skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, you're right - I forgot that the Portuguese had earlier exchange with Japan, during the 16th century.

Japan-Portugal History - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Portugal_relatio...

Right, I'm connecting the dots, picturing the historical context..

That reminds me how Japanese children are taught in basic school about 黒船, "black ships", as representing first contact with the West.

Black Ships - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Ships

This was part of the Age of Discovery, as the Portuguese (chronologically) led the discovery of Africa, Asia, the Americas..
ITER won't be commercially viable. After ITER comes DEMO, which is itself a decades-long project. DEMO won't demonstrate electricity generation until 2048: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstration_Power_Station#Ti...

In my mind, that means we need to see deployment of Gen 4 fission reactors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor) commercially, to bridge the gaps between a decline in coal-fired plants and the potential of renewables.
> Why should we accept rent seeking as inevitable?

In my mind, a couple big reasons.

One, for the same reason that we accept a lot of awful things like murder as inevitable. Of course we'd rather get rid of these things, but it's unrealistic to think we'll get rid of them completely, so the systems we have in place for dealing with them when they happen will always be very important.

Two, because these things are often in the eye of the beholder. What I see as "rent seeking", you might see as "providing a public good". Most people (on HN at least) think current US copyright law represents a lot of rent seeking by Disney. But most of the same people still support some notion of copyright. There's no clear line where "public good that most people agree with" ends and "rent seeking" begins.
A comparison will be wellcome
The article doesn't explain, but how is this different from Google or Facebook analytics? I'm not familiar with either, but this is certainly data that both those companies (and many others) gather, isn't it?
This is an example of beautiful technical writing, so I decided to re-post it to HN.

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22233295
Trump’s Plan to Regulate Social Media
The billionaire curse [philanthropy as enterprise]
Definitely.

~$200 midi keyboard vs ~$700 electric piano with weighted keys.

It's even more dramatic than going from a spectrum keyboard to a mechanical one. Torture vs Pleasure to use.
Akshually, a CPU is an individual component of an outfit, eg. a black fruit of the loom t-shirt with the labels cut out.
and the DEM has always been in a native digital format. The whole problem here is that the aerials and conventional maps are not, they're on paper and film and fiche. It takes a lot of time and money to get it digitized and available and USGS was not able to do that for a long time. You could argue that Google's generous offer to digitize the EROS archives contributed to the delays on this.

Keep in mind that when we talk about the EROS archives we're talking about data that goes back to the 1930s and earlier for some product types.

For a long time I got the topo maps from the website of a state government bureau that had conveniently run them through their own large-format scanner and posted the TIFFs - USGS didn't get around to it for years after. It's hard to blame them too much as they had a shoestring budget.

Actually, for amusement value, that state agency appears to have removed the TIFFs from their website and now says that you can order the topo maps by mail for $8 a piece, which is what I used to have to do. I wonder if USGS got mad at them, which is a bit ironic since they don't mention that USGS themselves only recently started offering them online for free. For additional amusement value EarthExplorer, the fairly new service that lets you retrieve aerials online, has a banner up that downloads are intermittently broken and indeed I can't get it to work at the moment.
You smell wrong.
Mouth breathing or chest breathing. When you breath from your chest you take more breaths and if it is through your mouth you often over oxygenate.

When breathing (normal) it's important to use the nose to both inhale and exhale. It helps regulate the amount of oxygen you take in (keeps your mouth from getting dry).

You should also try to breath from your abdomen/stomach instead of your chest. Abdominal breathing creates a stronger respiratory system and core where chest breathing creates a weaker one (my observations).
See my comment below, about page 12 of this poll:

https://www.kekstcnc.com/media/2793/kekstcnc_research_covid-...

I only just learned about it but if this poll is accurate, it explains a lot.
Identification of molecular cause of inherited microcephaly
The Critical Importance of Decentralized, Explainable AI for Social Networks
I was active from very early on but lost trust in SO when my best answer got turned into a community wiki. It’s an amazing resource but now I mostly consume.
I generally prefer the pagination style of navigation for longer materials unless it's being used as reference material that I want to quickly search through. The reason being is that with scrolling I find it's easy to lose my place via accidental scroll. Again, it depends on the content and its use.
Is it still different from "Firefox Nightly" (previously named "Firefox Preview")?

This Firefox Nightly one uses the Gecko rendering engine, while the standard one uses Android's (or Google's?) Chrome Webview. Has this changed?
I've been using the NNTP server provided by https://www.aioe.org/ for quite a few years.

There is also https://www.eternal-september.org/ which I used.

AOIE requires no authentication. The Eternal September server requires account registration via the web site; then you use an authenticated NNTP connection.

There are other servers out there.

These sites do not provide any archive.
> This is false. Deaths were down, but they have been climbing again for the last three weeks.

Deaths relative to cases are down...

> Mortality is a lagging indicator to infections, so what we're seeing right now is mortality from the earliest stages of reopening.

...even accounting for lag.

> There may be some factors that are combating more severe symptoms (e.g. greater vitamin D, if that turns out to be a real effect), but the virus hasn't recently become somehow less potent.

Then why are deaths down? Why is no other state repeating anything close to what New York went through?

> False again. In the current hotspot states -- Florida, Arizona, and Texas -- ICU capacity in many areas is strained or overwhelmed

Nowhere does it say "overwhelmed". At or near capacity is not "overwhelmed". It's better to ring the alarms sooner than later, of course.
Deepl is better than Google translate for the few languages it supports.
Really I'm struggling with your statement about digital distribution being new for the USGS. We're talking about an agency that ran a finger service to inform people about recent earthquakes!
Amex is always best, done.
Maybe these types of historical archives can be turned over to internet archive. I trust them a lot more than google for this.
Topiks
He unpacks that here: https://www.quora.com/What-did-Steve-Jobs-mean-when-he-said-....
>Haploinsufficiency of X-linked intellectual disability gene CASK induces post-transcriptional changes in synaptic and cellular metabolic pathways

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00144...
This project feels like how the Pandora project was. It was expensive for it's time, promised to do cool things and then was in suspended animation for years while the world changed. Snapdragons got mainlined. Phones got cheaper. Other Linux phones that worked completely came out.
They should have delayed it and just put in a mainlined snapdragon processor.
> A lot of people, clubs and businesses publish their content on Facebooks and Instagrams because those platforms are better for getting your content out to your followers and more people. They are being rational.

I like trains, and I started a website back in 2001 for people to share their photos. It was reasonably popular. One of my drivers was taxonomy and archiving of images for future enthusiasts.

Today, it's dead. People post their photos on Facebook groups. They get attention, likes - all the stuff that matters to a human. A week later the photos are lost in the group, hard for anyone to find, no indexing, no exposure. The comments - from people who worked on the railways, knew people involved - useful to historians of the future, are fantastic. But if you can't find them, what point?

I get why Facebooks succeeded. For my site, I was a total geek: why would I dirty the site with anything social? Well, look who's laughing now.
The costs are just unbearably high.

$2000-$4000/mo family plans?

It's a mortgage with only downsides and no appreciation.
"""
Magnetic Fields:
Find a central metaphor that's so good that everything aligns to it. Design meetings are no longer necessary, it designs itself. The metaphor should be crisp and fun.
"""

this might not always be possible but if you can reveal a powerful, clear metaphor (& oh my are good metaphors tricky to come by!) the resulting alignment is truly liberating.
US Libertarianism was founded by corporations. FEE, the Foundation for Economic Education, was originally funded by GM, Chrysler and Ford, the major retailers, steel producers, and others at the top of the Fortune 500 around 1946.

The goal? Lobbying against labor & Government regulations. Milton Friedman (a huge fan of Ayn Rand) pushed out the propaganda against labor, government and rent control, as FEE was being paid by the National Real Estate board to lobby against rent control.

They are pro-business and anti-democracy, unless you define that in terms of Oligarchy.
The Floyd case happened after months of people being locked in their homes, unable to lead active and healthy social lives. While not as bad as solitary confinement, 2020 has been a psychologically grueling year. Floyd's death was the spark that set off a powder keg.

Remember, too, that the immediate aftermath was truly widespread horror. Everyone agreed that it was terrible. My recollection is that is the protests against police in general grew harsher, other folks started to accentuate the fact that Floyd was not a perfect man. And then everyone lost control of their collective sanity.
The subject of the conversation is developers, who are almost by definition luxurious professionals.
You can use ofono and mmsd on the Pinephone to get MMS working for both attachments and group chats: https://sr.ht/~anteater/mms-stack/
> I'm not sure if these protections extend to those using third party email clients with these services

In Fastmail's case, those protections don't extend. I've tested this and Fastmail rewrites the image URLs when viewing through their webmail client but passes the message unmodified when fetching via IMAP.

I understand why they'd do this but I'd love to have a setting that says to do this privacy rewrite when using an external client.
It's also the structure that a formal class affords that makes it more effective. This is part of the appeal of book clubs (yes, part of it is, for some people, the opportunity to hang out with people and drink wine and eat cheese): some externally imposed structure makes it easier to commit to learning something. Paying for an opportunity also tends to make people more likely to honor their commitment.
I love that watch. My biggest issue is the unintended button presses by bending the wrist and toggling 24h to AM/PM. Infuriating!
Game development takes a cynical look at game monetisation
We've seen exponential growth curves of people dying before, it's not happening now. More tests or not, what gives?
So now I need to register an account to see it? That seems like a bigger hurdle.

Nice landing page though!
The question does not make sense to me. It‘s a market. You require a masters degree and an additional tough 1.5 years of training? Better pay me well, through salary or benefits. Let‘s not kid ourselves: most of us (highly qualified) white collars in the private sector enjoy some additional retirement scheme and can reach much higher salaries.
On the other hand, gold has historically kept up with inflation. So it's also going up when interest rates are high. Just look at its performance in the 2000s before 2008.

Also there have been periods where it has been going down even though interest rates were low (e.g. after 2011).

I would much rather argue that the value of gold is loosely correlated with money supply over the long run.

The current short term surge in gold prices seems to be driven by fear and lack of other secure investment opportunities.
This is great. It is indeed the web browser that should be seen today as the e-book reader (among other things).
Are we so stubbornly "anti-sensitivity" that we have to have a fight over changing a word?

The word is not necessary, so why does anyone have to be offended if it's changed?
I don't think anyone should be denied entry to a country if they're willing to undergo a 2 week quarantine at their own expense.
Yes, there's a lot here and I don't claim to be an expert on it all, but after Iraq, whenever there's a claim that we must rush off to war for some reason and there's no time to think about it or investigate, I become very deeply suspicious.

I remember originally dismissing the idea that we would go to war with Iraq very early on because it was the "stupidest possible thing we could do." Live and learn?

I picked that article because it gives a good summary, but you're right that it's necessary to pick these things apart in detail.
If you're on Windows, you can do something like this with AutoHotkey:

; Make alt-q in Firefox type ctrl-l followed by "% "
#IfWinActive ,ahk_class MozillaWindowClass
!q::Send, ^l`%{Space}
#IfWinActive
In my country we have a saying that roughly translates to: "stupid, yes, but many!"

Jerry Springer watchers vote and not only that.
A kind of not-assertion then.

On a related note, perhaps someone can help me. In C# MS has decided that an assertion means to pop up a stack trace in a modal dialog, then continue. This seems wrong. Any insights as to why they do this?
If it delivers the same value to the student, shouldn't it still be worth $30,000? The input costs are irrelevant.

If it is only worth $20,000 now, which may very well be true, value has been lost. So, what value is lost? I imagine it will be a lot harder to make new friends and find new lovers when you spend your time at home on a computer instead of mingling at school.

Were people previously paying $10,000 per year (to stick with your numbers) to make friends and find lovers?
What you can do with NNTP is run a local NNTP caching server. Then connect to that server instead of the real one. Your caching server can retain articles as long as you want; much longer than the upstream server.

(Though mere long article retention is not necessarily the best archive interface, of course.)

Disclaimer: I'm not well-versed in the solutions in this space. Maybe there is some NNTP cacher out there that also has a web archive interface into it or whatever.
That's a very good point, we need to allocate much more towards fusion R&D
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The WHO didn't praise the PRC because they believed in them, they did it because they needed the PRC's cooperation to have any information about what's happening in Wuhan. They obviously kowtowed to the PRC in repeating their propaganda, so you should take their pro-Beijing messaging with a grain of salt, but expediency during the Wuhan outbreak doesn't make them puppets either.

The WHO is funded primarily by the United States (despite Trump's recent threats), the United Kingdom, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. China contributes less than a tenth of what the US does. The idea that WHO is permanently beholden to China just doesn't add up. Now that China is no longer the center of the outbreak, WHO's praise of the PRC has (as far as I can tell) completely stopped.
It may not matter in the developed world where this cost doesn't matter because infrastructure is cheap. There are still limits to how much this can scale as a solution no?

For a Country like India, surely this cost will matter especially for it's poorest citizens. The limits of this infinite scaling NAT will matter. That and the cost of an IP which I imagine will inflate much higher than $20 an address.

It's 2020, why isn't this a priority on the roadmap. I think it would have a much more meaningful impact to those that need it.
> sell the data to advertisers

Do they?
What your friends really think of you
One of the things that I've learned from historians is how often they have to teach people empathy. From Brett Devereaux having to explain to students that people from other religions actually believe their own religion[1] to Jen Manion explaining in this post that people defined their gender in relation to their own upbringing, students don't naturally just know how to empathize. It's really a difficult thing to put yourself in the shoes of another human being.

I ran into this myself when discussing historical experiments with regard to cholera. The person I was discussing was arguing that certain experiments were unscientific, based on the fact that they weren't eliminating the proper variables. I'm not sure I really ever got him to understand that the scientists at that time didn't already know what caused cholera--that they were asking questions of nature because they really didn't know the answers.

It is cliche that if you don't know history you're doomed to repeat it, but I think it goes deeper than that: if you can't empathize with history, you're doomed to repeat it. It's tempting to look at people from the past as quaint and stupid, but the fact is, evolutionarily, people from 1000 years ago are barely distinguishable from us: their brains are as developed as ours. If they are quaint and stupid, then we are quaint and stupid--just as enslaved by our fears, superstitions, nationalisms, and enmities as they were. History should teach us to be humble.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2019/06/04/new-acquisitions-how-it-wasnt-...
It seems to also cause oxygen deprivation, in which case it has roughly the same effect as sniffing glue. Definitely life changing...
My understating of the issue is that one need to keep the plasma is the adequate state for
1. the reaction to occur (i reckon we can do that for a fraction of a microsecond or something)
2. make it self-sustaining (we're not here yet)
3. Obviously without producing an H-bomb. Neighbours might get unhappy.
AR-15 isn't a specific rifle. Why do people talk this way? There are AR-15 that can shoot .22LR, and 9mm. They're decently accurate when configured properly.

Unless you mean the real "ArmaLite AR-15", or a clone, which shoots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.223_Remington. Now that round will absolutely wreck things. But even then, it's not really a high-powered round...
Why would adverts decrease your trust in Firefox in terms of privacy?
I'm not familiar with that problem as I don't use VNC sorry :(

I would like to get VNC working but haven't done the research post wayland.
I definitely recommend Physical Therapy for that. They are Doctors but not MDs, they don't prescribe. They teach exercises, stretches and do massage and that crack that chiropractors do.

Physical Therapy is really what I need most the time, but when I was a kid I was taught to go see a PCP.
Q2 2020 GAAP AMD INTC
----------------------------
Revenue $1.93 $19.7
Gross Margin 44% 53.3%
op. income $0.173 $5.7
net income $0.157 $5.1

(billions)

AMD has room to grow.

https://www.intc.com/investor-relations/investor-education-a...
It's been promising for years and under delivering. You could get all that with a cheapo phone that is given out free on prepaid.
This plugin is awesome but one thing I've noticed lately is several financial institutions use tracking pixels to verify e-mail addresses and if you don't open an e-mail in a way that loads the pixel once every so often, they drop you from paperless statements.

I've run into this with Capital One and Discover. Every year I have to log in and click "yes I want paperless statements" and then 11 statements later I get one in the mail with a message about "we miss you, you're not opening our e-mails so here's a paper statement unless you tell us you want e-statements and you open our e-mails." Never mind that I log into the mobile apps and web-based account management systems multiple times per month...
Sure, just about anything could work. With a dynamic language your hardware requirements will be about 10x more. But that's a tradeoff you might want for possibly faster development time.
It can be their rules, but then they should not be able to advertise things like this:

"Free expression is a human right. Everyone has a voice, and the right to use it. On Twitter, you should feel safe expressing your unique point of view with every Tweet – and it’s our job to make that happen."

"Twitter stands for freedom of expression for everyone."

"We do not take sides. We show sides. Every side."

"We treat everyone equally: the same Twitter Rules apply to all."

"we allow strong opinions and controversial views."
I read the comment in full, and the comment is wrong. Facebook’s statement:

> “The exceptionally broad nature of the Commission’s requests means we would be required to turn over predominantly irrelevant documents that have nothing to do with the Commission’s investigations, including highly sensitive personal information such as employees’ medical information, personal financial documents, and private information about family members of employees,”

There is no “might” PR weasel-wording as OP implies. It is clear that Facebook believes with certainty they are asking to turn over information that is predominantly irrelevant.

Also, the OP’s statement that the EU “has no use for the information” is irrelevant and an affront to privacy. If the EU has no use for it, then they should not be asking for it.

“Facebook bad! EU good!” is a naive mentality and I’m disappointed to see that HNers are falling into the same groupthink present everywhere else.
Lobdell wound up in the poor house in Delhi, New York state where they met their love – Marie Louise Perry – in 1860 or 1861, and partnered with her for nearly 20 years.

Currently, being LGBTQ puts one at high risk of being homeless. Perhaps not a new phenomenon.

Relatives and neighbours began citing Lobdell’s gender and marriage to a woman as evidence of their insanity.

Calling people "crazy" is a frequent means to invalidate everything about them. It was done to Semmelweis, though he had studies to back up his claims, and it is a common meme that "homeless people are all just junkies and crazies."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

Here we see their neighbours and community members turning on them and describing them in the harshest possible light before a judge who held the power of life (freedom) and death (forced institutionalisation) over them.

Claims that someone is insane seem to frequently be a means to de facto justify atrocious treatment of them which would be deemed abusive if their claims were viewed as valid in some manner.
Local spending is generally where I see the most obvious productivity from government spending.

Local government spending is what educates the children, paves the roads, keeps my house from burning down or getting robbed, runs the parks and libraries, etc.