skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly I think they'll just keep selling iPhone 8 for another year but drop the price down by $50 or so to $549. Or maybe if we're lucky $499. Either way they won't release a serious budget phone like the iPhone SE for $399 like they did in 2016. That year, Apple's flagship phone was $649. This year the flagship is $999.
> copy a string by removing the backslash

I must be dumb, can someone explain this?
ProtonMail is not involved and the story is really bogus. Proton happens to have an office in Lithuania (one of 6 globally) and was dragged in as a result, but otherwise there is no real connection as explained here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn...

ProtonVPN in particular has been vetted by third parties such as Mozilla, and is operated very transparently as outlined here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/is-protonvpn-trustworthy/

The location of Proton offices for example, has always been publicly disclosed, the directors of the Swiss parent company Proton Technologies AG, and the company's CERN roots, etc, are all in public record.
The Apagard Premio stuff works. After my dentist saw my results he started importing it to sell out of his own practice.
> You check out a file with git, then edit it with vim, and build it with gcc, which pulls in headers generated with a python script, itself having been configured with, I dunno, cmake gadgetry. Where do you draw the boundaries here?

None of this should not require access to things like my web browser, my ~/.config directory, some directory like ~/build/go containing an unrelated project.

> They're called "IDE's"

IDEs don't exist for security reasons, but I think you can at least use the existence of these things as evidence that there is a sensible way of scoping development activities. I imagine it wouldn't be a major hindrance if IDEs did provide this sandbox functionality, where you could still launch a shell within the IDE, and that shell would be in a mount/pid namespace controlled by the IDE.

Personally, I want something that applies not just to development, but general computer use. If you go back 15 years, it was probably fairly typical for someone to expect to download an run an "EXE" file. Now the expectation is that a website or phone app is used instead, which has fewer security implications.

Surely there must be some path for moving to something more secure when it comes to commandline usage.
Youtube, maybe. Put all your talks on Youtube for sure. But twitter is purpose-built to for bullshit and manufactured outrage. I fail to see how it can be useful to a scientist in any way other than to mine the firehose stream for data.
Which abstractions should we remove?
>Most people think it's the right thing, too

You only make the appeal to popularity when the public holds the same opinion as you.

> Of course it's a cause for divorce though

If your partner can divorce you for infidelity, that is a penalty that they can selectively enforce. When the state makes it a justification for divorce, the implicit message is that infidelity is bad for marriages. Why, then, would the state want to reduce the penalties for infidelity by making the husband of a cheating wife financially liable regardless of paternity?

>the justice system is all about the interests of the children

If the state cares about the welfare of a child the state can give welfare payments to the mother.

Just because the system is unfair to some parties doesn't mean it's done in the best interest of one party. I don't buy it that the state is motivated here by the welfare of children. Marriage, and more generally being raised by two parents, is quite beneficial to children. If the state acted in accordance with this, you would expect the state to discourage (increase the costs) of divorce rather than encourage it (make it easier or reduce the costs). Here we are seeing the opposite.
He's a creationist. Accept it. Read all his posts in this thread.
It's a dumb question, really. What would they use to fly with, before the feathers -- pixie dust?

There is a legitimate question: what did they use feathers for, before they used them to fly with? Because nobody ever grew feathers just because they wanted to fly real bad. All kids try it. Doesn't work.

It turns out feathers are really, really useful for all kinds of things, if you look. So, "what else are feathers for?" doesn't narrow down much how it led to flying.

We know how squirrels, frogs, fish, even tree snakes get lots of reproductive fitness by catching air. Best bet is, it was something similar.

Nailing down the exact process will take a hell of a lot of fossils.

Then we can start on pterosaurs and bats which don't, you know, use feathers.
Yeah, the winds blew in our direction. Shortly after, my family moved to Minsk,

Later on, I had military training in radiation protection in post-Chernobyl Belarus, read the transcripts of Legasov's tapes and IAEA reports on Chernobyl.

Chernobyl shadowed my life, but things turned out to be mostly OK.

Back to the mini-series, even the faithful repoduction of the epoch is sometimes dumb. Notice the crystal clock on Gorbatchev's table. I had one like that at home, but I am pretty sure that clock would not sit on Gorbatchev's table. It's something people had at home, not in institutions.

The sequence of events is roughly similar to what actually happened, but content is unnecessarily worse than the reality. For instance, the three divers that went through radiactive waters survied, one died many years later of a heart attack, one is retired and the third one is a director at the Energy and Coal Mining Ministry of Ukraine.
> There's nothing stopping people from using BSL-licensed software on AWS/GCP/etc., as long as they aren't running it for the purposes of offering a hosted version of that software.

There is. This is no longer an OSI license, which means it's no longer on the automatic whitelist. Using CockroachDB now requires running through legal, which really makes me reconsider just using the hosted whatever offering, despite the issues.
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Ah! Thanks for expanding on that.

It looks like the PDF version is available at the top of your linked page under the link "Download PDF" (https://www.gstatic.com/policies/privacy/pdf/20190122/f3294e...). The footnotes are all tacked on to the end of the document there, but they're hard to make use of out of context.

It's frustrating that the footnotes contain both important disclosures like "we assign you a unique identifier to track your activity if you're not signed in to a Google account" but then use the exact same format to say "a device is a computer that can be used to access Google services."
Makes it harder to identify the important bits.
They get a lot of credit in my book for keeping it open and not hiding anything behind enterprise / non free components. I think Elasticsearch for example left a bad taste in people’s mouths by adding enterprise only features for something as crucial as security features and mixed their OSS core with it.

Basically they’ve kept collateral damage to a minimum as far as I can tell, where as others haven’t.
Not sure if you saw it, but Proton published a response here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn...

The fact that hundreds of Twitter bots were used to spread the allegations is rather strong evidence that there was indeed a smear campaign. Details about this here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/is-protonvpn-trustworthy/
What UI framework are you talking about? Flutter?
Maybe someone more knowledgeable could explain if/where my thinking is flawed, but: It seems like this sort of fraud is greatly assisted by the extreme cloak of secrecy that private corporations are allowed to operate under. Maybe the full range of disclosers publicly traded companies are required to would be too much, but the opposite extreme really seems too opaque.
Research Shows Publishers Benefit Little from Tracking Ads
As a kid of seven or eight, I remember roaming out in the forest (I lived in the mountains of western North Carolina) only to come home and find the occasional tick on my head. These days, I'd be scared to death of contracting Lyme Disease, but I have to wonder if that's just media scare mongering.
I actually really enjoy jobs like that, where you can just intently focus on a mission. Even if the mission is coffee.

However, companies that put it as a job requirement take the fun out of it.

In a sense, it's nice to constantly give presents to your spouse and her family. But a forced tribute is not fun.
Yes I did. Which is why I asked if they've changed. And then today, in 2019, I did a search for "Kik child porn" and found several brand new convictions for people trading child porn over Kik from 2019. So I said "still the medium of choice". Would you like me to post all those 2019 links for you? I presumed you were capable of finding them yourself.
The Search for Planet Nine v2.x
Make sure to enable permissions for autoplay sound, use the microphone and use the camera.

See https://imgur.com/a/1UQiqtQ
Twice the fuselage weight, cost for same number of seats, plus two gigantic engines located well aft of Center of Pressure.

There’s a good reason we don’t see any aircraft with a design like this today. It doesn’t work financially or aerodynamically.
Maxar Selected to Build, Fly First Element of Nasa’s Lunar Gateway
Yes, I think their warehouse policies are totally crazy.

But that has a little advantage. When they send you used items, it is easy to notice.

If you buy at some reputable shops, they know how to scam you and resell used items as brand new, not as refurbished, grade A or whatever, which is illegal at least in EU.

For example, I wrote to the customer service of a famous fountain pen shop in the UK asking about return policies on a very particular model which comes sealed with stickers. I was shocked when they said I could not only open the box and inspect the pen, but also ink it and use it. If after a week I decide I no longer like it, I should just send it back. It will get sold as brand new. They only advised me to open the stickers really carefully to facilitate their (scam) task.

In fact, if you shop around their website, you'd notice there are practically no refurbished or open box items in proportion to their high volume of sales.

If you ask any fountain pen enthusiast, a pen that has been used for a week is not new. Just like a car that has 2000 km in the dial. Good shops even sell models have been dipped in ink, not even filled, at a heavy discount.
>However in RC gliders (slope especially) it's not necessary - the plane is made of foam and will bounce off any obstacle with minor damage, and they don't fly at long range. It's quite uncommon in this type of flying.

If your reference is simple foam planes this is true. But in high-performance applications like F3F people will run on-board accelerometer based control units that stabilize flight.

The whole discussion is a bit silly though. The standard for toys is clearly not the same as for a passenger carrying commercial airliner, even if sometimes they are very expensive toys...
I have mostly switched over to Firefox from Chrome for all work related stuff except for anything Google Drive related (esp. Google "new" Sites - that has resulted in lost data and a failed demo).

So yes Google, Chrome will always likely be running on my system, but in almost exactly the same place IE did 10-15 years ago. Is that something to be proud of?
Maybe they should say "Western Civilization coming to end", it would be correct. But the rest of the world will be fine
It’s fine in the sense that a fighter jet can glide for quite a while and even land without engines. If that’s not possible, the pilot can steer it to crash in a remote area and the pilot can escape.
Fair enough. That's quicker than I would have guessed, but exponentials are pretty powerful.

If the growth is 1%, then we are good for ~3000 years, even in just our solar system. A tenth of a percent would give us ~30k years in the solar system.

Although, very very low growth would last quite some time on the galactic scale. A hundredth of a percent would give us more than 500k years to reach galactic energy levels. Which may actually be realistic given the difficulties of interstellar travel and cosmic scale engineering.

But yes, it seems that in the next few tens of thousands of years, barring an Earth-shattering revolution in our understanding of energy, we will likely have to learn to live in something much closer to a steady-state system, at least in this solar system.

And even such a paradigm shift would just push out the deadline. But I do think such nitty gritty details of when and how the ceiling is hit will effect how things play out.
I've been underwhelmed by this. Because they missed the opportunity to incorporate

https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featurea-different-view...

There is endless rambling about the failure of the apparatchiks to communicate the shortcomings of the scram system for political, economical and technical reasons, which culminates in stating at the end that the emergency stop can change to an ignition switch for a bomb under special circumstances.

"Weil nicht sein kann was nicht sein darf!"

"And he comes to the conclusion:
His mishap was an illusion,
for, he reasons pointedly,
that which must not, can not be!"
(cited from https://www.proz.com/kudoz/german-to-english/business-commer... )

Yet, regarding the different view of Konstantin Checherov
they are making the same error.

Guilty of falsifying history as usual.

Mockumentary...
Fully agree. Academic career is already demanding enough without having to force each scientist to run his/her own PR operation. Outreach is important, but it is better done at the group or institutional level.
> The government doesn't have the right to privacy.

France clearly disagrees.

I think that's misguided on France's part, but it's not "censorship" per se.
this is likely part of a US Federal program to bring "innovative business ideas" to the National Parks system under former Sec. Ryan Zinke .. which is nice-speak for privitization. You nerds get to look at the typeface, dont worry about development leases, collecting rent or mineral rights.. thats not your affair..
> assigning probabilities to singular events is only meaningful and admissible at all if there is a good analytic explanation for the respective propensity.

Wait a minute, you are making a type error here: probabilities are not propensities. They're degrees of belief. (And even if you disagree in general, this is a Bayesian context you're talking about.)

If I put a die on a table and hide it with a cup, you could still estimate your probability distribution about which face is up. My probability distribution would obviously be very different, since I put the die in there myself. (Replace "probability" by "betting ratio" or "degrees of belief" if it makes more sense to you.)

> The [probabilism] view does not have very strong foundations.

Read the first 2 chapters of Probability Theory: the Logic of Science, by E. T. Jaynes: "Plausible reasoning" and "The quantitative rules". It's very accessible, and you shall see how strong the foundations really are.

http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/Gaussia...
I don't understand the goal of this post, it seems like it is just a list of short summaries of whatever libraries have CSP in the their name. What problem are you trying to solve?

Are you trying to number-crunch across many machines? In that case, I guess MPI is standard, but how is CSP related to this?

If you're trying to concurrently download ten files, why not just use asyncio/trio and async/await? You're mentioning await/async, but you're not explaining how it is relevant to either MPI or CSP, or whatever this blog post is about.

You claim that CSP helps "efficiently abstracting away dependencies on underlying hardware", but how is this relevant to CSP? Any decent piece of software is portable, it isn't a property of CSP. "CSP provides [abstraction from hardware primitives] by multiplexing and scheduling coroutines on top of a CPU thread pool". Well, which concurrency frameworks don't do that?
It's a lot like dating. Sometimes you just pick up anyone who's happy to listen.
You could also try ublock origin.
Yes.
I don't fly too much, and I never saw these upgrades..unless they were quite expensive...and it is per flight, meaning, if there are several layovers, you pay for each plane.
Buildings Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes. Why Doesn’t the U.S.?
People can be assholes. This will never be solved by policy.
'Big Tech', unlike Telecom, has made itself friendless, having alienated pretty much everybody along the political spectrum, and that is a dangerous place to me with a field subject to such legal vagaries as antitrust law is. I am not talking here about lobbyists or about legal technicalities but rather about the visceral reaction we all can have as human beings to the basic question: do I sympathize or even relate to these people? At inception, Google, FB, et al. were seen as innovative, dynamic, helpful to average people and the like. Sadly, those days are long past and all too many people are instead inclined to reach for the nearest garlic clove in hopes of warding them off.
In most cities, average velocity is always low. Where I live, I can beat driving time on my bike for any distance that takes less than an hour. (I can always beat public transit over these distances and further too.) It's basically pointless to drive if you could bike instead and yet so many do it anyway.
Python 3.8.0b1 is available for testing
sadly so so true :(
What has the level of increase been? Shark attacks are ultra rare, with only 5 deaths worldwide in 2018. See https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2019/03/05/the-201...
How do the sources of funding (R&D divisions, universities, governments) fit in this picture? Do they have access to the "secret sauce" or do they have to pay extra consultation fees on top of research grants.
Bloomberg unleashed this bombshell of a story about a supply chain attack on Supermicro, which supplies servers to some big-name companies. Except... literally everyone else says it didn't happen, and didn't make sense in the first place.

https://hackaday.com/2019/05/14/what-happened-with-supermicr...

Bloomberg doubled down, but still didn't actually provide any evidence, and there the matter has lain.
Because it dresses up fully for profit-motives as pro-customer?
I'm curious about the legal process of relicensing. Did they have significant open source contributors from outsiders? If so, did they have copyright assignment? And if not, then how valuable is it to them to be open source in the first place?

(Not trying to cause trouble; I admire Cockroach DB and its founders greatly! But I've watched open source struggle with this kind of thing for 20+ years and am increasingly curious about why businesses choose to open source their core technology.)
That Bombshell Evidence in the Census Case? The Supreme Court Might Ignore It
Paternity is an objective biological relationship as well as a social construct. Just because paternity can be a social construct does not mean that all other socially constructed alternatives are equally useful, or can even lead to a stable society. The mere fact that the traditional Western concept of paternity has been around for hundreds of years means that it hasn't led to our degeneration or destruction and at the very least is compatible with a productive society.

The fact that most notions of paternity are almost universal means that there is something fundamental driving this which can only be overridden in a handful of cultures. Perhaps there is some instinctual male drive to be more invested in their genetic offspring. Investing in their own genetic offspring increases their biological fitness and makes them more likely to pass on their traits of favoritism. Perhaps in cultures that don't have these widely held traditions around paternity aren't able to secure paternal investment and encourage long term monogamous relationships, which leads to the culture's destruction, degeneration, or stagnation.
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Inaction is also a choice. The idea that you can opt out of acting on climate change is an illusion. We choose every day. Currently, we choose 0 carbon tax. That is a very political calculation.

You’re already in the game. The clock is ticking and not playing is not an option.
http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/Gaussia...

But really, the first two chapters aren't that hard.
When will CockroachDB release their managed service? Can't find any clear pricing nor a registration form on their website.
An og prospector looked around, and realized that the future was opening a store to sell backpacks and pickaxes to all the young newcomers who were coming in droves to stake their claim. Og prospector can't prospect like he used to. He's lost his chops. No matter. He's in the prospecting supply business now.
That's definitely less kind, and it's a huge problem in practice. I think it's still not that bad -- people can and do get much better at designing things for medium- to long-term maintenance over the course of a few years.
Would one get the same counselor? I have schizoaffective disorder and there is no way I would want to "see" a new counsellor each time. One needs to form a connection and develop trust.
The linked article which you are LITERALLY commenting on is among many parts of this data gathering. The Utah experiment has tons of data also.

To say what the data is, would be to literally post the text which you are answering to (you know, the one you supposedly read before commenting)

A text which has facts that you contradicted several times in this thread.

On top of this you don't seem to know what the meaning of the words you use are. Let me help you, socialism is when the state controls the means of production. Unless you are literally arguing that helping a homeless person is the same as the government nationalizing every company on the stock exchange, then you are using words wrong. Though not surprising, given that you seem to comment on articles you haven't read.

BTW, the way Portland tried is terrible. That is why these successful experiments are so interesting to read about for those who don't have closed minds.
Ditto for US semiconductors.
Being fairly unobtrusive, I find modelines convenient for making explicit the proper indenting mode for source files. This is useful in distributed development, where the project doesn't specify a preferred code style. Even if other developers don't use vim, they should be able to understand how they are expected to indent their PR.

Moreover, they're super handy for loading the proper syntax highlighting when working with template engines (e.g. Jinja2) to produce anything other than HTML.
The beta is now out. The big incompatible change is probably PyCode_New() (in order to support positional only parameters). At least Cython is broken by this change, probably other extensions. Hopefully it will not be long for that to be fixed.

Lots of other neat changes. The f-string debugging with '=' will be handy. There are a number of minor speedups and so this should be the fastest Python yet released.
Seems like someone could compare the source code of e4m and satoshi's code, to look for similar stylistic things?
The problem with a company with no defined job titles or explicit seniority is that there is still seniority, but it is invisible and thus deniable.

In groups of humans operating in "communal" mode, this invisibility of the hierarchy is by design. It's not the top brass that's doing it. It's the "will of the people."
It sounds to me like you think your plan would solve all problems with no additional costs or drawbacks for anyone involved.