skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, it's a slogan, but you don't really have any arguments against it. The nature of the argument is slippery-slope, or syllogistic: If freedom of speech disappears, then freedom of religion goes with it. There's actually a tight binding between these two in the USA, since the same clause of the Constitution protects both.

No country has ever had truest freedom of speech. That doesn't mean that freedom of speech is bad; it could just as well mean that no country has ever been out of the hands of aristocrats for long enough to forge a freedom of speech which trumps their desire to be immune from the lower classes. But you're critiquing a position which has not yet existed and implying that the world will collapse if that position is realized, again without evidence.

The phrase "turn everyone into mindless drones" is telltale; it shows that you currently believe that people are not mindless drones. To the contrary, though, it's even easier to imagine that people have been gaining more freedoms through the centuries, and that people are turning into more mindful creatures, with less droning behavior. Even if progressivism is wrong, certainly the communication technologies that we have invented have given the everyday person a power of speech that empowers them beyond what their ancestors had.

Speaking of power, the cheesy line I'll choose today is that power and responsibility are formally dual in any category of social relations; if X has power over Y to do Z, then Y has responsibilities to do Z for X. And yes, freedom of speech is an insistence that this power not be abridged from everyday citizens. That's not a bad thing at all; beyond the progressive metanarrative, the slow and steady task of decentralizing and dividing power amongst people is important.

To summarize, you are suffering from tropes three through five from the list of censorship tropes. [0]

[0] https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...
We just take a weekly snapshot where we run a script to drop most customer data, sanitize the little bit that is left, add our internal users and data and apply the grants needed for each person internally. This image is built and everyone can pull down the container. New grants preferably wait until the weekly snapshot happens.
I strongly believe it's doable and there's a market - although small - for that. WhatsApp used to be $1 a year and it was profitable.

> https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/04091... The short answer used to be $1 at a time. In some countries, the app used to cost about $1 to download; in others, the first year is free, but each subsequent year costs $1 – in other words, WhatsApp had a subscription model. At the peak under this model it has about 700 million users worldwide; yearly revenue can be estimated at $700 million per year at this time.

There's no reason we couldn't get a $10 a month budget that would give users mail, instant messaging, file sharing or hosting of some kind. But there wouldn't be any of the perspective of the spectacular kind of growth the adtech bubble is trying to sell or integrated software solutions à-la Google that monopolies like so much.
Countless ATMs ran it for decades. They obviously figured something out to secure it.
I am a liberal-minded man that live in a Russian provincial city and witness low crime rates and non-existent internal conflicts yet we seat below Pakistan. I think this rating can be safely considered trash
> I'm neither an aero engineer nor a nuke weapons designer but I am pretty sure that nuclear weapons are a whole lot more complex than a plane.

Depends on the plane I guess, Cessna 172 or F-34 or 787 and the nuke (last gen two stage fusion or Little Boy).

The nuke is harder to build because of the requirement for fuel purification but the actual engineering has to be in the same order of complexity as a modern airliner surely.

I mean we built little boy in the 1940's we definitely couldn't have built anything like the F-35 then.
It is but the number of people who can understand it's value is inversely proportional to the interest of the work. I had to setup a TAI server for a trading company I worked in because no other time mechanism could record the trades happening reliably without duplicates. I would have been interested in making it a universal service. It would take me an hour long presentation to explain to other programmers with a physics background why this was absolutely essential. I can't imagine ever convincing a suit as to why they should pay for it.
Self-Supervised Learning [pdf]
>akc as rent seeking monstrosity

I don't really have a... dog in this hunt... but anyone could start up their own dog registry with whatever rules they want. I don't believe the AKC has preempted competition via regulatory capture, for example.
Super late but I have an comment[0] that answers this relatively decently, particularly this sentence:

> A docker container is not a VM, it is a regular process, isolated with the use of cgroups and namespaces, possibly protected (like any other process) with selinux/apparmor/etc.

Where virtual machines will actually virtualize a whole machine (down to having BIOS for your imaginary motherboard and a CPU for this imaginary machine), linux containerization virtualizes the resources & environment available to a single running process via the use of namespaces (pid, user, etc) and cgroups (available cpu, memory, etc).

So basically, there's a bunch of code in the kernel (shared between all containers) that enables the accurate reporting of all the "virtualized" resources/environment (cpu, memory, other pids running) -- that code can be exploited, which would be a "container escape". Dirty Cow[1] is an example of one of these escapes.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059875

[1]: https://dirtycow.ninja/
I think it helps when you’re siting locations from a thousand miles away and don’t know the areas you are investing in. You don’t want to drop a Dollar General in an upscale suburban environment, nor drop a Chipotle a half mile away in a trailer park corridor.
As someone pointed out, it probably has to do with controlling the stack all the way from hardware to userspace. Increasingly, Apples UIs run on top of Metal and I get the impression they want complete control, not just "good enough". Which makes sense, it's what makes Apple worth it for many people. I totally get the inconvenience from a developers (or gamers) perspective, though.
The C4 model for visualising software architecture
What is this dismissive “sorry but no” nonsense I see when people just assume they’re right?

Do you have a source for there being more variation within individuals, such that breed is no longer a predictor of behavioral tendencies?

If you do, can you explain why certain breeds per-capita have such higher bite rates against humans and other dogs?
Shadow ban all white males!
Svelte is a common-enough English word?
Delighted for Portugal's continuous presence in the top 5.
Video – UK Failing to Enact Legislation on Medicinal Cannabis
I'm guessing we are about the same age, my first BASIC program was on a speccy in 1986, once we got a family PC I moved to Pascal and other than some VB6 at college in the late 90's haven't touched basic since, I still have a soft spot for Object Pascal (Delphi) though.
FWIW there have been one or two (apparent) Apple employees on here who seemed sincerely convinced that Vulkan was a mess compared to Metal. I have no idea how true that is or how much difference it actually makes, but there it is.
This is precisely what I was thinking. My father was a hard working fellow, and only ate one meal a day because it's really all he had time for. Granted, it was a -huge- meal. Many of his coworkers did the same, yet nobody called it 'fasting 23 hours', but rather, 'eating once a day.'
When I was studying math, I enjoyed the challenge of writing LaTeX. It gave me a break from struggling with (e.g.) a real analysis proof to instead think about typography, struggle with syntax, and tweak my document layout.
> The Sun is in the focus of the ellipses made by planets around it. The opposite doesn't hold.

Certainly the opposite holds - if you draw the Sun's orbit from a planet's frame of reference, you'll draw an elliptical path with the planet at one focus. That's the whole point here, that neither drawing describes observable reality any better than the other.

I don't think I'm making any headway here so I'll defer to Einstein:

> Can we formulate physical laws so that they are valid for all CS [coordinate systems] ... ? If this can be done ... the struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, 'the sun is at rest and the Earth moves', or 'the sun moves and the Earth is at rest', would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS. Could we build a real relativistic physics valid in all CS; a physics in which there would be no place for absolute, but only for relative, motion? This is indeed possible!

(from The Evolution of Physics)
sorry at this point we need to stop wishing Apple would adopt standards or wishing Apple would stop reinventing the wheel in their own bespoke stacks and just support what we believe in elsewhere.
A single example of a poorly bred German Shepherd (one of the breeds most hit by low quality breeders flooding a market with no regard for the dogs health) is not evidence that good breeders don’t exist.

Good breeders limit or don’t line breed, they import and export stock to maintain diversity, they maintain health records on all litters and their prodigy, they have breeding contracts to prevent future litters unvetted litters.
Two of the world's best free divers went to the limit–one came back
Java Persistence Done Right
Hmmmm...

> LLVM/clang 8.0.1

Guess they have a time machine, as LLVM 8.0.1 isn't released.

There's an rc2 available (3 days ago), but that's not really a release:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases

Jumping the gun a bit maybe? ;)
Similar in the UK. My old dogs were registered as something like "Amyandas Golden Hind" and "Amyandas Golden Blend", which are obviously not their 'actual' names.
ATI is also bringing out hardware with dedicated RT cores as well, so it's likely that the hardware is coming to Macs shortly, just as next-generation game consoles will.

Metal is Apple's realtime API, and seeing as DirectX doesn't run on Macs, they'll need an API for raytracing in order to take advantage of ray tracing hardware, just as Vulkan did.
I remember reading Average is Over and A Fairwell to Alms just when I first started working. They convinced me that labour power was going to decline precipitously. I stared saving 60+% of everything I made and putting it into index funds. Anyone making a good salary should attempt the same. Much of white collar work is extremely amenable to automation, much more than even truck driving:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

Maybe comparative advantage will save the day, but I think it is a really good idea to start accumulating capital, even at today’s valuations.
Ray Tracing has been around for years. Heck, POV-Ray has been a great open source app for decades, even. It’s not some NVidia secret sauce.
> Q: Several studies show technology will disrupt jobs, but they also argue that almost as many jobs will be created.

> A: There’s a mismatch of job displacement and job creation. Job displacement is being driven at the speed of digital technology, which is explosive at this moment. And displacement is the business model for the AI geniuses and all those companies. All of them are hoping to get rich by displacing workers, not by creating jobs. Creating jobs is much slower. So, at least in the next few years, the displacement will outstrip the creation. But it’s not the direction of travel which is wrong. It’s just a mismatch of speed.

Citation needed. There's zero evidence that "creating jobs is slower." People have been saying this every year for well over a century, and yet unemployment is quite low right now in the US.

It's one of those things that seems logical -- but all evidence is to the contrary. And it's probably because it's a lot easier for the human brain to spot a huge loss of jobs in one industry, than a small increase across many industries that adds up to the same size.

Also, the jobs can already exist but just not be filled. We don't necessarily need to wait for them to be "created".
Does it have something to do with the Copa America that's currently going on right now? Maybe more people inside watching the games and using up power.
A less sophisticated version could work if you were able to mark decks yourself with some IR redlective and sweat.

You may not be able to mark all 52 cards uniquely, but knowing the 10s and face cards from the non- should be a huge edge in some games.

I could think of more dangerous but lower tech ideas, but my imagination isn’t free!
It can help to create distance. For example, if you simply name a feeling, eg “I am feeling anxious right now”, it loses some intensity / urgency.

Imho this is because our emotional center are wired to take over our rational center to ensure survival. We can regain control but it takes time. Creating distance helps change perspective in that moment and short circuits the “I got to take action NOW” emotional path.
Your country has attacked Georgia in 2008, invaded Ukraine in 2014, participated in the Syrian civil war in 2015. You could get drafted and sent to war.
Yep! My dog has an insane official name.

I got special permission from her breeder to use their kennel in the name, even though she isn’t being raised by them.

Dry Pond’s Eager Big Lady Mountain Goat Meghan.

Each part of her name is a part of her story. But her name is Meghan.
If I only use my laptop with the attached keyboard for too long I get neck pain. Something to do with the posture I guess. Don't you? How do you place your screen and keyboard?
This seem to be a good example of Hanlon's Razor. Uruguay and Argentine energy systems are interconnected because we sell each other energy when there is too much demand, and how that connection was made caused the outage to spread to Uruguay.
Or, in other words "countries that have a higher percentage of white people?"
I’ve long believed that intermittent fasting is just anorexia rebranded for tech bros.

Think about it:

1. Creating arbitrary rules to restrict what is eaten and when.

2. Obsession with “bad” foods.

3. Unrealistic and unattainable “goal”: often life extension or some ideal of health/productivity.
No doubt, I plan to binge there later.

Apollo 11 is one of those early memories that is a lot of "I remember that I used to remember", and retain some fragments of. Later missions, and Apollo 17 especially I have a much more coherent picture of yet aren't quite fully separate from each other, and remember some of the programmes explaining all about the Lunar Rover etc. And the programmes about the space stations, and lunar bases... If only. :(
Was the message specifically about seeking asylum after traveling to Australia by boat?

Australia does accept Iranian refugees (and refugees from other countries) if they travel to Australia legally (ie by plane, with a visa etc).

There is a strong public dislike of refugees coming illegally by boat, largely due to political fear mongering over safety (many drownings) and potential for terrorists to enter Australia.

Have a look at the statistics section of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum_in_Australia#Statistics

The steep climb in asylum seekers arriving by boat after about 2008 was the main starting point for the current political stance against "boat people".

The rest of your points re over reach of government control is alarming to many Australians. However, as these laws don't have a direct impact on most Australians (yet), there is general apathy by the public.
We have finally come to the dead end (which I expected): you think that China is a 1984-like society and I disagree, and we can't convince each other. This is fine.

For all the stuff you want me to look up online, I already know, and I know more context than you do. For example, we can talk about the cultural revolution to each other freely and we understand the long list of reasons why it happened, contrary to the simplistic "evil communists" viewpoint held by some Westerners. Go to Beijing, talk to a taxi driver, listen to how they curse our government for their wrong doings, or learn Chinese and read Weibo every now and then, and you may change your mind. Hey, my English is better than 99% of mainlanders and I read Western news all the time, but I still don't think I am remotely qualified to talk about US's internal affairs. Please don't assume someone from China knows less than you do just because you have read some second-handed materials.

You didn't use the exact word "panacea", but you have been using "blocking democracy" as some kind of crime, which suggest that democracy is the only right way to go, and I disagree.

Westerners keep talking about how bad censorship is, and this is exactly why I said the CCP is terrible at media manipulation. The state of the art, as used by the West, is to report partial truth and take words out of context. Look at the link posted by NeedMoreTea, "if the Brits allowed self-governance" was conveniently omitted.
I'm not sure what "class" is supposed to be. But as far as character, I find almost no relationship between money and character. There are a*holes in all walks of life, as are there decent folks. What I do tend to find in expensive hotels is a demographic shift toward older clientele, which tends to bring at least quieter behavior.
> I'm a mechanical engineer. My point is that stress analysis is the oldest, simplest, and most well understood application of finite element analysis.

I am not a mechanical engineer.

My understanding is that some composite materials used in modern aircraft manufacturing can fail in ways unlike classic aircraft aluminum (i.e. suddenly, without prior visible signs of stress/wear).

Is that relevant here?
I should not have used the term "self correcting" as it is suggestive of fitting neatly into a dynamic system model - I was envisioning more of a social change, where the collective views of society reach a tipping point (though may be gradual) as the driving principles of such organizations work to devalue it's own product, it's hard to model the views of society, but there have been many such changes throughout history.
Personally I think the problem with a lot of these kind of Patreon setups is they are generally pitched as "I once wrote some very useful software, and sometimes I maintain it."

While that's great and all, for me at least it doesn't justify why I should send them money every month.

I think the Open Source model needs to evolve, and if these people want monthly income, they should be "showing their work" a lot more. Put out a regular (weekly or more often) YouTube or blog series. Maybe stream your work on Twitch (like I do :) ). Provide some active community involvement. Then I would be far more inclined to donate to someone, rather than having to wonder all the time if I'm paying for them to work on this stuff, or if I'm paying them so they can go on an extra vacation next year for work they completed years ago and have mostly ignored since then.
I feel that running suppresses my appetite somewhat. I have wondered if the bouncing of my gut produces feelings of being full, or even slightly irritates it.
Again, you’re missing how exceedingly narrow a defamation claim must be, and how the Oberlin dean threaded the needle tightly to fit into the requirements.

A defamation claim must be premised on a (stated or unstated) false assertion of fact. Pure opinions are not covered: http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/opinion-and-fair-comment-pri.... Whether a movie is good or bad is a pure opinion—it cannot be falsified and cannot be the basis of a defamation claim. Arguably, whether someone is racist is an opinion too, although on the flip side it generally carries the connotation that the conclusion is based on actual conduct and can be considered an assertion about these (unstated) facts.

But whether someone has a “long history of racial profiling,” as the Oberlin dean asserted, is a factual assertion about past events. It’s falsifiable, and was proven false at trial.
Yep, VMs are safer than containers, because there is a larger barrier between the possibly malicious code running inside the VM than there is in the container context. A container is just another process, bound by limitations via namespaces and cgroups -- running on a shared kernel as a host. But don't take my word for it:

> Simply put, containers are just processes, and as such they are governed by the kernel like any other process. Thus any kernel-land vulnerability which yields arbitrary code execution can be exploited to escape a container. To demonstrate this, Capsule8 Labs has created an exploit that removes the process from its confines and gives it root access in the Real World. Let’s take a look at what was involved.

(I don't know much about capsule8 as a company is but that article[0] is pretty informative and seems spot on from what I read)

If you can infiltrate a process (let's say a web server) running in a container and know a kernel exploit that can be used to get past these limitations (a "container escape"), then you can use them and get root on the main system.

If that same process was running in a VM (without a container), you need to:

- Infiltrate the process

- Kernel exploit to gain root (assuming the program wasn't running under it) in the VM

- Escape the VM (i.e. use the kernel or whatever else to actually break past the barriers of the hypervisor which was running the vm -- qemu +/- kvm, hyperv,etc) -- aka a "virtual machine escape"[1]

- Gain root on the host system (assuming the process that spawned the hypervisor wasn't running as root)

Generally, virtual machine security is pretty good these days, by virtue of being around longer and having more exposure and eyes looking for exploits.

[0]: https://capsule8.com/blog/practical-container-escape-exercis...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine_escape
Being able to get a job and not being a “VB developer” for 15 years, the company lays you off, you look for another job and find that no one wants to hire “VB developers”.

Then post on HN and Reddit and scream “ageism is rampant on our industry”.

Disclaimer: I’m 45.
Hubot – a customizable life embetterment robot
Some of the examples are people who are actively harmful. Harlan Stern is the reason NTP WG is so dysfunctional as he insists that his implementation and his private plans are more important then what everyone else wants, and the WG exists to ratify his plans.
Zapping the Brain Improves Creativity
The github link in [1] is dead, where is the repo now? I was curious about that compiler
Mysterious Blue Flash of Light Seen over Dallas, Texas
USA isn't in much of a better position.

Large scale transformer blowouts are a nightmare scenario due to how long they take to replace / repair.
Am I the only one linking this to the news of America having infiltrated Russian power plants?

Given the timing, it feels like some state flexing.
All these lists are great but as someone who comes from a place that has no respect for free thinking and the right to free expression, the only indicator that matters to me personally is a "freedom of speech index".

Peace doesn't mean much if it's enforced by the collective to silence the individual through the threat of violence.

Let's not forget that Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi led their Nations with greater "peace" than their successors.