skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can usually plot people's beliefs on what deserves punishing imagery with this convenient formula:

Uses it: don't punish

Doens't: punish
The photo at the top of this article says it all: https://www.politico.eu/article/a-very-british-betrayal-mich...

Those are not the faces of men who are happy they've won. Boris looks like he's at a bloody funeral!
I'm glad that nails are starting to be placed in Google Play's coffin.

As it stands, Android's whole notification system (3rd party apps included) relies almost completely on communicating with Google servers. Seems like a bad design if privacy is a concern.
This is a situation where we can rank preferences:

1. Worst case scenario - no sugary drinks are labeled
2. Partial progress - Some sugary drinks are labeled (Soda)
3. Full progress - All sugary drinks are labeled.

I wouldn't try to slow the momentum by fighting 2 if 3 is the ultimate goal.
I checked the shipping status of an Alibaba purchase today after I received the Fedex notification yesterday.

The message on the Alibaba site said:

"Attention: Tracking information is supported by the Alibaba Global Trade Blockchain. It may be delayed for 1-2 days."
This story takes place in Atlanta. The metro area has something like 6 million people in it. Not a 'mega city' but also not a small town.

Perhaps it's not the city that is causing the lack of community with neighbors?
Destroying the satellites--or enough of them to sufficiently degrade Starlink's ability to operate in mainland China--would be a very expensive bit of overkill with a great deal of international blowback. Destroying one satellite with an ASAT weapon annoys everyone, but the consequences are somewhat limited; the debris from destroying hundreds or thousands in orbit is pretty much a casus belli. China still maintains enough authoritarian elements that it'd be easier to crackdown any dissidents using Starlink instead. Nation states have been tracking rogue radio signals by spies for decades, and they've got the resources to monitor for them.

If Starlink were to pose a problem in China, that's how they'd go about it. Destroying the satellites would be way too flashy. There's also the added benefit--from their perspective--that Starlink's mere presence would be a filter for their domestic surveillance; anyone willing to go through the effort of buying a likely illegal antenna, setting it up, and then trying to disguise it is the exact sort of person they'd want to monitor. Which is a pretty depressing thing to think about.
It's not just momentum in that sense; it's also the fact that wealth begets wealth. (Which you could also call momentum in a way.)
If you are looking at technical specs and a budget system, it's not for you and that's okay.

This thing looks beautiful and that by itself is worth a premium price to a lot of people. I bet it's going to sell out instantly.
> It's really about that accountability - what are you going to do against an internet entity which scammed you? How effective is that action going to be?

Accountability was supposed to be the extra value of OV and EV certificates.

If you look at the cert for https://www.walmart.com/, you see the following Subject fields:

Common Name = www.walmart.com
Organization = "Wal-Mart Stores, Inc."
Locality = Bentonville
State = Arkansas
Country = US

The certificate authority (GlobalSign in this case) is attesting that this is accurate identification information for this company--that you can use this information to locate legal records for the company and contact it, sue it, investigate it, prosecute it, etc. DV certs do not have the bottom 4 fields.

That's what the famous "green banner" in the address bar was supposed to convey--that this website has a paper trail that can be used to impose accountability.

That's NOT a guarantee that the website will treat you well. It is a guarantee that you can try to do something if it doesn't. Even if a corporation is only established temporarily for the purposes of getting an EV cert to run a scam, that still leaves a legal paper trail. DV certs do not.

And this is a standards-based distributed system. It doesn't rely on one company like Google or Microsoft, or one particular browser, or even one particular CA. If Wal-Mart doesn't like GlobalSign anymore, they can go to another CA like Digicert. If you don't like Chrome, you can use Firefox--they can both read this cert information equally well.

IMO it is really a shame that the Internet industry was not able to lean into this concept of accountability. For example, why don't browsers surface this company contact info directly to consumers? The way that a consumer can easily find the street address for a store they visit? Instead it's buried 4 clicks deep in a complicated cert menu. Why don't they supplement it with a link to the corporate record of the company? Or to the Dun and Bradstreet listin? Or to the police department website in the registered locality? (Bentonville, AR in the case of Walmart) Or to the Better Business Bureau in that state?

It just seems like there was been the opposite of innovation into this concept of using certs to provide IRL accountability for websites.
I wonder if people’s perception of 'modern' paintings will change if they view them through VR.

Many modern paintings are massive in scale (bigger than my bedroom in some cases) and/or have many thick, voluminous layers of paint. Jackson Pollock is a good example. Those paintings look plain and childish when viewed on a tiny screen that fits in your pocket, as you don’t feel their scale, you don’t sense the depth of the paint and its texture, and maybe, you are also not in a suitable environment to view the arts. (IIRC some Mark Rothko paintings are displayed in dedicated rooms with dim light, as desired by the artist.)

But if you view those arts through VR, you can get a lossless, holistic view of the artwork. It can even be better than viewing in person as there is no crowd standing in front taking photos...
Presumably they keep it updated. Also the 48 hour turnaround time for new icons seems like a valuavle service, not available with an installable
I love not being tethered. Beat saber on the Quest is, dare I say, a better experience than on the Rift!
I'd like to be neutral good, but recognize that one may need to dip into chaos depending on the landscape they find themselves in. :-)
Absolutely that's the lesson here. Spread love wherever you go, to everybody, anytime.
Maybe some properties of stars could be explained by superconductivity.
Glad to hear it. There's still a lot to be done catching RED up to what's former glory so it won't be hard. Happy sailing.
Fair points, however part of the service is 3-7 day turnaround time on custom illustrations at no extra cost. Also the Student rate is 15$/month and you can sign up for one month, close your subscriptions and your figures and custom commissioned illustrations are still available to you. My lab just started using BioRender and so far so good.
How about the metallic hydrogen that might exist at Jupiter's core?
I'm confused about the mention of filter bubbles in this context. Generally, they're only bad when they're highly customized to what the individual user wants to see (because it will heavily bias toward their current beliefs).

Maybe it's the negative connotation I have to them due to Facebook so I'm wondering why this is mentioned here. I would expect the "proper" use of a filter bubble to be the application mentioned: not tailored to each individual user but rather highlighting what the entire community will find relevant, in this case based presumable on votes (though we wouldn't know if clicks are also a factor given the proprietary algorithm).

Of course, I suppose an entire community like HN could develop a macro bubble but one might presume an entire community should already have diverse perspectives which could keep it more balanced.
> However, art can exist within this context if humans are involved somehow or have some input, and I don't mean just the coder's input.

How can you draw that line? If a coder is working on a generative art project, writes an algorithm, runs it, likes the result, is that not art?

Is an iterative process required where the coder throws away the first results and revises their system until they personally feel it's been sufficiently arted?
Jailed indefinitely?

In my country it's 30 days tops. Not sure if you can be sentenced more than once for the same thing.

Also you can refuse to answer any question that might incriminate you, your family or your loved one without any punishment.
How it Happened: Doug Harmon and Leona Helmsley
Coke in the US is made with high fructose corn syrup. That’s why Mexican coke is often imported: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Coke
While I don't necessarily disagree with the conclusion, I think it's worth questioning the unspoken premise here:

Is there no other way to support human life than these
accelerating grinding gears of money-shuffling?
That's not fixed with bad imagery. Thats another problem that happen also to cars, bikes, alcohol, etc.
Insignificant: EEs can lower the losses by increasing the line voltage [0], at the expense of other challenges (namely taller pylons). It's about 5% over the length of the line.

Consider the other losses:

- Thermal (gas turbine) cycle: 40-60% lost (the big one)
- Transformer loss: 1-2%. You pay this every time you step up/down, so it adds up.
- Capacitive coupling: I dunno, but length dependent. It has to be about the same as Ohmic losses since once it's large you switch to DC lines (and take an Ohmic loss hit from lower V)
- You're house's power factor (which, unlike industrial users, you're not charged for).

[0] in the sixties very large V lines were introduced (0.75 - 1.0 MV ??). They work, but it's not considered worthwhile.
> Seems like a bad design if privacy is a concern.

True, although having one endpoint does have some advantages for battery life and api consistency.
...and then the person we voted for doesn't win the election and the person who does win the election doesn't listen to the citizens they're supposed to represent.
I really don't think you should be perpetuating derogatory and racially charged terms like this on HN.
The French record was with a modified test unit but on a regular track (LGV Est), albeit with upgraded voltage.
Ya, but the science popularizers always make it about transmission :S
There are a few different performance issues with the Java bytecode verifier. Are you referring to this one?

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7dd2/b5359ab507fec1b1223db6...

The cause of this is that the dataflow analysis performs nontrivial merging of dataflow facts, requiring a reanalysis. In the WebAssembly design there is no merging; any divergence of stack effects is an error.

There are other deeper issues with the Java design: bytecode subroutines, the fact that the Java subtype relation doesn't form a semilattice, and way in which Java bytecode models object initialization.
I'm not sure I follow, to my understanding it is not legal to take professional photographs of the Eiffel tower at night, is that wrong?
SpaceX just launched a Falcon 9 loaded with Starlink internet satellites
It's actually the other way around. The junk mail is paying for your mailman to come by every day. The $.50 for a stamp doesn't cover the cost of delivering a letter.
UN poverty expert hits back over UK ministers' 'denial of facts'
Reminds me of Microsoft. They only had two engineers working on MS-DOS 1.0, their most important and profitable product at the time. Despite recurrent industry criticism of the product and the launch of competing DR DOS (faster, better and 33% the price), it took Gates two years to react, with commercial tactics first (and eventually overdue product changes later)...

Source: http://www.ariplex.com/tina/tcfact01.htm
High vs Low trust cultures in a nutshell.
Slack has been positioning themselves to be an integral tool used in the workplace. They dominate communication, but now are getting rid of one of the most important features for developer communication... You serious? What good is screen sharing (while pair programming) if you can't share control of your screen?

You're telling me that I have to download another application, and convince me teammates to do so as well? "Oh I immediately see the problem with this code you're showing me, but I can't do anything about it. Let's hop off this call and start another call in a different application!"
Try adding some chilli sauce. Mixed with the olive oil and fish it's amazing. After experimenting with quite a lot of chilli sauce with mackerel/oil over a period of years, I really recommend "Encona West Indian Hot Pepper Sauce".

If the 'sunflower oil' etc versions of the mackerel are available it also mixes extremely well with those and they can be cheaper than the olive oil tins.
It depends on how much it costs.
I'm sure Indian tech companies/government are watching this play out as well.

Google may lose a lot more business than it seems at first glance.
Ask HN: How do you check for malware in OSS packages?
What tools would you suggest to scan for malicious packages or dependencies?
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I disagree, having lived in large cities, everything always feels so impermanent and impersonal. Connections that should be easy to make with neighbors down the hall can feel more difficult than connections with neighbors down a driveway. I'm not sure what causes this phenomenon, but many people report feeling this way.

No sources, but I've seen this notion circulate in articles and other forums.
I don't know what I would have done, but as a multinational I would have bought Windows Phone OS and their platform.

Launch could be within months of acquiring everything. And the heavy lifting was already done ( compatibility).
Yeah but to what degree are they absorbed and used versus just peed out? What is the mechanism by which nutrients are absorbed? Does the gut recognize a nutrient indirectly only because it comes along for the ride with XYZ plant or animal? Or does the gut directly recognize the nutrient?
What kind of goats did you have? I have a few friends with Nubians who have nothing but praise for them, and they’re a breed I contemplate keeping down the line.
Good on him for acknowledging it instead of just hiding that action. To me, a delete means "I no longer want people to know about this thing", but an apology in the same medium means "This thing is no longer representative of who I am".
High-tech is similar. Where I work there are literally 100s of insanely bright people with backgrounds in math, physics, etc. who struggle for years to get their ideas into results and (ultimately) products. Usually things get stuck on simple software tasks like connecting things together, driving them in a feedback loop, or just identifying that all the parts are already there, scattered around the company, and someone just needs to write a framework to put them together. I honestly think huge business opportunities are lost because of inefficient software development processes.

In a sense, this lends credence to the theory that once you’re big and powerful and have lots of clients, you can afford to lose these opportunities. But I still think that you would have a huge competitor advantage without all the molasses.
the advice is to talk to a lawyer and find out what to do, if they should sue, and if so, if this is a case they can win. then based on that response they can decide what steps to take next.

if the lawyer recommends suing apple in the US based on their US trademark and that they have a good chance of winning then the next question is if they can afford to get started.

i can also imagine that a stern letter from a lawyer may let apple realize that they made a mistake in removing the game outside of china.
Am getting the same on Firefox 66, Windows
As a counterpoint, the Czech Republic has seen a massive improvement in both prices and quality with the forced split and competition with other train companies.
It's perplexed me, as well. What I've learned over the years with my current company may have an insight. When I joined, we were 50-100 employees. The tech was good. Revolutionary, in it's context and industry. We were actually doing something useful and good and positive for other people. In the last 3 years, however, we have seen tremendous growth. We're now closer to 300 employees, if not more. The tech is less revolutionary. We're now in an innovation through acquisition phase.

What I see is: most of this new cohort has _no_ idea what our business is and they are overwhelmingly concentrated in middle management.
It's not exactly fair to throw out the population like that with no context - Atlanta is similar to LA in that it is very spread out, a bunch of "suburbs in search of a city." Friendly communities like this are rare in apartment buildings, as far as I've seen. I would love to know why or if there are any notable counterexamples - I would consider moving there!
The problem is the aggressive language implied in terms like "space force" rather than the capabilities involved. Develop them in secret, store/shelve them until they are truly needed (hopefully never) and never talk about them because that would give others bad ideas.
You’d end up with much wider cans and packages so the line looked lower.
Hey works for me, let me just get my web-scrapper going so I can--hey wait a minute!
I don't think you understand what FLAC is. FLAC is a lossless compression format, that's it. FLAC also can be encoded in 16/24 or other bitrates like 24/192. Moreover, you can't (or shouldn't) do lossy to lossy encoding, so if you want to future proof your collection, you should store it FLAC or another lossless format because when/if mp3's go obsolete, you'll be stuck with it.
The right move at the point where it got presented to and rejected by the other division was probably to say "Well, I built what we agreed on. I'm happy to revise the product based on this external feedback, but that's not included in the original fee".

But the article did say that this was at a point in his career where he might not have been experienced enough to make that call.
And for some security bits, check out https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBVy6TfEpKmGdX1OE_xjK... which as also some general mainframe access info. His twitter feed is https://twitter.com/mainframed767?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ct...
Lessons from Chile’s transition to free college
I wonder if there were a viable commercial motive if NASA would suddenly get a ton of funding. For example, let's say platinum was discovered on the moon in large quantities.. would the money suddenly appear?
> Don't you find any moral issue in the state using its power to modify behavior?

Um, no? That's kind of the purpose of having a state.
How does this compare to IPFS and the DAT project?
So we wouldn't be able to photo ship in a diagram into a bigger diagram later and would need to make it not downloadable if we post diagrams on our website? What if someone screenshots it from a journal publication?
Thanks for the links.

It's a signal / noise ratio.

Back then there was less noise. Today there is such a high ratio of noise that you have to wonder if the geniuses like Newton, Da Vinci, Einstein, etc. would have found a platform and similar level of exposure today, through modern means of communication like YouTube and podcasts.

You have to wonder what disciplines they would have chosen, what their acute insight would have to offer to the modern frontiers of physics, medicine, biology, computer engineering, etc.
Can confirm
Edit: seems to be back up
You wouldn't say that about bipedal robots winning the 100 meter sprint. And humans still run the 100 meters although there are faster mechanical ways to go that distance.

Human standards of excellence are, and IMO should be, defined by what humans can do and experience. There's not much scope for competing with or "catching up" to a technology that is inherently many times faster/smarter/more creative that a human. Competition is not the right way to look at this.
You can usually plot people's beliefs on what deserves punishing imagery with this convenient formula

Similarly, you can usually plot people's feelings on cigarettes with:

Addicted: rationalizes their use

Not Addicted: doesn't rationalize their use
I sure hope this blocking thing is opt-in ;-). How will adu.. ahem .. entertainment websites live otherwise ?
Some people seem to get tied up in making themselves into a thing, and managing who it is they project to be. And at some point that seems to spiral out of control. That's not a justification for anything or hand waving about their actions, but perhaps their motivation more than anything else.

Often these people seem very confidant, but I suspect are just entirely lost.
What if MGS is used instead of salt? You can even shoot in your dishes to make them tastier.
I wish I could try this but I work from home and have recently taken on a side gig, all of which require internet.
> NASA funding now as high as it was during avg. appollo [sic] years.

Well that’s easy to fact check... so how do you figure?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

NASA's budget peaked in 1964–66, when it consumed roughly 4% of federal spending. The agency was building up to the first Moon landing; the Apollo program involved more than 34,000 NASA employees and 375,000 employees of industrial and university contractors.[18]

In March 1966, NASA officials told Congress that the 1959–72 "run-out cost" of the Apollo program would be an estimated $22.718 billion. The total cost turned out to be between $20 and $25.4 billion in 1969 dollars (about $136 billion in 2007 dollars).[19]

The costs of the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn rockets came to about $83 billion in 2005 dollars. Apollo spacecraft cost $28 billion, including the command and service module, $17 billion; lunar module, $11 billion; and launch vehicles (Saturn I, Saturn IB, Saturn V cost about $46 billion in 2005 dollars).[20]
Fungi that draws gold from its surroundings discovered in Western Australia
https://www.dropbox.com/s/46c4sk08cidw4tn/michael_kirk_scree...
Because he's not the one paying you.
It's very simple, for Gibraltar, for Falklands, for Pitcairn, etc.

It's Self Determination. In Gibraltar and Falklands the people living there have families stretching back centuries (over 300 years in Gibraltar's case, 150 in Falklands). Nobody is telling these people they can't become independent, or join another country. They quite simply don't want to.

When things are close in opion, like Scotland and Northern Ireland, then things are more delicate -- you can't please everyone, so you have to do what's the least danger.

In 2013, 92% of the Falklands voted, and 99.8% of those that voted, voted to stay British. In 2002, 88% of Gibraltar voted, and 99% voted to stay British.
> Considering how messed up American eating habits are I have no idea how they could be changed.

They're actually getting better, but the government will probably take credit for that like usual.
Also, super conductors are limited by the amount of magnetic field, and therefore current they can carry [0] (above that limit they become normal conductors). Lowering T bellow Tc, increasing P increases the amount of current you can carry.

Point is, they're kinda useless for transmission.

[0] MRI magnets are superconducting for the efficiency of superconductors, not for the field strength! The strongest magnets are not made of superconductors but out of copper pipes: electrical conductors with coolant pumped through them!
You are probably right. My memory of the 1980s is not perfect.
Nice post, I dont really like Zeihan's cold war mentality, but in this case its probably best explanation I've read recently.