skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time that the big announcement was made in the 90's, the scientific community immediately came up with a bunch of criticisms that weren't properly addressed in the original paper. They suggested terrestrial contamination, they suggested abiotic crystallization processes, and given the observed similarities with Earth fossils they questioned whether cross-pollination of life was possible. The scientists had no satisfactory answers and ALH84001 was dismissed by the press as a dud and the scientific community as a career-ending topic (like cold fusion is for physicists).

Still, in the years that followed further analysis was done by the original authors and their teams. Isotope ratios and captured atmosphere within and around the tracks confirmed that the fossil features were ancient and of Martian origin. Comparative characterization of terrestrial rock-worm fossils was done and it was noted that like the Earth fossils--and unlike abiotic processes--the ALH84001 features were of uniform size and were anisotropic on the sub-microscopic scale, consistent with fossilization of biological structures rather than geologic crystallization processes. Finally, testing showed that the inside of the ALH84001 meteorite itself never exceeded 40 degrees when it was blasted from the Martian surface, or when it entered Earth's atmosphere, so any biological life deep within the rocks could have survived (no one thought the fossils were live, but by implication Mars could have, and almost certainly was seeded by Earth, making it not surprising that we would see a the telltale signs of Earth microbes in a rock from Mars.

TL;DR: At the time of the press conference and the weeks after, a bunch of reasonable questions were raised about the ALH84001 work. In the years that followed a few of the scientists involved followed up with further tests which confirmed or at least did not disprove their martian-life interpretation of the fossils. But the rest of the world moved on.
Linux is a Kernel...like you said, are you talking about

gnu/linux

musl/gnu/linux

musl/busybox/linux

libc++/uClibc/glibc/musl/busybox/matchbox/gnu/rpm/deb/tar.gz

any other distro/composition of software that runs on linux? You see the problem? Linux is a kernel, FreeBSD/Open/Net/Dragonfly are real OS's...with pkg's.
Spam servers in subnet 170.130.34.0/24?
Received some random spam from 5 servers in subnet 170.130.34.0/24. Quite "interesting setup" they have. PTR all of them point to
name mx.mailhubone.com. Each server on port 80 have some revers proxy which randomly point to different website and each server have accessible over http file README with content:
Description:
. This directory contains Mask URL Handlers
. Mask URL Handlers - Process requests from (Campaign) Emails

Deployment Instructions:
. This folder need to be deployed on ROOT of WebServers (Nginx, lighttpd)
. This README should not be browsable via web
It's more like someone is asking you to create a regex that matches phone numbers and they give you an example number for you to work with. You have the bright idea of writing the example number verbatim as your regex and voilà. It matches the sample perfectly, job done. In reality that regex can't be applied to anything else.
You don't need to root the FireTV stick at all. You can install termux from the F-Droid application by installing F-Droid first by installing the APK from the Downloader app.

If you want to root the device for fun, I wrote a little tutorial post a few months ago https://miguelmota.com/blog/rooting-a-fire-tv-stick-4k/
Why would I want this over Excel?
> For example, the money line price of something that has a 90% chance of winning would be `-900`... meaning you have to bet $900 to win $100.

This is what Nate saying, when he says Biden has a 90% chance of winning.

You intuit correctly that it would be ridiculous for anyone to offer odds like that for the NBA title one year out.

Why do you think it would be ridiculous? Likely because you intuit that there's too much uncertainty for a chance to be 90% for any team to win the NBA title.

Taleb's reasoning is similar, but for the election. 90% Biden win implies way too much certainty.
By Berlin standards I'm in the middle of nowhere yet there are at least 3 stores in walking range and this is actually a very car dependent city. They just put stores near residential buildings. That's all there is to it.
I switched from Spacemacs the last time Doom Emacs was discussed here and I'm very happy with it. Took me a while to adjust, and sometimes I'll miss something Spacemacs did, or struggle with muscle-memory, but overall it's been worth it. And the people on the Doom emacs discord helped out a bunch of times too.
Right, so basically everybody above the 60000 cap is ignored. Basically the difference between a county with 30000 and 60000 is a lot less important than the difference between a county with 60000 and 600000 - this map is truncating most of the population.
I kept being called a "white man" and associated with crimes neither me, nor many any ancestors have done for thousands of years! So are my kids who are being harassed by the educational system and labeled "white". This is reverse racism! Race is not a scientific concept either! Can we stop using it and calling people "white", "black", "brown", "yellow", etc.?! I'm not even white per se - I'm only perceived as "white", because I'm not dark-skinned during the winter when I see no sun. How is this humane? How is this progress? How is "white and inherently racist" not hate speech, but it's allowed.
Reminder that Termux is available on F-Droid.
Kind of funny to say the security machine hasn’t been patched for 2 years

Yeah I know it’s badges not mission impossible security
> Also, China is suffering from dollar shortage/flight (foreign manufacturing moving out, foreign retailers moving in)

No longer the case after COVID pandemic, Yuan is appericating

> The Chinese government doesn't want such a huge financial entity owned by foreign owners

Ant had been allowed to exist for a long time, I don't see this really as an issue.

TBH, b. is probably the most likely reason. Criticizing governmental authority is a dangerous act even for Jack Ma, especially when your business needs its blessing.

Also Ant's IPO had caused quite a lot of controversy even before this, like selling their own shares through Alipay, etc.

Anyway, I see this an isolated case, where the CN government wants to give Jack Ma a lesson to put him in place.
I agree. It's thoughtfully done and easier than refreshing a web page. Not worthy of the shade thrown, IMO. If you don't like it, don't use it.
But the county-level results aren't what's important in the election. For showing results, it makes sense to show all of Texas in red as soon as it's confirmed to have gone 50.1% to Trump, or whatever.

This map is useful in visualizing demographics and expected voter distribution. It's more valuable for showing election predictions than newsworthy results.
Just guessing (in addition to what others already mentioned - btw. I was wondering the same thing hehe):

maybe one big part involves the landing & takeoff:

for plane-like drones both are a lot more dangerous (therefore more difficult to be automated) and need a lot more space than quadcopters (and the likes). Saying this because I remember that, when I was a kid, my RC-plane (which took weeks and $$ to build) crashed 1.8 seconds after the first take-off attempt (damn, I got so angry & depressed...).

I guess that soon or later we'll see mixed designs that can take off & land like a quadcopter but which can increase their range/efficiency by "transforming" in mid-air into an airplane-like form? (something similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey or maybe just a passive design that works by changing the fixed orientation of the whole drone from horizontal to almost vertical, or the opposite depending on the form of the drone?) In any case complexity would increase, therefore more specific demand for long-range capability is probably needed to go towards developing something in this area?
I don’t mean foldable I just mean airfoil shaped cross sections that still fit within the normal “wingspan” of the multirotor.

Amazon have made at least two designs, one that flies “tilted” and uses the boundary ring as wings, another with more separate wings and forward propulsion

Version 1:
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/31/amazons-prime-air-drone-de...

Version 2:
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/prime-air
I counted a 110 servers in this subnet with this setup
The intention was not to write a bot which uses unethical trickery, but one that was a productive poster. I include the posts to reddit the bot made in the article. I understand how you may be disillusioned by this article, and I concur that there are many more meaningful things I would like to apply AI to than a contest between friends.
Probably best to contact their hosting provider. [1] [2] Provide them with logs, email headers.

[1] - https://bgp.he.net/AS62904

[2] - http://www.serverhub.com/
Quite an odd thing to say. While it can be easy to think that someone looks alike due to the "overall appearance" of their faces, closer inspection usually sets things apart. Their completely different chins are one example.

Secondly, his DNA didn't match the missing person's database, which you are getting your "match" from.

There's no reason to be defensive. You've done nothing wrong. Wrong starts only if it is impossible for one to accept that one's theory might not be correct. That can ultimately end in throwing off the real investigation, if one were aggressive enough.
I'm afraid that the French Supreme Court disagrees with you on both points (https://www.hoganlovells.com/~/media/hogan-lovells/pdf/publi...)

As it must, because the European directive has primacy.
what do they mean by "GA"?
If this is being held by a single person (or small number of people), then the problem is really the organization. This should not happen with security issues.
There's arguably been a few instances of "no one ever got fired for picking IBM" syndrome in neighborhoods I have lived in that considered it.

When a local authority run by people with little understanding of the technology is presented with a local infrastructure bid from a not so well known group vs a glossy Comcast/AT&T/<big telco> bid etc...

I absolutely agree though. It's an antitrust problem that has caused me genuine huge cost increases in reality (Comcast mandatory 1TB data cap in Comcast only neighborhoods. not sure if this nonsense still going on), not just hypothetically.

There are ways to expose the existing networks to competition too. There are examples out there of using careful legislation to force a big monopoly player to share cable space and so on, allowing other vendors to compete on price.
Wish it were that cut and dried, but — depends on the earliest callable swing states.
And in the same time, some infrastructure provider has discontinued contract with Bitchute.

https://twitter.com/bitchute/status/1323741461972594688

On the day of election.
In this case, Taleb's argument stands: 89% implies way too little uncertainty
One thing to note is that the directory hierarchy in Termux is not the same as a standard Linux. For example, in termux everything is under `/data/data/com.termux/files` and there is no `/tmp`. Use PRoot in termux to install a standard Linux distribution.
I have actually seen mozilla(-sphere) people attacking the reputation of people doimg valid criticisms on their bugtracker.
I dont accuse Foundation/Corp members directly. It could be "volunteers".
You're right but miss the spirit.

Greece was indirectly forced to accept a poor deal by capitalists because of how they would have suffered if Greece refused and the german & french banks collapsed.

The ECB was under pressure from it's largest economies to give Greece a poor deal.
All comments by accounts created a couple of hours ago? Pure astroturfing.

By the way, I can assure you that you can not get top 5% devs in EU for $35 an hour. Simply because top talent does not bill per hour.
I think he's suggesting linking them for a transfer. Which doesn't actually make sense either, because the only new destination this opens up that saves a transfer is Hudson Yards.
A few I wouldn't have guessed in a million years:

- India's biggest export is oil. I didn't know India even had significant petroleum reserves.

- UK's biggest exports is cars.

- New Zealand's biggest export is.. milk?
Perhaps we could go even further and say that people are inherently not inclined to kill one another and the legal system only steps in when such exceptional events do occur.

(Here, I'm only talking about murder and not what is a "tribe" attacking another, which happens even now. For instance, a nation invading and bombing another nation, drone-bombing wedding parties or religious extremists trying to take over a nation etc.)
On the night of election. How is this defensible?
Yeah. To be pedantic maybe we should say "a tax on gross profit". Regardless, it's closer to taxing profit than what most people mean when they propose a revenue tax.
This is part of an existing line of research going back decades. Fully self tuning database engines have proven to be a lot more tricky than you'd assume.

It's not the same thing as horizontal scalability. If you want to build a Spanner/Cockroach/Ti style system, you'll face the questions they're examining in detail in your per node storage engine.

The empirical evaluation paper in particular is interesting and useful stuff.
They do, but one of its selling points is its case "fits in the trunk of a standard car." that suggests it's a pretty big drone and I default to imagining copters that fit in a hand, size in picture[2] more than I understand what 20kg means in drone size. No wonder it can fly a long way if it's massive.

For energy density comparison, check the Wikipedia list of energy density of various things[1], starts with Antimatter highest, then nuclear fuels, Hydrogen[3] at the top of the chemical fuels with ~140 MegaJoules per Kilogram, then all the hydrocarbon fossil fuels hang around 45-55 MJ/Kg, body fat comes in around 38, coal around 30, wood around 18, glucose around 15, Lithium-air battery at 9, household waste at 8, and the highlight of our modern electronics lifestyle Lithium-ion battery at 0.3-0.9, barely ahead of flywheel at 0.3-0.5.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Tables_of_energ...

[2] https://www.armytimes.com/resizer/-965_SXAhPeD1LTlB-xZuQwJvJ...

[3] the catch with Hydrogen is a kilogram of it is 11 cubic meters, and a lot of that energy advantage has to go into compressing or cooling it to make it usefully dense, and maintaining the infrastructure to store and transport that safely.
No mention of "white supremacy?" Curious, I think that's a big factor.

Each European nation has its own claims to identity; whereas America more-or-less loses much of these individual identities in favor of "Whiteness" which sort of unifies and (badly) smooths those differences out among them, at the expense of black folks and others. I don't think you can maintain something like that without some kind of religious "glue" to support it, i.e. to be the veneer of goodness over the racism that lurks underneath.

I'm sure this crosses over with a lot of that "protestant work-ethic" type stuff, especially as it allows some people who didn't do a lot of work to make claims to have done so, e.g. "Thomas Jefferson built Monticello."
This is a distracting and unhelpful comment. The rules (despite attempts to persuade us otherwise) are well-established and not nearly so easy to deviate from, even in this tumultuous time.
And this is the intelligent and civilized way as silencing voices, even the demonic ones, has been proven wrong over and over again! It does not work either as people can pretend, but meanwhile accumulate pressure, and then explode and have much dare consequences! A civil discourse with even the most greatly polarized opinions is the only civil and civilized way to find the truth, and educate people!
> the "PC Master race" gang is quick to point out that they can build the same system without the Apple/HP/Dell/Lenovo tax

They also pay their workstations with post-tax money, vs a business that can write-off workstations as business expenses.

This suddenly makes the Mac Pro pricing a little more obvious.
It's an excuse all the same; if you can put electricity and phone lines on every address, fiber isn't that much harder. It' just that major ISPs in the US are sociopaths and don't like the margins you'd get with such a setup. Slow, overbooked connection hubs and for-profit-DPI and data collection (and sales) on an ISP level is the norm. Even net neutrality isn't something the government is capable of accepting and enforcing.
It leads to loss of six-dimensional control, though interestingly you can still maintain five-dimensional control (losing yaw) with only three or even just two props, see demonstration from ETH Zurich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t369aSInq-E
Looks coordinated and planned carefully. Oh dear.
I think if you see 90% with 80% confidence interval, you can intuit that he isn't counting uncertainty in the tails.

Consider, Would you be comfortable making a bet with someone, on a 90/10 payoff? This, I think is Taleb's central point. Silver's algorithm is not counting the uncertainty correctly.
Hahaha, I appreciate the humor. If it was so great, why didn’t Unreal 4 support it? And when did web games on 3d Flash ever have high adoption? Your earlier claim was WebGL wasn’t used as much as Flash, but the only high adoption of Flash games on the web were 2d had nothing to do with UE3 flash player support.

“Why did Adobe decide to EOL Flash Player and select the end of 2020 date?

Open standards such as HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly have continually matured over the years and serve as viable alternatives for Flash content. Also, the major browser vendors are integrating these open standards into their browsers and deprecating most other plug-ins (like Adobe Flash Player).By announcing our business decision in 2017, with three years’ advance notice, we believed that would allow sufficient time for developers, designers, businesses, and other parties to migrate existing Flash content as needed to new, open standards”

https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html
In any context I can think of privacy only exists while someone is alive. Once you are dead your life history sort of exists in the public domain.
I think reading from the bottom will give you the chronological order. Also, skipping over phrases like, “Mort Sullivan's Personal Opinion That...” helps a lot (that phrase, along with registering himself as an LLC is giving me strong sovcit vibes).

As to what actually started this, it looks like there was a landfill with alleged hazmat in it, but there wasn’t a lawsuit filed in time (under the Clean Water Act? Because there’s an underground stream that flows into the Missouri River?) to make the original polluters clean it up. Mort believes that because Bucky’s, the McDonalds, and other companies (see the expanding list of real estate developers on his list) are now developing the area (and digging basements into the landfill) the timer for a Clean Water Act lawsuit has restarted. He cares as his property is next to the former landfill.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/china-p2p-financial-refugees-face-...

the 2% is not what they have on their balance. 2% of the total loan was from Ant group money, the rest 98% money are from banks and ABS.

Government has been restricting consumer borrowing for a few years now. Consumer borrowing is discouraged. It was easy money for tech companies, almost all tech companies are in this business including Tencent, Baidu, JD, 360 and so on.
I was going to suggest "oops.science" as a domain name but it's already parked...
Dell can sell you a workstation with dual CPUs, dual GPUs, 3TB of ECC RAM, and a combination of up to 8 NVMe disks or 10 SATA/SAS disks. And the entire thing (including disks) can be covered by an onsite warranty that will send a technician, with parts, to your location within 4 hours, 24/7, for up to 7 years.

You cannot get those specs, or anything near that warranty, from commodity desktop hardware.
Very, very convenient timing. Someone posted this on 4chan recently https://imgur.com/a/nqWd4fT

Big tech are being quite blatant in their election interference this year.
Apologies - didn't mean to seem argumentative.

Having a high end CPU isn't just for performance right now, my main concern would be longevity of the device.
Here's one from 2010:

https://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1001/09marslife/

I think there's a more recent book that came out a few years ago, but a quick google search isn't finding the name, sorry.

For Wikipedia which relies on citations, it's going to reflect the majority opinion which is "ALH84001 is insufficient evidence for life." However the reasoning for saying that morphological features are insufficient signs of life (in contrast with biologists studying Earth life who routinely rely on such evidence) is actually a direct response to ALH84001. Like the Pluto-Is-A-Planet? debacle, the generally accepted requirements and definitions were drawn up after the fact specifically to exclude ALH84001, in order to end an embarrassing controversy and provide funding for more missions (why go to Mars when you can just pick up rocks in Antarctica instead?) rather than answer a scientific question.
> librsvg makes good use of these bindings, and is undergoing a rewrite in Rust.

And is losing support for older CPU architectures as a result.

I really hope we don't see this more before the rust compiler is improved to support older architectures, as otherwise it may become prohibitively difficult to revive older systems...
Has there been any movement on this front since 2016? I've also heard of these security issues with Mint, since around that time, but it's been four years and I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt that it's possible they've improved in that timespan, one way or another.
> my peers wanted acquisitions

Yeah but the users didn't want them to get acquired, end their "incredible journey" and delete the users' data.
that is a neat idea, I'm a bit concerned about the command line options becoming too contrived in order to handle such a high degree of precision. I will defintly keep it in mind though
Google Play bans third-party app for hate-speech censorship side-stepper BitChute.
Show HN: Less than 512 Bytes C ELF programs with graphics output
USA has always had a large propaganda effort (be it intentional or not) to sell itself as the greatest nation of the world to its citizens, and it might be why it's so overly important compared to the "lesser" countries.

The USSR was seen as an evil peer until it collapsed, but now it is China. USA is the biggest, and if anyone dares to become as big, USA is still the best. This propaganda might have worsened its insular worldview.
Hi Colin. What's CursiveIDE made of? It's not written in Clojure, is it?
I have lived in Michigan my entire life. A little too young to have taken an auto plant tour, that ended in the early sixties. But I had never heard of Fordite or Detroit agate until seeing a tweet from a friend who has taken up rock collecting as a hobby.
While usually there's some truth in this sort of sentiment, this simply isn't about the election of one individual this go round. It's about perpetuating and legitimizing the overreach of one particular political party that seeks to keep itself in power despite the conventions and rules that should allow it to be removed — see: autocracy.