skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once did the research on an article with a title in the format "X group is outraged over Y's comment on twitter" and when I found the original post I found no outrage and at most just a mild dissatisfaction.
Excessive Consumption Limits Creativity (2016)
Surely we could more or less eliminate all kind of law violations by total control. But I don't think this is what we want as a society.
I don't agree with that given his lifestyle. He wanted to connect but rarely could, hence an abundance of mostly shallow affection beyond his first wife.
> The times that nuclear power has caused disasters it has always been closely tied to mismanagement and human errors

Is is really really hard to solve the problem of human mismanagement though. The technical challenges with nuclear are solvable, but the human factor is not. Take something like the space shuttle disasters - arguable both do to bad management. If NASA cant solve this problem even with the brightest minds and enormous resources, how can nuclear?

If someone can solve the problem of human mismanagement, I'm all for nuclear.
I went through a gifted program starting in 3rd grade but I don’t think I’m gifted.

Most of what I think seems obvious. For example, the ability to ask simple questions in the moment is a skill anyone can learn. For the highest level poker player, analytical thoughts are rather systemic but require emotional and intellectual control.

Had I focused on any one thing, I think I could had been a brilliant programmer, physicist, poker player etc. But I haven’t. I’ve been cursed by entrepreneurship, activism, esoteric ideas and other things that have had low utility.

While I’m ambivalent about most people’s intellect, for truly gifted people I’m somewhat intimidated by them. (Like many yc founders.) Like, oh I could never execute that life plan and business in the way they did because it’s perfect.

My point is I think it’s all about process. Asking questions, reasoning from first principles, obsessive focus, curiosity and resiliency will make any person gifted.
I mean, /r/watchpeopledie was active for nearly a decade and never had legal issues.. I'm not sure this is enforced in any meaningful way.
Free Open Source Applications I Found in Year 2018
This huge international campaign including pushing other countries..! It is not about security. It is more about money. Huge influence from powerful capitalists and investors because their market and long term interests are at risk.
IIRC when Simon Tatham first proposed the mechanism, he suggested it should never be used in production, and whoever does so should be fired!
I think starpilot is trying to make a joke off of the stereotypical "I taught my kid to ___ and it was a horrible mistake!" articles, especially the ones where the gist is "I taught my kids to code and now they sit in front of their computers all day".

Could be wrong in that assessment, but that's how I read it.
Now it says:

"
rip db

YTMND has suffered a catostrophic failure. Whether or not the site will ever be back is still undecided. I am actively working on data recovery, but who really knows what the future holds. Join the chat to reminisce, or if you have concerns about the direction in which your life is heading, feel free to send an email to support @ ytmnd.com (and expect to be ignored).
"
> So we can see that in the context of the article, and the call to action mentioned, "extremism" is not vague, nor meaningless,

The fact you had to provide context for this one case makes your whole point moot, and you don't even realize it.

Sure it makes sense in this case. But a law that just says extremism (without context) is bad, can and will be abused down the line to fit the narrative of the powers that be.
Fermi's paradox: a more probable solution
There are actually differences between using different codons for the same amino acid. Not all tRNA is present in the same amounts in the cell, using a rare codon will slow down translation because the tRNA for it is present in lower concentrations than the one for the more often used codon. So it will affect translation rates if you change the codons.

There are also cases where using a "slower" codon help the protein fold well by giving it a bit of time before continuing translation. Changing the kinetics of translation can affect the outcome.
+1 for Nextcloud. The last versions are stable, well designed and really easy to install and maintain.
Brother, all you have to do is load a few container ships with solar panels headed to the US and Europe from China and your panels have now produced more CO2 than you will ever save. Bunker fuel is horrific stuff.

See, that’s the problem, the cult of renewables loves to ignore reality. You have to look at the entire supply and distribution chain as well as installation, support and maintenance.

Again, that’s not to say solar isn’t useful —I installed 13 kW at my house— it just isn’t going to save the world.
In general, if you did it before it was illegal, then you're fine! But note that is almost certainly 100% irrelevant here, because the SEC is arguing (very plausibly) that at least some forms of ICOs were always clearly illegal, or at any rate have been clearly illegal since at least 1946.

The argument that you launched your ICO before <insert event>, so you should get a pass is unlikely to fly with anyone. Either it violates the laws or it didn't, and since the relevant laws haven't changed in decades, if it violated them, you're in trouble.

(Also note that the financial industry is rife with people promoting scams and arguing they don't quite violate the law because of some technicality. This never works.)
Pepper spray (hell, even max strength bear spray with tear gas) wasn’t anywhere near enough. You don’t have enough range for it to start working in time when they’re charging at you, at least not unless it’s one of those crazy kinds that shoots like 20 feet, and if you aim poorly it’s over.

The smart people who were crazy enough to walk or jog regularly carried 5+ foot ugly sticks (or spears/lances) and/or a firearm.

I almost had a 65 lb mastiff make it through the window of my dad’s lifted F350 at cruising speed, and that was the third attack in a one mile stretch. That was the day I decided I wasn’t ever going on foot again.
It’s not my Twitter that is full of Nazis. It’s Twitter in general. And their tweets make it into my life because non-Nazis respond to them, and those responses then become popular and are shared.
You can have free content as a complement to another business, such as selling a product or service, directly to users.
> Just looked up blue light photo toxicity, that is some scary stuff! So is staring at blue light computer monitors all day causing corneal cell death?

I think you're going to be OK. There is a very large, strong (stronger than any monitor) source of blue light that your eyes can handle at least 12 hours of exposure per day to
The Australian Federal Police are responsible for protecting Australians, and yet:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-10/canberra-afp-officer-...
Not really. It's pretty evident at this point that most publications are basically worthless.
Consider a slow cooker. I make a lot of lentil and other bean based things soaked in spices, broth, onions, etc. Lots of left overs and easy to set and forget. Tons of recipes out there too. Low effort and delicious.
Ask HN: What is the optimal consensus algorithm for a global currency?
GLOBAL CURRENCY REQUIREMENTS: (1) Medium of exchange; (2) Unit of account; (3) Store of value; (4) Global adoption; (5) Efficiency.

CONSENSUS ALGORITHMS (a brief overview): Each node in a peer-to-peer network stores a full and up-to-date copy of the entire ledger. Every proposed local addition to the ledger by network participants is communicated across the network by all participants. In principle, nodes collectively attempt to validate the addition through an algorithmic consensus mechanism. If validation is accepted, the new addition is added to all ledgers to ensure data consistency across the entire network. Examples of consensus algorithms: proof-of-work (bitcoin) and proof-of-stake (ethereum).

QUESTION: What might improve or replace existing consensus algorithms? What are the technical constraints? What is the optimal consensus algorithm for a global currency?
It‘s worth noting that Europe has lots of small winding roads and is not noticeably more dangerous in terms of fire safety.

In fact, what has happened is that average fire truck size in the US is much larger than in Europe, and that is what drives the requirement for wider streets. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/12/fire-trucks-e...
I read both Chinese/English sources and I am really interested to read your mentioned propaganda.

Once your source is provided, those who don't read Chinese can get a little bit help from Google Translate as well, I found its quality to be really good.
Are you saying that Lego Gandalf travelled back in time to retcon himself into popular fiction?
A truly very impressive quote, given what was available to Darwin in 1871. At that time many scientists didn't want to accept that atoms exist:

Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe "(1818-1884), a German organic chemist described as one of the greatest of that time" denied that molecules as we know them today existed. "The French chemist Pierre-Eugéne Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907)" "exerted his considerable power as a government official to prohibit the teaching of atomic theory." "Austrian physicist Ernst Mach (1838-1916), and German physical chemist Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932)" "preferred the consideration of perceived data to that of hypothetical atoms."

Only much later "in 1908 Ostwald became convinced that experiments had finally given proofs of the discrete or particulate nature of matter. In 1912 Poincaré declared that "[A]toms are no longer a useful fiction … The atom of the chemist is now a reality.""

Sources: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/science-magazines/histo...
While nextcloud has a lot of features, a kanban board, caldav and all the bells and whistles, what it lacks is a usable file sync feature.

The bugs have been open since way before the thing was called next cloud, but they have not been addressed. What you're stuck with is a "sync" client that opens a new connection to the server for every 4kb file you transfer. If you have a lot of those, it's lights out.

Syncing my document folder would have taken several weeks with nextcloud, it took less than half a day with Seafile and Syncthing.
Vanillin, can be produced without bean
It is organized censorship across a large part of media people use to communicate today. As a cooperation between governments and those companies.

It really doesnt need more then OPs comment, this is abhorrent. Its quite a big step towards an authoritarian society and the transformation into dictatorships.

In hindsight the generation of the anti-authoritarian left growing up after the fall of the USSR got rather careless with authoritarian tendencies on the left. Lessons learned my ass, here we go again.
It's both.

I used to be angry about Israel, but no longer see the point of it. Being critical of Israel is political suicide in the US. That's just how it is. See The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (2007).
But be careful about discussing it.
I did a bit of googling on various sites and Romania does seem to not have much discussion online.

There is a cryptic message in here that I don't quite understand, I'd try sending this guy a PM (from a mature reddit account that would feel trustworthy to not be a cop). At least he may be able to point you in some direction.

https://www.reddit.com/r/shrooms/comments/7obvvn/growing_kit...
>With the advent of CPU-architecture-based side channel attacks (Meltdown and Spectre are the most publicized.

I thought they repaired since 1.5 years when they let it to the public (inside Microsoft some knew about the danger)

Is it still a threat?
Bank-card-slurping malware sneaks into Forbes' mag subscription website
Apples and oranges: WhatsApp isn't an Israel-based company.
Interesting article, although I'd argue that Performers have far more influence on time perception than Composers.
Two different things here. The odds that all Huawei hardware is setup for mass surveillance is low. The odds that the Chinese gov could use that hardware to target specific people for spying is close to 100%.
You never know what you'll find at a Grocery Outlet, and sometimes the deals are absolutely ridiculous.
I went once during lunch and they were selling five-pack boxes of Kind Bars for 25-cents per box. A month out from expiration. Insane!

I bought about 15 boxes and just shared them among my team/roommates.
There's also the Guardians way: Ask, but don't block. Despite all the cries that this could never work Guardian had a positive revenue in their last yearly report. It depends on people doing the right thing, if they can afford it and if not cross-finance it with the people who can.
On the contrary, I think that the smearing behavior is an indication that leap seconds poison an otherwise-useful model of reality. The discontinuity is an annoying edge case driven by the fact that "time error" accumulates, so it seems to me that that a 1-day smear is a more natural approximation than an instantaneous discontinuity. That, and tuned for the attention span of human organizations.
The pistachios that need police protection in Sicily
How do you like viewing maps in dark mode? I tried Apple's Maps app on macOS, and it felt weird -- like navigating at night. Otherwise, dark mode seems good.
Temple of Arul Mihu Navasakthi Vinayagar:Colorful Worship in Seychelles Paradise
How is this different than a nicerUI over a seccomp filter for your container?
Their new page says $10k. I've always wanted to own a grocery store.
The police in Germany already proposed to ban Tor as its "really not needed in western democracies".
Protip: you can text "follow @username" to 40404 to follow people without having a twitter account.

I much prefer getting a text from a select few people when they tweet. And if you're not a fan of twitter there's the bonus of it costing them money without giving ad revenue.
> There is also the view that extreme prison sentences are supposed to be a deterrent and thus are unfair by nature. If know you are at risk of spending 20 years in jail, you won't do the crime. Of course in many cases criminals do not really consider the risk of getting caught, and likely wouldn't know the exact penalties for a given crime anyway...

I'm pretty sure it has been proven multiple times over that harsher sentences don't reduce crime. They serve just as retribution.
GopenPGP, an open source encryption library for native applications
To see where new behavior (by the platform) is needed, they should look at what breaks incipient good discussions, and how to prevent that.
(I'll also note that the HN conversation on this post seems quite different in tone from the usual HN.)
Interesting but not surprising.
I’ve been evaluating Resilio Sync as an alternative to Dropbox these past few weeks. The main problem I’ve come across is the extreme amount of RAM this program needs. Their website says they require 2kB RAM for every indexed file, which is insane. I’d wanted to run this on a Raspberry Pi, but it doesn’t fit in the Raspberry’s 1GB of memory
Both of these sentences are factually wrong. There is no government news in Germany. And the Öffentlich-rechtlich (which program is, again, not controlled by the government) are not really expensive (The price is 17,50 for everything together: TV programs, radio programs, internet presence).
Oh the "let's be sensible" argument...

Please do not follow this road. According to EU the main target of Russian disinformation campaign during current EU parlamentet elections is to spread the picture that EU is colapsing due to bureaucracy/corruption/incompetence/all power moving to Brussels/migration/Islam (select one depending on your target) while their country is solid as rock.

They have a ~1 billion Euro budget to spread that garbage this year. Please don't do their work for free.
I think the commenter is just pointing out a potential fallacy -- comparing things that are fundamentally different to force a conclusion that is nonsensical.
Before you tag something as ridiculous it would be a good idea to read and think a bit in order to at least understand the subject.

This is the problem. This thing has become a religion. Which means at least two things. First, everyone believes the “truth” blindly. Second, dialogue is impossible.
The radio frequency IC chips like the tuner front ends and RF baseband. This process technology is not nearly so easy to copy and implement as regular digital elements on regular substrates. It's pretty important for mobile handsets.

This is reflected in the way 5G is being rolled out in China. Mostly new sub-6GHz 5G NR modulation basestations are being put in. Millimeter band is not being attempted initially. This gets them 15-20% modulation gain in thoroughput over LTE in the same circumstances at most.
It isn't but solely because IRC channels are of a reasonable size, and have some form of moderation.

If you wanted to chat in a channel with 1000s of people (like twitter), the IRC model would be untenable.
same stuff!! Im going to put it for sure!
Wow this is stupid. I guaran-fucking-tee these "prison abolishers" wouldn't sit in a room unchecked with a violent criminal. Some dude with tattoos all over his face, 6'5 and 320 pounds of muscle. Yet here they are sitting on their soap box talking about how prison isn't necessary and how we just need more resources.

If anyone seriously believes this - you are free to go into the slums in any major city and fix them yourself. But that won't happen because these cowards sit comfortably behind a beaurocratic chair expecting someone else to do the dirty work.

I'd love for prisons to not exist. But they do for a reason.
I looked into it a little more, and coded up some benchmarks, and it turns out I was wrong. His solution is like this:

int bits(unsigned long n, char* b) {
int retval = __builtin_popcountll(n);
while(n) {
*b[0] = __builtin_ctzll(n); n &= n-1;
*b[1] = __builtin_ctzll(n); n &= n-1;
*b[2] = __builtin_ctzll(n); n &= n-1;
*b[3] = __builtin_ctzll(n); n &= n-1;
b += 4;
}
return retval;
}

Unrolled four times, this is faster than the naive code unrolled by the compiler, but slower than the jump table. Unrolled eight times, that is ~10% faster than the jump table, which really surprised me. How can a loop be faster than non-branching code? The crucial difference is that his version begins filling the pipeline immediately. The compiler unrolled version needs to wait on the popcnt before it can begin working, and the jump table needs to wait on both the popcnt and the subsequent jump. Despite the fact that the jump table is 100% branchless after the initial jump, its speed advantage down the stretch can't make up for the author's early start, nor can it make up for the author's eventual branch misprediction and subsequent pipeline stall. Very strange. Cool, but strange.

I think the lesson here is to not jump to conclusions and post your faulty misconceptions about performance on the internet before you benchmark it.
> Because I’m one of the people the 5E apparatus is trying to protect

That's a pretty bold assumption you're making.
Yes... let's let future asteroid dwellers solve their own problems, which will be as much cultural as technical. Today's elegant universal solution is sometimes tomorrow's Esperanto: perfectly useless.
The bios can also backdoor the os after reinstall as lenovo did with superfish.
Excellent question.

You are clearly familiar with the latter. Perhaps take a couple of minutes to read through the linked project and answer the question here, for everyone's reference?
As mentioned above, it can't be both highly radioactive and active for thousand of years. If it were that it would not be waste.
Can you recommend a reasonably priced cloud VM for mainly file storage?
We should abolish local time too. There should be a single time for every country which is the number of milliseconds since either the beginning of human civilization, the beginning of earth or the universe.
As a result of this decision, I will no longer consider doing business with Dropbox in the future, and I will steer colleagues and students away from using Dropbox
The VCs just want to keep these companies private longer and longer. It's getting ridiculous /s.
Or does it? You certainly wouldn't run into an arbitrarily imposed device limit.
Kube-OVN v0.4.0 released High available, directly expose pod IP and more
I'm a fairly new React developer, but I've built complex SPAs, React Native apps, and static generated sites with Gatsby. These are all very different patterns and approaches with major tradeoffs.

What exactly is the pattern used in a WTS project? Looks like serverless rendered pages similar to Next.js?
Ok, ok, since you want to be horsey: ambulances take 50-60 minutes to arrive (pregnant? heart disease? prepare to feel third world terror), the police can’t realistically save you from any kind of violent altercation or crime and no one else will see it happen, there’s no public transportation and you can’t walk to town—so you’re stranded on a desert island if your car ever breaks down. There’s also a constant threat of things like venomous snakes and predators, so expect your chihuahua to get eaten if he walks out at night (happened not once but twice to my next door neighbors). The list of stressful bullshit goes on and on.
Certain cars have taillights that flicker like crazy. What percentage of people are sensitive to this? The car makers don't seem to care.
> More generally, discourage large conversations and encourage fragmentation.

Doesn't that encourage bubbles?
Does your stance on redundancy of loved ones also extend to the number of spouses you have?
Is your alternative hypothesis that ADHD is twice as prevalent in people who feel they have "something to prove"?
I'm not convinced the problem will remain solved for music, and video certainly isn't solved. Gone are the days when everything was on Netflix; now it's fragmented, split amongst the big players in the space. I can see Spotify losing their dominance just as easily.
They have a color temperature of 6500k (or 8000k? or higher?), which is a very blue tint of white.
The abstract from the actual study[1]:

> The discovery of young thrust faults on the Moon is evidence of recent tectonic activity, but how recent is unknown. Seismometers at four Apollo landing sites recorded 28 shallow moonquakes between 1969 and 1977. Some of these shallow quakes could be associated with activity on the young faults. However, the epicentre locations of these quakes are poorly constrained. Here we present more-accurate estimates of the epicentre locations, based on an algorithm for sparse seismic networks. We found that the epicentres of eight near-surface quakes fall within 30 km of a fault scarp, the distance of the expected strong ground shaking. From an analysis of the timing of these eight events, we found that six occurred when the Moon was less than 15,000 km from the apogee distance. Analytical modelling of tidal forces that contribute to the current lunar stress state indicates that seven near-apogee events within 60 km of a fault scarp occur at or near the time of peak compressional stresses, when fault slip events are most likely. We conclude that the proximity of moonquakes to the young thrust faults together with evidence of regolith disturbance and boulder movements on and near the fault scarps strongly suggest the Moon is tectonically active.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0362-2
Yeah this doesn't seem like such a great deal when you consider that plenty of companies will pay that much, plus full benefits, for a full-time employee. And two months with only one small deliverable isn't that strange at a large company.