skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we even know they are profitable now without Facebook selling user data?

But WhatsApp is an insane success story on its own. Back then, around 20 engineers handling billions of messages per day, with their own servers and spending zero dollars in advertisement and using a non-standard language (Erlang).
Bali's largest city is at 4m elevation. The oceans are rising and the coral reefs around the island are dying. Bali has no economic future if we don't stop global warming.
> Military projects I've worked on, none of the known algorithms were in use.

What do they use? I expected that us military would be 99% FIPS. (Other military could be GOST, I guess)
As a layperson in Australia, I absolutely have heard "nukes" used non-derogatively as short hand for a nuclear power station.
And you base that statement on what exactly?

I could as well say that I've calculated that 42 dollars will be enough to take care of all the leftover nuclear waste forever.
GPS doesn’t do height accurately :( 10m error
Lit2Vec Book Recommendation (Goodreads Sucks)
From the chart, it seems obvious that the old strategy of hide HIV and sexual transmission diseases under the rug, to protect the rights of the carriers, is not working at all. At least not for protecting "collateral damage" children.

Practically the Same children infected and killed by sexual transmission diseases in 2007 than in 1997. AIDS mortality has even increased. Same as 'iNTS' (what's this?)

There is a lot of room for improving in this cluster
I'm fine with the phrase "military grade" if the combination of software and hardware is FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certified.
At least the last time I did the ESTA VISA for the US, they asked (optionally) for multiple social network, github too!
Is this true? Or did we just not care about allergies before when we had much bigger issues (like dying at age 30)?

Some reference/data to back up your claim would be nice.
The Moon ray tracing based on NASA high-resolution measurements
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And what exactly is a "professional" governor?
That's interesting. They are not dogfooding Google Cloud?
>There is more evidence that police have ticket quotas than there is that bureaucrats have regulation quotas.

Yes, it would not make sense that there are requirements to produce impacts that aren’t publicly noticeable, particularly when there are complaints of scarce resources.

Regardless, people have bosses and work multiplies. Maybe no one has no idea what they are doing, but someone has to have some self reflection that it is harmful.
Maybe Warren Buffett Is Warning Us About Something
It depends what you mean by counting I suppose. You can carry out algorithms that do counting for you without language.

For instance you can use tokens to do counting. If you want to count the number of sheep in a herd you could put a small rock in a bag for every sheep. This bag of rocks will then "represent" the herd. And you can use it to reason about properties of the herd.

If lets say you want to count that all sheep are present you can move the rocks from one bag to another. If you want to split the herd between two peeople you can make two piles roughly the same size and take as many sheep.

You could have another type of object representing months in a year. Then you could assign the rocks to months to ration food.

When you start grouping your tokens in well defined shapes, or introduce tokens of different denominations you are on the slippery slope towards language.
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Do rss aggregators report number of subscribers in the user agent? I know that several podcast aggregators do this.
This is from 6 years ago.... how did this necro happen. Also, if you want to see similar projects to this you should check out embedded systems classes. UCR has a course where all the students build their own game, device, or machine. I have seen some super impressive projects there. Some are on youtube.
Enjoyed reading that, thank you for the link.
It is a sign they are more interested in lawyering than engineering.
How to Be Different and Why It Matters
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While reading this article I couldn't stop thinking about the cliche (which I believe happens to be useful), "today is the first day of the rest of your life". The truth is we never know how much time we have left. You could walk out your front door and get run over by a bus at any time. All we can really do is engage in activities that we find worthwhile and fulfilling. At the risk of using two cliches in the same, short post, "life is a journey, not a destination". If you are trying to find meaning in life by reaching arbitrary goal posts you're missing the point.
This argument doesn't hold much water. Sure, it might be technically correct for Balinese ecomomy. But lots of people fly lots of places for very capricious reasons. If vacation is the goal, then everyone can go on a trip a bit closer to home without flying. Certain major tourism centers will lose out, but on average, there will be just as many tourists, just in different places.

Air travel is far too cheap, everything else follows from that.
I've noticed this even with fast food commercials which say things like "our proprietary blend of spices" in a tone implying you should be excited about it.
Needs an emacs mode.
My office requires 2fa login. You can set up text notifications but all our documentation mentions smartphone apps. My bank used a smart phone for 2fa, no text or card reader options available. My credit card is app only. Parking in my city is discounted using their app. Real time transport information (bus and taxi) is app only. It’s possible to do without but things are much less painful with a smart phone.
Can broadband stop depopulation in the Outer Hebrides?
Red Fort
Thank you for calling me an asshole, but this was not necessary.

> That they should care for their son less so that their life is a little easier?

Definitely not. I am not sure how you could conclude that given my posts about choice and preferences. I do not care which choice they make, but they made one over another because they valued that over the other. There is no force here whatsoever, it is all about preferences. If you value your job more (for whatever reasons, e.g. so you can feed your kids) than you dislike assholes, you stay. Some people would rather switch jobs than remain with assholes. Some people would tolerate it. Some people are too lazy to take it to their superiors (or just do not care enough). Of course the list is non-exhaustive, but the point is that neither of them are forced to stay and work with assholes. That is my point, that ultimately you are not really forced to work with assholes. You are free to leave the workplace. You are free to switch. You are free to attempt to resolve the issue. Depending on your workplace, you may be free to join another group. Again, this list is non-exhaustive, too, and to make my point it does not matter. Maybe you could read my other comments on the subject, but in no way am I suggesting what you think I am suggesting. Let me regurgitate, my point is: no one is holding a gun to your head and forces you to work with assholes.

Please re-read this one:

> A choice has been made here. The choice to STAY, and NOT LEAVE. It does not magically make it forced when it was a voluntary decision. Your friend preferred to stay in the shitty job because she valued reduced college tuition for her son more than she did not want to do the job. You said this yourself: "that's more important to her than being happy at work.". Exactly! Where is the "force" here? All I see is preferences and values.

I am not trying to suggest a choice for her, why would I decide for her? I am not trying to decide for her. I am simply making an observation regarding her values, and they are fine! But is she forced to do what she does? No! She made a voluntary decision. There are no mysterious forces.

How about you tell me regarding your example where or what the force is, then we can continue it from there. However, it is going to be difficult, because even you yourself said this: "that's more important to her than being happy at work.". It is exactly what I meant. No one forced her. She made a choice based on her values and preferences. Do you disagree?
> Marketing at its best, they want everyone to be fully aware of
> their capabilities. Wouldn't be surprised if they were
> overstated, so as to keep citizens in check.

The marketing is aimed at foreign countries who might buy the technology.
At the last place I worked -- and at a volunteer-run event I'm involved with -- we use DokuWiki.

The most difficult problem is getting people to use the damn thing, whatever you choose. WYSIWYG editing might help for less-experienced users (or those who don't want to learn the markup language), but I haven't looked for a plugin for that. Yet. :)
All of programmerdudes examples are different modes of consumption. In my experience the most fulfilling hobbies are those where you create something. It really doesn't matter what specifically - the creative part is the source of a sense of fulfillment. In my neck of the woods it now is a good time to try to make wine by oneself, for example. Just harvest some fruits, order yeast and off you go. Woodworking is pretty fulfilling, too, especially the manual, non-electrical side. Or wood carving. Carving takes about zero amounts of space and is pretty meditative. Gardening is great, and can also be started indoors with LED lighting, if space is a concern. Sewing is pretty fun, the beginner stuff are things like tote bags, i.e. you can use your own creations after a few hours. Some people like drawing or painting, or writing.

The plus for most of these is that you can actually use your creations by yourself and have a great source of gifts for friends and family.

Those are all pretty low-tec-examples, but of course you could also look into diy electronics, game programming etc. For some those aren't optimal because they resemble work too much.

I would personally avoid hobbies that tend to devolve into collecting kit, e.g. photography. IMO Great activites are those where the fun part is the creative task itself, and which involve manual exertion (assuming you are a desk worker).
We’ve so far seen the attendance dip blamed on high ticket prices

Generally, it's never been cheaper (in real dollars) to get in the door. Resale prices are artificially suppressed, and teams are offering more aggressive discounts on direct sales than ever.

MLB's deal making StubHub, a marketplace with no meaningful price floors, its official resale marketplace has been an economic disaster from which MLB will never recover.

Most games become a mad race to the bottom for prices as the game approaches, as buyers have learned to wait for the inevitable collapse. Result #1: few advance sales. Result #2: season ticket holders abandon their seats rather than take major losses every year. Result #3: taking advantage of kickbacks from StubHub to teams, now teams dump their own inventory on StubHub at fire-sale prices. Result #4: buyers kearn to not buy directly from teams, given the much cheaper inventory on StubHub. Result #5: even fewer advance sales and more abandonment of seats by season ticket holders. It's a death spiral.

The teams' only hope will be to opt out of the StubHub deal and use only resale marketplaces that have appropriate price floors (that vary with original ticket cost) and stop the predatory practice of competing with their own season ticket holders with heavily discounted tickets in official resale marketplaces.

Also, teams have to quit friction-heavy ticketing procedures such as mobile-only ticketing and punitive entry procedures.
What do you believe the thing is?

It’s just marketing wank. The majority of marketing is like that, to be honest.

Everyone is trying to over sell everything in every which way.

It’s wholly unremarkable that advertising drivel is completely out of key.
This is a glorified term paper with pseudoscientific nonsense terms like "toxins" and lacking a shred hard evidence. Please HN, don't let the quality fall or let this slip by because there's nothing new or proven asserted in it.
Cold Email
It seems to me law enforcement talks about data collection and analysis as if automated tools didn't have privacy impacts. They often seem to deliberately focus on whether or not a human has access to some specific information, which IMO obfuscates the issue. They're not very willing to acknowledge that there are two schemes, as you call them.
Fracking also releases radioactive radon from the ground - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190618083347.h...

However, as regulations consider it "natural" (it wasn't man-made, although it was released as a result of human activity), frackers are not required to do anything about it.

So we have a repeat of the tragedy of diluted pollution - as long as your pollution is invisible and evenly distributed (like radioactive waste from coal plants), nobody cares. But concentrate it instead of releasing it to the environment, and there's public outrage (high-level nuclear waste).
He's greedy, yeah, but also seems to possibly have no loyalty...
That would be the consistent way to solve the issue if Apple wanted web apps to be as powerful as native iOS apps. But they don't, and that ship sailed long, long ago.
Ghosu is another example, a JVM based language for the Guidewire suite of policy and claims systems.
The principle of data privacy and rights is really much more important than pointy policies, it's an underlying foundation and framework of thinking how data should be treated with safeguards for you, as an individual, to be more in control of it.

The EU has a lot of flaws as it's so massive and pervasive but saying that the US is the beacon of the free world makes me think you have been living under a rock for a while.
I actually tried to get Phabricator up and running not long ago -- the main issue I have with it is that it seems to need a server (at least a database server) all to itself. It's probably a resolvable issue using some kind of container, but it scared me off a little bit.
Nationalism aside as a Chinese citizen I believe all educated Chinese citizens should be grateful to the protesters in Hong Kong for the sole reason that these protesters are directly challenging the CCP (which is an extremely rare thing to happen in this day and age without the direct involvement of another superpower). It may be wishful thinking but I believe through direct confrontation like this CCP will learn and improve and reflect on all the shit it has done (just to name a few: the Tiananmen massacre, the disinformation campaign against Falun Gong and Jiang’s subsequent use of Falun Gong as a scapegoat to fulfil his political needs leading to more killings and screwed-up things like organ harvesting, the suppression and killings of the Tibetan culture and people, the on-going internment camps in Xinjiang, the kidnapping of Gui Minhai and others related to the Causeway Bay bookstore, etc) which collectively, in direct or indirect ways, lead to the pandemonium in Hong Kong today.
Sshame: Perfect tool to brute force SSH public-key authentication
It takes a lifetime to master a craft. The earlier you start, the longer it takes.
I agree in principle with your objection, but I'm having trouble re-formulating the sentence in a way which is accurate but still sounds natural:

> it's an openly debated topic, ranging from a simple accident to bullying by the state and conspiracy theories.

> it's an openly debated topic, ranging from a simple accident to bullying by the state or other kinds of conspiracy theories.

How would you say it?
Where’s the model that predicts a 4m sea level rise? Even the most outlandish predictions don’t come close to that.

But in any case, that’s largely irrelevant to my point. This argument presupposes that the only way to prevent catastrophic man-made climate change is to put an end to air travel. That’s such an outrageous thing to claim that you can’t simply act like it’s something that’s obvious true, and that everybody should already believe.
I think- people are afraid of dying but more than that, are afraid of dying
_badly_. Death from radiation poisoning can be one ugly motherfucker death and
its rarity also makes it strange and otherworldly which only helps to stoke
the flames of terror. Reading about the symptoms of radiation victims I'm
often reminded of H. P. Lovecraft's stories- it seems like some
other-dimensional horror has caught them in its tentacles [1].

Dying from air pollution is not exactly fun either. Chronic pulmonary
obstructive disease, having to spend the last years of your life on oxygen,
lung cancer... but there is something going on here that is quite separate
from people not being good at statistical reasoning [2]. Perhaps dying from air
pollution has becoe commonplace, exactly because it happens so often, that it
has lost its edge. Perhaps we have all internalised the fact that our cities
are full of deadly pollutants that we breathe in daily.

Fear of air travel is similar: it's an ugly way to die, trapped in a giant
metal cigar with strangers, and it's also rare. Yet another example is fear of
sharks: it's rare that a shark kills a person, but the way they kill you is
really not how most people hope to die.

Maybe, if you wanted to change attitudes, you'd have to make death from
radiological accidents much more common and death from air pollution less so.
But I don't think that really solves your problem.

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[1] I was just now reading the article about Louise Slotin's death. Some
choice cuts from his symptoms: "The hand eventually took on a waxy blue
appearance and developed large blisters"; "He had internal radiation
burns—what one medical expert called a “three-dimensional sunburn.”". That is
horrible and also _weird_.

[2] It's more complicated than that:

https://aeon.co/essays/we-are-more-rational-than-those-who-n...
While we're at it, can products stop using the phrase "aircraft grade aluminium" to sell trivial items such as forks, wallets and, I kid you not, Post-It note holders.

Yes, there are differences in quality possible with aluminium, as there are with most materials, but to make "aircraft grade" a main selling point for your sunglasses case is snake oil marketing nonsense.
You are naming your tests wrong
That's literally the definition of stress. Stress occurs when you feel that you cannot (or just might not) meet the expectations set on you. The expectations can be external or just come for yourself.
Would this include nebulizer output? I wonder if it has an antiseptic effect.
"Zero carbon" is short for "net zero carbon". Sequestration can compensate for the few cases were emissions are truly unavoidable.
> We are well-prepared for a few more degrees K, but they are not expected during the next century or so.

This is just flat out false, considering we have gone from 0 to 1 degree of warming in ~35 years; 40, if you're generous.

We are well on track for at least another 2 degree warming by end the century.
> bridges are so sturdy and last so long

What a joke, when you see how all the bridges built in the 60s and 70s are crumbling apart.
Are microbiome gut health tests “bullshit”?
I'm intrigued by the consumer price index graph. Does it mean that a 1910 dollar bought you about the same goods and services as a 1790 dollar? Mindboggling.
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If there's a more charitable interpretation I've missed then I really apologize but it honestly did not read that way.

The scenario you paint is fictional and seems constructed to give CBP every benefit of doubt without regarding the other side, which in a power relationship is not productive imho. It's dismissing the actually affected person and circumstances like the existing Visa approval. It's a top-level post bringing in terrorism whereas the article merely claims "an agent had yelled at him and “said she found people posting political points of view that oppose the U.S. on my friend list.”". There's a large gap between terrorism and viewpoints opposing the US, at the sole discretion of some CBP agent(s) in this case. The premise of not letting border agencies search your devices is just not supported by reality.
The EU has strict food labelling laws[1]. They stop companies making stupid claims like "100% asbestos free!", or claiming to be a health food when a major indicator is way out of line with guidelines.

I think marketing in general could learn something from that. Screen out ridiculous claims that have no basis on the viability on the product, and force people to focus on product and deviances from industry "standard".

For example, your transport layer might be using the same ciphers and key length as a military installation, but if Maureen in accounts can log in from home with the username and password she's used on every site since 2002 and access 400,000 customer details, and download them to an unencrypted file on a personal computer... You're not meeting GDPR obligations, let alone military or banking standards.

... And by tangential extension, I think non-developers might be surprised just how many companies still have absolutely zero effective access control to data. No storage encryption. No plans to warehouse or delete old data. Just records in a database (or shared spreadsheet) where a username and password, and sometimes just network access, will give you PII for every customer in the last 20 years.

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/labelling_nutrition/claims/...
How? If you are stuck in one of the countries where more than 90% of citizens use WhatsApp, your choices are not to use WhatsApp, or to get an Android or IOS smartphone.

Individuals might be willing to contact you via other channels, but group chats won't move to another platform unless you are dealing with people who actually care about their privacy.

I don't use WhatsApp (can't use it due to not having an approved smartphone, and not wishing to accept Facebook's terms of use), and I miss things. Not a lot, and nothing critical, but my partner and I do miss out on some social things.
When it is FIPS 140-2 level 4 certified, they will let you know early enough so when it's missing you can easily tell.
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Well, I didn't experienced this lacks.

To my mind, anything that has history is also linked to a specific culture, so I don't get your point here. Esperanto does come with its own culture, grown through human communications, original works, its artifacts[1], local events and international congresses. Maybe its not enough to meet your personal definition of what a culture is, but it does suffice for mine.

There are some people who count Esperanto among there native languages, but that's just a byproduct of having Esperantists that mate having Esperanto as unique common language. Most Esperantists, to my knowledge, don't seek to make Esperanto the native language of everyone. The goal is not to be an "universal" language either, but an international auxiliary language. So it's perfectly compatible with proliferation of local languages.

>there’s no region in the World you can travel to and feel immersed in Esperanto culture.

You mean, like Herzberg am Harz – the Esperanto Town[2]? But really, that's not the point, if you want to feel immersed, you can go at local events or international congresses. You can travel virtually anywhere in the world using Pasporto Servo[3] and stay some time with a fellow Esperantist if you want to gain acquaintance with most foreign cultures out there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamenhof-Esperanto_object
[2] http://esperanto-urbo.de/page.php?pid=80300003
[3] https://www.pasportaservo.org/
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