skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don’t have a (preferably bootable) backup that you can use any time your machine explodes / gets dropped / gets soaked in coffee / gets a random hardware failure / gets hit by a ransomware / is stolen - then you have a serious redundancy problem no matter what OS you are running.

On any OS you use it’s possible to have both a long-term backup and a bootable drive clone that is synced from your internal drive and updated on a schedule. I haven’t needed to use it often, but when I did it was priceless to be back up and running 30 minutes later without having to waste two days setting up a new machine or losing any data.
In June 2011 they had 11 million articles across all Wikipedias. As of now they have 55 million articles across all Wikipedias. [0]. I'd say this is pretty good even without considering any increases to viewership or size of existing pages.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons
Oh of course, and I am proud to have been raised along side it, but that heritage isn't mine. If anything my limited heritage in Australia decimated their centuries here, that is not something to be proud of.
Same thing is true for the rest of Europe or at least the part that's in NATO.
Whoa, initially missed that this one is also from Kairosoft. They now have a huge library of sim titles like these, available not just on iOS but PlayStation and I’m sure many other platforms as well.
The F35 purchase is part of the outcome of the illegal spying. Or rather there are good reasons to believe so. The US spies to get an upper hand in negotiations like this.

It was the same deal in a Norway with F35 and many other cases. When it comes to the US, there are so many irregularities and broken standard procedures.
WTF! Who is this to represent "the tech world"?!?!?

Cryptocurrency was built BY tech people. I'm a 41 year old developer who started programming at 14, and love what is happening in the crypto space.

So go F yourself for putting you as the spokesperson of the tech world.
Such arrogance!
Supposedly this is coming: https://www.coindesk.com/robinhood-crypto-withdrawals-deposi...
The media has moved on to cases and variants to scare people now. Didn’t you get the memo? ;)
Greedy corporations trying their damnest to be cutesy and humanlike just make me cringe. That's all.
But clearly it's never the equipment that's a problem (who seriously believes this can't be observed or worked around with simple isolation/reverse engineering/relocation of factory/firewalling?) but the elected officials collaborating with the americans.

When your telco buys Huawei, it's not to give an entry door to Chinese security services. It's because it's the best at that price point. If they can explain exactly how Huawei is supposed to backdoor their commercial partners, then fine.

Ironically I have a Huawei phone, without Google services, and after the initial withdrawal phase that was painful, I now feel better knowing Google isn't tracking me and maybe Huawei is. The simple fact is my government would never willingly give them the keys, while they do with little hesitation when the fat burgers come and ask.
Plus, their consumer product is extremely easy to set up so I can recommend it to folks who aren’t computer experts.
Wikimedia foundation spends over 55M to pay for 400 staff. That’s 137k a year in payroll costs per employee. Are they all top management and or US based engineers?!
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Brilliant marketing for what is for all intents, a machine of death. This is why I don't like humans.

We still haven't learnt to live with one another - after all these millennia on earth.
Google started it this time.

As was mentioned the other day: take the time to report Chrome to relevant authorities were you live.
Explain to me how Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. There is no buy-in, there is no exit strategy, no dividends, no recruiting, there is nothing that makes it look like a pyramid scheme of any kind.

Maybe you mean that the early holders of Bitcoin have gained more wealth than later adopters or something? I'm not sure what you mean, actually. But that is just how a market works.
Peaks don't have to necessary align in frequency multiples (harmonics). You could tweak the phase offset between them so that peaks don't align at all and it will still sound same. Your ear it is sensing and analyzing in frequency domain and not in time domain.

I think there is another reason we can identify when frequency ratios are integers in complex sound. This ability gives brain power to "group together" frequencies so it can assign them to the same sound source. This seems like great optimization for computation and bandwidth. It would make sense for hardwired part of brain to make preliminary analysis of sound.

For example, you hear an animal sound in a forest. You want to know the direction, want to estimate the size of animal that made the sound, and you'd also want a small 'fingerprint' of a sound, so you can recall from memories if you heard it before. This has to happen as quickly because you might be bombarded with multiple sounds per second. All of them are sounding over each other, so your ear & brain had to develop ability to group them into separate sources and analyze them independently.

Most sound sources are coherent, which means they will contain integer multiples of some base frequencies. This goes for picked string, struck anvil, howling wind, but also for sounds made by animal throat. When a bird sings it can be approximated with handful of sine waves whose pitches slide up and down in sync. Therefore it makes sense for ear to communicate only the spectral analysis to brain, and discard other sensed data. So integer ratios are good indication that heard frequency components can be grouped together and assigned to single source of sound. Music exploits this mechanism by playing same or related pitches across different instruments.
Just banning all the zany things manufacturers come up with to thwart repair should be fine. No security screws, no tamper seals, no plastic clips that you must break, no cryptographic verification of components, cartridges, or firmware.

I'm probably missing a load of other tricks, but just doing the above would go a long way to ensuring products can be repaired reasonably.
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Without knowing the specifics. I think one of the issues is that when NSA hooks itself into say a network router, it leaves trace behind (ie. an altered configuration) that can be spotted by the network engineers that maintain that equipment.
That test is still responsible for 30% of debris up there. And is scattered across quite a wide band of orbital altitudes.
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meh, acumulating state is bad. You're much better off with automations That can recreate your environment than bootable backups.
The house always wins.

It's past time to nerf these yahoos. Civilize them. Impose tort, fair and impartial judiciary, right to appeal, property rights, and accountability & transparency.
In India, RBI mandates 5 free ATM withdrawals on a issuing bank ATM.
You bleed from using TP?
On one hand, Wikipedia has become more “complete” in the last 10 years (though information never is, really).

On the other hand, the grown amount of content means there is proportionately more content to maintain—which might take even more effort and attention to detail than writing new content.

That, as well as the reputation and pervasiveness of links to Wikipedia, together make it more vulnerable to and a more compelling target for instances of blatant or stealthy misinformation, censorship and vandalism.

On that topic, I suspect a resource that tracks change histories for sensitive Wikipedia articles[0], aggregating and correlating changes by IPs and usernames along with some smart NLP analysis on text contents of the diffs, could end up being insightful.

[0] Many of us know a certain date coming up, publicly remembering which starting this year is already punishable by a prison sentence in Hong Kong. Maintaining the article covering this one is hopefully taken care of for now as it is pretty conspicuous—but for how long, and how many lesser known articles are there…
This is clearly a chicken and an egg problem. You can’t have stability until crypto is used in the mainstream and has a much greater mass overall, so that short-term speculations don’t result in massive volatility.
Buying a slightly less suitable and more expensive but still rather capable plane might still be "cheap" if it buys you a NATO umbrella. It would make technical and economical sense to buy a Swedish fighter, but it perhaps doesn't make diplomatic sense (and I say that as a Swedish taxpayer).
> its just matching which title in language X matches which title in language Y

Like I said, gross overengineering.

"You can save cents and seconds of time updating knowledge boxes, by spending millions and hours developing federated SPARQL query capabilities!"
Quite timely that we have a Wikipedia article on the HN homepage right now. Because I find that that site often helps with such questions, so I find them quite a valuable resource.

They have a list for just this question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions_agains...
Iron Dome requires humans to manually target each incoming rocket?
From your link: "As of April 2019, 3000 of the 10,000 pieces of space debris routinely tracked by the US Military as a threat to the International Space Station were known to have originated from the 2007 satellite shoot down.". This does not make it seem unlikely to me.
I’ll add a shoutout to the CloudSync app on Synology, which let’s you connect to most of the major cloud storage providers and sync up, down or bidirectionally. I use it back up (sync changes down only) my Dropbox, Google Drive, GCS and B2 folders. It’s especially handy for quick access to the > 1tb assets I have in Dropbox that I don’t have space to sync to my space limited computer HDs. Plus with Recycle Bin enabled on Synology shared folders you get ad hoc restoration of deleted files dating back as long as you want.
"Military grade" is not an especially meaningful term. I served in the military, and generally equipment is required to stand up to water and sand and stuff, but it isn't necessarily higher quality or more durable UNLESS that was part of the specification. Lots of the times the military grade equipment was in every way inferior to what you could buy off the shelf for 1/100th of the cost. In other cases a lack of manufacturing scale and building to the spec whether it made sense or not led to things that failed routinely due to poor design or lack of adapting designs based on learning after a first generation.

A good example of being locked into a bogus design is old Humvee turn signals. I have never once had a turn signal on a car fill up with water like a little fishtank, but when PMCSing Humvees I would run into this from time to time. IIRC you had to drill a hole in the bottom to let the water out.

Another case is SINCGARS radios. I don't know if they still use them, but god help them if they do. You had to load crypto on them using arcane magic that almost nobody knew how to do, including me, and I took the 2 week class. If you didn't have the crypto set up properly you couldn't talk to people except on the emergency channel in the clear. I can't count how many times we weren't able to talk to each other because the radios were all screwed up, there was a lot of resorting to cell phones when they were available. You would think something as fundamental as radios would be figured out and fool proof, but in my experience off the shelf walkee talkees would have been far more effective, although not as secure in theory. In practice the mujahideen aren't intercepting and exploiting US communications, but they certainly benefited from the radios being dicked up half the time.
There is something magical about these massively multiplayer Google sheets where a large amount of strangers collaborates on the same goal without outside communication.

I've experienced it when Eliezer Yudkowsky — after several books of content — put the hero of his story in a nearly impossible situation to get out of. He challenged his readers to find a solution within 60 hours otherwise they get the bad ending.

Observing the organic collection, deduplication and rating of ideas in the sheet was an interesting experience.

[0] HPMOR (the story) — http://www.hpmor.com/

[1] Final Exam (the chapter with the assignment) - http://www.hpmor.com/chapter/113

[2] The Spreadsheet – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17-zbmElKXWv9nqcsDzop...
That's great to hear :D. Thanks!
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Why on earth someone like Merkle will use plaintext SMS? I mean, even I don’t use it.

Doesn’t she have a competent security team, advising her about OPSec?

It’s not just metadata. US spied on communication content.

The point is, tools are there; you need to be able to defend yourself against attacks.
Reading through the comments I think one point wasn’t really touched on. I think everyone has a limited amount of funds available for charity. Certain non-profits are more well funded than others _and_ there are more efficient charities around.

One should look at the labels with what they are buying, and articles like these (maybe it is a little disingenuous) might help people to steer their funds where they think they can do more.

If you are upset by the way WMF asks for donations, here might be some alternatives:

- https://www.effectivealtruism.org/

- https://eff.org/

Or if you are a fellow German(-Speaker):

- https://www.fiff.de/

- https://fragdenstaat.de/

- https://digitalcourage.de/
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There's a few problems with that review. It's confusing air speed at a point with volume of air displaced, and assuming that volume at all frequencies is perceptually the same, which it isn't. Psychoacoustically, something with a sound profile at ~80Hz sounds quieter than the same dB noise at 250Hz, which is quieter than at 1000 Hz.

The Dyson fans tend to have a particularly quiet sounding noise profile compared to their volume of air displaced at low to mid power in particular, and also are far quieter and low powers than traditional fans.

They're not worth the money they cost, but there's a lot more nuance than this presents.
Referring to this incident, presumably https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_cra...
I had 1 cavity in my decades and I had really awful habits. All of my teeth were sealed in youth.

I too have bruxism that is wearing down some molars severely. My grandfather wore his teeth down to about nothing.

My dentist suggested I get Invisalign for tooth crowding, veneers for small canines, and a mouth guard I can't tolerate at present). If had a workable mouth guard, I would do this lozenge thing. I feel sensation in my teeth and gums constantly.

I never did whitening because I always thought the risks were too great.
In my schooling we went on indigenous camps and every year there were workshops at school. We learned directly from them about dream time, walkabouts, weaving and their language, painting and instruments. It was something at least, and pretty special in retrospect. This was in the 90s and 2000s.

Land rights are getting better too. The tribes in Nhulunbuy own their land and rent it back to the town and mine site. My father worked boats there and spent a lot of time with the indigenous, it's definitely not all happy stories but again, after what we have done it was never going to be.
That is cynical nonsense. Europe could have taken care of its own security. Exit NATO and build a European defense alliance not made into a tool for American aspirations for world domination. Europe has IMO much cleaner goals. European nations don’t keep 800 military bases around the world and massive spying operations.
I've evaluated Bitcoin probably 10 separate times. I regret not getting in at time #1 when it was $30, but I know I would've sold at $35 or $50 or $100 or $1000 based on where I was economically then.

I have no regrets investing in broad market index funds, because I know what they represent, how they work, and how even if Amazon drops to 1/10th of its value I still own a small slice of the company. If bitcoin drops I own a bitcoin, which no adherent can explain the purpose of.

There's no "there" there. It doesn't do what it's supposed to do, most of the adherents don't know what they're buying, the "store of value" argument just makes it a worse version of fine art, gold, or real estate. The economic case for bitcoin is anti-fiat. Fine, but that's a minority opinion. Hundreds of millions of Americans buzz along in a fiat system and don't seem much worse for the wear. The massive COVID bailout kept millions out of poverty, kept food on the table, kept businesses open, etc.

"Failed states print money and crash the economy so they need bitcoin". Why Bitcoin and not another crypto? I can never answer that. Hardly anything in tech is forever. BASIC was once cool, now it's Python. Would I bet $30,000 that Python is the language of choice 50 years from now? No. Bitcoin is a cool proof of concept that is eclipsed tech wise by dozens of other coins. I'm still skeptical of other coins, and hardcore skeptical of PoW when the W is useless (hashing). Bitcoin is the top of the skepticism pyramid. There's no point.
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I'm actually really interested in learning more about historic transitions between different system of currency. I've found lots of information on Wikipedia about the steady states, but less on the transitions. Any sources you can recommend?
Is anyone working on a Star Trek style "deflector shield"?
Who is entitled to a say on Wikimedia's business organisation? Not me. The Wikimedia foundation can organise itself as it sees fit.

If anything, they've proven to be rather good at it, with lots and lots of value added to the commons, and a healthy financial state of affairs.
It's a complex issue. It's not just money involved, buying a long term "system" means you are reliant on relations for spares and support. This puts into question the willingness of (e.g.) Turkey as a NATO country to upset Russia.
NATO is a defense pact, which in reality means a military industrial pact too. There is no way to entirely separate the manufacturing and acquisition of military gear, from the treaty where it's supposed to be used.
Beauty is subjective but the people are very friendly, there aren’t other tourists and the city like Erbil are very very nice IMO.

Here I’ve uploaded(G. Photos) some “stupid/phone” photos from my last trip to Iraq: https://photos.app.goo.gl/TrRVhH6uDAmMU5cNA so you can view that there are a lot of tourists attractions and beautiful places!
The US is the leading force in the war on drug users since the International Opium Convention in 1912. Others are complicit, but the US is the main force behind it.

You mentioned that some countries legalized drugs and them rolled back. Can you give examples?
The US tax authorities want automated data collection from EU banks about all "US persons"? Sure, that's FATCA. Reciprocity? Nope, US banks don't send anything back.
Well that's good, but I sort of see it as solving the problem from the wrong end. As a consumer what I want to see is a booking site that does have the lowest price but can't charge the hotel more than a tiny fee.
Off topic: See, this is what happens when enough people try to use a mild word for something bad they’re doing in order to try to hide the badness: other people who see this usage alter their perceived meaning of the mild word to represent what they see as prevalent usage. The mild word comes to mean the bad thing.

In this example, “sponsored”. A more accurate term in this case would have been something like “paid dishonest shill”, but the constant use of “sponsored” by paid shills (esp. on YouTube) has altered our perception of the word “sponsored”. I would not be surprised if soon many companies would like to move away from that word and not be “sponsors” anymore, and instead be “supporters”, etc.

It’s the reverse of the euphemism treadmill, really.
I get the Edge-hate. I have my own experiences with lack of accessibility support in earlier versions. But, philosophically speaking, there is no difference between using Edge and Chrome. There are things which simply shouldnt be controlled by a single large company like MS or G. The difference between Chrome and Edge seems to be that Google managed to launch Chrome before they dumped their reputation. And some of the old rep seemingly stuck to Chrome. This is silly.
Just because the rest of the democracy is there doesn't mean the country is actually a democracy though, if the machinery of democracy exists but can't control and regulate the totality of the state.
>The inevitable has occurred

This makes it sound like it was some sort of an unique event. ISS has huge surface area, and MMOD impacts are practically routine, damaging all sorts of equipment - radiators, batteries, pumps, solar panels, and even heatshields and windows (Cupola windows got hit by debris a couple times, so now they are kept closed when not in use).

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/orbitaldebris2019/orbital2...

>The ISS impact database is maintained at the NASA/JSC by the Hypervelocity Impact Technology (HVIT) group. The database contains over 1,400 records of impact damage from ground-based observations of space-exposed hardware returned from ISS

>MMOD damage areas of interest acquired from EVA and IVA sources mentioned here are collected in an image database managed by the Image Science and Analysis Group at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). There are currently 380 records tagged as “MMOD” in the database, although it should be noted that some of these records include multiple MMOD damages (i.e., there are more than 380 MMOD impacts represented in this database).

And that's only the detected ones. Even detecting the strikes in orbit is hard; automation of all sorts is being developed for this job. (strain sensors, microphones, ML-assisted visual analysis etc)
The managers without tech background are making bad decisions. But the advantage of tech background is not that you are able to assess any situation. It is more that you are less stupid and make less unenforced clueless basic mistaskes.
This. I agree, I’ve been there 3 times during the war against ISIS (as a journalist) and I was really surprised about the Kurdistan. Very nice!
I know you’re trying to be helpful, but please do realize everyone has a different sensitivity for addiction. Just suggesting OP should then get it elsewhere can become the opposite you’re trying to do
I don't think it is naive at all. Drug decriminalization programs have success in the Netherlands and Portugal. Prohibition on drugs is similar to prohibition on alcohol in the US in that it is a source of funding for organized crime.

The source of the violence in Mexico is drug cartels. Drug cartels take profit from the illegal drug trade. Eliminate the illegal drug trade and you will greatly reduce the funding for organized crime.

Attacking their funding is the solution. Cartels would not be popular if they did not have money. If they cannot smuggle illegal drugs they will have lots less money.
I recommend Yandex.Disk (disclaimer - I used to work for Yandex) for backing up photos.

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To assume that they don’t know “what they are getting into” is a bit patriarchal.