skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seems like every day, the propaganda keeps increasing the number.

That's been "the number" for a while now. E.g. Shohrat Zakir, chairman of Xinjiang, said during a press conference, when asked about the number of affected persons 一些媒体称新疆教培中心学员“有上百万甚至两百万”，纯属捏造、毫无根据 "Some media claim that Xinjiang's education centers hold 'a million or even two" students, this is completely made up and baseless." However, he failed to provide an alternative number, so "millions" is the best estimate available.

http://www.scio.gov.cn/xwfbh/xwbfbh/wqfbh/39595/42206/index....
And as soon as the cold war ended, in 1989, the USA invaded Panama to put their own man as president. In the process, the USA killed more than 3000 civilians. The man who ordered the invasion was George H W Bush, a former director of the CIA.

And if you're looking for more recent cases, the USA supported the military coup in Egypt in 2013. The government even refused to call it a coup because of legal implications. This was an important blow to democracy in the region. The authoritarian evolution in Turkey is partly due to this.

I'm not saying other democracies are better than the USA. I'm French, and my country still cannot face its past in Algeria. And France still supports dictators, like a 2018 bombing in Chad recently proved. But over the last couple of decades, I don't think any country killed more foreign civilians than the USA did, by a large margin. Even Saudi Arabia and UAE, with their wars in Yemen and Lybia, can't compare.
Unfortunately most people cannot see things from another’s point of view.
I would not be suprised if we get something along the lines of "Unfortunately, this repository is currently unavailable in your country" sometime soon. Many websites still completely block EU users post GDPR, e.g. Chicago Tribune.
Teach AI using our behaviour, AI learns our behaviour. A bit like our children. I'm genuinely confused as to the alternative.

The objection seems to be based on the falasy that technological progress equals social or political "progress". Why on earth would we expect AI descision making to display a lack of prejudice when human decision making is suffused with it.

The only people who expect technology to act like a benevolent god are the ones who have replaced their god with it. All technological progress does is to increase the power and influence of human beings. The progress the writer seems to want is socio- political, not technological.
"serverless" is just "managed hosting" under a new name, I believe.
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As recently as last year a USA backed coup removed the president elected by more than 50% in Bolivia because they nationalized gas and were exploiting lithium themselves.
It worked for the 5% survivors.
The anti-Russia narrative is also agitprop, of an equivalent degree of BS.

Please stop contributing to it.
The patent office will do a search for prior art, but they don't always get it right because they only do specific types of searches for prior art, which doesn't always give good results.

https://www.uspto.gov/patent/initiatives/prior-art-search
They moved fast and broke society and the internet
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I think the big issue with companies like Facebook is not that their development model moves too quickly for them to be able to react to their issues but that they simply don’t care. Facebook has known about the issues with privacy, hyper targeted advertising etc for years. You don’t need to move very fast to react to a fundamental issue in that timeframe.
I'm pretty late to this party, but I've been using rsyslog and "EK" (skip the L - it's way too slow and resource hungry).

rsyslog / syslog-ng handles shipping logs to a central server and it's dead simple to keep local logs and a central log at the same time. Every language can spit logs to syslog vey quickly. And then you can use plugins to inject your life from rsyslog directly into elastisearch, which is incredibly fast.

Other critiques about ES still apply especially when it comes to managing conflicting keys in structured logs, but most complaints about fragility and scaling are because of Logstash, which I agree, is Terrible for logging.

I've written this up in detail if anyone is interested.
The benefits to using this approach over a traditional server are:

1. Someone else maintains the software running these services, including OS upgrades, security upgrades and patches, uptime monitoring, etc.

2. Since every logical component is an independent service, each scaling independently, any one single component is unlikely to become a bottle-neck while scaling. In traditional monolithic servers, you'll have to have contingency plans if you beat storage/network/CPU/RAM limits

3. The closest thing to this is to break up a monolithic email server into microservices and deploy them as independently scalable containers, which is a considerable engineering effort.

Assuming this works as advertised, you can go from zero to a full blown email service for organizations with thousands of people (assuming the stated AWS limits are lifted), in record time
And yet, they can afford to live in two cities that are among the top 5 least affordable in the world. Is that a sign of them being poor or rich?
How does this compare to setting up something like sendy (sendy.co) on lightsail and connecting to SES?
I do not work for any company that uses GeoLite2 but I do have a gaming server that I want to display the country of a player to the staff team. I signed up 3 days ago but no email received as of now. Should I contact maxmind and will I be able to get a license for such an intend use?
Well, yes. That's the point. This form of AI will automate existing prejudices and misunderstandings. We're not really dealing with AI in any useful sense, but with automated bad policy biases, and the products and systems this generates should be labelled as such.

Corollary - Big Data is political, but it can hide behind the pretence of objectivity.

This shouldn't surprise anyone, but for some reason it does - perhaps because we're used to thinking of AI as the automation of the scientific method, when in fact it's just as likely to be the automation of all kinds of other things, some of which are nasty, stupid, and wrong.

A hypothetical smarter-than-human AGI may be able to talk back and say "You're being stupid because you're not modelling the correct problem, and so your attempted solution is wrong."

But that assumes hypothetical smarter-than-human AGI is also more-ethical-than-human - which unfortunately might be a bit of a reach.

Bottom line - the limits of AI are set by the limits of human political intelligence. And since most human political systems operate at pre-scientific policy levels - the exception being the abuse of social and personal psychology to gain power - this isn't encouraging.
> Americans, you need to understand this - and well

I am a Belarusian replying to an Ukrainian in a comment thread about Russia, China and Iran. Nice rant though.
It's funny: it reminds me of "strong cryptography export ban" in the 2000's (btw, Oracle java still have it: you must download strong crypto package separatly)...

Obviously, it failed! You can stop a single vendor with unique technology to provide hardware components with bans, but you can't stop a whole field spreading knowledge!!! People come and go, meet, talk, write, exchange knowledges... so sooner or later (and more soon now as long as the internet is not limited to US) the software will implement these ideas.

The only one that will be challenged will be "big corps" relying on IP protection. But if i remember correctly, Google has a research center in China... so knowledge will aleady be in China and won't even need to be "exported"
Areas where big companies don't care are often ripe for new disruptive products. Google's success can largely be attributed to building a feature that the 400 pound gorilla of the time (yahoo) didn't give a fuck about.
Alas you won't find an audience willing to provide such countenance to the mainstream Western narrative so easily.

Its a very untidy and uncomfortable discussion to have. All you have to do, is gain an understanding of the people who have been victimised by the Wests' illegal wars.

All other political biases fall to the side when confronted with an armless orphan who has been carried across Europe by her younger brother.

Geographically, Americans do not have the wherewithal to deal with this reality. American tourists don't go to the refugee camp facilities - they'd rather see the concentration camp museum.

If they did, indeed, have an idea of what life is like as a war refugee, say .. as a Yemeni or Syrian or Libyan or Iraqi child .. I believe the American people would finally arrest their war criminals. That is really the only way for the people of America to redeem themselves, and yet it gets harder and harder every day ..
On the plus side, there wouldn't be nearly as much work for us developers if everything just "worked".
Are folders not a type of file? Or is it that files are types of folders? Hmm...
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Do they test for Ambien use?
It's pretty well understood by now that serverless is meant to connote that you (the firm owning the application) don't manage the server(s). Someone else does it while you just bring your application code.
At that rate there's also going to be plenty of redundant information, so I think this data would compress quite well.
I like the concept, looks like the Pebble of phones. But there's something that bus me. Given that it's "designed to be used as little as possible" I don't understand why the price tag is 350$. There are other phones with the same functions that are way cheaper. The worst android phone you can get is at least 200$ less than this.
Did not know this. How long has this been in Windows? MacOS?
You’re right it is not fair if that crossover occurs but keep in mind that the system hooks into international agreements the US has made and it’s not as if they can be overhauled for the little guy/gal.
Can you explain what you are trying to say?

Do you think the base of my argument is false? If so it would be helpful to point out why you think it is.
Why provide a C API when you could just provide dbus endpoints to achieve the same scriptability via IPC?
Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 3
It takes like a few days to pick up and you can easily be productive from day 1. Dart's been around for some 8 years already, I'd assume Flutter bites the dust sooner than Dart will.
So basically, improvements in productivity are only benefitting people in areas where productivity has improved? That seems more like a tautology to me than something which can be fixed by gnashing teeth about the distribution of wealth
Unfortunately, the US and multiple other countries aren't too far behind. Climate-change denial is our generation's ignominy for the future - however long that might be.
> It is still profitable to add Denuvo for game publishers, because most sales happen in the first week.

This is one of those "false wisdoms" which get perpetuated by DRM industry, very similar to creative accounting to calculate monetary losses due to piracy.

The numbers don't and never did really support this conclusion (even inside the industry). My first hand experience shows that DRM is pretty much about ass-covering between publishing industry and distribution channels - basically so everyone in the chain can say "we did all we could and added this amazing Denuvo thing that's certified by our amazing legal department as completely secure!" and concede the fault for percieved "lost sales" to someone else in meetings with management and board.
I've installed and uninstalled reddit maybe 7 times in the last year, and even when I don't have it installed I still visit it from my browser.

For my Firefox desktop I have written 5 extensions that blocks websites in various ways so to help me control my bad urges, but even then I just open up safari and use it from there.

Fact is just I can't control it, and I am willing to pay thousands of dollars for any solution that solves these problems without limiting the use of technology I actually want in my life.
The comment listed three things, not one...
California, Brazil and Australia. I have lost my hope. Next summer, there will be more. Nothing can reverse the damages made by humans. The only way seems to be reducing population to a sustainable level.
I'm not sure that's the argument people are making. For Iran, it was US overthrew our fledgling democracy and replaced him with a tyrant, whose oppression led to a(n Islamic) revolution, which just gave us a different kind of tyrant.

Part of the issue we see in the Middle East, IMO, is that Islamists got the upper hand because they were the only organizations that were tolerated under the oppressive regimes that existed in so many places (Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Gulf states, Egypt,...).
I'd bet they stock the radiation monitors since Fukushima only. And that when another one blows up in another country it would be the same. Though i'm not absolutely sure about that, because i remember reading news headlines about a run on them, and being out of stock in germany because of that at the times.
I want to politely express my distaste of software patents, especially such trivial algorithms.
These folks have put together really nice courses on understanding Energy. I have just finished one course on Energy, and am going to watch the next two back to back.

There is really good content that talks about why we still need oil, what energy density means, why we've not switched over to hydrogen yet, why the media doesn't report on the energy crisis (different from the climate crisis), and much much more.

I someday intend to get into microgrids and low carbon energy, and I felt that this website and their course is a nice start.

They have even started a crowdfunding campaign for a documentary on "Energy from Space" - which I think may cover approaches of beaming energy from space to receiver stations on Earth. However, they have zero funders right now, which I think may be related to a lack of social media marketing and discoverability. I'm going to write to them and ask for more information before I fund.
I have open source deep learning projects on GitHub. Should I be worried?
Alright! /dev/null is webscale!
Please, someone tell the geniuses at Harvard business that no one ever used "Move Fast, break things" for chips. Having been in the industry long enough, I've seen plenty a launch date moved, and chip-respins executed in favor of risking a recall of hardware from the field.

It's only non-critical, consumer/casual software/applications that can afford to move fast, and break things. Your bank, or medical records, or even traffic light controls simply cannot move fast and break
> This stack was created out of frustration due to the fact that to this day there's no easy way to have a full email server without the overhead of installing and configuring all servers needed to handle incoming and outgoing messages.

Interesting approach, though I solved this frustration by the use of a Docker and kept "my data is mine" + "no vendor lock-in" + "I control all the gears" approach. (Though, it's not perfect since VPS is ran by "someone" else.. but that place where you run this stack can be easily changed at your convenience).
Simple docker-compose.yml with 3 images and voila.

This AWS S3 SES setup looks far more complex than what I did using only 3 docker images: the postfix (for smtp), dovecot (for imap), opendkim (for email sigining & verification).
It's really easy to fire-up a VPS with a single click nowadays.

If someone is interested in the images I am using:

- https://git.nixaid.com/arno/postfix

- https://git.nixaid.com/arno/dovecot

- https://git.nixaid.com/arno/opendkim

Then you just feed the images with the right configs (main.cf, master.cf, .., dovecot.conf, opendkim.conf).

It's also possible to template the configs and make the variable-based configs. Make things scale friendly.
I am also using Terraform to automate the server deployment/DNS record updates so it is easy to get from 0 to 100.

The only drawback is that you are the one to maintain the OS/SW upgrades, security, etc.. but that's something I really want to do by myself instead of relying on someone else :-)
Google software uses a google protocol to deliver google services. News at 11.

Is this the problem where we've shot ourselves in the foot securing communication to the point we can't block adequately now by tempering with traffic?
A think a more generic advice would be to focus on what brings value to your customers and makes your product better.

> I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but I’m not sure where to go from here. I haven’t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all.
Glacier National Park Quietly Removes Its “Gone by 2020” Signs
I agree. If anything, tinkering and iterating is the best approach to deal with complexity, which the author says will emerge from the new technology.
Australia not committing suicide; we are already dead - that's why they call us the down-under; the grave of the world. Killed by our wanker leaders.
And decades ago, people who ate "too much" saturated fat would have been penalized while people who replaced it with hydrogenated oils would have paid less while ultimately costing much more. All these years later, we now know that there was some pretty bad dietary advice/policy and the result could have been a whole lot worse if people were financially incentivized to change their diets.
TFA has lots of 'ideal world' assumptions that are a real hostage to fortune, e.g.

> This new era, on the other hand, will be one of mass collaboration in which government partners with academia and industry to explore new technologies in the pre-competitive phase

. ...

> That’s why we can expect the basis of competition to shift away from design sprints, iterating, and pivoting to building meaningful relationships in order to solve grand challenges. Power in this new era will not sit at the top of industrial hierarchies, but will emanate from the center of networks and ecosystems

Not sure if the FAANG-likes will see it like that.
It's probably recording what amounts to a demo record, which basically contains everything you would need to reconstruct the player's point of view as if you were spectating them. This means the record must contain everything the server sends to that player (other players' locations, sounds, map state changes, chat, etc.).

Technically you could record only the players' inputs but to play back such a recording, you would then have to deterministically reconstruct the entire match from all players' inputs. That's a bit more complicated than just replaying the local part of the simulation that your client already does with what data the server sends to players during normal course of gameplay.

oliwarner's numbers amount to about 45 bytes per frame per player, which is not unreasonable.
One of the biggest ISPs in Germany, Telekom, offers such a model ("WLAN TO GO") since more then 10yrs. It is an opt-in agreement that you can use other people's APs if you also open yours. Many other ISPs offer the same service, for instance Unitymedia.

Furthermore, there are popular nonprofits with similar aims, for instance freifunk.net (despite this is not an ISP).

Something I would find very interesting is opening eduroam.org for other organizations/private people. It is the worldwide dominating "shared WiFi" approach in the scientific domain.
Australia knew the science and yet went ahead and kept electing conservatives who promised more coal, less taxes, less money for fire brigades and preventing fires, and to do nothing about climate change. They now experience the consequences of their choices. Hopefully next time they make better choices, like putting their current PM in jail for gross negligence and electing people who acknowledge the causes of this heartbreaking disaster and actually do something about it.
Link to their Indiegogo campaign : https://igg.me/at/energyfromspace/x/9183323#/
Honest question: how did you arrive at 1$/1000 mails? When I look at S3 peicing it says 0.005$/1000 PUTs.

Are there a lot of requests made or am I missing something else?
CAD software, specifically; Autodesk Inventor or SolidWorks.

It's sad how much useful technology is locked up by conglomerate organisations. Millions of people use these CAD systems to build amazing products, but they pay huge fees for the privilege to do so.

I suppose the companies deserve the reward, I just wish open-source CAD had the same calibre as open-source browsers or OS's...
Yes medicine is complicated, but I question whether a general purpose search engine, searching potentially untrustworthy or out of date medical information, is the best tool for diagnosis.
Flight with inoperative engine(s) is altitude constrained. The aircraft is going to be able to fly with one engine operative, but not at its usual altitude, so the 200/150/133 idea doesn’t really hold.

Further, larger engines are more efficient than smaller ones. You pretty much want to install the largest engines you can fit. It’s the underlying reason for the 737 Max debacle.
Economic Suicide or Climate Suicide, those were the options.

People can call is climate claim denial all the want, but that is mostly down to them not understanding economics, and the economic realities

The climate issues can not be solved by banning things, taxing things, or regulating things. It can only be solved in the same way every other human problem has been solved. Innovation, we need to innovate our way out of the problem.

Looking to government solutions to the issue will always result in disappointment and no solution