skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some other possibilities come to mind, and perhaps there are more:

* It was a legitimate search wrt information available at the time, and then more/better information became available, and it was no longer legitimate. (Assuming a certain definition of "legitimate".)

* It was a legitimate search, and cloning and/or compromising the devices took time.

(Just devil's advocate, for intellectual curiosity, not disagreeing with public interest concern.)
Your post to me is quite strange because it describes a problem that has a certain floor on poverty, but then claims those being spoken about live below that floor. If you have plastic bottles, cans, and etc. you are not so poor as to be unable to manage your waste. The hyper impoverished people you describe, subsistence farmers, have compost, not non-biodegradable and unburnable waste.
Putting Vegetables in Donut Boxes in Public Prank
So... I can technically implement my own EME standards compliant web browser, but that browser won't actually be able to interoperate with the existing set of websites that make use of EME. What's the point of the standard again?
Specifically Chapter 4, under "Aggregation"
https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/service-lev...
I have been on a few overnight trains here in Sweden and they have all been quite old, noisy and shaky ones. This initiative might give enough incentives for companies to invest in better overnight trains, but so far what we are being promised are more lines rather than better experience.

In contrast, overnight ferry has been mostly a delight. The room are smaller than hotel but much better than train, they don't shake (and I only appreciate a gently rocking movement of the ocean), and unless you buy the cheapest tickets you tend to get a mostly quiet night (the ac can be a bit loud through). The only drawbacks is that it is much slower than air travel, and the food prices in the restaurants are about as atrocious as those on planes and trains.

Sadly ferries is basically limited to traveling over the Baltic sea and Norway. I would very much like the option to travel to other costal nations in EU, even if it would take a day or two, but there simply isn't any lines.
That is indeed what I meant. Thanks for the correction.
Every user in a session will see the same playback timestamp for a video.
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A recent paper seems to have solved this issue by doing away with the terminal amine and sulfate groups.

http://www.jbc.org/content/293/5/1517.full

Sidebar: I've spent way too much time reading about this compound and its target..
There are a few solutions to this.

And... they are using chromium. Can I be sympathetic to Google because they have to pay people money to support this?
From my measly perspective, fame suuucks... there's really no upside. Anonymous obscurity seems a better camouflage rather than people getting up in someone's personal business documenting their every move, criticizing their every breath, treating them differently, expecting to impose on their emotional reserves and time, or acting goofy/toadyingly around them. All people put on pants one leg at a time unless they're missing legs or wearing a kilt. ;)
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Is front page HN real?
How is it acceptable for any webpage to take 10s+ to render on first load? How did we get here?
You're right, there's no existing solution to exempt US citizens from these exploits. However, with the massive resources available to them, if they focused on enhancing our security rather than fouling it, I very much believe we would be better off. Think about how much crime occurs in the modern era through electronic hacks and exploits. Would it be better to have these intel back channels, or to stop these crimes? Their priorities are in the wrong place, through tradition more than anything else.

There are many, many platforms that are "occasionally used by adversaries". The Intelligence Community has put exceptional resources towards one that has a very significant market share among it's citizens. And given the wholesale surveillance we are already under, I can't accept that this was an innocuous decision.

Trust is built through positive actions over time. I have zero trust for our Intelligence Community as is; and I've actually worked with US intelligence. If they devoted a majority of their efforts to finding and patching security risks through public and open source means, I would slowly start to trust them again.
So, to offset his carbon emissions, American must plant 150 trees a year, ensure that they grow for at least 10 years, and then ensure that the CO2 captured by them doesn’t get rereleased. This means that we need space for at least 3 trillion trees, which is three times the space available, based on the figure in your link. Ensuring that the CO2 doesn’t get rereleased means that all that lumber needs to be buried or sunk, since this is way more lumber than the humanity actually uses productively. Additionally, this would mean doing heavy industrial management of all this immense forest area to cut and bury all these hundreds of billions of trees a year. This would require digging huge pits, transporting lots of heavy material to them, at extra emissions. And that’s for American emission only, which are only a fraction of global emissions. And of course we ignore the question why would you want to bury all this wood while keeping digging out all the fossils, when you could be using the same wood to generate energy instead.

So no, while this might work to pacify the conscience of an individual, it makes absolutely no sense to do it at scale.
A. I've literally never seen an
ad so enticing that I've
clicked on it.

Q. Then why are they among the
most successful business
models in the world?

Perception management. It's a big lie that takes the dare to seem so big it obviously must be true.

So, think about it another way. Think about how large of an industry pornography is.

But, is pornography really a form of "entertainment" and more importantly, is it one that people actually spend disposable income on?

No one, and I mean NO ONE, pays for pornography on the internet. People barely pay for music, and they had to be chased to the ends of the earth before that tide hinted at changing.

So then, what is the pornography "industry" reeeealllly?

The largest, legalized cluster of elite prostitution rings in the world, operating in plain sight.

As a corollary, if advertising only moves the revenue needle to the tune of roughly 10% or less of the normal operations for any given business, what must advertising really be?

A means to rationalize operating costs as business expenses, when you're trying to cook the books and hide money for tax purposes, and feed into a corrupt system of payola and favors.

A way to conceal exorbitant spending, such that it doesn't appear as part of income or profits. A way to burn cash the way you want, before the government knows it exists, and keep it behind the corporate veil, distributed in the business world for as long as possible, so that someone else takes the tax hit instead of you.
The plots on that page seem to exhibit some clustering and weird shapes which might not be all that great for discrete data or if you have sampling artifacts since it distracts from the overall shape of the distribution.

Showing the number of samples is good though. The combined version seems useful.
Neural Algorithms and Computing Beyond Moore's Law
I'd assume the average wage here is more than 5x minimum.
Out of core context:

the article mentions "The Digital Antiquarian" ( https://www.filfre.net ) which in turn has an article about the game "Wing Commander" ( https://www.filfre.net/2017/04/from-wingleader-to-wing-comma... ) => this is funny:

> At the beginning of August, Snell unceremoniously booted Chris Roberts, the project’s founder, from his role as co-producer, leaving him with only the title of director. Manifesting a tendency anyone familiar with his more recent projects will immediately recognize, Roberts had been causing chaos on the team by approving seemingly every suggested addition or enhancement that crossed his desk. Snell, the brutal pragmatist in this company full of dreamers, appointed himself as Warren Spector’s new co-producer. His first action was to place a freeze on new features in favor of getting the game that currently existed finished and out the door.

(Chris Roberts is the one creating the game "Star Citizen" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Citizen - I was one of the first buying/financing the game in 2012, but I admit of having lost interest while waiting for the "final" version to be released...)
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There are sleeper compartments on the SJ Night trains – I took one to Malmö, but they also run to the north and across to Göteborg.

https://www.sj.se/en/about/about-sj/our-trains/sj-night-trai...
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Well, that's the thing, isn't it? It's Poe's Law but with reputational damage if you guess wrong in the wrong situation. Take it seriously and it wasn't? You're a buffoon. Take it as a joke when it's serious? You're an insensitive asshole and a bigot, and nobody can make the case you were acting in good faith and made a mistake.
I enjoyed the callout to this when I was reading Google's Percolator paper a few years ago:

> The random-scanning approach requires one additional tweak: when it was first deployed we noticed that scanning threads would tend to clump together in a few regions of the table, effectively reducing the parallelism of the scan. This phenomenon is commonly seen in public transportation systems where it is known as “platooning” or “bus clumping” and occurs when a bus is slowed down (perhaps by traffic or slow loading). Since the number of passengers at each stop grows with time, loading delays become even worse, further slowing the bus. Simultaneously, any bus behind the slow bus speeds up as it needs to load fewer passengers at each stop. The result is a clump of buses arriving simultaneously at a stop [19]. Our scanning threads behaved analogously: a thread that was running observers slowed down while threads “behind” it quickly skipped past the now-clean rows to clump with the lead thread and failed to pass the lead thread because the clump of threads overloaded tablet servers. To solve this problem, we modified our system in a way that public transportation systems cannot: when a scanning thread discovers that it is scanning the same row as another thread, it chooses a new random location in the table to scan. To further the transportation analogy, the buses (scanner threads) in our city avoid clumping by teleporting themselves to a random stop (location in the table) if they get too close to the bus in front of them.

From here: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub36726
Basic chemistry: the only ecosystems that can continually produce net O2 are those that permanently stash unoxidated C away (aka new fuel). This was the norm A Very Long Time Ago when plants were briefly ahead in the chemical arms race against everything that lives off decaying plant matter (and thus caused an imbalance which created the chemical energy we now use as fossil fuels). But in more recent history (e.g. anything dinosaur or younger) it only happens in very rare conditions. Peat-producing bog marshes are the rare exception now.
Or yours.
> The MCAS implementation was clearly flawed, being vulnerable to a single point of failure in the AoA data

I personally find the AoA sensors failure to be unlikely in the case of the Lion Air crash as they were replaced in between the two problematic flights.

I most interested in seeing the final results of the Ethiopian crash. My suspicion is the MCAS has terrible software and is a bug-ridden mess.
That Stockholm-Malmö night train is actually all sleepers except for one or two seating carriages. They tried to discontinue running it a few years ago but it’s becoming really popular so they might have just been sold out that night.
Most CNL trains were still well-filled when they were suddenly cancelled. It was just that DB didn't want to invest in them anymore (the carriages were 30-40 years old and needed to be replaced), they wanted people to take fancy high-speed trains instead. Also, some countries levied high track access charges. Blaming only cheap airfares is not entirely fair. ÖBB took over some CNL routes and marketed them a lot better, and has made profits on them.
My experience on crowded buses is that typically every stop gets rung for anyway, so skipping isn’t an option.

Of course, if it were possible to open only the back doors and let people off but not on, that might help, at the expense of leaving the people waiting to get on enraged. But then you also have the problem that on a crowded bus it can be really tough to squeeze past the rest of the passengers to get off, which also slows everything down.

The whole thing is miserable, and mostly these routes just need more buses (plus the articulated ones that hold 60% more people).
Vote a better government in.
Do you have any statistics on this you can refer me to? The CDC estimates the transmission risk for receptive PIV intercourse to be about 8 in 10,000 exposures (0.08%). It's half that for the insertive partner.
Marketing is more important than code in the adoption of software
"Digital archeology" isn't the right term, "digital preservation" falls under archival science, whether formally or informally.
Boost.SML (which is experimental) has garnered a lot of attention lately as a modern take on C++ state machines that can replace both of the options you raised.

https://boost-experimental.github.io/sml/

Unfortunately I haven't seen any compelling real world usage of any of these libraries, and the documentation for SML leaves a lot to be desired.
Well... Ferrari inlined a 1.7MB BASE64 encoded image of their prancing horse logo, only to render it at less than 1/10th of its size.

That shows it's not always the massive JS libs that are the problem. It's also a lack of knowledge and interest from those who build and maintain the site.
It's pretty clearly meant to be tongue-in-cheek. In "researching" power vests she wore a L.L.Bean fleece vest from 1995, I wouldn't exactly call it overly subtle. Maybe a bit of introspection about why you found the writing upsetting instead of funny is in order?
> What is so adversarial about these corporations to the browser makers? What benefit, concretely, do Microsoft or Google or Apple get from being free of the shackles of Disney or CBS?

These companies make Xbox, Chromecast/Stadia, Apple TV, etc. Things that could plausibly be a media center, given some latitude and open standards. You could upload your movie collection onto it, give it your streaming account credentials and it gives you a single interface to all your media.

DRM kills that. You can't make an interface that allows the user to watch a Disney movie they've paid for and then have it show the YouTube commentary on it. You can't have something that recommends Orange Is The New Black after you watch The Wire because one is Netflix and the other is HBO.

Because DRM allows the studios to assert rights that copyright doesn't give them. That's all it does -- that's why they want it. It clearly doesn't prevent piracy.

> One concrete benefit I see is less risk of the third-party code destabilizing your code because it has bugs and is running within your address space, but there's an easy solution there: sandbox the EME blob like Firefox (and other browsers too, I assume) does. Then its crashes and buffer overflows don't become your crashes and memory corruptions.

The problem with this is that it can't simultaneously have such low privileges that it can't do anything harmful even if totally compromised by malicious actors, while also having such high privileges that it's immune to interference by even the owner of the system with physical access to it. They're diametrically opposed objectives. And the second one systematically fails regardless, but having to pretend that that isn't the case compromises the ability to do the first.
There's the Airlander 10 blimp (aka flying bum) that's a real thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Air_Vehicles_HAV_304/Ai...
This is how the economy is supposed to work. The people pouring billions into these companies are taking a calculated risk. It might work, it might not. If it does, we'll all get a bunch of cool new services. If it doesn't, those people will be out billions of dollars and we'll have gotten some cheap services for a while on their dime. They're taking a risk to create something new, and if it works, they'll be handsomely rewarded. If it doesn't, they'll lose all their money. That's ok, that's the system working.
The core issue with governance that arises regardless of paradigm, in my opinion, is over-centralization.

Now it seems that we have technology behemoths superceding government and centralizing control of our economies.

I like to call them "technopolies". They are successful largely because they are so all-encompassing over particular areas. The problem is that they are private profit driven entities and so the playing field, though large, is not fair, and core functions lack competition.

Eventually all-encompassing decentralized public technology platforms should be able to supercede the technopolies. This way we can have systems that operate holistically in a way with majority networks but without the private centralization of control.

That is not to say that it is going to be easy. But it's the only viable paradigm that could replace the Iron Cage.
Heaven or High Water: Selling Miami's Last 50 Years
> The reason is as you say, MCAS runaway (e.g. due to a failed AoA sensor) does not behave like a normal runaway trim (e.g. continuous trim movement). That is key. Watching Youtube videos was helpful in understanding what the pilot experiences. I initially thought the pilot should easily notice the trim moving because of the large trim wheel beside them. However, in normal takeoff, the trim is being adjusted automatically and so pilots learn to ignore it changing.

Yeah, that's the 737's Speed Trim system. Even before the MCAS, automatic trim adjustments to adjust for the '37s behaviour at different speeds were a constant thing in the cockpit. It seems like one possibility here is that pilots may be mistaking or unable to distinguish (since there's no real differentiation) the MCAS' trim adjustments from normal Speed Trim adjustments -- and keep in mind a speed warning is going off the entire time they're fighting the MCAS, due to the malfunctioning AOA, so they may be primed to think "Speed Warning + Automated Trim periodically occurring == Speed Trim" and over-focus on the stall & speed warnings and ignore the trim component.

> Also, if they to realize the problem and flick the switches off, manually cranking the trim wheel the other way takes time and it takes some serious physical strength to do it. I can imagine that if the MCAS moves the trim fully the wrong way, the pilots might not be able to fix it quickly enough.

It's actually worse than that. If the AOA sensor is misbehaving, then it will never show a recovery after the MCAS applies an automatic trim adjustment, leading to the MCAS continuing to apply trim adjustments until the trim is at maximum.

At this point, the aircraft is basically in a nose dive, and if they hit the trim cutout, it can be physically impossible to manually trim the aircraft

An Avionics engineer discusses the issue here: https://www.satcom.guru/2019/03/aoa-vane-must-have-failed-bo...

> The standard response to just hit the stabilizer cutout switches and manually trim is actually flawed. If the nose has been pushed down by significant mistrim (nose down stabilizer, nose up elevator), and as airspeed increases, it may not be possible to trim the stabilizer manually nose up without letting the elevator go to a neutral position. The reality, under the MCAS runaway scenario, trimming nose up immediately stops MCAS as well as trims the stabilizer back towards an in-trim position. At that point, you would be best off to cutout the stabilizer.

> Many flight crews may not know that you have to relax the elevator to manually trim the stabilizer if the loads is too high.

It also mentions that the techniques needed to relieve the forces enough to make trimming manually possible are not necessarily covered in Boeing's current manuals -- because they completely ignored the possibility of the MCAS trimming to max downwards.
The SCMP has:

>In one of these videos, the scavenger was filmed discussing the merits of Liao Fan’s Four Lessons, a Ming dynasty work from the 16th century, and the Analects.

I presume in Chinese
Even more so since my Google Keep reminders would show up in Inbox! Gmail doesn't do this afaik and it's frustrating.
TL;DR - Teleportation will solve public transit problems.
I saw CNN then decided not to click.
Sorry, ycombinator, you won't get my referral bonus to click on that one.