skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> to prevent Russia's ultimate motive of
>> undermining democracy entirely

I do not believe Russia has such a motive. I do believe they do want to weaken the US (just as the US wants to weaken its own geostrategic opponents, including Russia), but they couldn't really care less if the US is a democracy or something else. That's why FB ads were targeted at both sides, to rile them up against each other. And that's also why they organized protests after Trump won.

For the past 2 years or so, the entirety of the democratic party and mainstream press have been helping them to undermine and divide the US, so I figure it's working according to their plan. The US is exactly where Putin wants it to be: unproductive squabbling in the Congress and Senate, executive branch is partially paralyzed, half the US hates the other half due to basically lies fed to them by the mainstream press.

The rest of your post underscores my point perfectly: it's a faith-based argument.
> The system also uses its facial recognition systems to detect ethnicities and labels them — such as “汉族” for Han Chinese, the main ethnic group of China — and also “维族” — or Uyghur Muslims, an ethnic minority under persecution by Beijing.

I'm getting some strong ww2 death camp vibes from this...
I do generally live in cheap rubbery sandals these days. It has crossed my mind that might be a factor.

IIRC, leather shoes are recommended for grounding purposes. So if I ever do get a real job, I should be able to meet dress code without sabotaging my health by getting leather shoes appropriate for the office. I currently work from home and don't need to meet any kind of dress code, which has been a godsend for dealing with my health issues.

But it's actually a known and documented side effect of my condition. In fact, when I brought it up on a support list, I was told that one obscure test for my condition involves measuring electrical potential in the body or something arcane sounding like that.

Dietary changes are likely a factor as well. But I haven't specifically seen research saying "Thus and such dietary changes are known to improve grounding." whereas I have seen research concerning walking barefoot on the ground (or otherwise having contact with the ground) and wearing the right shoes.
Since apparently dishonest characterisation of strangers is how you want this thread to go: Can you please at least take your big oil astroturfing money quietly? I'm sure the Trump campaign will be a bit disappointed you don't turn up to their rallies, but as long as you stay home and use the money to order more cheetos they'll be fine with it.
No it doesn't. Watch this for a full picture of what's happening in Seattle and a proposed, humane and actually effective solution at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw
I am in China:-). That link is blocked.
Yes communism is bad because of other reasons, and because it failed every single time it was tried. Btw. China is not a communist state for a long time.
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You need 501 karma for downvoting.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
I'd recommend "The Art and Craft of Problem Solving" by Paul Zeitz, who coached the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad team. https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471789011/artofprob...
I've been running/involved in mailing-lists, the non-SPAM kind, for decades.

Whatever the tech you use, its the people.
I just wanted to be clear that I'm not just making this stuff up, and you really did write what I quoted (claiming to have written 10k+ lines of shell scripts, that you only really looked at the docs a couple of times, and that bash syntax is humanly impossible to remember), but you ninja-edited it out later, after I quoted what you originally wrote:

>I've written literally thousands of lines of shell scripts (maybe even 10k+) across dozens of scripts over the years and I've only really looked at the docs a couple of times. Of course I'm Googling various syntax things that are humanly impossible to remember, but I never once really sat there and combed through all of the docs or even read a book on Bash.

Only really looking at the docs a couple times isn't something to brag about, and doing that doesn't make bash good.

Nor is it good for languages to be designed so you don't have to read the manual (or else you get COBOL or HyperTalk, and then you still have to read the manual).

Nor is it good for languages to have syntax things that are humanly impossible to remember.

All those claims you deleted actually support my point about bash being terribly inferior to Python (whose syntax is extremely simple and easy to learn and remember and most importantly read, and it even has built-in interactive "help" documentation), which is why I quoted what you originally said in the first place.

Again, what is it about that script you offered as an example that is easier, more elegant, or more maintainable and understandable to do in bash than in Python?

If you don't have an answer to that, can you show me any other bash code that was better off written in bash than in Python? And explain how it's better, please.
I don't mean anything in particular, only the generic having a good sales pipeline. Thinking ahead, what is planned for sales "in the pipeline" for 1 quarter down the line, 2 quarters down the line and so on? Will it be an extension of existing project? More projects with the same client? Any other small engagements you can juggle on the side? Bring on an extra partner and deliver and work together? It's just normal business speech for planning ahead I'd say.
That’s the job of a compiler/transpiler though, i.e. praising assembly for the benefits that C provides.

JavaScript/ES is just now getting features that other languages have enjoyed for one or more decades because JS people have discovered the features and how to build the tooling. So good for JS for finally getting these basics, just wish it happened about 15 years ago.
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> Air travel is not at the top of the list for the majority of people so let's not always mention it as an important action.

I disagree. It is important to realize its impact, so that we can organize the society so that it is not needed. The people who don't travel often still need to hold the minority accountable.
Many naysayers love to use any misinformation to spread FUD, although it is clear from BUILD and MSDN, where all is going.
There's a Knife Missile testing video and the target is a test dummy in a remotely driven pickup on some strip of desert.

(I can't find a link. =( )

The missile goes through the driver's side roof and wedges out the passenger side floor.

The pickup was driven at variable speeds and it was just a crazy accurate as a standard hellfire.
In the case where you want to preserve whitespace, you probably want to do this, then:

read -r
foo="$REPLY"
Because that's the only alternative to Nuclear energy...
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Xilinx's tool suite works quite nicely on Linux, and there are excellent "starter kit" FPGAs from some of their partners. I have nothing but good things to say about the Arty line of boards from Digilent (I own one or more of each of them). As you start to approach the higher end of things with larger designs, the boards from Xilinx begin to become your best option unless you've got connections. Note that for small-ish designs the Artix 200 has a reasonable amount of space, and you can simulate and implement for anything up to the Kintex UltraScale+ 5 (including things that don't actually fit in the 5, for simulation) using the same free-as-in-beer WebPack license.
I think one reason for us not understanding this gap well is the way history is taught. We learn about the earliest civilizations. We assume that we know a comparable amount from later periods in other regions about other civilizations, but we often don't. In Europe we have a wealth of information about ancient Greece and the Roman Republic, but we know relatively little in comparison about Scandinavia even hundreds of years later.
Three reactors melted down @ Fukushima Daiichi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
Scott Page ( from U Michigan who is the creator of the class) has written a book on models called Model Thinker. I’m currently reading it and think it is pretty good!
there's a fascinating audio book called 1434 putting together a pretty convincing argument that many of the European "discoveries" where predated by Chinese.

http://www.gavinmenzies.net/
> It is considered to be normal, and people who would refuse to fly (as a conscientious objector to climate change) would be considered "weird".

Exactly, shifting cultural norm is more important than an actual emissions saving from skipping a flight.
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I read it as an euphemism for workaround.
With the amount of slow electron apps these days I wish more people would write native programs in Pascal / Delphi. It’s blazingly fast and easy to write (although the language has a few idioms it takes time to get used to).
This is way, way beyond death camps, buddy.

This is room 101.
Not a book, but here is a shameless plug for my newsletter where I write regularly about mental models I find interesting: https://alexpetralia.github.io/newsletters
I'm in China for a few months. I search for the topic with Bing. If Wikipedia is one of the top results, Bing will embed most of the article.
We're not going to face declining energy availability for the next few decades. Fighting climate change is in big part a retooling of the energy production, which makes it tricky, but we still have enough dirty sources to burn to replace them with clean ones. Also, at least for now, we're not bombing each other's oil stores too much, so there's that.
It builds up. Early in the game you get useful drops very quickly, and slowly slowly over time the frequency goes down until you grind for weeks just waiting for that single drop.
I can assure you that you don't want to live in an atmosphere with 1000-2000 ppm CO2. Would you?
Well, that’s new to me.

Source, please.
> You know EMTs and doctors and whatnot see this kind of stuff irl fairly frequently and still manage to live healthy lives afaik.

Depression, anxiety, PTSD and even suicide rates are some of the highest among these professions, FWIW.
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Finland we still have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC-Galleria and it was pretty popular.
This article was accurate at the time but AFAIK the situation has changed. For context: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208263#5170123 tl;dr There were unintended consequences from refactoring DNS configuration and the situation should be back to “normal” now.
Their tables are more like databases. I am looking for a simple, static table that I can enter lots of information into.

I log every day in a week as a 7x4(or so) table, and each cell contains a lot of information. Notion's tables are just not cut out for it. I've messaged their support several times asking for this feature, since their product is otherwise perfect, but basic tables of this nature are simply not on their roadmap for the foreseeable future.
Would that it were another grand twist in the saga, that Assange was saved from certain trauma, for the sake of a broken condom ..

Alas, from the moment he entered the embassy, he has been a dead agent. What is of most import, is how this will affect the whistleblowers.

(Whistleblowers, we know you're out there. Got more fake news?)
They do say "Flutter is a great way to build Chrome OS apps" and they say "Because Chrome OS runs Android apps, targeting Android is the way to build Chrome OS apps."

The article is about chromeos and flutter, to make it clearer, they could have said, "targeting Android is the way to build, Flutter, Chrome OS apps."

Targeting Android to create Flutter chromeos apps currently seems to be the go, this may change once flutter for the web and or the linux desktop support is fully baked.
The problem is we should stop with the PR bollocks of doing useless but "publicly visible" actions.

There are real, important things at the top of the list.

Changing electricity supplier, driving less, buying the most efficient car possible or an electric one (if you can charge it with non-fossil fuel sources), etc. should occupy the headlines more that "air travel is bad (TM)"
They may not have a legal right to bomb. Depending on the details of the situation, I'm not sure where to draw the lines between warfare and war crimes. And I am not even considering the fact that some operations were conducted on foreign soil without consent from the local government - another can of worms.

And I will ask another question: why bombs? Why remote drones? Why is it impossible to use other means? The assassination of Osama bin Ladin was carried out by soldiers on the ground, after all.
Yeah I've see a lot of people (the author included) call this horrifying, I think it's beautiful!

It's a piece of code that is simple on it's surface but has an incredible amount of depth to it. Every single line has a purpose and a backstory. And it solves a very simple to understand problem that many don't even know is a problem until it bites them (most often when trying to use a library in a web worker the first time).
There are some examples if you scroll down in the initial modal window. If you've closed it, click the smiley face in the top right to get it back.
The DoH Dilemma
For that we had alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die back when newsgroups were used for something as well as file distribution :) Very satisfying to vent.
If we were on a less civilised messaging board I would leave a comment noting the (non-)coincidence that your username is in fact remarkably appropriate for your comment.
I use it sometimes for callbacks that take similar but not exactly the same arguments, f.e. containers for pointers that can have an optional "release" function pointer that is called to release all pointers in the container and can be assigned to "free" for raw data, or object specific destructors like "free_bitmap" or "free_sound" or even "free_container" (so having a container with other containers inside that may have their own "release" functions).
It seems that the word "rape" is somehow exaggeration.

Per Wikipedia (assuming it is reliable source here, hasn't checked sources it cites)

"On 20 August 2010, two women, a 26-year-old living in Enköping and a 31-year-old living in Stockholm, reported to the Swedish police that Assange had engaged in unprotected sexual activity with them that violated the scope of their consent.

"The next day, the case was transferred to Chefsåklagare (Chief Public Prosecutor) Eva Finné. In answer to questions surrounding the incidents, the following day, Finné declared, >>I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape<<. However, Karin Rosander from the Swedish Prosecution Authority, said Assange remained suspected of molestation. Police gave no further comment at the time, but continued the investigation."
It would be really useful if large organizations like universities mirrored wikipedia. It is the only website I truly miss in China.
The largest country of any
other is also China. It’s not weird for them to have other most titles.
A favorite quote of mine “The best way to build an authoritarian regime is not to indoctrinate someone but to convince them that there is no such things as truth”
Sleeping on the porch was actually quite common in the US not that many decades ago.

http://gothamist.com/2016/07/22/nyc_fire_escape_summer_flash...

https://thecraftsmanblog.com/the-amazing-sleeping-porch/
I bet the job post reads "Searching for self-starter that can hit the ground running!"
Or maybe this was written by someone who was more interested in showing how to use sqlite and pandas directly to do this?

On the other hand I find it interesting that Apple decided it was important to create some shim on top of sqlite with their own conventions, but said shim is not so convoluted it can't be reverse-engineered. Can't really decide if it's good or bad.
I guess it's a step in the right direction, as we were blowing up weddings targets were attending.

And we followed up by blowing up the target's funeral figuring the bereaved where fellow operatives.

Quite a way to win hearts and minds...
No it's because he's a rape suspect in Sweden - it's not a giant conspiracy or 'a grab', he's just a suspect that ran away from the law.

The USA have already requested his extradition in the UK - to say that "Sweden only sought rape charges because then the USA can extradite him from Sweden" is clearly bogus.

If he actually confronted these charges in Sweden, and found guilty, he may actually be out of prison by now.

And at the centre of all of this, that everyone seems to have forgotten, are these two women that have accused him of rape. It seems really inhumane and unjust to simply shrug these accusations off as political, and not that they might be telling the truth, and he's a criminal in Swedish law
I'm surprised there's no mention of consciousness or Cartesian dualism here. That is generally where "abstraction" comes in - as a tool for humans. I don't think anyone is claiming it to be a physical property of the universe.
A link would have been useful. If you mean this article: https://docs.google.com/document/d/148Lym3a487S8lha50QXGJfjQ... (which sounds like a not very careful translation), it does not contradict what I said. It rightfully critizises, how politics in recent years were dealing with the switch to reneweables - either stalling or preventing faster extension, not even doing basic necessary actions. The failure to extend the power grid is a good example. The other would be the ongoing protection for coal production in Germany. Many politicians prefer to artificially protect 1 job in coal instead of creating 2 in reneweables.
When a soldier shoots another soldier, that is murder even when it is allowed. The fact that it is allowed is immaterial to the definition of what it is.
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Photos of a car supposedly hit by a knife missile in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMb-g5-aRjI
That's literally rape. He tried to say (in England) that it wasn't rape, and that was rejected by the court. https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2011/2849.html

He tried to claim that this wasn't rape in both Sweden and England (the dual criminality element which is required for extradition) and that was rejected by the court.
All soaps have surfactants, it's literally what makes soap soap.

Surfactant production is achieved by mixing an alkaline with fat to produce a chemical reaction. In this case potassium hydroxide is the alkaline and the vegetable oils are the fats.

But even if that wasn't the case, at the very least, you shouldn't be introducing peppermint oil to aquatic ecosystems as its toxic to many animals.
> The earth is a finite world

Fusion reactor 8 light minutes away does not burn out for a good long while, long enough that we can consider it indefinite for the current climate debate.

So we have an energy source that we can use to rearrange the stuff that IS finite, ie the big rock with water on it.

What we don't want is for the rock to end up in a state where we can't live on it comfortably.

Now, as for growth, we could reach a state where people have roughly the replacement number of kids. In fact, it looks like that will happen. Then we just have to make sure the average amount of consumption doesn't take us over some limit.

Note that GDP is also a pretty imperfect measure. It was conceived in an era where having more stuff generally meant a better life, because some of that stuff was useful things like medicine, insulation, and so on. Nowadays a lot of things go into GDP that is perhaps not measuring what you really want.
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Ambush robots are an obvious way forward.

Set up a spread-spectrum mesh network in the hostile living space, and use passive facial, gait, voice or behavior recognition to ID the human target.

The drones would be expendable single shot killers. Hard to see and numerous.

If the territory is controlled, then the China method of automated surveillance and round-up of targets is apparently working.

I, for one, see a future without much "collateral damage" but its not necessarily a good future.
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Just run by a party that happens to identify themselves as the Communist Party China (CPC). Also the kids that still have to take Marxist and Mao theory in high school and university wish the country would admit to no longer being communist also.
Please define human shield. Is it the family of the terrorist with whom he lives? Friends invited over to spend time with? Where is the difference between people being around coincidentally and people being kept around for protection?
of course not. there's also natural gas and oil. check this out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

coal (30%)

gas (24%)

oil (33%)

hydro (7%)

nuclear (4%)

other renewables (2%)
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Do you have what it takes to be a superforecaster? (2015)
Probably the same way that the nuclear fuel is transported in the first place?
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Former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich gave a mere $1,000 to Prop 8, and he was forced to resign over it. Will Google face any backlash from giving $150,000 worth of advertising to this pro-life organization?
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the article refers to "The origin of 0-day (zero-day) in hacking (etymology of zero-day)". Thus not the warez scene. It was taken from the warez scene by the hackers scene, but the interest is in when the first reference was used within the hackers scene for so-called exploits that haven't made the public yet or are so new that they are still referred to as 0-days.
I have ADHD. I was diagnosed at the age of 33. I had struggled my way through high school, bachelors and masters degree, with an insanely loose cannon approach.

At 33 I knew something was wrong with me. But I didn't know what. I always felt different than other people and I couldn't contain my thoughts and restlessness leading to mostly complete inattentiveness and a chaotic approach to life. At worst it felt like having my head filled with fleeting thoughts, like 3-5 radios next to my ears with music, different positive thoughts and ideas all at once.

I went to a private practicioner and got diagnosed with ADHD. The ritalin and later Concerta tablets have improved my life 10X. I have been able to streamline my career, streamline my life and I can truthfully say that in a way, it saved me completely. I am now employed in a Fortune500 company, making a small ton of money (relatively) and can sustain myself very well. I will be buying my first real estate this fall. But without it, I don't know what I would have done. Become a homeless, drug-addicted hippie in a third world country maybe?

There are trade-offs to taking it. (1) Emotional and energy depletion at the end of the day is one. I don't take it in the weekends, because I don't like the soul-less me that I become.

I am able to have laser focus and almost have an unfair advantage to others when I am working on something that requires intense attention to detail or having to speak on some complex subject.

Moral of the story: If you suspect it, get diagnosed and get medicines to help focus on the toughest of days at work and in your life. It is certainly a life changer if you are undiagnosed. Don't let ADHD waste your life away.

Do this self test to consider whether you should see a specialist (Psychiatrist & MD) to get the diagnosis: https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/adhd-quiz/
Fundamentally the controversy is about what users should be able to do, not whether or not the proposed patches do what they claim. Or if it is, that is a part of that particular discussion that I missed.