skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every Republican nominee and political organization has been compared to fascists and Hitler since the early 1950s.

It long ago lost its punch yet it's still the go-to for every leftwing political ideologue like it will be taken seriously.

I agree that this same stuff has been going on forever but I've noticed a significant decline in tolerance by the left of even engaging and debating those on the right. The positions of ivory tower righteous we-know-best reputation which the left has always been known for has gone into overdrive - mostly on social media but it's leaking into reputable papers like NYT and less reputable ones in terms of neutrality like WaPo. Plus the crazy radical stuff coming out of places like Teen Vogue are also quite new.

Crossing lines has always been a critical political necessity as so much of politics is built on compromise. But at least culturally the hysteria and FUD being stirred up online has completely destroyed any sense of understanding or breaching the other side. Which is turning modern politics into a form of trench warfare.

The right have certainly contributed to it by tolerating their crazies a little too frequently (even though they rarely win or have any power outside of useful headlines in the political media coverage) when in the past they'd stay the fringe and get zero news coverage or attention, which would otherwise increase their standing and help with recruitment to turn otherwise fringe crazies into groups the media presents with seriousness and legitimacy - because they find it useful to attach it to more mainstream and moderate voters. Which I think is a dangerous game to play and one we've already seen the consequences of.

It's far easier for the baddies to recruit and be real threads when the media and other influential people connect them to the real power players in Washington who've never heard of them and would want nothing to do with them.
It's unclear (regardless of crypto shredding) what the delete policy should be if the data involves multiple people.
On a free and open internet, which may not exist much longer with current trends.
This is why decentralized protocols are so important, especially if you live where govt censorship is rampant. Internet was designed with decentralization in mind, first and foremost.
It helps to be in the same place as the other person(s) and time bomb the agreement. For us, it's:

Roughly similar salaries at Microsoft/Amazon

Same age

Significantly overlapping friend groups (which increases house utilization and happiness)

Ability to buy the house outright with reserves

Significant levels of trust

ARM mortgage guarantees that we're going to sell in 5-7 years, so if either of us want out we can generally wait it out in the worst case.

It's not an ideal scenario for everyone - I'm very lucky to be where I'm at. But it's very satisfying,and we're fortunate enough to not have to worry about the same financial concerns as others.
> So you believe it’s fine for any expression that doesn’t fit in with whatever it is that you perceive to be “reasonable discourse” to be a criminal offence?

"Any expression?" Way to strawman.

There are broad areas of expression that should remain entirely open. There are perhaps some that are borderline but nevertheless deserve respect or at least spaces in which they can be examined. None of that keeps us from identifying categories of speech that are broadly recognizable as outside reasonable discourse, several of which beyond hate speech I identified in my comment above should you want to engage this topic thoughtfully.
> Wait until German overflows your text boxes. Or you have to deal with date formats and number formats and ... And rtl languages are just a stylesheet away.

Web browsers handle all of that correctly by default.

A big part of web bloat is just developers including frameworks and libraries than break things by trying to reimplement them in a way more convenient for devs and designers - and then having to include more libraries and custom code to fix the breakage. All of that is self-inflicted.
I can attest to this problem. I like to call it, the "architect" who never sticks around. First, this guy gets rewarded for getting a project rolling and showing results as quick as possible. Second, he will get no reward (nor satisfaction) for sticking around. The company also seeks to reproduce point one, long term results are drowned. Rinse and repeat.
It won't do much, I suspect, because the reasoning will be "yeah, climate change is real and is a significant danger...but look at how small Australia's contribution is compared to China". Which is effectively where it is at in Canada -- every discussion circles back to relative contribution, which is a classic tragedy of the commons (in this case being the air).

If we had rational worldwide leadership we could conceivably work greenhouse gases into the WTO and other trade agreements. If China needs to be tamed for everyone else to take part, factor it in.
> election voting choices

Unfortunately, I don't believe voting one way or another will make much difference. One party might be slightly better than another, but ultimately none will dare to implement sufficient measures. Climate problem will have to be solved outside of party politics. We need something akin to civil rights movement. On the global scale.
/r/OutOfTheLoop

Quick update anyone?
For me the main appeal to SPAs are testing oriented. Assuming I need some kind of interactive functionality that can't be done using a form, testing across the browser interface is difficult when doing HTML view production on the server side. If you are doing HTML view production on the client side, suddenly it's much easier. I test that the server produces the correct data given a request and I test that the client renders the correct views given the data. In Michael Feather's parlance, I've got a viable "seam" for testing against.
It did plus it's healthy (to an extent)

It didn't select to be environmentally friendly. Humans scaled up animal growth fairly recently too, so we hadn't had enough time to figure out pathogen issue and ethics.
In the current year, I guess the answer is simply "use Signal". I'm not sure I understand why it's so important that it has to be an actual phone call, even for a thought experiment, i.e. it has to go over the phone network to a device with a phone number. If that is the case in any real scenario, it seems a reasonable guess that it's because one or two parties are somehow restricted from using other channels -- and if so, is there any reason to believe that this restriction would not in itself make it simpler to monitor that restricted party, and therefore less secure?
The thing about the toilet. So many predictions about toilets have failed. Still looking the same since the 40s or 50s.
> I never said that Britain was justified in any way in the Opium Wars, far from it.

I never said you did. My comment specifically debunked your assertions about "britain's superior economy", etc.

> But that's irrelevant to my point anyways.

Agreed.

> Throwing out 2.6 million pounds of opium (weight) and refusing to talk about it as you denied an embassy ...

Oh I see, now you are going to justify britain's behavior. Typical.

> 6 British steamships sunk hundreds of Chinese ships

Simply not true. There is a reason why almost all of britain's navy were powered by sail even decades after the opium war. It was britain sail powered ships that destroyed chinese ships.

> My claim of GDP being a good proxy for military capability was prefaced by specifying it applied to industrialized warfare only.

Industrialized warfare didn't really start until ww1, nearly 100 years after the first opium war.

> China being a huge exporter of low-value added goods and materials, it was simply impossible for Britain to balance the trade equation.

You are mistaking today's china with china from 200 years ago. There is a reason why "fine china" is called "fine china". Chinese goods ( tea, silk, porcelain, etc ) were considered luxury items.

> Using industrial weaponry European powers

Oh god. The muskets the british and the europeans were using were inferior to the bow and arrow. "European" weaponry didn't really separate itself from the rest until the American civil war when we started using gatling guns, ironclad ships, etc and then down the line oil for trucks, ships, etc.

Anyways, this is getting boring as I know you'll continue with your lies about the most basic of history. My goal isn't to convince you, it's to make sure people who read your lies are aware of it.

Saying that industrialization is why britain won the opium wars is like saying nuclear weapons is why the US beat britain. Strange how the amazing "industrialized" british couldn't beat the US in the american revolution nor the war of 1812.

Here's a hint. British/American industrialization took off AFTER the opium wars because the opium wars provided the capital necessary for british and american industrialization.

And if you really want to know how the british "won" the opium wars, it's simply a weak "foreign" central government and perfidious mandarins in southern china. Similar to how france took over vietnam. And how britain took over india. But you won't read about that in the history books. You have to look "behind" the history books. Hope you enjoyed the lesson.
Interesting absence: No autonomous cars, no AI breakthrough, and no drone delivery.
I find that often times if I don't shave the Yak today, I'll end up shaving it tomorrow. Sometimes you gotta shave that Yak.
"You are blocking Javascript, and we totally get that. However this endpoint uses Angular, so the front end is in full JavaScript and won't work without it.

There will be other non JS-based clients to access PeerTube, but for now none is available. Be sure we will update this page with a list once alternative clients are developed. You can certainly develop you own in the meantime as our code is open source and libre software under GNU AGPLv3.0.

There might be numerous reasons you refuse to use JavaScript. If it has just to do with security (or lack thereof) of JavaScript-based webapps, then depending on your threat menace you might want to go through the code running on the node you are trying to access, and look for security audits.

We are sorry but it seems that PeerTube is not compatible with your web browser.

Please try with the latest version of Mozilla Firefox.

If you think this is a mistake, do not hesitate to report it."

peertube-dl(){ a=$(case $1 in "")sed t;;https://*)echo $1;esac|sed 's/videos/static/;s/watch/webseed/');curl -4O $a-720.mp4; }

Usage:

peertube-dl https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/12be5396-2a25-4ec8-a92a-674b1cb6b270

echo https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/12be5396-2a25-4ec8-a92a-674b1cb6b270|peertube-dl

Download link:

https://peertube.co.uk/static/webseed/12be5396-2a25-4ec8-a92...
There were like 80 different vendors showing assisted ai in many different spaces at RSNA 2019

Well known every major pacs vendor is looking for assisted findings (some have been available for ages, ex: icad bi-rads finding for telling rad to check) or even just case prioritization for radiologists.
(Ex: aidoc has an algorithm for brain bleed for case prioritization, not a diagnosis).

They all are employing machine learning really (zebra medical claims 30 million scans processed).

Medical "ai" "algorithms" companies are vastly growing in the past few years
This whole article is regurgitation, aside from that, I was just wondering, what complex, highly efficient software has the author written?
I think what he means is that democracy as understood by most, is basically a dictatorship of the majority.

But this is not democracy and won't work for long. Most relatively functioning democracies will enforce certain rules, often in constitutional laws and courts, against the will of the majority or their representatives. This can feel anti-democratic but it really isn't.

The rules laid out in a constitution center around making sure the democratic system stays democratic. If a 60% majority decides that the other 40% can't vote any more, that's not democracy. Similarly for many other attempts at weakening the rights of minorities, be they political, ethnic, religious or whatever.

Free speech in the US is understood as an absolute right and principle, to the extent that such speech is infringing on other people's rights. Hate speech endangers people. Look at the rising violence since the current president is in power. His rhetoric probably carries some blame for inciting such tendencies. I think it is legitimate to issue some restrictions such that minorities can feel less threatened.
The author is right. It just sucks to read what's true. He's not entirely right but he's on the right track.

You'll find a lot of tiny companies with dev. blogs where they explain in-depth the scaling strategy of their unknown, sporadically-used product.

Yes, react and vue are a few hundred kb gzipped. But are we seriously going to pretend that projects built with react are in a few hundred kb range? You can't even predict how big a project will be. It's not react's or vue's fault, it's simply how it is - add assets, add css, add additional libraries for <insert reason here> and it's not unrealistic to get 2-3 MB that you need to download.

A lot of people are designing their products to show off to their peers or for google (SEO). Users get left out. And we (users) are starting to feel it. Heed the warning or turn the blind eye.
I used to do fullstack development, but have recently moved to pretty much full time backend because the amount of headache present in the frontend dev.

> If I put some JavaScript code in a static file, it'll work exactly the same when 1 person runs it as when a million people run it.

No it wouldn't, because the million people have million different devices with different screen sizes, browser implementation and HTML/CSS/JS support for standards. The website should render properly on devices ranging from 5" mobile screens to 32" 4k monitors, while looking beautiful. This is in addition to proper support for multiple languages, accessibility features, and whatever new-fangled PWA bullshit that the business team wants.

Implying that frontend is `just` making API calls and putting JSON responses on the screen reeks of naivety. This could've been true in 2005, but in 2019 unfortunately websites have taken place of full blown desktop apps, and are required to behave as one. There's a reason why frontend dev is a specialist job position now and pays on par with backend dev.
Isn't this comic already years old? I'm not sure everything holds up, and it needs to have Go and Rust added as well.
Wikipedia: Abraham Lincoln started out as a Whig Party leader in 1834. He left politics in 1849, and reentered it in 1854 as leader for the newly rename republican party created the same year.

In 1864 during the civil war both republicans and democrats had internal conflicts about leadership and the war. In order to create a majority, those republicans loyal to Lincoln decided to create a new party name in order to form a collation with pro-war democrats. The new party name got called the National Union Party.

Lincoln died the next tear in 1865. The next year after, in 1866, the new National Union Party leader failed to maintain the coalition and Republican members left, with the remaining democrats leaving short after.

"what party was abraham lincoln in" is thus a question about time. He was party leader under three different party names, president under two, and leader of one coalition that spanned between two parties. He spent 15 years as a Whig, 10 years under the republican name and 1 year under the coalition which is the point of his death.
> It was britain sail powered ships that destroyed chinese ships.

They were sail-powered steamboats. It's true that travelling all the way from Britain to China using only steam power was impossible at the time. But the very first British steamboat [1] also had sails. That way, they only had to feed the steam engines when a maneuver required it, e.g. going against the wind. That was evidently enough to win battles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(1839)
If every country acted that way, we'd make no progress.

Every country needs to do its fair share, and Australia is not: http://theconversation.com/australia-hit-its-kyoto-target-bu...
> The entire CO2 output of Australia could drop to zero with negligible effect on climate change

That's not quite true. You're not including Australia's extraction economy in that equation, only their local emissions. A similar miscalculation happens when people pretend Norway is a low CO2 output & impact nation by ignoring its extreme fossil fuel extraction per capita.

The obvious answer is to stop feeding China's emissions engine, which is dramatically larger than anybody else when it comes to CO2 emissions (and they're building a very large number of new coal plants). Unfortunately that probably wouldn't help much for very long, as China is de facto occupying Africa for resource extraction purposes.
No definitely, the same is true of every single region on earth. But by our powers combined...
I guess. I found the Borges story infinitely richer and intellectually interesting. Kind of lends credence to the idea that Kubrick was the real genius behind 2001 (Clarke co-wrote the screenplay).
You are thinking too small, with a car generating power that cheaply you could use it to power a turbine and provide cheap electricity to the entire world. It would fix our energy needs for a very long time and it would usher a new age!
Our wholesale power prices are actually quite low. Residential power is expensive because rooftop solar is putting the economics of maintaining the grid into a death spiral.
Windows 10 is way richer than Win95 - there were countless big features added since 1995 (all enterprise and security features, backups, full disk encryption, ...), plus existing features got way more complex - multimonitor support, support of complex USB stack, GPU support etc. IIRC, out of the box Win95 didn't even have DirectX! Still, of course the total sum of changes does not justify the 133x size increase.
Have a look at CDK. It's a framework on top of CF to use python/javascript/etc made by AWS.
I've been trying it out recently to try to move away from TF and it's a promising alternative.
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> The CIA’s faulty cell phone tradecraft used in the 2005 extraordinary rendition of Hassan Mustafa Osama in Italy

With "extraordinary" I hope the author means illegal (the 23 CIA operatives cowardly fled Italy to avoid being incarcerated)
Bosch is finally making Lidar sensors for autonomous cars
A good compromise would be to replace bloated modules with alternatives that are leaner and have fewer nested dependencies.
KDE Roadmap for 2020
I believe it is more important to focus on making sure your government doesn't have the intent or ability to punish you for things you don't want to be punished for, rather than worrying about what the government knows about you.

By "The Government" I don't mean the entity that calls itself your government, but rather the entity that has the most power. In a democracy, you have a share in that power and how it is controlled and kept in check.

But in general, in a relatively democratic society, a democratically minded citizen has an incentive to make the state (legislature+executive+judicative) pretty much as powerful as possible (within reason), while at the same time controlling its intent.

Because any power the government doesn't have, someone else has, and that someone likely isn't you.
Sometimes the most interesting comments are only tangentially related to the article. Think of the article’s topic as a starting point, not a boundary to stay within.
I didn’t strawman you at all. Your stated rationalization is that such laws are fine because they do not impact whatever it is you perceive to be “reasonable discourse”. I’ve stated the very immediate dangers of criminalizing unreasonable discourse above. Unreasonable discourse has been instrumental in much of our progress as a society, I can’t imagine why anybody would have so much contempt for it.
I wrote an educational simulator for RISC-V [0] two and a half years ago and the documentation for RISC-V has gotten marginally better. There a fair number of universities using RISC-V to teach that have published their slides and such publicly [1]. However those is not super helpful for people who already understand assembly and computer architecture reasonably well. The best way I can see to get up to speed is to read some example demonstrating each instruction. I have thought about a site that has a table of instructions that links to an online simulator [2] to let you step through an example detailing edge cases.

The best source of simple assembly examples I know of would be the tests from my project [3]. Though those could be a lot more helpful for a human reading them.

As for simulators, there are quite a few. The website lists a bunch [4]. I am not sure how many would support any kind of machine mode memory mapping though.

[0]: https://github.com/TheThirdOne/rars

[1]: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-teach

[2]: https://venus.cs61c.org/

[3]: https://github.com/TheThirdOne/rars/tree/696ef9ed82285f0a73d...

[4]: https://riscv.org/software-status/
How will de-carbonising the economy stop bush-fires on this scale?
One difference seems to be that in Duktape you can only generate bytecode for one function at a time (duk_dump_function) while in Lua you can just load your whole script and dump it as bytecode (lua_dump). Sure, you can wrap your code in a self executing function in JS to get around this. But Lua looks to be somewhat more convenient for this use case.
> We need something akin to civil rights movement. On the global scale.

We also need someone other than Greta as the face of it. While she does a great job, she's often dismissed due to her age and the US president has even publicly called her retarded in the literal sense.