skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Russia narrative" was always extremely vague, so I doubt it can be disproven as such. There were a lot of insinuations that there was something big going on, but the facts that were substantiated were pretty minor. I haven't heard anyone alleging the emails that were leaked were anything but true, either - it is pretty grim when the most devastating tactic a foreign adversary can deploy is the truth.
I mean, even a small “back to top” in the bottom right corner, would be better than a fixed menu at the top. At least with that, its not taking up screen height. Phone screens are small, stop putting stuff in the way that’s not needed.
It's modest when you compare it to the 36,000km+ geostationary tether or the 200,000km+ lunar elevators we see proposed!
Lately Youtube too annoys me with some message to sign up if I'm not logged in. Unfortunately, that is not a popup, it is displayed in the video panel, stopping the video from playing.
I was joking around with my freight broker that I should start a hot shot operation up.

He responded that in all seriousness, that demand in my state had outstripped capacity by 2 to 3 times because of increased delivery demands, largely due to COVID.

I have no idea if DeJoy is making mistakes, but capacity shortages in delivery are not as simple as "DeJoy is a jerk trying to kill the USPS". A lot of it has to do with a sharp increase in shipping over the last few months.
Then why not link to the news wires directly?
I really like the idea of openSCAD, in fact I use it exclusively for 3D modeling. My biggest problem with it is the language implementation. Things like:

x = 5;
cylinder(d = x, h=10);
x = 20;

Well, this will make a cylinder with a diameter of 20 instead of the expected value of 5. Yes, I'm familiar with various programming models and the idea of immutable variables. But when you have a language that looks and feels like something else familiar, this behavior can throw you for a loop.
That is shocking. They changed their stance in the past few weeks. All of this is complete nonsense, Jesus Christ.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/05/13/...
Are Apple and Google going to fight this and leave the app up?

I hope they do, I dislike president having power to ban services and apps at will.
An interview with Assange. The interviewer doesn't change what Assange says, does it?
Don't revise history, those authoritarian states started out authoritarian from the get go. There were no "decline" into authoritarianism because of some inherent force in socialism.
Divulge the information and take the pardon??
I mean, he’s inhabiting the powerful position that the two parties built!

Doesn’t help that we’ve had God Emperors like FDR.

The American president has also been mythologized. They’re calling all the shots and doing whatever. Unfortunately that means they can trample over the Constitution and only the opposing party usually cares.
This is very underrated. Quite often, I see people from developed countries look at poorer countries with pity, despair and wishing the best. We, in developed countries, take our development and good way of life for granted.

The tables are completely turned. America has become the country to show pity towards.

Unless America changes its way of governance this Fall, 4 more years and what exactly is the difference between America and Brazil?
It was the Russians.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...
Needs more cities but very cool.

TomTom do similar -

https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/traffic-index/wuhan-traffic/

This data is underrated. Or maybe it's well rated and used in silos in fintech and security.
That will drive the VPN business, some cheaper/free VPNs may buckle under the load.
You can roughly divide people with strong opinions on Julia vis-a-vis Python into two groups: People who earnestly want them both to win, and people who are largely just watching from the sidelines.
If you like this article, checkout this feature on The Scablands in ArsTechnica from a few years ago, a fun read: https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/10/the-scablands-a-scar...
> "People shouldn't say mean things" and "People shouldn't have the right to say mean things" are not equivalent statements unless you are an authoritarian.

yup, nothing disingenuous about this analysis.
Huh? What does interest have to do with inflation?
Growing number of airlines offer 'flights to nowhere'
I have lots of questions but none on topic you got an irc or something?
For wechat, I believe those people will, its just so important.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503529

FWIW, sometimes my posts get significantly downvoted at first, and within a few hours end up with a lot more upvotes. I try to not care in the first place, but sometimes this makes me feel better.
I think you basically identified the root cause of the issue. We are, unfortunately, only slightly evolved chimpanzees; We would gladly form groups to fight another group when bananas grow sparse.

Had we evolved from bonobos, things might have been different.
Usually you just have to remap sketches. It's awkward, but it works.
Backing up data like the adult I supposedly am
Computing Pioneers Endorse Biden, Citing Immigration
But they'll find a way to talk to like minded people; and then you'll be surprised how many of them there are.

BTW, who are those millions you want to protect? Are you afraid otherwise sensible people will be infected by
some opinions expressed on media? Isn't this a bit paternalistic?

It's better to fight the enemy in the open field; let's have people talk and show who they are and what they actually mean by what they say. Let's criticize what is wrong with what they say and not just said by somebody that got lumped together in the same camp. Let's have an open a tolerant society, in which intolerance itself is exposed for what it is openly and not given ammunition by being intolerant of any people.
"""While the threats posed by WeChat and TikTok are not identical, they are similar. Each collects vast swaths of data from users, including network activity, location data, and browsing and search histories. Each is an active participant in China’s civil-military fusion and is subject to mandatory cooperation with the intelligence services of the CCP."""

It's funny that they're saying that like Room 641A isn't public knowledge.

Of course, when it's the NSA cloning data out of AT&T to spy for Uncle Sam, it's the good spying. ;)
Android had trusted face unlock since 2014
There are some risks wroth taking and some that are not. The problem with risks in an emergency is they can make things worse. Emergency officers are often killed when they choose to risk going faster than the speed limit - even though they have sirens on to warn everyone they are taking extra risk for an emergency.
The important editorializing the poster did was to leave "Trump" out of the title. The implication that the negotiations were done with the knowledge of the president is meaningful.
Eventually what will happen is all major services on internet that the consent popup will turn into an annoying experience like you have to click 'I Agree' button whenever you are installing any software. Major portion of internet users don't understand laws/privacy and they would just click 'I Agree' to move forward to next step.

This is still a big win for the companies since they have engineered a behavior where people just click 'I agree' without understanding it.
This. There are individuals and cultures with the food as fuel mentality and it works for them. I have many friends who are like this.

I’m decidedly the opposite - more of a food as culture and as something to be appreciated kind of person.

I think we need all kinds. But I’d also rather work in the UK but eat in Italy. (To be fair, Indian food in the UK is top notch)
Exactly, I have no idea why you're being downvoted.

Private companies are supposed to able to follow whatever legal policies they want to in order to compete and make as much money as possible.

In a democracy, the executive branch of the government is not supposed to be able to do whatever it wants arbitrarily. That's why the legal principle of "due process" exists -- it has to follow established rules that don't single out individual people or organizations for arbitrary reasons.

The two issues (banning apps, banning companies) could not be more different in terms of the principles involved.
Is there any serious reason to tie Seth Rich into this mess besides "he died roughly within that time frame and he worked for the DNC"? It really seems like one of these fringe conspiracy theories that doesn't really make sense as soon as you start digging a bit.

What's more likely, that Seth Rich really was murdered for leaking some (overall fairly tame) emails or that his death is completely unrelated and it was just opportunistically reused by far-right groups to make up one of the conspiracy theories they like so much?
Sorry, but a team of 50 persons in total to support a project as complex as Firefox is not reasonable speculation at all.
Can Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Google Chat, Slack, Discord, and others operate freely in China?

If the answer to that question is no, then we should treat Chinese apps the exact same way that China treats American apps. Otherwise we're just getting hilariously abused.

Edit: It's called reciprocity. The US can operate a free market and trade with other countries that also operate free markets. We cannot, and should not, allow the US free market to be abused by foreign governments. If China does not want American companies to operate in China the US should reciprocate. Otherwise we're just being taken advantage of. It's not a violation of American free market principles. Just look at the whole fiasco with AirBus subsidies. The US should only engage with foreign governments that respect free trade.
doesnt it require a resilio client on the other end?
I don’t think the genuine content publishers who go out of business win.
But somehow China manages to stimulate its' manufacturing without involving wartime laws. I don't know how they do it, but may be the US needs a bit of the same too.
Legislation can be drafted to make such data proliferation illegal. That's not what's happening here. This is an end-run around legislature, which executive orders often are, and should be condemned as such. You have to separate the intent/justification (or what you perceive as the desired intent/justification) from the action.

"Where were you when your country first started banning software?"
It does when the interviewer is more interested in putting on a show than hearing from a source. Read the transcript (or see my post above). Constant interruptions, reinterpretations, jumping around in timelines, etc. It's a horrible interview meant to extract one or two talking points.
Are they changing any relevant part of the power generator compared to a 1950 plant? Are they at a minimum heating the steam into a higher temperature than what a modern coal plant do? (Are they using water? Because coal works on the limits of what you can do with water already.)

This article seems to have no detail at all, but all the information there seems to be about the reactor. Guess what, you won't build a nuclear reactor that is cheaper than a coal furnace, thus if you don't change anything on the power generator, you can't get cheaper than coal.
More like around a billion.

Actually, just checking now, 1.2 billion users.
Equality isn't a good goal. But expansive inequality isn't either.

I'm not arguing for socialism. I'm arguing for proportionate slice of the pie for the work done. The share of the pie is heavily skewed towards owning wealth in the first place today and the only way to keep the vast majority employed seems to be making the rich richer.
Ah yes of course, it would be really inconvenient if Assange was publishing information given to him by Russian intelligence to interfere in the 2016 US elections. Wow what a bummer that would be.
This is a 404, you might want to fix the link
Note that archive.org stopped respecting robots.txt since 2017. [1]

In my experience, the site owner must email archive.org support to be excluded from its crawler and archiving.

[1]: https://boingboing.net/2017/04/22/internet-archive-to-ignore...
https://archive.vn/YoHIY
I already proved to myself, exactly like I told you. And since you can do it yourself, then do it. Don't take my word, test yourself. Then comeback and tell me the results of your own benchmark.
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well known. only use domains.google (for searching).
The Meaning of an Oath – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Note for everyone else who, like me, isn't used to using this website:

There is a page switcher at the bottom of the article where you need to manually go to the next page to read more.
A Cyber Fraud Company CEO Raised $123M in Months
Sure. There are also many cases where any kind of speech can be illegal, depending on the context and content of the speech. That does not mean that form of speech is not constitutionally protected.

Legally, whether photographs are speech seems to come down to whether they are taken with communicative intent or not.
Well, if the interviewer was CIA interrogator...
did ios14 not add something like a monitoring for this ?
archive.org doesn't handle robots.txt in any meaningful way (see my comment above at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24516875 ). If that's changed recently, I'd like to know more.
I will draw you in my anime style
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IF YOU NEED MORE THAN ONE CHARACTER PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE YOU BUY!

I will draw a headshot of you in my style and you would look like a manga character! Perfect for social media, gifts or even LinkedIn and professional use.
Yep, I do this. I keep my list here, which is essentially these type items, and also a bunch of the "fixed top and bottom bars" that sites love to put in:

https://github.com/nu8/hearth/blob/master/ublock-origin/filt...
related documentation in the Developer Guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide...
A valid point. There's a huge disconnect in the American public's understanding of how politics works and how politics actually works. That can be exploited by revealing how the sausage is made on only one side of the aisle to paint the other side in proportionately better light (because people like to assume that the sausage machines work differently on the two sides, without asking why that assumption should be true or why that assumption should imply that the sausage-maker on the other side is better, not worse).
Because the interview in question was conducted by Fox News.
I assume that's because a sufficient number of people vouched for them and commented on them because they were posted a little earlier. (the alternative, that people possess an extremely strong preference for the Financial Times, strikes me as unlikely) It's not a big deal, but I do hope people who are flag-happy lose that ability in short order, since it's really not a feature that ought to be used very often.
WeChat has 1.2 billion users, and downloading an APK plus installing it is a 4 step process that takes around 15 seconds.
The US can, does, and should act reciprocally. In all markets where there are no restrictions in trade or commerce we treat foreign competitors fairly, as we should. In markets where US companies are not treated fairly, we should reciprocate.

In the case of China, American companies are not treated fairly. We should reciprocate. Otherwise it's a lopsided engagement that will eventually result in Chinese corporate dominance. We can't operate in China, but they can operate in the US? No way.
My assumption was the each individual led chip will re-transmit the signal to the next led, which in effect will turn the 3.3v signal into a 5v signal between the 1st and subsequent leds.

The power lines do sustain voltage drop over longer sections, so you'll want to add extra power every few meters.
Mark Zuckerberg has completed his transformation into a real life Artie Ziff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU9X3tvTmIQ
This indeed seems to happen a lot in my experience. I mean I see it in almost all my posts, and then they usually go up (or not :))
Photos and videos of people are not generally useful for ads. You know what is valuable? Actual purchase decisions sent in by advertisers. Photos and videos of people’s dogs and food and kids etc is strictly to entertain the other Facebook users and keep them coming back.

An advertiser is willing to pay tons more to serve an ad to someone who has bought similar products in the past, and is likely to buy their product again, or has recently abandoned a non-empty shopping cart. Or has even just interacted with a previous ad. That is the data that increases ad revenue. Not facial expressions while scrolling or group photos at restaurants.
Facebook employees: help this business owner get acct back
This business owner has been locked out of their account with no way to get back, and instead has to post as a guest on their business page.

Business: https://www.facebook.com/camillies.vitamealies
Owner:
https://www.facebook.com/camille.raimo.9

Please assist or forward on if possible.

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Because Assange made the claims on Fox News. This is the source.
How many times before have you heard of an app being banned as a preventative measure against blackmail? The grasping at straws to have the ban not reflect poorly on the US and conservatism is getting out of hand.
I wouldn't call it a "pile of rubbish" - far from it:

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
I have serious issues with this and the fact that site owners have to email a human support team in archive.org to be excluded.
> I don’t see how this is the case. You don’t change Point2D at all, you simply add a second type Point3D. ApplicationFoo can happily continue to use Point2D from your library while you use Point3D.

Point2D, under DOD, doesn't exist. There's "array_x" and "array_y". See the article under question. Point2D would be the index into the "x" and "y" arrays, or an "id" returned by the ECS system.

The "x" and "y" fields, under DOD, are dispersed into different areas, allegedly for SIMD / auto-vectorization benefits. I'm trying to discuss the effects of a decision like this.

> I think the example of Point2D and Point3D is not very well chosen.

There are multiple users who understand software engineering who disagree with me, but understand what I'm trying to discuss.

There are also multiple users who prefer to be pedantic and focus on this issue. For the most part, I'm able to ignore these unimaginative users pretty easily. So the example is working pretty well as a filter.

If you wish for more people to participate in the discussion without getting distracted, maybe a better example would have been recycling the example from the article:

pub struct Enemy {
name: String,
health: f64,
location: (f64, f64),
velocity: (f64, f64),
acceleration: (f64, f64),
}

pub struct FastEnemy {
name: String,
health: f64,
location: (f64, f64),
velocity: (f64, f64),
acceleration: (f64, f64),
jerk: (f64, f64), // 3rd derivative of location
jounce: (f64, f64), // 4th derivative
}

pub struct GalaxianEnemy{
name: String,
health: f64,
location: (f64, f64),
velocity: (f64, f64), // Constant vertical velocity
loopiness: (f64, f64), // cos / sin based horizontal movement
}

Doesn't really matter. There are plenty of data / classes where you need to just "add one more parameter" to a previously created class to make it perfectly work. The above "GalaxianEnemy" and "FastEnemy" classes follow this pattern.

---------

But if we focus on this pedantry, we wouldn't be able to discuss software engineering. Surely you've come across an example in your programming life where code-reuse would be useful with a subset of parameters, but needed to be extended into an additional parameter?

> The main problem with this solution, I think, is that you picked one specific projection from 3D space to 2D space. It might line up with a projection that is relevant to your domain but it probably won’t. So if you use inheritance and call a function requiring a Point2D with one of your Point3D’s you secretly project the point to the xy-plane which seems like something that should be explicit in the code.

Is it so hard to imagine a video game, where my Point2D and Point3D interpretation is in fact correct? The point of the discussion is to point out software engineering principles: recycle code where possible, open-to-extension but closed-to-modification, and other such principles.
> “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” [House Majority Leader Kevin] McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house...
Dijkstra on how Computing Science created a new mathematical style
Exactly.

Those marketplaces were a monopoly, and opening up competition helped the consumer.

Now apple is an oligopoly, and opening up competition will help the consumer.
How is this not a concern with the private entities that already collect this kind of information, and how is this any different than those entities sharing all that with the federal government?
This is a cost of liberty, as is disagreeable speech, anti-government literature, etc. Opponents of those have long cried "we're getting abused" to stifle such things.

One hopes your attitude towards reciprocity stops at software. "we should treat Chinese [NOUN] the exact same way that China treats American [NOUN]" is a scary Mad Lib.
Then why do I have to wait so long for my Bitcoin BTC transactions to be processed?
Can anything operate freely in China? (No) it shouldn’t be the aspiration of the US to emulate an authoritarian state.
The "Google recommends using Chrome" is also annoying.
A person abusing the privacy features of a file sharing platform to send unwanted files that damage people's computers is in fact, a bad thing

That is not an argument against privacy but it does make it harder to provider private services
Sideload it from TikTok.com, or any other non-US based website?
let's say you think capitalism is evil, destroys the environment and the essence of humanity, etc., and you say that in public. wouldn't that also call into question your ability to be an effective employee and work towards the interests of the company? wouldn't we all be very upset if someone got fired over that?

I don't really disagree with your specific example (or that there have always been things that you can't really say in america), but in general it's a shitty way for the world to work. we should seek to change it.
Internet Archive stopped respecting robots.txt since 2017. See https://boingboing.net/2017/04/22/internet-archive-to-ignore...
US is supposed to be a free society that does not need to use censorship
They type a possibly inaccurate description of what they're looking for in their browser's default search bar and end up downloading and executing random programs from random websites without bothering to verify the trustworthiness of any of this process.
I had the concussion about 8 months ago, and the vision issues were stable since then until a month ago when I started doing it. I use it daily because I have it at home, it cost about $2k for the unit. Clearer skin is apparently attributable to reduced inflammation acting at the cellular level.
Jeez! Click the link before criticizing it. It's a primary source, an interview with Assange. It's not a wire reprint.
Company was called RedAlternative, but there's also Joov and Biomax