skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Usually the content is packaged with an inane amount of bandwidth-hogging privacy-invading tracking scripts and malware.

And paywalls. Probably 1/4 of the time when I open a link "You've viewed your allotted 1 article this decade, please pay us $39.95 a month for access to our articles"
Our definitions of success are arbitrary. If you're feeling unsuccessful you can just change your benchmark.
Twitter doesn't even remotely have a monopoly on political communications.

What counts as a "private" blog? That seems like an arbitrary distinction.
Twitter does a loose definition of MAU, as most do. If it’s just logged in users in the past month, that’s going to include a boat load of duplicate/2nd/3rd accounts and bots.

Twitter themselves say monetizable active users are around 40% of worldwide monthly active users. Your statista link links to that. That takes your percentage of US down to 8%. Account for Twitter exaggerating or missing out on anything and the number of users who don’t follow political discourse and you’re likely below 5%.
Seems not too different from our (US) celebrities posting the same political messages in unison. Like most of the Avengers cast and others. I've always wondered how scripted this is.
I agree with the sentiment of the article. I think the suicide hotline should also include a mental health hotline, or make a mental health hotline a separate number. I think that would help prevent some of these mass shootings. Perhaps a potential shooter, between planning and action, might have a moment of clarity where they know what they are doing is wrong and could call the number. The result could be a simple conversation along with a notification to local or federal authorities.

Here is an interesting take on the profiles of mass shooters. The part that jumped out at me is we need to be profiling these people as serial killers rather than domestic terrorists. He is basing his opinion on a study of mass shooters from today back to 1966.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht5ldqQdioM
If you have equipment that allows you to exert yourself and you've able to exert yourself to maximum capacity as any similar piece of equipment for that sport, yes, you'll get just as good a workout, but the reality is that once you have assistance you're most likely not exerting yourself as much because it's not required or because the assistance is allowing you to go further with less effort, but you don't exercise for as long because your route is of fixed length.
This was one of first books I red and my first SF book followed by Peace on Earth. I found both on my father's bookshelf even though I was expressly told not to touch it (they didn't think at 7 I would use it for reading and also there were much more adult positions on same shelf...) After that I devoured everything from Lem I could find and it started my love of SF which continues to this day.
No they don't. Those companies can't erase you from the internet, only from their own individual platforms that they own and operate. A "monopoly" would imply that without the use of these sites you could not be heard, but this is obviously false, not only because there are many other similar sites out there, but also because nobody is stopping you from creating your own blog or platform or whatever you like. No, your site won't be as popular as twitter, but so what? Your hyperlinks work just as well as twitter's.
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I think that the Dumbledore's Office analogy is perfect for my use of HN. Frankly, it is the ONLY reason I use HN as I find the discourse (mostly) elitist and exclusive (tiringly).
Next time, could you get a video from someone who's actually seen a tree?

That video was just awful. It's only redeeming feature was that it was short. Here's what he got wrong:

1. The mass of CO2 in the atmosphere is about 3E+12 tonnes (not tons). Around a third of that is additional from humans, so around 1E+12 (cf trillionthton.org - they were a bit optimistic). That's pretty close to what he had, only out by a factor of 2, but purely by chance (there's a fair bit of that).

2. He rounded down the population, so the figure of 130 tonnes per person is again, pretty close.

3. The 0.33 tonnes per year from just breathing is beyond stupid. Unless you're drinking gasoline and eating coal, then all the CO2 you breathe out came from the atmosphere in the first place. It came from growing plants. This is just lazy and ignorant. It's not like he even uses this figure anyway.

4. Typical per-capita CO2 is not "10-ish tonnes per year" for a developed country. That's the high end. The UK is hardly a shining beacon of green policy, and even it is at 6.5 tonnes per year. What's more, we're trying to improve on that. 5 tonnes per year is closer to what the average person can easily manage without sacrificing anything.

5. Not all CO2 emissions stay in the atmosphere. A large part are absorbed by the oceans (hence ocean acidification). He should know this.

6. Great, now we've got the bizarre rectangular tree. Was the volume of a cylinder too much work to look up? Anyway, it's actually oddly difficult to get the total mass of a tree (not that he tried), because lumber yards tend to only care about the trunk. I found a site that gave a complete measurement of an oak, including canopy and roots. It came out to around 20 tons, around 10 tons dry biomass, giving around 5 tonnes carbon.

7. Carbon. Not CO2. Multiply by 44/12 to get the CO2 required. That's 18 tonnes CO2 per tree. Let's drop that down to 10 and say we have small trees.

8. Wait, what? He didn't even use the volume. He just guessed 1 tonne C02 per tree!

9. When trees die, they leave a gap in the forest and new trees grow. How else would forests last for thousands of years? Once you've planted the trees they will replace themselves. What's more, the wood could be used for building or furniture which means it will retain the CO2 even longer. What's even more, giving ourselves a hundred years or so breathing space while we reduce and reverse emmissions is absolutely worth it.

Huh, I didn't mean to type so much but there was so much wrong with that video that I just kept going.
How is `foo` "clearly terminating"? With `p = const False`' it's undefined for any even x >= 3.
If you don't turn off the auto-renewal, it actually charges you for a full year of NORMAL priced Maya.
Cleaning the national number plan of 911 took a lot of work and time.

Right off the top of my head the 513 NPA (Ohio-ish) has a 988 NXX so there's a thousand potential phone numbers that have to change. There's going to be a ton of incoming traffic from people trying to call a dominos pizza in ohio who manage to get themselves routed to the hotline because they dialed 988 as part of the number.

Some people program some PBX dialplans such that pretty much any stream including the regex 911 goes to 911 (dial 9 for outside line and 911, dial 911 without a leading 9, etc) and they're going to try that with 988 with predictable results (try to call your buddy who used to be extension 9889 and you're mysteriously connected to a hotline).

The international phone dialing country code for Bangladesh is 880, that country code will have to change because some fraction of PBX programmers and users are going to F it up (as usual) and route all "9 for outside line 880 for Bangladesh then 123456 for the lnum" calls to the hotline.

The massive incoming call volume will require laws to reduce the massive volume involving expensive fines and fees. That'll scare people away from calling. Well, they say fake or repeatedly incorrectly routed calls will result in a $1000 fine, so if someone's feeling down, they're not going to be into a $1000 fine...

In the end it seems like it would be ridiculously cheaper, simpler, more reliable, and safer to simply have people dial 911, and the 911 ops can read a sticker stuck on their phone with the transfer number on it.

Overall the idea adds complication to a dangerous situation which is never advisable. Only someone very sarcastic could say, I know what stressed people need, is a larger more complicated decision tree when they urgently need help... Not exactly aerospace engineering going on here. We already have a "I need help" phone number, 911...
"Will the Police Get Called If I'm Suicidal and Call a Suicide Hotline?

This is a tricky question and the answer is neither "yes" nor "no." In the vast majority of cases, no police (or other authority) involvement is required and in the cases where emergency help is needed, suicide hotline staff will make every attempt to gain permission to send them. The goal of a suicide hotline is to help you with your personal crisis and no one-size-fits-all solution is possible.

That being said, if you are actively suicidal and threatening to imminently hurt yourself, it is possible that emergency personnel may be called without your permission. While no one likes that scenario, it truly is the best, lifesaving thing an operator can do in a small number of cases."

From: https://www.healthyplace.com/suicide/suicide-hotline-what-ha...
Here is the Carbon Fee and Dividend proposal: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/carbon-fee-and-dividend/

I like it a lot, but the problem is the major industries that will be heavily impacted/closed down as a result. They have immense political power, and I don't see any way around that. Hope I'm wrong.

And that's of course just one country out of 200. There is no local solution to global warming!
I’m talking about chlorophyll extract specifically so it’d be in addition to the normal dietary chlorophyll as well.
It's not strange, because we saw the protestors having done so many bad things and these are not reported out of china.
Maybe I missed it, I only watched part of that 4 hour video, but why don't they do like humans do and geometrically construct a Z-buffer representation from 2 or more cameras.

Then you'd get all that sweet, sweet depth data that lidar provides but cheaper and at a much higher resolution.
What do you mean by "adversarial systems"?
Did French destroyed cultural monuments in England.
Did they enforced religious conversions in England.
I found a blind SQL injection in my university course management system. Probably could have dropped the entire campus course list... but I didn't try. Found it at ~2-3AM, and so figured I'd bother IT in the morning. Woke up to a locked account and a message from the dean of students to pay him a visit.

I got off with some stupid fine and my online access being locked for 30 days. Was pretty annoying though, because they counted the 30 days only during when school was in semester. I happened to be doing this the final day of the semester... so that 30 days ended up being a lot longer.
> Perhaps the whole EULA thing is old news but I'm still not sure if I'm bound to every condition stated in a EULA when my cat clicks "Agree"... I thought at one point, the courts ruled that EULAs are pretty toothless. These are honest questions - I have no clue.

IANAL but I would be really surprised if courts are as lenient with businesses as they are with consumers. I think it's unreasonable to expect a normal person to be able to go through the EULA of every product they use. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a business to understand whether the way they are making money is legal.
Are You Emotionally Intelligent?
Large, potentially hazardous asteroid will approach Earth next year
Somebody once called the suicide hotline at my dorm and the cops showed up. This lead to everyone in the dorm knowing she called the hotline, probably not the outcome she intended at all.
> along with a notification to local or federal authorities

I think that might dissuade a lot of them, but one of the biggest problems I see with some of the red flag laws that have been implemented is the mental health professionals who have been involved are the only people who aren't allowed to report you to the cops. Anyone else can, with impunity, but not them.
Experiments Where the AI Outsmarted Its Creators
Do you really need context when a country is stripping its citizens of the right of communication, movement, and religion?
What is the competition in that regard apart from native apps? Flutter and Ionic are sorta different beasts
Someone should go through the comments and collect together all the "perfect" solutions.

If we let the "ban cars" and the "ban children" folk fight it out then that frees up time for the "pragmatically improve things along many different dimensions, many of which would be beneficial even if we totally ignored climate change" folk to get on with things.
Even Physics Textbooks Tend to Get Friction Slightly Wrong
If you think this is the only good thing the FCC has done, you're probably getting your news from the front page of Reddit.
“I think stuff like this is why decent developers don't become "really good" when working in these environments”

Totally agree. I feel bad for a lot of the young devs who are exposed to daily micromanagement and stand ups and the pressure to constantly deliver something. They don’t get the opportunity to make mistakes and learn from them.
The Technologically-Challenged Internet User's Guide to Online Privacy
I had quite a nice interview for a contractor position building a larger fairly well-known mobile application and they surprised me by giving me one of their stories and asking me to ask questions about it (like: "where are the comps?", "is this also supposed to work offline?" and so on). That was so refreshing.
Honestly, I'd be happy with a language that can propagate the result of a conditional statement into compile-time constraints inside the branches, and also can create executables without jumping through 20 hoops.
Stop being so dramatic. No one is shoving information down your throat. You can log off Twitter.
This is irresponsible journalism. Kashmiris have been vocal about their feelings and there is no reason why they should hold back now.
You make a good point, but I wouldn't frame these two ideas as dependent upon each other.
>The incessant console-flooding was actually one of the things that made me give up on React Native.

Doesn't this particular issue include a workaround?
Break-even? It weighs 11lbs, and is the equivalent of reducing a runner's weight by 12lbs. So all this gadgetry to effectively lose 1 pound?
Walsh says, "you really quickly notice that your legs feel a little bit heavier, and you feel a little bit more sluggish."

-Not what I am looking for...
> "It contains chemicals that reduce the microbes in the cows’ stomachs that cause them to burp when they eat grass."

Apparently, they are comparing this to eating grass. I'm a little skeptical of that statement, though. Grass-fed vs. grain-fed have wildly different outcomes for the health of the animal.
Shameless plug - you can add also my tiny transset rewrite and enrichment - set_opacity[1]. It allows making X windows translucent, without any interaction required. Wrote it more than a decade ago, but still should be usable. This is how you can use it:

set_opacity -o 0.5 -i `pgrep gkrellm`

There is also a patched[2] xcompmgr with the colored shadows support:

xcompmgr -fF -I-.002 -O-.003 -D6 -cC -t-5 -l-6 -r5 -R 1 -G 0.5333 -B 0

[1] https://github.com/XVilka/set_opacity/

[2] http://xvilka.narod.ru/files/xcompmgr-1.1.2.tar.bz2
So, I volunteer for one of the centers that answers calls to the National Suicide Prevention Line (NSPL).

The training that we get involves risk assessing the caller by asking them questions. I won't go into details, but it's very rare that we would call emergency services without the caller's consent, and it would require the caller to tell us that they're in imminent risk of taking their life, and also that they aren't willing to work with us on finding a means of staying safe.

The training that we get puts a lot of emphasis on protecting the dignity and autonomy and privacy of the caller.

There's no one national center, calls to NSPL get routed to the center that's closest to you geographically (I believe that's based on area code). Different centers may have different training and policies, etc.
I was going to post a couple of old articles as background to my various dot points, and found this from last week which covers most of the debate and quite a bit more. Also has up-to-date information on where Government regulation is at. Quite a good article.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warmin...

Some background on biotech in general.

http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/agricultural_bio...
My rabies education and the big bill that followed
This was my question as well. How good are systems over a stream of data?

I am not expert in this field: how tracking actually works with a time dimension? These must be some sort of "state" carried over frame-by-frame? What is the "size" of this state? Objects just do not disappear and reappear for certain frames? This latter effect you can often see on many automatic labeling demos you find on GitHub.
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Can we not do this? It's just as valid to have this kind of little thing written in node as it is to have it written in Perl.

One person's complaint about a json parser being too heavyweight is just as valid as the complaints that the arcane one-off cow template syntax is hard to use and understand.

Not to mention that this has different features than cowsay, and it's just a fun little project. It parses image files into the terminal display, it can scrape 3rd party websites to download new Pokemon images.
You're describing a PR issue, not a legal one.

Twitter has those, too, like having to carve out an exemption in the rules for Trump's account, or accusations of bias that lead to Congressional hearings.
Reminds me of the recent matter of monopoly and coordinated messaging with Sinclair Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxtkvG1JnPk
Yep. I still use it. I have a headless Amazon EC2 GPU instance that generates images -- I tunnel X11 thru ssh and xv works like a charm!
We gamified our bug-tracking process, and now our backlog is zero
Yes, I agree. It would have to come with the contention that there wouldn't be an arrest, punishment, etc, or that any confiscation would have a limited term. Perhaps someone, in their moment of clarity, would understand that confiscation is the best solution at the time. I think it's at least worth a trial run.

Also, I believe mental health professionals are allowed to report incidents where the patient has indicated they plan on committing a violent crime.
For a lighter-weight alternative to Sikuli that does not require Java, check out visgrep[1] from the xautomation project.[2]

[1] - https://linux.die.net/man/1/visgrep

[2] - https://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html
Like many Lem books this one explores how difficult it may be to understand truly alien life (albeit machine life)...Solaris and Fiasco being other examples. Good read, though not peak Lem for me
It would terminate with an exception.
given how restrained the government response has been, given the protesters' violence and property damage, i doubt this was coordinated by either gov. other cleverer attritional responses like boycott and pressure on businesses sympathetic to protesters (eg. cathy pacific ceo was forced to resign today for not readily firing few pilots and employee participating in protests) is more likely way they will go, as ordinary people inevitably get tired of rather aimless protests.
I’ve had several claims without hassle through

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To be precise, the problem is deeper than any one branch.

In the US system of government, checks and balances are essential to counter overreaching and abuse from any single branch. If no such checks exist against unjust prosecutions by law enforcement (the executive branch), then by default, either the judiciary or legislative branch must be at fault, or both.

In this case, it's clearly BOTH the US legislature and US courts have been remiss. Both should step in and outlaw any private funding of public law enforcement, as well as require ALL public court prosecutions to abide by the same burden of proof and evidence required of any gov't/DA-led investigation.

To allow the routine "negotiation of guilt" between prosecutors and the prosecuted to circumvent due process certainly is a violation of the Constitution -- something all three branches share culpability for allowing.
As a side note, in Italy (and in some other countries) the "emergency" numbers have historically been 112 and 113 for two reasons:

1) you could dial them also on old rotary phones with a lock on the dial disc (the lock was put on the "three finger hole") but of course now it makes no sense anymore

2) they were easier to "dial" without dialing but tapping on the "hang" buttons

Nowadays 112 is the "unique" emergency number across all EU and many nearby countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_nu...
To determine if this meets the target market or is just virtue signalling, it would be interesting to rub the stats together to see if there's any positive correlation.

If there's any use at all, thats nice, but higher use rate strategies should have money spent on them first. For example if tumblr use or reddit use or instagram use correlated higher, which seems likely, then spend the outreach money there first to save the most people.
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Some of those protesters did beat up the guys from mainland included one reporter in the airport two days ago.
[0]

Besides, a Japanese reporter had his camera broken by some of them. He was also told that they wanted to be portrayed as victims to gain sympathy. [1]

Last but not the least, some of the leaders of the protest is going to US/UK to study, I wonder what will happen when they leave.

You can go hate the gov't as usual, that's fine but be careful what you are signing up for.

We are in a multiverse of info wars.

[0] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3022782...

[1] https://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/66271
As far as predictions go, out of all of them I’m still of the opinion that The Diamond Age has aged the best.
> It most definitely is not unethical. Illegal perhaps, but unethical? Please.

I would argue it IS unethical. When speaking of ethics, the intention matters.

If they were just offering these tools to security researchers at cost or for free, then I could agree, but they aren't. They're intentionally doing something that wasn't allowed to make money.
xclip : https://github.com/astrand/xclip

(long pipeline that generates lots of output) | xclip

Or even just

xclip < /some/file

Now paste where necessary.
HNWatcher [1] is a good one. Also HN Replies [2] for replies to threads you're in.

[1]: https://www.hnwatcher.com/

[2]: http://www.hnreplies.com/
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Are you trolling? I can't tell.
That page is so difficult to read because of all the interactive crap that it risks making people react negatively to the content.

Which is a pity because the topic is important.
This reminded me of xjump, a very addictive falling tower game where you must continue to jump to the next highest platform as the lower platforms collapse beneath you.

https://linuxx.info/xjump/

https://github.com/hugomg/xjump
authoritarian governments always feel vulnerable, the same way cheaters in relationships always feel a little insecure, and criminals are more likely to feel suspicious and guilty.
Apple sues Corellium, which lets users run iOS firmware in a web browser
Goldman Sachs may lose money on the Apple Card in the next recession
I honestly can't say if this is sarcasm or not.
There are real stories of cops doing "welfare checks" on people and ending up killing them. More often, all they know is escalation of force and the person ends up roughed up and in some facility.

I don't trust authorities so much that I worry people in need of help are dissuaded from calling them.
The Sinclair video seemed creepy at first, but then again, these are literally paid TV announcers whose job consists of reading a script. One would expect the content to be scripted, and that's why I prefer indie people on YouTube over TV talking heads.