skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll be easier to send a DNA without a life-form. A life-form is very expensive (need to eat and breath) and not necessarily adaptable to earth conditions.

A very well encapsulated and protected DNA will land on earth and create the most adaptable life-form there through mutation and competition. All of these life-forms have the trait of wanting to pass their genes, multiply as much as possible and then spread around.

So the engineers probably had that in mind:

1- Extremely small: Probably so that they can propel it through space at very high speed + propel lots of it.

2- No maintenance required.

3- Will create a life-form if possible that is adaptable to the target country.

4- The life-form has the property of multiplication, and spreading.

5- The new superior life-form will propel more of these DNA.
Process Managers for Node.js Applications in Linux
http://archive.is/bxbBH
How about a SSH tunnel (e.g. using sshuttle) on a server you have access to?
Goes to show that sometimes a "privilege" can become a burden.

That being said, quitting is better than more extreme actions. But I guess they were too attached to the idea of "employee for life" (not blaming them) that they couldn't see a different way out of it.
As I'm not aware of what pronouns they personally prefer, I fall back to using the singular, gender-neutral, "they/them/their". It's a fairly new usage in colloquial English but I find it to be common enough so as to not impair understanding.
"there is gravity in the absence of EM fields" That just cannot be true. EM fields are just about everywhere. They permeate space almost as universally as gravity, but in form of photons (to name higher energy EM fields here) or other low energy waves. Gravity accumulates with great masses, mass is also energy (in rest).

The article explores the idea that pure kinetic energy in form of photons indeed might have at least gravity-like properties.

My presumption is that atoms are somehow made of really high energy EM fields so that they appear to be massive. Consequently, atoms having mass or photons having inertia are responsible for gravitation, and that could mean that EM fields are the cause of gravity entirely. The problem with that presumption is that perhaps there is no way to check.
What a great read. Thanks for that.
> At this point, I'm not even sure the protest (communist black helicopters will come pick you up to CCP black sites where you'll get waterboarded for criticizing China) has anything to with the thing being protested (extradition for crimes punishable under HK laws with 7+ years in prison (which criticizing China hopefully is not)), but that's a different story.

Two points on this..

1) Hong Kong citizens have been kidnapped from Hong Kong to the mainland by the Chinese government, for working in a bookstore selling anti-mainland literature. This isn't some theoretical exercise, it's as real as it gets. The extradition law would to some extent legitimize the illegal breach of the two-systems policy.

2) Once in force, the HK gov could easily ram through the anti-sedition bill they've got in waiting or similar "national security" legislation, leaving people vulnerable to being extradited for speaking against the mainland. Second, Beijing is famous for revealing dissidents' "crimes" (real or often fake) committed on the mainland and demanding they be extradited there.
> "Powder detergent creates more friction between the clothes [during washing], so more fibres are released, whereas liquid is smoother. The less friction there is in general, the fewer fibres are released."

Is this true or just something completely made up? Sounds like bs to me, powdered detergent is not sand, it quickly dissolves when it comes in contact with water.
Chinese Tech Companies Are Coming for America’s Influencers
What if we began a 'seeding' experiment, suppose there could be more life but isn't because life doesn't spread well in the vacuum of space. What if we began sending bacteria and other micro-organisms to potentially habitable planets via tiny spacecrafts. If we were to seed as many planets as we could possibly find, then eventually (in a million years or so), this entire galaxy could be teaming with life and the fermi paradox will be refuted as there will be no way not to see the life that is out there. We may still not be able to traverse the stars by that time at least not without generation ships but our descendents could at least wave from afar and maybe communicate across vast distances with intelligent life that we today helped seed/create.
In general, I'm NOT happy with how camera/microphone, GPS and sensors like Gyro/accel/magnetometers and beacons (radio/wifi/bluetooth/nfc), screen size/resolution, battery level, hardware port identifiers etc are accessed by any website or app on my laptop/phone.

This developed over the years without any input or choice from the end-user. The device manufacturers, platform owners (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla) and app developers joined together and forced this surveillance aparatus on all end-users.

This power balance has to change.
It could be if your local currency is not USD.
That's really cool. I'm curious, would it be possible to use a modern GPU (running at 1x) on an ARM based board?

Would the open source drivers that are part of the Kernel work out the box on ARM?
> Instead, she says, the "rule" is to "let the dirt dry and you brush it off".

So her point is that people should just get used to wearing "dirty" clothes. I think a better first start is to recalibrate what people mean by "dirty". Most people I know (and certainly myself in the past) would usually wash many clothes (shirts especially) after a single wear regardless of whether they needed it. Now I only wash my clothes when they need it (which means there is some stain or it smells).

Of course maybe we should get used to wearing clothes that are visibly dirty, but there seem to be lower hanging fruit.
they -> people like woz
A rich heiress who has likely spent a lot of time on private jets in her lifetime is pretty low on the list of people Ill take climate change advice from.
Absolutely. If the user indicates they don't want your software running anymore, it should stop.

In Zoom's case, if the user exits the app, the web server keeps running. When the user uninstalled the app, the web server still keeps running.

The user twice said "I don't want Zoom's software running on my computer and both times Zoom ignored the user's request.

This behavior is both unethical AND malicious.

Edit: wrote up more thoughts on this: https://salibra.com/p/viral-growth-doesnt-mean-writing-virus...
Exactly this. Didn't even realize I did this until I spent 5 minutes trying to log in to my new MacBook while the user name/password fields kept resetting -- I was accidentally brushing the escape button.
The people of the countries the US is strong arming into buying this failure
Indeed. There's quite a lot of debate surrounding it and a couple of mathematicians arguing we haven't hit the filter yet, but I maintain hope we're past it. It wounds my sci-fi loving heart to say this but humanity is probably better off alone.
EM fields are just about everywhere.

Fields are mathematical tools, they are not - without wanting to go down the philosophical rabbit hole - real things out there in the universe.

And the thing about everything just being electromagnetic fields is nonsense, physicists understand physics way better than you do. Sorry to sound condescending, but the internet already has enough obviously wrong ideas by random people without a clue what they are talking but.
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Lets focus what the court actually wrote. The claim I did was that the court took a step towards having twitter defined as a public space.

"Parker wrote, noting that Trump left his account public and enabled anyone to engage with it"

I would say that covers the wast majority of twitter accounts, as most accounts are public and enable anyone to engage with it. Other social media platforms may have other ratios of public and private accounts.

Parker ended the opinion with what he called a reminder to both parties in the case and the public: "If the First Amendment means anything, it means that the best response to disfavored speech on matters of public concern is more speech, not less."

They court did explicitly say that they did not consider if twitter as a whole should be considered as public forum or not. They did however lay the ground work for it by answering A) if online social media can be considered public forum, B) what attributed and circumstances makes an account a public forum.

The whole text: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1365-trump-twitter-s...

Some important quotes:

"That account has interactive features open to the public, making public interaction a prominent feature of the account".

"Opening an instrumentality of communication for indiscriminate use by the general public creates a public forum."
There is no chance it is 100% backed like they claim. I would happily wager $10000 on it if a framework for such a wager existed.
Clearcase might be a monster to deal with, but it has several advance features that I miss in FOSS alternatives.

One being the ability to share build binaries across users.
That's what we currently know based on what we discovered so far. You can't really rule out the existence of a relatively advanced civilization - although it might advance in a completely different way than ours - whose remains lie buried somewhere under the Mariana Trench for example.
Judge Blocks Rule Requiring Pharma Companies to Disclose Drug Prices in TV Ads
This is neat!

Here's a JS version:

> const ip2dec = ip => ip.split(".").reverse().reduce((acc, n, i) => acc + (parseInt(n) * (2 ** (i * 8))), 0)
> ip2dec("192.168.0.1")
3232235521
> ip2dec("192.168.1.1")
3232235777
> ip2dec("0xDE.0xAD.0xBE.0xEF")
3735928559
There’s always https://github.com/maxpower47/PinDroid
A macOS "app" is just a directory with an executable binary and some convenient helper files for Finder. Dragging it to the trash does not remove artifacts, such as logs, supporting binaries, even methods of persistence, which may get placed somewhere else on the filesystem as part of a typical installation. This is not unique to Zoom or even Apple operating systems.
If you look at market data, it looks like tether has managed to keep the peg of the asset quite well along the years. So if you have parked some of your assets to tether, you have had very good possibility to change it back to other crypto-assets any time.

I don't want to promote tether and I have never touched it myself, but when it seems to be working and liquid for many exchanged world-wide, your statements seem a little bit off. Tether may be having shitloads of issues but according to market data the issues haven't hit the end-user and the USD peg yet.
Speaking of his hilarious voice, how about when Jim Carrey channeled him?

https://youtu.be/m6d5vhJUGH0
This is why it takes so long to hold a meeting of the Ents.
Literally the first sentence of the article says this.
Well if it wasn't for the rich it would still be a complete taboo. I'm thankful.
Hmm, how about using this for fast interconnect for making rpi clusters?
Straight out of Confuscian textbook on governing the masses.
There was two competing viewpoints of OO. A object is nothing more than an animated data structure, and the opposing view saw objects as behaviors and you didn't map them explicitly to your data model.

As most people viewed object's as simple extension over the data, it's not surprising to see most developer opt out for more basic form of data representation and that doesn't need object's at all.
>A life-form is very expensive (need to eat and breath)

Not necessarily, many organisms can undergo cryptobiosis, where all metabolic activity ceases, and then restarts when conditions are appropriate (sometimes decades later).
This is a fantastic way to visualize AWS architecture. Well done! Is there a way to use it for my own architecture?
Can you describe to me the architecture and components of a typical keyboard USB interface chip, both internal to the chip and external?
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The majority of markets don't care if it is 100% backed, like they don't care when their bank does fractional reserve. They care about whether the USD peg will last within their timespan they plan to use tether.

One of the most common advertised applications for tether is arbitrage between exchanges. There it hardly matters whether tether has 100% reserves, what matters if the peg stays within the days that you are doing the arbitrage (buying tether from one exchange, transfering to other, selling it).
I want a web browser with fewer functions and permissions that is aligned with my interests to dominate most of my computer interactions. That would handle most things that most people do on their computers.
this shouldn't be downvoted, a branded high end banking that has a cool factor doesn't readily come to mind. If anything a black card from Amex proves a market
The one time I bought expensive jeans the guy told me to do this. Told me to put them in the freezer instead of washing them to preserve their color. Luckily I didn’t have to deal with the problem as I got too fat for the jeans before they had the chance to fade.
UK Government to Partner with Amazon's Alexa to Offer NHS Health Advice
A thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7879763
> running an always-active webserver

It's one thing to run a webserver while your software is running.

It's quite another to leave it installed and running even after the user has uninstalled your application.

And to actively evade the user's attempts to remove the webserver component. Until this update, if you removed ZoomOpener from your Login Items and via `rm -rf ~/.zoomus`, it would miraculously reappear every time you participated in another Zoom meeting. (To stop this, you had to touch .zoomus as a file or otherwise make it harder to recreate as a directory. But if they had chosen to, Zoom could have coded around these countermeasures thus leading to an arms race, at least for a while.)
Last on our list of exercises are leg curls. Ultra Omega Burn You've probably seen the machines that most people use for this exercise in your local gym or on television - a simple bench with a curling attachment at one end. You lie on your stomach and pull the weight of the attachment toward your buttocks using only your hamstring muscles. This is one of those exercises to strengthen your glutes that you can perform with counterweights on your ankles if you don't have access to the leg curl machine.

With these three exercises you will have the perfect routine to provide your legs and glutes with more power as well as greater tone and a more pleasing shape. Use the lunges and squats for overall strengthening of the thighs and glutes and focus on the leg curls to strengthen the hamstrings that connect. Performed together these exercises will soon have you responding to question after question about how you got your "buns of steel."

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That’s the meat of it, Zoom wanted an app feature macOS said was a no-no so they coded up an insecure workaround. On iOS that would get your app pulled at the least.
> EM fields are just about everywhere. They permeate space almost as universally as gravity

Isn't dark matter most likely some kind of material that has mass, but no EM interaction?

We also know that there are interactions inside atoms (the strong and weak forces) that have no known relation to electro-magnetism, so I'm not sure what you are getting at.
Came here to echo this. I’ve heard the same story from a few different companies that tried to use Postgres Aurora as their primary database: insurmountable production issues, limited response from Amazon, eventual migration away.
Do these people not sweat?
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No, water is a very good radiation shield and also cools down the reactor. So basically the subs are quite safe under hundreds of feet of water until the material leaks out and contaminates the sea floor.

https://www.businessinsider.com/sunken-soviet-nuclear-sub-le...
> So did Blackberry, Motorola and Nokia and those companies had mobile as their core business.

I think one difference is that BB, Motorola and Nokia dropped the ball technically; Microsoft had a technical solution that was ahead of its time, but failed on the business side.
"We should act rationally"

This is rational.

Co2 has a cost that is externalised. This is attempting to start making the emitters pay directly.

I have some sympathy for those that have built their lives around the current paradigm, but the writing has been on the wall for a long time, and this really is a modest start.
How Dianna Allen built Budget Meal Planner with No Code using Wix
220k/yr is would probably be fine for most (he probably takes home less than that, but at the same time he can do whatever he wants).

However, I don't really like pinboard's "business" story - it seems, selfish, for lack of a better word. Pinboard lives and dies with Maciej and the people who have come to depend on that product may lose an amazing service if Maciej gets tired of running it.

He may never get tired of it, but pinboard is reminiscent to me of many one-man communities that were built in the early 2000s that just died once the admin left - and no one was equipped to take over because the admin never wanted to let anyone else in. So 220k is great, but is it enough to support at least one other person full time? Is everyone who uses pinboard aware that the services lives or dies with one man (I know its called out in the blog post).

When I see pinboard, I see less of a product that was made to provide value to others and more of a side project that lets the CEO live how he wants. Which is fine (I think Maciej is a great person - and I've donated to the Great Slate), but isn't my cup of tea when it comes to product responsibility.
Dude, fields are a tool physicists use to describe phenomena. It's okay to say EM fields exist because they interact with everything everywhere and we can actually observe that.
I'm looking forward to a consumer grade Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Dry cleaner. Dissolve out the oils trapped in your clothing, sterilize them and perhaps deposit the oils where they can be used as fuel. It would probably work for other items such as soiled machinery, oil extraction from herbs and food, etc.
We organised a conference for 570 people without using plastic
Sorry to sperg, but "Integer BASIC" was almost certainly a retronym, a term which didn't exist prior to AppleSoft. Originally it was probably called Apple BASIC, just like ever other [manufacturer] BASIC (at least colloquially).
Yeah, I was more so speaking of direct coupling but didn’t want to get too technical. That interaction is due to virtual fermion-antifermion pairs.
We travel to get away from the hell holes we created locally, just to then turn those destinations into carbon copies of the places we were trying to escape from.
>Instead, she says, the "rule" is to "let the dirt dry and you brush it off".

A privilege reserved for people who live in areas that never need air conditioning. On the handful of occasions I've been forced by necessity to wear the same pair of jeans for multiple days the dried salt buildup is enough to draw blood by abrading my thighs.

Then again I don't wear anything but 100% cotton so I'm not the audience she has in mind either.
The main issue is what will happen when holders of USDT try to redeem them. Tether says it's immune to a bank run, because they have the entire outstanding amount of USDT (3.83B at time of writing) is backed 74% with USD.

If you believe that a company without access to banking actually has 2.8B USD available for disbursement, then you are more optimistic than I am.
Honest question: aren't radio waves "physical objects" that represent oscillations of an electro-magnetic field, to the best of our current understanding?
Yes, if you look around, people have even recompiled opensource drivers for RISC-V to use AMD cards.
The comparison itself is wonderful too
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The CIA definitely was not behind Tiananmen square and there is no way it could be behind a two million person strong protest...

Conspiracy theory is one of the strongest forms of propaganda. Alex Jones is dumb but effective. It’s a slippery slope before you start blaming the Jews for everything.
I disagree with declaring all helper agents as dark patterns.

From a regular user point of view, it would be acceptable to have a helper agent as long as it follows:

- platform provided background process methodology (example: launchd could launch your process when you hit the socket),

- and it is made clearly apparent that such a thing is installed on your system (say, via system preferences panel, via status bar icon menu, and via in-app preferences panel),

- and it does cleanly uninstall as part of a simple standard regular uninstall.

And from a technical/security point of view, it would be acceptable if it:

- has minimal necessary privileges and proper separation of concerns.

- and does only what it needs to provide a user-expected functionality and doesn't do random egregious things.

- has secure ways to allow only expected/authorized caller to talk to it.

- does not violate any platform guidelines or tries to circumvent protections.
Dropbox Transfer tests direct sharing of files up to 100GB
I concur - we load a fair amount of data into Postgres using Python and we've learned these lessons the hard way. We ended up feeding generators into execute_batch.

We don't use execute_values, because we want to generate dictionaries (since there are usually multiple generators along the way) and we don't use copy_from, because the cognitive overhead of data prep is just way too high for the benefit (for us! your mileage may vary).

Great stuff, I've already circulated it at work.
Multi-level visualization of a tech stack with perspectives and semantic zoom.Nice!

Two questions:
1. How do you plan to handle the scale of real-world applications, ie really deep hierarchies, really long "call stacks"?
2. Will you support actual graphs with loops at some point, or will ilographs be trees?
Not working for me

Internal Server Error
I don't want the web server running when Zoom is running either.

Video conferencing has nothing to do with a web server or any server listening to ports.

When I install a video conferencing client its only function should be me initiating a connection.
Why not? Methane is a hydrocarbon. We are made of hydrocarbons.

I just can't understand what the chemical difference is. Are these differences because of oxygen? I.e. life forms of C+H vs lifeforms of C+H+O?
The difference is the conviction rate in China is over 10 times higher than that at 99.9% [1,2] and thought to be driven by political interference/corruption rather than only targeting high yield cases.
Bear in mind the context of china’s top court rejecting the notion of an independent judiciary [3], it is clear there is a difference between a high conviction rate in these countries and China.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/03/1...
[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/121932...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/26/chinas-top-cou...
Thank you for you work and please avoid those buses.

signed, an anxious customer
> The fact that all known life shares a common genetic
> structure implies a common ancestor.

Or a (local) optimum.