skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps 3 could be rephrased as "industrial sabotage"
Also make sure to sign the AMP letter: http://ampletter.org/
It's true, but as we see in another discussion today [1], those options typically don't come with a very good internet connection. :)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21722874
Seems like it could work, there would be no way to pull down the JS.
Presumably in most other places with municipal water infrastructure too!
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Either the power or the number of homes in the article is completely wrong. 30MWH/year powering 400 homes is 8.6 watts per home. Implausibly low, unless "homes" is a typo for "phones".
Libertarians see these two ideas as very consistent. But that libertarian perspective only feels consistent if you can accept a previous assumption: that the central state is the most important limit on our ability to live as we think best. For most people in most advanced modern democracies, that hypothesis does not ring true. For most people, it’s the bill collector, or the ex-spouse, or the boss that imposes the most onerous restraints.
I don't know who to attribute this to but I've heard a saying:

"Countries that trade with each other don't make war with each other."

As we isolate countries and disrupt trade we definitely are increasing the risk of conflict.
Yes, a company like Google should do it instead, so they can also kick you off your internet when your account with them is terminated for some opaque reason. /s
No they wouldn't, taxes don't just pay for healthcare in Scandinavia it also pays for free daycare, free college and a year of state paid parental leave.
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"The $15 minimum wage was supposed to hurt New York City restaurants — but both revenue and employment are up"

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-15-minimum-wage-was-su...
I have also hopped to Qwant / DDG for their proxied Bing search.

Keeping that in mind, doing a !s bang is probably better privacy-wise (bonus - you get the same results) vs a !g bang, even if it is no longer as good as it was.
Mainland china gov probably has part to play in this. As someone said above they anyway have access to https root certificate so htttps is also not safe.
A version of the story was discussed a month ago. I believe it had a different conclusion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21385766

I guess the story is hacker news worthy if we discuss the economics.

One thing to notice is that the New York Post is a conservative newspaper, so they take a conservative view. Of course the other sources may be more liberal.

Something to factor into the equation.
I know :_( but next best ;-)
https://imgur.com/a/1cMjDsb
I am lucky enough to live in a city with separate bike paths sometimes crossing the traffic.
Spear fishing sounds really nice. Too bad I am VERY afraid of sharks. Yes I saw Jaws when I was a kid.
Thanks! Current though? The plugin supports PHP versions all the way back to 5.3 (which has been EOL for nearly 5 years).

Although I certainly recommend running a current PHP version of course.
I don't think it is a particularly great explanation of what WASM is.

>> Wait, so what is WebAssembly?

>> WebAssembly is a way of taking code written in programming languages other than JavaScript and running that code in the browser. So when people say that WebAssembly is fast, what they are comparing it to is JavaScript.

A better definition:

> WASM is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine[1]

This goes into some details that could answer the question raised in this thread:

> WebAssembly modules will be able to call into and out of the JavaScript context and access browser functionality through the same Web APIs accessible from JavaScript.

More useful details:

>> Engineers from the four major browser vendors have risen to the challenge and collaboratively designed a portable low-level bytecode called WebAssembly. It offers compact representation, efficient validation and compilation, and safe low to no-overhead execution. Rather than committing to a specific programming model, WebAssembly is an abstraction over modern hardware, making it language-, hardware-, and platform-independent, with use cases beyond just the Web. WebAssembly has been designed with a formal semantics from the start. [2]

More details from Wikipedia:

>> Wasm does not replace JavaScript; in order to use Wasm in browsers, users may use Emscripten SDK to compile C++ (or any other LLVM-supported language such as D or Rust) source code into a binary file which runs in the same sandbox as regular JavaScript code. ... There is no direct Document Object Model (DOM) access; however, it is possible to create proxy functions for this. [3]

I hope this helps.

1. https://webassembly.org

2. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3140587.3062363

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly
You're about five years late.

https://www.google.com/get/noto/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts
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So our new baby came out two months early and had to spend six weeks in the NICU. The local hospital had just built this NICU so it was of the latest design. Instead of rows of incubators, every family gets their own little room (twins share, triplets+ get multiple rooms). The room has a couch, incubator, sink and rocking chair. This NICU costs about $100 every hour your baby is in there. Our feed/change/weigh cycle was every four hours. The nurses will handle it if you are not there. Doctors and med students did rounds twice a day.

If baby is too small to nurse they are fed via a nose tube and syringe pump. Dinner options include formula, donated or BYOB human milk, and special concentrated human milk with vitamins. If baby is not doing well they can feed via IV. It is not easy to get an IV into a tiny baby, but they manage.

This design does make it harder for the nurses to keep an eye on all the babies so they rely on the vital signs monitoring equipment a lot. They measure HR, blood O2, respiration and skin temp. They can get alerts in room A if baby in room B vitals drop. There is also a cell phone thing they can watch vitals on if they are away from the rooms for some reason.

You don't really get to see the other babies, and sadly there are no carnival games. It did feel a bit isolating but this system does have advantages, each room can be turned into an OR if required and germ transmission is reduced.

They can handle very small babies, down to 24weeks. They have diapers the size of postage stamps for the little ones. The ward had 30+ babies when we were there and not one death the whole six weeks. Pretty good.
Scientists devise catalyst that uses light to turn carbon dioxide to fuel
They will already censor or intercept anything they can if they want to, whether it's public or private infrastructure. Why not treat internet like other utilities and install fibre everywhere, with your choice of ISP? This was working well in Australia, until the Coalition ruined it.

I'd still rather it in the hands of government than a monopoly corporation.
And cities in the US can be so much more expensive to dig up than rural areas.
I know. And we all use Java native CPUs right now.
Anecdotally, I've been sick for a total of one day since I got deeply into fermentation as a hobby about a year ago (largely thanks to the Noma Guide to Fermentation). On an average day, I eat at least one live lacto-fermented item and drink kombucha, and at least every few days I have something that includes an uncooked live vinegar. I normally get sick at least a couple of times a year. My mood has also been consistently pretty good all year.

It's definitely anecdotal, but it's a significant enough shift for me to think it might have something to do with the fermentation. Bonus: it's delicious, and after much experimentation my kombuchas are now better than commercial kombucha.
Providing 610 megabits to a moving plane is great and all, but can you provide gigabit internet speeds to literally millions of people at the same time? I find it hard to believe that the spacex satellites will be able to handle that kind of load anytime soon.
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Aspects of consciousness can be affected by brain injuries. So, yes, fundamentally physical.
Is it a failure?

"Had fun, blew a whole load of VC money!" doesn't sound like a bad time to me, personally, a person who is fully aware that statement is going to reflect poorly on my record.
If a startup is trying to create economic value, then there is no point of view. You either made money or you did not.

If the real startup is the friends we made along the way while spending investor cash, then sure.
> While you can export and import your own follows, followers of your account won't automatically redirect to the new home.

This information is outdated since October 11, 2019. You can move followers from one account to another in Mastodon 3.0.
I've been there. Please reach out to me on twitter (@rymohr) and don't throw in the towel just yet.
As far as I can tell many CDNs will gladly serve their scripts over HTTP if requested: http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.mi...

I don't know if what's the reasoning behind that.
> and pretend no distinction exists between the two.

What's the distinction then? That obfuscated javascript can be looked at by people who don't know how to use a hex editor?
Thanks for sharing. I remember designing my first neural network, my notepad was full of theses dots everywhere. The dots x lines representation helped me a lot visualizing what is a layer, what is a input, what is the output of that layer.
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> If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein
Reading webassembly is not that difficult.

The main challenge is that variable and function names are not available, but minified js is no better in that regard.
Really the only available use case is inserting a wasm component into a traditional web application framework. Wasm code can only be loaded from JS, it can only be invoked from JS, and it's only way to affecting the world outside the VM is to call functions in JS that are going to do something to a user-visible DOM.

This is all still traditional web development. It's just a way to target other runtimes to a sandbox in the same environment.
I learned how from a pamphlet I ordered out of the back of a comic book. I'm not kidding, this is true. (O_o) What a world!

There are techniques, but really the essences of it is that we're already doing it but culturally conditioned to pretend we're not. If you overcome the cultural conditioning (in whatever way) "presto" you can perceive thought-forms "of others" (in quotes because thoughts are not ours, they're independent(-ish).) Have you ever noticed how some homeless crazy people mutter stuff that seems like it was related to what you're thinking, like they can see your thoughts? Yeah, that's because they can, poor bastards.

FWIW, I consider thought-reading to be voyeuristic and an invasion of privacy, as well as useless. Not recommended. (Besides, everybody is just thinking about sex anyway (or videogames these days.))

- - - -

In re: Raja Yoga the goal is the same but the method of Self-Inquiry is superior.
> ~16 L/100KM

Pfiou, that's more gas than the three cars in my extended family :-/
I’m a U.S. citizen and I’m “dealing with the US” in my own way. But such a thing takes time. You don’t upset and entire economic regime in a year or even a decade. It takes the utmost patience, to the point of organizing for outcomes you may not even see in your lifetime.

One shouldn’t mistake a seeming return to the status quo as proof that the status quo is just as strong.
Calling it something that's beyond us is a lazy argument that merely hides unwillingness to put an effort to understand this.
Javascript is pretty accessible even when minified and optimised via something like closure.

WASM requires a lot more knowhow to reverse engineer; I've had to do it a few times for CTFs and some blockchain-related tools that use them, and it's a lot trickier compared to JS.
I don’t agree. I think your interpretation reads too far into it. I don’t think it makes any statement at all.
Yeah, I know. I'm a bit late on updating. The service I host the blog on is also not the best one obviously or they would take care of PHP.
They would have to accelerate their automation of front of house. But other than that they won't get rid of the rest of the workers. One day they might work out how to automate some things but given the broken blizzard machine is a meme I don't think McD has the ability to automate anything else. So they McD will move upscale which is fine. They don't have playplaces anymore and they're no-ones favorite burger anymore. Lots can be said against unions but they have their place and a single company union sounds like it could work here.
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For _this_ particular example, yes. But ad networks aren't magically immune from other types of attacks.
I actually don't believe that the inherent transparency of web pages adds that much. It's nice to have, but I don't think it's integral. If there were legit ways to obfuscate ... I'm doubtful we'd be missing much.
I played a couple of 'rounds' and it seemed to stop working after that, but cool concept, will keep an eye out for the progress of this
Australia is not a direct democracy, it's a representative democracy. The only element of direct democracy we have are constitutional referendums.
> Then the dead guy will give all his money to his kids before dying.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of good enough. Inequality is a fundamental part of human existence, but I'd prefer that inequality to be as much as possible an expression of individual merit rather than a financial windfall as a result of parental success.

As I mention in another reply, your "inheritance" is what you get while your parents are alive.
> those two things are easy to get where rivers flow to the sea.

Isn’t that an estuary?
The Merck attack seemed to be an accidental offshoot, and nothing on an international political scale happened from that. Until we have some more tech literate politicians, or an agency to explain what's happening in simpler terms, I don't see these kind of attacks being taken seriously, or even understood on a basic level.
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Not really well argued (not at all actually) for a non-techie user who at most does email, youtube, work and shopping...

They are probably 99%.

The site feels like it's authored with a tin-foil hat on.
What's the debugging situation like for developing WASM apps? I'm doing a lot of TypeScript+WebGL work right now, and though TS is fairly nice, my use case requires being aware of not allocating too many new objects frequently, and that kind of control would be easier in something like C++ or Rust. I've been thinking of hacking together a small test project with WASM+WebGL to see what it's like, but I get the sense it might still be more hassle than it's worth to use in production. Currently I can easily set breakpoints in my TS code, I can see how much memory is allocated by which functions, how much time is spent in each function, etc. very easily. If there's a way to do these kinds of things with WASM in another language, that would be fantastic.
The economics of public transit essentially ask for government involvement: operational costs are almost never paid for by fare prices, but instead are essentially subsidized. If the bus/train lines are doing well, you often get huge clusters of malls/retail/commercial buildings surrounding them, and they of course reap the benefits without paying any extra costs.

However, there are things like the Dollar Vans in New York that do actually fulfill the niche. They're also sometimes illegal.
My experience has been in any place with a high concentration of transplants (Seattle, London) many are expecting third parties like Meetups to form the community when the hard part is the actually asking people to spend time together and then following up, even if the interest starts asymmetric. It is akin to dating.
First Direct (a UK bank, subsidiary of HSBC I believe) also does this, and it drives me nuts. Terrible bank, never get an account with them.
Use the same guiding spirit as the rural electrification project of the 1930's to get this done. Bringing symmetrical broadband service to every address in the US is just as important as electrifying the countryside was back then.
I'm interested in how will WebAssembly affect the functionality of browser addons such as ad and script blockers?
If multiple companies are competing, I'd much rather get services from the market rather than the government, because I can vote with my wallet, and companies respond to that.

But if I must use a single monopoly company that provides a service, I'd much rather get services from the government, because at least I have some semblance of a vote in the form of my actual vote. With a single corporate provider of a utility, I have no say at all.
>The "Google bus" issue in SF certainly didn't make SF a company town, but it did raise the specter of how willing a large enough company can be to routing around a city's infrastructure rather than work with it,

What exactly are they supposed to do? Stage a violent revolt of the local government? They're a big company with a lot of money, but that doesn't give them control over the local politics, so there's only so much they can do about the transit situation. Public transit in America is notoriously horrible, and no single corporation could possibly fix it, so it makes perfect sense for them to hire some buses to help their employees commute faster. They're helping keep many, many cars off the road by putting people into buses, and yeah, it's unfortunate that non-Googlers can't use the buses, but if people want better public transit, then they should start voting for local politicians who will improve public transit. People don't want to do that just about anywhere in America, so this is what we get.
Most of these are just syntactic sugar, since compilers can just generate IL that is compatible with existing CLR. So language server and compiler update should be enough in most cases.

But e.g. native ints will most likely require CLR update since I assume you can use native ints with reflection.
Kristallnacht was in 1938
No big loss.
Unminified javascript is far easier to understand than disassembled code which originated from compiled C++ or Rust.

It is possible to disable half of the paywalls on the web just by looking at the JS code. I can see why certain parties would push really hard to introduce Webassembly. The performance argument is just a pretext because today's jit compilers for Javascript are really good.
I think about this too. uBlock origin is already running into issues with trackers disguising themselves as first-party, what about when those trackers are genuinely first-party, and bundled with the page's js (which you can't just outright block)? What happens when those trackers are bundled and compiled to wasm along with the sites js? Do we then analyze the wasm and try to guess which parts are necessary for a site to function and which parts are the tracking?

I'm not trying to be overly cynical here, all of these topics remind me of high school when I'd download mildly-sketchy executables, decompile them, and try figure out whether or not they were safe to run. I would love to poke around with reverse engineering wasm, but I'd rather not have to do that every time I visit a new website.
Doesn't the Great Firewall mandate (or at least strongly suggest) that those Chinese-controlled root certs are installed for devices behind it?
Most privacy advocates don't defend it because it allows you to scheme against the government, they do it because it protects people from falling too deep in the net of actors that would try to influence their behaviour.

I agree that you're most likely not doing anything interesting in the eyes of the authorities in your home, most people aren't. But advertisers and content creators definitely care, and that's where the true problem is. They shouldn't have the power to anonymously collect all of this data, and then decide through the power of their far-reaching services which products are accessible to you or not, what information is presented to you through means that appear transparent, and so on and so on.

The "I have nothing to hide" argument has never been what today's privacy debate was about.
>common fermented foods (kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, tempeh, natto, miso, kimchi, sourdough bread)

I can get everything on that list easily at a non-specialty store except for natto. I haven't seen it, but I admit my ability to read labels at the Japanese food store is rudimentary. Is it more widely available on the west coast?
One of the good places that I have been has been recently is Indian Creek in Utah.

There were a lot of folks living in vans in dispersed camping, just hanging out and climbing.

I found it very easy to meet folks in that community. Specifically, I've found it easy to just walk up to a camp fire and introduce myself. Lots of folks are looking for partners to climb with.

I love to climb, but there is definitely a side-benefit of being able to meet a bunch of people who have motivations to do similar things, and climbing lends itself well to dirt-bagging.

I can't comment on other subcultures or sports. My experiences with musicians has been similar, though.
> surfacing it as canonical information when it's just a junk, extremely lazy analysis.

Isn't that what the Internet is for?
I scraped a bunch of stories from chooseyourstory.com but I did curate them to make sure they had the right second person format. I couldn't really anywhere else that had a consistent format that would make scraping easy enough.
One is a function, one is a call to that function. I think this is just hard to grasp because in other languages there's often not occasion to use a function pointer. But compare these two code snippets in Python and Scheme:

>>> def add_one(x):
... return x + 1
...
>>> add_one
<function add_one at 0x7f7504bf2050>
>>> add_one(1)
2
>>> list(map(add_one, [1,2,3]))
[2, 3, 4]

That's the same as:

=> (define (add-one x)
(+ x 1))
add-one

=> add-one
#[compound-procedure add-one]

=> (add-one 1)
2

1 ]=> (map add-one (list 1 2 3))
(2 3 4)
I'm a little surprised that a paper basically concluding that there are no good papers about fermented foods is able to published and presented as research by these authors. Or maybe that field is just so lacking in knowledge that this passes for research. You would think that they'd take the next step and do some trials to advance the field.
VPN hijacking on Linux (and beyond) systems
You are interpreting a correlation as a causality. More likely (IMO) is a common cause, countries that consider themselves enemies for whatever reason are both unlikely to trade with eachother, and likely to go to war with eachother.
Even the WHY page is bad. It only states that "google is bad" "they are not your friends". Okay, proof, cases, overwhelming evidence that would force people to stop?
The coywolf isn't a species (and wolves and coyotes only "diverged" ~100k years ago anyway, IIRC), but they surely became much more common in the exurban northern US after the 1960s. More generally, I believe that there's been an increase in many mid-size mammals in the northeast US as habitats became too small for the large carnivores. So it's not just extirpation and decreasing numbers, but it's also not good.
We do - I’ll see if we can add in a warning message if changing that setting while a lot of data has already been tracked. Or perhaps mark it in the graph, so the difference comes with an explanation. What would you do?
> It may mean that other languages can be deployed in the browser as easily as javascript, which may or may not be good depending on your point of view.

That's exactly what I hope happens. There are so many good languages out there that having to be stuck with javascript for the modern web is a crime.