skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix used to be open to accepting very controversial documentaries in the past. Any new developments on such documentaries already released on the platform and they start to sneakily take them down, as if they were never uploaded.

I had high hopes for Netflix to show more interesting content unlike their competitors, but taking down the offending film and then running away for controversy afterwards, removes the context of the full story and is beyond cowardice to the viewers paying for the service.
You could post this exact same question about operating concentration camps.
>by nature of being authoritarian, have no mandate from the people of the PRC

If you have studied Chinese history you'd know the mandate does not come from it being democratically elected, but rather how good it's doing its job.

Democracy is not only a concept that's foreign to Chinese history, it's not even desired by that many people in China.
Jimmy Wales or Mark Zuckerman... this is not exactly a situation where's one clearly more trust worthy than the other.
That might work for imaging, but what's your fix for spectroscopy?
But he was right.

It happened. He was proven correct.

The people who disagreed were just wrong.

And I think it is OK to call the people who didn't believe this, to have been extremely misinformed.
What an amazing find! In case you aren't aware, there are also giant human-like life forms living in the clouds on Earth. This has already been widely reported though.
My heroes are folks like Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. I think that any time someone takes entertainment too seriously, they've missed the whole point.
Alternatively pay for a GSuite account for like £3 a month (Or Office 365) and all of this is handled for you with superior spam filtering, search, webmail, no manual administration and no issues with email delivery due to other filters thinking your server is a bit dodgy.

It's too much effort to run your own email server well.
When customers of a PC distribution platform spend money on your game they want to be able to own it by downloading it and having it live on their computer and work offline as well. For this you need to deliver them something that is completely packaged and contains everything to run the game.. so even if that means basically shipping a full browser with your HTML5 game.

We also have a web version which can be played online via the regular browser.
Your favorite political activist/watchdog group is perfectly suited for that. But since you have no moral claim to FedEx's money, there's no news here. Maybe they changed their mind. Maybe they lied. Doesn't matter because you have no moral claim to that money.
>I spent 2 semesters teaching computer science at PUST

How do you feel about educating the future hackers in the North Korean military? You almost certainly contributed to their ability to wage cyberwarfare.
Not as far as I can tell. You're streaming the games from Stadia servers. You have no "copy" of them.
Monodraw[0] is great for diagrams and general note taking.

[0] https://monodraw.helftone.com/
And worse for my idea, looks like Mars probably lost its atmosphere billions, not millions of years ago.
Hmmm....Government propaganda is one thing. But sending you to concentration camp or prison because you have different views from the government is another.

Not sure what kind of equivalency you are trying to make here.
It does not need to beat facebook at its own game. Merely establish a digital public space that has its own culture, and in time, that culture spreads out into the world, whether the world joins the site itself or not. Hackernews is an example of such a place too.
I don't get that impression at all. Semiconductor fabs may exist overseas, but the technology is predominately domestic, from what i can tell. Micron in Idaho is an American powerhouse, for example.
> What I find amazing is how we don't attack the source of the problem much that I can see.

I always wear ear plugs at the very few concerts I go to. I otherwise avoid loud noises except for airplanes flights, where I've been on a few where I didn't have hearing protection.

I only have problems at night. Had a hearing test, no hearing loss. Over 30 and I can hear up to 17,500hz. (Which also appears to be around the frequency my tinnitus is at.)

I'm still trying to find the why (doctors are generally unhelpful here, "well it can just happen when you get older"...) I think that using noise cancelling headphones makes it worse, and last time I was on vacation it wasn't present.
Wow!. I just browsed through Patrick's reading list. NO wonder people who actively follow him and know-him personally call him the "Most erudite Man" of our times. Kinda like Umberto Eco from Black Swan.
The problem with transparency at the hospital level is the CPT coding system, for which all medical entities including the govt pay the AMA millions of dollars to use, which splits up exams and procedures into components. So even though the knee MRI might cost $1600 (ridiculous but typical), that does not include the radiologist's interp, billed separately by the rad group, or the $300 orbit xray to screen for metal. Also anesthesia is paid based on time, cannot predict that. It is all a sham. And, they can get out of it for a $300 a day fine....well worth it to most of them.
At the end of it all the Chinese people are supporting said regime, even if they're Party members or not, you have to take responsibility from a certain point on. And I do certainly judge my older compatriots for not having done more in order to stand up against the Communist regime in my own country (I live in an Eastern European country which technically was communist until 1989).
I thought the solution to iterated prisoner's dilemma was what you described except with occasional forgiveness to see if both sides can get over the negative tit for tat spiral?
Still Waiting for IPv6? (KubeCon Week, San Diego)
You used a lot of words to say nothing at all.
>assuming you turn off Clippy, which isn't much of a barrier

It was a high barrier for my young self.
Apple partners with 100cameras to teach Chicago students photography with iPhone
We've seen massive consolidation of health groups over the last 20 years. I believe that's the point Ms. Gee is making. There used to be competition 10 or 20 minutes away. Now it's entirely plausible you'll be driving for hours to find a different medical group with similar services available.

In my area (250k people, Iowa) there are 2 health groups.

I actively tried finding a PCP who wasn't part of the two health groups but accepted insurance - as mega health groups greatly increase the total cost of care. I gave up after looking up about 20 from the hundred or so names insurance sent me. Basically everyone

Unity Point recently announced it wouldn't be merging with Sanford health group. That would have expanded Sanford's strong footing in northwest Iowa, gaining 5 hospitals in Des Moines and at least one hospital in most locally large cities across the east half of state.

It's hard enough to make the math work for hospitals in rural areas. The merger would have made it more difficult for the entire region to find competition.
Years ago while making a regular six mile hike home from a low paying job I was regularly harassed by law enforcement who would stop me and hold me for no reason while "running my ID"

I was asked if a bag of teriyaki beef jerky in its original packaging, the edge of which was sticking out of my pocket was drugs.

Eventually I was arrested for saying fuck off while walking away. I was charged, appealed eventually rejected because half of America does not actually have any rights at all unless you have thousands of dollars and if you need that money to buy medicine or pay rent you are fucked.

Then there is the time I was almost arrested by virtue of helping a black man move a couch from his own home because burglers always leave the electronics and jewelry and take the giant furniture.

I'd keep going but the other abuses are more personal.

Your perspective is based on being well off and white.
I don’t think so. Someone can accidentally veer into sovereign waters and or air, sometimes land. There is no intention to establish foothold or control. Those are incursions, even when intentional.

Invasion is quite involved and usually requires troops to establish foothold and perhaps control over an area. We, the US invaded Grenada, even if it was just momentary. We established control, sent armed troops, etc. Flying reconnaissance over Havana is an incursion but not an invasion.
A reasonable guess would be that their key innovation is actually just lowering the cost of the heliostat system with more complicated software. Traditional heliostats do exactly what you suggest, but it takes a lot of expensive installation, calibration, stiff mechanical structures, precision motors, etc. to make the real world behave like the math. If I had to guess, they are instead mounting a camera at the focal point (plus probably one to each side) and using pretty standard computer vision techniques to measure whether each mirror is pointed correctly. Translating "pretty standard computer vision" into "AI" is just a play for investors and headlines, but taking advantage of a couple cheap cameras to measure and control hundreds of mirrors is a novel and significant advancement.
Always wonder if any of these guides will ever include decent web-mail?
But the very first comment of the article explains exactly why one might want to do this as an alternative to gmail:

>> Getting off GMail is one of the best ways to take back your data in the face of dragnet surveillance.
I'd love to go to a concert for audiophiles - no distortion at all, just loud clear music. There's no need for it to be so stupendously loud, especially if the audience is able to shut the fuck up and actually listen.
That's why very "literal" lyrics can ruin a song.
Of even better, use some smaller alternative that is not Google (mailbox.org, protonmail, fastmail, ...).

GMail's de-facto monopoly on email (and especially spam filtering) is a threat to the Internet.
Gitlab CI/CD with Ansible
I tried this as a side project:
http://sendfiles.direct/

It's not perfect, but I still use it sometimes.
I've been using Hearos. I'm curious how different the Earasers are in terms of flatness. With the Hearos I can push them further into the ear to make things quieter, but the more attenuation, the less flat the sound is. I tend to pull them out a bit so that it's a little louder but flatter. Either way, it's real nice to leave a concert without concert-ear.
In Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Peter's Dad is revealed to be Ego the Living Planet and they end up destroying him in the end (the planet doesn't really explode; it kind of disintegrates into itself, but close enough).
Fair point, it is hard to draw an exact line. But once a government starts throwing peaceful protestors into concentration camps I think we can all agree that it has crossed the line, right?
Some of us don't use google. Plus you have to use a web browser. I use a variety of clients as Dovecot is standards-compliant unlike gmail.

Also I run things over my mail database as I have direct access to it.

I'm sure there are some people for whom google is an acceptable option. But it isn't for everyone.
There's a big difference between being able to stand up and move your arms, and being able to stand up and move your arms anywhere without looking while being certain not to hit anything.

At least for me, in all the spaces I have computers, if I stand up I have some stuff or shelves within arm's reach, because I want that stuff to be accessible - but that makes those spaces unusable for VR, because I'll hurt myself those things or myself if I'm swinging around without being able to see what's there.
Should you host your own email server? Yes! It’s a really fun learning project. There are tons of resources out there to make it do-able, so go for it!
A few possible non-financial negs.

You may have trouble renting the type of property you want.

You can’t modify the property for the most part.

You’re exposed to the property just being taken off the rental market. Regularly moving probably isn’t a big deal in your 20s but there comes a point where it’s less desirable.
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. The results below are hand-wringingly wretched.

I know you're sincere but sincerely burning this place down is still destructive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Economists: increasing shareholder value is investment.

Since you have no legal or moral claim to FedEx's money, there's no news here. Your favorite political activist/watchdog group is perfect for this kind of stuff. But it's not journalism. That's the part the really confuses me. I'm not suggesting this story isn't interesting, or perhaps even important. I'm just saying it's not straight news journalism. We have different legal bodies (PACs) which are well equipped to highlight information like this and get people riled up to vote certain ways, boycott companies, etc.

Why are you so hung up on this being considered straight news? How do you differentiate between straight news and political propaganda? I've offered my suggestion. Do a basic literary analysis. If it appears the goal of the author was to inspire particular political outcome, that's political propaganda. And I'm not using propaganda negatively here.
Rails 6: the missing developer setup guide
Ketogenic diet activates γδ T cell responses against influenza virus infection
What nationality are you and when did you visit N. Korea?
Roundcube is _acceptable_ and easy to set up (it's just a PHP web app that acts as a full-fledged MUA and connects via IMAP to your MDA, no different than any other mail client).
That's not what s/he said. The quote is "most cruel justice system in the West, and by quite a margin, too. It is one of a few aspects in which the US is far closer to today's developing and third world countries than to the Western average."

So it says that it is the worst in the west (a term that usually does not include south/central america, even though they are west on a map), and that it is closer to a third world country than many in the west.

From my casual reading that seems pretty much on point.

The justice system does not just mean the prison system, it encompasses laws, police, courts, correctional facilities, some portions of mental health treatment.

If we are bringing up the freedoms enjoyed by citizens in different countries I'd also point out that how the constitution is interpreted seems pretty arbitrary over time depending on who is in the supreme court and what the political climate is. As an example I'm not even sure how solitary confinement can not be considered a "cruel and unusual punishment" under the eighth amendment. I don't get how NSA data collection is not a impacting the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" of Fourth Amendment. The second amendment seems pretty cut-and-dry in the text that any American should be allowed to have a rocket launcher and that background checks are illegal. I'd hate for that to come true, but if you are following the principle that the constitution supersedes all lower law then it seems logical.

Most western democracies seem to have similar freedoms and similar guarantees that the government will follow similarly given that they are also enshrined in law.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but when I hear americans talk about their freedoms they seem to talk in absolutes, but in practice it's no more free or secure than similar freedoms given by laws in many other western countries.
EVERYONE did this for decades.

Then EVERYONE stopped because it's awful. Modern ISPs don't like SMTP floating around, (DKIM, DMARC, SPF) are a pain to maintain over time, exploits will happen, and your free off-the-shelf virus and spam filters suck compared to the big companies seeing billions of messages per day.
I think you might be missing the point.
Culdesac: Building car-free neighborhoods from scratch
"Although this is only anecdotal evidence"

This should have been at the start of the article, not the end.
Right, this is actually an example of capitalism working well. These women and everybody else who started pack and ship businesses were able to identity a need of the market and build businesses to meet that need and have become relatively wealthy from doing it (50 bucks an hour in rural Montana goes a long way).

Late stage capitalism is more massive corporations with unlimited dollars buying up real-estate, pumping millions of dollars into advertising, and paying their employees low wages (McDonald's, Walmart, etc.) to the point where individuals can't compete and quality suffers.
I do this when people from other nations unfairly criticize the USA, even when I agree with what they are saying. So as a word of advice, when this happens...

> defend the PRC under any condition[...] even if they agree with what your saying.

Then your argument likely heavy-handed or misses the nuance of the situation. Using the USA as an example, the impression a foreigner gets from looking at gun statistics is completely different from reality. So if a person from Europe starts to lecture you on guns in the USA, you're going to get a little defensive at their incorrect assumptions, even if you agree with their stance in general.
But.... He literally has an extradition order out for him right now.

He was right. His opinions on extradition were proven correct.

How can you ignore the literal evidence, right here, right now, of everything that he had predicted, to be coming true?
The obvious rebuttal here is that not everyone is comfortable having a Google or Microsoft account, or having Google and Microsoft scanning their emails.

In that case, Fastmail is a good alternative. It’s not quite as good as Gmail on security and anti-spam, but it’s much better on privacy.
I'd say that a lot of the same arguments are valid for Python or yaml. Why both of these are very widely used while coffeescript slowly died is beyond me. I, for one, really dislike any language that uses syntactic whitespaces.
You are doing it to a much worse extent.
Cultured meat – not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter
Reactive Rabbit Consumer in Java
New York Times is taking tracking pixels from Facebook and Twitter off its site
I get the impression that for many people their main experience of Facebook is as a source of media with mixed social and commercial promotion. In this regard, Wales' social network is a rival.
Why is Android Studio's Emulator always listening to my microphone?
Read the article. Unlike Mozilla's approach, Microsoft's DoH rollout is intentionally designed to not bypass DNS-based filtering. ISPA shouldn't have any problem with what Microsoft is doing.
I won't lie, this has been a fascinating rabbit hole so far!
Roundcube has come a long way, and they just released a huge update with a responsive design that works great on desktop and mobile!
A ( somewhat ) happy medium between hosting your own email ( and dealing with getting IP blocked ) and fully entrusting youtself to Google is to use webmail as provided by your domain name registrar.

For example, gandi.net provides web mail on your own domain. Even, better, it has support for wildcard email just like google does.
Gsuite is at $6 per month.
How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]
Happy to be educated. Movies about crime and organized crime in particular is a major part of Scorsese's filmography, and certainly his most popular films. I haven't seen every movie he's made but I'm not aware of any that could be called "uplifting". My point was that the types of films he creates hits at a particular emotion that is far from the emotions evoked by so-called event movies.
But I'd like to sample or at least see the bloody service before I pay for it. Right now I'm hitting a paywall telling me I'm x0.000 in line and "Oh, we want your money". I'm not triggered to commit.
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. This is the last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Comparing it to one is an act of such entitled privileged whining it's absurd.

Seriously, if you believe other threads on HN are so much better, why stay in this thread?
> In order to use deadly force, legally, you have to meet three requirements.

You're on the internet holding forth on when/how to "use deadly force, legally", eh?

Are you a lawyer?
I visited in 2011 as a South African citizen. I'm now an American citizen.
If you don't need IMAP/POP3 access and can live with just the webmail and native apps, Tutanota is great and costs almost nothing
Are there examples of prosperous societies ruled by "illegitimate" governments that didn't have an equivalent of peasants/serfs?
I guess it's one of those things where hate and love are good but mediocre is bad
Please fight the cold war somewhere else. We don't want flamewars here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I see there is a bar telling the service is under heavy load. You can join using this link: https://wt.social/gi/tomasz-smykowski/work/buwn

I have created some groups for software developers
If you're running Windows, you can download SmarterMail. It's free for 10 mailboxes. Has mail, calendar, collaboration and a slew of more stuff.

https://www.smartertools.com/smartermail/downloads

https://www.smartertools.com/smartermail/business-email-serv...
Buses also don't work. Disasters are disastrous.

New Orleans had huge numbers of school buses. They went unused and were destroyed by flooding.

You might demand that the government not be incompetent, but the reality is that government will screw up badly. Individuals with cars can screw up, but the effects are limited to the people screwing up.
It’s an extremely common viewpoint though, from personal experience.
Writing one yourself is it's own fun project!
Would you mind sharing sources?

I'd be interested in reading what you found on those topics.
Nationalistic and ideological flamewar are not welcome here. No more of this, please, on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's Sony AI vs. Facebook, Google
If you have a federal clearance or your company requires it to do business you can’t smoke weed. If you were to tell the investigators you smoke legal weed they wouldn’t care, you’d get denied.
Bird enters helmet discussion with free rides for helmet-wearing selfies
Even if it becomes physically possible to launch them at some point in the future, I should have mentioned that launch costs are only a relatively small part of the cost of space based telescopes. As launch prices continue to go down, this will be more and more true in the future. For the upcoming JWST, the launch is only costing around 1-2% of the overall price. It will be a similar number for WFIRST if that gets built on budget. The expensive part is engineering a device that can assemble itself in outer space, and continue to run 24/7 for decades without regular maintainence.
Assembly language vs. machine code – 6502 part 3 [video]
I'm guessing that means you rolled your own canvas API code, rather than using a library like PixiJS. Is that something you'd consider open-sourcing, or is it so tightly integrated with game-specific logic that it wouldn't make sense?
Good luck to them, but... I see a lot of "could" and very little "will" in that press release. Also, if they're hiring researchers than that seems to indicate a certain amount of speculation to the whole affair.
New US synthesizer company with first rechargeable analog synth
Nvidia Delivers on Promise to Support Arm
Although you can run your own mail server, it’s a bit like rolling your own crypto.
Most ISP don't care about it. But there are certain enterprises that know almost nothing about email, they employ "specialized tools" that scan and classify incoming email (read Symantec whatever) and make evereyone's lives harder.