skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That the denazification process in both the Federal Republic and the Democratic Republic was incomplete after the war is a pretty uncontroversial thing in Germany, I would say. Aside from the far-right fringe, I don't think there is a lot of "whitewashing" around it, although I might be wrong. The CDU certainly has incentive to not stress that part of their history too much, though.
"Why does not respecting a user's privacy make it evil" <- this is what they were referring to. It was quoted.
Are You New to Electron?
Opendoor to go public through merger with blank-check company Social Capital
On the other hand, isn't this about the time it takes from now until the next big social thing gains traction and TikTok et al goes the way of the Dodo? So the usual Google service half-life would just work here.
I use metal binder clips for holding bags shut. Maybe they'll break eventually but I've been using the same ones for years and haven't had one break yet.
This is fascinating and clever.

But the cynic inside me fears it would never make a difference. First of all, one common statistic is that 90% of trash in the ocean that comes from people dumping it (in rivers) comes from just 10 rivers, all in China/Asia.

And if they cared about the problem, they'd already be doing something about it. But it seems like they don't. Because the real solution there is the same as what is done in the first world -- to implement actual municipal trash pickup and urban trashcans etc. If they can't even do that, I have a hard time believing they'll bother with "bubble barriers".

So this seems like something first-world countries would implement... but that's not where the problem is.

But second, it's also common to hear that a large majority of overall ocean plastic comes from discarded industrial fishing gear -- nets and the like. Which this obviously does nothing for.

So while still very clever, I sadly don't think this could ever make a difference. We need to actually solve the much messier human problems of installing trash collection around the world and figuring out ways to monitor and punish fishers who discard their equipment.
Microsoft declares its underwater data center test was a success
> At least at this point

I think we're only a few years away from browser-based editing being the default. I would definitely be surprised if more than half of the dev work happens in non-browser-based editors come 2030.
There's no good timing for these fires but now just seems really bad. Can't socialize inside because of Covid, can't socialize outdoors because of smoke. Tough time to be in the West Coast.
This video narrated by Sir David Attenborough should be watched by everyone on our planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Puv0Pss33M
A spectacular example of how hard it can be to remove a networked product/service once it's entrenched.

You can do a lot of things wrong if you reach that position, and still keep your place.

People will reference MySpace as a counter to that. Except MySpace was never close to being entrenched, they had no moat or stake in the ground. They never had all the world's celebrities and politicians on their platform, using it as a core broadcast method to the world.

At their peak in 2006-2007, MySpace's monthly active users measured in the tens of millions. Certainly very large for its time, however as a general purpose social network meant to pursue max scale, MySpace contrasted against Facebook demonstrates just how dramatically far away from entrenched-scale MySpace really was (they got maybe 10%-20% of the way there).

To put it into perspective, Cristiano Ronaldo's following on Instagram is as big as MySpace at its peak. Now that's an entrenched max audience social network in action.

MySpace was too early, before there were enough global users to even be able to obtain that level of necessary entrenchment protection. Their network - for its specific purpose - was small enough that it was still quite possible to unseat them. Facebook's boom phase also coincided perfectly with the rise of the modern app smartphone beginning in 2007-2008, which ultimately brought the Internet to a dramatically larger audience around the world (and was responsible for enabling Facebook to reach three billion users; without the smartphone that would either never happen or would have taken several more decades).

I reference the type or purpose aspect because obviously not all social networks are max scale general purpose networks. Twitter's potential base isn't three billion users, as that many people will never want to use the platform under any circumstances. Each type of social network has a max potential userbase (Pinterest's max base is different from LinkedIn's which is different from Facebook's). Twitter has likely heavily (not entirely) saturated their maximum reach and long since gotten to the required entrenchment scale for what they particularly do.
Facebook isn't a mess business-wise, they print money
Appreciate this perspective!

I feel like I'm indirectly supporting his politics by engaging with his weather content. I'm generating ad revenue as a reader. And I'm increasing the size of the platform he can claim, which he can leverage for books, speaking gigs, etc. to promote whatever views he deems important. It's easy for me to find another weather source.
Great article, thx!
Ocean Cleanup is originally a Delft company that moved to Rotterdam.

They are not "from Amsterdam".
NIH 'concerned' about serious side effect AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
> Parsing the logs to get the results - how amusingly nerdy!

This was a big use-case for the Practical Extraction and Reporting Language 2 decades ago... :)

Today with decent JSON logs, it's also quite fun.
I'm curious how the difference came about. It seems likely enough that a standard was written and then processes improved to the point where essentially everything was at the small end of acceptable. But maybe it is just the drying and trimming.
Shopify’s Sustainability Fund: How We’re Investing to Reverse Climate Change
The discussion of real mode memory segmentation on early intel platforms brings back nightmares for me. The memory layout with overlapping segments was straight up bonkers, and maddening to deal with.
Xmake v2.3.7 released, Add tinyc and emscripten toolchains
You don't follow Cole if you don't know the difference between the effects of dry fasting and wet fasting after 5-7 days. If you do know that, you are purposely making a misleading statement to support your argument.
This was predictable. A software package shouldn't be in continous evolution. Org didn't really follow GNU philosophy. That's what commercial software like Microsoft Office does. They keep changing it without adding any value. Org should've been the opposite, future-proof, solid and robust.

I'm not sure what the situation with the tests accompanying Org is, but in order to build future-proof software, tests are mandatory, comprehensive documentation is also very important. There's another element which I haven't really seen with Org, a clear idea of when and where to stop. As previously mentioned, the development phase of software should always have an end, in sight. The cases where software is developed for 2+ decades is very rare. This is mainly related to requirements and to the goal of the software, and I think this is something that wasn't done for Org. It's unclear where Org ends.

It's interesting that Org could never have evolved out of some committee super-formal development environment (with tons of managers, SCRUM masters, architecture boards, etc), but at the same time it is an expertiment out of control. It's very dense and rich in ideas, but also in chaos (I guess we can't really have the former without the latter).

Still I think the parts that distinguish Org from all other dynamic document formats, and from all other markup formats is that.. it's the most advanced, it was there before asciidoc or reStructuredText. Org is a pioneer in many ways.
This is exactly why containers took off for self-hosters. Installing Plex went from a blog post to `docker run plex` (ok there is a little more nuance than that but you get my point).

Docker allowed me to be far more competent on a Linux box than my skill set should have permitted at the time. I no longer needed to know how an application ran, just that it did. Provide some persistent storage and you’ll probably never have to configure that app again. Amazing.
Nice landing page UI. But may be you can optimize on the copy. Its probably too verbose.
Good luck
My parents bought one to do their accounting but never used it.

I was a bit frustrated because all my friends had CPC 6168 and were constantly trading games.
At this time the PC games were a lot less common (and more expensive) it pushed me to start programming with GEM Basic.
I think this may be a good solution for those countries where trash more or less accidentally ends up in rivers. But what percentage of trash ends up accidentally in the sea, and how much trash is intentionally dumped because it's cheaper or easier? I would assume that's far less than the 8 billion kilos per year quoted on the page.
Family wrongly accused of uploading pedo material – due to US-EU date confusion
Have you tried xrdp? Here's an example usage [1]. Your X server would run a sort of RDP emulation layer, and then any RDP client works. Obviously you'd tunnel it over a VPN or SSH.

I haven't used NoMachine in like 10 years or so. Back in the days (~15 years ago), I used to run it on UltraSPARC machines running Debian and Gnome. It worked marvelous, even with a FOSS server (FreeNX IIRC). It even worked on the Nokia N-series! Although it sucked to run it on a Mac; you had to run a complete X server, which looked terrible (including the fonts).

[1] https://github.com/deskor/xrdp
"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
You are correct, but accusations against the USA, I mean, the headquarters are in UK and the parent company is SoftBank, which is Japanese, so...
The paper proposes a ban on almost all advertising:

> It is hard to believe that as late as the 1970s the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) viewed non-false, non-misleading advertising as anticompetitive conduct capable of violating the antitrust laws.

> Advertising has the power, through repetition and brand image creation, to induce consumers to buy things that they do not really want, to the disadvantage of competitors selling the things that consumers would otherwise buy.
The linage is more or less as follows:

Oberon => Oberon-2 => Component Pascal

=> Active Oberon

=> Oberon.NET => Zonnon

=> Oberon-07 (multiple iterations until 2016)

From features think Go (Oberon), D/C# (Active Oberon).

Active Oberon provides features for manual memory management (untraced references), async/await (active objects hence the name), lightweight generics, interfaces, exceptions.
I want to thank you for linking to the articles, even if you disagree with him.

Calling an observation "offensive" and punishing someone for making it, is not refuting it, or even addressing it. America's tradition has always valued free speech and open debate, and it seems many people on the left no longer value these things. I do find that chilling.
Would love to see this in action in the chesapeake bay on the east coast.
Underjorden is always evil.
EY to 'raise bar' in spotting fraud after Wirecard accounts scandal
I'd like to know how QAnons manage to froth at the mouth about p(a)edophiles while simultaneously getting all their nutso "facts" from a site that hosts child porn.
What would be the proper way to do something like this? I've made a couple desks myself, but I've never been able to figure out a good way to do joints.
Location: Nairobi, Africa

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Looking to be hired for a backend engineering role. Processing and managing tons of data and building robust systems is where i excel at.
Basically, unexpected behavior. One of the "footguns" is that it's easy to write to a Moment object when you mean to be reading from it. And by the way, you can mutate objects declared with `const` in JS - you just can't reassign them.
Huh? Cloudflare is free so all you need for a static site is a $5 VPS.
How does asking that mean that's not what the user wanted? I wasn't agreeing when asking the question, was just clarifying.
I was simply noting that one person's lie is another person's "motivating speech."

I was also noting that not being 100% transparent typically gets called deception or propaganda.

Mr D singled out the younger employees but he was also careful not to say it was them and only them. Calling out everyone would be a bad move for moral. So he sliced his "facts" a bit in order to meet his ends. That's deception, and not fraud per se.
Fusion 360 is free but has a certain clunkiness that is hard to get past if you’ve used other CAD products.

There are many sneaky ways that people get expensive CAD licenses (I use Solidworks) - many organizations offer an educational license if you are a member. For example, check out the Experimental Aircraft Association.
The idea, as far as I understand it, is that fasting makes cells more quiescent and less likely to undergo mitosis. But cancer cells cannot respond the same way and continue dividing, causing more specific uptake of chemo drugs that damage cells during mitosis. Fewer bystanders get damaged.
Digitalocean, Linode, hetzner, etc, etc.
Not under current market.

Apple got as big as it is by vertically integrating everything and creating walled gardens.
I have to admit that A) is, in fact, now important than B). I guess I apply that standard without thinking about it.
The Economic Case for a People's Vaccine
IMO there won't be any ground-breaking results. Computing is pretty efficient as it is. May be you'll run modern workloads using 256 MB RAM and 10GB HDD. So what? RAM and disks are cheap.

Where it matters, we use hardware acceleration and very thin layers over that acceleration. For example games.

JPEG have good compression and few hundreds of kilobytes to implement its support (and those kilobytes are battle-tested and probably have little to no exploitable bugs). I just don't understand why would you want to drop it. Modern web adopts new image formats, it's not like you must use JPEG today.
It is true sadly, although I don't know if it is iphones or macbooks or both. Only affects the newer models that use usb instead of lightning. Sadly we have to support Apple but we now destroy the cables that come with new devices. What a waste...
> Vine was mostly shitty little 6 second clips of meme like content.

Isn't this what Tiktok is? I thought it was mostly tweens dancing and lip syncing.
It's absolutely crazy, how much information you can reliably read "between the lines" if you just collect enough data.

For example check out this CCC-talk by David Kriesel - in which he demonstrates how much you can figure out just from some limited, publicly available data on a news website:
https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7912-spiegelmining_reverse_engin...

Being able to track mouse movements and hover interactions and scroll position and time spent and other activity on the page, gives you a ton more data to mine that way than when just registering page loads.
Facebook is trying to get attention worldwide by playing this master political role amongst other things, which is just a decoy because everyday it's losing real world relevance - less people use it, less and less.
Do you maintain that as a fork anywhere?
Is there a sane explanation for why 2 = 1.375?
Caveat emptor: server runs on Windows only.
I saw a lot of people spend an enormous amount of time in Uni (last few years) just scrolling and watching videos for hours on YouTube, I know it's a bit of a running joke how quickly Google axes projects, but the users/demand are already there and monetizing YouTube subs is significantly easier than monetizing TikTok followers.
Eh? Of course you could. It would be inconvenient and expensive and not very good, but they were commercially available.
Yes. Like the GP mentioned, fasting is a ritualistic practiced in many cultures.

In India, for example, there are fasting days in a month and many have certain days of the week even where they fast.
You can see up to date data on hospitalisations at https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
Windows XP each time I use a DAB?
(troll inside)
Do you mind giving your state? I'm on the east coast so I don't expect to have any problems like anyone in Idaho or on the West Coast.
At approximately 200 calories per day for 3 days.
They claim they are working with Deltares which if you are not familiar is a reference research institute in the Netherlands for Waterway management.

On top of the principle you linked I think an important feature of their concept is that the bubble barrier is diagonal to the waterway so that the debrie is accumulated and guided to a single collection point on the river bank.
Would argue that "ich sehe meines Vaters Auto" is valid, but only for lyrics and/or old German.
First time seeing a .security website in my life.
I wouldn't accept a desk that wouldn't hold my weight on top of its usual load anywhere close my home. When we were building a custom workbench in a Hackerspace, I put it in as requirement. You don't want your table to collapse when somebody sits on it.
University of Pittsburgh scientists discover antibody that 'neutralizes' COVID19
Unfortunately that will never happen.

The good news is google is smart, and if you add a couple of subject keywords it pretty much always works.

For example if you search "pep pdf editor" the site shows up in first place.

My only issue is naming things after words that are so incredibly common they're on practically every page anyways, and thus truly useless for searching. I'm looking at you, Go.
> If I understood it correctly, they are adding it in the main app itself. Would a separate app make more sense, as YT is where I mostly go for watching mid/long length videos usually and their consumption pattern would be way different.

I never understand when companies bundle a different app, as a feature inside their main app. Just bloating it and weakening the UX. Pretty much how IG did with Reels. There is a limit on how much you can stretch what a "tool" can do before breaking it and no longer full-filling any need.

It would be much cleaner and clever for Google/YT to launch a 'different App' and then try to differentiate it and carve a niche for small videos. Trying to compete with Tik Tok being a "better" Tik Tok is certainly a dead end.
Interesting. Any studies that validate the first point? I recall research talking about how there’s little muscle wastage until day 21 in normal healthy adults.

Keen to know if we have learned more in this space
You can use CSS to identify fonts and feature detection like Modernizr to uniquely identify browsers and users. Track clicks, mouse over, language, screen size, time spent can be calculated with animations, pretty much anything you would do with javascript except canvas fingerprinting.

The big advantage of this is that you can still track and uniquely identify people even if they turn off cookies and javascript.
> I think when commodity PCs became wide spread Amstrad ran out of corners to cut to get an edge and became uncompetitive.

It was when Amstrad dropped their own OS in favour of DOS that they became just another commodity PC maker. Actually first Amstrad moved to DR-DOS then MS-DOS to avoid potential compatability issues. Which I'm sure Microsoft would have eventually discovered.

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011207/PX_9...
I'm afraid if that was the case the world is so delicately balanced that we are already fubar.
Relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_to_the_first_powered_fl...
Can a pastebin client fit and function as a data: URI bookmarklet, and would it enable zero trust of web host?
Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014)
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA total energy flow diagram 2019
No, you will be dead, but your twin the copy may benefit.

Also, it says "Let's not consider ethics for now, at least this virtual person can indeed do creative work 24 hours a day, which is currently irreplaceable by robots that only repeat tasks."

Humans require sleep and down time, so either you edit the virtual human copy into something else, or it too will need the down time.

Other things to think about, who owns the computer? Who runs the computer? Who maintains the computer?
Rephrasing what someone wrote in an uncharitable way is a toxic form of communication that will limit your ability to experience diversity of perspective. It annoys everyone around you and will hurt you in the long run.

Instead of slapping malignant narratives on people, try asking explorative questions that invite the OP to clarify or make an ass of themselves.
this is an immensely reassuring, and at the same time motivating comment
What about strategies that involve blowing up the bridge instead of one of the islands? This seems much more real world feasible.
How Hong Kong Was Lost
Oh, I did not think nor knew about that one. I was more curious about does this have the same effect as controlled burning / prescribed burning but this seems to be making things even worse then.
Thank you all for answers :)
I thought Vine was designed in California as well.
Yes, fair point. I was speaking inexactly. I of course meant glaciers or perhaps icebergs which break off of glaciers.
It'd take half a V12 - a modern inline-six with good intake and exhaust notes - as a compromise in a repro kit.
Wouldn't that be relatively easy to find evidence for? We could look at the change in cancer of Muslim communities during Ramadan?
As per the post:

"We will address critical security concerns as they arise."

Perhaps a better term than "done" is "feature complete".
This paper is from 2018.

They argue the FTC needs to put the hammer down in different ways now that advertising has changed so much.

"Now that the information function of most advertising is obsolete, the FTC should renew its campaign against persuasive advertising by treating all advertising beyond the minimum required to ensure that product information is available to online searchers as monopolization in violation of section 2 of the Sherman Act."
Not at all, I thought it was a fascinating conversation. As you probably know, I worked on low-latency audio a bit as a "serious 20%" project while on Android, so I'm very interested in audio as well, and I think the two communities have lots to learn from each other.
After Google screwed up my music transfer from Google Play to YouTube Music, I'm not using any new Google services.

And it's not like there is any customer service to fix their own problems.
I don't think this comment will age well.

Codespaces, repl.it, Glitch, and friends are what the new generation of developers is being brought up on. They're coding on their iPads, Chromebooks, etc. and move between devices regularly. Browsers as a platform just make sense in this new world. These platforms may seem like "toys" now, but if we just look at the trend, it's hard to argue that even the most intensive applications are going to get serious browser-based competitors.

Relevant comment from Construct devs about putting their editor in the browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24419266

Godot is experimenting with a browser-based editor too: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-editor-running-web-bro...
It has failed? How so? I checked them out when they first launched and they seemed to be doing pretty great. What happened?
>>> an age in which 2 of the 5 largest tech firms in the US earn 90% of revenue by selling advertising

I feel as if we are right on the cusp of alternatives to ad-sponsered free internet. Web Crypto Mining being one of the more obvious methods to harvest spare compute cycles of peer meshes.