skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue is better described as "corruption", rather than lobbying. Lobbying is a form of corruption unique to politicians, but it's just as possible that someone who has access to everyone's data via the CLOUD act uses such data in a corrupt way, or sells their access to that data to the highest bidder. Corruption is a problem that can occur anywhere down the trust stack.

A focus on individual responsibility for security and for integrity refocuses the issue on foundational Confucian principles (for every individual, be: benevolent, righteous, have propriety, build wisdom, and have fidelity), creates a culture of trust, diversity and competence. These things are much better for a thriving society, whether the label for the systems is democratic, dogmacratic, bureaucratic, or plutocratic.

(p.s. I am Australian, not Chinese. I just have an appreciation for learning from your rivals)
> Microstepping isn't bad. The author says it reduces torque, but it does not. That is a myth.

It's more complicated than that [0,1] and characterising it as a myth is dismissive and wrong.

[0]: https://www.faulhaber.com/fileadmin/user_upload_global/suppo...

[1]: https://www.njr.com/electronic_device/PDF/application_notes/...
Democracy is already damaged by the lack of democratic control even if a centralized power chooses not to harm it any further (the fact that they even have this choice is evidence of the damage).
Free Category Theory Resources
>As long as you don't cause violence or you're not violating the terms of service which you accepted while joining to the service, they wouldn't remove your content or block you.

That's both optimistic and naive given that TOS can change at any time, and interpretation aren't subject to appeal with a transparent process.
When platforms are centralized one organization can push lies to almost everyone. In decentralized systems these lies sit below the noise floor with the dumb conspiracy theories.
wow 3 pop ups for newsletter sign up, an ad, then telling me how many articles I have left. THEN another pop up for proving I'm not a robot...
I hope Signal implements live location sharing, as it is quite useful when meeting up with friends. For anyone else interested in this feature, please show your support here:

https://community.signalusers.org/t/live-location-sharing/25...
This [0] is an article in Spanish that talks about licenses (more specifically "otorgamientos") and mentions Tibro.

[0]: https://enacom.gob.ar/institucional/mas-de--570-millones-par...
That's just admitting that the majority does not want the "independent" content of that state media.
That's not even the crux of the issue, so maybe we should get a little introspective about our own qualifications while we're at it. The problem is that negative tests are counted each time, while positives are per-person. So one nurse could account for 100 negative tests, so the presentation is misleading.
Is there a difference between a sex-trafficking victim and a "normal" sex worker? Wikipedia articles for example do not distinguish much. In fact, Wikipedia almost implies all webcam models or pornstars are probably slaves.

Since it is unlikely to 100% abstain from porn, it is now necessary to determine sexual-slave from willing participant in porn (or other sex-worker). How to do so?
That's a really clever approach to polls. I appreciate that Signal has emoji reactions for this and other purposes.
i cant be the only one who thinks this post is low/zero effort?
I was expecting this to be an article about leaving Google as an employee. The daily "You are at Google!"-elitist chatting makes you feel kind cool at first, but after two years you just get sick of hearing it and it becomes unbearable. (YMMV, I suppose it's not the same at all locations or within all departments ...)

Regarding the article: The "Why?" paragraph talks about a lot of things, but not why you should quit using Google. If anything it tells you why you should quit using Facebook/Whatsapp. If the argument is "Facebook is bad, so Google must be bad" you might as well stop using the internet all together right now, as this can be applied to basically any other service provider of any kind.
Your chest constrict comment reminded me of this quote from Messner on the first solo ascent of Everest.

"When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath...I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will."
The problem with moving away from Google and Facebook always seems to come down to cost and convenience.

The recent removal of infinite photo storage, and the always-imminent demise of hangouts might have finally moved the for me on Google, but it's unfortunate that Google Docs is still the premiere collaboration platform for many folks.

And Messenger/WhatsApp are the messaging platforms of choice in at least half the world. One can't just up and leave while staying in touch with friends/family.
I'm a big fan of Signal and have been encouraging friends and family to use it.

That said, I (like others) am a bit concerned about the lack of updates to Signal-Server (https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commits/master). Commits seemed to suddenly stop April last year, and I'd be very surprised if the actual Signal Server that's running in production hasn't been updated over such a long period. Would be very happy to be proven wrong here, or to be pointed in the direction of anything that might explain the lack of activity.
The current Turkish government seems to be looking out for the health and well being of it's citizens. That's why it required all of them to install the government issued CA cert so they could monitor everyone's connections for anything that might cause a problem.
In the European companies they are not. From my experience (UK Financial Services primarily), they are equivalent to a US Staff Engineer with authority over Design and Implementation. Typically looking after a team or two of engineers of various levels of experience.

There's also a broad amount of "socialising" the design/system internally to generate "buy-in" across the organisation. Which is the tedious bit for me, but hey, the money is good.
individuals murdered by far right individuals

During the summer’s BLM activities? Name one.
Modeling a small plane in 3D: Supermarine Spitfire
I'm just grateful for having been raised in a household where I was completely free to choose my own future. I wanted to become a musician, and my parents were ok, even supportive, of that. I eventually then found out that it's not easy to make a living as a musician, and later decided to pursue tech.

On the other hand, have friends that grew up in very different homes, where they were pretty much forced to pick medicine, law, or engineering, not ifs or buts. Many ended up switching careers quickly after graduating, pursuing other professions.

In the end, most I know - myself included - ended up doing pretty good. People do adjustments underway, but I'm grateful for having had the chance to chase my teenage dreams, even if it didn't work out as planned.
Rather pointless article. It doesn't give any new or even compelling arguments to leave. Just "woooo personal data". And it doesn't even tell you how to leave, like nobody is just going to delete all their data. People want alternatives.
And you just made me picture a store bought "ready-to-eat" meal as a terrifying and hungry creature waiting for me to wake it up.
Referring to an authoritarian ruler and their clique as if they are the country is a disservice to the oppressed people of said country.
Medium allows you to set a canonical tag, so authors can direct SEO juice towards their own websites. Github/gist doesn't have that.

In practice 99% of what you read on Medium is syndicated, they are in the business of trading an audience for content (that in turn will grow their audience).
Looks like you just answered yourself.
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No, and I think that's part of my problem.
Many thanks - is this in the codebase or handled via some config? I couldnt see it from my (limited) searching.
oh. i don't need contacts or calendar. just plain vanilla email with a webmail. i think any client on fdroid should work for mobile. backups are interesting and important really.
vultr "seems" cheaper. will have to investigate
"...from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology..." (from TFA)
VLC Media Player for macOS Updated with Native M1 Support
What are the titles of the two Oxford books you mentioned? I'd like to look at them.
Centralization is a danger in an environment where there are a handful of individuals 100,000x more wealthy than everyone else.

It is extremely easy to take control of a centralized system when you have enough wealth; and unfortunately, our system has produced more than a few of these edge cases.
Right, this is why a cloud company is sponsoring the replication. They can’t sell GPT-3 as a service until they get a copy of it.
What is the 95% based on? Current usage?

Or, just some invented number, adjusted according to Erdoğan's political requirements?
IMO: continuing to use youtube in any way isn't really leaving google.
I agree, but would like to remind you of the Google+ data scandal in 2018, which did not increase my confidence in Google's security measures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Google_data_breach
The Walmart vs Target experience can be store specific. In my area Target moved in before Walmart which means their stores and their parking lots were designed before pickup services were started. This means the pickup experience at the Targets in the area is less than ideal. Walmart on the other hand built their stores and designed the traffic flow around them specifically to support large scale pickup service. As a result the Walmarts in the area seem to do a much bigger pickup business. I know many people that have switched from using Target to Walmart because of the vastly better pickup experience. This is all specific to my area and anecdotal. The original comment was also anecdotal, so I feel less bad about it.
Not necessarily. Acme displays variable-width fonts just fine.

However, Emacs is not just a text editor, so it shouldn't be judged solely as a text editor.
The internet didn't magically appear one day in its current form. It is a pile of good-enough solutions, layered on-top of one another as they became needed. The same could be said for many of the other systems that humans have developed.
https://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/business/4g-suspension-5...

this is going to happen to turkey too... people going full vpn, then govt banning vpn, then using shit like kazhakistan certificate thing and before you know it, full on china GFW.
Indeed, LaTeX makes for really awesome results if you can put in the time to learn it (which is not a lot for basic usage). Plus it helps enforce a common style in all docs, and works well with Git.
This article was very relevant when it came out. Since then, however, a lot has changed. Phones have been getting larger, batteries as well. My current phone, which came out in 2019, has a 5000 mAh battery and easily lasts two days. On top of that, thanks to the pandemic and less traveling, I don't even need that much battery power for my laptop so I've been holding off on buying a USB-C PD powerbank and charger.

There are also a few other Chinese companies which have entered the power and cable accessories game, which could be eating into Anker's sales as Anker moves upmarket.
> The presence of dissolved O2, nitrate (NO3−), phosphate (PO4−), and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) throughout the sedimentary sequence from the seafloor to the volcanic basement indicates that cell abundance and activity are not limited by availability of electron acceptors or dissolved major inorganic nutrients. From the Redfield stoichiometry of net dissolved O2 reduction to net nitrate production in the sediment, the microbial cells have been inferred to consume oxygen coupled to oxidation of marine organic matter at extremely slow rates.

-- D’Hondt, S. et al. Presence of oxygen and aerobic communities from sea floor to basement in deep-sea sediments. Nature Geosci. 8, 299–304 (2015).
Silence Will Fall (Or How It Can Take 2 Years to Get Your Vuln Registered)
Not that these do the same thing, but if you'd like, I wrote this proc in tcl/tk a couple of days ago if anyone wants to compare this site to tk's internals.

proc color_name_to_hex {name} {
set hex "#"
foreach color [winfo rgb . "$name"] {
append hex [string range [format %02x $color] 0 1]
}
return $hex
}
>I’m pretty sure the changes to the law that replaced mental health care and orphanages with homelessness and prison were written with those outcomes in mind.

"Pretty sure"? That's a some standard of evidence. Care to expand on that .. maybe with with something other than "I thought about it real hard and I can't think of anything else it could be"?
I don't have a TV... But that's not the point, it's no longer relevant today as made apparent by their threatening letters that make it sound as though it's impossible to avoid paying them. What is relevant: I don't watch BBC, period. And yet every 2 years or every time I move I am threatened again for the offense of not wanting to watch the BBC.

I recognize that in the UK at one point this licensing model made sense due to combination of funding broadcast equipment, and the BBC has given a huge amount of value over the years - but I honestly think the quality of their content has decreased significantly since then, especially the documentaries. The licensing model no longer makes sense in a world where they are just one of multiple payed on demand services usually delivered over the internet for which we are already directly funding. It should be opt-in not opt-out.
I do think that we are missing a good gui library that would direct developers to create lean applications (both from ux and resource consumption points of view) somewhat similarly as ncurses.
Perfect, missing only a speech bubble with "NANI?!"
An example of humans breaking an AI's utility function, rather than the other way around!
One big part about your post is about streaming. I don't think the ZIP format was ever designed for streaming, and there are no claims about streaming in the original app notes. Actually, the wording about streaming you refer to were only added to the app note last year, and as you rightly point out, it's not guaranteed to work.
That works if people's only businesses are what is needed by the small community/tribe. We've reached a point where thanks to a millenia of technological advance, a fraction of the populace works in agriculture. Instead I work in a business that sells a niche enough product that we might have a customer ever other week from somewhere in Europe. In order for that to work, we can't only have customers in our town or its immediate neighbours.

So we can have more devolvement, an endless argument here in the UK, but centralised money structures, standards bodies, transport networks, etc are required for this to be feasible. Already we complain that the more niche ideas can be more successful in the US because there's a larger home market.
Right, they don't. They just read your chats, your contact lists, get other peoples contact information without any consent or relation to Facebook at all and some other minor things like using your photos for ads of any kind or selling data to e.g. profiling companies.
Hackers leverage sophisticated and novel techniques to break into networks
Learning what is actually pain vs. discomfort is important. Exercising is often uncomfortable, but it shouldn't be painful. Learning how to deal with being uncomfortable both physically and mentally is a key skill in life.

Somewhat related, but my view of suffering really changed after reading "Man's Search for Meaning".
There are a lot of great services coming out of both Facebook and Google. Why on Earth is the seemingly most popular solution to "cancel" them? That is such a waste.

I firmly believe the best remedies are regulation (to protect privacy) and breaking up monopolies.
Yeah, I liked the mechanics and quantum volumes, but the choice of material in the stat mech books (both volumes) just seemed weird compared to what's usually done in a modern graduate course.

Do you have any recommendations for good stat mech books? I guess the two volume set by Kardar is trendy right now, but I'm always curious about other options.
This isn't challenging. It is done for a majority of conference software. Essentially the client uploads the streams in such a way that they "depend" on each other. You can imagine there is a base stream at 480p 15fps, then you can add on some packets to get 480 30fps, and further to get 720fps.

https://webrtcglossary.com/svc/
Floating Apple store bobs up in Singapore
"Apple has opened a store housed in a floating glass dome in Singapore's Marina Bay.

The new store can only be accessed through a 45m underwater tunnel from The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands, a nearby mall attached to a hotel/casino complex.

Apple breathlessly detailed that the store's dome comprises 114 glass panels with exoskeleton-like sunshade rings. Alongside the usual Apple store accouterments, the store will also feature an underwater boardroom."
The solution is to let people who want to watch and consume bbc content pay for it, and let everybody else not pay for it. It's very simple.
From the paper

> Very low permeability (1.1–2.0 × 10−17 m2 for IODP Site U1365 4H-3 [26.6 meters below seafloor (mbsf)] and 8.9 × 10−18 m2 for IODP Site U1370 [37.5 mbsf], respectively), very low estimated pore size of the abyssal clay (~0.02 microns, calculated using above permeability data according to the equation shown in Tanikawa et al.), and thick porcellanite layers above the oldest sampled horizons appear to preclude cell migration into the sampled sediment. Consequently, the sampled communities have likely been trapped in the sediment since shortly after its deposition.
Really interesting how they did the audio. Reminds me of how they used steganography in the Xbox 360 [1] to detect leakers of their beta UI's.

[1]: https://www.dualshockers.com/xbox-360-nda-trick-nxe/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18643987
Yes, it can change any time and you can follow what's changed. It's also open to appeal to the company and I have seen mistakes corrected.

My point is there is no secret agenda to bring up a content that supports one view. What Turkish gov wants to achieve is that, taking down the content they don't like. They have taken over all mainstream TV channels and you wouldn't see a line of critic on any channel, if you do it's quite likely you will not be invited to debate next time.
Another reason to use a personal Jitsi server
You might be right with that suspicion, but if the person responsible for procedures puts up a rule demanding unpredictable runway usage they have done their job Very Well. A cautious "this might not be such a good idea actually" however will make them seem weak in certain eyes and might even make them some personal enemies, for displaying lack of trust in the pilots' abilities. I suspect that nobody without the career instincts to intuitively know those things will come anywhere close to that plane.
Show HN: ZuccNet – Encrypted Facebook Messaging
Before I buy anything on Amazon, I check eBay first.

Oftentimes I would have been overpaying 20-50%, especially on small, <=$15 items.

It seems like something for $11 is a good deal, until you can get 3 on eBay for $8.
To amplify this point, all the negative Amazon reviews praise the book but excoriate the print quality.
Cal Newport became famous for his books "Deep Work" and "Digital Minimalism", but my favorite / most underrated book by him is actually "So Good They Can't Ignore You": https://www.calnewport.com/books/so-good/

In SGTCIU, he really goes deep on the idea that pre-existing passion is unlikely to lead you to a happy career and presents an alternate, more-compelling framework for job satisfaction.

1. Acquire rare & valuable skills (career capital)
2. Use said career capital in exchange for job / life properties you care about (remote work, working less hours, working for 'better' companies, higher pay, more autonomy, managing more people, w/e those are for you).

There are happy & fulfilled people in every career and, of course, unhappy people in every career / walk of life. But pretty much everyone wants the same thing in their career: mission, autonomy, impact, and creativity.

These traits ^ are mostly independent of a specific job / field
Ignorance. Thanks.
The lines are blurry, but we can see different cases.

A notable case in 2009 was the contract as Editor in Chief of Nikolaus Beendet, which wasn't extended since Roland Koch didn't want to and went up to the Constitutional Court, which ruled that there was too much political influence at ZDF, leading to changed oversight, which still is close.

TlRecent case is the "coalition crisis" in Saxony-Anhalt, where the parliament blocked the new rates.

But it's complicated as bodies need some form of democratic legitimation and with the "Sozialwahl" we have one failing experiment of doing extra elections, aside from parliament elections ... where nobody knows who the candidates are and what they do ...
Can the current rate of spending continue indefinitely with normal necessities remaining affordable for the majority of individuals?

If not, when will it end?
2020 Visual Recap of the Apache Superset Project
I have no idea what some of the replies are about here. Lots of pure arbs don't close because they are driven by regulation or liquidity. The most well-known example is long bonds in the UK in the late 90s but linkers in 2008 were another, there are lots of examples (a lot of the current examples are related to linkers due to QE).
Is there a way to stop htop from listing idle processes, similar to top’s `i` function?
Yup. Instead of having multiple echo chambers on one centralized network, let's now have multiple echo chambers on a decentralized service where it's even harder to hear opposing viewpoints!

The sad reality is that humanity is not ready for something like the Internet. If you said dumb shit in your town's square, you'd get hit upside your head. Say it on the Internet, your little numbers go up and you get a dopamine hit.
This is dead right and very important. The data you train on is much more important than model architecture in terms of validation and compliance, and yet it’s a closely held secret. Producing or obtaining good data is a pain in the ass.

For this reason, EAI has made the data we are training on public. I can’t link to it because of anon policies at conferences, but if you look at our website I’m sure you can find a paper detailing it and a link to download it.
You won't find many political scientists or Bulgarians or Serbs agreeing that things are easier to change in those countries. And even most people voting for the other candidate didn't change the official result of Belarus' last election.
>It doesn't matter how expedient any of this was for society or for the patients, it was wrong

It was wrong to provide a place, staffed by clinical professionals, providing professional healthcare, and regulated by government agencies? Uh huh.

Well, I'm glad you feel all that was 'wrong', because apparently what replaced it, mentally ill people living in squalor, exposed to the elements and diseases, in makeshift shanty-towns ... that's been a real improvement. A homeless individual suffering from schizophrenia and unable to make rational decisions, I'm sure he appreciates you fighting for his right to live in squalor.

Unbelievable.

> It was just kept out of your sight.

That's what we have now. Homeless, and homeless encampments are so normal in progressives cities, it's like background noise. You'll literally step-over a sleeping homeless on your way to work without a second thought (and I can guarantee you do that every day, if you live in one of those cities). Sorry ... I forgot, we're protecting their rights to not receive institutional care.