skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, /r/conservative is a thing, and they’re not exactly a bastion of the type of free speech they’re advocating; it’s super easy to get banned from that sub.
Assuming a telecom satellite is still controllable at EOL, the TWTAs will be powered off, leaving only the narrow band S/L band command and control channel operational while the orbit is raised slightly.
I think the RCI angle was just of particular interest to the Miami Herald given how many cruise ships come through Florida.
Which makes sense. If they find it through the store, they’ve played a role in acquiring that user.

How do they stand on subscriptions though? That’s one of the areas that Apple has been terrible with.
Desktop Linux definitely did exist. I distinctly remember running Slackware with a pirated AccelX server in fall 1997 and messing around with Red Hat (first released in 1995) around that time. The lawsuit was filed in 1998 and arguments were in 2000/2001.
> There’s no big conspiracy. Ad tech can be creepily accurate.

> Tech giant Oracle is one of a few companies in Silicon Valley that has near-perfected the art of tracking people across the internet. The company has spent a decade and billions of dollars buying startups to build its very own panopticon of users’ web browsing data.

Doesn't that exactly describe a big conspiracy?
Germany tightens online hate speech rules to make platforms send reports to feds
> he's pandering to a white supremacist base who are sure to see them

At this point, it seems like a non-falsifiable hypothesis. I constantly see how in american politics anything Trump says gets interpreted in most bizzare way possible, rationalizing it that he's speaking in secret code for his white supremacist friends. What really got me whas the point where american media quoted Trump on praising General Lee, as if Trump was gloryfing Conferedacy - while the quote in context was clearly intended to paint Lee as a worthy adversary and by that, praise the Union.

I'm sorry, but after that, all accusations of "racism" and "white supremacy" sound like the boy who just cries wolf again. And the most saddeing part about it is, I know for a fact that after saying that, I will be accused of being a closeted nazi too.
Biochemist Nick Lane espouses the 'alkalkine thermal vent' theory of abiogenesis and believes that single celled prokaryotic type life is almost inevitable on any planet that has or has had a mildly acidic ocean and active plate tectonics with aklaline thermal vents. It's a pretty convincing theory.

_Complex_ cellular life (eukaryotic) is another story entirely. There's no reason to believe they progress inevitably from bacteria. Bacteria have been happily doing their thing without much change for the last 3.5 billion (or more) years. The development of eukaryotes seems like mostly a fluke, and they are very young in evolutionary history. And weird. Very weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLcWfecmZhE
I think he meant that people posting instructions on how to see country flags or how to make a swastika or gay rainbow flag should not be moderated, of you do moderate then you are liable (for example if someone post instructions to sew a KKK hood and you refuse to remove that, but you remove other things, then you get sued for condoning hate speech)
The physical games also require approval from the console maker and they still get a cut. This is has been true since at least the mid 80s.
If time travel was possible, don't you think a time traveler would have traveled back in time to give us time travel?
I'd argue that any attempt at understanding mathematical notation universally will fail. Different fields and different sub-topics and different authors have vastly different conventions, for good reason.

Sure, one can perhaps expect that something that uses an integral sign shares some properties with ordinary integration of real functions, but to really understand what the notation entails, one really has to study the underlying material.

I feel that what you're asking for is kind of akin to wanting to read a novel in a foreign language using only a dictionary of the 10% most commonly used words of said language, with each entry resolving only to one meaning of the word.
The real issue is that they are disproportionately loud. Since they spend no time researching, they can spend all of their time being as loud and obnoxious as possible.

...and many of them make a living from the entertainment value of their conspiracy theories.

What compounds their out-sized impact is the attention the media pays to them. Every time they they are featured by some reporter, social media site, or local media channel, they receive a fresh new set of subscribers.

Rather than feeding these beasts, we need to learn to IGNORE idiocy.
Crashing VMware Guests with a Silly Filesystem Bug
Snowden has the choice of a fake trial in which he is not allowed to present the evidence that is appropriate under the espionage act.
That’s an interesting idea for why you can see the human sclera! (And so clearly as well — its one of the defining features of the human face, except in Anime). It otherwise seems like an evolutionary disadvantage.

What I like about your surmise is that, AFAIK, canis familiaris is the only animal other than the great apes that understand gestural ostention (if you point at something a cat will look at your finger while a dog will look at the thing you Re pointing at). As a pack-hunting animal this silent communication is pretty important for dogs and you can see how it could have adapted to humans.

I just did a quick search and there is a recent paper alleging that house cats have some ability to recognize gaze but not gesture, which also suggests this mechanism might be at work.
+1 We definitely need to work on this from a "grass-roots" education-system level, but it's also a bit of a "chicken and egg" situation, because we also need to make the tech industry appealing to young black students who are in the process of forming ideas about the sort of career they want.

The examples[0][1] of humiliation from the article, and the many examples from black folks in this thread don't paint a picture of an industry that is particularly appealing to a student thinking about their career options. That's if they've even considered the industry in the first place - the dearth of visible/powerful black faces in tech is very likely causing a "can't be what you can't see" effect in the minds of many young black kids.

The fact that the industry is currently doing some introspection is great, but real-world, noticeable progress on these issues will probably take decades.

[0] > That message hit particularly hard in 2015, when Givens and his co-founder Eric Williams, who is also Black, brought some of their employees to Churchill Downs Racetrack, home of the Kentucky Derby. They were at a VIP suite to celebrate the first big installation of one of their bartending machines. Guest after guest walked past the pair of executives to greet their White employee, offer their congratulations and ask how he got the idea for the product. The mood dimmed once the well-wishers realized their gaffes. “It went really quickly from ‘I have a drink in my hand, and I want to network’ to ‘I just want to get out of here,’” Givens recalls.

[1] > His first two fundraising rounds were challenging, according to Hayes and his apparent doppelgänger, Messick. The recurring confusion about who was CEO, and the embarrassment and apologies that followed, certainly didn’t help. “I usually remember the room and the look on the face,” Hayes says. “The energy would drop dramatically.”
Except I don't need the console's digital store to be online and active to be able to play a physical copy of an offline game.

Agreed, it's not a perfect system, but it's not exactly the same as the Apple app store - the only way to get software on to iOS for the longest time (recently, side loading has become easier and less gatekept, but still not the same as the desktop experience).
The commenter above was making a slightly different point. Some digital stores take a large cut if the user finds the app organically while browsing their Store, vs if they came to the store page from a link on the owner's site.

The former means Windows helped the user find the app, whereas the latter means the author did and Microsoft is just providing a way for the user to download the app.
I’m pleasantly surprised you went with 50, as opposed to Medicare age. It just shows you aren’t going after only the easy Medicare dollars. Of course you can still capture that too (see the Silversneakers program as an example).

Just like economic gap that is growing in the US there is a major health gap growing too. For those with resources 50 is like the new 20 as many of men are now “juiced to the gils“ with testosterone provided by their doctors (I see it a lot in Miami, and I’m sure it’s proliferated in tech companies/cities too, just something about money and ego I think), then for the have nots it’s this age where many are just holding out to become Medicare eligible to begin treating their chronic conditions and they are only suffering and getting worse in the meantime.

One day, if I am ever financially independent (unlikely), I have resolved to dedicate my life to health/wellness for children, with a very specific goal of type 2 diabetes prevention. I really have no idea why, I never got T2D, but it breaks my heart especially in children. If you ever expand in this direction, I’d be the first to apply in any capacity.

Good luck!
It kinda depends on how you mean "based on"; the general design on Android may be based on DangerOS (or, it sounds like, any of the Java-based embedded appliances that were so popular back then), rather than GNU/Linux (because in this sense, it couldn't be based on "Linux"), but in the sense of implementation Android/Linux is absolutely based on a Linux kernel and even a quasi-unixy base userland before you get up to the not-really-a-JVM application layer.
- An app does not need to be part of the appstore to function

- It's Apple's store - not a community project, fascinated how people seem to think they are accountable to some higher authority - it's also totally optional

- Apple is the one being consistent

- HEY is also built by one of the most attention seeking developers in the world, who's sole purpose seems to be criticising large corporations on Twitter

- I like ownership of my data - not a manifesto by a closed door company based on "promises" and feel good messages
I don't think you need a general AI for something like this.

You can detect what the other person is carrying and that works good as a filter. A person carrying knife in a crowd or school outside of canteen doesn't make any sense by general norms.
Second would be to detect the intent - now that's a much harder problem but you can whitelist few situations where the person has already stabbed someone or shown sufficient physical evidence of criminal intent.
I think you are confusing a few things.

First, yes, if you want to figure out your chance of dying from doing two things, you would have to do the math as you describe.

You’re Russian roulette example isn’t a problem with the units. The chance of the bullet firing is not constant in each round, which is why the odds work as you describe. Each round has a different micromort number.

The point of a micromort is to compare activities for risk, not to calculate the total chance of dying after some series of activities. That would be impossible anyway; there are infinite activities you go through, each with their own micromort level.
While theoretically possible, it is a lot easier to put a "spare" 1500-2000m/s of delta v and fuel tankage on a Kerbal spacecraft than in real life. Unless we invent a magical ion thruster with a specific impulse of 30000 nobody is going to put enough fuel on a Geostationary telecom satellite to lower its perigee below 100km at EOL. That same fuel is better used for station keeping and to extend its service life.
No one is worried about environmental impact? And 5G ?
The question is whether the writer has any clue what they are talking about either.

Also known as the "Gell-Mann Amnesia" effect, where you realize how terribly inaccurate reporting is on topics you know well, but assume that surely they do better for other topics.

They used to have a Wikipedia article about it, but I guess the censors decided it didn't warrant mention anymore. Here is a random article I found on the topic [1].

[1] https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
>"The mag amp can modulate, switch, invert, convert, multivibrate, audio-amplify, radio-amplify, frequency-shift, phase-shift, and multiply. Stages can be cascaded. Simple feedback techniques enable gains in the millions.

The mag amp can even compute. Trouble-proof magnetic binaries replaced the less reliable vacuum tubes used in some early digital computers."

This is my new favorite HN article in the field of electrical engineering...

Basically, what a transistor is to DC -- A Magnetic Amplifier is to AC... plus there is additional functionality...

This device is highly worthy of future study...
It's silly to think money is literally the only form of power and persuasion.

As Alvin Toffler wrote in Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century, and as evidenced by GOOG and FB, information and attention are the new money.

>Hillary Clinton outspent Donald Trump by 2x in the 2016 election, and still lost. In fact, she had far more corporate backing than Donald Trump, and still lost.

Those statistics dont factor in the absurd amount of attention liberal media paid to Trump throughout the election. His antics, and the attention it garners among their target market, are great for their bottom line

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powershift_(book)
Snowden has the choice of a court where he will not be able to defend himself. This is exactly how it works in China, Russia, or the former USSR.
It's a valid question, the frustrating thing is it had an answer and the guy didn't bother to look for it.
> DangerOS, which was a custom Java virtual machine living above a custom Danger written RTOS

RTOS means Real Time Operating System. The same Quora author explains what DangerOS was a bit better in another Quora answer [0]:

It was originally a very customized Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that ran on top of a scratch built RTOS kernel and provided support for Danger’s user interface and programming libraries.

Still unclear to me if this is true, and what the implications are. I see no mention of DangerOS elsewhere.

[0]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-RTOS-and-why-have-no-one-menti...
>I guess I won't be too surprised if it also gives us the return of webrings

You're in luck! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23549471
Selling at a loss is also called "dumping" and Is generally considered as a illegal anticompetitive practice.

Why should video game consoles have an exception?
Or you should REALLY worry about smoking cigarettes.
And Bill Gates and I have an average net worth in the billions of dollars.

Point is that we know Covid has very different risk profiles based on who you are. Saying "That means you were roughly twice as likely to die as you would have been if you were serving in the U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan throughout 2010" probably underestimates your risk if you live in a nursing home, but it vastly, vastly overestimates your risk if you're 20 and in good health.
I would seriously suggest that the author see his doc for some Xanax, it is one of those benefits of living in the 21st century.

There is a thin layer of people who talk about each other, they certainly get an outsize proportion of people's consciousness. 30% of CNN is an ad for something else on CNN, CNN doesn't represent that you are engaged with something else at least 90% of the time.

The lost output of the Coronavirus is a phantom: I haven't had a haircut since the lockdown, but I have the money to get one later. Let the store skip a payment to the landlord, the landlord skip a payment to the bank -- realize it will mostly cancel out in the end and let the central bank sop it up.

The people who have the most to fear are:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2019/10/25/galbrait...
Love this project. I definitely have some long-term concerns around filtering out spammers and being able to grok a heavily annotated page with resolved/unresolved conversations but I have faith they'll figure them out.

In the meantime, I've embedded the sidebar into my site [0] and hope more people do the same! Original idea from this [1] post.

0 - https://jborichevskiy.com/about-blog

1 - https://blog.cjeller.site/annotate-this-post
One fox, Pushinka, even allegedly barked at an intruder like a guard dog.
To me, this looks like the most interesting (published) work being done in development tools atm.
Yes, but I don't need the store to be online and supported to access my physical copy of an offline game. At least there's a chance I can continue playing if/when the store gets taken down.

Look at every retro console - their games still work on their platforms, and there's a second hand market for games. It's a shame they're no longer made, but at least there's a physical copy that can be traded instead of a digital copy DRM'd to an account on a store that's no longer operational.
Interestingly Google's Flutter can target Android native but also can compile to a web app with PWA features.
For a good explanation on Laplace Transform please check the video presentation link that I've provided in my other comments.

As for the Laplace Transform, it is mainly use in control system applications where the input/output include transient/damping/forcing signal waveforms (on and off unit circle) not only clean steady state signal waveforms (on unit circle). This paper provides a good overview of the sample usages of a Laplace Transform in Electrical and Electronics Engineering [1].

If what you meant by the duality Fourier Transform as FFT/IFFT, Laplace Transform has the equivalent in the form of Chirp-Z Transform (CZT) and recently discovered inverse CZT (ICZT), and the original HN discussions link of the discovery is also provided in my other comments. For CZT/ICZT potential useful application please check the other/older HN topic comments in [2].

Perhaps we should just wait and watch for the torrent of patent filings on this CZT/ICZT topic if the claim of ICZT is really true and feasible.

[1]http://sces.phys.utk.edu/~moreo/mm08/sarina.pdf

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21232296
That’s false. There has always been a difference between freedom to say what you want and freedom from consequences. The famous adage “you can’t shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.”

Newspapers are liable for libel suits and other legal remedies if they publish false and damaging information. I think it’s fair to consider Facebook a publisher when their algorithms take content and distribute it to the world better than any newspaper could have.

That is fundamentally very different from self-hosting one’s own website, or giving a speech in the town square.
Yes, the statistics and machine learning research communities traditionally have a very different view of the world, of what is important, what is superfluous, but lately the two are more and more merging.
> There's no point in the harassment unless the harassee knows where it's coming from. But revealing that would allow Wirecard to be caught.

Not really. If you look at the circumstances around this fraud, it's clear that "they are harassing short sellers" would have been just one more grain on the pile of evidence that was willfully ignored as it was going on, or one more legal violation for authorities to look the other way on.

It's not just Wirecard, there are very often media reports of short sellers or whistleblowers being targeted for harassment by companies while they are engaged in ongoing fraud and it rarely makes any difference to broad public perception or regulator action.
But to be fair, the limiting factor on earth was that it got much hotter much faster than scientists had expected. We aren't likely to have that issue on Europa.
The Python simulations we run in-browser are indeed using Pyodide in part! It's brilliant, but there's quite a performance penalty at present. We're working on some optimizations, but right now running the engine locally or offloading to the cloud are the only places real scale can be achieved. That said we're thrilled that Python-in-browser is possible at all, and excited at how many high-quality complementary projects are in the works. It really does feel like "everything is coming together" :)
Mozilla VPN's full device variant is essentially Mullvad...they are using them as a trusted partner.
Why would you dig deep into an ocean covered with miles of ice without a tether to a station?

Suppose it looks like this:

----- upper ice surface -----
ice ice ice ice ice ice ice
~~~~~ lower ice surface ~~~~~

Then a tether station might look like this with a conduit/shaft between

beep
/|\
------|----------
|
~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~
\|/
beep

Then you can have a swimmer-rover:

hi!
/|\
------|----------
|
~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~
\|/
.
<-> hi!

sorry I'm just a software dude :|
That's some fantastic work, a job well done for sure! I couldn't help to notice some texture on the new wood paint and I wondered why the author simply did not restore the original beautiful wood and went instead for that hard brownish painted tone. It's as if the sanding wasn't fine enough in grit too, because lacquering with polishing is supposed to give you almost a mirror-like result (that's all based on a single indoor picture of course, sorry). Congrats again to the author!
Do you mean record the screen or record from the cameras?
Seen one reference to slaughterbots already, but even without AI on board these are terrifying. These could be small enough to have little to no radar return, so just dropping them one by one out of an aeroplane would be a viable delivery method for stealth killers.
It's all very well talking about million to one chances but if you're a fan of Terry Pratchett's Discworld you'll know they almost always happen!*

* https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Million-to-one_chance
Truly a miracle it is to witness the birth of new jargon.

For academics working on understanding things like societal/economic dynamics, perhaps take a moment to consider that for the work to have any real impact, it needs to be understood by laypeople? Biologists can get away with naming things all sort of nonsense because the everyday person doesnt interact with it, but if you're trying to highlight destructive dynamics in the entrepreneurial sector, saying "this is an example of Veblenian Entrepreneurship!" doesn't communicate anything. Most of the writing that actually influenced the field use terms that are understandable and communicable build on terms already understood by practitioners, like minimum viable product or strategic inflection point. Making an argument with a whole bunch of jargon like "Ideology of Entepreneurialsm" or "Veblenian" just means anyone that wants to engage with the text has to go look up a bunch of random terms to figure out that you're referencing some 1800s era economist that coined the term "conspicuous consumption." It also makes you wonder if this level of being divorced from the actual practice impacts the analysis and if the findings are based on an actual understanding of the field or just an academic bubble. If, as they say at the end of the paper, this should be used as a catalyst to change entrepreneurship education- I wonder if they understand first how many people start companies because they majored in entrepreneurship, and second if they understand just how accessible this terminology and jargon is and if it would be getting in the way of making actual impact on curriculums
considering how much money facebook pump into OSM each year, I suspect its for the long run