skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can also be boring and annoying to talk about politics, the weather, or to gossip about people not present. Video games, like sports, offer a very detailed, completely trivial subject to talk about. Additionally, silence while watching or playing a game isn't dead (like silences at the holiday dinner table), it's a steady stream of new conversational material.
These things are a crazy gamble that civilization is not going to backslide for thousands of years, and we have hundreds of them!
The definition of vegan changes depending on who you ask.
Blender is a great application some day I will put more time into learning it. I have always loved drawing, photography and video. Even as a kid in the 80s when two of those were very expensive. I was into it so much that as a child and teen I was labelled as "that kid that likes to draw". Later in life I was moments away from apply to an art college (NSCAD) but backed out.

Also as a kid I liked programming but I never did make anything. BASIC from magazines typed line by line into an Atari 600XL no storage, in the winter when power interruptions or outages were common.

You would think with those interests Blender would be my thing but I was a generation too early and too poor.

By the way I think many people don't know of all the capabilities Blender. Those that do use it may believe it's only for 3D graphics. But it's so much more than 3D graphics it has video editing, green screen even 3D printing and a game engine.
While there was certainly a mass death from European diseases, it happened long before 1776. The unfortunate and shameful truth is that the United States violated agreements with the Native Americans and repeatedly failed to respect the various tribes' right to rule their territories (not to mention the war crimes and genocidal killing).
Bleeeech. CASE design? No thanks.

ihmo CASE (really automated policy configuration) is what people are now calling "AI". It's really just a computer augmenting and assisting a human's decision making.
There are plenty of exclusions in the fine print for out of pocket max in most policies though. It seems more cut and dry than it is.
I wonder if that's just for specifically image hosting websites like your case. Parent comment and my previous experiences seem to imply that embedded media is okay.

Even then, just a few terabytes of traffic will make Cloudfront reach the thousands.
They had a lot more freedoms than those in mainland China, and quit reasonably want it to stay that way.
So, the kind of "conspiracy" you meant is speculation there is a cover up of a politician's ill health condition in the first video? That has been done time and again by all kinds of politicians and leaders, from the time of El Cid... If that's a "conspiracy theory", then sure, every journalist alluding to something not documented at the time, is a conspiracy theorist. I expected more aliens, illuminati, and lizard people.

The second is merely reporting, on a well known topic of public discussion. A document was requested, it appeared, and there were people raising questions about certain aspects. Should they not be reported? Where's the conspiracy part?

The others I'll give you are conspiracy theory material (though several of those kind of conspiracies (government conspiring, ordering executions, and so on), that a naive US person thinks "can never happen", have been found -- by courts and later evidence -- true in Europe time and again, just ask in Italy, Spain, France, Greece, etc. E.g:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_Fontana_bombing#Officia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigoris_Lambrakis

That said, those are from like 10 years ago or more? I'm familiar with his YouTube stuff and I don't see much conspiracy stuff there.
You use a cryptographic hash function. The Linux kernel does something similar for /dev/random: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random

If you needed to simulate a single fair coin toss using a biased but at least somewhat random coin you might toss it twenty times, feed the sequence of results ("HTHTT...") into sha256sum, and take the first bit of the output.
Ha ha, nice. I also have a few personal favorite scenes like that. If I think of some soon, will post them here. Thanks for those tips.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement

For more background
> Hetzner specifically is not unlimited/unmetered

That's true for Hetzner Cloud, but Hetzner's dedicated servers have been unmetered (with a guarantee of 1 Gbps) since October 2018[1].

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/news/traffic-limit/
Noting that you didn't actually rebut any point I made...
The main difference is the sense of possession you get with something you paid a one-time fee for. The -aaS model is a fee for service model, so you expect to be billed accordingly.
Hold on, isn’t this another Chernobyl in the making? Ie. Using graphite (positive void effect). The very reason why nuclear reactors explode up during a meltdown throwing soot into the air vs melting down quietly.
This. Back when I was trying to learn Blender as a hobby I had no issue finding tutorials, but they were for a variety of Blender versions. For most programs that would be a non-issue but Blender seemed to radically alter its UI with every update. Buttons were moved to different submenus, entire menu categories were added or dissolved, and keyboard shortcuts would either not work or do something different than described in a tutorial that was only a few months old.
'Hurry up ': G20 urged to speed up digital tax
The correct solution to do this problem is to build more cities.
Privacy. Simple as that.
Mainstream medical understanding can move as we understand more about the nuances of the target populations. Here are some issues that I’m confused about:

- studies that incorporate statins don’t seem to segregate impact of anti-inflammatory effect of some statins vs cholesterol lowering.

- some docs are prescribing statins to healthy individuals based on only cholesterol scoring, also not taking into account more expensive but better imaging like coronary calcium scoring

- Are there studies that show proactive use of statins on otherwise healthy individuals lead to decreased overall mortality?

- there’s less question in my mind that a subpopulation with cardiovascular disease could benefit from statins but mainstream medical care seems far more aggressive that that, especially when dealing with asymptomatic elderly.
In historic first, G20 weighs aging as global risk
Observe your users actually using the software. Don't interfere while they stumble on parts of it. Slickify it and polish it. If the user no longer stumbles the changes are an improvement.
Spammers are less likely to keep their apps in the store if there’s an ongoing cost. Or to submit it at all, if the initial cost is high enough.
> Be real.

This is apparently a curious student that discovered a vulnerability and, judging by the way that blog post is written, is unsure how to properly disclose it. If this was your Facebook analogy, they'd have a relatively visible path to disclose that. Here, they have to potentially fear being reprimanded or criminally charged.

Under the premise that yes, granted, all that might technically qualify for some criminal act: The aspect of intent and malice are, imho, important in these discussions and should be for the corresponding laws. They found a vendor negligently handling student data, instead of dumping it somewhere, making a fuzz in the press or using it for something they try to disclose it (at least I'd hope so). It's not like the author abused that data, they tried out a proof of concept to see if access to other users could be gained. Not just out of solidarity that's something we should applaud and shield, instead of branding it as criminal behaviour.

For me this is more akin to past cases of people being reprimanded for trying to change URL parameters that are not sufficiently protected, while I see that it might be a philosophical standpoint rather than a legal one, I think the fine in these cases should go to the negligent company, not some curious individual without malicious intent.
Someone should let it know of the health benefits of a plant-based diet.
It might not change HK government attitude after all, but it shows that Hong Kongers align with western values - no one should live under the fear of arbitrary prosecution.
> Organic in the sense of organic pesticides are the kinds of pesticides that you'd find in the wild, without them being man-made

I think you're confirming exactly what I wrote? ("natural etc.")
Probably something like this: https://www.wral.com/surveyor-dropped-duke-energy-easement-f...
I didn't downvote, but I would expect most programmers to be able to guess at the gigantic amount of effort required to maintain compatibility across a considerable semantic mismatch and at least understand the choice to spend resources elsewhere, especially in the context of open source, where there is no payroll to mitigate drudgery.
The realty is that donation-based is not a sustainable business model. You basically can't always afford to eat based on it, leave alone to rent an apartment.

Ditto for the much touted GPL “service model” - charging for support and training. Realistically, this just does NOT work for anyone except for RedHat, because otherwise there would’ve been plentful examples everytime this subject surfaces and there’s always none. Also saying this as an ISV with tens of years of experience - making living off GPL-licensed software through secondary services is an absolute suicidal pipe dream. Even the double-licensed model (which is not applicable in Belnder's add-on case) is dramatically inferior to more conventional licensing models.
For anyone like me who was looking for some background on this, on Reddit, someone linked to a Vox video entitled "China is erasing its border with Hong Kong" [0]. At 15 minutes, it's a captivating introduction to the conflict.

Another video (6 minutes) you might be interested in by Vox is "China's trillion dollar plan to dominate global trade" [1], which is on China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQyxG4vTyZ8

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvXROXiIpvQ

Edit: One great passage from the first video [0] at 11:29 says:

"The [umbrella movement] protest didn't change the government's mind and it didn't immediately change anything in Hong Kong.

But this spectacle of young people rising up to defend their rights from the central government of China did spark a political awakening among the many in the city who had never before paid attention.

'I think post-umbrella movement was the first time that the middle class came out and voted in droves, and voted for the opposition force.' - HK Resident"
Thank you for the links. My understanding is also that TC is not a very good predictor of cardiovascular health, but I'm not any kind of expert on the matter, or even close.
Vanquished from within, by the Idiocracy.

Prophetic documentary, this. [1]

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
If the actual distribution of the noise one is sampling from is known, use the CDF of the noise to obtain a true random variable. That's exactly what the biased coin example does.
Why say 'align with western values' instead of 'respect human rights'? Freedom of speech and assembly are encoded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This is eerily similar to my own story, except that I'm 59 and still alive, so far.

I didn't work on drivers; I worked on mostly higher-level stuff (Newton, HyperCard, Quicktime, AppleScript, and several projects that did not ultimately become products). I worked at Apple from 1988 to 1998, and after that moved on to a successful startup.

In 2004 for I developed an incurable chronic illness. It was one that is hard to diagnose and hard to treat. I eventually found a doctor who could figure out how to handle it, and became able to work again.

Before the illness, I was in that category where I never applied for jobs, because there was always someone bugging me to go to work for them. In fact, my work at Apple was in two chunks because someone bugged me to go to NeXT, then someone bugged me to join a startup, then someone bugged me to go back to Apple. After Apple laid me off in 1998, two startups immediately bugged me to go to work for them and I chose the one that looked better.

After the illness, it has never been like that again. Since 2004, I have mostly been self employed, mainly as a contractor writing code and technical documentation. I choose to live in a place with very low cost of living, so that when I'm working I can stack up piles of cash to live on between gigs. I'm using one of those piles now to work on a product of my own design.

I've contemplated suicide a few times in what I think is a relatively dispassionate way. It was always during fallow periods when my buffer was getting threadbare, and I was in danger of becoming a financial burden to loved ones. I always decided against it because, first, it's irreversible and other choices aren't; and second, because the harm I would do to my loved ones by making that choice probably outweighed the harm I would do by becoming an expense to them.

Although I didn't make your friend's decision, I also don't judge it. I believe I understand in general how it can seem like a reasonable choice in some circumstances.

Since we're talking about ageism, I'll mention that I can't prove that the drastic change in my employability is a case of ageism, nor a case of discrimination against people with chronic illnesses. I suspect it of being both, though, partly because age and health are (not necessarily reliable) proxies for other qualities that employers are legitimately interested in, so I can see what the motivation might be, and partly because the differences between before my illness and since are just so stark and sudden.
The worst part of this is that it will, like most everything else in the US, be an option for the wealthy, some white collar workers and those fortunate enough to live in California while leaving everyone else behind.
A Visual Guide to Go Memory Allocator from Scratch (Golang)
Neither does (æ or Æ).
1. "Trivial" is not "Zero".

2. Nuclear waste is not as trivial as you make it sound, especially if you consider the length of time it has to be managed.

However, even present-day renewable technology can apparently provide 80% of project US energy demand of 2050: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/can-the-world-ru... ; and expected to provide 70% of Denmark's demand by next year already (same article) - despite the non-uniform output of Solar and of Wind. And technology marches on.

3. If countries link up their grids, there would be some mitigation of the non-uniformity of Solar and Wind output.

4. Energy storage technology.

5. CO_2 is a big issue. But non-renewable energy sources which run the risk of causing nuclear holocausts - while not entirely out of the question should be considered only to the extent renewable sources cannot be exploited instead.

6. IIANM One can also significantly decrease the amount of CO_2 emissions from fossil-fuel-fired plants through different process technology. It's not clear to me that between that and construction of nuclear plants, the latter wins out (although I don't have a strong opinion on the matter).
AI guesses human faces based only on their voices
Thank you for providing this context.

> All Blender plugins have to be GPL

Didn't the blog article just point out an obvious loophole of turning the addon into a bridge to an external non-GPL module, and putting some critical functionality into the non-GPL part?

Of course, developing such addons will be harder, but even moving just some pointless, trivial, easily rewritten code to the non-GPL part would force people who want to redistribute it to rewrite that part.

Or even completely subverting the spirit (but probably not the law) of the GPL by building a small non-GPL "DRM server" that is called and checked from the GPL'd module, and having the open source part refuse to work if this server isn't present? Of course, anyone would be invited to take the GPL'ed code and remove the checks, but it would shift the cost from "redistribute the version for free" to creating and maintaining a fork, which might be enough to get people to pay instead.
I really love this course. I have no deep learning experience except for this, but in a few hours of watching these videos I was literally building image classifiers that worked pretty well. Coincidentally, just today I started working on a hobby project using the stuff I learned here.
A 90% solution won’t stop most wildfires. What it might do is stop awful solutions like turning the power off on windy days.
That is an amazing and disturbing story. Seconding the recommendation!
If you are rural you most likely have a septic tank, not central sewage. Water is either a local water district payed for by residents, or their own well, payed for by residents.

Double posting?
Pretty sure it’s the same person from what I could find out from archive.org snapshots. I followed this trail:

- From the tweet you linked, it’s clear that they owned yoginth.ml

- Archive of the homepage links to a gitlab profile [1] which uses the same profile picture and style of writing as their current gitlab profile.

- The page linked to yoginth.ml, and subsequent snapshots of page show it changed to yoginth.com (the current domain).

Additionally, I noticed that they mentioned that they work at “DocsPen”. Quick google linked to a repository with years of history (evident from the migrations page), but everything committed in 2017. Looked up, and it’s essentially another unattributed copy of BookStackApp with licenses changed and s/BookStack/DocsPen.

Unfortunately, it seems its a case of naive plagiarism and not knowing what counts as fraud. I say this because there’s enough information to get their entire identity (I’m not gonna post a link to that) and it’s clearly a school kid who’s misguided enough. If OP reads this, I’d suggest them to reflect upon their actions, (or cover their tracks more carefully). Sooner or later, if authorities get involved it won’t be difficult for them (I just did archive.org search on my phone). I feel a bit more aware of this because I studied at Delhi University and I knew a few people who did/do similar things to get enough attention and build a resume.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180213200624/https://gitlab.co...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190312041322/https://gitlab.co...

[3] https://github.com/DocsPen/DocsPen/tree/master/database/migr...

[4] https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/tree/master/databa...
Two businesses each claim the other is full of shit. More at 11.
I'm not a fan of this use of the word porn, I think it is awkward and can make some benign interesting topics seem unsafe for work, which is the only reason I wrote my original comment.

But it is interesting how that revealed your antiquated thoughts on consensus and how that relates to the utility and cataloguing of language and how that relates that to mere communication itself. What we have is an easy to understand term, moving from slang to non-slang by various sources just from continual use. It doesn't make it difficult for you to understand, and you also don't have to use it and only understand. So it is interesting how you expand that to an inconsequential pedestal.

I would be curious if it remains in use on the longer term. I hope not. But the inclusion in these other dictionaries - whether someone modifies wikipedia or not - just makes it last longer.
This idea that fundamental human rights are “western values” is profoundly unhelpful, because it implies that in some sense to fight injustice is to no longer be truly Chinese—a nonsense whose propagation is both supported by and helpful to the CCP.
I eat burgers for my health. Often with no bun or fries. The more of my calories come from beef, the better I feel.
Singapore’s factory activity shrinks for first time since 2016
How does this relate to nuclear reactors? I do realize how Macro used environmental concerns as an excuse to burden poorer people in peripheral areas with more taxes (rather than, say, taxing the rich and helping to finance hybrid or lower-emission, fuel-efficient vehicles for people in the countryside).
> The latest proposal has come after a 19-year-old Hong Kong man allegedly murdered his 20-year-old pregnant girlfriend while they were holidaying in Taiwan together in February last year. The man fled Taiwan and returned to Hong Kong last year.

> Taiwanese officials have sought help from Hong Kong authorities to extradite the man, but Hong Kong officials say they cannot comply because of the lack of an extradition agreement with Taiwan.

> But the Taiwanese government has said it will not seek to extradite the murder suspect under the proposed changes, and has urged Hong Kong to handle the case separately.

I thought the extradition bill was to / from China? What does Taiwan have to do with this?
Because the issue they are protesting is extradition and the rule of law being maintained; HK has a western style rule of law, mainland has practically no rule of law to speak of.
I would use that term, but then I would do the rest of the speech in Spanish, just for consistency.
Will this break any of the terms with the British Hong Kong handover?

AFAIK the agreement mentions that China must not interfere politically or economically with the capitalistic nature of Hong Kong for at least 50 years.
The case oft an influencer promoting a vegan lifestyle not having her period for 2 years is enough evidence for me.
I think this presents an interesting case for permanent "grid defection" in rural areas.

The theory goes that as solar panels and battery prices drop, it will eventually make sense for homeowners to produce their own power, and "defect" from the electrical grid completely. Obviously this isn't a perfect solution: for example, the homeowner is now solely responsible for fixing their own power supply issues, instead of the collective "insurance" the grid operator provides by fixing grid issues for customers.

I think that rural customers in wildfire prone areas provide one of the best use cases for grid defection. The power company can save money in two ways: by not having to maintain relatively long power lines which serve few customers and by reducing their exposure to liability for wildfire damages. It might even be in the utilities interest to subsidize rural customers defection, to focus on more urban customers. Grid defection relies on low-cost solar and batter technology, and I think we will have both in the next decade. This is something that was not even possible in years past: extending the grid to rural areas was a great example of government sponsored economic equity that market forces alone may not have provided.

Two things that would help aid the transition: (1) Holding grid operators liable for wildfire risk (or at least part of it) and (2) forcing rural customers to pay a greater price for their power, reflective of the greater cost to provide it. I know (2) won't be popular but I think it does align some economic incentives correctly. I would also advocate implementing price increases only when solar+battery is very close to grid parity, so customers actually have a reasonable choice.
Correct.

Also, up until about three years ago you could purchase cheap cyber security insurance. When Sony got hacked over “The Interview” policies went up.

Still, most companies don’t do anything to really prevent issues.
This is true.

What about group ownership? There's a building in the new york city area that is mainly owned by the tenants. So that by paying the mortgage, they are really buying more shares in the corporate entity that owns the building. Then they never lose that equity in the property.