skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>You would stop invading armies everywhere, at the border, inside the border, in their homeland and the lands of their allies, in the borders of your own allies, anywhere.

"Defend everywhere" makes for a very poor Commander's Intent or Mission Statement. If you are defending "inside the border"...you've already failed at stopping your adversary AT the border. It also violates almost half of the Principles of War (mass, objective, economy of force, simplicity). Reference Appendix B of [6].

>>>Do you imagine border patrol plays a key strategic role in war? What would be an example of that from history?

From[1]:
"Pakistani patrols began patrolling in territory controlled by India in January 1965, which was followed by attacks by both countries on each other's posts on 8 April 1965.[44][45] Initially involving border police from both nations, the disputed area soon witnessed intermittent skirmishes between the countries' armed forces."

Re: [2][3]These Soviet-Japanese border conflicts would have 2nd and 3rd order effects on military doctrine, development, and strategic focus (the Japanese stopped poking the Bear and focused on China). The Soviets gained some confidence in their operational doctrine and gained confidence fighting the Japanese (who they last fought against, and lost to, in the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War).

Reference [4] describes how the Soviets managed border security during their Afghanistan war.

Reference [5] has a short section on "Border Security in Contemporary Counterinsurgency" to summarize border control issues from Vietnam to Afghanistan to Iraq. It particularly points out the significant political ramifications of cross-border insurgents and counter-insurgency operations.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1965

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Khasan

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Khalkhin_Gol

[4]https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13518046.2015.10...

[5]https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA503298

[6]https://www.marines.mil/News/Publications/MCPEL/Electronic-L...
Disclaimer: I've only looked fairly close at capnproto, RSocket, and gRPC, never used them myself.

It depends on what you need to do. What's your use case? My primary constraint is that I need web browser compatibility, ie websockets currently. If capnproto had a solid browser JS implementation I would said use it hands down if it has the features you need. There's some work being done to shoehorn gRPC into the browser[0], but it seems very complicated to me (requires a proxy server IIRC). If you need a robust browser solution today, take a look at RSocket[1]. I think the reason rsocket isn't talked about more is that it comes across as very "enterprisey", but on a technical level it looks very good to me. You may also be interested in my minimalist approach, omnistreams[2]. It basically adds backpressure and multiplexing on top of websockets. We're running that in production at iobio.io, but the API isn't stable yet (would love external input).

One big caveat of capnproto vs gRPC is that capnproto doesn't really have built-in "stream" mechanics, ie the concept of making a request that you expect to return an unbounded list of elements. I've mentioned this before and kentonv explained a way it could be mimicked though[3].

[0] https://grpc.io/blog/state-of-grpc-web/

[1] http://rsocket.io/

[2] https://github.com/omnistreams/omnistreams-spec

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20041250
I disagree with this. Put any two toddlers together with "one of something" and there will be fights.
There's a delay when trying to hit stop on any of the boxes. It's really quite frustrating.

I really like this idea. This is something I want to explore as a non-music person.
let us know what country you are in - laws vary and someone from your country might be able log-in and to offer you the correct way to get free and solve your problems..
Not every code you deal with is your own.

Besides, terseness is one issue, but far from the only one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20978608
Thats $360 over 10 years. Spend that right now to get an excellent color laser printer that will last that long. Whereas your inkjet is very likely to fail sometime in the next two years (4~5 year typical lifespan). And with the amount of printing you're doing you probably won't even run out the toner that comes included with the printer.
I love Applescript. Not necessarily the language but what you can do with it is great. It's one thing that's keeping me on Mac--there's no Windows equivalent, much less a Linux equivalent. You can kind of hack stuff with Autohotkey but that's not the same thing at all.
> Is paint-by-numbers making art?

haha is this art? Do you really need to go to school for a decade /study art to be able to paint this?

https://shorturl.at/krYZ4
Good explanation of machine learning somewhere under the layers of condescending rhetoric and marketing. I went into this expecting something like the chrome comic and boy was that underwhelming.
I think I’d lose it if I had to npm update before installing a device driver.
Wow! You could buy an ounce of weed for 25$ on 4/20 this year in washington state versus 360$ it cost for an ounce back in the midwest when I was in college a few years ago when it was illegal and they managed to lose money. Despite the differences between the US and Canada, that is insane.
It is the result of a lot of work (a lot) and I truly believe everyone in my situation with the right mindset would have been able to achieve it. Being a Ph.D. student and having a chance to do internships at companies like Adobe or Google does sometimes feel like a privilege though, so I understand that not many are in the same situation.
They seem to be doing okay with Coda already?
> One of them is Hotel California, the other is "I would like to see my mother again and have her meet my children, but she isn't allowed in the country,"

In one of them you are literally a prisoner. In the other you still have options.

More like: "I would like to see my mother again, but she is not allowed in the country. Therefore, I will go to her instead, or we will meet in Canada or some other country we are both allowed in. That is quite inconvenient."
With a bunch of 'wanted' posters from a.d. 2026 next to it.
> irccloud.com looks great, except for the fact that you have to pay

Yes, people need to eat. Sorry about that.
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Did they take into account the fact that women usually work in jobs that pay less compared to men?
> Nobody has figured out how to make money from AI/ML other than by selling you a pile of compute and storage for your AI/ML misadventures.

Thinking more about it, have companies made much with ML other than in analytics/self driving companies/Google?
The well ran dry! Awe inspiring: it was like the immovable stone meeting the irresistable force.

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1173418566730711040
Science Fiction Audiobooks
This is really weird, I've been working on and literally just posted my list on my blog, favorite 100 SciFi books of all time, I set it up so you can vote for your favorites too. Any feedback on the list and/or site would be much appreciated :)

http://www.audiobookreviews.com/scifilist.php
> https://totes-not-amazon.com

It's like the Git Man Page Generator [0] but trained on the AWS docs. Each time you click the "ASW" home page logo, it regenerates the docs.

[0] https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
HP and HPE split. Looks like HP is going to shit.
It’s a poor “senior” software engineer who doesn’t understand anything about the underlying architecture or how to at least troubleshoot the infrastructure and have at least some type of understanding of the ops part.

How many hardware based Kickstarter projects have failed because they didn’t understand the complexity of actually manufacturing there product at scale.

It’s analogous to software engineers who don’t appreciate ops. Writing software for a company is useless if you can’t ship it or deploy it. You can’t imagine the number of bright eyed bushy tailed “software engineers” I’ve dealt with that thought they were smart because they knew leetCode and learned algorithms who couldn’t troubleshoot performance issues or understand why they couldn’t get shipping products because they didn’t understand the ops side of things.

Of course I am not diminishing the role of software engineering, I’ve been developing software actively professionally or as a hobby for over 30 years. But, I know enough in theory to talk to the ops guys for on prem/colo/hybrid architectures and I could easily be competitive on the ops side for jobs dealing with fully “cloud native” solutions for a small to medium size implementation.
Blackmail is illegal in the US. I assume it's illegal in many other countries. IANAL

You should probably talk to whatever they call legal aid in your area.
If the world cares about it then the world should pay for it. Not sanctions, nor sanctimony. Buy the land.

It would be expensive, but that just reflects the value to the people you're buying it from. And it's an actual, concrete action that can be taken, instead of the vague global warming solutions that just tweak domestic parameters and send tax money to the black hole of the state budget.
Ric Ocasek, singer for The Cars, dies at 75: police
This is an interesting microeconomics paper about a new field or theory of economics, unsure which. Naming itself is probably the first step in successful application towards propagating itself. Doesn’t mention within the paper anything about memetics.

On a minor note, minds in general seem better geared to remembering stories, e.g. mnemonics.
Have you tried elasticcloud? They solve a lot of access problems present in AWS Elasticsearch along with providing the most recent version for deployment.
Sorting color is problematic. Yes, it is an easy first sort step with relatively limited number of output bins. But once sorted by color it becomes 10 times at least harder to pick out a shape. Anybody that I know that has sorted Lego in quantity first goes for that because it seems so obvious, and then after a while all of them revert.

Think about it: pick the 2x4 brick in red from a pile of 2x4 bricks in various colors vs pick the 2x4 brick in red from a pile of red bricks in various shapes. The first you can do in a heartbeat, the second will take much longer, and it is also much harder to determine that a piece isn't there in the first place.
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>destroyed centuries ago for building things like towns, cathedrals and castles and for firewood

Agree with your point entirely but also want to mention that the motivation behind not re-growing is land-clearing for reasons not stated i.e. farmland, transport infrastructure, housing. The use of wood for building materials and even firewood is carbon neutral if appropriately managed, it's those specific motivations to keep the land cleared that have led to an overall draw-down of forest cover. You can't restore cover without addressing the motivations for clearing it, and use of wood for building/heat is a bit of a red herring in that sense.
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When you say "Next year it becomes illegal for them to do so", what specifically are you referring to? I didn't catch the reference.
On the other hand, my parents never snuck around at all, and I was very sneaky as a child/teen.
I find it hard to take news outlets seriously on this subject when they keep the kid gloves on concerning the current president of Brazil. The reticence to call his "victory" what it really was: a coup. The intercept [0] laid out the fact that his opponent, who was slated to win in a landslide, was jailed and convicted by a judge who was working in concert with the prosecutor to ensure a conviction. If the aim was to do real journalism and speak truth to power, then outlets would call if like it is and convey zero legitimacy to the current administration.

[0]: https://theintercept.com/series/secret-brazil-archive/
I wish my company would adopt this... been in too many meetings without clear agendas and meetings for meetings sake
That's an unsolved problem. You'd be surprised how hard it is to separate certain parts from each other. But the first bulk sorting step usually takes care of picking out the larger assemblies and there is a class 'assembly' which gets picked out all by itself by the machine. That at least allows you to concentrate on the parts that are still stuck together.
RPKI would allow signing of BGP routes so that networks could reject them if they were not signed by the owners. Cloudflare has been pushing it heavily to avoid this kind of crap.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki/
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It is very interesting that Yemen may have developed their own missile, or possibly a variation on an Iranian missile which was reverse engineered from a Soviet missle.

What would be even more interesting (to me at least) is to see the United States withdraw all our combat personnel from the region and let the players in the region figure it out for themselves. The U.S. has now been at war continuously for 18 years, which is the longest stretch ever. I'm starting to feel like my generation may be the last American generation to remember a time when we weren't at war.

I felt a small surge of hope when Bolton was canned (or resigned, what does it matter really as long as he's gone), but then Trump tweeted that he was waiting to see what the Saudis want us to do, which is frankly ass backwards.

Here's hoping for the end of American soldiers dying in other people's wars in my lifetime, which would make the subject of this article seem like something less than a provocation for yet more strikes by the U.S.
Agreed, which is why I said "the standard American helmet". You'd probably be hard pressed to walk into Walmart and buy a $200 helmet. Non-bikers like to make fun of cyclists wearing spandex and weird shoes and etc, without knowing that cycling can be dangerous in a way that a car or walking might not be.

It's something people should be aware of. Your $20 Walmart helmet may cause your brain to overheat while you're riding. I certainly didn't know that was possible until I experienced it.
ES is one of those technologies that "everyone" goes to when they want any kind of basic text search indexing "at scale" (usually with a delusional notion of what their scaling needs actually are), because text search/indexing is tedious and hard at any scale that a basic DB query would fall over on (which is generally a much bigger scale than many want to admit).
See Udacity's course on parallel programming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F620ommtjqk&list=PLGvfHSgImk...

I don't think it touches upon ML, but it is relevant for understanding the difference between GPUs and CPUs. You can go through the intro to backprop lectures on deeplearning.ai for ML.
From Vim to Emacs in Fourteen Days
Nice, more fodder for my “fuck HP” list.

I’m just forever bummed about Palm, I adored my Pre.
What exactly are you imagining these kids doing on these screens that are A. "medium difficulty" B. previous effort will immediately be wasted if they turn it off?
The PC industry came up with various "plug and play" standards to describe the configuration of the hardware and make it easily understandable by software, but as evidenced by the complexity of something like ACPI, it's a hard problem for them too.

Memory mapping is relatively easy to describe; other peripherals on the bus (like a second CPU), not so much.
> ... with licensing agreements handled by lawyers and corporate security.

So it's helpful when it's someone else's problem?
It's always baffled me as to why Russia gets so much attention when it comes to election hacking, when they have a fraction of the resources and economy as China.
What kind of logic is this?

I don't like it when someone tells me what to do, but I'll be damned if I let my kids run wild and do whatever they want.
Are you up for filing a GDPR complaint with the Data Protection Authority? :)
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Lessig's original essay: https://medium.com/@lessig/on-joi-and-mit-3cb422fe5ae7

Lessig's response to the NYT article: https://medium.com/@lessig/on-the-careful-reading-of-the-new...

Suffice it to say that he disagrees with the characterization in the NYT article: "Whatever else my essay from a week ago was doing, it was not my trying to “defend soliciting donations from the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.” It happens sometimes, maybe not a lot, but here the editor at the Times took truth and rendered it as completely false."
I know right?

I doubt Socrates would've developed into such an intellectual powerhouse without his iPad as a young lad.
What are some good alternatives then? Laser, black and white and one that respects privacy ideally?
In some cities here in the U.S., it's common practice to keep cash on-hand so that in the event of a robbery, you can avoid giving your phone/other valuables or having to say "I don't have anything" and getting shaken down further or shot
Very detailed article. The Czech TJ100 turbojet would be neat in a serial-hybrid turbine power pack (for ground applications).

Physical fabrication of cruise missiles (which is basically what modern "kamikaze drones" are) isn't the hard part IMO....I really wanna get a look at their guidance/control software. Somebody get the Houthis on GitLab ASAP.

>>>The idea that impoverished war-torn Yemen would be able to develop a cruise missile without any outside assistance seems far-fetched......Is Iran secretly designing, testing and producing missile systems for exclusive use by its proxies?

I think it's possible the Iranians are doing the design work, then sending the CAD files to the Houthis and telling them "cobble together something like this to the best of your ability." The results have been spectacularly successful, and gets around the problems of the blockade if they aren't sending physical hardware.
What happens when you buy the land and then people burn it down anyway and steal it back?
there will be feces everywhere if more than a few hundred show up. there are only a few toilets in the area and they will be overloaded immediately.
>Are you are suggesting that they make a spec that implements API's that would conflict with 70%+ of the web and they deal with those conflicts by adding a `if (window.jQuery) return;` in all those calls?

Of course not. You can implement the same API without stealing its namespace. $$, sel, select, whatever.

>Are you in all seriousness saying that a native spec should account for a library?

If it's by far the most widely used one, one that changed the way we write web apps, and made viable a whole class of solutions, then of course. That's one of the main ways platforms grow. You see how people are using it and you make it even easier, faster.

What I'm saying is, we have a half arsed copy of jQuery when we could've had the real thing, only faster and builtin.

Instead of trying some ideas in a library/framework, iterating until polished, then considering making it official, we reinvented the wheal from scratch, only, unsurprisingly, worse.
Immutable ledgers (blockchain) and GIS (mixed systems) and search indexes (elastic) all come to mind as more niche databases. Some of these uses can be modeled in a variety of engines.
I asked Kenton V about the reasons for the failure of the business. You might be interested in his reply[0].

My 0.02: I'd interview your target market to find out if this is a pain point they recognize. Many of these projects are started out of decentralization idealism (for good reason, and it's not a bad thing), but as a business you do not want to be left having to educate your potential buyers about why they need this.

[0] https://twitter.com/teleclimber/status/1173345736013910017
What do enterprise firewall operators think of this? They must notice.
From skimming your article... is it really innovation if the research and development is stolen from Western countries?

>very small teams of engineers can obtain complete design packages for working phones

They can obtain complete design packages for working phones because those design packages were stolen according to Western laws and customs.

>we also feel that shying away from reverse engineering simply because it’s controversial is a slippery slope

It might be controversial in China, but it's illegal in many Western countries.

>Unfortunately, queries into getting a Western-licensed EDK for the chips used in the Chinese phones were met with a cold shoulder

So instead they decided that stealing the work of Western companies would not and could not be punished in China, so they just stole it.

"Doesn't play nice with Western IP" sounds an awful lot like theft with a fancier name.
Books are much more varied and information dense than TV. Why watch TV when you can read a book?
I just did an interview with a (blind) professor from Berklee that run an assistive music technology program and lab that has been using Pro Tools for quite some time. He's released a pile of scripts called "Flo Tools"[0] to assist with visually impaired use.

[0]: http://flotools.org/
"Two decades after its fall, the border between East and West Germany would become Europe's biggest nature reserve: an 858-mile "ecological treasure trove", no longer the Iron Curtain but the Green Belt, and home to more than 600 rare and endangered species of birds, mammals, plants and insects."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Green_Belt
If not Electron, is it native or does it use some other web engine?
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It is helpful when the company doing the telemetry really values you as a customer and you have teams of people responsible for understanding and negotiating the details.

It is not helpful when the absence of competition forces you to accept one devil or another and little power (or time) to understand how your information is being gathered and used.
So let your kids enjoy things, but don't let them become a stan.
I was hoping it ran the Pine email client.
It does have smooth scrolling. On macOS (Emacs mac port), it's the same inertia-based scrolling that every other system app is using and on Linux pixel-based smooth scrolling was added for Emacs 26.
There's a sibling subthread which says that RPKI wouldn't be enough.[0] Me, I have no clue.

And ELI5, what does S-BGP do differently?

0) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20980296
$3 (I'm assuming USD) will buy you more than 100mL of black ink:

http://www.3000rpm.com/acatalog/Epson-Continuous-Ink-System-...

I have a CIS printer and dilute even further, usually a 5:1 ratio (it becomes slightly bluish beyond that point), but even as-is 100mL will print far more than 50 pages -- probably closer to 5000 if not more. At that point the cost of paper becomes more significant.

Edit: it looks like the other colours are the same price (when I last bought ink, which was a long time ago, CMY was slightly more expensive):

http://www.3000rpm.com/acatalog/Epson-HP-Canon-Brother-Conti...