skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People on HN sometime wonder where legislation comes from.

This white paoer is the start of increased regulation of online communities for the UK.

Some online communities are likely to see increased regulation.

I guess the two main priorities will be any site that features gambling (and most lootboxes will fall under this) or ads for gambling products; any site that features user generated content that actively promotes suicide, self harm, or eating disorder.

We're also likely to see tightened regulation for sites where extremist radicalisation happens.
> Thailand’s Junta Got Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’ Blocked From YouTube
YouTube caved to requests from Thailand's military-backed government to block a Thai-subtitled clip from the renowned political satire.

https://www.indiewire.com/2017/06/great-dictator-blocked-tha...
I don't know why you're downvoted. When I was young (18-22) I had no luck with women. I think I literally went 3 years straight in that range without a sexual partner. I was on the verge of becoming an angry, resentful man. I discovered some precursor to The Red Pill and I took the self-improvement advice. I realised the fault wasn't with women, I was simply making life choices that made me unattractive. I lost weight, dressed better, etc.

I'm 33 now and in the last 2.5 years, I've slept with more women than I did from 16-30 despite the fact I work full time, study full time and am a single parent (i.e. I have very little time for dating). If I lost some more weight, spent more time dating and attempted to have casual sex I could probably sleep with 20+ women per year fairly easily. My facial features are at best average, likely below average but I am tall and muscular (10 years Army).
Heartbleed Was Handled at AWS
The Acorn was my first programming computer at school - I didn't know it was from BBC Micro lineage! We were pretty lucky to have about 20 of them. I did NOT make enough use of this resource as a teenager, to my adult self's chagrin. This was largely because as a teenage girl, the last thing that was gonna happen was spending my lunch hours in the computer room where boys were playing adventure games. Lame. (Future me kicks teenage me).
Because there's never been cameras hidden in hotel rooms...
Canid Camera: “Identify New York Wildlife to Create Thriving Forests”
DevOps Lessons: Optimise for User Experience
Pandata: A Guide to China's Tech World
Partly that (I think there were some legacy systems that were missed), partly that every minor clerical and drawing error that got passed through because of how insignificant it was (nothing that would affect the integrity of the aircraft I should add) has been flagged by Boeing. They want to look proactive to their customers and shareholders I suppose. That means lots of tiny, insignificant changes to hundreds of drawings. It's nothing technically challenging for the most part - just lots and lots of paperwork.
Yes we still don't know exactly the speed of gravity and as it stands we know it to be the around the same speed of light with a margin of 70% ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04188 ). But with so many theories at play, we still don't know for sure. Indeed, some still believe that the speed of light has changed over time - hence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light .
Which as a theory, if true, would really mess up distant astronomy calculations for some.

As you say, would be nice to have some definitive experiment that reduced the margin for error and give a more definitive speed for gravity. Though current results do tend to lean towards Einstein being right more than Newton in respect to the speed of gravity.
The easiest way of doing this is to assume time will never travel and store the latest computed date right? If you've seen 2001, it's never going to be 1999 again, so it must be 2019.

I understand that will require either flash or battery backed RAM, etc to keep this stored, but seems relatively trivial in most applications... (side effect would be that if the backup battery is dead or all batteries are disconnected, you would revert to 1999)
While Bandcamp is indeed the best music purchasing option in my opinion, I'd like to add that music is available without DRM pretty much anywhere these days, regardless of which store you use. It's not something limited to Bandcamp, but an industry-wide common practice.
I know I’m short a night of sleep but:

I’m pretty sure you two are in complete agreement.
It's not impossible, computers have been modeling 3D fluids for a long time. It might be computationally intensive, but definitely not impossible.
$3k to Rent a Movie? Bringing the Theater Home for the 1 Percent
Dating a dude that is cool with buying a bride would be profoundly bad idea. His ideas on what he expects from relationship are such that you really really don't want to with him.
"I can see it as yet another form of redistributing money "from rich to poor"

Except that rent control is not usually means tested.

If you've lived in a rent-controlled apartment in SF for 10 years, and worked as a software engineer all that time, you might choose to stay put even if you buy an apartment. You can pay rent at slightly above prices from 10 years ago, and receive market rent on your new place.
It seems quite unwise of the OP to write-unprotect the diskette and run an "in-place salvage" software on it. With rare, old media like that, the best chance to preserving them is reading the raw magnetic flux data with specialized equipment. Even putting the diskette in a standard floppy drive might be something to avoid, but surely writing to the media is worse.
one tip is avoid GMO foods. the mods make the food resistant to glyphosate, so they can spray it heavily and the crop survives, weeds don't. more gets in your body though.

there are also many google-able tips, such as washing foods better, choosing organic, eating less processed food and more, e.g. https://janeshealthykitchen.com/avoid-these-foods-with-monsa...
What's the best that we can eat? --> What we're evolved to eat
What did hominids eat up to 10.000 years ago? --> Everything except carbs as we know them today

There's your connection of science to low-carb

Carbs in the quantities that we have them these days are ridiculously unnatural,
Does this mean Ghee is generally not used in WB?
Sure there will be local variations due to a variety of factors - invasion of other cultures (islamic, christian, chinese etc) The Ghee thing does have its general influence in Indian culture.
BBC Basic was a really good Basic. Its low level routines (for floating point, for example) were available at certain addresses so you could call them from assembly. And since you could mix assembly into Basic also, it gave you a nice path from simple programs to really making the most of the machine.

I find it astonishing how well thought out this machine was.
Is Cancelling Brexit the Prime Minister’s New Default?
God this should be top. The sheer selfishiness of the incel-verse (and I include all the woe-is-men idw-ers here too).

Pull yourselves together guys! There are other people in the world, with completely different lived expereinces. Being in a relationship with 1 or more of these people is about YOU and THEM.
> That's easy to say, but physical appearance is the gateway to personality based relationships.

This is really only true at the margins.

> Why would a woman settle for a friendly 165 cm guy with a good job, if a 185 cm "lumberjack" is only few swipes away (in theory, because there are many more women competing for him)?

For the same reason most people choose friends based on who they get along with instead of who has the most money/status. After all, why spend time on a friendship that only gets you a beer now and then when you could spend your time befriending people with yachts and ski lodges?

People crave closeness and belonging. Being close with someone who you actually enjoy spending time with feels better than having sex with someone you don't care about.

Note: few people enjoy the company of another person merely because that other person "has a good job" or is merely "friendly". How many of your male friends do you enjoy spending time with because they make good money and aren't assholes? Probably very few. For the rest, you have something in common that drives the friendship. The same thing is true in romantic relationships.
I think that being a professional is exactly that:

"Being able to balance those two core things to meet client needs."

Any kind of extremisms is bad, no matter where applied.
While I haven't committed to a single book, here's a useful resource for referencing. You can find many snippets across the internet if you don't want to purchase.

http://www.gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
> But other than being generally healthy and well-kept, I don't focus on my appearance because grooming is boring. Why spend your time grooming beyond a level of general acceptability when you could learn to play an instrument, learn a new language, read a book, or go for a hike?

You're right. But I never said that we should focus on appearance to the exclusivity of everything else. In that we agree.

But there are people laboring under the idea that you can neglect it by making up for it in other areas. That's what I am trying to refute.
Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil
Oh, yeah, and waves in the water of those hyper-detailed Italian 16th century paintings, or tree leaves -- when lit correctly, you get specular highlights that seriously look like sunlight glistening on there. Blows me away every time.

Those paintings are quite low-resolution on average, but it took me a while to figure out how they could add so much resolution where it mattered, and turns out it's because they have an entire extra dimension to vary things in.
The idea of renting a property as a long-term solution to remaining on a specific plot of land fundamentally makes no sense.

A five or ten year fixed lease, if you can negotiate one, might.

It's completely unsurprising that on a year-by-year lease the rent might rise and you may want to move out. That's what a 1 year lease _is_.

All of the emotional pandering surrounding that is simply unnecessary. If you want to live somewhere for an extended period you either need a long lease or to buy a place.

That's not a politically popular viewpoint for reasons I can't quite understand.
Linus: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Are “A Disease”
> The literal title of this submission is "I lied when I said we did everything we could". If what I'm saying is conspiracy, so is this article.

I think you totally missed the point of the article. The doctor there did what you advocate, it's just that he doesn't consider that doing everything they can.
"outdated" then, perhaps, because it depends on a power hierarchy between the sexes which is losing relevance in modern societies.

Yes, the model is still prevalent, but I'm arguing that's exactly the problem. Basing status and self-worth on sexual conquest makes no more sense than basing it on the number of slaves in one's retinue or the size of the pile of gold in one's treasury. It's a ridiculous and archaic way of thinking.

edit: I may have lost vouching privileges again, so to address blockmarker's dead comment below, unlike other animals, humans are sapient and capable of acting beyond the limits of mere instinct. The entire premise of human civilization, law and society is that abstractions beyond our animal nature are not only possible, but desirable.

Yes, it may be part of our biology for males to want to seek out multiple mates, but it should also be part of our biology, then, for males to murder the children of other males in order to maximize the spread of their own progeny and genetic lineage. And we should be marking our territory with our urine and solving all disputes with ritual violence rather than a system of laws.

We don't have to act like gorillas, we can be people if we choose.
Speaking as a heterosexual woman who has enjoyed meeting up via dating apps, it's ALWAYS about the conversation that results in an actual date. A less attractive guy can make himself get a foot in the door by using really interesting photos. All you need is the swipe-right then use your confidence and humour to get a date. It works for many of us (women).

If it helps to know, a lot of us share screenshots of our conversations with our friends and get advice about what to say, how to start a conversation (or, I'll admit, to laugh about the ridiculous ones - consider this as us sharing risk-knowledge). Maybe get some advice if you're not sure how to go about it at first.
>* The website is not by a single individual with commercial interests. All revenue from the book goes to his foundation, which runs the website*

Not sure for the particulars of this case, but setting up a "foundation", "non profit (which gives one huge salaries as 'expenses')" and so on, are the oldest tricks in the book for con-men, from churches, to donations, activists, etc...

So "all money goes to the foundation" is hardly comforting (the foundation can be setup to cut them a big payslip for their consulting/services/running it, save him tax, etc, in the end make them more than they would make with a "for profit" entity).
The problem with fiction is that it suffers from the “author fiat” problem a.k.a. “it works and has no problems because the author says so”. Real life has no such cheat, and real history and situations can be more usefully examined for problems. Fiction can be useful for brainstorming ideas, but as realistic target it is dangerous.

Regarding Star Trek and post-scarcity, I can only say that not everybody is convinced by what it canonically presents itself to be:

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/Trek-Marxism.html
Pinterest is said to have priced its IPO below its last private market valuation
this doesn't help when it's hidden in the workings of another electronic device which creates heat.
Just turn off the router and use your own. That's crude but should deal with 98% of problems.
or maybe respondents are just more honest nowadays
I'm a bit uncomfortable with ideas like this being promoted in the popular press so much recently.

Spy-vs-spy is something that, for better or worse, nations do. It seems a complicated and delicate matter, and outside the experience of most of us.

In the Boston area, we have a wealth of colleagues, neighbors, and friends who arrived here from around the world. We welcome and appreciate them.

Ordinary people suspecting others, because of something they heard in the news (or amplified in some right-wing outlet), seems unfair and toxic. We've even seen recently that it can be deadly, when a violent mentally ill person is inspired.

I think the international spy business can best be left to the professionals (diplomats, intel agencies, law enforcement, corporate security), to handle discreetly, and the rest of us can just get along.
What Is Tail Call?
Writing a paper letter to Teletext and get an answer, love it. The internet and the web has som serious warts, but it is also amazing.
Best Text Editors for Programmers in 2019
Thanks! See my comment re: whitespace here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19599908
I was under the impression one of the things the brain "burns" is cholesterol. Yes? No?
Legacy Application Modernization
Hacking your brain is kind of easy. Let me demonstrate
It’s Called “reinsurance” and it’s already implemented in many states for cases such as these (million dollar payouts) since post-ACA an insurer could go bankrupt on a single customer with a pre-existing condition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance
Amazon Wants You to Use Alexa to Track Health Care
> People who want to write "beautiful code" are not role models, don't listen to them. They are vain and not productive.

People who push "mostly working" code are hell on earth. Sure you spend 5 hours less on it right now, but it's going to cost literal days or weeks down the line.

How many times have I seen developers push some "good enough" code that they didn't discuss with anyone because it looks good to have XXX commits for their quarterly feedback. They knew "what" to implement but not "how" to implement it or even "why" implement it in the first place, which ends up in hours of useless discussions that would have been avoided by a 1hr meeting before starting coding.
How many times have I seen people going for a DB, stick with it for years because "that's what google/facebook/whatever uses" and end up having to migrate everything to another DB because they went to fast and didn't spend 1/10th of the time on analysing their needs and writing specs.

Do you spend 10 years designing a plane and then 6 months actually building it, or do you spend 6 month planning it and 10 years fixing broken, hacky, "mostly working" parts ? What works for school or hobby projects doesn't work in most professional environments, especially nowadays when developers stays 1-3 years in a company and move to the next job leaving a pile of unmaintainable "mostly working" code.

Coding is the last stage of the process, it's the easy part, a monkey could implement the code if the specs and processes are solid.

People who want to deliver at all cost are not role models, don't listen to them. They are vain and not productive. They might be capable coders but they're not capable engineers for sure.

“Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.” ― Donald Knuth
Data Engineering – Encoding and Decoding (Video Tutorial/Lesson)
Firefox is also planning to add support for off-screen image lazy-loading.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535749
Nokia 3310, the first version.

It was the most reliable, solid mobile phone I have ever had. Battery life is really long, talk quality is very good, screen does not crack when you drop it.
> It allows to share a file directly between two computers, without the need of a third party.

I'm guessing it still depends on STUN and TURN servers?
Not intuitively, but it's generally good to be wary of optimizing compilers in such cases. I don't know what the Go compiler outputs, but a straight forward translation to C didn't compile to a constant time operation with (recent) gcc -O3. For all I know might with some other compiler. This didn't result in any branches in gcc, though:

static uint64_t
add64(uint64_t x, uint64_t y, uint64_t *carry)
{
uint64_t yc, sum;
yc = y + *carry;
sum = x + yc;
*carry = (sum < x || yc < y);
return sum;
}

But again, some other compiler on some other platform may have another idea of what to output.

Anyway I agree to be careful. On platforms that have to use the fallback implementations, if they aren't optimized to constant time operations, this will lose one of the important properties of Poly1305.
The problem I see is that when violent content is banned, politicians and media get to tell people whatever they want.

It happened after the recent terror attack. Regular people need some way to verify the information they are fed.
What might be some examples of Japanese and Korean foods which use nitrate-based salts for meat preservation? I assume meats marinated or cooked with high levels of regular salt are not what you are referring to? This looks like a gap in my knowledge on healthy eating. I'm based in an Asian country and Google was not very forthcoming on this topic.
Despite how awesome WebRTC is, every time I see it my mind instantly goes to whether I understand STUN/TURN enough. They're part of the overall concept of ICE (Interactive Connection Establishment)[0], and STUN is a protocol for negotiated direct peer-to-peer connections[1] whereas TURN[2] is a relay mode that is used when a direct connection cannot be achieved for either side.

When I saw the claim "without the need of a third party", it didn't fit with my knowledge of WebRTC so I went spelunking through the code and found that they do indeed use a STUN server[3], in particular google's "stun.l.google.com:19302".

Just want to point out to those who might be relatively new to WebRTC, p2p mechanisms, etc -- it is surprisingly hard for two computers to talk to each other over the wide internet, even in this day and age. Even if you're behind the same router things aren't necessarily straight forward.

[EDIT] - Also note that in the case of TURN, it is up to the application layer to encrypt communications[4].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Connectivity_Estab...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversal_Using_Relays_around_...

[3]: https://github.com/Antonito/gfile/blob/v0.1.0/internal/sessi...

[4]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23085335/is-webrtc-traff...
> using Tinder unevenly weights physical attractiveness and going to community events more evenly weights other forms of attraction

I am very convinced this would be the case.

I remember reading about a study a while ago about relative attractiveness in heterosexual couples (i.e. how the attractiveness of the man compares to that of the woman). The finding was that there was a strong correlation in relative attractiveness in couples who started dating shortly after meeting, and less of a correlation in couples who knew each other for a long time before dating. Both groups of couples reported similar overall relationship satisfaction.

It makes sense if you think about it: if you get together right after meeting, you probably didn't have much to go on besides the superficial. Things like personality take longer to understand. Tinder is like a distillation of the superficial.
Are we entering an age when we will in effect end up with geo-fenced content filtering firewalls built on the back of that lovely catch-all `political correctness`.

Look at the great firewall of China, how was that perceived initially and how is that perceived today. For some the perspective is still the same, for others, they see a more upfront way compared to how we are in effect seeing Governments implement comparable systems by forcing that filtering and content blocking/restrictions upon private companies.

Whilst we are all for free speech and openness, we see governments all around the World curtailing those area's on the back of laws and regulations that are born out of a small minority and edge-cases.

After all - seeing sites blocked on the net because 0.01% of the content falls foul of some law or regulation and that being classed as fine. Yet transpose that same mentality onto people and cries of discrimination and racism jump right out at you.

Are we seeing the majority of people being sleep-walked into being firewalled upon what content they can see and what they can say akin to the great firewall of China? Sadly, I think we are.
2 weeks of a full-on allergy is really bad, and it also affected by other stuff (like rain, etc.) It's hard to control.
The tsunami which hit Fukushima was 43-49 feet tall. For seismic originated tsunamis, this is near the upper limit.

Not all tsunamis are caused by earthquakes though. On July 9th, 1958, there was a rockfall in Lituya Bay, Alaska. A cliff face broke off, and fell 3000 feet into the ocean. This resulting in a tsunami which stripped vegetation at up to 1720 feet in the surrounding areas.

https://geology.com/records/biggest-tsunami.shtml
I see a lot of watches among 'fitness' people as well these days. I'd estimate that roughly half the people in my office wears a watch of some kind and non of them wears a suit to work.
In fact, it’s already fragile without opening it at all...