skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Democratic presidential candidates are calling for Brett Kavanaugh’s impeachment
Interestingly China managed to get the book censored and withdrawn by threatening the original publisher [1].

It was later taken up by an independent publisher.

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/national/free-speech-fears-after-book...
I'm subscribed to Porter and I really like it! Between Porter and Github Explore I feel I have a pretty good picture about new projects arriving on the scene.
One request though: I'd love to see direct links to the Github repos in question from the email and the web digest. It takes too many clicks to reach the actual repos and I'm not really interested in the trend graphs that porter offers
Thank you!
Sorry if ruined your party :P

Indeed, Apple in general is setting the trend in the industry.
> Tiananmen is the exception in the history of Chinese protests

Is the Hundred Flowers Campaign also an exception? And the millions of people who were killed during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution? Or the millions of people who have been brainwashed for religious reasons in Xinjiang? Or the thousands of journalists, authors and publishers who have been jailed, sometimes "disappeared", for texts critical of the CCP just during the last two decades?
You should have kept the hornets nest to keep away wasps. Its pretty impressive to watch a hornet snap a wasp in half mid-flight. At least were i grew up hornets do not care a lot about coming to grab food when eating lunch/dinner outside and usually stay away from humans.
Being ‘Indistractable’
Great power imbalances can permit one power to conquer another. But that's not necessarily stability; at best it's a guarantee that you get to write the history. Ask the Uighurs how stable and secure things are for them. Or Ukrainians. Or the lands that Rome conquered as they were being conquered.

Do you think the Middle East would be more stable if Saudi Arabia were powerful enough to conquer Iran?

Power imbalances are almost by definition how violence arises as it means that forces are out of equilibrium. If you want to avoid all violence, even at the outset, you have to constructively arrange for a balance of powers. It's odd you single out the U.S. because the tripartite (4-part if you include Federalism) structure of American government is renowned for having the foresight to vest powers in distinct branches in a manner designed to maintain a balance through tension. The structure of American government wasn't particularly novel; what was truly novel was the recognition of the utility of constructively leveraging opposing domains of power to build something as sophisticated as a national government.
How do you know it doesn't use it?
One of our politicians has been caught taking money from a wealthy Chinese business man and another is tied to the propaganda arm of the Chinese government so you can guarantee there's a bunch more of our politicians owned by them that we will never hear about
We don’t understand the extent to which a wasp’s prey feel pain, so it’s hard to project a human sensibility like “cruelty” onto it. There isn’t strong evidence to suggest that they “feel” the way we do about things like pain and cruelty. A wasp’s prey being eaten inside-out could very well be as natural and pain-less as lava burning through the Earth’s skin.
Not running any of bad oems specific software and relying on in kernel drivers to talk to whole classes of Hardware seems to work.
I use both Logic and Ableton. What about the arrangement is so difficult for you!? my complaints about Ableton are much more editing-centric. I also greatly miss take folders when I work in Ableton, and I prefer mixing with busses to grouping tracks in Ableton.
>> Sinking more money into the black hole that is Brazil's corrupt government?

Given the history of Brazil, you meant governments I guess.
On Firefox it is configurable or even disablable trivially. Much ado about nothing.
Isn't that making a policy? (similar to it's forbidden to forbid)
> "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."

Which part of that is a blatant lie?
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Neither of us have the need to get further bogged down on this. My point of course is that functionally the government only has this bargaining power if 1: the majority of the people in the government see a change in the status quo as desirable, and 2: The will of those same people can't be subverted through means such as excessive lobbying. If both of those conditions aren't met, then saying that this bargaining power exists is essentially meaningless. If that wasn't clear from context, well maybe no amount of clarification can help.

On a side note, questioning someone's motivation and/or ability to comprehend the relevant information and form opinions based on it is definitely a form of ad hominem, and definitely not the right way to start an attempt to clarify.
Absolutely, and I'm agreeing with that.

Though again, that's households without landline service. The households still have landline access, in the sense that they're wired to the network.

The actual penetration is closer to 20% now in many regions. Staggeringly low. And again, I think PSDN as a whole -- that's mobile dialed and VOIP SIP calls, as well as POTS -- may not be long for this world. The spam / robocall issue is the tip of the iceberg. Personal and business fraud is another major element.
I only ever use audacity, but I have a friend that is a studio producer and he uses FL Studio! Is there any more info you could share to a noob? :^)
Is Serverless the End of Ops?
Proxy Checker – Web Based – Super Fast
You can bike on the streets for sport, but not in pedestrian areas (i.e. city centers).

Outside of pedestrians, you'll come into some conflict with either other cyclists or cars. You'll get some complaints, but it is generally accepted.
If course, it depends on how much consideration you give others. Complaining that other cyclists aren't getting out of your way fast enough won't earn you much sympathy.
The precision on the attack is nuts, I'd find it hard to believe even the USA could do it (They could of course, just it'd be impressive)

It's almost like there was someone on the ground helping a medium power like Iran, but maybe they or Iraq have the tech to do it from afar. Impressive if so.

Unless the photos are incorrect....

https://twitter.com/DionNissenbaum/status/117332585032389017...
This argument proves too much. By that same argument, nuclear fission, ordinary CPUs, steam engines, rockets, helicopters, jets, X-rays, radio waves, superconductivity, superfluidity, air conditioning, liquid helium, liquid nitrogen, the Haber process, the fractional quantum Hall effect, Doppler cooling, graphene, long-distance satellite communication, gravitational waves, and GPS corrections for relativity all don't exist, because nothing in life is designed like them or takes advantage of them. You've literally taken us back to the 1700s.

I know that it's fashionable to simply declare quantum computing is impossible, and there are some strong arguments in this direction, but this particular argument isn't one.

The general reason people believe quantum computing is possible is that it describes just about all the things I mentioned above absolutely perfectly, along with literally thousands of other phenomena, with no deviations ever measured. This gives us good reason to assume quantum mechanics actually works, and if it does, then it's possible for quantum computing to work. (Also, of course you need to account for quantum mechanics to account for protein folding. You literally can't have chemical bonds at all without quantum mechanics.)
I got stung for the 1st time last year - it hurt way more than I expected! It felt like I'd been injected with liquid fire!
I've been using it for years and never noticed anything. But I think it's a good idea as a precaution to leave only things like landing pages in the IO domain, and setup the API or dashboard app in a separate .com domain.

I remember reading in some comment here on HN I think that their support does not reply on weekends.
> But even if you would be perfectly happy to publish all your printing and device data to the entire internet, I’d still argue that it’s a grim world in which HP feels entitled to take it from you.

But it's Microsoft who started all this. I remember a few years ago the would politely ask if I want to "send a report" home about a some crash etc. Now they don't bother. You need to bend over backwards to change obscure settings and still can't be sure they don't phone home. Moreover, updates introduce new privacy violations, and people only find it after installing them, so privacy-conscious people have a tough choice.

No wonder other companies stopped caring about these things if MS can easily get away with it.
I understood your Ad pretty good. Just like I've saw your disclaimers spread here and there. No worries.
Not to mention Hillary Clinton running away from Secretary of State right before Syria and Iraq blew up in her face. Leaving John Kerry to clean up the mess.
What's there to debug?
>>Designing a deniable missile sounds exactly like something an Iran Intel agency would do

along with every single other Intel agency involved in the middle east. Including those agencies/countries that might gain from an Arab Persian conflict.
i’m currently asking myself the same question, and i used to like flutter approach. However, after having tried a flutter demo app from the store ( the one comparing vegetables), and seeing it lag on scrolling on an iphone10 , plus seeing that the keyboard placeholder doesn’t follow the keyboard animation ( so you see a white mark behind), i’m seriously reconsidering this option.

plus, i feel safer coding my business logic in typescript than dart. It’ll be more useful in case i want to code a web site (flutter web renders to a 2d canvas , which feels wrong for some reason), eventhough dart theorically compiles to js, i feel typescript is more used for that.
You'd be surprised. Many people underestimate Java/C# performance. Also, for Java in games, there aren't that many points of reference, because the only popular Java game I am aware of is Minecraft.

However, C# has better potential for performance than Java right now, because it has value types and supports pointers in unsafe mode, which are very useful for high performance code. Java is catching up in this area, with Project Valhalla and Project Panama it should get there at some point too.
Kotlin Native. Native UI, shared logic
I have been playing and writing music for 20 years and learned by ear. I have minimal theory training and really have to look things up to tell you theory behind anything I’m writing unless you just want to know chord names.

Your description is one of the best analogies I’ve heard. I can jump into a foreign country and learn the language through immersion, and I’ll pick things up and learn by trial and error, slowly improving as people point out my flaws. Eventually, I’ll speak the language fluently.

Music is a rewarding hobby. I wish more people played and wrote music instead of things way more popular like video games. I bought a guitar for a nephew once, since I started playing when I was his age (10). Ultimately, I think playing on his iPad or Nintendo DS was just easier than learning something like electric guitar which requires patience and some pain for a beginner.
The Epstein affair was not just Epstein the single individual. He could not have operated alone all these years in the way that he did. He got lenient sentences whenever he was brought to justice. The people who supported him remain untouchable.
I swear to God, a feature I'd literally pay to have on HN is a verifiable tag on each username that provides info on how many years and in what domain a person has been working, because some of the shit in these comments is patently absurd. C++ with native views? Seriously?
I'm working on a new framework that attempts to take what I think are the best ideas from the web (zero installation, easy to lay things out without tracking measurements yourself) and combines them with the best ideas from React (functions as components, ideally no mutable state). I want to solve what I see as the original sin of the web: inept separation of presentation from content.

The other thing I aim to solve is the issue of the browser and corresponding web standards being a monolith so large that only Google and Apple can afford to implement them. By wrestling back control over layout, I hope to show that a next-generation browser could be much more like what James Mickens laid out with the research he presented in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uflg7LDmzI

I decided to prototype it in JavaScript, and right now it just renders into a canvas element. I love working on it, because all the unit tests run really fast. It can do that because there's no browser in the way - node-canvas is much lighter weight. Once the design is settled down, I'd like to rewrite it in Rust. The other advantage of this is that it is incremental. It'll run in any existing web browser, and building a cut-down browser that isn't web-compatible is doable in a few weekends.

The best way to see its capabilities so far is to look at the test screenshots: https://github.com/maxharris9/layout/tree/master/test/screen... - see especially text-actual.png, text-concave-cutout-actual.png, text-diamond-actual.png. I fell down a rabbit-hole with that a bit and made it wrap text around arbitrary polygons, hyphenating on syllable breaks and everything.

I just lost my job a couple of weeks ago, and I've been taking time off to work more on this thing. Tomorrow I hope to get mouse click events tracked through the component tree. And at some point in a week or two, when that's done, I really should write the application that I had in mind for it!

I know a lot of people have concerns about accessibility with the approach I've taken, and all I can say to that is, please help me work on that instead of criticizing me. I know there is talk about an accessibility DOM coming in browsers, but I fear that I'll just have to fall back to rendering plain HTML in order to drive screen readers, which is a terribly inefficient and indirect way of doing things. Also I don't even know where to begin with screen readers, what's the most popular software for that, etc.
Why spend time on learning a bad API when there is a nicer one? Ergonomics matter, but hey if you are masochistically inclined, go ahead.
Even if I don't use Vim much anymore, there are things that I would still do it Vim because it just does them faster.
With the two year old I stay nearby in the other room working and have a monitor. The 4 year old does whatever. My two year old verbalizes before things get destructive, but I only had to deal with it a few times before he settled into it.
> ... but in practice, everyone knows what it's really like.

Well at least we know how a NIC driver written in C# performs. Was pleasantly surprised it was very performant.

Not that you would want to replace C/Rust for that task, but anyways it is on-par with Go for this particular task: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages
Yanks to the rescue: the secret story if how American advisers helped Yeltsin win

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html

Was that an act of war against democratic Russia?
Good question.
But unfortunately evidence, facts, proof, logic etc are all irrelevant.
At this stage, the anti-Russia narrative will never die.
One way that in-office workers can be more valuable is more accessible and a higher quality of communication.

Being able to discuss things face-to-face gives us more and higher quality (diagramming, eye contact) communication channels, in addition to avoiding things like bad audio, bad video, etc.

There is also lower friction in haphazard discussions; someone can overhear things and chime in a thought that could turn out to be useful. Sometimes, the effort of messaging or calling someone will cause us to not bother to include someone in the conversation for a chance that they could contribute.

If different timezones are involved, then a remote worker's value is lowered due to the higher friction in addition to the round trip time for communication.
How are some TLDs less stable than others? Isn't DNS distributed? (I'm not a networking engineer.)
Part of that is how successful their colonization of Tibet has been ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhasa_(prefecture-level_city)#... ), Han chinese making up 35% of the population as of 2000, other more modern estimates put it a ~66%.

It's a lot harder to make the case for independence when there is a large Chinese minority, even harder if it becomes a majority.
I’m sure it’s a naive question, but isn’t this what route filters and community policy rules are meant to prevent? These are universally in use in the Tier 1s to automate route management permissions at a large scale.

I understand that Tier 1 backbone peers trust other Tier 1s’ announcements implicitly. But couldn’t US Tier 1s simply block announcements by China Telecom of non-transit prefixes that don’t belong to Chinese ASNs? Or would that be a monumentally unmanageable undertaking? Aren’t RIR address block delegations broadly regionalised, to the degree that one could obtain a list of all address ranges delegated by APNIC to the PRC, fairly straightforwardly?
Ground Testing Begins of 330 m^3 Bigelow Aerospace B330 Orbital Habitat
Clojure Don’ts: Numbered Parameters
here is it with some formatting https://gist.github.com/xyos/b049bf8f1800b15ccae36a9f7ded4dc...
Possibly.
First I'd say that xml doesn't become 'wrong' when json came about. If that 1950s data format works for you, and you don't see advantages to moving, then fine stay with it.

2nd I'd say theres a half life of best practise. Over the 10 20 year tome frame, id expect some of what you were doing is going to become outdated yes, on the same way some of your knowledge over your career will become outdated, or the phone I your pocket will, you wouldn't use that as an argument against education, or buying that phone.

Btw, if its as costly to deal with the interface as with the mainframe directly, that's a win. The interface can move off the mainframe to somewhere cheaper/better.
This is all correct, and shows why both biologists and physicists don't take the conclusions of Patel's paper too seriously. Just aiming for "20" without any context for what that means is a bad kind of numerology. There's probably a grain of truth in the paper, but only enough to get to something like "20 plus or minus 10", not exactly "20".

Speaking as an MIT alumnus, some of the school's promotional material is glitzy on the outside and hollow on the inside. The MIT Tech Review's "Emerging Technologies" column is particularly bad. I've written numerous rants over the years rebutting incredibly misleading viral articles from it. It's a shame that people automatically trust it because of the MIT name.
> There are sea bacteria that "communicate" in the giga-hertz frequency.

Wow. Link?
I love the grid, but if you follow the grid too strictly, all your music will sound sterile and lifeless. Especially if all the instrumentation is programmed. Maybe a real drummer playing to a click track can help avoid that.
I dunno, I feel like "the end of golden era of American chess" is pretty unfair to the amazing things Sinquefield has going on in St. Louis right now, as well as all of the "new" online resources that continue to pop up, and the general penetration chess seems to be achieving in scholastic formats today.

This article seems focused on a handful of luminaries, but I'd argue that a "golden era" of a thing is defined by it's blossoming into popularity and a new kind of explosive growth that thing hasn't previously seen, which (and maybe it's because I didn't grow up with Fischer) feels more like what's happening now.

I don't know if chess is more popular now than it's ever been in America (having read Pawn Sacrifice, I believe Fischer made chess fairly mainstream in America for a time), but it feels like more people are playing chess than ever before in the US, and that strikes me as more of a hallmark of a "golden era" than what this article refers to it as.
34C3 – BGP and the Rule of Custom
Yup the biology bit is hocus pocus. If you read the single author arxiv paper referenced, its thinking is quite confused on the biology. The main thing discussed is hydrogen bonding between nucleotide pairs which doesn't fit the magic numbers. Then in an odd Q and A section its eluded to that mrna-trna interactions do, therefore it must be. Already the different bond lengths of the hydrogen bonding is known to be part of optimising that process. It says nothing about selection of nucleotides from the surrounding environment being magically quantum, rather than classically diffusive. That's something this blog article made up out of nothing.
I'm taking a guess that you don't have kids. Yes, nature is a great activity, but no matter how free-range you are, at GP's kids ages it means supervision is required. There's times in the day where you need to do dishes, laundry etc. or even just getting a quick break. There's ways to deal with that, but getting a bit of time each day where supervision isn't constant is a great luxury to have.
I am not an expert in ancient history, but if I am not wrong Greece was mostly composed of city states with different cultures, laws, family structures, sometimes temporary allied by militar leagues and temporary comercial agreements.... there never was a unified Greece or Greek culture until the greek population became the dominant ethnic in eastern Rome and became the new cultural elite at their own (even without Latins their identity was Christian Roman).

Even when fighting against Persians or being conquered under Alexander the Great where never truly unified, just common cultural traits.

The myth of a single unified Ancient Greek culture is a modern fabrication made during the rise of the nations in an effort of fabricate a common past for all folks living under modern states and give a legacy and an identity other than one of the provinces of Rome descendant of the ancient tribes who populated the peninsula. And my understanding is that the same happen with other European pre-romantic cultures like celts, Gauls, Britons, Germans and lots of other lost and forgotten mythological elements from Europe which were praised and recreated to differentiate modern states from their neighbors.
Well clearly the new chess Masters are no longer players but programmers. That doesn't make the game uninteresting though.

A few months ago, one would have thought that we had the best algorithm and that progress would only be slowly incremental for now on... until the approach adopted to best humans at the game of go got applied to chess. Now you have these programs like LeelaChess able to best Stockfish (a program that had been improved over the last fifteen years) after a few months of training. There's definitely a lot more to discover in this game.
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What you describe is both a problem and an opportunity. We live in strange times when people pay through the nose for something that could be easily implemented on dedicated server in much simpler way and with way less risk, all for the fraction of the original amount. But tech comes in circles, and I bet we're going to see some "miraculous discoveries" of how companies saved millions by migrating from AWS to dedicated servers.
I dabbled with Dart for sometime, got an impression that a competent Java/C# developer can pick up Dart in no time, I think hiring shouldn't be an issue.