skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People do. More than a few hams have been involved in the recent US protests.

Radio has different characteristics that make it an imperfect substitute in protests. The biggest one is that people already have cell phones, but pre-event coordination also becomes much more important, and people have to practice. (Not much, but radio discipline is a thing, and in an emergency you need it.)
Maybe they mean this

"Zsh is able to emulate POSIX shells, but its default mode is not POSIX compatible, either."

from http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/index.html
Indeed. It's quite common to move your assets to a living trust in California for this reason, even for the only somewhat wealthy. It's basically SOP to set up a trust rather than just a will if you have assets above the simplified probate threshold. (I'm sure Moskovitz, being more than somewhat wealthy, has additional reasons.)
Sounds like you might want LXD which starts and leaves running a full "machine" container. You can even SSH to it if you want or just use "lxc shell bionic" to get into it.

https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/getting-started-cli/
To say the least. But it's nonetheless a direct quote from Epic Games' lawyer Katherine Forrest. I agree it's a dubious claim, but that's what Epic told the court.

“It will no longer be a usable engine,” Forrest said. “Developers are fleeing the Unreal Engine. It’s happening now. It’s not speculative.”
Conspiracy to commit crime is already a crime.

Being a dissident, not so much.
And if you want a shell? Just use “bash” as the command.
Goodness. Are you suggesting AI-powered flying killing machines that we can't supervise or control remotely (even temporarily due to jamming) are ok?
I remembered your post after I saw these

https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/ifytxk/ysk_t...

https://themarkup.org/banned-bounty/2020/06/18/how-we-invest...
>A key shortcoming that makes many of these attacks possible is that Bridgefy offers no means of cryptographic authentication, which one person uses to prove she’s who she claims to be.

Identity is critical in encrypted messaging. Identity is a hard problem in practice. Very few things do an adequate job. The things that do are awkward and require concepts that few people understand.
The American obsession of thinking of the UN as world government

I don't know if it's because of Trump, but as far as I can tell Americans don't think of the UN at all anymore.

At all. There have been so many recent events where the UN could have been involved, but wasn't.

E.g. when the USA recently smoked General Soleimani with Hellfire missles, where was the UN?

I watch local and network evening news on a regular basis, but didn't hear anything about this being discussed in the UN.

Perhaps it was debated, but it went unnoticed by about 99% of the US population.
A rapist, in prison, can still operate their own scientific research organizations, invest in others, donate to others

Someone that raped is in prison for rape. Their funds are not subject to civil or criminal forfeiture, and it wouldn’t make sense for it to be, so explain the expectations of illiquidity here.
Too much focus on the guy and too little focus on what he is saying in the comments. Thats a bad sign.
or "overcoming narcissism" ?
This feels like the old anti-piracy techniques games used in the 90s... asking specific questions along with the page number of the answer in the manual.
If you guys implement that, I’d certainly be in. That’s my only hurdle for dropping a few bucks to try something new.
It doesn't need to be one or the other. The quiz could be optional, and answering correctly would simply give your comments a rating boost - or inversely, you could put a badge of shame on any comments from people who hadn't passed the quiz. Then you just let the natural human dynamics play out.
While we all want this to end, this isn't going to win people over.
I think an interesting result of this has increased the snobbishness/elitism of UT Grads. Older UT Alums (prior to the 10% rule) are pretty chill people, but the newer ones are universally entitled jerks.
Difference is HEAD request or conditional GET, the server will not send a file if it matches the time and/or tag of the version you have, so you are replying with a few bytes rather then (potentially) dozens or hundreds of megabytes. Same with all CDNs.
EBS Storage Improvements
The things the average faculty member would do for a 100k grant are truly disgusting, and would probably make Epstein retch.
I used to be upset about this. But now I just use a chrome extension to ban people who have clearly not read the article. It just kills any comment thread they start. My HN is much more useful now.

My Twitter is fine because I only follow people who don't do this.
In 2007, with the support of luminaries like Steven Pinker and Alan Dershowitz, Epstein managed to finagle from Alex Acosta a non-prosecution agreement for human trafficking that ultimately resulted in a country club sentence that allowed him, during his short custodial sentence, to work from his own private office for 12 hours every day.

The problem people have with Epstein's "support for science" is that he spent his life collecting influential people, and, in at least once notorious instance but likely many others, deploying the influence of those people to his ends, which included the trafficking of minors for rape. One reasonably asks, "was Epstein actually trying to fund science at Harvard? Or was brokering donations for programs he could brag about having a hand in getting off the ground just an easy way to create social bonds with the world's most influential people?" One then looks at what Pinker did for Epstein in 2007 and, probably, quickly finds the answer to that question.

This was also the problem with the MIT Media Lab's policy of denying named donations for Epstein while allowing him to broker donations behind the scenes. They were getting money from powerful people, because of Epstein's work. But MIT and the Media Lab's management missed what Epstein was getting out of the deal.
> You can check your Goldback by looking at the serial # on the front and verifying it is the same # on the reverse.

Let me get this straight. They print one number on one side. Then, on the other side, they have managed to print the exact same number. The same number on both sides. How could they have that kind of technology? How could one side of the goldback possibly know what's on the other? It's witchcraft.
I mean, I think the real answer is that most companies use inexpressive languages with heavy emphasis on mutation.
> The actual creation cost of the Goldback is currently around $1,000 per ounce of gold (or 1,000 Goldbacks). We add 10% to the total price for retailers in order to come up with the minimum exchange rate. You can calculate the exchange yourself with this formula: Spot gold + $1,000 + 10%

Spot gold is $1,942, so the fraction of the value of the bill that is gold is 1942/3236 =~ 60%. So 1/10 of your investment goes away immediately, and 1/3 is in a pretty certificate that is not likely to appreciate.

These may be good for small transactions after the apocalypse but they aren't a good way to invest in gold or to store value.
One of the subtle things about SaaS is far less "up-front" costs or fixed costs. This helps sell to business around the lines of pay-as-you-grow rather than commit to x years of SLAs. Shrink-wrapping software takes away this key sales lever and leads to longer sales cycle which might be part of the reason why SaaS models are so attractive.
This is very true, in politics specially things are not black or white, and in this case, common sense will just label him as a bad guy, despite the fact that he may have positive impact in science contributions. One specific situation that raises questions was his donation to Long Beach PD, for protection, while they also turn one eye blind for his behavior
Which extension?
Let me just check.

$27.9 billion in operating income the prior four quarters.

$58.2 billion in cash.

It appears they will be able to afford the taxes.
> Data Types PuffinBASIC has extended BASIC types and supports Int32, Int4, Float32, Float64, and String.

That's hardly "extended". Where are decimals, arbitrary precision numbers, dates, datetimes, lists/sets/stacks, dictionaries, structured types, enumerated types? Let alone advanced types.
Sounds like a good way to get nuked by the dying rest of the world, not profit.
That’s a massive misunderstanding of warfare. The complaint is over the deployment of forces not the total quantity of such forces.

Any nation in history will lose a single battle if their enemies concentrate on a single point and their defending a huge area. However, such a loss represents no significant reduction in fighting forces and is therefore not militarily meaningful. Further a massive defensive concentration of forces into a small area just means the actual attack takes place somewhere else.

In the end winning requires armies to face armies or supplies to run out over long periods.
Part of it could be due to using Rust as the implementation language. Rust has good, cross-platform abstractions over things like threads and processes. The language tends to make it harder to shoot yourself in the foot.

Would definitely like to hear from the authors of Nushell on how their language choice has held up over the course of the project.
Same experience. What's the point of a message board where you can't read the posts?
I was about to comment this. Its a damn shame they didnt leave it active and lightly tugged people on MDN about it... Hell even a few social media esque campaigns about it to raise awareness would of not hurt.
"Complicated" meaning there is no certainty to how long it will take, or even whether it will succeed at all.

Nobody uses assembly code if they can avoid it. But the machine instructions that implement the code are known and unchanging. And nobody re-uses that memory for different things at different times, if there is enough for each use to have its own. Which there always is, nowadays.
In situations where this could be used and the author would have the opportunity to create and enforce the use of such a "quiz", the author (or the collective of people the author associates with) has already chosen to give the commenters a platform when they don't have to.
If you absolutely can't persist and have the money to take some risks, you could consider the scientific computing space which in some cases still uses FORTRAN, though I imagine most things are in C now there.
Clover: An all-in-one notebook
Marilyn Monroe Deepfaked in “Blonde”
I've been considering doing something similar, except with plain CSS:

a.paper ~ a.comments {
display: none;
}

a.paper:visited ~ a.comments {
display: inline;
}
> Epstein's intrest in eugenics is pretty well documented.

i don't think of myself as much of an epstein apologist, but as far as i can tell this traces back to him talking about wanting to have a bunch of children, which seems like a bit of a stretch to me
Each day on twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it

Once upon a time, there were two main characters on Twitter in a single day: two escaped Llamas and a dress.

And it was actually not a bad thing.

Maybe we could try repeating that occasionally instead of accepting that it's a lousy world full of lousy people and that's all it will ever be.
The disturbing part is the domain name not the status code.
> I have about as much ignorance of these domains as all the people mocking the paper on Twitter. But there’s one big difference between me and them: I actually read the paper. All of this information is on the first page. Even if you don’t know about sci-hub, you could still read the abstract and check out the researcher bios! Nobody read the paper before dunking on it. Nobody read the abstract either. About half the people yelling at this paper had only read the press release. The other half hadn’t even done that. They had only read tweets about the press release.

This is a real problem. I'm guilty of not bothering to read the paper many times. I instantly look for the easily digestible reviews or comments that other people made. I'm part of the problem. Damn.
I actually wonder if it's true or not. Can any tax professional relate?
I’ve had plenty of discussions with people on how they plan to move from starter homes to homes in more affluent areas so their kids can mingle with richer kids and go to their schools.
The point was the small amount that she went to jail for, a drop in the bucket for her wealth
After writing this comment, I've started wondering about tablets with nice keyboard attachments and only using it with an app like Joplin. Seems like it might be a similar solution. You can install email apps on tablets, but you don't have to.
Why are there any majors that are only offered at a single school? That seems like a much bigger problem than people being able to pick which school they want to go to.
About a Euro and a half per French citizen. Good on France...
What Comes After Open Source [video]
How old is this?
Some users (including myself) disable the :visited command.
Covid19: Usain Bolt 'tested positive to Coronavirus'
> Leading the web to its full potential

Meanwhile, that W3C logo is sporting a radial gradient + inner shadow + drop shadow combination straight out of 2004!
On the flip side intelligence also uncovers huge networks of despicable people.

https://www.thelocal.dk/20161021/danish-man-ran-scandinavian...
binary pattern matching is also a godsend for network protocols.

I generally prefer using a blocking recv loop when writing network protocol servers in elixir.

I learned some really cool things from this blog post, namely the stuff about multicast membership and groups.
Without wishing to downplay the fact that this is a major issue, it’s hard to read scientific literature from a field you haven’t previously studied. Layman summaries are a great way to get a sense of what the paper is actually saying, though summaries made by random commenters are unreliable.
Science with Rainbows – Spectrophotometry
It's about discourse, not the paper, so it would likely tell you to read the paper.
He’s a benevolent troll, like 3YearLetterman.
I really like making games and apps in Unity, and I don't like Unreal's workflow, but this is the hard truth. Unity's strategy is adding as many features as possible to cover as many cases, a tool to make anything, an asset market to find anything, but you know one more half-baked feature will replace another broken feature soon, or you'll need to buy an asset to make it right. Being messy is their strategy, unless they make a new engine with a unified plan and solid features, Unity won't be the best engine.
Sorry the Bloomberg link showed me a purported recent picture of Celine Dion and I found it hard to concentrate.

Seriously, we the people need to force Apple and Google to authorize qualified third-party app stores and open source the minimum level of development tools to support the hardware, even if they decide to never sell another device again. “It’s just that simple.” (Yeah, I know Google already voluntarily does this, but why target Apple —this should apply to any other manufacturer that mass-produces and “corners” the unsuspecting public market with proprietary systems, even automotive entertainment units.)
There seems to be quite a bit of shadiness going on in the Shopify App Store. A cursory review led to apps that give away the sun and the moon for free, which begs the question; how are they actually making money?

For example, this recommendation engine is "100% free", https://apps.shopify.com/orcinus-product-recommendation

Company page: https://autocommerce.io , and there isn't a pricing plan in sight.

How exactly do you pay for the servers and dev costs? ML experts aren't cheap. They seemed to be backed by an app studio, https://www.innonic.com/en/ . Is this a loss leader? Are they harvesting datasets and selling them to PE? Is it part of some master plan? Or, is it simply an influx of cheap capital in the wrong hands?

What's going on here?

This example is one of several I've found that seem to be data harvesting operations. Could someone trick non-technical folks into introducing severe vulnerabilities for all their customers via this? Tracking them across the internet for fraud or scummy marketing?

Edit: More examples,

https://apps.shopify.com/zoorix

https://apps.shopify.com/upsell-funnel-engine-upsells

Further cursory research shows that this isn't the only category with an impossible value : price ratio. What in the name of Baphomet is going on?
I think the first time I used a touch screen was at Arby's to order my meal around 30 years ago.
Integrating User-Centered Methods into Programming Language Design
I think at least part of the motivation to IPO is that if the US has a new president starting 2021, said person has stated his intent to vastly increase capital gains taxes, probably starting with tax year 2021. Add to that increased corporate tax (which probably affects VCs' math, although I'm not sure how), there's probably a lot of people who would prefer to accelerate their taxable events.
My issue is that NuShell has line hinting, with no way to disable it
Data Scientists use heavy math. You might need a PHD for that. On the other hand, I think you are suited for big data engineering which may use scala, python, cloud based computing and most importantly your exp relates.
Those downsides could also be considered upsides from a certain perspective: More work, more jobs; the industry grows.
You can instantiate, position and script objects in code too. It is helpful to have an asset pipeline to import your models, textures, etc. but then, once you have your prefabs, you can reference them from code and instantiate as you see fit. There is a performance penalty to instantiate at runtime so best practice is to initialize your objects from code at load time, or the start of a scene. Object pooling is also very helpful.
And it's not like much of that US budget is spent wisely. A lot of it is just make-work programs and military industrial complex expenditures to appease various congresspeople and constituencies.
Hypothetically that corrupt person might want to engage in eugenics of some sort. Let’s simply keep dirty money out of legit spaces or we might find mafia as a benefactor in some cases. As some mentioned here, the money Epstein donated was a drop in the bucket and insignificant but to him the ifluence he got in exchange was priceless
Didn't Einstein do his work during business hours as a government-paid patent clerk?
I'm not sure I agree. Usually the Prime has negotiated it as part of their fee package, but there is most certainly fees for applying and granting clearances for third parties. There's even more fees for establishing a proper SSO and certifying as well. We had a default 50k cost barrier for any new TS/SCI candidates we put forth. Sometimes this was reimbursed, but it was most definitely a good faith cost we incurred.
Let's try a relatable thought exercise: there are a lot of misogynists in tech, many of them will be "cancelled" or ostracized in some way. All of their ideas should be ignored and their money should be barred from, let's say, cancer research?

Is that what we are going for here? I'm trying to understand if there is something deeper than I'm perceiving.
I know this isn’t a serious comment, but given he actually read the paper the shortest path from the paper to the author isn’t through that route
The internet in MY is pretty different from VN, or even a skip across the border to SG. Not easy to pick a spot on the globe and assume everything in the vicinity is the same. Even ISPs in the US.
Reminds me of that dustup about Netflix the other day.

Woman of color makes a semi-biographical movie about her experience with the dangers of oversexualizing children on social media.

Reddit, having only seen the poster: Netflix is pedos!
> Last I remember it was the US invading Afghanistan/Iraq and not the other way around.

Which means the US had to do all the expensive logistics work too.
If drone swarms might be a threat in the near future then it only makes sense that the capability to fight them needs to be developed now so you aren't scrambling to R&D a response during wartime.

The way I see it, we're probably headed towards a cold (at minimum) war between sino-russia et. al. and the western allies, so (in the absence of something more effective) tactical nuclear weapons to counter aircraft swarms will become more tolerable as tensions continue to rise - far better to use one to take out a drone swarm and cause drama than risk losing an air wing (or something else that interferes with force projection). Hopefully I'm wrong though.
Vaccines are going to be no less effective than 'herd immunity'.

Countries that don't go for elimination might just have to be permanently locked out from countries that manage to eliminate it.
I prefer the urbandictionary definition:

“Trolling on-line forums as described above is actually analogous to the fishing technique of “trolling”, where colorful baits and lures are pulled behind a slow moving boat.”
In wargames NATO loses the Baltic states to Russia

That's a major change. During the Cold War, absent tactical nukes, NATO loses continental Europe to the Warsaw Pact.
They’re called cruise missiles.
True. Residents of Juneau know not to let cats and small dogs play outside because eagles will take them.

So yeah, I'm all for this technology but it bugs me that we hear so many people who are obviously trying to defend fossil fuels and denigrate renewables couch their rhetoric in terms of "the poor birds!" Yet we never hear them advocate bird-saving technology for tall buildings (which does exist) or keeping house cats indoors.
He’s trolling you
"An assessment of the gender imbalance based on full counting, which does not account for prize share, reveals that women have received 3.29% of the 607 Nobel medals awarded since 1901. But an analysis based on fractional counting, which considers prize share, finds that only 2.77% of the 331 science prizes have gone to women."

https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/the-nobel-gender-gap-i...
I didn’t click the link. Here’s a comment :)
I can't remember exactly, as it's been a few years. I'm pretty sure gparted would have been one of the first things I looked into, though.

Looking at my disk in gparted now, while it shows the LVM physical volume (and would presumably allow resizing it if it weren't in use), it doesn't seem to show the logical volumes and their filesystems inside of the physical volume at all. The partition information window for the LVM PV does list the logical volumes, but not the main window where you can plan the changes.

I don't know if that's a general limitation of gparted or if it's a peculiarity with my setup, but that's how it appears to me.
Link to that research? I'm not familiar, and brief Googling indicates that "Learned Industriousness" is a thing.
Our first job as scientists is to make sure we're not fooling ourselves. I wouldn't just use any old scale to take a measurement. I want a calibrated scale, adjusted to meet a specific standard of accuracy. Such standards and calibrations ensure we can all get "the same" result doing "the same" thing, even if we use different equipment from different vendors. The concerns about code are exactly the same. It's even scarier to me because I realize that unlike a scale, most scientists have no idea how to calibrate their code to ensure accurate, reproducible results. Of course with the scales, the calibration is done by a specialized professional who's been trained to calibrate scales. Not sure how we solve this issue with the code.