skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook et. al. implement a ton of censorship. You can be banned in seconds for posting content they deem offensive, even if it's not threatening / obscene. Why would we expect any other social network to not also have censorship? Why is Chinese censorship going to be any worse for Americans than their own?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik

> politics or diplomacy based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than explicit ideological notions or moral and ethical premises
To understand AI in 2019, watch this 1960 TV show
>Unless we as a society return to a simpler lifestyle of living, I see this as an unsolvable problem.

There's no reason to presume that it isn't possible to retain our current standard of living while also solving the problem through technological innovation - we've arguably had the solution for decades in the form of nuclear, and we're inching closer every day with developments in non-nuclear renewables and outside of the energy space with innovation in farming (outdoor and indoor/vertical, GMO) and material design.

Despite the doom and gloom, talk along the lines of 12 years before irreversible runaway into catastrophe is really a worst case estimate. Chances are we will have plenty of time to develop technology to slow climate change and adapt to its effects in the coming decades, particularly given that it is a rising concern among citizens the world over.

Honestly, given how much of our infrastructure is dependent on fossil fuels and environmentally unfriendly materials, it simply isn't practical to make the kind of radical transition you're advocating for - our entire food chain, for example relies on modern plastics and ICEs for delivery/storage. The waste you describe from e.g. Starbucks and packaging is probably a small percentage of the waste that our modern civilization is structured upon, even if you convinced everyone to drastically lower their standard of living overnight. Balancing risk with cost, this is a transition that cannot happen overnight anyway.
Perfect, thanks for this.
I can’t read the article. Which computer system was hacked, what was the result of the hack, and how it attributed to Russian intelligence?
Textmate could do text wrapping better than all the other editors combined. Miss that feature.
Clearing footprint IS a footprint. The best strategy — a lot of fake/irrelevant information and data.
People writing the AWS checks care a whole awful lot about that insignificant constant.
Targeted != hacked
Solar flare prediction with time series data
I think your core point is somewhat valuable, but does it really matter if any modern software could run on such outdated software? Why would I care if my software couldn’t run on a 20 year old machine? The new Raspberry Pi 4s have better hardware specs than the machine you gave as an example.

Also, sometimes “fast enough” is just that - fast enough. It is not necessarily true in every case, but sometimes it is.
Our founding fathers didn't murder 45 million people.
I made one for a client on IOS. It has location / camera access and service workers work well. Biggest limitation is notifications are not possible and cache size can only be 50mb i think?
It's called, "using a rostrum camera".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostrum_camera

If you grew up watching PBS documentaries there was always a rostrum camera operator somewhere in the credits.

In the UK, Ken Morse was/is best known for this.

https://twitter.com/kenmorsecredits
His applying logic clearly revealed his appalling views on the matter.
For those into Genealogy, I just thought I'd share that with you.

This version of Gramps switches from BSDDB to SQlite as the default database backend.
That's a great thing you've done in Cape Town. I remember reading Trevor Noah's book where he talks about how his father challenged Apartheid with his integrated restaurant, but ultimately got shut down by government inspectors making impossible hoops for him to jump through.
Additional resources will allow to purchase equipment, pave roads (like the BR-319 that article is describing). And in a decade the deforestation will only increase. An instability or crisis will likely have the opposite effect. In particular, road surface degradation or disruptions in the exports.
Famous Songs in Slightly Odd Time Signatures
You're playing whataboutism. Whether or not everyone else is perfect is not relevant to the statement I made. China has clearly and unapologetically established its place in the world.
"The Grover search as a naturally occurring phenomenon"
arXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11213
Author of git-bug here, the webui is definitely just a proof of concept for now. I would definitely love to have someone help over there.

As for the alpha status, yes, the data model will likely change before becoming stable, but i suppose i have enough user to warrant a migration tool if that happen.
The relatively svelte "MakeModel HP LaserJet Series PCL 6 CUPS" driver works for my (newer) model, and is faster and much less nonsense than the hplip driver.
Your mention of China's resources reminded me of an interview the ambassador to China in Australia gave to the TV show Lateline back in 2005. Watching at the time I was just amazed at her blatant lying on things that were so obvious. She was asked about China's vast network of agents in Australia and she claimed: We are a poor country. We have 70 [per cent] people living in rural area. We are very busy, very, very busy working to develop our own country. So these kind of stories is really very absurd.

Pity the video is no longer available - but transcript still is: https://www.abc.net.au/lateline/diplomat-affair-arousing-con...
You'd be better off obfuscating your existing online data by adding much larger amounts of random rubbish to it. There are browser plugins for that.
CryptPad: Zero Knowledge, Collaborative Real Time Editing
I don’t think it’s fair to compare alcohol and tobacco to computer/phone usage. Some rules make more sense to break, and have fewer consequences.
Artists and Lovers
> even if you were allowed to store them the algorithm still has an advantage. It doesn't require random access, only sequential reading and skipping. This was made for tapes, but is also useful for cases where it's simpler or more efficient to stream your data source instead of doing random access.

This is a good point, but its evil twin is the point that this algorithm requires you to read the entire data set, every time, making it undesirable for any application where you can do random access.
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You can’t just handwave away 10+ years of cell phone proliferation with “landlines exist”. It’s disingenuous.
> how could you trust Bolsonaro's government or the criminals they've enabled and emboldened to respect your property rights?

In the same way the US Midwest is still not sovereign French territory after the US bought it, whoever bought the Amazon would take the role in defending it as their own turf. Which would mean garrisoning armed forces to protect the borders.

It would definitionally have to be a secession of the territory from Brazil, and it would probably just be cheaper to assassinate the government of Brazil and replace it with a puppet dictatorship beholden to foreign interests, which is something the US is extremely good at.
> So what does he say when people tell him they hate wasps. "I just cry." He laughs. "Why don't people already love wasps? They're the lions of the insect world."

Yes, but freak zoo escapes aside, I can mostly avoid lions by staying out of the Serengeti.

Jerkish wasps are always trying to get into my beer, especially in the UK - they are really aggressive there.
A good DoH feature is that it distrusts the local network's services in favor of ones on the local device. Especially with Comcast, Verizon and others doing bad stuff with traffic, not trusting the network providers looks like a good thing.

Ideally one could change to any range of DoH resolvers - right now there's 3 or so.
They are not. It’s just that neoludditism seems to run pretty strong in certain communities. Makes people feel different and special
I've heard similar things from my contacts working abroad, a lot more immigration hoops in the past year since the trade war.
Anyone here use a pinebook? I've been thinking about getting one of the 11" 1080p models @ $99, but really want to see one in person first. It seems very likely to just be e-waste on arrival.
>As I say probably too often, the modern usage of "full stack" basically equates to "iceberg tip".

I'd never heard it prior to five or ten years ago.

It's always been a pretty ambiguous term IMO. I think it may have been coined to make some genuine distinction but just how broad was it intended to mean? The question is moot because it was quickly spread to mean very different things. You need a lot of context to make a good guess what it refers to.
> There are browser plugins for that.

Examples?
You're storing the number of values you've seen:

So far, I've seen 172 values.

You're not storing the values themselves. If the number of values you've processed is too large to fit in memory... you probably had to spend a long, long time processing those values. It's not a relevant objection.
Not in the US. The Age Discrimination In Employment Act specifically only prohibits age discrimination against workers who are 40 or older. Discriminating against someone not over 40 is perfectly legal.

More generally, discrimination in employment is legal by default. It becomes illegal only when a specific law gives protection for a specific characteristic. The laws are much narrower than many people think. For example, there are no laws disallowing discrimination for or against smokers, or Yankee fans, or D&D players.
> "McD, KFC and Pizza Hut"

Each of these have thousands of stores in China.
Information about Ken State Massacre is widely available [0]
Can you show me an online resource about Tiananmen Square Massacre, in Chinese, that is accessible to Chinese audience?

If it is only an exception in Chinese history, why is it not being mentioned anywhere, let alone discussed? You still don't see the difference?

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
The same company that produces the TJ100 also produces the TP100; it's pretty much the same engine but a turboprop instead of a jet, it's the only viable propeller powered alternative I can see as piston engines are simply too heavy. You get a lot let thrust with a lot more weight on something like a Rotax 912, commonly used in drones.
I was surprised that you can buy sim cards in HK which are completely uncensored and use them in mainland china, using the same exact networks too (so no slow roaming speeds).
Using the manufacturer-provided drivers will usually result in junk as well. It is always best to know your hardware and try to find the drivers from each hardware vendor, or sometimes Windows 10 drivers work well too. You can usually get this info from the device hardware vendor ID and product ID if you're using Windows. With Linux, pretty much everything is automatically packaged with the kernel.
Questioning the sentence and the judges and prossecution involved is totally NOT the same as defending the prossecuted. I don't get how many people jump to this conclusion.

It is virtually impossible to defend Lula. There is enough proof out there to back this.

No. What I am questioning the the timeline of events, that fit too conveniently for the current president and the judge, that is now a minister.

I hope this clarifies your confusion.
Short (9min) Cronenberg film The Nest about..a wasp infestation. I liked it. Very Cronenbergy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odFh5LbTPI4
Two wrongs don't make a right. No, it is not owed due to the rising nations of the world to let them continue to devastate the climate in the way first world powers have.

And continue to.

Its easier to point fingers than take responsibility of course. Hence why very little actually gets done to combat climate change. Brazil burns the Amazon, Americans throw out of a ton of plastic a year each, and humanity cooks itself complicit in its own destruction.
And the Korean DMZ: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/apr/13/wildlife...
Well, it's been several years since I used a printer.

But if I did, I'd use an open-source driver in Linux.
A reason why I allow myself some skepticism on the feasibility of quantum computing is that if it were possible, I would have expected evolution to have used it somehow.

If it turns out that protein folding really use a quantum computation, I'll move quantum computers from the "too good to be true" category to the "probably revolutionary stuff that I will see in my lifetime" alongside with nuclear fusion and strong AI.
“Quieter than a car” is damning with faint praise. Maybe that’s fine somewhere super busy, but I’d personally rather not have noise from cars OR drones.
I think that's the core reason why it works, actually. If you don't show the votes then all three tribes will end up being functionally the same: x people choosing more or less randomly between n options. The chances that you vote on the winner is very low, which means that you never feel like part of a tribe. But when you have vote counts, you can see the kinds of people in your tribe and each tribe can develop a personality. The rise and fall of a word over the course of a day is more interesting than voting on a word and then waiting until tomorrow to see what the most voted word was.
"Come on, people chew gum all the time... saying it's Singapore doesn't make the oppression better"

"Come on, people smoke weed all the time... saying it's Arkansas doesn't make the oppression better"

"Come on, people walk around naked on beaches all the time... saying it's Saudi Arabia doesn't make the oppression better"

Different places, different cultures, different rules. On the plus side, there's no place like home, wherever that is.
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Agreed. You shouldn't have to explain someone's problem to them. Ideally when you present a good solution they will immediately match it to a pain point they're already experiencing.
What would a war cost to take the land and declare it as a world property.
Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy with $10B plan to settle claims
Very kind way to normie animal suffering
Anecdata: we had a crazy spring in New Hampshire for the mosquito population. It was extraordinarily uncomfortable to spend any time outside during May / June. Over these past few weeks, their populations seem to have plummeted near my house, making it quite enjoyable during the evenings now. The only difference is the appearance of two enormous bald-faced hornet nests in some nearby (but not too nearby) trees. I couldn't find any explicit mention of mosquitoes in their diet, but they do seem to have an appetite for all kinds of insects.
My specific worry is that given a little information about me a criminal could access enough information to do me harm.

We live in a time where decades old tweets get celebrities in trouble. Who knows what opinions I hold now will be considered taboo in 20 years time?

I get regular calls from scammers trying to tell me to invest in online trading or that my internet connection has been compromised. As poor parts of the world come online it's only natural they would find ways to extract money from the wealthier parts. There is often little ability and incentive for these countries to police such activities.

As it stands my details are out there an public and there are more and more ways people are finding to abuse this information.

Google knows every website I've visited. Facebook knows every ex I've looked up in a moment of weakness. All of this is on stored and could be used against me. Once the minor details of our pasts were forgotten, this is no longer the case and as I'm getting older I feel less and less comfortable about this.

I've made mistakes, said things I'm not proud of, I'd like to avoid being tied to my online past.

With the growing ability of facial recognition system I fear any online service that knows my face will easily be tied to me in real life. All a malicious actors will need is a camera and a system to scrap public facing systems for my data.
Statelessness is desirable in large-scale cloud architecture because it means you can auto-scale by just running more instances of the thing and load balancing, and you can fix any problem by just nuking the whole instance and making a new one. Also, storing data reliably in a large distributed system is an extraordinarily difficult problem which most people have no hope of getting right, so it's best to rely on an off-the-shelf database written by people who know what they're doing.

But these are problems that only exist because you're trying to create a mega-scale centralized application.

In Sandstorm's granular model, you don't have mega-scale applications. You have many distributed small instances. The programming model ends up being much more like desktop or mobile apps. In those environments, state has never been that big a deal. You don't need a database that can store and index petabytes of data; you can use something simple like sqlite or maybe even flat files. You don't need to think about machine failure, backups, etc.; that is the OS and/or device owner's problem. (Meanwhile, small-scale instances lead to clear data ownership which means that the owner can take responsibility for backups, and a distributed OS can potentially migrate grains around as needed to work around machine failures, transparently to the app.)

Another big problem with the stateless approach to big web apps is that off-the-shelf databases are often a terrible fit for specific use cases, but typically changing the database to suit your needs is not an option. Databases tend to be particularly bad at real-time updates, e.g. like in Google Docs where you can see other people typing. To implement Google Docs reasonably, you need a stateful server; you need for all users of the same document to land on the same server instance so that coordination and routing can occur in-memory. That's incredibly difficult to achieve in the stateless cloud architecture orthodoxy, but incredibly easy to achieve in Sandstorm's model.
Game Concept
Can anyone suggest original game concept
I think we did do that for a time when Russia was unstable, post USSR, to prevent terrorists from getting their hands on nuclear weapons.

Also we can keep Brazil honest via satellite imaging. More burning? No more money
They won’t regulate it because to them it’s just a necessary evil of having a perfectly-manicured waste-of-resources patch of green for seven months out of the year that they then complain constantly about maintaining. If I leave my windows open at night, I get woken up by weedwackers and leaf blowers at least once every two weeks by apartment complex maintenance. And why? So the patches of grass nobody ever uses look perfect.
Isn’t that exactly what parent comment’s promoting? His kids were bored with a relatively unstimulating toy, but they reached their breaking point and learned how to have fun with it.
"AppleScript" can do JS now, but it's so clunky and badly documented that it's barely worth it.
I like the idea of partitioning by networks, as well as a safe failure mode.

BTW, reportedly, there's already at least one brand-name TV in the wild that will automatically connect to any open WiFi it can find, for the purpose of phoning home. When I upgrade to 4K, I might have to get a commercial monitor instead, or do some Dremeling.
I've only ever heard the term relating to web or mobile applications programming, and more often than not, where the application is cloud hosted. See the following for an example:

https://hackernoon.com/6-essential-tips-on-how-to-become-a-f...

Important bits almost always left out: provisioning of hypervisors, network switching/trunking/routing, security, embedded on the backend, etc.
> At the very least it's a grand experiment into what works the best.

I really hate this phrase. Because implicitly it is using the wrong metric. So far we've seen the democracy, free speech, and advancement actually compliment one another. But we're at a turning point. We're already redefining what advancement means. Does it mean most powerful? Being able to feed and provide basic needs to everyone? Most scientific? Richest? Most humane? Historically most of these just correlated with wealth, so that metric became the target. But we're getting to the point where you can have many of those things without wealth, simply because they are so cheap. And soon they will be trivial cheap.

So a grand experiment into what? I think we had a good metric before but it isn't so clear anymore.
There were several others active at around the same time, most with slightly different ideas on how to store the case data. One, for example, handled it with dot files committed as normal - no need to mess with refs.

One benefit of that method was that it was truly linked with the code, no need for additional push/pull commands or hooks. This also meant that you could tell the state of a case on a given branch without having to look through commit/merge history - it would become closed on master alongside the code merge.

That was also its downside though, since a case could have different comments/status on master vs branches where they started, you had to actually check each branch to see if someone else had already begun or not. Not having a grand centralized view was that one's downfall.
Cryptocurrency wallet that eliminates ‘entire classes’ of vulnerabilities
What I'm saying though is a lot of the functionality that is now required in non-standard JS frameworks, should have been included in an official spec that doesn't require JS. Like progress bars for instance.
Sounds like what Harari called intersubjective truths, like: money, human rights, etc.
> if it were possible, I would have expected evolution to have used it somehow.

That seems reasonable as long as you're consistent in applying the same skepticism to other inventions, such as the internal combustion engine and the wheel.
Sure, but the international community just complaining hasn’t yielded the best results. The reason the rain forest is burning is for economic reasons. Similarly, I don’t see why the international committee can’t provide economic reasons to preserve it if it’s that important
Thanks.

Are there people on the team that don't like or care about those running anything other than Linux (whose users will download and run anything!)? Or is this simply laziness?
Hmm, there are several things I find strange about this article.

There are 22 proteinogenic amino acids (admittedly two are rare, selenocysteine and pyrrolysine, but with rarity comes importance when they do occur).

The search for the correct amino acid is not class balanced, e.g. the aromatics are much less common.

The tRNAs are also not equally distributed, neither in the codon-anticodon pairing, the aromatics are coded for by only one or two, I suppose this is somewhat reflected in the frequency (see above).

Even within one amino acids possible tRNA the ratio's are species dependant to a remarkable degree (see codon optimisation in genetic engineering. You can also tell by sequence analysis if horizontal transfer has occurred if the frequencies are all wrong) and is used to regulate synthesis. e.g. if a species has tRNA UUU : tRNA UUC of 3 : 1 then (classically) one would expect a protein incorporating phenylalanine as UUC to take 3 times longer than UUU to incorporate.
I mean that if I think Google Sheets is the best online spreadsheet software, but I don't want to store my data on Google's servers, I should be able to run Google Sheets on some other servers. I shouldn't be forced to use some other, worse software if I choose different physical hosting. These should be independent decisions.

SaaS providers basically have vertical monopolies here and I think that hurts consumers.