skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EFF continues to conflate zero-rating and "sponsored data". Both can be anti-competitive, but in different ways.

Zero-rating is an ISP not charging for data from a particular source. Sponsored data is someone other than the user paying the ISP's charge for user's data from a particular source (usually data from the entity paying for it). (In cases like HBO and AT&T, where the company paying for the data and the ISP are part of the same company or subsidiaries of the same company, I'd count that as a form of disguised zero rating rather than sponsored data).

The case for regulating zero-rating is much stronger than the case for regulating sponsored data.

Note that a company could in effect do sponsored data without even having an arrangement with an ISP. E.g., a company could keep track on its end of how much data from them each customer used each month, map that to ISPs based on IP address, and then give each customer a discount on their monthly bill based on that ISPs rates and that customers use.

Let's call this "manual sponsored data".

It's hard to make a case that manual sponsored data is automatically bad, of even usually bad. Companies are usually allowed to bundle products from other companies or provide discounts on products from other companies that go well with theirs.

In particular, its hard to make a case that even if someone does do manual sponsored data in a way that is bad, we need separate regulation for it instead of letting it be dealt with under antitrust just like you do for other third-party bundling arrangements.

But if manual sponsored data is allowed, it is then hard to make the case that it is bad to allow ISPs to facilitate it by offering a service where they track the usage for you, and then bill you for your customer's data usage instead of billing the customer.

Zero-rating, on the other hand, because it is the ISP itself choosing what to zero-rate, and because the ISP is providing last mile infrastructure for which there is very little competition in most areas, is much more likely to be anti-competitive.

It could still also be dealt with by antitrust, but because it is already taking place under highly constrained competition you can make a decent argument that it is worth specialized regulation.

Conflating the two just makes it much less likely that such regulation will happen.
The police are fundamentally a low paid blue collar labor force with union protections. They are not your college professor or the protagonist of a murder mystery, but more like a plumber or construction worker.

The moment you understand that, it's not a mystery that they sort of blindly accept tools that seem to work without deep introspection. They are not equipped to be a data analytics shop, they are equipped to fill out paperwork and sometimes get into tussles.
Oh look! Magic!

I think if bash had some interactive help with this magic when it appears then it would be a lot more helpful and a lot less magical.
Zoom users are reporting significant outages
For your second question, I believe those lines are explained a bit further down the page: "The reddish horizontal lines are remnants of the metal layer, which was removed for this photo. These lines carried the control signals, power, and ground."
This should be a monster. We have no direct game development tools exposure on the stock market, unless you count Autodesk, but their tools are usable by other industries. That means it's gonna be shouldering a burden for an entire industry, and one that the stock market doesn't understand or appreciate. Potential for going either way, really.

Development tools have traditionally been a poor investment long term, but that's not been the case since about 2010, especially since Atlassian went public.

Unity is also gonna be a proxy for Unreal. Since these two competitors are not directly competing on the stock market, Unity should be a bit of a mirror for what the market thinks Unreal would be worth on its own.
Again, I agree the law is unjust in some ways! Many forms of wage theft ought to be crimes.

What doesn't make sense to me is the implication that decriminalizing petty theft would make the law more just. If people go around stealing $5 all the time, Walmart can absorb that loss - the guy who's flat broke until his paycheck this Friday can't.
Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices,computers directly via TCP,UDP
Yes it does!

10 PRINT "HELP"
20 GOTO 10
Indeed. I had to look it up. This is for kids but I enjoyed the explanation:

https://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/homes.html
> protested when version control was suggested

Academics are strange like this. The root reason is fear: fear that you're complicating their process, that you're going to interrupt their productivity or flow state, that you're introducing complication that has no benefit. They then build up a massive case in their minds for why they shouldn't do this; good luck fighting it.

Doubly so if you're IT staff and don't have a PhD. There's a fundamental lack of respect on behalf of (a vocal minority) of academics about bit plumbers, until of course when they need us to do something laughably basic. It's the seeds of elitism; in reality we should be able to work together, each of us understanding our particular domain and working to help the other.
I wonder if actually making that explicit would reduce automation bias.

Something like, "99% match, statistically this person is one of 10,000 out a million people in our city who would match"
Good subject to explore!
> The separation of concern has made it a loot easier to increase code coverage and ensure a controlled rollout of new features.

This can be achieved (and more easily) by separating your templating from your business logic at the package level. If you know what you're doing you can keep things separate and your import graph non-cyclical, if you don't know what you're doing you're going to recreate the mess in your components and API anyway.

Source: Tired of seeing this happen again and again and again and again. And fixing it.
This. In the last years, conventional software engineering has in many cases experienced an explosion in complexity which will make very very difficult to maintain stuff in the long run. This only works because over 90% of startups go bust anyways, within a few years.
This is a really cool idea, especially for startups who do not have any formal incident response protocol.
> If you had a computer that only booted, or a car that only started, 40% of the time - you wouldn't say, well.. the system is ok - sometimes it works out!

This is an unfair comparison because the standard for a marriage succeeding is a lot higher than for computers or cars. If I bought a car or a computer and it and had only a 60% chance of failing to last until I'm 80 years old I'd consider that fantastic.

But a marriage that fails after ten years is counted as part of the 40% failure rate.
I think history has shown us that there's no use in hoping from change on the browser or OS side. Unless new competitors come in, it seems the majority of people are stuck with Chrome / Firefox / Safari.

On top of that, a big problem with they are walled gardens as well. Some support exporting easy enough, but we've seen firsthand what happens when big readers (google reader, etc) go down.

That being said, I think our best hope is to create an open-source, web-based reader.

raw feeds are one of the last bastions of freedom on the internet, and we can't afford to keep building them on bad foundations.

If I had to imagine it from the ground up, I'm picturing a desktop-esque environment running straight from the browser. almost like google's environment, to be honest. There could be full-blown search, email, news, etc; but they are all intertwined by the ability to 'subscribe' to any of these results, and have them piped right into your homepage.

Sort of like smichel said above, a true front page of the internet, but your front page.
> I really don't understand the use of this sort of writing.

I don't think you understood the writing at all, if you think the author wrote off all marriages. The article is in favor of—and in support of—marriage.
Without knowing about the implementation, I can speculate (always dangerous ;-)) that the web browser exploit potential is loading a web page, the elements, html, js, images, nested loading of other stuff. So the danger is some kind of crash in the code that evaluates these resources and then stack-overflow kind of deal gets your machine to do something, kind of like a regular browser risk, and there's no hardening against it. This sounds like a capability I want for emacs though, I wonder if there's some way to make it safer; I could create a separate account and ssh in from my main session and run emacs. If I set my display variable to display from fakeme to real me what xwindows risks do I incur? I've never understood that level.
> Stealing $5 from your work till is an imprisonable offense

Unless you pointed a gun or knife at your coworker, no it's not.

> but the laws themselves are unjust

Then address the laws and move to change them.
This is admittedly nit-picky, but you're not managing 60k DOM nodes if you're using a virtual list, that's the whole point of virtualization. You might have 60k items in your list but you're only ever rendering a tiny subset of those items based on what is visible (with some overlap).
Apple may extend its lead over rivals with blood oxygen detection feature
It's funny. In China there used to be a time when high school students like to use rarely used Chinese characters, which are only similar to the intentional character in shape instead of meaning.

They think that's cool. This style was called brain damaged style.
https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/63502990

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> uh yeah you're going to have a hard time convincing anyone that a country that is majority white isn't homogeneous because multiple languages are spoken

Well, he convinced me. (Largely because I have lived in countries with communities like that).

[Out of curiosity, does my testimony change your mind?]
That's a great way to learn the content deeply.

I tried doing that and failed miserably however, I just couldn't stick with it, lol. That's where PARA's highlight based, minimal effort note taking system really helped me out.

Is it the best option for everyone? Definitely not. But the system that I can stick with beats one that I won't follow.
The debate only happens over a tiny fraction of all claims, and reasonable people don't believe that fraction until it joins the high-confidence whole. The phenomenon of disjoint ideologies does not exist in science. In the humanities, you have things like how Analytic philosophers will reject everything ever written by a Continental philosopher. In contrast, while there is such a thing as an analytic chemist there is no such thing as a Continental chemist. ;)
I am all for open science, but you understand that the links in your post are the exact worry people have when it comes to releasing code: people claiming that their non-software engineering grade code invalidates the results of their study.

I'm an accelerator physicist and I wouldn't want my code to end up on acceleratorskeptics.com with people that don't understand the material making low effort critiques of minor technical points. I'm here to turn out science, not production ready code.

As an example, you seem to be complaining that their Monte Carlo code has non-deterministic output when that is the entire point of Monte Carlo methods and doesn't change their result.

By the way, yes I tested my ten year old code and it does still work. What I'm saying is that scientific code doesn't need to handle every special case or be easily usable by non-experts. In fact the time spent making it that way is time that a scientist spends doing software engineering instead of science, which isn't very efficient.
On one hand, yes. But on the other hand, reuseable code, dependency management, linting, portability etc are not that easy problems and something junior developers tend to struggle with (and its not like that problem never pops up for seniors, either). I really can't fault non-compsci scientist for not handling that problem well. Of course, part of it (like publishing the relevant code) is far easier and should be done, but some aspects are really hard.

IMO the incentive problem in science (basically number of papers and new results is what counts) also plays into this, as investing tons of time in your code gives you hardly any reward.
Genuine curiosity: why do you take the extra effort to choose and then add an emoji at the end of most of the sentences in these tweets?
Chinese-Made Smartphones Stealing Money from People Around the World
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> Why didn't I buy an electric car?

> Very simple!

On top of those, electric cars are just Prius without engines, nothing superior than that from automotive engineering perspective. So if you want to be eco and future don’t make a compromise and go buy a Prius.

Toyota design teams being objectively suited in drawing toilet seats than cars is a separate issue.
RSS was a perfect example of the tail wagging the dog.

it never caught on because it was a protocol. not a product. and yet stubborn users for years insisted otherwise.

it's like if the internet did not have a browser; only a textfield to input urls. who would use that?
Designing a Feasible Basic Income: Policy Proposal for a Negative Income Tax
Too many people don't respect the risk of dependencies.
The police get all of the grief for bullshit like this. Prosecutors, despite their high minded idealism when they move on from that role, are a bigger issue.

Witnesses are easy to address at trial, and if you're lucky enough to have a competent lawyer, it's often possible to neutralize them even if they are telling the truth.

Systems are harder to cross-examine. Once successfully litigated, prosecutors can use precedent to avoid any scrutiny of the methods, operational processes, or other aspects.

I use a jury I served on as an example -- the police found a person who was almost certainly guilty of running over a person in a park late at night. The key piece of information was when it happened due to surrounding events. The key witness was out of play because he was arrested for perjury -- evidence came out immediately before trial indicating that he was driving a car after stumbling out of a bar, and he had testified that he was a passenger to the grand jury. So they had to scramble to use traffic light cameras (which are synced to GPS/cellular time) to establish a window when the defendant was in a particular area. Because of the events, the defense was able to cross-examine someone from the camera vendor, who was ripped up on the stand -- evidence thrown out and case settled for a reckless driving misdemeanor.

That event, where the vendor was questioned (and in this case failed to satisfy the court) is pretty rare. It's often assumed that systems work perfectly, while they often do not. For example, DNA matching is sound science, but forensic labs sometimes have unsound practices and controls.

If police are under pressure to close cases, and prosecutors are incentivized towards collecting scalps, the natural outcome with automated systems is going to be people going to jail because of bullshit tech.
fpx: easy USB‑C power for all your devices
I recently did a cross country drive and there are some cities that stand out, but a whole lot that blend in. There were moments where I was looking around unsure if I was in Nashville, Denver, Dallas, Phoenix, Kansas City, or Des Moines. Anywhere that has a renovated or new "hip downtown" area with wood framed 1+4 (1 floor for retail and 4 of "luxury" apartments) painted in bright Ikea colors.
Glad to hear you're using it! You can ping me on Google Hangouts (jtunney@gmail.com) for help. We also might be able to set up a Slack or IRC channel to iron out these issues. I actually didn't post this thread because I was still working on fixing the long tail of minor bugs. But now that the project has caught everyone's attention, we might be able to fix them sooner!
Can someone explain what this means to a finance noob? Does this mean it will be possible to purchase stock in Unity soon?
If you are in an abusive marriage or one that permanently prevents happiness for you, get out. If you have kids, that goes double, not least because you don’t want to be an example to your kids of how to lead a resigned or down-trodden existence.
Thanks for confirming. Functionality came back (for me).
https://www.livescience.com/28701-ancient-babylon-center-of-... : also. This..

[..] "Most of the city was rebuilt by Saddam in the mid to late 1980s to recreate it as it was in the era of King Nebuchadnezzar, 600 B.C.," writes journalist Robert Galbraith in his book "Iraq: Eyewitness to War - A Photojournalist's Diary" (self-published, 2004). Galbraith reported from Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion and visited Babylon shortly after the U.S. occupation of Iraq began. Galbraith notes that around the time of the invasion the ancient city was looted and a group of U.S. Marines were eventually assigned to guard the site.

Saddam Hussein had constructed a palace at Babylon that "looms over the city" but "is strikingly out of place," writes Galbraith. "It is a beautiful finely carved sandstone castle, and looks like an Arabian palace. But that's the problem; it is obtrusive, misplaced and tacky to the limit. It appears that Saddam tried to buy his way into the history books by building his monument overlooking the ancient city," writes Galbraith.

Babylon would be turned into a U.S. military base. While this deterred some looting it caused damage to the ancient city and left more modern remains (including a basketball hoop) at the site that had to be cleaned up. After U.S. forces left, some cleanup and conservation work was done and the ancient city has been re-opened for tourists. In 2010 the U.S. government announced that it would spend $2 million to conserve Babylon's Ishtar Gate. [..]
Exit vs. Voice
The issue at the heart of both the Zettelkasten and the PARA methods seem to be that a person wants their notes to be connected in useful ways. To an extent, "ordinary" knowledge graphs permit this -- where by "ordinary" I mean that the edges are unlabeled. Things are related to other things, but you have to infer the relationship yourself after looking at both of its members.

Graphs with labeled edges seem clearly better. But then what if you want a relationship with more than two members? (Or less! "Not" and "maybe" are two important unary relationships.)

And what if you want a relationship's members to themselves be relationships? This is the nature, after all, of most information. Any but the simplest sentence is a relationship between relationships. "Children ask for cookies because cookies have sugar", for instance, is a "because" relationship bewteen an "ask for" relationship and a "have" relationship.

Once you've reified your relationships that way, you'd like to be able to search intelligently through them. "Ordinary" knowledge graphs let you see all of a thing's children, or parents, or maybe in some cases all it's descendents and ancestors up to some level of recursion. Better would be something that lets you ask targeted questions, like "Show me everything Sally has asked me to do that does not require a computer."

To my knowledge there's only one program that lets you reify your data and query it in the ways I've described. It's called Hode, for Higher Order Data Editor. I wrote it.

https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/hode
But with all the high ports open by default: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe... The justification was that blocking firewall ports breaks user applications.
TikTok Sues Trump Administration
Shouldn’t it be ‘γκουvт’?
This is a challenge with many types of code.

Earlier this year it took me a weekend to get a 7 year old Rails project running again. It's a simple project but the packages it used had old system dependencies that were no longer available.

I ended up having to upgrade a lot of things, including code, just to get it running again.
It used to take about three generations before everything you love fades from public memory. Now it's less than one.

Soon Warhol's adage will be proven right: 15 minutes will be the lifespan of not just fame, but of all shared memory.
Soon thereafter, all individual memories will last just 15 minutes. Then long term memory will no longer exist.

7 +/-2 will be the maxim of all existence.
This is easily achievable with current ratios. Self directed video time, some solo practice time, plus an hour of 1:1 time a week would work out to N instructor hours for N students. So N=25 would be about current levels.
The context is that Firefox is not supporting essential OOP features (like private fields) in Javascript, which Chrome has been supporting since April 2019. In the past, Firefox had a lot of experimental features and was often the first browser to support new stuff. This has changed, Firefox is now behind in quite a few areas and if you look at their priorities, management doesn't really seem to care.
Can't one use the Path Workbench in FreeCAD once an OpenSCAD file is imported?

For STLs there are a number of 3D CAM tools: MeshCAM, pyCAM, FreeMill, or importing the file into Autodesk Fusion 360 and using its CAM tools.

List of other options at: https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/CAM#3D_2 and https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/Commercial_Software#3D_C...
This is everything I never knew I needed.

At a glance through the docs, I'm pretty sure I can replace about 30% of my website's javascript codebase with this. Not to mention that having to actually write the javascript to "spruce" up a form will often lead me to be lazy and just have people deal with an un-spruced-up form.

I'm itching to get off work and try it out for real :) Thank you for all the work you did on this.
Not a scientist but 13+ year old Perl code I wrote is still running (based on my catchup chats with ex-colleagues) to generate MIS reports.
Coincidence: I rented this film and watched it last night on Apple TV. When this appeared, I was dumbfounded.
If a scientist needs to write code then it's part of their job. It's as easy as that.
>Long list of things that makes a person “unclean” for X days.

Is there further reading for this?
IMO, this is why ISO standard programming languages are so important and will be around forever. One can always compile with --std=c++11 (or whatever) and be certain it will work.
I don't understand why you think it's not a solution.

Witnesses refusing to talk to cops is a problem. Given the "current conflict", witnesses may be even less willing to talk than usual. And camera surveillance with a good facial recognition system (i.e. one that has been trained and certified to recognize faces of all ages, ethnicities, and phenotypes, not just white college students) would certainly seem like a solution that could help track down murderers.
no - because Switzerland's population is 70% Swiss, with the remaining mostly from nearby countries that have similar values and complexions. Just because you grow up learning various languages does not mean your society is heterogeneous.

A society where every learns 4 languages and looks the same is homogenous.
The point is that as a scientist your code is a tool to get the job done and not the product. I can't spend 48 hours writing unit tests for my library (even though I want to) if it's not going to give me results. It's literally not my job and is not an efficient use of my time