skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're leaving out, in Canada's case, is that the norm is a strict party-line vote. In rare cases, the PM will allow a "conscience vote", where individuals vote as they will; in every other case, you vote as your party directs or you're kicked out of the party. As party-line voting is the norm, sitting as an independent is basically worthless in terms of accomplishing anything--no access to party resources or assignments.

So in practice, the PM of a majority gov't (i.e., has a majority of seats) gets to pass whatever they want to pass; the saving grace of this is that, without having to haggle and herd cats and trade horses, the legislation is the legislation--there's no poison pills, no payoff amendments, no loopholes to capture one person's support, and no extreme bits to trade away. It's just "this is the law we want", which I think leads to higher quality legislation over all.

The PM of a minority gov't (i.e., only has a plurality of seats) may have to secure another party's vote to pass, but that's a negotiation with a second entity, not a hundred other voting entities.

Consensus doesn't play a significant part in it, I believe. Within the bounds of the law, the PM of a majority is nearly a polite dictator.
Exactly. How dare they take a traumatic event and use it to think about what might link them to the victim; to consider experiences and habits you might share with the victim of this unfortunate event is selfish. Don't you all know that this is a time for self-serving finger-waging by ignorant scolds who are here to tell you what is and is not an acceptable format for sharing grief?

"Grief does not change you, it reveals you." Would you like to know what I think it has revealed in this instance?
Next steps in such a war: removal of freedom of speech, and politically motivated and state controlled media. We'll have People States of America in no time . All is fair in love and war, right ?
There are a lot of undeserving idiots with money out there, no doubt. And they have certainly taken advantage of copyright to get wealthy. But it seems to me that you just want to solve this by making everything “indy”, on the cheap, and as much as I love independent music and film (I saw 40 movies over a two week period at a film festival last year, it was awesome) I think the world is far more complex and interesting than can be expressed by a couple of dudes with a camera.

The problem is that some productions are simply expensive. Think about sending an imax camera to the space station. There is literally no way to make that cheap. And why concentrate only on music and movies, what about games? What about journalism? There are a huge number of industries that depend on at least some form of copyright, even if not specifically the bastard form that exists at this moment.

> Is copyright / patents the only way to finance and get money back ? Absolutely not. Thats the argument I am making.

But as far as I can tell, you’re only arguing against copyright, you’re not actually making an argument for a viable alternative, and that is my problem.

Just because you dig EDM and punk, and these specific types of music can be made on the cheap, doesn’t mean all good media can be made cheaply. Just because most $100M movies suck doesn’t mean that $10 million movies shouldn’t be made.

Accept that, and then explain to me how to repeatedly raise the $10 million investment needed to create high quality, high cost products that will be given away for free, no strings attached. I think you’ll find that the problem is that doing so is incredibly hard and extremely risky, which is why nobody is doing it.
two statements:

"You know kids don't get infected at all"

"relatively few children have been reported with COVID-19,"

So, do get kids infected (at all) or not?
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What kinds of safety risks are there in storing liquid nitrogen in a DIY context? If your container is well sealed and sufficiently strong (define sufficiently...) can you store it in a room temperature garage?

What happens if it's a freakishly hot summer one year? Do you have a ticking time bomb in your garage?
All I see is girls putting their phone somewhere, dancing in front of it, then getting back into being absorbed by their phones. Can you describe more specifically what is so positive about it? My kids are about to enter the age at which they get a smartphone and these things make me a bit afraid (like, who's watching? Why do they stare at that app for so long? etc). I don't understand the alure, but I want to keep an open mind and not be that old parent that doesn't understand...
Cloudflare essentially centralizing the Internet is disturbing to me. They have the capability to MITM huge swathes of internet traffic, and coupled with the fact they’re a US company, I’m pretty wary of them receiving some sort of order from the NSA.

Every time I’ve used Cloudflare, it’s been on a dedicated, cookieless subdomain serving static content only. Call me paranoid, but this company may be doing serious damage to our privacy online.
A bit unrelated, but a few days ago I remember how much I enjoyed MSN Messenger when I was a teenager, and doing a bit of Googling I found this with my girlfriend: https://escargot.log1p.xyz/

They just recreated the Messenger webserver adn patched the software to connect to it instead of the official (and deprecated one). I downloaded it, used it a few days and it was very enjoyable experience.

Of course, since we don't know how these recreted servers work, I'd suggest to not talk anything important and of course, not use real email addresses or passwords. And also, check if the software has malware (in my attempts to check that, everything was negative).

Anyway I wanted to share it.
Good ideas here. I don’t think that the hack to produce attractive underlining for links is any longer necessary, as recent versions of major web engines seem to render underlining in the style that he’s going for by default. Am I wrong?
Since Marxist-Leninism claims international solidarity and free market capitalists claim international trade as key values, I'm not sure completely isolated states would be a fairer test of their economic models.

We've had plenty of tests of communist states becoming capitalist ones though, for reasons it would be difficult to attribute entirely to capitalist interference
c6593b93e8d85a8cd3d2ead3fa05b9b37f362e18 this was his last commit
A lot of the huge equipment (trucks etc.) in Australian mines is already either remotely controlled or completely autonomous, precisely because there are no people around and the mines are so remote there are no surprises
The blue pill of internet
Regardless of what the practice is in Canada, I have zero faith in literally any US business to round down on anything, at anytime, for any reason at all. It will, I guarantee, be round up on everything.
I agree with the other commenter. Eventual consistency has always been roughly a synonym for "tactical lack of consistency." The reason this works is that inconsistency is, in many business domains, not such a big deal as we make it out to be. Most business are used to data lagging behind, documents being filed incorrectly, decisions being changed and half of documents referring to the old decision, to mention just a few possibilities. As long as everything is dated and there are corroborating versions of all facts, this can be untangled by experts in the few cases it really matters. Most of the time, it doesn't matter that much.

Eventual consistency is embracing this philosophy of a lack of consistency for computer systems too, on the basis that maintaining actual consistency would be too expensive/complex/slow, which is frequently the case.

This of course, in principle, can lead to ever degrading consistency and since you can't assume everything is consistent, you also cannot really verify consistency in any other way than heuristically, as another commenter suggested.

Eventual consistency is a design driven by practical needs. It is never a path to reach complete data purity.

And this applies both to streaming and batch tasks alike.
I was a bit critical of my wife using TikTok until I realized that she replaced the negativity of Facebook with something that, in its current form, is pretty harmless. It's replaced rants and frustration with laughter and positivity.
yes, I sent them a message, here is what they said:

"
If you cannot resolve the issue through your financial institution and have received confirmation from Apple that your order could not be completed, you may place a new order using a different payment method. To prevent further issues, please follow these steps:
• Use the latest version of Safari and clear cache and cookies before accessing the payment page.
• Before placing the new order, notify your financial institution that you are expecting a charge from Apple and confirm that your billing information is accurate.
• Be sure to use a payment method that is accepted for developer purchases in your region, as presented during the purchase process.
• Confirm that all payment details match the information on file with your financial institution when submitting the new order."

----

I followed all the steps, carefully. Today is the seventh time I tried and it's the same. I've never had any problems with the cards or the bank and they tried to help me but it seems Apple is special.

Anyway, if I call Apple support and they solve the problem, I don't want to have to do this every year... I don't want to beg apple to approve my payment every year. This is not how it should work.
But the modern meaning is basically either just "someone I disagree with", "someone I don't like", "someone acting in bad faith", or "someone in the out group". It's a word that means practically nothing now.
I'm not sure how I got sucked into Tiktok but I was quickly hooked. There's something so refreshingly playful, authentic, and raw about so much Tiktok content compared to Instagram. Instagram (explore/discovery) is generally pretty people with pretty things in pretty places. That was fun for a while but it's just not that interesting after a while. I don't need to see more pretty pictures of women doing yoga. I don't need to see more pretty mountain bikes I can't afford. I don't need to see anymore drone shots of Milford Sound in New Zealand.

Tiktok, on the other hand, is playful, diverse, and interesting (at least my feed is). Once you start liking content, the feed completely changes from teenage lip sync videos or other teenager-oriented content into such a nice variety of content. I legitimately laugh my ass off or smile happily at so much of it. Other content teaches me about food, gardening, dancing, DIY, media theory, hiking alone, gender bending, etc. etc. The list goes on. Some of the videos delight me and others inform me.

Instagram, by contrast, just feels so bland now.
I'm not an expert in this field, but I did come across the carrier-grade NAT range on a very odd project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT
Ben is absolutely right and something needs to be done to fight for the values of liberalism, democracy etc we hold dear but I don't see how this will happen. The world seems more divided than ever. Just 2-3 countries unilaterally acting on these issues isn't going to make a difference, how I wish there were strong leaders in some of the nations who knew how to work well for those ideals in the long term together with others.

Also, this is not just about Tiktok as Ben mentioned. When American corporations like NBA start censoring things on their own soil, it is beyond reprehensible.
Yes you can. I used a jailbreak app on ios6 and I used llama on Android for this.

>The average for Boston is 21 meters; New York 27 meters; Austin, TX, 28 meters; Washington 29 meters, and Chicago 38 meters.

https://www.mobilemarketer.com/ex/mobilemarketer/cms/news/re...

I got my own room in my house with it, back in the 3G/4G days. I'm not sure what modern software and hardware can do it now, but I'm pretty sure it's even more accurate even without 5G.
This was likely a conversion of Sikorski S-55 helicopters that were retired from the US military around 1969/1970.

The look of this helicopter reminds me of the outwardly similar Sikorski S-58 that was used in the TV series "Riptide". I saw a few episodes of that as a child and I guess I'll never be able to forget that particular association.
> 18. Everything that can be labeled can be hated.

That's a good one. Surprised I haven't heard that one before.
Next up in kayagliding...
Let’s start with the same scenario: cameras are placed inside a home to try to catch you packing drugs except... it turns out you’re not a drug dealer. So they wait, and wait, and the whole time record everything going on in your house. Your arguments with your wife, your “romantic time”, the ridiculous things your kids say.

Doesn’t that feel like a huge violation of your privacy?
Hence the need for numeracy. You need to be able to do a little bit of thinking for any given number, the context, etc. For example, think about all the people you know, and also how that 0.01 might not be a random sampling of the entire population, but "cluster" in certain cohorts like the elderly, and consider that 0.01 is the worst-case outcome, but in many situations more will still have really bad consequences.
I worked at an Insurance Broker ~1998 as the assistant to the CIO who was also the only network engineer. Which I guess made me the PFY.

We use to deploy those mini tower eMachines to the staff, but we'd rip out the WinModems and replace them with a NIC. So we had a box of about 100 WinModems collecting dust in the corner. The newer machines came with 20+GB HDDs so we'd swap those out with smaller 4-8GB HDDs we had laying around.

At some point a 1800 number got decommissioned but the local number and internal distribution tree were still active in the PBX. I ended up taking a decomissioned IVR and swapping out the Retorrex boards for WinModems and configuring it as dialup internet service and used a bunch of those large HDDs to host an FTP Server on it.

I left sometime in 2005 but my makeshift dialup ISP was still active as late as 2008 and there was an extensive collection of DIVX movies still on the FTP server.
At the other end of the spectrum, you have students with ADHD who frequently have more trouble concentrating in remote classes. I don't think the accessibility calculus is as simple as you're making it out to be.
I mean, yes, there's no service where the security/privacy is contractual, that is safe from the state overriding the contract.

But the promise of things like homeomorphic encryption, is that you can do a computation on a truly untrusted substrate, i.e. you can trust computations performed by an untrusted adversary, and also know that they didn't learn anything about those computations. It's a technical solution to security/privacy, not a contractual one.

The ideal that everyone's hoping for, is that there's a way to get that same kind of technical guarantee from cloud compute providers, without needing a layer of maths that makes Monte Carlo quantum simulation look fast.
> It's replaced rants and frustration with laughter and positivity.

... and Chinese spyware in the pockets of children.
"Object" detection, not "Objection".
Yes it's 6 days ago!
>It is an educational game, if it was something else it wouldn't have been on the list

Maybe your are halfway truth your thinking WHY it's actually a interesting decision....but just halfway...
It already has been in a sense, as the underlying technology for SEV was developed by AMD to protect the DRM running on game consoles.

That being said, AMD SEV is transparent to the underlying applications and users, so anyone with an interest in protecting memory from certain classes of attacks (e.g., Meltdown, Rowhammer) can benefit.

Other technology in this space (e.g., Intel SGX, Arm TrustZone) requires the application to explicitly support the secure enclave, so their usefulness to a typical end-user is much more limited, and as such, they aren't really used much other than to enable DRM.
> Of course, this being in England, I was in truth handed sweets, but one makes accommodations for our American cousins.

FWIW, even in America, 'sweets' is a pretty common description for candy and other treats made predominantly from sugar (donuts, etc).
True, but I really like my apple leather folio case...
I'm actually just fundamentally confused about what is being argued.

I'm familiar with streaming, as a concept, from the likes of Beam, Spark, Flink, Samza - they do computations over data, producing intermediate results consistent with the data seen so far. These results are, of course, not necessarily consistent with the larger world because there could be unprocessed or late events in a stream, but they are consistent with the part of the world seen so far.

The advantage of streaming is the ability to compute and expose intermediate snapshots of the world that don't rely on the stream closing (As many streams found in reality are not bounded, meaning intermediate results are the only realizable result set). These intermediate results can have value, but that depends on the problem statement.

To examine one of the examples, let's use example 2, this aligns with the idea that we actually don't have a traditional streaming problem. The question being asked is "What is the key which contains the maximum value". There is a difference between asking "What is the maximum so far today" and "What was the maximum result today" -- the tense change is important because in the former the user cares about the results as they exist in the present moment, whereas the other cares about a view of the world in a time frame that is complete. It seems like the idea of "consistent" is being conflated with "complete", wherein "complete" is not a guaranteed feature of an input stream.

If anyone could clarify why the examples here isn't just a case of expecting bounded vs unbounded streams?
Agreed. Yeah, you can make fun of them but they are actually doing something now.
Here's AMD's documentation about it: https://developer.amd.com/sev/

It just encrypts memory pages and registers with a key that the host and other guests can't get.
Yeah, most of what I said applies to all of Canada, except for the specific statistics about Quebec which are even more shifted against marriage than the rest of Canada. Also I believe the status that was created for same-sex couples is civil unions, which at least in Quebec still exists as a separate option as well.

What you said about common law applying to inheritance and splitting doesn't actually apply to Quebec, however. No rights exist in that context here unless otherwise agreed in certain ways. Very different legal regime than the rest of Canada. (Technically common-law partners are called de facto spouses or de facto partners under some Quebec laws, though others include them under the definition of spouse despite not being married. Makes sense since Quebec doesn't use the common-law legal system with respect to relations between people, as opposed to between people and the government where it does.)
I should clarify that by interference I mean in the sense that neither state faces sanctions or blockades due to their national ideology. Or that one state receives massive amounts of capital and preferred trading status due to their ideology.
We seriously have to take a look at how parliamentary systems work. I remember our political science teacher told us that the only country where the presidential system actually works is the US. That was 20 years ago. I think that is no longer true.
At the risk of making a flippant comment, they /are/ called Bruce.
> Self hosting is only best if you want maximum control.

Not necessarily.

Beyond a certain scale you can go build your own datacenter (or smaller: rent a whole rack cabinet in a datacenter) and start exploiting economics of scale.

A lot of people don't realize that nowadays you can pack tens of cores and literally terabytes of ram in a 2u server.
Massachusetts Sues Uber and Lyft over the Status of Drivers
Americans going to Canada for care is a totally different thing, and not relevant to my prior point.

All of Canada has universal healthcare, which again makes Canada a completely different discussion from my earlier comment. There isn't the kind of huge discrepancy between provinces as we'd have if some US states had universal healthcare and some had the status quo.

To your argument about states suing one another - we literally already have localities giving mentally ill people bus tickets out of state, and that's been unable to be stopped via the court system. I'm not dealing in hypotheticals here, I'm talking about things that already happen.
I would be more worried about asphyxiation due to accidental release.
The scale of information available to an app is potentially huge.

Thus they're automatically involved in some sort of information warfare.

I guess there's two options, either by default the the ecosystem doesn't allow for them to have that information ... or they're in play for these types of things.

I don't think there's any other options...
You don't need to understand the allure. Are you not also absorbed by your phone in other ways? What wrong with people smiling, laughing and dancing? I'm an old parent trying to be open minded as well.
Microsoft partners with Citrix for the future of virtual desktops
Nothing that new in terms of gameplay, but the art style and the background story (inspired in real conflicts) are something else
I was recently in Poland again and wanted to buy some books for my father who lives in Germany. Man...they are expansive! What happened there??

No wonder there are so many illegal sources for epubs.
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The lengths to which economists go to avoid negative numbers! Is there any good reason to not use the same sign for all accounts and just flip the sign of the amounts in the transaction instead?
Once I started marking 'not interested' on the super basic teenager dance videos, I eventually stopped seeing them. Same with a lot of the memey songs that get tiring to hear after a while. I'll try to make a list of people who keep popping up.
UK bans Huawei from 5G networks, with total removal by 2027
Not sure I consider Chinese spyware any worse than the US spyware of Facebook, as a resident of neither country. Hand wringing about TikTok seems more rooted in sinophobia than genuine privacy concerns, from where I’m sitting.
About 750MM according to Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bonhomme_Richard_(LHD-6)
I guess the sentiment that TikTok should be sold is gaining ground. It's pretty clear from a regulatory perspective that Facebook won't be allowed to buy it and probably Google neither.

The app also seems to be kind of a wonky fit to Amazons, Microsofts or Apples portfolio (although Amazon does own twitch, so who knows).

I can't make a solid argument for it, but I wouldn't rule out either Netflix or Disney making a bid for TikTok. Both companies are great with video, and I think the current CEO of TikTok is the former COO of Disney. IDK.
I also managed to drop my iPhone without it getting a scratch. It does not prove anything, though. Glass is a fragile material and seemingly similar shocks can have very different results. AFAIK most of high-end smartphones use the same gorilla glass.
Those fees they charge the international students did go somewhere, then :-D

I had as much backed-up space as I could justify (some gigabytes by default), plenty of space for laptops where there were power sockets as well as 1Gb/s wired and fast wifi connections, personal webspace/server, a PostgreSQL database, a Tomcat server, remote SSH access to all computers and a distributed computing system (Condor).

Looking at the current guide for students[1], they also get access to a local Gitlab instance, a private IaaS cloud and a GPU cluster.

[1] http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/csg/services/
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