skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know what it looks like because it has been done in the past: Join/form a union with your fellow workers. Use your political power -- including threats of strikes and other acts of non-compliance or civil disobedience -- to demand meaningful changes to the structure of our society. You're right, the work of many people on HN is crucial to the logic and function of the current system. United, they could hold significant power over it.
It will be interesting to see how / if this plays out in court.

I don't really trust Assange to tell his own story honestly as it is so I kinda want to see what anyone can prove when the rubber hits the road.
If I recall correctly, it is possible to get stuck in King's Quest VI; there are items that you require to get out of the catacombs, and without them you're stuck once you're inside. I believe they obliquely warn you by kicking you out first and telling you to "prepare", but you can still come back without the items and they don't specifically list them, and at that point they'll happily throw you in without them.

I found this out when playing this as a kid without knowing how to look up a guide. Fun times.
> We don't really have projects like that anymore.

Gnu HURD?
You can also try reading the book Joy of Half Cookie. It gives some practices in section two on how to eat more mindfuly
Unfortunately, as a society I think we're going to have to "pee on the electric fence" for ourselves to find out.

Despite the fact that this spectrum has never been used for any widespread purpose, we're rolling it out and the burden is not on the implementers to prove that it is safe. It's basically on researchers to both prove, publicize, and convince society as a whole that 5G has health impacts.

I am not going to go all conspiracy-theory and say that the research is being suppressed but certainly funding for this research is not going to be a priority for the US government, as they've been thoroughly bought and paid for. Most research into health effects of non-ionizing radiation is not funded from the US government, so draw your own conclusions from that.
As I pointed out in another thread, Louisville is in the middle of Karst country and hugely restricts underground work for very good reasons due to all the limestone underneath the city. The city was very clear they had to use the utility poles because more than a century of civil engineering backs up the city's reliance on its utility poles. Google knew trenching wasn't a viable solution in the city and they did it anyway.
I was with you until the bees thing. That's pseudoscience at best.
This is why I like Spock [0]. You can go G/W/T/, W/T, T, or Expect [1]. It's billed as "multi-paradigm" which really just means you can do whatever feels right for a given case. Also its data table feature is wonderful [2][3].

[0]: http://spockframework.org/

[1]: http://spockframework.org/spock/docs/1.3/spock_primer.html#_...

[2]: http://spockframework.org/spock/docs/1.3/data_driven_testing...

[3]: https://twitter.com/dminkovsky/status/1116727735399976966
Against Chill: Apathetic Music to Make Spreadsheets To
> As with most of the stories in the bible, they tied them into some real events to ground them to the people, to myths of the age, then wove into them a fantasy story perhaps with enough grounding to reality to state "based on a true story", but probably not even that

To the extent that the bible is inaccurate, it's certainly less a conspiracy to mislead and more a gradual loss of accuracy due to being passed down generations orally before eventually being written down.

EDIT: I’m perplexed that this is a controversial opinion. What evidence is there that supports a conspiracy explanation?
If one thing if you are haggling over a used toaster at a yard sale. It's another when you are negotiating a business relationship where the success of both parties is important. A contract with a supplier doesn't do you any good if the terms are so bad it cripples their ability to execute.

That highlights a beef I have with economics. Failure to understand that business relationships are exactly that. You can't model them using the sorts of time invariant non-network models they use.
One basis for complaint that stands out to me is framing "flexible resources" as a full degree of freedom.

The first question is of course whether that's true, since resources don't tend to flex up unless someone outside the project dictates it. But even if it's accurate, it tends to produce the situation The Mythical Man-Month was written to condemn. If the ship date can't move and the scope won't bend on core features, there's a very real risk of finding that extra resources can't fix the timeline problems.

You're right that most organizations have to operate this way, and it's not inherently bad; I've just found that "flexible resources" is often used as a way to avoid admitting that the real third category is "risk of failure".
I hate that attitude. Especially if a bug is impacting something I am doing, I’ll just fix it myself and let them know.
I suspect it's more for VR and 8k bump on output is cheap compared to helping Samsung and LG sell their 8k models.
pointing out a pattern of strange behavior != denying scientific consensus.
> next-gen media

What does this mean? Something beyond video? VR?
I'd also highly recommend the Gordon West ham radio study books, they do an excellent job of teaching you both the answer, and the theory behind the answer.
It's used in more places than you'd think, e.g. Alexa:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18726804
Why would you leave a comment as unhelpful as this one
That 75% of the time is spent with a mostly functioning program though. There are a lot of cases where getting something now is worth overall spending 10x as much time getting it right latter.

Of course everyone wants the best of both worlds: everything now, zero bugs. Fast, cheap, right: pick two applies despite everyone wanting all three.
The carrier signal of a new technology could potentially use any frequency that isn't already in use. A lot of the frequency spectrum is already accounted for and generally parts of the spectrum that are important to scientific research are internationally protected (Such as the resonant frequency of hydrogen which is used extensively in radio astronomy).

That being said it is more technically difficult to go "up" in frequency. Lower frequencies have less bandwidth, but are easier to generate, can go through physical objects better and for longer distances.

This fight to me looks like the industry wants to use a cheaper frequency that meets their minimum technical goals (in terms of development costs not necessarily licensing costs) science and other applications be damned.
It's impressive how a lot of reasonable and negative comments about Facebook are always downvoted here. Probably it isn't a coordinated PR tactic, just where have a lot of Facebookers here.
I had a photocopy for more than twenty years. But it's gone. A university library will probably be your best bet.
Speed of light is for-all-practical-purposes infinite in the reference frame of the moving object (i.e. photon), thanks to special relativity.
> It seems like we should be able to make a system that can be installed in older buildings that isn’t unsightly and damages them at this point.

This shouldn't be downvoted. That would be more interesting and useful work than most of the Apps everyone's working on.
I know, but the situation is quite different now:

- the sitting US President is an unpopular one, picking a fight with him is not particularly unpalatable in Europe at the moment;

- this directive, once translated into national law (which, admittedly, could take some time), will probably grant Snowden explicit protection from extradition in some countries (many extradition treaties require equivalent crimes te be present into local legislation);

- the HK families of refugees who helped Snowden back then, have recently been accepted into Canada to protect them. This is a signal that the taboo is somewhat broken.

- the EU parliamentary campaign has just gone into full swing. It's the perfect time for grand gestures, particularly from governments that feel under assault by populist forces.
Another possible reason, now that I think about it more, is future proofing.

If that's the case, then props for forward thinking on their part.

Recently on a whim I decided to plug in my N64 to a 1080p TV, and I was surprised how terribly the graphics scaled to the higher resolution.
I totally agree! I think this will be more true as we get better at natural language understanding. (coincidentally, this is my PhD research area)

There's still a lot of unsolved problems for making this kind of stuff usable. But we can dream, haha, and we're getting closer. I think the possibilities for games are actually much more impressive than most people imagine, right now.
Except film produced with film. Godfather is supposed to look spectacular since it was film, Star Wars though needs a lot more work.
The title means to me, that they know he "tried" but don't know if he was "successful".
CIA “Spider-Man”
I think the limitation is just the simplest trade-off.

For example, an unbounded rule list has unbounded serial compilation time.

A 50k rule list recompiles in a couple seconds on my laptop and quite some time on my iPhone, but multiple rule lists can be compiled in parallel.

I suppose your response to this would be that content blocker recompilation could be made parallel over a single list or made to support incremental recompilation.

And you're probably right. But note that even Chrome's proposed content blocker system has the same limitation. Perhaps it's not as straightforward as it seems and it's not just a result of neglect/abandonment.

I mainly responded because the language you used seemed more damning than necessary. But have you tried 1Blocker X[1] which is built on the content blocker API? It's hard to condemn the content blocking system too much when there's an app that utilizes it to such great effect.

You are right about Apple/Webkit moving slowly on community feedback and bug reports though. I suppose I'm used to the glacial pace of non-critical-path browser issues after my Firefox bug went three years without response until it was fixed after Quantum's release. You are probably more critical here than I am. At Amazon, anything sev3 to sev5 went into a heap so large it was a miracle if anyone opened it again.

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-x-adblock/id1365531...
Mostly, I'd agree.

I have literally no idea how long it would take though, I couldn't in good faith put a number to it.

I also don't want the work - Windows isn't an environment I have experience in because it's an environment I don't want experience in. They wouldn't allow a rate change to do the work.
The consensus was set by electing politicians who don't work for the common good. Facebook is nothing new. Our privacy has been systematically degraded by the data broker industry which has existed since before ARPANET. Congress protects that industry and Facebook reaps those benefits.
Yes, possibly for single-player interactive fiction. But kids these days spend a lot of time in multi-person text conversations, pointing to a MUD resurgence. Maybe we'll see both.
You might want to look into what the NRO is already putting in space (supposedly) [1]. If the reports are to be believed, 100m dishes are already there, just pointing at the earth instead of into deep space. To your second point, it seems that relative positioning is mostly a solved problem at least for satellites in GSO (that's a core part of how GPS works). My personal opinion is that space-based radio astronomy is mostly a problem of cost, not of available tech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(satellite)
Some people have claimed that in my organization. I think that can work for library code, and particularly libraries that are used in many different places.

But once you're talking about a service, or code that is only used by one service, then you need to have an owner (or a team of owners). If you still think there's no owner, then ask yourself who is going to get woken up at 2AM when it breaks, and that's your owner.
Can you hint where I can read more about the wood / fungus history thing?
This is awesome! Thanks! My only advice would be a sleeker logo :D
Non-ionizing radiation does have potential biological effects on Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels (VGCCs) which our cells have plenty of:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3780531/
If I were a head of state, I would want all the organisations which constitute a non-trivial part of my budget [1] to have good accounting practices and, by extension, whistle-blowing protections.

Is there any reason why someone who is more interested than me in becoming a head of state may think otherwise?

[1] which I define politically as “could I get a headline out of lowering income tax, national insurance, or non-UK equivalent term, by cancelling this line item?”, and I think the EU counts as such for the UK. 1% GDP, IIRC.
We still have some collected myths and stories from the Romans and the Norse and so on, but a lot of these were written by Christian converts who were sad that the stories they heard on their grandparents' knees were going to disappear.

We have Roman myths as written down by pagans pre-Christianity.

But our records of Norse myths were written down around 1200 AD, a couple of centuries after Christianity became the official religion in Scandinavia in 1000 AD. It is hard to say how much modification there was between those points.

The biggest change is that Odin/Wotan finished his long journey from being recognizably Mercury when the Romans met the Germanic people to absorbing a lot of the character of Tyr (aka Mars) and then becoming king of the gods. The historical root survives in language, Wednesday is still named after Wotan in English, and after Mercury in various Romance languages.

There is reason to believe that during Viking times, Thor was (like his analogs Jupiter and Zeus before) still the king of the gods. And therefore Odin's role as patron of kings and poets both was responsible for his elevation in the version of the myths that got written down.
I don't think pivoting into a different account goes all the way to "framing".

Not that it matters what we call it, since everyone seems to be in agreement that they shouldn't be punished for what the account was hypothetically used for.
"When I showed up at my first day of work, the first words out of my supervisor's mouth were, "I don't know why you are here, we have no need for programmers.""

Wow. If that's not a huge red flag that you shouldn't work there, I don't know what one is. The only appropriate response to that, I think, is to say "OK, then, it was nice to meet you. I quit."
A lot of the things I use for development are already mentioned so far so I'll mention something specific to Windows 10. While I wish I could use Linux for work I do quite like it as an OS, but it does have a lot of trackers and this thing called Cortana that tries to be a voice assistant like Apple's Siri. If you're not paying attention you'll click OK on the thing that allows it to record you while you're working (really) and it's very hard to figure out what to do to stop it from doing that.

There is a tool called ShutUp10 [0] which disables this crapware with some helpful registry tweaks. It's not OSS though so do use caution and be sure you're getting it from a reputable source.

You might also be happy to know that you can right-click and remove all the rubbish from the start menu and just have something that resembles older Windows start menus.

Finally, my favourite console is cmder [1] which is a tabbed console with hot keys and integrates with PuTTY if you need to connect to Linux boxes.

[0] https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

[1] https://cmder.net/
I keep coming back to Rick of Rick and Morty talking to the toaster. You're a toaster you make toast.
> Why wouldn't they is already in my first post: play broken phone in school and see what I mean.

Broken phone is you listening to a message whispered once to you, and there's always a jerk in the middle who changes the story to something totally different. These stories would have been told to you over and over again until you know it by heart. They would naturally get embellished, and that's what we see - floods cover the earth men become gods, mountain peaks become heaven.

It's also important to note that, while we don't know events from 5 to 10 years ago off by heart, we all remember where we were when 9/11 happened - those are the sorts of events that would have been passed down. And really, all we get out of these stories is the equivalent to "9/11 happened" - many of the stories lose all other details.

For instance, there's a general consensus that Noah's Ark is based upon a flood myth shared by many different cultures is drawn from a Mesopotamian precursors, and seems to stem from ~2000 BCE. There are a bunch of retellings with a bunch of different details - there's heroes and gods, but the water varies from "killing everything on Earth" to "a river flooding", and was due to sin, or overpopulation, or just the caprices of the Gods.

That does sound like what would happen if you were playing telephone.
Speakers can be nice, but nothing matches the control over each ear and the low distortion of good open headphones.
A good reason to keep your body, as well kept as your mind, if not for your own sake.

Everyone on this planet has the potential to make a positive contribution, we can all be a hero even just for a day.
http://feedthedatamonster.com/home/2014/7/11/how-fungi-saved...

The period of time is called carboniferous and it's the time where all the coal we use today was created.

> Using a class of enyzmes called peroxidases, the fungus bombarded the wood with highly reactive oxygen molecules, in much the same way one might untie a knot using a flamethrower. This strategy reduced the wood to a carbohydrate-rich slurry from which the fungus could slurp up the edible cellulose.
Honestly, I'm surprised more companies don't formalize this. There are places that offer customers discounts or feature-request priority in return for being beta testers, which seems like a major improvement in both integrity and efficient feedback.

I suppose it's both slower and more expensive than "just ship bad code at full price and wait", but I'd still expect more companies to choose it as the intermediate option between that and comprehensive in-house testing.
Apple warns users of interference issue between Apple Pencil and car key fobs
Dictionary definition aside, the colloquial meaning of "guys" is quite frequently "men". I think the GP was trying to be gender-neutral. I actually have tried to move to "folks" myself for that reason.
That's a fair point. Still, terrorism was nowhere near as much on the radar then as it is now.
I like Mathematica a lot, and I'm happy to see the client library for Python. What it really needs though is a decent debugger. I'd upgrade today if this release had one.

I think the people at Wolfram and heavyweight Wolfram Language users use Eclipse - which provides support for debugging. Though running with Eclipse in one window and Notebook in another is a bit of a dogs dinner.

In the Notebook environment I found the current debugging functionality to be pretty terrible. The GUI needs to work much more like a modern IDE, to support easy single stepping, inspection and editing of values, so us mere mortals can figure out what is going wrong when results aren't what you expect (and this is half of what programming is, after all).

In fact it might provide that somewhere among the layers of complexity of its meta-debugging whatnots. But I never figured it out, and really I shouldn't have to be fighting complexity when I'm just trying to find out why my program isn't working.

A decent debugger would help us understand the product better than any number of new documentation functions.
Far and away the best government website I've ever seen.

I've heard of Estonian e-residency before, but have never met anyone who actually took advantage of it. I'd be interested to know people's personal experiences with the program.
Even Latin still makes sense to learn in some capacity. It's obsolete(or dead, really) as a form of communication, but it's still helpful to know in order to better understand the words that we use today, many of which stem from Latin. Understanding etymology and some Latin has helped me understand the meaning of words without even having to look them up.

Cursive, on the other hand, still exists for its own sake. It's an obsolete skill because few people write actual letters anymore or rely on handwriting often. We still use English every day, which is why learning Latin is a better use of one's time than to learn cursive.
I think you misunderstand me - I do not intend to express any confidence that phones will end up better than satellites if used exclusively! I am saying that working in tandem, all technology to measure and study the atmosphere should be used to better understand the weather.

Phones together with satellites and radars and weather stations will produce a better weather forecast experience than we have today, without using phones.

Thanks for the Candide reference, that is one of my favourite books, but I do not think it really applies to my optimism about weather forecasting technology into the future. We currently live in the worst of worlds when it comes to stability of plans for improvements into our weather infrastructure (at least in the US).
Some build the car, some repair it, some just drive...

Can't we all just get along?
I'll let Popehat handle this one: https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-...
The current title of the article is: Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show
Do you have statistics on how much time people spend playing Candy Crush or other modern games? I think a lot of people have spent 70 hours watching Game of Thrones.

But if length is really a problem, making shorter versions wouldn't be hard.
Does Git not provide this functionality? I'm curious.
Yes that makes a lot of sense. Sony does not want to incentivize people to buy their consoles and never buy anything that they actually make money off of.
Aren't you describing the difference between roundabouts and traffic circles? Maybe this is US-specific terminology.
It would be presumptuous to think "this is the real Boeing" based on anecdotes from people who worked there. Even in big companies, where a lot of folks are twiddling thumbs, there are undoubtedly teams where real quality work gets done. These teams are somewhat insulated from the bureaucratic environment around them and attract true performers.
There’s an ongoing debate on “guys” being non-inclusive. I don’t personally buy into it, but that doesn’t make it an invalid position. I generally recommend calling people what they want to be called and exercising common courtesy.
Is there a big database of ancient DNA that all researchers have access to?
a reason why exactly asylum seekers remain vulnerable is that they are effective bargaining chips. this makes them toxic for an "ally" and would undo years of foreign policy & soft power. I wish Germany would do provide Snowden with asylum but I can't see it happening considering what Germany has invested in the US.

the case Assange, and Moreno show what happens if only the internal politics of the host country swing in favor of the ally.

imo Snowden is safest in Russia which is unlikely to be an US ally any time soon.

from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25085592

"> The Nine Eyes Alliance refers to the same group plus Denmark, France, the Netherlands and Norway. The 14 Eyes Alliance adds Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden."
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