skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-china-e...

>The Chinese central government rejected Lam’s proposal to withdraw the extradition bill and ordered her not to yield to any of the protesters’ other demands at that time, three individuals with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Random: Did you know Guangzhou (Canton) was briefly capital of China back in the day? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%...

There's an important political figure in the history of modern China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen

He studied medicine in HK. He lived in Hawaii for a time [1]. He had a political philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Principles_of_the_People

To my surprise I found Sun Yat-sen is still revered in China. He was Cantonese, like many of HK people. He has a University in GZ named after him!

If you would like to learn more about history of China this professor is fantastic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Baum, in particular, The Fall and Rise of China The Teaching Company, 2010 is really good. It's on audible.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20131016060255/http://media.nara...
It's wonderful of grsecurity to produce a review like this - it'll be extremely helpful in addressing any issues in the development and patch management process. One can only think what improvements we might see in regards to Linux security, as a whole, if they'd work more proactively with the rest of the community. Of course, they're under no obligation to do so.

Unfortunately, I doubt that we'll ever have their participation - or even see or review any of grsecurity's modifications - all because of grsecurity's "Access Agreement". [0] Essentially, if I understand it correctly, even if grsecurity's customers wanted to, by sharing grsecurity's work with us or anyone else, those customers stand to have their access to the latest grsecurity created derivatives of the Linux kernel revoked. Of course, if that's true, facing a penalty for sharing code grsecurity received and modified per the GPL just doesn't sound right or just to me.

It seems obvious to me that one must carefully consider the wider picture when evaluating linux security posture evaluations, as presented by grsecurity, as there may be conflicts of interest in effect. I take what grsecurity says about the security of the Linux Kernel with a very large grain of salt, and you should as well.

Further, I'm not a legal expert and I use measured tones as grsecurity have taken legal action against open source community members in the past for expressing their opinions [1] on the matter of the access agreement [2]. While those matters were dismissed by the court [3], I am still hesistant to say anything, but find speaking on this matter a neccessary thing to do, for what I perceive to be the good of the community.

[0] https://grsecurity.net/agree/agreement_faq.php

[1] https://perens.com/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-c...

[2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/03/linux_kernel_grsecu...

[3] https://perens.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/12/file0....
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This seems to be getting slightly overblown in that thread. To be clear, this impacted one datacenter out of ten that make up one availability zone out of six in AWS’s us-east-1 region. So we are talking 2-3% at most of that region’s capacity was impacted.

I haven’t seen a report yet on exactly why their generator failed, but from what I’ve heard, the power failed, and the backup generator kicked in and ran fine for over an hour, but then it failed. This sort of thing sucks to deal with but it’s also inevitable. Of their hundreds of datacenters, a mechanical failure is going to happen occasionally no matter how good their maintenance plans are.

So the key when using cloud services like AWS is to plan for the possibility of failure. EBS expects an annual failure rate of 0.1%. So one out of a thousand EBS volumes will fail in a given year. If you operate at the scale of thousands of servers in AWS, you see this sort of thing all the time. Luckily, EBS also makes it trivial to take volume snapshots which are stored in S3, which has much much higher reliability and durability. So if you have data in EBS that needs to be kept safe, take regular snapshots. Here’s a doc that explains how you can set up scheduled, auto-rotated snapshots: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/snapshot...
The problem with AI is that it doesn't get cold feet, and can't intuit the likely truth against the present "facts."

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Russian+officer+prevented+wwiii&t=...
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Better hope that zero shot learning works. Otherwise it's one shot annihilation.
This proposal is so obviously and completely insane that it would only make sense as a sort of distraction. I wonder from what.
Relevant HN thread from yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20866084
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I think “human consciousness” is perhaps a poor way to describe the core idea. When you put on a glove you stop thinking about your hand as the flesh inside the glove, but rather as including this new exoskeleton. Technology gets integrated in a similar fashion.

“I will call you back” is arguably not just a linguistic shortcut for “I will initiate the process that starts a phone call.” Rather it’s an inclusion of technical capacity as part your your idea of self. Building on that idea gets you into some odd places.

Anyway, I suspect people would have quickly used cell phones in a similar fashion if someone had somehow been selling similarly useful and affordable devices 3000 years ago.
Of course they failed. Just buy a dehumidifier and see how much water you get.
This conclusion "The cloud is just a .. blah blah blah" is weak: Amazon offers isolated availability zones within each region to mitigate this risk at the system level, it gives you the ability to take EBS snapshots that you can backup on S3 (with 11 9s of durability), and scaling features you just will not find on "just another computer." And you are meant to architect to this with multi-AZ designs.

It's managed infrastructure not some miraculous alternative universe where probabilities do not apply to you.

From the docs:

"Amazon EBS volumes are designed for an annual failure rate (AFR) of between 0.1% - 0.2% ..."
As far as I know, it's not known whether (all) GMOs are safe. That's the problem people have with them.
If its treated correctly as a set of SQL language API-s with clear ownership and explicitly defined public/private parts. There is a reason why its often considered an anti-pattern, and it is a general lack of discipline in maintaining stable semantics and separation of responsibilities.
I like it as a puzzle, but am concerned that it promotes "cleverness" in writing regexes.

Don't do that people. Just. Don't.

Keep regexes simple and stupid! Remember other people will have to read them someday.
From the fine article you linked (for which link I thank you):"Time compression has placed America’s senior leadership in a situation where the existing NC3 system may not act rapidly enough. Thus, it may be necessary to develop a system based on artificial intelligence, with predetermined response decisions, that detects, decides, and directs strategic forces with such speed that the attack-time compression challenge does not place the United States in an impossible position."

Had the Soviet Union had such a system in place in September, 1983, human civilization would not be around for us to be having this discussion.

If the situation is so dire as to call for serious discussions about AI control of nuclear weapons, it is dire enough for us to initiate, sponsor, and encourage global discussion over massive multi-lateral nuclear weapons reduction.
The main issue with safari, for me at least, is extensions. I use vim-like shortcuts on chrome/firefox and I feel awfully slow without them. Safari has very few extensions, and the few that exist don't really work well.
Can DuckDuckGo advertise on Google with “Google” as a keyword?
And caffeine, which is an insecicide
I think the maximum is about 6 kW in my Model S so if it were running flat out I think I would use about 25% more than if the climate control were switched off. My care typically uses between 180 and 220 Wh per kilometer, say 18 to 22 kW at 100 km/h.
> Do you really want to be near a nuclear weapon that is controlled by an opaque, unexplainable process?

You mean humans?

Jokes aside this idea is awful.
> Slavery ran contrary to what the US was founded on[...]

My understanding of your argument is that because certain nice and lofty things were said in certain founding documents we should look at it as a matter of historical inevitability that practices like slavery and racial discrimination were ultimately abolished.

I just don't buy that, and I think if you try to make this argument for any other country you'll see how silly it is.

I could similarly argue that say the oppression of the Soviet Union of its own citizens didn't have anything to do with its nature or foundational structure, it was just some temporary mistake. If you read the Soviet constitution it's even more unequivocal about condemning that sort of thing than the equivalent American documents.

For something like 1/3 of the history of the country millions lived out their lives as slaves, if we're being conservative for 2/3rds structural racial inequality was the law of the land.

If you'd have talked to supreme court justices, and some of the authors of those founding documents (many of whom had slaves) they'd have been appalled by this modern reading of the text. "All men" is much closer to the contemporary reading of "all [male] citizens [who hold property/are head of households]".

> The majority of the US economic output was not supported by slavery.

The page you're linking to makes the opposite case if you take it as a whole instead of selectively quoting from it. It argues that a buyout of the slaves would have been impossible due to the high price. Furthermore it's talking about numbers at the time of the civil war, almost 100 years after the period we're discussing, at that time the country had a more diversified economy.

If a sector of your economy is so integral to it that the government wants to get rid of it but can't see itself abolishing it without a war with itself it's pretty foundational to the economy.

> The notion that "most of the US's population and economic output was supported by [slavery]" is not even remotely true.[...]

Based on your reductive analysis of GNP by sector, but that's not how economies works. Low prices in one sector (e.g. due to slave labor) cascade to other sectors. The page you linked to explains this, it's like oil prices today. The benefit to the economy from reduced oil prices is higher than just the dollar value paid for the oil, it makes everything else cheaper.

But really. I don't see how we're going to get anywhere here (although I'd love to continue the discussion in this increasingly stale thread). How much slavery contributed to the economy is a supporting fact, but it's clearly not the main point. Although I'd be curious at what percentage of GNP you'd concede it. 25%? 50%?

The point is that a phrase like "built on slavery" accurately characterizes the country at the time both economically and socially as compared to other notable countries.
It is not an amnesty. It is a necessary condition for a return to peace. There is zero incentive to stop for the protesters if they are going to be jailed for protesting. The alternative is an ever escalating oppression-protest cycle.
I'd assume that's true of pretty much any car company.
> Linus Torvalds was the only person who've noticed the problem in the final merge and applied a fix manually before merging it to the mainline

The fix was done as part of the merge commit itself, it should have been a separate patch.
Indeed. Why weaken the UK's position any further by making the UK having to accept any deal?
This tweet might be in response to the AWS Post event summary from August 23, 2019:

> We’d like to give you some additional information about the service disruption that occurred in the Tokyo (AP-NORTHEAST-1) Region on August 23, 2019. Beginning at 12:36 PM JST, a small percentage of EC2 servers in a single Availability Zone in the Tokyo (AP-NORTHEAST-1) Region shut down due to overheating.

https://aws.amazon.com/message/56489/
> Some western countries have extradition treaties with mainland China

Few, and with strict legal and political supervision [1]. The proposed law would have single-handedly smothered Hong Kong’s rule of law and stability. It was a stupid, unnecessary move pursued solely for Xi’s political concerns.

> HK is formally part of the PRC

Hong Kong is Chinese territory from a military perspective. Civically, legally and administratively, it is separate.

Hong Kongers used to identify as Chinese. But due to Xi’s hamfistedness over the past few months, that is no longer the case.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_China
Do you have a source detailing this issue in us-east-1? I don't see a recent post-event summary from AWS mentioning us-east-1 https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/pes/
Maybe you're right, I think I may already follow this since I do not tolerate Mozilla's intolerance.

I have never seen any more intolerance than in people who thinks social justice is important. I do not tolerate these peoples intolerance.

I obviously do not accept anything and everything, that is why I am upset at Mozilla and their actions.

> "dictatorship of small, intolerant minorities"

This. This is what a lot of the tech world has become like in my opinion. A lot is dictated by people that think a code of conduct is more important than contributions and actual value.

As soon as you say make a sexual joke, say "there is only two genders" etc you will get banned from that community, be called a nazi, people will try to take your job and income away. Just look at all my posts here, they are all downvoted not because I spam or write something objectively false, but because my opinion is incorrect according to the dictatorship.
Tomatoes were domesticated, and eaten, in South America long before being imported to Europe so I'm guessing the story is, at best, apocryphal.

Potatoes have a similar origin and also have poisonous leaves for the same reason (nightshade plants often contain solanine)
I want off this planet.

Software engineers: ...
Politicians: AI all the things
people who think AI can't hurt seems to neglect human stupidity
Consultants shouldn't join client Slack channels
You could probably do some estimate based on the relative entropy, which should be vaguely comparable between hardware and software
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> I'm still hammer nails into the wall to support my coat hanger rod

There are glues for this nowadays if you want but personally I don't mind the screw or nail. Screws and nails are a 'good enough' solution for the problems they solve and anything else would have to be much better to really compete. The glue exists, you can buy it but it has a shelf life and does not have the same shear resilience that a screw or a nail would have.

Technology should first and foremost solve a problem.

Flying cars would create as many problems as they would solve, we barely manage with two dimensions, three would be a lot harder especially with large numbers of vehicles in the air. I don't see that working at all from a physics perspective but if we do somehow get it working to where it can compete favorably with regular vehicles on cost then it will require central traffic control.
That is an argument you can make for every election.

And that is why we hold new elections every few years, instead of just sticking with the people we picked last time.
They funded a homophobic political campaign.

Websites started user agent detecting Firefox and putting banners saying to not use Firefox because of their homophobic CEO.

It's pathetic that people like you hide behind censorship arguments and "diversity of thought" when defending the right to attack minorities.

This kind of disingenuous thinking makes me question anyone evangelising Brave as a web browser.
> Please be honest about why you are using social media for login.

Without speaking for Regex Crossword (I'm in no way affiliated with them):

I suspect the reason may at least in part be security. Passwords are dangerous to keep around, hard to handle, computationally expensive if done right, and if an attacker gets at the database, people get angry. A social network provider (especially the options here, Facebook, Google, Twitter, GitHub and Windows Live) is much more likely to get security (against third party attackers) a lot more right.
If you look at the bigger chart further down the page you can see that the market for interchangeable lens cameras is still a lot bigger than in 2003 or even 2007.
Full frame sensors are getting popular and able to fetch higher prices.

Meanwhile I have a camera body that was introduced at the end of 2012 and it's working just fine for photos and Full HD videos. I'm in no rush to upgrade, my guess is i'll keep using it until 4K60P video capable interchangeable lens camera bodies become more affordable, perhaps in 2021 or so.
Apple is a computer company. (Phones are specialized computers unless you're actually talking about landline things.)

Intel is a chip company.

Microsoft is a software company... except there's Microsoft hardware out there, isn't there?

Do you think there might be a use for an over-arching term to talk about all of those companies at the same time, while leaving out, say, Unilever and Coca-Cola?
i mean if you try to access undefined attribute in model it will throw an exception
I suspect you're overestimating the number of developers who know or use Linux. Many developers use Git on Windows and don't know anything about Linux, let alone about the workflow of the kernel team.
You are right, Sono Motors in Munich did their development on shoestring budget. I was asked to join electric camper startup, they estimated their development budget under 2M€ using off shelf parts.
I was hoping this was about the birthday spam notices in google calendar. There’s no way to delete contact birthday info without deleting the contact.

For some reason Google thinks it’s cool that I’ve emailed “foo@gmail.com” at some point in my life. Foo set their birthday in Gmail and now their birthday shows on my calendar along with people I actually want.
Are you, by any chance, a Scott McCloud fan?

http://vickyteinaki.com/2014/uploads/phenomenology.png
Do multiple exposures and see which defects come up more than once?
No, they just let it ride and hope nothing breaks.
"We keep inventing new names for time-sharing. It came to be called servers ... Now we call it cloud computing. That is still just time-sharing." - Lester Earnest
After being a long time Linux/Android/Chrome user I got dragged into the Apple ecosystem as I received a used iPhone 6 as a student back in the day.

For my daily life, this has been a blessing. A lot of the complaints about Apple that people have (and I used to have as an avid Android user) are absolutely valid. MacBook Pros are hardly "Pro", missing ports are simply annoying, weird multi-display handling and breaking butterfly keyboards... all that is true to some extent.

BUT... at risk of sounding like marketing shill, in general my workflow and private usage of my Apple devices is a wonderful fresh breeze. 99.8% of the time things just work and I don't have to install third party drivers and adjust my fan speed to a Fibonacci percentage so that Ubuntu's WiFi works after waking the laptop from sleep.

Hell, a large portion of the added cost (at worse specs) compared to Dell or ThinkPad is completely worth it in order to have an amazing trackpad which is still miles ahead of any other device.

Maybe I should finally give Safari a serious go as well. I always avoided it due to its image of a less feature-rich browser.
Call me cynic and selfish, but I kinda like when people who don't care about their privacy essentially subsidise my browsing on websites that track their users. Now they will have even bigger incentive to invent new tracking mechanism.
Wouldn't all the toxins be concentrated in the urine? That's very strange !
I think the offense industry will read your comment and get all big-headed about how much stuff they think they can kill. They can definitely kill off homo sapien, but earth life will go on. There's still a few billion year left in the sun's main sequence. Maybe something more compassionate will evolve out of the leftovers.
Off-topic: how is this website readable without ad blocking? They seem to attempt to make finding the bit belonging to the article a game of whack a mole
The question asked if it ever happened. That your story didn’t actually happen is most certainly relevant.
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I'm not entirely sure your statement can offset the fact that many Chinese dishes use pork.

While they won't get hungry there should be some sort of anger and resentment for having to change their diet.
Rich people.
I'm a camera enthusiast and I collect some fancy/expensive old cameras and lenses. I'm the last person who you think would settle for a camera phone as a camera replacement. But they are just getting so good and they are so easy to use!

I'm finding it harder and harder to justify bringing along a camera unless I'm doing special like a specific photo shoot. Obviously phone cameras are no where near as good as a 40 megapixel full frame camera with a good prime lens shooting in raw. But 99% of the time I'm just going to post a photo of my kid in Instagram and it doesn't matter.

It is a tough time to be a camera maker.
It is a lie that "everyone at Mozilla was against him".

I worked at Mozilla at the time (distinguished engineer). I don't know about the board, but the vast, vast majority of staff wanted Brendan to stay. A handful of Mozilla Foundation staff spoke out against him and got lots of publicity.
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Not a useful comparison. A single neuron is far better networked to its neighbors and far more complex/nonlinear than a transistor. There are already chips out there with 1e11 transistors, but they don't run "ai" even a little bit.

Assuming you need something like 1e5 transistors to approximate one neuron, you'd need like 100m^2 of die area and interconnect to actually emulate a brain.
They possibly undergo some reaction in the reindeer's liver to break them down, before excreting them in urine.
>only peaceful non-violent struggle can bring about real change.

Utterly false, but persistently preached by those in power to ensure there's never any real threat to their position. "Just lie down while I stomp your neck. Don't resist. We'll discuss your objections later, at a more convenient time."

All political power emanates from the barrel of a gun. All civil power emanates from the people's latent threat to revolt and string up the members of an oppressive regime from lantern poles. The Founding Fathers understood that more than anything else. The First Amendment is worthless without the Second Amendment.

Violence should never be the first (or even second) answer, but it is the ultimate answer, and should never be excluded on principle.
Here's another one (more mature, I'd say) https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
It seems JS is not your favourite language :) There's already a solid technology in place to supplant it which is WebAssembly.