skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can expect this to happen more and more as China demonstrated that innovation is indeed possible by government intervention.

Another thing that was demonstrated at exactly same time was that it is possible to have decade long stagnation in an open market. I'm talking about the state of the Web and mobile has come to in the hands of FB, Google and others in the free market with no government interventions.

The biggest sensation since many years is (China government supported) TikTok and the "free market" response to it was to try to ban it or force purchase it.

My hope is, that countries like USA and UK will re-think their understanding of fairness in a free market and once again we will have fair and innovative free business environment but at this time and stage there's evidence that governmental intervention can yield innovation in stagnated markets.

In this exact case, people at the German government are targeting a specific risk of foundational elements in tech being underfunded or overprotected.
Because it is one of the primary functions of the government to prevent excesses in the free market so that generated wealth is spread out over many people in society as opposed to a only a few. Because people consider that unfair it often leads to destabilizing society causing even more suffering.
I am well informed, but you seem to be ignorrant of the fact that most countries don't need US' racke..., oops, I mean protection.

Should we ask people of Syria what is the US doing on their soil? Or Iraqis, who want them out but they for some reason don't wanna leave.

As for loans...well, maybe don't take them if you can't repay them. The West is lending too, you know. And those credits aren't cheap.
Maybe it's a sentient AI's first foray into public life.
> we try to have something called the Rule of Law

Not sure why you’re talking about the idea rule of law like it’s something New Zealand invented or is somehow novel or unique?
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Ah that makes sense. Maybe I need to read the article again but it was talking about lost state in the web client due to the web socket which means they're trying to treat the web client as a stateful partition?

So I guess my instinct was why even have state in the browser.
That's exactly why you're not supposed to go to the stairwell. That's where the deathly smoke is. Apartment doors are spec'd to keep fire and smoke out. Plus apartment windows must be openable. Ventilation systems are designed not to circulate air between apartments.
Not everyone who disagrees with you is an activist. It's possible for people to have different information than you or have different values than you.
We're actually running a virtual party right now for people who happen to be in front of their screens this xmas. Feel free to join, say hi and have a coffee with us! - https://flat.social/f/hn-virtual-xmas
Also Japanese Hayabusa2 mission's dashboard. I so admire the elegant design.
http://haya2now.jp/en.html
Reading this story gives me SO much hope for where we are as a society at the moment. It also gives me immense reason for pause to ask how many people out there with great ideas presently do not have access to the tools outlined in the story.

We need, now more than ever, an "eli5" or "get up to speed in an hour" source for these very interesting fields where all the progress of the past century is easily visualized at a high level. I get the feeling much of academia shuts down such attempts to preserve their grip on knowledge and thus their authority.
It feels like merkle trees[1] could help here.

We could split each transparency log into blocks, issuing a new block every 24 hours. Every block header would contain a hash of the root node of it's Merkle tree, the hash of the previous header and a digital signature. Storing 1000 latest headers for 5 transparency logs would take less than a megabyte, so most browsers would be fine with this.

When sending a certificate, the server would also send the header hashes for the block the certificate appears in, as well as the contents of any intermediate merkle tree nodes.

In the rare case where we encounter a certificate issued in the latest 24 hours, we would directly ask the transparency log for a hash list of all certificates issued in a given 1 minute period (taken from the issuance date in the certificate).
Calling Bill Nelson qualified since he is an astronaut is hilarious to read.

Consider that the other, legitimately qualified people on that mission gave him the nickname "ballast" and it is widely regarded that the only reason he went up is by strong arming his way in since he had a powerful congressional position.

He is not considered a great NASA admin and it was pretty disappointing when he was chosen.
We are slow because we need to send stuff in orbit and so they need to survive launch and fit into the launcher. That adds 99% of the complexity.

If, instead, we would build stuff in orbit it would be much cheaper and faster as you don't need origami like folding, high Gs resistance, and a malfunctioning piece can be replaced easily.
Open knowledge for a digital civil society
Okay, but who has access to the full PII of tax records?

If the government really wanted deanonymized data, they could just get it directly. Instead, they’re intentionally enforcing a degree of anonymity. Part of that could include preventing those with access to tax records access to this location data as well.
Establishing a fund is not the same as regulating the beneficiary.

Compare for example with academia - universities in Europe are overwhelmingly government funded, yet they get a lot of freedom in what research they conduct.
Better than fidgeting with fingers. Sometimes I just can't stop doing it during long meetings.
The South never existed without US backing. It was a made up thing, without popular support, ruled by successive dictatorships (some even had to be toppled with the ok of the US, so terrible they were).

It's not your right to decide whether people have free will or not. It's their call. "Deciding" for them is called colonialism.

Ho Chi Minh had huge popular support; precisely what the US feared.

PS: before the US fucked things up, Ho Chi Minh even looked up to them and fully expected their support against the French. That's how bad the US fucked up.
> And no one will help. "Doctors". Useless garbage.

I don't know why you put "doctors" in quotes, but I feel the need to correct you here: medications is generally speaking very effective for people with ADHD, and psychiatrists are becoming more and more aware of treatments.

Once you get an official diagnostic you can generally get access to treatments based on stimulants (very effective to be able to behave more-or-less normally, but takes quite some time to find correct medication + dosage, has side-effects, and can be difficult to legally obtain depending on your country law due to their Schedule II status), antidepressants (can help with both ADHD symptoms and comorbidities such as anxiety disorder and depressive personality disorders, also often easier to get access to), or therapy (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for example).

The understanding of adult ADHD is still very recent, quite limited, and not well spread out. But you do have solutions. I would recommend checking out "Taking charge of adult ADHD" by Russell Barkley, the book is written in a way that can be parsed relatively quickly and gives a good overview of the diagnostic process, treatments, coping mechanisms, etc.
And even more skepticism regarding the original article: https://uncommonsenseok.blogspot.com/2020/02/uss-william-d-p...
Thanks for this post. As alone as one could be this Christmas. Family over 8000km away, and no real friends or significant other to spend it with. Have a huge deadline on January 6th but I cant bring myself to work any more for that today.
Anecdotal, but I've never heard of an apartment building fire where people get trampled trying to escape. This in Europe where many if not most countries do not mandate a second escape route for midrise buildings. It's simply not a problem. You're supposed to shelter in your apartment anyway, which almost always is much safer than the hallway in case of a fire.
> I see a distinct lack of “geeks” in this initiative

I feel the same. Germany has a strong undercurrent of great open source developers and I hope the bureaucracy won’t come in the way of helping the geeks/hackers.
Easily. Just to say: split up, or you will not get food. They had weeks of food left in storage and many regions already starved. Plus, everyone in Russia already expected breakup as inevitable. At that point, rejection of everything related to the country - being Soviet Union or Russia - reached the apogee and a well-propagandised, well-funded drive to just restart history from scratch - every switching away from Cyrillic and renouncing Communism and the Orthodox church - could work.

Other post-Soviet countries shrugged off previous Soviet history easily and never looked back. In 1991, Russia was no different and saw previous regime as sort of occupation by "them" (communists), not "us" making some mistakes in governing.
Is the ICC part of the UN?
> To me, China seems to be preparing.

This is a really interesting perspective. If China is trying to masculinize its teenage male population, we could see it engage in conflict as soon as these teenagers grow into adults at their physical prime, 6-8 years from now.

I think it's entirely likely that China will attempt to annex Taiwan within the next 10 years.

I think we will also see China be one of the first countries to engage in large-scale cyberwarfare alongside any physical conflict, e.g. DOS'ing civilian communications.
> Your argument basically boils down to “you should trust propaganda from the authoritarian Chinese government because I trust the propaganda from the authoritarian Russian government.”

What? Why? How? Where does this extreme binary logic come from? When have I said that he should "trust propaganda from the authoritarian Chinese government"? When have I said that "I trust the propaganda from the authoritarian Russian government"?

You don't need any "propaganda" to leave the house and live a life. I have all the empirical evidence I need to competently state "well, that's not how it works IRL" when I see some weird journalism full of factual errors and false assumptions.

Why are you acting as there is no personal experience?
Chinese misinformation campaign?
Multiple Regression in Pure SQL
You can't make a new gold out of thin air but you can a new crypto out if thin air. This is why all crypto is fictional, if you missed the last speculation bubble, just make a new crypto.
> 472k viewers on the livestream

We had about 11K on STS 82, which I still think was the high point of my career. Back in the day with capacity being what it was that put a serious strain on the internet as a whole, shortly after that we had to move to the other side of the Atlantic be able to continue to operate.
Wrt relicensing vlc, would you have made different choices were you faced with it today? (Not trying to be confrontational, just curious.)
This story sets off my scam alarms. It also reminds me of the time that Samsung partnered with a group pretending to be Supreme.
> The people listed in the study are all female

> strongly suggests that this is a diversity initiative in disguise

It would be great if we can use this logic backwards.

For any team or initiative we see that is all male, we treat it like a discrimination initiative in disguise.

If you don't treat every situation of the above of all male teams/projects/funds like that, I am not sure why you do so in this case.

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- xtrlock

Allows locking your screen without hiding its contents (i.e. just disables input/interaction.) Nice for when you want to keep some stats, top, or just a plain message visible on your screen.

- sm

"screen message". Goes fullscreen and just gives you an editable text field to type a message into. Great to combine with xtrlock mentioned above to put something like "brb, grabbing coffee" on your screen for your colleagues or so :) (Technically a Gtk app I think, but fits the pattern.)

- [ed.] Xephyr

Open another X server as a window in your current X server. Great as a "canvas" for a screenshare if you want to share multiple windows but not your entire desktop. Batteries not included, you need to know how to juggle xauth & a WM (metacity for me) to make the new X server actually do something.
The passage of time is beyond daunting. The idea that in the blink of an eye my parents will be gone has never felt more true after being isolated from them and my home country for the past two years because of covid.
My heart sincerely goes out to you.
Everything would be great if people would actually be good; but in any case, lack of possibility to improve your and your posterity's life outcomes vs others, by saving/investing/building capital, which is the case in both socialism and communism, is a depressing thing to think of and i don't think it's "great" in any sense of it.
Why are we okay with content filtering in schools?

In Poland where I live, parental control basically doesn't exist. Children routinely watch movies, play games and visit websites that they're theoretically not supposed to visit. Parents know about it and don't really see an issue with it. I've seen several boarding school networks, none of them had any filtering whatsoever. The only filters I've seen were on computers in IT classrooms, but nobody uses those for non class-related activities anyway. As far as I know, we don't even have a law banning selling x-rated content to minors.
Ask HN: How do password managers make things better?
If I use a password manager (1Pass, LastPass, etc.), then all my passwords are in one place. There is literally One Password To Rule Them All™.

How is this less dangerous than the alternative?
Standard practice anywhere you have... people, most are perfectly reasonable but many are deeply indoctrinated nationalists.

Just a cursory reading of the comments in any topic about China will show you that their western counterparts are alive and kicking here
During my last visit using GoogleFI, the mobile phone shows a US IP when running whatismyip. So even though the phone is connected to the local telecom 5G network, traffic is segmented and routed back to the US carrier (T-Mobile in AWS US east IP ranges if I remember correctly) before hitting any website. So phones with GoogleFI sim works like a US client with a bit higher latency. This was really nice, but attempting to tether another device to the phone was a highly frustrating exercise as it did not work reliably whatsoever.
The hell you talking about. I've been to roughly 40 states, and am "non-white" and have never had to do this shit at any hotel
20 year old technology has had 20 years of testing and improvements, something that a piece of tech invented today doesn't have.

The cost of failure is so high you want to succeed at all costs rather than have the most advanced tech money can buy.
I still use NEdit when I develop code. I don't like 1GB+ RAM IDEs like Eclipse or VSCode when I can get things done in a smaller text editor and a command line. I'll use vi for small edit jobs or quick text. NEdit comes out when I need to move code blocks around or need to compare.

Some of my co-workers said it was weird that I used it because the other editors will do instant linting and suggest code for Ansible YAML. I've found that not using VSCode or Eclipse forced me to learn more about the language and I am now the local subject matter expert on Ansible.
He's kind of a "Buckaroo Banzai" type of guy...
I was weirded out by this as well.
The technology standard is something in between the absolute high tech of the development start which is way ahead of the general consumer parts.
"The following default gems are now bundled gems." Great to see slow removal (or carve out) of rarely used stdlib stuff.

Ruby would benefit from a trimmed down stdlib, where effort could be spent keeping a smaller footprint stdlib more polished than it is today. Turning them into opt-in gems is a good first step.

A few examples:

- `rss` to parse RSS documents/streams

- `win32ole` for Microsoft Windows OLE Automation

- `dbm` for DBM databases

- `abbrev` for finding the shortest unique abbreviation amongst many strings

This page has more details:
https://stdgems.org/
How will it help New Zealanders if they just invest in real estate? Seems like a good speculative bet for them, but mostly it just makes it more difficult for young people to get afoot in the property market....
Who would do the audit? The people capable of doing so are either in major open source projects or in industry and have no time.

Many government initiatives in Germany support friends and family and have poor results or none. Below someone is mentioning ARPA. I can assure you that nothing remotely like ARPA will come out of this. Different country, different times.

Before any money is handed out, first I'd like to know who appointed the organizers and for what reason.
How do you know the evaluators won't have any open source history? Usually people who evaluate this proposals will have domain knowledge.
Ask HN: What's something you changed your mind about this year?
There is building stuff in orbit and there is learning to build stuff in orbit. We’re still figuring out the later. Microgravity factories and construction have many benefits. We just haven’t figured out the how just yet.
Understood, but it's still there, and is obvious to foreigners and visitors. We see "In God We Trust" printed prominently on the money, senior politicians emphasizing their religious credentials, and much more visible religion in daily life.

See, for example, the chart at [1], for the number of people who pray daily.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/31/americans-a...
why am i being downvoted. it's public knowledge and part of why assange rots in jail. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/julian-assange-cli...
Keep living tomorrow will be better.
Impossible. You are thinking about it as an exercise in rationality and morals. This is a fight of chimp tribes, all the bla bla about human rights,justice, liberty is a very thin coat about the hate for the other band of apes. We are talking about 7 million years of evolution in action.
I think the parent is treating citizenship == permanentish visa in his comment. The article is also about a Investor visa, not citizenship.

I’ve checked 2 (UK and Switzerland) and both offer some form of Investor visa, so it’s really no different to the New Zealand situation (other than general restrictions on entering the country).
Are you saying Africans and (black, which I assume you mean but I’m trying to be charitable) people in your city are basically the same? I imagine the lives and cultures in Africa are vastly different than whatever city you’re in.
I think the question here is about probabilities. What is the likelihood of particular gender ratios within particular fields?

If this were in the field of nursing which is dominated by women, I would be very surprised to see a group of (exclusively) men leading some advocacy/project.
Perhaps it's just too soon? Would you feel the same about Solomon's letters to his (first) wife? Or Mark Antony's letters to Cleopatra?
Defector is one of the most respected and credible news sources in the sports world.
I also suck at math. As a web dev, I don't need much but doing 2d/3d graphics gave me headaches for a while.

As a kid, I used to complain often and loudly that I would never need any of this stuff. Turns out I was wrong.

You can turn around your life. I did so in my 30s. I am only saying this because there's a high chance you are an old fart since you know and like kraftwerk.

As you have correctly guessed, it's not too late.
I enjoyed several episodes of “Philosophize This!”.
We use grace to provide graphs of resource usage for our end users. We wrote a tool that pulls together acct and other data sources to provide a graph of usage over time. It made it very easy for them to tell us that at 0300, 0442, 0529, the resource usage spiked, which makes looking through application logs much easier.
Yes. It’s embedded in a surprisingly large number of embedded devices.
They had a bloody war with the US after they sided with their colonial oppressors and lost thousands of people to that war; that might have something to do with it.

The US policy in Vietnam boiled down to one thing: body count. US only real measure of success was how many Vietcong/PAVN they killed; and because they had no way of telling the difference -- nor did they care much -- this effectively meant "kill as many Vietnamese as possible" (they were encouraged to consider any casualty as VC, overrepresenting their numbers). And to top it out, they engaged in massive forced resettlement, pillage, rape, destroyed foliage and the ecosystem, and poisoned the land.

Think about it.

Americans living in Vietnam claim the Vietnamese don't hate them. Even ex veterans visiting the country report this. That's pretty amazing all things considered.
I would argue that any single individual is perfectly capable of being unpredictable, so any form of authoritarianism would derive that unpredictability.

This is, fwig, the instability that a republic is meant to fix.
I liked Bridenstine too but Bill Nelson has been an ardent space supporter longer than Bridenstine has been alive. And Nelson has actually flown in space.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nelson
My fav python cli tool is Fire. No need to even decorate your functions. There may be some limitations compared to Piou, I will have to explore that to find out.

https://github.com/google/python-fire
Targets get constantly closer to physical limits, that makes pace of innovation always decelerate. I can only see 2 situations where pace of innovation accelerates: a new discovery like was the transistor or a new area of research like was with the radio.
>there's no repair mission possible for at least a decade or more.

There's no repair mission possible, period. It only has enough fuel to keep orbiting L2 for around 10 years.
Overall, they do not use gstreamer. You guys are the outliers. :)
I don’t know who can do the audit and that is my biggest concern about such initiatives apart from Nepotism. The fact that the Govt seems to be involved in optics rather than installing checks and balances makes me nervous. The fiascos of Luca app and Corona-warn reeks of graft and incompetence.
The construction was finished in 2016.

It’s not just this project, NASA, for example, hasn’t had the capability to put humans in space since the Shuttle retired.

Anyway, we are all aware of the Manhattan Project, Space Race, SR71 development, …

Someone mentioned this book yesterday, maybe it has some of the answers

https://www.amazon.com/Where-Flying-Car-Storrs-Hall/dp/19539...
You omitted "the language used", also look at the "prototype fund" and some of its sponsored projects.
Please can you give a source for your ASD description? Interested to know where this came from
Homer – A simple static homepage for your server
Yes and no. When you disagree you usually have a point to make, but when you purposefully try to steer a conversation into a confrontational topic, then it does become suspect.
Those statements were true for the original virus. They are not true for the current variant. And we really can't predict what new variants can do, we could have guessed that new, more transmissible variants are likely to emerge, but we can't predict the future.
Securing Updates (2020)
I most noticed this when it didn't. I met a Swedish girl traveling in the US, and it turned out we were going the same way so I gave her a ride. She seemed perfectly fluent so I didn't think of simplifying my speech and used an unusual word which confused her.
That's not really fair, software security is better than ever.