skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ctrl-F phone. 0 results.

I suspect most of those 25% who lack wired broadband internet have smartphones, most of which support tethering, but even without it, your smartphone is an internet-connected computer, fairly suitable for most consumption related activities.

I suspect the omission of phone stats was not an innocent oversight.
Gonna stop the climate from changing? Sure you are.
That isn't really comparable in that it's not E2EE
This is very surprising to read. When I read something like this from others, I was always arguing that "it's not anymore", but I'm absolutely sure you know better than me. Would you mind elaborating actual problems or writing a blog post about it? I am VERY curious about your experience and opinion in this topic!
Proposed CO2 capture system could reduce truck emissions by 90 percent
Raft is a consensus protocol. It doesn't handle what you actually do during long partitions (stop writes if quorum is lost? Indicate that consistency may be compromised in some other way?) Or how to handle long-lost nodes rejoining (do they rejoin no matter how long they've been gone and service stale reads? Does the cluster "forget" them after some period of time? If so, how do you synchronize the act of forgetting so you don't end up in split brain if only some healthy nodes have forgotten their long-lost brother when it comes back online?)

Raft is not "use this library and your distributed system Just Works". It's a low level building block, like TLS--and nobody says "just use OpenSSL and your app is fully secure".
I know this article is mostly touching on the kelp forests and the Tasman sea warming, but the current fires in Australia are unprecedented and seriously frightening. We're at the point where it's uncertain that the usually accepted belief that fires like this are carbon neutral will hold. Areas that haven't burnt in living memory have been destroyed, and areas that would usually regrow have been decimated to the point that experts are worried that they may not recover.

This is something new for Australia, and Australia has one of the longest records of living memory when it comes to fires.
Why not study at a top German university instead? It's 100% free and you get a ton of international experience, learn a new language, and can still go to MIT/Harvard/Stanford/... for your master's or thesis
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> That should be illegal. It's discrimination for a basic service.

There are all kinds of things where there's a service fee tacked on for more expensive or convenient ways of accessing city or public services. I can apply for parking permit or pay parking tickets for free if I walk to the parking office, or for the cost of a stamp, envelope, and a check if I mail it, or for a 2.75% (minimum $1.50) convenience charge if I use a credit card.

Am I being discriminated against without even realizing it?
I mean it really wouldn't, because the virus would be dooming the devices to go into "recycle or trash" option, instead of the "reuse" option.

And otherwise it would just piss off Sonos owners?
It's fine, hasn't just been getting much press lately.
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This sounds a lot like OOP purists finding out not everything can be solved by inheritance so they rename something that existed already.
And this vote here is maintainers collectively deciding they want to stop requiring sysvinit, but people who want to are free to support it.
It definitely changes the "is it worth it" math though, so it's not as relevant to the original article.
Nearly 500M animals killed in Australian bushfires
I haven’t, thank you for the suggestion. I will give it a go.
Yes, of course, there is some offset between the absorption range and the emission wavelengths. But there is no requirement for the absorption to be in the UV region. The absorption range is also wide peak. All the fluoreszent colors which "work" with e.g. car headlights have a sufficiently strong effect in the visual range.
It is also an easy test for fluorescence to shine e.g. a blue light at something which has a strong orange color. If it still is strong orange, fluorescence obviously is the dominating effect.
I don't doubt that UV light shows a strong fluorescent effect, especially as you cannot see the UV light itself, but of course the fluorescent emission it is causing.
Neither of those statements is true. Methane is not a worse source of overall warming than CO2 (which I assume is what you were trying to say). And methane does not come mostly from cows. These facts are trivially searchable.

Livestock methane is definitely a significant concern, but it is not helpful to use exaggerated claims to make that case.
I'm surprised Julian Assange doesn’t have a kill switch in place, where sensitive info which has been held up to this point will be released upon his death or conviction. At least none that we know of.
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Another really neat solution to sending data between two machines that don't have a pre-existing channel is magic-wormhole[1]. It's much simpler because it's just a number and some easy-to-distinquish code words like 1-stethoscope-zulu.

[1]: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
“They’re abysmal students”: Are cell phones destroying the college classroom?
Genuine question here: have you thought about trying Upwork? You can set your hourly rate low to start off with and then gradually increase it as you get more satisfied customers, more reviews, more proof of your capabilities. You'll have a global customer base, and so long as you get things done in a timely manner, not that much trouble finding work. It won't be market rate for a long time (if ever), but based on your past posting history, it might be something that could be really helpful for you right now. Best of luck!
I might not be that interested in using it, but now I might be interested in reading a bit of the source.
Flirty Dirty Talker Kayden Kross Sucks Fat Cock in POV Free Mobile Porn Video
Interesting read that loops full circle to classic AI debates.

I was frustrated a bit by the dismissal of probability theory, though, as if Bayes theory solved it, and by extension, and probability as a whole could be dismissed.

A lot of the issues the author raises are limitations with Bayesian (at least classical Bayesian) theory. The author's critisms dovetail with some areas of probability theory (cf Jaynesian or algorithmic probability literature); I suspect their concerns are one in the same at some level as some of the concerns discussed there.

The problem is uncertainty to various degrees is fundamental to reasoning, so probability must be involved at some level. An integrated approach is needed. I agree that Bayesian theory per se isnt the end of the story, but something involving probability will be part of it (and because Bayesianism is a big part of that, probably that too).
I love my Netflix subscription but absolutely hate their app. And to think that their software developers are among the highest paid in the industry!
I fondly remember the old days, when they give is a long list of shows in a list from top to bottom. And you had an arrow to move your titles up and down. No fancy images and auto-play and atrocious design
These two lines:

>The majority of households in four rural counties - Perry, Monroe, Conecuh and Greene - don’t have any sort of internet access

> Mississippi has the worst mark in the country. Thirty percent of households there don’t have any access to the World Wide Web.

make it clear they are talking about "ability to access the internet from their house by any means" not just a dedicated broadband connection at home. So that would also include people who don't own smartphones and/or tablets and people who have no cell phone service at home.
They are talking about the result of the majority vote, not the result of the Condorcet method.
A kill switch is different than a dead man's switch; the former is a switch to stop the entirety of a process, and the latter is one that is activated when the human operator is incapacitated.
Nice touch on the last one. What do you think of a blend of the two? That is, government investments funding private companies?
> The latest buzzword we hear in the industry is called "product as a service" — you buy a product, but still don't own it.

That's so 2019 :-P

Today it's "consumer as a product" -- you buy a product, they own YOU.
Because if things aren't simple to learn and pick up, people will get discouraged and move on. As was the case in the comment above.

Great documentations and tutorials go a long way.
The KGB Hack: 30 Years Later [video]
I'm very much DIY guy and hate it when companies block users from doing whatever they want with their equipment, but this is a special case. User gets the discount from Sonos for recycling the old equipment, and thus user doesn't own it anymore. It belongs to Sonos now as they bought it back, and of course they don't want it resold half-price by 3rd party, it's a competition to their new products. To me it seems perfectly legit, as long as you get a discount for that. And the equipment can still be recycled and resold for parts, they don't block that.
It's crazy how incredibly similar to magic-wormhole[1] this looks.

EDIT: Ah, they mention magic-wormhole in the acknowledgements as being an inspiration.

[1]: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
It's hard to fight an eye-gouger if they aren't blind.
Sounds like they overpaid.
What makes you believe he has that kind of interesting sensitive information in the first place?
What's in the Forecast: Private Weather Predictions
It makes sense for Sonos. It’s also environmentally terrible.
How Atari took on Apple in the 1980s
Probably GEMA or some overbearing rights organizations (though it would be probably "we have to stop in X countries, not only keep in US/Canada)
> By what authority, or on what pretext, Assange is being tranquilised, and kept isolated, remains unknown

I'm going to go out on a limb and say "ill health".
>4: The cost isn't that bad, when you spread it out over a career. My degree & living costs cost about $60k NZD (~$40k USD). That's $1k USD / year, or $.50 per hour. Considering how my income has multiplied in the few years since I've graduated (SF wages help tremendously here), the actual cost is barely anything, even when you control for the opportunity cost of studying.

You also need to take into account the opportunity cost. You could have been working at the time, earning $XXk/year.
Isn't it true that the prefrontal cortex doesn't fully develop until around age 25?

If so, when will our laws reflect the fact that before that age, a person is not fully capable of considering the consequences of their choices?

Lending institutions, pornographers, and the military are still being allowed to exploit this incapacity of "young adults" in ways that may affect their entire lives.

How many of us are in debt, or injured, or killed because of this predation?

An 18 year old kid can choose to participate in pornography. Should we not consider this child abuse?
Dude every country has external sites to spin positive news, even if its for promoting Tourism
For sure!

I had similar anxieties about cognitive issues after brain surgery, subsequent radiation, and chemotherapy.

I’m currently half way through treatment, and while it’s not fun, it hasn’t affected my ability to do my job much.

...and that’s after opening up my skull, ripping out part of my brain, and subsequently zapping and poisoning it!

I’ve found that chemo is cyclical in the sense that you’ll feel great some days and awful other days. Be kind to yourself, and take frequent breaks; you’re doing great!
The curation (all by humans - mostly ordinary users I believe) was significantly better than any other service I've used.
Wow, I didn't know about the Kawasaki Ninja 400. That's a really impressive bike at a fantastic price. That would have been like 2000 dollars in 1987. Completely unheard of. Motorcycles have come a long way.
Great article.

The current state of the art for this sort of thing appears to be https://gnss-sdr.org/
Presumably he means that taxes ought to be used to pay for it, but why does the sentiment need a detailed policy proposal?
College degree is only worth for high income positions like surgeon, medical degree, nursing and some engineering field (chemical?). It's just not useful for middle class income like teaching etc. But good luck in trying to get an interview without any kind of diploma. They will think something is wrong you.
I'll read that as "[I'd be] surprised if Julian Assange doesn't have a [dead man's switch] in place".

And indeed he does. Some time ago Wikileaks/Assange distributed an encrypted insurance file. The torrent is about 90GB: https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/2016-06-03_insurance.aes2...

There was actually multiple versions fo this file, each larger than the previous one. This is the most recent version afaik.

It's likely this particular dead man's switch is actually trusted people though.
Produced, mixed and mastered.

So that's not really plenty of music.
Germany Calls for European Firewall Against U.S. Sanctions
Are there any other sources on this?
I like to flex my supposedly useless history degree from time to time. How else would I take shots at Julius II?

I don't think the government is particularly good at actively promoting things. Too easy to incorrectly optimize.

So to best promote investment in private firms, they should find something that currently disincentives it and stop doing that.
I am not familiar with the process anorexics go through, but it is likely very different - thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, do fasting of 2-7 days on a regular basis with no ill effect (on the contrary - often with good effect).

Good bacteria can likely be reinstated by the body itself (the appendix is a cache for them), from food, or if all else fails - by FMT. I’m not an expert on this, and may be wrong, but from a lot of reading - any anorexia symptoms and processes seem to be entirely absent from mindful fasting.
He has claimed he does.

Fairly recent article with background https://heavy.com/news/2019/04/julian-assange-dead-mans-swit...
The problem is, the chaos and shockwave caused by such an event would a) only induce further chaos as a response, and b) likely be interpreted as an attack. Considering the fairness and justice of current proceedings, the response would not only likely be ugly, it would set a precedent difficult to answer. Many possibilities there.

While I don't know, I would be very surprised if Wikileaks itself wasn't sitting on more than enough information to create such a dent. It seems things are effectively at a cross between stalemate and a Mexican standoff. Poor health is better than death, I guess?

It's very sad. If I was told all the details about the sequence of events, but not told which countries were behind the subsequent response, treatment and current conditions, I would not correctly guess on the first try, and probably not the second, or the third...
Food and especially snacks packaging is more of a problem, t-shirt plastic wrap is in most countries very likely to end-up properly recycled.
Do programs exist that generate the most basic portable GUI (in Qt for example) from command line application?

Basically what you need is list of parameters, their types, allowed ranges, preferred way to modify and input parameter values (file selection, input box, slider, ...). Then button to run the program.

EDIT apparently there is https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey for Python.

EDIT2 Hmm. maybe fbs is good enough https://build-system.fman.io/
Why is the WikiLeaks foundation responsible for the content posted on their platform, when Google and Facebook aren’t?

I haven’t really been following this a whole lot, but as I understand it, the US wants him extradited because his platform was used to leak sensible information that put American soldiers in danger. But why is that a thing when it isn’t for other platforms? I mean, twitter, Facebook and YouTube have all been used as effective recruitment platforms for various Islamic terror organisations. That would have put American lives in danger as well.
Thanks for raising this point! Honestly, I'm not sure. Probably not. Given that localdots is meant to be used only for local development, would this be considered an important feature anyway? I'm not sure I see the security concerns here.
> but something involving probability will be part of it

quantum mechanics without the physics?
Muslims to lose property for opposing Narendra Modi’s new Indian citizenship law
30 years ago, I was trying to decide what to study. I wanted to go to medical school and my parents said that I should study electrical engineering. The reason, if I decided not to go to medical school a biology BS degree was almost useless and it was just as easy to get into medical school with an engineering degree as a biology degree.

I ended up getting a microbiology degree and an EE, went to medical school (MD PhD) but dropped out. I was able to get a great job doing programming, so Im relatively sure they were right.

With my kids Im using the same approach.

With regards to grad school, my parents' philosophy was if you could not get grad school funded by an RA or TA, then you had no business going.
Not sustainable. "Government money"

The "lifeline" program [0] has existed since 1985. Granted, it's not perfect. It has often been used by ILECs to harass CLECs. Still, it seems to work. It has already been extended from landline POTS to mobile, mobile "broadband", and fixed "broadband". It may be worth investigating why more Alabamians aren't using this program.

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-cons...
> but some people _like_ sysvinit

Is that really true, or is it just that some people have a grudge against systemd and sysvinit is the only other practical option?
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Ask HN: Experience/Assistance with Gofundme Issues
Hi all,

I recently ended up in an economic catch 22 and launched a Gofundme campaign [0] to help break the cycle. Which seemed to work fine until it was time to withdraw the donations. I had to ask a non-technical friend to step in as beneficiary since I currently don't have access to a bank account, which he somewhat reluctantly agreed to.

I'm currently hanging by a thread economically and desperately need to get my hands on the donations asap, and new issues just keep popping up; so I figured it wouldn't hurt to see if someone here can pull some threads, share experience and/or offer advice.

The first issue we ran into was that he couldn't even finish his verification because of a bug that locked the country code for the campaign to the same country used for my previous campaign. That got resolved after some back and forths with the support.

Once my middle man beneficiary accepted his invitation, Gofundme started flashing his name on the campaign. Which of course made him even more nervous. Some more back and forths with the support ended up with the advice to simply change his name since they couldn't hide it for whatever reason.

He then finished his verification, entered his bank account and we got a page saying that the donations were on their way and would take 3-5 days to get here. 5 days later, I started getting nervous since there was still no sign of the money and my beneficiary was by this point suspecting the whole thing was some kind of scam.

So I started digging around in the campaign settings and was surprised/devastated to find that it now listed my beneficiary as not even having verified his identity. Which is more or less where we are right now. I've contacted the support again, but they just don't seem very well organized and keep telling me they'll be back within an hour which never happens.

Thank You!

[0] https://www.gofundme.com/f/analogistics
Ios doesn't support changing default apps. If you get a prompt, it's because that app has independently implemented browser choice. This is also why you can select browsers that aren't installed, because there's no way of checking whether anything's installed.

Were you to use the default mail application, for example, its links would always open in Safari.
Being cynical, I'd assume the "help" they offer is more likely to be stock market manipulation than disclosure of material information.
Isn't square space a paid solution?
https://www.squarespace.com/pricing
Full article at Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/egorb9/comment/fc82...
Same experience here.

A lot of packages/functionality are not available in Python, however.
There are many practical reasons not having Internet access is a hindrance to poor households, but let's consider Adam Smith for a moment on what constitutes a necessity:

> By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but what ever the customs of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably, though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-laborer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into, without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England.
> I simply dislike vacuous "someone, somewhere should do something" statements.

Indeed. People should stop doing that.
Learned about this in a talk at 36C3 and it looked pretty cool [1]. The recording should be up soon at [2].

[1]: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/events...
[2]: https://media.ccc.de/recent
The point is that even without Facebook, he would have access to a significant amount of wealth.
Sonos speaker owner here. Has there been any efforts in reverse engineering how the devices work and having an open source firmware?
Because reports have him receiving information either directly or indirectly from the Russian government. And they have access to all sorts of sensitive information.

John Podesta and Hillary Clinton's emails allegedly found its way to Wikileaks through this path.
I never used Excel, except to present reports. Data warehousing and analysis all took place with SQL and an RDBMS.
I'm curious, what is "PMS" in this context? Would you kindly explain a tiny bit more?
It is, as all ends belong either to you (source computer, vps) or the destination device, and it uses ssh and https.
I did the same, localdots started actually as a simple script using mkcert for solo projects. :)

Unless I'm forgetting something now, the only reason I switched to smallstep was for ACME support which mkcert lacks for now (see https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/issues/154).

I wanted an ACME solution to better automate the server config with Caddy.
The result of the "majority vote" is done preferentially, which means that there is no situation in which vote splitting will occur. It makes no sense to refer to the "majority vote" in this context, because the whole point of preferential voting systems is that (usually) no option wins outright on first preferences alone. Thus the result of the Condorcet vote is the order which the maximum number of people would've been most happy with.