and what's wrong, is and has been a recipe for disaster— let alone the implications it could have around the sovereignty of nations.

> But it’s hard to see how this would benefit anyone but Facebook.

Excuse me, what?

> Inviting the government to arbitrate what qualifies as “harmful” speech is a legal and ethical minefield, while establishing a third-party system to do the same would amount to offloading corporate responsibility.

Isn't this the government's job though? To define what is a crime/wrong and what isn't, and to deal with the moral aspect of legal codes? Isn't this why we have laws? I don't think anyone is vouching for "big brother" type government control here, but governments always have a principal role in civil rights, inclusion and the moral development of a nation. It's part of their job, and the reason people care to have leaders with strong moral compasses as public servants. Has this view of government been lost in the US?

> There’s no reason to expect every platform to adhere to the same content policies, but every reason to want them to exercise judgment and accept accountability.

I'm there's things that should clearly be blocked or allowed. But the gray areas are what's being discussed here, and honestly I don't think that should be Facebook's job (or any private, American, for-profit corporation for that matter).
No need to rebuild it.

https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html
>If he wants to be angry and make personal insults then people can choose not to interact with him or the things he works on

They did. Enough people said "hey if you keep behaving this way we will no longer want to interact with you or the things you work with" that Linus stopped acting that way.

It went no further than that.
In all fairness, only some TV is like that and TBH I have a pretty limited appetite for highly-serialized complex shows that require a lot of attention and focus. The ones I like I really like. They're just not a daily diet for me.

The were miniseries back in the day. But they were an exception that required really driving a big audience to TV on a schedule.
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Direct anecdote:

A couple of years ago, I worked with a large team and there was a gay man on the team who was constantly yapping on about gay this and gay that, almost like he was looking for disapproval among the ranks. He then decided to do a legal union with his boyfriend and invited everyone. Those who did not attend were berated, verbally accused of this and that. I counseled everyone to simply ignore him and not take the bait, which ended up being sound judgement, because he took his leave shortly thereafter. I never engaged in ad-hominem attacks or retaliated against this man. I just refused to play his childish game of attacking people for some imagined reasons.

Linus, Theo, and other large project leaders deal with actual idiots all the time. Serial idiots. Sometimes in the real world you have to step on toes to get someone's attention. It can often be done in "nicer" ways, but sometimes you have to "nuke them from orbit" just to be sure.

Recently, my British uncle told me of a story about a woman in England who went apoplectic about a new tissue range having the marketing slogan "man-sized" tissues. Who cares? It's marketing. The company actually caved to please this woman. I would not have done so. My tissues, my slogan. Don't buy them if you're offended.
This would be much much harder with a real board with 3D pieces.
Also the US has never met Russia in an overt war. Not that I ever want them to either but your point is again invalid. There is a reason US pulls it's weight in diplomacy and military and currency are two big factors for this. Denying this is just you being delusional. Also US , barring the current govt., has always been very welcoming to immigrants. Every country has flaws but this country gave me and countless others an opportunity and a voice. That alone separates the US from many other countries.
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What would you suggest to convey the same meaning of "making something/someone unnecessarily painful to deal with"?
Could Consciousness Come Down to the Way Things Vibrate?
Even in traditional print magazines you find abusive and emotionally manipulative advertisements from internationally known corporations, with their recognizable brands proudly announced on the ad. For instance ads that gaslight the reader, or suggest the reader is unattractive and can only rectify that by purchasing the product. Ads that try to induce then exploit low self esteem to sell products are more common but just as morally reprehensible as ads that try to install keyloggers on your computer.

You cannot solve the problem of bad ads by exposing the people behind it, when those people have no shame. Even when it's totally transparent who's behind ads, ads are still awful.
Just to clarify an important detail that pkacprzak (the author) has been asked many times now by the streamers he is using the images of (GoldDustTori and GM Ben Finegold) - NONE of the streamers actually used this app during a game, as that would be considered outside assistance and cheating. The app is intended for viewers to follow along, not to enable cheating (even though the cheaters will use it for that purpose).
Is there a list of loop invariants for algorithms that are frequently used in interviews?
> If a feature exists, it will get abused down the line. I do not want to read Ruby codebases that have @1, @2, @3, etc instead of named variables. We all know that temporary code is permanent. Just making this syntax possible is terrible.

@1 and friends, as I see it, are fine in permanent code, in the right role. Like braces instead of do...end, they are good for blocks that amount to single-line lambdas, where declaring and using the variable on the same line is excessive noise that impairs rather than aids visibility. Can it be used in contexts where it's bad? Sure, but the existence of that potential is better than forcing everyone to use a worse solution in a common case.
> They can hold your stuff indefinitely, so be prepared to lose it if you go this route, but never unlock your device based on the idea that it’s the only way to go free.

Wonder if you can sue them after for your property back.
They can seize your stuff so your workaround won’t work when they pass it to their tech team for forensics. Also, if they find something now they have you lying to customs.
I'll believe you once you tell me how the openness of a core internet router is important to the security of visiting a website over https. Good job keeping up the FUD!
You mean the CSS Grid initially proposed by Microsoft and originally designed for native Windows apps using XAML? :)
CVE-2019-0211 – Apache Local root
The sensors on Lion Air were 10+ degrees out of calibratiom IIRC.

Critical AoA is somewhere in the realm of 17 to 20 degrees.

That doesn't leave much room for where MCAS wouldn't be a problem.

Also, AoA sensors are not normally safety critical. The MAX is the first 737 airframe for which this is the case.
(disclaimer: I am part of a Climate&Energy research group that does this sort of economic modeling)

I would say that the author's broad conclusions are actually likely to pan out (albeit on a different timeline).

However, the individual arguments are cherry picked (e.g. specific utility decisions that do not generalize) and do not necessarily support the conclusion. So, please ignore the graphs as just visual candy. Also, their conclusions around wind are likely incorrect, given the learning curve and deployment rates for solar vs wind.

Some problems:

- The author skips over the difference between dispatchable and non-dispatchable power. The article alludes to it with the discussion of storage, but the nuances are actually very important.

- There are graphs comparing solar and coal. Coal is already dying, and not going to get serious traction by any investors in the future. It is a high capital, low marginal cost plant with expensive cycling for shutdown/turn-on. With today's renewables, the variability in grid demand is too high to make it economical. Even if that wasn't true (which it might not be in the future with sufficient storage), natural gas is strictly cheaper with fracking, and likely will be for the next 50 years.

- The author states that renewables are on the verge of being "cheaper than the cost of continuing to operate existing coal- or gas-fueled power plants". They support this argument with some cherry-picked examples. Realistically, that is not true, nor will it likely every be true. The marginal cost for natural gas is roughly ~1.8 cents/kWh today (including O&M), though NG is very cheap right now. With a capacity factor of 25%, solar would have to be ~$0.50/W including ammortized O&M (so call it $0.35/W. With a ~20% learning curve, that is ~5 doublings from today, so more than net electricity demand). On top of that, that power is mostly useless without storage, which adds additional LCOE (e.g. amortized battery capital and RTE derating).

- Much of the authors argument would require full electrification of transportation+commercial/residential heating, which is unlikely to really pick up steam until the 2030s. Industrial heating will likely be the last holdout (barring some regulatory pressure like a carbon tax).

Anyway, after years of research I would say that I am actually optimistic (I did not used to be) about renewables+storage with sufficient regulatory pressure to get us over today's cost hump (e.g. tax credit, RPS, carbon tax, anything), but take this article with a grain of salt.

Edit:
I should say that NG prices vary dramatically by location, and Europe will likely see a very different path forward than the rest of the planet (they also get to cheat with storage with the Norwegian Fjords), so they may push us down the learning curve significantly faster than the US/Asian market. China seems to be doing things by fiat, too, which is always handy.
This is exactly what we're trying to solve with debut. (https://landing.debutapp.social) The underlying technology uses blockstack where users own their own data and information is not stored in a central database.

Beyond data ownership, the future goal is to add a layer of security around your information through encryption. Only user approved parties could access your secured data through a private key.
Why do you need proof? Show it to the internet, there should be other examples too.

It's way easier and less legally ambiguous to make people THINK you are rooting their devices than to actually do it and leave actual evidence to be found. They could even be looking for OTHER rootkits instead of installing them.

I suspect there's a lot of availability bias going on here as well - how many travelers go through the US per year versus how many of them are famous ex-CTOs that get reposted on HN?
"Linus was usually right on the technical aspects"

Memory overcommit. OOM killer. "Security is just a bunch of masturbating monkeys"

Linus is frequently extremely wrong on the technical aspects, in addition to being a huge jerk
I despise the anti-SJW stance. I think it's about time loud-mouth, offensive people think twice before speaking. You used to have the power to offend whomever you wanted and now you don't. We haven't lost anything as a society and have gained so much more: the people who used to bear the brunt of such bullish behavior can finally have a voice in addition to yours. That's a good thing.

You're imagining shadows on the wall coming to get you if you think that there are people literally waiting for you to say something to take your job away. Meanwhile the people who are picked on do have people doxxing them, emailing them grotesque photos and death threats, showing up at their houses, etc. I would bet a good sum of money that you've never had to deal with any of that.

Maybe you should check yourself. Learn some non-violent communication. Empathize with other people. If we're all kind to one another what is it we need to be afraid of exactly?
And that's, in essence, what's happening...?

People are saying that "we will not work with you unless you stop being an asshole". It's just happening at the organizational level.

Linus is more than free to say whatever he likes, and people are also free to tell him to buzz off. That's how the rest of the world works.
Where does libel fit into your theory? Libel being saying unflattering untruths, which I guess is more akin to violence, whereas you are talking about exaggerating or taking to the extreme the saying of unflattering truths or maybe ambiguously true statements, things that ride the line of fact and opinion. I think I agree that we haven't decided how to draw the line.

Of course, when I think of embarrassment as a punishment I think the practice goes back centuries, I picture criminals put out on display in the village square for the public to shame. I don't know whether truth played a strong role even back then in that kind of public shaming. Have we or have we not made progress since medieval times?
The reactor power sounds like it is in the range of TRIGA and you have a video of a TRIGA reactor on your FAQ page. It looks like you are planning to use a TRIGA design. Is that right?

NorthStar has started producing Mo-99 in accelerators without fissioning targets. Other producers may start soon:

Competitors abound to produce key medical isotope

After decades with no US producer, a plethora of hopefuls vie for a share of the molybdenum-99 market.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.2019022...

Your FAQ says "As a private, production-oriented company, we intend to vertically integrate much of the radioisotope process to reduce inefficiencies and build a modular facility that can be expanded as a stable supply of radioisotopes encourages their use and increases demand." How much demand elasticity do you foresee, if Atomic Alchemy and competitors can easily produce more Mo-99 than was historically consumed?
China Flexes Its Political Muscle to Expand Power Overseas
>That's your slanted viewpoint based on what you've been hearing in the news media.

Thanks for reading my mind, knowing me better than I could ever know myself.

>Why is he a "very bad" person?

I based my opinion mostly on the stuff I saw and keep seeing from him directly[1].

>Why are most of the things that he makes "very bad"?

Well, I came to the conclusion (and not just me) that his stuff is designed to be as addictive as possible and as invasive as possible. What he creates, deliberately, is the modern equivalent of cigarettes. Bad attributes in my book. His products are, in my humble opinion, a major contributing factor in the polarization of society and the decrease in civility and political culture all around the world (and no, I am not referring to Russians abusing facebook, I mean facebook itself, which attempts to increase addictiveness by highlighting extremes and conflict as a matter of "entertainment").

On top of that, he and his companies are using their power to lobby and push for stuff they full well know is detrimental to society but helpful to facebook, if it is regulation that is designed to strengthen facebook through regulatory capture, or if it is to bring "zero rated" facebook to developing countries in an effort to stomp out local competition before it even exists; Noblesse oblige.

And then there is the constant torrent of news about facebook's other indiscretions, e.g. regarding keeping the data they siphoned off secure, e.g. misusing data gathered under false pretenses like 2fa phone numbers, or e.g. how they treat the poor souls who they hired for pennies in Manila to do their content moderation, etc.

>There's been a spate of bad press about Facebook recently, so that's primarily what's been coloring your view.

I don't give much attention to the attention grabbing op-eds and pundits and sensationalized reporting. E.g. I think the entire Russia stuff when it comes to facebook is overblown, by a lot. But again, thanks for reading my mind.

By and large, I find CNN reporting despicable, MSNBC reporting even more so, but the uncrowned king of despise still remains Fox News, when it comes to TV networks.

>Democrats are very bad people making very bad policy most of the time

Since you bring it up, I believe that Democrats are mostly good people making bad policy most of the time. And that Republicans are, well... kinda split, with some real bad (and loud!) people and some good people with good intensions, and that Republicans make bad policy most of the time.

[1] e.g. https://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zu... or e.g. the bullshit stuff he said in front of congress
well, one CBP officer almost sent me to secondary checks because i had two US entry stamps within a week and a half of each other. why? because i went to europe from my own country and both flights (to and from) had layovers in the US.

she said it was absolutely not common (which i doubt very much) and she was concerned i was coming and going because i want to stay (?!?!?!).
⭐ I assume via the unicode emoji set?
In Defense of Hard Pivots: why we sold Headlight to launch an esports co
True, those who don't want to do politics will still have politics done to them. But...

> No, but many hours can. If those aren't, appreciating nature (or gardening or whatever) instead, has political implications...

Sure. But also, spending time on politics has gardening implications. What is your basis for deciding that politics should be the thing that wins? Further, what is your basis for saying that politics should be the thing that wins for my use of time? I'll be involved in politics when I think the issues are important enough, and not otherwise, you got a problem with that?

I don't want politics to dominate my life, my time, and my mind. I deny you the right to tell me that it should.
He was abusive toward people, who made mistakes. There are ways of providing feedback, that don't include belittling people, questioning their mental health or straight up name-calling.
If we manage to make that jet fuel from anything else but fossil energy that should do. The only issue is that the CO2 emission up there has so much more impact, but I think we should be able to manage if we have the rest under control.
Yes, Roma is number 51696.
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Facebook has a Data Abuse Bounty program where they pay for reporting third-party data leaks like these: https://www.facebook.com/data-abuse/faq/
That’s actually pretty reasonable. I don’t think anyone reasonable thinks Canada doesn’t have the right to enforce their firearm laws at their border.
Lot's of material around on invariants for anybody interested

Cornell:
Invariants Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTD_NtzzD4VC6l2uLdzbsm9wW21mMaWwj
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs2110/2017sp/online/loops/01aloop1.html
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs1110/2018sp/materials/loop_invariants.pdf

CMU:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15122/handouts/01-contracts.pdf
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Efp/courses/15122-s11/recitations/recitation02.html
(former CMU prof) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNITrPhl2_A

Of course if you really wanted to understand the challenge of finding loop invariants, there's the software foundations series of books which even if I don't understand all of it, has been still worth my time to go through https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19565365 and Cornell has some good introductory Coq material https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2018sp/a5/coq-tact...
There's a lot of tech billionaires out there. Just saying.
This would be great, but for that model to work, the end users themselves would have to pay to have their data protected, when in principle I think most people would argue that their privacy should be protected in the first place.

For data protection to work efficiently, there has to be a centralized store of data that's deemed private, with a way to authorize / deauthorize consumers of your data. Of course, with centralization, it paints a big red 'hack me' crosshair.

Privacy is already lost. There are already cameras everywhere, be it personal home Nest cams, or surveillance cameras inside grocery stores, or street cameras at traffic lights. The fights now for data protection, IMO, are just feel-good initiatives that aim to provide a false sense of data privacy. Take Facebook for example - they've pledged to protect your privacy, offer data protection tools, a way to export all your data. Before privacy became a huge thing, I'm pretty sure people felt comfortable putting all their photos and data in Facebook due to the trust in them being a large enough company that they should protect your data, right? Same goes with Equifax. Same goes with banks and credit card processors.

The burden of data privacy and protection lies more towards the end-user than towards multi-billion dollar companies you entrust your data with. They may provide the tools, but once your information is out there, it's retrievable via various means by bad actors. You can keep guns in your home to protect your family, but if you aren't educated enough to use them properly or if you leave your doors and windows unlocked, it's not going to help.

Edit: my case in point - Facebook records found in public Amazon cloud servers [0]

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/millions-...
I'll feel more confident when we have large scale sequestration methods that are beyond the drawing board. I loosely agree with your conclusion, but until we KNOW the numbers, it seems worth it to shoot for as close to zero emissions as we can get while figuring out the sequestration options.

The closest I've heard of is some seabed oilfield sequestering from Nordic countries, IIRC, but that has some built in limitations.

Are you aware of sequestering efforts I've missed?
speaking as an american, even on domestic flights it doesnt get any easier. I was once detained 45 minutes by the TSA for a laptop with a missing DVD drive. i bought it without the drive from a pawn shop to learn Arch linux on, and kept it because it was fast. I refused to unlock it.

since the RealID act was passed, and im too lazy to wait at the DMV for a compliant license, I just take my passport with me for ID on domestic flights. This once cost me 30 minutes with the TSA, again, explaining why I was using a passport for a domestic flight. I refused search, refused to cooperate, and was let on the plane.

security theater was fun 15 years ago but this shit show has gotten a little old. the oxycodone epidemic kills more americans than terrorism. Hell, lightning kills more americans than Al Qaeda.

shoes and belts off, shuffling through the checkpoints like juden at dachau, is degrading.
A modern furnace is only expected to last 20 years or so. Upgrading equipment is a solution is the upgrade isn't too expensive. I've looked into geothermo heat pumps a few times in the past, and they never worked out because of cost. I'm thinking seriously about replacing my current (working) furnace with a heat pump though just because I want some zoning that the natural gas furnace cannot do.
A viral photograph of “ironic hatred” and the deafening silence that followed
I doubt they do, but have you never had a sort of "heart-to-heart with yourself"? I'll sometimes take a walk with the explicit intention of having a good think, and whenever I do that, my thoughts absolutely take the form of internal monologue. I think if you're really thinking something through, on a subject you haven't really explored, the 'voice' manifests. Just my .02.