skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably people who want to stop cooking the planet vs people who are ok with that as long as they make more money?
As opposed to all the other stuff we're mining?

Lithium mining outrage is a sham. What about the many, many more tons of iron ore, aluminum ore, copper ore, etc., that we're mining? Lithium mining is just a tiny fraction of those.
This is something I have not considered before. I've always thought chat was a medium where you can go asynchronous at any time.

This indicates a failure in design. If they want a sync chat, then there should be an easy UI element for it.
There is a difference between “this news source strikes me as not being too politically extreme in either direction compared to my own views” and “this news source is completely neutral and objective with respect to all political views.”

How can you be sure you’re not seeing the former and calling it the latter?
> I consider it rude to demand someone's attention for an extended period of time without asking for it first.

“Hi, busy atm.”

You’ve built this whole strategy, and are judging your friend as rude, to avoid this phrase.

Be explicit or accept people as they are.
>You brag about your soft skills, but are unable to explain a simple concept succintly and without aggression.

I never bragged about my soft skills. I targeted you as someone who's using the extreme technicality of a definition to serve your agenda. It appears to be an intelligent maneuver but it is not.

>Btw, name calling is also against the rules, and invoking the rules is against the rules.

Name calling? You mean Savant? You know a savant is a genius right? It's a compliment..

>Most species on earth have a habitat, a well defined reproduction rate and population capacity, and relationship to other species. And when you take them out of their habitat, they may cause harm to other species and their relationship to other species.

Yeah and it's not that hard to understand that global human expansion already occurred millions of years ago. The harm as an "invasive" species was already done because ecosystems have already evolved features and qualities designed to fend off humans. My example of all wild animals basically having an instinctual "fear of humans" is evidence for this. Predators actively avoid hunting humans even though many hikers are vulnerable due 100% to this instinct.

The harm to the environment we're seeing today is not the result of "invasion" which already occurred eons ago, but the result of technological change.
Facebook has nothing to gain from transparency. Inevitably, they are going to be inconsistent when it comes to edge cases, which will be used against them.
I switched from doodling to alphabet practice in meetings a few years back. It resulted in a marked improvement of my handwriting, which had declined primarily do to disuse (no significant long form handwritten stuffs since college, really).

I practiced print and cursive letters, then my more eligible letter pairings and words in a more deliberate fashion.
Or, perhaps, these problems are reasons why large, centralized social networks shouldn’t be allowed to exist.
Apple Watch credited with helping police locate kidnapped Texas woman
I like the design.

Do you plan to add comments? Chat?
Is it harsh to say that the people I know who do this are also just not as sharp generally?

I’m not sure if this is unique to me, but there’s a tight correlation between people who send naked initial “hi” messages and people who can be more tedious to work with.

I’d also wonder if it’s related to being bad at typing.
It's likely that the "safe transmute" working group[1] will help facilitate this sort of thing. They have an RFC[2]. See also the bytemuck[3] and zerocopy[4] crates which predate the RFC, where at least the latter has 'derive' functionality.

[1] - https://github.com/rust-lang/project-safe-transmute

[2] - https://github.com/jswrenn/project-safe-transmute/blob/rfc/r...

[3] - https://docs.rs/bytemuck/1.5.0/bytemuck/

[4] - https://docs.rs/zerocopy/0.3.0/zerocopy/index.html
850,000,000 acres of empress trees and we would have 0 carbon in atmosphere in under 50 years.

I think a genetically engineered varietal or perhaps another organism that would grow ontop of the ocean will be the winner.
How is it possible for any intellectually honest person to downvote a piece of raw, unedited and candid video footage? How?
It's not black and white. For some, Facebook is indeed a necessity and for others, not. If you're a private individual, you're probably on the lower side of "I need Facebook" but if you're a business today, it's hard to compete with others who do have a good social media presence on Facebook and Instagram (depends on the business) if you get banned and cannot use either.
Direct link to a higher-framerate video than the gif on the linked page: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/jacs.0c12100/suppl_fi...
This is unnecessarily defeatist. GPDR proved that you could get enough support for large scale walkback of thoroughly entrenched practices.
Certainly, fewer people died in those camps than have died of lead poisoning from avgas since. (The article says 16 million people are currently impacted by lead from airplane exhaust.)
Feels like we're living life after the fall of Rome.
They exist because they're popular, you can't dictate what is popular among the masses without authoritarianism.
I totally relate. But my even greater peeve is the unaccompanied personal question 'how are you?', especially after a period of little to no communication. It's in these moments I feel forced to analyze the give-and-take balance with contacts. I don't like being called to attention without at least a small offering. I try very hard to reflect this when reaching out to people myself.
I read books about spatial techniques used in forensic investigations and listened some lectures. The company I worked for used to have law enforcement customers needing GIS and data mining consultants.
A new one for me is that work email is filled with security audit emails.

Slack so far is not.

I’ll open up my email, see if any subject lines are important, I’ll then go directly to service and get info there.
I basically never open actual work emails ever.

So tired of gotcha security
I don't think this advice is useful because a lot of the time the reason people are doing this is the reason people don't like it.

When someone states their request outright the recipient may be "conditionally there" based on the content of the request: They'll reply if they find the question interesting/relevant and worth interrupting what they're doing and put it off otherwise.

The asker, however, would prefer their question get answered. If they first determine if the recipient is present there will be social pressure to answer the following question, even if its a waste of the recipient's time at the moment.

The recipient may find it aggravating to have people soft-force them to pre-commit to responding when they don't even know what will be asked.
As long as there isn't a space in the column name. This is riding on a Pandas trick of making the column name accessible as an attribute of the dataframe, which breaks down when there's a space.
Because no one was there for an insurrection. Thats a conspiracy theory by mainstream media and the democrats
There was a "go/yeshello" to provide the opposing argument, and later a "go/onlyhello" which is obviously the correct answer
> Barring an emergency, I'm not going to call someone directly because they're too busy working to (team)work.

I think that's the point. Very rarely do you need someone to respond immediately.
They exist because they’re popular and because the currently successful ones acquired or strangled all of their smaller meaningful competitors using investment capital and money from first mover advantages.
I'm pretty sure "... is typing right now" messages are meant to aid that synchronous style. Though, I have a habit of leaving half-typed messages in the buffer which drives my friends and colleagues nuts.
That might be true if you are US person. If you're not, like 95% of the mankind, using non-US hosted services lowers the threat. Nobody knows how much since the answer lies in NSA capabilities.

But as a smart approach, for folks ie in Europe, US is a big no-no if security is a concern.
We pinned a similar article to our team Slack channel: https://m.signalvnoise.com/from-an-internal-basecamp-announc...
I'd start by removing the definite and indefinite article from all languages. Would help writing too.
“to construct a grand conspiracy about how modern Democrats and progressives are secretly authoritarians“

Can you explain where the idea that there is a conspiracy, or a secret comes from?

I don’t see Greenwald or the other repeaters of this ‘tired’ argument actually claiming there is a conspiracy.

The argument seems to be that people who say they are liberals are behaving like authoritarians when you actually look at their actions, rather than their words.

I don’t see why a conspiracy is needed for that to be true.
> If you can't play nicely on a team then maybe a different job is for you?

This is a bullshit copout. It's a cultural issue if people cannot be respectful of their co-workers time.

It is very common that if something is important to use important modes of communication such as phone calls.

My team for example is very asynchronous because that is our culture. Our team is located all over the country and some people in different parts of the world. If any of us needs each other during our typical work hours and its important, it's usually a call over our VOIP system. NONE of us take Slack as an immediate answer messaging platform.
Will the US choose Alberta crude or go with job losses and dictator oil?
Cool. I also saw "Save to Pinboard share extension" on the list of unlock features which also led me to believe it was only available that way. Anyhow, it's working well and thanks again.
This is how normal people communicate.

If you want them to behave differently to satisfy your desire for extreme computer like efficiency, you’ll probably have kore success if you’re less confrontational about it.
I had no idea he was living in South Carolina until I saw the news begin to appear on local channels.
Please tell me you understand the difficulty of such an action if your attached identity to a site is inaccessible to you.
That sounds weird. I know this is not ideal but you can also use the password option - it isn’t stored on device and only used once to retrieve the API token. All subsequent requests use that token as well.

I added that so less savvy users can still log in easily without having to hunt for the token.
German Greens go nuclear over call to renew NATO vows
You don’t have to dictate popularity: just create legal liability frameworks that make a solution like Mastodon more appealing than a solution like Facebook or Twitter
I'm definitely not a fan of Google, in fact I've gone through quite some pain to de-google my whole life. That said, the proposed Australian law is nothing short of laughable.

Not only are they requiring Google to pay the news orgs they link to, it also seems that Google couldn't decide to just not link to these orgs. If the orgs are not a fan of Google showing links to their website they can just forbid Google via robots.txt. This option has been available for decades.

When I first read about this I was convinced I had to be completely misunderstanding the proposed law, but no it turns out it is in fact that stupid.

I guess I shouldn't be surpised, Australia doesn't have a particularly good track record on regulating the internet after all

Of course Bloomberg, a news org, would publish an opinion piece titled "Google’s Going to Regret Its Australia Search Threat"
Spend 20 more years on irc before teaching me online etiquette.
Yes. And goes to show that async chat is totally different from a presentation, where I've been recommended this structure:

1. Tell them what you're going to tell them.

2. Tell them.

3. Tell them what you've told them.
I'm pretty sure such upscaling systems train against ground truth higher res video and purposefully downres'd versions of that video. So, at the very least, we'd need to first get higher res video of the same phenomena once. Though maybe you could style transfer from frames that have been improved by hand.
Two programmers decide to have a bet:
"How much should we be on ? a $1000 dollars ?"
"Let's round it up to $1024"
They exist because they’re profitable. They can become unprofitable through democratic legislation.
Yes, excellent observation. I've seen that attitude a ton in the "design patterns" discussion. e.g.:

"Why are we doing a Factory for Singleton Factory design pattern here?"

"Because this design pattern is made for this scenario"
I am active.

I am just focused on an important task, and won't throw my hard earned flow away just to answer your "hi" for you to trap me into waiting you slowly type stuff and maybe even disappearing without getting to the point. If you can't articulate what's your subject at the moment you contact me, you'll get a very low priority.

(Yeah, there are some people that do it out of a paranoid level of politeness and are easy to talk with even though they won't initiate a request. I will gladly make an exception for them.)
I choose 4 of my followers that I did not agree ideological and surely their Botometer score was higher than 4.0

Maybe people I disagree they have same arguments and are considered bots?

Or they just parrot same things?
Your boss has 10 reports and he needs to talk to all of them within an hour to tell some bad news face to face before it’s announced impersonally via email.

I probably would be slightly more verbose saying “hey, got a sec?” but honestly it’s a style question and if I’m on the receiving end it’s not going to bother me.

I find much of the discourse around slack etiquette to be slightly self-absorbed. The fact is, things work best when everyone is a bit flexible and understanding. Bottom line is there are reasons why a synchronous ping is justified, but it’s impossible for both parties to agree on it without knowing their mutual disposition. Generally it’s nice to not ping people too often, but also it’s okay to set boundaries and not respond right away (or just turn off slack for heads down time). In extreme cases I suppose I can imagine a company with an unbearable slack culture that makes it impossible to be an effective developer by enforcing an “always available” policy, but I think that’s probably pretty rare compared to places where things will go fine just by having the assertiveness to use some simple tactics mentioned above.
Yes, but imagine how brilliant it would be for twitter to be only full of bots spewing disinformation at each other (and the few human conspiracy theorist who would be lost for the cause anyway), while concerned citizens are... Getting their disinformation from somewhere else. Never mind.

Still, all this puts "prevent bit usage by design" on the feature list for the next generation of social media (that and "prevent sharing without human moderation beyond a certain virality point", "clever shadow banning" ,and an eliza mode for those times you juste want to yell at the clouds...
Ask HN: What is in your pocket everyday?
What tools, medicines, books (the Constitution?), food items, or other items do you carry on you always?
I don't see how it does; if you're a non-US person using a non-US service, you have essentially no formal legal protections whatsoever from NSA surveillance. A non-US person using a US service at least inherits whatever procedural protections US companies have. I'm not saying it's a meaningful barrier, just that going overseas logically can't gain you protection (unless you're more worried about the Swiss or EU's sigint agencies than you are the NSA).
ML is really good at picking up anomalies, and that is scary if, say, law enforcement or prosecutors are doing dragnet surveillance for anomalies in order to drum up charges.
How do you export contacts? Like many people will not list alternate methods of contact?
If Facebook provided an explanation, the individual affected might be less prone to speculation.
I thought I explained my understanding of the SWP attitude to violence very clearly, so for what you say to be true someone would have to read just the Antifa comparison and not read the rest of my post, in which case I think that misunderstanding is on them.
The answer is that it works pretty similarly, but GPUs usually do this in specialized hardware whereas mmap'ing of files for DMA-style access is implemented mostly in software.

https://insujang.github.io/2017-04-27/gpu-architecture-overv... has a pretty good visual of what's doing what for GPU DMA. You can imagine much of what happens here is almost pure software for mmap'd files.
For some reason this makes me think of EVE online and how a group called goonsquad basically took over a large chunk of the game by overwhelming established player empires with sheer numbers of disposable units. The Zerg approach to stock market gambling.
Checkpointing very much runs counter to the decentralizing philosophy of bitcoin. Nodes should be able to fully verify the transaction history with reasonable resources.
> It's hard for me to imagine him not understanding why consistently denouncing the legitimacy of print media in an era of conspiracy theory (especially post pizza-gate) may matter.

What's the alternative? Traditional media gets a pass for everything wrong they do because pizzagate?

> I feel like making any of these arguments without mentioning the capitol riots is somewhat a bad-faith narrative.

Not when they've been calling for it since long before the riot. (I'm not sure when it became riots. Was there a second one?)

> As far as I can tell, pre-internet conspiracy-theorists and demagogues never had a guaranteed platform.

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

And lest we not forget state-sponsored media.

> We tried a great experiment letting anybody say anything with amplification of the masses.

The experiment we tried was a Facebook algorithm designed to increase "engagement" by promoting controversy. That was a Bad Idea.

Maybe time to smash them up instead of appointing them arbiters of the discourse.
NearlyFreeSpeech is a great host!

I'm only using it for some static sites, since everything else quickly gets much cheaper elsewhere, but it just works and is no-nonsense.
2,100 arrested at protests demanding Navalny’s release
Right. And I suspect the people most likely to delete their accounts are the ones least likely to be influenced by bots.
I'm constantly on the lookout for newer and/or different messaging applications. This one is good because it doesn't rely on a phone number. But it's still yet another centralized system. There isn't enough information on how this service doesn't store user data (or metadata) and still manages to connect them (in contrast, Signal has many blog posts and documentation about how it minimizes data collection).

In the FAQ, there's this:

> Which operating systems are supported?

> TeleGuard supports all Android devices with version OS 5.0.3+ and all iPhone devices with at least iOS 9.0+.

It's good to support a few older versions of operating systems, but I don't think a messenger can promise security or privacy if it supports operating systems that are quite old by mobile standards and aren't getting security updates for a long time. Wikipedia says that Android 5's latest release was nearly six years ago (April 21, 2015) and that of iOS 9 as 17 months ago (July 22, 2019). Supporting iOS seems kinda ok, but supporting that Android version looks quite bad.

I also judge websites by what they say and how they say it. In the FAQ, after the answer for "07. Edit Profile", there's a list of bullet points that looks like a to do list for additional FAQs that haven't been completed:

• Send media

• Forgot password?

• How is TeleGuard financed?

• Registration

• Add contacts from the phone list

• What kind of encryption does TeleGuard use?

I don't think this is ready for prime time yet.
I always identify myself and recognize the voice or text of my counterpart before diving into the subject.

At least I do after mistakenly blurted something solely for my spouse into an old group chat.
The blog post doesn't mention it but Firecracker was originally based on crosvm [0] built at Google by the ChromeOS team for a WSL-like Linux sandbox on top of ChromeOS running debian-buster containers viz. penguin (afaik) in a gentoo-based VM viz. termina [1]. crosvm inturn is part of a much bigger crostini project [2], which I find to be super fascinating, as it supports UI workloads (over Wayland and X).

If you're using ChromeOS to run any Linux app, you're using crostini which launches those apps in crosvm managed sandboxes (Container inside a VM) in seconds. In not so distant future, it looks like Android will sandbox platform workloads (running outside the Android framework?) managed by crosvm, to considerably improve security [3].

I looked for but couldn't find ChromeOS GCP instances. I mean, ChromeOS might be a great platform to run multi-tenant server workloads at this point.

[0] https://archive.is/T1ZNJ

[1] One can run custom Linux containers (other than the debian-based penguin) but not VMs (other than termina) at this point: https://chromeos.dev/en/linux/linux-on-chromeos-faq

[2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c...

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/836693/
The united association of union plumbers and pipefitters must be really happy now with their decision to support Biden for president.
I don't get this at all. What happens if they reply to you - maybe hours later - when you are the one presenting?
Add license plate scanners and high resolution police/military drones to that list.
Yeah, I think it's no accident that the best thing about working on the JVM is the massive ecosystem of popular libraries. Java and the Java community did a pretty good job of solving the problem of extremely large numbers of developers sharing code with little coordination over long timelines. Unfortunately, they did it because that was their vision of how enterprise software would be created: dozens if not hundreds of programmers working together on enormous monolithic applications with months-long release cycles. Your code had to be extremely defensive, so you could change the internals without fear, and also extensible and customizable, so you would be less likely to be interrupted by requests to make changes to support someone else's work. All the extra work and complexity to accomplish that became the "right" way to write Java code regardless of context.
Stuff like that should be dumped to a dedicated folder. Maybe with an autodelete for messages older than a week.
There is no indication that Swiss Government at the high level was aware. Intelligence agencies were aware.

It's important to understand that the was violation of Swiss neutrality law, and it was not started by Swiss government or government agency.
I do that. And my main reason is not to have a synched conversation, but first to see it the recipient is responsive before I ask the question, usually, a tough question that the recipient might want to dodge or procrastinate. So if I ask everything at the same time, he might never answer, dodge it and say "sorry I didn't see your message".
Basically, I use hello as a trap.
And Scientific American is a major source of politicized science.
We don't trust Twitter. That is just what sensationalist papers claim.
Thats his point this was being done years ago but white americans were not part of the demographic surveilled this way so didn't care now that they are and it gets stopped because of it then people accusing the police and government of racism are correct.