skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0.02% of content viewed is terrorist propaganda or child sexual abuse. Multiply that by 100 pieces of content per day, and 365 days per year and you get 7 pieces of terrorist propaganda and child sex abuse per year. I wonder how focused it is on specific individuals or if it’s broadly random. I also wonder if rates of terrorist propaganda are much higher among individuals the propaganda is trying to target.

Edit: that is, the base rate of 2 / 10000 pieces of content being terrorist propaganda is perhaps 0 / 10000 for 99% of users and 200 / 10000 for 1% of users.
Automating employee's package deliveries in the office
Same way you enforce any other rule. Same way they already enforce the rules they have?

I hope you weren't hoping for an argument about slippery slopes. And yes, of course that means they may have to hire more moderators and of course that means more expenses. Who ever said Facebook should get away with no moderation just because they're successful?
Inertial Navigation for Guided Missile System [pdf]
Total synthesis of Escherichia coli with a recoded genome
Largest South-Korean Blockchain. Live Panel Discussion [video]
For instance, I am transgender. This kind of technology would allow them to identify "masculine" features of my face that I didn't ask for. This could cause me to be profiled as male, regardless of what my court order or personal preferences say.

This kind of technology is fundamentally dangerous to people who do not fit cleanly into the rigid caste-like boxes that are used to categorize people.
What does "Isp" stand for?
Guided Missiles [pdf]
Checking for content of a variable before passing it to rm is a basic instinct that should be done in all shell scripts. The comment about --preserve-root is just a reminder that the problem of deleting / is very rare.
Even the React Native for Windows rewrite is built on top of UWP.

And from their BUILD talk, I imagine VSCode might eventually move into it, as the team had quite a few React Native vs Electron benchmarks, and was quite keen to describe all Microsoft products that are now making use of React Native.
It's not as simple as "just make sure it works on everyone". Even if it were physically possible to capture the face of all 7 billion people on Earth, you'd start running into issues of false positives/negatives, overfitting, etc., and furthermore it would basically require every person to be periodically scanned from birth until death to ensure that the algorithm can recognize new faces.
Amazon tried to make their own copy of Play Store, not Play Services.
This is really interesting and raises further questions from me:

- Can open source licenses be unilaterally revoked?

- Is Google the sole proprietor of AOSP?

- If there are other proprietors of AOSP, do they have a say?
History of Guided Missiles [pdf]
Also batteries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energ...
Ignorant question: at what point does the limiting factor for useful zoom become stabilization rather than optics? I looked briefly into ridiculous-zoom-level compacts a while back and consensus seemed to be that while the tech specs look good on paper you're just going to get a blurry mess unless you put it on a tripod, at which point you've lost the main advantage of a compact.
Do we have any Koreans here, to share how ICON is actually seen in their country?
Every launch has to account for de-orbiting and debris avoidance. In this case, satellites will be intentionally de-orbited when their Krypton fuel gets low and they can no longer station keep. The Starlink site has a quick blurb about it:

"Starlink is on the leading edge of on-orbit debris mitigation, meeting or exceeding all regulatory and industry standards."

"At end of life, the satellites will utilize their on-board propulsion system to deorbit over the course of a few months. In the unlikely event the propulsion system becomes inoperable, the satellites will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere within 1-5 years, significantly less than the hundreds or thousands of years required at higher altitudes."
Which I consider outright discrimination. Why exactly would the vote of one individual be less or more worth then a vote from another individual?
> Capitalism is faith in the selfishness of man.

Disagree. Capitalism is faith in the fairness of man. Each person in a capitalistic society has the same opportunity to take advantage of the free market and create their own wealth in a way that doesn't infringe upon the rights of the rest of the people in that society. These rights are guaranteed by the society, regardless of person.

Socialism (such as that in China) does not afford its citizens such equal rights. In fact, the Chinese government has very recently instituted controls which allow them to have a high degree of control over the rights a particular Chinese citizen can exercise. These rights are allowed, regarding person.
Same for Malcolm in the middle.

It was not even available on dvd for a very long time. So much potential money lost.
As a transgender woman, this is my fear precisely.
My advice is to interview a couple times (with companies you don't mind missing out on), find out what you are missing and work on side projects that interest you. Then interview again about 6 months later. There is nothing like interviews to set your mind straight. Competition and hard questions seem to energize my "survival" instinct.

...doing something hard and outside of your comfort zone I guess is what I am recommending.
This isn’t a good answer. On average in the US we lose 7% of power in transmission and 8% in power conversion. I pulled these numbers out of thin air, but it’s probably accurate to within a factor of 2 for wherever you are. A home solar power system might mean 7% lost in dc to ac and then you still lose 8% for conversion so basically 5-20% of all the power you produce is lost before it reaches its destination.

A more didactic answer might start with defining power, P=IV (power equals current times voltage) and “ohm’s law” V=IR (voltage equals current times resistance) and suggest this means that the power lost to the resistance of transmission line with resistance R is P=I^2R. Since the current you send is proportion to the voltage (One megawatt can be 1Amp at 1000000 Volts or 1000Amp at 1000 Volts, you want to use as high voltage as possible when transmitting long distances. The limiting factor on voltage is the amount of insulation required.

Usually power transmission uses three-phase alternating current, which sends power by varying the voltage on three lines each 120 degrees (1/3 period) offset from one another. It’s reasonable homework to read about why AC is better for transmission and also how three phase AC works and determine the economic value of laying three cables instead of two, with variables for the cost of wire, fixed costs per mile, and cost of electricity. ~50% of transmitted power is used to drive three-phase synchronous AC motors.

Resistance is related to the resistivity (denoted with a Greek rho) of the material and the cross-sectional area (denoted A) and length (L) of the wire: R=rhoL/A Resistivity is a fundamental property of materials and is related to the free movement of the outer shell of electrons of atoms in a crystal lattice.

Superconductors do not have resistance and can carry an extremely large current as a result. Unfortunately superconductors have a maximum magnetic field capacity and require extremely low temperatures requiring cooling with liquid helium or nitrogen.
The problem with an "it's racist" strawman is that all the people selling this stuff have to do is frame it so NOT using it is racist. I don't think it would be hard to argue that a face scan is going to have less implicit bias than a poorly trained security guard or bored cop working overtime. So maybe it's racist to not use facial recognition, since that leaves room for human prejudice.
Blackberry is a Canadian company. Harman International (the former owner of QNX) was a subsidiary of a South Korean company.

I don't understand what you mean about "US assets, patents, licenses" -- what are you thinking about here?
Facebook could be ~100% accurate at separating real and fake accounts if they exchanged data with the government to make sure that every user had a passport / social security number / other equivalent associated with their account. Is that the world we want to live in?
Maybe the creator of Tap Titans had a different Chinese name that was already trademarked? Or is 点击英雄 a reasonable translation for Tap Titans?
Here you can analyze the data with pivot tables: http://stackoverflow.seektable.com/cube/4b8d18bfa62b4204a46e...
Tor Browser for Android: Full Proxy Bypass and First-Party Isolation
Don't forget the physiological aspect on the driver too, Just having the windows, useful or not, would contribute to better wellbeing as opposed to a windowless box. After all, the drivers cab is a workplace.
I occasionally go to Show, Ask HN. Ask has some really good discussions,advice kind of posts.
Politics aside, I have Huawei phones and tablets and they're probably the best bang for your buck you'll get.
DDG Is Censored
Ooni probe shows DDG is censored
Siemens Velaro have gigantic issues in good old Germany. And China has indeed homegrown machines, such as the CRH380A or the CR400AF.

Further, there is also a lot of shit tier technology in Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-Bahn

Siemens is actually still offering that system. If you ride it, you will wonder how it was possible to combine all disadvantages of all existing people mover rail technology and to produce that.
And hungry people, with the pork famine on the way. They're going to have to play ball if they want to be able to feed their people soon.
A dual account (eg a business/personal) on Facebook gives you a store to work with while maintaining both business and personal identity separation (to some degree.)
I would agree with you if US would do it consistently, but when you try to accuse country A of doing X and not sell them CPUs and you sell weapons to country B that does does X too is hypocritical.

So I am with you let's respect all the international treaties and apply everything the same. IF country A commits a genocide and we invade it then we should do the same if country B does the same thing, not do it when is economically or politically convenient.
I am super anti sugar. I don't eat it except in fruit and I don't give it to my child.

I still don't want the government messing with nutrition. It's track record with that is just awful and there is no reason to think it's going to get better.

Politicians please do it as Hippocrates said:
"First do no harm"

Before you ban, label or tax sugar you have to get your house in order: Stop distorting the food market with subsidies and stop giving people wrong information (Food pyramid etc).
Tesla’s new cost cutting-effort is going all the way down to toilet paper
Do you think any other platforms are doing better, or is all social media inherently doomed?
Here in the UK we enjoy low speed trains every day. ;)

Just seeing this stuff in other countries really makes me sad about how my countries technological developments have been left to rot.
"VM == swap" is an indicator for me to not hire that candidate
Yep, in 1992 Hongkong was still responsible for ~25% of China's total GDP, today its contribution little below 3% on par with other big cities.
Some countries already do that - China, obviously. UK wants you to upload your ID when visiting a porn site (think of the children!). Japan has ID requirements for certain types of websites.

And of course, both Google / Youtube and Facebook have had a real name policy in place for a long time, to much objections. I've gotten a popup from Facebook asking me if the name of a friend who intentionally uses a fake name on Facebook to try and avoid her stalker is correct.
Ugh... Google owns the android brand. Is this somehow news?

Google open sources the core operating system and people use it for embedded systems or grad projects as reference materials.

If anyone wants to know what Android is like without Google, look at Amazon Kindle. Amazon did the whole no Google Android.

Point is that this should have shocked nobody.
Dentist here - I’m generally for people to do whatever they want - I see every day firsthand what sugar does to people. Both in terms of diabetes, their general health, and especially their teeth. I take it that everything in excess is a poison. The threshold from when sugar becomes a poison is very very low. We eat, as Americans, way too much of the stuff.
BB10 is nice. Meego, as seen in the Nokia N9 was a really good UI too. Extremely elegant card interface, that meshed so well with a curved OLED screen. In 2011.

I would love to see an alternative to the iOS / Android duopoly. One way to go would be a better F-Droid ecosystem, and pure AOSP.

But perhaps, even better, a true Linux userland. Maemo lives on with Jolla. Although I hate they still have many closed components.
Tcpcrypt + dnscrypt + https.. would it be too much overhead?
Of course there's brigading here, try having a right-leaning political opinion and watch your account go down.
I have looked at Eswaran's paper that purports to prove RH and I'm pretty sure it's all wrong. (Currently-latest version of paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.06971v10.pdf)

The basic idea is to prove that a certain function L(N) doesn't grow too quickly. It's true that appropriate bounds on L(N) imply RH.

But Eswaran's arguments for this point are full of handwaving, and in this field handwaving is just not good enough. L(N) is a sum of terms +1 and -1, and he claims that it behaves like a series of coin tosses, but the specific ways he argues it's like a series of coin tosses are not enough for the conclusion he needs.

E.g., in section 5, on page 13, he states a theorem which says: you can pair up the +1 and -1 terms in that series, so that for each +1 there's a -1 and for each -1 there's a +1. This is certainly true, but it doesn't imply that the series is random-like or that the partial sums L(N) don't grow much faster than sqrt(N) (which is the condition he needs). E.g., consider the series that goes ++-++-++-++-++-++- etc., whose partial sums obviously grow like N/3. This satisfies that "pairing" condition just fine. (Pair the first + with the first -, the second + with the second -, etc. There are infinitely many of both, which is all you need to make that work.)

In appendix V, he tries a different approach. (The fact that he gives two different "proofs" of the same key result, and both are handwavy, is a Very Bad Sign.) There's lots here that looks wrong, but here's one thing: he claims to prove that if |L(N)| ~ N^a for some a then we must have a=1/2, and having given his proof he claims to have proved that in fact |L(N)| ~ N^1/2. But these are very different propositions. Another possibility is that we don't have |L(N)| ~ N^a for any a at all, which in fact is true because it's known that infinitely often |L(N)|<=1 and infinitely often |L(N)|>=sqrt(N).

The lectures appear to be about his alleged proof rather than about RH in general. In any case, I would not trust someone capable of making the errors in his RH paper to teach any research-level material in pure mathematics.
This is a different objection than the original objection. (effective accuracy vs specific bias).

With a pervasive system, unless people are hermits, they’ll get scanned periodically, and with other bits of information the changed face can be correlated with the same person (I go into a salon looking one way, come out different, go into a boxing match, come out different, but I’m following my routine and go to the same subway stop and convenience store and use the same payment method, etc.)
As I understand it, this bacteria-like organism was synthetically made, and is fundamentally different from other organisms that we know of because of the difference in codon-counts. However, I'm not sure I understand what that means, perhaps someone else has a better explanation?
And then you just have a different implementation of China's social credit surveillance system...
Could you imagine if some geological process created an underground bubble that drained all of earth's oceans. I smell a disaster movie.
The benefits would have to be impossibly valuable to outweigh the constant burden and psychological damage of living in a totalitarian panopticon.

Given that society functions without it and is constantly improving anyway--crime rates, poverty, mortality continue to drop from socioeconomic and technological development without the need for the intervention of pervasive surveillance--I personally literally cannot conceive of a benefit that would actually be worth it.
>Does your lab work well with 2-3 people being able to set up the data processing for the rest of the team?

Those people who know their stuff aren't doing that job because they have their own data to deal with. There are people with 10,000 line proteomics outputs who manually search for missing entries. There is at least one student with single cell RNAseq data which she can't even look at (never heard of fastqc or the LESS command). It is frankly disasterous.
As long as it also applies to juice. It's usually the same amount of "bad sugar" but since it says "orange" on the bottle, people think it's healthy...
Cross Compiling: Why Is This Hard? (Part 1)
How do you justify letting this issue fester that long / to that degree?

The article reports that Facebook said they "... spotted and deleted a majority of them within minutes, before they had any opportunity to "cause harm"." That would imply they're not letting the fake accounts fester but the scale of the problem is just absolutely huge.
which was a direct result of Google suing them to show it.

oh the irony!
They will fight in court and lose. What the US govt is doing is completely legal, no matter where you stand on the morality or sensibleness of these actions.
This kind of misallocation is really the only thing keeping velocity of money high enough to sustain the economy
If memory serves me well, the author argues in a nutshell that, until recently, the risk of nuclear accidents was viewed as low enough that it was an acceptable one to take to reduce CO2 emissions, whereas nowadays producing green energy (wind, solar, geothermal) has become cheap enough -- and cheaper than nuclear, particularly if you factor in storing the waste -- that the nuclear risk is no longer acceptable.
> What I don't get, is what specifically will be achieved by doing this?

Its all in the Art of the Deal. You should read it.

TLDR: They are negotiating points that Trump is using to advance the US position in the trade talks.
> I do not believe we have enough control over our government.

You're right. We don't and the reason for that is centralization. The way the country was originally designed, an all powerful behemoth of a federal government was never intended to be a thing.

A combination of 2 things has allowed it to happen over time: Federal consolidation in the aftermath of the Civil War and the creation of Federal Reserve.

Those two things set us down the path where we are today and it's why a more decentralized government is advantageous. You can personally influence things that are more local do you. You can get involved in city or county government. You can call your mayor or you councilmen. You can join a school board or run for Sheriff, city/county council. All of those things are possible.

But an individual has almost no power to influence federal policy and when people disagree with federal policy, they have no escape. If you don't like a law in your city, you can work to change it or you can simply move to another city. Same thing with states, even though it's more of a task...but at this level you always have the ability to vote with your feet.

It's not so easy to just leave a country and it's the reason that constitutional amendments are supposed to require 2/3 votes instead of 51%. The country need to be in significant agreement over federal policy...or we will be at each others throats about what is / isn't being imposed on people.

That's where we are now.
That's not the point and it's not even related to the discussion. I'm not sure why you are trying to bring in Big Brother nonsense.

The fact of the matter is that there are only 7 billion people on earth, and Facebook had a whopping 3 billion fake accounts. So how did they let it hit 0.5, 1,2 and 3 billion fakes before doing something? Surely with all their algorithms and AI/ML/Data Scientists they could have intervened sooner, but they didn't.
Many mortgage backing companies still routinely deny loans to black people because their models inversely correlate black homeowners to lower surrounding property values. When a mortgage backer also backs the loans of those same surrounding properties, the risk of losing money on their existing loans increases, thereby leading them to deny the loan and perpetuating racist policy from a so-called "objective" model-driven business decision.
last I checked youtube could be used with a web browser...
if done properly, software stabilisation can genuinely rival hardware
Use React Hooks with storage as global state management
> Canon ME20F-SH, which shoots up to ISO 4.5 million

Video at 400k ISO 50fps:

https://youtu.be/1-HfWCVQsIY?t=182

or Sony alpha A7S II - 4K low-light ISO comparison movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVLBHMbRMW4
Magento Community vs. Enterprise Edition: Which One Is Right for You?
Latex foam pillows. Firm for side sleeping; soft for belly sleeping.
> If you're thinking of climbing Everest: just don't. Climb some other mountain. There are lots of them. Let's leave this one be.

There are lots of them, but among ones over 8,000 meters tall, Everest is reportedly one of the safest and least difficult to climb. The best routes for shuttling people to the top are well-known and about as well-groomed as is possible at that altitude. It's already littered with tattered ropes and spent oxygen bottles and, yes, dead bodies. And there is a decent amount of industry built up around the operation. Many people's livelihoods are based on it.

Sending people to other mountains would not increase safety, it would spread the pollution to other places, it would leave the more serious high-altitude mountaineers with fewer mountains to call their own, and it would probably still not be all that effective at diverting the mess away from Everest itself, because everyone knows that Everest's summit is the top.
> Replacing 225 mph trains with 400 mph maglevs should be worth it, especially on long routes like the 800 mile trip between Shanghai and Beijing.

That's 2h vs 3.5h, not taking into account acceleration. Time on a train can be used productively, so it isn't lost. Taking opportunity costs into account, it may or may not be worth it. I'm also not sure if 225 mph is the physical limit of conventional trains.

Also, faster trains don't necessarily make the network faster. Especially when using an integrated time table, you can run trains slower (or let them wait, but that has the same effect and wastes energy) to improve connections, thus reducing waiting times and ultimately getting people faster to their destinations. I don't know how China's railways work in detail though and they may very well optimize for making Shanghai-Beijing fast.

> China, however, has no problem doing large infrastructure projects.

That may change when they have to spend more on maintenance as their infrastructure grows and ages. Also, the question is not whether they can replace their HSR with maglevs -- of course they can -- but whether the party considers it the best use of resources, also compared to other large infrastructure projects.
Scraping Single Page Apps with Python
There are other ways to deal with this besides async. It would have been fine if they had added async but you can’t just remove the synchronous functions and expect people to port existing apps with perfectly fine multithreaded code to async. This would be a lot of work without any payoff.

Whatever their reasoning was it was just plain dumb, heavy handed and unrealistic.