skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> at the expense of whom, exactly?

Everyone they step on along the way.
Typically if I allow some cookies, it’s because I trust the company to use analytics data to better the product.
Little humans in good shape can sustain for several seconds bursts of 1000W+ on a bike. Not so little after all.
Except for the fact that you can jailbreak an iPhone by exploiting the USB stack: https://iokit.racing/oneweirdtrick.pdf
Denmark launches new corona passport
So maybe your purchase history is unaffected, which is a great thing I'd agree, but with ads, I worry about the psychological effect too. People can't really ignore manipulation, so I don't think it's plausible to say that how you _feel_ is unaffected by advertisements. I think the only way to remain impartial to it is to be never exposed the first place.
Fan fiction does infringe copyright most of the time—at least under EU copyright, which does not have fair use. Under US copyright, defending fan fiction as fair use isn’t quite the slam dunk either.

If publishers aren’t quick to litigate fan fiction away, I’d say it’s because they decided that it’s actually beneficial to them. It keeps the community invested in the fictional universe, and the canonical works only gain in respect—and these are the only ones making money. So it’s a social contract between fan fiction authors and publishers. That is why fan fiction communities try to moderate submissions to keep their end of the bargain—i.e. no selling of fan fiction, and no fan fiction that could be seen as detrimental to the image of the work (for example erotica is not allowed in many places).

Related to this, the novel 50 shades of grey had a pretty interesting genesis where it started out as a twilight fan fiction, which was booted of fan fiction sites because of its explicit content. The author then created her own website. Because she gained a massive following, she realised that she could commercialise the novel. That’s when she changed all the names in the novel to no longer refer to Twilight characters. Because she had already transposed the characters to another universe, at that point there wasn’t much of Twilight left and she was free to market and sell it.
China may not be as concerned about uncontrolled population growth anymore due to their broader strategy of exporting their workforce:

https://qz.com/africa/1963566/how-many-chinese-workers-are-t...
Not at all, that "waste" was safe and stable where it was. We try to get it all out and ignite it because it's easier and cheaper than using the sun's energy directly. That ignition and corresponding sudden release in the atmosphere is what's causing issues.
How Can I Scrape Emails from Websites Without Coding?
Ok, so there's such a thing as _real art_.
Well, Denmark is a member of NATO which is dominated by the US. As sb else argued deciding what weapons to buy and from whom has strong political inclinations. If Denmark would buy their equipment from Russia they couldn’t stay with the NATO in the long run.
> I don't think China wants back to exponential growth ever.

Any policy defined in terms of "X children per couple" or "X children per woman" is, by definition, exponential growth.

When X is 3, it's very rapid exponential growth.
There is some question on whether the one-child policy was even needed. If you look at a graph of "children per mother" chart before and after the original policy went into effect, it's quite evident that rates were dropping for more than a decade beforehand:

* https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/october/china...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Birth_rate_in_China.svg

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

Industrialization, urbanization, reduction in child mortality, and the education of women accomplished a reduction in the rate in China just like it did/does just about everywhere else.

The ghastly human rights violations that led from the policy were completely unnecessary.
This is really cool. I wonder if this can be used to simulate pianos, rhodes and wurlitzer sounds.
On the same HN front page there has _just_ been a "senior developer drunk post", where a guy was complaining that full stack developers are being paid peanuts, and they deserve a compensation of at least 500k USD—and the comments were cheering "amen to that".

I don't understand anything about US IT salaries anymore.
I was actually thinking about Party-list proportional representation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party-list_proportional_repres...), but mostly because I hadn't heard about MMP. I'm still not quite sure what the difference is.
Oculus Quest 2. My first ever VR headset and it really changed how I view the future of technology in many aspects
Perhaps time for better social security then.
Dark Energy Survey releases most precise look at the universe’s evolution
Into NLP – Part-of-speech tagging
The video won’t play for me, but does this allow tweaking of parameters? The problem with most projects like this one is that it replicates the sound of a certain pedal with certain settings. That’s a major problem for most guitarists as playing with the knobs live is a big part of the attraction to pedals.
Really? I havent seen that math. For that to be true, the number of collisions would have to be rising faster than the rate at which we put stuff up there. Natural sources would cause a steady increase (more stuff launched, more exposed to natural impacts) whereas not-natural junk impacts should increase at a rate higher than exposure (compound increased exposure with increased risk from more objects). All i have seen are studies saying that the number of impacts is increasing, not that they are accellerating faster than launch rates.
Statists and socialists think they can't lose: the worst case outcome is an energy crisis, which translates into an even larger role of bureaucrats.
Coordination problems are a major issue for urban renewal. In Israel we have a methodology loosely translated as evacuation-construction, Where the city coordinates the rebuilding of a whole row of buildings. The apartment owners get new apartments in the new buildings and it is beneficial for them in the long run. The law has provisions for allowing the project to go forward even with approval of just 80% of owners, which prevents individuals from blocking the whole project. The new construction is done according to new building codes (like safety in case of earth quakes). The main losers are renters which have to move out and don't gain anything, but other than that it's considered beneficial. Seems like a reasonable way to solve the coordination problem.
i’ve managed to use the technology in reverse and somewhat successfully undo a effect from audio
Inductive logic programming at 30: a new introduction
What exactly is that CEO doing for that money? What important strategic decisions are there to make at Wikipedia? Why do they have to be San Francisco based?

The annual real median personal income in the US in 2019 was $35,977[0], how can anyone think that $120k isn't a lot? Why should people around the world donate their hard earned money so that some employees in America can have Silicon Valley salaries?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
The same holds for the spyware shitshow called Android.
Flat Habits: a tracker respecting your time, data, and privacy (powered by org
Oh yeah, so there is an easy and cheap remedy, let computers handle cable data connections the same as smartphones, asking for consent.

That would mitigate the danger for charging with an 'unknown cable'. But when you actually want to use it for data, the issue will remain.
Since Ketamine is severely addictive, I would not recommend this.
> Haven't you all learned by now that you are the product if it is free.

So when I'm running the Linux kernel, or compiling with gcc, or editing with vim, I'm the product? Could you explain to me how exactly?

Sorry but that sentence is completely stupid.
Creators are making bank selling Google spreadsheets
That's because what you're posting is pure FUD. I don't mean to discredit the experience, and how that made you feel, but posting your conclusions as facts added nothing to the conversation here.
I'm from Argentina, a few days ago I was seeing these intrusive donation banners on top of each page. Now they're not there, maybe it's because of 20 years of Wikipedia?
When has it ever been cool to be posh?
I'm personally sick of all these tennis brats. You want to earn lots of money? Get in line and do what you're told.
What’s missing in this article is a proper discussion of the level of government for each child. This ends up being the limiting factor for most who are not wealthy.
Public attention can only handle so much, so purposefully diverting it towards suboptimal focuses in order to make more money is not good behaviour, and deserves being denounced.
This is what I was thinking. I wonder if she is aware of this.
Syria civil war was a CIA operation to oust Bashar al-Assad.

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

Libya civil war also probably CIA. And then you have Iraq.

These wars created multiple migration crises to Europe.

And not only that, by funding and training rebels in Syria it lead to a hotbed for terrorist, some of these terrorist slipped into Europe and committed terrorist attacks, like the Paris 2015 attacks (130 murdered).
Everything on this list that isn’t Wikipedia, along with essentially all of the research they fund.

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Complete_list_of_Wikimedia...

You don’t have to put it in air quotes like you’re making some sort of point. Calling everything they fund a “project” is the language Wikimedia use in their budgets and governance documentation.

If you were actually having trouble thinking of a single project they operate other than Wikipedia, then perhaps you might also have some questions about what they do with 90% of their revenue.
Doesn't stuff like this infringe on 30 million intellectual property laws and is punishable by death in the US?
X = 1 is not exponential growth
In a way it's not too dissimilar an approach; different people have different tolerances for -- and reactions to -- conflict though (in all walks of life). What works well for one sportsperson and their composure might not work so well for another.
Digital Transformation vs. Digital Transition for Businesses
Why have cameras and lenses become so expensive?
> So hitting colleagues with a binder is acceptable, okay got it

> we already agreed to make tenure an excuse for doing bad stuff

Re-read my above comment. Never said that. I said removing tenure entirely is a very bad idea for the health of western science.
Nextcloud also has a mobile app, with an feature for automatic upload of your pictures and quite a few settings (which folder to upload, etc.)
10 years ago... I still use sms with family members, etc.

The tools are there... But have you successfully convinced all your friends to use signal?

I know Merkles connects to family and friends might not seem critical, but it's probably stuff like that they are aggregating. But just recording phone numbers.

But also just getting IPs let's you know what services a person is using.

It's my impression that much it the SIGINT Snowdon revealed was metadata.. of course for a target like Merkle there might be more.
> despite technologies not having a discreet origin, we can reason about them in retrospect

Yes, agreed, good point

I also agree about Nick's probable fatalism, and I think his work is brilliant and valuable, however one thing irks me. He's made a successful career out of hypothetical "black ball" speculation while saying little about the potential for blackness of the tech we already have. He frames existential risk as if we are on the cusp of dramatic danger but still relatively safe. In truth we are already over the cliff & falling rapidly

Take his paperclip maximizer. They already exist! We need not wait for some future AI to realize a badly misaligned objective function. We're already determined to transmute the remains of our homeworld's long dead into plastic and atmospheric carbon
In person instruction and a large social community of intelligent and - hopefully - motivated people.
Won’t be long before three children are mandatory.
Yes, it is. Since the population is shrinking over time, it is more often called "exponential decay", but mathematically there's no difference. It just means the value of the exponent is negative.
Regarding 6. sometimes companies, especially start-ups hire those people not for their abilities, but to be able to tell investors they hire top uni educated workforce. They are more for PR than actual work. Sometimes it is frustrating, if they get paid the same as people who actually do work.
There is another graph here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China#/media/F...

Which shows a massive male surplus particularly in the young demographics, way larger than you would biologically expect. How can we claim this policy has no effect if clearly people are still killing female infants?
I got and email about this few weeks back (I must have signed up to the list at some point) but I was put off by two things.

> We've already preserved 100,000+ files, and are quite reliable at this point.

"quite reliable" doesn't cut it for a paid service for me, even a new one.

My second issue, and I might be wrong about this, is that there's no way to share photos with someone who isn't a (paying) ente user.
> Does France require this information for French citizens who no longer live in France, but moved to (for example) the United States 20 years ago?

No, my understanding is only if you actually have income from France – such as rental income. Income is income, and it seems fair.

I believe the US is truly exceptional with FACTA, but it’s probably only because of their current position that they are able to claim global jurisdiction over domestic legislation. If Iran passed such legislation, I doubt any banks would be allowed to comply. FACTA is often cited as a reason for people renouncing US citizenship.
Actually, I remember reading an article from someone at Spotify who argued that the economics in that situation would end up hurting small artists and favour Taylor Swift much more than the current model.

As an example; big music aficionados might listen to 75 different bands in a month, which will mean 1% of their subscription money will go to each of them.

The large majority of music listeners though listen to 5-10 big-name artists only.

Distributing money fairly after what each premium subscriber listens too thus would end up favouring the big name artists much more than the current model they have.

I have no way of knowing whether this is true, but thought it was an interesting perspective...
The Inflationary Forces in Startupland
i'll leave it to the guy who designed and ran the course to give me an assessment of it over some random that wishfully compiles circumstantial evidence (like how long the courses were taught for).
mandatory "give fedora a try" post
> There are, of course, impediments to social mobility into the class of Oxbridge-educated people, but it revolves more around academics than about money. For example, I found that the students disproportionately came from families where their parents were career academics. The relationship with those families having a lot of money was not something I particularly noticed.

My observation studying in Oxford was that there was a big dispatity in opportunity, but it derived more from inequities in the quality of schooling available than unfairness in the admissions process. I met a lot of state educated students, but most of them came from well-regarded schools on upper-middle class areas that got hundreds of students into Oxbridge univeristies each year.

Very few came from schools like mime that couldn't even work out which entrance exams I needn't to take for the course I was applying to.
I think going to university is a luxury. It is a luxury I personally enjoyed having in my life. It is a luxury I want my children to be able to enjoy one day. It makes your life richer in the same way that, say, having horses makes your life richer, or sailing around the world in a yacht.

Of course there are people who don't enjoy horses. Or yachts. And not enjoying university should be seen as being no different.

If you look at them as an investment, I don't think they're a particularly good one.

And I think that this cycle of runaway inflation with regard to academic credentials as a prerequisite for jobs that don't actually require them is something that should be stopped.
Considering countries who have tried to increase their birth rate have failed to even budge the number by 10%, I’m pretty sure the risk of too many births is pretty much non-existent.
Could you develop that point? I went to a northern comprehensive; I now lecture CS, but I have no recollection of being 'stepped on' by the Tarquins and Glorias of this world along the way -- in fact, I always felt that it is they who should be worried if they try. You may have some self esteem issues, mate.
> I've built MVP in A/B testing area for landing sites

Is there any reason to use this vs something free like Google optimize?
True, but audio jacks are hard to find in anything above a midrange phone these days.

You're also often limited to the app provided by the manufacturer of the 3.5mm dongle, which isn't always great.
“The orbit and design of the individual needles were chosen to promote rapid orbital decay and reentry into the atmosphere.”. However needles unexpectedly clumped and there are clumps of them still orbiting.

Scroll down to page three of: https://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/quarterly-news/pdfs/o...
> #3 and #5 are by-products of extreme privilege.

Just to clarify, Czech Technical University is free (for Czech citizens) - I also graduated there. I understand what you're saying, but I am somehow repulsed by the idea that such a system is considered a "privilege". It doesn't have to be a privilege. If you don't have good public universities in your country, you should consider getting involved in politics.
The UK has made an export industry out of this snobbery and attracts hundreds of thousands of international students for this prestige. I wonder if ethologists have studied this behavior. Queen bees are not selected with an IQ test, they re selected randomly and raised by the plebs to become their queen.It's a successful strategy evidently. I guess something similar might work in primates where the random selection is the 'nearest trusted family friend'.
How did they spend the USD that was sent home if it was illegal?
There’s something dangerously Marxist in this statement.

Working better than your competitors is not stepping on them.
There isn't really anything in GDPR that says this can't be automated and dealt with by the browsers, so long as users are given the choice and from their set their defaults.

It is a matter of intentional annoyance and non compliance but appearance to try and comply by these websites since we already have things like no track headers.
Why can’t they split the river in multiple parts with a small tributary for wildlife that meets up with the rest of the river downstream?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_bifurcation
I think that's true, but amongst posh people, it's always been cool to be posh, but pretend to be not posh.

Out of interest, what did you study at Oxford?
This is so cool, Glendale is my home town. I always wondered what the inside of those big huge windowless buildings looked like.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship are supposed to take place outside of academia. Core research is the mission of academia. The research that doesn’t have the immediate returns or value capture to justify starting a company around. Some exceptions where academics launch businesses from their research but those are exactly that, exceptions.
I think authorities are becoming stricter in requirements for end-of-life planning for anything you launch.

* For some other satellites, there are plans to move them to a graveyard orbit when they are no longer useful. Of course, this requires the satellite to take action, so it cannot be done if the satellite would become unresponsive.

* In some cases, orbits are selected that will degrade quite quickly even when the satellite is non-responsive. IIRC, Starlink satellites would deorbit in a matter of months.

* Active research is also being done w.r.t. deorbiting satellites at end of life (e.g. with a sail [0]).

To launch anything you have to get various approvals. Those approval processes are becoming stricter in their requirements for end-of-life planning. This should help lessen the effects of the bug you describe.

Of course, there are situations that are not accounted for in those plans. If some malfunction causes a satellite to e.g. explode in orbit, it will leave behind a lot of space debris, and any deorbiting plans requiring action on the part of the satellite are useless. So what I described above helps, but doesn't fix the issue completely.

[0] http://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/Space_Debris/Setting_sail...
The question was if it was NEEDED, not if it had any effect.
I remember my tourism moment in northern Baghdad in 2010. I actually flew there from Kuwait to take a scheduled CISSP exam. I got to tour palace row on Camp Liberty. I got lost the evening I arrived which made me nervous because I recently paid $700 to attend this exam the next morning despite sleeping only about 2 hours and using almost the full 6 hours of test time I still passed (first time go).

I remember the enormous catfish in the largest palace moat and the bats swarm from the local bat tower at night. That large palace was truly exquisite with tall brilliant marble walls and gold lettering in-laid. I also remember the Flintstones palace for Saddam’s grandchildren.

Then I spent a week at Balad playing Guitar Hero awaiting transportation back to Kuwait.
This is an unfortunate situation - there is a legitimate argument to be made for quality accessories, safety (of melting, burning, frying ports) and security, but the flipside is, most OEMs are shameless in their ways of overcharging you for that (especially Apple).
> How can we claim this policy has no effect if clearly people are still killing female infants?

No effect ≠ no need.

The intended purpose was to reduce birth rates for population control. This was being accomplished before the the policy even came into effect.
Is China capitalist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...
The programming part is easy to pick up. The tools and ops parts are more difficult, mostly because there are so many. And we are a 'microservices' shop (read distributed monolith). I don't get to read/work a single system or language. One sprint/day I might be in ECS Java, the next might be Python Lambda, then no code stuff like Splunk and Tableau. There are a bunch of minor and bureaucratic tasks too.

The real problem is I deal with this sort of stuff. I started doing analysis about modifying a system to provide a new field to another system for the purpose of reporting. After spending a day looking at it, they pulled the story because they didn't actually need that field. And this isn't a one time thing - pulling back work. Then they give me BS stuff. They wanted me to increase the code coverage on an app that we were going to transfer to another team. The target percentage - 100%. It was already at 97% line 98% branch. Why am I wasting my time on this miserable task?
Looking forward to

"Porting the Oberon system to the RISC-V instruction set architecture"

https://foss-north.se/2021/speakers-and-talks.html#rsolbjorg
It's the other way around. I think it's the worst game in the world.
Most of its value is in the energy in its orbit (not in its altitude). But to harvest it to use for something else you would need to change its orbit substantially, which requires even more energy. It would only be worthwhile for large clouds of debris in mostly the same orbit, which tend not to occur.