skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came here to (wrongly) correct your statement, as I remembered that the only relevant effect was from special relativity.

It turns out it is the exact opposite: general relativity effects prevail [0]. Thanks for forcing me to check!

> Special Relativity predicts that the on-board atomic clocks [...] should fall behind clocks on the ground by about 7 microseconds per day [...] due to the time dilatation effect of their relative motion.

> Further, the satellites are in orbits [...] where the curvature of spacetime due to the Earth's mass is less than it is at the Earth's surface. A prediction of General Relativity is that clocks closer to a massive object will seem to tick more slowly [...]. A calculation using General Relativity predicts that the clocks in each GPS satellite should get ahead of ground-based clocks by 45 microseconds per day.

> The combination of these two relativitic effects means that the clocks on-board each satellite should tick faster than identical clocks on the ground by about 38 microseconds per day (45-7=38)!

[0] http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps....
well unfortunately the US justice system is the one they are going to have to deal with. you don't really get a preference in such things.
The Reims cathedral was heavily damaged during WWI and completely rebuilt. It loosely ressembles Notre-Dame de Paris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reims_Cathedral
Plus, they are reporting on, like, you know... the President of the United States.

Those kind of shenanigans are kind-of a big deal, by definition.
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It's also literally the center of modern Paris, as there's a point just in front of the building that all distances in the city are measured from.
>For the most part, at least partial anonymity is up to the choice of the participants for in person social interaction, why should the internet be different?

the internet isn't different. But Facebook isn't 'the internet', Facebook is a commercial public platform. I fully expect to not be anonymous when I engage with any commercial platform,be it online or offline, the only places where I expect full anonymity are places I own, where no liability or implications for third parties exist.

You can have those on the internet, but they're not commercial, centralised social media websites where people, with their posts, face the public. Facebook in this example is exactly like a bar or a townsquare, and not like my private home.
Right. If they committed to nuclear in 2000, they'd probably already be at very low carbon: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/09/11...
For us we started making ice cream at home. It didn't replace it, but by making it ourselves we were able to tune the recipe over time to be something that we enjoy, but slowly replace or reduce the things we didn't want. The recipe we make now is:

0.5 c. Cream
1.5 c. Milk
0.5 c. Sugar (or substitute; we use Splenda)
1.0 pinch Salt
0.5 tsp. Vanilla
Up to one cup of flavor

For flavor we just blend whatever we think will be good. Bananas are good, strawberries, raspberries. Most fruits are pretty good, but weakly flavored. A spoonful of sugar-free jelly helps add a little punch to the flavors.

We got a good deal on a Breville [1], but you can get by just fine with a ~$50 one and some experimenting.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Breville-BCI600XL-Smart-Scoop-Cream/d...
Which neither means that beautiful math is necessarily describing the world inaccurately.

Taken to the extreme, the best description of the world is a long list of all events and facts. No beauty in that. Now science tries to compress this list of events to a simple model that explains it best. Like in statistics, one should aim for the simplest model predicting most of the data.

I'd argue that if you think of science as an attempt to compress all the data in the world, then OP's statement is obvious, and at the same time there's good reason to value beautiful (i.e. short & simple) explanations higher provided they generalize well.
No, you see, because the reporters failed to uncover evidence of similar crimes “on the other side” they must be biased and therefore the enemy of the people.
I think a mental health evaluation would be more prudent from the VC than a drug test. If they are struggling with addiction then that would come out in the mental health screen with the therapist, and instead of being denied opportunity during a fragile time of their life, they might actually get the help they need without ruining their life and finding themselves unemployed due to a failed drug test.
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Hah, thanks! :) I'll got a few queued up that I hope to get finished up pretty soon.
A lot of the issues can't be solved without relying on an authoritative 3rd party (which is what facebook, whatsapp, skype, etc do). For example, because all messages are p2p, you can't view conversation history that isn't stored locally or sent by the other party upon request (which may not include deleted messages, etc).
I don't consider maintaining or not maintaining a yard to be romantic, it's more of a chore. Gardening is a rewarding activity, but it's also not particularly romantic, it's what humans did for thousands of years to get food.

If I let my yard grow wild then I quickly have a large variety of wildflowers, interesting plants, and mixed wildlife in my yard.

Once an environment has been altered or landscaped in anyway, it requires what is considered neglect (and/or a lot of work) to get it back to a natural state. For most people with any sort of ever manicured yard, it's simpler to mow. Otherwise by modern standards it can be unsightly, is mostly socially unacceptable, considered bad for property values, etc, and it can also minimize the human use of a field.
Sorry it was intended to be "stiffing".

Usually when a group grows to a certain size, somebody will decide that rather than chipping in $30, because they "just had a salad", they'll toss in $12.95 for the salad, skip tax and tip and disappear.
A reasonable person would not think that.

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”

-Donald J Trump
I wonder if we need a non-turning complete library for chrome extensions like we have for some packet filtering libraries and bitcoin script.

No regex.

No loops.

Constrained list of functions.

This could go a long way towards opening up the web to more extensions but also keeping it more secure.

I recently did a rev to the Polar chrome extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/polar-pdf-web-and-...

and I had to request a new permission for filtering and they're now taking a WEEK to approve my any updates due to code review.

I really only need to evaluate a URL and add headers.

This doesn't need to be turing complete.

I basically just need to take a HTTP response and headers if they're missing when a specific origin is set.
I got a real cool visual reading this.
Is network distributed computation possible on a modern internet?

As in one subnet is data, another is CPU another subnet is stack/heap?
"A special citation to honor the journalists, staff and editorial board of the Capital Gazette, Annapolis, Maryland, for their courageous response to the largest killing of journalists in U.S. history in their newsroom on June 28, 2018, and for demonstrating unflagging commitment to covering the news and serving their community at a time of unspeakable grief. The citation comes with a $100,000 bequest by the Pulitzer Board to be used to further the newspaper’s journalistic mission."

This is great
How is Signal inferior to WhatsApp "in terms of functionality and usability"?
Because sometimes we get some sleep and forget about the nightmare.
3 - you missed the cartoonist, but it's ok I generally agree with you
Totally agree. We’re also making significant progress on the waste that needs to be disposed. Gen-5 reactors that could be brought online in the 2030s, with sustained investment, could be closed cycle enough that waste may only need to be stored for a few hundred years. That’s short enough that we don’t need anything particularly special to store it.
Original solicitation is from June 2018, not clear that this story is anything but a reheating of that announcement, found here: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c244cde...

(As an aside, it is always a bit unsettling when a federal function is represented by something that looks like a link farm. I mean, I know you elected Trump and all, but "FedBizOpps" probably predates him by a decade)
I bought my Feel the Heat tickets on the KSC website Monday evening, two days before the original launch date (well, one day after the No Earlier Than (NET) date). Feel the Heat tickets were still available through the website at least on Tuesday night as well.
Lord have mercy
its not always possible to sustain that philosophy of work economically for all businesses. I'm not defending every case of it, just that there are legitimate reasons why speed is valued over quality in certain cases.
Yes, much of the media is, and when it's bothered to be labeled as opinion it is definitely opinion.

I find much NYTimes Opinion to be distasteful, cringeworthy, divisive, propaganda, and even inciting, but it seems a fairly reasonable opinion that unnecessary poison use is bad.

Do have the opinion that poison on a lawn is good?
This is where Safari content blocking extensions are now. The extensions register a list of URLs with Safari with instructions to block.
It's perfectly correct and does not contradict physics. Think about it in the opposite direction - say you have a perfect laser, with perfect pointing ability. You pick two planets that are far away from each other but at roughly the same distance from Earth, and make an angle of 10 degrees with it; it will take you a few seconds to "move" the laser 10 degrees and thus move the spot from one planet to the other - in the process making the spot "travel" millions of light years in a few seconds. However, the light itself has not traveled at faster-than-light speeds (it still takes a lot of years for the light from your laser pointer to reach any one of those two planets).
Nationalism, in current usage, tends to mean jingoism. The difference between that and patriotism could be described as the same as the difference between love and obsession.
Just in case you want to look at the sources of something similar, here is a good one: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok
Aside from the typical encryption worries here are some features I would love to see being offered on a alternative messenger app

-ability to give out your alias or username to people to reach you on whatsapp instead of a phone number, something you can change later after banning the contact.

-transcribe voice messages to enable search among them.

-ability to hide the fact that i have listened to their voice message.

-ability to hide the fact that i am on whatsapp network and receive 'add to contact' requests from people where i can accept or reject without them knowing i actually rejected.

-hide the 'online' in conversation window when im reading the message.

-save my chat history in the cloud so that i dont lose everything when i move from iOS to Android or vise versa.

-ability to save incoming and outgoing media attachments to the cloud for access later

-full desktop support for video and voice calls

-ability to record the calls, and have their transcribed texts easily searchable.

-ability to ignore certain kind of messages from certain people such as 'allow text messages only, no calls, no pictures, no videos.'
etc.
History and culture are very important to the French people. Our Lady of Paris is one of the cores of the city.

The country and government being secular does not mean that the people left their Catholic roots behind. Atheist and religious French people share similar values and the past is very important to both.
It's complaining about a certain ignorant disrespect I've seen personally today, so I see it as corrective and therefore constructive. But I think I get what you're saying, though your comment is a little threadbare; I'd be interested in your full argument/reasoning.

EDIT: I added a few words to the grandparent post to try to make my intent clearer.
A 500 billion dollar corporation will always be able to beat nonprofits on usability. The question you should ask yourself is whether the marginal difference in usability makes up for all the negative consequences of being a Facebook user.
Not all software. Linux is over 25 years old and shows no signs of abandonment. I think the odds are very good that it'll still be in use a century from now. Apache is almost as old, if you count its NCSA roots. Microsoft SQL Server is basically 1990s Sybase with a new GUI. Etc.

I think the odds are much higher that we'll see the end of significant advancement in computing power than the odds that we'll see Linux pass into memory. In Vernor Vinge's marvelous novel A Deepness in the Sky, programmer-archeologists dig through millennia of software on a 5000 year old spaceship, but it's still running Unix underneath, because no one ever came up with anything better.
The relevant French agency has weighed in. https://twitter.com/SecCivileFrance/status/11178596627941130... Translated into English, that says:

"The weight of the water and the intensity of the drop at low altitude could indeed weaken the structure of Notre-Dame and result in collateral damage to the buildings in the vicinity."

So, yeah, I'm gonna trust the experts on this one, not random armchair Internet quarterbacking.
That's exactly my thoughts.

Interestingly, WhatsApp uses the same e2e encryption protocol under the hood... or at least it used to I know Facebook is trying to merge it with messenger which certainly means removing the e2e encryption.

Good news is this means Signal could probably be on parity with WhatsApp with a little government grant money love.
I feel this is a good explanation: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/an-important-distinction
it's literally not possible to be worse that whatsapp, though.
Recruitment is a vital part of the work companies do and they traditionally pour a ton of resources into that aspect of hiring. But yes, I agree specifying the deal was "limited" to recruitment hiring would be better and more precise.

That shouldn't be used to diminish how vast of a deal this was. But I generally agree with you.
I have a friend who did this with a PC motherboard, and it worked. Personally I would never try it.
The problem with this is that offense and hate is often little more than a matter of perspective. Let's imagine I say "it is self evident that women should be treated equally to men." This, from 'our' perspective, is probably about as controversial as saying that water is wet. Now let's shift perspective just slightly. And I'm in a stadium speaking to an audience in Saudi Arabia, and say the same thing. I now just insulted their religion, their culture, and their worldview. For some my comment would be edging towards outright heresy (as I just stated that overt contradictions of their religious texts are "self evident"), which is punishable by death. And while Saudi Arabia is the ever low hanging fruit, this would be comparably true for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people across the world.

It's easy to say 'well it's obvious that your statement is not offensive or hateful' but in doing so, you're doing little more than projecting your values. Many people would vehemently disagree. So who gets to decide what's offensive or hateful? Without free speech the answer there easy - whoever is in power. And what they're going to decide is, at some point, going to end up being abused to their own benefit. And even without abuse it's often going to be little more than an exercise in entrenching a status quo. One fun example there is that Britain still has a law on the books such that advocating for the abolition of the monarchy is technically punishable by life in prison. Quite progressive though, it used to be death! [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_Felony_Act_1848
Rough translation by hand:

First, it's the temperature. A fire is extinguished in the first minutes; after a few hours, you can do nothing but contain it. It's the problem with roof fires: they burn for a long time without being seen, and are therefore powerful when visible.

The aerial tankers are at Nimes. Helicoptors are a little closer, but more in the south. If you use one or the other, it would take several hours.. After the detection of the fire, by which time it has grown in power.

Specific complication today: the discovery was at the end of the afternoon. The planes can't operate in night (experimentation is ongouging), especially in an environment as complex as Paris. Even if we send them, they couldn't intervene until tomorrow.

Second point: access. A roof, it's waterproof. An aerial tanker would douse the tiles or copper cover, but not a drop would arrive on the file except at the stage where the roof has already began to fall. Then, the plane could douse the flames. But it's much, much too late: by the time the first tiles fell, the carpentry would already be gravely weak. In fact, these fires only become visible when the damage is already profound.

Sending the aerial tankers over a building, that's already done. But for exterior fires. Under a roof, that isn't useful until the roof has already fallen. That's why these planes don't service this kind of fire. In fact, at the moment where one can still save the roof, these fires are only accessible by the interior.

That's the difficulty with the work of firefighting. If they could, they would love to intervene without plunging into the flames... But while it burns under a roof, it's necessary to go find the fire.

Correction after several reactions: when I speak of aircraft without precision, I think especially of helicopters. Canadair is clearly excluded by effect of its backwash, which can provoke a collapse of the carpentry, already severely weakened.
Insurance companies already do this but that's not the point at all. You can be the victim of a cyberattack even if you do everything right and the insurance company will refuse to pay out of it's tied to (perhaps with little evidence) to a state-funded attack.
Although structured that way, they recruit directly from the public, not from the ranks of the existing army. Dunno if you can transfer.

If they get 8 months of training before employment, I kinda hope they spend more time on the theory and practice of firefighting than being a soldier.
>> which can't be replicated endlessly with very low marginal costs.

Sure it sounds easier to build an app store, but is it really any simpler than building railroads? One might think of app store as being just software but it's way more than that, it's an entire ecosystem built by a huge company made of the best talent in the world.

Look at big companies like Microsoft and Blackberry who have given up on their smartphone ecosystem (and respective app stores). It's definitely very competitive and cannot be replicated endlessly with very low marginal costs.
Has there ever been a large scale, well controlled study evaluating CEO performance under the influence of THC/coke/anything else vs. sober? Absolutely not, because as you say, these are only baseless behavioral associations to character flaws.

If you are concerned about character flaws, evaluate that directly. Failing a drug test ruins peoples lives worse than smoking that joint ever did, and there are plenty of terrible people who've been sober all their life.
For natural resources like fish I think there's a good case to be made for cartel style control. Consider the Maine lobster industry where Fishermen strictly adhere to and enforce conservation guidelines with the hopes of leaving a healthy lobster population for future generations to live off.

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2018/0625/For-Maine-lo...
What's flawed about it? Are you saying firefighters wouldn't run into a burning building to save the original paper?

To flip your point around, they'd save it because it's symbolically important. Same with the art in the Notre Dame.
That's the name of the state ownership part of TEPCO. The government even had to give them 1 trillion yen to keep them from going under, and it was originally planned that the entire company would be nationalized, which turned into majority ownership (a bit over 50%).
Darpa had absolutely nothing to do with Dual_EC_DRBG.
This particular attack wouldn't have been mitigated by any of that. This is why you also have insurance in addition to doing everything you can to prevent an attack.
Well, on that regard, neither can you on Whatsapp itself.
Interesting to see 4 winners with investigations about Trump.
What video call is this? Do everyone get a call?
A few points that I hope dont come off snarky

1) It's open source, so if you can code and have time, you can help.

2) Some small friction adders seem like a small price to pay to not have a facebook product installed on my phone and suck all my metadata down.
I think this comment is a bit unfair. They weren't belittling the situation in any way. They are concerned about their own kids and posting in a thread about kids and food. You're really tearing into them and I do not think it is warranted.
The actual wikipedia page has a bunch of links that the OP doesn't include. To me, this is the opposite of code golf; rather than trying to concisely express the concept in the language's "builtins", it instead delegates the underlying concepts to their own "functions", and only describes the relationship between these concepts.

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

If you know what the linked terms mean, you can move on quickly. If you don't, then explaining the higher-level concept in a way that skips these building blocks would be a waste of time; it's a better use of everyone's time for readers to at least skim the linked articles, first.
The more companies though, the more times the same dollar can be taxed.
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It would be nice if there was somewhere to find high quality news reporting that avoided toxic stuff like tweets. I'm not sure what that embedded tweet adds to this BBC story besides getting people worked up over something that's totally unrelated. You'd think Notre Dame burning down would be enough.
Then find a parking spot or don’t drive if you have to rely on fiddling with your phone while driving.