skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>such as that congress is likely to deadlock;

The bicameral requirement for a concurrent majority is entirely by design and has plenty of supporters. It's pretty egregious to cite this first on the list of supposedly crucial flaws.

>that its form of democracy is subject to unproportional divergence as state population sizes diverge, that by contrast adding new states is way too easy

The one fixes the other, but adding new states turns out not to be that easy. From a political standpoint, larger states have an outsize cultural and regulatory influence (which is known to the state of California to cause cancer, but which cannot be mentioned in textbooks used in Texas schools) so compensating smaller states makes sense; voters in large states who feel their votes are diluted should, in principle, be able to correct this with a split. Is it a perfect balance? Not at all, but it's something.

But in practice, adding new states has become too hard and this may be a source of recent political problems! Puerto Rico should have been a state in the '90s. Movements to split large states may not be such a bad idea.

>that elections at all are in no way shape or form necessarily fair

A cultural and political flaw, not a Constitutional flaw. Maybe an omission, but you can't write all of the laws and practices necessary for a fair election into the Constitution; it would take up most of the document!

>that the constitution isn't sufficiently amendable

A risk-averse and historically motivated bias; we had one bad Amendment (the 18th) and the fallout really put a damper on amendment movements.

>the lack of a checks on the presidency (clearly not intentional, but impeachment is a purely hypothetical check)

Trump's impeachment trial was heavily impacted by the Democrats' primary season and not-so-subtle party establishment hopes that Warren would somehow pull out a win, so everything had to be rushed in order to avoid distracting her (and she lost badly anyway).
The point of his browser is to be able to playback Netflix, Hulu, etc. between browsers in sync. That can't be done without DRM, and Widevine is "the only available DRM for a Chromium-based browser, especially so for Electron."
Do you not find it slightly unfair to count RHL, which began in 1995 and ended in 2003, when Oracle Linux wasn't released until 2006?
Genesis of blue lightning into the stratosphere detected from ISS
Not sure if this is covered under Widevine, but Google also blocks anything that is not a major browser from logging into any of its services.

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/04/better-protection-ag...
>The ‘discovery’ was actually a rediscovery — the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss worked it out in 1805, but he never published it, says Nick Trefethen, a mathematician at the University of Oxford, UK.

I wonder what you could come up with if you went through unpublished works of people like Gauss, Ramanujan, Euler, Erdos, etc. There are likely a bunch of stuff that they would have seen as merely an impractical curiosity back then, but that actually might have a lot of use now.
This whole subthread was about what comes as a natural procedure to humans. Arguing that computers may need a different process is moot.

Anyway, to handle the exception, you could start the algorithm with a "check for the empty collection" base case; that would make it a natural definition for a computational recursive definition as well.
I should've clarified... I was imagining attack scenarios like a search warrant. i.e. the attackers finding your device in a powered off state. In the case of veracrypt, its reasonable to assume that your memory is the only thing holding the keys to the castle. Whereas in the case of android phones you are 100% at the mercy of whoever designed the security coprocessor.
There are only two hard problems in distributed systems:

2. Exactly-once delivery

1. Guaranteed order of messages

2. Exactly-once delivery
Is TSMC about to hit a physics barrier?

How much smaller than 3nm, can transistor sizes go? 2 nm? 1 nm? O.5 nm?
Heh, you're better off designing a new markup language and then implementing a browser to render that.
The content of your replies really speak for themselves, all readers will be able to judge conclusively from what has been said so far.

The one part I want to clarify is the part about downvoting. That was addressed to readers in general, not you.
The lack of user control, lock files, granularity of controls over browser extensions has gone too far.
Sorry — I never know when to assume a large amount of knowledge or a small amount of knowledge. The worst for me is "ctrl-w" to delete a word backward in Insert mode, and to delete a tab in the web browser :) Vim is in my muscle memory and it's faster for me, so that's why I use it. It might be faster for you and it might not be faster for you, and if you don't need the portability for POSIX machines it's probably not worth the time.
Linux Mint, and whatever it's built on, has been disappointing to me. The most worrying thing I've experienced is that, when waking up from sleep, the unlocked screen will sometimes flash before showing the lockscreen. That is a huge no-no and really betrays the fallibility of whatever security measures are employed.
And as i said the rhel images for docker and supported packages in the registry is very very limited, you will miss a lot of packages.
Who said they were earning thousands a month for their extension?
You need to work with senior engineers on larger scale problems
There is one Philips ExpertColor model that is 4000K and has very high CRI.
The current state of the art seems to be 3D transistors (FinFETs, GAAFETs), which are one possible way to address the capacitance issue, and opens many design possibilities. It leads to other challenges though, for example heat dissipation.
There is a fine line between running interference and sales prevention.
Yup that's accurate. I was a regular old support drone who had some connections that allowed for some special paths to engineering.

We had 'official' faster escalation paths but those inevitably are determined by $$$ and there's always more ways to measure 'important customer' than can be defined / shown in $$$.

Management was totally aware of it all and supportive.

But eventually I got tired of the land of 'support' and moved on for a variety of reasons, mostly because time and again I saw support treated like the usual 'cost center' and I didn't want to be a part of that.
I agree. Some would even take it further and argue that there is _no_ way to stop the Bitcoin network. The technology is like, as Nick Bostrom puts it, one of those balls that humanity pulls out of the urn of invention which once pulled the ball can never go back in [1]. Let's just hope that Bitcoin is not one of those bad balls but rather one that pushes humanity forward. Perhaps, Bitcoin is the [2] "sly roundabout way introduce [good money] that [governments] can't stop [2]."

1: https://www.wired.com/story/technology-could-end-humanity-ho...
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYhEDxFwFRU
Totally - really appreciate you guys for flagging this.

Edit: edited this now in the text above!
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Syncing messages through iCloud uses end to end encryption. Backups don't.[1]

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
why not create a company in tax friendly country and transfer all your business to it. work as a CEO/Remote emplotee of it,Get healthy base salary as fixed income from it ,whatever else you need can be given to you as business expense and allowance.
all money lays in the company with lower tax jurisdiction.
Web standards are designed for cooperation not competition.
I'm interested to see what Dish Network's (I think this is the right company) next move is. They are sitting on a ton of spectrum and now have a legal level to use their competitors' infrastructure to slingshot themselves into being competitive.
I will adopt it for documentation in my next project if I decide to use brainfuck as the main language. Thank you, it looks amazing. /s
Isn’t that just normal artist behavior? Musicians hear tones in things like air conditioner vents, and rhythms in their laundry dryers. That doesn’t seem like it implies autism?
12-hour timekeeping, perhaps ;-)
“The largest stock exchange in New York City” (by sqft.)
Background on the document https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_Commission#Reception "Historians strongly criticized the report, deriding it as pseudohistory and identifying factual inaccuracies and a lack of scholarship."
Sounds like XProc 3.0
https://xproc.org/
The article suggests that it’s a feature of the way we perceive colour: if you get a spinning top with half blue and half white and spin it so the colours blend together (ie taking the average of the spectrum from each colour), it will shift towards purple as well as lighter. To get a gradient that seems to go from blue to white without going via purple, a colour space needs to counteract this aspect of our vision.
> Curious, do you consider Fedora to be an alpha?

Slightly detached because of their processing/release process (Fedora X never quite matched to RHEL Y even if there was some derivation), but yes, Fedora is absolutely the alpha for RHEL. It gets changes, including breaking changes, on a fast track (IIRC, Fedora frequently goes toe-to-toe with Arch for having the most recent packages), has a 13-month lifecycle with a strong expectation that you'll `dnf system-upgrade` regularly, and doesn't shy away from pushing on tech that they believe to be desirable even if it's not (yet) widely used (Wayland, BTRFS, CGroupsV2).

> Did you consider RHEL to be a beta for CentOS previously?

Now that's an interesting point that actually makes me stop and consider:) It is true that previously CentOS could legitimately claim to be even more stable/slow-moving than RHEL. I think the distinction that I would make is that RHEL had its own betas that were called betas, and that each point release was frozen/stable until the next one came along, while Stream is explicitly unfrozen all the time. So yes, I suppose a person could have described RHEL as CentOS's beta, although probably only jokingly because it still had Red Hat supporting it and feature freezes to control changes.
Brilliant idea!
Can you say a few words about how you will protect user data?
(What I really want is I want every developer of any such app tied to the mast like Odysseus because we've seen what the sirens song of growth based investments from venture capital funds can do even to nice and smart people line the WhatsApp founders ;-)
The data cap isn't the issue. The issue is excluding some services (especially their own). This is basically a monopolization move.
Having studied and implemented FBP systems in the past, one major takeaway I've gleaned is that most automation problems start off as a linear sequence of processes, and so the branching-graph of FBP looks unwieldy and superfluous. But this is deceptive; you probably don't want to have a huge number of branches in the design, but you will want them as an optimization step or a way to combine inputs.

So it's useful to design with FBP in mind but with a linear interface as the entry point.

Another aspect of this is that FBP graphs are static but you may have a need to reconfigure them frequently; that is, you may want to have a graph compilation step drawn from a source language, rather than manually wiring it up.

A way of making that graph compilation more than a syntax is to include a formal constraint solver: Excel, for example, flows the data after determining a solution for how cells relate to each other. The power of the spreadsheet paradigm really lies in these combinations of concepts.

Lastly, there isn't really magic in the algorithmic/implementation aspects of FBP. It grew out of 1960's mainframe types of problems, and so it can be implemented in a low level way with static pools of memory and pieces of assembly code. But it remains conceptually just as relevant to today's massive distributed systems.
Those who were against killing net neutrality - on the grounds that it would grant corporations the power to censor our online experience - are now in favor of other corporations censoring our online experiences. So, that's a pretty terrible outcome that came from killing it - as bewildering and hard to explain as it may be.
I mean, the point is that the weather conditions in San Francisco are pretty non-representative.

It’s not like, for example, the Northeast where during a cold winter day I pretty much expect my glasses to totally fog up instantly when transitioning between outdoors and indoors.
I multitask. A lot. It's my job.

You should see my desktop
It doesn’t matter that Ubuntu packages originally came from Debian. At the end of the day, Canonical employees are being paid to make sure they are up to date. I trust that over a bunch of volunteers who do it out of the goodness of their heart.
Interestingly the fee was created federally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_franchise_fee

Netflix etc does not meet at least 4 of the 6 justifications. ISPs would likely meet them all. So to my eye, that's where this tax needs to be paid.

I am guessing ISPs explicitly excluded from paying?

Sadly none of this is in the article...

From Wiki:

* Revenue - a source of general revenue for the government which can be raised without raising taxes.

* Rent - rent for the use of public land as right-of-way by the company for its cables.

* Exclusivity - compensation to the government for allowing the cable operator to maintain a de facto monopoly on cable service in the area.

* Diversity - it is in the public interest to fund government facilities providing public, educational, and government access (PEG) channels that promote diversity in the community.

* Benefit - compensation for the public relations benefits the cable provider gains by having public, educational, and governmental channels on the cable.

* Regulatory - compensation to the government for the cost of regulating cable television: consultants, auditors, administrators, and inspectors.
Red Hat was not expecting the reaction to killing CentOS.

The need to expand the developer program into production seats could not have been anticipated.

I don't know of any other vendor that wraps developer accounts into production licenses.

Notice that this access is in no way promised to the end of support for RHEL 8.

I will say again, Red Hat has terminated two major Linux platforms over the last two decades - the original Red Hat Linux, which was terminated at v9, and now CentOS.

Oracle has "somewhat" terminated a Linux platform, Oracle Linux for SPARC, which was only supported for two minor releases. Oracle Linux for ARM64 and AMD64/x86 seem reasonably healthy.

There is other baggage in and between these corporations, but the track record on Linux OS platforms between these two is demonstrably different.

The free converters between them should be used fluidly.
Saw this comment a bit late. Ulysses has good conversion capabilities. It's easy to get whatever format I need.

FWIW, I've been using Vellum for formatting my indie published novels, and would happily use it again if this new work is indie.
Please don't discount yourself like that, by resigning to the usual HN snark. I think you're smart and capable of much more. If there is new, important and relevant information brought to them, they will listen to that. (This applies to most big projects I've seen, not any one in particular. The smaller niche ones that commit to having their small narrow audience are the ones I've seen that tend to be resistant to new ideas)
That this isn't on the front page is mind boggling. Several were up late last night binging on his videos.

1) Lift all Russian sanctions. Show the people it isn't about them.

2) Everyone who owns shares in a large index fund should find how they were shafted in the bribes and go after Putin's shells under RICO (and EU equivalents). Tell the Biden administration to GTFO - he did nothing in 8 years - the man is incompetent. Get real attorneys with Navalny moxie finding creative ways to impound everything that Putin's cronies own until three times the amount stolen is paid back.
Hence the "if you were" - if you weren't, feel free to ignore this comment.
It proves that you can have community standards when you actually have a community.

A big advantage of decentralization is that it doesn't try to impose a single worldview on everybody. If libertarians want to have an instance where they talk about how taxation is theft and communists want to have an instance where they talk about how capitalism sucks and moderates want to have an instance where all ideas are welcome but personal attacks are not, they can all do those things at the same time.
The messages still go through the "free" networks, so they're still being used exactly like that.
That's pretty much the most barebones/useless status page I've seen of any company.

No history, no uptime percent, no mention of last downtime, etc.
Quote Tweets.
Side effects are forbidden by structure, flows could be monitored in a GUI/Debugger, and as a result components can be tested as a unit, instead of a whole system. I love it!

It is easier to design digital circuits when you have a whole catalog of 7400 and 4000 series gates, than it is using individual transistors. It is easier to wire a house when you're not making wires and switches with a hammer and a forge.

I welcome this new higher level of abstraction, and am willing to pay the cost in terms of CPU and Memory to get there, just as I'm willing to waste transistors or copper wire to have something done and working.
This is a good question. On the one hand, the article says:

> Of all the work needed to support the new hardware, porting Firefox to the 64-bit ARM architecture was not actually something we needed to do: we’ve supported 64-bit ARM on Android and Linux for years.

On the other hand, it says:

> Secondly, we needed to adapt and fix the various parts of the Firefox codebase that deal with low-level calling conventions and particularly the interfaces between the JavaScript and C++ (and nowadays Rust) parts of the code.

I suppose MacOS on ARM has a different calling convention to both MacOS on x86-64 and Linux or Windows on ARM64.

Also:

> If the user visits such a site, Firefox will automatically download and install such a proprietary EME/CDM module. This presented a problem to us as we would be dependent on those third-party vendors to publish ARM64 versions of those decoders.

So what do Windows or Linux users on ARM64 do? Do they just not get DRM?
"Access issues and mistrust rooted in structural racism appear to be the major factors leaving Black health care workers behind in the quest to vaccinate the nation."

Exaggerating the incidence of racism has consequences like this.
Sometimes I read expert-written blog posts or articles, targeted at a demographic the author is familiar in communicating with.

My brain will literally just turn off and I will go into a reading trance where I don't understand the text because my brain simply says 'yeah this is nonsense, don't get it.'

Very interesting phenomenon.
How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

:- False
I’m not sure I can agree with this concern. All Linux distros work by repackaging upstream code, the majority of which is written by volunteers. For Debian, they’re repackaging directly from upstream. Ubuntu repackages from Debian.

The value of going through a company is that you can choose to write a check to Canonical or RedHat and say “I’m hitting this issue with the software you repackaged, here is money, fix the problem”. There’s no similarly direct pay-to-win for Fedora or Debian. You can shop around for a consultancy or engineer and pay them to try to debug the issue, but they’re always going to be coming in as a 3rd party, which has an impact on the levers they can pull to resolve an issue.
>I am not a Russian

What will you do with 15 roubles earned by writing this comment then?
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> Are you claiming they are in violation of the GPL license?

I'm not, they are indeed compliant, and Red Hat is not obligated to directly maintain CentOS. They are only obligated to provide the source to customers under the terms of the GPL.

However, if Red Hat no longer wants to maintain CentOS in the spirit in which it was founded and taken over, I'd argue the ethical thing to do would be to spin the project back out of Red Hat.
It’s fairly close to say you are a computer, or at least a cluster. Rather, we are a wet-ware, fault tolerant computer. We have some randomness and unpredictability of course, and these are a function of how fragile and dense the system is.
Again, this is not a separate language. This is just a different surface syntax for julia programs. The type system already exists and is implemented.

The only thing that needs implementing is a syntactic form.
Ah, I see some similarities if I squint until my eyes start to bleed.
It's also important to understand the context of any artistic movement. Dadaism was a response to futurism and other pro-industrial artistic movements that were very popular during the lead up to WW1. Dadaists were part of an artistic recoiling from the horrors of WW1 and anything that even smacked of the sentiments that were felt to have lead up to such a catastrophe.

This far from WW1, the whole thing seems a bit silly because we're not part of the time and mental place that made such movements tick originally.
Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores
As I remarked to a RH employee when the CentOS 8 discontinuation came out - do you have any idea how much trust you have to burn that people are considering Oracle as the good option?
Will you Support Threema in the future?
Opera was originally based on the Presto layout engine from 1995-2013. Then it switched to being a Chromium based browser in 2013 so they could utilize the Chromium plug-in ecosystem.

The ecosystem is the big issue for a lot of these products. It why Microsoft's Windows phone failed so badly - they didn't have the app store to compete with or allow users to migrate to their platform without losing a lot of apps they already used on Apple or Android.

The ecosystem is a major reason why you don't see more competition.
The fact that you are a long-time user doesn't make it mainstream though. Sorry. I'm with you in hoping for that to change!
Congress already has tools for that (and the president has some sway through veto power): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_law#United_States

There's no good reason to give all that power of unconditional pardons to one person.
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I mean although this sounds like an absolutely outlandish ask for a company this was very literally what we had with CentOS so I'm surprised at all the comments saying it's impossible.
> heterogeneous moderation

Does this mean users sort themselves into filter bubbles rather than having algorithms do it for them?
A Question Hidden in the Platypus Genome: Are We the Weird Ones?
You should let clients and users know that you care more about convenience than security so that they can make an informed decision about whether to trust their data with you.

I don't know what x.0 software updates you're talking about (Chrome or Mac), but my comment never mentioned any. You don't seem to know that browser vendors don't really do those like OS vendors do. Either way, you can still avoid those while gettong security updates.

In my memory, there hasn't been a breaking auto-update in Chrome in years, but there have been hundreds of 0-days. The numbers don't really work out for the tradeoff you claim to be making.
World-first biomarker test can predict depression and bipolar disorder
Congrats on the launch! My understanding of the space is that there is a great desire for "super powered" messaging - especially over text. Any chance "send later" is a part of your roadmap? Or possible to implement using your API?