skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Army has at least ten bases named after Confederate officers:

https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2018/10/03/ten-army-b...
You don’t want to give them the option. You don’t want people to realize how bad they may have it or that their is any other solution. You don’t even want them to be able to think about it.

That is why we don’t give money directly to people unless it’s a last resort to prevent civil unrest.
I assume he means that because HBO does not show ads, it is an open question of whether Netflix would try.

Personally, I will not subscribe to services that show commercials. Commercials are for free services, not for paid services. As soon as you allow them to cross that boundary....
They are right, though. It's not about the app, it's about normalizing global survelliance: once the populace is convinced enough, it'll be sealed by laws and enforcement. The whole idea is clearly insripired by the Chinese WeChat app.
The only reason you can block ads on the web is because there was a small window where the idealistic academics that built the internet and the web were able to keep commercial interests out so they were able to use open universal protocols. The same will not be true for VR.
Not true. HULU still shows ads, even with "No Ads" version. From their website:

Hulu (No Ads)

Get First Month Free

then $11.99/month

A few excluded shows play with ads.

[from here https://signup.hulu.com/plans]

That last line kills me.

It's like H2G2, you can't have Tea and No Tea unless you remove your common sense particle.
Would you mind elaborating just a little?

This sounds like an interesting idea.
There are formal methods both for specs (e.g. TLA+ checked by TLC and TLAPS) and for implementations (e.g. ADA-Spark checked by GNAT). The spec can indeed be checked that invariants or liveness properties are honored.

Some formal modeling tools for specs can actually extract implementations that satisfy the spec, though I think you're being nit-picky on the semantics of "create."

Specs don't have to be English, you know. I write my specs for machines first and humans second.
Who gives a damn if their infrastructure is new and modern? Was that technology developed in China? It's possible, but I doubt it.

And what kind of visit was this where you were inspecting their weapon systems, and ascertained that they could take out the best of what the American military has, based on some knowledge of military technology you magically have?
Also capitalism.

Also maximizing quarterly investor returns at the cost of every other consideration.
I believe Cartoon Network still has a bunch of games up. I can remember playing Ed Edd n Eddy snow fort. just played it maybe 2 years ago
Simple purple website: purple.com

// Now it's unfortunately taken by mattress company
Yeah I agree. Why is this flagged?
I have been using a series of lg g5s for a while now. Its dual sim n the battery is replaceable. And the screen can be easily replaced yourself (less than 30usd on aliexpress). And years ago I'd stopped trying to run pc game emulators on my phone so the spec is plenty enough..
I have some control over selecting grocery stores, churches, and even employers who have better social distancing/health policies. Public transit, by its very nature, is a monopoly. I have no choice, in particular if you take the individual car fall-back option.
Every additional data source makes it easier to collect the data; the vigilance needed to monitor access to one source is hard enough, but it scales poorly with additional sources. It's why we tolerate so much incursion into our privacy: the effort necessary to operate anywhere near "normal" and maintain data privacy is almost insurmountably difficult.
If they make an expensive iPhone SE (size) I'd buy that too!

I bought the XS and immediately returned it due to the size (too big for one hand only texting) and no Touch ID (now Face ID while wearing a mask seems an even worse UX).

I've kept and been happy with my iPhone 8 Since September 2017. Previously I bought a new iPhone each year! Though finally replacing it with the new SE in a week or two.
Wow, that's actually really cool. Thank you so much for such an awesome answer, I learned a lot from your pastebin.

So you mentioned that it can handle things like overflows. Does this include all the things a fuzzer might find?

This article says "hacker-proof." Is that hyperbole (which implies 100% certainty in my mind) or is there a margin of error in this type of system. I'm just imagining things how large codebases with lots of maintainers still have bugs found every day from fuzzing. I would imagine if its near 100% that assumes the system that checks it is also free of bugs... quite fun to think about.
It’s already not true on mobile generally. No view source, no extensions, no user injected scripts. You get the page the server wants you to see.
> I kind of assume the virus grows exponentially inside the body and would dwarf the initial constant.

That assumes your immune system wouldn't kick in during the asymptomatic phase or a time close to exiting the latter. But your immune system would actually kick in as soon as it detects the infection, which would plausibly be much earlier. That would effectively buying you time to figure out which antibodies to produce before things become out of control.
When CmdrTaco left the site changed.
You're underestimating the value of essentially real time tracking metadata with high precision, which is not commonly available nor sold. (Unless, say, you give it to Google outright for example, which is frighteningly easy to do.)

And vastly overestimating the quality of the surveillance cameras.

Ultimately, the big pushback has to be against normalization of use of special measures that are devised for special circumstances in general cases.
Gangsterhood.net

Boys those were the days. Getting up at 4AM to coordinate an attack against Amello. Man I miss the internet!
There is no element of overhead press in snatch. In jerk feet are moving. I think it would be beneficial to have third exercise where the final motion is overhead press after pause and feet are not allowed to move.
The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension!

The Deoxyribonucleic Autonomous Zone!

Like me, I know the first thing that popped into your mind when you saw this thread is Deoxy.

It was a special place and an amazing website. A work of art. It was everything awesome about the old web in a nutshell.
That's not an apt analogy since Sweden's strategy is guided by epidemiologists and not gamblers. In other countries politicians have taken more extreme measures than recommended by the experts. For example, the UK planned to apply the same strategy but the death tolls became too high and political pressure forced them to change course.

I'm not an epidemiologist so I cannot say (yet) who is wrong and who is right. But I can for sure say that they are doing their best and they are not gambling with citizens lives.
Node updates much less frequently than TS, so even if it was a problem before, it’s more of a problem now.
That's utterly preposterous. It's the exact same gibberish that Ron Paul used to try to convince us the Fed action was going to cause massive inflation. He said it for years. Then we struggled to crack 2% with gigatons of helicopter money.
Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help
Yes! Actually it still exists but this version somehow doesn’t feel the same. The flash dark mode ui of the original was the real deal.

https://www.acrofever.com
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I think that the “de-dollarization” can happen gradually, with the dollar slowly becoming a smaller portion of a bucket of currencies used for international transactions. Even countries that want to get out from under the dollar tax probably want this to be a slow transition.

That said, I have no idea what the next few years will look like economically. Probably income inequality will greatly expand and I wouldn’t be surprised if new national alliances occur.
old Slashdot had an anti MS and pro Linux bias, but nothing more. It was more free spirited. It was not dominated with startups and VCs and did not go overboard trying to moderate certain kind of discussions.

I do love HN, but it is still part of YC and allows some commercial activity and I feel at times goes overboard on flagging certain kind of discussions and comments (I'm not referring to obvious trolling and unsavory language).
http://omgwtf.superlime.com/

Doesn't seem to be around anymore unfortunately.
Wired’s WebMonkey.

It was right up there with my hard copy of Lynda Weinman’s web design book I picked up at Computer Literacy.
Impossible not to cite https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-02-26
If you thought "Men Who Stare at Goats" was about something that didn't work, you completely missed the point. There is no reliable evidence that anyone tried to kill goats with their mind. What we do have reliable evidence of is that they want people to think they were trying. They succeeded at that. (Fooled you, anyway.)

The fact that you think what they were doing didn't work demonstrates, itself, that in fact what they really were doing did work: they misled you about what they were doing, with complete success.
I had the bad fortune of taking this guy's "computer science" class a long time ago as an undergrad. He spent the entire first week covering WW2 and other history. Then during the rest of the semester didn't teach anything.

The icing on the cake was when we were handed evaluation forms he said to the class "It doesn't matter what you fill out because I have tenure."
In the past I thought of creating a site that could improve UI/UX contributions to OSS. I was going to call it FOSS Gloss.

There's definitely a need for it, just not really a good mechanism. As you say - yet to see a successful example. I'm always open to contributions for my own OSS project though (supabase.io). If you want to get involved, feel free to open a github issue or email me (find my email in the "humans.txt").

In fact, you already have contributed by answering this Ask HN
Hollyyyyy shit!!!! I was a huge fan of this game. I'm so happy it's back :)

One of my first website was about liero!
Mutation or less harmful strain?
If advertising ever intrudes on streaming the way it did on cable, I'll just transition out of watching TV altogether.

I don't care near as much about keeping up with the zeitgeist as I used to. Maybe I'm just getting old.
May be - may be not. Would you trust your dental work to a self-taught dentist? What makes developers a special case? I am agnostic to it and genuinely curious.
With covid-19, the U.S. Congress is really hammering the Cosmic Credit Card.

The deficit and the debt seem to be Really Big Numbers, existing in a scope outside of economic reality.

One has the impression that this is not an economic perpetual motion machine.

Maybe covid-19 could sink the USD and usher in a new economic phase.

But seems unlikely, and there further seems zero political will to do anything more sane fiscally.
Growing up we didn't have a lot of money and my family didn't have a car, (and a license in Germany is quite expensive, about 1k and it involves a ton of lessons) or vacations, so I basically just bolted to a university town when I was 18 and as a developer in an urban environment, I've never needed one since.

Nowadays as an adult, I think on vacations it might actually be a good thing because I've found just taking trains in foreign countries is actually one of the more fun aspects of travelling.
Careful there. Not "what you want it to". It will work in the sense that it will do what the formal specification says it will. That may or may not be what you actually want it to do. (MCAS, for example, did what the specification said.)
It’s not a data source, it’s decentralized and not tied to anyone’s identity.
ICQ

Old, not evil Google

Absence of FB

Geocities

Cricinfo

Slashdot

Codeguru/Codeproject
> Of course, castigation 1/2 of a nation as 'traitors' for seceding from a union is so problematic I wouldn't know where to begin with that.

How else should they be framed? It's a fact that they were a failed traitorous rebellion and their cause was the defense of the institution of slavery. There's nothing to be proud about.

>'First Nations' flags are flown in various capacities all over the world, sometimes related to the local national forces.

I brought it up because the US conquered native lands and natives serve in the US military today with a semi-autonomous identity (native nations vs. states). They weren't traitors that originally had an obligation to serve in the US military but rather occupied and assimilated as a former foreign power. With that being said: Do they get to fly streamers for their battles from before they were part of the US? It's a legitimate question to which I was asking for a legitimate sourced answer. It's also relevant since there's a large overlap with those later battles and the Civil War.
> and then make it the e-dollar

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't most of our money already digital? What do we gain, other than exchange fees if we want paper dollars and cheques?
If I lived in Boston--as opposed to a fairly far out exurb--I could imagine not owning a car given that I mostly work remotely. Though I probably still would so I could get out to mountains, etc. for the weekend. In any case, I would certainly want to be able to drive so I could do various vacations and sometimes necessary work driving. Some of this is less common in Uber days but certainly not non-existent.

My point again isn't about owning or not owning a car but being able to drive a car when needed.
Soldat 2 is in the works https://store.steampowered.com/app/474220/Soldat_2/
The distinction I would make is that they never told anyone to migrate production code to Perl 6.
Most Common Page Speed Testing Mistakes
Red Rock Eater news. Technically an email, but such a great curation of tech news by a very erudite UCLA professor.
"Moving from a non-tech retail company sounds extremely boring to anyone interviewing you (no offense)."

This makes complete sense. If I were on the hiring side, I'd be skeptical as well. What's interesting to hear is that even in big tech companies with established hiring processes getting to know the right people matters.

"Either way I don't think the ability to do the day-to-day work is a good enough to get hired"

This makes a lot of sense. I'm reading it as "you are able to showcase some extraordinary quality or success in your previous work during the interview or through someone vouching for you" without which there's no compelling reason to hire you.

Thanks for the detailed reply.
Why would you try to split hairs about the editorialization of a word ... and then provide a totally false definition of the term?

There are no forms of general incarceration wherein 'moving two steps will get you punished'.

But it's beside the point:

Billions of people are forcibly confined to areas and activities in the most blindingly and openly transgression of 'liberty' in the history of civilization.

If I go and visit my mother - if I go pick up a frame for that painting - if I walk down the street with a friend - I face an $800 fine and actual 'classical' incarceration.

This is considerably more aggressive than marshall law in many ways.

To ignore this while at the same time making 'pre Coronavirus' arguments about 'contract tracing and privacy' is deeply unwise. Obviously privacy matters, obviously we have to be worried about the state gaining too much influence whilst using the calamity as an excuse.
That is just plain scary. Reminds of this old Soviet joke.

Q: Is it true that there is freedom of speech in the USSR, just like in the USA?

A: Yes. In the USA, you can stand in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and yell, "Down with Ronald Reagan”, and you will not be punished. Equally, you can also stand in Red Square in Moscow and yell, "Down with Ronald Reagan",and you will not be punished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes
> This seems really short-sited given the reality of pandemics.

Your comment is literally short-sighted because in the long view, the pandemic will end, but health and economic benefits of greater density and less car-dependent life will still be a thing. Why should we optimize for an exceptional circumstance (a pandemic) and miss out on the benefits of density in more normal times?
Sure we love it. We get to reap the rewards of sweatshop labor in China, and farms in Africa shipping cheap crop to us at the expense of the locals. On top of that, that lifestyle that gives you all of that, is most likely unsustainable, and largely created by war and hegemony.

> All this complaining about modern technology "dehumanizing" people makes me laugh. It's like complaining about a door ding in your Ferrari.

Yes, I'm sure you'd say the same after reading the effects of weaponized chemicals in World War I, or the advent and use of atomic bombs, or the manufacturing of death in concentration camps.

Technology can be dehumanizing, or very humanizing. It's up to us to curate it properly. Endless advancement in the name of technology will simply destroy the human race.
Not with the technology being proposed for contact tracing because the protocol design doesn’t permit it. There’s no central database of where you went or who you met with.

The scary databases already exist and are held by various unaccountable private companies. This is true whether or not we try to implement contact tracing tech. It shouldn’t be an argument against it.
You don't really need any AI to do phrase repetition patterns. Typically you simply repeat it as is, or maybe change pitch. This can be done algorithmically after the phrase generating stage.

It would be nice if the network learned these patterns (and transitions) on its own, but it's far more important to generate quality phrases. That is the hard part and as you can see from the samples we are not there yet.
That analogy breaks down as smokers had no alternative. After bars banned smoking they lost few (if any) smoking customers while relishing in troves from the non-smoking demographic. Car-centric Viennese can still avoid Begegnungszonen.
LanphEs's Useful Page, among others lost to memory.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000601000000*/http://lanphes.v...

It barely works in 2020, but it had things that interested me, like silly videos. Those would go on YouTube today. Google barely existed at the time, so everything/nothing sites were early aggregators that filled the gaps in search engines and directories. They were full of one person's idea of interesting and/or useful.
> I think you didn't go far enough with the implications of Carse's statement. It's not just that a machine mows your lawn quicker, it's that you have a homogenous lawn in the first place because it is a thing that can mechanically mowed.

This is a bit like Fussell's observation that glass or mirrored surfaces signal wealth because they imply you don't clean your own house.
As desperately as much as I'd like there to be a compelling VR experience equivalent to 2d internet we have today there just isn't one. VR seems to be the exclusive domain of games. I can't imagine Facebook's Oculus graying out billboards unless it's to replace someone else's advertisement with their own.
WHO are such a worthless disaster at this point. There are three options: immune for life, immune for X period, where X is the period where antibodies exceed viral load of inbound virus, or permanent viral latency. Look at other coronaviruses, take a best guess, rapidly pursue clarity, make the right trade offs in you area based on available data. Given how easily spread this thing is, it won't take long for the answer to be obvious.
I would also think so mainly on privacy ground and on the fact that Facebook is one of the companies that I trust the least.
But I'm not keeping my hopes high when I see how people buy Facebook Portal for example (their tentative clone of Amazon Echo).
That's not entirely true. Synthesis is a popular topic within the "formal verification" umbrella.

I agree that proving the software satisfies some safety properties and is always consistent with some specification doesn't mean that a system is truly "hacker proof".

However:

1. It's a step in the right direction, and something like a necessary condition but not a sufficient condition.

2. It's an attractive, succinct way to describe the value of formal methods and their potential (as the cited DeepSpec project intends to realize) to indeed make a truly hacker-proof system.
https://rr-project.org
This is just an optimization problem with where you place the incentives. The follow-up study funding is not exclusively for false null hypothesis rejection due to chance. It's also to allow for some amount of error in experimental design or practice. No one wants 0% experimental design / practice error because that will harm total experiments done per unit time which is also a thing we want to go up. No one wants only certain results because we want novel results / unit time to go up too. It's just multivariate non-linear optimization.

Yes, someone whose conclusion was not due to error in programming may have gone without a grant. That's perfectly all right. We optimize policy in the aggregate.

You can make an argument that says that we're not correctly placed on the manifold but no single situation will be convincing for that and you'll need to make some case that a policy change to move to some other point in this space will yield a positive total improvement.
> By continuing you agree to our use of cookies

In what pertains to the EU, that might not be legal and may lend you in trouble. If you haven’t yet, you should make sure you’re allowed to do that (or even better, don’t do it).
I didn't read the article, but I did try the checkboxes. What I saw surprised me and I will go read the article to see if it addresses my experience, but in case it isn't:

1. The predictive checkbox improved tracking my cursor.

2. Disabling `requestAnimationFrame` improved it more.

This is not what I'd have expected, so I'll include details about my environment:

- macOS 10.15.4

- Safari 13.1

- 2019 16" MBP with maxed RAM and ~25GB swap

I have no idea whether the browser or the memory pressure made same-thread tracking more accurate, but something did.
It's amazing how much commercials have crept in. If you watch an "hour long" show from the early 80s, it's roughly 48 minutes. If you watch a similar show from 10-15 years ago, it's closer to 44-45 and in the last few years, it's more like 42 minutes.

I assume it's only going to get worse as TV ad revenue drops faster with more alternatives.
Firefox on Android at least gives you add-ons (hello, uBlock Origin).
Bonsai Kittens. The site was clever and the reactions from animal-rights groups were even better.
This promise did not age well:

>“We won't break programming at awkward times,'' promises Dick Cox, president of CBS Cable,
ahahah this is my comeback every time! Glad im not alone on this
When I was looking at the trailer for Noita I couldn't stop thinking about liero!
I suggest sticking a bit with liero, it takes a bit to get used to the controls but it's so much fun once you get it!
The economy is not some magic genie that will give us what we want if we ask nicely. It is simply impossible to leave major sectors shut down for months. Most members of the medical community lack the necessary understanding of economics to make informed, rational trade-offs on this issue.