skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also federal act number 54-FZ, which says that the local authorities should be notified of the planned event (Article 5, section 4); and if the respective authority does not approve the event then it shall not be held (Article 5, section 5) [1]. This latter norm is criticized for being not entirely constitutional [2]; but it is a part of the present Russian legal framework. Should Google in any way be bound by this federal act?

1- [In Russian] http://www.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?rnd=91E57842AD2...

2- https://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/default.aspx?p...
Same goal for me.
In theory, no need to be rich to do this in France, non constructible areas are almost cheap... But the farmer corporations have a preemption right to buy all these lands.
meatheals.com down the rabbit hole, have fun
It's incredible how an anti-censorship order is being advertised by the media as... a pro-censorship order.

Well, not incredible, as the media are deathly afraid of losing power. But still. This will accelerate it.
If the controls were exclusively gaming mice/keyboards and Xbox/PlayStation controllers, they'd be the most agile, fearsome fleet in history.
I've wondered whether an unbaked pizza could be slotted in to a preheated pizza stone 'cage', slipped in to a heat sink type cooler for transportation, and bake while it's on its way to its destination. Assuming the details could be worked out, the customer would have hotter, fresher pizza, and the pizza shop could better match its resources to demand. Even if the tech could be worked out, it seems accident prone compared to the current situation.
I haven't seen an e-bike that I can carry up the stairs of a deep subway station and tuck under my desk at work. I love my (non-e) Brompton.
When literally a quarter of federal judges have been appointed by this administration, do you seriously think that lawsuit is going to get a fair hearing?
>Wasn't it the labor movement that tied many of these benefits to employers?

No, it was WWII that did it.
Part of why I like Double Dash best. It's simpler, just enough more complicated than N64 for me. The ability to let a second player take the "gunner" role lets me play it with my kids who are too young to drive well—if they suck at gunner and we're playing on a low enough CC we'll still do OK with me driving :-). I don't like or want online play and certainly not DLC. Pop in the disk, a couple seconds of loading, and go. 8's supposed to be awesome but seems too complicated and tuned-to-suit-hardcore-online-players for my taste.
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I've been running this website for many years, any tips on how I can make it better? AMA

Thanks!
You're also your biggest supporter, you likely just notice the positive things you do for yourself less than the negative. Try to focus on the good that you do day to day. :)
> There are only 3 numbers software engineers care about: 0, 1 and 2^32.

Also known as the Zero-One-Infinity Rule: http://catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zero-One-Infinity-Rule.html
What a misleading title!

I can find it hard to believe that someone can be so ignorant so I can only guess the submitter deliberately did it due to their anti-capitalist mindset.

There's nothing even close to "private government" in this case, because in none of these cases does the company have the monopoly on the use of physical force.
So basically if you run a forum and someone posts a Nazi manifesto, and you choose to remove it because your forum is about Chia pets, the government can come after you. Do you think this makes sense? I would argue that removing something from my own site is as much me exercising free speech as adding something.
Surprisingly short list, there should be a lot more here.
Stop routing traffic to/from ASes that host child pornography.

I mean, this is not about some deep darknet stuff or tor hidden services (where DNS filtering would not be effective anyways), so my question is why isn't government able to shut these sites down? And if the sites are hosted on uncooperative ISP then I think dropping the traffic is appropriate response.
The results from this study are interesting but I am even more interested in the definitions of wisdom. I've been ruminating lately on the difference between knowledge (narrowly defined as a set of facts) vs experience. The most tortured analogy would be someone who has spent a lifetime reading books about swimming vs. a person who has spent all of their life swimming in pools/rivers/lakes. I realize this a non-standard and narrow definition of knowledge but I hope it is possible to bear with me since I can't think of a suitable synonym to separate phenomenological experience from book learning.

It does seem that our conceptions of intelligence are related to facts/knowledge more so than experiences. Intelligence appears to be a facility to collect, organize, analyze and draw conclusions from a set of facts. In that purely analytic view of intelligence, knowledge is highly prized. However it seems to me wisdom is more closely associated with lived experience. For certain, there does seem to be a rough distinction between someone we consider "knowledgeable", someone we consider "intelligent", and someone we consider "wise".

This supposes there is some aspect of phenomenological experience that is inherently different than the collection of facts and further some aspect of cognition separate from the organization and analyzation of facts. I am very interested in the sorts of things that separate my previous distinctions: knowledgeable, intelligent, wise. Could we realize a Turing-like test for wisdom?
Why Go is a powerful language to learn as a PHP developer (Aug 2017)
I'd wager the only reason they phrased the headline that way is because "speaking about yourself" implies speaking to others, and if they were to clarify by saying "speaking about yourself, to yourself," that seems wordy and redundant, so the best solution ended up being just "speaking to yourself."
A Short Introduction to Behavioural Philosophy
9 times out of 10 an article with this little substance or original insight is buried on Hacker News. How did this one manage to break out?
Partlt true but only partly. I almost never watch anything in hd, even 720p. Most of the time I watch 480p although hd is the mainstream ... I don't find any value in it.

I consider gb internet to be the same.

I'm probably stay at IRC level of bandwidth. Of course i will Switch to gb speeds because some ISP gonna sell it half my dsl line to 'grow'.
Badly argued. -1 to WIS.
In cases like this I love the radar cruise control in modern cars it very accurately shows what's ahead even when you can't see anything. Agree with your conclusion some of the latest luxury cars have touch screens and the UX is awful.
How do you know the majority experience life that way?

Experiencing life that way will make it easier to write a book, so it would be a mistake to rely on book authors as the sample set. Also, "quiet" minds might have adopted the vocabulary and phrasing "noisy" minds never suspecting that the language they have adopted was meant literally, not metaphorically.

I have a quiet mind. It is rare that any part of mind is forming sentences or phrases unless I am trying to communicate in writing or in speech. This is true even when I am coding or debugging with the exception that I will slowly repeat the name of a variable or function to myself as an aid to short-term memory.

I write more than most people do; most of what I write is not intended to be read by anybody but me.

About 25 years ago, in my 30s, I stopped being able reliably to remember what item I came for when I leave one room of my apartment to get something in a different room. After a few years of putting up with the unreliability, I started a habit of choosing one or two words to describe the item I am after, then repeating the word or words slowly till the item is in my hand.

In my 20s, I would spend a lot of my alone time going over recent conversations. In particular, if someone said something aggressive or unfair to me, I would spend a lot of brain time coming up with comebacks or words I wish I had said in reply. Then I noticed that I have no need or desire to keep on talking to people who are so quick to jump to conclusions about me that it is important for me to get quicker with my comebacks and replys, so I stopped putting brain time into that skill.
It will all be available on github by the end of August. I’ll post it up here on HN for the craic.

The challenge is that many of the students really don’t have the first clue how to really use a computer so getting them to install Python, Scipy and Jupyter is a big ask. They’ve barely scratched the surface with Matlab, and I’ve been told that many of them struggle to understand a desktop file system.

Github will render the notebooks and they can copy the URL to Google colab should they wish to interact with the code. And of course there are detailed instructions for installing the required tools (and I’m keeping them to a minimum) on Windows/Mac/Linux for those who have an interest.

The notebooks will also be available as embedded HTML so all the videos, images and interactive 3D models will just work on whatever device they have.

The idea is to present half the course in this new way and the remainder in the old way (PowerPoint with redacted equations the students spend their time carefully copying down and not paying real attention to the discussion). After the first year I’ll collate the exam results and student feedback and publish a paper in some teaching and learning journal to share my findings. Hopefully the response is positive, I’ve put a lot of work into replacing a lot of terse and often abstract PowerPoint with engaging and detailed content, in particular I’m really proud of some of the Blender animations I’ve made using FLIP fluids to illustrate key concepts such as viscosity and surface tension.
First step would be to stop creating an environment where discussion of the issue can't even happen. Blocking content featuring the sexualization of children from spreading is a good goal but a better goal is to prevent it from being produced in the first place. We need better ways of making that happen, including providing ways for those who are mentally ill and want help overcoming it to get it. It's not an easy problem to combat and there probably will never be a perfect solution but instantly losing all semblance of rational though at the mere mention of the subject isn't helping much.
If that will be the case then it's:
a) a bad law
b) institutions are corrupt: which means that no matter who is leading the goverment free speech will always be policed. And if the institutions really are that corrupt...well...then we're f* anyway
My startup shutdown horror story: A start up I briefly worked for during the dot-com bubble one day just ran out of money. I could see the writing on the wall, went to another dot-com (which also failed), but kept in touch with the people there. As they described it, the boss came in one day and told everyone “OK, the company has run out of money and is now closed. You will not get paid for the work you did in the last week, all medical and other benefits are now null and void, and good luck finding a new job.”
Criticism can be rude. I am a huge fan of harsh truths. It isn't a good idea coat yourself in the comfort of assumptions.

> By your telling, your problem is being surrounded by idiots and weaklings

Not idiots. That is not related.

I do think of people who have trouble with confrontations as weak. These could be situations that are rude, but not necessarily. Personally, I tend to prefer rudeness to dishonesty. I find it inconvenient when people lie to me and allow me to continue failing merely to save themselves (not me) the inconvenience of a minor correction. I think this is the very nature of what many people might consider to be an asshole though.
Yes the nature of the organisation has largely stayed the same, during its name changes: EEC -> EC -> EU. We joined a political union, which had goals at the time to create the SM, and a single currency.

However the UK did not vote to join in a plebiscite. We joined in 73, and had a referendum on leaving in 75.

I'd suggest that the issue in the UK was in part that the changed nature of our constitution after joining was never explained in schools (no Civics classes). Plus almost all discussion of it domestically tended to use the phrase "Common Market".

So we ended up creating a generation who were naturally eurosceptic, and were quite surprised by the changes post '94 once the EU emerged, and the single market reforms came in to existence.

Basically a lot of the people in that generation were not aware that we had joined a political union, with a level of law and government above that of the nation state. The generation before (who voted in '75) should have known that. The various institutions of state (government, civil service, courts, judges, etc) knew.

However that general ignorance existed (and still exists), it being reflected in our MPs, where a lot of them still (after 3 years of confusion) still do not understand the nature of their (and our) relationship with the EU.
If you have a team you're happy with and your cap table is not messed up, there is always a solution. See Slack, Youtube, Flickr and many others.
Ah. I think the core problem here is we're talking about a loosely defined "school project", but I frequently shift into the constraints of a Bostrom-style ancestor simulation.

To respond, you're right, you can hypothetically do any of those things in the school project. Although I fail to see the point of consciousness in such a scenario, because you're basically just having conscious beings play D&D at that point. Everything is a success roll. The result matters, but you're throwing away huge chunks of information about the thinking beings. So why not just have mindless automata instead?

For a Bostrom-style ancestor simulation, those little details are the entire point of the simulation. You simulate the consciousness on purpose. You simulate the entire process because you're changing only a single variable. You might simulate the world if Lincoln hadn't been assassinated. You're likely running that same scenario multiple times to get probabilities of different results. You don't want to have a cheater function that returns T/F whether Lincoln had breakfast the next day. You don't want him to remember having had breakfast. You want him to actually have breakfast. So the shortcuts are out, because as soon as you introduce one, you have a different type of simulation.
WASM will be cool when you can start writing Python, Go, Rust, or Clojure on the front end. Until then, I don't see anyone trying to make their lives more painful by running something like Java or C# on the front end.
That is a strawman argument. Re-read the article, this does NOT say everything is protected. Rather, it is clarifying what is protected and what is not.
I’m not convinced that it is bad - at least, in moderation.

I am pathologically lazy. I, like a certain student wizard, will go to extreme lengths and effort to be able to be lazy.

I am a procrastinator. I am often afraid to act.

I have a tool, however, and it’s the drill sergeant in my head. He’s an absolute sonofabitch, and on so many occasions has been the voice that has told me to step forward, to pick up the phone, to pull myself together and go face the music. He’s an amped-up version of a drill sergeant I had, crossbred with the gunnery sergeant from FMJ.

He did, however, push me too damn far, and I found myself slowly falling apart from exhaustion and stress - so, like you suggest, I manifested another voice - this one more conciliatory, kinder, more understanding.

I made the second voice the drill sergeant’s wife - when he’s being a total dick, she intervenes, and importantly, he respects her opinion, even if I side with him - I have internalised a lot of his vim and vigour - but if he backs down, I’ll take it - if he doesn’t, then I’ll do as he damn well says.

So, now I’m the puppet of two self-invented alters, but I find they manage me pretty well. When I was building the business, just having sergeant dickhead was perfect - when I started running into the ground, I evolved my pantheon.

Anyway. I’m probably as mad as a bag of cats.

I wonder what proportion of people who do this had absent or disengaged parents.
This is literally the definition of government used in e.g. social science: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

> private citizens have the right to use force under various circumstances.

Yup, as defined by the government. You can defend yourself in certain circumstances, but you are always subservient to the military and police. They are the ultimate power in the state. If there was a force stronger than the military or police, that power would then be the state.
I'm guessing that almost every user of HN believes the opinion stated in the article is ignorant / stupid / misguided. I also believe that it's ignorant on so many levels, and whilst I particularly take issue with the "think of the children" angle of the article, I find it nevertheless interesting that people do think this way.

I've spoken with friends and family members on numerous occasions about basic privacy topics, and they're often met with complete apathy. The "this endangers our children" rhetoric - though misleading - arguably does have some logical foundations. A Government who is able to watch over its citizens could in theory protect them better. It reminds me of the WhatsApp E2E encryption debates in the UK of a few years ago, shortly after the attacks in London.

I guess its incumbent on us as technologists, to not merely laugh and scorn at these comments, but to acknowledge that these things have consequences, positive and negative. We need to present the under-represented positives - and at times I find this particularly hard without feeling / coming across as tin-hatted.

Edit: Just on that last point - I'd love advice if anyone can provide some :)
Long ago my hands started hurting. By the end of each week my hands hurt a great deal. Eventually I figured out a solution for me:

- first and foremost, use sticky keys

Sticky keys is an accessibility technology you
can look up that ultimately means I can avoid
"ulnar deviations" -- twisting the hands
outwards at the wrists. Others may be able to
use sticky keys to avoid other deviations.

- second and foremost :), never ever rest my
forearms or wrists on anything (such as a
desk) while typing

Typing moves your tendons from the elbow all
the way to your fingertips! Resting your
wrists or forearms while typing means pressing
on your tendons and the sheaths they move
through, and this is one cause of RSI.

This means, among other things, not having arm
rests on my chairs.

- type with keyboard on lap

- put monitor at head level

The first three items help me avoid hand/forearm injuries. The last two items (note overlap) mean I can better control my seated posture to avoid neck/shoulder/back injuries. With my keyboard on my lap I don't have to make as much effort to hold my arms up, thus alleviating shoulder strain, which also reduces the need to rest my forearms while typing. Having my monitor(s) high up means I can sit up straight (which reduces back strain) and keep my head balanced over my neck (which reduces neck and back strain).

I should probably add that I avoid Emacs keybindings like the plague, as those involve lots of modifier keys, which are the source of my ulnar deviations. Yes, with sticky keys I can avoid them, but I'm not sufficiently disciplined about not ever pressing modifier keys and modified keys together to make Emacs keybindings acceptable to me. It won't surprise anyone that modal keybindings (VIM!) are my preference.

I should probably also mention that using text-based applications as much as possible helps me avoid using the mouse. The mouse too is a source of deviations.

Ever since I discovered this solution, I have not had the sort of pain that might make me quit the industry.

A talk on RSI inspired me to look for solutions. In particular, that talk taught me about various "deviations", and I immediately recognized ulnar deviations as one of my key problems, which is what led me to find sticky keys.

NB: I'm not suggesting the above will work for anyone other than myself. What I am suggesting is that anyone struggling with RSI symptoms might be able to find a solution for themselves. The speaker in the linked video clearly found a solution that works for her.

Also, I've tried many keyboards. My favorite are curved keyboards with no builtin wrist rests, but these are hard to find. Nowadays I use compact gaming keyboard (Arvo) with cherry mx browns -- compact means I don't have to move my hands a lot, "gaming" means N-key rollover (all the keystrokes will be emitted even if they happen close enough in time to overwhelm the buffer on non-gaming keyboards), which together with "cherry mx" means I get enough haptic feedback that I can know about and correct typos without even having to look at what I'm typing.

Note: edited.
Good point.

There should definetly be a requirement for a large mass of users.

Because otherwise FB, Tweeter and Google can push their views.

So a "must be a large social network or forum" must be a requirement in this law.

If Tweeter, Google or FB tried to push their agenda they could do it easily. Obviously fringe/small forums must be exempt.
The author, Marcus Hutter, created the "Hutter Prize" [1] that offers a C50,000 prize to persons who can compress 100Mb of a Wikipedia file to under 15Mb.

From the prize site:

This compression contest is motivated by the fact
that being able to compress well is closely
related to acting intelligently, thus reducing
the slippery concept of intelligence to hard file
size numbers.

[1] http://www.hutter1.net/prize/index.htm
He even shows up in the comments of that thread. I'd love to know if he really believes the nonsense he's spewing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/bargli/can_a_mathemat...
“Bicycle of the Mind”
All CASIO graphing calculators use them too.
Russian Nuclear Agency Confirms Deaths During Engine Test
Yes, I mean mud guards. On a side note, I really wish there were ones that were easier to install, it took me at least two hours since trimming the mounting wire is so time consuming.
Maybe the best way to understand it intuitively is that the drive would actually work for a little while after you first turn it on, but as it shoots charged particles in opposite directions, it creates a field in its region of space that eventually gets strong enough to pull it backwards by the same amount that its thrust pushes it forwards. By continuing to add energy it could continue to move, but it can't continue to accelerate. The best it could do, perhaps, is to accelerate to a certain velocity, then turn off its generator and discharge its plates so it now has no net field, and then coast to its destination.

Probably part of the confusion here is that a dipole does have a nonzero field even though the net charge on it is zero. Dipole fields are often negligible, particularly as they fall off faster than monopole fields -- 1/r^3 rather than 1/r^2 -- but ignoring the dipole field is another familiar approximation that doesn't hold in this case.
This is the result of cheap decentralized information.
There are no more large organizations deciding where and when the protests occur. There is no more centralized subjects for protesters. This is entirely self organized in small knowledge clusters.
The centralized government is dieing, so is the democratic authority. This will be more noticeable in more restrictive environments but soon will be much more widespread.
The mainstream media will attack these changes since this go against their own existence, but even them will no least a long time to stop these changes.