skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what me and my friends used to do when we were young. We had a construction sites that just sat there for years. We'd build entire towns from sand, when playing outside.
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This just sounds like a giant can of worms that is going to blow up in people's faces. Remove for a moment any potential future government alignments, just so we aren't talking about hypothetical fictitious governments. Let's just examine the governments currently signed to it.

Indonesia has harsh religious laws, crack downs on illegal reporting, and literally raids on LGBTQ gatherings. The Senegal government arbitrarily arrests dissidents, the LGTBQ community has to hide because it's illegal, and protests are outlawed. India already overuses counter terrorism laws to charge dissidents and activists and there are religious minorities that suffer heavily from discrimination.

This type of call to action will only further entrench government strangles over freedom of speech. Now people have given them moral authority to curb an already very broad and ambiguous category of terrorists and now extremists. Sure I get it, there is a bunch of vile on the internet and the world would be a better place without it. But my "better place without it" is different from somebody else's and so is the "it". This won't end up like what is in your head.

The hate isn't "spreading through social media" the hate and the fear were already there. These people grew up with it. Social, cultural, religious, sexual, moral borders, you name it, every border we have is being rewritten and when you rewrite those borders, especially this quickly, people are gonna get scared, they're gonna lash out, and because of it more people are getting scared and want to control one of the most powerful tools to freedom.
whatever makes the experience tolerable and worthwhile
do all the coding yourself... do it in Python... use Stripe as your checkout vendor:)
A little off topic: I think multiple countries should join together to co-sponsor security evaluation labs to check Cisco, Huawei, and all telecom companies. These labs should get access to hardware design, software, etc. This can be done in a way that mostly protects individual company’s intellectual property.

I suspect that the top telecom tech companies would go along with this idea, to get vetted, if it would help increase their business. Right now there are two European and one Chinese company who can ship 5G gear. I would like all 5G, and older gear also, to be vetted by international security labs.
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This gets suggested as the solution to privacy/junk content/etc for every social platform - why have none of them (that I am aware of) adopted this model?
I unsubscribe anything that is not a person or relevant notification even if I pay for a service. [flight itinerary w/ confirmation number = ok, Spotify trending = not ok]. I suspect other people do as well.
This is a really good take on safety and tooling that can be applied to a lot of things. Thanks for explaining this!

Do you have an example of a playground that he’s designed that highlights these principles?
Although I'm an engineer and not a designer, I think it's fair to point out that this is article is primarily about visual design, which is only one aspect of the design of the overall user experience. There's a phrase I've heard, "information architecture", which roughly seems to mean "how the layout and presentation help the user process the information being presented". With this in mind, I think a lot of folks (both designers and engineers) conflate the two sometimes.

Another thing: I suspect that information-dense visuals are sort of like highly-performant software: hard to design, harder to implement, and much harder to change once you've gone to all the trouble of squeezing out every possible optimization. As advice for beginners, it seems fine to say "add more negative space", just like we tell junior engineers to "avoid premature optimization", because the ability to recognize when those optimizations are needed goes hand-in-hand with the ability to actually do them right.
Security forces and police forces are not the same thing.

Disney has both security - with no arrest powers - and contracts with Orange County Sheriff's Office to staff on-duty officers. "Jail" means a security office where they detain you while waiting for the cops to cart you off, just like a shoplifter at a store might sit for a few minutes in the manager's office awaiting the cops.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/disney-world-law-enforceme...
I don't think you understood my point. Blocking websites is not scrutiny of the intelligence services.

I'm saying an individual with weapons doxed himself and telegraphed his intentions on a public forum and the security services completely missed it.

That could all have been be picked up without any new laws or intervention from Facebook. We need to analyse how it was missed and learn from it.
Hey USA is obviously a responsible state that will not abuse its power, our government officials never lie to public, we fiercely protect whistle-blowers who report illegal spying and we have never destroyed other countries over allegations.

China being an asian country is no where close to our virtue.
/sarcasm
> Their breach isn't really a good indicator as I can't think of any/many reasons that most companies would try and do that...

There are a bunch of legitimate reasons to run Docker in Docker. The most obvious is in a build pipeline. For example Jenkins does Docker builds in containers all the time.
I don't disagree on that point at all. Just commenting on how even if these devices aren't particularly smart, they still provide useful functionality.
Our gun industry produces more than 11 million guns a year. Sure, many of those wind up in Mexico and Central America via the drug trade, but that's still a lot of supply being sustained through the system.

Guns wear out, simply cutting production would do a lot to reduce the number of guns in the system (outlaw or not).
True. I hoped to avoid a flame war, alas it's too late. The question is specifically about countries in Central America known to suffer periodic, though fairly rare, catastrophic droughts. The question is: does the rest of the world have an obligation and/or the capability to take in tens of millions of migrants from such countries susceptible to catastrophic droughts, with or without antropogenic climate change, when the drought inevitably hits?
But if you're trying to merge on, whether or not you have to stop before merging is not totally in your control. Specifically, if the right lane is packed, you may have to stop if there is no opening as you pull up. Then it will be harder to merge in, not only because you are starting from zero velocity but also because the lane is packed.

That is why I think people should not get in the right lane on a highway unless they are about to get off.
why do all of the photos look fake?
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This move “bans the company from acquiring components and technology from U.S. firms without government approval.”
Seems a tad unfair to cost in complete lifecycle analysis for nuclear but not its competitors. And the assertion that it can't compete "in any way" with renewables seems to omit some salient advantages - it has the potential to provide constant, basically unlimited power with virtually no land use and no ecological disruption of any kind.
I use Firefox, given the opportunity, and I typically have uBlock origin, Noscript, and Privacy Badger installed. It seems to me that they do very different things, and I just might want all of those things done.
Plants do not taste great, and they are not healthy.

Most plants require significant genetic editing (in form of 10k+ years of selective breeding), processing (milling, soaking, cooking) and adding secondary plant products just for taste (spices) to be palatable. Not to mention need for aditional fat and emulgators.

Most of plants, even after 10k years of selective breeding, are toxic for us in some way. Even simple green leafy vegetables are full of oxalic acid.

On top of that, modern agriculture approach of artificial fertilizing, and high nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium levels in dirt that is starved of other nutrients through constant yearly use, results in changes in plants where they contain higher % of simple carbs, while not having normal levels of other micronutrients.

No hunter-gatherer group in the last 2 million years of evolution has exceeded 50% of caloric intake being plant-based, and only some small groups near ecuator have managed to get close to 50%.

During the most recent part of our evolution, part that has made us human, we have evolved to eat predominantly meat diet. Agriculture sidestepped that, and coopted evolutional remnants of a time 50-60 million years ago, when our ancestors were 5kg proto-monkey frugivores.

High-carb plant-based diets are undoing of evolution. Human brains, and general human stature, have been getting smaller during the last 20k years, accelerating in the last 10k.
Can you point to a specific example? Why was banning not done via the standard arbitrage?
> I struggle to find examples of this happening in market economies outside of a major natural disaster.

i would suggest looking outside the US. The zoning/land-use regime where single-family zoning dominates is not universal -- see http://devonzuegel.com/post/north-american-vs-japanese-zonin.... In fact, Japan kind of is a shining example of upzoning bringing down (and keeping down) rents to levels unthinkable in US cities.
Interesting that this war got started without congress.
The fact that Disney controls their own governmental entity also means they have a cheaper cost of capital for (some) improvements. RCID can sell tax exempt bonds, which saves them money on interest.
I live in a less densely populated area. It’s pretty nice. Rural living is nice if you can afford it. Turns out lots of wealthy people buy up the nice rural places. It’s kinda like the city in that regard. Being poor sucks, urban or rural is mostly a preference if you’re not middle class.
> This /cannot/ be done in a way that mostly protects individual company’s intellectual property /from spilling into other countries hands/

Fixed.
Precisely the oposite. People are usually willing to pay far more, if they are to blame for you beeing slow. If they only get the slightest hint of a feeling that you might be kicking the can down the road, they will blame it on you entirely.

This is, why you leave a paper/email trail.
>Why the sudden about face?

The current narrative by Trump, his supporters and the Republican party is that all social media sites are controlled by leftist ideologues and globalists and are currently engaged in a coordinated effort to suppress and purge Conservative, Christian and Republican speech, because they're terrified of the threat that he poses to the deep state and the establishment.

There is also a second narrative, put forth by white supremacists and the alt-right, which attempts to push the Overton Window of normalization on such views by implying that deplatforming or censoring anyone on the right, however extreme, hateful or lunatic fringe, should be interpreted as an attack on mainstream Conservative or Republican politics.

This form, like the wall, is an expression of propaganda and nothing more.
My understanding was that waste, or indeed any radioactive substance, is either highly radioactive for a short period of time, or not very radioactive for a long time. A mole of stuff has a set number of spare neutrons, and it can release them either quickly or slowly. If it releases them quickly ("highly radioactive"), we can probably get power from it somehow.
Nextdoor raises $123M at $2.1B valuation
IMO I don't think anyone benefits from announcing the valuation.
I very much dislike how the word "design" is now used in place of "visual design". Design very much used to be a science of creating cohesion and intuitiveness in any system; it's now commonly used to mean "making things look nice and attractive". There is nothing wrong with visual design, but it is a small (and arguably, less important) subset of design as a whole. Look at Apple for an example of why this is a regression; they have always touted themselves as a design-centric company. This used to mean that design principles were used to make their products incredibly intuitive, attractive, and user friendly. Now, they make very, very pretty devices and software, but they are not intuitive nor user friendly.
That sounds really interesting. Does he have a website or something we could look at?
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"Let's just examine the governments currently signed to it."

You picked three. How about Australia, Canada, European Commission, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. Are you going to examine those? Most of those are the most free, most protective countries.

"The hate isn't "spreading through social media" the hate and the fear were already there."

There has always been hate. There have always been incredibly ignorant beliefs like flat Earth, anti-vaccine, etc. Usually it is isolated and the community -- the village -- keeps it in check and provides a pressure valve. Social media, however, allows us to surround ourselves with a bubble that makes us think that it's normal if not somehow heroic, our graph of similarly extreme believing people cementing our resolve. That guy who became curious and got some bad information isn't being reasoned with by rational people, he's being indoctrinated by a distributed group that only reinforced their own beliefs.

It absolutely has made the problem worse in otherwise reasonable societies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19923655
Unix time is the humber of seconds since 1970. Seconds are a physical thing. Unix time references the number of "cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium 133 atom" UTC measures time. This article is silly.
> Too many of the people I meet are ground down, sliding by, holding on, grappling with their identity and place in the world, somewhere on the scale of mildly scarred to full blown post traumatic, anxiety ridden, and/or profoundly lost.

How do you diagnose this? Is there a checklist of signs you look for? Do they eventually tell you, etc.?

Just curious, because I don't get to meet than many people all the time, so I can't collect sociological samples and reach conclusions in the way you seem to be doing.
Long paths were introduced in Windows NT in 1993, VC6 released in 1998.

I’ve just installed Visual C++ 6.0 Professional on a WinXP VmWare machine. Took less than a minute, BTW — modern SSDs are awesome. The default installation path under program files also contain spaces, it’s "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"

BTW, they have a bug even on the very first welcome screen: http://const.me/tmp/vc6.png
Other way around: Everything at Google runs inside a container, including the VMs

gVisor lets you run multiple untrusted workloads on the same VM, in this case a GKE node.
If that's the meaning, then extremism led to the US, France, and a number of other countries.
I never (no longer, that is) see tweets that other people like. I think there is a setting to disable them from appearing now. At the very least, whenever one appears you can click the little arrow next to it and select "see less often" (or equivalent).
I definitely think it is needed. I just don't think Rust has solved the paradox that the more you need something specialized the less you can afford the overhead.

Finding hundreds of web developers with some spare time who don't mind learning Rust, can port some of their tooling and use it in some part of their stack isn't going to be much of a problem. The same isn't true if you, say, need an embedded programmer who has worked with zigbee and needs to be in your lab for testing and verification.

Pretty much all major programming languages are where they are as a result of being some kind of "lowest common denominator" for their application. Something like Bash is pretty horrible as a programming language, but extremely accessible for sysadmins. Only now is it changing slightly were things like Python and Go is becoming more popular, but mostly because they are easier than the alternatives.
Obviously money again is only representing some value or resource. You have to compensate workers or else they won't do any work (unless you plan on enslaving them, or have the government provide for all their needs).
Except that advertisers are not interested in sponsoring extremist content, so you could argue the incentives go in the other direction.
That’s a separate action independent from this.
China is only about 10% of overall semiconductor production. Mostly the older technologies. A large amount of wafer production is in Taiwan and South Korea.
I think it's fair to discount your rate a little, but don't over do it.

You can't charge customers for feasability research. You have to be the guy that brings the solution. A bit of R&D is okay on the clock, but you have to know you can deliver the goods before taking the contract.

It helps a lot if you have friends in the industry that can answer your questions if you're stuck. You'd be surprised what you can achieve with just the internet and paid time.

The first one can be scary, and frankly it will depend on the customer. If you have a great first customer, it may propel you for a long career as freelancer. If your first customer sucks, you might be tempted to move on. For that I can only say, good luck.
Thanks for those links. Much as I disagree if your summary is correct, I'll definitely give them read, they look interesting.
bingo. one should always assume that userland access on a linux box is a short step away from full system privileges and active exploits are ready for use by an attacker.

docker has started adding hardening with SELinux+Seccomp because theres a realisation that the linux kernel bugs keep coming, but this is just a bandaid. the other problem with this approach is that in practice a hardened config is too restrictive for real-user use and has real maintenance cost so most will never use them (as argued by others in this thread for why the gvisor approach is superior). AppArmor is very poorly maintained, buggy, and not a practical solution
Are you suggesting that certain countries would describe LGBTQ activities as "terrorist and violent extremist content"? I don't think they would need to, they have special anti-LGBTQ laws already.
Is there major legitimacy to the state sponsored back doors in Huawei, or has the company just become some sort of pawn in the trade war?
Yeah, the problem is that unlike the EU and US companies, Huawei is just the institutional arm of a communist dictatorship regime masked as a company.
The original purpose of Unix time was decoupling local time representation and internal timekeeping of the system. Unix time could be the "One True Time" of the system, it always increases monotonically. When you need local time, all the tricky and nasty details, including DST, mandated calendar changes, etc, are processed by the tzinfo system library/database. If the calendar has changed, at least in principle one does not and should not have to update the system clock or most unrelated applications, simply update tzinfo and you're done.

Unfortunately, Unix time did not consider the effects of leap second, which broke the very foundation of Unix time and nullified all the benefits it had. A UTC change (leap second) will force you to update the system clock.

There is a way out: we should stop keeping time in UTC, instead, we do the timekeeping in TAI. And we provide a system-wide facility called "utcinfo" database to handle TAI-UTC conversation. Just like tzinfo, but much easier, it only needs to store all the leap-second events. All problems solved! I'm aware that the leap second still causes some issues: the kernel still has to be notified for the upcoming leap second for its UTC APIs, but still better.

The question is, why don't systems and libraries treat TAI as the first-class citizen of timekeeping? Why aren't we doing it right now? Because it's incompatible with Unix time, or it's something else?
Yeah I unbuckled once while AP was active to try to take off my coat and the car lost its shit on me. Red flashing alarms like, “WTF you doing?!”

I think that service tech was grasping at straws, unless he actually examined the logs and saw it written there. If it was the seat belt, wouldn’t you see it indicated on the display that the seat belt was unbuckled? It displays the unbuckled indicator for all seats that have occupants detected (weight sensor).

Presumably the logs will contain the exact reason it fails? Next time they text you maybe ask if they can tell you exactly what the log file says when AP engagement fails.
Japanese, Many native american languages, Sundanese, Malay, many African languages.

Not to say that sound symbolism of the "ma" sound isn't a real thing, but rather that its adoption for the "mother" word is far from universal, but just frequent enough to be interesting.
I wouldn’t stick my hand in your pocket! :)
I don't know. Maybe because it is GC-only? It doesn't have custom allocators, so there may be no easy way to map an object to some location in shared memory.
Sort of like UN weapons inspects?
There really is a sub-network within Twitter of people who only ever have nice, productive conversations with one-another.

This sub-network seems to have a lot of overlap with the set of people who use their Twitter handle as a substitute for an email address—i.e. the people who want you to tweet at them if you want to collaborate with them on something. Which itself is vaguely overlapping the set of people who are "famous", but not celebrities—i.e. people who are well-known names in their own industries or hobbies.
I like the dichotomy, but for me the names "subjective safety" and "objective safety" make no sense.

"Obvious dangers" vs "non-obvious dangers" seems like much clearer language, even if it's the case that there's a way to squint to make the terminology you used make sense. Kids will naturally explore the boundaries around obvious dangers.
And CIA seeded companies aren't?
I would argue that they actually do... More people coming in and using roads and moving around contribute to the deterioration of the roads and more pollution.
Charge them with what? In the US there is nothing illegal about being a Nazi. There is nothing illegal in selling Mein Kampf etc.
That would probably take me 3 years all in all :D I need an option where I can establish a cofounding team to work on it with me, and we all need to be ramen profitable
All the cities I've lived in also have pretty significant substance abuse problems. According to this article,

https://drugabuse.com/country-vs-city-addictions-differ-says...

Rural people are more likely to abuse alcohol, whereas city dwellers are more likely to abuse hard drugs.
That is how people wind up in this situation...

https://apps.texastribune.org/harvey-reservoirs/

Building homes in reservoirs.
I'm coaching this project for the next few months, would love to hear some feedback!
I had a friend working on contract for the local city government. The contract was I believe for 2 years. A year in the project got cancelled but since his contract has already been signed they just kept paying him with no work for him to do. He just went in (because of course he still had to show up for some reason), and played games all day. Now I partially understand why so many government projects go over budget.
I don't believe trump is racist.
"In 2017, according to a report by the director of national intelligence, the government obtained 534 million phone records from telephone companies"[1]... I wouldn't quite say they were smacked down in terms of mass metadata surveillance. They literally shut it down cause they couldn't make the data useful.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-nsa-phonere...