skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are positions now being held by major political front-runners that are simply not compatible with any person of faith, or any sort of compromise with the opposite political party.

And the political front-runners on the conservative front have given up on having a position that's compatible with those who live outside of faith. Those who reject the idea that an abortion should _ever_ be performed, those who advocate or even demand for re-implantation of ectopic pregnancies, despite doing so would kill the patient.

How, as a moderate, am I supposed to take those with such outlandish views as anything other than a rallying cry for further radicalization?

As for the rhetoric about what faith our nation should have or was founded on, I think if you're going to advocate our nation have a single faith you might want to further consider the founding father's original intentions, and the intentions of those in the 50s who chose (in fear) to try radicalizing us by adding "under God" or "in God we trust" to our official notes and pledges.
Date of death calculators were all the rage back in the day of cgi-bin, and the new fangled javascript.

Must be something about working in I.T. which makes you wonder how much more of it you've got left.
My father spent 1968 in Alaska on an Air Force base where the job was to intercept Soviet bombers. The Soviets would regularly poke at the air defenses and the AF would intercept them with fighters letting them know they were on the ball.

He put a large blowup of a photo of one of these intercepts on the wall to remind the base personnel why they were there in Alaska :-)

It was his job to keep the air base in operation ready to fly 24/7, which is a pretty tough job in Alaska in winter.
Everything I'm about to say, I say as a Vim/Evil user who avoids IDEs like the plague. I like Vim. I like composing commands on the fly, I like modular editing, I like that I can magically format CSV files with quick macros, and I like jumping around my editor like I'm Spider-Man. Heck, I swapped out my window manager with EXWM and Evil just so I could use Vim-style modular commands everywhere.

But learning Vim isn't related to learning how to program. In that context, it's a pointless distraction.

Be honest -- when was the last time that you or anyone you know had a programming assignment at work and came back to scrum a week later saying, "I'd have finished this, but navigating around my editor just took up too much time?" >95% of programming is going to be bottle-necked by the speed you think, not the speed at which you can edit text.

So it's like forcing all of your students to learn Dvorak, or to submit all their written work in cursive. Undoubtedly a few students will thank you for it at the end of the class because some people do get real value out of learning those skills -- but just as many of them will say you wasted their time, and they'll be right. I write in cursive too; it's an objectively faster, more pleasant way to take handwritten notes. That doesn't mean that learning cursive has anything to do with learning to write books.

To any professors on HN reading this: if you're teaching a programming class, please teach programming. Because if students just wanted to learn something new, or to be forced to struggle with something outside of their comfort zones, there are a lot of cheaper ways than college they could do that.

Even with that goal -- a programming professor can't come up with any outside-the-box assignments more related to their subject than "learn Vim"? I can't fathom that kind of lack of creativity in a field this broad.
If you will believe DoD, and we'll understand if you won't, you'll find the $6.5T figure on page "i" of this document. [0] (click through soon, because they take down these embarrassing reports all the time!) Of course the gigantic figure is nonsense, but that indicts DoD accounting rather than the journalists who've noticed its shabby nature. By producing meaningless numbers, the accountants have completely obscured what's really going on, in violation of Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution.

[0] https://media.defense.gov/2016/Jul/26/2001714261/-1/-1/1/DOD...
>(can I say more intelligent and ambitious?)

Seriously? As someone in a rural area who is not particularly deficient in intelligence, who regularly keeps up with research and innovations in a variety of industries, who bootstrapped my own consulting business & hired two more employees this year, and who regularly deals with the mess created by a regulatory situation where policy makers and voters in CA forget there are a lot of very rural areas in this state and that a one-size-fits all approach is actually crippling to people outside of the bay area and LA: NO. You cannot say that.

And even being so willing to jokingly suggest it is an enormous part of the rural/urban political divide. I'm frankly pretty incredulous to see you do that in a post noting this very issue. The reality is, and I understand that this seems like a hard pill to swallow for the urban elite, different people in different places have different needs and issues.

That said, prior to your dig on rural people, I agree with everything else you said, and I find the trend deeply troubling.
Full title -> Jussie Smollett investigation: Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of the actor’s data as part of special prosecutor probe

Too long for HN? Unknown. The title reads fine in the Chicago Tribune.
I disagree on your last point.

Whether it's Google, Microsoft, your ISP, a databroker, a webscraper, an unscrupulous app developer, or even your TV, I think it's safe to assume that one day or the next, every piece of content you produce, or topic you discuss will leak its way onto a major adcorp's servers.

I can hardly think of anyone I know that can't attest to the experience of discussing something as a non-sequitur, only to receive ads about it shortly thereafter. Even visiting an old friend with vastly different interests, never enabling location services, or connecting to their WiFi, I've noticed vast changes in my ad regime.

Decentralising your web activity can only make you less easily monetizable, but you'll never escape the panopticon, and Google can release data it got from third-parties just as easily as the data it collected itself.

If you want to say something you don't want Facebook, Amazon, MS, Google, or the state to hear about, do it in the woods or a private room away from anything digital.
Except when stopped, car visual systems can do parallax just like pigeons do (by moving the camera forwards).
btw, smiled when I saw the domain of their site.

Back in high school I used to spend way too much time playing with mode 13h. I used turbo pascal which allowed some inline assembly syntax [1], so one would initialize the 320x200x256color mode like:

BEGIN
asm
mov ax, 13h
int 10h
end;
END;

and put a pixel on the screen like:

Procedure Putpixel (X, Y : Integer; Col : Byte);
BEGIN
VgaMem [X + (Y * 320)] := Col;
END;

The palette was just 256 colors but you could pick which rgb colors to use [2], some effects would be based in palette cycling, others (fire!) would like nice by focusing in fewer hues.

Such a time sink... :-)

1: http://archive.gamedev.net/archive/reference/articles/articl...

2: http://www.brackeen.com/vga/bitmaps.html
> The decline of faith in America with no underlying moral philosophy to replace it has led to normalization of far too much injustice,

I'm a Christian, but I disagree. Far too much injustice has been, both throughout history and recently, normalized because of faith, including variations of Christianity. While there is certainly injustice that comes from other avenues (including certain highly unjust atheistic belief systems), there is simply no substance to the claim that declining religious faith is driving some general increase in injistice, or decrease in strength of moral principles. It certainly involves a shift in moral principles (for instance, away from the dominance of the view that the outward forms of the forms of Protestant Christianity historically dominant in the US are obligatory or at least morally preferred), but that's often (including the cited example) a shift away from principles that have justified gross injustice.

I'd also disagree that the decline in faith in America hasn't involved a replacement by alternative moral philosophy; sure, not one single alternative, but while that might frustrate forging a singular tribal identity, it doesn't indicate a lack of principles in the populace.
USPS has been storing images of all envelopes delivered for many years now.

Prior to that, it was possible to have that information manually logged. If you corresponded with people in a Warsaw Pact country in the 1960s, that mail was recorded and sometimes opened.
I think it’s a combination of immunotherapy for melanoma, bladder, renal cell and improved targeted therapy in certain types of lung adenocarcinoma.
I still prefer what they made us do for the test: Write the program on paper.
Same, I am curious too so I just decided to (shameful plug) create an email and reply to any requests for now at get_an_idea@protonmail.com for ideas with some details regarding your background, field of interest, and motive.
I was thinking about that! I left a default that you could use under the prompt (it uses my bday, you can have it haha)
May the lights of our homes dim in his memory.
Why small failure domains are a still a big idea in cloud architectures
Thank you! I was also debating if a weekly email would be valuable, let me know if you'd be interested in that.
Including Google. There was a well-publicized case in which they were "hoist on their own petard" a few years back.

What happened, basically, from memory, is that someone was arguing that Google did something wrong (I forget, but it might have been the collusion to keep down employee wages or something) and so there was discovery of emails by Google, and they eat their own dogfood so it was gmail.

So Google smugly said "hah, there aren't any incriminating emails", but then it turned out that the autosaved drafts of some of their emails were incriminating, and were preserved, and ended up being produced in court.

So remember that the next time you type an email or a forum or facebook post, and you revise it extensively before hitting the button to send it.
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It should be queue the reduce use of electronic communications posts.

This isn’t a phenomenon unique to Google. Google just attracts attention because of the broad scope of what they do.
I think it would be funny if you could have a counter for a meeting i.e. how much is this meeting costing us in salaries. Then keeping the meeting short would be appreciated!
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> Hover over the tab bar. That pop-up doesn't show you the last tab.

I'm not sure I follow. The popup shows you the tab you're hovering over. You wouldn't be hovering over the last tab because it's not in the visible area.

But that's unrelated to the problem they fixed. Right now, when you open a large amount of tabs, it always shows favicons. What it used to do, when tabs got smaller than about 30 pixels, was this: https://www.technorms.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/TooMany...
I think in computing the efficiency, the comment above may have been to the work generated in cooling the air, but not the work generated from the boiling of the liquid air. Also, I wonder if separation is necessary in the application referred to in the OP, since they're not trying to purify liquid nitrogen, but just store energy in the temperature differential. If they're just going to boil it back off again, they might not care about removing impurities.
Since Java 7, try with resources handles this in a much cleaner way than the example.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions...
That list of cities is a bit whimsical. I don’t often think of Juneau. It doesn’t seem like the kind of city of international prominence, where people might consider moving to advance in their careers. In fact it is not even on Wikipedia’s list of American cities. According to Wikipedia, my university has more undergraduate students than Juneau has citizens.
The Lockheed Skunkworks was famous for getting an airplane project from go-ahead to rollout in 90 days.
> And talking about risks: Brown coal ist BY FAR the most dangerous form of energy:

A predictable number of deaths is not a danger but damage.
On the flip side of the loss of privacy: location and similar data can be used as a solid alibi if you are accused incorrectly.

How many people have been silently tagged as innocent because of their data stored?

That said, ersonally I find the loss of privacy abhorrent, especially because I have fuck all rights in the US (not a citizen, so the US government and US corporations can abuse my personal information with very little recourse from me or my own government).
What I don't trust is Cloudflare. When a DoH provider I trust pops up, I will move to that.
I got the previous 3000 Ryzen edition on my new cheap Lenovo, and it kills all my big Intel machines in all benchmarks. It cannot use it for benchmarking, as it drops frequencies from 4.3 to 1.5 as it likes (or does temp. freezes) but for testing and dev the AMD works wonders.
Similar for Java's try-with-resources.

Also, I use a style in Java with higher-order functions (aka Callables/Runnables) that's like the pattern ascribed to Ruby, for situations not covered by AutoCloseable.
The title is "Jussie Smollett investigation: Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of the actor’s data as part of special prosecutor probe" which seems to include the the actor's name?

But then again, we all know why that is.

I don't know who Jussie Smollett is (other than this story) and I'm completely in the dark what this is supposed to be implying.

Maybe you are seeing headline optimisation? Is that what this is implying?

Edit: Or do you mean the HN headline? The current headline here is "Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data" which seems completely reasonable given the length restrictions.

Again - what are you implying? Is there some legal restriction on knowing his name?
that's fascinating, and a lot more involved than what I expected (my guess was something more like off-the-shelf color correction)
Seems to be working now, can you provide any insight into what folks were seeing earlier?
With the shift in public perception about keto, carbs, etc maybe we're actually onto something?
Keep in mind that instant messages and voicemails, for instance, get produced in court all the time, and that has nothing in particular to do with Google. Calls made from jail are another thing that comes to mind.

(I am not a lawyer but) AFAIK there's no particular form of communication that's immune to discovery but for Google.
here are a couple of interlocking potential causes: diminishing job security and social mobility for nearly half a century creating a general sense that ordinary peoples lives by and large are not getting better; political cultures isolating themselves in increasingly frantic and hyperbolic media bubbles, and escalating feedback loops of political signaling inside those groups; general distrust of social elites for failure to maintain or fix the system; elite overproduction incentivizing people who under different circumstances may have worked their way up traditional institutions to defect to alternatives and attack the old ones; proliferation of technologies of social influence and control. we're in for an interesting century for sure.
Small nit: the embedded video says the wooden mockup was accurate "down to the rivets". I highly doubt that. The Boeing 757 was the last airliner to get a wooden mockup, and it was mostly blocks of wood to check for clearances. It didn't model rivets, there's no point to that.
It should be up to the falsely-accused to allow their siphoned data to be release to create an alibi.
Indubitably!
Many people from the PARC days are passing away :( end of an era.
its not civil to call people lunatics because of their beliefs. and yeah, i said terrorism because it is a completely fickle, undefined term yet governments can use it to instill all kinds of violence. but when ordinary people use it they "have to define it". i can see the double standard.
If a deal falls in the forest and no one see it, does the retailer make a sale?
> How would that help? They'll just get a warrant for those.

In terms of e-mail, any service that encrypts at rest and doesn't maintain the key can only hand over encrypted data. ProtonMail would be one example.
I tried initially Debian, but it didn't really work. Fedora works much better, didn't have any problems, and it's just the much better distro (a >10 year happy debian and darwin user)
I’ve had three, one allegedly from somewhere pretty good, and all were way too sweet for my taste. Only had a couple bites of each, just found them really unpleasant. And I’m American, so I’m fairly desensitized to sugar!
I don't think this is quite fair, explanatory examples can be very helpful at cementing the point or persuading the doubtful.

What does shit me is the amount of 300+ page books that have at least 50-100 pages of unnecessary fluff. Giving 1 story or example to illustrate your point is one thing, but stacking 4-5 dull dull DULL stories is just a chore to get through.
>How would that help? They'll just get a warrant for those.

If the business is not based in the US, it will make getting a search warrant much more difficult. Your (e.g.) Protonmail account is less likely to be subpoenaed than your Gmail.
This would be a great application for deep learning. Use the authors' method to generate a lot of uncorrected-corrected pairs. Or, use a graphics engine to render realistic underwater scenes with and without water color. Then use a convolutional neural network to learn to mimic the transformation. Then any photographer can apply the learned filter without a color card or depth information.

Edit: already been done: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07392
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Rusts Drop trait is a really elegant one missing from the article.
They are cheaper than new coal. They are not quite cheaper than the operating cost of existing, large coal plants, with a few exceptions, last I checked. But that may be only a couple years away now.
Seems like Google can just install some big scrubbers.
I know this is a joke but my actual preferred way is :cq so that whatever thing decided to open vim doesn't proceed. :)
> even these numbers do not guarantee anything

at this point a reasonable response is "there are no guarantees". If the 4% rule was back-tested through the great depression and generally came out fine, it's probably in the right ballpark.

As another FIRE blogger puts it, "3% or less is a near sure bet as anything in this life can be"

https://jlcollinsnh.com/2012/12/07/stocks-part-xiii-withdraw...
Where has Tesla ever said they needed to abandon all of their training data?
True it is exactly the same number of data points as well.
It seems odd to me that the lesson here wasn’t reporting to the police when some rando you met on IRC has apparently hacked into a political party. Especially given all the state-sponsored meddling in politics recently.

They might have done the same thing and taken all your computers but you probably would be in the clear a lot sooner.
Knowing a letter was delivered by USPS doesn't yield the contents. The state would have to subpoena each individual recipient - and they may have destroyed or lost the letter.

It would only be equivalent if every letter was opened and recorded so that all the contents would later be available because this subpoena covers not just emails but also drafted and deleted messages; any files in their Google Drive cloud storage services; any Google Voice texts. This isn't metadata the government is coming for, it is the full content.
If the cameras only see darkness, which would be a giveaway that the headlights are not working, I would prefer the car not drive itself
The only reason Eisenhower was allowed to say the little he did say was that he had already surrendered. He stood by while Korean War funding metastasized into "the military-industrial complex". If anyone could have stopped it, it was a reelected President and five-star general war hero. Ike DGAF. BTW he was also the moron who let CIA off the leash, to the world's continuing sorrow. Just this week another chicken has come home to roost.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_cost
I did that in one place I worked. We had big scrum retrospectives that dragged on a lot. I used to comment how much the meetings cost. Might have made myself a little unpopular. :)
I Am the Bad Guy in Their Good Minds
> Sea-thru is protected by a registered patent owned by Carmel Ltd the Economic Co. of the Haifa University and its subsidiary SeaErra

Looks like they are going to monetise this technology at some point given the disclaimer at the bottom of the page. This is not wrong. But it feels like a PR exercise dressed up as something academic which is a little creepy.
Well, people do typically put papers in the custody of a third party. Always have.

Pretty much every paper that is involved in discovery is classified by the "custodian". Also of course, all the digital information, but traditionally it's paper.

If you use and/or have a dispute with a lawyer, a doctor, a contractor, an accountant, whatever, they're going to have papers pertaining to you.
I disagree. I spend most of my time at work in an Angular app and it sucks. The compile times suck, the developer experience sucks and it's not getting better, it's only getting worse. I had a chance to do some side work and decided against building a SPA. I wound up using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages (templated pages) and it's been a breath of fresh air - I haven't enjoyed myself this much writing web software in ages because I can get stuff done in very short order. If I need some more complex interactivity then I might sprinkle in something lightweight but I expect that to be the exception not the rule.

Death to complexity on the frontend for complexity's sake.