skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it doesn’t.

People who are anonymous can generally have anonymous conversations. Once anyone becomes interested in those conversations, they are not anonymous and none of their existing strategies are applicable.

State actors have the resources to store messages now and correlate them later. If either is plain text, the other will fall.
The extension may be Scroll Reading which highlights a sentence from one line to the next...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrollreading...
If anything, the entire advertising industry takes a hit, and Facebook being Facebook, is still going to have the best targeting of iOS users out there.
Oh, so there is a precedent :)
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caper_in_the_Castro
That's what youtube is for these days.
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What about those of us who arrived decades ago are now settled with families and children who were born here are proud to call ourselves American citizens? We never imagined even 5 years ago an America like this and are questioning our life choices.
> The question I meant to raise was nuclear power versus other [renewable sources]

(I'll assume this is still about safety, as the comment you're referring to with "meant to raise" started with "I’m continuously baffled by those that claim that nuclear power is safe".)

As far as I have read, nuclear is the safest option barring none. There are so few nuclear accidents that the casualties are a rounding error and the confidence is low.

But that is not the only thing we're optimizing for. What we need is to have a lower environmental impact so that later generations shall live long and prosper. Wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and nuclear all fit that bill right now. Eventually we'll get rid of fission, perhaps in favor of fusion or perhaps of 100% renewables.

Given that we didn't do a large effort in the past few decades on shutting down carbon-based power generation and building 100% renewable green energy without nuclear, and we aren't managing to do it fast enough today, either, we need to make big steps to get there without fighting a billion small battles: one person doesn't like the sight of solar panels on the neighbours' roof (e.g. my dad), another doesn't like a wind turbine in their back yard, hydro power has environmental concerns and doesn't work everywhere... etc. We don't have time for this. Heck, we also don't have the time necessary to build nuclear power plants, but I just don't see any other option than to start now and finally cut down on carbon emissions.

If you're not convinced by nuclear, fine: by all means let us build renewable energy sources at the rate warranted to limit the impact of this climate disaster. I'm just not sure we'll be fast enough.
Who cares what they find. They reject Science, vote for Trump, etc. They’re too far gone already.
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As a Californian, it always seems to come in two flavors. There's the people who think it's risky because they read about something that's not terribly relevant to their region or they're part of the hippie cult that thinks anything sciencey is unnatural an therefore bad. I love the state because I like how accepting the people are at the social level, but when it comes to anything material like construction or energy suddenly the loudest voices are a bunch of good vibes idealists who'd prefer a bad bad but fashionable solution to something that actually solves the problem.
My visitors who don't want analytics/ads run ad blockers, and won't show up in my analytics or load my ads. That seems like a fine solution?

The ads are relatively unobtrusive, all the way at the bottom of the page.
> JavaScript is recompiled into a single file

That world has largely moved to "chunks", where there are multiple bundles loaded on-demand, based on e.g. user navigating to a less-used part of the web app. Going to a single file as a WebBundle would be downgrade in features.

Replacing those JS transforming kludges with a reasonable file format sounds useful, though, and allows combining JS+CSS+images in a new way.

It does sound awfully lot like HTTP Push, which as far as I know is largely unused because the idea that the server knows what the client wants hasn't really proven true.
In a world of ASCII, maybe. But fixing one problem for a small group of people is a giant can of worms for the rest of the world. Normalization of compound characters, exotic character sets, emoji, different classes of upper/lower-case letters, normalization of compound what-not.

And even then it still doesn't fix the issue outside of the world of ASCII. A filename written in hiragana and katakana is logically the same to the end-user, but they are still distinct. Simplified and traditional Chinese, Hangul and romaja, pinyin, devanagari, thai, and the list goes on.

Case-insensitive filenames fixes nothing, but breaks everything. There is only one sensible thing to do with arbitrary user-input, and that is to leave it be.
Having lived just on the other side of the border let me shed some light on the "bad neighbour" comments. Greece was on the other side of the iron curtain compared to Albania, there was a -declared- state of war between the two countries until the mid eighties (1986 I think) and there is a significant Greek minority in the Albanian South. The three combined created a particularly bad climate between the countries. That has changed drastically - at least south of the border. In 2019 Greece indeed sent troups to Albania after an earthquake and an invitation, but it was not for war - they tried to help and set up their field kitchens to provide food for some time. I cannot account for the feelings of the Albanians but I can certainly say that most Greeks harbor no ill feelings for them :)
Not quite - I want the full FS2020 rendering experience. Weather, water, moving vehicles, etc.
One of my favorite places to eat growing up, and a favorite of my dads until the virus started, was a place like that that started as a halfway house.

Shared tables, food keeps being brought out in family sized bowls, serve yourself as much or as little as you like, pay when you leave. Some of the best veggies and probably the best biscuits I’ve ever had.

It was a great little egalitarian place, suits, white collar, manual labors, and ex-cons would be sitting around the table enjoying a meal.
Except that solar or wind power plant will require significant backing from other power sources (hydroelectric outside of microscale is dead due to environmental concerns and costs), usually gas and coal.

Energy storage is still very expensive in large scale except for pumped hydro storage, which again, is very problematic to arrange.
Really? But Bing Maps doesn't seem to have 3D buildings anywhere, and surely they'd have made London a fairly high priority?
How are Google’s, Microsoft’s, and Yahoo’s OAuth implementations different?
Great write up. It is embarrassing that most of America has no competition in the market.

>To use the old Internet as a “superhighway” analogy, that’s like only having a single offramp to a town. If the offramp is blocked, then there’s no way to reach the town. This was exacerbated in some cases because CenturyLink/Level(3)’s network was not honoring route withdrawals and continued to advertise routes to networks like Cloudflare’s even after they’d been withdrawn. In the case of customers whose only connectivity to the Internet is via CenturyLink/Level(3), or if CenturyLink/Level(3) continued to announce bad routes after they'd been withdrawn, there was no way for us to reach their applications and they continued to see 522 errors until CenturyLink/Level(3) resolved their issue around 14:30 UTC.
The same was a problem on the other (“eyeball”) side of the network. Individuals need to have an onramp onto the Internet’s superhighway. An onramp to the Internet is essentially what your ISP provides. CenturyLink is one of the largest ISPs in the United.
Because this outage appeared to take all of the CenturyLink/Level(3) network offline, individuals who are CenturyLink customers would not have been able to reach Cloudflare or any other Internet provider until the issue was resolved. Globally, we saw a 3.5% drop in global traffic during the outage, nearly all of which was due to a nearly complete outage of CenturyLink’s ISP service across the United States.
It's a guilty pleasure masquerading as an experience for me.
> I have one question from the cheap seats though. How do you drop the Future, with a decision made at runtime, given that lifetimes are part of the type system?

Trivially, something like

let future = some_long_running_async_function();
let timer = delay(Duration::from_millis(10000));

select! {
result = future => {
// handle result of future completing successfully
},
_ = timer => {
// future missed the deadline, drop it, terminating execution.
std::mem::drop(future);
}
}

If this were wrapped in a function you could also just return out of the timer branch and let the future naturally drop as the stack popped.
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The parts of this fire that you heard about (LNU and CZU complexes) were not caused by lack of controlled burn (some fires in the Sierra Nevada probably are). In particular North Napa and Lake counties have both burned in the same area in the last 5 years so it's sort of gibberish, while the redwood areas (like north of Santa Cruz) are not forests that regularly burn... and it is still logged which didn't stop the progression.

Sadly, this expert isn't an expert on these fires... there are others where his comments would be relevant.

The idea of doing controlled burns in areas that recently burned (already causing many $Billions of damage to crops and real estate) or in redwood forests which require a firestorm to ignite in a populated region with many more $Billions in real estate and 10s of thousands of inhabitants which boarder cities of millions... would be hilarious, if it wasn't so dangerous.

Look at the caltopo website if you want to look at the area burning and what has previously burned.

https://caltopo.com/map.html?fbclid=IwAR3Bd6K6XaKR-S_Co9io8i...
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I’m aware of the history of modding. But it will kill the value prop of this product if you have to install mods to get high quality scenery. The most significant innovation of this product isn’t that you get to fly the routes you want to fly. It’s that it maps literally the entire world. You can fire it up and fly from anywhere to anywhere. If you have to fire it up, and then spend a couple of hours finding and installing mods every time you get the urge to fly a new route, you may as well not bother.

> You don't really need "hundreds"

You’re right about this. If one mod = one model, you’ll need hundreds of thousands.
What does being an EU member have to do with this. If you look at the history behind most EU member nations it would only make them seem more prone to invading others.
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It's worse, because this time there is no hope on the horizon.
No, that isn’t what is happening at all.
Author doesn't understand what "the new IE" actually means.
Thanks for adding the repl.it badge!
I feel like people don't remember how terrible IE 6 was for so long.

You can criticize Google for any number of things, but they certainly want browsers to be as good and as capable as possible.
Is there a reason to doubt the official explanation of a name collision?

The fact that the saga went on for months at the same border post despite complaints?

People like to distinguish between incompetence and malice but there is not much point in it; in either case the outcome shows that people in charge are not capable of performing their duty and should be relieved.
Sorry, my experience won't help you much. In the late 90s, I took a programming class at a community college. A classmate noticed that I was a keener; she first approached me for tutoring and later introduced me to her boyfriend who needed somebody to help make a website. I did everything from server admin, maintaining desktops at the office, to writing cgi scripts, html etc., and doing random stuff the company needed like optimizing processes in their warehouse. Our endeavors on the web never went much of anywhere, but it was fun for a few years.

What hasn't changed is the value of networking. My boss's girlfriend noticed me because I was a keener. Rare to make that kinda connection, though.
It's somewhat unfortunate, but people almost always get crypto wrong.

Anyone can, of course, experiment. Just don't take the results personally.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/herb

Note the pronunciation given for US and Canadian English, with the optional /h/: /(h)ɝb/

If your dialect pronounces it as /ɝb/ it is perfectly natural to say "an herb" (/æn ɝb/) and saying "a herb" (/eɪ ɝb/ or /ə ɝb/) with that pronunciation is incorrect.
You can reprocess it.

France does so, Japan does so, even Poland sold off nuclear waste from research reactors for reprocessing - the parts of it that aren't critical medical radioisotopes, which we sold separately for use in hospitals etc.

All of French fuel waste fits in one hall. That's smaller than space taken by one fly ash repository at a coal plant.
All of those things disrupt a much larger swathe of land than a nuclear plant though. Environmental impact is more than "does it explode?" it's also things like ecological impact. Hyrdoelectric dams are incredibly disruptive to their environment and wind/solar take up at least 300x the space of a nuclear plant depending on which of the two you're talking about.
There’s a slew mode where you can move your aircraft about without constraint but there is also a drone camera mode which you can move about anywhere.
The article is just an opinion and some claims, supported by zero evidence. Yes, Google is interested that Web continues to live. But article omits that Google only wants the Web that exists on Google's terms. That's why they practically rebuilt the web themselves, on all levels, from protocol to the client (spdy, webp, amp, dart, chromeos & android, chromium).
If you have a passion for writing code, I'll give you the best advice that I followed: Join an open source project, learn it, play with it, get skilled with it, submit patches. If you're good and the stars align, you'll be able to more than support yourself and your family. Last tip; always be learning, keep reading, stay on-top of your game!
The way I'd put it is that later editions are more focused on classroom use, while the first edition felt closer to my interests as a hacker. The later editions do have many improvements like a nicer development of the CPS transformation, but they also dropped the chapter on compiling by transforming an interpreter, and so on.
this half-article just seems like pointless arguing over definitions. people aren't saying chrome is the new IE because the two situations are exactly alike in every way. but google, as a private entity, now effectively has a monopoly on deciding what the web should function like.
> One time, an officer told me, which I wrote down: Just because you say you work at the consulate does not mean that you are not smuggling drugs into the country. I asked him to explain. He responded, I don’t know, but I do know what drug dealers and smugglers look like. He stepped forward, crossed his arms, looked at me up and down, and said: You know what I mean.

> When I asked him why I was being sent to secondary, the officer told me that it was a computer-generated random inspection.

But I’d been watching him the whole time. The officer wasn’t in his booth as I approached, so he couldn’t see his computer, which means that he didn’t see my SENTRI card, and couldn’t have known whether his computer had tagged me randomly for secondary inspection. It seemed that as soon as he made eye contact with me, the officer decided to send me to secondary.
You'll never get that. You'll just have to opt out of it. i think there is an extension or two to turn it off in chrome. Maybe that will fix your problem? Also I think there is just a bool to turn off in firefox as well.
The word 'encryption' only mentioned 10 times and it is a pretty major new feature...
This is a bullshit tradeoff. Facebook still knows a ton about you by your friends and activity on Facebook, and they can still show you a ton of ads on Facebook that are highly targeted to your demographic profile, and make a shit ton of money doing it. They could also make a ton of money showing you ads on a partner app if, for example, you logged in with FB to another app.

The only thing Apple is preventing them from doing is making an even larger shit ton of money by essentially knowing every app you ever use for anything that includes the Facebook SDK.

Note the same thing is true of Google. Google can (and did, and does) make shit tons of money by showing you targeted, relevant ads just based on your search keywords, or alternatively on a partner site by showing you ads just based on that site's content. But no, they need to make even more gargantuan shit tons of money by tracking your every move in Chrome and Android.
- Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first?

It all started with playing games. When I was 11, I wanted to host my own CS 1.6 server to make some money by selling VIP. To advertise the offer, I wanted to customize the welcome message you get after connecting to a server. It's coded in HTML/CSS which I had known nothing about so I asked my ICT teacher, who happened to build websites as a side job at the time, if he could help me with that. He taught me the basics, pushed me in the right direction whenever I had a problem and showed me programming is a ton of fun. So from the welcome message, we moved onto building dynamic websites in PHP... Then games in C# using MonoGame. Then came my first professional jobs - CMSs, CRMs, first Java backends and so. And well, here I am. But to answer your question, I focused mainly on web first. I got into it because I was curious, I loved building things and I immensely enjoyed solving problems I had no idea how to approach.

- What are you doing at your job? Is it everything you dreamed of and more?

I'm working on a backend of a service that's used to send RCS marketing campaigns. It's very different than working on your own projects because the business side of things is more important than having a pretty codebase and using a shiny new technology plus most of the people I had a chance to work with were pretty mediocre, so it's definitely not ideal. I've always dreamed about having my own company so I hope that's going to happen one day (I'm making active steps towards this goal of mine).

- How did you break that first-job barrier?

Being 16, I was already ahead of lots of people who have even finished their degrees. So that plus the fact I didn't care about money, I was excited to work on some real projects :)

- What were you doing before this?

I was a kid haha.

- Any tips for the rest of us?

Plenty of my friends tried to learn SE by putting in lots of effort first but they never persisted. It takes months to start connecting the dots. It might be hard to not understand the whole picture, it might be hard to always have problems, it might be hard to always come across a new technology you had never heard of. But trust me, if you persist, it'll get better. Be consistent.
I was at a restaurant in Houston and they ordered the dishes in each section by size (I.e. the appetizers started with the smallest dish and worked their way up in size)
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What does it mean? (Honest question)
I had the exact same experience there about 20 years ago as well with my family... was fantastic.
> a NATO and EU member, annex a piece of another sovereign country

https://www.rferl.org/a/29669794.html
Even if you could afford it not everyone is medically able to fly a plane.
> It's [sic] leaders

Dammit GPT-3, not you too!
The issue is not a technical one. It's politics...
I think it's more about the experience of the little people trying to target and use these browsers, not the experience of the super privileged Microsoft/Google people developing the browsers, for a start.
Different things to different people.
Harvard isn't trying to pump out just academics or engineers, lawyers and doctors. They want to pump out prominent businessmen, politicians, activists, fields like these have a looser correlation to raw technical ability and can't really be measured by sat scores or GPA
Conversely, if you sell iPhones you only get 10% at most by Apple (Retailers' margins have been reduced to 4.5 per cent from 6.5 per cent, and it further reduces to 1.5-2 per cent if the customer opts to pay by card for the iPhone X).

Why?
From what the author wrote, it seems likely she was flagged as a person of interest. Perhaps her name was similar or identical to an alias used by someone else, or perhaps she looked very similar to someone on a watchlist. Automated systems can exasperate the problem of persecuting the innocent. For anyone who thinks they are able to make an automated system for law enforcement that does not provide false positives, I strongly recommend you think twice.

For anyone interested, the author has a gofundme page. [0]

[0] https://www.gofundme.com/f/A-Love-Letter-To-Durham-North-Car...
Seems reasonable enough to me. If URLs were no longer a thing, for what reason would I Google anything? How would google create results if they couldn't crawl publicly accessible websites? The value of the search engine and a public internet seem hand-in-hand.
One week of FORTRAN in 1965. Walked into an insurance company after graduating in 1969 (BA Math & Physics), applied for a programming job. They had me in an Assembler class the next week. Was writing production code two weeks later.

I still can't write code without bugs.
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What CEO level changes would make the world better and why? Please be specific be don't just say 'somebody more ...'
Can't think of a well-known industrial exclusion zone, but the "Industrial" subsection here lists some pretty nasty incidents, involving contaminating entire surrounding communities, next to significant ecological damage:

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

> Is the fact that plants are built near populated areas a factor?

The thing with big plants in general is that even if they're built in remote areas (like Chernobyl), you want the thousands of plant employees housed nearby, which also means housing their families, who now all need food and healthcare and education and other services, and suddenly you end up with a pretty large town right next to that plant (like Pripyat). And such towns will draw further investments, making once remote area quite populated.

On top of that, power generation unfortunately is pretty special wrt. range of potential contamination because of energies involved - so when things go bad, they go with a bang. That's why I usually mention industrial chemistry when discussing nuclear waste, as this is more of an apples to apples comparison. But then, my mind is often drawn to the oil sands in Canada - particularly to the artificial lakes storing highly carcinogenic toxic waste.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Athabasc...

Now imagine what would happen if that kind of thing ever spilled for some reason.
Your comment is just an opinion and some claims supported by zero evidence.
When IE6 was king, there was no hope on horizon. IE6 came out in 2001, Chrome did not come out until 2008.