skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> except perhaps by the sort of folks that think AfD has the right approach

Ah right, everyone that disagrees must be one of those people so their opinion doesn't matter.

> They may exhibit some editorial lean

More than "some".

> CNBC or Fox News

Those are corporations that noone is not forced to fund if you disagree with them.

> Just generally, independent journalism is important

Except you can't give certain organizations a unique monopoly to collect fees from everyone and then call it independent with a straight face.

Also, journalism is only a tiny part of german public TV channels. They also throw tons of money on sports broadcasting and game shows while promoting gambling. Add to that the insanity of having a local channel for every state. Even if you agree that public funded news is a good thing, the current setup is hardly an efficient way to accomplish that.

> Seems a not-awful approach to trying to ensure a more-educated population, which is also good for a democracy.

You can call it "education" if you want.

Finally, unlike taxes, the TV fee is not means tested in Germany meaning that if you have a low income and don't fall into the few groups that are excempt then it is a very real burden.
There are tons of reasons, specific to separate Google products. Leave Google drive for a better solution like FileCloud or may be even Dropbox for the personal use. Leave Google Chrome for browsers like Opera/ FF or Brave, use may be Bing/ Duck duck go instead of Google search. It's a matter of perspective and personal choice, but there are alternates to Google products which are better ofcourse.
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except React == Facebook so you want Vue instead :)
Goldman Sachs earnings are out – here are the numbers
In macOS Big Sur, firewalls like Little Snitch or Lulu were unable to block Apple's own services from phoning home. That has now been fixed in the latest beta release and will work as it did before soon. You can see this article for details. [1]

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/14/macos-big-sur-11-2-beta...
I with my phone had that kind of low power mode - asleep for millions of years, yet ready to wake up when needed
Surprisingly we’re often one of the first markets for new financial tech. Though we were behind for a while until Osko was adopted.

We’re getting mandated bank API access too, interestingly. Or we were. Dunno where that’s at now.
Yes, but these parties use 'social democratic' after a split of socialist parties in 1920s into social democratic parties and communist parties. So no need to use 'socialist' instead of 'social democratic' unless you want to dogwhistle to communist supporters.

Also note that this meaning of term 'socialist' is rather archaic (and not in opposition to term 'capitalist'). The modern meaning of 'socialism' is to describe economic system in countries of soviet communist bloc.
> The central philosophy of capitalism is that voluntary trade leads, ultimately, to greater and more efficient production.

That's also what "market socialists" believe, but still they are very different.

The central underpinning of capitalism is the protection of personal wealth, ad infinitum. Thereby allowing capitalists a.k.a. billionaires to exist.
Yes I have done it, but my wife saw me do it and said there is no way she would go through all those steps.
And DNA appears to have a half-life of 521 years. 101 million years is 194 817 half-lifes. Assuming the research is sound I wonder how the bacteria get around that limit.
Voting may not produce desired training data either ... Painty McPaintface ...
Common law still relies on the recorded precedents of prior cases. It's not like it's just undefined.
Immutable. The reason you couldn’t find it in chmod(1) is because it’s the wrong command. The correct command (and manual page) is chattr(1).
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Considering that we run thousands of hydrogen powered vehicles every day, this is increasingly a viewpoint that is out of touch. If anything, we know that it will work without much fuss. Most of the issues you describe no longer exist anymore.

60 miles in 5 minutes is far slower than 400 miles in 5 minutes. Even better, you can consistently go from 0-100% and not 10-80% or whatever. It also scales to larger vehicles, something that simply won't work with batteries. Not unless you're consider elaborate solutions like overhead catenaries.
Having recently got hooked on DCS, I've subtly fallen in love with the idea of being a fighter pilot. I'm the right age to apply, but my eyes aren't even close to good enough, so I'm so glad I've had that particular epiphany after starting a degree and having other interests and all that jazz.
I have a porn addiction. I am unable to quit, no matter how many times I try. It has seriously affected my life.

I'm not sure if banning porn from a constitutional perspective would fix anything about it - but I am almost certain that millions in the world are also suffering from this. It's such a strange thing, to suffer from your own freedom. Is it still freedom when it becomes entangled with compulsion?
The thing is, given the accelerating expansion of space in every point, it is likely, as I understand, that light from any star distant enough that it hasn't reached us yet will in fact never reach us.
Europeans often follow the classical definition of socialism: non private ownership of means if production. Things like so socialist market economies without state regulation thereof, for example, are theoretically conceivable.

However, no European country is socialist in that sense. They have a lot of state involvement, or other public institutions, but they do have private property especially for means of production. That’s all there is to it, and calling Finland socialist seems rather inappropriate to Europeans. Indeed, to describe these different systems, other names are used, for example social democracy, or social market system etc.

For Americans, socialism is just the opposite of capitalism in every particular dimension, not just means of producing. So you can be more socialist in healthcare and so forth, even by having just more state control of things that are still privately owned.

Neither is wrong. It is a semantic misunderstanding.

Americans convey a lot of meaning by using single words. For example, just yelling socialism can now bring forth associations of all kinds, from Sweden to Stalin. Political discourse seems highly polysemic.

Europeans here are to some degree confused. It is not easy to keep up with the context of what socialism all means in the US, and how that meaning constantly shifts and gets new nuances.

But the vividness of it all is linguistically rather interesting.

Anyhow, no one is inherently wrong here.

I would however mention that we converse in English, on a US website. So there is that.
There is a lot of HF leakage from an analogue TV set up close. Not many users put their TV in a Faraday cage.
I made a PCB for an ESP32 CNC controller, if anyone finds it useful:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/esp32-cnc
The problem is ncurses / terminals ... poor keyboard support, etc...
You'd have to research what planes look like departing and landing.

But without that.. I would have thought (as a layman) - is the plane doing anything to add vs cut drag? That could be a clue...

(from a toy perspective of how planes work in movies ofc).
Good Lord, haven't we had enough of Corona or you want new virus?!
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Jitsi has really impressed me so far.

Either Trump or Biden needs to make some EOs to clip zooms wings, it just looks like a disaster waiting to happen.
"I prefer old-school quiet and scientific documentaries"

I do as well. The BBC actually produces a lot of these types of documentaries but they are probably not sold to broadcasters outside of the UK. I presume it's because they lack the big-budget, glossy look that is attractive to bigger audiences (and to international broadcasters). Or sometimes documentaries are trimmed or edited for international audiences. (I don't know if this is the BBC editing the programme or the broadcaster who bought the programme.)

A lot of the "old-school quiet" documentaries can be found on BBC4 - a specialised channel that shows programmes on specialised or niche topics.
I'm a Spotify subscriber but I'd be the first to admit that Spotify's audio quality isn't great to begin with, even when set to high quality streaming. It's noticeably worse than uncompressed CD quality (ignoring CDs that were mastered from sources that were lossily compressed to begin with - what a great trend that was).

This isn't a complaint, more an observation: Spotify works really well if you're outside, in a car, or even in an office environment with plenty of low level background noise. It's not so great when you run it through a half-decent hifi in your own home. Still, good enough for casual listening. However, if you're paying attention, you'll notice the flaws easily.

So, some of that noise is probably just that: noise. But some of it will also no doubt be the watermark.
You are probably right, but as someone who grew up episcopalian, and struggled a lot assembling a coherent world view, I do see (even if only psychological) the potential need for deity at the edges of the explained.

Someone might be able to explain the evolutionary benefits of existentialism, depression (or the benefits of the traits that when lacking lead to it, and how), philosophical meanderings when it would be more beneficial for me to work right now, and pre-bang existence, etc.

But even if not, I can't oppose your assertion that it serves no tangible purpose to award credit to some unnamed force. But it could at least be a comforting placeholder for when something more tangible comes along. Or a tea pot.
What you say is plausible but encoding multiple streams on weaker clients would be challenging I think (doesn't it run on tablets and the like?).

Also I don't know if it's a reasonable comparison point but Youtube does transcode server-side into a whole bunch of of different resolutions and video standards, going as high as 8K these days I think. Given the amount of video they receive every single second it's pretty wild how much processing power that must represent.
I see. This is what I use lighthouse audits for, plus I'll have different alerts which user can enable for slow sites, like "If response time > 2 seconds trigger an alarm".
So

1. By default I'll setup timeout to be 30 seconds, which will be customazible. Maybe 30 secs max.

2. Add ability to setup alarms for slow response time

Cool!
Should you feel the need to argue against something I actually said, you’re welcome to read the thread more carefully. You’ll learn that I do not approve of violence but also do not approve of people conflating different levels of bad activity in service of a misleading “both sides” narrative.
Do you have a lot of personal experience with foster children? Are you speaking from experience?

From my experience, they try to place children with immediate family if at all possible. But I’ve also seen children come from appalling circumstances - with mothers who literally sell or give them to convicted pedophiles, or who witnessed their father attempt to murder their mother in full view of their children. I’m far from thinking the foster care system is perfect, but I’ve seen more than enough to doubt the idea most children should stay with in their homes. I’ve never seen a social worker treat the decision to remove a child from a home flippantly.
No negativity measured, actually
What happens when you can release whenever. This question is probably quite relevant to most developers, because CD (continuous delivery) is popular.
I have not looked into how it works, other then reading the blog post, but it seems like they are trying to figure out that part as well: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

But yeah, as long as they own the servers I am sure they could puzzle it together if they wanted.
It's straightforward, but relative to whatsapp it is a huge hassle.

Imagine you lost/broken phone and bought a replacement. Whatsapp would be able to restore all your history while in Signal you are out of luck.
> Moxie has been quite clear that Signal is not to be distributed on F-Droid, that seems not likely to change.

IIRC his main arguments were really a different signature and delays in updates.

Since these reasons will not exist anymore in the case of reproducible builds (the Signal app could still prompt for updates itself) from Signal being distributed on F-Droid, I don't think we can assume that Signal would not be fine with the APK distributed on F-Droid.

From a quick glance, the main reason left now seems to be that Signal still relies on the Play services libraries at compile-time (not necessarily at runtime), which are proprietary and thus not acceptable for F-Droid. Signal does not want to support a fork with these libraries completely removed.
That won't reduce the supply, it will slow the expansion of supply, unless bankruptcies go into a chain reaction.
I am not insisting you listen to it. I don't listen to it; I prefer to read news rather than listen or watch it.

I do expect anyone who lives in the UK to be aware it exists, including people 10 years older than me.

> An almost comedic interview on the Today Programme this morning had Home Secretary Priti Patel attempting to defend the Government’s new rules on ‘mingling’ ...

https://order-order.com/2020/09/15/mingling-banned-under-dra...

> Nigel tells the Today programme “it's been an appalling few weeks” for UKIP...

> Radio 4 sources are loudly and widely sharing concerns that Sarah Sands is planning big changes at the Today programme.

> For the first time Guido can remember, this morning's Today programme included "major websites" in its paper review

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aorder-order.com+%22to...
Thanks for sharing that, now I know that I'm not the only one who has been using htop for years and didn't know that you could hide the threads with Shift+H. It's not even on the help screen, for crying out loud :D

Plus, after looking through all the options, I couldn't find an option to hide threads by default. EDIT: later I realized that pressing Shift+H automatically sets the option "Hide userland process threads", and I overlooked it because I was looking for a disabled option. So htop was actually smarter than I was giving it credit for. However, it definitely wouldn't hurt to mention Shift+H on the help screen :)
Cache Poisoning and RCE in Popular DNS Forwarder Dnsmasq [pdf]
Yeah, you guys are right. I must've installed it via apk at some point and completely forgotten it's not on f-droid. Sorry for being dumb.
There's too much shit satellites blocking my star gazing. Arrest them immediately!
The plugs are rated for 5A so lets say that; 2.2mm core is overkill.

10kV is 5mm, 65kV is 10mm, so something like sqrt(V) + 4mm. I guess 500 kV would be around 30mm for each wire, which is starting to get unwieldy.
"signal doesn't store anything server side" is false, plain and simple. Signal stores certain kinds of data server side, just not everything. And they do some SGX voodoo dance to maybe protect it: https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
This answer: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/34627 is most likely correct. Based on the fact that main carriage is off the ground, flap setting and wing AoA. During departure the rotation angle would be larger before main wheels leave the ground.
The ridicule such as in the examples reveals epistemic immaturity.

The {known, unknown} X {knowns, unknowns} classification is a statement of existence. Just because any of the four combinations here exist, doesn't mean they're equally likely.

The error in reasoning such vaccination-autism policy advocate makes is: they correctly observe the possibility of unknown unknowns in vaccination, but then they incorrectly assume that a) they're likely, significant and impactful, and b) they have to do with body's reaction to the vaccine.

(Hell, arguably the primary unknown unknown in vaccination was the degree to which anti-vaccination memes will spread and prevent populations from being effectively protected.)

Additionally, the focus on this is itself a sign of immaturity. The adult answer here to note that various kinds of knowns/unknowns exist, and then talk about how we can make turn unknowns into knowns, how to estimate the importance and impact of the unknowns, and how to deal with them if they happen.

> UFO-abduction policy advocate: (...)Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Actually, absence of evidence is evidence of absence. If your hypothesis predicts something should happen, and it does not happen, it does count as evidence against your hypothesis.
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Sometimes the kid's shows become hits with the adults too. I'm thinking of Horrible Histories - a brilliant, comedic look at history equally loved by kids and adults.
I understand that it's a common law system. But there's also no precedent or prior ruling about this, thus not existing in common law.

I think you are right about the redistricting decision. I still think it's wrong and lazy for the legislature to have the courts handle it. This sort of indifference is sloppy and leads to inefficiencies and injustices, such as appeals, retrials, or misinterpretation. The courts really shouldn't be doing much interpreting. The system is supposed to use hundreds of representatives to be the voice of the people, not 1-9 judges.

I also see that you are saying that people should be guilty if they violated the spirit of the law. This doesn't currently happen. Look at the tax loopholes in wide use. My opinion is that you can't expect someone to know that something is wrong if the statute says something contrary.
> They were fake.

Thank you. Just last year or so there was an article linked on HN that investigated on this. And it turned out to be all fake. There was some sort of prototype that actually worked, but the range was so limited and localization was not possible at all ... it simply wasn't practical for any use. As the funding was somewhat public and news picked up on that, the myth was spreading and they made these fake vans with scary antennas and went on their scare-/psy-ops. News picked up on that again and word quickly spread all around. IIRC there was even some exhibit linked in the article that had various builds of these fake-vans. Of course everything was only props. The real deal simply only existed in people's heads. Plus there isn't any working hardware from that era to be found nowadays anywhere anyway. As the conspiracy theory goes on, that's apparently because it was all destroyed by BBC after the act. If you ask those people about all the other countries that had this apparently going on about where the remains of the equipment are nowadays you get a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ at best.
This is something I really can't fathom.

It takes twice as much typing without the chainable, unix pipe like API. I really don't get it, but I've been baffled by this industry's decision for more than a decade.
ya, too many ways and there are better apps too competing with Amazon pantry
We do have moderate to low CPI inflation in western countries, but we also have high inequality and a young generation that doesn't have any assets. Now, if whether you call that inflation or not, the reality of the matter is that the cheap money situation we are in has led to this situation where we have rampant speculation in stocks, real-estate, crypto assets and any other form of limited supply assets. So I think Bitcoin and the crypto asset class, is here to stay, offering its own unique set of advantages and disadvantages.
Not read the article, but as a political aside, the licence fee is a big subject of debate here at the moment.

It was designed so that the BBC essentially had independence from the government, and as such, they could more easily be politically neutral (if they were funded directly by the government, there would be more pressure for them to cover the government favourably in news programs etc.).

Problem is that these days the licence fee is outdated with lots of people just watching Netflix/Amazon etc.

A lot of the "right wing" here also think the BBC has a left wing bias, which I think is a bit ridiculous really, as a lot of the "left wing" also think it has a right wing bias. But the consequence of this is that a lot in the current government want to decriminalise non-payment of the licence fee. This would basically mean that there is no consequence to not paying the licence fee, and assuming the government didn't come up with an alternative way of funding it, it would amount to death by a thousand cuts for the BBC (which a lot of right wingers are actually quite open about wanting).

It's quite a tough problem in my opinion. Direct funding from the government would solve a lot of problems, but also make political impartiality a lot more difficult to achieve. A direct subscription like for Netflix would likely result in a significant drop in revenue.

Hard to see a good solution here.
I agree. I like htop a lot but this behaviour is very hostile. Toggling an option at runtime shouldn't overide the static config without confirmation.
> Poor reading, writing and numeracy skills in adults make up a literacy gap... the gap is due in part to an abundance of jobs in the past that do not require the daily use of reading comprehension and information synthesis skills.

The problem is identifying children with learning disabilities and/or low IQ early enough and steering them into effective programs tailored to core literacy/numeracy. This is a non-trivial problem in rural and remote communities.

Our disdain of IQ style tests, assumed to be associated with marginalization, has probably backfired. The key question is what level of literacy/numeracy is expected for a given IQ and then identifying individuals that fall below this range of expectations. If you don’t recognize the natural distribution to begin with it is hard to improve outcomes.

A second problem not addressed in the article is individuals with above average IQs that are functionally innumerate and lack "information synthesis skills”. Journalists generally fall into this category. We need quality information filters especially during a pandemic.
BBC News has always been the de facto propaganda arm of the British government. It may only be apparent to you now, but their reporting has always been overly biased. Examples are any reporting on the Troubles (especially British crimes there), the Iraq war (especially the lead up and the Camp Stephen killings), and anything about Brexit.
I think this just shows that unregulated, no strings attached, anarchy style, etc is low hanging fruit for exploitation. Exploitation happens, and we need to deal with it, in my opinion, with attaching some strings. Like with the difference of the AGPL and the MIT license.

Your mitigation strategy would work though too, I think. If it's a raffle kind of thing, then the resellers wouldn't have such an easy time, so it makes this thing less desirable for them.
> if anything is to blame for poor decisions it is the conditions that led to that brain state.

This stumbles into the non-sequitur of assuming poor circunstances are caused by poor decisions.

_Very_ often the circunstances leading to misfortune are caused by random chance or decisions beyond the control of those suffering the misfortune.
The article seems to use examples of undeniably bad things Facebook has done to extrapolate to google, without providing any concrete examples.

Stating that FB/G use your data to provide targeted ads isn’t an inherently bad thing: it’s part of the arithmetic of getting incredibly useful tools for free. I’d argue the key piece is what types of ads, and the methods behind delivery are crucial. That isn’t mentioned at all.
In your upcoming blog post, could you please explicitly mention that most of your servers are located in the U.S. (as I recall) and how the FVEYES cooperation/agreements could work against your users since Australia and the U.S. do work together?