skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You can be culturally catholic and support abortion.

No actually, you can't. You can fit the broader definition of Christian but if you hold these views and profess to be a Catholic, you are in fact a heretic and can be excommunicated[1]. I see this fiction posted again and again on HN, and while it's not my intention to support or oppose the Church's viewpoint on this people should be educated and aware that they can't claim to be certain things if they aren't them.

[1] https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/docume...
Also Beethoven was composing at a time when the piano was undergoing quite a bit of physical iteration.

A typical piano in Mozart's day, just proceeding Beethoven, had a wooden frame, strings made of iron, and a range of perhaps 5 octaves.

The modern concert grand, the design of which was mostly settled on by about 1880, has a cast iron frame, strings of spring steel ("piano wire"), and a rage of just over 7 octaves.
I’m not so sure because Wuhan is on an alluvial plain and thus probably doesn’t have too many bats relative to other places. The han in Wuhan is the same as the Han people, so it’s a safe bet that Wuhan is a hub for culture and education. So, and I’m guessing here, a likely reason that Wuhan was chosen for SARS work is because it’s an academic hub that isn’t Shanghai or Beijing.
Apple isn’t going to like this. Good luck!
I'm skeptical, though not enough to drop $8 on the paper. The quote, "If citizens just blindly follow their party without thinking much about it..." sets of my BS detector, because it's one of those pat statements that (other) people are predictably dumb or gullible.

The first problem with saying people take positions uncritically is that you need to determine how interested they are in the subject. Assuming this was a longitudinal study, I'd want to know how much thought respondents had put into an opinion when doing the survey. The simple explanation is the 15% who flipped likely never had strong (or well-developed) opinions in the first place.

It's fairly unusual in politics to see reversals without any explanation, simply because politicians have to interact with people who are very invested in politics. And if you read those explanations charitably, most reversals aren't. For instance, government programs are sold to the public with warranties of fitness of purpose. If your welfare program was sold with such a guarantee and doesn't live up to that promise, then you're not reversing yourself to oppose it.

It's right to be skeptical of reversals and the explanations, but if you're buying into the notion that people are "blindly" following their leadership, you're probably falling for some cheap partisan rhetoric yourself.
Awesome! Its exciting to see new applications of *nix OSes that are design-forward and targeted towards modern computing paradigms / platforms.

I’m a grumpy graybeard who likes Arch on my laptop and Debian on my server...but cosmetics and familiar visual vocab and adopting industry ux practices—these are undeniable obstacles that must be overcome before “the year of the Linux desktop “ :)
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Well it's the politician's own fault if they use Twitter et al to communicate. It's not like they don't have the means to make their voices heard in other ways. Imo we should ban all politicians (and police departments etc) from using platforms controlled by private entities for official communication.
I agree 100% having lived, worked, and paid taxes in Denmark, England, Scotland, the US, and Australia. It is a very US thing.
Later, someone invents the stuff to make a related idea work.

The patent holder here sues. His patent is technically invalid, because it couldn't be reduced to practice.

Patents are presumed valid.

So the burden of disproving it rests on the real inventor. They'll be advised to accept a settlement with the troll.
True. I think the bridge even uses it behind the scenes. I am only running the bridge because I already have my matrix server with ever IM bridged through to it. It's pretty amazing to be honest.
Want to kill ARM...open license x86 to everyone. That should make life interesting. Now of course it means that Intel will have to win on building the best chip of all the x86 that would turn up but if they cannot sort that they are dead anyway.
>But maybe people aren't well informed about the issue, so they go with the group they trust on other issues, because of a shared value system.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.
-Demosthenes
I keep advocating for a solution where the passphrase is not separate from the password (like what ProtonMail did). Otherwise it’s untenable for most users.
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Haha - This is and the comment above are awesome. But not really a backdoor.
In india, its well known the reliance and adani group pretty much run the country as its own. Everyone knows this but cant do anything because the "selected" leaders do everything in their power to keep their overlords' control.

Like literally the entire India is in a recession, every Indian has lost savings and investments are down and employment is shot to shit but these two people have earned billions.
Yes, but:

Both of your comments are out of sync with crude, real-time populism.

$2K checks means "MONEY FOR ME NOW" to the proles, ideas like 'tax cut' (which FYI usually are targeted at the rich), or 'we have to pay for other things over there or' 'but the deficit is big!' - are all rational, but ultimately second order thinking. Not populist. Those matter to people 'paying attention'. Most people are not.

You're also missing the fact that it's a very poignant 'flip flop' in that for months, the 'Evil Nancy Pelosi and AOC' had been pushing for exactly that, and were ridiculed for it.

Trump's move was savvy: he wanted to put Mitch McConnel in a corner and he really did, and he was smart enough to know that his followers are not ideological and will get riled up and support pretty much whatever he says. Especially if it's 'free money'.

It's a really crystal clear example of flip flopping among the proles, in this case, purely on the basis of individual populism.

And again I'm not taking sides here, I'm not saying whether it's a good or bad idea etc. just realpolitik populist observation.
How much of CODs code is interpreted in real time? Because for the web it's usually 100% interpreted.
Yikes, if that's actually how they end up doing it, that's a big reduction in the amount of Chrome that is open source... Chrome has always been closed source but if they do that it's going to be quite far from Chromium...
Points for genuine effort. Nice idea. It is very compelling.

Sans wedge issues, there is a solid American consensus out there and it trends populist, and does so for simple economic reasons.
Also discussed here just 17 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25580608
Really frustrating that three consecutive comments just claim "not as good, "same", "not as good". Would it be so hard to name a particular feature that matters to you when saying Signal is lacking? Otherwise what's the point of your comment?
> It's interesting because plenty of build systems exist written in Python but they don't get much used because Python itself is not really flexible or expressive enough for writing good DSLs - and build systems are just specialised enough that a good DSL is actually required to do them efficiently.

Meson seems to be a counterexample.
This is for having an abortion, not supporting them. The later group is much larger than the former.
How I got an a6000 for under 300 bucks!
Perhaps that’s a bit too overstated?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/russian-blockchain-voting-sys...
I use "real" in quotes to indicate I am meaning something other than the general meaning of the word "real". What I mean by this is a specific type of DI that I view as effective and a type of meta-programming. Such a DI system does more than just auto-instantiate objects. It also provides a DSL that allows for configuration and ordering of the object instantiation during different phases of system execution.

fx doesn't do that. It is primarily just a convenience way for tying things together in the single intended way. You can provide some configuration but it is not via a DSL; it is by making calls to the fx library.

Realistically to do the sort of DI I am referring to with Golang there would need to be a preprocessing step during compilation that generates Golang code.
This is extremely rational. Most people probably only care about 1-2 issues, and pick a party based on that. For all the other issues, the most sensible strategy is to advocate for their party, tying to sway people who care about other issues.

That is to say - for any individual, they are part of a faction of their party. For the faction to prosper, the party must prosper. So the individual strategically should advocate for whatever the other factions want without worrying about the details too much.
Is the project developed publicly? Where is the git repository with sources (under a FLOSS license)?
> Traditionally two kinds of private industries have been deemed to be “clothed in the public interest.” One consists of “common carriers,” the other “public accommodations.” A common carrier like a railroad cannot refuse service to passengers or cargo, with narrow exceptions. And a public accommodation like a hotel or a restaurant or a grocery store cannot reject paying customers, with narrow exceptions.

Written in regards to SCOTUS precedent of instructions for private companies, it’s hard to see how the tech monopolies are not “common carrier” if not also a “public accommodation” depending on how you want to look at it.

> The result is our present situation, in which some of the indispensable industries in the U.S. economy, social life, the media and politics are allowed to make their own rules, in the form of ever-changing “terms of service” that nobody reads;

Either way... it seems like this can (should) not continue this way. Like everything hyper-partisan now; I expect we only see a reaction when the pendulum swings and for a brief moment “both sides” can agree something is wrong, until “the other side” switches there position and this is OK now.
That isn't the only thing that Trump has flipped on Republicans. Trade issues are another...Donald Trump has more in common with the 1999 anti-WTO rioters in Seattle than he has had with any Republicans in the same time period. But in comes trump and all of a sudden Republicans and Trade Unionists are in bed together.
A lot of church bells these days are not real bells, they are PA systems playing a recording of church bells. They are often programmable and wirelessly controlled, for example:

https://www.brgproducts.com/carillon_pricing/index.php

So it seems entirely possible the wireless part of the church bell system was interfering with your router. If the church did have real bells it seems very unlikely they would generate strong EM radiation at 2.4GHz or 5GHz. They might induce some vibration if they are really loud, which could trigger an intermittent connection in the router, though that seems pretty far fetched also.
> Available from Jan 31, 2021

So, is this going to be a paid for product? I am looking at what looks like is their GitHub page, and it's basically empty? https://github.com/JingOS-team
"Go make your own Facebook"

Then AWS takes down Parlor. And so many on Hacker News rejoice.

"Go make your own AWS"

Where does that end? Go make your own domain registrar? Go make your own ICANN? Go make your own ISP? Go make your own internet? Go make your own microchips?

If some virtue signaling Silicon Valley execs want to impress their friends, you're done.

Oligarchy. Has nothing to do with capitalism or democracy. It has to do with internet points and social standing for elite tech executives.

Looks far more like McCarthyism or totalitarianism than anything resembling a free democracy.
Except in our case, Google's terraforming ships couldn't care less. It's just not part of their programming that there might be some intelligent life out there worth caring about that might be hurt by their actions, so there's no way for them to receive this information. It's not that it's hard to explain, there's nobody to explain it to.
Some of this problems are (in my opinion) actually advantages.

E-mail’s latency makes it so people write longer, thought out messages, instead of spamming very short messages. This makes for a different kind of communication, which is better for many things.

It also removes the expectation to respond really soon, and the sender doesn’t know if you’ve read the message.
They hope to publish that in the coming days. Here's Moxie's tweet about it. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1350651382659903488
Daniel Novak on Twitter posted this[1] after reading the Signal-Android commit history[2]:

"I think the @signalapp apps DDoS'ed the server. Servers ran over capacity due to influx of users and started to return HTTP 508 which was not handled by the app and millions of apps started retrying the connection at once. Judging from recent commits in https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commits/master"

Surely a timely reminder for all of us:

- Avoid infinite retry loops

- Build jitter and exponential backoff into retry logic

The code isn't terribly hard to write, but remembering to write it can be (if your HTTP client doesn't do it by default).

[1] https://twitter.com/NovakDaniel/status/1350471722034745348

[2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commits/master
“New Linux Distro” here just means a new graphical environment.
As a catholic, I would say that the catholic church has done a pretty decent job of not taking sides in politics. (Probably so as to not push anyone away from church, they dont suck people in and have growing memberships like some other denominations ). I have friends and extended family in those “newer hyper Christian” churches, and they all somehow manage to attach way more identity into their church life than any catholics I know. As well as pushing their beliefs on other people. Whereas the catholic view as I have experienced it is “you're different? Thats cool, lets be nice”. Theyre still super pro life, but i havent heard anything that makes me think the overarching catholic political stance is a one issue vote.
not sure if its the same issue but https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1350631020756828160
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury

"Heh" is an obnoxious response, as if an organic chemistry class wouldn't teach the basics of organometallics and some of the things that make compounds more or less dangerous.
Will update Github Project before Jan 31. And the OS will be free forever. https://www.jingos.com/faq/
I'm using andOTP
https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP
I think it was Richard Feynman who said the easiest person in the world to fool is yourself. I have no doubt this pilot is a good officer and pilot, but that doesn't mean he saw what he thinks he saw.
How did I reduce my digital consumption?
Ah, cool. I was initially thinking it was a tool that would look at binary executables and try to figure out what language they were compiled from. Once I realized this was only looking at source, I couldn't figure out what anyone would use it for. Totally makes sense after this comment. (Which should probably be in the readme too).
> In other words "MitM everything".

>It gets so tiresome. I used to think the people who called out tyranny everywhere were just nuts, but it never ceases to amaze that everything nowadays keeps going "centralize and control".

The recommendations are for enterprise networks, although they're also reasonable (although not really accessible to the non-technical) for individuals who care about their privacy as well.

An enterprise network isn't (or shouldn't be) some sort of individual free-for-all. In fact, good security practice recommends (although this isn't universally implemented) that all perimeter network traffic, regardless of type, be proxied (or MitM'd, as you put it) to protect from both intrusions and exfiltration of data.

Are you claiming that Enterprise networks should allow external resolvers to be used on internal resources willy-nilly?

In fact, good security practice demands that devices that aren't authenticated (e.g., with 802.1x) shouldn't be granted access to internal resources at all. On the flip side, internal devices shouldn't rely on external infrastructure resources either.

This isn't censorship or some sort of fascistic control mechanism. Rather, it's an appropriate organization response to extant and potential threats to their IT infrastructure and data.
You probably don't need HACM. Microsoft Research has produce quite a number of software and compilers for producing provably secure low level code and drivers.
From an investment perspective everything is a casino.
WhatsApp/Signal and Telegram are completely different platforms. The formers focus on end-to-end encrypted conversations, while Telegram focuses on speed, functionality, and security. While I appreciate their open-source client apps and promise for offering a secure chat experience, it doesn't change that their chats (1:1 non-secret chats and group chats) are not end-to-end encrypted. WhatsApp and Signal are superior solutions in comparison.

Edit to add: My point being, with their focuses (at least Signal's) being on offering end-to-end encrypted communication, it feels normal that they are not able to focus efforts on improving client experience. Hopefully something that they are able to achieve in the coming months.
But people who would buy special equipment that isn't price competitive with non-"gaming" alternatives is only a small portion of that.
There are so many issues like this that have effectively flipped. It’s maddening.

Take for example the anti-war stance. As far as I know Trump is the only one continually advocating for a troop withdrawal in the Middle East. This used to be a solid progressive issue.
The popular web server Nginx started in Russia almost 20 years ago. Nobody would have used the software of such dubious origin if it was closed-source. Being open-source allowed many more eyeballs and developers which increased trust in the project.

With the current geopolitical landscape, projects from Russia, China and increasingly the United States must be open-source to become widely used and trusted.

If China-based JingOS aren't developing their work publicly, for most developers it may as well not exist.
I don't want to be too hard on this project, but is it really "design-forward" when it's blatantly and explicitly copying the look and feel of iOS/iPadOS? Originality seems like an important component of good design.
Speaking from on the ground in SE Asia, it's highly unlikely travel will be back to normal before 2023. The big question for travel is whether countries will start accepting vaccination as a substitute for quarantine.
"deeply experienced radar operators": what does that mean? They're not looking at raw radar signals, like some WWII operator with an O-scope. They're looking at a computer-generated signal. And lots can go wrong between the radar signal and the computer screen.

Likewise, "the most advanced flight technology ever created" has absolutely nothing to do with it. They could have been in a hot air balloon and seen the same thing (which I suspect was an illusion).
Curious as to what others here think about the idea that the Tic Tac UFO could be some sort of high energy particle beam being controlled from the ground?

My mom unfortunately passed from cancer, but she was able to get proton beam therapy for a tumor that would have been inaccessible with traditional radiation. This, as I understand it, is because a proton beam sheds the majority of it's energy at the very end of it's flight, allowing internal tissues to be targeted more directly.

I wonder - what would it look like if you made a proton beam and pointed it to the sky? Could you create a glowing area, much like the Tic Tac, that could be used to throw off enemy radar? I am legitimately curious, as my physics background is so so at best.
Proper washlets are a different thing, the OP and I were referring to the basic bum guns which are not integrated with the seat:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33060246812.html
>their voters immediately moved their opinions by around 15% into line with their party.

Maybe I don't totally understand what 15% means here, but it sounds like the vast majority of supporters did not switch their opinions? If my interpretation is correct, this title feels very misleading, but it's also possible I'm just misunderstanding.
Just google "mercury amalgam cancer".
it's intended for use in space, phil.
Correct. One reaction involving mercury would be Oxymercuration, a process that is usually covered in Organic Chemistry 1.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymercuration_reaction
That page doesn't really answer the question.
He has a full time press secretary, multiple media assistants, and the white house press corps is considered elite tier journalism territory with journalists practically begging to be let in. He can walk out on camera at literally any moment, and immediately have an audience of millions. But he chooses a private platform with a TOS that he has never abided by. That's on him.
Reading Snow Crash and IMO it could be a fantastic series. However, I must say I would hate a poor adaptation much more than no adaptation at all. Hopefully in my lifetime someone takes it on and gets it right.
The patent is really only half of the story here.

The bigger question is why does the US Navy own this patents? And, how does this relate to the pill shaped UFO that navy pilots verified having seen over the last decade performing antigravity maneuvers?

On December 30th 2020 the United States Senate had requested for the Pentagon for an explanation of this UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon). The Senate said the Pentagon had 180 days (about half a year) to give an explanation. This explanation would be out around June/July of 2021. [1]

The patent for the "High frequency gravitational wave generator" is essentially a pill shape design, exactly like the Navy Pilots describe.

The other patent "Craft using an inertial mass reduction device" appears to be the kind of tech you would need to avoid getting squished like a grape in hyper-G accelerations.

The big questions here are

1) Why does the Navy own these patents

2) Do they have anything to do with the pill shaped UFOs the navy has reported seeing

3) Are they even real science?

[1] https://www.wilx.com/2020/12/30/the-pentagon-has-180-days-to...
Is that even possible without a constitutional amendment?
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The whole concept of 'neoliberalism' is simply the far left being angry at literally everybody to the right of them. People from right wing nationalists, libertarians, center leftists all with diverse opinions were all simply called neoliberal. Neoliberalism has never been an actual movement or philosophy or anything coherent but rather is everything the far left doesn't like since the late 70s.

What both the left and the right complain about in their 'anti-globalist' is 'we are unhappy with the situation here' and we blame the rest of the globe. The left believes that all changes to the economy they don't like could just not effect them if you didn't have free trade. And the right, by now is basically the party of the white working class has the same issue.

This is also why the left is now the pro globalism party, they are now the party of the urban people rather then the (white) working class and cities have much fewer of the problems from change in industrial structure.
https://www.carmatsa.com/en/