skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not actually been resolved. Cunts.

Source: am the bloke who this story is about.
Politicians can also direct funds to the development of such technology.
Implementing COPPA-compliant push notifications in kid-directed apps
The extreme/disgusting outliers (about which we reasonably can agree on) can be caught by an computer. That way, human beings can assess the (arguably) many gray areas.
The Chinese bureaucracy has millennia of experience controlling large groups of people in the same way that the Chatholic Church has millennia of experience preaching. They've already thought of it, never you worry.

The really interesting question for me is, when they inevitably succeed, how much damage they will do to themselves. Reform for the better is basically indistinguishable from chaos and collapse to the regime in power.
One of Maciej's best IMO. Informative and very entertaining.

I was struck in particular by: "I can’t get over the oddness of the situation. In one direction is bedlam, in the other complete normalcy, separated by a few hundred meters."

In 2003, I was walking in Madrid one evening with my girlfriend when war protesters became engaged in some sort of battle with riot police. We had wandered amongst protesters up one street, just taking it all in (up to exciting but short of dangerous!), when suddenly masked protesters came running towards us, gas clouds and popping sounds behind them. We ducked first into the alcove doorway of a restaurant and then sheltered inside at the bar for the evening eating tapas. Within the restaurant, fairly normal dining. Across the road, police with shields dealing with rioters and damaged property.
From the article: "When added to cow feed at less than 2% of the dry matter, this particular seaweed completely knocks out methane production. It contains chemicals that reduce the microbes in the cows’ stomachs that cause them to burp when they eat grass."
Australian NBN – How not to run an infrastructure project
I have done additional research, and I am reconsidering my opinion. It is always hard to adjust one’s position on charged topics. Your post’s tone did not make it easier. But I try hard not to be fair and objective, even when I don’t like it.
Slightly tangential since you're specifically discussing communication but I've noticed that the term "privacy" is often getting incorrectly used when discussing surveillance tech (e.g. face recognition).

There is no expectation of privacy in a public place.

But an important right in a free society is the right to anonymity.

A street is not a private place and, as said, there is no expectation of privacy there: Anyone and everyone can see you and what you are doing.

But you should have the right to remain anonymous as long as you do not breach the law. That's what called into question these days with e.g. automatic facial recognition.
But this is the point of security research, to find vulnerabilities so they can be fixed.
Fiber does not impact latency
It would help if the revenue did not go to Google but for instance to charity.
This has probably given me more insight in the protests than any news article I’ve read so far.

Why is it so hard to find a decent source for what is happening?
Maybe you're joking, but .ai is the ccTLD for Anguilla. I don't think they meant to imply the companies in question reside there.
The bank takes it's share in the form of fees. The negative rate is simply because the money market sees negative rates on the 5-10 year horizon. The bank simply passes the rate of the money market on to the consumer:

> Høegh said Jyske Bank is able to go into money markets and borrow from institutional investors at a negative rate, and is simply passing this on to its customers.

Negative bond rates happen when there is a surplus of capital looking for "safe havens". Some investors are willing to pay to have money placed safely for a number of years. The Danish real-estate bonds are regarded as a very safe haven.
Is the actual situation described in the memo, where people consider their own ability to move through traffic more important than the life of a black man, not enough?

I find it hard to believe someone on this forum would have no clue what 'hateful words' sound like. Even if you've lived a completely sheltered life, at least you can read. Inform yourself.
I remember going to a happy hour at a large consulting company I worked for and 95% of people had never heard of Haskell much less knew anything about it. So needless to say I was easily pulled away from that company when the next person I interviewed with had written production Haskell code.
Oh dear...

* earthquakes and the like _shift locations_ on the crust. The "w3w" address you had for your house isn't at that "w3w" address anymore since that last big quake. Reprint stationery?

* no translation between the English w3w and the Spanish, French, Italian, what-have-you. They're different words altogether. No back and forth.

* It's not open

* if one needs a DATA CONNECTION to find out their current w3w address, they can damn well find the GPS coordinates, too. As a bonus, they don't need a data connection to do that...

See also: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-...
Managment just does basic risk assessment: pay a few million here or there for a fine doesn't really impact business continuity - so security is not important at all. That's the reality.

For profit companies are often quite unethical. Laws that put executives in jail if they do not perform basic due diligence might help, e.g. proof a security program is established and executed on, to ensure their own defined standards and policies are met. There are quite a few CSO/CISOs from breached companies who should not be allowed to continue performing their profession.

Startups are often perfectly falling into this bucket unfortunately. As soon as one has more then a certain amount of customers, stakes should become extremely high.
> The Chinese bureaucracy has millennia of experience controlling large groups of people in the same way that the Chatholic Church has millennia of experience preaching.

Yet they couldn’t control a band of wandering, illiterate horsemen. The human spirit can never be controlled.
This is what pair programming fixes, among other things. You have someone who can literally take a step back to get a broader overview. It's quite nice from what I can tell (I do want to do more of it, but at work we don't have the problems that make the most fun with pair programming, and for side projects I lack friends who are willing and able to grasp the math behind it (nothing extreme, just on the level/around pose reconstruction and some simple (linear core) optimizations intertwined with (photogrammetry) domain specific data shuffling).
> it's the time planned for maintenance

also unplanned maintenance, overheating rivers, drying rivers, ...

Google is your friend:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-nucle...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/30/heatwave-may-for...

https://www.reuters.com/article/europe-power-supply/germany-...

https://energytransition.org/2017/01/france-cant-meet-its-ow...
Thank for this very generous response, on an issue about which I know little.
This is the first time I hear about the term "zeroth world". A quick Google search did bring up some results, but not much. Wikipedia does not seem to cover that. Of course it covers 1st/2nd/3rd world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-world_model, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World). The terms "developed", "developing", and "underdeveloped" are somewhat analogue to that (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country). There is also the term fourth world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_World). Putting countries (or cities) into these categories is hard of course (and maybe does not make sense).

It seems that the term zeroth world naturally is used to say that such countries/cities are more developed than the first world. More specifically, more developed than USA. Countries/cities like Taipei, Singapore (in this article) or Norway (http://www.chaosnode.net/blog/2018/06/17/life-in-the-zeroth-...) are such examples (you probably can add some more to that list, e.g. Switzerland).

Other articles (https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/america-is-r...) argue that we maybe can just downgrade USA to a developing country (i.e. like 2nd world).
Get over yourself. Discussions don't always need to be 100% serious.
> Given the vast wealth Google etc have accumulated its clear that actually, they could afford to do it, and still make good, but not astounding, profits.

Citation very much needed.
Water is only an energy problem. The world has more water than we'd never know what to do with, the issue is taking the salt out of it. But that is "merely" an energy issue due to cost, as soon as we have cheap solar, the problem is solved, and in the meantime, we pay more, but we won't all die of thirst on big blue.
Email alert about keywords in Hacker News
before I play myself with it, I ask if there is already some way to receive email alerts for the presence of new posts in Hacker news containing keywords. Or maybe an already generic web service that check for content in the search page ..?
Relatively small but not too small take home project plus live code review and discussion of approaches they took in the project.
This is probably because it's about cutting edge language design. The feature the article is about (dependent types) might well be the future of software development and could end up in every strongly typed language, but because it's new and Haskell's functional syntax looks weird compared to C-based languages, it makes the headline sound a bit hyperbolic.
There are a lot of exciting new things on the medium-term horizon for Haskell. -XDependentTypes, -XLinearTypes, and a new pluggable concurrent (latency-optimized) GC
Supply and demand suggests that either there must be a very limited supply of CEO's, or there is a huge demand for them.

Which is it?
I was using Graylog but I wasn't happy because it took ~8GB RAM and ~20% CPU (IIRC).
Whatever dream or wish you have, sooner or later, whether "successful" or "failed" by whatever measure, you realize that you've reached its bounds. Please don't reduce his words to pursuing something material, because it's much more than that, as hinted by:

> You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.
> also unplanned maintenance, overheating rivers, drying rivers, ...

Those are a very small number of reactors and not affecting in anyway the grid, it's totally planned, you do get clickbait article every year though. By the way, they are only being stopped by regulation as well, not any technical problem.

Additionally, renewables had more severe issues at the moment from the heatwaves, above 25 degrees, solar panel outputs drops a lot and generally there's not much wind either during this kind of weather to compensate.

https://twitter.com/TristanKamin/status/1153624647243620355, Here is the electricity production in France for this summer, there's definitely one source of electricity working better than the others during heatwave...

I don't know why people keep bringing this up, it's an non-issue and it's never been one.
It's not that scaling is an objection, it's that scaling is a barrier.

Supply chains today tend to depend on things we already know how to and are actively mass producing. To add a new paradigm-shifting stage in the chain, it needs to grow to sufficient scale, which requires funding and R&D, and the path there isn't always clear. In other words, it's not so much that we can't get there, so much as we don't know how.
This is based on GPS. The three words are a hash of the coordinates; this seems more user-friendly and less error-prone than "14.1234567,50.35466, wait, no, 50.53466, or is it -50.53466,14.1234567?".

As opposed to e.g. the Maidenhead locator, this has the properties of a hash - in other words, isn't trivially reversible, and you need the w3w company to provide you with the location, each and every time (jackpot!).
This is answered in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
If you put out are fire, where does the smoke go instead?

The methane was produced by a bacteria, it is never produced to go anywhere if you get rid of the bacteria. The trade off might be poorer digestive efficiency if the cow relies on this bacteria to break down some common molecule. Although it could just as easily be the case that the bacteria was introducing inefficiencies.
I think that's an oversimplification of the history. After the email hacking, Google decided to stop censoring in retaliation, and redirected traffic to HK. Eventually, they were blocked, and a few years layer, practically all Google services were blocked. It's not like Gmail was "pulled" from China, the GFW blocks it.

Sooner or later, even if Search was still being censored, the other services would probably be blocked, or have unacceptable conditions imposed on them. The amount of effort to make YouTube and Gmail bend to PRC desires I think would have been a bridge too far. Once Xi Jinping took office especially.

I mean, I've seen super mild videos on Bilibili, where say a Mainland athlete or contestant loses to a Taiwanese one get removed. YouTube would be overloaded quite quickly by 50 cent army takedown requests.
To be fair that is the same with many jobs. It always sounds like you will be building the next great thing from scratch, but end up spending far more time fixing other people's crappy code.
If you mean this one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattenom_Nuclear_Power_Plant), under incidents, the only fatal accident has been a fall onto a hard floor.
Cool but obscure X11 tools
Just a proprietary algorithm looking for public problems it can claim to solve. Oppose it or just ignore it. There are open solutions that do similar things.

See previous discussions on HN for more background. Their one success story is how they managed to get the Mongolian postal services to adopt their tool.

Can you imagine someone lost on a mountain side telling the emergency operator that he is located at 'snake.apple.dimwit' and getting asked to please just give coordinates or even a rough idea of where you might be in terms of local names, because the What3Wordsⓒ database is down?
But to replace it with what? I assume not with solar and wind, as that would mean that you won't have electricity on windstill nights.
> Are you still a living human if it just shoops you off into a virtual world indistinguishable from your current one

As far as I can assess, yes I am. (For a couple reasons, including my disbelief in philosophical zombies, I believe in mind uploading).

> so it can use your atoms for something more productive?

Wait a minute, running a Matrix takes energy no matter how you put it. Energy the machine could use for something else… If the machine doesn't care about me, why would it even bother? It would just take the atoms and discard any information (that is, me) that it does not need. Running a Matrix is a strong indication that the machine does, in fact, care about me.

> What about if you upgrade yourself to the point where you're no longer made of mortal meat?

That's more delicate. I'm not sure exactly what would ensure the continuity of my identity. Mere mind uploading most likely would, but upgrades to my own brain… I think the answer will depend on what neurosciences and such tell us.
Fu Guohao was severely beaten by black shirt protesters at the airport for allegedly being a mainland spy and a police plant. Why did the protesters do that? Why did they take away his freedoms? Why do these current narratives gloss over that fact?

You can accuse me of whataboutism, and I can accuse you of indulging in propaganda.

I can't imagine getting away with shining a laser in a police officer's eyes, let alone slinging bricks or molotov cocktails. The HK police are arguably kind.
Sorry 'dang. I’ll stop submitting stories like this one.

As for linking the graph of how a thread ranked, I’ll stop doing that too. However, could you also please call it out in the guidelines too then? The second last point of In Comments seems like the most appropriate place:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
It's a barrier for any search engine and Google knows it. Google is the only participant who doesn't have to pay and they're leveraging their 90% of the market share (about the same IE had 15 years ago) to squeeze the others.

My question still stands and (downvotes and the "small screen" non-issue aside) nobody is able to explain why Google should get a different treatment from Microsoft given the similar position.
Electronic toys don't cost much. Luxurious cars, a lot more. If you pick and choose instead of just buying everything, you probably could still buy a lot of little toys while earning less (working less).

But it's no problem of course if you're happy as you are. Good for you. The problem is society expects everyone to work 9-5, 5 days a week, 45 to 50 weeks a year. That's a little insane, and for many people, intolerable.
My school (biggest school in Germany in the time) had VNC Server running on all PCs, so the teachers could check what there students where doing. Surely enough they used the same password on every single PC in the whole school. Fun times.
It's faster to read than long lat and it probably uses gps.
The innovation is in the user friendly hash table of Geo locations
What do you mean by decent source for what is happening?

There's plenty of sources, including video.

Do you mean live news? There's Reddit, Guardian and more.

Some links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_anti-extraditio...

https://www.reddit.com/live/133sixros7tu5

China Uncensored or Nathan Rich on Youtube if you want to see polarising opinions on Hong Kong (or China). But at least with either, you can check related videos.

Also, beware of Wumao.
Also, it's not hierarchical with most and least significant words, so changing any of the words would send you some indefinite distance from where you're trying to go.

Open Location Codes (in Google Maps, for instance) seem to solve all of these problems except for not having arguably memorable words. It also doesn't change in line with earthquakes or other shifts, though I would argue that's a benefit more than a drawback.

You can even omit the first few most significant digits by listing the municipality (where those exist) making it somewhat compatible with existing political divisions.

In places with poor addressing, I regularly have to send Google Maps location links, and this provides an open alternative that can be easily transferred onto paper or spoken through a telephone.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18703245
> "14.1234567,50.35466, wait, no, 50.53466, or is it -50.53466,14.1234567?".

All of which are fine for someone lost in X mountain range. The operator on the other side will know whether -50.* or 14.* is latitude or longitude.

Also, you would just read the numbers from your screen, no ambiguity there.
But the confirmation bias is so easy! It's also green! Why do you hate the environment? /s
Free movement is a core value, negligible cost or cheap free movement is not. Freedom from border controls - that's it.

Given the likely impacts from a heating climate and predictions of economics costs, that probably vastly underestimate, I submit the "tremendous economic recession" comes from not taking adequate action. We'll probably need to end up rationing air travel as the only fair way to achieve the necessary reductions.

For me, I simply don't understand economic arguments for inaction. The economic consequences of ignoring the problem are going to be orders of magnitude worse, and a permanent ongoing drag on economies.
https://www.hongkongfp.com/

Is a decent (non-CCP controlled/influenced/whatever source)
Didn’t work at all with Air NZ for me.

They had promotion on flights on their aussie website, but you can’t spend airpoints on aussie site. Same flight on NZ website was nearly 2x.

Didn’t work with Wizzair when they changed my flight time, notified I don’t need to do anything and then charged 30€ for check in.

Didn’t work with Air India - they don’t even have Twitter (just wanted to change my flight date and you can just imagine how bad their call center is).
Metal API ⊇ Metal Shaders, it is useless without them.

https://developer.apple.com/metal/Metal-Shading-Language-Spe...

"The Metal programming language is a C++14-based Specification with extensions and
restrictions. Refer to the C++14 Specification (also known as the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21
N4431 Language Specification) for a detailed description of the language grammar.
This section and its subsections describe the modifications and restrictions to the C++14
language supported in Metal."

Also, the MSL and Objective-C compilers are built on top of LLVM, written in C++.
Buttplug Hacker Talks Security, Consent, and Why He Hacked a Buttplug
> Third, CCS technology disincentiveses investment and R&D into fully renewable energy production (the point made before)

Eh, renewable energy is getting quite cheap. If you add the costs of CCS into fossil fuel, I think you'll still have plenty of incentives to invest on renewables, and to use fossil as a last resort only.
Because people like Idlewords are rare. And even once they exist, they don’t get the exposure they deserve.
That move "let's have a disparate set of dictionaries that don't map to each other" is especially confusing.
I have written an app for the menu of my university's canteen. The JSON API that I used returned the meals as fields of a document where the order of the fields was the actual display order. It took me a while to even find an implementation of a JSON parser that keeps the order of the fields.
"too cynical for Bukowski", that's a good motto :)
(I've used both DataPower and COBOL - I've got a healthy respect for robust, long-lived legacy systems).

I must admit I was scratching my head on this.

The JSON spec might not specify order, but the serialized JSON is ordered by nature. JWT needs it for example (and I'd assume many signature models). Or you might have a caching layer that needs it. Maybe unchecking this causes the legacy backend to get hammered? There are valid non-spec concerns with order.

Replies here seem to assume stupidity here. It's a valid reason, but it's not the only one. Equally, the author doesn't ask "why" - why would it take so long, why was that option enabled?
I think having a so hard line view on these no-cloud licenses is silly.

The GPLv3 closed the tivoization loophole, the AGPL closed the SaaS loophole, and now we have Apache-like licenses that close the rent seeking cloudification loophole.

The AGPL is Stallman + OSI + Debian approved, how come these new no-maximo-capitalismo licenses are somehow not?
YouTube was already blocked when google left China (to say, it was never in China), gmail was never hosted in China and the hacking occurred on servers in Hong Kong.

There is some pretty crazy stuff on Chinese video sharing platforms, censorship in China is arbitrary and selective. That alone would make it very difficult for a western company to operate a media company in china.