skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GCHQ is not allowed to spy on Americans.

Since when do spy agencies avoid doing things just because they're "not allowed" to do them? An activity being disallowed only means that they'll avoid telling people that they're doing it.
NUC-like PCs, usually fanless Chinese ones. E.g. search "nuc" on AliExpress.
Use one for 1-2 years 24/7, super stable and performant
Why EU interest in small tech acquisitions shouldn’t be a surprise
> I am skeptical about all the doomsday predictions

If you want to see how fast it changing, come on up to Alaska and the Yukon and spend a few years if you want to see it with your own eyes.

I saw a glacier in 2009 that has now receded 8 kilometers.

Alaska sets high temperature records every summer now.

Or, you know, go hang out in Australia.
wait a minute, a corporation is somewhat less than immediately responsive when deposed? holy fucking shit, stop the presses, this is news!
The problem was that the Greeks had got themselves deeply, calamitously into debt. That the "solution" was awful or ineffective really is not relevant, since it's entirely a consequence of the former. At any time the Greeks could have said no to the proposed solution, but they didn't because they feared an even worse fate.

The responsibility for Greece's situation must stay with Greece, unless they forgo the freedom to make their own decisions (about lending money). Nothing else works or makes sense logically. Freedom and taking responsibility are two sides of the same coin.
Does Not look dead to me. last activity is within the last 30 days or so.

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/

Its not as popular to be certain, though.
Does that really help much? It still has access to .bash_profile
Geologists find 3K tonnes gold in India amounting to 5 times indias gold reserve
Sounds like an easy fix in most cases. Residential road or road work? Can't be 85, period. There are relatively few roads in the US where 85 is the actual speed limit.
I am using it and I am considering disabling it on a daily basis. Not only is it slow as mentioned elsewhere, it interacts poorly with other VSCode features, like automatic bracket matching, intellisense etc. I find that when recording macros, I have to be very careful to consider what the vim part might think just happened and try and work around it.

But every time I disable it, I immediately miss normal mode. So yeah, as happy as I am with VSCode (which is a lot), the situation is suboptimal.
Does Purescript also come into the equation? :-)
So what happens when you lose your key, or it stops working?
> Although I am not at all sympathetic to these ISPs, I do agree that privacy protections ought to apply uniformly to all sellers and service providers.

ISPs are different because of the lack of competition. If you don't like Google you can use Duck Duck Go. If you don't like WhatsApp you can use Signal. If you don't like Windows 10 you can use Ubuntu (or, if you want to argue Windows is still a monopoly, Microsoft should move to the "monopolists" column and be subject to the stricter rules).

In particular, in those cases the competitors actually do have meaningfully more respect for privacy. In markets where every reasonably available provider snoops and the market has high barriers to entry, that's a different situation.
Unless it shows up in other workloads, or your workload is specifically Prime95, it doesn't make it unusable, it just means you can't do Prime95.
> Pretty much anything can do that.

Nah, pretty much anything except proprietary software has a higher chance of being written by people I trust and packaged by people I trust and probably audited by me and other people, and is not capable of loading executable code from any server after installation.
I'm going to have to disagree, not that discoverability isn't good, but that the addition button isn't worth the complexity.

It's a matter of expressiveness and bandwidth. You can do more pointer-related actions with multiple buttons, and they aren't confusing the way keyboard modes are, because you've got feedback on the display at the pointer location. Primary clicks do the important thing, secondary clicks give you a set of other options or an alternative action. It's very easy to pick up given its universality and its usefulness. A single button just requires you to press mode keys with the other hand to get that expressiveness needed in a reasonably intuitive, and powerful, pointer-driven UI.

Imagine if we didn't have multitouch and the only gestures we had on touch displays were tap, tap and hold, drag...
I'm inclined to agree, but it's also true that the key distinction between open source and Free Software is ideological. And identifying strongly with Free Software over open source tends to go along with an ideological distrust of governments, corporations, or both. For reasons that are reasonable, if not universally agreed upon.

IOW, it's not necessarily because I think Discord is actually going to tell Joseph McCarthy how often I pick my nose. (You'd be amazed how rarely I manage to work that into group chat conversations about code style, anyway.) It's more the principle of the thing.
Typescript makes virtually no changes to JS syntax, except what's necessary to support types.
I haven't watched the 1999 version (the one linked) of this class, but I have watched Gilbert Strang's newer lectures on this subject and they were absolutely wonderful. The book is great as well.

Don't watch these just because it's from MIT, watch them just because of Strang!
> Although the research will add to pressure on fossil fuel companies, ...

Ha, just like privacy research applies pressure to Facebook and Google. Only strong legislation will apply pressure and even then the regulatory framework needs to have teeth. A penalty equivalent to a few day's revenue is a contributing factor to how we got here (e.g. in an oil spill/leak if the fine is less than the cost of cleanup or the cost to bring a facility up to code the company will opt to pay the fine).
All of that is correct, but, it does not mean that suggestions cannot be made. So, the article linked here mentions their suggestions, I mention my suggestion, etc.

Yes, private conversions about contributions to free software projects are possible and are sometimes desirable. But, messages on the official channels for communications should normally be public; people can (and should) of course still use their own private communication as needed, too, but does not mean you cannot have a public one too.
> Writing is about communicating ideas in good faith

Writing is a tool for whatever purpose the writer wants to use it for. To some that's advertising, for others it's writing online content and hoping to grow a newsletter list.
> Personally I think warming is real (I am skeptical about all the doomsday predictions, as all of them have been flat out wrong.)

You aren't nearly as informed as you think you are, and you are badly misinformed.

I strongly recommend a dose of youtube channel potholer54. "Youtube!" I can hear you scream. Just a second. The channel is run by an actual science journalist with a degree in geology. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hadfield_(journalist)) However, what makes his channel unique is that he repeatedly says things like, "I'm just a dummy, so don't trust me. However, I'm experienced in researching primary sources and I can read, and you can too."

Typically his climate videos are debunking the denier videos, and he does in a calm, humorous manner. He cites all of his sources, unlike the vast majority of the denier sites. Also, he collects no money for his efforts and has a low key suggestion if you care to donate to a charity. He doesn't post frequently because most of his videos are well researched (sometimes he puts out quick responses to counter claims made to his videos).

Watch a few of his videos and you will realize that there is a ton of BS out there, not only from the deniers, but from the popular press doing a crappy job in science communication.

For example, some prominent denier, like Anthony Watts, will say, hey, it is 2020 and the scientists said such and such island would be underwater by now. The speaker is very self confident and mocking, and scores multiple hits simultaneously: (a) the scientists are wrong, (b) the media is lying to you, (c) we are superior to all those clucking hens. Potholer will find the actual research being talked about (which Watt doesn't give the attribution for) and points out all the ways Watts is wrong. For instance, he picks one paper which had the most aggressive timeline and cites that as "climate scientists" making the claim. Second, the original paper gave a range of 2030-2060, and again the blogger cites the lower end and never mentions that it was part of a range. Third, the paper never said the island would be under water. It said that the island would become uninhabitable because of sea water rising enough to creep into the freshwater storage on the island.

But it gets worse, because not is the one blogger wrong, every other climate denier will refer to that blogger in their own writings, and again, none of them actually read the original paper.

OK, I just did a quick scan of recent videos and start with this one, since it is exactly on the subject of your claim. "How accurate are predictions about climate?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugwqXKHLrGk
Sad that UE allowed google monopoly to grown in Europe, instead of limiting its access to the market as much as possible and allowing European competition to grown like China did.
No numbers. I appreciate good theory, but it is much more useful when it was a backed by some experiments.
"“resists giving documents” purposely makes it similar to “resisting arrest”."

No, there is no resonance between those two things.

Google isn't giving up documents, that's what the headline says, and it's perfectly fair.

Your other 'fun facts' are equally disputable.
> Conspiracy denotes that something is hidden

No it doesn't (at least not to me or the dictionary). Conspiracy denotes two or more people planning with each other to commit illegal, wrongful, or subversive acts. Whether or not it's hidden doesn't enter into it.
Company Representation on the Web Platform Incubator Community Group (WICG)
SPARC is not ITER.

It's seems bizarre to ignore the impact HTS tape would have on the plausible operation of MCF.
They’re probably researching how to make antivirus marketable for cars so they can convince the unknowing that their $50 a month subscription is the only thing keeping their car from running off the road on its own.
Are there any harm reduction frameworks?

wikipedia.org/wiki/Harm_reduction
Computer Scientists Are Trying to Predict the Coronavirus' Next Moves
It's not like other countries are not affected, all over Europe alt-right is thriving because of austerity. The EU is disintegrating. Greece is the weakest link. So, what you call "Greeks disinterest in their own democracy" I call "canary".
So cars are using OCR on speed limit signs?

Next step: sql injection.

https://hackaday.com/2014/04/04/sql-injection-fools-speed-tr...
That's the usual issue with Reg headlines, they need some trimming before fitting in the title limit here.
> It's disappointing to see from comments here that there's no true and performant Vim integration for VS Code.

I've been using vscodevim daily for almost 2 years, and (for me) it's totally usable. IMHO, much better experience than trying to turn Vim into an IDE.
Being concerned with or principled about privacy is not "being paranoid." Frankly, it's kind of creepy that someone would equate the two.
Identity management is a critical component of government. The days of living off the grid no longer exist.

Would you argue against a passport or drivers license?
So sites would not incur liability unless they are directly selling access to the published content? I could agree with that, assuming there were any merit to the concept of "illegal content" in the first place. Which, of course, would run directly counter to the 1st Amendment, freedom of speech, and proportionality.
I've had enough failed server and workstation components to believe this is snake oil. It seems like a lot of "Enterprise" hardware (particularly hard drives) is mostly the same chipset/components with a longer warranty and a more boring PCB color. Or more annoyingly, differentiated by feature lockout in some firmware.

Gaming hardware has larger economies of scale which leads to more people running the hardware and submitting RMAs. Gamers are also more likely to overvolt their hardware, leading to most consumer components being overspec'ed for heat and power.

As such, the second revision of a gaming board imo is more refined than a workstation/server board that almost never gets a new revision.

On a more practical level, consumer CPUs usually have higher clockrates and newer architectures and gaming NVidia GPUs are so much cheaper than the enterprise product lines that you can buy multiple. My workflow is faster with the cheap stuff, sometimes twice as fast.
> Are there any good policy frameworks for how to evaluate something that reduces very harmful behavior while increasing less harmful behavior?

Yes, you can do a multi-decade-long study of health outcomes of long-term self-reported users, and compute how many quality-of-life-adjusted-years of life each vice costs them and their families.

For illegal substances, you'd also probably want to take into account a mountain of other externalities, such as the impact of prison, black markets, drunk driving, etc.

Or you can just skip doing all that work, and loudly legislate from an ideological position, because doing the work is a waste of time, as people tend to cherrypick facts that suit their worldview.
Viewed with Brave, I see a rather minimalist version which loaded quickly. Also, no annoying pop-up.
You have to be clear about what is "settled". Understanding that we are changing the balance of greenhouse gases, and that those changes will have impacts on the biosphere and human society, is settled.

Specific predictions, i.e. future weather reports for specific parts of the planet--are far more complex and difficult. To precisely predict the impacts of human-caused climate change, you're combining all the reasons it's hard to predict the weather with all the reasons it's hard to predict the stock market and politics.

But that doesn't mean it's not happening. I can start a fire in your kitchen and challenge you precisely predict the patterns in the smoke at 10-second intervals with a resolution of 10 cm; you won't be able to. But we both know that your kitchen will be full of smoke after a while.
The real headline should be that government agencies in the US are too addicted to getting easy data from ISPs via nearly due-processless administrative subpoena (or just by asking) to prosecute their unlawful wiretaps for what they are (e.g. 18 U.S. Code § 2511 federally, various laws at state level), so instead are wasting time and money twiddling around the edges and trying to restrict the selling instead of doing anything that would endanger the collection.
This absolutely brilliant. Been using Segment for multiple project on over 1m MTUs and now at a B2B SaaS where we simply can’t invest in writing events for every interaction. You’ve perfectly captured our/my pain.
you mean like candy?
I already love this essay because I've been saying the same thing for years, and he even mentions "statistics and discrete mathematics" as something we should be doing more of; in short, calculus is useful for physicists and engineers, primarily, whereas statistics and discrete mathematics, properly taught and motivated, are useful for everybody.

For example, if there's a certain probability of people with cancer getting a positive test result, what's the probability of a positive test result meaning you have cancer? Too many people absolutely cannot approach that problem in any intelligent fashion.

(Side note: More classes should accept "there isn't enough information to give a coherent answer" as a correct result.)
No, it's not sad at all that the EU didn't 'limit Google's access'. What's sad is that Europe can't compete in these things on it's own.

Now - you could make a strong argument that G shouldn't be allowed to own have mobile, search, ads, maps etc. which creates altogether another kind of monopoly, but, there's no need to swing the ball so far as to 'limit access'.
If you want to remove those hurdles you might want to see some more diversity (e.g. not lawyers) in Congress.
You don't send URLs or query parameters to a DNS server. Only a hostname. Also, it's usually cached after the first lookup. Sniffing the network will only requests to that IP. Hostnames, URLs, params and responses are all fully encrypted if they're on https.
> They are an authority, Saying it is settled tried to end the debate in the laymen eyes.

Granted. And we further assume this scientist has a bona fide good faith expert belief that it is in fact, settled science.

Is your position that a scientist in this position should never use their authority to say "X is settled science"?

Like, suppose I'm a physicist, and I say, "general relativity is more or less settled". Is that wrong somehow?

If that's not wrong, could you help me understand the difference between the two situations? Is the difference simply, you agree with one scientist and disagree with the other? Surely that can't be our moral standard; for instance, lots of people believe that the earth is flat, and so presumably also would reject general relativity. The physicist could reasonably be accused of using their authority to try to shut down a debate over whether the earth is round. Is that wrong?
What secrets are you putting in your bash profile? I used to be guilty of putting AWS keys in there, I guess, but nowadays we have aws-vault.
Besides the one referenced in the article, any tips (or references) about those tricks?
The only actual connection between FOSS projects and the use of secret communication channels is the author's general ethos of distrust.

Taking your use of "secret" to mean "private," because no one was discussing "secret communication channels":

This isn't actually true; a lot of Free Software projects have private mailing lists.
If you are "synchronously" doing laundry, ie. waiting for the load to dry, then we must admit it's slower, though this may vary with the seasons and climate of your location. But if you set it aside in the morning or evening, then go out and start your day as you normally would, you're OK.

In some cases this might mean you plan your laundry better. Eg. you start laundry when you have at least 1 set of clothes to wear for the next day, instead of when you have 0 clean clothes to wear.
I'm also under the impression that the evidence for Juul being meaningfully safer than cigarettes doesn't really exist. It's more a lack of evidence in either direction (whether Juul and similar vape products are more or less harmful than cigarettes) because research is still ongoing.
If you choose to make discussion public, at least in a timely fashion, then you will lower the effectiveness of these discussions and the quality of the decisions.

Quite often, especially with difficult issues, people have to take risks or make painful compromises or at least suggest them, even if the final result is nothing like them. Sometime people bluff, lie and distort in order to improve their position. There is give and take.

If everything is made public then you will essentially get discussions that are no better than discussions amongst the public, which everyone would agree is suboptimal.
If these reactors are low heat, not radioactive, and use plentiful fuel, what's the threat model? Is it just worried about availability of power?
Setting Fairness Goals with the TensorFlow Constrained Optimization Library
you cant seriously be arguing its as easy or invisible to set up a brick throwing machine as it is to put a piece of tape on a speed limit sign?
Because you are fusing a proton to a boron.

After that there is radioactive decay (the splitting).

To be fission you have to actually [actively] break the atom apart, which isn't happening here.
If a human drove at 85 mph because a bad actor maliciously modified the speed limit sign, would they be liable?
Climatology is not thermodynamics just as organic chemistry is not biology. To equate them is a false dichotomy. Just because one builds on the other does not mean that they are as fundamentally sound in their predictive ability.
That's nice to know. On the flip side, that's not nice for interaction between older code that wants to mutate and newer code that wants to "copy". If the "copy" code is actually copying all the time behind the scenes (something it has to do if you are compiling with mutable strings for backward compatibility with the rest of your codebase), that's a huge performance hit.
Where Is Everyone?
Hacker News used to have a vibrant and thoughtful population of commenters.

What happened?
Why would it only work if it is the first sign?
> You cannot experimentally verify oceanic heat absorption, the same way you cannot experimentally verify anything predicted by climate science - because the scale of such experiments make them effectively impossible.

You can level the same complaints about general relativity, but for some reason folks rarely do. Wonder why...
What part of damaging your processor due to current draw, while not actually demonstrating any particular level of processor stability, sounds like a great test?

Nice contrarianism.

Yes, you can run it, and it should run successfully. Yes, sustained testing will rapidly damage your processor and cause notable performance degradation (reduced maximum overclocks/increase in required voltages) within a matter of days, and yes, you can still crash in Aida64 or other stress tests because it's not testing the whole processor very well.

It's far outside the normal current draw, even compared to other AVX2 loads like video encoding. It's an AVX load that fits entirely inside instruction cache and will hammer the AVX2 units nonstop at the maximum possible rate with absolutely no other instructions going to any of the other units. That's not how any other workload behaves, even video encoding. CPUs are not designed around that, they're designed for some reasonably normal mix of instructions.

Yes, it's a good idea to stress your processor a bit more than normal to prove it's stable, but if you make your 'proof charge' too large you will still damage the firearm.
Hacked into openstreetmaps? Not necessary, they publish helpful instructions right on their wiki on how to edit speed limits:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Speed_limits

I do know of one instance where modifying street signs tricked humans: there's a short speed-trap section of road outside a rural town north of me that's labeled 25 mph even though the approach roads are 45 mph. Apparently it's zoned residential even though there are only like 5 houses set way back from the road (looks like it should be 45, maybe 35). Seems like someone in the 70s thought that zoning something for higher density caused high-density housing developments to arrive.

Of course, this section was where the cops liked to sit. When I was in high school, some kids pulled legitimate signs off a different section of road and re-labeled it 45 mph. While the average speed of traffic to school in the morning sped up dramatically for a couple weeks, the police did not agree that the presence of these signs changed the speed limit on the road. Fortunately, the perpetrators got off with a slap on the wrist, unfortunately, the county didn't review and revise the speed limits.
If you use a non-browser IRC client, you wouldn't have faced this issue.

If you had used a persistent IRC system (like quassel) then you'd even be "online" permanently, whether or not you reader-client was running.

IRC has different semantics and goals than "modern" chat/msg systems. Even though they overlap quite a lot, it's a mistake to think that one is a substitute for the other.